Legendary Hollywood Producer

At about 10:30 this morning, Joel, the marketing director of Manhai Entertainment, knocked on the door and walked into Roman's office, saying that it was Mr. Avi Allard, the president of Marvel's head office, who had called.

Roman was sitting on the office chair, looking through the script with a script in his hand. After hearing the news from Joel, he also answered the phone.

Just yesterday, Roman also communicated with Mr. Steve Oldcock, the director of the "Hangover" film, to determine the length of the final version of the film, which is about 85 minutes to 95 minutes.

The film has been cut twice. Since we met yesterday, director Steve Oldcock also started editing for the last time. If nothing else, the final version of the film will be completed in about two days, which is good news. .

And Mr. Avi-Allard, the president of Marvel's head office, called now, and Roman didn't know what was going on. He picked up the phone with some confusion.

"...Mr. Avi-Allard, how are you..."

"..."

Greetings, Mr. Avi-Allard, spoke about one thing.

It turned out that several months ago, after Roman's Manhai Entertainment confirmed to cooperate with Marvel, Marvel also began to fulfill what it had promised, repurchasing the image adaptation copyrights of the superheroes that had been sold before.

At the beginning, Marvel went to get in touch with New Line Pictures. After all, when Roman was talking about cooperation with them, the image copyright of "Iron Man" was the most talked about.

This thing went smoothly, because New Line Films originally did not pay attention to the superheroes in the second line of "Iron Man", which are not yet popular with comic fans, plus the people from Marvel, the parent company of copyright. When it comes to repurchase, New Line Film did not entangle it much, and returned the copyright of Iron Man to Marvel at a price of 2 million US dollars. Speaking of which, the people of Xinxian Pictures are still secretly happy for doing such a business, because Marvel Entertainment originally packaged and sold more than 10 superhero copyrights of Xinxian Pictures, so many character copyrights, Xin Xian Pictures only spent more than 15 million U.S. dollars in total, and now it is less than a year. It is only a second-line, and it is not well known. The hero copyright that their company does not want has recovered 2 million U.S. dollars for it. Can you be upset?

In fact, this is also because the people sent by Marvel to negotiate are impatient. After all, there are too many companies to be contacted and too many character copyrights to be recovered. In addition, the owner behind it is Manhai Entertainment, and Marvel is responsible for this. The people involved saw that Xinxian Pictures’ offer was not outrageous, and after Ms. Mie’s consent, it was directly decided. This process only took two rounds of negotiations and took less than 3 days.

Marvel started to buy back the copyrights of other superheroes after getting the copyright of the superhero that he wanted the most from his father, the president of Manhai Entertainment.

During this period, Marvel continued to contact those companies that have the rights to adapt Marvel comics superhero images, including Sony Columbia Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, and Universal Pictures. The relationship between these and Marvel is very troublesome. The stiff company also tried to get back the superhero copyright.

Of course, this is just an attempt. The big production companies are not willing to discuss the copyright repurchase with Marvel. After all, the origin of the copyright of these superheroes originally meant to take advantage of the fire. In addition, after the subsequent films were released, whether it was "Fantastic Four" produced by 20th Century Fox, or "Hulk" shot by Universal Pictures and "Spider-Man" of Sony Columbia, the profits made by these movies were not According to the normal operation, Marvel is given what it deserves, because of this, Marvel has not cursed these companies less.

So when the people from Marvel talked about copyright, these companies either directly stated that it was impossible, or they proposed a hugely expensive treaty, such as returning the copyright with a minimum of tens of millions of dollars, and filming was required. After that, the issuer must be an unreasonable request such as a certain company and tactfully rejected Marvel.

They are not short of a small amount of money, and the prospects for superhero movie shooting are pretty good now, just like the Columbia company refused to meet, frankly, it is impossible to return the copyright of Spider-Man, but the people from 20th Century Fox met with Marvel. But I don’t mean to return the copyright at all. On the contrary, I still want to continue to buy the copyrights of the remaining superheroes of Marvel. After all, the benefits of the X-Men series are visible to the naked eye, and Marvel is not a fool. In the tenth century, Fox pitted it so badly once, and now no matter how clever they are, they don't sell it to them anymore.

The people at Universal Pictures were very thoughtful, because they had a terrible shot in the "Hulk" filmed last year. Even the director Ang Lee, the director who became famous for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" As a result, it has been dragged down for several years to not receive the shooting work of Hollywood movies, which is evident in the brutal competition in the Hollywood movie circle.

After the meeting, Universal Pictures also put forward several conditions. They did not ask too much for the copyright funds. It only needs more than 8 million U.S. dollars, and this price is not the final price. I believe it can be lowered after a discussion. Some, and the following conditions are too harsh.

Because Universal Pictures also requires that the distribution rights and pre-emption rights of the movie produced by the role of the Hulk should remain in their hands, which also means that Roman and Marvel are equivalent to working for Universal Pictures. For such an excessive request, let alone Roman, even the Marvel test has not passed, and the two sides also failed in the negotiation.

Although Marvel failed to make a difference in front of these giants, it has also taken back a lot of copyrights in the hands of other companies.

Characters like Captain America, Panthers, Black Widow, Punisher, Iron Fist, etc. originally sold to Artisan Entertainment, because Lionsgate has acquired Artisan Entertainment, according to regulations, Lionsgate has inherited these The rights of the role copyright, but they automatically gave up related roles such as Captain America and Black Panther. These roles have also returned to Marvel. In addition, after Marvel negotiated with Lionsgate, they retracted Black Widow. , Human-like copyrights, and Lions Gate Pictures values ​​the copyrights of the Punisher and Iron Fist, and Lions Gate Pictures has already started the filming of the Punisher, and it is even more impossible to return these two characters to Marvel. Up. It is a pity that the movie with the role of the Punisher has a very bad reputation among the audience in Roman's impression.