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"I know everyone is envious of the popularity of Marvel's superhero movie universe. The only one that can compare to Marvel is DC, but Warner's DC universe movies are currently a failure."

Martin blew out a puff of cigar smoke, talked politely, and even pulled Warner out to whip the corpse.

At the end of the sentence, he smiled apologetically at Barry Meyer.

"..."

Barry Meyer shook his head helplessly. This was a major mistake by Warner, and it was also ridiculed by the industry. Unfortunately, everyone here was not inferior to him, so he could not quibble about this matter, so he had to remain silent.

Martin also knew that he could mention this, so he smiled apologetically and continued:

"Other comic companies on the market are not big, and they cannot form a superhero universe."

"But... everyone should know one thing, that is, Marvel has gone bankrupt several times and sold too many superheroes. Even after Marvel was acquired by Disney and Marvel has money, they have taken it back.

There are many superheroes, but as far as we know at CAA, there are still quite a few Marvel superheroes out there..."

"In addition to the Marvel superheroes owned by the companies here, other companies independent of your companies also own Marvel's superhero copyrights."

At this point, Martin stopped.

Smoking a cigar leisurely.

"Now, Martin, what do you want to say?"

Jeff Black, the president of Columbia, was the most outspoken and could not hold his temper, so he was the first to ask questions.

"Martin, if superheroes cannot be linked together to form a series of universe movies like Marvel's superheroes, it would be too expensive and risky to shoot superhero movies alone."

Among the five companies present, Paramount and Universal were the only two giant companies that did not have superhero copyrights. Paramount President Brad Gray also asked curiously.

Compared to Universal, even if Universal returned the copyrights to the two Marvel superheroes it held and gave them back to Marvel, it still usurped the distribution rights of these two superheroes, and Paramount had no direct profit.

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"Martin, stop pretending in front of us people and just tell the truth."

Because of Qin Dong, Martin, the president of CAA, has become much closer to Barry Meyer, the president of Warner Bros., in recent years.

Although the two knew each other and were familiar with each other before, Martin was also familiar with the presidents of other film and television companies. However, with the rise of Qin Dong, the relationship between Martin and Barry was the closest.

At this time, Barry Meyer was holding a cigar and urging him angrily.

Among the five film and television giants here, only Warner is confident because Warner has DC at its disposal that can rival Marvel.

Even if the DC Universe movie fails at the beginning, Warner will suffer heavy losses, but it is just a failure. As time goes by, Warner, who owns DC, can find opportunities to start over again.

"Haha... Everyone, haven't you noticed that with the explosion of the Marvel superhero universe, superhero movies have always accounted for the majority of the top-grossing movies in the annual box office in recent years? In this kind of movie environment,

I’m afraid it’s not a good thing for original creations and other film adaptations, right?”

Martin smiled when he heard this and didn't mind, but he still gave it a try and asked again.

"Martin, everyone knows what you are saying, but when it comes to comic book superheroes, apart from Marvel and DC, there is no third company that has become popular. Nowadays, the superhero movie universe adapted by Marvel is very popular, and Marvel has been acquired by Disney.

And what can we do if DC is still in the hands of Warner?"

Paramount President Brad Gray couldn't help but speak first this time.

Although his position is higher than that of Columbia's president, compared to Jeff Black's uprightness, Brad Gray is considered mature. Unfortunately, Paramount cannot compete with Columbia.

Even if Columbia loses money every year, its performance is last among the six giant companies every year, as if Paramount is better than Columbia.

In fact, it is not the case. Colombia is because of its parent company Sony. Companies in this island country are subject to the deterrence of the sovereign country and do not dare to interfere with Colombia. As a result, Colombia's management is in chaos. They all take advantage of each other, and only the company's management pays annual salary.

I don’t know how many billions are spent in reimbursement of public funds for food, drink, housing and transportation. There are a lot of these bugs in the company, and it’s very difficult not to lose money.

But the foundation is here. Columbia has a lot of super rights. Not to mention the world's most famous and longest-running secret agent series [007], just superheroes, Columbia also has three in hand, let alone other movies.

As for Paramount, perhaps when talking about the company's most famous movies, people will think of the "Mission: Impossible", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Transformers" series of movies. Unfortunately, half of the copyrights of the "Mission: Impossible" series of movies belong to

Tom Cruise, and the copyright of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" belongs to Lucasfilm, and Paramount only distributed it back then.

After all, it seems that Paramount can remind people that the only popular movie copyright that truly belongs to its company is "Transformers", which is evident from this.

Looking at performance, among the six major Hollywood giants, Columbia has the worst performance and is the last from the bottom, while Paramount is the second from the bottom.

But the real level is that Paramount has the least super copyright. There are not many movies produced every year that have great box office results. It all depends on the number of movies released to make the performance good. If it were not for the chaos in Columbia's management, Paramount would

Destined to be at the bottom of the pile.

Precisely because he knew that his company was actually at the bottom of Hollywood, Brad Gray, the president of Paramount, was the first to speak up.

"Brad, we have all seen that the Marvel superhero movie universe is making money now. The first superhero movie "Avengers" has made 1.5 billion at the box office, but I want to ask you, ask everyone here.

Others, do you know how many superheroes appeared in the movie [Avengers], which is said to be the first large-scale assembly of superheroes by Marvel?"

When Martin heard Brad's questioning, he still did not speak bluntly. Instead, he asked questions again and again.

"Martin, you mean..."

Most of the people here are old foxes.

Martin's rhetorical question made several old foxes react quickly.

Although he didn't say it directly, his expression was clear, as if he had guessed what Martin meant.

"How many? Let me think about it, [Black Widow], [Captain Liberty], [Hammer God], [Tin Man], [Hulk], [Hawkeye], there are six of them. Martin, what do you want to say?

?”

Some old foxes guessed it, but there were also honest people who really counted it carefully and eagerly questioned Martin again.

The person who really counts, Haoran, is Columbia President Jeff Black, an upright old man.

At this time, several other giant CEOs looked at Jeff with a different meaning in their eyes, but no one said anything and remained silent.

"Jeff, you are right. There are only six superheroes. This is Marvel's so-called first superhero assembly. Are six superheroes too many? In my opinion, there are not many at all, let alone these six.

This hero is not Marvel's most popular superhero at all, and it is not an exaggeration to say he is second-tier."

"You must know that Marvel's most popular superhero is [Spider-Man]. [Spider-Man] is the only superhero in Marvel that can rival DC's [Superman] and [Batman] in North America and even the world.

A superhero."

Martin looked around, saw the looks in other people's eyes, and understood that the other old foxes had already understood what he meant. However, Martin was also an old man, so he didn't show it at this time. Instead, he explained to Jeff seriously:

"I remember that the copyrights of the two Marvel superheroes [Spider-Man] and [Ghost Rider] are now in the hands of Columbia, right? Jeff."

Regarding Venom, the villainous superhero, Martin deliberately did not say anything.

"Martin, I agree with what you said before, but our company's reboot of [The Amazing Spider-Man] failed at the box office..."

When Jeff Black heard this, he shook his head.

It used to be true as you said, but now [Spider-Man]'s popularity seems to have waned.