Chapter 626 Qualified Model
Faced with the box office figures that were far lower than expected by "Troy", Warner's senior executives are also reflecting that this is their second major production that failed this year. The box office failure brought not only investment losses, but also the decline in stock prices and the conceivable accountability of shareholders.
Why did it fail? This is the question that the Warner Bros. board of directors wants to ask the most.
Since Ryan took over Walt Disney, the number of co-productions has inevitably shrunk significantly. Warner's management has also anticipated this situation, so it has increased its investment and wanted to occupy more market share.
"Ryan seems to have magic!"
At the Warner Bros. board meeting, an executive director said the words in his heart, "He decided to invest and produce big, and he never had to worry about returns and profit issues."
"We shouldn't use Brad Pitt at all." Another director complained, "If Ryan was allowed to star in Achilles, these are not problems now."
"The question is, will he appear?" Warner Bros.'s ceo Gerald knocked on the table. "Apart from the Star Wars series, which had already signed an actor contract, has he appeared in movies produced by other companies since entering the new century?"
Everyone fell into silence. If Ryan had not had long-term and pleasant cooperation with Warner, even the Harry Potter series would not have been able to participate in part of the investment.
"In another week, Sony Colombia's "King Arthur" will be released." Someone said with concern, "The situation facing "Troy" will be even more difficult."
"Not necessarily." Gerald reminded, "Troy's box office was lower than we expected, and I'm afraid King Arthur would be worse."
"Yes." A director immediately agreed, "The script was first submitted to Touchstone Pictures, and it was recognized by some Disney people, but it was rejected by Ryan."
The others suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and their tight expressions sootheed a lot. It seemed that if someone was more unlucky than Warner, they could relax.
Don Logan, the president of Time Warner who sat at the beginning of the conference table and never spoke, suddenly spoke. He asked Gerald, "You have always had good friends with Ryan, and he has rejected any projects in the past few years."
The meaning of the words is very clear, Warner will not take over these projects in the future.
"The biggest project is "King Arthur." Gerald thought for a while, and then said, "Also, Ryan canceled the two film contracts between Disney and Jack Chen, and canceled all subsequent cooperation plans with him."
"What are cancelled is "Rebirth of Dragons" and "Eighty Days Traveling the World"." He added.
"Notify all Warner companies." Don Logan said to his assistant without any hesitation, "Don't participate in the investment in these two movies..."
"Forget it..." He suddenly waved his hand, "Please inform them not to participate in investing in any movies of Jack Chen in the future."
No one objected to these words, after all, in the eyes of Hollywood, the other party's value is extremely limited.
"And," Don Logan continued, "Isn't the sample of "Wonder Woman" almost finished? I remember someone mentioned that Gale, Gado, is Natalie, Portman's friend. Then, Ryan is invited to attend the test set in the name of Warner Group, and hopes he will give some suggestions."
Everyone looked at each other and understood that the performance of several major productions was not good. Even the senior executive of the group company felt tremendous pressure, otherwise how could he ask the surprised boss to give suggestions for the DC superhero movie?
After acquiring American Online, Warner has been lucky. Ryan, who is hiding at home as a model, knows this very well.
Of course. He doesn't need to consider these things now, but is obediently a qualified model.
Standing in the design room specially renovated for Charlize, Ryan was carved into marble and allowed South African diamonds to clamp the pair of men's sunglasses he designed on the bridge of his nose.
Put the last pair on Ryan. Charlize stepped back two feet away, and looked at him carefully with his hands crossed his chest.
"Is that OK?" Ryan felt his eyebrows itchy.
“I found a very serious problem.”
Clamping her chin, Charlize walked around Ryan. After seeing her return to the opposite side, Ryan couldn't help but ask curiously, "What have you discovered, my dear?"
"You put on any pair of sunglasses..." Charlize walked over, took off the sunglasses, and gently pinched Ryan's face, "It's all so charming."
"Oh, do you need me to thank you for your praise?" Ryan grabbed her and kissed the two soft red lips.
"You're welcome." Charlize walked back to the workbench, put his sunglasses on his face and said, "If you really want to thank me, then help me endorse my ct sunglasses."
"Can you ask how much endorsement fee is?" Walking to the workbench, Ryan sat on Charlize's work chair. "If it's too low, I won't agree."
"Is that?" Charlize suddenly turned around, jumped gently and sat on the workbench, looking at him with his chest, "If..."
She kicked off the slippers hanging from her feet and stretched out her slender and straight leg toward Ryan, "I...I'm paying myself, can I?"
"Honey……"
Ryan reached out and grabbed Baibai's thin ankle, and kneaded it on it, "Are you... seducing me?"
"Of course... not." Charlize snatched his legs back, jumped off the workbench as fast as possible, away from Ryan. "Even if it was temptation, it wasn't now. I'm going out, I have to go to the company."
She didn't wear shoes, so she opened the studio door barefoot and turned her head and waved, "That's a very potential designer, I have to meet her in person."
After Ryan nodded, the door closed again and a soft sound came.
In the past two months, with the help of Ryan's huge resources, Charlize's 'ct' fashion company has been established. Although it is still a prototype, after renting a Disney office floor on Mondeo Avenue, the rough shelves were set up.
Even the candy printed with the image of Charlize has appeared in Disney children's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area since last week.
Ryan would definitely not stand by the way for the career Charlize wants to start. Some of his agency team have been assisting South African diamonds, such as purchasing this candy factory with good taste but not big brand...
How to convert South African Diamonds and Oscars into commercial interests, his team has a complete set of solutions.
Chapter completed!