Chapter 1178

When millions of "Justice Division" from China are famous on social networks in the United States, and they fight with American netizens, it's not just Tom Cruise who is flustered.

Under such a negative impact, the whole Warner Bros. executives are in great fear. The power of public opinion has left them with no way to reverse the public opinion. Even Warner's parent company, Time Warner, has a very difficult life.

In the past, Time Warner's acquisition of AOL (AOL) was a famous failure in history. The fact that the market value of AOL shrank by hundreds of billions of dollars in a year was a major event after the merger of Time Warner and AOL. In this life, AOL faced a more painful dilemma than that of the same period in the previous life, because AOL had no pastoral technology in the previous life.

AOL in the last life is a giant in the Internet industry in the United States. However, due to the rise of YY and the supporting follow-up of YY English network, all Internet companies providing page services in the United States have suffered a huge blow, and AOL is even more vulnerable.

Time Warner has been in the whirlpool of huge losses since 2002. With the support of YY, it is now overwhelmed. Unexpectedly, Warner brothers made such a big basket at this time, which is just worse for the group.

Time Warner asked Warner Bros. to immediately find a solution to the current public opinion crisis, while the same pressure on Warner Bros. also came from Mr. koida.

For him, the purpose of investing in this film is to publicize Japanese culture and bushido spirit and make money by the way, but what he didn't expect is that at present, not only did he fail to publicize Japanese culture and bushido spirit, but also let the bushido spirit of Japanese quintessence be rejected and rejected by the whole world, Wouldn't it have been a crime for the whole of Japan if it had revealed that it was an investor?

In the phone call, angry Mr. horoda denounced the CEO of Warner Bros. Meyer, and asked him to find a way to solve this matter anyway. If the influence of this incident continues to expand, he will certainly let Warner Bros. pay a price.

Mayer is also about to collapse. He said to Mr. horoda, "now all the media in the United States are standing in line. Only a few media controlled by Japanese capital haven't expressed their opinions until now, but you can see that these media are now boycotted by Internet users. What's more, YY, which has a huge influence in the world, is also boosting its information investment It's really powerful, and we can't control its point of view at all, so in the current trend, this kind of influence can only be greater and greater. "

"Motherfucker!" When horota stormed away, his voice suddenly became hysterical, and he shouted: "Meyer, I'm fucking warning you, this movie is my dream, if it's destroyed, I can't bypass you! You will never want to continue to work in the film and television industry in your life! "

Mayer's bearing capacity is almost to the limit. Seeing Kojiro horoda targeting himself, Mayer's mood is also out of control, shouting: "the current situation has nothing to do with me, the movie is what you want to make, the script is what you confirm, the director and the actor are all designated by you, I just help you build a group, help you release and promote the shell!"! My job is to help you integrate resources and start the project smoothly. I've already finished these jobs! "

Speaking of this, Mayer's discontent also broke out. He said angrily: "the whole film shooting work has been very smooth. It's the script leakage that led to such things, but the script leakage is not my responsibility. It's Edward's poor management that makes the crew make such a big mistake! But Edward is not my man, but yours! If you really want to be held responsible, go to him! I'm fed up with fucking it! "

After angrily saying this, Meyer didn't give time for Kojiro's reaction and immediately hung up the phone.

He's really had enough and doesn't want to go on with it.

It's not just Mayer. Almost every high-level member of Warner Bros. has reached the limit of endurance.

Now they are not only scolded on the Internet, but also many protesters go to Warner's office to protest. Moreover, the scale of the protest is growing. From the beginning of dozens of people, it has rapidly developed to hundreds of people, and even continues to increase, so that Warner's top executives are afraid to go to the company.

Mayer was the worst. When he went to the company the last time, he was surrounded by a large number of protesters as soon as he drove into the parking lot. When he got off, he was also lost two rotten eggs by an old Chinese woman. He got ashen and quickly got on the bus and fled home. Not only was the class not finished, but also the pictures were captured by the media and put on the newspaper and website. He lost a lot of people.

Meyer has never been to the company since then. He and other senior executives are hiding in their own homes and communicating through YY group video to discuss the next step.

Among Warner's senior executives, there are also people who understand that they need to solve this problem quickly by using the solution of breaking their wrists. They suggest that the company call a development scale press conference, review itself at the conference, apologize to the people of the whole world, especially the United States and China, and then announce to stop filming "the last warrior" and disband the crew.But Meyer didn't agree before.

Almost all of the 140 million US dollars was invested by Sumitomo. Horoda completed the investment quietly through externally controlled investment companies and funds. It seems that Warner took the lead to invest in the film with several companies, but in fact, all the money came from Sumitomo.

This money to Warner, Warner has spent most of the money from the preparation to now, if this time announced to stop shooting, Warner will lose a lot.

The legal staff calculated that if the auction was stopped, the book loss would be at least more than $200 million.

The reason why it is as high as US $200 million is that there is a risk clause when the US $140 million investment is obtained. If the film is not finished as planned due to the unnatural force majeure, then Warner shall compensate all the investment and add 100% compensation.

Originally, the terms given by Sumitomo were very loose. As long as the film was finished, Warner would not have any risk of violation. Even if it took an extra year, Sumitomo would not pursue any responsibility as long as the film was well made.

But the most embarrassing thing is that this movie has probably become the biggest film in the history of film shooting resistance, so according to the contract, if you stop shooting, you will lose 280 million yuan to Sumitomo. As most of the money has been spent, there are tens of millions left on the book, and the rest will be borne by yourself, with a loss of more than 200 million dollars.

Mayer doesn't want to take on such a huge loss when he sits in the CEO position, more than 200 million dollars. How many fucking movies do he have to make to make it back.

And this is only a direct economic loss, indirect loss is greater!

If investors lose confidence in Warner Bros. due to stop shooting, Warner Bros. valuation, future project development and even share proportion when cooperating with other companies may be greatly affected, and Time Warner, as the parent company, is bound to be affected. The stock price has been falling in the past two days, many of which are due to Warner The trouble caused by brother's movie, once it is announced to stop shooting, may be more influential.

But now, Mayer finally wants to understand that the pot can't escape, and the later he carries it, the greater the cost!

This damned Jiro horota, regardless of the actual situation of the matter, is still shameless to find himself to blame. How could he have caused so many things in succession if he didn't have such a big problem with his subject matter?! It's true that I let him suffer!

I didn't want to bear the losses of 200 million dollars before, but now it seems that these losses can't be avoided. In this case, it's better to bear them by myself. Then I immediately held a press conference to apologize to the people all over the world, admit mistakes, admit the evil of extreme Bushido, and then announced to stop shooting. Although the losses can't be recovered, at least I can recover my reputation ! If we delay further, we will lose money and reputation. Then we will have to fight with the chickens and the eggs.

So, the angry Mayer immediately organized a video conference at the top of his house. After the connection was connected, his first words were: "prepare, we will hold a press conference tomorrow morning!"

It's already 8:30 p.m. local time. If it wasn't enough time for preparation, Meyer would like to hold the conference immediately.

Other executives immediately asked, "what strategy are we going to adopt for our press conference?"

Meyer said without hesitation, "sorry! Stop shooting! "

After Meyer made the decision, all the high-level officials were silent in front of the camera.

Seeing that no one cares about himself, Meyer said angrily, "you don't have to worry! It's my decision to stop shooting. I'll take all the responsibility! "

When Meyer said this clearly, the executives in front of the camera were relieved.

For the hot potato of "the last samurai", we all want to stop filming and apologize immediately to ask the people for forgiveness. In that way, the pressure imposed on them by the society in recent days can be reduced by half. However, after all, no one is willing to carry a pot because of the direct loss involving at least 200 million US dollars and the incalculable indirect loss.

Meyer used to be the same, but now he can't bear it. At present, his heart just wants to get rid of this matter as soon as possible.

At this time, one of the executives said, "let's talk to Edward and Tom Cruise to see if they are willing to participate in the conference together. If we apologize together, it will show our sincerity."

"Absolutely not!" Meyer immediately blew up his hair and shouted, "this matter must not be notified to Edward and Tom Cruise. Not only that, you must keep it a high level of confidentiality before tonight. Tonight, you must be prepared in secret. Contact the major media at 8 o'clock tomorrow and tell them that we are going to call an emergency conference at 10 o'clock. I want everyone to be caught off guard!"

"Why?!" Almost all executives don't understand why Meyer left Edward and Tom Cruise alone at this time.

"If three sinners plead guilty at the same time, they will bear the public's condemnation and punishment at the same time. But if one pleads guilty first, the public will transfer most of the condemnation and punishment that should have been given to him to the remaining two people!"! At this time, what we have to do is to make the most beneficial choice for ourselves! "