Chapter 709

"They did not make it clear that this is the condition for China film to help pass the audit." Carla Firth frowned, "but the meaning is clear."

"Why James?" Asked Marguerite curiously.

"It's easy." Murphy walked over and patted James Franco on the shoulder. "Now James is red and hot. He's a superstar in Hollywood."

This is no exaggeration. If James Franco is still a star who has just touched the threshold, with the big sale of "dark city" and the popularity of magicians, he can now be said to be a member of Hollywood a-coffers.

The banquet hall was more chaotic. Murphy looked at the crowd who started to revel and said, "let's talk somewhere else."

Several of them went out of the banquet hall and asked for a reception room with the hotel. They talked about it in detail.

In fact, things are not particularly complicated. Because the theme of the film is too heavy and dark, and part of the plot involves Hong Kong, the city of darkness has been unable to pass the examination of a big scissors. As time goes on, more and more Hollywood films have been confirmed to be introduced, and the quota of thirty-four part of the budget films has become less and less, so the twentieth century fox has naturally increased With more efforts in public relations, China Film Group, as the introducer, secretly released the news through middlemen.

"They are going to invest in making a big movie, hoping to follow the Hollywood model." Carla Firth is obviously quite aware of the specific situation, "let this film become a model of Sino US cooperation, with real international influence."

Murphy nodded. This kind of thing has been seen before.

Carla Firth continued, "so, they want a real world-class influence star to join, just now James is very popular, so they have a crush on him."

James Franco opened his hands. "It's nothing to do with me..."

"Don't you want city of darkness to pass the review?" Carla Firth very much hope that the film can be shown in the opposite, "otherwise it is difficult to appear in the cinema market over there."

"Who knows what they're going to shoot?" James Franco doesn't know the film industry on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. "Seth and I went there some time ago, and their popular films are basically comedies."

He looked at Murphy. "But there should be a fundamental difference between Chinese comedy and American comedy?"

Murphy nodded. "That's right."

Not to mention the American comedy, even the north and south sides of the laughter is completely different.

"What are they going to make?" Murphy asked Carla Firth, "I want to invite James to star."

He winked at James Franco, who shook his head slightly.

Obviously, James Franco didn't want to accept this kind of additional conditions at all. However, due to the friendship between him and Carla Firth, it's hard to say no, so he came here.

Carla Firth is not particularly sure, "it's said that it's a monster movie. It seems that in ancient times, there were monsters invading there. The hero from the West happened to pass by and saved there. That's about it."

"Special effects popcorn." Murphy came to the conclusion immediately.

Carla Firth nodded. "Well, it should be."

"I don't think so."

Compared with James Franco, Murphy doesn't need to beat around the bush with Carla Firth. "If you think of another way, this kind of thing may have a negative impact on James Franco."

James - Franco did not expect Murphy would say so, immediately cast a puzzled look.

"A foreigner, saved them." Murphy opened his hand and said, "it won't please the audience across the ocean, and it won't interest the audience in North America. Besides the high pay, it's almost no help for James."

He looked at James Franco. "Are you short of money now?"

James Franco shook his head. "Of course not."

Seeing Murphy and James Franco sing together, Carla Firth understood and shook her head. "Come on, let's try something else."

Carla Firth left the lounge first, Murphy was ready to leave, and James Franco followed and asked, "are you exaggerating?"

Murphy replied casually, "I don't know."

There are some things he doesn't want to say clearly, but even if he doesn't admit them, the facts are there.

When Carla Firth talked about monsters, antiquity and salvation, Murphy immediately thought of a movie that was starred by Hollywood stars. Matt Damon was no lower than James Franco.

however, after the two major exhibitions were released in two places, Matt Damon did not make complaints about fans across the Pacific, and was still tucking away in North America.

Moreover, due to the drop of fans in North America, the hidden loss behind the high film pay may not be small.Matt Damon is undoubtedly a very appealing star in Hollywood and is quite popular among all ethnic groups in North America. However, once the film was released in North America, it immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the entire Chinese American community. Even a popular keyword "thank you Matt Damon" appeared on Twitter and Facebook.

This keyword is not malicious to slander Matt Damon. Most of them thank Matt Damon in a humorous tone for teaching Chinese Americans some trivial things in life, such as "thank you for introducing Boba milk tea", "thank you for warning me that if I'm too fat, I won't find a boyfriend", "thank you for telling me to use plastic cover to protect the sofa", etc And so on, these seem to be very common, but the laugh is that if Matt Damon can save the whole Chinese nation in the Song Dynasty, then the essence of Chinese culture later should thank him.

It can be said that the Chinese Americans who have a sense of racial crisis in the United States satirize the motive of the film producers when they choose a white male star in a humorous and helpless way.

Many Americans also put Matt Damon's Avatar P on Hua Mulan in Disney's cartoon.

At that time, the mainstream media in North America generally believed that Matt Damon's performance was very popular in North America.

Some things, whether Murphy or other people admit it or not, are there, and will not disappear just because they are blind and deaf.

Even if James Franco is willing to accept the so-called exchange offer, Murphy, as a good friend and brother, will persuade him to give up.

In fact, it's obvious that North America is the real root for Hollywood stars and directors.

Murphy has seen an official statistics that more than 60% of Americans do not have a passport, while less than 5% of the total population have gone abroad. In some ways, American talents are real frogs in the bottom of the well. The reason is that most Americans think that their country is particularly strong and is the leader of the world. All countries are not as good as the United States, and they are not as good as the United States His country should be closer to the United States.

This is one of the reasons why isolationism prevails in the United States.

Therefore, most American audiences don't like to see American mainstream actors acting in other countries. They can accept fantasy themes such as star wars and the Lord of the rings, or Hollywood stars such as escape from Tehran and the hunt for bin Laden, or American characters showing heroism abroad However, if their own stars go to make films for foreign countries, most of the major cassettes are still foreigners, that is "no".

As long as anyone who knows something about the TV and film market here knows, American TV and film can be regarded as the biggest insulator, and American audiences don't pay much for foreign movies and TV.

Therefore, from the standpoint of a friend, Murphy would rather stay in North America with Seth Logan and continue their comedy of assassination, horror and political satire than let James Franco take part in some four different movies. Even if the latter would cause great controversy, it would not arouse the disgust of the mainstream audience in North America.

As for the situation that "city of darkness" can't pass the examination and release on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, if it can't, it won't be released.

In fact, in Murphy's view, these commercial blockbusters are just simple entertainment and cultural consumer goods. On the commodity level, there is no essential difference between them and the popcorn sold in cinemas. There is no need for an ordinary commercial film to carry so many. Moreover, these commercial films born to make money will not carry cultural invasion and other messy things thing.

As long as you can make money, Hollywood can film across the Pacific, rule the world, rule the universe

Despite the lack of a broad film market across the Pacific Ocean, the overseas box office of "dark city" has not been particularly affected. North America has made a great progress. By the end of June, the global box office of the film finally reached $2 billion.

"Two billion dollars at the global box office."

In an ordinary apartment in downtown Los Angeles, a man looked at the report on TV, "in just two months, it's two billion dollars in the world. Is this movie Murphy Stanton very powerful?"

He stood up and said, "why don't I go and have a look?"

After walking around the room two times, the man made the decision, "it's OK this afternoon. Every day, Murphy Stanton's work is finished. Let's go to see the movie."

He quickly packed up his things, put on a baseball cap, went out and got into the car, and drove in the direction of the avenue of stars. Anyway, now that he has money, he is going to see this new movie by Murphy Stanton at the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood.

Maybe we can find the material to continue black Murphy Stanton!

Just seconds after the red baseball cap started the car and left, a very humble motorcycle turned out from the corner next to the apartment and ran after it.