Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 2184 Opening the Superhero Era

"You bought Marvel? Three hundred million dollars? You crazy."

Langmeyer soon learned from Lin Daoqiu that he had bought Marvel.

In Langmeyer's view, spending 5000 million to buy Marvel is really outrageous, because in his opinion, Marvel is only worth between [-] million and [-] million at most.

But Lin Daoqiu paid a premium of more than 1 million yuan, which made him really not know what to say about Lin Daoqiu.

"Crazy? Buying Marvel for [-] million dollars is a profitable business for me. You feel that you are losing money because you haven't seen the future. You won't be like this when you can see the future." I think so."

"Although I admire your vision in movies, no one knows what will happen in the future, and there are very few successful examples of superhero series being adapted into movies. Aren't you afraid of losing money?"

If someone else bought Marvel, Langmeyer would definitely laugh at the other party as a fool, because the company's financial situation is very worrying and it doesn't make much money at all.

It was only because this person was replaced by Lin Daoqiu that Langmeyer felt that the rise of Marvel was at least promising. After all, the person who bought this company was Lin Daoqiu.

But if it was him, Langmeyer would never choose to buy Marvel at this time, because it would be too risky.

"Okay, next year I'm going to release two superhero movies."

Hearing what Lin Daoqiu said, Lang Mayer's eyes lit up immediately.

However, in Langmeyer's view, even if the superhero series is a blockbuster, it will not sell too much, because there is a precedent for the "Superman" series before us.

The first part of "Superman" was released in 1978. The director was Richard Donner, and it was sub-distributed by Warner Bros. At that time, it won a box office of 3000 million in North America, and the global box office came to [-] million US dollars.

Two years later, Warner pursued the victory and launched the second part of "Superman", but the final box office was more than 2000 million less than the first part, but it was still able to break through [-] million.

直到83年的《超人3》票房直接砍半，只剩下5000多万，而80年代最后一部的《超人4》最后只拿到了3670万的票房，彻底宣告这个系列的结束。

This is why Langmeyer is not interested in the superhero series. If Lin Daoqiu didn't want to make it, then he would never even think about investing in this type of movie.

"What are you going to shoot?"

Langmeyer is very curious about this, because Marvel has many famous comics, what he wants to know is what is Lin Daoqiu's first superhero to film.

"Spider-Man."

Lin Daoqiu had already thought about his first movie.

Hearing what Lin Daoqiu said, Langmeyer suddenly showed a puzzled expression, because the movie copyright of "Spider-Man" is not in the hands of Marvel.

The time goes back to 85, when Marvel tried to find Roger Coleman to make a Spider-Man movie, but Roger Coleman did not agree.

Marvel turned around and went to Cannon Films to cooperate. At that time, Cannon Films President Menaham Golan and his cousin Yoram Globus agreed to pay Marvel Comics $22.5 plus a certain percentage of revenue. Divided into the purchase of 5 years of film rights.

If Cannon didn't make a movie about it by April 1990, the rights to Spider-Man would go back to Marvel.

There is still some time before the contract expires, but Cannon Films has not started shooting the "Spider-Man" series of movies because of funding and other problems.

But the problem is that the copyright of "Spider-Man" is now in the hands of Cannon Films. If Lin Daoqiu wants to shoot, he must first get back the film and television copyright of "Spider-Man".

"I bought the copyright of "Spider-Man" for 200 million yuan."

Lin Daoqiu had already sent someone to contact Menaham Golan and bought back the copyright of the "Spider-Man" movie for 200 million US dollars.

Because of the relatively large financial losses, Cannon Films is now unable to make "Spider-Man", so keeping the copyright of this film in their hands is of no use at all, it is better to cash out as soon as possible .

Moreover, Lin Daoqiu did not appear, which also made Menaham Golan unaware that the person who bought the copyright of "Spider-Man" was Lin Daoqiu, the boss of MGM, otherwise the price would have to be increased a lot.

"It seems that you are ready, so I will wait and see. By the way, how much budget do you plan to invest in the filming of "Spider-Man"?"

Langmeyer is a little curious about this. If you want to know whether Lin Daoqiu values ​​a movie, it depends on how much he invests in the movie.

If it exceeds 5000 million U.S. dollars, then the "Spider-Man" series of movies is a slightly more important movie for Lin Daoqiu.

If the investment amount reaches [-] million, then this movie will be open to the world, and the global box office will at least exceed one billion US dollars by then.

But what Langmeyer didn't expect was that Lin Daoqiu's budget for "Spider-Man" this time was 5000 million US dollars.

"About 5000 million to [-] million U.S. dollars."

"You...what did you say? "Spider-Man" you plan to spend more than [-] million dollars to shoot? You crazy, do you know..."

What Langmeyer wants to say is that the highest box office of the "Superman" series of movies in the past few years is only 3000 million US dollars, and the global box office has only reached [-] million US dollars.

Lin Daoqiu now wants to spend more than 1 million to [-] million production fees to make a "Spider-Man", and Langmeyer clearly remembers that Lin Daoqiu said that he will have two superhero series next year. Movie release.

If this is the case, wouldn't the combined budget of the two dramas exceed the budget of [-] million to [-] million? This is too bold.

It's not surprising that Langmeyer thinks this way. Although Lin Daoqiu's previous movies have always made a lot of money, movies like "Godzilla" and "1992" can only be regarded as very rare examples.

The box office of most of Lin Daoqiu's movies is about [-] to [-] million US dollars, and the amount of investment is not large, and the sum of [-] can make a lot of money.

But this time he actually has to invest such a large amount of money in the superhero series, which makes Langmeyer have to worry that if the box office performance is not as expected, it will be a big blow to Lin Daoqiu.

At that time, his reputation as the undefeated God of War may come to an end. This is not a good omen for Lin Daoqiu, his MGM and their four alliances.

So Langmeyer hoped that Lin Daoqiu could reduce the budget a little and not raise it so high all at once, after all, the risks involved are too great.

(End of this chapter)