In early October, after Stanton Studio, Sky Film Fund and Twentieth Century Fox each received five million dollars of start-up funds, Murphy's preparation studio officially began. The crew's office was temporarily placed in the warehouse near Venice. Since several consecutive movies were filmed here, this warehouse has become a temporary studio for many small crews.

A week before Murphy brought people here, a small crew finished filming here and just left.

The crew was not large in size, but it had some renovations to the warehouse, especially the director's office in the temporary office area.

The original director's office was temporarily built in a large warehouse, but now it has been separated from the middle and turned into an office suite with two inside and outside. The space is separated by a characteristic glass wall, which is the kind that can be seen from the inside, but the outside can only be used as a mirror.

"The director of the crew before," Paul Wilson said mysteriously as he accompanied Murphy in the remodeled and decorated office. "There are some special hobbies. I heard that he likes to call actresses into the office inside, look at the assistant directors outside, and give them special guidance."

Paul Wilson did not make any special explanation for these words, and Murphy also understood what it was. He pushed open the glass door on the glass wall, went in and looked at it, and the things inside were not completely moved away, as well as a huge desk and a high-back swing chair.

Paul Wilson also followed in, "I have asked someone to clean the office carefully. The backrest of the chair can be lowered as a folding bed for temporary rest."

Murphy took a look and walked out again, "Put my stuff out of this room."

He had no interest in that boring habit.

Then, under the leadership of Paul Wilson, he went to the area used for shooting in the warehouse. It was probably due to the increase in crews filming in recent years. This place is no longer a warehouse. With constant transformation, it has become a huge studio.

Most indoor scenes in future films will be filmed here.

The preparations have just begun. All departments officially started working a few days ago. A large number of staff kept transporting various equipment in, and the warehouse was extremely busy.

However, compared with the vigorous publicity campaign that began in the preparations of "Deadpool", the crew is much quieter now, with basically no media attention. Murphy and Cara Faiss do not intend to make efforts to promote the publicity now. Regarding publicity and marketing, they had in-depth communication with 20th Century Fox, and at the right time, they would start an extraordinary publicity offensive.

"Hi, Murphy."

Hears sounded from behind, Murphy turned his head, David Ellison walked in from outside with two handbags, his face full of excitement, "I'm done with the negotiation!"

Murphy was a little surprised, “So quickly?”

"I have reached an agreement with Nokia and the relevant documents will be sorted out tomorrow for you." David Ellison walked over and stood beside him. "They agreed to be the advertising sponsor of our project."

As he said that, he handed Murphy the paper bag he was holding, "This is the Nokia 6670 concept machine, with a rare video function nowadays. It is said that it can support recording a video for more than 10 minutes. They gave some prototypes."

"I don't need it." Murphy shook his head, and was about to say give it to someone else, but David Ellison said again, "I didn't say give it to you, this is for Gale."

Murphy thought for a while and took it over, "Say thank you to the manufacturer for me."

Unlike the films he filmed before, "The Lost Love" was temporarily named "g" due to the needs of promotion and marketing. Since the film background is in modern society, some advertising sponsors will naturally be introduced. His previous films have all had a huge box office. It is not too much effort, so he found some advertising sponsors with cooperation intentions.

Because of being a producer, David Ellison also joined the crew and volunteered to negotiate with the advertising sponsor. After considering it, Murphy and Carla Fiest agreed. Anyway, he was not the only one involved in the negotiations, but also Murphy's lawyer Robert and 20th Century Fox's professionals.

Unexpectedly, David Ellison performed not only well in business negotiations, but also quite outstanding. The disadvantage is that he did not have enough experience, but overall it was quite good. In the earliest negotiations with Volvo, he received a sponsored car and received an advertising sponsorship fee of up to three million US dollars.

The negotiations with Nokia this time were also good. In order to allow a number of mobile phones, including Nokia 6670, to appear in the video, Nokia offered $3.5 million in advertising fees.

"We got $6.5 million before we could shoot the film." David Ellison was very excited about the first time he actually participated in the preparations for the official film. "After signing a formal contract with Nokia, I will look for sponsors of alcohol advertisements, especially the heroine who uses the wine from the abuse, so she must negotiate a high price."

"Good job, David." Murphy smiled at him and said, "You let go of your hands and feet, Carla and I will support you, and I will leave a close-up for the heroine with the wine from the abuse."

David Ellison was born in a family full of business atmosphere and had a very active mind. He immediately thought about the audition that the crew would hold in the next stage and couldn't help but say excitedly, "If you can sign a first-line actress to play Amy, I will be more confident in negotiating. Think about it, a bottle of wine that can leave behind the back door of the Oscar Best Actress, such as Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron, will definitely leave a deep impression on the audience."

"Good idea!" Paul Wilson on the other side held back his laughter and kept exclaiming, "Good idea! It's really a very good idea."

This guy! Murphy glanced at David Ellison and nodded in agreement. He liked this implanted advertisement very much.

However, the actress who plays the heroine may not accept it, it depends on how to discuss it.

Bill Rossis, according to the list he mentioned, sent role scripts and audition invitations to many well-known actresses including Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts has refused. She wants to participate in the shooting of Steven Soderbergh's Rohan series, and the schedule conflicts.

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron have not given a clear answer yet. They don’t seem to be particularly interested, and they seem to be deliberately hanging the crew.

The former has just entered the Hollywood 20 million club and is a veritable superstar; although the latter cannot be called a first-line superstar, he has just won the Oscar for Best Actress and has the status of Jessica Alba and Jessica Chastain, whom Murphy had worked with before, and has enough capital to choose the scripts and characters they like.

No matter what happened before, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron have become extremely scarce resources in the circle, and they are completely different from worrying about winning over the role.

It is no exaggeration to say that their agents receive scripts and audition invitations every month can pile up one foot on their desks.

Of course, Murphy also knew that these two people now seem to be famous, have outstanding status and are incredible, but their future development is extremely unsuccessful, especially Nicole Kidman, whose vision of choosing scripts and characters is really uncommon, and they will gradually become bad movie queens who are slightly worse than Nicholas Cage. In the end, they even have to rely on constantly mentioning their ex-husband Tom Cruise to highlight their presence.

As for Charlize Theron, she has a very famous reputation since she won the Oscar. She is definitely at the level of a first-tier superstar, but looking at the films, roles, box office and pay she can get, at most, is a Hollywood second-tier level. It was not until ten years after she won the Best Actress that she truly took the box office of a film with her own strength.

Apart from some other factors, these two people's vision of choosing the film and the characters is poor enough.

In fact, Murphy's favorite object was Charlize Theron. Even though the South African Diamond won the Oscar for the Best Actress, he never proved himself commercially because he had no masterpiece before, and his pay was only one million dollars. In contrast, Nicole Kidman, who is already a member of the 20 million club, has not yet made him bad. Without a pay of $15 million+, it may be difficult to impress her.

Murphy had invited her to audition before, mainly because Nicole Kidman was also a Caa client. If the script and roles made her feel very good, it would be possible that she would have lowered her price.

Compared with the confirmed male lead James Franco, Murphy has considered more about the heroine.

After a busy day, Gal Gadot also came to the warehouse before getting off work. She greeted the crew members with familiarity and walked into Murphy's office. Murphy was still discussing the film's photography style with Filey Raschel, handing her the cell phone sent by David Ellison, signaling her to wait for a while.

Gal Gadot simply entered the suite inside and sat on the office chair and started playing with this new phone.

It was not until half an hour later that Murphy shouted at her outside. The sound insulation effect of the suite was not good, and the words outside could be heard clearly inside.

"Can you leave?" Gal Gadot asked after going out.

"Let's go." Murphy lifted his briefcase and lowered his head, "Let's go home."

Gal Gadot came over and took his arm, and said as she walked, "Nate planned to call a party in the hotel I checked in tomorrow night. I want me to invite you to attend, and she will call you."

The two walked out of the warehouse and Murphy asked, "I remember you're going to attend an event at the school tomorrow night?"

"Yes." Gal Gadot turned on the camera function of his phone and pointed it at the sky, "I don't have time to participate."

She recorded a short video, and after watching it, she said, "The function is pretty good, better than I thought."

"This is a trial model provided by the sponsor." Murphy walked to the side of the car and helped Gale Gadot open the door first. The phone suddenly rang and took out the test and saw it. It was an unfamiliar number.
Chapter completed!