Hollywood Road

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

Seth, Jonah, James...

Murphy looked at the three people on the left, How far has your movie progressed?

Seth Rogen, the director and producer of the satirical political comedy, took the initiative to answer, The filming was completed in August, and it is now undergoing post-production in the studio in the Fox Tower. Finish all crafting.

At the end of November. Murphy nodded and asked, After you finish, can you start your new work?

These people all knew about 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 to look to the other side, Robert Downey Jr. raised his hand and said, I can ask Marvel to adjust the schedule, and I must appear in your movie!

Margot Robbie, who was sitting on a single sofa next to him, went on to say, I remember that in the Focus team, there was a female reporter at the time, and you wouldn't want to hand over that role to someone else. Bar?

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 read it first, and then decide on the role.

This movie will be a class action by the Stantons! And unlike the past, this is a group play, and everyone's role is very important.

This is a movie without a leading role, the story is the real protagonist

After a brief exchange, the core creators of the crew were confirmed. Murphy served as director and producer, Gal Gadot continued to escort 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, Sasha - The five roles of Pever and attorney Mitchell Gallopy Tine.

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

After talking about this, Murphy asked Seth Rogen again, Has the release time of The Interview been confirmed?

Twentieth Century Fox wants to put it in February.

Seth Rogen straightened his glasses, I talked to Kara Firth, and the release time has been postponed, probably in October or November next year.

Thinking of the turmoil caused by this movie, Murphy reminded, We can think of ways in terms of publicity and marketing.

A considerable part of the film's investment comes from Stanton Studios, and he certainly doesn't want to be in a loss-making business.

However, no one can tell whether the previous farce was really caused by hackers there, or some crazy guys in the United States were self-hyping, and Murphy would not tell Seth Rogen about these things.

He thought for a moment and said, It's okay to say that this is the last comedy that the Stanton gang will collaborate on.

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

In some respects, Seth Rogen is relatively simple and honest among the Stanton party members, but Jonah Hill on the other side understood what Murphy meant, and said, Seth, you big fool ! Just to let you talk about it, to create some topics of publicity and hype, not to make you really stop making comedy movies.

That's it. Seth Rogen smiled, It's also a good idea.

This seemingly bad idea from Murphy was quickly accepted by Seth Rogen. Anyway, this is also a common method in Hollywood and even the world's movie circles.

There are too many such examples.

For example, some movie fans once complained, Luc Besson: I only made ten movies in my life. Quentin Tarantino: I only make ten movies in my life. James Cameron: Avatar 2 is about to start shooting! Ridley Scott: I will slit my wrists and kill myself if there is an alien in my movie! Michael Bay: This is the last Transformers I directed! Jack Chen: This is my last action movie. Hayao Miyazaki: I'm retiring! Daniel Craig: Never Playing James Bond...

All these attention-grabbing slogans were loudly shouted, but none of them really did it.

In publicity and marketing, these are not things at all.

Some people even summed up the three major lies in the world film industry-James Cameron: I will start filming soon; Michael Bay: I will not make any more Transformers sequels; Hayao Miyazaki: I retired Never leave the mountain again.

Some words, even if they come from the mouth of a super director, can't be taken seriously.

While Murphy was actively planning new projects, Dark City continued to be released in North American theaters, although the daily box office output was already very low, and the box office increase in a week could not even reach one million US dollars However, Twentieth Century Fox did not completely release this film from North America when the film's North American market potential was about to be exhausted as before.

Dark City is still being screened in large 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, 20th Century Fox will not participate in all the box office revenue generated by Dark City.

If a film wants to maintain a long release time in theaters, it must pay a certain price.

Twentieth Century Fox did not make these moves to make the film's North American box office surpass that of Avatar. Anyone with a discerning eye can see clearly that Dark City is no longer able to compete with Avatar due to the dragged down by the shooting at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Compete for the North American total box office title.

All of this, for awards season.

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

Murphy and 20th Century Fox are no exception, why did he choose to announce the new project when awards season is coming, and not keep it as secret as the previous movies? Instead, it directly informed the subject and content of the film. In some respects, it was also to allow Dark City to make a difference in this awards season.

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

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

Now that the Oscars have developed, anyone can see that external factors have already had a great influence on the ownership of important awards.

In addition to these, CAA and Murphy's public relations are also in progress. The Los Angeles City Hall contacted Murphy when Dark City hit the box office in the first week. Since Murphy is a native of Los Angeles, In order to express his contribution to the city and add a famous tourist attraction, the Los Angeles City Hall wants to build a Murphy-Stanton film memorial.

According to Murphy's request, CAA started negotiations with the Los Angeles City Hall. This kind of negotiation was not something that could be settled in a short period of time, so it was successfully dragged down, and a consensus was basically reached until now.

If there is no accident, 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, or CAA and 20th Century Fox, they have already fully launched the Oscar competition plan, just waiting for the awards season to begin!

On November 1st, Murphy didn't go out. He sat in front of the computer and logged on to Netflix's website. When he arrived at nine o'clock in the morning, he saw the latest new drama House of Cards announced on the website!

House of Cards is an online drama jointly launched by the streaming media site Netflix and Stanton Studios. The scale of 13 episodes in a whole season has been put on the Internet.

With Netflix doing a lot of pre-publicity, House of Cards quickly became popular on the Internet and became a drama that many people talked about!

Even some politicians have become obsessed with the show.

Ao Heitan from the White House tweeted: Watch House of Cards tomorrow, please don't spoil it.

At the same time, he tweeted the official Twitter of House of Cards. The official Twitter was just a retweet without comment, and this made the heroine Kate Mara very excited, and quickly retweeted: This just happened! The President is going to see 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 drama series after Game of Thrones!

However, the impact of this series planned by Murphy is not only as simple as a drama, but even challenges the production model of separation of production and broadcasting in the traditional TV industry.

House of Cards is not a purely artistic creation by the production organization, but based on the famous Murphy Stanton brand and the big data of 30 million users' viewing behaviors stored on Netflix's website, it analyzes the search and favorites of netizens. Made after getting used to it.

The broadcast of this drama has broken the traditional mode of successively launching episodes by TV stations in the past. The Netflix website will release the episodes of a season at one time in one day, adapting to the viewing habits of audiences in the Internet age, and audiences can participate through the Internet. Production and promotion of TV programs and other aspects.

Profitable projects, of course, must continue to be produced.

Subsequently, Murphy is ready to start working on his new movie, and is also keeping an eye on awards season.