The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 241 Marvel's Toughest Moment

"This guy's vision is quite good!" Li An muttered. In fact, he tended to shoot Brokeback Mountain. Although this subject is difficult for Asians to accept, as Huang He said, this The subject matter is too good, the literary quality is too strong, and the advantage of winning an Oscar is very high.

Ang Lee now has a knot in his heart, which is the Oscar.

Some people may say, didn't his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon occupy an Oscar?Why does he still have an Oscar plot?Is he little plum?
It can’t be said that way, because although Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon did occupy the first session, Ang Lee did not win the Oscar for Best Director. This is a pain point in Ang Lee’s heart. He still needs an Oscar for Best Director to complete his merits up.

So Ang Lee actually had a choice in mind, but he used this script to try Huang He, because Huang He would be more interested in the memoirs of a geisha in oriental culture. It turns out that Huang He is most interested in Chinese culture.

Soon, the barbecue was almost finished, and Huang He started to say goodbye. Li An looked at Huang He with some discomfort, and finally couldn't help asking, "You really don't want me to help you make a movie?"

"Well, I never meant that!" Huang He nodded. "After all, I don't like any of the movies you made."

"Goodbye"

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After leaving Li An's house, Huang He and his group headed straight for New York, and soon found the office of Weta Studio in New York. After hearing that someone from the East planned to ask Weta Studio to produce special effects for a TV series At that time, the entire Weta Studio was shocked. They never thought of producing movie-level special effects for a TV series.

But the attitude of the other party is very serious, and it is a fairy world that is completely different from Middle-earth. This made the person in charge of Weta Studio interested. The person in charge even decided to fly directly from New Zealand to the United States to communicate with Huang He. , the two sides will continue to discuss in detail in a few days.

In this way, the affairs of Weta Studio were temporarily suspended.

"Brother-in-law, let's do the second thing in America!" Leng Zhiruo asked curiously.

"Not bad!" Huang He nodded.

"What about the third thing? Can you tell me?" Leng Zhiruo couldn't help asking curiously. Huang He said that there were three things to do when he came to the United States, and now the last thing is left.

"Go to meet a guy named Isaac Perlmutter, and then buy another thing from him!" Huang He said.

On October 2002, 10, at this time, Isaac Perlmutter was a little bit dizzy, because one of his comic companies was once again facing the dilemma of running out of funds. This comic company didn't even have the latest issue. Manga magazines are almost out of print.

If I don't say that you may not believe it, this comic company is the famous Marvel in the future.

At this time, Marvel is almost facing the worst situation in life. Since the 90s, the large-scale rise of the Internet and games has caused the younger generation to devote more interests and hobbies to these aspects. The original well-loved comics , the sales volume is getting lower and lower, and now it is less than 1/20 of the peak time.

And this is not a situation that can be reversed by any means, because the existence of comics itself is against the trend of history, and it is a culture that is destined to become a small circle, so any means that attempt to revitalize comics will prove to be useless.

On the contrary, Marvel's repeated attempts to revitalize Marvel's funds gradually dried up, and finally in the early 90s, it completely collapsed and was acquired by a famous villain.

This villain has no intention of running Marvel in a serious way. At most, he wants to hang Marvel's life and prevent Marvel from declaring bankruptcy.

This seems to be enough, after all, Marvel is still alive.But the problem is that this villain has discovered a brand new profit from Marvel, because of the superheroes under him.

The villain discovered that many film companies are interested in superhero movies, and the classic superheroes in the hands of Marvel are the best targets for adaptation into movies.

Any superhero can be sold for hundreds of thousands, or even millions of dollars, so this villain started this notorious hero business.

During the period when the villain was running Marvel, no one except Marvel himself had detailed data on how many superheroes were sold.But when Marvel was at its worst, only two heroes in the entire Avengers were still in the hands of Marvel, and the copyrights of other heroes, including Iron Man and Spiderman, were sold. Some of the copyrights of superheroes, It is even sold permanently, and there is no possibility of recycling.

Fortunately, the villain's behavior aroused great anger among Marvel fans, and then financial fluctuations happened at that time. The villain suffered heavy losses, so he decided to sell Marvel again.

In the end, Marvel fell into the hands of Isaac Perlmutter. This is a good man. In his hands, Marvel’s superheroes have not been sold, at most they are authorized to film companies. At the same time, Isaac Perlmutter began to slowly recover some superheroes that were sold.

At the same time, in the early 21st century, the influence and box office of superhero movies are declining, and many superheroes that were originally very valuable have become worthless, so Isaac Perlmutter’s recovery work has been slow, but it has always been As it continues, many superheroes have returned to Marvel one after another, which makes Isaac Perlmutter quite popular among Marvel fans.

It’s also very interesting to say that Isaac Perlmutter was originally just a peripheral manufacturer cooperating with Marvel, specializing in the production of movable figures.

Later, a toy company that survived on the copyright of Marvel actually swallowed Marvel in turn. It has to be said to be a very interesting thing, but Isaac Perlmutter has persisted until now, and it has been very difficult. His toy company is facing difficulties in operating, and at the same time, the sales of Marvel comics are still declining. Many people are persuading Isaac Perlmutter to sell Marvel, or sell Marvel superheroes as before. They, but Isaac Perlmutter has been gritting his teeth and insisting.

No, this morning, Isaac Perlmutter received another call from a visitor, who is interested in Marvel. Although Isaac Perlmutter was very resistant in his heart, he still Had to meet because Isaac Perlmutter was looking forward to a form of cooperation that he could accept.

It is to sell a part of the shares to the other party in exchange for the inflow of funds from the other party, and at the same time firmly control the management rights of Marvel. This is the only cooperation method that Isaac Perlmutter can accept.

But it is a pity that those who are willing to invest in Marvel do not accept this method. Everyone is a smart person, and everyone sees that Marvel has a dead end. Only the superheroes in the hands of Marvel can sell some money, and they cannot condone Isaac Perlmutter, like now, not only does not sell heroes, but also tries to spend more money to buy back the copyright of these heroes.

Finally, with only a glimmer of expectation, Isaac Perlmutter met the person who came to talk about the acquisition. Although he knew from the phone that the other party was an Asian, but when Isaac Perlmutter When Te really saw this young Chinese, he still instinctively resisted.

"I don't accept losing the control of Marvel, I must firmly grasp the leadership of Marvel!" Isaac Perlmutter said very simply when he met.

"If you still have this attitude, then I'm afraid we can only break up like many people before!" Huang He spread his hands.

"The gate is right there, if you want to leave, you can go anytime!" Isaac Perlmutter said very strongly.

"Of course it's okay for me to go, but can Marvel survive?" Huang He sat quietly, "I can inject [-] million US dollars into Marvel!"

"Two hundred million dollars!!" Isaac Perlmutter swallowed his saliva. This price was unprecedented. When Isaac Perlmutter bought Marvel, he spent a total of 4 dollars. It's only 000, and all the guys who came to talk about the acquisition of Marvel before did not exceed the price of 5000 million at most. This 2 million US dollars made Isaac Perlmutter's attitude begin to soften.

Huang He saw the opportunity, and then said with a smile, "Actually, you don't have to be so resistant to people who come to buy, because you must understand that no one is willing to spend money, but fate is not in your own hands. We want to Find a way to find a common point between us, and then cooperate!"

"What's the connection between us?" Isaac Perlmutter asked disapprovingly. It's ridiculous for a Chinese to talk about revitalizing Marvel.

"Our common point is that we all want to reclaim Marvel's heroes and revitalize Marvel!" Huang He laughed.

"Hmph!" Isaac Perlmutter snorted, but did not refute, obviously agreeing with Huang He's remarks.

"Then the next point is our disagreement!" Huang He said, "I want to know, how do you plan to revitalize Marvel?"

"Let Marvel enter the Internet in an all-round way, manage the IP of superheroes, and then develop peripheral figures such as dolls to open up new sources of income!!" Isaac Perlmutter said.

"That's great!" Huang He slapped his thigh. "I thought there were differences between us, but now it seems that our two ideas are completely consistent. I also think that only in this way can Marvel be revitalized!"

"Really?" Isaac Perlmutter suddenly felt that this yellow crane looked a little handsome.

"That's right, and I think that the content of Marvel is still excellent. The problem is that the channel has changed from the previous paper comics to the Internet, so I suggest that Marvel can set up a website to collect all the comics in Marvel's history. Post it all on the website, and then open it to all users for free!"

"What, free for everyone!" Isaac Perlmutter was shocked.

"That's right, it's free!" Huang He nodded vigorously. "What is the biggest crisis in Marvel now? We have lost the foundation of young people. Many young people don't read comics at all now."

"So, we need to cultivate brand new users, but to systematically understand Marvel's comics, we need to read a lot of Marvel's previous stories, so we need to make all the previous comics content free, so as to attract a lot of young people. People become fans of Marvel, which will become the basis for Marvel's future resurgence!"

"Besides, these are all previous comics. It is impossible for us to make money from these comics. We might as well put on a stance for the fans and let Marvel reap a wave of people's hearts!" Huang He said Finished, Isaac Perlmutter has stars in his eyes, is this yellow crane sent from heaven to help him revitalize Marvel?
(End of this chapter)