Chapter 301

At the beginning of October, after Stanton studio, sky Film Foundation and 20th Century Fox's start-up funds of 5 million dollars each were in place, Murphy's preparatory studio officially started, and the crew's office was temporarily placed in the warehouse in the suburb of Venice. As several films were shot here in succession, the warehouse has become a temporary studio for many small crew.

A week before Murphy brought people here, there was a small crew here who had just finished filming and left.

The production group was not big, but it made some changes to the warehouse, especially the director's office in the temporary office area.

The original director's office was temporarily built from a large office room in the warehouse. Now it is separated from the middle and becomes an office suite with two rooms inside and outside. What separates the suite is a special glass wall, which can be seen from the inside but can only be used as a mirror outside.

"The director of the previous production group," Paul Wilson said mysteriously as he accompanied Murphy around the rebuilt and decorated office, "has some special hobbies. I heard that he likes to call actresses into the office inside, look at the assistant directors outside, and give them special guidance."

Paul Wilson didn't give any special explanation. Murphy also understood what it was. He pushed open the glass door on the glass wall and went in to have a look. The contents were not completely removed. There was also a huge desk and high back swivel chair.

Paul Wilson also followed in. "I've had the office cleaned carefully. The back of the chair can be lowered as a folding bed for temporary rest."

Murphy took a look and came out again. "Put all my things out here."

He has little interest in that boring hobby.

Then, under the leadership of Paul Wilson, he went to the warehouse for shooting area, which is probably due to the increasing number of shooting crew in recent years. This is no longer a warehouse, and it has become a huge studio under constant transformation.

In the future, most of the indoor scenes will be shot here.

The preparation has just begun. Each department officially put into work a few days ago. A large number of staff constantly brought in all kinds of equipment, and the warehouse was extremely busy.

However, compared with the vigorous publicity campaign that started when the dead man was preparing, the current crew is much quieter and basically has no media attention. Murphy and calafes do not plan to launch publicity now. For publicity and marketing, they have had in-depth exchanges with 20th century fox. Only at the right time can they launch an extraordinary publicity campaign.

"Hi, Murphy."

Murphy turns his head and David Ellison walks in from the outside with two handbags. He's full of excitement and says, "I've finished the negotiation"

Murphy is surprised. "So soon"

"I've reached an agreement with Nokia, and the relevant documents will be sorted out and sent to you tomorrow." David Ellison came up to him and stood beside him. "They agreed to be the advertising sponsor of our project."

Then he handed Murphy the paper bag he was holding in his hand. "This is the Nokia 6670 concept machine, which has a very rare video recording function. It is said that it can support recording a video for more than 10 minutes. They sent some prototypes."

"I don't need it." Murphy shook his head, just about to say give it to someone else, and David Ellison said, "I didn't say give it to you, it's for Gail."

Murphy thought about it, and then said, "thank you for me."

Different from the previous films, the lost lover was temporarily named g because of the need of publicity and marketing. Because the background of the film is modern society, it is natural to introduce some advertising sponsorship. His previous films have all sold out at the box office, so it is not too hard to find some advertising sponsors with cooperative intention.

As a producer, David Ellison also joined the production team and volunteered to negotiate with the advertising sponsor. After consideration, Murphy and carafes agreed. Anyway, he was not the only one involved in the negotiation, as well as Murphy's lawyer Robert and 20th Century Fox professionals.

What I didn't expect is that David Ellison's performance in business negotiation is not only not bad, but also quite excellent. The disadvantage is that he doesn't have enough experience, but on the whole, it is quite good. In the negotiation with Volvo, which was concluded at the earliest time, he got the sponsorship car and at the same time, he also drew up as much as $3 million in advertising sponsorship fee.

The result of the negotiation with Nokia is also good. In order to make a number of mobile phones including Nokia 6670 appear in the film, Nokia has offered us $3.5 million for advertising.

"We got $6.5 million back before we made the film." David Ellison was very excited when he actually participated in the preparation and shooting of an official film for the first time. "After signing a formal contract with Nokia, I will look for sponsors of alcohol advertisements, especially the wine used by the heroine to abuse herself. I must talk about a high price."

"Well done, David." Murphy gave him a smile and said, "if you let go, Carla and I will support you. I will keep a close-up of the wine used by the heroine for self abuse."David Ellison was born in a family full of business atmosphere. He was very active in thinking. He immediately thought of the audition that the crew would hold in the next stage. He couldn't help saying excitedly, "if you can sign a first-line actress to play Amy, I will have more confidence in negotiation. Think about it. A bottle of wine that can walk through the back door of Best Actress Oscar winners such as Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron will definitely impress the audience. "

"Good idea" Paul Wilson on the other side kept laughing and exclaiming, "good idea is really a very good idea."

This guy, Murphy, takes a look at David Ellison and nods in agreement. He likes the placement ad very much.

However, the actress may not accept it. It depends on how to talk about it.

Bill rossis has sent screenplays and auditions to many famous actresses including Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts according to the list he said. Julia Roberts has declined. She wants to take part in Steven Soderberg's Rohan series. There is a conflict of schedules.

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron have yet to give a clear answer. It seems that they are not particularly interested, and they are deliberately hanging the crew.

The former has just entered the 20 million Hollywood club and is a real superstar; while the latter is not a first-line superstar, she has just won the Best Actress Oscar. Her identity and status are closely related to those of Jessica Alba and Jessica chastan, who have worked with Murphy before. They have enough capital to choose their favorite scripts and roles.

No matter what happened in the past, at this level, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron are extremely scarce resources in the circle, totally different from worrying about fighting for roles.

It's no exaggeration to say that the scripts and auditions that their agents receive every month can be piled one foot high on their desks.

Of course, Murphy also knows that these two seem to be very famous, influential and impressive. In fact, their future development is extremely not smooth. Uchi Kidman's vision of choosing scripts and roles is really beyond praise. She will gradually become a little worse than Nicolas Cage's Queen of rotten films. Finally, she even has to mention her ex husband Tom Cruise Brush presence.

As for Charlize Theron, she has been very famous since she won the Oscar. Her fame is definitely the level of a superstar. But when you look at the films, roles, box office and the pay you can get, it is at most a bit higher than the level of Hollywood's second tier. It is only ten years after she won the best actress that she really carries a film on her own At the box office.

Apart from a few other factors, both of them have a bad eye for choosing films and characters.

In fact, Murphy's favorite object is Charlize Theron. Even if the South African American diamond won the Oscar, she never proved herself in business because she didn't have a masterpiece before, and the film payment is the level of one million dollars. On the contrary, Nicole Kidman is already a member of 20 million clubs, and now she hasn't stinked herself. She doesn't have a film payment of 15 million dollars I'm afraid it's hard to impress her.

Murphy invited her to audition before, mainly because Nicole Kidman is also CAA's client. If the script and the role can make her feel very good, it's not impossible for her to play at a reduced price.

Compared with the confirmed actor James Franco, Murphy thinks more about the heroine.

After a busy day, Gail gado came to the warehouse at the end of work. She said hello to the crew and walked into Murphy's office all the way. Murphy was still discussing the photography style of the film with Philip Raschel and handed her the mobile phone that David Ellison had sent to show her to wait for a while.

Gail gado simply went into the suite inside and sat on the office chair to fiddle with the new mobile phone.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Murphy called out for her. The sound insulation effect of this apartment was not good, and the words from outside could be heard clearly inside.

"You can go now," Gail gado asked after going out.

"Let's go." Murphy picked up the briefcase and nodded, "let's go home."

Gail gado came over and took his arm. As she walked, she said, "NAT is going to have a party in the hotel tomorrow night. She wants me to invite you to join her. She will call you."

As they walked out of the warehouse, Murphy asked, "I remember you were going to a school event tomorrow night"

"yes." Galgado turned on the camera function of his mobile phone and aimed at the sky. "I don't have time to participate."

She recorded a short video, watched it, and said, "it's not bad. It's better than I thought."

"It's a trial payment from the sponsor." Murphy went to the car and helped Gail gado open the door. Suddenly, her mobile phone rang and took out her eyes. It was a strange number.

Gail gado, next to him, saw it and said, "this is NAT's number." It's not finished yet.