Director’s Legend

() "Time Magazine" fired the first shot and commented, "Rolling Stone" followed closely: "DC's Batman is a big success, and the released Spiderman and X-Men are also making a lot of money. We have reason to believe that Marvel Comics It’s not as simple as just being acquired, Kevin Feige is an ambitious president, Mitchell Bruce is a cutting-edge king, and their cooperation will definitely rewrite the landscape of Hollywood movies again!”

The object of "People" is not the specific transaction, but Shao Shuaijun: "Shao Shuaijun is the most money-grabbing director in the world, and this time he has set his sights on superheroes. Back then, "Nightman" was an alternative original superhero , although he failed, with Shao Shuaijun's ambition, he will never stop trying because of one failure. Originality is not good, he aimed at the existing superheroes!"

The American media are more or less scruples about readers' feelings, and they speak vaguely, without mentioning the distinction between China and the United States. But China in the other hemisphere is called a blast.

"Choose, dream chasing is awesome, superhero, he just snatched away the superhero that Lao Mei is so proud of."

"This is the style of our great China. Yankees are waiting for superheroes adapted from the hands of the Chinese to appear! Wahaha!"

"China's annexation of the United States is just around the corner!"

"Haha, Marvel's superheroes are all Chinese. I look forward to seeing f4 and Xiao Chong come to China to perform missions!"

"You guys are too optimistic. The copyright of Little Worm is in the hands of Sony, the Japanese Devils, and the copyright of X is in the hands of Fox. These problems cannot be solved by buying Marvel comics!"

"Anyway, Dream Chasing Entertainment has given the Chinese people some face. Only foreigners have ever bought our company. Now it's our turn to buy other people!"

Amidst the uproarious exclamations, Shao Shuaijun, Mitchell Bruce, and Kevin Feige came to the "Times Life Building" on Sixth Avenue in New York together. This building is a famous location in New York, and many famous magazines, such as "Time" and "Celebrity", are here.

But the three of them came here today, not to accept an interview with "Time Magazine", but to accept an interview with another famous magazine "Fortune". Fortune is a magazine owned by Time Warner, a magazine that affects the world. It mainly operates two brands, "Fortune 500" and "Fortune Forum".

In the 2009 Fortune 500 list released in July this year, Dream Entertainment Group ranked No. 300 with US$ 28.6 billion, ranking No. 21 among Chinese enterprises and the highest ranking private enterprise in China.

The three of them came here this time to discuss the company's decision regarding the acquisition of Marvel Comics. They are all listed companies. In order to maintain the stability of the stock, certain plans must be drawn up to increase shareholders' confidence in the company. When the shareholders have confidence, the money will come in a steady stream!

The interviewer is the most senior editor of "Fortune", Ms. Carol Rumes, who is almost 70 years old. Almost all the important financial articles of "Fortune" are written by her.

After drinking a cup of coffee, the preparations were done and the interview began.

Since Carroll asked questions about finance and economics, Shao Shuaijun had only a half-knowledge, and spent almost the whole process in silence in boredom, leaving it to Mitchell and Kevin to deal with. Only when he was talking about how Summit Entertainment will develop the resources of Marvel Comics, Shao Shuaijun cheered up and expressed some ideas.

"For any entertainment company, if it wants to survive in 20 or 50 years, the most important thing is to have content. Entertainment is not a castle in the air. You need flat land to accumulate tall buildings little by little. For us Speaking of Marvel Comics, more than 8,000 comic characters are an inexhaustible resource, and we have many plans to rationally develop and bring comics to the big screen."

"Amazing Comics has a history of 70 years and has produced countless amazing stories. As the era of special effects becomes more and more popular, the stories of these comics will eventually be perfectly presented in movies. Our cooperation this time will definitely make The two companies will be brilliant at the same time, and I have full confidence."

"In fact, we already have a huge ultimate universe plan, and we currently have three stages of movie ideas. We have already started negotiations with Paramount Pictures, and may take back the film distribution rights of "Iron Man" and "Thor", Then we will successively take back the copyrights of Daredevil, Soul Chariot, Blade Runner, Punisher, and Daredevil. We will also start negotiations with 20th Century Fox and Sony Columbia on Spider-Man, X-Men, and Fantastic Four. Copyright subject to negotiation."

Halfway through, Carroll asked: "Can the copyrights of Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four be taken back?"

Shao Shuaijun pondered for a while and said: "Whether it is possible to recover or not, we will try to negotiate, but the current three-stage film plan of Ultimate Universe has been drawn up, and we are not in a hurry to recover the copyright in time."

It's useless to be anxious, thinking with your toes, you know that Sony and Fox are counting on these superheroes to make money. However, Shao Shuaijun will urge Marvel Comics to take stronger measures to recover the copyright.

The copyrights of Daredevil, Soul Chariot, Blade Runner, Punisher, and Daredevil are easy to recover, because the film production costs are not low, and the box office results are not satisfactory. These companies still want to keep the copyright, so they can only continue to invest heavily in the development of movies, but there is no guarantee of making money after investing, and eventually the movie will be nothing, and the copyright will be automatically withdrawn.

In fact, another trajectory, Disney relies on the automatic expiration of copyright to take back these superheroes. Except for Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four, these people are so popular that they must be making money.

When Carroll asked what the three-stage plan was, Shao Shuaijun did not answer. This is a company secret and needs to be released after the negotiation with Paramount is over.

Soon, the interview was over.

Within two days, the latest issue of the semi-monthly "Fortune" was released. On the cover was a photo of three people. Shao Shuaijun was in the center, Mitchell was on the left, and Kevin was on the right. The three hands were just stacked together.

With a big title: "The Three Helmsmen of Marvel Comics!".

The three heavyweights expressed their optimism about the future of Marvel Comics, and directly stabilized the stock market without any turbulence, and even rose a little. The most exaggerated is China's Dream Chasing Golden Harvest, which was hit by the acquisition of Marvel Comics, and its stock rose by a full percentage point.

It has to be said that Chasing Dream Entertainment seems to be a Chinese hero.

In the post-production of "Old Boy", the schedule has been determined to be the Lunar New Year file in China, and it will be released simultaneously in Asia. However, because it is an oriental theme, it is hard to say whether it will be released in the United States and Europe.

The response of "Slumdog Millionaire" is getting stronger and stronger. The box office in North America has almost never been lower than 20,000 US dollars in a single theater. Because it is a small-scale release, the demand from the audience is very loud. However, Summit Entertainment still follows the original rhythm and slowly Increase the number of theaters to warm up for the Oscars.

However, contrary to the upsurge in North America, in India, while the film won three consecutive box office titles, it suffered a lot of resistance.

Because the slums are depicted in the movie as ugly, dirty, and dark places, and the English word "slumdog" is used for the "slums" in the title, which is a compound word, and "slum" represents the slums , "dog" means dog.

Most of them are Indians in the slums of Dharavi, holding up placards, shouting "Down with Danny Boyle", "We are humans, not dogs", and some even held portraits of directors and actors, slapped and incinerate.

In addition, Dream Chasing Entertainment Group's Chasing Dream South Asia Entertainment Company in India has also been intimidated by many demonstrators. The crews of the Indian films "Three Idiots Raising Bollywood", "My Name Is Khan" and "Bollywood Robot Love" also encountered great resistance. Now Danny Boyle and several leading actors are afraid to go to Mumbai, India.

For this reason, Chasing Dream Nanya had to spend 300 million rupees, or about 30 million yuan, to set up the Mumbai Street Children Relief Fund, and contacted the Mumbai government to solve the crisis and allow the company to operate normally.

All of this does not require Shao Shuaijun's attention. Since the acquisition was completed, he has been immersed in the post-production of "Old Boy". There are many soundtracks for movies, and the purchase of copyrights that should be purchased, and the original originality, proceed very quickly.

September passed, October just arrived, and Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics jointly released the first news two weeks after the acquisition. For $111 million, Paramount redeemed the film distribution rights of the "Iron Man" series and "Avengers" from Paramount.

In addition to the cash repurchase, there is also a subsidiary agreement. Paramount will receive 6% of the income of "Iron Man 2" and "Iron Man 3", and 9% of the income of "Thor". Ramon also has sole authorship on any marketing for the three films.

This is a very helpless transaction. Based on the income from "Iron Man" and "Thor", at least another 50 to 60 million US dollars will have to be divided. But there is nothing to do, who told Marvel Comics to go bankrupt and sell copyrights indiscriminately. Originally, Paramount wanted the income from "The Avengers", which was rejected by Shao Shuaijun.

Just kidding, it's fine for you to play with Thor and Iron Man, "The Avengers" is his default movie, and it will be sold worldwide in the future, and there will be no dime, not to mention the right to authorship! Finally replaced it with Thor and Steel 3!

After getting back the film rights, Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics jointly released the second news. \u003cics named it in Chinese—Marvel Comics, and launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe Trio at the same time, establishing a separate Marvel Cinematic Universe, numbered Earth 199999 (earth-199999)!

The first ensemble Avengers was established, combined with "Iron Man" and "Invincible Hulk" launched in 2008, "Iron Man 2", "Thor" and "Captain America" ​​will be released in 2010, 2011, and 2012. ", "The Avengers" four superhero movies. First shoot the story of a single superhero, and then shoot the hero team "The Avengers", so that the settings of each film are unified, and the interconnected foreshadowing is laid in each film to form a unified world view.

The second ensemble, the shadow of the hero's heart, will be released in 2013, 2014, and 2015. "Iron Man 3", "Thor 2: The Dark World", "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", "Captain America" 2: Several superhero movies such as The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. The plot began to turn to a more grand universe, leading to "Doctor Strange".

The Birth of the Unknown Hero of the third ensemble will release a superhero movie featuring Doctor Strange after 2015, tentatively planning an "Ant-Man". Doctor Strange is a neurosurgeon who can use powerful magic to explain the deep mysteries of the universe and human beings, and combine humans and gods in the Doctor Strange sequence!

It is also noted at the end that the copyright negotiations for Daredevil, Soul Chariot, Blade Runner, Punisher, and Daredevil went smoothly. If there is no accident, they will join the Ultimate Universe Trio plan one after another!

As soon as the news came out, superhero fans all over the world went crazy. There are too many superhero movies in the future, so satisfying! (To be continued.)