Father Márquez Costello paid enough attention to this matter, and when he returned to his office, he immediately asked people to find the relevant contact numbers and personally dialed the numbers of the heads of several trade unions in Hollywood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Murphy Stanton is best known as a director, so Father Márquez Costello first dialed the working number of the president of the Director's Guild 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, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, we have no right to interfere with what the director and the film company shoot, this is their freedom......"

Hearing the word 'freedom', Father Márquez Costello became a nameless fire, bullshit freedom! 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 banner of 'freedom', but then said something that made Father Márquez-Costello embarrassed.

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

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

Father Márquez Costello hung up, even more upset with the people in Hollywood, who of course thought that the president of the directors' guild was perfunctory to him.

Subsequently, he called the Screenwriters' Guild and the Producers' Union, and the reply was also unsatisfactory, the other party sounded polite, but when it came to the matter, he did not give him the face of the Catholic archbishop at all, and all in the name of so-called 'freedom', saying that he would not interfere with the freedom of filming of directors and film work.

After the call, instead of solving the problem, Father Márquez Costello squeezed his stomach and sulked, stood up and walked around a few times, but for a while he couldn't find a good solution.

He also knew that this was not the time it used to be, especially in the more open Southern California region, and it was not easy for the theocracy to interfere in the secular world.

The media began to mention the film's content about Catholicism, but in the case of a limited screening scope, the impact is not great, and the awards season has begun, media reporters are more concerned about whether Murphy, who has been running the Oscar for Best Director all year round, will win at next year's Oscars, and the attention to this aspect is relatively limited.

In two theaters in New York and three theaters in Los Angeles, "Diego Rose" spent its first screening weekend, although the film is not particularly satisfactory compared to Murphy's past commercial films, the audience reputation is not particularly ideal, but he and Robert Downey Jr. have strong appeal, and the film's brand effect and Twentieth Century Fox's publicity and promotion effect are obvious, and the attendance and box office figures of the screening weekend are good.

On Monday morning, the latest box office flash and the invitation prepared by Grace arrived at Wave Manor at the same time.

"Invitation?" Gal Gadot had just changed and came downstairs, walked over to the couch and sat down, took the invitation from the coffee table in front of Murphy, and asked, "What invitation?" ”

"Private Air Show." Murphy picked up the box office bulletin.

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

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

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

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

Murphy hasn't paid much attention to the personnel situation of the studio lately, and the studio is technically an empty shell, but it also has more than 30 employees.

"Rosa is of retirement age?" Murphy immediately remembered the receptionist-operator who sat down and almost crushed the chair.

Gal Gadot looked back and forth at the invitation, "The beginning of the month has arrived, and now the formalities have just been completed." ”

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

Rosa Rodriguez has a poor image, but because she is grateful to Murphy for giving her a decent and stable income and a fairly good job, she has always worked from the standpoint of the studio all these years, which can be described as a rare good employee.

Murphy smiled, "It's harder to find a job than an employee right now. ”

The unemployment rate here is so high that some people who aspire to paradise are sure to be disappointed.

"Hmm." Gal Gadot put down the invitation, turned his head to glance at the data flash in Murphy's hand, but saw nothing, and asked, "How's the box office going?" ”

"Five theaters in New York and Los Angeles have a total of a little over $150,000 at the box office." Murphy handed over the express, "The average single library is 30,000 dollars, which is okay." ”

Gal Gadot took the express report, opened it and read it, compared with some popular literary films that cost 50,000 + dollars in a single theater, the box office of "Diego Rose" can only be said to be not good, nor bad.

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

Those literary films that have exploded at the box office at the time of screening, which have not gone through more than half a year of word-of-mouth marketing, often start to participate in the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival, and if they are lucky enough, they will receive a lot of awards and create topics at various art film festivals, and the North American market has been pressed against them until the awards season comes.

After full word-of-mouth fermentation, the film has been promoted for half a year, and when the screening begins, the audience's expectations will naturally explode into excellent single-hall box office figures.

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

She continued to look down, and on the express sent by Twentieth Century Fox, there was also a list of statistics on various ratings three days after the screening.

With a CinemaScore of "A-" and a popcorn index of just 74 percent, CinemaScore predicts that the North American box office will not exceed $50 million if it does not receive significant nominations and awards during the awards season.

Different from the audience's word-of-mouth, the film's media and professional reputation is overwhelming, with 82% of the 89 media included in Rotten Tomatoes giving positive reviews, with an average score of 8.3, and the authoritative media comprehensive evaluation MetaCritic included 56 media outlets with an average score of 80.

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

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, there's something you should remember." Gal Gadot reminded Murphy that "The Boston Globe is only authorized 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 expire.

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

If all goes well, it's been a few years.

Gal Gadot put the invitation away and said, "There's a note clause in my agreement with the Boston Globe that once you've finalized the script, you'll send a copy to Robbie Robinson. ”

"You remember to remind me." Murphy stood up and was about to go to the study, when Gal Gadot followed, saying as he walked, "After reading this documentary report, I found out that there are so many *** scandals in Catholicism. ”

Murphy shrugged, "There's a lot more to it than it's reported. ”

Gal Gadot was puzzled, and the woman's gossip was troubled, and asked, "I know that the Catholic priest wants to forbid it. Desire, celibacy. But if you can't help it, why don't you secretly **** why do you touch underage children. Could it be that *** is a little lighter than the sins committed and is more easily forgiven by God? Or is it that the child is purer and *** more likely to feel God? ”

Pulling open the door to the study on the first floor, Murphy 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, "Tell the truth, say whatever you want." ”

Walking behind the desk and pulling out a chair and sitting down, Murphy hugged his chest with one hand, held his chin and thought for a while, and when Gal Gadot sat down on the chair opposite, he said, "I think the main thing is convenience." ”

"Huh?" Gal Gadot tilted his head to look at Murphy.

"If you ***, you will be easily found when you go out, and then the whole monastery will be disgraced." Murphy also guessed boredly, "What if you order takeout?" We'll have to wait a long time! ”

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

Gal Gadot rolled his eyes at him.

"It's still a little boy who is ready-made around and can be used at any time." Murphy added, "It is said that I know that in fact, all those who prohibit marriage, and there are organizations that accept young apprentices, have this kind of thing, and it is not only Catholic. ”

The clergy are also human beings and need to vent their primitive instinctual desires, so in addition to solving them themselves, young children are obviously much easier to control than adult women, and a lot of sex. The young children themselves are in constant contact with the clergy and do not have much contact with the outside world, which reduces the likelihood of sexual assault being detected.

In addition, they tend to have a higher social status, most of them work in schools, hospitals, orphanages, and other places where they can come into contact with young children, and in the congregation, there are also many children who have been studying in convents since childhood, which also gives them objective conditions to commit crimes.

Murphy remembers that there was a record of this in a book he had read, and it was impossible to verify whether it was really impossible to verify.

In his former sexual enlightenment readings, I saw such a paragraph about the heavenly newspaper: The old monk went out of the back garden to congratulate, and was mistakenly pushed into the buttocks by the tip of the bamboo shoots, which caused more pain. When Xiao Shami saw it, he clasped his palms together: "Amitabha, heavenly retribution." ”

"Alright, dear, let's stop talking about these dark things." Murphy changed the subject at the right time, "Let's discuss what kind of plane to buy." (To be continued.) )