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Standing across from the young director, Jones Butler found that she had indeed underestimated him, and that the progress of the other party was not only obvious, but also amazing, and before the end of the film, she just thought it was good, but after watching the ending, that amazing feeling could not be dissipated.

The beginning and end of a film are very important, in Hollywood's extremely mature commercialization system, the beginning and end can even occupy more than sixty percent of the attention of the whole film, her boss Harvey Weinstein once said that if the film has a resonant and brilliant beginning and end, the middle content can be added casually, as long as it is not too bad, the audience will buy it.

The beginning of this film is okay, and the end can no longer be described as amazing, and the middle content is not only not bad, but it can also be said to be quite brilliant.

Jones Butler took a deep breath, how much market value would this film have if it were handed over to Miramax to operate?

She can't estimate it for the time being, and it's definitely much higher than "Hard Fruit Candy".

"It's a wonderful movie, director Stanton." Jones Butler reached out and shook Murphy's hand and glanced at his watch, "It's not early, I still have something to do, it's time to go." ”

Murphy stood in front of the theater and didn't hold back, "Goodbye." ”

Watching Jones Butler drive away, Murphy looked back at the theater door, which was already empty, and the people he and Bill Rothes had invited seemed to be in a hurry, and they all left with a desperate run, as if he, the director of the film, was a jigsaw.

"That's a good thing." Bill Rothes walked over from behind and stood next to Murphy, "From what I've observed, this film has completely exceeded their expectations, and several people have privately given extremely high reviews, and they should be back to the company." ”

Murphy nodded, he has been in this circle for a while, and he has some understanding of the operation of the film company, unless there are a very few top bosses, any project involving millions of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot be decided by casually tapping his head.

Judging from the attitudes of Miton Johnson, Tony Guzman and Jones Butler, who have left one after another, he can also see that these people are very interested in "Saw Horror".

Issuing companies occupy the upper echelons of the industrial chain, and the projects with enough selling points can allow them to fully realize their market value.

Paul Wilson, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill shipped the copies out at this point, and Murphy waved at them, "Go to the security company and stock up on the copies, and we'll go to lunch." ”

During the screening, he also saw the reaction of the crowd, and although it was far from the time to celebrate, he could also relax a little with a drink.

Just as Murphy saved the copy, called James Franco, and walked into the restaurant together, many people from Lionsgate's marketing and distribution departments in Santa Monica hurried to the conference room.

There was silence in the conference room, with a dozen people sitting on the left and right, with Miton Johnson standing at the front of the conference table, "Do any of you know about Studio Stanton and director Murphy Stanton?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, where did this small company and rookie director jump out? Never heard of it.

Miton Johnson pulled out a chair and sat down, two fingers lightly tapping the table, "From now on, you will immediately find information about him and build a complete director's file." ”

Hearing this, many people looked at Miton Johnson in surprise, the directors who can be established by Lionsgate are all potential partners, most of them are a little famous in the circle, this kind of completely unfamiliar director is not nothing, but the number is very small.

"Jamie ......" Mitton Johnson looked at a middle-aged man, waited for the female assistant to hand over a business card, and said, "This is Murphy Stanton's contact information, you can contact him no later than three days, you must both see his new film." ”

"His new film?" Jamie Winster was a little weird, but still said, "I'll do it after the meeting." ”

"All of you!" "After Jamie contacted Stanton Studios for the test screening, I ask you to put aside all your work for the time being, go see that movie, evaluate that movie, and give me a full report as soon as possible. ”

Thinking that he might not be able to win this film, he added, "Let the people from the editorial department also participate." ”

When Miton Johnson said this, he couldn't help but ignore these people, and they started to get busy after the meeting.

As soon as the meeting ended, the female assistant answered a phone call and walked up to Miton Johnson, "I asked a friend to inquire about Murphy Stanton, who has been in jail, had some entanglements with the Los Angeles Police Department, and has offended Summer-Rayshidong ......"

"Hmm......" Mitton-Johnson just nodded, but didn't care at all, "these are things that the gossip media should care about, and they have nothing to do with us." ”

As for Sommer Lei Shidong, Lionsgate is not a company owned by Viacom, so he doesn't care, there is such a film that seems to have quite market potential in front of him, who cares if the director has offended Somer Lei Shidong.

In an office building near the Fox Tower in Century City, Tony Guzmán stood anxiously walking back and forth in front of a conference room, occasionally looking at his watch, where the executives of the Fox searchlight were having a meeting, and it was time to reckoning.

The door to the conference room suddenly opened from the inside, and one by one, the executives with stern expressions walked out of it, and when they saw their immediate boss Godin Clyde coming, Tony Guzman hurriedly greeted him.

"What are you going to do?" The boss's words were a bit hard, and he was obviously in a bad mood.

He followed his boss into a secluded hallway, "I just watched a movie that I think is totally worth five stars for a small budget under five million dollars." ”

"What?" The boss turned his head, he knew that Tony Guzmán was a veteran of the company, he had always been cautious in his work, and rarely gave a film such an evaluation, "You're not kidding? ”

Tony Guzmán said in all seriousness, "When have I ever joked about work?" ”

The boss nodded, "Can you contact the other party to arrange another viewing party?" ”

Fox Searchlight, especially the performance of the distribution department in the first quarter was too poor, and there was no film that could be handled, and the head office put tremendous pressure on them, and at the meeting just now, several bigwigs on the board of directors were already angry.

He, the director of distribution, bore the brunt of the problem.

Tony Guzman pulled out his phone, "I'll do it now." ”

Jones Butler returned to the hotel where he was staying, sat in the living room of the suite, recalled the film he had just watched, opened the notebook and watched it again, thought about it for a while, thought about the performance brought by "Hard Fruit Candy", and finally made up his mind.

She took her phone, pressed a few numbers, and when it was connected, she said, "BOSS, I have a video here, if you have time, it's best to come and watch it." (To be continued.) )