Hollywood Starts with Animation

a few days later.

Warner Bros. Pictures.

Today, one of the executives of Warner Bros. Pictures counts as one, no matter how busy they are, and even if some people are doing errands in other places, they are now rushing back to the company.

"Can you not be there?"

"Man, you know who came today, but Steve Case, Steve Ross~"

An executive of Warner Bros. Pictures said solemnly.

Steve Case, founder of AOL, currently serves as chairman and CEO of AOL-Time Warner;

Steve Ross, the former Chairman of Time Warner Group, now serves as Vice Chairman, Executive Director and Executive President of AOL-Time Warner.

These two big men, if they come to Warner Bros. Pictures by themselves, are like ancient emperors, not to mention that they are coming together now.

"Be smart, if anyone dares to do something wrong, how do I deal with him?!" President Barry Mayer warned the executives heavily.

Hearing this, many people nodded their heads like garlic.

But... there are still a few people who turn a blind eye to Barry Mayer's words.

For example: John Rothrider!

John Rothrider, male, 45 years old, is an executive appointed to Warner Bros. Pictures after AOL acquired Time Warner Group; his main task is to clamp down on the power of President Barry Mayer, and is committed to Let the executives of AOL's department control the power of Warner, one of the six major Hollywood companies.

Merger of the two companies?

Haha, now it seems like a joke at all.

In constant infighting!

Especially the outbreak of the Internet bubble, the newly merged AOL-Time Warner, can be described as a lot of internal contradictions.

Soon...  

The door to the conference room was pushed open.

Steve Case and Steve Ross,

The two bosses, both named "Steve", walked into the conference room together.

"Mr. Case~"

"Mr. Ross~"

Everyone in the conference room stood up to say hello.

"Just sit down."

Steve Case, as the current chairman, naturally sits in the first place. Well, the original position was Steve Ross, the former chairman.

"Indifferent tone!" An executive couldn't help muttering.

Hearing this, a senior executive next to him couldn't help raising his brows and whispered, "The faces of the two bosses are straight, they must be asking for guilt."

Sure enough....

"The purpose of my visit to Warner Bros. Pictures today is very simple, that is, I am very, very, very dissatisfied with your work performance!"

As the current chairman, Steve Case said coldly: "Warner Bros. Pictures' performance in the first half of 2000 fell by 17% year-on-year compared to last year. Some people may make excuses, saying that it was because of the company's integration. Grind."

"Oh, a good excuse."

"So, what about the performance in the second half of this year?"

"twenty three%!"

"In the second half of the year, your performance fell by 23%, the biggest decline for Warner Bros. Pictures since 1990!"

"Tsk tsk tsk~, shouldn't you still make excuses?!"

Hearing that, all the Warner executives present were extremely ugly.

President Barry Mayer's mouth moved slightly, but he hesitated.

boom! ! !

Suddenly, Steve Case slapped the case and roared: "Warner Bros. Pictures' performance this year is right at the bottom of the top six Hollywood, even worse than Zucker Wald's company, you still have What face? Shame!"

The crowd was silent.

President Barry Mayer looked ashamed. He wanted to say something, but couldn't.

Warner Bros. Pictures' performance has fallen sharply this year, why?

the reason is simple!

There is a serious internal strife!

John Rothrider, the current vice president of Warner Bros. Pictures, is in charge of the production department, but he has been working in the Internet industry for decades, so how do you know about film and television production?

Even if the layman doesn't understand the movie.

Crucially, he's also busy wrestling power from Barry Mayer.

Hehe, under such domestic and foreign difficulties, if Warner Bros. Pictures can do well, it would be hell!

"Cough cough cough~"

At this time, Steve Ross, the former chairman of Warner and the current vice chairman of AOL-Time Warner, stepped forward and became a peacemaker.

"Everyone, do you understand what Mr. Case said? The decline in performance is a problem that we must face and pay attention to. Therefore, what I mean is that we will not investigate your incompetence for the time being, but give priority to solving the current situation. predicament.”

Ross spread his hands and said coldly: "We only have one movie this year for Christmas in December, which is far worse than previous years."

"Moreover, the production cost of "Beauty Pageant" is only more than 54 million US dollars, which is far less well-made than other films, and the advantages are very insignificant."

"So, how can we restore our Warners glory this Christmas?"

"It's simple, win this fight!"

The voice fell.

The faces of the people present looked a lot better.

"It's the old leader!" a Warner executive whispered.

"That's right!"

An executive echoed in a low voice: "Mr. Ross can understand us because he understands and understands movies, but these bastards at AOL, they will only make trouble."

However, the breath that had just been released was stuck.

The current chairman, Ross, is determined to abolish a group of incompetent people.

Undoubtedly, these so-called "incompetents" are senior workers from the original Warner family.

In fact, this is doing cleaning!

........

After more than an hour, the meeting was over.

Chairman Steve Case, just left.

As the original chairman Steve Ross, he did not leave directly, but stayed to chat with Barry Mayer alone.

boom!

"Bastard!"

"I shouldn't have agreed to AOL's acquisition in the first place!"

"A $181 billion acquisition? The largest acquisition in history? Now it looks like a joke!"

"Whether it's Warner Bros. Pictures, or the parent company Time Warner Group, or even any subsidiary, it's all messed up right now."

At this moment, where does Steve Ross still have a trace of calm and gentleness before?

Violence, hostility, anger, depression, remorse...all kinds of negative emotions completely occupied his brain.

"Hey~"

President Barry Mayer sighed: "Yesterday I saw the news that that guy, Zucker Wald, put down all his work, went shopping with his little girlfriend Lima, and even opened a small store for no business. , however... we are not as good as him now!"

you do not say!

During the Christmas period, Wald Pictures is under great pressure, but at least there are few internal struggles. If there is, it is currently controlled within the set range. It is a beneficial internal competition, not an infighting.

........

As the saying goes: good things don't go out, bad things travel thousands of miles.

No, this meeting of Warner Bros. Pictures just ended, and it spread all over Hollywood.

Many were overjoyed.

Zucker smiled and said, "Warner is over for this Christmas season!"

Murdoch, the boss of 20th Century Fox, said: "The world's largest media company is so vulnerable? Haha~"

Disney's Michael Eisner, said: "The world is saying that Disney's internal struggle is serious, but now it seems that Warner's problem is more serious than ours! This is really good news."

Universal Pictures, said: "Warner will do nothing this Christmas."

The Christmas schedule has not officially started yet. As one of the six majors, Warner Bros. was the first to get out of the game, and it was still a cocoon, which made the entire Hollywood film companies, large and small, amazed.

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