Hollywood Road

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"Director, the newspaper you want."

A secretary walked into the office and put a magazine on Kara Firth's desk. Kara Firth nodded and took the magazine, "Thank you."

Seeing that there was nothing else to do, the secretary left the office.

Putting the "Premiere" magazine aside, Kara Firth got busy with the work at hand. Although she was very concerned about the performance of Murphy's new film, she was more responsible for her own work.

She was busy until after ten o'clock in the morning. She didn't take her eyes off the computer screen, stood up and walked to the window, looked at the distance for a while, and relaxed for a while. Premiere Magazine.

She used to do news on current social affairs, and she didn't pay much attention to the entertainment industry, and she didn't know much about the film industry, but since Murphy, a friend, changed careers to Hollywood, she not only often paid attention to news in this area, but also carried out research on the industry. Some in-depth understanding.

On the cover of "Premiere" is Peter Parker, the famous little spider, and there is a line of eye-catching titles below the little spider - "Spider-Man" easily won the North American box office championship again, and "007: Die Another Day" got off to a weak start , the box office of "Planet Terror" exceeded expectations in the first week!

Seeing this line of words, Kara Firth smiled imperceptibly, that guy seemed to have succeeded again!

Opening the "Premiere" magazine, she directly found the weekly box office bulletin and began to browse quickly.

"Last weekend, three new films squeezed into the top five of the North American box office list, but none of them posed any threat to Spider-Man. In the end, the superhero movie produced and distributed by Sony Columbia Pictures won another 71.12 million US dollars. Resisting the opening of the new film, once again won the box office crown of the weekend; the cumulative score of the film in ten days is as high as 221.56 million US dollars..."

After briefly looking at the news about the box office champion, Kara Firth began to browse ten lines at a glance until he saw the news related to "Planet Terror".

"Planet Terror, an alternative zombie film released by Miramax, became the small winner this weekend. This low-budget B-movie opened beyond expectations and outperformed another low-budget film "The Sisterhood of the Holy Sisterhood." "Secret", the box office in the first weekend in North America has exceeded its production cost line."

"The director of this film, Murphy Stanton, released last year a film with such a terrible return on investment ratio as "Saw", and this year's "Planet Terror" earned 15.7 million US dollars in its first week of release, which is close to twice the cost line. The box office once again proved his ability in genre films. At the same time, the film also beat the highly anticipated "007: Die Another Day\

,"It has become the best word-of-mouth among several new films this week. "

"More than 58% of the audience of this film are over 25 years old, and in terms of gender, the number of male audiences accounts for nearly 75%. The audience rating of the film is 'b+', and the audience has a good reputation; The media evaluation of the film is also mainly positive. Eighty-one percent of the 45 media included in Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a favorable rating, with an average score of 7.8. The authoritative media metacritic included 36 media ratings, with an average score of 72 points, far exceeding the passing line!"

"In addition, Richard Chris, a special film critic of the magazine, thinks: This film is very clichéd, but director Murphy Stanton knows how to create a sense of tension in this kind of subject matter, and show the suspense and suffocation in multiple layers. Atmosphere, and at the same time brought a lot of cool action shots..."

Seeing this, Kara Firth put down the magazine. It seemed that the media had good reviews. Would you like to read it too?

Thinking of this, she shook her head, forget it, this kind of large-scale film is not her style, and "Saw" still has shadows.

After tidying up the desk, Kara Firth picked up the phone and dialed a number.

Hearing a familiar voice from over there, she said, "It's me, Kara. Murphy, are you still in Los Angeles? Nothing important, just haven't seen each other for a long time, let's have dinner together tonight? Well, come to Beverly Hills , at seven o'clock in the evening, I will wait for you at Mr. Zhou's restaurant, and treat you to Chinese food."

The publicity of the crew is still centered around Los Angeles for the time being. On Monday morning, Erica Steinberg led the main crew members including Murphy to Orange County to participate in a live interactive meeting at a theater, but he is not a prominent director. It wasn't the center of publicity either, and there wasn't too much work to be done. The whole event was the same as before, and Robert Downey Jr. stood out the most.

As soon as the afternoon activities were over, Murphy drove his Cadillac back to Los Angeles. At around 6:30, he arrived in Beverly Hills and quickly found Mr. Zhou's restaurant.

After parking the car and walking into the restaurant, Murphy asked the waiter at the door, "Which table is Kara Firth********?"

"Miss Firth has arrived."

The waiter led Murphy to the left, and came to the place on the left near the glass window. Murphy saw Kara Firth from a long distance away. She was wearing a well-fitting professional dress and her face was still painted with exquisite makeup. He was looking at a magazine and didn't seem to notice him.

"How long has it been?"

Murphy walked across from her, opened the chair and sat down, Kara Feith put down the magazine, "It's been ten minutes."

She picked up the recipe and pushed it to Murphy, "Order, I'll treat you."

"Have you ordered?" Seeing her nodding, Murphy flipped through the menu and said bluntly, "I'm going to order the most expensive one."

"No problem." Kara Firth shrugged, "Next time you treat guests, let's eat golden caviar."

After choosing a few dishes at random, Murphy waved to the waiter, said a few words to him, closed the menu, turned around, and asked, "Golden caviar? What is it?"

"Caviar with gold leaf." Carla Firth was obviously joking. "It's expensive food anyway."

She raised her brows, "But this kind of expenditure can't be difficult for a multi-millionaire like you?"

Murphy spread his hands, "As long as you want, you can eat anything."

He winked his eyes, "How about this, I'll order you a cake grilled by dollars."

Karla Firth gave him a pair of white eyes, and Murphy smiled. He was joking just now, even if there is a lot of money in the book now, he would not do it.

It is now June 2002. As early as February, Fox Searchlight paid in place the North American box office share of "Chain Saw" in accordance with the agreement, and there was also a sale fee for overseas copyrights. Stanton worked On the books of the office, there are indeed almost ten million US dollars in funds.

But this part of the funds will not stay in the books of Stanton Studio for too long. The sequel of "Chain Saw" has already been approved. As the owner of most of the copyright of the film, Murphy is also planning to invest another sum of money in the sequel. He still has a certain amount of confidence in this series.

Just like most B-movies, the box office behind "Chain Saw" is not particularly amazing, but the sales in the video tape and DVD market have been good, and it is definitely a long-term stable source of income.

And on his recommendation, a Chinese youth named James Wen became the director of the sequel.

In Murphy's heart, he also had more confidence in the sequel.

"According to what you said," after the dishes were served, the two chatted while eating, and the topic turned to the movie market, ""Saw" and "Planet Terror" will have great potential in the DVD rental and sales market in the future?"

"I think so." Murphy always felt a little awkward eating Chinese food with a knife and fork, but he didn't say anything. Within eight years, the value created in the surrounding markets will definitely exceed the North American box office it can get."

Having said that, Murphy suddenly asked, "Have you ever thought about switching to the film industry?"

Kara Firth shook his head, "I don't have such an idea for now."

Murphy also just asked casually, and then made irresponsible suggestions, "I think it's not bad for you to go to the film department of 20th Century Fox. With your current ability and qualifications, it is very easy to become an executive. The thing is, you can invest in my new film at that time, and it doesn’t need to be much, just invest 100 million U.S. dollars in one film.”

"Then I'll be fired soon, right?"

It seemed that the food was not to my liking, Kara Firth only ate a little, and put down the knife and fork, "Investing hundreds of millions of dollars to make a B-movie, it is estimated that all Hollywood will go crazy."

"Who said all the films I made would be B-movies?" Murphy narrowed his eyes.

Kara Firth shrugged, "Isn't it?"

Murphy scratched his head, thinking about his plan, he could only sigh.

He was about to say something more, when Kara Feith's cell phone rang, she picked it up and said a few words, took her handbag and hurriedly stood up, "There is breaking news in the station, I should go back."

The dinner was only halfway through and had to be over. Murphy put down the knife and fork, picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth, "Shall I see you?"

"I drove here." Kara Firth took out the car keys from her handbag.

Murphy waved her hand, "Hurry up and go back."

Kara Firth was also polite, "Remember to pay the bill, I will treat you next time."

Probably the matter was really urgent, she left in a hurry, Murphy paid the bill, left Mr. Zhou's restaurant, got into his own Cadillac, and prepared to return to Santa Monica.

Tomorrow, I have to get up early to catch a plane with the crew to go to other places to promote. Now that Kara Firth is gone, he doesn't want to stay here anymore, so he simply returned to his home in Santa Monica early.

Thinking of Kara Firth, Murphy was a little impressed. This is a career-oriented strong woman, and it seems that work is always at the forefront.

Perhaps such talents are most appreciated by superiors, otherwise Kara Firth would not have become an executive of Fox TV at a young age.

Early the next morning, Murphy rushed to Los Angeles International Airport, joined the rest of the crew, and embarked on a North American promotional tour.

The trip was short, though, because b-movies never last long in theaters. (To be continued.)