Chapter 624: Stepping down

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Perhaps it was the effect brought about by "The End of the World", what Murphy didn't expect was that George Miller actually invited him to the crew of "Mad Max 4" through Charlize Theron to audition for the leading actor!

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Margot Robbie, who came to the manor as a guest, heard Gal Gadot talk about it and deliberately joked to Murphy, "You can agree to a rare opportunity!" ”

In the garden, Murphy sat on a stool with an easel in front of him, sketching the lines of a motorcycle with a carbon pencil, and said without looking back, "If I really want to be the main character, I won't be looking for Henry Cavill in my next movie." ”

It's not easy for him to play the leading role in a film now.

Margot Robbie stood behind Murphy, looked at Chris Dane's upgraded motorcycle on the drawing, and said, "Carla Firth will be the first to jump out against it." ”

She turned her head to look to the side, "yes, Gail. ”

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

"You ......," Murphy shook his head, "am I that bad at acting?" ”

Margot Robbie didn't care if 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 still haven't figured it out." She clasped her hands to her chest, "Why is George Miller looking for you?" ”

"Why?" Murphy continued his work, casually responding, "How do I know why?" ”

"You know what?" Margot Robbie asks Gal Gadot.

"You can guess some." Gal Gadot pulled Margot Robbie and sat down on the chair in the back, took a sip of his teacup, and then said, "There are about two points. There is news in the industry that this actor wears a mask most of the time, so the first-line actors don't want to take it. On the other hand, I suspect that Warner Bros. may be trying to show goodwill to Studio Stanton and ease relations with Murphy. ”

She added, "Warner Bros. recently changed its CEO because of its 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 keeps changing scripts and directors, has been pushed and pushed, and no one knows when they will really start preparing.

Murphy was also aware of the news, saying, "Time Warner just appointed Kevin Tsuraha as CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment last week. ”

It is said that this Asian American has a good chance of taking over the entire Time Warner Group in the future.

Time Warner has been doing poorly in recent years, the stock price has been falling, and there are rumors on Hollywood and Wall Street that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is preparing to acquire Time Warner.

But Warner Bros. is facing a dilemma that cannot be solved by replacing a CEO, and the new Kevin Trasuha is not an easy place to sit in.

To be precise, none of Hollywood's top executives are at the top of Hollywood's top companies.

With Carla Firth as a friend, Murphy knows a little bit about it.

In the words of Carla Firth, Hollywood's top brass actually wishes the same every day as ordinary people: to wake up tomorrow and still have a job.

This summer, however, despite Hollywood's record global box office revenues, the dramatic pace of layoffs at the top of major studios for a variety of reasons, such as fierce competition from blockbuster blockbusters, has left Hollywood executives and chairmen with a sense of crisis over the shareholders who control the company's stakes.

Walt Disney produced the big-budget movie "Alien Battlefield" this summer, but its box office performance was disastrous, and after the "Battle of Waterloo", Rich Rose, known as the "father of Disney's star-making", was asked out of Disney's office.

Soon after, Tom Rothman, who had been in charge of day-to-day affairs at Twenty Fox for eighteen years, was forced to abdicate after losing the competition with Kara Firth; Warner Bros.'s "Chairman's War" ended with the victory of Kevin Tsohara, president of the Home Entertainment Division, while the frustrated Bruce Rosenblum had no choice but to leave Warner Bros. and leave Legendary Pictures.

Just like the competition between Hollywood stars and movies, there is also fierce competition within major companies.

Bill Rothes revealed to Murphy that the biggest move by Warner Bros. so far after the rectification was that the team led by Kevin Teharasu successfully persuaded J.K. Rowling and Warner to continue working with Warner on the Harry Potter-related series of films, provided that J.K. Rowling had the rights to write the script.

On the other hand, Kevin Teharasu wants to ease his relationship with Murphy and ask him to go back to the helm of the DC Comics film series.

The Warner Bros. people have already reached out to CAA and Bill Rothes, and through them and George Miller, they have shown goodwill to Murphy, if it had been a few years ago, Murphy would have considered these, but now that the film "Diego Rose" has just begun to be screened, the plan is fermenting, and the next few years will be very critical for him, and it will be more than worth the loss if he gives up his existing plans and turns to the DC Comics movie series.

He has been running the Oscars for so many years, and after so many years of information, he finally has a complete plan to rush to the Olympics, how can he give up like this?

Even if Warner Bros. does show enough sincerity, it will be a few years later.

The question is, now that the Marvel franchise is in full swing and constantly releasing new titles, how can Warner Bros. and DC Comics wait in peace?

After drawing a concept art, Murphy stood up and stretched, put away the sketchpad and returned to the table, took the black tea handed by Gal Gadot, tasted it at the right temperature, and drank all the cups.

"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 a lot of advanced vehicles or materials for modification. ”

After tomorrow's Oscars, Murphy will be ready to officially start preparing for the film, and now the job is still to win the award with the awards season of "Diego Rose".

Towards evening, when Gal Gadot and Margot Robbie were in their evening gowns, Murphy joined them at a pull-up party in Burbank, to which Twentieth Century Fox invited a large number of film critics and members of the film school.

There is nothing to say about this kind of pulling film, it is basically based on pulling relationships, and at the end of the show, the crew will give some gifts that do not offend the not very sensitive nerves of the film school.

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

Of course, you can also not send it, no one is reluctant to do this, but the Oscars continue to the present, naturally have their own set of operating rules, and some judges are really serious and responsible, and use the merits of the works as the basis for voting, but there are still a considerable number of judges who vote with their feet completely by virtue of good or bad impressions.

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

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

In addition to the film pull, Twentieth Century Fox has also prepared several screenings for Academy members this weekend for Diego Ross so that members of the Academy can easily watch the film.

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

In addition, the Oscar judges who attend will also receive a well-made commemorative booklet for the premiere of "Diego Rose".

In short, the public relations, publicity and promotion actions that a film that hits the Oscar nomination should have, "Diego Rose" will not be less than the film.

At the same time, the film's screening expanded to seven cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, to a total of 10 movie theaters.

After the first screening weekend, although the audience reputation of "Diego Rose" was not particularly good, 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 stable, with an average of about $5,000 per day, and more than $20,000 in five theaters in four days from Monday to Thursday.

In terms of word-of-mouth, after Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox launched word-of-mouth marketing, although the ratings of "Diego Rose" on major rating websites on the Internet did not rise significantly, they basically maintained the rating line after the first weekend, and the effect has been quite obvious for the increasing number of rating users.

In stark contrast to the audience's word-of-mouth, there is media word-of-mouth and professional word-of-mouth, although there are some deliberately obfuscating criticisms in newspapers such as 'in the eyes of Murphy Stanton, his friends are not their own fault, they are all the fault of society', but these two aspects have always been relatively strong, and the industry has also given the film good reviews.

In this case, the film is very likely to make a difference during the awards season, and Murphy's goal is to be nominated for an Oscar, and as long as he gets the nomination, the plan will have a phased victory, and he can also accumulate more qualifications for the future.

In any case, being young is a disadvantage that Murphy cannot erase in the eyes of that group of old men.

Bill Rothes told him that an old Oscar judge who admired him very much said to him: Murphy Stanton is obviously still on the rise, obviously not at the peak of his directorial career, if he gives him the Oscar statuette now, it will be too unfair to him, and he is still young, so he can wait.

When Murphy heard this, he couldn't say anything except speechless, after all, there is such a thing as seniority in any country.

After the second weekend, "Diego Rose" had a mediocre performance in 10 theaters. (To be continued.) )