In the Hollywood Reporter's headline article, the outlet's account of the WMA package project went into many details.

The whole story starts with Jonathan Friedman initiating the packaging project, including the process of several major Hollywood studios trying to resist out of fear of the WMA's shift to a packaging operation strategy, until the end Jonathan Friedman is dissatisfied with Norman Broka's compromise and the uneven distribution of project benefits, and completely falls out with his immediate boss.

In fact, it is clear that the article could not have come from any other source than an internal disclosure.

The factions within the WMA are almost well known.

Bringing out the scandal of infighting will have an immeasurable negative impact on the WMA, but at the same time, if President Norman Broka and Vice President Jonathan Friedman are unlucky, then many people can benefit from it.

After all, even between Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman, there are still seven vice presidents waiting to go further. There are countless other WMA brokers who are still struggling to climb up.

Any of these people, there is enough reason to do this.

Faced with the Hollywood Reporter's sudden revelations, there was no time to investigate who had leaked the dispute, and WMA management had to deal with the flood of media inquiries.

On the morning of the publication of the "Hollywood Reporter" article, in an interview with the New York correspondent of the "Los Angeles Times", WMA Chairman Lou Weiss firmly denied all the contents of the "Hollywood Reporter" revelations, and also revealed that WMA had reached a preliminary agreement with Fox Films, and the company's first packaging project did not fail, and high-level infighting naturally did not exist.

However, when the media turned to Fox Film for verification, Ronald Goldberg, president of Fox Films, responded ambiguously, neither admitting nor denying it, but only told reporters that the company was still in contact with the WMA, and it was inconvenient to disclose the details.

This is actually the result of urgent consultations between the WMA and Fox executives.

Fox Film violated the tacit agreement reached with several other major film companies and privately tried to win "The Butterfly Effect", although it made Fox management look very embarrassed in front of their peers. But Ronald Goldberg also understands that if the WMA can't get off the stage by completely denying the whole thing at this time, the WMA won't make Fox too happy in the future.

In addition to convincing Fox to play the double reed with him, the WMA executives also privately contacted Tyki Cassel, the majority shareholder behind The Hollywood Reporter, and you went back and forth, and finally got a promise that the other party would not publish any more news that caught the WMA off guard.

After a long day of tossing and turning, the WMA thought it had succeeded in dragging the whole thing back to maneuver.

The next day, another revelation was published again.

The whistleblower apparently did his homework, because the article actually shifted ground, bypassing the Hollywood Reporter, which had been spotted by the WMA, and was published in another Hollywood newspaper, Daily Variety.

"Daily Variety" is a daily newspaper under the variety company, and together with the weekly "variety" magazine, it forms the two major print media platforms of the variety company. In fact, "The Hollywood Reporter" also distinguishes between a Japanese newspaper and a weekly magazine, but it does not have another name like a variety show.

The revelation of "Daily Variety" is more detailed, and even involves the content of the package plan after WMA President Norman Broca 'compromised' with Fox.

It highlights Matthew Brodley's $5 million contract and the stingy buyout deal for the screenwriter of the project's screenplay "The Butterfly Effect", and highlights that these two agreements were the triggers for the conflict between Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman.

With the revelation of "Daily Variety" again, many daily newspaper media, including "Los Angeles Times", have also begun to pay attention to this matter, and the situation has a faint tendency to continue to expand.

Faced with this situation, WMA and Fox had to bite the bullet and continue to deny all the revelations in the media.

However, it is also clear to everyone that in order to avoid further setbacks, it is urgent to take strong measures to resolve the situation quickly and thoroughly.

The day after the incident, WMA's chairman, Lou Weiss, flew to Los Angeles with Norman Broka and Jonathan Friedman.

So, after the weekend, on Monday, July 21, WMA's chairman Lou Weiss and CEO Lee Stevens followed Norman Broca, who rushed back to Los Angeles ahead of schedule to stabilize the situation, also rushed to the West Coast.

At nine o'clock in the morning, at the WMA headquarters on Camino Street, there were only four people sitting in the spacious conference room, namely the two bigwigs who had come from the East Coast and the two parties involved in the whole thing.

"Before I came to Los Angeles yesterday, I had already communicated with Mr. Murdoch, the chairman of News Corporation," Lou Weiss, who was 75 years old this year, sat at the head of the conference table, looking a little tired, but his eyes were still sharp and glanced at the three subordinates around him, "Mr. Murdoch has agreed that Fox will try his best to cooperate with us to complete the project of "Butterfly Effect". However, this matter has to be adjusted somewhat. Moreover, I declare in advance that what I am going to say next is the final decision, and you two cannot object to it, you just need to implement it. If you can't do it, you can pack up your things and leave. ”

With that, Lou Weiss looked down at his memo, looked up again, glanced at Norman Broca and Jonathan Friedman, and said, "Since we have denied most of the revelations in the media, the original plan must be adjusted. First of all, the actor must be replaced, and it can no longer be Matthew. And, Norman, I've agreed to Fox, Matthew is going to star in one of their movies called Project X, and they're said to have already handed you the script before, right?"

Norman Broca nodded, but asked again, "Lu, what about Matthew's salary?"

Lou Weiss stared at Norman Broca and said, "$3 million." ”

Hearing Lou Weiss's figures, Norman Broca immediately stood up and said, "This is too low!"

"Only $3 million," Lou Weiss said with a tone of non-refuge, "or, you can leave." ”

The corners of Norman Broca's mouth moved, nodded slightly, and sat down quietly with some unwillingness.

Jonathan Friedman could have chosen to move from the WMA as a last resort, but Norman Broca couldn't, as a vice president of one of the largest staffing agencies in North America and the world, couldn't find his place at any other brokerage unless he set up his own business. But if he chooses to stand on his own, even if he can pull away a group of stars, Norman Broca will be able to withstand the subsequent suppression of the WMA, and it will be impossible to have the power at this time in the future.

Lou Weiss saw Norman Broca sit down, nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at Jonathan Friedman.