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On Monday morning, high-heeled shoes clattered in the inner corridor of CAA. Jessica chastan came to a reception room and knocked on the door. There was a voice inside. She pushed the door and walked in.

"Are you looking for me?" She saw Mike, the agent in the high back chair. "What can't be said on the phone?"

"Sit down, Jesse." Mike stood up and gave Jessica chastan a glass of water. "How was the audition yesterday?"

Jessica chastan opened a chair and sat down. She took the glass from Mike and said thank you. She put it on the table in front of her. She shook her head and said, "it's not going well. I'm not sure about the effect."

Mike sat back in his high chair and said, "I'll try again for this audition. Jesse, why didn't you fight for the role of sin city? I signed up for you at that time. "

"I..." Jessica chastan's eyes drooped. "I went to an audition, and I was wiped out in the first round."

"Why didn't you call Murphy?" When Mike thought of the movie, he was angry. "With your relationship with Murphy, it shouldn't be a problem to win one of the female roles!"

"No problem? Mike, it's too easy for you to think! " Jessica chastan raised her voice slightly. "Do you know what Murphy Stanton is like? I just worked as an assistant for him for a short time, not even a friend. He thinks my image is not suitable. With his utilitarian style, is it useful to make a phone call? "

Don't say to call, with her understanding, as long as you think it's not appropriate, even if you accompany him to bed is useless.

Besides, she didn't want to call at all.

She watched with her own eyes how Murphy Stanton changed from a gangster in a slum to a director. She asked a talented student like her to seek a gangster who had no knowledge and no skills. Once, if she could, the second time, it would be very, very difficult. It would pierce her only self-esteem.

"I have an appointment at noon," Jessica chastan stood up and didn't want to keep pestering on the topic. "If it's OK, I'll go first."

"Wait, Jesse!" Mike suddenly stopped her.

Jessica chastan looks at Mike, who seems to be hesitant.

After a while, Mike asked, "Jesse, you worked as Murphy's assistant, and you know he used to live in a slum. Why did a poor boy in a slum suddenly have so much money to make a movie? Would it be so lucrative to sell news rights and LAPD rewards to TV stations? "

Hearing this, Jessica chastan immediately felt not quite right, but also a little vigilant, but she was an actress after all, her face under the red bangs did not change, casually said, "what's the matter, to ask the Los Angeles County Police Department and his friend Carla Firth, I just served as his assistant for a short time, how can I know these things?"

Mike frowned slightly. If he could get information from other sources, he would not look for Jessica chastan.

Some time ago, he carefully studied the history of Murphy Stanton's rise, and found that there are many suspicious places. These are like mysteries, and there is always no real answer. For example, the Los Angeles County police department can find out that Murphy Stanton received a valuable reward, but the police department refuses to disclose the specific one.

If you can find the answer, it may become a tool to your advantage, maybe

Mike's eyes narrowed. Maybe he could have a famous director client.

"I'm going. Goodbye."

Turning around, Jessica chastan walked towards the door, just calm face, can not help but show some doubts.

After Jessica chastan left, Mike sat and thought for a while. He also walked out of the lounge and down the long corridor to his office. Like all the agents on this floor, he had no separate office and shared a room with the other three agents.

Pushing open the office door, Mike went in and sat down behind his desk. He wanted to continue to think about what he had just done. But the comments of the other three colleagues made him uneasy.

"Bill rossis made it again this time."

"Yes, Murphy Stanton is going to be a second tier director."

"If I want to have such a customer, I will hold it in my hand like Chengbao."

"Well, if Murphy Stanton's next film is a big hit, and the box office in North America is 200 million dollars or more, and he becomes a first-line director, will bill rosis be invited by the board of directors to become one of the partners?"

This words, several other people fell into a short silence, partners will mean to become one of the top people in the company, but also their goal of these small brokers.

"We'll have a good relationship with bill in the future," someone suggested. "We can also put our clients in Murphy Stanton's new series. Maybe they'll be as popular as Jessica Alba one day."

The other two nodded and agreed, "it's OK to take part in a film like sin city. This first week's box office is enough to attract a lot of media attention.""Mike, you have such a good relationship with bill," one man turned the topic to Mike. "Later, we'll stop people and help to say a few words."

"No problem." Mike tried to make a smile.

Colleagues are still talking about Murphy Stanton, Bill rosis and sin city. Mike can't do anything and his mood is greatly affected. After sitting for another ten minutes, he just stands up and walks out of the office.

Walking into the elevator room, there was an elevator coming down from the top. Mike stepped into the elevator and found that the man standing inside was Bill Rossi.

"Going out?" Mike asked naturally.

"Yes." Bill rosis nodded. "Crime city won the box office title last weekend, and Vanity Fair has made a decision to interview Murphy and James Franco in the afternoon. I'll go there and confirm the problem with them in advance."

Mike said with a smile, "well, I'd like to congratulate you. If you can go on the vanity fair interview, Murphy will be even more famous."

Bill rosis was obviously in a good mood and laughed heartily.

Out of the Death Star building, they waved goodbye. Mike decided to go to the opposite coffee shop and sit quietly for a while. When he passed by a newspaper booth, he caught a glimpse of Premiere Magazine hanging outside the newspaper booth. Thinking of bill rosis, he bought a copy, stuffed it into his briefcase and entered the coffee shop.

Find a quiet seat and order some coffee. Mike takes out Premiere Magazine with a close-up poster of crime city on the cover.

The title of blood red on the black and white cover is very eye-catching -- the bloody box office of sin city!

Opening the cover, Mike quickly saw the latest box office express.

"This week, Murphy Stanton, a very personal young director who has achieved the miracles of" chainsaw "and" planet of terror ", is making a big comeback with his new film" Sin City ". The film has been released in 2850 North American Theaters at the same time. It has a bad background of R-class film, which means that countless young audiences will be blocked out of the screening hall. It earned more than $36.8 million in the first weekend and topped the box office list in North America. Murphy Stanton, who is called a mad director by some media, has also successfully fulfilled his previous promise to Miramax in terms of revenue. "

"Sin city is adapted from Frank Miller's cartoon of the same name. Murphy Stanton chooses three of the seven short stories to form the main story of the film. Unlike Warner's Batman Series and 20th Century Fox's X-Men series, sin city does not have the vulgar superheroes in most comic adapted films. The darkness, blood, violence and anti hero characteristics brought by Murphy Stanton make it more like a police and gangster film. "

"Director Murphy Stanton himself is a loyal reader of the city of sin. In line with the principle of absolute restoration of the original work and faithful reproduction of the story, Murphy invited Frank Miller, the perverse cartoonist of the original author, to the directing group, which can be said to be like a tiger adding wings. "

"It is understood that Murphy Stanton is not only a screenwriter and director, but also personally leads the post production and final editing of the film. On the basis of comics, the film also integrates his distinctive personality. Just like Murphy Stanton's first three films," city of sin "has a distinctive" Murphy Stanton product "on its material, narrative, story and image ’From the media's fussy, confused and mixed feelings of praise and criticism, we can see the general situation. "

"Chicago Sun's gold medalist Roger Abbott has no hesitation to give the film two thumbs up, believing that the black-and-white film, which is completely made in front of the green screen, is epoch-making, while another film critic, William Arnold, has declared that" Sin City "is complete rubbish with his F-score. Although this polarization and mixed results often stimulate the curiosity of the audience, increase the novelty and topicality of the film, which is beneficial to the box office performance, but the R rating and relatively narrow audience style make it very difficult for sin city to break through 100 million US dollars in the North American box office. "

"In addition, No. 2 at the box office is the ill fated" sniper phone booth ", which was released by 20th Century Fox and received $10.27 million last weekend..."

Seeing this, Mike closes the magazine and turns his eyes to the Death Star building outside the window. He also wants to go up one floor and have his own independent office.

He took out his cell phone, made a few calls, and finally dialed a number. When the other side picked it up, he began to smile, "Hi, Murphy, it's me, Mike. Ah, it's OK. I just want to say congratulations. You've done a great job

On the other side, Murphy sat in the studio rented by vanity fair and said with a smile, "thank you."

After a few words of politeness, Murphy hung up. Not long after hanging up, grace and bill rosis came in together and told him something to pay attention to during the interview. (to be continued). )