Hollywood Road

For this matter, Father Marquez Costello paid enough attention to this matter. He returned to the office and immediately asked someone to find the relevant contact number, and personally dialed the numbers of the heads of several trade unions in Hollywood.

Murphy Stanton’s most well-known identity is the director, so Father Marquez Costello first dialed the work phone number of the chairman of the directors’ union council.

After he told the matter briefly, the people over there didn't seem to care at all, but responded in a casual tone, "Sorry, your Excellency, the director and the film company have no right to interfere with what themes and content are being shot. This is Their freedom..."

Hearing the word ‘freedom’, Father Marquez Costello went into flames without name, **** freedom! The American government is about to deprive all freedom, do you still talk about freedom? What freedom does Hollywood have? Damn freedom!

But the other party not only pulled out the banner of ‘freedom’, and then said something that made Father Marquez Costello eccentric.

"Also, Murphy Stanton is not a member of the Directors' Guild. Your Excellency made the wrong call!"

He is not a member of the directors' union? how can that be!

Father Marquez Costello hung up the phone and became even more dissatisfied with the people in Hollywood. Of course he believed that the chairman of the directors' union was perfunctory.

Later, he called the screenwriters’ union and the producer’s union. The response was also unsatisfactory. The other party’s tone sounded very polite, but when it came to matters, he didn’t give him any face as the archbishop of the Catholic area. The name of'freedom' means that it will not interfere with the freedom of filming of directors and film work.

After the phone call, Father Marquez Costello not only failed to solve the problem, but squeezed his stomach, got up and walked a few laps, but couldn't find a good way for a while.

He also knew that this is not the past, especially in the more open Southern California area, it is not easy for the theocracy to interfere in the secular world arbitrarily.

The media began to mention the content of the film about Catholicism, but in the case of limited screening range, the impact was not big, and the awards season has already begun. Media reporters pay more attention to Murphy, who accompanies the best director of the Oscar all year round. Whether people will win the Oscars next year, the attention to this aspect is relatively limited.

In two theaters in New York and three in Los Angeles, "Diego Rose" had its first screening weekend. Although the film was not particularly popular with Murphy's past commercial films, he and Robert Jr. -Downey’s appeal is strong, and the brand effect of the film and the promotion of 20th Century Fox are obvious. The attendance and box office numbers of the weekend show are good.

On Monday morning, the latest box office newsletter and the invitation letter prepared by Grace were sent to Wave Manor at the same time.

"Invitation letter?" Gal Gadot had just changed his clothes and came down from upstairs, walked to the sofa and sat down, took the invitation letter from the coffee table in front of Murphy, and asked, "What is the invitation letter for the event? ?"

"Private Air Show." Murphy picked up the Box Office Express.

Gal Gadot knew that Murphy was going to buy a business jet. With their financial resources very relaxed, he couldn't help but open the invitation letter to look at it and said, "Tomorrow afternoon? At Long Beach Airport?"

"Do you have time?" Murphy looked at Gal Gadot. "Let's go together."

Gal Gadot has been busy negotiating with Netflix and Reed Hastings recently.

"Someone will go to the studio to apply for a job tomorrow morning. Rosa Rodriguez has retired." Gal Gadot thought for a while, "It should be fine in the afternoon. I'll be back before noon."

Murphy has not paid much attention to the personnel situation of the studio recently, and although the studio is strictly speaking, it is still an empty shell, but it has more than 30 employees.

"Rosa is at the age of retirement?" Murphy immediately remembered the receptionist and operator who could almost overwhelm the chair when sitting down.

Gal Gadot looked at the invitation letter back and forth, "It's here at the beginning of the month, and I have just finished the formalities."

Having said this, she suddenly sighed, "It's hard to find a responsible employee like her now."

Rosa Rodriguez’s poor image, but because she was grateful to Murphy for giving her a decent stable income and a pretty good job relationship, she has been working from the standpoint of the studio over the years, which is a rare good thing. Staff.

Murphy smiled, "Now jobs are more difficult to find than employees."

The unemployment rate here is so high that certain people who yearn for heaven will be disappointed.

"Yeah." Gail Gadot put down the invitation letter, turned his head and glanced at the data bulletin in Murphy's hand, but didn't see anything, and asked, "How is the box office situation?"

"The five theaters in New York and Los Angeles have a total of a little more than 150,000 U.S. dollars in box office." Murphy delivered the Express. "The average single library is 30,000 U.S. dollars, which is not bad."

Gal Gadot took the newsletter and opened it. Compared with some of the hits of literary and artistic movies, which cost $50,000+, the box office of "Diego-Ros" can only be said to be insignificant. Good, not bad.

However, it's normal to think about it again.

Those literary and artistic films with a single box office performance at the time of screening, which have not passed more than half a year of word-of-mouth marketing, often start exhibiting at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. If you are lucky enough, you will receive many awards. All kinds of art film festivals create topics, and the North American market has been suppressed until the awards season.

After sufficient word-of-mouth fermentation, the film has been promoted for half a year. When the screening starts, the audience's expectations will naturally explode into outstanding single-library box office figures.

As for what happens later, it depends on word of mouth.

She continued to look down. There was also a statistic of various ratings three days later in the newsletter sent by Twentieth Century Fox.

The movie’s cinema audience score (CinemaScore) is “A-”, the popcorn index is only 74%, and the audience’s reputation is moderately high. CinemaScore predicts that if the movie does not receive important nominations and awards during the awards season, the North American box office will not It may be more than fifty million dollars.

Different from the audience’s word of mouth, the film’s media and professional word-of-mouth is overwhelming, 82% of the 89 media included in Rotten Tomatoes give praise, with an average score of 8.3; the authoritative media comprehensively evaluates the average of 56 media included in MetaCritic Divided into 80 points.

Gal Gadot recalled that even in all Murphy's films, such a professional reputation is extremely good.

It's a pity that the film is a bit cold, and the audience doesn't buy it. She could only sigh secretly.

"By the way, you can remember something." Gal Gadot reminded Murphy, "The Boston Globe has only been authorized for ten years."

That is, within ten years, if Murphy and Stanton Studios do not adapt the film, the license agreement signed between the two parties will automatically become invalid.

Murphy nodded, "It won't take ten years."

If everything goes well in the plan, it will be the past few years.

Gal Gadot received the invitation letter and said, "I have a remark clause in the agreement signed with the Boston Globe. After you confirm the script, you must send a copy to Robbie Robinson."

"Remember to remind me." Murphy stood up and was about to go to the study. Gal Gadot followed and said as he walked, "After reading this documentary, I discovered that there are so many scandals in the Catholic Church. "

Murphy shrugged, "The actual situation is only a lot more than the report."

Gal Gadot was very puzzled, coupled with the woman's gossip, and asked, "I know that Catholic priests want to abstain from **** and be single. But if you can't help it, why don't you secretly touch it? Adult children. Is it easier to be forgiven by God because of the lesser sins committed by the ***? Or is it that the children are more pure and the *** is more likely to feel God?"

Opening the door of the study on the first floor, Murphy first let Gal Gadot in, then closed the door and said, "My dear, how do you want me to answer such a serious and profound religious question."

Gal Gadot raised his right index finger. "To tell the truth, just say what you think."

Going to the desk and pulling a chair to sit down, Murphy put her arms around her chest and held her chin for a while. When Gal Gadot sat on the opposite chair, he said, "I think the main reason is convenience. "

"Huh?" Gal Gadot looked at Murphy with his head tilted.

"If you go out, it will be easy to find out, so the entire monastery will be ashamed." Murphy is also a boring guess, "If it's a takeaway? It will take a long time!"

He made an analogy, "My dear, haven't you ever felt the suffering of placing an order on Amazon for something you particularly want to buy, and then waiting for the delivery?"

Gal Gadot rolled his eyes at him.

"It's still convenient for a little boy who is ready to grab and use." Murphy added, "It is said that I know that in fact, all the organizations that prohibit marriage and have young apprentices have this kind of thing, not just the Catholic family. ."

The clergy are also human beings and need to vent their original instinctive desires, so apart from solving them by themselves, compared with adult women, young children are obviously much better in control, and many sexually assaulted young children themselves often come into contact with clergy. There is not much contact with the outside world, which reduces the possibility of sexual assault incidents being discovered.

In addition, their social status tends to be relatively high, and most of them are employed in schools, hospitals, orphanages and other places where young children can be contacted. In the religious congregation, there are also many children who have entered the seminary since childhood. This is also given. The objective conditions for their crimes.

Murphy remembered that there was also a record about this in a book he had read. It was really impossible to verify whether it was true or not.

In his previous sexual enlightenment readings, I read this paragraph about the Tianbao: The old monk went to the back garden, and was accidentally pulled into the buttocks with the tip of a bamboo shoot, which caused more pain. Seeing this, the little novice monk put his palms together and said, "Amitabha, Tianbao."

"Well, my dear, don't discuss these dark things." Murphy changed the subject in due course, "Let's discuss what kind of plane to buy."