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Andy looked at the response attitude shown by the three, and suddenly felt a different kind of contentment in his heart.

In this world, it may be courage to lower your head, but you must rely on your strength to raise your head. No one asks when you are poor in the downtown, and you have distant relatives who are rich in the mountains.

Unconsciously remembering that his predecessor drowned in the streets of Los Angeles. Everyone was ridiculous, disgusted, ridiculous words, and Andy still had a hard time sighing.

Why succeed?

Someone is waiting for you when you eat!

When you put down the knife and fork, everyone stopped and listened to you!

So long as you don't smoke, people in the whole house dare not smoke!

in order to

Labor and capital do n’t drink tm, and it ’s no use lifting you up!

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

"Thank you very much for your attention and support for" Resident Evil "! It is no problem to join the Universal Studios theme park family!" The young president of Capcom Game Production Co., Ltd. Hiroshi Hiroshi is very humorous and speaks as well He nodded again and again, showing a slight flattery.

Of course, the compliment shown by the other party is not a pretense. To be honest, as a glorious absence, Disney is the most ideal form that many colleagues want to become. Even some game companies such as Ubisoft want to develop in the direction of Disney, let alone It is said that it is no longer brilliant, but there are many well-known Capcom companies in the hand. Capcom is naturally very willing for the olive branch extended by Andy.

Well-known characters plus film and television game works plus theme parks plus various peripherals and other. This model was previously only done by Disney and Universal Studios, but the scale of Universal Studios theme parks is naturally not comparable to Disney. But with the commercial genius of Andy Smith, let alone Disney's rival, even other entertainment companies are watching the action of nbc Universal.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to reclaim the controlling stake in Universal Studios Osaka, and invest heavily in the construction of a new theme park in Tianchao Jingcheng, and to compete with Disney for the Asian market. The skills and energies were amazing. The shadow of the global financial crisis.

For Capcom, whose surface is infinite, but actually losing money, and is almost about to go bankrupt, this is an extremely desirable trend.

"Haha, okay, I like Hagimoto's pain and simplicity!" Andy smiled happily, his smile was extremely bright, and raised his eyebrows slightly. "Actually, we can cooperate more deeply. I understand that the Hagimoto-kun family started Capcom has a lot of resources, game brands, game characters. For example, Rockman, Street Fighter, etc. Imagine if these game characters appear in the theme park of Universal Studios in the future, and even have their own special area, what is this? Fan Guangjing! "

Immediately after the bait was sprinkled, Andy Chunhong's look became more exciting. He leaned forward more humbly and lowered his head and said, "Please also take care of Mr. Smith!"

The dialogue between the two made Sony Howard Stringer, the president of Sony North America, look at his top boss, Nobuyuki Idei, with a smile, his eyes narrowed, and his waist was kneeling on the cushion straight, not knowing what he was thinking. what.

This time, except to accompany Sony North America's president to talk with Andy Smith, the most important thing is to come and meet Andy, the richest young man in the world, who has a strong background. Nothing else, just because Andy Smith is too dazzling.

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

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

As for the idea of ​​Howard, the president of Sony North America, it is even simpler and direct. He hopes to promote the cooperation between Columbia Films and Universal Pictures. If possible, it is better to establish an alliance. However, for the alliance, he also knows that it is Expectation.

No way, since Andy Smith became Marvel, he has started to make Spider-Man articles, either to redistribute the benefits or to threaten to get back the copyright of Little Spider. The profits that ip brought to Sony Columbia are indeed extremely rich. How could they give up, and after being tossed by Marvel for a few times in a row, they could only grit their teeth and share some of the benefits for Marvel.

Through the matter of the little spider, Howard deeply taught how difficult and embarrassing the young man with a smile in the face of the sun was.

To be honest, Sony Columbia's life in Hollywood is not very good. This has a huge relationship with its foot basin gene. Although Sony has been very careful to reduce the sense of presence, it is useless. We must know that movies have always been the pride of Americans, and Sony's intervention caused a panic in American public opinion. The frightened Sony has repeatedly stated that this is not an invasion of footbath culture, and they do not want to send the management of the footbath to Colombia. The key to post-acquisition success is to "not highlight the characteristics of the foot basin company" and to ensure that the acquired company maintains American characteristics.

Of course, the geese have no use for eggs.

Even with the acquisition of MGM and its huge movie library, sales, and television rights, Sony still lost a lot of money as a non-resident in Hollywood. It was only after Howard hired that Sony gradually became profitable.

Howard admires Andy Smith, a half-dead movie company with weak earnings, but Universal Pictures has changed in a short period of time, especially the acquisition of Marvel Group. Now it seems that it is a godsend. Everyone knows that nbc Universal is about to take off.

No way, although Sony Columbia has always been known for the number of films released. In 2007, 23 films ranked first among the top six companies. Last year, 20 films were also released, which was the same as the number one Warner Company. But they couldn't hold each of their blockbuster movies with a bunch of box office trash. Especially the big box office ip is someone else's.

Faced with the new behemoth Universal Pictures built by Andy Smith, Howard really hopes to be online, whether it is Hulu Video, the second largest video site after YouTube, or Universal Studios Theme Park. Both Sony Columbia can make use of the huge movie library and TV copyright borrowing methods.

After hearing a series of words from Howard seeking cooperation, Andy showed that he listened very seriously and nodded from time to time in response to what Howard said, but he just smiled.

For Sony Columbia's idea of ​​hitchhiking and establishing an alliance, Andy only sneered in his heart. He knows better than anyone. In the future of Hollywood, those who have Marvel IP will win the world.

The battle between Marvel and Sony Columbia over the rights to derivative products has begun since his acquisition of Marvel Group.

It is known that in 1999, with the slump in the comics industry as a whole, Marvel, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, had to sell its most popular "Spider-Man" movie rights to Sony's subsidiary Columbia.

Sony rejected Marvel's "sale" of characters other than Spider-Man at the time. Later, Marvel made a comeback with the Iron Man character that Sony didn't deem. With the success of Iron Man, it became a slack in the circle. But in fact, the contract signed between Marvel and Sony at that time was not simple. At the time, they sold off their ip, and Marvel, who had no choice, also gave himself a hand.

In addition to Sony's right to benefit from derivatives of the "Spider-Man" movie series, it does not include other forms of derivative benefits. And 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 more than 900 comic characters in the comics connected with Spider-Man. Such as the villain venom, and the heroine spider woman. These heroes and villains are not owned by Sony, but are owned by Sony in a "shared right" manner. In this case, either Sony developed them in a specific way with the movie of Little Spider, or they were "locked up" and couldn't develop it into a movie at will.

Previously, Andy instructed Marvel Group to go to Sony to make trouble, just to get back half of the movie derivative business rights that can make huge profits.

And Sony has long planned to launch the Spider-Man series of derivatives, but in the face of rogue, want to lift the table, put a pair of Marvel Group who do not want to play with me, Sony can only help Arch hand gave half of the power back to Marvel, and later Marvel Pictures really made Sony ride the tiger, continued to develop the Spider-Man series of movies but can not enjoy the follow-up benefits, lost the golden IP of Spider-Man, Sony has been used to big box office What else can we do?

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