American Fortune Life

Andy looked at the response attitudes shown by the three of them, and suddenly felt a different sense of complacency in his heart.

In this world, it may be courage to bow your head, but you must rely on strength to raise your head. Poor in the downtown area, no one asks you, and rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives.

Unconsciously recalling his previous life in the streets of Los Angeles, where everyone ridiculed, disgusted, and sarcastic words, Andy still couldn't help but feel a little bit sad.

Why do you want to be successful?

For you, there are people standing and serving you when you eat!

For when you put down your knife and fork and talk, others stop and listen to you!

Because as long as you don't smoke, no one in the house dares to smoke!

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If labor and capital don't drink it, it's useless for you to lift it up!

Success is making yourself the type of person you hated the most before

"Thank you very much for your attention and support for "Resident Evil"! It is no problem to join the family of Universal Studios theme park!" He nodded and bowed again and again, showing a little flattered.

Of course, the flattery shown by the other party is not pretending. To be honest, as a brilliant company, Disney is the most ideal form that many of its peers want to become. Even some game companies such as Ubisoft want to develop in the direction of Disney, let alone It is said that the glory is no longer there, but Capcom has many famous game images in its hands. For the olive branch extended by Andy, Capcom is naturally very willing.

Well-known characters plus film and television game works plus theme park plus various peripherals and others, this model was only done by Disney and Universal Studios in the past, but the scale of Universal Studios theme park is naturally not comparable to that of Disney. But with the entry of Andy Smith, a business genius, let alone Disney, even other entertainment companies are closely watching the actions of NBC Universal.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to reclaim the controlling stake in Universal Studios Osaka, invest heavily in the construction of a new theme park with China Capital, and compete with Disney for the Asian market. under the shadow of the global financial crisis.

For Capcom, which is on the verge of bankruptcy and has a bright future on the surface, but is actually suffering serious losses, this is a much-desired wind.

"Ha ha,

Well, I like Tsujimoto-kun's straightforwardness! "Andy smiled happily, with an extremely bright smile, raised his eyebrows slightly and continued: "Actually, we can cooperate more deeply. I understand that the Capcom company founded by Mr. Tsujimoto's family has a lot of resources, game brands, and game companies. figure. Such as Rockman, Street Fighter and so on. Just imagine what it would be like if these game characters appeared in the theme parks of Universal Studios in the future, and even had their own special area! "

After Andy's bait was cast, Haruhiro Tsujimoto's expression became bright immediately, he leaned forward with a more humble expression, bowed his head and said, "Please take care of Mr. Smith!"

The conversation between the two made Howard Stringer, President of Sony North America, look at his immediate boss, Sony President Nobuyuki Idei. Nobuyuki Idei was smiling, his eyes were slightly squinted, and he was kneeling on the cushion with his back straight, wondering what he was thinking. what.

This time, apart from accompanying the president of Sony North America to discuss cooperation with Andy Smith, the most important thing is to come here to meet Andy, the young richest man in the world with a strong background, nothing else, just because Andy Smith is so dazzling.

In particular, the identity of Andy Smith, the chairman of Qualcomm, is a point that Nobuyuki Idei must not ignore. After all, the development of mobile phones is also an important plan for Sony in the future.

In public and private, Nobuyuki Idei hopes to take this opportunity to establish a friendship with Andy Smith.

As for Howard, the president of Sony North America, the idea is more simple and direct. He hopes to promote the cooperation between his Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures. If possible, it is best to establish an alliance. Extravagant.

No way, since Andy Smith entered Marvel, he has started to write articles about Spider-Man, either to redistribute profits, or to threaten to breach the contract to take back the copyright of Little Spider. Although the box office of the follow-up films of the Spider-Man series is not ideal, but this The profits brought by IP to Sony Colombia are indeed extremely rich. How could they let go? After being tossed by Marvel several times in a row, they could only grit their teeth and share part of the profits with Marvel.

Through the matter of the little spider, Howard had a profound experience of how difficult and wicked this young man with a sunny and harmless smile was.

To be honest, Sony Columbia's life in Hollywood is not very easy, which has a huge relationship with its footbath genes. Although Sony has been very careful to reduce its sense of presence, it is useless. We must know that movies have always been the pride of Americans, and Sony's intervention back then caused a panic in public opinion across the United States. The scared Sony has repeatedly stated that this is not an invasion of the foot basin culture, and they do not want to send the foot basin managers into Colombia. Emphasize that the key to success after the acquisition lies in "not highlighting the characteristics of the foot basin company" and ensuring that the acquired company maintains American characteristics.

However, geese are useless.

Even with the acquisition of MGM, which has a huge movie library, sales and TV rights and other good assets, as an outsider in Hollywood, Sony still suffered huge losses. It was not until Howard was hired that Sony gradually made profits.

For Andy Smith, Howard admires it from the bottom of his heart. It is also a half-dead film company with weak profits, but Universal Pictures has been completely reborn in a short period of time, especially the acquisition of Marvel Group. Everyone knows that NBC Universal is going to take off completely.

No way, although Sony Columbia has always been known for the number of films released, the release of 23 films in 2007 was the first among the six major companies. Last year, 20 films were also released, equal to the number one Warner Corporation. But they couldn't stand it, and each of their blockbuster films brought a bunch of box office junk with them. Especially the big box office IP is someone else's.

Facing the new behemoth Universal Pictures assembled by Andy Smith, Howard really hopes to get online, whether it is HULU Video, the second largest video website after YouTube, or Universal Studios theme park, It is Sony Columbia that can revitalize the huge movie library and the means of borrowing TV copyrights.

Hearing a series of words from Howard seeking cooperation, although Andy showed that he listened seriously and nodded from time to time in response to what Howard said, he just smiled and said nothing.

For Sony Columbia's idea of ​​free-riding and establishing an alliance, Andy could only sneer in his heart. He knew better than anyone else that in the future of Hollywood, whoever won the Marvel IP would win the world.

The grievances between Marvel and Sony Columbia surrounding the rights to film derivatives have already begun since he acquired the Marvel Group.

We all know that in 1999, with the downturn of the entire comics industry, Marvel, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, had to sell the film copyright of its most popular "Spider-Man" to Sony's subsidiary Columbia.

At that time, Sony rejected Marvel's deal to "sell" characters other than Spider-Man. Later, Marvel made a comeback with the Iron Man character that Sony didn't like. With Iron Man's great success, it became a joke in the circle. But in fact, the contract signed between Marvel and Sony at the time was not simple. Marvel, who had sold its own IP and had nowhere to go, even left a hand for itself.

Except that Sony enjoys the right to benefit from derivatives of the "Spider-Man" movie series, it does not include other forms of derivatives. Moreover, Marvel's movie copyright has a specific time limit. Sony must release a new Spider-Man movie every five years. If no new Spider-Man movie is produced for more than five years, the movie copyright will return to Marvel.

And there are more than 900 comic characters connected with Spider-Man in the comics. For example, the villain character Venom, and the hero character Spider Woman. These heroes and villains do not belong to Sony, but are owned by Sony in the form of "sharing rights". In this case, either Sony developed them in a specific way to accompany the Spider-Man movie, or they were "locked" from developing it into a movie at will.

Before that, Andy ordered the Marvel Group to go to Sony to make trouble, just to regain half of the rights to operate movie derivatives that can earn huge profits.

And Sony has long had plans to develop derivatives of the Spider-Man series, but in the face of the Marvel Group, which is playing a rogue, wants to turn the table, and puts on a villain attitude that everyone should stop playing, Sony can only help. Handed over and returned half of the power to Marvel, and Marvel Pictures, which came from behind, really made it difficult for Sony to ride a tiger. It continued to develop the Spider-Man series of movies but could not enjoy the follow-up benefits. Losing the golden IP of Spider-Man, Sony has been used to big box office What else can be done?

In this case, how could Andy be so kind to pull Sony, joke, why!