Hollywood Road

At the end of November, the nominations for the Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced, and the Hollywood Film Awards season officially kicked off.

However, Murphy and "Dark City" missed this award. The name of this award can also tell the reason. "Dark City" is a standard mainstream commercial masterpiece, not an independent film. Gotham Independent The film awards are basically independent films that have not been screened in mainstream theaters in North America, and the distinction between them and mainstream commercial films is very clear.

Then, as time enters December, various awards have announced nominations. In the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the New York Film Critics Association Award and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award, "Dark City" all won the best director without exception. , Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress Four Important Nominations!

Immediately afterwards, the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards also announced the nomination list. Like the Film Critics Association Award, "Dark City" once again became the big winner on the nomination list, and won the best director, best feature film, best male and female The protagonist and a series of awards.

With the announcement of the nominations for many awards, Murphy can also see which competitors are the strongest in this awards season-"Twelve Years as a Slave", "The Great Gatsby", "Gravity", " Blue Jasmine and Dallas Buyers Club.

The awards season has also entered the hottest publicity stage.

Like other industries, the film industry also pays attention to finishing and summarizing the achievements of the year. The awards season is the product of this sorting and summing up, and it is Hollywood's "annual summary".

To be a big winner at the Oscars, "Dark City" must overtake them.

The Golden Globe Awards just announced the nominations. CAA, representing Murphy, negotiated a series of conditions with the Los Angeles City Hall. Then Murphy signed a formal agreement with them. The two sides held a joint press conference the next day to announce Murphy. -The Stanton Film Memorial Hall landed in the City of Angels.

The two parties jointly announced to the news media that Los Angeles will invest $1 billion to build the "Murphy Stanton Museum of Art" in the Expo Park, which will house a large number of various film collections carefully left by Murphy himself and Stanton Studio.

The building area of ​​this art museum will be as high as 25,500 square meters. The venue was designed by the famous Chinese architect Ma Yansong. More than 10,000 paintings, illustrations, costumes, film art, digital art, etc. will be exhibited, including but not limited to ink Fei directed and participated in "Fruit Candies", "Saw Cry", "Planet of Horror", "Sin City", "Deadpool", "Game of Thrones", "Disappearing Lovers", "Man of Steel" and many more……

Of course, in addition to the things that Murphy and Stanton have retained, the museum will also display a large number of exhibits about movies.

Although the investment is as high as 1 billion US dollars, the Los Angeles City Hall will not make a loss-making business. They have conducted enough investigations to prove that with the horror appeal of the Murphy Stanton brand, the art museum will at least bring locals every year Two to three hundred million US dollars in income, the return is also great.

"The construction of the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art will be a very meaningful move for Los Angeles."

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Gasetti said at the press conference, "As a director who grew up in Los Angeles, Director Murphy Stanton has made great achievements and is an outstanding representative of the citizens of Los Angeles..."

In short, Murphy was almost exaggerated.

On this occasion, Murphy will naturally inevitably say a few words in front of the media.

"This is a great honor for me, and it has fulfilled my wish. I hope that more people can like film art, understand film art, love film art, and even become a person who creates film art..."

This is a good opportunity for self-promotion during the awards season. Murphy will certainly not let it go. “Hollywood is already at the forefront of the world’s movies. To maintain the world’s leading position, more talented people are needed to join in.”

He had made preparations before, "In addition to providing exhibits for the art museum, I will also set up a film foundation in the name of the Murphy Stanton Museum of Art to provide study funding for those who are interested in joining the industry!"

There was a round of applause at the press conference.

A director who has achieved fame and fame does not forget to support future manufacturable talents, which will win the favor of many people.

After the press conference, Murphy walked out of the press room and was surrounded by reporters. They asked all questions in this regard.

"Director Stanton, what advice do you have for new directors, especially those who want to form their own style like you?"

Hearing this question, Murphy stopped and said briefly, "Don't think about your personal style when making a film. Style is something that people who don't have style worry about."

He thought for a while and said, "Let's put it this way, I basically don't think about personal style. When I think about personal style, so-called intellectual and psychological obstacles arise, and personal things can't be displayed."

Another reporter asked, "Do you have anything else to say to newcomers who want to enter this industry?"

"The only thing in the world that can be destroyed by years is talent." Murphy came to the car, opened the door, and said the last sentence, "A filmmaker does not need encouragement from others, and a person who needs encouragement cannot make a movie."

Having said this, he got into the car, and Gail Gadot, who was sitting on the other side reading the newspaper, instructed the driver softly, "Let's drive, and go back to Beverly Hills."

Murphy turned to look at the newspaper in her hands, saw that it was a copy of The Hollywood Reporter, and asked, "Are there other films doing public relations?"

"Hollywood Reporter" is the most important propaganda front during the awards season.

"Leonardo DiCaprio is so big and has bought six pages. This is the second issue in a row." Gal Gadot handed the newspaper to Murphy. "It seems that he is right. The best actor is bound to win."

"He has accumulated enough qualifications." Murphy opened the "Hollywood Reporter", "If the job is well done, maybe the college will really give him a golden figure."

Looking at the reports on the "Hollywood Reporter", they are all flattering to Leonardo DiCaprio.

Just like now Oscars are always affected by external factors, these touts are not limited to movies. Leonardo DiCaprio’s team clearly sees the development trend of Oscars.

The best actor is also the award that "Dark City" and Murphy want to strive for, so he took a closer look.

"The best actor in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental career is more exciting than his personal film history!"

Just reading the title of an article, Murphy had to admire the cleverness of Leonardo DiCaprio's team. Just like liberalism, environmental protection is also one of Hollywood’s most concerned and self-annotated slogans. One.

This article reports in detail Leonardo DiCaprio's contribution to environmental protection.

"On July 14, 2011, Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation announced that it would donate approximately US$9 million to several wildlife conservation and environmental protection groups. He said in a statement: Continue to destroy at a pace that we cannot afford and cannot ignore. We have a responsibility to create a new future. We should not threaten the living environment of the planet. "Since last February, Leonardo has donated more than approximately 12 million U.S. dollars In the statement, he also said: "I am very honored to support these organizations that strive to solve the most difficult challenges facing mankind.""

"On May 13, 2013, Leonardo held a charity auction at Christie's auction house in New York to raise funds for environmental and wildlife protection. The auctioned 33 artworks raised a total of 38.8 million U.S. dollars. In November, Leonardo Turn the birthday party into a charity party, and the proceeds will be donated to his environmental protection fund. The auction includes a batch of rare champagne, and a total of 3 million US dollars has been raised on the spot."

"In May 2007, the Cannes Film Festival screened the environmental protection documentary "The 11th Hour" produced and commented by Leonardo. The film studied the global environmental situation and discussed solutions to earth's problems. This documentary has counted the counts. The impact of human activities on global warming emphasizes how fragile our planet is after a series of recent natural disasters. In the film, 12 experts will discuss whether human society will be wiped out if global warming continues. ."

Seeing the time listed in the report, even Murphy somewhat believes that Leonardo DiCaprio is really an environmentalist.

Unfortunately, as a Hollywood insider, he understands very clearly, just like the so-called UN title, this is just a way to provide his own style.

To put it simply, these are no different from the red carpet, they are all on show.

As for the real gold and silver donated, it is all proceeds from donations, and it can't cost the celebrities themselves how much money, so why not do it?

"In September 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio, as an active member of Hollywood concerned about climate change, participated in the morning of the 23rd local time with many diplomats, national leaders, scientists and other climate experts from all over the world. At the climate summit, he made a thought-provoking personal speech, sincerely calling on everyone to take action together to organize climate deterioration. Leonardo said in his speech: Now I am standing in front of you, not as an expert, but As a citizen who is concerned about this matter, as one of the 400,000 people walking on the streets of New York and other people who want to solve the climate change crisis."

Seeing this, Murphy put down the "Hollywood Reporter". Now that the Oscars are getting more and more affected by the outside world, Leonardo DiCaprio is playing such an environmental card outside of the movie. It is indeed very With clever means, maybe he can change the fate of the escort.

Whether it's for James Franco and "Dark City", or the grudge at the beginning, Murphy didn't want to see him win the prize.

"Don't go home yet." He said to the driver, "Go to Century City."