Chapter 637

The efficiency of the directors' Union was beyond Murphy's expectation. In just one week, they finished the relevant procedures. After Murphy quit the directors' Union in order to get the adaptation right of "Sin City", he returned to the directors' Union after many years.

Although not joining the directors' union may not win the best director Oscar, becoming a member of the directors' Union is undoubtedly more conducive to his Olympic Plan.

During this period, the media and Internet opinions about the conflict between Catholicism and "Diego Ross", as well as the conflict between Murphy and Catholicism, have almost become the hot news in the entertainment circle. The Hollywood film circle is a loose business circle. Although it will not issue a unified voice, most people are concerned about the Archbishop of Marquez Costello I don't think so.

"Diego Ross" naturally attracted more and more attention, and the performance of 20 cinemas soared. In the first weekend after the new year, the film got the highest weekend single performance since the start of the screening. In 20 cinemas in the United States, each theater reaped $30000 in three days on average.

The film's North American box office is finally over a million dollars.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, fox contacted many cinemas in the 20th century. When the following weekend came, "Diego rose" expanded to more than 400 cinemas in North America. Affected by the media controversy, the attendance rate of the film was still good. At the weekend, the box office of a single theater exceeded $15000, and reached the box office of North America with nearly $7 million Top five on the list.

Immediately, the outside world also raised expectations for the film, especially cinemascore, which raised the film's North American box office expectations from $50 million to $75 million.

But Murphy is very clear, "Diego rose" is still to film production cost line as a goal.

In his view, whether this goal can be achieved or not, the number of Oscar nominations will play an extremely important role.

In the following week, for a full seven days including weekdays, the screening scale of "Diego Ross" in North America further expanded to 660, and the box office performance of $11.5 million in seven days was fairly good.

Combined with the previous box office, the film grossed nearly $20 million in North America.

Then, every North American awards season's indispensable Oscar nominees luncheon arrived on time.

Unlike a few years ago, Murphy personally came to the Regent Hotel where the nominees luncheon was held. There was a special red carpet ceremony in front of the hotel, but he just stood in front of the media and soon walked into the hotel alone.

Although it's just a nominees' lunch, Murphy looks from the inside out with stars shining.

Now it is less than a month before the 84th Academy Awards ceremony. As the happiest and most lively event before the "main event" of the Oscar, this nomination luncheon has attracted Hollywood celebrities as usual. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Rooney Mara, Steven Spielberg and Martin Smith, who are most likely to be nominated, are on the scene Cosses and other filmmakers gathered in front of and behind the scenes, and Beverly Hills' long red carpet inevitably became the focus of attention.

"Hi, Murphy."

Robert Downey, a young man in a suit, walks into the hotel with Susan Downey in his arm and comes directly to Murphy. "How long have I been away from Los Angeles? You've made such a big noise."

Murphy shrugged and whispered, "no way. If we don't come up with some good ideas, we may get nothing today."

Robert Downey Jr. is one of the most popular nominees for best actor. Naturally, I know that if Murphy didn't make so many things, his chances of getting the best actor nomination would be very low just by playing Tony Stark, the iron man.

He patted Murphy on the arm and said, "if you need any help, just tell me."

"Will I be polite to you?" Murphy responded with a smile.

With their relationship, he would not hesitate when it was time to speak.

"And Gail?" Susan Downey looked around and asked, "didn't she come?"

"No Murphy asked them to walk to the banquet hall together and said, "house of cards has a lot of things to do recently. There is no reliable producer in Paul Wilson's side. She can't get away from herself and is busy preparing for the moment."

In the past, the producer who assisted Paul Wilson came from 20th century fox. House of cards cooperated with Nafi. Of course, it was impossible to bring in 20th Century Fox producers. Although Nafi also hired professionals, they were just involved in the field of film and television production, and they were seriously inexperienced. Murphy simply asked Gail gado to stay in the production group there for the time being. Anyway, he didn't have enough experience The new project will not start in recent weeks.

"How's the preparation going?" Robert Downey, Jr. asked with concern, "I hear you've hired Kevin Spacey to play the leading role."

"It's going to be better on the whole." Murphy did not hide, turned into the banquet hall, said, "but the heroine candidate is not available.""Mr. Stanton, Mr. Downey."

A staff member came up and led them to the left, "this way, please."

Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. follow him to a round table on the left in the second row. A long distance away, he sees Margot Robbie, a blonde, sitting at the table, talking to a brown haired girl at the next table.

"Come so early, Maggie."

When she comes to the table, Murphy looks at the label of "Diego Ross" on the table, opens a chair next to Margot Robbie, and sits down. Margot Robbie turns back, cracks his mouth and shows a rather exaggerated smile. "I can't wait to know if I can get the best supporting actress nomination."

The cast has also applied for the nomination for best supporting actress, but Margot Robbie's role in the film is limited, and she doesn't do public relations. Whether she can get the nomination depends on her luck.

Margot Robbie also said hello to little Robert Downey. The girl who talked to her before looked over and waved to Murphy, "Hello, director Stanton."

"Hello, Rooney." Murphy nodded to her.

That girl is Rooney Mara. If you look at it like this, the one next to them should be David finch's the girl with dragon tattoo.

Murphy also exchanged greetings with her. They met before in the preparatory group of house of cards. Rooney Mara is a signing client of CAA. She seems to be very familiar with Paul Wilson. Through Paul Wilson, she recommended her sister Kate Mara to play the heroine.

However, Kate Mara's age and image are not appropriate, Murphy decided to let her continue to play female reporter Zoe Barnes.

Although Rooney Mara and Kate Mara are not well-known now, they are of extraordinary origin. Anyone who knows something about the sports circle in the United States will immediately think of the two big families of American football when they mention the names of Rooney and Mara. Mara family is the founder and owner of New York Giants, while Rooney family is the founder and owner of Pittsburgh Steelers.

It goes without saying that American football is the number one sport in North America. Such a background is also conducive to their wandering in Hollywood.

But after seeing Kate Mara in the audition, Murphy subconsciously thinks that she can't be as popular as Rooney Mara in the future. Kate Mara looks strange and looks good with naked eyes, but the pictures taken through the camera always give people a feeling of fierce. Few audiences like such faces.

After greeting Rooney Mara, Murphy sees David finch coming.

The other side is the director he likes very much. Murphy takes the initiative to stand up and wait for David finch to come over and take the lead in extending his right hand, "Hello, director finch."

David finch gave his hand a little shake and a formulaic smile. "Hello, director Stanton."

They were not familiar with each other, and they didn't have much in common. After a simple greeting, they went back to the table where their respective troupes were.

"David finch with few works."

Seeing Murphy sitting next to him, Margot Robbie looked back from David Finch, shook his head and whispered, "poor as you are."

"Pitiful?" Murphy didn't understand what Margot Robbie meant. "We're not pathetic, are we?"

If he and David finch can be classified into the poor ranks, what are the countless directors and actors struggling at the bottom of Hollywood?

"Isn't it?" Margot Robbie pointed to Mr. Oscar right in front of the ballroom and said, "two Oscar best director runners forever."

Murphyton was dumb, as if he had been running with him for many years.

Even now, there is a saying in some media that Hollywood directors have three Oscars running with them - Redley Scott, who has a good one and a bad one, David Finch, who has few and excellent works, and Murphy Stanton, who has a dark style.

Thinking of this, Murphy can't help looking at David finch again. Many of his films, such as seven sins, twelve palaces, the girl with the dragon tattoo and so on, are his favorite works.

Unfortunately, "the girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is similar to "Diego Ross". The media applauded but did not make a big hit. Sony Columbia Pictures may not let David finch go on shooting "the girl with the fire" and "the girl with the beehive".

Murphy can only say that this is the reality of Hollywood. If the film is only good but not good, it has little value to the film company.

Just as he was thinking about the situation related to David Finch, a sound of footwork rang out. Murphy turned to see that it was the crew at the front table, headed by a fat man and his former collaborator, Harvey Weinstein.

This is also the direct competitor this time!