"Artists have been suppressed for too long, and companies should consider the artist's lawsuit."

Tom. Cruise is the successor of Morgan. The second Hollywood superstar to speak after Freeman, "Avril and Sony's lawsuit happened in the record industry, but our actors in the entertainment industry are not oppressed by the company like Avril. ”

"Knowing that the role is not good, the script is not good, but being pressed by the company to take over the play, the company will not consider that kind of pain at all."

"So I hope this situation can be resolved, so I'm rooting for Avril."

Take Tom. Cruise's status, no company dares to let him take on plays he doesn't like, but when he hasn't reached the top of Hollywood superstars, companies often force him to take on plays.

Knowing that the script is not good, and knowing that the role is not to taste, but for the sake of the salary, the company still forces the artist to take the play, and the artist refuses, so he takes the contract to coerce the artist to take the play.

This painful memory was originally buried deep in my heart, but with Avril's actions, it was dug up again.

Except for Morgan. Freeman, Tom Ke. After Ruth, there were many members of the 20 million club and members of the would-be 20 million club to speak.

At the point where they are not afraid of the company or anything.

They just say what they want, they don't have to look at the company's eyes at all, on the contrary, the company must also look at their faces, because each of them is a creature standing at the top of the entertainment industry.

The salary easily exceeded 20 million, counting the share. There are a lot of more than 30 million, and even more than 100 million, but there are very few cases.

Even if it's a member of the 20 million club. If you want to earn more than 100 million, you also need luck.

For example, he starred in a series of big productions that are super profitable and have a box office of more than one billion.

In the face of such a super cash cow, the company did not dare to say anything at all.

"This morning, Avril Lavigne, a singer and punk princess, finally took Sony to court and asked the judge to rule that her contract with Sony was invalid, and once she wins this lawsuit, it will completely change the history of the American entertainment industry." -- Los Angeles Times.

"It's horrible. The person in charge of a brokerage company told reporters when he was interviewed: This is terrible, once Avril wins the lawsuit, the entire American entertainment industry will be destroyed. The era of depression is coming. —The New York Times.

"A new justice is brewing."

The Screen Actors Guild, the Recording Guild, and the Writers Guild all held a press conference, "As we all know, artists are glamorous on the surface and look highly regarded. But in reality, the artist is just a puppet in the hands of the company. Manipulated by the company. ”

"Singers, actors, screenwriters, directors, etc., as long as they are exploited, will be oppressed by capital, and they have to be free in their own fields, which is equivalent to dancing in shackles."

"And the original sin of this qiē lies in the major record companies, brokerage companies, and film companies."

"In order to seek profits, these companies use contracts to restrain the creation of artists, screenwriters, directors and others, pointing fingers and hurting the creative enthusiasm of artists, screenwriters and directors. It has reached a point where it is unbearable for artists, and our three major unions hope that the court will carefully consider Avril's lawsuit. ”

Think carefully.

Isn't it just that the court is biased in Avril's favor?

The speeches of the three major trade unions represented the attention of the Federation of Labor and Industry behind them.

Otherwise. The three major unions will never attack all Hollywood studios, American record companies, and agency companies at this time.

That is equivalent to confronting the mainstream forces of the entire entertainment industry.

Only a behemoth like the AFL-CIO can attack them, as they have done in the past, to protect the exploited classes in the United States.

"What are you guys doing?"

Steve. Keith made a phone call to Avril Lavigne, and then to Li Lin, and he said angrily: "What are you doing, do you know, even the eyes of the Federation of Labor and Industry have been invested." ”

"The people at the AOL Time Warner headquarters have been concerned about this incident, and the evaluation department of AOL Time Warner has assessed the matter as extremely dangerous, and they may contact a Wall Street consortium to help Sony survive this lawsuit."

Every company's appraisal department has a different hierarchy, and in AOL's appraisal department, extreme danger represents potential disruption.

Once it appears, let alone the top management of AOL Time Warner, even the board of directors will be alarmed.

But it's no wonder.

Avril's application is so amazing.

The lawsuit between a small artist and Sony actually involves the interests of all film companies, record companies, brokerage companies, all artists, screenwriters, directors and practitioners in the film industry.

Even the three major guilds and the Federation of Labor and Industry behind it have their eyes on the past.

This kind of Cheng dù pressure is not something that Sony can fight against at all, and in the face of the subversiveness that may exist, they naturally have to huddle together to keep warm.

"Extremely dangerous? AOL Time Warner's evaluation department is making a big fuss! Li Lin faced Steve. Case's rebuke was simply indifferent.

"It's just a federation of labor and industry, and you actually make such a move, which is simply disappointing us."

"Are you fighting the war with the AFLF so that you don't even have your own brains?"

Don't blame Li Lin for despising them so much.

What does this lawsuit have to do with the film company?

In Hollywood, actors sign contracts with agencies rather than film companies, and most actors are in the hands of brokerage companies, except for a small number of film companies that will sign a small number of actors because of their own needs.

They are more contracted directors and screenwriters.

In the eyes of the film company, the director and screenwriter are more worthy of signing a contract, as for the actors, if there are any, if there is not, it doesn't matter, because there are too many roles involved in a movie, and it is impossible for the film company to catch all the actors, and they will not forcibly hand over the roles of large-scale zuò movies to their own actors because they want to praise their own artists, which is irresponsible for the movie.

Once this is done, the director and screenwriter will protest.

They don't care if you're an artist or not, as long as you can't do the role, they will expel you, of course, they won't care about some supporting roles that don't have many scenes, but do those roles have an effect on artists signed under the film company?

Their own company's movies will not be on them, and other film companies will not let them be on the films, and Hollywood studios are competitors to each other, so there is no reason to give competitors more power.

Therefore, artists are not interested in film companies, and film companies are also lacking in artists in them. "It's just the brokerage company and the record company that should be in a hurry, don't tell me when your AOL Time Warner's record company has become the pillar industry of the group."

"Don't look at the film companies dancing happily now, but the giants have not spoken, and the only Hollywood giant Columbia Pictures that speaks is owned by Sony."

"Is it strange that Columbia Pictures, which is also owned by Sony, speaks for Sony Music?"

Steve. Keith's feverish head gradually calmed down.

He was misled by Columbia Pictures' statement, he only thought that the war between Avril and Sony Music affected the balance between the artist and the company, but he never thought that the film company and the artist actually did not have much to do with the artist, and the artist signed directly with the agency, and in this regard, the three major agencies have always ruled.

As for directors and editors, the former themselves have a lot of power, and the war between Avril and Sony Music will not affect them at all, which big director is not held in the palm of the hand by the film company, for fear of being a little dissatisfied?

As for screenwriters, there are too few well-known screenwriters in Hollywood, and most screenwriters live at the bottom, even if they fall out with the film company, it will have no impact on the film company, but they will lose their jobs because of the fall out with the film company.

No one likes a screenwriter who has a falling out with his company, and as for taking the script with him, no kidding, Hollywood scripts have gone through round after round of retouching, and any manuscript will become unrecognizable after being retouched.

They don't care about the script of the low-level screenwriter at all.

The screenwriter, one of the three cores of the film, has always been neglected.

During the subprime mortgage crisis, why did the writers' union hold a general strike? It was because of the large number of layoffs in Hollywood film companies that the directors and screenwriters could not survive, so they had no choice but to rise up and hold a general strike, hoping that the film companies would give them food.

Compared with artists and directors, the money in the screenwriter's pocket is pitiful.

"I was influenced by the Federation of Labour and Industry." Steve. Case admitted his mistake, "When I saw the LLOI plug in, I thought a new round of reshuffle was coming, and I guess AOL Time Warner was also influenced by them. ”

The influence of the AFLF on the American plutocrats is too great, if the plutocrats are the devil, then the AFLLIO is an angel, and the emergence of the AFLF will inevitably cause panic.

"When they react, this crisis is Sony's own business." Steve. Case quipped: "Sony against the three major unions under the AFL, presumably the Sony board of directors will be very happy." ”

"It doesn't affect them very much."

Sony is a whole, Sony Music can't affect the stock price too much, Sony's pillar industry is movies, and the other is electronic products.

As long as the two pillar industries do not collapse, Sony's stock price will be stable.

"But ......."

Li Lin's voice changed, "We can use this." ”

"For example, advocating the confrontation between Sony and the Federation of Labor and Industry, of course, we can't say it explicitly, but we can insinuate it to shake Sony's stock price." (To be continued......)