Hollywood Starts with Animation

a few days later.

After being entrusted by Zucker, Kandy, a negotiator, got in touch with Marvel at the first time. After several days of hard work, he finally successfully launched the first negotiation on the copyright issue of Spider-Man.

However, the direction of things was beyond Zu Ke's expectations.

"What? You said that the lion of the Marvel company opened its mouth?!"

Zucker frowned.

Hearing this, Kandi shook his head: "It's not just that, there are other problems."

Other questions?

"That's right!"

Lawyer Zhang Wei on the side said: "This involves the historical issue of Spider-Man. At present, MGM and Columbia Pictures have also joined Spider-Man's copyright acquisition."

hiss~~!

Zucker couldn't help taking a deep breath.

Sony Columbia, one of the six major Hollywood companies, and MGM, whose skinny camel is bigger than a horse, are not ordinary characters, they can even be said to be giants!

Wald Pictures, compared with them, is not a unit of volume at all.

No, to be precise, it is not a dimension at all.

......

Spider-Man's history?

Originally in 1985, the script for Spider-Man was sold to Cannon Films.

In 1989, Cannon Pictures failed to manage well and was acquired by the French EMI Film Company, while Cannon Pictures Chairman Menahem went to Twentieth Century Fox with the rights to Spider-Man.

While at Fox, the Spider-Man script was sold to Columbia Pictures, ready to be filmed by James Cameron, with Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Doctor Octopus.

But.

At this time, Columbia was acquired by Sony Pictures, which led to the aborting of the shooting plan. Later, MGM acquired some of the assets of Twentieth Century Fox, including the Spider-Man script, but Columbia Pictures insisted that the copyright should belong to them.

Therefore, today's "Spider-Man" copyright has become a three-way competition between Zucker, MGM, and Sony!

"Kandy, Lawyer Zhang, even if Sony and MGM join in, it's just a matter of price, we have nothing to worry about." Zucker gritted his teeth.

Even so, Zhu Ke's move undoubtedly offended the two giant companies.

MGM and Columbia are both extremely influential in Hollywood or globally, and they can make Zucker's Wald Pictures difficult as long as they make a little effort on media and theatrical distribution issues. .

"Humph!"

"I just don't believe in this evil!"

Even if you are a big company, so what?

Offend you, I'm not afraid, after all, that's Spider-Man!

......

ten days later.

The copyright issue of "Spider-Man" has finally settled!

Zucker bought the rights to Spider-Man for $9 million.

Compared with the historical Sony, it paid more than 2 million US dollars in fees.

Of course, what Zucker has won is not only the copyright of the character of Spider-Man, but also the copyright of comic characters related to Spider-Man, such as Venom, Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Mysterio, etc., which can be adapted into movies at will. Marvel is just here. The base provides some creative control to avoid conflict with the MCU's storyline.

However, there is another key point in the contract.

"Marvel has the final veto on the image issues of "Spider-Man" in the follow-up, including the comics plot, and Zucker's Wald Pictures."

On this issue, the shareholders of Marvel, and even Victor, CEO of Wald Pictures, are a little puzzled.

"Hehe, could I tell you that I am a transmigrator, do you know some problems that happened later?" Zhu Ke thought to himself.

The issue of Spider-Man's image is indeed particularly important!

For example, after the success of Fox's "Fantastic Four 1", Marvel once proposed to Fox to increase its box office share, which was rejected.

However, how did Marvel do it?

Well, if you don't give me more money, then I'll blacken them all in the Fantastic Four comics.

Heroes become villains!

It's utterly bad.

The bad pus one!

Not only that, but they were all written to death!

As a result, "Fantastic Four" made many American audiences extremely disgusted, resulting in extremely bleak box office performance of "Fantastic Four 2", resulting in huge losses, and the planned third and fourth films were stillborn.

"I have to say, Marvel is ruthless enough!"

Zucker knows this piece of information in the future, so of course he can't give Marvel a chance.

Of course Zucker was happy to take the rights to Spider-Man.

Even if it cost $9 million, once you think about the great future of "Spider-Man", the extra $2 million will not matter.

But.

Now comes the question!

Zucker's current liquidity is only more than 3 million US dollars, and he still owes a lot of money to the bank. Where can there be hundreds of millions of US dollars to shoot "Spider-Man".

"It seems that I can't be lazy anymore, I have to find a way to get some money!"

That night.

When Zucker was finishing dinner at home, he unexpectedly received a phone call.

"Is it Zucker Wald?"

The voice on the phone was a male, and his tone was not very friendly.

"I am, who are you? Let me tell you, I don't have a wife, let alone a son. If you say you kidnapped my son, then you can tear up the ticket. If you say I won the lottery, then I must tell you that this year I In just 3 months, I have won two refrigerators, three microwave ovens, three Mercedes-Benz cars, five BMWs, and a cash prize of $270 million. Well, you go on to say, what am I winning this time?"

Zhu Ke kept talking.

Since your tone is not good, don't expect Lao Tzu to have a good tone.

Watch Lao Tzu bragging about you!

"Mr. Wald, please don't joke!" the man on the phone said, suppressing his anger.

Hearing this, Zhu Ke pouted in disdain: "Then tell me."

"Mr. Wald, let me introduce myself. My name is Kenta Dwight, and I work for MGM Studios as an assistant production manager."

"Oh? Then what?"

"I know that you won the "Spider-Man" copyright. Now you can sell it to us. Of course, we MGM will not let you suffer. How about $9.1 million? You made $100,000."

Hearing his words, Zucker laughed out loud on the spot.

Man, that's Spider-Man!

You send beggars!

Not to mention adding $100,000, even if adding $10 million, Zucker wouldn't sell it!

Think about it, as long as "Spider-Man" is successfully released, the profit brought to Zucker will be calculated in one billion US dollars!

"Friend, how many dishes do you have tonight, so you drink like this?" Zhu Ke said disdainfully.

The man on the phone was immediately taken aback.

"What do you mean?" the man asked suspiciously.

"Haha! I mean to let you go! You should go to bed earlier when you are old. I don't have time to chat with you."

After Zucker finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

How are you at MGM?

Although MGM is still known as a big company, it only has the shell of a big company. Let's see what good movies they have produced since the 1990s. Except for the only one or two movies, they also rely on 007 to continue their lives. .

"Let you be arrogant, and when I get rich in the future, I will buy you out first, hum!"

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