American Fortune Life

With a cold face, Ike Pilmut walked firmly to the conference room. Wherever he passed, the employees pretended to bow their heads and were busy with their work.

Stan Lee's face was ashen, with complicated and unspeakable anger and helplessness in his eyes. Things have completely escaped his control, his friend and partner has already shown his attitude, and he, the general counsel, does not have many shares, which is nothing more than preventing Marvel from being acquired.

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and there were already four people waiting inside. Seeing that Stan Lee had also followed, several people stood up to greet him. After all, the old man had fought for Marvel all his life and deserved the respect of everyone.

After everyone sat down, Ike looked around and said in a low voice: "Everyone should have read the newspaper this morning, right? I can tell you clearly that the matter is what the report said, and I have decided to accept Andy Smith's proposal." Acquisition intention, willing to sell the shares in your hands, you all decide whether to sell the shares in your hands, if the total shares you are willing to sell exceeds 50%, then we can start negotiations."

The four shareholders looked at Stan Lee, who was blushing and angry, and looked at each other.

"I have 21% of the shares in my hand. I can sell them. I wonder how much Andy Smith is going to bid?" A shareholder in his thirties pushed his glasses and asked without hesitation.

Ike saw the second-generation young people who had inherited the old friend's shares, and said without any emotion: "Andy Smith initially decided to use 2 billion US dollars as the acquisition fund."

“Not good for the price”

"I can't accept the offer either"

"Quiet! I have already rejected his offer, but from this offer, I believe everyone has also seen his sincerity. The total assets of our Marvel are about 2.3 billion. Andy Smith should be very clear, no doubt It’s just to set a range for the next negotiation. I will strive for the best interests for everyone, and it will definitely not be less than 2.3 billion.”

Several people nodded in agreement with Ike's words, and they all thought about it seriously.

"Everyone should also notice that the recent financial market in the United States is a bit weird. They are all smart people. Michael is young here. We have all experienced this situation many times. When you can't see the market clearly, you need to prepare cash to wait and see. , This is also the main reason why us old guys can stand tall.

Now that Marvel has slowed down, it can also bring you a generous reward for the hard work and persistence in these years!

If you have no comments,

Then everyone should initial an agreement, specifying the amount of shares they are willing to sell, I will negotiate on behalf of you, and after the price is negotiated, I will notify you, and after everyone agrees, the transaction can be completed. "

After watching the other four shareholders take over the agreement, Stan Lee read it roughly. Only two shareholders who had cooperated with him for many years nodded apologetically at him, and the other two young people who inherited the property signed the agreement without the slightest hesitation.

Holding a large company worth more than two billion yuan, with so many IP copyrights, it has never been able to make a lot of money. Instead, it has to borrow money from the bank again and again, and even suffered losses for several years. It can't even get dividends. What is the company's shares for, about feelings? stop being funny!

"Forget it, Stan, you definitely won't sell it, so besides the 6% in your hand, 94% of the shares are currently decided to sell, so that's it, everyone, please be patient and wait for the news!" Aike Pilmu Te is also a little uncomfortable. I didn't expect everyone to lose much nostalgia for the company Marvel.

That's right, no matter how much IP copyright you have, if you can't exchange it for a dollar, it's rubbish.

For Andy, this is undoubtedly very beneficial. If you wait another year, the rich and handsome Iron Man is released, and then you want to buy Marvel after raking in 8.5 billion in the global box office. I am afraid that there will be no 4 billion. .

And now, huh, the six major film companies are not interested in Marvel, only interested in being able to take over the copyrights of a few popular superheroes.

No one knows better than Andy who will dominate Hollywood movies in the future. They are all popular IP adaptation movies, and superheroes have completely occupied Hollywood's summer vacation time.

In the future of Hollywood movies, pure action movies and sci-fi movies are already a declining trend, and they are no longer a panacea that can guarantee box office.

On the contrary, superhero movies have begun to exert their strength and established a school. They have almost become an independent movie genre, mixing action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, love and other forms, which can attract the audience to the greatest extent. One thing is, these superheroes all have a broad fan base.

Generations of Americans and people from other countries influenced by American culture are potential consumers.

Of course, the most important thing is that computer digital imaging technology has fully taken over the production of special effects, the Hollywood film industry has been upgraded, and the era of technology and creativity has begun.

3d, imax, Dolby Atmos, awesome motion expression capture technology, can completely bring out the wild imagination in comics.

It can be said that whoever holds the IP copyright is entitled to cut the biggest piece of the big Hollywood cake for himself.

And if Andy successfully acquires Marvel, he can transform Marvel from an IP provider to an IP giant in the entire industry without much effort.

It is true that Summit Entertainment is a new film company, but it started from distribution, and its distribution ability is no worse than any of the Big Six.

In the 1980s, the U.S. government lifted the constraints of the anti-monopoly law of Hollywood film companies, and instead encouraged the Big Six to control the entire industry chain.

It's a pity that the Sixth National Congress found that even if they don't carry out the whole industry layout, it will not affect their own interests in the slightest. Instead, they can get rid of all kinds of huge expenses. When building movie theaters across the United States, they have absolutely no interest in the government's expectations.

Industry segmentation, on the contrary, allowed Hollywood film companies to grow faster. Otherwise, there would not be an example of DreamWorks rising rapidly in the gap between the Big Six and almost becoming the seventh largest.

But Andy wants to connect his industries together, but he still has to be slaughtered. Nima, Marvel is too proficient in digging holes to bury itself. Filling holes and digging holes has always been Marvel's forte.

Marvel reached an agreement with Paramount in 2005, and the latter will distribute 10 films produced by Marvel over the next eight years.

Andy looked at the detailed information of the Marvel company that Ike Perlmutter sent over, and felt a toothache.

He knows better than anyone else that before he crossed over, Captain America 3 was still being filmed, and Avengers 2 ended with a global box office of 1.4 billion. This film is only the 10th film produced by Marvel.

In the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with 6 films, a total cost of 1 billion US dollars was exchanged for a global box office of up to 400 million US dollars. The second phase is about to end and has already won more than 6 billion US dollars in box office.

Andy knows the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the second phase, there are American Team 3 Civil War, Avengers 3 Infinity War, and Thor 3.

With a big cake close to 9 billion, Andy would never let Paramount share it, and if he didn't want to, he would spend money to eliminate the disaster.

"What a fool!" Andy threw the document in his hand on the desk, frowned tightly, and pinched his temples.

Although very irritable, Andy reluctantly continued to pick up the discarded materials and read them.

Andy's acquisition of Marvel is not only to use the character image of Marvel to make movies, but more importantly, the surrounding effects of movies, especially toys and dolls.

A good peripheral development can earn three times the box office receipts, which is pretty much a surefire deal for a powerful character.

Before several Spider-Man movies hit the box office, even though there were many peripheral copyrights such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor, etc., the retail sales of authorized products were less than 200 million US dollars.

That's why Andy dared to bid so low.

But just one year later, in 2008, the mutants and little spiders were made into a series by Fox and Sony. After the release of Iron Man became popular, the retail sales of Marvel's authorized products soared to 4 billion US dollars.

After the release of The Avengers, this amount reached 6 billion US dollars.

One year later, the situation, capital, and status will undergo earth-shaking changes. This is why Disney spent 4.2 billion in cash plus shares to acquire Marvel in 2009. Converted into US dollars, Disney spent about 5.4 billion to complete the acquisition.

And Andy's entry point at this time undoubtedly took a huge advantage, the price of cabbage in 1996, and the dark period before dawn in 2007.

Andy likes Jack Ma's saying that today will be cruel, tomorrow will be crueler, and the day after tomorrow will be beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night.

The people who are now kicked out by Andy's takeover are undoubtedly most of the people who will die tomorrow!

bang bang

"Please come in." Andy didn't look up, but continued to look at the information in his hand.

"boss."

"Al, sit down first, what to drink, tell Tori, let her get it for you, I'll finish reading it right away, wait a minute." Andy looked up at Alvetrie, and continued to read the materials after speaking.

After about five minutes, Andy put the documents on the table and saw Al drinking coffee slowly.

"How is it? The think tank has any suggestions for some authorization documents and some agreements signed by Marvel and other companies. Is there any room for maneuver?"

Al put down the coffee cup, frowned, shook his head with a serious face, and said, "It's almost impossible without paying the price."

Andy couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile, and said helplessly. "

"If the agreement with Paramount is to be breached, you will need to pay about 130 million U.S. dollars. The copyright of Spider-Man cannot be obtained, but you can continue to file a lawsuit with Sony Columbia. An agreement should be reached to increase the copyright share. As for, Fox The X-Men have no chance at all!"

Alwitt finished speaking with a serious expression. Looking at the boss who fell into silence, he was also very helpless. This Marvel company is definitely the best of the best. There are no comics that are still being drawn, and the business of selling off the copyright of the entire series when it is published , I am really powerless to complain. )!!