"How much do you want to do with the blacklist now? I set up a screenwriter department at the beginning, be responsible for the relevant work or should I try the waters first, and then start preparing after the first blacklist is released?" After hearing Lance's thoughts, Ian immediately had countless ideas, but he summarized it into the simplest way to ask Lance for his opinion.

In the management of Chaos Film, Lance is responsible for ideas and creativity, and Ian is responsible for company operations. Such division of labor and cooperation is very clear.

Lance did not answer immediately, but pondered for a moment, "So, all your work is over now, and you are completely Chaos Pictures?"

Ian raised his hands, "I belong to you now." This made Gao Wen burst into laughter from the side, and Lance rolled his eyes helplessly, "And Theo, he has completely resigned." Gao Wen and Lance both looked at Theo, and Theo nodded calmly, "The handover has been over."

After three years of integration, Chaos Pictures' management finally saw the model.

"I want to separate the functions of various departments of the company. We need to attract a large number of talents now. It is best to allow the company to shoot two or even three works at the same time in the second half of this year or next year." Lance had a rough idea, but he didn't know how feasible it was, so he needed to seek Ian's opinion. "Of course, it's not a big production, it's just a small production within our ability. For example, a scale of the City of God, of course, it's best to have a movie that can reach the scale of killing people with a knife." Speaking of this, Lance paused slightly and looked at Ian hesitantly, "Do we have such capabilities now?"

Funds, personnel, equipment, etc., hardware and software facilities, Chaos Pictures are all just in its infancy, but also in its booming stage. The success of three consecutive works has allowed Chaos Pictures to occupy a place in Hollywood. Under the attention of everyone, there are still opportunities that come with the pressure.

Ian gently closed his jaw, "We will develop to that point." In other words, it is not available now. "If you have a blacklist, can you prepare now?"

Lance thought seriously, "Give me a month? What's wrong?"

"I mean, after the Sin City ended, we had a lot of choices. Aside from Warner Bros. and Disney." Ian's brain ran up quickly, "If we could, we could be prepared to win more opportunities for the company."

The Superman Project and "Pirates of the Caribbean", perhaps both of them have been negotiated successfully, and Chaos Pictures can be selected, and the negotiations between the two works have been failed, which has put Chaos Pictures' efforts into trouble. But no matter which result, Chaos Pictures will put all its hopes on these two projects, which will put the company in a passive position.

However, if the blacklist can be released smoothly, it also means that Chaos Pictures can have countless other possibilities, such as selecting scripts suitable for Chaos Pictures from the blacklist and investing in filming and production.

Lance understood in a blink of an eye, "I will speed up. Not only to prepare for more hands, but I also need some help when I am fighting for the Warner Bros. cooperation project."

"Then you must attend this week's Oscar nominee lunch." Ian has indeed become familiar with Hollywood's operating model. The so-called Oscar nominee lunch, as literally, is a luncheon where all nominees gather before the annual Oscar was officially held. On the one hand, it is to create momentum for the upcoming Oscar publicity, and on the other hand, it is a social occasion for senior officials.

Obviously, Lance has begun to speed up. If the blacklist thing goes well, Chaos Pictures will enter a stage of rapid development next. Ian is already ready to fight, but his emotions have not been revealed, but instead he has become more and more calm and has quietly changed the topic. "By the way, Theo has found a lot of internal news about Disney."

"At the board meeting last week, Disney had broken up directly. Roy Disney SN and Michael Esner cursed and sweared, and they almost started fighting." Theo described the tension and chaos inside Disney with just one sentence. "This time, the case of Disney shareholders accusing the board of directors was brought up again. The Delaware Court decided to interrogate Michael. There was no room for maneuvering this matter, and now the board of directors has begun to distribute the relationship."

"I thought they were all high-quality civilized people." Lance was a little surprised. As a bystander in the past two lives, he watched the changes and rise and fall of these large companies, and he sighed more about the changes in the mall, but now he cleared the fog and peeked at the tip of the iceberg of his true appearance.

Ian said with a smile, "Believe me, as long as there is enough interests, their bottom line will shock your world." Theo rolled his eyes helplessly.

In a single-system company power structure like Europe and the United States, CEOs, as the head of management, actually control 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 advocate board-centrism and encourage the company's management to seize the power of the shareholders' meeting. The management and board personnel chain further consolidate the position of CEO.

Under this concept, many companies have developed a power center model of three troikas, namely, the chairman, the company president, and the CEO who is in charge of company power supervision, coordination and execution. But in fact, the three-legged power interaction structure often forms such a result in operation: the role of the chairman is weakened, the president is undermined, and the CEO's power reaches its peak.

Disney is a typical example of this. Michael, as CEO, actually controlled Disney for twenty years, and the company's president and chairman were in his shadow for a long time, which made Disney almost a man of Michael's words.

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 inquired about. In the past few years, those major decisions that have influenced Disney's future development direction have almost been Michael alone, including directly sweeping Jeffrey Carsonberg out of the company and poaching Michael Orwitz, CEO of the Innovation Artist Brokerage Company, with 140 million resignation compensation, and other decisions, which have not been approved by the board of directors.

As it turns out, these decisions are huge mistakes.

All of this gave Michael the title of "Tyrant". Disney was even shown by many universities as a negative case. As a case of the company's demise after the CEO's power was overwhelming. Even within Hollywood, Disney was hailed as the worst company in management. In 2003, the shareholders' meeting directly sued Disney's board of directors, which also opened the curtain for the struggle for power within Disney.

Now, obviously this drama has been achieved. Roy Disney is the nephew of the founder Walt Disney Sn and one of the largest shareholders. Roy and Michael have completely broken up, and it is obvious that things have lost control.

It was in this context that Eric went to Austin to visit Lance. Perhaps Eric's behavior had no connection with the company's civil strife. After all, the sequel to "Pirates of the Caribbean" is just a small movie project in the Disney Empire, but the greater possibility is that this movie project involving a trend of $500 million has been unknowingly involved in the power struggle of Disney's senior executives.

2004 was a very bad year for Disney. In the year-end list, although the two works "National Treasure" and "Superman Mobilization" ranked among the top ten, the "Mysterious Village", "Princess Diary 2", "King Arthur", and "Traveling the Earth for 80 Days" all suffered a miserable defeat. What's even more terrifying is that Disney's animation department survived further slipped into the abyss "Superman Mobilization" was created by Pixar, and the original "Mulan 2", "Three Musketeers" and "Winnie the Pooh" all suffered a crushing defeat. If you add the "Legend of the Bear" and "Prince of the Forest 2" in 2003, the Disney animation department has suffered a rare five consecutive defeats.

In other words, Disney's animation department has not made any money since "Star Baby" in 2002.

This is also one of the fuses that triggered Disney's internal war. Michael's poor employment and failure in decision-making accelerated the demise of the tyrant dynasty.

The launch of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project was also severely criticized by the entire board of directors. Almost no one would be willing to believe that this pirate project could make money. Michael followed his usual profession and gave Jerry Brookheimer the green light all the way, which led to the amazing world Captain Jack Sparrow. Now, facing the huge box office pressure, Michael once again brought up the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project.

For the outside world, the schedules of the three leading actors cannot match, which is the reason why the two sequels were filmed in one go, but inside Disney, people know that this is Michael's hard hit. He needs the support of Jerry and others. He needs a big project like 500 million sequels to drive morale.

Even large companies like Disney have projects involving 500 million investments.

"So, we have become chess pieces." Lance said, this is a certain sentence, not a question. Since Robert Eiger came to the door, Chaos Pictures has been implicated into this power struggle unintentionally. Of course, for Disney, Chaos Pictures is just cannon fodder and cannot cause more trouble at all, but for Chaos Pictures, it does not want this project to cause its own catastrophe.

Ian and Theo exchanged a glance, and then saw Ian tilting his head slightly, "If you don't want to, it's still time to quit this game now." To be continued.
Chapter completed!