Reminds me of one of my favorite industry stories from the 90's. Tony Kaye was an English director of major brand commercials. After years of trying, he finally got his big break to direct a Hollywood movie, American X, which starred Edward Norton. Being a first-time movie director, he lost control of the edit and got really mad with the results. At a bizarre meeting to which he brought a rabbi and an Imam to, he met with the studio execs and demanded a re-edit, but the studio held firm. So he took matters in to his own hands and took out a full-page ad in Hollywood Reporter saying the upcoming movie was total crap and he disavowed any ownership of it. He actually wrote telling people not to watch it, haha.
Before the ad came out, he got a surprise call. Amazingly, the studio heads decided that he had actually made some good points in their meeting and they were going to give him full creative control of the edit!! Tony Kaye frantically called the newspaper and tried to stop the publication of the ad, but it had already been printed and was being distributed while he spoke, hahahaha!
The ad came out and they called him, and told him he was was fucking fired forever, haha. Now he makes videos for bands, etc, but the dumbass has never again made a large budget Hollywood movie. I may have read that he has since bought the footage of American X and finally cut his own version of the movie, but not sure about that, lol.