{"id":5092,"date":"2013-04-02T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2013-04-02T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:32:51","slug":"hollywood-studio-secures-film-rights-to-boston-clergy-abuse-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2013\/04\/hollywood-studio-secures-film-rights-to-boston-clergy-abuse-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood studio secures film rights to Boston clergy abuse investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_5093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5093\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/234\/2013\/04\/tom_mccarthy_16950.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5093\" title=\"tom_mccarthy_16950\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/234\/2013\/04\/tom_mccarthy_16950.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writer\/director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor, WinWin) will co-write and direct the yet untitled film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/dreamworks-picks-up-church-sex-432345\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood Reporter announced<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that Dreamworks and Participant Media have obtained the rights to the Boston Globe\u2019s yearlong investigation of clergy sex abuse in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation by the Globe\u2019s \u201cSpotlight Team\u201d of reporters and editors led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston. The 2002 revelations have had worldwide repercussions for the Catholic church that continue today in terms of allegations, settlements and pastoral policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the scandal in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed \u201cThe Visitor,\u201d \u201cThe Stations Agent\u201d and \u201cWinWin\u201d will direct and co-script the film with veteran television writer Josh Singer.<\/p>\n<p>(I wrote this post for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/hollywood-studio-secures-film-rights-boston-clergy-abuse-investigation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Catholic Reporter<\/a> this morning; I wonder from which or whose perspective they will tell the story? Visions of \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d come to mind \u2013 about the Watergate coverup \u2013 and it is a film I can watch whenever it is on. \u00a0But how to tell this story? I think Tom McCarthy has some of the strongest human stories out there that are infused with what I believe is a strong sense of Catholic spirituality \u2013 or one that is consistent with a Christian view of the human person. So I hope that this will be a film marked by McCarthy\u2019s established integrity. )<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Hollywood Reporter announced\u00a0Tuesday that Dreamworks and Participant Media have obtained the rights to the Boston Globe\u2019s yearlong investigation of clergy sex abuse in Massachusetts. The investigation by the Globe\u2019s \u201cSpotlight Team\u201d of reporters and editors led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston. The 2002 revelations have had worldwide repercussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2030,33,2031],"tags":[2856,2858,2860,2857,2859],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-faith-formation","category-analysis","category-film-reviews","category-violence-2","tag-clergy-sex-abuse-film","tag-dreamworks-participant","tag-josh-singer","tag-new-film-about-clergy-sex-abuse","tag-tom-mccarthy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hollywood studio secures film rights to Boston clergy abuse investigation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The\u00a0Hollywood Reporter announced\u00a0Tuesday that Dreamworks and Participant Media have obtained the 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