Chapter 238

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After seeing off Gail gado, Murphy basically stayed in his Stanton studio for the next few days. Now this studio is a standard shell company, and there is no project that can be operated except for the "electric saw 2" cooperated with Fox Searchlight. Instead, the most important role is to use the government's preferential policies on the film industry to help Murphy reduce taxes Tax burden.

So far, Stanton studio has not expanded any more. After seeing the circle better, Murphy gradually gives up his previous unreliable ideas. With his ability and financial strength, if he rashly wants to expand Stanton studio without considering the actual situation, I'm afraid the bankruptcy crisis will not be far away.

Hollywood, after all, is not a state prison. It can handle most people and things with the help of a few people's fists and secret thoughts. The situation and rules in this circle will not be changed by individual will.

Many situations don't exist if he doesn't think about them.

It's also good for Murphy to keep Stanton studio in the position of a leather bag company, so that he can focus on directing as much as possible.

At present, there are only four people in Stanton studio, including Murphy himself, a financial staff, a receptionist and telephone operator, and Paul Wilson, who is also Murphy's assistant.

In a short time, Murphy has no plan to expand Stanton studio, and now his energy is mainly on directing career, preparing for the next step.

Next, he's targeting marvels and DC Comics.

Marvel has been in contact with each other, and the situation is not optimistic. Since 2000, marvel has got rid of the bad situation in the mid-1990s. Although it is not as brilliant as the future, it is not something that people with such status and wealth as Murphy can move.

After being frustrated by Marvel comics, Murphy naturally prepared to turn to DC Comics.

Today's DC Comics and marvel comics are actually different, and the situation they are facing is even reversed.

Before the advent of the new century, DC Comics, which Warner owns, developed smoothly. When people mention superheroes, they first think of Superman and Batman. When it comes to superhero movies, they are exclusive to them.

The scenes of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne on the big screen are not comparable to the Avengers of marvel.

But now, DC Comics and marvel comics can't be compared.

The former cooperated with Warner Brothers in Superman 4, which almost ruined Superman's film series. Joe Schumacher's two super cross dressing shows also brought Batman into a dead end, which forced Warner Brothers to refrigerate master Bruce Wayne.

However, the latter has changed its decline. Starting from blade, after X-Men and Spiderman, it has become the mainstream of movies on the big screen. Spiderman has even become the first movie in the history of North America that grossed more than $100 million at the weekend.

According to the news Murphy got, they are preparing their own film department to make superhero films that really belong to marvel.

Whether it's Murphy or other film companies, it's hard to get the film adaptation rights of those first-line or even second-line comic heroes from Marvel comics. The marvel superheroes that can be adapted by other companies in the industry have all been copyrighted as early as "X-Men", "Spider Man", "night demon" and "magic four".

In order to get rid of the decline, DC Comics are not without action. For example, it successfully digs the corner of "X-Men", makes Brian Singra the director of "superman returns", and cooperates with Oscar winner Halle Berry to create an extremely rare female superhero film - "cat girl".

Thinking of these two films, Murphy subconsciously feels that they may become his own obstacles. These two films have a huge investment, especially superman returns. It is rumored that the production cost will definitely exceed Titanic and become the highest investment films in history. Even if some of the capital problems can be solved through cooperation, financing and pre-sale, it is not easy for Warner Brothers It is still a heavy burden and pressure.

Sitting in the office on the second floor of Stanton studio, before making plans, Murphy must consider the current situation. The product or art situation of film is not divorced from social reality. Whether it is the current social environment or the situation of the company, it may have a significant impact on a film.

Taking a piece of information from the filing cabinet, Murphy looked through it. It was sent by bill Rossi after the investigation. It included the recent situation of DC Comics and Warner Brothers, as well as the introduction of the management. Warner Brothers, in particular, recently changed its CEO. The new chief executive was Bruce Berman.

Murphy thought for a long time about a name that seemed familiar, but he didn't remember it. Then he gave up. Although his head is easy to use, it's not a computer with automatic storage. It's normal that some people who are not very important can't remember it.

He is more on the production strategy of Warner Brothers and DC Comics.There is no doubt that since DC Comics was acquired by Warner, it has started in-depth cooperation with Warner Brothers. Superman film and Batman Series are the products of cooperation, and the two companies have a tacit understanding. If DC Comics' first-line superheroes are adapted into movies, Warner Brothers will be the leading Party.

Although Warner Bros. sometimes introduces other partners to share the financial pressure and reduce the risk, the film copyright of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne will always be firmly in hand.

This also determines that unlike Marvel comics, which has just started and has no independent production and distribution company, if Murphy wants to cooperate with DC Comics, he will certainly not be able to buy the corresponding copyright.

Fortunately, DC superheroes are now in the ice age. They are not as popular as Marvel comics. There is still the possibility of persuading them to restart the super series.

What Murphy wants is simply to become a series director and get enough power as far as possible, so that he can enter the ranks of top directors.

In the past, he didn't have enough qualifications, so he couldn't do a lot of things, and no one paid any attention to it. Now, the success of three films in a row undoubtedly gave him a certain persuasion. From being chased by paparazzi and entertainment reporters, we can see that he is no longer a little unknown director before.

In particular, the achievement of "Sin City" has attracted more attention and made him famous.

After nearly three months of screening in North America, the film has achieved a box office figure of 91.54 million US dollars. Although it has not broken through the 100 million US dollars mark, it has been put off the shelf. However, the North American box office alone has almost made Miramax recover 40 million US dollars in production costs and 15 million US dollars in total investment in publicity and marketing.

In the past three months, Sin City has also appeared in more overseas cinemas. Although the overall response is not as good as that in North America due to the theme, it has taken more than 34 million US dollars from overseas, and the global box office is more than 125 million US dollars.

This is also the highest global box office figure Murphy has ever received.

In addition, Miramax's negotiations with DVD distributors and TV stations were also concluded before. The results of the negotiations are not much different from the practice that the first round of TV broadcasting rights are about 10% of the box office in North America. It's just that the scale of the film is too large and slightly low, but it also sold for as much as $8 million.

The basic transfer fee of DVD is also US $5 million, and the subsequent sales and leasing will be charged accordingly.

There is also the emerging transfer of VOD, even if it is not as expensive as TV rights, but there are two million dollars in the account.

Even if it had to pay dividends to Black Horse Comics and Frank Miller, Miramax also easily realized large profits.

These are the capital that Murphy can bargain with other companies on new projects.

Of course, for him, the more direct benefits come from money.

"Sin City" is basically offline from North America, and Miramax also sent a financial statement to Stanton studio, which clearly marked the director's dividend that Murphy could enjoy.

According to the director's agreement signed by the two sides, Murphy can get a basic reward of $1 million each before and after the film starts shooting. If the North American box office of crime city exceeds the established production cost line in the future, he can get a basic reward of $1.5 million. If the North American box office reaches $50 million, he can get a basic reward of $3 million The $80 million is $4.5 million, and the $100 million is $6 million.

As long as before the release of the film, Miramax had already paid the basic film remuneration of 2 million US dollars. The rest was mainly the North American box office bonus. The North American box office of the film exceeded 80 million US dollars, but did not reach 100 million US dollars. The North American box office bonus that Murphy could get was the 4.5 million US dollars stipulated in the agreement.

In addition, the agreement also stipulates that Murphy will receive 1% of the copyright revenue of North American TV and DVD tapes of "Sin City" as a reward, and he will receive $80000 and $50000 from the first transfer fee, respectively.

As for the long-term rental and sales revenue, that is the back.

Miramax paid a total of 130000 US dollars in North American TV and DVD video rights a few days ago. As a big box office bonus, Miramax needs to wait slowly as before.

But Murphy is not in a hurry. He is not short of money.

In the next few days, Murphy began to develop project plans and plans for DC Comics and Warner Brothers. It's not easy to impress these guys. At least, there should be a decent plan.

After finishing the project plan and proposal, Bill rosis also got good news. Through CAA channel, he made an appointment with DC Comics and several senior executives of Warner Brothers. (to be continued). )