The iron door outside closed with a bang, and the independent visiting room returned to silence. Murphy took out a box of cigarettes and took one from it. Ross was still wearing shackles. He simply stuffed it directly into Ross' mouth, then took out a lighter from his pocket, and helped Ross light up the cigarette. A wisp of smoke immediately rose up along Ross's face.

Ross took a deep breath, spit out smoke, looked at the cigarettes and lighters on the table in front of him, and said, "Have you learned to smoke? I remember you never smoke."

"No." Murphy shook his head, "This is the top cigarette that Donny asked me to bring to you specifically, his collection."

"It's not bad." Ross wrinkled his nose, "It just tasted a little lighter."

Murphy stood up and went over and stuffed the cigarette into Rose's clothes, "I have someone connected and I'll send you a batch in a while."

Ross shook his head, "Forget it, you can't get it into my hands even if you send it in."

Murphy thought about it and knew that this was likely to happen, so he didn't insist and asked, "How are you doing recently?"

"It's very comfortable." Ross stretched, looking very comfortable. "You and Donnie transferred all those kids here. I'm no.1 here now, and no one dares to provoke me."

The American prison gangs were rampant, and Murphy had a personal experience of this, so he spent a lot of effort to get all the subordinates of Ross who were scattered in other prisons to state prisons to ensure that Ross would not be uncomfortable at least in it. Although Ross was once the domineering here, the era was a bit far away after all.

"You stay at ease first." Murphy lowered his voice a little, "I am sending someone to work to reduce your sentence as much as possible."

Ross shook his head again, "Stop doing these things. Even if a serious prisoner like me is reduced, he will be seventy years old after he is seventy years old. He can't keep up with the times. What should I do when I go out?"

"Do you remember what you said when we were here together last time?" Murphy reminded, "You said you would be the godfather of my children."

"The question is do you have faith?" Ross said deliberately.

Murphy spread his hands helplessly, "I am a believer of Satan like you."

"Okay, let's not joke anymore." Ross asked seriously, "Even if I want to be the godfather of your children, you have to get married first. Will you get married?"

Although he knew that Murphy had a fixed girlfriend, he still clearly remembered that Murphy had asked to sleep with all the beautiful female stars in Hollywood, but now he has such capital.

"I'm engaged," Murphy said lightly.

Ross asked curiously, "Thank Gal Gadot?"

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, "I haven't had time to tell you what happened last month."

"Congratulations." Ross touched his hands back and forth several times, and said embarrassedly, "I don't have anything, so I won't give you a gift."

Murphy sat on the chair, crossed his chest with his hands, and said, "It won't be possible if you don't give it away. I'm waiting for you to deliver it to my house in the future to make up for it!"

"You..." Ross shook his head gently, "Murphy, let some things go."

Murphy also shook his head, "If things had gone with the flow, I might have died in this prison more than ten years ago."

He was not as strong as he is now. It was this year's training that made his personality become tough.

There are some things that Ross can let things go, but Murphy doesn't. No matter what Ross says, he will still do what he should do, so he simply changed the topic.

"Did you get the mp4 you sent in?" he asked.

Before Christmas, he asked Robert to send in through his relationship a digital version of Diego Ross.

"Well, I watched the movie, and I deleted the copy after watching it." Ross directly raised a thumb to Murphy, "The film was very good, and the authenticity was more than 80%!"

Murphy said with a smile, "It's good that you can approve it."

Films such as those adapted from real characters will inevitably undergo a certain artistic process for the sake of dramatic tension. Even if his narrative in the film "Diego Ross" is relatively gentle and does not have the fierce turning point like traditional Hollywood movies, there are some places that are appropriately exaggerated.

However, as Ross said, the entire film starts entirely from Ross' real experience.

"The day before yesterday, the new Academy Awards announced the nomination list."

Of course, Murphy would tell Ross, "We have received ten Oscar nominations for this biopic, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture."

Hearing this, Ross immediately became interested, "Ten nominations?"

Even though he doesn't know much about Hollywood, as a native of Los Angeles, he still knows that ten Oscar nominations are a very amazing thing.

Ross thought for a moment and asked, “How likely is it to win an award?”

"It's not difficult to win a technical award." Murphy said honestly, "No one can guarantee that the three important awards I just mentioned can be won."

"Yeah." Ross nodded, "Your movie is my last wish."

As he first told Murphy, he didn't want to die in prison in obscurity. Even if he was notorious, he wanted the world to know that a man named Diego Ross walked through this world.

A knock on the door suddenly sounded outside, and then a reminder from the guards came, "Time is up!"

Murphy looked at the watch, stood up and said, "Donny and I are working hard to make this video to hit the Oscars. Please wait for our good news."

After saying that, he turned around and walked outside, left the heavily guarded reception area, and joined his bodyguards and left the state prison.

In the next few days, Stanton Studio and Twentieth Century Fox frequently made articles in the media, and various reports boasted about the film "Diego Ross" were endless. Perhaps I really like this film with a slow-paced and very artistic long shot. Roger Albert, who is far away in Chicago, published an article through his column in the Chicago Tribune, saying that if Oscar ignores Murphy Stanton and his videos this time, it would be a big scandal!

The media's public opinion and the situation created by using Catholicism are very beneficial to Diego Ross.

So, on the weekend when the Oscar nomination list was announced, Twentieth Century Fox once again expanded the scale of screenings, and the North American screenings of Diego Ross more than doubled, increasing to nearly 1,600.

The film received the bonus of the Oscar nomination halo, and the performance of the film was even better than the previous pre-show and small-scale screenings. During the three days of the weekend, it received more than $19 million from the North American market. In addition to the previous box office cumulative of more than $20 million, the North American box office successfully exceeded $35 million, reaching $41.56 million!

The market effect of Oscars and a series of previous publicity and planning is quite obvious.

Even, Twentieth Century Fox believes that if the film can win two awards, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture, the North American box office can completely hit the $100 million mark.

Although "Artist" is more in line with the tastes of the old men of the academy, there are still nearly twenty days left before the final voting of the Oscars as scheduled, and nothing is possible.

Even though the situation is still favorable for Diego Ross, Murphy has not relaxed at all. Although the college stipulates that no public relations can be carried out for judges at this time, it does not stipulate that the director or films can promote themselves.

In addition to Twentieth Century Fox, Caa and Bill Rossis also formulated a series of self-promotion plans for Murphy to win the favor and support of the college judges, including speeches and donations at the North American Film Academy. This school affiliated to the American Film Society has once come from many famous film practitioners and members of the School of Film Arts and Sciences, such as David Lynch, Darren Alenovsky, Edward Zwick, Janus Kaminsky and Carl Franklin.

Just talking about the number of well-known filmmakers, this school even surpasses the USC Film Academy.

The so-called public relations are not just about lobbying judges and promoting them in the media, but also in a variety of ways.

Murphy was in a very busy stage and had to catch different announcements every day. He might have participated in a program recording in Los Angeles in the morning, and appeared in New York's publicity and promotion activities in the afternoon, almost completely becoming a flying man.

He knew one truth very well. Working hard may not guarantee that the film "Diego Ross" won a heavyweight award. If he didn't work hard, he would undoubtedly win a very low award.

At the same time, the media under the Internet and Twentieth Century Fox are still catching on with Catholicism, especially the Catholic believer who once attacked Murphy in Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, will occasionally jump out from the Catholic standpoint and make a big fuss. It is difficult for Hollywood people to ignore Catholicism.

Under this situation, when many people in the circle mention "Diego Ross", they can't help but think of the Catholicism's aggressiveness towards Hollywood...

Catholicism makes people disgusted, and by the way, they will have more or less favorable feelings for Diego Ross. No one can underestimate this perhaps not much favorable feeling. It can often directly determine the voting choice of a college member.

In less than a week after the 84th Academy Awards were announced, "Diego Ross" was in a strong limelight, with the momentum of films that once swept many heavyweight awards at the Academy Awards, which also attracted many people's attention.

Murphy plans to maintain the popularity of Diego Ross until the final voting date.
Chapter completed!