Hollywood Road

My lord, can you say something about the truth of the recent Catholic scandal reported in the newspapers?

What do you think of the investigation report released by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child?

Your Excellency, have you ever shielded a Catholic priest from child abuse?

As soon as the morning sun climbed into the sky, countless reporters blocked Archbishop Marquez Costello's car in front of the office building, asking frantic questions to His Excellency the Archbishop who had just got off the car.

A few young pastors and church staff surrounded Archbishop Marquez Costello tightly and isolated all the reporters outside, but this could not stop the reporters from asking questions, let alone those sharp questions. sound.

Your Excellency the Archbishop, you have been silent all this time, have you acquiesced?

Reporters don't care about the identity of Archbishop Marquez Costello. What they want is news, and if there is no news, they will make news!

Are you guilty of what you did back then?

When these words reached Archbishop Marquez Costello, they were extremely harsh, and his face was even more ashen.

His Excellency the Archbishop!

An even harsher voice sounded, You have been criticizing Murphy Stanton and his films for lacking the most basic sense of social responsibility, please touch your conscience, do you have a sense of social responsibility in your past actions?

Hearing these words, Archbishop Marquez Costello unconsciously stopped his slow steps forward, suppressed the anger in his heart, and glanced over there.

It was a blond female reporter. She didn't seem to be afraid of his eyes, and asked again, Treat yourself and treat others with double standards. Is this what you call a moral code?

Archbishop Marquez Costello stopped completely and looked around. Perhaps because of the coercion inherent in the identity of the archbishop, the messy reporters around him subconsciously fell silent.

When the front of the office building was completely quiet, Archbishop Marquez Costello said slowly, The reports about Catholicism in the newspapers are all false, absurd and lack of evidence.

What about the investigation by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child? a male reporter asked loudly.

They may have been deceived. I regret the report of the United Nations. Archbishop Marquez Costello gradually controlled his emotions.

The actions of the United Nations are suspected of interfering in the internal affairs of the church without authorization. The Catholic Church and the Vatican have been working hard to protect the rights of children!

After saying this, Archbishop Marquez Costello walked into the office building under the protection of the people around him.

Then, like every day before, he would first check the newspaper to keep an eye on the latest changes in current events.

Archbishop Márquez Costello opened the newspaper and saw almost all the news related to the Catholic scandal.

Reveal the secret of why the Catholic Church has repeatedly exploded sex scandals!

Catholic corruption scandal, the Vatican can no longer avoid it!

It is recognized within the American Catholic Church that there are more than 5,000 clergymen across the United States******** Similar news saw that Archbishop Marquez Costello's head turned into two big ones. It was clear that three days ago the media They are still accusing Murphy Stanton and Hollywood movies overwhelmingly, but now they are frantically joining the ranks of exposing the Catholic scandal.

These ruthless bastards! He cursed angrily in his heart.

Archbishop Marquez Costello sat on the chair with a sad face on his face. Although he tried to deny it before, he knew that the media reports might be exaggerated, but they were basically true.

Why are these popping up all of a sudden? Archbishop Marquez Costello was a little puzzled. There had been scattered news about this, such as when Diego Ross was released, but as the film won the Oscar for Best Picture, The relevant news quickly subsided. In the past two years, no similar news has been widely reported.

This time, there was no sign of a large-scale eruption...

Archbishop Marquez Costello thought for a few minutes, and gradually thought of a person——Murphy Stanton!

Except for Murphy Stanton, he couldn't think of anyone who would do this. After all, this was a conflict with the Catholic Church!

Thinking of this, Archbishop Marquez Costello suddenly understood that Murphy Stanton, faced with strong pressure from his own side, did not give too many counterattacks in the film, but chose to attack the weakest part of Catholicism... …

This was completely beyond his expectations, and caught the entire South Central Diocese of California by surprise.

In the next few days, all kinds of news unfavorable to Catholicism, especially Archbishop Marquez Costello himself, were constantly exposed by the media. His situation was completely reversed, and he didn't have the energy to instigate plans against Murphy and Hollywood movies for a while.

Even the Vatican is also paying attention. Benedict XVI personally called Archbishop Marquez Costello, and the laughter and laughter when he was pressing on Hollywood movies before, and the cold reprimand made Marquez - Archbishop Costolo broke out in a cold sweat.

To be precise, the Vatican was very annoyed by the large-scale coverage of Catholic scandals in the American media.

On the one hand, media reports did not simply expose and criticize the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, but pointed the finger at the Vatican’s handling of these scandals, accusing the Holy See of shielding clergy; Target the Catholic Church's position on sexual orientation, reproductive health, and gender equality, and criticize the Catholic Church's specific policies on homosexuality, contraception, and abortion. Pressure from the Vatican!

In the past, there were fragmentary reports of this kind all over the United States, but this time Hollywood's joint action connected these fragmentary reports, as if the roof of the Catholic Church had been blown away.

Without the power of the Catholic Church behind it, the North American entertainment film market, which has been in constant turmoil since the end of June, has gradually returned to calm, especially the attention of the entertainment media has returned to celebrity gossip and its works.

Especially Murphy's fans, they continued to support their favorite director regardless of social responsibility and other attacks and reports.

On the Internet, they used various methods to support Murphy. A fan organization in Los Angeles spontaneously launched an event through social platforms-Murphy-Stanton has been in the film for twelve years, to the movie time we spent with .

This event aroused strong reactions from Murphy's supporters, and countless fans left messages on this event through social platforms.

What do Murphy's movies mean to your life? If someone asks me this question, my answer is that I don't know why I love Murphy's movies, but I just do!

Here's a regular cinephile from Texas, and he's the epitome of the kind of cinephile I can't describe, but I just love.

And fans in Los Angeles wrote, Murphy's movies are my lifelong companions, they remember the past, and they can also show the future, and I live with them in the present, I love Murphy-Stein Don! I love his film noir! I love this film!

There are also crazy Murphy fans on the east coast of the United States. A fan in New York left a message, Every time Murphy's movie is released in the theater, when I walk into the theater and sit in the seat, I can feel that I have entered the theater. I opened a new world; when the lights on the screen came on, I knew it was a journey that belonged to me and Murphy Stanton. There, I could forget the anguish and troubles in reality, explore freely, Laugh without emotion, all you feel is excitement and happiness!

Murphy's fans live in this world in various forms, and often only when they encounter Murphy's movies will they reveal their true colors, I engrave history, beliefs, attitudes, desires and dreams in one thing, that It is the noir films of Murphy Stanton, and I thank his films for appearing in my life and bringing more value to my shallow life.”

A person's life is short, so there are many regrets. The charm of Murphy's movies lies in allowing you to experience a different life in this short time and make up for the beauty lost in your heart.

Thanks to the efforts of these fans, Dark City continued to be screened in theaters in North America. Even though it had dropped to less than 1,000 theaters, it still tenaciously appeared all over the United States.

For popular directors like Murphy, the support of fans is the greatest gratification.

By mid-August, the film had been screened in North American theaters for almost four months, and the box office in North America was still slowly rising with the support of fans, accumulating to 728.51 million US dollars, continuing to move towards the North American success of Avatar. Box office record advances!

Overseas, theaters in more than 140 countries and regions have screened the film Dark City, and the overseas box office has more than doubled that of North America.

The global box office of Dark City reached 2.31687 billion US dollars!

Basically there won't be much change in the box office.

In the office of the Death Star Building, Murphy said to Bill Rossis, Our focus can be shifted.

So far, the North American box office can only increase by another 10 million to 20 million US dollars, and the overseas box office can increase by another 120 million to 150 million US dollars.

Bill Rossis gets what Murphy means, Is it awards season?

Well. Murphy nodded, This award season is highly competitive, and the situation is not good for us.

Those disadvantages are also advantages in some respects.

Bill Rossis and Murphy smiled tacitly and asked, Which awards are you going to apply for nominations?