Reborn Shenhao Miner

Chapter 393 Covets Marvel!!

In Culver City, Los Angeles, Li met with MGM’s current management in the Salberg building.

At this time, these people all looked very worried.

After all, the new official took office three fires, and no one knows what the new boss in front of him will do.

Li Mingxuan sat in the boss’s chair and looked at these people.

To be honest, MGM’s decline had little to do with these people, and the company’s main problem was the lack of funds to shoot the camera.

He just checked the accounts and found that MGM had only $3.21 million left on its books.

The company now has 2,682 employees and spends millions of dollars a month, meaning that the paper is not enough to pay a salary next month.

This is also why Kirk Kirkorien is in a hurry to sell MGM MGM, after Michel is basically hollowed out by him, and he has to pay the salary of his employees every month.

This required tens of millions of dollars a year, and the main thing was that he was not interested in making movies, so MGM turned into a gold-swallowing beast devouring his wealth.

After Li Mingxuanzi looked at the book funds, he casually put the bill on the desk to the management, and said solemnly: “As your new boss, I will not fire any of you for the time being, in addition, I will first inject 100 million US dollars to help MGM get through the predicament in front of me, but my first order is, you go and redeem those rented out props for me!” ”

Hearing this, a management officer said: “Boss, those props are all signed with a rental contract, if we unilaterally break the contract, we need to lose money!” ”

However, Li Mingxuan took a warning look at Paul, the lawyer who followed him to Culver City, Los Angeles.

Paul immediately smiled and said to Li Mingxuan: “Sir, leave this to me to take the negative!” ”

“Paul, if you get this done, I can allow you to become a future MGM exclusive lawyer, and it will be okay to help you set up your own law firm in the future!”

Li Mingxuan smiled and began to draw flatbread.

Hearing this, Paul Eddie’s face was happy, to be honest, although he was a little famous in Niu Yogaly Law Firm, he did not become the exclusive lawyer of any company.

And if he becomes MGM’s exclusive lawyer, for a lawyer who has just entered the prime of forty, his status will inevitably be greatly improved.

Not to mention that his employer even promised to help him set up his own law firm.

You must know that he is in Niu Yo Jiali Law Firm, but even the partners are not a law firm, that is something he dare not think.

Holding back the excitement, he said solemnly: “Boss, please rest assured, I will give you a satisfactory answer!” ”

Li Mingxuan looked at someone who had even changed his title, nodded with a smile, and then said to MGM management: “You are responsible for connecting with Paul Lawyer, I don’t want to see any precious props left outside by MGM in the end.” ”

“Yes, boss!”

Management said in unison.

After sending these people away, Li Mingxuan saw Xiao Lizi and the fat man Liu Tezuo sitting on the office sofa.

After there was no one else in the room, the little fat man stood up and said, “Jack, you are really awe-inspiring just now!” ”

And Xiao Lizi said: “Very boss’s momentum, it seems that Jack, you used to give orders often, you are used to it!” ”

Now that both of them already belong to MGM, Xiao Lizi has become an independent producer and actor at MGM.

And the little fat man was appointed by Li Mingxuan as the head of MGM’s publicity and research department, after all, this guy’s communication talent is quite strong, and it has always been Li Mingxuan’s to make the most of it.

“Awe-inspiring? My head is a mess right now! ”

Li Mingxuan continued, saying.

“I’ve commissioned McKinsey to find a senior CEO!”

In fact, now MGM is a mess, just relying on him, who has not finished college, to comb, it is estimated that he will be exhausted.

So he desperately needed to find an entertainment veteran to manage MGM.

And the role of being a boss is just to grasp the general direction and invest money.

But movies, in fact, the most important big IP.

The world’s mainstream big I “Harry Potter”, “The Matrix”, “Terminator”, DC Comics copyright are all Warner Bros.

Li Mingxuan wondered what MGM and other film companies were doing during this time.

Why the best movies in later generations are produced by Warner Bros.

Fortunately, he is pleased that Marvel is still an independent company, although it has sold many characters, but Marvel Comics has not been touched by other companies, which gives Li Mingxuan a chance.

According to history, in early 1989, capitalist Ronald Perelman spent $82.5 million to buy the Marvel Entertainment Group, which was originally owned by New World Pictures, and Marvel’s bad luck days came.

This Perelman is a layman who doesn’t understand anything will be marketing hype, in two years, he led Marvel to go public, and acquired shares in toy company ToyBiz, and engaged in ‘little raccoon crisp noodles’ marketing to buy comics and save character cards, buying and buying everywhere to operate, plus the comic book industry in the 9s was affected by film and television, so Marvel comics sales plummeted by 70%, and they were once so poor that they couldn’t open the pot.

As soon as this big guy saw that the limelight was not right, he immediately transformed, and wanted to vigorously develop movies in the hope of turning the tide, among which the film department ‘Marvel Movies’ was also established at this time, and Marvel movies began to peddle character copyrights, which is the climax of Marvel’s ‘selling characters’.

Legend has it that when a big Hollywood company came to the door, Marvel planned to package up and sell most of its characters as if it saw a savior.

But when various companies came to sweep the goods, they also kept an eye on them, and only picked out these popular characters, what Wolverine, Spider-Man, Hulk, etc., other heroes did it well, because at that time comic hero movies were still non-mainstream.

But Marvel, which sold so many of its own sons, still did not survive, and in 1996, Marvel filed for bankruptcy.

In December 1996, Perelman rolled up and Marvel reorganized, merging with toy company ToyBiz, whose director, Avi Arad (AV) was at the helm of Marvel, but still poor Jingle Bell.

This Avi Arad was the predecessor of the later famous Kevin Feige, a Jew who saved Marvel.

After he took charge of the company, he gradually took back some of the hero rights sold by his predecessor, but Marvel is still a poor jingle.

In 2005, when Li Mingxuan bought MGM, Marvel took a desperate gamble, used all its assets as a mortgage, and filmed the “Iron Man” independent film starring Robert Downey Jr. (De Li Zhao)

But the film was released in 2008, and no one except Li Wuxuan knew whether it would be successful.

In fact, don’t look at the later generations of Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, and Black Widow are all familiar comic book heroes.

However, in fact, in the beginning, they were all second-rate characters in Marvel Comics.

Therefore, the movie “Iron Man” was not favored after the project was established, especially the starring Robert Downey Jr. is still an addict.

Such a second-rate character, an addict’s movie, the major TV companies do not have much expectations.

However, Li Mingxuan, who was sitting in the MGM boss’s office at this time, knew how popular Marvel would be later.

For this purpose, a concept of a Marvel Cinematic Universe was also created.

Since “Iron Man”, almost every drama has exploded.

Therefore, after not being able to get the copyright of a novel like “Harry Potter”, a super IP like Marvel, Li Mingxuan will not give up anyway.