Chapter 181

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"The newspaper you want, chief. A secretary came into the office and put a magazine on Kara Firth's desk. Kara Firth nodded and took the magazine, "thank you."

Seeing nothing else, the secretary left the office.

Leaving the Premiere Magazine aside, Carla Firth was busy with her work. Although she was very concerned about Murphy's new film achievements, she was more responsible for her own work.

She was busy until more than ten o'clock in the morning. Her eyes left the computer screen. She stood up and went to the window. After watching for a while, she relaxed for a while. Then she went back to her desk and sat down and picked up the Premiere Magazine.

She used to do social news, and she didn't pay much attention to the entertainment industry, and she didn't know much about the film industry. But since Murphy, a friend, changed his career to Hollywood, she not only paid attention to the news, but also had a deep understanding of the industry.

On the cover of Premiere is Peter Parker, a famous little spider. Under the little spider, there is a striking Headline - "Spider Man" easily won the top box office in North America, "007: die some day" has a weak start, and the box office of horror planet has exceeded expectations in the first week!

At the sight of this line, Carla Firth's mouth lit up an imperceptible smile. That guy seems to have succeeded again!

Open "Premiere" magazine, she directly found the weekly box office express, began to quickly browse.

"Last weekend, three new films made it into the top five at the box office in North America, but none of them posed any threat to Spiderman. Finally, the superhero film produced and released by Sony Columbia Pictures won another $71.12 million, easily withstanding the new films, and once again won the top five at the box office at the end of the week. The cumulative results of this film in ten days reached $221.56 million...."

After a brief look at the news about the box office champion, Carla Firth began to browse at a glance until she saw the news about "planet of terror". "Miramax's alternative zombie movie" planet of terror "became the small winner this weekend. The box office of this low-cost B-class movie exceeded expectations, and its performance was stronger than that of another low-cost movie" secret of the holy sisters ". The box office of the first weekend in North America has exceeded its production cost line."

"Last year, Murphy Stanton, the director of this film, released a movie with a return on investment ratio of horror like" chainsaw ", and this year's" planet of terror "got $15.7 million in the first week of its release, which is close to double the box office cost line, proving once again his ability in genre films. At the same time, the film also beat the much anticipated "007: die another day" to become the best one of several new films this week

"More than 58% of the audience is over 25 years old. In terms of gender, nearly 75% of the audience is male. The cinema audience rating of the film is "B +", and the audience's reputation is good; the media evaluation of the film is mainly positive, with 81% of the 45 media included in the rotten tomato website giving good comments, with an average score of 8 points. The authoritative media Metacritic included 36 media with an average score of 72, far exceeding the pass line! "

"In addition, Richard Chris, a special film critic of the magazine, thinks that the film is very conventional, but the director Murphy Stanton knows how to create tension on such subjects, and show the suspense and suffocating atmosphere in multiple levels, which brings a lot of cool action scenes at the same time..."

Seeing this, Carla Firth put down the magazine. It seems that she has seen the media's comments. Do you want to have a look?

Think of here, she shook her head, or forget it, this kind of large-scale film is not her dish, "chainsaw" still has shadow.

After clearing her desk, Carla Firth picked up the phone and dialed a number.

Hearing a familiar voice over there, she said, "it's me, Carla. Murphy, are you still in Los Angeles? It's nothing important. I haven't seen you for a long time. Why don't you have dinner tonight? Well, you come to Beverly Hills. I'll wait for you at Mr. Zhou's restaurant at 7 p.m. and invite you to Chinese food. "

On Monday morning, Erica Steinberg led Murphy and other major crew members to a live interactive meeting in Orange County. However, as a director, Erica Steinberg is not conspicuous and is not the center of publicity. There is not much work to be done. The whole activity is just like before, and the most prominent one is small Robert Downey.

At the end of the afternoon, Murphy drove his Cadillac back to Los Angeles. At about half past six, he came to Beverly Hills and soon found Mr. Zhou's restaurant.

After parking the car and entering the restaurant, Murphy asked the waiter at the door, "which table is Kara faith's?"

"Miss faith has arrived."

The waiter leads Murphy to the left, and comes to the place near the glass window on the left. Murphy sees Carla Firth from a distance. She is wearing a professional suit, and her face is still painted with delicate makeup. She is reading a magazine, as if she didn't notice him."It's been a long time?"

Murphy walked across from her, pulled back her chair and sat down. Carla Firth put down her magazine. "It's been ten minutes."

She picked up the recipe and pushed it to Murphy. "Order. It's my treat."

"Have you got your order yet?" Seeing her nod, Murphy opened the menu and said, "I'm going to pick the most expensive one."

"No problem." Carla Firth shrugged. "Next time you treat us, we'll have golden caviar."

After picking a few dishes, Murphy beckoned for the waiter, said a few words to him, closed the menu, returned to his head and asked, "golden caviar? What is it? "

"Caviar with gold foil." Carla Firth was obviously joking, "it's expensive food anyway."

She raised her eyebrows. "But it's not as expensive as you multimillionaire, is it?"

Murphy opened his hand. "It's not a problem what you want to eat."

He squeezed his eyes. "How about this, I'll order you a cake baked in dollars."

Kara Firth gave him a pair of white eyeballs, and Murphy laughed. Just now, he was joking. Even if there is a lot of money on the book, he will not do it.

Now it's June 2002. As early as February, Fox Searchlight paid the North American box office share of the movie in accordance with the agreement. In addition, there was a sale out fee for overseas copyrights. Stanton studio's book was not more than 10 million US dollars.

However, this part of the funds will not stay on the book of Stanton studio for long. The sequel of "electric saw" has been approved. As the owner of most of the film copyright, Murphy is also ready to invest another sum of money in the sequel. He still has some confidence in this series.

Like most B-rated movies, the box office of "chainsaw" is not particularly amazing, but it has been selling well in the video and DVD market, and it is definitely a stable source of revenue for a long time.

And at his recommendation, a young Chinese named James Wen became the director of the sequel.

Murphy's heart, also has more confidence in the sequel.

"According to you," after the dish came up, the two chatted while eating, and the topic also turned to the market around the film. "Is there still a lot to be done in the DVD rental and sales market in the future for" electric saw "and" terror planet "

"I think so." Murphy always feels uncomfortable eating Chinese food with a knife and fork, but he doesn't say anything. "The North American box office of" horror planet "can't match that of" chainsaw ", but in the next five to eight years, the value created in the surrounding markets will definitely exceed the North American box office he can get."

At this point, Murphy suddenly asked, "have you ever thought about switching to the film industry?"

Carla Firth shook her head. "There's no such idea for the moment."

Murphy just casually asked, and then irresponsibly put forward suggestions, "I think it's good for you to go to the film department of 20th century fox. With your current ability and qualifications, it's very easy to become an executive. At that time, you can invest in my new film, and you don't have to invest more than $100 million in one."

"I'll be fired soon, won't I?"

It seems that the food is not to the taste. After eating a little, Carla Firth put down her knife and fork and said, "if you invest hundreds of millions of dollars to make B-class movies, it's estimated that Hollywood will go crazy."

"Who said all my films would be B-rated?" Murphy's eyes widened.

Carla Firth shrugged. "Isn't it?"

Murphy scratched his head, thought about his plan, and sighed.

Just as he wanted to say something more, Carla Firth's cell phone rang. She picked up a few words, took her handbag and stood up in a hurry. "There's something unexpected on the stage. I should go back."

In the middle of the dinner, Murphy put down her knife and fork, picked up her napkin and wiped her mouth. "Shall I give it to you?"

"I drove here." Carla Firth dug out the keys from her handbag.

Murphy waved to her. "Go back."

Carla Firth is also impolite, "remember to pay the bill, I'll treat you next time."

Maybe things are really urgent. She left in a hurry. Murphy bought the order, went out of Mr. Zhou's restaurant, served her Cadillac, and was ready to return to Santa Monica.

I have to get up early tomorrow to catch a plane with the crew to go to other places for publicity. Since Carla Firth has gone, he doesn't want to stay here any more. He just went back to Santa Monica's home early.

Think of Kara - FES, Murphy are a little admire, this is a career of strong women, it seems that the work is always in the forefront.

Perhaps this kind of talent can get the appreciation of the superior most, otherwise, Carla Firth will not become a senior executive of Fox TV station at a young age.

The next morning, Murphy arrived at Los Angeles International Airport and joined the rest of the crew to embark on a North American publicity tour.

However, the journey is very short, because the cinema life of B-level films is never long. (to be continued). ）For mobile phone users, please browse and read for better reading experience.