Chapter 547

In this regard, 20th century fox was somewhat dissatisfied, but it did not express clearly to Murphy. In fact, they were also very clear that Murphy's films may not be suitable for the taste of audiences on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. However, unlike Murphy, 20th century fox was more patient and knew that the market needed to be cultivated. They did not give up their previous efforts and continued to develop Continue to push the film through the big scissors audit.

In addition, the cooperation between Fox and Wanda in the 20th century is not only about film. It is impossible for Murphy alone to affect the strategic planning between the two groups.

After a short Christmas holiday, Murphy's crew regrouped and continued to shoot the rest of "city of chaos". Most of the scenes in the film have been shot, and the rest are scattered parts.

After the new year of 2011, the shooting completely entered the closing stage.

While Murphy is busy shooting, he also tells Gail gado that he is concerned about financial issues. A year has just passed, and the dividend accounts between Murphy and many companies have reached the time of settlement.

From the earliest Miramax and Fox Searchlight, to Warner Brothers and 20th century fox, Murphy has relevant directors' dividends. Even for those films that have not signed a share agreement, there are a small part of the dividends that the directors' Union rigidly stipulates.

Today, unlike in the past, Murphy didn't need to ask for it frequently. The relevant accounts were soon sent to Stanton studio from several companies. After being audited by an accountant, Gail gado took it to the Venice studio for Murphy to see.

Although it's just a glance, Murphy has also seen some changes, the biggest of which is that the dividend income of DVD has been greatly reduced, and the related income of network has increased significantly.

As a Hollywood director, Murphy certainly understands the changes in the film market.

Since the beginning of the new century, DVD is one of the most important revenues of Hollywood's major production and distribution companies. Even Hollywood can't make too much money by relying on DVD. Some hot movies, such as spider man and the Lord of the rings, can sell more than $100 million in the first week in North America alone, and those who can make it into the top ten box office of the year Except for a few examples, most of the final DVDs can sell for about $100 million.

The production cost of DVD is far lower than that of the once popular video tapes, and at most it will not exceed 1% to 3% of the wholesale price sold by the producer and distributor to the seller. Even if the marketing and other costs are included, the profit margin is still terrible.

For a single movie, if it's a popular movie, the studio can earn $5 million to $8 million from a single renter. This is only the rental part, and the sales part accounts for more than that. That is to say, Hollywood can earn tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars from DVD for a popular movie, which is almost a net profit.

That's why Hollywood is making money on DVD.

But anyone who has noticed the data knows that DVD's heyday is just around the corner.

Although Hollywood's DVD industry still maintains a scale of nearly 2 billion US dollars, it is not hard for people with a long-term vision to see that this Brilliance will not last long, and even will decline sharply in the next three to four years.

Why does this happen? Is the audience tired of Hollywood blockbusters?

The answer, of course, is No. the audience of Hollywood movies has not shrunk. However, with the rise of Internet video websites, young people who constitute the mainstream of the film market have turned their attention to online on-demand and online downloading.

The rise of movies on the Internet has directly reduced the size of Hollywood's DVD industry by two thirds.

Hollywood will never lack elites, and many people have found that.

On the one hand, producers are also looking for ways to reduce costs to ensure that each disc can create more profits; on the other hand, while taking defensive measures, major studios are also preparing for the day when the film completely disappears from the silver disc.

The future offline distribution of films will inevitably rely more on the Internet or the on-demand service of cable satellite TV companies. According to the data of media research companies, the current market size has reached 1.2 billion US dollars, which surged nearly 20% last year alone.

Many Hollywood film companies are planning to release online or pay TV versions in the future, instead of waiting a few weeks for the movie's DVD to go public.

In this way, it can attract young people who will not buy DVD.

Another change in the pipeline is to allow viewers to download the online version after the movie is released, and this can also be before the DVD is released. This kind of attempt can charge additional fees from customers for early viewing of high-definition movies.

Stanton studio's copyrighted films are also focusing on the development of network related businesses, and Murphy has signed some related agreements with Netflix.

"I heard that Netflix's people have come to you?"

In the set, James Franco's temporary remake has just been completed. During the break, he found Murphy and talked about this topic, "are you going to invite you to direct a TV series?"Murphy shook his head. "I declined."

To be exact, the price offered by Netflix is too low. If the price is right, Murphy can also consider cooperating with Netflix in a TV series.

However, now Netflix is not the future Netflix, can not afford his high pay.

"In fact, I think you can make a TV play of the specific experience of my role."

After Christmas, James Franco saw more settings of his role, as well as some related plots in the second film, "which can be used as an effective supplement to the film, just like what marvel is doing."

Murphy picked up the coffee and took a sip. "I'll talk about it later."

James Franco leaned back in his chair and said, "you're a man. You always have strange ideas."

"What's so strange?" Murphy is too lazy to pay attention to him.

"The dark side of psychology is too heavy!" James Franco deliberately said, "all you come up with are dark things."

Murphy spread his hand and shrugged.

"For example, in this film, a person can be set as the protagonist of Wei Guangzheng." James Franco said directly, "you have to be a psycho, a very dark character."

Murphy asked, "isn't that good?"

Without waiting for James Franco to answer, Murphy continued, "most of the leading characters in Hollywood commercial films give people the most intuitive feeling, they are the perfect embodiment of idealism. But my role doesn't need these. He needs to have more human characteristics than a saint. I don't need him to have so many idealistic rules and regulations, so when dealing with things, he will be more humanized and realistic, mixed with some political elements. This is what I want to see the role look like. "

Murphy thought for a moment, and then said, "as soon as Chris Dann appears, it can make his surroundings disordered. It's hard to immediately distinguish right from wrong with clear moral concepts. Now this film is not particularly obvious. One of the major themes of the next film that you are the protagonist is to start from realism to a certain extent. Is it clear Anyone can be free from the law, even as a "compulsory policeman."

Knowing that Murphy was talking about a sequel to city of chaos, James Franco asked, "am I the main character? Isn't the main character Chris Dann? "

"He's just the protagonist in name." Murphy said, "your magician is the real protagonist."

"I saw what you gave me." James Franco raised his chin. "The logic of the character is really interesting."

This role requires a lot of effort from James Franco, so Murphy specially asked him to know some settings of the role in order to prepare in advance. Now that James Franco has talked about it, he also wants to discuss it with him.

"It's not just magicians, everyone has their own logic." Murphy pointed to James Franco, and then to himself, "including you and me, most of the time everyone thinks that his logic is correct, and the world is operating according to the logic he believes. If the world is not like this, we will think that this is just a superficial phenomenon, and the real deep logic must be the logic we master, so we should be careful To prove this, you just need to "push" others, and they will fall into their own logic. "

If a beautiful woman believes that men are not good things, men are only interested in her body and will not love her at all. So, she'll use her body to seduce men, and she'll find that all she needs to do is push men in this way, and they'll become lusters. "

Murphy laughed and said, "if a rich man believes that everyone is greedy, money can make the dead drive. Then, he will use his money to push countless people, and they will fall into his hands.

"And the magician?" James Franco asked again.

"The magician wants to break through everyone's bottom line." Murphy said seriously, "he thinks everyone is evil."

Murphy opened his hand. "So, in the setting I gave you, the magician's weapon of" a little push "is the fear in people's hearts. He thinks that everyone loves himself and his relatives. As long as you threaten their lives, everyone will give up the original bottom line and become a devil."

James - Franco gently nodded, "once people break the bottom line, there is no bottom line."

"Almost."

After looking at the watch, Murphy stood up and said, "I'm going to shoot the last scene."

(to be continued). )