Chapter 388

As the CEO of Disney, Robert Iger is currently troubled by two things.

One is the Golden Globe Awards, which will be held in more than a month. Affected by the writers' strike, it is determined that it cannot be held as scheduled.

NBC was thinking of making up for it and made a live broadcast plan.

It plans to live broadcast the press conference announcing the list of winners at 6 pm on the 13th, and at the same time report on the champagne party attended by the nominees, and the winners will show their faces at the press conference to talk about their winning speeches.

This is actually a disguised awards ceremony, just made a compromise, without the name of the Golden Globe Awards dinner, the essence is the same.

This plan of NBC is supported by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Even if NBC is the rival of Disney's ABC, Robert Iger also voted in favor within the alliance and strongly supported this live broadcast plan of NBC.

Robert Iger is also worried, what if this boycott behavior of the Writers Guild spreads to the Oscars?

With the influence of the Oscars and the benefits produced by the broadcast rights, ABC would not lose to death by then, and adding all aspects, it would lose at least 100 million.

If this compromise plan of NBC is feasible, it can be considered as setting an example for ABC.

If those bastards also boycott the Oscars, ABC's broadcast plan can follow NBC's example, at least reducing a lot of losses.

Robert Iger now hates the Writers Guild to death, and hates the Screen Actors Guild even more.

Damn it, the Writers Guild is on strike, what does it have to do with you Screen Actors Guild? You actually issued an announcement to boycott the Golden Globe Awards to support the writers' strike, calling on union actors not to participate, it's simply unreasonable!

What's even more annoying is that the Writers Guild didn't let go of this "champagne party" either.

Their person in charge stated: "This is a Golden Globe awards ceremony in the guise of a press conference; as long as there is a ceremony, no matter what it is called, we will boycott it."

And the Screen Actors Guild subsequently issued the same statement, expressing support for the Writers Guild's decision to boycott the "champagne party"...

Really sick!

Robert Iger was furious.

He is now extremely worried that the Oscars will be boycotted by the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild; in the negotiations with the Writers Guild, they have already expressed this meaning.

The second thing Robert Iger is worried about is the box office of "New Pirates of the Caribbean."

Currently, 25% of prime-time TV programs have been suspended, and prime-time talk shows and late-night talk shows that can promote movies have also been mostly suspended.

This makes the movie promotion channels decrease, losing important promotion platforms, affecting the audience's awareness of the movies to be released.

There is something even more annoying.

The main actors of movies that have been released and are about to be released have stated that in order to support the writers' strike, they will not participate in the movie's promotion work.

This is the thing Robert Iger is most worried about.

Originally, the main channels for promoting movies were reduced a lot, and if the main actors don't participate in the promotion work, then what's the point? The movie box office will definitely be greatly affected.

Especially a while ago, Robert Iger contacted the few leads of "New Pirates of the Caribbean." Their brokerage companies didn't say they wouldn't participate in the movie promotion—after all, no brokerage company is willing to offend Disney directly—it's just...

Johnny Depp is sick and is receiving treatment.

Jude Law returned to the UK, saying his uncle is seriously ill and might not be able to come back for a while.

Eva Green sprained her ankle and is inconvenient to move.

Casey Affleck is not sick; his agent said he is arguing about divorce with his wife Summer Phoenix...

Go to hell!

Robert Iger was indignant; who doesn't know that Casey Affleck married Summer Phoenix last year, and the two have always had a good relationship.

These bastards are just watching, just waiting—this is also the mentality of most actors at present.

The only one who promotes the movie according to the agreement is Duan Yihong from China, but although he has some fame in Hollywood, he has no box office appeal.

Logically speaking, Disney can sue these people for not promoting the movie according to the agreement; basically, every main movie role has a provision to cooperate with movie promotion when signing the performance agreement.

But then again, Disney really can't win the lawsuit.

They are cooperating with the Screen Actors Guild, which can also be considered a kind of force majeure; the court cannot judge the actors to lose the lawsuit at this time.

Robert Iger is worried, especially hoping to reach an agreement with the Writers Guild without losing his own interests, so that this damn strike can end quickly.

The faster the better.

Of course, Robert Iger also knows that this strike involving 12,000 writers cannot end without the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the interests of the studios, bleeding a little.

This is also the reason why the alliance wants to push out a "scapegoat"; if possible, they definitely won't make even a cent of concession.

But it is very clear that the "scapegoat" plan can only temporarily appease the anger of the Writers Guild; once they find out they have been deceived, they are likely to become even more troublesome.

So the proposal of those alliance members representing small studios is extremely stupid, at least for big Hollywood studios.

Robert Iger understands the ideas of those people.

These small studios only care about immediate interests, because they don't know when they will go bankrupt due to the failure of a movie; they just want to get all the benefits first.

And big Hollywood studios like Disney are different; it's impossible to just want to fool the Writers Guild for a short time, which is also the reason why he revealed the idea of someone wanting to push Cao Yang out in the form of a joke on the phone.

Of course, if pushing Cao Yang out to take the blame can end this writers' strike and not leave hidden dangers, Robert Iger would definitely do it without hesitation.

The key is that even if someone takes the blame, it can't solve the problem and will leave greater hidden dangers.

Robert Iger now just wants Cao Yang to come to Los Angeles immediately; although the writers' strike is also a problem that needs to be solved urgently, the release of "New Pirates of the Caribbean" is even more imminent.

Consequently, he basically extracts time every day to specifically call Cao Yang, urging him to come to the US quickly.

The box office of "Assembly" is much better than Xiao Gangpao expected.

Even if Cao Yang didn't deliberately highlight himself, this movie is after all a work of his and Xiao Gangpao's joint efforts. Xiao Gangpao is one of the big directors with his own box office in the country, and Cao Yang's influence is even more needless to say.

The joint efforts of the two big directors are not generally attractive to the audience.

"Assembly" was released on the first day, because it was Saturday, it directly formed a movie-watching craze, and the box office on that day almost broke 30 million, reaching over 28 million.

This achievement directly created the first-day box office record for Chinese-language films.