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Wednesday.

9 am.

At this moment, in Wald Pictures, everyone's hearts are filled with haze, and the huge conference room is even more silent.

Whether it is Victor as the CEO, Linklater, the director of Juno and the best director of the Berlin Film Festival, their faces are full of philosophical anger. Of course, they are more helpless.

"Damn Time Warner~!"

The first person to break the silence was Zhu Ke: "This matter is not over!"

Zhuke hated Warner Group to death.

Why?

Just because "Juneo" suppressed the "Space Slam Dunk" produced by his company, it used its powerful influence to exert pressure on the theater, and greatly reduced the production of "Juneo".

On Monday, there were more than 2,700 screens of "Juneo", and with the high reputation, high controversy, and high-profile discussions, it is necessary for the theater to add more screens;

However, just yesterday, that is, Tuesday, only more than 2,200 screens were shown.

500 projection screens were cut in one fell swoop.

Today is even more excessive!

The theater has cut back the film.

"Juno" has less than 1,500 screens.

The reduction in the number of films has caused the daily box office to continue to decline. More accurately, it seems to be falling!

Box office on Monday: $9.2 million;

Box office on Tuesday: $6.1 million;

According to the number of screens shown today, there can be 4 million dollars, thank God.

"Without a large-scale screening screen, no matter how hot it is, the box office will not improve much." Director Linklater smiled bitterly.

Zhuke nodded his head with a deep face and said, "Victor, you said that the theater has cut our film schedule, is it a breach of contract? After all, we all signed the contract before."

Upon hearing this, Victor shook his head: "Boss, we are a small company. The contract signed with the cinema is a flexible contract, and the theater side has a favorable position, so according to the contract, they did not default."

"Oh?"

Zhu Ke was taken aback immediately, more anger in his heart.

Victor added: "Boss, let alone the theater team has not breached the contract, but they have breached the contract, can we still sue it?"

"Well, when I didn't say it." Zhuke waved his hand.

Sue the theater?!

What a joke!

The theaters are the end of the film industry chain. They only need to get a card of your movie to make you feel bad.In this situation of inequality and disadvantage, even if your movie is excellent, they are not afraid!

No matter how good your movie is, can it be comparable to big Hollywood companies?

Even if one or two excellent movies appear, it is of no use!

Not enough!Dear!

You should know that in Hollywood, the six major Hollywood film companies, any of them, the number of films produced or released every year is no less than 50, and at the peak, there are even more than 100 films.

Than the number?

Wald Pictures is all the staff are crazy about shooting movies, and it can't compare to a fraction of a big company!

In this case, as long as you are not stupid, you know which side to choose.

In the final analysis, Wald Pictures is weak!

"Mr. Jones, Mr. Wald, the reduction of cinematic films is a problem, but Warner’s advantages in media and newspapers cannot be ignored!"

Director Linklater reminded.

Advantages of WarnerMedia?

"Haha~!"

After traveling for more than a year, Rao is Zhu Ke who pretends to have seen the big scene, and now he is helpless.

Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Fortune Magazine, Life Magazine, CNN, HBO, DC Comics, Warner Bros., and other media with global influence are all under the business of Time Warner.

Others have mastered such a huge media power, what do you use to fight it?

The iron head baby can break it for you!

"Boss, in fact, Time Warner has already taken a shot. Here are some newspapers I bought this morning. Take a look."

Victor took out several newspapers while talking.

"California Post", "American Youth Daily", "Eastern Film News", "New York Life"... etc. newspapers, as many as eight, all criticizing the movie "Juneo" .

Especially the "New York Life", in its review articles, even claimed that "Juneo" is a cancer of society.

The article said: "The movie "Juno"? A heinous mudslide!"

"Why is it a mudslide? Is it evil to be a damn?"

Zhuke angrily said: "Everyone is like a Virgin, why don't they say the bad movies produced by Warner Film Group every year? They are the culprits, okay! Want to play, right? That's nothing but Lao Tzu. Yes, my fucking mother now puts out 10 million dollars to see who is dead and who lives!"

I have to say that Zhu Ke was really angry.

Spend money!

I want to spend money crazy!

Even if I can't beat you, you will be sickened~!

"Boss, calm down."

Victor groaned: “Don’t look at Warner’s actions now. There are as many as 8 media outlets attacked, but these are regional media newspapers and they are not as powerful as one-tenth of their full strength. Leading to the parent company behind Warner Pictures Group. At that time, once they did their best, even if you spent $50 million, it was completely useless!"

"Damn~!"

Zhu Ke was speechless.

Big companies are fucking hooligans!

"Mr. Jones is right, Mr. Wald, you'd better calm down." Director Linklater persuaded.

"Yes!"

Victor solemnly said: "Boss, in the face of the pressure of big companies, what we can do now is to contribute to the Internet, attract as many young audiences as possible, and enter the cinema."

Hearing this, Zhu Ke waved his hand: "Well, you can watch and do it."

At this moment, the traveler Zhu Ke was extremely helpless.

"Damn it, I've written down this account, and you will regret it one day!"

That's right, Zhuke has already begun to figure out how to trouble Warner in the future.

In fact, Zhuke still has some confidence in this point.

At the beginning of 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner Group and formed a cross-field behemoth, which can be called the world's number one media giant.However, with the sudden advent of the Internet bubble, the stock price of Warner Group has fallen successively, and it has fallen into a long-term personnel struggle.

The company is in chaos!

And, in the next few years, bad films fell out, relying only on "Harry Potter" to continue its glory.

"If I cut "Harry Potter" ahead of time, how were you going crazy when I saw it?" Zhu Ke screamed secretly.

The emergence of bad news caused Wald Pictures to suffer.

However, at this moment, good news emerged.

Paramount’s representative, Jordan, personally visited the door. He said, “Warner is a giant, but we are Paramount! Our parent company is Viacom Group. In the media field, we are not afraid of Time Warner. , This time we can help you."

help?

Paramount is not a man of justice!

They are also conditional.

One: To win the overseas distribution rights of "Juno".

Second: Sign an overseas distribution contract with Zhu Ke for 5 films.

Third: Invest in Wald Pictures.

Zhuke can still accept the first two points.However, Zhu Ke did not agree to the third demand for shares.

That's right, once Paramount takes a stake in Wald Pictures, all the problems that Zucker is facing now will be solved, and it will be able to catch Viacom, the media giant, and let the company enter the fast lane of development.

But in the end, Zhuke refused!

"Investment?"

"Then become their subsidiary?"

"They will make me make more money by buying shares. That's right. But Lao Tzu is a traverser. I want me to work for you, don't even think about it!"

Zhuke is so proud.

Of course, it is more of small peasant thinking!

No matter how small his own World Films is, it is his own hot kang, and he will never allow others to interfere.Even if he could make more money, Zhuke would not agree.

""Thanks to Emperor Taizong of the Westward Journey for rewarding 100 starting coins.Woo~ The minister finally received the first reward.