Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 577 It's better to be miserable!

In the next two days, Li Feng was indeed not busy with other things, just playing with Lu Lu!

Go out shopping with Lu Lu during the day, and watch TV with Lu Lu at home at night. The two of them are like a young couple in China. They eat three meals a day and take a walk after dinner. They live a very leisurely life.

It's rare to be free, and Li Feng also likes this kind of life, even when he is willing to live this kind of leisure life, or just want to return to the ordinary life of ordinary life, and Li Feng often cooks some delicious food to reward Lu Lu in the United States Hard work pays off.

And Lu Lu has seen Li Feng's culinary skills a long time ago, Li Feng's culinary skills are not just bragging, cooking and cooking, it is rare to see Li Feng delving into cooking skills, Lu Lu started to learn along with him.

There is a good saying, no matter how beautiful a woman is, she must know how to cook fried rice with eggs. When her man is tired, it's such a good feeling to make a copy for him.

Every time Li Feng cooks, Lu Lu will study beside her, and Li Feng doesn't drive her away. Cooking for his own woman is a kind of happiness, and this is the life Li Feng wants.

But you can also let Lu Lu practice her hands, and she will be able to cook by herself at home in the future.

So the two became regular customers of the supermarket, and went to the supermarket almost every day to buy and cook now.

Every time I drive my own luxury car and visit Wal-Mart, I walk like an ordinary couple shopping for groceries~~~ Lu Lu is as happy as a little girl.

In the past two days, the two of them, like the young couple, bought vegetables and cooked every day. Lu Lu was used to it, because the last time Li Feng came to the United States, he cooked a lot of delicious dishes for her, which is still unforgettable.

Now Lu Lu really wants to be a housewife with children at home and eat meals cooked by her husband.

The United States is an emerging country with no history, so its cities have no characteristics. Except for the degree of prosperity, almost every city is similar. Chain supermarkets, chain pizzas, chain chicken and French fries...

And Wal-Mart Supermarket, the world's top five and the largest supermarket company, has stores all over the world, and naturally sells a wide variety of things.

And because this is Silicon Valley, with a majority of Chinese people, there are many things in the Wal-Mart here, all of which are domestic products that Chinese people like to use, such as noodles, hot pot ingredients, old godmother... everything.

In the supermarket, Li Feng took Lu Lu and went in to pick out the ingredients.

Lu Lu and Li Feng have come to this supermarket countless times to go crazy together.

In the supermarket, Lu Lu proficiently pushed a supermarket shopping trolley and followed behind Li Feng. She was no longer a rookie and knew how to choose fresh ingredients.

But there is still a lot to learn, and they are still behind Li Feng.

Every time she came to the supermarket, Lu Lu felt that Li Feng was different, she couldn't tell at all that a man who managed a huge capital company had the potential of a family man.

When I was checking out today, I found an interesting thing, that is, when Li Feng was checking out, he accidentally knocked over someone, and it turned out that it was "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr.

Silicon Valley is very close to Hollywood, and can often knock down stars, but before Li Feng had time to say hello to Robert Downey Jr., Robert Downey Jr. said "I'm sorry" and left in a hurry, which made Li Feng Feng was very embarrassed, because Li Feng raised his hands.

And Lu Lu was also puzzled and asked Li Feng: "What's the matter, husband, who was that person just now? Do you know him?"

"Iron Man! Big star, don't you know him?" Li Feng said in surprise.

"Iron Man, is it still famous? Why haven't I heard of it? Is it a new star?" Lu Lu still had a little understanding of Hollywood in the United States.

"It's Marvel! The Avengers! Oh... It's okay, I misread the person." Li Feng said again, but just after Li Feng finished speaking, he just remembered. It's still 2007, far from the "Marvel" "Dafa is awesome" era.

This is an opportune time to acquire Marvel, or during the financial crisis next year, that's fine too!
Li Feng just thought about it, let's think about what to make for dinner today, serving his wife well is the most important thing.

For dinner, Li Feng also brought out his own top-notch level. He made pan-fried pork neck and fish steak, and made some side dishes, and paired it with some red wine. It was really a proper romantic dinner.

During the meal, Lu Lu opened her mouth like an ordinary girl in love, asking Li Feng if these foods are delicious?It means to ask Li Feng to hello.

Li Feng, as if he didn't understand what Lu Lu meant, pointed to the delicious food and said with a smile: "The fish fillet is full of soup, which is very tasty from the outside to the inside; the pork neck is evenly fat and thin, and the mouth is tender and smooth, oily but not greasy. , Big movie and big satisfaction.”

Lu Lu's appetite was overwhelmed by Li Feng, and then Li Feng put the delicious food in his mouth, and did not forget to lick his lips after eating.

"Hmph! I hate you so much!" Lu Lu folded her arms and looked angry.

At this time, Li Feng smiled and handed the fish on the knife and fork to Lu Lu's mouth, and Lu Lu ate it in one bite.

"What a greedy little cat!"

After dinner, Li Feng ran to the balcony of the mansion to cool off, while Lu Lu took the initiative to wear an apron and go to the kitchen to wash the dishes and clean up the mess.

After Lu Lu cleaned up the kitchen, she took a glass of red wine and walked around in front of Li Feng. She poured it into Li Feng's arms quite amorously, and gave the wine glass she had just drunk with red lips to Li Feng. Feng mouth.

"You little goblin, you're still killing people!"

Li Feng pulled Lu Lu into his arms, and Lu Lu kissed Li Feng immediately. The two became more and more lingering, and couldn't help undressing each other.

The tranquility after the hustle and bustle is actually more refreshing, just like Li Feng and Lu Lu at this time, although they didn't have much words, they could clearly feel each other's happiness.

There is such a poem in life, often when you have him, you do not understand her, but when you understand it, it is far away from you, this poem is the love with a certain person , in such a journey that you will never be able to reproduce again, both of them have carved their own unique memories, no matter whether these memories are sad, confused, restless, sweet, enthusiastic or even crazy, he will It is the best memory belonging to those two people.

Fortunately, Li Feng's rebirth gave him the opportunity to copy such memories, and even engrave better memories in such memories, so Li Feng didn't want to give up every such love memory.

And it was too early to go to bed, so the two of them washed up again, and got up to watch TV again.

In the dim light, the rough sea could be seen in the distance through the light outside the bedroom. Li Feng and Lu Lu, the sweet lovers, also depended on each other, watching the TV not far away.

Because Li Feng likes to watch movies and rarely watches TV series, and we can’t understand American TV series, so Lu Lu also chose Li Feng’s favorite science fiction movies.

At this time, North American superhero movies were playing on TV. Sony produced Tobey Maguire's version of "Spider-Man". In a broad sense, this version of Spider-Man is also known as the first generation of Spider-Man.

However, this is not the first time that "Spider-Man" has appeared in public. In addition to comics and animations, "Spider-Man" has also met with audiences on the TV series "The Amazing Spider-Man" produced by Columbia Pictures, but this The version of the TV series will be traced back to the 70s, and it is not easy to find this version of the TV series.

As for why it was produced by Columbia Pictures, it does not mean that the copyright of the little spider was sold to Columbia Pictures at that time. Edited the TV series into a three-episode movie and released it overseas, but at that time it did not cause any waves.

Later, with the disastrous box office failure of "Superman 80" in the 3s, the superhero trend faded away, and the copyright of Spider-Man returned to Marvel.

After bumping into Robert Downey Jr. during the day, and watching the "Spider-Man" superhero movie at night, Li Feng's interest in Marvel was revived.

"Honey, how much is Marvel worth now? How about I buy Marvel?" Li Feng said after lying on the bed.

"I don't know the exact amount, but it must not exceed 10 billion US dollars, but are you really interested in Marvel?" Lu Lu snuggled into Li Feng's arms and asked with some uncertainty.

Li Feng nodded, and said, "That's right, I'm very optimistic about movies where superheroes change!"

Some things cannot be explained clearly. For example, at this time, no one knows what kind of box office hurricane Marvel’s “Iron Man” will set off next year. At the same time, no one knows that next year, Marvel’s “Iron Man” After a big success, he began his own whirlwind of invincibility in the Marvel universe.

The current Marvel is just a poor man, living by selling the copyright of its own superheroes.

And the copyright of Little Spider is Marvel's eternal pain.

"Is it because of the success of "X-Men" and "Spiderman"?" Although Lu Lu didn't know why Li Feng was so optimistic about Marvel, there were always traces to follow. Fox's successful "X-Men" series and Sony's successful "Spider-Man" series.

Li Feng smiled and said, "That's right!"

"Unfortunately, the copyright of "Spider-Man" is in the hands of Sony, and the most valuable adaptation in the entire Marvel is the copyright of the little spider." Lu Lu smiled: "Did you know, because of the copyright of the little spider, I have also played What about the lawsuit!"

When Li Feng wanted to acquire Marvel, he had already investigated Marvel's background, but as a successful man at this time, he would definitely not say that he knew in front of his woman.

"Really? What happened?" Li Feng followed Lu Lu's topic and asked.

Lu Lu really thought that Li Feng didn't know, so she immediately smiled and said, "So there are really things you don't know, so I'll tell you mercifully!"

"Then I'll thank the precious female Bodhisattva first!" Li Feng said funny.

It turned out that in the 70s, after Marvel took back the copyright of Little Spider in the hands of Columbia Pictures, in the 80s, Marvel could no longer support it. In order to maintain its own livelihood, it began to sell Little Spider again. Copyright, this time it was Stan Lee who personally managed it.

However, this time it was not sold to the Big Seven in Hollywood, but to a company called Cannon Films. It spent 22.5 US dollars plus a certain percentage of revenue to buy the 5-year film copyright of Xiao Chong, and then Xiao Spider I never came back, and have been away from home until now.

The copyright of Little Spider was only bought for $22.5, can you believe it?
Incidentally, I would like to mention the 5-year new film plan here. This can be regarded as a pit dug by Marvel for the film company that sells its own superhero copyright. To put it bluntly, it means that the film company bought Marvel’s superheroes. The new movie, then the copyright of this superhero will automatically return to the embrace of Marvel. Marvel has indeed cheated many companies with this famous 5-year new film plan.

And this Cannon Films is a film company that has been famous for its horror films, so after buying the copyright of Little Spider, the first version of the script they wrote was basically a horror film script. After the alien spider bites, it will directly transform into a giant spider. Stan Lee went crazy immediately after seeing this script.

Later, the two parties finally made a mutual compromise after a multi-party agreement. The producers and shooting teams were all replaced, and the foundation of the film was also established. Then, the planned cast was Tom Cruise negotiating to play Peter Parker, and Bob Hoskins played the role of Peter Parker. Doctor Octopus, Stan Lee also expressed his intention to play the editor-in-chief of the "Daily Horn".

The studio also considered Kathleen Hepburn as Spider-Man's Aunt May, and Peter Cushing as a sympathetic scientist.

The director is Joseph Zito from "NO.13 Friday" and "Red Scorpion".

The estimated cost of the film was 1500-2000 million US dollars, which was also a big deal at the time. When everything was ready, Cannon Films went bankrupt.
This is a fart, so the producer at the time, a guy named Golan, went solo and started a new company, 21st Century Pictures. He chose to continue developing the "Spider-Man" movie and negotiated an extension with Marvel. contract period.

21st Century Films has nothing to do with 20th Century Fox. It's just a guy named Golan who wants to gain popularity. It can be seen that this person is not serious about making movies.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Golan first lied to Marvel, saying that he was going to shoot a movie, but now the time for a new movie in five years is approaching, so you have to give me some time.

Marvel was eager to make a bigger breakthrough in the film field, so they accepted Golan's suggestion, but they didn't expect that Golan would play second-hand dealers for them.

Golan is afraid that the world will not be chaotic. At the Cannes Film Festival in 89, this empty-handed white wolf declared that the film had been assembled, distributed the copyright of Spider-Man, and sold the distribution rights to Sony Columbia. Filming rights were given to Caroco Films.

In fact, at that time, Golan had nothing but the copyright of the little spider!

As for Caroco Films, it is a little more reliable than Cannon Films. At that time, Caroco Films was well-known. Its number one director was James Cameron, known as the king of the world. "Terminator 2 ", "Total Recall", "Instinct" were filmed by their company.

So the new shooting version of "Spider-Man" was once again put on the agenda. In the script, Schwarzenegger played Doctor Octopus, Little Plum was Peter Parker, Spider-Man and Mary Jane had sex scenes, and they would also be on the Golden Gate Bridge make love
But at this time, the little spider seems to have a special ability to curse. After Caroco Films took over the copyright of the little spider, they encountered business problems. James Cameron had to urgently shoot "True Lies" After going to rescue the company, it was finally eased, but in 1996, the company made another "Cutthroat Island", which was certified by Guinness World Records that year as "the most money-losing movie in the world", which led to the complete disappearance of the company.

So at this time, the copyright of the little spider has been scattered, so several companies began to sue the copyright of the little spider. The company, Cannon Films, Caroco Films, and his own Marvel, all went bankrupt.
Only Columbia Pictures was left to reap the benefits of being a fisherman, and finally obtained all the copyrights of Little Spider. The contract period continued for "5 years of new films". In the hands of Marvel, it is a pity that Sony, which later acquired Columbia Pictures, has not defaulted on the contract.

There used to be a gossip in Hollywood that Michael Jackson once wanted to acquire Marvel because he had always liked little spiders very much, but unfortunately it was stranded for unknown reasons.

After Li Feng listened to it, he also chuckled and said, "It seems that this little spider is really ill-fated!"

Lu Lu also laughed, and said, "But no matter what, the little spider is now under the operation of Sony and has achieved great success. It can be seen why these film companies wanted his copyright."

Of course I want it. Although the little spider has a special ability to curse, in the list of "Most Popular American Comic Characters" in North America, Spider-Man will always share the top three with the Superman next door and Batman.

In the subsequent global IP value rankings, the Spider-Man IP ranked 12th, while the "Marvel Movie Universe" IP was only 10th.

See, a little spider is worth almost as much as all Marvel members.

But as Lu Lu said, the current little spider is basically a cash cow under Sony's banner, and it is impossible to return it to Marvel.

So it is almost impossible to get back the copyright of "Spider-Man".

Li Feng is naturally aware of this, but this does not mean that he has no other options. When the Marvel Universe is invincible in the future, he can still cooperate with Sony.

"But I really want to advise you. If you really fancy a certain superhero of Marvel, you might as well just buy the copyright of this superhero. Marvel is a big hole now, and there are already many superheroes. Few people are talking about it, Marvel has the ability to curse!" Lu Lu was still making the last effort.

Li Feng smiled slightly and said, "Who else did he cheat?"

"It's not that he cheated someone again. I always feel that the current Marvel is a bit out of date, which makes people not so relieved. The Caroco Films I told you before once got the X-Men's license." Copyright, with two Marvel superheroes in hand, didn't they go bankrupt in the end?"

Li Feng laughed and said, "Don't worry, it's quite difficult for them to bankrupt me."

That's right, "X-Men" was also sold by Marvel to Caroco Films, but before it was sold to Caroco Films, it was sold to Orion Films, the one that produced "Robocop" The Orion Films with the two films "Dances with Wolves", and even the film "Dances with Wolves" won the North American box office chart that year, but even so, after starting "X-Men" Later, Orion Pictures also encountered a financial crisis.
Afterwards, the unlucky Caroco Films launched again, looking for James Cameron, and Stan Lee personally lobbied.
Although Kashen was not interested (he wanted to make Spiderman more), he still agreed to be the producer. The director was tentatively appointed as Kathleen Bigelow, Kashen's wife at the time, but the project was still yellow. It's a problem, I don't even care about it.

The copyright of "X-Men" has returned to Marvel. .

Catherine Bigelow is the one who made "The Hurt Locker"
The last interesting thing is that when Sony and Marvel discussed the copyright of "Spider-Man", Marvel only sold "X-Men" to Sony as a package. As a result, Sony didn't like the X-Men at all.
It can be seen how disgusting Marvel's superheroes are at this time.

In the end, there was no way, Marvel found [-]th Century Fox and sold the X-Men to them.

At that time, Robert Rodriguez and Paul Anderson were selected as directors, but neither of them were interested. The other candidate, Brett Ratner, had a schedule conflict. Later, this gentleman directed "X-Men 3: The Last Stand".

Robert Rodriguez is director of "Alita," Paul Anderson is director of the "Resident Evil" franchise, and Brett Ratner is director of "Rush Hour."

Today's Bryan Singer is also wrong, because he signed "Alien 4" with Fox at the time, but the producer thought he was more suitable for the prejudiced racial atmosphere of "X-Men", so he directed it .

The actors who play Wolverine are also quite tortuous, from Keanu Reeves, Mel Gibson, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Viggo Mortensen, to Russell Crowe. schedule, and immediately recommended an Australian friend of mine, Hugh Jackman.

The actors and the director struggled for a long time, mainly because the investment in the first "X-Men" was only 6000 million, and later it was increased to 7500 million. In addition to the group play, a large number of famous actors and roles missed:
These include Angela Bassett, Mariah Carey version of Storm; Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman version of Rascal, and Jim Caviezel version of Cyclops, replaced by unknown faces at the time.

The two old drama players are related. Professor X Patrick Stewart is good friends with the producer, and Magneto King Ian McKellen has just played Bryan Singer's "Pursuit".

Later, the medium-cost "X-Men", released in 2000, was Marvel's first super-English film with a box office of over [-] million.

By the way, because at that time, Marvel urgently needed money to live on, so it signed an indefinite contract with [-]th Century Fox, which means that [-]th Century Fox not only permanently owned the copyright of all the characters of "X-Men" , more fully owns the term "Mutant" and can expand any mutant comic book character.

It can be seen that if it were not for Disney's acquisition of Fox later, Marvel might never be able to get back the copyrights of the X-Men and mutants.

Li Feng said with a smile: "Seeing the popularity of "X-Men" now, I guess Marvel is going to regret it now!"

Lu Lu smiled and said, "Almost, I heard that Marvel is also preparing to shoot its own superhero movie because of these reasons."

Li Feng said with a smile: "That's a good relationship, which means that Marvel is just short of money at this time."

The acquisition of Marvel, on the one hand, is the need for capital, and on the other hand, it is Fengrui's layout of the overseas content industry, and Marvel is the biggest "IP", so the acquisition couldn't be more appropriate.

Lu Lu saw that Li Feng still wanted to buy Marvel, so she didn't say anything more. After all, compared to Li Feng at this time, Marvel was just a "brother in a younger brother" and couldn't attract Lu Lu's attention at all.

If she hadn't known that Li Feng was interested in Marvel, she probably wouldn't have cared about these things about Marvel.

"It's a bit miserable to talk about Marvel!" Lu Lu laughed.

Li Feng chuckled and said, "It's better to be miserable, it's better to start with miserable!"

As for, Marvel will be popular in the future, Li Feng knows it all too well, just like the smartphones in his previous life, except for Apple’s iOS phones, they are Android phones; except for Marvel movies, it is other movies, and even the box office of other movies combined , may not be able to beat Marvel movies!

It really is "Marvel Dafa is good"!
It just so happens that you are fine now, so buy a Marvel to play and pass the time!

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(End of this chapter)