Leaving Twentieth Century Fox, Murphy went to Stanton Studio not far away, and asked Gal Gadot's assistant to find the specific information of the two films "Fast and Furious 6" and "The Great Gatsby". Combining the memories that were not much in his mind, he watched them carefully.

The "Fast and Furious" series regained its vitality after Universal Pictures invited Vin Diesel back. Although Vin Diesel is a difficult person who is well-known to Hollywood and hateful to the set, there are indeed a few tricks that directly drive this series to get rid of its previous decline, and the box office of each sequel shows an upward trend.

Moreover, starting with "Fast and Furious 4", each of the series chose to be released on the last weekend in April, which is a weekend before the traditional summer season in North America began. This can be said to have formed a tradition in the hearts of "Fast and Furious" fans. "Fast and Furious 6" was scheduled to be released this weekend again, and it is completely cleaned up.

However, Murphy does not think that this series will cause too much trouble to "Dark City". The "Fast and Furious" series, especially the following few, can be regarded as a typical popcorn film. The distribution strategy is to drive fans into the theaters as much as possible on the first weekend. The box office in the first weekend often accounts for one-third or even more of the total box office in North America. It can be said that the popularity is getting faster and the decline is also faster.

Otherwise, Universal Pictures would not choose to release before the start of the summer season. You should know that almost all the movies released on the weekend of the summer season are one of the year's commercial hits.

The trend of "Fast and Furious 6" may affect "Dark City". If the film has a huge reputation, it may achieve extremely outstanding box office results in the second week.

But will this increasingly sci-fi and magic racing video have a great reputation? Murphy will wait and see.

As for "The Great Gatsby", even if it is produced and starred by Leonardo DiCaprio, few people would think that such a remake would be a big hit.

The only thing that Murphy pays a little attention is that the heroine of this film is Carrey Mulligan.

However, it has been too long since the two of them. Not to mention that this is a relatively open Southern California area, even on the other side of the Pacific Ocean where he once lived, it is very common for a boyfriend and girlfriend to break up and get together.

The films on the weekends of "Dark City" have certain strength, but they are not particularly strong. Because of Robert Downey Jr., Murphy remembers it very clearly that the beginning of this summer season was originally from "Iron Man 3", but now he has mixed it up. "Iron Man 3" is said to be still in the finale of post-production and should not be released in this summer season.

According to Robert Downey Jr., Marvel Studios also had differences on "Iron Man 3", and the mainstream opinion was to be released during the Christmas period.

"We used multiple videos to erect the beginning of the summer season every year, which is the concept of Marvel superhero movies!"

In the Marvel Studios headquarters, Stan Lee stood in the conference room and made a generous speech, "Last year's "Avengers" won more than $500 million in North American box office. Countless Marvel fans are looking forward to the release of "Iron Man 3". Just because of Murphy Stanton, we will postpone the Christmas schedule?"

In the conference room, except for Stan Lee, everyone was speechless. What did Marvel Studios’ superhero movie last collided with Murphy Stanton? They all remembered it very clearly that unless it was "Avengers", other single films did not have the ability to collide head-on with Murphy Stanton's commercial blockbusters.

"Have you ever thought about it?" Stan Lee continued, "This is the third installment of the popular Iron Man series! The first Marvel superhero film after the Avengers!"

Kevin Feige looked at Stan Lee's old face, and a thought flashed through his mind, Stan Lee is over 80 years old, right? He is really confused.

"Okay, Stan." Avi Arad interrupted Stan Lee's generous speech. "No need to say these words, the company's board of directors and the issuer Disney have decided to give up this summer."

"You..." Stan Lee looked angry, "You all overestimated Murphy Stanton."

He said this loudly, but none of the nearly twenty people in the conference room agreed.

Kevin Feige no longer cares about Stan Lee and said directly, "Iron Man 3 is confirmed to be released this year's Christmas schedule, and all promotion and distribution studios are focusing on this."

As Marvel superhero movies continue to succeed, his voice within the group has become increasingly strong, especially after receiving the support of the board of directors of the controlling shareholder Walt Disney, it has even surpassed the entire Marvel Comics CEO Avi Arard.

Although he is in power, Kevin Feige has many worries at all. For example, the contract renewal of the main actors that the meeting will discuss next. Robert Downey Jr., who plays Iron Man Tony Stark, has offered Marvel Studios a pay of up to $40 million in Avengers 2 alone. It's crazy!

But Marvel Studios cannot directly reject him. Iron Man is the most popular superhero among the Avengers, no doubt. Robert Downey Jr. is the spokesperson of Iron Man in the hearts of movie fans. Marvel and Disney have conducted quite a lot of surveys on this. Ninety-nine percent of fans involved in the survey said that they could not accept Tony Stark, other than Robert Downey Jr.

All of these make Marvel Studios very passive.

Thinking of the deadlocked negotiations with Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Feige wanted to spit out swear words. None of the Stanton party members was a good person!

Regardless of the reactions of other companies or filmmakers, "Dark City" is carrying out its own publicity and distribution operations according to the established plan.

Especially in April after the Oscars, information related to "Dark City" can be seen everywhere from the Internet to traditional newspapers and TV stations.

"The Hollywood industry is optimistic about Murphy Stanton's new film and predicts that "Dark City" will break the North American box office record."

There is still a lot of news like this, and it seems that "Dark City" has dominated the front page headlines of all movie-related news a month in advance.

The Los Angeles Times focused on publishing: "The exhibition of the Cinema Business Association in the circle is closed, and "Dark City" has attracted much attention!"

"The showest exhibition hosted by the American Academy of Commerce and has come to an end a few days ago. When the small-scale trial screening of the famous director Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" was finished, dozens of theater trial viewers present were stunned, and some even praised "Dark City" as a classic work that would be a time-to-era classic..."

After a series of publicity operations such as viral marketing, "Dark City" has triggered a strong social response, especially in the few exposed clips, James Franco's crazy image as a magician has been praised by movie fans. Twentieth Century Fox also took the lead in launching the Magician's doll in early April. Although there is no bonus to the death halo, the doll is still sold out.

So, Twentieth Century Fox has materials to use to create topics.

"The Dark City is popular before it was released, and the Magicians are out of stock!"

"Murphy Stanton's new film "Dark City" caused a sensation before it was released. James Franko played the toy doll of the villain magician in the film. It was sold out of stock. It is currently in a specialty store and the Internet is hard to find."

"It is reported that the trailer of "Dark City", which is the sequel to "City of Chaos", has a very high click-through rate. The most sensational one is the toys of the protagonist Magician, which was released earlier than the movie, which actually caused a crazy buying craze. This figure was originally priced at $9.99, but it was sold out of stock as soon as it was launched. Previously, a Magician figure on the Internet soared to $30, but it was stolen all at once. Now it is out of stock on the Internet."

As the release date is getting closer, the promotion of 20th Century Fox is also closely linked.

"The latest poster of "Dark City" is revealed, welcome to the disordered world!"

Through Twitter and Facebook, Murphy launched the last official poster of the film on behalf of the entire crew and project, which attracted countless media coverage.

"Murphy Stanton just released the official poster of the latest "Dark City". As soon as this poster appeared, it immediately attracted widespread popularity among movie fans on the Internet. "Perfection", "Miracle", "Amazing", "Oh My God", "Amazing", "Cool Cool" and other praise words appeared in large numbers. There were even fanatical film noir enthusiasts, even without adding "one" to say: This is the best poster in the world!"

At the same time, Empire magazine launched two-faced journals, with Chris Dane and Magician on the covers respectively.

James Franco also appeared on the cover of the fashion magazine "GQ" under the promotion of Caa, and once again stated in an exclusive interview that he was deeply troubled by insomnia caused by the characters during the filming process.

He also said, "Thinking seriously about the process of gradually acknowledging by people over the years, even the look they look at me, they actually don't understand me at all. Anyone will have an unknown side, and sometimes I can't fully understand myself."

When talking about the upcoming "Dark City", James Franco doubled his spirit: "I am an ordinary person. Who doesn't like my work being recognized by others? But whether it can be recognized by the audience is not something I can control. If you discuss these meaningless things, it's better to find a few friends to have a drink."
Chapter completed!