Chapter 430

A few days later.

Warner Brothers pictures.

Today, Warner Bros. executives, one by one, no matter how busy, and even some people in the field, are now rushing back to the company.

"Can we not be there?"

"Man, you know, the people who are here today are Steve Case and Steve Ross."

A Warner Bros. executive said in a low voice.

Steve case, founder of AOL, is chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner;

Steve Roth, the former chairman of Time Warner Group, is now the vice chairman, executive director and CEO of AOL Time Warner.

Any one of these two great figures who came to Warner Bros. was like an ancient emperor, not to mention the fact that they came together now.

"Be smart. If anyone dares to do something, how can I deal with him?" Barry Meyer, the president, warned many senior executives.

Smell speech, a lot of people immediately nod like pound garlic.

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

For example: John laureate!

John lousread, male, 45, is a senior executive appointed to Warner Bros. after AOL acquired Time Warner Group; His main task is to clamp down on the power of Barry Meyer, the president of AOL, and to make the executives of AOL control the power of Warner, one of the six largest Hollywood companies.

The merger of the two companies?

Ha ha, now it seems that it is a joke at all.

It's constantly fighting inside!

Especially the outbreak of the Internet bubble, the newly merged AOL Time Warner company is internally contradictory.

Not long

The door of the conference room was pushed open.

Steve Case and Steve Ross, two big men named "Steve", walked into the conference room together.

"Mr. case ~"

"Mr. Ross ~"

Everyone in the conference room, get up and say hello.

"Just sit down."

As the current chairman of the board, Steve Case naturally takes the lead. Well, the original position was Steve Ross, the former chairman of the board.

"The tone is cold!" One executive couldn't help muttering.

Wen Yan, a senior executive next to him, could not help but eyebrow a pick, whispered: "the faces of the two big men, are flat, it must be a question of guilt."

If not, then

"My purpose of coming to Warner Bros. today is very simple, that is, I am very, very, very dissatisfied with your work performance!"

Steve case, as the current chairman, said coldly, "Warner Bros.'s performance in the first half of 2000 was 17% lower than that of last year. Some people may find an excuse to say that it is because of the running in during the company integration. "

"Oh, a good excuse."

"What about the performance in the second half of this year?"

“23%！”

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

"Tut Tut, do you want to make excuses?"

Smell speech, the presence of a group of Warner executives, all look very ugly.

Barry Meyer, the president of the company, has his mouth moving and his words stopping.

Bang!!!

Suddenly, Steve case got up and roared, "Warner Bros.'s performance this year is at the bottom of Hollywood's top six, even worse than that of Zucker Wald's company. What face do you have? Shame

Everyone was silent.

Barry Meyer, the president, looked ashamed. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

What is the reason for the sharp decline in Warner Brothers' performance this year?

The reason is simple!

There's a lot of internal strife!

John lousread, the current Vice President of Warner Bros., is in charge of the production department. However, his previous decades of work were all in the Internet industry. Where do you know about film and television production?

If the layman doesn't understand the movie.

Most importantly, he is still busy taking power from Barry Meyer.

Ha ha, under such internal and external difficulties, if Warner Bros. can do well, it will be damned!

"Keke ~"

At this time, Steve Ross, former chairman of Warner and now vice chairman of AOL Time Warner, stood up and became a peacemaker.

"Do you understand Mr. case, gentlemen? Performance decline is a problem we must face and pay attention to. Therefore, what I mean is not to investigate your incompetence for the time being, but to give priority to solving the current difficulties. "

Rose spread his hands and said coldly, "we only have one film this year for Christmas in December. It's not as good as usual."

"What's more, the production cost of undercover beauty pageant is only 54 million US dollars, which is far inferior to other movies. The advantage is not obvious."

"So how can we reinvent Warner in this Christmas season?"

"It's easy to win this fight!"

The voice fell.

The faces of the people present were much better.

"It's the old leader after all!" A warner executive whispered.

"That's right!"

A senior executive whispered: "Mr. Ross can understand us because he understands movies and movies, but these assholes of AOL will only make trouble."

However, just let go of this tone was stuck.

Rose, the current chairman of the board, is determined to abolish a group of incompetent people.

There is no doubt that these so-called "incompetent people" are senior staff of the former Warner department.

In fact, this is cleaning!

........

More than an hour later, the meeting was over.

Steve case, the chairman of the board, went straight away.

As the former chairman of the board, Steve Roth did not leave directly, but stayed to chat with Barry Meyer alone.

Bang!

"Son of a bitch!"

"I shouldn't have agreed to buy AOL at the beginning!"

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

"Warner Bros., Time Warner Group, or even any of its subsidiaries, are now in a mess."

At the moment, where is Steve Roth's calmness and gentleness?

Violence, hostility, anger, depression, regret... All kinds of negative emotions completely occupied his brain.

"Ah ~"

President Barry Meyer sighed: "yesterday, I saw the news that the guy named Zucker Wald put down all his work, went shopping with his little girlfriend Lima, and even opened a small shop without doing anything. However, we are not as good as him now!"

That's right!

In the Christmas season, Wald pictures is under great pressure, but at least there are few internal struggles. Even if there are, they are still controlled within the set range, which is beneficial internal competition rather than internal struggle.

........

As the saying goes: good things do not go out, bad things spread thousands of miles.

No, not long after the Warner Bros conference ended, it spread all over Hollywood.

Many people are overjoyed.

Chuck said with a smile: "this Christmas schedule, Warner is over!"

Murdoch, boss of fox in the 20th century, said: "is the world's largest media company so vulnerable? Ha ha ~ "

Michael Eisner of Disney said: "the world says that the internal struggle of Disney is serious, but now it seems that the problem of Warner is even more serious than us! That's really good news. "

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

The Christmas schedule has not yet officially started. Warner, as one of the top six, was the first to get out of the game. It was still tied up in a cocoon and made the entire Hollywood film companies, big and small, marvel.

The second watch is on.