Father Marquez Costello attached enough importance to this matter. When he returned to the office, he immediately asked someone to find a relevant contact number and personally dialed the numbers of the heads of several Hollywood industry unions.

Murphy Stanton is best known as director, so Father Marquez Costello first called the working phone number of the president of the Directors' Union Council.

After he briefly told the matter, the people there seemed to care at all, and just replied in a casual tone, "Sorry, the director and the film company have no right to interfere with what subject matter and content they are filmed by. This is their freedom..."

When Father Marquez Costello heard the word "freedom", he became famous and fucked free! The American government was about to deprive all freedoms. You still talk about freedom? What freedom is there in Hollywood? Damn freedom!

But the other party not only pulled out the banner of "freedom", but then said another word to Father Marquez Costello.

"Also, Murphy Stanton is not a member of the director's union, and the Bishop made the wrong call!"

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

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

Then, he called the screenwriter's union and producers' alliance, and the reply he received was also not ideal. The other party's tone sounded polite, but when it comes to matters, he did not give him any face to the archbishop of the Catholic region. All of them expressed in the name of so-called "freedom", saying that he would not interfere with the freedom of filming of directors and films.

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

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

The media began to mention the content of the film about Catholicism, but the impact was not great when the preview range was limited, and the awards season had begun. Media reporters paid more attention to whether Murphy, a person who has been with the Oscars for many years, will win at the Oscars ceremony next year, and their attention to this aspect is relatively limited.

In two theaters in New York and three theaters in Los Angeles, Diego Ross spent the first preview weekend. Although the film was not particularly well received compared to Murphy's past commercial films, he and Robert Downey Jr. have a strong appeal, and the brand effect of the movie and the promotion effect of the 20th Century Fox, the attendance rate and box office numbers of the preview weekend were both good.

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

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

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

Gal Gadot knew Murphy was going to buy a business jet, and with their financial resources, he couldn't help but open the invitation letter and read it, "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 with negotiations with Netflix and Reed Hastings.

"There is someone going to the studio to apply for a job tomorrow morning, and Rosa Rodriguez is retired." Gal Gadot thought for a while, "It should be fine in the afternoon, I will come back before noon."

Murphy has not paid much attention to the staffing situation of the studio recently. Moreover, although the studio is still a blank shell, it has more than 30 employees.

"Rosa is at retirement age?" Murphy immediately remembered the front desk operator who could almost crush the chair.

Gal Gadot looked back and forth at the invitation, "It's coming at the beginning of the month, and now the procedures have just been completed."

Speaking of this, she suddenly sighed, "It's hard to find employees as serious and responsible as her."

Rosa Rodriguez has a poor image, but because he is grateful to Murphy for giving her a decent, stable income and a very good job, he has always worked from the studio's standpoint over the years and is a rare good employee.

Murphy smiled, “It’s harder to find jobs than employees.”

The high unemployment rate here will definitely disappoint some people who yearn for heaven.

"Yes." Gal Gadot put down the invitation letter, turned to look at the data report in Murphy's hand, but saw nothing, and asked, "How is the box office situation?"

"The five theaters in New York and Los Angeles have a box office of more than $150,000 in total." Murphy handed over the express report, "The average single-stage $30,000 is OK."

Gal Gadot took the express newspaper and opened it and read it. Compared with the single-stage preview of some popular art films that cost $50,000+, the preview box office of "Diego Ross" can only be said to be not good or bad.

However, it is normal to think about it again.

Those art films that have achieved a huge box office at the preview screening, which have not experienced word-of-mouth marketing for more than half a year, often start exhibiting from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. If you are lucky enough, you will receive many awards and create topics in various art film festivals. The North American market has been suppressed until the awards season arrives.

After full reputation fermentation, the film has been promoted for half a year. When the preview starts, the audience's expectations naturally burst into excellent single-stage box office numbers.

As for what happens later, it depends on reputation.

She continued to read down, and there was also a statistics on various ratings after three days of preview.

The cinemasore rating (cinemasore) of the film is "a-", the popcorn index is only 74%, and the audience's reputation is relatively high. Cinemasore predicts that if the film does not have important nominations and awards in the awards season, the box office in North America will not exceed 50 million US dollars.

Unlike the audience's reputation, the film's media and professional reputation are very popular. Among the 89 media included in Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of the 89 media included, with an average score of 8.3 points; the authoritative media comprehensive evaluation of the 56 media included in Metac Daily was 80 points.

Gal Gadot recalled that even in all Murphy's films, such professional reputation was extremely outstanding.

Unfortunately, the film is a bit cold and the audience is not very willing to buy it. She could only sigh in secret.

"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 movie, the licensing agreement signed between the two parties will automatically expire.

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

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

Gal Gadot put the invitation away and said, "The agreement I signed with the Boston Globe has a note clause. 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 him and said as he walked, "After reading this documentary, I realized that there were so many scandals in the Catholic Church."

Murphy shrugged, "The actual situation is much more than the ones reported."

Gal Gadot was very confused, and with the woman's gossip, he asked, "I know that Catholic priests should ban desires and be single. But if they can't help it, why don't they secretly touch underage children? Should *** be less sinful and easier to be forgiven by God? Or should the children be purer and easier 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, "Dear, how do you want me to answer such a serious and profound religious question?"

Gal Gadot raised his right index finger and said, "Tell the truth, just say whatever you think."

When he walked to the back of the desk, he pulled the chair open and sat down. Murphy held his chest with one hand and thought for a while. When Gal Gadot sat on the chair opposite, he said, "I think it's mainly because of convenience."

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

"If you go out, it will be easy to find it, and the entire monastery will be embarrassed." Murphy was also bored to guess, "What if you order takeout? You have to wait a long time!"

He made an analogy, "Dear, have you ever felt the pain of placing an order on Amazon and waiting for express delivery?"

Gal Gadot rolled his eyes.

"It's still convenient for a little boy who can be found and used as you catch it." Murphy said again, "It is said that I know that in fact, all those who prohibit marriage and those who have young apprentices have such a thing, not only the Catholics."

Clergy is also human beings and needs to vent their original instinctive desires. In addition to solving them on their own, children are obviously much more controllable than adult women, and many sexually abusive children themselves have frequent contact with clergy and have no much contact with the outside world, which also reduces the possibility of sexual assault incidents being discovered.

In addition, their social status is often high, and most of them can access young children in schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc., and in the religious orders, there are also many children who have entered the monastery since childhood, which also gives them objective conditions for committing crimes.

Murphy remembers that there are also records about this in a book I read, and it is really impossible to verify whether it is true.

In his former sexual enlightenment book, I read a passage about the heavenly retribution: The old monk came out of the back garden and was accidentally pulled into his buttocks by the tip of the bamboo shoot, and he called the pain endlessly. Seeing it, the little novice monk clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha, heavenly retribution."
Chapter completed!