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Perhaps because of the effect of "The End of the World", what Murphy didn't expect was that George Miller invited Charlize Theron to audition for the leading actor on the crew of "Mad Max 4"!

"This is for you to be the absolute hero."

Margot Robbie, who came to the manor as a guest, listened to Gal Gadot talking about this incident, and deliberately teased Murphy, "It's a rare opportunity, just accept it!"

In the garden, Murphy was sitting on a stool with an easel in front of him. He was outlining the lines of a motorcycle with a carbon pencil, and said without looking back, "If I really want to be the protagonist, I won't find Henry in the next movie." - Carvel."

It is not easy for him to play the leading role in a movie now.

Margot Robbie stood behind Murphy, looked at the sketch of Chris Dann's upgraded version of the motorcycle, and said, "Kara Firth will be the first to jump out and object."

She turned her head and looked to the side, "Right, Gail."

Gal Gadot shrugged, "For the sake of the quality of the film, I would also object."

"You..." Murphy shook his head, "Are my acting skills that bad?"

Margot Robbie didn't care whether Murphy could see it or not, and nodded seriously, "In your words, your level as a director and your level as an actor are like the difference between heaven and earth."

"I haven't figured it out until now." She crossed her arms, "Why did George Miller seek you?"

"Why?" Murphy continued his work and casually said, "How do I know why?"

"Did you know?" Margot Robbie asked Gal Gadot.

"I can guess some." Gal Gadot took Margot Robbie, sat down on the chair behind, took a sip from the teacup, and then said, "There are roughly two points. There are news in the industry, The actor wears a mask most of the time, so the front-line actors don't want to pick it up. On the other hand, I guess Warner Bros. may want to use this method to show goodwill to Stanton Studios and ease the conflict with Murphy. relationship between."

She added, "Warner Bros. recently changed their CEO due to poor performance."

"Bruce Rosenblum stepped down?" Margot Robbie was a little surprised.

After all, she also has a film contract with Warner Bros., but the "Suicide Squad", which is constantly changing scripts and directors, has been pushed and pushed, and no one knows when the preparations will actually start.

Murphy is also aware of the news, saying, "Time Warner Group just appointed Kevin Tsuuraha as CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment last week."

It is said that this Asian is very likely to take over the entire Time Warner Group in the future.

The performance of Time Warner as a whole has been very poor in recent years, and the stock price has been falling all the way. There are rumors in Hollywood and Wall Street that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is preparing to acquire Time Warner.

However, the dilemma facing Warner Bros. cannot be solved by replacing a CEO. The newly replaced Kevin Trasuha's position is not easy to sit.

To be precise, it is not easy to be the top executives of the six major Hollywood companies.

With Kara Feith as a good friend, Murphy knew a little bit about it.

In the words of Kara Firth, the daily wish of Hollywood executives is actually the same as that of ordinary people: wake up tomorrow and still have a job.

However, this summer, although Hollywood’s global box office revenue has reached a record high, due to various reasons, such as the fierce competition of blockbuster films, several major film companies’ dramatic expulsion of high-level personnel is also surprising. The executives and the chairman are full of sense of crisis for the shareholders who control the company's equity.

Walt Disney produced the super-budget movie "Alien Battlefield" this summer, but its box office performance was terrible. After the "Battle of Waterloo" happened, Rich Ross, known as the "father of Disney's star-making", was invited out Disney's office.

soon after,

Tom Rothman, who had been in charge of the day-to-day affairs of the twenty-fox film company for eighteen years, lost the competition with Kara Firth and was forced to abdicate; -Tsuhara's victory ended, and the frustrated Bruce Rosenblum could only leave Warner Bros. and leave Legendary Pictures.

Just like the competition between Hollywood stars and movies, the interior of major companies is also full of fierce competition.

Bill Rosses revealed to Murphy that the biggest move Warner Bros. has made so far after the rectification is that the team headed by Kevin Teharasu successfully persuaded J.K. It was J.K. Rowling who had the scriptwriting rights.

On the other hand, Kevin Teharasu wants to ease the relationship with Murphy and ask him to go back and re-direct the DC Comics movie series.

People from Warner Bros. have already contacted CAA and Bill Rossis, and through them and George Miller released goodwill to Murphy. If it was placed a few years ago, Murphy would consider these, but now "Diego Ross "The film has just begun to be screened, and the plan is in the process of fermenting. The next few years are very critical to him. If he abandons the existing plan and turns to the DC comic film series, it will not be worth the loss.

He has accompanied Oscar for so many years, and after so many years of documentation, he finally has a complete plan for the Olympics. How could he just give up like this?

Even if Warner Bros. really shows enough sincerity, it will be a few years later.

The question is, now that the Marvel series is in full swing and constantly launching new works, how can Warner Bros. and DC Comics wait peacefully?

After drawing a concept map, Murphy stood up and stretched, put away the drawing board and returned to the table, took the black tea from Gal Gadot, tasted that the temperature was just right, and drank the whole cup go down.

"Look at your sketch..." Margot Robbie picked up the teapot and poured another cup for Murphy, "Chris Dane's car is going to be upgraded?"

"That's right." Murphy picked up the teacup again, and said before drinking, "In the setting, he inherited a large amount of property, enough to buy many advanced vehicles or materials for transformation."

After tomorrow's Oscars, Murphy will be ready to officially start preparations for the film, and the current work is still based on the awards season of "Diego Ross".

Towards the evening, when Gal Gadot and Margot Robbie changed into evening gowns, Murphy attended with them a pull-up session in Burbank, where 20th Century Fox invited many film critics People and members of the Academy of Film participate.

There is nothing to say about this kind of pull film, basically it is mainly about building relationships. At the end, the crew will give some gifts that don't offend the less sensitive nerves of the film academy.

The crew has a special budget in this regard, and the funds are quite abundant.

Of course, you don’t have to give it away, no one is forcing this, but the Oscars have continued to the present, and naturally have their own set of operating rules. Some judges are really serious and responsible. The judges vote with their feet based entirely on good or bad impressions.

The number of judges in this part is quite large, and if you want to win their support, empty words are often not very convincing.

Almost every crew for awards season and Oscars will make special preparations for this.

In addition to the screening, 20th Century Fox also specially prepared several special screenings for members of the film academy this weekend for "Diego Ross", so that members of the academy can watch the film conveniently.

These screenings are of course free for members of the Academy of Film.

In addition, the Oscar judges who attended the show will also get a well-made handbook commemorating the premiere of "Diego Ross".

In short, the film "Diego Ross" will not do less in the public relations, publicity and promotional actions that a film that is nominated for Oscars should have.

At the same time, the screening of this film has also expanded to seven cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, increasing to ten movie theaters in total.

After the first screening weekend, although "Diego Ross" was not particularly well-received by the audience, it was not bad. Coupled with the huge appeal of Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., the performance of the next four working days was basically the same. It was relatively stable, with an average daily box office of about 5,000 US dollars. During the four days from Monday to Thursday, it earned more than 20,000 US dollars in box office at five theaters.

In terms of word-of-mouth, after Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox launched word-of-mouth marketing, although the ratings of "Diego Ross" on major Internet rating sites did not increase significantly, they basically remained at the rating line after the first weekend. For the ever-increasing number of rating users, the effect is quite obvious.

In stark contrast to audience word-of-mouth is media word-of-mouth and professional word-of-mouth, although there are some newspapers such as "In Murphy-Stanton's eyes, his friend's mistakes are not his own fault, it is all society's fault" to deliberately confuse the public criticism, but these two aspects have always been relatively strong, and the industry has also given a good evaluation of this film.

In this case, the film is very likely to make a difference during the awards season. Murphy's goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. As long as he gets nominated, the plan will have achieved a phased victory, and he will be able to accumulate stronger qualifications for the next one.

In any case, being young was Murphy's indelible disadvantage in the eyes of those old men.

Bill Rossis told him that an old Oscar judge who admired him very much said to him: Murphy Stanton is obviously still on the rise and has not reached the pinnacle of his director career. It would be too unfair to him if someone gave it to him, and he is still young, so he can wait.

When Murphy heard this, he was speechless, and he couldn't say anything. After all, such things as seniority existed in any country.

After its second weekend, "Diego Ross" performed mediocrely in ten theaters.