Hollywood Road

In the living room of the Wave Manor Villa, Stanton's party members gathered together, and everyone's eyes were looking at Murphy.

"Seth, Jonah, James..."

Murphy looked at the three people on the left, "Where is your movie going?"

Seth Rogen, the director and producer of the political satirical comedy, voluntarily replied, “The shooting was completed in August and is now undergoing post-production in the Fox Tower studio. At the end of November, Finish all the production."

"At the end of November." Murphy nodded and asked, "After you are finished, can you put in a new job?"

These people all know Murphy's plan, and Seth Rogen said without hesitation, "Of course no problem!"

Jonah Hill and James Franco also nodded, "Our schedule is also very suitable."

Murphy turned his head and looked to the other side, Robert Downey Jr. took the initiative to raise his hand and said, "I can let Marvel adjust the schedule, I must star in your movie!"

Margot Robbie, who was sitting on a single sofa next to him, went on to say, "I remember that there was a female reporter in the "Focus" team. Right?"

"And me." Gal Gadot also stood up, "let me handle the specific affairs of the crew."

Murphy nodded, "I will send you the full version of the script later. You can take a look first, and then determine the role."

This movie will be a collective action by Stanton's party members! And different from the past, this is a group show, everyone's role is very important.

This is a film without a starring role, the story is the real protagonist

After a brief exchange, the core creative staff of the crew was determined. Murphy served as the director and producer, and Gal Gadot continued to **** him as producer, Robert Downey Jr., Seth Rogen , Jonah Hill, James Franco and Margot Robbie, four men and one woman, happened to star in the film’s most important Robbie Robinson, Mike Red Enzes, Martin Barn, and Sasha. -The five roles of Peffer and lawyer Mitchell Gallobition.

As for the specific roles, it's still early, and Murphy is not in a hurry, and will discuss it after they have read the script.

After talking about this, Murphy asked Seth Rogen again, "Is the release time of "Interview" confirmed?"

"Twentieth Century Fox wants to put it in February." Seth Rogen helped his glasses. "I talked to Carla Firth. The release time has been postponed, probably next October or November. month."

Thinking of the turmoil in this movie, Murphy reminded, "You can think of some ways in terms of promotion and marketing."

A considerable part of the investment in this film came from Stanton Studios, and he certainly didn't want to make a loss-making business.

However, whether the previous farce really had hackers there, or was it self-hype by some frenzied guys in the United States, no one can tell, and Murphy would not tell Seth Rogen.

He thought for a while, and said, "You can let the wind go, just say that this is the last comedy of Stanton's cooperation."

"Uh..." Seth Rogen scratched the back of his head, "This... isn't right, I'm already planning a new comedy with Jonah."

In some respects, Seth Rogen is a relatively simple one among the Stantonists. On the other hand, Jonah Hill understood Murphy's meaning and said, "Seth, you idiot. ! It’s just for you to talk about making some publicity and hype topics, and it’s not that you really don’t make comedy movies."

"That's it." Seth Rogen smiled. "It's also a good way."

Murphy's seemingly nasty idea was quickly accepted by Seth Rogen. Anyway, it is a common method in Hollywood and even the world's film circles.

There are too many such examples.

For example, once a movie fan complained, Luc Besson: I only made ten movies in my life. Quentin Tarantino: I only made ten in my life. James Cameron: "Avatar 2" is about to start shooting! Ridley Scott: I will cut my wrist and commit suicide if there is another alien in my movie! Michael Bay: This is the last "Transformers" I directed! Jack Chen: This is my last action movie. Miyazaki: I am going to retire! Daniel Craig: I won’t play James Bond anymore...

These eye-catching slogans were shouted loudly, and none of them were truly achieved.

In the promotion and marketing, these are not matters at all.

Some people even sum up the three major lies of the world film industry-James Cameron: I will start shooting soon; Michael Bay: I will not shoot the Transformers sequel anymore; Miyazaki: I am retired Never go out again.

Some words, even if they are spoken from the mouth of a super director, cannot be taken seriously.

While Murphy was actively planning new projects, "Dark City" continued to be shown in North American theaters. Although the number of box offices produced per day was already very low, the increase in the box office a week could not even reach a million dollars. However, Twentieth Century Fox did not completely downgrade this film from North America when the film's North American market potential was almost exhausted as before.

"Dark City" is still being screened in major cities across the United States such as New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, and the screening time will last at least until the end of January next year!

This is an agreement signed between 20th Century Fox and some theaters. According to the agreement, from September to the end of January next year, all the box office revenue generated by "Dark City" will not be shared by 20th Century Fox.

A film must pay a certain price if it wants to maintain a long release time in the theater.

These moves by Fox in the twentieth century were not to make the film’s North American box office surpass "Avatar". People with a discerning eye can see it very clearly. Dragged down by the Hollywood Chinese Theater shooting, "Dark City" is no longer able to compete with "Avatar". "Compete for the throne of the North American box office champion.

All of these are for the awards season.

Now that it is the end of October, the traditional North American awards season is coming, and all movies and companies interested in Oscar awards are already gearing up.

Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox are no exception. Why did he choose to announce new projects when the awards season is approaching, and not as secretive as the previous movies? Instead, it directly informed the subject and content of the film, and in some respects, it was also to make "Dark City" make a difference in this awards season.

It is no exaggeration to say that under the influence of a series of emergencies, Hollywood has become involved with Catholicism.

Although this situation surpassed Murphy's initial expectations and plans, it is undoubtedly very beneficial to him, especially after the press conference of the new project, from the Hollywood circle to the mainstream media, there is basically a good voice.

Since the development of the Oscars, everyone can see that the influence of external factors on the attribution of important awards has been very large.

In addition to these, the public relations between CAA and Murphy are also underway. The Los Angeles City Hall contacted Murphy when the box office of "Dark City" broke out in the first week. Because Murphy is an authentic Los Angeles native, In order to express his contribution to the city and add a famous tourist attraction, the Los Angeles City Hall wanted to build a Murphy-Stanton Film Memorial.

CAA negotiated with the Los Angeles City Hall in accordance with Murphy's request. This kind of negotiation was not something that could be settled in a short time, so it was smoothly dragged down, and it is only now that a consensus is basically reached.

Not surprisingly, the two parties will sign a formal agreement in December when the awards season begins, and officially announce it to the public. This will invisibly add a lot of weight to Murphy's impact on the Oscars!

Whether it is Stanton Studios, CAA and Twentieth Century Fox, they have already launched the Oscar rushing program with all their strength, just waiting for the award season to begin!

On November 1st, Murphy did not go out, sat in front of the computer, logged on to Netflix's website, just arrived at nine o'clock in the morning, and saw the newest drama released on the website-"House of Cards"!

"House of Cards", as a web drama jointly launched by streaming media website Netflix and Stanton Studios, is different from traditional American dramas that are broadcast on TV and require fans to watch "chasing". With the scale of 13 episodes throughout the season, everything has been put on the Internet.

With Netflix doing a lot of pre-publicity, "House of Cards" quickly swept the entire Internet and became a miracle in many people's mouths!

Even some politicians are obsessed with this show.

The Aohetan in the White House tweeted: "Watch "House of Cards" tomorrow, please don't spoil it."

He also tweeted the official Twitter of "House of Cards". The official Twitter was only forwarding without comment, and this made the heroine Kate Mara excited and quickly retweeted: "This just happened! The president is going to watch us Drama!"

The popularity of "House of Cards" also means that Stanton Studios, which can get half of the revenue, has found a hen that can lay golden eggs in the series after "Game of Thrones"!

But the impact of Murphy’s planned drama is not just as simple as a divine drama, it even challenges the traditional TV industry’s "separation of production and broadcasting" production model.

"House of Cards" is not a purely artistic creation by a production agency, but based on Murphy Stanton's golden sign and the big data on the viewing behavior of 30 million users stored on Netflix's website. It analyzes the "search" and "collection of netizens". "It's made after getting used to it.

The broadcast of this drama breaks the traditional mode of successive launches of episodes by television stations. The Netflix website will launch the episodes of a season at one time within a day, adapting to the viewing habits of viewers in the Internet era, and the audience can participate through the Internet. Production and promotion of TV programs and other links.

Projects that can be profitable must of course continue to be produced.

Subsequently, Murphy was preparing to start preparing for his new film, while also watching the awards season.