Chapter 460

In the middle of December. Murphy, Quentin Tarantino, 20th Century Fox and Weinstein pictures have also received subpoenas from the California district court. A so-called well-known writer who came out of nowhere sued them at the same time, claiming that "shameless bastard" used his ideas and ideas more than ten years ago, infringed his copyright and demanded $10 million in compensation.

When the news reached Murphy's side, he threw it directly to agent bill rosis and lawyer Robert. At the same time, he hung up Quentin and them. The ruffian took a similar approach to him.

As for 20th Century Fox and Weinstein, they both have departments dealing with such incidents.

In recent years, Hollywood similar incidents emerge in endlessly, and the major film companies headed by the big six are also formulating targeted measures.

Murphy is also considering whether Stanton studio should set up such a department. After all, it's not the first time he has encountered such an incident.

It's easy to say that movies such as comic book adaptations and novel adaptations have relatively clear ownership of copyright and rarely cause copyright disputes. But the original film is different. Because of the lack of other electronic works as support, as long as the original film can sell well, someone will jump out and say that the producer has stolen their creativity.

In recent years, this situation has become more and more serious. There are only a few original films that can be sold in Hollywood, but almost everyone behind them is chasing for compensation, as if these films really steal their creativity.

As everyone knows, this kind of people just want to be famous and make a lot of money. As early as the 1950s and 1960s, this kind of situation happened.

However, in recent years, the flooding of this situation is also directly related to the improper handling of major Hollywood film companies. In the face of these guys who do not know where to jump out, the production companies headed by the six major companies often adopt the way of out of court settlement in order to avoid too much trouble. Out of court settlement also means paying more or less to those people. Although it will save a lot of lawyers' fees and litigation costs, it provides fertile soil for the continued proliferation of such incidents.

To some extent, this is an obstacle to the original film. A director's painstaking efforts to create a film, but being followed by people shouting plagiarism, must be very annoying.

No matter how other people react, Murphy doesn't intend to settle out of court. With Quentin's character, she should not intend to settle.

A few days later, a message came from the Los Angeles County Police Department. They found the origin mailbox of the threatening letter. The email address was located in the public area of downtown area. They had no way to find out the specific sender.

The police also took the letter and carried out a technical survey. There were no fingerprints of anyone except him, Gail gado and two postmen. The postman obviously noticed this.

There is a trend towards a headless case. Besides strengthening the protection measures around him, Murphy has no good way.

In other words, he always thought it was a prank of a boring person. Could it turn into the tragedy of John Lennon, or the next absurd incident of John Hinkley and Judy foster?

Of course, if this person can kill the stupid pig sitting in the White House for him, he will clap and cheer. This is true love!

However, Murphy was able to listen to the advice of the people around him and didn't attend the publicity activities and public relations parties of shameless bastards. Although this will drag down the impact of "shameless bastard" on the Oscar plan, it will not have much impact on the box office and market reaction of the film.

After three weeks of screening, "shameless asshole" has maintained a steady and healthy trend in North American theaters. The box office decline for two consecutive weekends remained within 50%. The box office in North America broke through the $150 million mark without any suspense, and directly hit the $180 million mark, reaching a total of $182.4 million.

With the popularity of films in North America, more and more overseas countries and regions have joined in the screening of "shameless bastard". Although this film can't trigger a fanatical market reaction like "body of steel" because of its theme, style, violence and blood, its overseas box office has steadily exceeded 150 million US dollars.

Almost without too many obstacles, the total global box office of "shameless bastard" exceeded $300 million, up to $338.6 million.

This figure easily meets the expectations of 20th Century Fox and Weinstein films, and exceeds three times the production cost. The remark clause in Murphy's contract will automatically trigger. 20% of the total box office revenue and Internet revenue of shameless bastard will become his dividend.

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

The freshness of rotten tomatoes in "shameless bastards" has been maintained at more than 80%. Although the score of IMDB inevitably dropped to below 9, it also had 8.6 points, which made it into the top 100 of IMDB's top 250 list.Other professional word-of-mouth, "shameless bastard" is also basically good.

It's also good for the film's plans to hit the Oscars.

Although some of the Academy Awards judges think "shameless bastard" is too farcical, many of them also think it is an extremely brilliant World War II film.

In fact, this situation is very normal. Even the most popular James Cameron films in the world are black, not to mention the stylized directors like Murphy.

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

With the passage of time, the first important award of the North American film awards season, the New York film critic award, was officially announced, and the North American awards season from 2008 to 2009 began.

Since it is called the award season, in recent months, the film related awards are definitely not only the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscar Awards, which are the two most well-known awards in the United States.

In Hollywood, it is generally accepted that the award season starts on December 1, when the New York Film Critics Association Awards and the Gotham independent film awards are announced.

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

These can be said to be the wind vane, and the most influential outpost awards are basically after the new year.

Editors union award, Producers Union award, writers union award, American Photography union award, fashion designers union award, directors union award, visual effects union Award

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

Of course, the British Academy of film awards, commonly known as British Oscars, can not be ignored. Because there are a large number of British judges in the Oscars, this award can also directly affect the final voting results of the Oscars.

As for the Golden Globe Award with great reputation, it can not bring more practical effects except to increase the reputation of the winners.

From these aspects, the Golden Globe Award, the most well-known "Oscar weathervane", seems to be less worthy of the name. The award held by the Hollywood Association of foreign journalists itself has no intersection with the school. To put it mildly, it is the consensus of the Hollywood Journalists Association. To put it mildly, it is a group of journalists who are on the edge of Hollywood, In order to have dinner with the stars, the big party is called "Oscar weathervane". In order to improve the accuracy, the awards are divided into two categories: "drama" and "comedy / music". But in fact, the probability of "Guessing" the little golden man's ownership is not as high as that of casting a coin blindfolded.

Of course, if you use it as a warm-up for the Oscars, it's funny.

Trade union awards are really known as the "wind vane" awards. The reason is very simple: the voters of trade union awards are the top professionals in all aspects of film production, and their professional opinions on their respective aspects can not be underestimated; and the most important thing is that the voters participating in the trade union awards have different degrees of overlap with the voters of Oscar Awards.

Since its inception in 1995, the actors' Union awards, which have the lowest voting threshold and the most powerful awarding momentum, have "predicted" the performance awards of the Oscars 57 times, and the coincidence rate with the Oscars in the past 10 years has been as high as 90%. The "best picture" awarded by the filmmakers' Association has been the same opinion of the judges of the Academy for eight consecutive years.

As Christmas approached, most of the film critics' associations basically announced the results. British director Denny Boyle and his Slumdog Millionaire became the biggest winners, winning the best director and best picture awards of many film critics' associations.

Although he didn't get any important awards from the Film Critics Association, "shameless bastard" basically appeared in the nomination list of these Film Critics Association Awards. From the perspective of Murphy's personal goals, it can also be said to be a victory.

It is said that in the next one to two years, the number of best picture nominations will be increased to a maximum of nine, so as not to miss those excellent films.

Murphy has been staying at home, only through the phone and the news to understand the situation outside, but Gail gado also put aside other things, and stayed at home with him. Until the weekend before Christmas, the two ended their short stay at home. They left wave manor and Beverly Hills, and prepared to go to the seaside villa of Santa Monica to attend the Jameson Festival The moving party of Franco and Lily Collins.

The two invited many relatives and friends to attend, and Jonah Hill specially prepared a big gift for James Franco, Murphy and other friends. (to be continued). )