Coquettish Rebirth

"Are you here to buy?" Katzenberg was taken aback at the time. He knew that Jia Hongjian was rich, but how rich was Jia Hongjian?Will there be billions of dollars in the bank just in case?real or fake?Too exaggerated?It's not that Katzenberg is so rare, it's that this kind of thing is really rare in the United States!Not to mention the United States, even in China in this era, many people start investing in financial products or investing in the stock market when they have a little spare money. Generally, they just keep a little money at home just in case of an emergency!In the United States, ordinary people don't even have emergency money in every household!The various pre-consumption economies here make the common people basically not have much spare money!As for the company, of course, it will be much more generous. Generally speaking, the company has a certain amount of working capital for daily turnover, and then saves a little emergency money, basically everything else has to be invested.Regardless of whether the investment is to expand reproduction or to other fields of other companies, it must always be invested, because the meaning of the existence of such a thing as a company is to continue to make money!So when you have extra spare money, you must use it to make money, which is in line with the nature of the company as an organization!

So Katzenberg couldn't understand how Jia Hongjian had about 30 billion yuan to buy Marvel!That doesn't sound reasonable!If the money is Huaxia Hi-Tech's money, why doesn't Huaxia Hi-Tech invest this money?If the money belonged to the Jia family, why didn't the Jia family invest the money?Could it be that Jia Hongjian and the others were already planning to buy some companies at this time?Just when Katzenberg was puzzled, Jia Hongjian seemed to see his doubts, and explained directly with a smile: "Didn't I withdraw from many investment fields at the end of 06 and early 07? For example, PetroChina, Sinopec and BlackBerry, those investments have multiplied many times now. Huaxia Hi-Tech has obtained tens of billions of dollars in funds at once, and it will not take half a year to invest all of this money. Isn't it a bit of a subprime mortgage crisis, so there are no good investment opportunities..."

This is not Jia Hongjian making excuses, but the truth!With tens of billions of investment profits in hand, to be honest, you really can't just invest indiscriminately.Because don't forget that the current morale in the United States is the subprime mortgage crisis!All kinds of fields are not suitable for investment. Where does this make him invest?So for Jia Hongjian, he must control the risk.Don't let us seize the historical opportunity and make money as a reborn person, and lose money again if we don't look at the situation and invest in disorder!So now I really haven't invested much, that is, the company's venture capital department has invested a little bit, but in terms of tracking profits, it's still a drop in the bucket!Therefore, if Jia Hongjian wants to buy, the funds are still very convenient, and there is no need to withdraw working capital at all.

Listen to Jia Hongjian's explanation.Katzenberg immediately felt relieved.Although it is said that after such an acquisition, Marvel is not a subsidiary company directly under DreamWorks, but after all, it is also a brother company of the boss, isn't it?At that time, there will definitely be more interactions between each other than other people's families. If Marvel has a need, it will be able to keep the fat and water out of outsiders' fields!It will be good for everyone then!Even when Jia Hongjian merges Marvel into DreamWorks again, Jia Hongjian will definitely have more shares after the equity dilution, and Katzenberg and the others will definitely have less, but he doesn't care about this.After all, it will be able to form a huge cultural and creative enterprise by then.Comics, animation, live-action movies, one-stop, how awesome is this?You can even set up your own game company in the future.Let's make a Marvel game!How cool is that?At that time, we will really embark on another Disney road!Even setting up a Marvel superhero theme park in the future is not impossible!

With Katzenberg's support, Jia Hongjian was determined to buy, and soon he called the fat white president of Marvel over for an interview.When the fat man came to the parking lot under the office building of DreamWorks, he stayed alone in the car for 5 minutes.He didn't listen to music or make phone calls, he just sat in the car blankly thinking about something.He took a deep breath.He knew that this meeting could affect their Marvel fate!He knew that such a period of time was the best chance for Marvel to change their lives. If they couldn't grasp it, God would destroy them!

This Marvel has never been able to compete with Warner and their DC in the past. In the 7080s, Warner and DC relied on Batman and Superman, and they made a lot of money making movies!But at that time, Marvel's film and television copyright was so frustrating that no one came up to ask the price for takeaway!Marvel has no boss behind it. In front of DC and Warner back then, they were only able to make comics and sell copyrights to make TV animations. The level of difference is simply heaven and earth!In the end, I managed to sell the filming copyrights of several films at such a low price that they were almost free. As a result, they didn’t start filming for a long time, and would rather lose money than shoot!This really made Marvel back then so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood!Then there were finally three films to be filmed. As a result, "Doctor Strange" in 1978 and "Hulk" in 1990 were made into TV movies, and "Captain America" ​​in 1979 went directly to the home video market!

What is a TV movie?The TV movie is the same as "Blood War in the Pacific" and "Band of Brothers" aired by hbo, but it's just an hour and one episode and then invest in a bigger TV series!Even if the technique may be more similar to movies, but after all, it was broadcast on TV, not in theaters!And "Captain America" ​​went directly to the home video tape market, and even gave up on the TV show, and went directly to the rental market!This is even lower level!You must know that in the United States, there are all kinds of movies that are not eligible to be shown in movie theaters or go to various movie theaters for a few days, so they mainly focus on the rental market!

At the end of the 90s, Warner suddenly stopped their actions in copyright cinemas such as Superman and Batman, which gave Marvel a marketing opportunity and a chance to turn around!So they hurriedly took advantage of this opportunity to sell the copyrights of Spider-Man and X-Men at a loss!For example, Jia Hongjian and the others bought DC’s Batman filming rights, which were limited in time and number of films, and they stipulated 12 films in 4 years. After the time or number passed, the copyright would return to DC!But Marvel is different.Back then, in order to quickly develop their own market by taking advantage of the vacancy of the DC Frozen movie version of superhero films, they sold X-Men to 20th Century Fox and Spider-Man to Sony Pictures, which was really unfair. Sold by treaty!What do these unequal treaties look like?Specifically, there is no time-limited authorization!

For example, for the X-Men series, as long as 20th Century Fox does not make another series or spin-off of such a film within 7 years, then the copyright will automatically return to Marvel.Then what.If 20th Century Fox has been filming for a period of time and finds that the market is not good, they don’t want to shoot anymore, but they don’t want to wait 7 years and then return the copyright for free, so it is stipulated in the contract that 20th Century Fox can actively ask Marvel to redeem it. Back to the film and television adaptation rights of the X-Men!Sony's Spider-Man is pretty much the same!Otherwise, how could Sony have survived and filmed three Batman films in the first few years of the 21st century, and then re-filmed three more episodes after a few years with different actors, directors and plots?It is one thing to make money by frying cold rice, and the other is to not want to return the copyright to Marvel if it has not been filmed for a few years!In this way, it is quite unequal!It's not even just these two copyrights, the others are like Daredevil.What kind of soul chariot, what kind of blade fighter, what kind of punisher, these are all from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Let Marvel also get involved in live-action movies!And after these films are made, Marvel can also get a share.Although the share is small, it is better than working hard in the TV market and video tape market before?

But when Fatty Bai was sent as a commissioner to cooperate with various film and television companies as producers.He found that such a strategy was wrong!Why is something wrong?Because this fat man, as Marvel’s commissioner, worked on all the plots and backgrounds of all the superheroes under their company overnight. As a result, after he was sent to cooperate with various film and television companies, he discovered that the Jews in such companies are so weird Really disrespect the original!You must know that in the United States, in various financial and film and television fields, Jews are basically either bosses or various high-level elites.When these people treat the "subculture" of manga and animation.There is an unspoken rule in that, which is "de-originalization". In short, top Hollywood filmmakers and senior executives of film companies don't take Marvel's copyrights seriously at all.Don't take the original work seriously!They are all elites, and they are all Jews who are good at management. How could they make a plot movie that fits the original work?Then how to show their abilities?If it only needs to be the same as the original, isn't everyone able to do it?Where is their presence?

Even though they know that the biggest viewers of these films may be teenagers and all kinds of nerds, they just ignore this on purpose and want to make various changes!And it's also a beautiful name-we are trying to expand the potential audience, so that people of all ages and hobbies can enjoy these movies.As a result, Marvel's "Daredevil", "Fantastic Four", and "Ghost Rider" were changed beyond recognition by the producers, and the worldviews of "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" also deviated from their own ideas. further away.And at such a time, Jia Hongjian brought the DC-frozen Batman onto the stage!Although Jia Hongjian has also made a substantial adaptation of the original plot, it is obviously an adaptation that is more exciting than the original!Fatty Bai himself admits that Jia Hongjian and Nolan's adaptation is an adaptation so that people of more age groups can appreciate it!Because all kinds of decent performances and thinking of various villains are more and more like people in the real world, not just those in the comic world who save to save the world and destroy to destroy the world!This is a good edit!

Then I watched Jia Hongjian and the others take this Batman theme, which really made the box office explode. At that time, Fatty Bai knew the bad food!why?Because Jia Hongjian and the others have done so well, although it fully proves that Sony and their Spider-Man's $3 million box office in North America is far from the upper limit of the box office for comic book adaptations, but it will also attract the attention of DC and Warner!Looking back, I'm sure DC and Warner will make a comeback, and they may even take the initiative to hand over all other copyrights to Jia Hongjian for filming!At that time, relying on Jia Hongjian's ability, wouldn't DC and Warner go further than ten years ago?At that time, isn't Marvel going to be left far behind by Warner and DC?It is because the board of directors also saw such a reason, so the original president of Marvel resigned, and then the white fat man who also saw such a crisis decided to take a gamble by relying on his radical proposal to seduce the board of directors!Only then did Fatty Bai become the president, and he had the opportunity to discuss cooperation with Jia Hongjian!

If the cooperation with Jia Hongjian cannot be negotiated, although Marvel will still follow the path set by itself, it seems that the risk will be much greater-if they were to come by themselves, all their cash combined would be worthless. Not enough to invest in an "Iron Man"!In order to make this film, they may have to take the copyright of several well-known comic book superheroes to the bank as collateral for a loan!If the film loses money or does not make enough money to repay the loan, the copyrights of the superheroes will be taken away by the bank and auctioned off!At that time, Marvel's precipice will be miserable, and precipice will never have a chance to compete with DC!That's why the fat man felt Alexander at this time!If it wasn't for this tremendous pressure, how could he not have had the opportunity to create an opportunity, and despite Jia Hongjian's face-to-face refusal, he would follow Katzenberg's route and desperately force Jia Hongjian to agree?

At this time, the fat white man took a deep breath, and kept encouraging himself in his heart. He knew that the next 5 minutes would be the trial of fate for a newly appointed president like him and Marvel Corporation!Whether it is easy to become a success or be forced to gamble with the key wealth and life depends on the result of the meeting with Jia Hongjian and the others! (To be continued..)