American Fortune Life
Chapter 484: Underneath is a giant pit in a gold mine
Ike Pirmut walked firmly to the conference room with a cold face, past where the staff pretended to be busy working.
Stan Lee is tinted with intricate anger and helplessness in his eyes. Things are completely out of his control, his friends and partners have appeared, and he does not have many shares in the hands of this general advisor, nothing more than to stop Marvel from being bought.
The conference room door was pushed open, four people were already waiting inside, saw Stan Li follow, several people stood up to greet, after all, the old man fought for Marvel all his life, worthy of everyone's respect.
After everyone sat down, Ike looked around for a week and said in a low voice, "You must have seen this morning's paper? I can tell you clearly that that's what the story says, and I've decided to accept Andy Smith's offer to sell the shares in my hand, and each of you will decide whether or not to sell the shares in your hand, and if the shares you want to sell add up to more than 50 percent, then we can start negotiations. ”
Four shareholders looked at Stan Li, who had a red face and angry eyes, all looking at each other.
“I have 21 percent of the shares I can sell. I wonder how much Andy Smith is going to bid?” A shareholder, in his thirties or so, pushed his glasses and did not hesitate to ask.
Ike saw the second generation of young people who inherited their old friend's shares without any emotional fluctuations: “Andy Smith initially decided to spend $2 billion on the acquisition... ”
“That's not a good price... ”
“I can't accept this offer either... ”
“Quiet! I've already rejected his offer, but from it, I'm sure you've seen his sincerity, and our Marvel's total assets are about 2.3 billion, and Andy Smith should be very clear, no doubt just to draw a line for the next negotiations, and I'll do the best I can for you, certainly not less than 2.3 billion. “
Ike's words made several people agree to nod their heads, and they were carefully considered.
“You should also realize that the recent financial markets in the United States are a bit weird, all smart people, out here Michael is young, we've all been through this many times, and when we can't see the market, we need to prepare the cash outlook, which is the main reason why we old guys can't stand up.
Marvel is now relieved and can bring you a reward for your hard work and perseverance over the years!
If you have no objection, then you should initially sign an agreement stating the amount of shares you would like to sell, and I will negotiate on your behalf, and after you have negotiated the price, I will notify you that you will be able to complete the transaction once you have agreed. ”
Stanley watched the other four shareholders take over the agreement and read it roughly over. Only two shareholders who had cooperated for many years nodded to him with apologies. The other two young people who inherited the property did not hesitate to sign the agreement.
With a big company worth two billion, so many IP copyrights, but can't make a lot of money. Instead, I borrowed money from a bank, and even lost money for a few years. I can't even get a dividend. Why keep the shares of such a company, compassion? That's not funny!
“Stan... Forget it, you won't sell it, so with the exception of six percent of your shares, 94 percent of your shares have decided to sell now. That's it, folks. Wait for the news!” Eckpile Mutt was a little upset, too, and I didn't expect anyone to have much interest in Marvel.
Also, more IP copyrights, can't be replaced with knives, that's garbage too.
This is undoubtedly very beneficial for Andy. If he waits another year for Gao Fu's handsome Iron Man to show up and rave about 585 million global box offices before thinking about acquiring Marvel, he won't have to think about not having 4 billion.
And now, uh, all six movie companies are not interested in Marvel, just a few popular superhero copyrights.
No one knows better than Andy who's going to dominate future Hollywood movies, it's all a big hot IP adapted movie, and superheroes have completely taken over Hollywood's summer gear.
Future Hollywood films, simple action films and science fiction are already modest trends and are no longer a panacea to guarantee the box office.
Instead, superhero movies began to make a difference, Kaiyama Ritzpak, almost became a type of DU standing movie, cluttered with motion, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, love and many other forms, able to maximize audience attraction, and most importantly, these superheroes need a broad fan base.
Generations of Americans, people from other countries affected by American culture, are potential consumers.
And most importantly, of course, computer digital imaging technology took over the whole spectrum of special effects production, and the Hollywood film industry was upgraded, and technology began to rival creativity.
3D, IMAX, Dolby panorama, bullshit action emoticon capture technology, can bring out the imagination of the comic strip.
It's perfectly fair to say that whoever holds the IP copyright is eligible to cut the biggest piece of Hollywood's big cake to himself.
And if Andy succeeds in acquiring Marvel, he can transform Marvel from an IP provider to an industry-wide IP giant at no cost.
The Peak Entertainment Film Company is a new movie company, which is true, but it starts off with distribution and is no worse than any one of the six.
In the 1980s, the United States Government lifted the Hollywood Film Company's antitrust laws and encouraged the six major players to return to control of the entire industry chain.
Unfortunately, when the six major discoveries do not affect their interests in any way, even if they do not carry out a full industrial layout, they can lose all kinds of huge expenses and build cinemas in the United States without any interest in the expectations of the government.
Instead, the industry segmentation has allowed Hollywood film companies to grow faster. Otherwise, there would be no dream factory rapidly rising in the six major cracks, almost becoming the seventh largest example.
But Andy wanted to connect his industries, and he had to be slaughtered. Nima, Marvel was too skilled to dig his own roads. He was always good at digging and digging.
Marvel reached an agreement in 2005 with Paramount to distribute 10 films produced by Marvel over the next eight years.
Andy looked at the details of Marvel that Ike Piermut had sent over, and he had a bunch of toothaches.
He knows better than anyone that Captain America 3 was still shooting before he crossed, and Avengers 2 closed with 1.4 billion in the global box office, which is just Marvel's 10th film.
The first phase of the Marvel movie universe, which relied on six films to redeem up to $3.74 billion in global box offices at a total cost of $1 billion, was close to closing the second phase, which had already earned over $6 billion in box offices.
Andy knows the Marvel movie universe, and Phase II also includes "US 3 Civil War" and "Reunion 3 Infinite War", "Thunder God 3".
Nearly 9 billion big cakes, Andy said he wouldn't let Paramount share anything, and if he didn't want to, he'd pay for it.
“What a pit father Nima is!” Andy threw the file in his hand at his desk, frowned and pinched his temple.
Although irritable, Andy helplessly continued to pick up the throwaway material and looked.
Andy acquired Marvel not only to use Marvel's character image to make movies, but more importantly, the peripheral effects of movies, especially in terms of toys and dolls.
A good perimeter development revenue could be three times that of a box office, which for an influential role is almost a steady and unpaid deal.
Prior to several Spider-Man box office sales, even though there were many peripheral copyrights such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Thunder God and many others, authorized merchandise retail sales amounted to less than $200 million.
That's why Andy shouted so low.
But just a year later, in 2008, when mutants and spiders were filmed in a series by FOX and Sony, the retail value of Marvel's licensed merchandise jumped to $4 billion after Iron Man was on fire.
And after the Revenge Alliance was released, that amount reached $6 billion.
Over the course of the year, the situation, funds, and status will change dramatically, which is why Disney spent about 5.4 billion dollars on the acquisition of Marvel in 2009 with 4.2 billion in cash plus shares.
And Andy's point of entry for this time, undoubtedly, was the great advantage, the cabbage price of '96, the dark period before dawn of 2007.
Andy loves what Jack Ma said - today will be cruel, tomorrow will be more cruel, the day after tomorrow will be beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night.
The one who's kicked out of the game by Andy's takeover is undoubtedly the one who's gonna die tomorrow!
Knock, knock, knock.
“Come in.” Andy didn't look up, he kept looking at the information in his hand.
“Boss. ”
“Al, sit down, drink something, tell Tory. Let her get it for you. I'll be right back.” Andy looked up at Alvitelli and went on to read the information.
It took Andy about five minutes to put the file back on the table and see Al drinking it slowly with his coffee.
“What do you say? Does the think tank have any suggestions and scope for action on some of the authorization documents and agreements that Marvel sent them to sign with other companies? ”
Al put down the coffee cup, frowned and shook his head seriously, saying: "It's almost impossible without paying. ”
Andy shook his head with a smile and said helplessly, "Tell me. ”
“The agreement with Paramount would require about $130 million if it was to be breached, and Spider-Man's copyright would not be recovered, but a lawsuit could continue with Sony Columbia, and an agreement should be reached to increase the share of the copyright. As for FOX's x-war police... then there's no chance at all! ”
Alvitt's list is seriously finished, looking at the silent boss, is also helpless, this Marvel company is absolutely strange, there are no comics still painting, the whole series of copyright selling business in the publishing, sincerely helpless.