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mid december. Murphy, Quentin Tarantino, 20th Century Fox, and Weinstein Films were simultaneously sued by a so-called well-known author from nowhere in California District Court The court claimed that "Inglourious Basterds" used his ideas and ideas more than ten years ago, infringed his copyright, and demanded $10 million in damages.

When the news reached Murphy, he directly handed it over to agent Bill Rosses and lawyer Robert. At the same time, he hung up on Quentin and the others. The ruffian took a similar approach to him.

As for Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Films, they both have departments dedicated to handling such incidents.

In recent years, similar incidents in Hollywood have emerged one after another, and major film companies headed by the Big Six are also formulating targeted measures.

Murphy is also considering whether Stanton Studio should also establish such a department. After all, this is not the first time he has encountered such an incident.

Movies such as adaptations of comics and novels are easy to talk about, and the ownership of copyright is relatively clear, and copyright disputes are generally rare. But original movies are different. Due to the lack of other TV works to support them, as long as original movies can sell well, someone will always jump out and say that the producer stole their ideas.

In recent years, this situation has intensified, and there are only a handful of Hollywood original films that can sell well, but almost every one has someone chasing after them for compensation, as if these films really stole their ideas.

Everyone knows that this kind of person just wants to be famous and make a lot of money. This happened as early as the 1950s and 1960s.

But in recent years, the proliferation of this kind of situation has also been directly related to the mishandling of major Hollywood film companies. Facing these guys who jumped out of nowhere, the production companies headed by the six major companies, in order to avoid too much Trouble, often through out-of-court settlements. Out-of-court settlement also means paying more or less money to those people. Although this will save a lot of attorney fees and litigation fees, it provides fertile soil for the continued proliferation of such incidents.

To a certain extent, this is a hindrance to original movies. It must be very annoying for a director to create a film with great painstaking efforts, but to be chased after and shouted for plagiarism.

No matter how other people reacted, Murphy didn't plan to settle out of court anyway, and with Quentin's character, he probably didn't plan to settle either.

A few days later, news came from the Los Angeles County Police Department that they had found the originating mailbox of the threatening letter. The mailbox address was located in a public area in the downtown area. It was impossible to trace the specific sender.

The police also took the letter away and conducted a technical survey. Except for the fingerprints of him, Gal Gadot and the two postal workers, there were no other fingerprints at all. The person who mailed the letter obviously noticed this aspect.

This matter has a tendency to develop in the direction of no case, and Murphy has no good solution other than strengthening the protection measures around him.

Having said that, he always thinks that this is a prank of a bored person. Could it be that this incident will turn into a tragedy of John Lennon, or it will develop into the next ridiculous incident of John Hinckley and Jodie Foster ?

Of course, if this person can kill that stupid pig sitting in the White House for him, he will applaud vigorously, this is called true love!

However, Murphy could still listen to the advice of those around him and did not attend the "Inglourious Basterds" promotional activities and PR parties. Although this will drag down "Inglourious Basterds"'s plan to hit the Oscars, it will not have much impact on the film's box office and market response.

After three weeks of screenings, the film "Inglourious Basterds" has maintained a steady and healthy trend in North American theaters. The box office decline has remained within 50% for two consecutive weekends, and the North American box office has exceeded 100 million without any suspense. The 50 million US dollar mark directly rushed to 180 million US dollars, reaching a total of 182.4 million US dollars.

As the film became popular in North America, more overseas countries and regions joined the screening of "Inglourious Basterds". PG-13-rated movies generally trigger a frenzied market response, but the cumulative overseas box office has steadily exceeded 150 million US dollars.

With hardly too many snags, "Inglourious Basterds" surpassed $300 million worldwide with a whopping $338.6 million.

This figure also easily met the expectations of 20th Century Fox and Weinstein Films, and more than three times the production cost. Twenty percent of the income will become his dividend.

At the same time, the word-of-mouth of the film is as strong as the box office.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes of "Inglourious Basterds" has been maintained at more than 80%. Although the IMDB score inevitably fell below 9 points, it successfully entered the top 100 of the IMDB TOP250 list.

In terms of other professional word-of-mouth, "Inglourious Basterds" is also generally well received.

This is also conducive to the film's plan to hit the Oscars.

While some Oscar judges thought "Inglourious Basterds" was too bonkers, many also thought it was a brilliant World War II film.

In fact, this situation is quite normal. In this world, even James Cameron's films with the widest audience have been criticized, not to mention a stylized director like Murphy.

Besides, no one can deny that some people's blackness comes from inner jealousy.

With the passage of time, the New York Film Critics Awards, the first important award of the North American film awards season, was officially announced, and the North American awards season from 2008 to 2009 also kicked off.

Since it is called the awards season, in these few months, there must be more than the two most well-known awards related to movies in the United States, the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards.

In Hollywood, it is generally accepted that the awards season starts on December 1st. Under normal circumstances, the New York Film Critics Association Awards and the Gotham Independent Film Awards will be announced on this day.

Subsequently, a large number of awards such as the Golden Satellite Award, the National Review Award, the Washington Film Critics Association Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, the Boston Film Critics Association Award, and the American Film Institute Awards will be announced or nominated one after another.

These can be said to be weather vanes, and the truly influential outpost awards are basically after the New Year.

Editors Guild Award, Producers Guild Award, Writers Guild Award, Cinematographers Guild Award, Costume Designers Guild Award, Directors Guild Award, Visual Effects Guild Award...

These industry trade union awards can be called real outpost awards due to the large overlap between the judges and the Oscars.

Of course, the British Academy of Film Awards, commonly known as the British Oscars, cannot be ignored. Since there are a large number of British judges in the Oscars, this award can also directly affect the final Oscar voting results.

As for the prestigious Golden Globe Awards, apart from increasing the fame of the winners, it cannot bring more practical effects.

From these aspects, the Golden Globes, the most well-known "Oscar weathervane", seems to be not so worthy of the name. This award itself organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has nothing to do with academics. To put it bluntly, it is The consensus of the Hollywood Reporters Association, to put it bluntly, is that a group of journalists who are on the fringes of Hollywood hold a big party in order to have a meal with the stars. The rate also divides the awards into two categories of "drama" and "comedy/musical"; but in fact, the probability of "guessing" the statuette is not as high as blindfolded coin tossing.

Of course, if you take it as a collection of jokes warming up for the Oscars, it is still full of wit and wit.

The trade union award is an award that can truly be called a "weather vane". The reason is very simple: the voters for the trade union award are all top industry insiders in all aspects of film production, and their professional opinions on their respective links must not be underestimated; and The most important thing is that the voters for the trade union awards overlap with the voters for the Oscar awards to varying degrees.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards, with the lowest voting threshold and the most powerful awards, have "predicted" the Oscar's performance award 57 times since its inception in 1995, and the overlap with the Oscar in the past 10 years is as high as 90%. The "Best Film" awarded by the Producers Union Awards has also agreed with the Academy's judges for 8 consecutive years.

Time is getting closer to Christmas, and most of the film critics' associations have basically announced the results. British director Danny Boyle and his "Slumdog Millionaire" have become the biggest winners, winning the best awards from multiple film critics associations. Director and Best Picture Award.

Although it didn't win any important awards from the Film Critics Association, "Inglourious Basterds" basically appeared in the nomination list of these Film Critics Association awards. Judging from Murphy's personal goals, this can also be said to be a victory.

The more intense trade union awards will be announced after the New Year. Murphy heard that the academy has also made some reforms to the Oscars. It is said that in the next one to two years, the number of nominations for the best film will be increased to a maximum of nine. Lest you miss those great movies.

Murphy has been staying at home, and can only understand the situation outside through the phone and the news. Fortunately, Gal Gadot also put aside other things and stayed at home with him. The two of them did not end until the weekend before Christmas. After this short otaku life, he left Waves Manor and Beverly Hills, and was going to Santa Monica's seaside villa area to attend the moving party of James Franco and Lily Collins.

The two invited many relatives and friends to participate, and Jonah Hill also specially prepared a big gift for friends such as James Franco and Murphy.