After Christmas, Gal Gadot left Los Angeles and flew to Israel. Murphy met with Cara Fais and began a new round of negotiations with George Martin on "Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones".

The filming of this magic series has begun in the fifth season. Although George Martin has not died, his health has been getting worse every year, and the writing of novels has gradually lagged behind TV series, but the audience it attracts is increasing, especially hardcore fans.

A series of TV series like this can bring huge benefits, no less than a popular series of movies. The most important focus of the negotiations between the two parties is undoubtedly the issue of interest distribution. For the sake of subsequent copyright, Stanton Studios represented by Murphy and Cara Fais and Twentieth Century Fox made some concessions to George Martin.

Overall, the negotiations went quite smoothly.

In addition to the issue of profit distribution, Murphy also discussed with George Martin the derivative development of "Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones".

"Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" has reached its fifth season, and it can be said that it has reached the later stage and will be completed in the next three to four seasons. However, this series that has huge benefits, whether it is Stanton Studio or Twentieth Century Fox, will certainly not give up easily, and will inevitably squeeze out all its oil and water.

Just like a series of movies, the popular TV series will continue to be filmed and produced. The sequels are not in the beginning, and there are also sub-letters and prequels that can be filmed.

In this series, a series of stories that happened before the first season were mentioned several times. Those past events were also hot topics for fans to discuss, and shooting and producing prequels is undoubtedly feasible.

Murphy talked with George Martin several times. After "Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones", he basically agreed to plan the prequel and made a preliminary review of the complicated history of Westeros, hoping to find a story with development potential.

Of course, it can only be said that things are still in the preliminary negotiation stage. Murphy and George Martin are just exploring certain periods. It is impossible to point out a specific period and time, and then make a decision by browsing their heads and say, "Let's do this."

Meanwhile, Kara Fis will fight for all the resources available to Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Cable, and leave all of this to the crew of "Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones".

This kind of thing is not urgent. Murphy and George Martin have basically reached an agreement, and there will naturally be professional personnel to follow up. After finishing the negotiations with George Martin, he accepted a cover interview with Vanity Fair magazine.

Just after the New Year in 2010, Murphy, in a suit and ties, appeared on the cover and title page of Vanity Fair.

Becoming the cover character of the first episode of the New Year of Vanity Fair will naturally attract a lot of attention, and it also means that Murphy launched the final sprint for the Oscar nomination that has already begun the voting.

"Some people are Hollywood darlings, and I never feel like I belong to this category. I feel like I am a blue-collar worker, and I am willing to work twice as hard. Compared to others, I don't have that much room for maneuver."

This is what appears together with the cover character with Murphy's image, and it is also the original words of Murphy when he was interviewed.

On the title page behind the cover is an article about Murphy written by Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.

"Movies are not just art, but also a business. It is of course a good thing if the movie can get good reviews, but making a movie must be successful in business and investors must make profits."

At the beginning of the article, she quoted Murphy's original words, "Only by gaining the trust of investors can you keep getting opportunities to shoot the movies you really want to shoot."

Behind is Tina Brown's description of what she knows Murphy.

"Murphy Stanton, born in Los Angeles, grew up in a slum and experienced a teenager like a street gangster. This made his casual, confident and somewhat unruly personality always rooted in Murphy's personality. When we were interviewed, he flashed with a unique charm. As he grew older, the once rebellious teenager had transformed into humility and determination. These two traits have been throughout his acting career."

“When talking about the experience after entering the film industry, ‘working’ and ‘persistence’ became the most common words on Murphy Stanton.”

"It seems that the long-lasting battle of this Hollywood director who is just over 30 years old in the film industry is enough to describe it as a 'big victory'. After years of hard work and persistence, Murphy Stanton was promoted to one of the most cost-effective directors in Hollywood."

“Murphy Stanton, whose director career is getting wider and wider, is not going to take a break in the next few years: ‘I never relax my guard. I always feel like an outsider and want to try to get into this circle, so I’ve been working hard. The more I succeed, the more motivation I get to keep working.’”

After the title page, the official version of this issue of Vanity Fair, and among all the pages, the content about Murphy is still placed at the forefront.

"Murphy Stanton gave the audience a new possibility, a broad space for movie fans, a new way of showing off skills, and a new style, logic, and even thinking to commercial movies!"

Regarding Murphy's exclusive interview, Vanity Fair did not adopt the traditional question-and-answer method, but used side descriptions. In addition to the content that has been reported many times, it also focused on the ability of director Murphy to discover actors.

"Every new actor will shine and heat when he reaches Murphy Stanton."

"When Jessica Alba first collaborated with Murphy Stanton, she was only twenty years old. Before that, her inherent image was the beautiful vase of youth. But it was just that Murphy Stanton focused on discovering Jessica Alba, and then created the role of Nancy, which is the classic "Sin City", and made Jessica Alba's acting career suddenly clear, becoming one of the representatives of actresses born in Hollywood in the 1980s."

"Christopher Walz was in his fifties when he starred in "Inglorious Bastard", but he was still unknown. When Murphy Stanton cast a role, he emphasized: 'What others don't need may not be suitable for us!' An Oscar-best supporting actor was born!"

"For Jessica Alba and Christopher Valz, Murphy Stanton is not only the director who made them famous, but also a teacher who guides them in how to be their own."

"Murphy Stanton has a unique pair of eyes. Similarly, the actors who come out of his movies have two moving eyes, either pure or bright. He believes that the two most important principles of performance are relaxation and concentration. Only when acting can he show his true charm, which is the best state."

"Many Hollywood stars admitted that it is the dream of every actor to be able to participate in director Murphy Stanton's works, and they hope to have the opportunity to participate in director Murphy's works through their own efforts."

With the launch of this issue of Vanity Fair, Murphy appeared in the vision of more Oscar judges. Although the production style is destined to not everyone choose to vote for him, as long as more people can think of him when voting, that is enough.

Of course, compared to the exclusive interviews I accepted, there is still a lot of content that has not been written in "Vanity Fair".

For example, in an interview, Murphy said that actors need to support each other in acting, and stealing the show is a very bad habit.

Performance has never been a simple and easy job, nor can it be competent by just a single actor. Acting requires mutual support.

Murphy always believes that using PK to speak actors is a very bad and negative energy. The most typical thing is that we should trust each other and support each other when acting. If one party performs too weakly, the whole scene will be unbalanced, which will also bring negative effects to ourselves.

However, in Hollywood, if a person does not compete, he may never be able to make a comeback. This is reality.

But if Murphy is asked what a good actor is and what a good performance team is, he would say without hesitation that if an actor deliberately steals the show and suppresses the show, he would talk to him well...

After entering 2010, "Wolf of Wall Street" continued to be screened in North America, and in order to hit the Oscar nomination list, it still maintained a high number of theaters released.

By the end of January, after two months of long screenings, the film's North American box office reached more than 226.8 million US dollars, successfully entering the top ten in the 2009 North American box office rankings.

However, there is only one voice in the entire North American and even the world's film market, that is, "Avatar". All other films screened at the same time can only survive in the shadow of this epic monster-level movie, and have suffered a serious impact without exception. "Wolf of Wall Street" is no exception.

Since the release of the Thanksgiving holiday, the film's North American market potential has been consumed. According to the current trend, Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox speculate that the North American box office of this film cannot exceed the $250 million mark, and the final landing point may be between $230 million and $240 million.

Not only the North American market is impacted by "Avatar", but also other overseas markets. After the cumulative overseas box office of "Wolf of Wall Street" exceeded US$200 million, it was also suppressed in overseas theaters. It is still unknown whether the final global box office can exceed the US$500 million mark.
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