Hollywood Road

The success of word-of-mouth and box office will definitely help the film hit the Oscars. Although the awards season has not yet kicked off, November will pass in a blink of an eye. The momentum has already begun. ?

Today's social situation, especially a series of changes in Catholicism, has indeed become very favorable for movies, but we cannot relax on this.

A large amount of public relations and publicity funds have also been invested in many mainstream media.

The Hollywood Reporter, which has a huge influence in the circle, is the focus of Murphy and 20th Century Fox's release. Every few days, there will always be extremely powerful reports on Focus.

Murphy Stanton's new film Focus is the most unassuming and undisputed best work of the year so far this year. The story is restrained and undercurrent, the plot is complex and full of twists and turns, and the characters are vivid. , in the limited performance space, all of them are flesh and blood, possessed by souls, and with a cavity of blood, they converge into a still and deep stream. From all levels, it reflects the highest achievement of today's realism-themed movies.

Moreover, after having enough income as a basis, the Hollywood Reporter also interviewed Archbishop Oliveira Rodriguez who had just replaced Archbishop Marquez Costello in the South Central Diocese of California.

'Spotlight' is a film that depicts 'a harrowing moment' in church history when the church must confront what was hidden and shamed.

Compared with his predecessor, Archbishop Marquez Costello, Archbishop Oliveira Rodriguez has a much gentler work style, and he is even more outspoken about what the movie reflects, The Pope will not dissuade us from watching it. Instead, this film reminds us to discover the existing problems of the church from the film, actively solve them, and prevent new problems from appearing.

The renewed attitude of the Catholic Church also made Spotlight even more acclaimed.

Reports such as The film Focus has squeezed out the social cancer and promoted the reform of the Catholic Church appeared on many media.

All these help Focus continue to expand its influence.

December also came quietly, and the new American film awards season kicked off. Among the first awards announced throughout the awards season, Murphy and Focus became the big winners.

The Gotham Independent Film Awards awarded the best director and best picture awards to Murphy and Spotlight respectively!

This can be said to be very rare. Since the Gotham Film Awards was renamed the Gotham Independent Film Awards, almost all of the winners are independent films, and few films from the six major companies can win important awards.

The Focus award did not cause controversy, and everyone seemed to take it for granted.

When the Gotham Independent Film Awards announced that the best film was Focus, it also gave corresponding comments-in order to affirm the spirit of fearlessness, the shocking fearlessness... This movie broke the scandal and attracted Boston, the United States National and international attention has prompted change in the Catholic Church in the Vatican.

No matter from which aspect, Focus has always maintained an excellent reputation and almost hot attention.

These are most directly reflected in the film's box office.

Before the third weekend of the film's release, the North American box office broke through the production cost line of 40 million US dollars, and then the scale of screenings was further expanded, from more than 1800 to nearly 3000, basically appearing in theaters all over North America.

With enough screens as support, the box office of Focus dropped slightly this weekend, but not by much. It collected another US$2.72 million in the three days of the weekend, and the North American box office gradually approached US$700 million.

At the same time, the film began to enter the film market in some European countries. Due to a series of previous campaigns and excellent North American box office and word-of-mouth, it was released from countries with profound Catholic influence such as Britain, Italy, France, Spain and Germany within a weekend. Among them, 45 million US dollars were taken away.

The global box office of Spotlight also successfully broke through the $100 million mark.

In the following weekend, Twentieth Century Fox continued to expand its overseas screenings, with Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina in Latin America, Australia and New Zealand in Oceania, and other countries in Europe also joining the screenings.

After this new weekend, the combined North American and overseas box office of the film has earned more than 5,000 US dollars.

So far, the box office of the film Spotlight has exceeded 160 million US dollars.

Subsequently, 20th Century Fox and Stanton Studios started a new stage of the Oscar promotion plan, inviting the prototypes of the main characters to come out and speak.

As early as when the film was being prepared, Stanton Studio reached an agreement with the prototype characters based on Marty Baron and Robbie Robinson. As long as there is no problem with the film's position and quality, they will participate in the on-the-spot publicity.

As the awards season progressed, Marty Barone took the lead in joining the Focus campaign. His article about the movie Focus appeared in the Washington Post.

Marty Baron stated in the article that when the film was released at the Toronto International Film Festival, he went to see it specifically and was completely overwhelmed.

Later, when the film was screened for the first time in Boston, when the final cast and crew list appeared, all the actors were invited to the stage by the host of the crew, and then the prototype reporters of the movie characters were also invited to the stage. There, they received a standing ovation from the entire audience.

He wrote: It was an exciting and moving moment. I thought about the investigations we conducted and the trials we went through in the past, and those efforts shaped the story prototype of the film. As the film aired, we worked hard to bring The impact of this will also be magnified. I think that the public may now know why society must have journalists. I also think about the strangeness of the whole movie: sexual assault is a heavy and sad theme, and a film that reflects this theme How a movie can appear at this incredible crossroads of the times, with celebrities, paparazzi and lavish interviews, and attracting the attention of the world.

Marty Barone also said in the article that he had had the idea of ​​making a film about his investigative reporting many times over the years. But he just thought about it before, and didn't really start to act until around 2010. It wasn't until he met Seth Rogen, who would play himself in Spotlight, that he began to realize what Seth Rogen would portray himself as.

“We had less than two hours into our first meeting, and it dawned on me during the chat that it didn’t quite feel like an interview. It was an observation session, much like a therapist observes a patient, except we After two meetings, his observations of me will not be kept secret like a therapist, but instead he will be shown in the film for millions of viewers to see.

Regarding Seth Rogen's performance, Marty Baron praised: This character is very similar to me, and many colleagues in the press recognized it at first sight when they watched the movie.

In this kind of film adapted from real people and real events, the views of the prototype characters often have a lot of weight in the film.

After Marty Barone, other people also appeared one after another to build momentum for Spotlight.

When I saw this movie, I felt like I was looking at the past life through a mirror, and it was really like it just happened.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Robbie Robinson said, It's not always a pleasant experience to look back at the past under the urging of others. Back then, everyone on the team spent weeks interviewing victims. .During that time, I heard a lot of stories that I wanted to try to forget. But now Downey played me and brought back all the bad memories about Catholicism through the movie.

In an interview with the hometown media Columbus Telegraph, Sasha Peffer also said that the movie is very real, as if it made her see the things that were disturbing.

In addition, she said, When I heard that director Murphy Stanton was going to make a movie about the events of that year, I was very nervous. The story told in the script was really happened, and it is almost impossible to allow any changes to the story. Change, and I think they've managed to be true to history, and I'm very grateful for that.

Michael Rezendes, who is still engaged in in-depth investigation work, said in an interview with the New York Times, Among the audience who watched the movie, some people may have never read our report before. After the news comes out, more victims can stand up bravely. These victims and their stories can give journalism, especially the struggling print media a shot in the arm, and help the news media revitalize itself while reporting in depth.”

These archetypal characters came out to sing praises for the film, which also increased the weight of Focus to hit the Oscars.

The prototypes of each character showed up in various ways. Of course, Murphy would not be idle. One day in mid-December, before he entered the Death Star Building where CAA was located, he also accepted a follow-up interview.

You say the church doesn't have a higher rate of sexual abuse of children than other groups? Yes, I admit it, but the problem is that other people have done such things and will be punished, but they will not!

Facing the reporter's question, Murphy said directly, This is also described in the film. It taught someone to cover up this crime and made the victims even more miserable.

Then, he turned the topic to the issue of the authenticity of the film, We interviewed every member of the reporting team at the same time, and restored the story that happened more than ten years ago from multiple perspectives. For each version of the script of the film, we will Show it to the reporters and editors back then until they approve it.

After saying this, Murphy entered the Death Star Building, and there are still important things to discuss with Bill Rossis.

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