It is agreed that the 18th line will be top-notch?

Because everyone reached a consensus, the meeting ended quickly.

Although the people in the video conference are only theater chains that have cooperated with Kuiguang Group many times, and do not represent all theater chains in the country...but these people also have their own network of relationships and will also affect the decision-making of other theater chains that did not attend the meeting.

After this meeting, it is certain that at least 80% of the theaters in the country will no longer release the animated film "Luo Dabai".

"The influence of Kuiguang Group is really too great now." Yang Ruoqian turned off the video conference and said belatedly, "It really is just one meeting that determines the life or death of a work."

Of course, this is based on the fact that the work itself contains a lot of negative information, its basic market has collapsed, and its monetization ability is not optimistic.

Although the Kuiguang Group now has the ability to suppress an individual or even a creative team, President Yang and the Kuiguang Group, as a company that is known to purify the entertainment industry, will not do such a thing.

If the Kuiguang Group, in the name of the company, were to chase and block a film crew through various channels, they would first find it extremely difficult to raise funds, then recruit actors, publicity would be fraught with difficulties, and getting the film released in theaters would be even more of a calamity.

Strong financial resources, a powerful network of relationships, a terrifying community of interests formed by big taxpayers and ordinary people, countless diehard fans, and even a money printing machine for the international market...

Anyone who dares to take away their jobs will have a blood feud with them.

The interests of this huge group of people are directly tied to the interests of the Kuiguang Group.

If the Kuiguang Group came out and made its position clear, and asked these people to choose between following the group or following its competitors, I believe that for many people, this would not be a difficult decision.

Yang Ruoqian has truly experienced how powerful his words are.

Even the traditional entertainment circles are now showing signs of weakness, with various invitations for cooperation pouring in and they are starting to actively sign up for the Kuiguang Group's Academy Awards.

At the same time, they also began to shamelessly award prizes to works produced by the Kuiguang Group.

If the traditional entertainment industry used to regard Kuiguang Group and Yang Ruoqian as nouveau riche, now they regard Kuiguang Group as their true "own people".

Of course, although Mr. Yang now has the ability to "act recklessly", he will not mess around unless he is facing a creative team like "Luo Dabai".

Not to mention that doing so would, to some extent, overdraw the group's reputation and soft power...

From the perspective of interests, Yang Ruoqian would like to have more rivals in healthy competition, and he would like to see another rival rise up in the country to compete with him and grab some of his market share. How could he possibly suppress normal people?
"I accidentally found myself becoming the boss who has the final say. This feeling..."

The main reason was that the identity changed too quickly, and Mr. Yang himself didn't care much about these things.

Luo Ruqin asked in surprise: "Dad, I told you that we are the villains now, I didn't lie to you!"

"Ha, we abide by the law, compete in a healthy way, don't exploit employees, and are brave in innovation. Aren't we good citizens?" Yang Ruoqian retorted, "How can you be a villain? You are a rebellious son. It's hard for me to entrust the company to you if you have such thoughts."

Luo Ruying counted on her fingers and said seriously, "No problem. You abide by the law and the decent people can't do anything to you. Healthy competition doesn't exploit employees, which makes the whole company united, which is in stark contrast to the decent people who always like to fight among themselves. You are brave and innovative, which is incompatible with the conservative decent people... Uh, Dad, you are the villain!"

"Moreover, the big villain is usually the strongest person in a region. You are now the strongest person in our entertainment company. To sum up, you... we are indeed the big villain!"

Yang Ruoqian complained: "It's just specious talk."

While chatting with Cyber's daughter, Yang Ruoqian continued to look at his phone.

Soon, many veteran entertainment companies and cinemas came out to say that based on the company's technical adjustments and business considerations, they would not put the "Luo Dabai" animated film on the shelves.

Less than half an hour after the video conference ended, the companies' statements had already come out, which was extremely efficient.

They certainly wouldn't say that they were responding to the Kuiguang Group, but anyone who isn't a fool can see from such a statement that these companies are standing up for the Kuiguang Group and taking sides on the casting of the movie "Avedar."

It seems that as long as the Kuiguang Group gives an order, those companies that usually fight each other to the death and use all kinds of dirty means to attack each other will immediately put aside their grudges, unite as a front, and fight the enemy together.

In the past, this kind of behavior would definitely be suppressed by netizens, and fans of the work would definitely stand up to complain, but this time, the comment section was full of cheers.

At the same time, many media also expressed that the influence of Kuiguang Group in the entertainment industry is so huge that it is a bit scary.

It is incredible that in the entertainment industry, where four people can create more than a dozen groups and intrigue among themselves, they can be united.

As Yang Ruoqian expected, in addition to the theaters that had just discussed the matter in the video conference, many other theaters that did not participate in the video conference also came out and issued the same statement.

"Very good..." Yang Ruoqian laughed, "It's a very loud noise! ​​Do you really think an apology can stop me from spending money? Young people nowadays are still too young."

The situation is great!
The money shredder is still running at full capacity!
……

At the same time, in an office that is not very big but has a decoration with a "petty bourgeois" feel.

Contrary to what many outsiders speculated, after finishing the previous animation, the creative team of "Luo Dabai" did not directly disband the studio, but continued to exist as a company.

The reason why they can maintain operations and make money comfortably even without creating anything for such a long time is that they keep looking for all possible infringing secondary creations on the Internet.

Earn compensation.

Of course, this is someone else's legal right, so no one said anything about it, but fans kept urging for updates.

Until recently, they had fewer and fewer people to claim compensation from, and with secondary creations being wiped out and original works being delayed in being updated, a large number of fans had left. The studio team was then preparing new works, ready to continue making money from them.

These creators have been away from creative work and the entertainment industry for too long. Moreover, due to the company's management methods, each member is independent of each other and has their own social circle.

Each member of the studio has different division of labor. They usually handle lawsuits, slack off in the company and wait for compensation to arrive. When creation is needed, they form a team. The boundary between superiors and subordinates is very vague.

Investors can make stable profits and are too lazy to interfere with the decisions of these creators.

Life could have gone on so beautifully, publishing works, cracking down on secondary creations to earn compensation, releasing sequels when they were about to disappear, and the cycle of living off the old profits seemed like it could be repeated for a long time.

Until one of them, maybe because he surfed the Internet too much, or was jealous of the rise of Kuiguang Group, or even because he watched too many diversified things abroad and his brain was damaged, he actually attacked "Aveda" on the Internet platform without knowing the consequences. After this creative member expressed his opinion, countless angry netizens flooded their comment area and demanded an apology.

At this stage, things are still under control - because everyone still feels that when a creator expresses his or her own opinion, it is his or her personal behavior and has nothing to do with the entire production team or the work.

Then, another main creative staff member came out to argue, refused to apologize, and his stubborn attitude brought the fire to the entire main creative team.

Finally, with a letter from Kuiguang Group and the cruel abandonment of the animation character, Kuiguang Group was removed from the entire incident, and the IP of the entire work "Luo Dabai" was affected...

Only now do the creative team realize that they seem to be in big trouble.

It was a rare occasion that this group of scattered people gathered together in the company, and even spent money to hire a public relations team to give them advice.

In the end, they came to a conclusion - it is impossible to have perfect public relations at this stage, and the best solution is to make a big deal out of a small matter, admit one's mistakes, and calm things down as much as possible.

If it cannot be solved, then cool down the issue or simply remove it from the trending search.

The last time they abandoned the negative news about anime characters, it had little impact and did not cause a massive collapse of fans because it was removed from the trending searches in a timely manner.

But this time, their opponents are no longer those powerless and disorganized fans who can only post videos angrily online and then suffer traffic restrictions.

Instead, it is the Kuiguang Group, which already possesses powerful power and even controls the social platform.

Remove trending search?
Not to mention whether they have the financial resources to compete with Kuiguang Group, and whether they have the ability to make every platform choose them instead of Kuiguang Group. Even if other hot searches are really withdrawn, can they still withdraw Leopard Pu’s hot searches?

Negative news like this that is enough to shake the basic foundation will spread immediately once a loophole is opened, and will quickly spread across the entire Internet and cannot be suppressed at all.

So, in the end they decided to apologize.

And in the apology statement, they secretly characterized the matter as a conflict "with the Kuiguang Group" and as "one should not judge the casting of a professional crew from the perspective of an outsider."

Compared to the devastating accusations of accepting dog food from abroad, betraying fans, etc., these two are so light that they can be glossed over in one sentence.

Just because opinions differ, it is not a mistake of principle.

As long as it is not a mistake of principle, fans have room to argue.

Moreover, it is rumored that the Kuiguang Group has always been generous and tolerant, to its employees, partners and everyone else. As long as it issues an apology statement to show weakness, it should not be embarrassed.

"Will we not be embarrassed?!" Qian Mu, the leader of the creative team, shouted angrily, slamming the documents in his hand on the table. "This basically means that all mainstream theaters have cut ties with us, right?"

"Didn't you say that the relationship between Kuiguang Group and the traditional entertainment industry is incompatible? Why did the theaters over there make the same statement so quickly?"

How could this creative team, which had always shared joys and sorrows and was friendly with each other, have such a conflict? Everyone looked at each other, not daring to speak.

Many people felt aggrieved - they didn't say anything, so why were they implicated?

Aren't you and one of your good friends the only ones who speak without restraint on the Internet?
No one else is angry, why are you the first one to get angry?
Even the fact that the main creative team murdered the prototype of the animation character was revealed by Qian Mu in an event, with a look of self-satisfaction.

Now that we have encountered a problem, let's work together to find a solution...

Qian Mu seemed to be still unsatisfied, and continued to curse: "Now, our animation is almost finished, and now it has been banned by the entire network, what should we do?!"

"Zheng Zejia, you must be so mean to mess with a giant company? Or a giant company in the same industry? You've been a keyboard warrior online for too long and you can't tell the difference between the big and small. Now the whole company is being dragged down by you!"

“Qian Mu!” Zheng Zejia, who seemed to have been scolded for too long, finally couldn’t help but slammed the table and stood up. “What kind of good thing are you? I only posted the first comment. Didn’t you post the subsequent updates that fanned the flames and the sarcastic apology? I don’t even want to scold you. If it weren’t for your leaky mouth, would our foundation have collapsed?”

Qian Mu was furious: "I was speaking up for you, and you're blaming me, right?! If you hadn't posted that comment at the beginning, would I have spoken up for you? Would someone bring up the matter we suppressed again? In the end, isn't it your fault?"

Seeing the two people who were so harmonious and laughing together while playing games a few days ago now close to a falling out, only one sentence came to the minds of the other employees watching the game.

We can share the good times, but not the bad times.

"If you want to trace the source in this way, then..."

Snapped!
Before he could finish his words, the office door was thrown open with great force and slammed against the wall, causing everyone to turn and look.

That's the investor representative.

They believe that the IP value of "Luo Dabai" is high enough and that fans will definitely pay for it after it is released, so they have invested heavily in the hope of getting a good return.

However, it now seems that, let alone expecting good results, they may not even be able to release it in theaters!

This is a rhythm of losing everything!
Moreover, it was an unprovoked disaster caused by inappropriate remarks made by the creative team.

Anyone would be angry.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that this investor could slam the door and walk in. He took out his anger after he had tried to beg Kuiguang Group to let him go but to no avail.

"Arguing?! Shifting responsibility?!"

"I haven't even lost my temper yet, but you guys are already fighting among yourselves? You dared to offend Kuiguang Group just by making a movie called Luo Dabai. If you were more powerful, would you dare to rebel directly? Hmm?"

"Don't forget that we signed a gambling contract. Do you want to wait and lose everything?"

"I don't care what excuses you have or what ideas you have. Write me a self-criticism right now. This is a self-criticism to Kuiguang Group and to all the fans! Send it to me!"

"Even if you have to kneel down and kowtow, you must ask for Yang Ruoqian's forgiveness!" (End of this chapter)