American Fortune Life

Aike Pirmut looked coldly and walked firmly to the meeting room. Wherever he passed, the employees pretended to be busy with their work.

Stan Lee's face was iron-blue, with complex and unspeakable anger and helplessness in his eyes. The matter has been completely out of his control, his friends and partners have shown a superficial attitude, and he has few shares in the hands of the general counsel, which is nothing more than to prevent the fate of Marvel being acquired.

The door of the conference room was pushed open. Four people were waiting inside. Seeing that Stan Lee was following him, several people stood up to greet him. After all, the old man struggled for Marvel all his life and deserves everyone's respect.

After everyone was seated, Ike looked around for a week and said in a low voice: "Everyone should see the newspaper this morning? I can tell you clearly that things are as said in the report, and I have decided to accept Andy Smith's The purchase intention is willing to sell the shares in your hands, and each of you decides whether to sell the shares in your hands. If the total number of shares willing to be sold exceeds 50%, then we can start negotiations. "

The four shareholders looked at the red-skinned old face, and looked at each other with angry Stan Lee in their eyes.

"I have a 21% stake in my hand. I can sell it. I don't know how much Andy Smith is going to bid for?" A shareholder, about thirty, pushed his glasses and asked without hesitation.

Ike saw the second generation of young people who inherited the shares of the old friends, and said without any emotional fluctuations: "Andy Smith initially decided to use 2 billion US dollars as the acquisition capital ..."

"That's not the price ..."

"I can't accept this offer either ..."

"Quiet! I have rejected this offer from him, but from this offer, I believe everyone has also seen his sincerity. Our total assets of Marvel are about 2.3 billion. Andy Smith, he should be very clear, no doubt Just set a range for the next negotiations. I will fight for the best interests for everyone, and it will definitely not be less than 2.3 billion "

Ike's words made a few people nod in agreement, and they considered them seriously.

"Everyone should be aware that the recent financial markets in the United States are a bit weird. They are all smart people. There is Michael young here. We have all experienced this many times. When we ca n’t see the market clearly, we need to prepare cash and wait This is the main reason why we old men can stand.

Marvel has now slowed down, and it can also give you a generous return on the hard work and persistence you have spent these years!

If there is no opinion, then you should sign an agreement and indicate the amount of shares you are willing to sell. I will negotiate on behalf of you, and after you have negotiated the price, you will be notified. After everyone agrees, the transaction can be completed. "

After Stan Lee watched the other four shareholders take over the agreement, he read it through. Only two shareholders who had cooperated for many years nodded apologies at him. The other two young people who inherited the property did not hesitate to sign the agreement.

Holding a large company worth two billion yuan, so many IP copyrights, but have not been able to make a lot of money. Instead, I have to loan to the bank again and again, and even have a loss for several years. I ca n’t even get a dividend. What does the company's shares do? Don't be funny!

"Stan ... forget it, you definitely won't sell, so except for the 6% in your hands, the current 94% of the shares have been decided to sell, just like that, please wait patiently for the news!" Ike Piermot was also a bit uncomfortable. I didn't expect everyone to have nostalgia for this company.

Also, no matter how many ip copyrights can be exchanged for a beautiful knife, it is also garbage.

For Andy, this is undoubtedly very beneficial. If you wait another year, Gao Fushuai's Iron Man will be released and you want to acquire Marvel after grabbing 8.5 billion global box office. I'm afraid there is no 4 billion. Don't think about it. .

Now, huh, the six major movie companies are not interested in Marvel, only interested in being able to take over the rights of a few popular superheroes.

No one knows more about who will dominate the future of Hollywood movies than Andy. They are all hot ip adaptation movies. Superheroes have completely occupied Hollywood's summer season.

Future Hollywood movies, simple action movies and science fiction movies are already a declining trend and are no longer a panacea that can guarantee the box office.

On the contrary, the superhero movie has begun to exert its strength, and the Kaishan School has almost become a type of movie. It has mixed various forms of action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, and love. It can attract the audience to the greatest extent, and the most important thing is For one thing, these superheroes have a broad fan base.

Generations of Americans and people in other countries affected by American culture are potential consumer groups.

Of course, the most important thing is that computer digital imaging technology has completely taken over special effects production, Hollywood's film industry has been upgraded, and technology has begun to stand up to creativity.

3d, imax, Dolby Atmos, and awesome action expression capture technology can fully display the wild imagination in comics.

It can be said that whoever holds the IP rights will be eligible to cut the largest piece of Hollywood cake for himself.

If Andy successfully acquires Marvel, it can completely make Marvel transform from an IP provider to an industry-wide IP giant without any effort.

It's true that Dingfeng Entertainment Film Company is a new film company, but it started from distribution, and its distribution ability is not worse than any other six.

In the 1980s, the U.S. government lifted the restrictions of Hollywood film companies' antitrust laws, and instead encouraged the Big Six to return to the era of controlling the entire industry chain.

It is a pity that even if they did not carry out the whole industry layout, they would not affect their own interests in the slightest. Instead, they could get rid of all kinds of huge expenses. When building a movie theater in the United States, they had no interest in government expectations.

Industry segmentation has instead allowed Hollywood film companies to grow more rapidly. Otherwise, there will be no DreamWorks' rapid rise in the gap between the six majors, almost becoming the seventh largest example.

However, Andy wants to connect his industry in series, but also has to be slaughtered. Nima, Marvel digging pits and burying himself is too skilled. Filling pits and digging has always been Marvel's masterpiece.

Marvel reached an agreement with Paramount in 2005, which will release 10 films produced by Marvel over the next 8 years.

Andy looked at the details of Marvel's company that Ekpilmut had sent him, and he had a toothache.

He knows better than anyone else. Before he crossed the line, "Captain America 3" was still being filmed, and "Avengers 2" ended with a global box office of 1.4 billion. This film is just the 10th movie produced by Marvel. That's it.

The first stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe relied on six films for a total of $ 1 billion at the cost of a global box office of up to $ 400 million, and the second phase is about to close at over $ 6 billion.

Andy knows the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the second stage also has "American Team 3 Civil War" and "Reunion 3 Infinity War", "Thor".

Nearly 9 billion big cakes, Andy said that nothing will be paramount to share, and do n’t want to spend money on disaster relief.

"Really Nima's cheating father!" Andy threw the documents from his desk onto the desk, frowning and pinching his temples.

Although very irritable, Andy reluctantly continued to pick up and discard the materials and looked up.

Andy's acquisition of Marvel is not only to use Marvel's character image to make movies, but more importantly the peripheral effects brought about by the movie, especially in terms of toys and dolls.

A good peripheral development income may reach three times the box office income. For an influential character, this is almost a stable business that does not lose money.

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

This is why Andy yelled so low.

But just over a year later, in 2008, mutants and spiders became a series of movies shot by Fox and Sony. After Iron Man was released in the fire, the retail sales of Marvel's authorized products soared to $ 4 billion.

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

After a year, the situation, capital, and status will change dramatically. This is why in 2009 Disney needed 4.2 billion cash plus shares to acquire Marvel. When converted into US dollars, Disney spent about 5.4 billion to complete the acquisition.

Andy's entry point at this time undoubtedly accounted for the benefits of the sky, the price of cabbage in 1996, and the dark period before dawn in 2007.

Andy likes Jack Ma's words very cruel today, cruel tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will be beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night.

The people who were bought and kicked out by Andy are undoubtedly the ones who died most tomorrow!

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"Come in." Instead of looking up, Andy continued to look at the information in his hand.

"boss."

"Al, sit down first, what to drink, tell Tori and ask her to get it for you, I'll finish it right away, wait a minute." Andy glanced up at Alvitale, and continued looking at the information after he said it.

About five minutes later, Andy put the documents back on the table, and saw Al was slowly drinking coffee while holding it.

"How about? Do the think tanks have any recommendations on some of the authorization documents and agreements they have signed with other companies, and is there room for action?"

Al laid down the coffee cup, frowned, and shook his head seriously, saying, "It's almost impossible without paying a price."

Andy shook his head with a bitter smile and said helplessly, "Talk about it."

"If the agreement with Paramount is to breach the contract, it will cost about 130 million U.S. dollars, and the copyright of Spider-Man will not be returned. However, you can continue to fight lawsuits with Sony Columbia and you should be able to reach an agreement to increase the copyright share. X-Men ... no chance at all! "

After finishing the list, Alvite said with serious feelings. It was helpless to look at the boss who was in silence. This Marvel company is definitely a wonderful work of magic. No manga is still drawing, and the entire series of copyrights will be sold out when it is published. , Really weak to vomit.