Chapter 708

As night falls, the lights in front of the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills are bright. A long red carpet is directly laid on the driveway. A large number of media reporters gather on both sides of the carpet. They hold up their cameras one by one and keep pressing the shutter to capture the figure of everyone walking on the red carpet.

This is a celebration party held by Fox for "dark city" in the 20th century. No matter what standard, Murphy's film has achieved great success, especially in business. Not to mention the increasing box office figures in North America and overseas, it has gained hundreds of millions of huge revenue from peripheral goods and copyright transfer alone.

"Mr. Murdoch, can you say something?"

In the temporary interview area at the gate of Hilton Hotel, several reporters stopped James Murdoch, the CEO of 20th century fox. "Dark city has achieved great success. Will 20th Century Fox continue to cooperate with him?"

James Murdoch stood in front of the reporter and said, "Murphy is a great director. I think in today's Hollywood, his talent in directing is absolutely superior. 20th century fox is Murphy's strongest partner. We have a strategic partnership. 20th century fox will create more brilliance with Murphy Huang

With that, he nodded to the reporter and walked into the hotel.

Not long after James Murdoch entered the hotel, Murphy also took Gail gado on the red carpet, and soon came to the interview area in front of the hotel. As "dark city" was still showing, he did not refuse the reporter's interview, but said a few more words.

"Director Stanton, what do you think is the main reason for the big sale of dark city?"

Facing the reporter's question, Murphy thought for a moment and replied, "the audience is always looking for fresh stimulation. I think they are tired of those Hollywood commercial films with serious homogenization to a certain extent."

In fact, the trend of this aspect is very obvious. Now Hollywood commercial films can easily sell without brain and special effects. That era is gone forever.

A reporter immediately asked, "will the serious films represented by" dark city "become the mainstream in the future?"

"Serious?" Murphy was stunned, then shook his head. "The city of darkness is not serious at all!"

The reporters didn't expect Murphy to say that.

Murphy is obviously deliberately creating hype for these guys. Without waiting for the reporter to ask questions, he said again, "I do use the dark style and realism in the city of darkness, but these must adhere to one principle. What they bring must be exciting, lively and interesting entertainment works on the big screen!"

He shrugged. "No matter how dark and realistic it is," dark city "is a highly entertaining commercial masterpiece

Without waiting for the reporter to say more, Murphy took Gail gado into the hotel and, under the guidance of the staff, entered the banquet hall where the celebration party was held.

The cast of "dark city" is almost all here. Most of the executives of 20th century fox are also here. The media reporters of 20th century fox are also responsible for taking photos at the party. One of the important purposes of holding this party now is to promote the film.

This kind of film celebration party, especially when the media reporters take photos on the spot, is basically a fixed process. Murphy and James Murdoch cut the cake together, and everyone raised their glasses together to celebrate. Then the media reporters were invited out.

Murphy doesn't remember how many people came to congratulate him. He is the absolute protagonist of tonight's party. With the help of Gail gado, he managed to get away from the crowd. After chatting with James Franco and Margaret Robbie, Jon Landau found him again.

Unlike those before, Jon landott, a Hollywood gold medalist, came to Murphy to discuss the possible changes in the future of large-scale commercial films.

Coincidentally, Jon Landau also believes that "dark city" will open up a market for serious themes.

"I think the future of Hollywood commercial films..."

The chubby gold medalist said to Murphy seriously, "the style of commercial films in the future can be more serious and realistic."

"Well, I think so."

This is not the face of the media, Murphy will not rave, "the audience has always been in the pursuit of the most fresh stimulation, such a style is most ordinary commercial popcorn movies do not have."

Jon Landau a little bit of fat chin, "simple stacking special effects, unless you do James Cameron's degree, or it will certainly be dead."

"But, Jon," Murphy warned solemnly, "there's one thing that needs to be noticed."

"Which point?" Jon Landau is obviously asking for advice.

He knew that Murphy was an expert in this field. Compared with Murphy, he was much inferior in this aspect.

"This type of film, the theme can be very heavy, but must not eliminate those interesting things!"Speaking of this, Murphy organized the language and said, "the dark style can be used properly, but the" interesting "content must not be completely eliminated. There are many interesting scenes and lines in the city of darkness."

Jon Landau recalled that, as Murphy said, the theme of "dark city" is very heavy, but the form is not serious, but very interesting. Anyone who thinks the film is very serious either has never seen it or hates the performances of James Franco and Margaret Robbie.

After another chat, Jon Landau leaves and looks at his back. Murphy knows very well that with the box office explosion of "dark city", there will be a large number of followers in Hollywood. However, if these followers think that the film is won by darkness and heaviness, they will surely suffer from vomiting blood in the future.

Murphy knows very well that Hollywood's follow-up is very common, even more serious than Hong Kong movies.

For example, Hollywood once saw the success of "Avatar", but only focused on its 3D effect, so it decided to release as many 3D works as possible in cinemas. Several major companies saw the success of "Inception", but they didn't think like this - Oh, originally, viewers like to watch high-quality original sci-fi movies - it wanted us to remake "universe" Weilong and full memory, etc

In fact, this kind of follow-up has already begun. Murphy just heard Kara Firth mention that Sony Columbia Pictures, which obtained the copyright of "Zorro's mask" from DreamWorks, just announced the official launch of the sequel on Monday after several years of dystocia due to various problems, and claimed that the new version of "Zorro" would not be a traditional sense of "rogue film", but closer to "darkness" The style of "the city of love" will show the character's character with brand-new background story, realistic style and emotion as the core.

But the simple dark and realistic, may not be able to bring success to a film.

Not to mention "dark city", the former "Dark Knight" can become a box office blockbuster, not because they are serious, dark and gloomy, but because most of its content is high-quality, thoughtful and ingenious entertainment, as well as thrilling, real humor and fascinating characters.

The film does touch on the theme of darkness, and also has characters who are burdened by their own mental disorders, but it is full of vitality and humor as a whole.

Some people think that the reason why the dark knight is so successful is that it is "gloomy, serious and realistic", which is too simplistic.

For example, the box office of "the sixth sense" was close to 300 million dollars in North America, not because of the end of the great reversal; avatar made 2.7 billion dollars in the world, not because it was just a 3D film.

There are many reasons for the success or failure of a film. It is dangerous to always attribute it to one factor. In addition, the important point is that popular movies, especially super popular movies, are so popular because they are all full range entertainment works with certain quality.

In fact, from the comments on the Internet, we can see that "city of darkness" is an interesting and exciting movie in the eyes of fans.

"The dark knight is a rare masterpiece..."

"The biggest surprise so far this summer and this year..."

"Undoubtedly the best film of 2013..."

"When was the last time you saw an impeccable, thought-provoking, bold and always entertaining blockbuster?"

The public praise of the audience is often the most direct response of the market.

Margot Robbie and Gail gado came together at this time. The former saw Murphy's presence and shook his hand in front of him. "Hey, what are you thinking?"

Murphy returns to God, "the problem of film."

"Workaholic!" Margot - Robbie just deliberately run a, James - Franco and Cara - FES two people also came over, "Hi, Murphy."

Murphy was very familiar with both of them. He knew they had something to talk about and asked, "what's the matter?"

"One good news and one bad news." James Franco had a chubby smile. "Which one do you want to hear first?"

"All right." Murphy looked at him and Carla Firth. "I love good news."

Instead of opening his mouth, James Franco looked at Carla Firth. Carla Firth said, "Fox's public relations across the Pacific in the 20th century have made progress. It's possible that dark city will be shown there."

Murphy frowned. "The bad news is they have other conditions?"

"Well." Carla Firth replied, "although they didn't say it clearly, they gave a subtle hint that China Film wanted James to play in a heavyweight co production over there."