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Sending off Gal Gadot, Murphy basically stayed in his Stanton studio in the next few days. Now this studio is a standard shell company. Apart from "Saw 2", which cooperates with Fox Searchlight, there is no project that can be operated. The biggest role is to use the government's policy benefits to the film industry to help Murphy reduce tax burdens.

Stanton Studio has not made any expansion so far. After Murphy further saw this circle, he gradually cut off his previous unreliable thoughts. With his ability and financial strength, if he rashly wanted to make Stanton Studio bigger without considering the actual situation, the bankruptcy crisis would not be far away.

Hollywood is not a state prison after all. It can handle most people and things with the fists of a few people and the little thoughts behind their backs. The situation and rules in this circle will not be diverted by personal will.

Many situations do not exist if he doesn't think about it.

Continuing to maintain Stanton Studio as a bag company is actually beneficial to Murphy, which allows him to concentrate as much energy as possible on the director's work.

In the entire Stanton Studio, Murphy himself, there are only four people, a financial officer, a front desk and telephone operator, and Paul Wilson, who also serves as Murphy's assistant.

In a short period of time, Murphy did not intend to expand Stanton Studio, and now his energy is mainly focused on the directorial career and preparing for the next plan.

The next step he aims at Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Marvel Comics has been in contact with it, and the situation is not optimistic. Since 2000, Marvel Comics has escaped from the bad situation in the mid-1990s. Although it is not as brilliant as the future, it is not something that a person like Murphy can touch.

After being frustrated with Marvel Comics, Murphy naturally prepared to turn to DC Comics.

Today's DC Comics are different from Marvel Comics, and the situation they face has even changed.

Before the arrival of the new century, the DC Comics, which was acquired by Warner, developed smoothly. When people talk about superheroes, the first thing they think of is Superman and Batman. When talking about superhero movies, they are exclusive to these two.

The appearance of Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne on the big screen is not comparable to that of the Avengers under Marvel Comics.

But now, DC Comics and Marvel Comics cannot be compared.

The former collaborated with Warner Bros. "Superman 4" almost ruined Superman's movie series. Joe Schumacher's two super drag shows also brought the "Batman" movie to a dead end, forcing Warner Bros. to refrigerate Mr. Bruce Wayne.

The latter changed its tide. Starting from "Blade Warrior", after "X-Men" and "Spider-Man", it has completely become the mainstream comic-revised movies on the big screen. "Spider-Man" even became the first movie in North America's history to have a box office of more than $100 million on the first weekend.

These made Marvel Comics very confident. According to news from Murphy, they are preparing their own film department to prepare for the superhero movies that truly belong to Marvel Comics.

Whether it is Murphy or other film companies, it is difficult for them to get the movie adaptation rights of first- and even second-tier comics from Marvel Comics. The Marvel superheroes that can be adapted by other companies in the industry have all obtained copyrights very early like "X-Men", "Spider-Man", "Darkward" and "Fantastic Four".

In order to get rid of the downturn, DC Comics is not without actions. For example, it successfully dug up the corners of "X-Men", used Brian Singra as the director of "Return of Superman", and collaborated with Oscar winner Halle Berry to create the extremely rare female superhero movie "Catwoman".

Thinking of these two films, Murphy subconsciously felt that they might become her obstacles. These two films were invested in huge amounts, especially "Return of Superman". It is rumored that the production cost will definitely exceed "Titanic" and become the highest-invested film ever. Even if some of the funding problems can be solved through cooperation, financing and pre-sales, it is still a heavy burden and pressure for Warner Bros.

Sitting in the office on the second floor of Stanton Studio and before making a plan, Murphy must consider the current situation. Products or artistic situations of movies are not separated from social reality. Whether it is the current social environment or the situation of the company, it may have a significant impact on a movie.

Take out a document from the filing cabinet, and Murphy looked at it. It was sent by someone after Bill Roses's investigation. It contained the DC comics and the latest situation of Warner Bros., as well as the introduction of management staff, especially Warner Bros., who had just changed the CEO recently, and the newly appointed CEO is called Bruce Berman's Jew.

Murphy thought about a name that seemed familiar for a while, but had no impression, and then gave up. Although his head was easier to use, it was not a computer with automatic storage. It was normal for some people who were not very important to remember it.

He focused more on the production strategies of Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

There is no doubt that since DC Comics was acquired by Warner, it has begun in-depth cooperation with Warner Bros. The "Superman" movie and the "Batman" series are both the products of cooperation, and the two companies have a silent tacit understanding. If the first-line superheroes under DC Comics are adapted into movies, the dominant party must be Warner Bros.

While Warner Bros. sometimes introduces other partners to share financial pressure and reduce risks, Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne's film copyrights are always firmly in their hands.

This also determines that unlike Marvel Comics, which is just starting out and does not have independent production and distribution companies, Murphy will definitely not be able to buy the corresponding copyright if he wants to cooperate with DC Comics.

Fortunately, the current DC superhero is in the ice age, not as popular as Marvel Comics, there is still a possibility of inspiring them to restart that super series.

What Murphy wants is very simple, to become a director of the series and get as much power as possible to get himself into the ranks of top-tier directors.

In the past, he was not qualified enough, and he could only think and couldn't do many things, and no one paid attention to them after doing them. Now, the success of three consecutive films undoubtedly gives him a certain degree of persuasion. It can be seen from being chased by paparazzi and entertainment reporters that he is no longer the unknown young director before.

Especially the achievements of "City of Sin" were even more eye-catching and made him famous.

After nearly three months of screening in North America, the film received impressive box office data of $91.54 million. Although it did not exceed the $100 million mark and was already down, the North American box office alone almost allowed Miramax to recover the total investment in production costs of $40 million and the $15 million in publicity and marketing.

In the past three months, "City of Sin" has also appeared in more theaters in overseas regions. Although the overall response is not as good as North America due to the subject matter, it has taken more than 34 million US dollars from overseas and the global box office is more than 125 million US dollars.

This is also the highest global box office figure Murphy has won so far.

Moreover, the negotiations between Miramax and DVD publishers and TV stations were also over. The results of the negotiations were about the same as the practice of the first round of TV broadcasting rights of approximately 10% in North America's box office, but because the film scale was too large and slightly low, it also sold as much as $8 million.

The basic transfer fee for DVD is also US$5 million, and there will naturally be corresponding commissions for sales and leasing in the future.

There are also emerging online on-demand transfers, which are not as expensive as the TV broadcast rights, but are still accounted for US$2 million.

Even if he had to pay dividends to Dark Horse Comics and Frank Miller, Miramax easily achieved large profits.

These are the capital that Murphy can bargain with other companies on new projects.

Of course, for him, the more direct benefit comes from money.

"City of Sin" was basically offline from North America, and Miramax also sent a financial statement to Stanton Studio, which clearly marked the directorial dividends that Murphy could enjoy.

According to the director agreement signed by both parties, Murphy can get a basic reward of one million US dollars each in two sessions before the film starts and after completing all productions. If the North American box office of "Sin City" exceeds the determined production cost line in the future, he can get a basic reward of one million US dollars. If the North American box office reaches 50 million US dollars, he can get a share reward of three million US dollars, 80 million US dollars is 4.5 million US dollars, and 100 million US dollars is 6 million US dollars.

The base pay of two million US dollars was paid in place long before the film was released. The remaining ones were mainly North American box office dividends. The film's North American box office exceeded 80 million US dollars, but it did not reach 100 million US dollars. The North American box office dividend that Murphy could get was the $4.5 million stipulated in the agreement.

In addition, the agreement stipulates that Murphy receives one percent of the copyright income of Sin City North American TV and DVD video tapes, so he can earn $80,000 and $50,000 from the first transfer fee respectively.

As for the subsequent sales and rental commissions, that is long-term income.

Miramax paid for the total of $130,000 in North American TV and DVD video tape copyright revenue a few days ago. As the big head's box office dividend, it needs to wait slowly, just like the previous few times.

But Murphy is not in a hurry, he is not short of money now.

In the next few days, Murphy began to formulate project plans and plans for DC Comics and Warner Bros. It was not easy to impress these guys, at least a decent plan.

After completing the project planning and plan, good news came from Bill Roses. He made an appointment with several senior executives of DC Comics to meet with Warner Bros. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!