Chapter 1792： And little spiders

Why does the bank support MGM again? It's not because of the "007" series, fools know that as long as it is there, MGM can come alive again.

From this perspective, Bond is not only the savior of Britain and the entire Western world, but also the hero of MGM.

In order to fight a beautiful turnaround that year, the reorganized MGM immediately chose to summon Bond. At that time, the company's new CEO invested half of MGM's funds to shoot the new works of the "007" series. It turned out that it was due to debt. The wounded MGM successfully counterattacked with its own accumulation over the years.

"007: Breaking the Sky" became the highest-grossing action film in movie history at that time, with a total of 1.1 billion US dollars in the world, and won many Oscar awards and nominations.

In addition to the "007" series of movies, MGM also co-produced "The Hobbit" with Warner Bros.'s New Line Films, which once again made the lion roar through Hollywood.

Driven by these two films, MGM's annual revenue once returned to the $1 billion mark, with a net profit of half a billion.

However, due to the previous financial crisis, MGM lost the global distribution rights of "The Hobbit", and only retained the television broadcast rights of the film. Only when the film is released from the theater and pushed to the TV station, MGM can get a certain amount of it. The commercial returns, and the copyright of the "Lord of the Rings" series is firmly controlled by the original author's estate trust fund-Tolkien Trust Fund.

If you want to continue to develop, you must rely on the "007" series. The following year, Danjaq has most of the copyright and Danjaq company will take back all the left-over part of the "007" copyright, and since then fully control all the copyrights of the "007" series.

However, the shared copyright still means that MGM cannot fall. Once Danjaq falls, Danjaq will become the sole copyright owner of 007, and MGM may still be sold at a low price.

A successful series can save a company. This is already a consensus in Hollywood. Why does Disney want to buy Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and even now Fox?

In the case of financial permission, buying the copyright of the series by way of mergers and acquisitions is the longest value investment.

Sanford suggested that Yang Cheng should include MGM in the negotiation. It is also out of this consideration. Who doesn't want the company he will work for in the future to be stronger?

After learning about the copyright ownership of 007 from Sanford, Yang Cheng asked again, "How many shares does Sony still hold in MGM?"

Sanford shrugged, "Not much. After the reorganization, MGM concentrated on operating the "007" series, and returned a lot of blood. The management gradually broke away from Sony's control. Therefore, if it can sell for a bit more, Sony will not mind the Mei is included in the negotiation, as long as they guarantee their investment share in the "007" series."

Yang Cheng nodded when she heard this. If this is the case, you can talk~

Sanford said with joy, "As long as you master "007", the merged company in the future will be invincible."

Yang Cheng said, "Not only, there are little spiders~"

Sanford patted his forehead, "Yes, but this is a bit troublesome~"

Yang Cheng frowned, "What's the matter?"

The most valuable IP in Sony's hands is "007" and the other is Little Spider. If there are problems with both copyrights, then whether this merger can be negotiated will be a question mark.

As we all know, the author of the Spider-Man comic series is Stan Lee, the "Father of Marvel". In 1985, Marvel Comics had collaborated with Cannon Pictures to launch a live-action Spider-Man movie.

Cannon Films used $225,000 and a certain revenue share to purchase the rights to the Spider-Man movie for 5 years.

At that time, Tom was even asked to discuss the role of the lead role, but later because of the filming of "Superman 4" and "Delta Time", Cannon drew a large amount of Spider-Man movie budget, and then these two films failed miserably at the market box office. The Spider-Man movie was put on hold.

In the 1990s, Carloco Pictures acquired the copyright to the Spider-Man movie. At that time, James Cameron of Carloco Pictures, yes, Kashen also submitted a script for a Spider-Man movie and had the opportunity to direct it. Spiderman movie. However, due to financial and legal difficulties, the same was eventually given.

Then Carloco Pictures went bankrupt and Marvel went bankrupt. At that time, the ownership of the movie rights of Spider-Man was very confused.

On the one hand, MGM Films acquired Carrocco and obtained the rights to the Spider-Man script created by everyone including James Cameron. On the other hand, Marvel Comics officially released "Spider-Man" in 1999. The copyright was transferred to Columbia Pictures.

MGM and Columbia had a huge conflict over the copyright of Spider-Man.

However, because MGM executives moved to Colombia with the copyright of 007, both sides stepped back. Columbia gave up the copyright of the 007 series of films and obtained the copyright of all the scripts of Spider-Man.

So far, Sony's Columbia company has completely obtained the copyright of the Spider-Man series of movies.

After obtaining the copyright to Spider-Man, Columbia Pictures invited Sam Leimi, a fan of Spider-Man comics, to shoot the first version of the "Spider-Man" trilogy.

Later, the two-part "The Amazing Spider-Man" was an innovation made by Sony with reference to the tone of Nolan's "Batman" series of movies. Compared with the first version, the visual effect was upgraded to 3DIMX, and there were more Serious dark style and deeper themes.

Although the "Amazing Spider-Man" series is well-made and the visual effects are more superb, the too serious tone obviously does not conform to the funny nature of the little spider, and the box office was disastrous Everyone knows later. Now, the first movie of the Marvel Universe "Iron Man" was released, and the era of super-English adaptation of the movie universe has since been opened.

Successively winning super high box office has naturally become an opportunity to promote the cooperation between Sony and Marvel. Sony, which holds the copyright of Spider-Man, dare not beat a good hand again, and joint Marvel production is undoubtedly a more stable decision.

Unexpectedly, the first "Spider-Man" that the two sides cooperated will be released next year. What kind of results can be achieved, apart from Yang Orange, no one in the world will know.

There is no doubt that the new Spider-Man will achieve double success in word-of-mouth and box office, which also provides the confidence for Marvel to propose more stringent accounting requirements to Sony.

Yang Cheng only knows that in the next few years, Marvel and Sony will have a lot of trouble with the splitting of accounts, and he doesn't know what's going on.

In any case, Marvel’s ability to control superheroes must be higher than Sony’s. After all, he is the father of Little Spider. Although he once sold his son to survive, it is necessary to understand, who else Comparable to pro-Laozi?

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