Hollywood starts with animation

"Spider-Man" is naturally a household name for American teenagers and a very famous comic book hero; for major Hollywood companies, it is a fairly good film and television copyright.

Yes, it's just "good".

As early as the 1960s, Marvel authorized a Hollywood company to shoot a Spider-Man movie.The overall picture of the film can be described as horrible.

Well, you mean the box office?

Well, after the movie was released, the production company went bankrupt.

How much do you say at the box office?

In the 1970s, a Turkish film company also shot a "Spiderman" movie.

What about this time?

You can't find it on the Internet, because the movie was never released!

It is not an exaggeration to say that the copyright of today's "Spiderman" movie is the same thing for many Hollywood companies.

Well, do you compare it to Batman and Superman?

American moviegoers will tell you: "Friend, wake up."

The netizen of China 21st Century will tell you: "Brother, how many dishes do you have, how about drink it like this?"

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"Boom obediently!"

"Unexpectedly, the famous Spider-Man in the 21st century was really miserable in the 1990s."

If Zhu Ke ignores the information provided by the system, he can't believe it.

"what?!"

For an instant, Zhuke's mind suddenly flashed an aura!

The rights to Spider-Man are on sale, but what about other Marvel movie rights?

X-Men, Deadpool, Iron Man, Hulk, Blade Warrior, Black Widow and other comic heroes, their copyright is still not in Marvel.

At the thought of this, Zhuke was suddenly excited.

If you can get them, will you be invincible in Hollywood in the future?!

Wouldn't it be better to buy Marvel directly?Sorry, Zhuke doesn't have that much money!

At the moment, Zhuke immediately called.

"Victor, I’m Zhuke, um, I’m sorry to call you so late. It’s not the release of "Lola Run", it’s the copyright issue of the Spider-Man movie, um, yes, you can help me see Marvel also sells those copyrights, yes, it’s more urgent. Okay, two days, right, that’s OK, I’ll go directly to the company when that happens."

.......

Two days later.

Wald Pictures.

"Boss, due to time constraints, I only collect these Marvel information for the time being, some of which are scarce. If you still need it, I will let people continue to pay attention." Victor said.

Time relationship, only collect these?

Victor, are you floating?

With a few thick piles of information, you still say less?!

For a while, Zhu Ke frowned not only, but he never expected that there were so many materials. How could he finish reading this time?

"Victor, you got so much information, are you trying to exhaust me?" Zucker said.

"Don't worry, boss, you will understand when you open it and take a look, I will definitely not exhaust you." Victor smiled.

Well, Zhuke can only believe him.

After Victor left, Zhuke opened one of the materials and read it.

"Tsk tut!"

"Victor is really amazing, no wonder he won't be exhausting me, it is really so, and the analysis of the data is so clear and clear."

For the next two hours, Zhu Ke had been fighting, and before noon, he had read a few thick piles of information.

"Unexpectedly, the copyright ownership issue of Spider-Man is so complicated."

No wonder Zhuke sighed that Spider-Man's fate was too rough.

Well, of course, and Marvel itself.

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The 1980s was the most glorious period for Marvel.

The sales of comics have repeatedly hit record highs, and they almost bought DC Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time, but were rejected by the Marvel editor at the time.

The Marvel of this period is a household name in the United States, and it is the only one seeking defeat.

However, all this changed in 1989.

This year, Perelman spent more than $82 million to acquire Marvel.

He is not a manga fan, but a master of capital operation.

After taking over Marvel, he soon started a cunning marketing method: every comic book comes with a card in the plastic cover. If the collector wants to collect all five different designs of cards, he must purchase the same work multiple times. .

A phenomenon unexpectedly appeared at that time:

"Fans will buy five comics at a time and store them unopened; then they will buy a sixth one to read in the plastic envelope."

Perelman’s plan is to keep hardcore fans paying with higher prices and more comic circulation; as long as he can find enough numbers to prove his hypothesis, he can bring Marvel to the open market. Sell ​​40% of the stock to cash out-this is far more than the money he paid for the acquisition!

The only problem here is that since 1993, more and more fans have withdrawn from the collection market because of the high cost.

And they feel that the quality of comics is declining;

Most retailers also feel that they have been fooled.

From 1993 to 1996, comic sales fell by 70%, hundreds of comic retailers went bankrupt, the prices of comics and card collections began to plummet, and the market collapsed.Regardless of whether Perelman is the "culprit" or not, the impact of this crash on the industry is devastating.

Marvel has fallen into a downturn across the board and is on the verge of bankruptcy!

"Fuck!"

"Perelman is really a talent, he made Marvel close to bankruptcy, but he made a lot of money."

That's right, Zhu Ke learned from the information that in the short span of his acquisition of Marvel, he actually made nearly 300 million U.S. dollars, and he still has a large amount of Marvel equity in his hand!You know, when he bought Marvel, he only spent more than $82 million.

"Huh? Spider-Man?!"

Sure enough, Zhu Ke saw from the information that in the latest Marvel board meeting, it has been determined that Spider-Man will be sold in the near future.

You said that the X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk and other hero copyrights?

"Damn Perelman, you have already sold so many heroes out!"

In 1993 alone, the copyrights of heroes such as X-Men and Iron Man were sold.

Fantastic Four is also sold out!

The Hulk and Black Widow are also sold!

Wait, there are many, many other such operations.In short, Marvel has no money, so good, just sell the hero copyright.

Well, although Marvel still has a lot of superhero copyrights, they are all unknown heroes, and there is only one "Spider-Man" supporting scene.

Now even this facade must be sold!

"Tsk tusk tusk, the system gave me the information that Sony Columbia will win the competition with MGM, for which it paid 7 million US dollars to acquire Spider-Man." Zhu Ke thought.

7 million dollars!

This is not a small number!

This shot by Sony Columbia can be described as the hand of the century. It was taken down with a net worth far beyond Spider-Man at the time, and it also won them rich returns a few years later.

"Go to his mother's 7 million dollars! This time I have to grab it!"

For a time, Zhuke began to count his net worth.

In order to avoid taxation, I just bought a villa in Burbank at a cost of 4.6 million U.S. dollars, although part of it was borrowed from a bank; I bought a building in Silicon Valley and paid 6 million U.S. dollars; the acquisition of a film company cost 2.8 million. U.S. dollars, and other expenses, and his current working capital, there are still more than 12 million dollars left.

More than 12 million dollars?

It sounds like a lot, but after buying Spider-Man, Zhuke still has more than $5 million in working capital in his hands. What can he do?

You know, the production cost of shooting the "Spider-Man 1" movie cost 139 million US dollars, and the publicity cost is more than 30 million US dollars!

At first Zhuke didn't feel anything, but now he feels that the money is not enough!

"It doesn't matter, I'm talking about taking the Spider-Man copyright first. Anyway, the ship will go straight to the bridge, and there will be a way."

Zhuke gritted his teeth and immediately decided to find a lawyer to buy the copyright of Spider-Man from Marvel as soon as possible.Otherwise, when Sony Columbia comes over, Zucker will definitely pay more than 7 million US dollars.