Hollywood Road

After flying to London, Murphy and Carla Faith were engaged in intense negotiations. Stanton Studios and Twentieth Century Fox also placed the European negotiations on "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" in the United Kingdom. In addition to a cable TV station in the UK, some companies in France, Germany, Spain and Portugal have also expressed strong interest.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that many of the settings in "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" draw on the history of the European Middle Ages. The history of the Seven Kingdoms of Vislot can see many traditional European powers. Shadow.

Compared to other American dramas, "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" is naturally suitable for broadcasting in Europe, and the high ratings and overwhelming reputation in North America are the guarantee of high prices.

Murphy and Carla Faith first faced a British buyer, but in the negotiation, Murphy was more of a participant, and the negotiation was still mainly Kara Faith.

Carla Fiss has more experience in this area than him.

The progress of the negotiations was a little smoother than expected. After a week of see-saw negotiations with the British TV station, a formal agreement was reached. The other party exclusively bought out the TV broadcast of the British Isles at a price of 2.5 million US dollars per episode. Rights and network on-demand rights, the term is three years.

There is also a supplementary clause in the agreement. In the second quarter of the future, under the same conditions, this British television station has the right of first refusal.

For the British side, Murphy and Carla-Fiss each led a negotiating team and invested in negotiations with other European companies and TV stations. The quality of TV shows that are high enough and tested in the North American market are just like the Hollywood movies that sell well in North America. There is no need to worry about overseas markets.

In ten days, after many negotiations, Murphy and Carla-Face reached agreements with television stations and distribution companies in many European countries and regions, and signed a formal contract to change "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones". 》The television and Internet broadcasting rights in the next three years will be replaced by large revenue figures.

Germany, like the United Kingdom, is as high as US$2.5 million per episode for three years; France is slightly lower, but it also has US$2 million per episode; Spain and Portugal received US$1.5 million and US$1 million per episode respectively; Italy received US$1.2 million per episode... …

During this trip to Europe, Murphy and Kara Fess took away up to 125 million US dollars in copyright transfer revenue.

There is no doubt that the great success of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" will bring horrible profit figures to Stanton Studios and Twentieth Century Fox.

It is precisely with this kind of profit guarantee that Murphy and Carla Faith will increase their investment in the production of the second season, and will not completely abandon the war scenes. They plan to shoot Stannis at the end of the second season. The epic battle with Lannister in King's Landing.

If there is no such outstanding profitability, this war is bound to be cut off by Murphy.

"Currently, the development of peripheral games is in talks with companies in Silicon Valley."

Following the passage to the flight to Los Angeles, Carla Faith talked to Murphy about the latest developments in North America as he walked. "Peripheral products such as t-shirts, dolls, toys, etc., will also be on sale in the fastest time, at the latest. No later than the time when the DVD goes on sale."

Murphy listened most of the time, then nodded.

In North America, popular TV dramas will drive a large number of additional industries, not only the streamlining of the film and entertainment industry, but also TV dramas, like "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" TV series with double ratings and word-of-mouth, the whole is one A huge money making machine.

"Welcome to this flight..."

Stepping on the plane, the flight attendant from Midland immediately greeted him with a smile. Murphy nodded politely and entered the first class cabin with Carla Faith, sitting on two adjacent positions on the side of the window, waiting for the plane to take off.

I don't know why, after waiting for a long time, the plane didn't take off. It seemed that it was delayed for some reason. Murphy and Carla Faith were a little bored. They wanted to come to the newspaper with the flight attendants from the Midland League and looked through it.

Probably the recent negotiations between him and Carla Fes have attracted the attention of many media on Fleet Street. There are many comments and reports on "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" on the entertainment section of the newspaper.

However, the British Empire has always been on the air, and the more influential media, the more obvious it is, such as the reviews of The Times.

"Game of Thrones is too realistic and gloomy, I don't know where to watch it."

Just from the title, it can be seen that some British media still habitually attack cultural products from Hollywood.

"I watched the first season of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" in the United States some time ago. The overall feeling is too realistic and gloomy. Except for the Stark family and some of the night watchmen, the rest are almost All of them are thick black spirits, no beliefs and principles, only eternal self-interest, all honors, responsibilities, friendships, and family affections, all are ****, all can be thrown away, and they also Almost all of them are self-aware. They admit that they are cheap, insidious, and shameless, but they have a clear conscience, because they will say: This is reality, I have to work for reality, so I can live like a dog. I don’t care about everything else."

"I admit that reality is indeed frustrating many times, and it does oppress us to abandon our ideals, beliefs, and principles. But we have tasted these sorrows in reality, but why do we need to be full again in TV dramas? Tortured?"

"Ned Stark, who symbolizes the good side, died in such an unfavorable way, which made people too late to recover, and therefore made people sweat for the future destiny of his children. Just ask the director and screenwriter, since you can let one carry us The important role of his sustenance and expectation is so easily in the darkness of reality, so for his children, what else can you do?"

"A TV drama needs realistic factors, but it also needs positive factors that allow people to see hope. Otherwise, what are we going to watch?"

"If a drama uses the name of reality to relentlessly spread darkness, conspiracy, cruelty, and ruthlessness... again and again on our visual dining table, and let the kindness and beauty in human nature as well as our The expectation and hope of the **** death in front of us makes us always unable to see, and then tells us heartily that this is the reality, then I want to ask, is this kind of pitiful attraction worthy of us to see?"

Although this is an offensive comment, it is not without reason. The abuse of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" has indeed reached a new realm since the birth of the TV series.

"What?" Carla Faith turned to look at Murphy. "See the criticizing comment?"

Murphy shrugged and said indifferently, "It makes sense."

He passed the newspaper in his hand to Carla Firth, Carla Firth took it, and backhanded her copy over, "Look at this good review, "Chicago Sun", Roger Albert Rarely published a drama review."

Although it is known that Roger Albert can publish a review of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones", it must have something to do with the promotion behind 20th Century Fox, but with his current status and status, Will easily take his reputation to risk, and he is willing to give a good comment, which is also quite an endorsement of this drama.

After taking over the Carla Firth newspaper, Murphy saw Roger Albert's column.

"On the whole, the adaptation of "Game of Thrones" hasn't been'nervously split' so far. Murphy Stanton's thinking is very consistent, which is to make the TV series appear more refined and focused on the premise of maintaining the original flavor. Most of the new plots of the TV series are clear and reasonable, and the dialogues often have magical touches. These are all commendable - and they are rare in the adaptation of film and television works."

"The magic wave led by "Lord of the Rings" has become popular in Hollywood in recent years, but it has not made much noise on TV screens. Now Murphy Stanton has finally used "Game of Thrones" this important work to create a new era. Most people think that the show will have a lot of wars, magic, actions, and **** scenes, but after it was broadcast, they found that the show was not focusing on these audiovisual and exciting gimmicks, but focused on the plot and characters."

"Although each episode is composed of three or four story lines, the plot is not scattered at all, but rather compact and exciting. The technical aspects of photography, costumes, scenery, and art are also extremely sophisticated. The whole drama is simply a piece of exquisite art. Product."

"Murphy Stanton has directed a TV series that can be regarded as a masterpiece, allowing the audience to fully substituting into this huge and illusory worldview, while the nine families of the Seven Kingdoms in the play are as real as they exist. Closer. At least for now, this is the pinnacle of a fantasy TV series that is extremely difficult for Yu Yue."

Seeing Roger Albert's unreserved flattery, Murphy couldn't help scratching his head. It seemed that the Pulitzer Prize winner really liked his darkened style.

"Perhaps the homogeneity of most Hollywood movies and most directors today is too serious." Murphy can only think so, "Or maybe my own public relations work is really good?"

After thinking about it for a while, there was no definite answer to these things, and Murphy didn't bother to think about it anymore. It's always a good thing to have Roger Albert's praise.

No one can ignore the influence of this Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.

Putting down the newspaper, Murphy looked at the time and found that the flight was almost half an hour late, and he didn't even mean to take off.

"What's the matter?" Murphy tilted his head and looked outside the window.

Carla Faith was even more straightforward. He took out his cell phone and dialed a call. After asking a few words, he said rather helplessly, "Some protesters have taken the airstrip."