Hollywood Road

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Father Marquez Costello paid enough attention to this matter, and when he returned to his office, he immediately asked for the relevant contact numbers, and personally dialed the numbers of the leaders of several industry unions in Hollywood.

Murphy Stanton is best known as a director, so Father Marquez Costello first dialed the work number of the chairman of the Directors' Union Council.

After he briefly explained the matter, the people over there didn't seem to care at all, and just replied in a very casual tone, "Sorry, Your Excellency, we have no right to interfere with the subject matter and content of the director and the film company. their freedom..."

Hearing the word 'freedom', Father Márquez Costello became inexplicably angry, free shit! The American government is about to take away all freedom, and you still talk about freedom? What freedom does Hollywood have? Damn freedom!

But the other party not only pulled out the big banner of "freedom", but then said something that made Father Marquez Costello very wise.

"Also, Murphy Stanton is not a member of the Directors' Union, His Excellency made the wrong call!"

He's not a member of the directors' union? How is this possible!

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

Afterwards, he called the Screenwriters Union and the Producers Union, and the replies he received were also unsatisfactory. The tone of the other party sounded very polite, but when it came to matters, he did not give him the face of the archbishop of the Catholic region at all. In the name of 'freedom', it means that it will not interfere with the director's and film work's freedom of filming.

After making the phone call, Father Marquez Costello not only failed to solve the problem, but was sulking, stood up and walked around a few times, but couldn't find a good solution for a while.

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

The media began to mention the content of the film about Catholicism, but given the limited scope of screenings, the impact was not great, and the awards season had already begun, and the media reporters paid more attention to Murphy, who has been accompanying the Oscar for best director all year round. Whether people will gain something at next year's Oscars ceremony, the attention to this aspect is relatively limited.

In two theaters in New York and three theaters in Los Angeles, the first screening weekend was spent. Compared with Murphy's previous commercial films, the audience's word of mouth was not particularly satisfactory, but the appeal of him and Robert Downey Jr. It is powerful, and the film's brand effect and 20th Century Fox's publicity and promotion effects are obvious. The attendance and box office figures of the screening weekend are good.

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

"Invitation letter?" Gal Gadot just changed her 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 event invitation letter ?”

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

Gal Gadot knew that Murphy was going to buy a business jet, and it was very easy with their financial resources. He couldn't help but opened the invitation letter and looked at it, and said, "Tomorrow afternoon? At Long Beach Airport?"

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

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

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

Murphy hasn't paid much attention to the personnel situation of the studio recently. Besides, although the studio is strictly speaking an empty shell, it still has more than 30 employees.

"Rosa has reached retirement age?" Murphy immediately thought of the receptionist and operator who sat down and almost crushed the chair.

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

Speaking of this, she suddenly sighed, "It's hard to find a serious and responsible employee like her now."

Rosa Rodriguez's image is not good, but because she is grateful to Murphy for giving her a job with a decent and stable income and a pretty good job, she has been working from the standpoint of the studio all these years, which can be described as a rare good job. staff.

Murphy smiled, "Jobs are harder to find now than employees."

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

"Hmm." Gal Gadot put down the invitation letter, turned to look at the data bulletin in Murphy's hand, but didn't see anything, and asked, "How is the box office going?"

"The five theaters in New York and Los Angeles have a total box office of a little over 150,000 U.S. dollars." Murphy handed over the express. "The average single theater is 30,000 U.S. dollars, which is not bad."

Gal Gadot took the newsletter, opened it, and read it. Compared with the single-screen screenings of some popular literary and artistic films that cost $50,000+, the box office of the screenings can only be said to be not good or bad. .

However, after thinking about it, this is also normal.

Those literary and artistic films that have sold out at the box office in a single theater when they are screened, which one has not gone through word-of-mouth marketing for more than half a year, often participate in the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. If you are lucky enough, you will receive many awards. Various art film festivals create topics, and the North American market has been suppressed until the awards season comes.

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 excellent single-hall box office figures.

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

She continued to look down, and in the newsletter sent by 20th Century Fox, there was also a statistics of various ratings three days after the screening.

The audience score of the film is "a-", the popcorn index is only 74%, and the audience reputation is above average. It is predicted that if the film does not receive important nominations and awards during the awards season, the North American box office cannot exceed 5,000 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Different from the word-of-mouth of the audience, the media and professional word-of-mouth of the film are overwhelming. Eighty-two percent of the 89 media included in Rotten Tomatoes gave positive comments, with an average score of 8.3 points; authoritative media’s comprehensive evaluation metacritic included 56 media on average. Divided into 80 points.

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

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

"By the way, please remember something." Gal Gadot reminded Murphy, "The authorization is only for ten years."

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

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

If the plan goes well, it will be a few years away.

Gal Gadot put away the invitation letter and said, "There is a remark clause in the agreement I signed with you. 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 report, I discovered that there are so many corruption scandals in Catholicism. "

Murphy shrugged, "The actual situation is much more than what was reported."

Gal Gadot was very puzzled, coupled with the woman's gossip, asked, "I know Catholic priests have to abstain from sex and be celibate. But if you can't help it, why don't you secretly fuck? Adult children. Is it easier for a **** to be forgiven by God because of a lesser crime? Or is a child more pure, and a **** is more likely to feel God?"

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

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

Going to the back of the desk and pulling out the chair to sit down, Murphy put his arms around his chest, held his chin and thought for a while, and when Gal Gadot sat on the opposite chair, he said, "I think it's mainly because of convenience. "

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

"If you go out, it's easy to be discovered, and the whole monastery will lose face." Murphy also guessed idlely, "What if you order takeaway? You'll have to wait for a long time!"

He made a metaphor, "Honey, haven't you ever felt the pain of placing an order on Amazon for something you really want to buy, and then waiting for the delivery?"

Gal Gadot rolled her eyes at him.

"It's still convenient to grab and use the little boy that is ready-made around you." Murphy continued, "It is said that I know that in fact, all organizations that prohibit marriage and accept young apprentices have this kind of thing, not only the Catholic family .”

Priests are also human beings, and they need to vent their primitive instinctive desires. In addition to solving it by themselves, young children are obviously much easier to control than adult women, and many sexually abused young children themselves have frequent 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 work in schools, hospitals, orphanages and other places where young children can be contacted, and in the religious order, there are also many children who have entered the seminary since childhood, which also gives The objective conditions under which they commit crimes.

Murphy remembered that there was also a record about this in a book he had read, but it was impossible to verify whether it was true.

In his former sexual enlightenment readings, he read such a passage about Tianbao: the old monk went to the back garden to worship, but was accidentally pierced by the tip of a bamboo shoot into his buttocks, and the pain continued. Seeing it, the little novice put his palms together and said, "Amitabha, the heavenly retribution."

"Okay, honey, it's better not to discuss these dark things." Murphy changed the subject in a timely manner, "Let's discuss what kind of plane to buy."

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