Chapter 18

Spiderman is a well-known cartoon hero for American teenagers; For the 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 make a spider man movie. The overall picture of the film can be described as miserable.

Well, you mean box office?

Well, after the movie came out, the production company went bankrupt.

How much do you think the box office will be?

In the 1970s, a Turkish film company also made a spider man film.

What about this time?

You can't find it on the Internet at all, because this movie didn't show at all!

It's no exaggeration to say that for many Hollywood companies, the copyright of spider man is the same thing.

Well, you say compared to Batman and Superman?

American movie audiences will tell you, "my friend, wake up."

The netizens of Huaxia in the 21st century will tell you: "brother, how many dishes do you have

......

"Good, good, good, good!"

"I can't imagine that spider man, who is famous in the 21st century, is really miserable in the 1990s."

I can't believe it if I don't read the information given by the system.

"Eh?"

For a moment, a flash of light suddenly flashed through Zhuke's mind!

Spider man's copyright is on sale. What about Marvel's other film and television copyrights?

X-Men, death attendants, iron man, Hulk, blade warrior, black widow and other comic heroes, their copyright is still in marvel.

At the thought of this, juxton was very excited.

If we can get them, we will not be invincible in Hollywood in the future?!

Don't you think it's better to buy Marvel directly? Sorry, Jack doesn't have that much money!

At the moment, Zhuke immediately called.

"Victor, it's Zucker. Well, I'm sorry to call you so late. It's not about the release of "Lola Run", it's about the copyright of spider man movies. Well, yes, you can help me see the copyright sales of Marvel company. Yes, it's urgent. OK, two days. OK. I'll go directly to the company then. "

.......

Two days later.

Wald pictures.

"Boss, due to the time, I only collect the data of marvel for the time being, some of which are few. If you still need it, I will let people continue to pay attention to it." Said Victor.

Time relationship, just collect these?

Victor, are you floating?

How can you say less about the thick stacks of information?!

For a moment, Zhuke not only frowned, but also did not expect that there were so many materials. How could he finish reading them in this period of time?

"Victor, do you want to kill me with all the information you've got?" Said Zucker.

"Don't worry, boss. You can see it when you open it. I won't kill you." Victor laughs.

Well, juke can only trust him.

After Victor left, Zhuke opened one of the books and watched it.

"Tut tut!"

"Victor is really powerful. No wonder he won't kill me. It's true. The data analysis is so clear."

For the next two hours, Zhuke had been fighting, and before noon, he had read several thick stacks of materials.

"I didn't expect that the ownership of spider man's copyright was so complicated."

I can't help but sigh that spider man's fate is too bumpy.

Well, of course, and marvel itself.

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The 1980s is the most glorious period of marvel.

The sales volume of comics reached new highs, and almost acquired DC Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at that time, but it was rejected by the editor in chief of marvel at that time.

During this period, marvel was a household name in the United States.

But that changed in 1989.

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

He is not a comic lover himself, but a master of capital operation.

Soon after he took over marvel, he began a cunning way of marketing: each comic book comes with a card in its plastic envelope. If a collector wants to collect all five cards of different designs, he must buy the same work many times.

There was a phenomenon at that time

"Fans will buy five comic books at a time and store them in unopened; Then buy the sixth book and read it in the plastic envelope. "

Perelman's plan is to keep hard core fans paying with higher prices and more comics circulation; As long as he can find enough figures to prove his hypothesis, he can take marvel to the open market and sell 40% of his shares to cash out - which is much more than he paid for the acquisition at the beginning!

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 cheated.

During 1993-96, the sales volume of comics decreased by 70%, hundreds of comics retailers went bankrupt, the prices of comics and card collections began to plummet, and the market collapsed. Whether Perelman is the "culprit" or not, the blow of the crash to the industry is devastating.

Marvel company, all in the doldrums, on the verge of bankruptcy!

"Lying trough!"

"Perelman is really a talent. He made a lot of money when he made Marvel close down."

That's right. Zhuke learned from the information that in the few years since he acquired marvel, he made nearly 300 million US dollars, and he still has a large number of shares in marvel! You know, when he bought marvel, he only spent more than $82 million.

"Why? Spider man? "

Sure enough, Zhuke can see from the information that at the latest board meeting of marvel, it has been determined that spider man will be sold in the near future.

You say X-Men, iron man, hulk and so on?

"Damn Perelman, you've sold so many heroes out!"

In 1993 alone, the copyright of heroes such as X-Men and iron man was sold.

Magic four also sold his mother!

Hulk, black widow also sold!

And so on, there are a lot of such operations. In a word, marvel has no money. Well, sell the hero copyright.

Well, although there are still many superhero copyrights in Marvel, they are all unknown heroes, and there is only one "Spider Man" scene left.

Now even this facade is going to be sold!

"Tut Tut, according to the information given to me by the system, Sony Columbia will win the competition with MGM and pay $7 million for spider man." Chuck thought.

Seven million dollars!

This is not a small number!

Sony Columbia's move can be said to be the hand of the century. It was won by far more than Spiderman's wealth at that time, and it also won rich returns for them a few years later.

"Damn seven million dollars! This time I'm going to break the pot and sell iron

For a moment, Zhuke began to check his wealth.

In order to avoid taxes, I just bought a villa in Burbank and spent 4.6 million US dollars, although some of them took bank loans; He bought a building in Silicon Valley and paid $6 million; The acquisition of the film company cost $2.8 million, and other expenses. With his current working capital, he still has more than $12 million left.

12 million dollars?

It sounds like a lot, but after buying spider man, Zhuke still has more than $5 million of working capital in his hand. What can he do?

You know, the production cost of spider man 1 is 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 doesn't feel enough money!

"No matter, I'll take the spider man copyright first. Anyway, when the boat comes to the bridge, it will be straight. There must be a way."

Zhuke gritted his teeth and immediately decided to find a lawyer to buy spider man copyright from marvel as soon as possible. Otherwise, when Sony Colombia comes, Zhuke will definitely pay more than $7 million.