Hollywood Road

"Strong personal style, superb script creation ability and wonderful editing, these are the personal labels left by Murphy Stanton, he is definitely one of the most successful directors in Hollywood history under the age of 30 !"

When a director achieves continuous success, the media must be full of praise, especially with CAA and Stanton Studio behind the scenes, a public relations battle about the Oscars has already started.

Bill Rossis specifically told Murphy that from now until the official announcement of the Oscar nomination list, he can no longer be as low-key as before. He must appear in front of the media frequently, must be topical, and must be able to continue to receive the attention of the industry. etc.

The publicity and hype of these media is undoubtedly a good way to maintain exposure.

"Murphy Stanton's movies are better than good movies. He focuses his attention on the dark places of human nature and society. While advancing the story layer by layer, it also brings deeper experience and reflection to the audience. With the smooth story rhythm, ingeniously designed lines and the perfect use of gloomy tones, one story after another has been successfully told. Even a vulgar work like "Deadpool" is very good on the basis of respecting the original. It has restored and even enriched the original work to a certain extent, and the strong Murphy style and the wonderful original work have produced a wonderful chemical reaction."

"In the history of film, there are always some darlings who are favored by the heavens. They not only give full play to their artistic talents, but also reap a double harvest of business and word of mouth. The so-called success and fame are enviable. Murphy Stanton has now become one of them. represent."

The reports in the media have attracted Murphy's attention, and a comment in the "Hollywood Reporter" has made him the focus of the media and the industry.

"His style is unique in Hollywood; his works, like Martin Scorsese, are classics with a strong personal style; his editing style is fast and smooth, but the colors are gloomy and low; his films do not see sunshine all year round , but it is always related to murder and violence, which makes people feel cold from the inside out; he firmly believes that people are a perverted species, and only dark and gloomy stories can expose this perversion to the audience. In recent years, with the maturity of director skills, he His style has become more pronounced, and his latest work made Charlize Theron turn down her own film to take the lead actress, this film is called "Gone Girl."

Theatrical movies are a very delicate thing, you must treat her well, don't care about every link, and rely on good luck to succeed. Murphy is well aware of this truth, and will not let go of any good opportunities he can get.

At the same time, "Gone Girl" continued to reap a lot of box office from the North American market, although it is impossible for a film to maintain high popularity for a long time, and it only had a weekend decline of more than 30%. At the beginning of the sixth week, the attendance rate, film scheduling rate and the number of screening theaters have all decreased significantly, but before the arrival of the sixth weekend, the North American box office easily broke through the $200 million mark.

This is also after "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", "War of the Worlds" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\

,"It is the fourth film to surpass $200 million at the box office in North America this year.

The directors of the first three are George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton. Murphy can be tied with them, and it is difficult not to attract attention.

By mid-September, the North American box office of "Gone Girl" exceeded 210 million US dollars. Stimulated by the excellent North American box office performance, more overseas countries and regions have signed distribution agreements with 20th Century Fox. It also appeared in more markets around the world, with a total of more than 70 screening countries.

This type of film, of course, is unlikely to cause a sensational response overseas like superhero movies or other films that sell visual spectacle. The overseas box office has not exploded, but it is not bad, and soon reached $200 million.

The global box office of 400 million US dollars is enough for Murphy to firmly enter the ranks of Hollywood's second-tier directors.

As "Gone Girl" crossed the $400 million global box office threshold, Murphy got another piece of news. After years of infighting and endless feuds, the Weinstein brothers finally got out of the relationship with Michael Ace. Walt Disney, represented by Walt Disney, was defeated in the management competition and officially left Miramax Films, planning to use Dimension Films as the basis to establish a brand new film company - Weinstein Films .

Dimensional Pictures was only a company under the name of the Weinstein Brothers for the distribution of low-budget horror films before. It could not undertake the business model of the Weinstein Brothers to create profits by focusing on the awards season and the Oscars, and established a new film company. The corporate imperative.

"Walt Disney left behind more than just Miramax mess."

In a seaside coffee shop in a private club, the well-informed Robert Downey Jr. told Murphy and the others, "There is also Miramax's huge film library of up to 700 films, and Miramax will be completely owned by the company in the future. Owned by Walt Disney."

"Michael Eisner is looking for trouble for himself." Murphy tapped his legs. "Miramax will soon turn to recession."

"Why do you say that?" Jonah Hill is good at being funny, but not very proficient in these things. "Could it be that Walt Disney is not as good as the Weinstein Brothers?"

"Think about it, what is Walt Disney best at?" Murphy asked first, and then gave the answer, "Movies for all ages! Even pirate adventures like "Pirates of the Caribbean" are produced by Disney. It tends to be younger, and what about Miramax? They haven’t made or released anything like that in the past.”

"One more thing." James Franco added, "Miramax was a relatively independent and distinctive film company before, and now it has completely become an ordinary member of Walt Disney's many labels."

"What Murphy and Jim said makes sense." Robert Downey Jr. also agreed with the two of them. "Miramax used Oscar as its operating strategy before. After the management team left and the Weinstein brothers left, This strategy can only become a thing of the past, the new management will inevitably face the problem of transformation, a film company wants to successfully transform..."

He grimaced and shook his head again.

Seth Rogen, who had been enjoying dessert, looked up, "The Weinstein brothers just sold their shares and left? They took nothing but management?"

"Who knows." Murphy shrugged.

When it comes to well-informed, he is far inferior to Robert Downey Jr., Robert Downey Jr. said, "I heard that Harvey Weinstein took away the copyright and proposal of two projects."

Harvey Weinstein's vision is well known in the circle, and Jonah Hill couldn't help asking curiously, "Do you know what he took away?"

Murphy didn't answer, but instead looked at Robert Downey Jr. If anyone among them could get some inside information, it would be Robert Downey Jr.

Sure enough, Robert Downey Jr. was well-informed, "The film copyright of the novel "The Reader" written by Benhard Schlink in 1995, and one that seems to be related to the former King George VI of the Kingdom of Great Britain, I don’t know any more specifics.”

Hearing the two projects mentioned by Robert Downey Jr., Murphy had some general impressions. They used to be almost standard Oscar-style essays, which not only won the favor of the Oscar judges, but also won the awards with the help of Oscar-winning films. The title, from the theatrical, television, Internet and DVD market has obtained a large amount of profits.

Those years were also the pinnacle of Harvey Weinstein's public relations Oscar, and some media even claimed that Oscar had changed his surname to Weinstein.

"Ah, there is more." Robert Downey Jr. seemed to think of something again, "The Weinstein Brothers are financing externally and preparing to establish a new Weinstein Films. If you have spare money, you can try to invest. "

"What Donnie said is very reasonable." Murphy reminded all the friends present, "Instead of spending money on food, drink and entertainment, it is better to invest in a company like Weinstein Pictures."

While he has no intention of investing, the rest of us would be wiser to invest in Weinstein than to throw the money away and put it in the bank for depreciation.

James Franco nodded, "I'll go back and think about it."

Seth Rogen shook his head, "I just signed up for a director training class, and now I have no funds."

Investing is not a matter of reluctance. Murphy just reminded them that these guys are all adults. Even if their relationship is good enough, he can't interfere in everything. This is North America, and no one likes others to interfere in their private life.

"Fortunately, we didn't agree to film and produce "Sin City 2" at the beginning."

Thinking of Miramax's chaotic situation in the past few years, Robert Downey Jr. felt lucky, "Otherwise, it would be bad luck."

Jonah Hill looked at Murphy and said, "This guy always makes good decisions."

"If you can't even do these things," James Franco continued, "how can you be the leader of us people?"

"The leader of the Stanton party?" Robert Downey Jr. raised his chin, "Well, this position is very good."

He turned to look at Murphy, "Mr. Party Leader, when do you plan to lead us into the White House?"

Murphy made a cross-cutting gesture, "Wait until you completely shut up."

He stood up, looked at the sea, and said, "What I have to do now is not to think about marching into Washington, but to ask Walt Disney for his salary!"

Last year, Miramax defaulted on part of his share of "Sin City" and did not pay. At that time, Walt Disney was still fighting with the Weinstein brothers, so he temporarily put it aside. Now The battle is over, Miramax is completely owned by Walt Disney, and it's time to pay for it. (To be continued.)