Reborn Shenhao Miner

Chapter 395 Takes Marvel, Twilight Adaptation Rights!!

Burbank, California.

Bob Eagle, CEO of the new MGM, met Marvel CEO Avi Allard at Marvel Entertainment headquarters in Burbank, California.

The two teams immediately began consultations.

To be honest, Avi Arad was ~ incredulous when he heard that it was MGM Films that was going to acquire Marvel Entertainment.

In fact, many people don’t know that before the bankruptcy of Marvel Entertainment, he stayed in Haocaijun to find a successor.

Among them was MGM, but at that time MGM was very cold or the casino pavilion was not interested in comics at all

By the way, MGM almost owned the rights to the Little Spider film and television adaptation

At that time, Cannon Pictures, in the eighties of the last century, was personally sold by then-Marvel President Stan Lee to a company called Cannon Pictures for a sale fee of $225,000.

You must know that Marvel signed a character contract, and if the film industry does not make a movie with a related theme within 5 years, then the copyright will return to Marvel

This ninety Marvel’s famous ‘five-year new films’ plan

However, the so-called success and defeat of Xiao He, many heroes can go home because of this, and they can’t go home because of this.

Among them, the little spider never returned to Marvel for this reason.

The former Cannon Pictures, which bought the role, did not make the Little Spider movie until bankruptcy

Former Cannon Film producer Menaham Gorlan vowed that it must be filmed this time

While negotiating with Marvel to extend the contract period, he distributed the copyright of Spider-Man to different companies in the name of raising funds.

For example, the filming rights were contracted to Caroco Pictures (produced Card’s “Terminator 2” and “True Lies”, and James Cameron also plans to direct Xiaozhi Spider)

And the financial father behind Caroko Pictures is MGM.

If this logic is followed, the little spider may end up indirectly in the hands of MGM.

However, Sony Pictures finally replaced MGM with the production rights of 007 new films, and the soap opera of the little spider Zhujing Film and Television rights finally came to an end.

Therefore, after Li Mingxuan acquired MGM, he only had the copyright of 007, but there was no copyright of the spider.

So Marvel CEO Avi Arad was very surprised that MGM, who had abandoned Marvel Zhizhu, came to the door himself.

But soon he thought that MGM had changed hands, after all, this matter has been making a lot of trouble recently, and it is difficult to know it.

And thinking of the financial strength of the Splendid Group, which is represented by Asian youth.

It’s understandable to want to expand in Good Food.

Still, Aviarad is a little skeptical.

“Mr. Eagle, I’m curious, did you or your boss propose to buy Marvel?”

Hearing this, Bob Eagle smiled and said.

“Does it make a difference?”

“Okay!”

Avi Allad said.

Seeing that the other party was a little helpless, Bob Eagle said with a smile: “Actually, it’s nothing to tell you, the first question my current boss asked me when interviewing me was what do you think of Marvel?” And my answer was that if the comic book movie was changed in the future, it would definitely explode, so my boss hired me directly! ”

While hearing this, Aviarad was happy in his heart, and asked: “You say this, which shows the value of Marvel, aren’t you afraid that I won’t sell it.” ”

Hearing this, Bob Eagle shrugged, “Oh God! Do you know how much a comic book movie costs? Light special effects are not something Marvel Entertainment can afford, and even if Marvel chooses to make a desperate bet as long as it fails, Marvel may go through another bankruptcy! ”

In response, Aviarad sighed.

In fact, this is on top of Manway’s biggest problem.

They have no money!

Avi Arad naturally wanted to produce independently, otherwise he would not have founded Marvel Studios.

It is expected that the two characters of Black Panther and Iron Man will return to Marvel this year, and before Bob Eagle arrives, Avi Arad is actually wondering if it is time to sell iron to make a Marvel movie first.

After all, the first part of Columbia’s “Spider-Man”, the second part does not block 821.7 million US dollars and 788 million US dollars box office.

The box office of the first and second parts of the “X-Battle” series is also good.

Avi Allard feels that there is no reason why other companies can shoot a good box office Marvel as a character creator but can’t?

The later “Iron Man 1” was actually born under this entanglement. At that time, Marvel could be said to have mortgaged itself to raise enough money for the shooting.

If “Iron Man” fails, Marvel may lose money.

But now that MGM has appeared, Aviarad has seen something else

However, whether to sell Marvel Entertainment is not decided by Aviarad alone.

In order to save the bankrupt Marvel, Aviarad joined forces with some consortiums.

Naturally, he also had to inform those consortiums about the acquisition.

In addition, selling Marvel also needs to inform Stan Lee, one of the now retired Marvel creators.

Although Stan Lee has very few shares in Marvel, Marvel is like his child, so it is reasonable to need to be notified.

As a result, the consortium and Stan Lee were soon notified of the acquisition.

When the consortium heard that it was the acquisition of the new MGM, its eyes naturally lit up.

After all, from saving Marvel to now, this company has not brought them a lot of money.

Now that they sell it, they may be able to make a fierce profit, and they are naturally willing

Don’t talk about feelings, for these guys who only look at money, Marvel feelings are not worth mentioning.

Stan Lee, on the other hand, made a request to Aviarad to meet MGM’s boss.

Avi Allad then called Li Mingxuan.

Li Mingxuan agreed to this request after thinking about it, but after MGM acquired Marvel.

And those consortiums are obviously preparing to stab Li Mingxuan, and the bid is $3 billion.

If you ask if Marvel is worth $3 billion, it might be worth it.

But the problem is that in 2005, when Marvel had yet to prove its worth and many characters had not returned

It would be too much for these people to ask for $3 billion.

Later, Disney acquired Marvel for just over $4 billion, which is after taking back Black Panther, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hulk and other characters, and “Iron Man 1” sold well.

According to the share price given by lawyer Paul, consider the question of Marvel’s role and unknown future

Marvel is worth $2-2.5 billion at most.

So, Li Mingxuan waved his hand and asked Bob Eagle to pay this price

After more than a week of negotiations, the final price was negotiated by Bob Eagle’s team at $2.1 billion.

No matter how low the price, those consortiums are willing to gamble on the future.

At this time, Li Mingxuan in MGM directly clapped.

“For this price!”

In fact, if you wait a little longer, Bob Eagle should still be able to talk about lower prices.

However, Li Mingxuan does not like to delay time, considering its subsequent benefits, this price is actually not high.

So, soon there were rumors of MGM’s acquisition of Marvel at Good Vegetable Dock.

This is certainly not anecdotal.

With the signing of acquisition contracts with Bob Eagle, representing MGM, and Aviarad, representing Marvel Entertainment.

The $2.1 billion acquisition was made.

And Li Mingxuan spent $4.55 billion in just three weeks in the beautiful country.

Of this, $400 million was spent on private jets, and $1.05 billion in cash was spent on MGM’s acquisition

Add to that the $2.1 billion acquisition of Marvel.

In addition, he is saddled with $2a million in debt.

Basically, the money earned by the beautiful country this time was returned to the other party.

However, for these expenses, Li Mingxuan felt that it was worth it.

The future of Marvel alone is not worth this money.

In addition, for big IPs, Tu Mingxuan will not stop here.

Twilight’s first “Twilight” just published in 2005 was favored by MGM

Purchased all the film rights to subsequent books for $3 million

Compared to Warner Bros. giving Rowling $1 million to Harry Potter author, this price is much more affordable.

For Stephanie Mayer, a full-time housewife with three children and no fixed income, she signed her name with little hesitation when MGM’s lawyers came forward to talk about the acquisition.

Even if she knew that the Twilight series of novels might yield greater benefits.

After all, if MGM can bring it to the screen, once the movie sells well, her physical novel will naturally rise, and the royalties alone can make her rich.

So she wished the other party bought the film adaptation rights.

Not to mention the $3 million check from the other party.