Chapter 206: Returning a Name, Three Conditions
Hearing Robert's words, Charles felt as if he had lost his soul. He knelt directly on the ground, hugged Robert's thigh, and said: "Mr. Robert, please give me a chance. I can't lose this position!"
However, Robert kicked Charles aside and said coldly: "Charles, you let me down so much. Let me tell you another secret. Do you know why Zhang Xiao is not afraid of being banned by Warner Bros.?"
Charles raised his head, looked at Robert with puzzled eyes, and said with some fear: "Why?"
Robert said: "Because he also has a name, Jack Zhang."
When Charles heard the name, he felt it was very familiar. After thinking for a while, his eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "He... he is the mysterious Chinese who became the third largest shareholder of Disney two days ago?"
Robert nodded and said: "Yes, Charles, you can get out now."
At this time, Charles, who was still aloof before, suddenly turned pale as a sheet. He knew that he was finished, stood up from the ground with difficulty, and left the company in despair.
In the afternoon of that day, Manville, the newly appointed CEO of Warner Films, held a press conference to solemnly apologize to Zhang Xiao and the Chinese people on behalf of Warner Films.
It's a pity that this belated apology was not recognized by Chinese movie fans.
As the saying goes, the person who untied the bell must tie the bell. Manville knew that if he wanted to completely resolve this crisis, he had to deal with Zhang Xiao first, so he found the director of "Batman", Chris, and invited him
We took a flight to Yuzhou together.
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Zhang Xiao, who was coaching Yang Mi in acting at home, received a call from Li Liangjie that day and asked with a smile: "Hey, Brother Jie, what are your instructions?"
The two of them have worked together before and are relatively familiar with each other. Since they are both martial arts practitioners, they are even more familiar with each other.
Li Liangjie on the other end of the phone said bluntly: "Zhang Xiao, Warner's new CEO Manville and director Chris would like to invite you to dinner tonight."
Hearing this, Zhang Xiao asked in confusion: "Brother Jie, are they looking for you?"
"Well, they know that I have a good relationship with you, so they want to ask me to be their lobbyist!" Li Liangjie said with a smile.
Zhang Xiao thought for a while and asked: "Brother Jie, if this matter were yours, what would you do?"
After all, Li Liangjie has been in Hollywood much longer than Zhang Xiao, and he is a senior he respects, so Zhang Xiao will ask Li Liangjie for his opinion.
After Li Liangjie pondered for a while, he slowly said: "If Warner was still the CEO of Charles, I would not be this lobbyist. However, as the saying goes, it is better to resolve enemies than to marry them."
"Now that Warner's CEO has been replaced by Manville, and the previous Charles has resigned, that Ryan will also face legal punishment, and Warner's losses will be even greater. You have won, and I think it is time to reconcile.
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After listening to Li Liangjie's words, Zhang Xiao smiled and said, "Brother Jie, do you really believe there will be reconciliation?"
"I have caused Warner to lose tens of billions of dollars. They want to tear me into pieces. However, I am not afraid of them. I will blackmail them severely now that I have the upper hand."
"You kid, you are so shrewd." Li Liangjie laughed and cursed on the other end of the phone, and continued: "At seven o'clock tonight at the Raffles Hotel, I want to see how you plan to blackmail Warner."
"Okay, let's see you tonight." Zhang Xiao replied and hung up the phone.
Yang Mi, who had been listening to the conversation between Zhang Xiao and Li Liangjie, burst out laughing when she saw Zhang Xiao hang up the phone.
Said: "Husband, I found that if anyone offends you, it will be a lifetime of bad luck."
Zhang Xiao raised his hand and scratched the bridge of Yang Mi's tall nose and said with a smile: "I won't offend others unless they offend me. If someone offends me, haha..."
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At seven o'clock in the evening, Zhang Xiao arrived at the Laifu Hotel on time and walked into the box he had agreed with Li Liangjie.
After saying hello to Li Liangjie first, he looked at Director Chris and said with a smile: "Director Chris, welcome to China, to Yuzhou."
Chris smiled and said: "Zhang, the role of the clown has been waiting for you!"
Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "Director Chris, thank you very much for your respect for me!"
After saying that, he looked at a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes sitting next to Chris and said, "This must be Mr. Manville!"
Manville tried to keep his posture as low as possible and said: "Mr. Zhang, I am Manville, the newly appointed CEO of Warner. On behalf of Warner, I would like to express my sincere apology to Ning for the stupid behavior of my predecessor."
Zhang Xiao waved his hand and said: "I don't care, the ones you really want to apologize to are the Chinese movie fans."
Manville said quickly: "Of course."
Li Liangjie next to him said with a smile: "Let's sit down and talk first!"
"Okay!" Zhang Xiao responded and sat down.
After the four of them sat down, Manville did not hesitate at all and said straight to the point: "Mr. Zhang, there is an idiom in China called openness and honesty."
"What should we at Warner do to satisfy you and the Chinese fans? Please make it clear."
Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "Mr. Manville, I appreciate your frankness very much. Now I want to ask you to tell me truthfully. Do you Warners particularly hate me?"
Without thinking, Manville answered truthfully: "I don't hate you personally. On the contrary, without you, I wouldn't be able to sit in the position of CEO, so to a certain extent, I still want to thank you."
"However, all shareholders of Warner have a very bad influence on you. After all, you caused them to lose tens of billions of dollars."
Hearing Manville's words, Zhang Xiao smiled. Not to mention, it was really like this. He indirectly helped him. He really shouldn't hate himself.
As for those shareholders hating Zhang Xiao, that's normal, so Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "This is normal, so in order to prevent Warner from doing a series of unfavorable things to me in the future, I must have enough chips in my hands."
Upon hearing this, Manville narrowed his eyes and said, "Mr. Zhang, please speak directly."
Zhang Xiao slowly stretched out three fingers and said: "I have three conditions for this."
"First, you need to hold a press conference to sincerely apologize to me and the Chinese fans."
"This is what it should be, there's no problem at all." Manville replied without any hesitation.
"Second, I am very interested in the role of the Joker."
Chapter completed!