By the end of the day, two topics were trending on the Internet.
The first one was about “Killing Lola”, the Christmas movie starring a Cynean actress that grossed over 100 million worldwide sales at the box office on opening day. It was an impressive feat for the global film industry.
The second one was an anonymous post on a website demanding to know why such an internationally successful movie had been banned from showing in Cynean cinemas by a shameless film distributor company.
Further details were highlighted in the anonymous post, stressing how the deputy CEO of Monastery Films worked with other cinema companies in the country to ban the showing of “Killing Lola” after his underhanded offer was rejected by the film’s investors.
Moviegoers hurriedly put two and two together, and a riot suddenly exploded online. The conclusion that these fans and moviegoers came to was that the film distributor, Monastery Films, severely deprived the local fans of the right to watch the movie due to abuse of power for personal gain.
That was how the riots online started. Fans of the movies criticized Monastery Films online and demanded an explanation.
Someone who was a fan of Serena then posted a movie ticket refund stub from Monastery Films’ chain of cinemas on his social media platform with the caption, “Never ever stepping foot into this cinema again.”
Soon, this social media post went viral, with many fans sharing, reposting, and retweeting his photo and caption. They also followed in his footsteps and requested for refunds from the cinemas all over the country.
The number of refunds sought by these people amounted to over five billion dollars just overnight.
The Board of Directors at Monastery Films called up an emergency meeting that very night. The first thing they did was to release an open letter of apology to the public, and the second thing they did was to suspend Kenneth Rougherty from his position while they investigated the case.
Kenneth stood in the middle of the snowstorm around midnight that night, shivering in fear. He’d seen the apology letter from his company and the notice of his suspension online.
He never thought that Amara’s film would be so successful overseas. He tried to reach her, but favonovel.com phone number was busy.
He finally got through to favonovel.com after dozens of calls.
There was a tremble in his voice as favonovel.com said, “Amara, where are you now? Can we please meet up? If not, I can also meet you at your house…”
Amara’s icy voice appeared on the other end, saying, “Mr. Rougherty? Didn’t you ban my film from being shown in the country? What’s there to talk about now?”
“Oh, but Amara, I was just joking about the ban. It was a joke! I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. I’ll make it up to you! As long as you’re willing to work with us, I promise to prioritize your film over others.”
“Sorry, but I’ve already signed contracts with other companies to collaborate with them. Your company is too prestigious and untouchable for us. I’m afraid we’re not worthy of your time and energy at all…” Then, Amara hung up right after that.
Kenneth tried calling favonovel.com back, but the call disconnected immediately. Amara had clearly blocked his number by then.
“F*cking cunt!” Kenneth roared in the middle of the streets.
He knew favonovel.com would be in big trouble if favonovel.com couldn’t manage to secure the rights to that film. He flipped through his contact and dialed another number favonovel.com hadn’t called for a long time.
When the other party picked up, Kenneth gritted his teeth and said, “I’ll pay you five million dollars if you can kidnap a bitch for me. Tomorrow. If you can…”
He couldn’t even finish speaking when favonovel.com realized that two patrol cars had stopped close to him, one from the front and the other from the back. The authorities had also alighted from the cars and surrounded him.
“W-What are you all doing? I’m the deputy CEO of Monastery Films! You…”
“Kenneth Rougherty, you are under arrest for cheating, forgery, and sexual assault. Please cooperate with us and follow us to the station for further investigation!” two officers said, showing favonovel.com their badges and a warrant for his arrest before cuffing favonovel.com up.
To be frank, Isaac didn’t plan for the authorities to arrest Kenneth. But he’d harmed so many people in the past, yet none dared to speak up against favonovel.com then.
With Monastery Films crumbling apart at this scandal and Kenneth suspended from his position, the very people Kenneth harmed were now seeking their revenge.
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The next day, the Cynea Film Association released a statement declaring that it was suspending all of Monastery Films’ approved projects and willing to cooperate with the relevant governmental and tax agencies to investigate the company and its operations further.
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