Hollywood Road

"After the director's cut of the film was completed, 20th Century Fox production director Dave Scola asked to re-edit it according to his wishes, but Ridley Scott had no choice but to do so. In the end, Instead, the film grossed just under $19 million over the weekend, a flop for its high budget."

Sitting in the office, Dave Scola put down the "Hollywood Reporter" in his hand, but his ugly face showed a bit of thinking.

The media attributed the failure to him. Of course he was very angry, but when he participated in the high-level meeting before, he was unanimously criticized and his anger was aroused to the peak, but now he gradually calmed down.

Especially thinking of Kara Firth's slightly mocking face, Dave Scola had to force himself to calm down.

The failure of "Kingdom of Heaven" at the weekend box office has already put him in a very disadvantageous situation. If he gets carried away by anger, it will only be more disadvantageous to him.

Standing up and walking back and forth twice, Dave Scola frowned tightly. The scenes from Kara Feith's entry into the company filtered through his mind. - A rookie like Feith is forced to back down?

Indeed, Kara Feith is a very difficult opponent, with a deep mind, outstanding ability, and support from the top of the group, but he is not without, these are not the key.

What is the key? Dave Scola stopped and let out a long breath, thinking of the plain face on the screen, and the remarks that clearly did not favor the film.

Murphy Stanton... everything is Murphy Stanton, the point is Murphy Stanton.

The real decisive factor in his competition with Kara Firth is Murphy Stanton!

Can I start with Murphy Stanton and cut off Kara Firth's biggest source of support?

Dave Scola has considered this issue very seriously. The box office failure of "Kingdom of Heaven" is irreversible. If Kara Firth's "Gone Girl" succeeds...

Thinking of this, he shook his head. After 20th Century Fox officially invested in "Kingdom of Heaven", Kara Firth didn't do anything again. He really thought that the other party was stupid enough to continue to cause trouble, but that woman was quite smart.

Similarly, if he was exposed for his tampering in "Gone Girl", the company's board of directors would be the first to remove him without waiting for Kara Firth to compete.

Sitting back on the chair again, Dave Scola only hoped that the other party's ingenious publicity and marketing would fail.

As bright sunlight poured down from the sky, bringing the oncoming summer heat to the Big Apple, Kyle Dunst stood on a platform in Brooklyn, patiently waiting for a bus.

"Kingdom of Heaven sucks!" said two people nearby. "Definitely Ridley Scott's worst film."

His companion nodded, "Well, this is the worst movie I've seen this year, and the box office is also poor. It's been released for three weeks, and it's less than 30 million US dollars. Twentieth Century Fox is going to lose money this time."

"It's their bad luck." The first person who spoke seemed to be a little gloating, "Last year's "Deadpool", with such a small cost, they got a North American box office of 300 million US dollars, so lucky, it should be there Time to transfer."

"I don't think it's luck." The companion disagreed with him, "Murphy Stanton..."

Seemingly unable to find the right words, he paused before saying, "Murphy Stanton is a very good young director, and I think he will definitely surpass Ridley Scott in the future."

The two people were talking and looking around, the first person who spoke suddenly made a surprised voice, "Hey, what is this? A missing person notice?"

Another person also leaned over, "It seems that a girl is missing."

Then, he made a more surprised voice than his companions, "Wow, if someone can provide effective clues, there will be a reward of 50,000 U.S. dollars."

This aroused the curiosity of Kyle Dunst,

He turned his head and took a look, his feet moved unconsciously, walked over, stood behind those two people, and saw the missing person notice.

The missing person notice is printed on a very large poster, which is very eye-catching.

"Amy Dunn, a thirty-three-year-old female, five feet ten inches tall, long blond, with a mole on her neck, has disappeared from her home in Missouri. If you see the whereabouts, please contact Nick Dunn. A reward of $50,000 will be offered if the leads are valid."

"Contact: Nick Dunn. Contact number..."

On the upper right of the text, there is also a black and white picture, but the picture is like a hand-drawn copy, not very clear, it looks quite blurry.

How to find it like this? Kyle Dunst couldn't help shaking his head, just as a bus was coming, he got on the bus, walked to the back compartment and sat down, the conspicuous position of the bus now had the same missing person notice posted on the platform.

Kyle Dunst looked around, and many people were curiously looking at the missing person notice. For office workers like them, $50,000 is still full of temptation.

I don't know who will be so lucky to bump into this lost Amy Dunn, but even if they meet, it may be difficult to recognize it with the blurred portrait on it.

The bus arrived near the subway, Kyle Dunst got off the bus, and a lot of people surrounded the platform.

"Fifty thousand dollars, the missing person is a rich man, right?"

"Look more while walking, maybe you can bump into her."

"The image is too blurry, does this Nick Dunn not want to find her?"

"What is their relationship? Brother and sister? Or husband and wife?"

Hearing these discussions, Kyle Dunst knew without looking at them, they must have been reading the Missing Person Notice.

He shook his head, left the bus platform, turned around an intersection, and arrived at the entrance of the subway. When he walked into the subway, he must pass by an advertising billboard, and there was another familiar poster-like thing pasted on it. With just a glance, Kyle Dunst saw clearly that it was the missing person notice again.

When he came to the platform, Kyle Dunst found some people gathered together to watch and discuss.

"Isn't it still a missing person notice?"

He stood on tiptoe and took a look, sure enough...

The missing person is probably not only a rich man, but also a big man, otherwise how could the missing person notice be so overwhelming?

As night fell, downtown Los Angeles became a place haunted by demons and ghosts. Drug dealers, robbers, gangsters, etc., flashed across the street from time to time, and sometimes there were dull gunshots in some places.

If it is not the residents of this area, it is very risky to walk on the streets alone, and the general work will stop after dark.

However, today's Los Angeles is different. A large number of guys with tattoos and foul language, who don't look like serious people, took to the streets of the city center and scattered to various important locations. Most of the hooligans saw them, not only did not provoke them Meaning, but also backed away one after another.

"Hurry up and post!"

Near the old Chinatown, a bald black man directed five or six people to put up a huge poster on a prominent position at the street entrance, "Hurry up! Hurry up! Remember not only to post, you must pay attention to it, let these things Stay as long as possible."

"Boss, we are bad guys!" A Latino young man with short inches turned his head and said dissatisfiedly, "When did you change your career to do good deeds? And post missing person notices for others?"

"You do what you tell!" The bald black man walked over and slapped the Latina on the back of the head, "Hurry up, there's so much nonsense."

Frankly speaking, he was also very curious, when did the largest gang in downtown Los Angeles change their careers and start looking for people? However, this work was ordered by Ross himself...

When work was over early the next morning, the bald-headed black man drove through the streets and checked the streets. The most eye-catching places were basically posted with uniformly printed missing person notices.

Amy Dunn... the bald black man is still puzzled, is it the mistress of the boss? Isn't it said that the boss's true love is Robert Downey Jr.?

"I don't understand."

For his simple mind, these things are still too complicated. Since he can't figure it out, he just doesn't think about it.

The Santa Clara Valley in California gathers the top computer and Internet companies in North America and the world, and it is also an area with the highest Internet penetration rate in the world.

In an office building near Stanford University, there was a short break after lunch. Many employees browsed around the Internet, and Mobike Stani was one of them.

He was sitting in front of the computer, reading the blogs of some well-known bloggers, and scratching his head strangely from time to time.

Many famous bloggers posted a missing persons notice on their blogs, as if some important person had disappeared.

Mobike Stani frowned and said to himself, "Amy Dunn, I've never heard of an important person with that name."

Opened Google, he entered the name into the search bar, and hit the Enter key, and then a large number of related web pages appeared, with quite a lot of content related to Amy Dunn. It seemed that her disappearance attracted the attention of many people. focus on.

This missing person notice spread throughout North America at the fastest speed, not only on posters and the Internet, but also on TV stations.

The Fox network has included a message in many of the local stations' programming.

"We received a call for help from a man who identified himself as Nick Dunn, whose wife, Amy Dunn, went missing from their home in Missouri the other day..."

As time went by, more and more news spread in North America, and quite a few people who pay attention to current social news knew that a person named Amy Dunn was missing.

However, no one knows who Amy Dunne is. (To be continued.)