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In the early morning, just as Murphy finished washing, Bill Rosses came to the door. In addition to ordering a breakfast for Murphy, he also brought a bunch of newspapers that could be bought in Cannes.

"Sit whatever you want." In the suite, Murphy sat at the dining table, enjoying French toast and bacon fried eggs, and looked at the stack of newspapers placed on the sofa by Bill Rosses, and asked in surprise, " Can you buy newspapers in English and Spanish here?"

"It's usually not available," Bill Rosies sat down and sorted out the pile of newspapers. "Now is the period of the Cannes Film Festival, and many famous European newspapers are temporarily issuing supplements here, which is why they show their influence. opportunities for power.”

He singled out a page from one of several newspaper supplements.

Murphy put down the knife and fork, took a sip of coffee, "Is this related to "Planet Terror"?"

"That's right." Bill Rossis was still smoking the paper. "This is where our movie reviews are published."

Looking up, he saw that Murphy had almost eaten his breakfast, so he picked up the few he took out and stuffed them over, "If you're interested, you can see for yourself."

"It's all good reviews, right?" Murphy put down his coffee cup and took the newspaper, "I don't read pages that are not good reviews, it will hit my fragile mind."

"Will it hit you?" Bill Rosses shook his head, did not continue speaking, picked up the newspaper and started to read it.

This is only the third film made by Murphy. Although it will not be affected by the negative reviews of the media, it is impossible to say that it will not be affected by the media reviews.

Opening a newspaper casually, Murphy just glanced at it and threw it aside. It was a newspaper from Spain. He couldn't understand Spanish at all. Don't know anything.

Fortunately, the next few photos are from Fleet Street on the other side of the English Channel, so Murphy can understand them.

Many journalists attended the premiere of "Planet Terror" yesterday, including many British journalists.

What Murphy saw was a copy of the Daily Telegraph's Cannes Film Festival supplement.

""Planet Terror" can be heartily addictive. The director of this film, Murphy Stanton, let his thoughts fly to the sky. This film unreservedly throws out the elements and scenes that cult movie audiences like... ...The film is hearty, mainly because of Murphy-Stanton's atmosphere and scene creation; the story is never procrastinated,

Straight to the point, it tells a scary story, and the unconventional shootout scenes are very good-looking. This is a non-mainstream and unconventional American-style b-movie, and its highlights will naturally be different! "

Seeing this, Murphy nodded, the British are still very good.

He opened another "Times" and easily found something related to "Planet Terror".

"The dark yellow background and thick indelible colors used by the director make the film exude a special charm, and seem to put people in the story. The violence, blood and sex are just right and not offensive, just like It’s a tank that ran over a pool of blood, and the place it passed was full of corpses, blood, decay, and violence, and the endless imagination is amazing and exciting.”

Both media gave "Planet Terror" a high score of 7.5 points!

Taking away several unreadable Spanish and French newspapers, Murphy took a relatively professional magazine, which is the famous British magazine "Sight and Sound". "comment of.

"This movie can be said to have a hollow plot. Hollywood movies have always been like this. The script is so bad that it can't be worse, but the details are well taken care of and there is no lack of artistic sense. Personally, I rarely comment on commercial movies, but I like watching commercial movies. After all, that kind of visual effect and sense of presence cannot be brought by traditional literary and artistic films. It is also very refreshing to enjoy literary and artistic films, explore human nature, and think about the philosophy of life, while swearing and watching commercial films.”

""Planet Terror" is exactly this kind of commercial film. It focuses on details, coupled with perfect shooting, it is successful. Although many bloody scenes are not processed realistically enough, it still brings people that refreshing feeling, That kind of refreshment that generates motivation and confidence and strength to overcome all evils."

Compared with the two British media that Murphy just watched, "Sight and Sound" magazine only gave it a score of 7.1.

However, it is very rare for such a highly professional magazine to give a film that is provocative, bloody and violent a rating of more than seven points.

This also shows that the evaluation of "Planet Terror" in the industry will not be bad.

Putting down the magazine, Murphy looked at the time, stood up and said, "Let's go to the eleventh floor."

The negotiations between Miramax and international publishers will be held on the eleventh floor successively. This project is packaged by CAA. It is normal for Bill Rossis to participate in the negotiations. Murphy does not have to participate, but he proposed Such a request, since it does not involve any division of interests-the share he can enjoy has nothing to do with the overseas revenue of the film-the Weinstein brothers also agreed to Murphy's participation in the negotiation.

Like running the various programs of the Cannes Film Festival with Erica Steinberg, all this is a rare experience for Murphy, a rookie.

If you miss this opportunity to accumulate experience and increase knowledge like this, you don’t know when it will be available in the future.

After getting out of the elevator and walking into the corridor on the eleventh floor, Murphy asked Bill Rossis next to him, "Can you understand French and Spanish?"

"Understand a little." Bill Rossis graduated from a prestigious university.

"No wonder," Murphy nodded knowingly, and asked again, "How do the French and Spanish media evaluate the film?"

"The Spanish media is better. Spanish films are also rich in this type of films. They basically give positive comments," Bill Rossis said honestly. "The French media's ratings are poor, and most of them use..."

He looked at Murphy, and Murphy made a gesture of please, and Bill Rosses continued, "Such as disgusting, cruel, boring and other adjectives."

Murphy shook his head, "It seems that the French don't like American plasma tablets very much."

Bill Rossis spread his hands. "All Hollywood knows."

The two walked into a conference room and sat down at the Miramax side of the long conference table. After waiting for a while, Harvey Weinstein and Erica Steinberg walked in together. Just after Fei finished greeting them, the other party to this negotiation, Mike Gervin from an Australian distribution company, also entered the meeting room.

This is a business negotiation, and time is money. After a few simple greetings, the two sides entered into a formal negotiation. Although Mike Gervin showed that he liked the director Murphy and his films very much last night, when it came to the negotiation, this It's as if it never happened, and he won't give up an inch in terms of issuing a buyout price.

Appreciating a film is one thing, and doing business with it is another.

Negotiations did not go very well.

"Mike, the $4 million Australian copyright sale is Miramax's bottom line!"

The side of Miramax is completely dominated by Harvey Weinstein. The Jewish fat man said loudly, "We have shown enough sincerity to your company. If it is really impossible to negotiate, Miramax can only Changed partner..."

"We are also very sincere!" Mike Gwen frowned, "This film is indeed very interesting, but you have to leave us some profit margins? If there is no profit, it will not be possible for any company to replace it." Will do. With that much population in Australia, how much box office does Planet Terror have to make for us to turn a profit?"

Harvey Weinstein gritted his teeth, as if cutting flesh, "Three and a half million dollars!"

"Harvey..." Mike Gervin wanted to speak again, but was interrupted by Harvey Weinstein, "Mike, don't forget, this is not only the right to show in theaters, but also the right to videotape!"

The fat Jewish man suddenly stood up, walked behind Murphy a few steps, supported the back of his chair, and said loudly, "I want to remind you, don't forget that the director of this film is called Murphy Stanton! His last film, "Saw," grossed close to $7 million in theaters alone in Australia!"

Murphy did not expect that he would become a bargaining chip for Harvey Weinstein.

"Your company has cooperated with us more than this time!" Harvey Weinstein used Murphy as a bargaining chip, "Director Stanton is one of the best partners of Miramax, and a member of Hollywood Recognized as one of the young directors with the most potential, his creative journey has just begun, and he is far from reaching the peak!"

His voice became louder and louder, "In the future cooperation, we will give priority to your company for all the films produced by Murphy! Under the same conditions, your company must be our cooperation partner, and this can be written into the contract!"

Murphy looked at Bill Rosses, and Bill Rosses shook his head, signaling that he didn't need to speak.

""Saw"! "Planet Terror"! From these two films, Mike, you should be able to find the style of director Stanton." Harvey Weinstein completely took the initiative in the negotiation, "This kind of plasma cult Movies first originated in Australia, and have always been the most popular genre in the Australian film market. As long as you have high-quality movie sources, it is easy to make money!"

Mike Girvin frowned deeper, obviously thinking about Harvey Weinstein's words.

Of course, the negotiation was not so easy to reach an agreement. After half an hour of see-saw, Miramax and the Australian distribution company represented by Mike Gwen finally reached an agreement, and the two parties settled the deal at a price of 3 million US dollars.

This includes Australian theatrical screening rights, videotape and dvd rights, and television broadcast rights.

In the next few days, Murphy and Bill Rossis participated in more negotiations, and Miramax also reached agreements with more overseas distributors, and the selling price far exceeded Miramax’s price. investment in this project. (To be continued.)