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Mid-December. Murphy www.biquge.info, Quentin Tarantino, Twentieth Century Fox, and Weinstein Pictures received subpoenas from the District Court of California at the same time, and a so-called well-known writer who appeared out of nowhere sued them at the same time, claiming that "Inglourious Basterds" used his ideas and ideas from more than a decade ago, infringed his copyright, and demanded 10 million dollars in damages.

When the news reached Murphy, he threw it directly to agent Bill Rothes and attorney Robert to deal with, while hanging up the phone with Quentin, and the riffraff took a similar approach to him.

As for Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Pictures, they both have divisions dedicated to this kind of incident.

In recent years, similar incidents have emerged in Hollywood, and major film companies led by the Big Six are also formulating targeted measures.

Murphy was also considering whether Stanton Studios should set up such a department as well, after all, it was not the first time he had encountered such an incident.

Movies such as comic book adaptations and novel adaptations are easy to say, and the copyright ownership is relatively clear, and generally rarely cause copyright disputes. But original movies are different, due to the lack of other electronic works as support, as long as the original movie can be a big hit, there will always be people who jump out and say that the producer stole their creativity.

In recent years, this has intensified, with only a handful of original Hollywood films that can sell big, but almost every one of them is being chased for compensation, as if the films really stole their ideas.

Everyone knows that this kind of person just wants to make a name for himself and make a fortune, as early as the fifties and sixties of the last century.

But in recent years, the proliferation of this situation is also directly related to the mishandling of major Hollywood studios, in the face of these guys who don't know where to jump out, the production companies led by the six major companies often resort to out-of-court settlements in order to avoid too much trouble

。 Out-of-court settlements also mean paying more or less money to those people, and while this will save a lot of money in legal fees and litigation costs, it will provide fertile ground for the continued proliferation of such incidents.

To a certain extent, this is a hindrance to original films. It must be annoying for a director to work hard to create a movie, but being chased after him and shouting for plagiarism.

Regardless of the reaction of others, Murphy does not intend to settle out of court anyway, and with the character of the ruffian Quentin, he should not intend to reconcile either.

A few days later, the Los Angeles County Police Department reported that they had found the email address from which the threatening letter originated, and the email address was located in a public area downtown area, and there was no way to find out who had sent the letter.

The police also took the letter and carried out a technical survey, which showed that there were no fingerprints of anyone other than him and Gal Gadot and two postmen, which were apparently noticed by the person who mailed the letter.

This matter has a tendency to develop in the direction of headless cases, and Murphy has no good way to do it except strengthen the protective measures around him.

Then again, he always thought it was a hoax by a bored person, could it be that this thing would turn into a John Lennon tragedy, or the next ridiculous incident of John Hinckley and Jodie Foster?

Of course, if this person can kill the stupid pig sitting in the White House for him, he will applaud hard, this is called true love!

However, Murphy was able to heed the advice of those around him and did not go to the Inglourious Basterds promotion and PR party. Although this will drag down "Inglourious Basterds" to hit the Oscars, it will not have much impact on the box office and market response of the film.

After three weeks of screenings, the film "Inglourious Basterds" has maintained a steady and healthy trend in North American theaters, with the box office decline remaining within 50% for two consecutive weekends, and the North American box office has undoubtedly exceeded the $150 million mark, directly rushing to $180 million, and reaching a total of $182.4 million.

With the film's North American popularity, more overseas countries and regions have joined the screening ranks of "Inglourious Basterds", although this film is unlikely to cause a fanatical market response like a PG-13 film like "Man of Steel" because of its subject matter and style, as well as violent and bloody relationships, the overseas box office has also steadily exceeded $150 million.

With little to no obstacles, Inglourious Basterds grossed more than $300 million worldwide, reaching a whopping $338.6 million.

This figure also easily meets the expectations of Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Pictures, and more than three times the production cost, and the remark clause in Murphy's directorial contract will be automatically triggered, and 20 percent of Inglourious Basterds' total box office revenue and total Internet revenue will become his dividend.

At the same time, the film's reputation is as strong as the box office.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes for "Inglourious Basterds" has been maintained at more than 80%, and although IMDB's score inevitably fell below 9 points, it also had a score of 8.6, successfully reaching the top 100 of IMDB's TOP250 list.

In terms of other professional word-of-mouth, "Inglourious Basterds" is also basically praised.

This is also conducive to the film's plan to hit the Oscars.

While some Oscar judges thought Inglourious Basterds was too bullshit, there were also many who thought it was an extremely brilliant World War II film.

In fact, this situation is also normal, even the most widely watched James Cameron films in this world are black, let alone a stylized director like Murphy.

Besides, no one can deny that some people's blackness comes from inner jealousy.

As time passed, the New York Film Critics Awards, the first major award of the North American film industry awards season, was officially announced, and the North American awards season from 2008 to 2009 also kicked off.

Since it's called awards season, the film-related awards in these months are certainly not only the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards, the two most well-known in the United States.

In Hollywood, the accepted start of awards season is December 1, and the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and Gotham Independent Film Awards are usually announced on this day.

Subsequently, a large number of awards such as the Golden Satellite Award, the National Review Award, the Washington Film Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Award, the Boston Film Critics Circle Award, and the American Film Association Award will be announced or announced.

These can be said to be weather vanes, and the outpost awards that can really have influence are basically after the New Year.

Editors' Guild Awards, Producers' Union Awards, Writers Guild Awards, Photographers' Guild Awards, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Visual Effects Guild Awards......

These trade union awards, due to the large overlap between the judges and the Oscars, can be called real outpost awards.

Of course, we can't ignore the British Academy Film Awards, commonly known as the British Oscars, because the Oscars have a large number of British judges, this award can also directly affect the final Oscar voting results.

As for the Golden Globe Awards, which are very famous, they do not bring more practical results than to increase the fame of the winners.

From these aspects, the Golden Globe Awards, the most well-known "Oscar weather vane", does not seem to be so worthy of the name, this award organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association itself has no intersection with the academic school, to say that it sounds good is the consensus of the Hollywood Press Association, to say that it is a group of reporters who are mixed in the fringes of Hollywood, in order to have a meal with the stars and hold a big party, the reputation is that they are the "Oscar weather vane", in order to improve the accuracy of the awards are divided into" Drama" and "Comedy/Musical" categories; But in fact, the probability of "guessing" the ownership of the little golden figure is not as great as that of flipping a coin blindfolded.

Of course, if you use it as a collection of jokes to warm up for the Oscars, it is still interesting.

The Union Awards are truly the "weather vane" for a simple reason: the voters for the Guild Awards are the top industry insiders in all aspects of film production, and their professional opinions in their respective sections should not be underestimated; And most importantly, the voters who participated in the various union awards have different degrees of overlap with the voters of the Oscar awards.

Since its inception in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which have the lowest voting threshold and the most powerful awards, have "predicted" the Oscars 57 times, and the overlap with the Oscars in the past 10 years has been as high as 90%; The "Best Film" award from the Producers' Guild Awards has been similar to that of the academy judges for eight consecutive years.

As the time approached Christmas, most of the film critics' associations basically announced the results, and British director Danny Boyle and his "Slumdog Millionaire" became the biggest winners, winning several film critics' associations for best director and best picture.

Although it didn't win any major film critics association awards, "Inglourious Basterds" basically appeared in the nominees for these film critics association awards, which can be said to be a victory from the perspective of Murphy's personal goals.

The more fierce union awards will not be announced until after the New Year, and Murphy heard that the academy has also made some changes to the Oscars, and it is said that the number of nominations for best picture will be increased to a maximum of nine in the next one to two years, so as not to miss out on those excellent films.

Murphy stayed at home and could only learn about the situation outside through the phone and the news, but Gal Gadot also put down other things and stayed home with him, and the two of them didn't end their short otaku life until the weekend before Christmas, leaving Wave Manor and Beverly Hills to head to Santa Monica's seaside villa for James Franco and Lily Collins' moving party.

The two invited a lot of friends and family to attend, and Jonah Hill also prepared a big gift for friends such as James Franco and Murphy. (To be continued.) )