I really don't want to be in the entertainment industry.

Chapter 362 Rebellious Sophie (seeking subscription support!)
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After realizing that the several million liquidated damages were just a small amount of money to Xu Kai, Emma Gusta no longer dared to threaten Sophie March with the liquidated damages.

——Emma Gusta can only play emotional cards with Sophie March, and black Xu Kai, saying that Xu Kai and the Chinese eat everything, cats, snakes, bugs, etc., saying Xu Kai and the Chinese They don't like to express their feelings, they don't understand romance, they are all wooden, they say that Xu Kai and the others are Chinese who speak very loudly, don't understand manners at all, are not gentlemen at all, etc...

What Emma Gusta never expected was that the more slanderous Xu Kai she was, the more rebellious Sophie March, who knew Xu Kai well and knew what she said was not right at all, and went further and further with Xu Kai. Recently, I got to know Xu Kai more and more.

And the more she gets to know Xu Kai, the more Sophie March is attracted to Xu Kai...

In early November, "Detective Chinatown 2" was completed as scheduled.

Xu Kai did not return to China because of this, but completed the post-production of "Detective Chinatown 2" in the beautiful country, and then asked Tie Liang to lead someone to protect Chen Ruoxi, who brought the master tape, to return to China to host the release of "Detective Chinatown 2".

And Xu Kai will continue to stay in the beautiful country to shoot "Rush Hour", "The Grandmaster 4" and "Lover's First Kiss" and host "Farewell My Concubine" to participate in the selection of major film awards.

It was a misunderstanding that Farewell My Concubine did not win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the previous life:
Chen Kaige later asked the Oscar judges why "Farewell My Concubine" was rejected?

The Oscar judges said that they didn’t think the film was bad, but that they lacked communication—they thought that “Farewell My Concubine” had already won the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe, and they hadn’t seen Chen Kaige’s people and promotional activities about the film, so They thought that "Farewell My Concubine" no longer needed this Oscar.

In this life, Xu Kai has fully absorbed Chen Kaige's experience and lessons, so he must actively strive for every award.

In order not to lose the award due to his own misoperation, Xu Kai asked Chen Ruoxi to hire the team that helped Zhang run for the film awards to help "Farewell My Concubine" run for the film awards.

The films that Zhang has made in recent years have won many film awards at home and abroad, and he has been nominated for the Oscar three times and the Golden Globe five times. The team that helped Zhang to participate in the film awards is definitely the most professional and experienced team.

As for whether the team that helped Zhang run to participate in the film awards will come to help him, Xu Kai is not worried at all.

First of all, under Zhao Laogen's matchmaking, the conflict between Xu Kai and Zhang has long been resolved.

The point is that Zhang's situation has gone from bad to worse in the past few years, and the team that helped Zhang run to participate in the film awards cannot only guard Zhang, and is unwilling to accept the commission of Xu Kai, a rich and generous donor.

Facts have also proved that Chen Ruoxi quickly managed the team that helped Zhang to participate in the film awards. After they received the advance payment, they immediately started to help "Farewell My Concubine" run the major film awards and carry out related publicity...

On this day, just after Xu Kai finished filming "Rush Hour", Brett Ratner came to see Xu Kai again to watch a striptease, and said that there was a very hot dancer tonight, and there might be a beautiful encounter.

Xu Kai could tell that Brett Ratner really had a soft spot for the striptease, he went to see it at least twice a week.

Brett Ratner has asked Xu Kai several times, and Xu Kai has nothing else to do today, so let's go with Brett Ratner once.

When they arrived at the striptease bar, Xu Kai and Brett Ratner were sitting at the bar drinking, watching the striptease, and chatting about some interesting things in Hollywood.

Xu Kai didn't expect that the hot dancer that Brett Ratner mentioned was actually a black girl.

Although Xu Kai is very philanthropic, he is really not interested in black people at all.

So after taking a few casual glances, Xu Kai stopped watching the hard-working performance of this black dancer.

Seeing that Xu Kai was not too impressed with this black dancer, Brett Ratner said to Xu Kai: "Black people are very passionate in bed, you really should try it."

Xu Kai shook his head, then changed the subject directly: "Bright, I want to buy a movie company, do you have any good recommendations?"

Brett Ratner asked: "Why did you buy the film company, don't you want to work with New Line?"

"No, but I think it's too inconvenient to make movies in Hollywood without having a film company of your own," Xu said incredulously.

in fact--

The reason why Xu Kai wanted to buy a movie company in Hollywood was mainly because the North American movie box office market was the largest movie box office market in the world. He planned to use this market to make more money, so he needed a local movie company.

After listening to Xu Kai's explanation, Brett Ratner said: "Kai, you are such a lucky guy. I just happened to know that Artisan is selling it, but this film company sells it very expensively. To buy it, you may have to buy it." A small price to pay."

"Artisan? How is it?" Xu Kai asked.

Brett Ratner replied: "Artisan is a relatively small film company that specializes in distributing independent films..."

After listening to Brett Ratner's introduction, Xu Kai learned that Artisan Films is not so much a film production company as it is a film distribution company - it has participated in the distribution of many films, but has actually produced However, there are not many films, even if they are produced, most of them participate in the production, and there are very few self-produced cases, which cannot be compared with the eight major Hollywood film companies.

Xu Kai couldn't figure out why such a small film company sold at such an expensive price.

Until Xu Kai heard from Brett Ratner that although Artisan Films is small, it holds Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Punisher, Humanoid , Vampire Mobius and other Marvel superhero characters, I realized why Artisan Films sold it so expensively.

Yes.

This world also has Marvel superheroes.

It's just that the development of Marvel superhero movies in the two worlds is somewhat different.

The predecessor of Marvel in this life was also a pulp fiction publishing house. In the 40s, it was born with "Captain Pretty Country" and became a great success, helping Marvel enter the mainstream competitive market.

Later, Marvel created a large number of Marvel superhero IPs, as well as the Avengers Alliance composed of many Marvel superhero IPs.

In the 90s, Marvel seemed a little eager for quick success, and ended up in debt.

Here comes the good point. At that time, Marvel began to sell the rights to adapt its superhero characters for money. A large number of Marvel superhero characters, such as Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man and other copyrights, were sold like this out.

And despite selling so many sons, Marvel still did not escape the fate of bankruptcy.

A few years later, Marvel filed for bankruptcy.

Soon after, Marvel reorganized and began to take back the copyright of the previously sold Marvel superhero characters. After a series of financial operations, it rebuilt Marvel Entertainment and started Marvel Pictures.

However, copyright is not something you can take back if you want to.

Various studios: Why do I have to pay back the son I bought with my ability?
In this way, although Marvel still holds a large number of Marvel superhero characters, none of the popular characters are in Marvel's hands.

Artisan Films made a lot of money by releasing a lot of profitable movies back then, and it happened at the right time, so in the process of selling his son, he snatched the captain of the beautiful country, the black panther, the black widow, the dead The copyright of Marvel superhero characters such as Samurai, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Punisher, humanoid, and vampire Mobius, and it is a permanent copyright, became the biggest winner at that time.

After Artisan Films acquired the copyright of these Marvel superhero characters, it wanted to make a big splash.

Therefore, Artisan Films spent a lot of money and made "The Punisher" a few years ago.

But it turned out that the film was so poorly made that Artisan Film Company lost everything.

After "The Punisher", Artisan Films also intends to make Iron Fist and Black Widow into movies, but later saw that the same type of female superhero movie "Wonder Woman" with similar themes did not recover the cost. He flinched and shelved the plan.

In the past two years, Yijiang Film Company has not been able to make good movies, nor has it been able to distribute good movies, which has brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy.

So the owner of Yijiang Film Company wanted to sell Yijiang Film Company as a whole.

Brett Ratner told Xu Kai that the current Marvel superhero movies are not particularly profitable, so Hollywood film companies don't pay much attention to the copyright of Marvel superheroes.

In addition, Brett Ratner also told Xu Kai that Marvel seems to have gotten the hang of it recently and wants to make a Marvel superhero movie by itself.

It's just that Marvel hasn't decided which Marvel superhero movie to make yet, and among the Marvel superheroes to be selected is Artisan Films' Captain Pretty Country, the iconic superhero of Pretty Country, who is also revenge. A superhero that cannot be avoided in the League of Hunters.

After listening to Brett Ratner's introduction, Xu Kai immediately began to think: "Since the Marvel universe has not yet opened, then I have more opportunities."

Therefore, Xu Kai carefully inquired with Brett Ratner about the whereabouts of the copyright of the Marvel superhero characters, and learned that at present:

Universal Pictures holds the copyright of Hulk and She-Hulk-Universal also filmed a Hulk, but lost a lot of money;

Sony Pictures owns the copyrights of Ghost Rider and Spider-Man - the latter is arguably Marvel's most popular hero and has also made a lot of money for Sony Pictures, and is one of Sony Pictures' trump cards;

And the copyrights of all mutants are in Fox Films - different from other terms, the X-Men sells more thoroughly, Fox permanently owns the copyright of all the characters of the X-Men, and fully owns the word "mutant". Words, and can expand any of the X-Men comics characters, including the villains.

And Fox Films is indeed working hard to develop the X-Men. From 2000 to 2006, three "X-Men" were released one after another, and the response was very good, which made people see new hope for the filming of Marvel superheroes.

In addition to the X-Men, Marvel heroes and villains such as Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, and Galactus are also in the hands of Fox Films.

In addition, New Line Films, which Xu Kai is currently cooperating with, also owns the copyrights of the two Marvel superheroes, Iron Man and Blade Warrior.

In fact, New Line Films has already filmed "Blade Warrior", but unfortunately the response was not good, and New Line Films did not make money.

In short, although Marvel still has a large number of copyrights for Marvel superheroes, the popular Marvel superheroes have been divided up by various film companies, and many Marvel superheroes have been made into movies before that. , but except for a few Marvel superheroes such as "Spiderman" and "X-Men", most other Marvel superhero movies lose money or do not make money, so that at this stage, no one pays much attention to Marvel superheroes. Hero Copyright.

It was against this background that the wealthy Xu Kai bought the entire Yijiang Film Company.

Not only that, Xu Kai also bought the copyright of Hulk and She-Hulk from Universal Pictures at a high price, and then Xu Kai negotiated with New Line Films to buy the copyright of Iron Man.

As soon as Xu Kai bought the copyright of Iron Man, Marvel approached New Line Films and wanted to discuss with New Line Films to co-produce the "Iron Man" movie.

In fact, at this stage, many people don't pay much attention to Iron Man.

However, there is no way!
After all, whether it is the X-Men or the Fantastic Four, or characters such as Captain, Hulk, and Spider-Man, they are actually much more popular than Iron Man at this time.

But why does Marvel still choose "Iron Man" as the main force in its last stand?
The answer is that this is purely helpless!

Marvel now has no "strong soldiers and good generals" in its hands!
At this stage, although Marvel still has a lot of copyrights for superhero characters, there are no more popular top superhero characters.

For Marvel at this time, it must be cautious when choosing the protagonist of its first movie.

At the same time, Marvel has to consider the price/performance ratio.

The high-level executives of Marvel have thought about it for a long time, and they think it is best to shoot Iron Man.

This is not only because the popularity of Iron Man is not high, and the copyright will definitely not be too expensive, but also because the filming of "Iron Man" is the most likely to succeed.

——Iron Man has more "sci-fi" elements than other heroes in Marvel's hands. It can even be said that "Iron Man" is a "fast food" character, which is different from others It takes 2-3 movie plots to develop a character.

In other words, the market feedback effect of Iron Man itself is the fastest!

To put it simply, it is also a superhero. If Marvel chooses to use the captain as the protagonist of the first movie, the feedback from fans and the market will actually be much lower.

After all, the "stimulation" effect that Iron Man's own character can show is generally instant, and can completely detonate Iron Man's character appeal within a short plot.

Therefore, the use of "Iron Man" is actually a way for Marvel to get a bigger box office feedback as soon as possible, either to get popular or to rush to the street, unlike the captain who needs to be "fed" by the plot to ignite the interest of movie fans.

Starting with a plot-cultivating character, for Marvel at this time, there is no time, no financial support, and it simply cannot afford it...

That's why Marvel wanted to co-produce "Iron Man" with New Line Films.

But what Marvel never expected was that the copyright of "Iron Man" was cut off by the wealthy Xu Kai.

Upon hearing the news, Marvel Studios President and Producer Kevin Fitch and Marvel's "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau rushed to see Xu Kai...

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(End of this chapter)