Hollywood Starts with Animation

"Spider-Man" is naturally a household name for American teenagers and a very famous comic hero; and for major Hollywood companies, it is a fairly good film and television copyright.

Yes, it's just "good".

Back in the 1960s, Marvel licensed a Spider-Man movie to a Hollywood company. The overall picture of the film can be described as appalling.

Um, you mean box office?

Well, after the movie came out, the production company went out of business.

How much would you say at the box office?

In the 1970s, a Turkish film company also made a "Spider-Man" movie.

What about this time?

You can't find it anywhere on the internet because the movie never came out!

It’s no exaggeration to say that today’s “Spider-Man” movie rights are the same for many Hollywood companies.

Um, compared to Batman and Superman, you say?

Moviegoers in America will tell you, "My friend, wake up."

Netizens in Huaxia 21st Century will tell you: "Brother, how many dishes do you have, how about drinking like this?"

......

"Obviously bang!"

"I can't imagine that the famous Spider-Man in the 21st century was really miserable in the 1990s."

If Zucker didn't read the information given by the system, he would not believe it.

"what?!"

In an instant, a flash of light flashed in Zu Ke's mind!

The rights to Spider-Man are on sale, so what about Marvel's other film and television rights?

X-Men, Deadpool, Iron Man, Hulk, Blade Warrior, Black Widow and other comic heroes, their copyrights are still not in Marvel.

Thinking of this, Zucker was instantly excited.

If you can get them, won't you be invincible in Hollywood in the future? !

Wouldn't it be better to buy Marvel outright? Sorry, Zucker doesn't have that much money!

At the moment, Zucker made a call immediately.

"Victor, I'm Zucker, um, sorry to call you so late. It's not the release of "Lola Run", it's the Spider-Man movie rights, um, yes, you can help me Marvel still has those copyrights for sale, yes, it's more urgent. Okay, two days, okay, then I'll go directly to the company."

......

Two days later.

Wald Pictures.

"Boss, due to time constraints, I only collect information about Marvel for the time being, which is a bit small. If you still need it, I will keep people paying attention." Victor said.

Time relationship, just collect these?

Victor, are you floating?

There are several thick stacks of information, but you still say less? !

For a time, not only did Zhu Ke frown, but he never imagined that there would be so much information.

"Victor, are you trying to exhaust me with so much information?" Zucker said.

"Don't worry, boss, you will understand when you open it and take a look. I will never tire you out." Victor laughed.

Well, Zucker can only trust him.

After Victor left, Zucker opened one of the materials to watch.

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

"Victor is really amazing. No wonder it won't kill me. It's actually the case. The data analysis is so clear and clear."

For the next two hours, Zhu Ke has been fighting, and before noon, he has read the thick stacks of materials.

"I didn't expect the issue of Spider-Man's copyright ownership to be so complicated."

Zucker couldn't help sighing, it was really a rough fate for Spider-Man.

Well, of course, and Marvel itself.

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80's,

It was the most glorious period of Marvel.

The sales of comics have repeatedly hit new highs, and they almost bought DC Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time, but was rejected by the then-manwei editor-in-chief.

During this period, Marvel was a household name in the United States, and Dugu sought defeat.

That all changed in 1989, though.

That year, Perelman bought Marvel for more than $82 million.

He is not a comic book lover himself, but a master of capital operation.

Shortly after taking over Marvel, a cunning marketing approach began: Each comic book came with a card in its plastic jacket, and collectors would have to buy the same work multiple times if they wanted to collect all five different designs. .

Then something happened:

"Fans will buy five comics at a time and store them unopened; then they will buy a sixth copy and read it in a torn plastic envelope."

Perelman's plan is to use higher prices and more comic circulation to keep hardcore fans paying; as long as he can find enough numbers to prove his hypothesis, he can bring Marvel to the open market, He sold 40% of his stocks to cash out - this is far more than what he paid for the acquisition!

The only problem here is that since 1993, more and more fans have withdrawn from the collectible market because the cost is too high.

And they feel that the quality of comics is declining;

And most retailers feel like they've been fooled.

Between 1993-96, comic sales dropped by 70%, hundreds of comic retailers went bankrupt, comic and card collectible prices began to plummet, and the market collapsed. Whether or not Perelman was the "culprit," the crash was devastating for the industry.

Marvel is in a downturn across the board and is on the verge of bankruptcy!

"Fuck!"

"Perelman is really a talent. He made Marvel close to bankruptcy, but he made a lot of money himself."

That's right, Zucker learned from the data that in the short years he acquired Marvel, he actually earned nearly 300 million US dollars, and he still has a lot of Marvel shares in his hand! You know, when he bought Marvel, he only spent more than 82 million US dollars.

"Huh? Spider-Man?!"

Sure enough, Zucker saw from the information that at Marvel's latest board of directors, it has been determined that Spider-Man will be sold in the near future.

You say X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk and other heroes copyright?

"Damn Perelman, you have sold so many heroes out!"

In 1993 alone, the rights to heroes such as the X-Men and Iron Man were sold.

The Fantastic Four are also fucking sold!

Hulk and Black Widow are also sold!

Wait, there are many, many more such salacious operations. In a word, if Marvel has no money, that's fine, just sell hero copyrights.

Well, although there are still many superhero copyrights in Marvel now, they are all unknown heroes, and there is only one "Spider-Man" left to support the scene.

Now even this facade has to be sold!

"Tsk tsk, the information given to me by the system shows that Sony Columbia will win the competition with MGM, for which it paid $7 million to acquire Spider-Man." Zucker thought to himself.

$7 million!

This is not a small number!

This shot of Sony Columbia can be said to be the hand of the century. It was won with a net worth far exceeding that of Spider-Man at the time, and it also won them a handsome return a few years later.

"Fuck the 7 million dollars! This time I'm going to grab it!"

For a time, Zucker began to take stock of his net worth.

In order to avoid taxes, I just bought a villa in Burbank for $4.6 million, although some of it was a loan from a bank; I bought a building in Silicon Valley for $6 million; I bought a film company for $2.8 million US dollars, and other expenses, their current liquidity, there are more than 12 million US dollars left.

Over $12 million?

It sounds like a lot, but after buying Spider-Man, Zucker still has more than $5 million in liquidity, what can he do?

You must know that the production cost of the "Spider-Man 1" movie was 139 million US dollars, and the publicity cost was more than 30 million US dollars!

Zu Ke didn't feel anything at first, but now he feels that the money is not enough!

"It doesn't matter, I'm talking about getting the Spider-Man copyright first. Anyway, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there will definitely be a way at that time."

Zucker gritted his teeth and immediately decided to find a lawyer to buy the Spider-Man copyright from Marvel as soon as possible. Otherwise, when Sony Columbia comes over, Zucker will definitely pay more than $7 million.