"What do you want to do now about the blacklist? At the beginning, a screenwriting department was set up to be responsible for related work; Or do you want to test the waters first, wait for the first blacklist to be released, and then start preparing? After listening to Lance's thoughts, Ian immediately had a myriad of ideas, but he summed it up in the easiest way to ask Lance's opinion.

In the management of Chaos Pictures, Lance is responsible for ideas and creativity, and Ian is responsible for the company's operations, so the division of labor is very clear.

Lance didn't answer immediately, but groaned, "So, all the work at hand is now over, and it all belongs to Chaos Pictures?" ”

Ian raised his hands, "I'm yours now." This made Gawain laugh next to him, and Lance rolled his eyes helplessly, "And Theo, who has also left completely." Gawain and Lance both looked at Theo, who nodded calmly, "The handover is over." ”

After three years of integration, the management of Chaos Pictures finally got to see the model.

"I want to divide the functions of the various departments of the company, and we need to attract a lot of talent now, preferably in the second half of this year, or next year, so that the company has the ability to shoot two or even three films at the same time." Lance had a rough idea, but didn't know how much it would be feasible, so he needed to ask Ian for advice, "Of course, it's not a big one, it's just a small one that's within our reach." For example, the scale of 'City of God', of course, it is better to have a film that can reach the scale of 'borrowing a knife to kill'......" Speaking of this, Lance paused slightly and looked at Ian hesitantly, "Do we have such a ability now?" ”

Funding, personnel, equipment, etc., hardware and software facilities, Chaos Pictures is just in its infancy, but it is also a stage of vigorous development. The success of three consecutive works has allowed Chaos Pictures to occupy a place in Hollywood, and under the spotlight, with the pressure comes opportunities.

Ian tucked his chin slightly, "We'll get to that point." "To put it more bluntly, not now." Blacklist, can you prepare now? ”

Lance thought for a moment, "Give me a month?" What's wrong? ”

"I mean, after Sin City is over, we have a lot of options. Except for Warner Bros. and Disney. "If we can, we can be prepared to win more opportunities for the company." ”

Project Superman and "Pirates of the Caribbean", perhaps both of them were successfully negotiated, and Chaos Pictures was left to choose; Perhaps negotiations for both productions failed, undoing Chaos Pictures' efforts. But either way, Chaos Pictures pinned all its hopes on these two projects, which would have left the company passive.

However, if the blacklist can come out smoothly, it also means that Chaos Pictures can have countless other possibilities - such as selecting scripts suitable for Chaos Pictures from the blacklist and putting them into production.

Lance understood in a blink of an eye, "I'll speed things up." Not only was it a multi-handed preparation, but I also needed some help when I was trying to get a Warner Bros. collaboration. ”

"Then this week's Oscar nominee luncheon, you must be there." Ian has indeed become familiar with Hollywood's operating model, and the so-called Oscar nominees' luncheon, as the name suggests, is a luncheon where all the nominees gather before the official Oscars are held, on the one hand, to build momentum for the upcoming Oscars, and on the other hand, to socialize high-level people.

Obviously, Lance has begun to speed up, if the blacklist thing goes smoothly, Chaos Pictures will enter a high-speed development stage next, Ian has already begun to gear up, but his feelings are not exposed, but he has become more and more calm, and quietly changed the topic, "By the way, Theo heard a lot about Disney's internal news." ”

"At last week's board meeting, Disney had already torn its face directly, and Roy-Disney (Roy-Disney) and Michael Eisner scolded and exploded directly, and they were almost about to fight." Theo used just one sentence to describe the tension and chaos within Disney. "This time, the case of Disney shareholders against the board of directors has been raised again, and the Delaware court has decided to arraign Michael, and there is no room for manoeuvre, and now the board of directors has begun to divide the body."

"I thought they were all civilized people with high suzhì." Lance was a little surprised, in the first two lives, he watched the changes and ups and downs of these large companies as a bystander, and sighed more about the changes in the shopping mall, but now he cleared the fog and peeked into the tip of the iceberg of the real face, and couldn't help but be amazed.

Ian said with a smile, "Trust me, as long as there are enough benefits, their bottom line will shake your world." A joke made Theo roll his eyes helplessly.

In the power structure of unitary companies such as Europe and the United States, the CEO, as the head of the management level, actually controls the core power of the company, especially in the United States, among the top 100 companies in the United States, they are slightly different from the European financial management system, they are more advocating board centrism, instigating the company's management to seize the power of the shareholders' meeting, and the management and the board of directors personnel linkage, further consolidating the position of the CEO.

Under this concept, many companies have emerged as a troika of power-centered models, that is, the chairman, the president, and the chief executive officer who are in charge of the supervision, coordination, and execution of the company's power. But in fact, the three-legged power interaction structure often operates with the result that the role of the chairman is weakened, the president is hollowed out, and the power of the CEO is at its peak.

Disney is a typical example, as the CEO Michael actually controlled Disney for two decades, the company's president and chairman have long been in his shadow, which makes Disney almost Michael's word.

And Michael himself is an absolute dictator, and everything must be firmly controlled in his hands, even the paint color of the exterior wall of Disneyland must be personally investigated. Over the past few years, Michael has been almost alone in the decisions that shaped Disney's future direction, including the decision to purge Jeffrey Katzenberg outright and poach Michael Ovitz, the chief executive of Innovative Artists' Agency, for $140 million, without the approval of the board of directors.

As it turned out, these decisions were hugely wrong.

This qiē earned Michael the title of "tyrant", and Disney was even presented as a negative case by many universities - as a case of the CEO who led the demise of the company after his monstrous power, even within Hollywood, Disney has been hailed as one of the worst companies in management. In 2003, the shareholder meeting took Disney's board of directors directly to court, which also kicked off the power struggle within Disney.

Now, apparently the drama has reached a high level, with Roy Disney being the nephew of founder Walt-Disney and one of the largest shareholders, and Roy and Michael completely torn their faces, and apparently things have gotten out of control.

It was against this backdrop that Eric personally visited Lance in Austin. Perhaps, Eric's actions have nothing to do with the company's internal unrest, after all, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequel is just a small film project of the Disney Empire; But it is more likely that the film project, which involves $500 million, has unwittingly become involved in a power struggle at the top of Disney.

2004 was a very bad year for Disney, in the year-end list, although "National Treasure" and "The Incredibles" two works ranked among the top ten, but the highly anticipated "Mystery Village", "Princess Diaries 2", "King Arthur", "Around the World 80 Days" all suffered Waterloo, and what is even more terrifying is that the animation department on which Disney relied for survival slipped further into the abyss - "The Incredibles" was created by Pixar, and the original "Mulan 2" by the Disney animation department, " The "Three Musketeers" and "Winnie the Pooh" all failed miserably, and if you add 2003's "The Legend of the Bear" and "Prince of the Forest 2", the Disney animation division has suffered a rare five-game losing streak.

In other words, Disney's animation division hasn't made any money since 2002's "Star Baby."

This was also one of the triggers for the Disney Civil War, where Michael's misemployment and decision-making efforts accelerated the demise of the tyrant dynasty.

The launch of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project was also fiercely attacked by the entire board of directors, and almost no one wanted to believe that the pirate project could make money, and Michael followed his usual independent and exclusive style, regardless of giving Jerry Bruckheimer the green light all the way, which led to the emergence of Captain Jack Sparrow who amazed the world. Now, under the pressure of huge box office, Michael has once again brought up the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project.

For the outside world, the schedules of the three leading actors cannot be matched, which is the reason why the two sequels are filmed in one go; But inside Disney, people know that this is Michael's hard blow, he needs the support of Jerry and others, and he needs a big project like a sequel of 500 million to boost morale.

Even for a large company like Disney, a project involving an investment of 500 million is in the spotlight.

"So, we're pawns." Lance opened his mouth and said, this is an affirmative sentence, not an interrogative sentence. From the time Robert Iger came to the door, Chaos Pictures had been unintentionally drawn into this power struggle. Of course, for Disney, Chaos Pictures is just cannon fodder, and it can't stir up more waves at all, but for Chaos Pictures, it doesn't want this project to cause its own destruction.

Ian and Theo exchanged glances, and then saw Ian tilt his head slightly, "If you don't want to, it's too late to quit this game." (To be continued.) )