America Tycoon: The Wolf of Showbiz-Chapter 1002 - 903 The Era of Warner Bros. Team Has
Chapter 1002 -903: The Era of Warner Bros. Team Has Ended
Chapter 1002 -903: The Era of Warner Bros. Team Has Ended
Warner Building, the meeting room was eerily quiet.
Not a single executive dared to speak out, not even members of the Warner Bros. Team like Hamada, Geoff Johns, and McDonald.
The reason was straightforward, the response to “Justice League” was extremely poor.
The reputation had completely collapsed, and the box office was painfully dismal.
Initially, they thought a target of 100 million US dollars was modest, but the actual 66.38 million US dollars proved they were overly optimistic.
Joss Whedon had ruined “Justice League”!
No, Joss Whedon was merely an executor.
The gaze of the executives gradually fell on Hamada and Kevin Tsujihara, these two Japanese must take responsibility!
Compared to his colleagues, Daniel seemed very calm and not overly worried.
The promotion of “Justice League” was under the jurisdiction of Warner Bros., he had followed the plan without any shirking or cutting corners.
However, these could not guarantee his safety, once internal fighting broke out, it wouldn’t be unusual for the production failures to be shifted to the promotion team.
“The failure of ‘Justice League’ will have definitely shown some issues on the decision-making level of the corporation, and I apologize for this,” said Kevin Tsujihara as he stood up and bowed deeply at ninety degrees.
The executives were expecting him to take responsibility and announce his resignation.
But Kevin Tsujihara did not mention taking responsibility or resigning, he only said a few superficial words.
The executives remained silent.
With a production cost of 350 million US dollars and marketing expenses of 250 million US dollars, totaling 600 million dollars on the accounts, how would they recover the costs? Who would bear the responsibility for this failure?
No one present wanted to take the blame.
The meeting ended uneventfully, Hamada followed Kevin Tsujihara into the Chairman’s office.
On the desk, the newspaper Kevin Tsujihara had been reading before the meeting was spread out, and the headline of the entertainment section with “66.38M” made one’s heart pound with anxiety.
Kevin Tsujihara was well aware of the severity of the repercussions, but who would willingly just walk away?
He had to struggle by all means.
Hamada was waiting for the boss to speak.
Kevin Tsujihara already had some ideas, sitting in the chairman’s chair and gently tapping the armrest, he said, “Contact the six main actors of ‘Justice League’ and the production team, release the news about Joss Whedon bullying the actors.”
Hamada nodded, understanding that this was an attempt to divert attention and push responsibility onto Joss Whedon.
This wouldn’t be enough; recalling he had recommended Joss Whedon, he quickly said, “Engaging Joss Whedon…”
Kevin Tsujihara waved his hand, “Wasn’t it Geoff Johns who recommended him to you?”
Hamada quickly responded, “Yes, Geoff Johns recommended him to me and strongly pushed for him to replace Zack Snyder as the director.”
Kevin Tsujihara nodded, “Arrange it as soon as possible.”
Hamada left the office.
However, Kevin Tsujihara was still pondering, a lower position might be lost, but as long as he could keep his CEO and Chairman position, everything else was negotiable.
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If Geoff Johns couldn’t withstand the pressure, he could push Hamada forward to take the blame.
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Back in the office at Warner Bros., Daniel immediately made a phone call.
The person on the other end asked, “How did the meeting go? What are they planning to do?”
Thinking back to his own experiences, Daniel said, “Kevin Tsujihara is of Japanese descent, he’ll definitely bow and apologize to the group, but as for taking responsibility, that’s not happening.”
He suddenly recalled what Martin had said and some events that had happened in Japan recently.
In the past, Japanese promoted their artisan spirit to the world, but recent developments had shown the world that Japanese really had a spirit of bending.
The person on the other end asked, “Given such severe business and decision-making problems, is Kevin Tsujihara not considering resigning?”
Daniel laughed and said, “Kevin Tsujihara has already apologized by bowing, how could he resign?”
He stopped laughing and said solemnly, “Unless unexpected, he’d try to push out a few people with significant weight to take the blame.”
“The whole ‘Justice League’ plan has failed,” said the person on the other end, “Apart from Kevin Tsujihara, who could be responsible?”
Daniel suggested, “I recommend holding a board meeting and a general shareholders’ meeting as soon as possible. We have a rare opportunity here. If Kevin Tsujihara survives this, we’ll be in a lot of trouble later.”
The other side said, “It takes time to follow procedures, I need a sharp knife to avoid these.”
Daniel assured, “You will have it.”
The two quickly ended the call.
Daniel considered for a moment, then dialed a number, “The knife we talked about a few days ago, is it ready?”
On the other end, Martin said, “The knife is sharpened and very sharp.”
Daniel said, “Send it to me.”
In the office at Davis Studio, Martin opened the back file cabinet and took out a homemade military knife.
He pulled it out, inspected the blade, closed it, and tossed it to Bruce, “Find someone to send this to Daniel’s office.”
Bruce said, “You’re really sending him the knife.”
Martin asked, “What about the other knife?”
“Everything is sorted out on Ivan’s side, the video is very clear,” Bruce emphasized, “Charlotte Kirk is too entangled with Kevin Tsujihara, Ivan is worried about alarming Kevin Tsujihara and didn’t dare to make contact, found and bribed Charlotte’s best friend Emma, and through Emma’s covert filming, he obtained many crucial videos and recordings.”
Martin nodded and said, “Go give it to Jody.”
“I’m on my way,” Bruce left the office.
