Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 583
For Marvel itself, you can be more patient, because this is a toy; but for Apple, you can't relax in the slightest, because this is the enemy!
"Feng, you really plan to spend it like this, don't you see Cook?" Lu Lu had already come to Li Feng's side barefoot at this time.

Li Feng shook his head and said, "There is no need to meet him. Now Jobs must come here in person, otherwise it is impossible to reconcile, and I have no intention of reconciling now!"

At this time, although Cook is the vice president of Apple, he is still not qualified to discuss the current matter with Li Feng. Since Jobs still wants face, he will give him all the face.

Lu Lu smiled and said: "I know what you mean, but from my point of view, you can meet Cook, not because of the matter between you and Jobs, but because Cook is a good talent, if you can Dug him to Fengrui, it will be of some help!"

"Poach people!"

Li Feng was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Lu Lu would think this way. To be honest, Li Feng still looked down on Cook in his heart. After all, after Cook took over Apple, Apple's products seemed to have lost their souls.

But then Li Feng also realized that he was a little idealistic, or that his demands on Cook were too high. After all, as Jobs' successor, he subconsciously put him and Jobs in the same position, but in this world , How many years does it take for someone like Jobs to emerge?

It is already a very good thing that Cook can become his successor. How can it be possible to be a person with the same experience as Jobs!
And Cook also wants to prove to the world that he is a top world entrepreneur and also a very good supply chain manager.

It's just that it's not the time to poach people yet.

"Let's take a look, let's deal with the Marvel issue in the next two days!" Li Feng finally decided, whether he sees Cook or not, he still hopes to resolve the Marvel issue first.

"Did Paramount reply to the message?" Lu Lu asked.

She just found out about Li Feng's call to Paramount.

Li Feng smiled and said: "I'm back, I'll reply to the message soon, I'm going to meet Brad Gray tomorrow."

Brad Gray has been the chairman and CEO of Paramount since the year before last. Under his leadership, Paramount will firmly maintain its global market share in 2008 next year, and in the next two years. Occupying the first position, the market share in North America is the second.

At the same time, he is also an editor and a producer, so he has a very good understanding of the film industry.

Lu Lu nodded. At Li Feng's level, not to mention Brad Gray, even Lei Shidong had to meet immediately.

Paramount Pictures was acquired by Redstone in 1994, and is now an important part of Redstone's Viacom Media.

"By the way, baby, how are you talking with those people on Wall Street?" Li Feng asked.

"There were a few twists and turns in the middle, but it was resolved quickly!" Lu Lu said proudly: "As long as the money is in place for this kind of thing, it's actually not too difficult."

At the beginning, when Lu Lu offered to buy the shares of Marvel Pictures from those investment institutions, the other party was unwilling to accept it. Now the news that Marvel will independently shoot its own superhero movie has already been widely spread. Everyone is also willing to take a gamble to see what the movies Marvel made by themselves are like, so they are not willing to accept Lu Lu's first acquisition application.

But when Lu Lu raised the price by 10%, the other party was a little moved. After all, film investment is a high-risk thing. Although Wall Street capital has already eroded major Hollywood studios, But people are more willing to believe in those big studios, such as Disney and other film companies.

In fact, the current operation of the Hollywood film industry has long ceased to be funded by itself for filming. It is more that after they propose a project, their own company will first evaluate the project. If the risk level is relatively low Projects, such as projects hosted by directors like Spielberg, they will use more of their own funds, and if the risk is relatively high, they will also use it to raise funds, and most of them are Wall Street investment institutions .

Wall Street capital's invasion of various industries is pervasive.

Marvel has failed too many times, so many that many investment institutions have a tasteless evaluation of Marvel stock. It is a pity to sell it, but it is a pity not to sell it.
Now suddenly there is a big guy who is willing to buy Marvel's stock in his hand, and it is still at a premium of 10%, so they are naturally moved.

It is unknown if you keep it, and you may continue to lose money. If you sell it, you will definitely get 10% of the profit, and everyone will naturally settle the account.

However, they will still be reserved. Since the other party can increase by 10%, it is possible to increase by 15%, 20%. Don’t think that only domestic businessmen know how to ask for prices and pay back the money on the spot.

Businessmen all over the world share this virtue, "If you have money, you are a master", it is the truth everywhere.

Lu Lu naturally knew the virtues of these people, and it was impossible for her to follow the rhythm of this group of people, so in the conference call, Lu Lu directly stated that she could increase the purchase price to 15%, but this was also the final offer , after all, I just want to invest in Marvel, not to control Marvel.

Lu Lu told a little lie here, and everyone also thought that this big guy shouldn't be so stupid to want to buy Marvel completely, so when they heard what Lu Lu said, everyone was immediately moved.

After the heartbeat comes action!

Soon Lu Lu bought a part of Marvel's shares. Even she herself didn't expect the whole thing to be so easy, but this also proved one point from the side. Marvel at this time is indeed too disappointing. Really. What's more, grandma doesn't hurt, and uncle doesn't love!
"Tomorrow I will fly to New York to go through these procedures, do you want to go there together?" Lu Lu asked Li Feng's opinion.

Li Feng shook his head and said: "I won't go, after all, if I come forward, it will easily cause some unnecessary troubles!"

Li Feng and Lu Lu are two different concepts. Although Lu Lu has made some investments in North America in the past few years, compared with Li Feng's investment, it is nothing compared to Li Feng's investment. There is no impenetrable wall in this world. Investment in North America has long been a classic case on Wall Street. Almost everyone has studied Li Feng's investment ideas and wants to learn something from it.

If it is not hot, no one will call Li Feng "the godfather of investment of the new generation".

Now if they know that Li Feng wants to acquire Marvel, then it is not a matter of a 15% premium, but a 20%, 30% or even 50% premium is possible.

This is the power of Li Feng.

Lu Lu also knew these things, and said: "That's fine, I will try to get all these investment institutions in one go tomorrow, and then come back early to accompany you!"

Li Feng nodded and said, "That's hard work baby!"

Lu Lu blushed and said, "I hate it, are you still so polite to me?"

At this time, the sky is actually just getting dark, but is the time important?

Obviously unimportant!
It's time for some fun activities!
On the second day, when Li Feng opened his eyes, Yi Ren was no longer around him. Sometimes Li Feng really doubted why it took the same amount of time. In this regard, women have better recovery ability than men?
Is it really because the man is the one who gives, and the woman is the one who receives, but last night both of them had actions, not to mention that Lu Lu was also on it.
Scratching his head, Li Feng got up on the bed, walked to the bathroom, and sprinkled cool water on his body, which restored Li Feng's spirit. Since I went to see Brad Gray today, it was naturally to cut off the release of Marvel. channel up.

Now Marvel has a weird reputation in Hollywood. First of all, with the success of "X-Men" and "Spider-Man", it has actually attracted a lot of companies to pay attention to Marvel again, but Marvel's previous operations are also unavoidable. It really makes everyone have scruples about Marvel.

After all, the title of the Bankrupt Curse is not given for nothing, and at the same time, not all Marvel superheroes are successful.

For example, in 2003, "X-Men" and Tobey Maguire's "Spider-Man" had already been released, and Universal, which holds the copyright of Hulk, was also preparing to launch the "Hulk" movie.

It is said that Hulk's copyright is much better than that of Iron Man who was sold around. Hulk was sold to Universal together with Iron Man at the beginning, but Hulk's position in Universal is much more stable.

When Li Feng was reborn, the copyright of the Hulk did not return to the hands of Marvel, but has always been in the hands of Universal.

In fact, after Universal obtained the copyright of the Hulk, it has already started to produce Hulk movies, but Universal has been struggling with script issues. Anna's version of "The Incredible Hulk" was released, during which only one script was changed.

Stan Lee and "GoldenEye" screenwriter Michael France were the first to write the script.

Universal Corporation intends to let Hulk fight terrorists, but Marvel and Stan Lee disagree. The two sides fought until 95. During this period, the screenwriter was changed before the next version of the script was finalized, and the director of "Game of the Brave" was invited. Johnston as director.

Later this one went to film Captain America.

But the director of this script was not satisfied, so he pulled it back and reworked it.

After several twists and turns, the script was revised, but it was discovered that the director had gone to shoot "October Sky", and the project was still yellow.

At this time, the new screenwriter felt that his body was hollowed out, saying that we could not do this job, so Universal asked Michael France, who had been expelled before, to come back to write together. God knows what happened during the period, and the result became more and more deviant, and Hulk's script was changed. Turned into a comedy, Dr. Banner's casting options are Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler.
It is estimated that it is connected with "Grandmaid in disguise", anyway, they are all green.
In the end, Ang Lee took over the film version and made drastic changes to the script again. Many screenwriters, including "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" screenwriter J.J. Abrams, participated in the script work, even until When "Hulk" started filming, the script hadn't been revised yet.

But Universal seems to be at odds with superheroes. Hulk is such a popular character, and Li An's version of "The Incredible Hulk" cost 1.3 million yuan. As a result, the box office lost both word of mouth. ", he felt pretty good at the time, but he didn't restore the comics, and fans didn't buy it.

Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the Marvel Universe, Marvel planned to take back the copyright of Hulk last year, and Universal Pictures, which had a poor management of superheroes, also agreed, and the two hit it off.

But the copyright cannot be given to you for free, so there was an agreement at the time that Marvel took back the copyright of Hulk, but Universal had the creation priority and distribution rights of the Hulk movie.

It is precisely because of such an agreement that the "Invincible Hulk" filmed by Universal in 2008 is very wonderful, unprecedented.

This movie was invested by Marvel, and Iron Man also made a guest appearance in the Easter egg part at the end, but the movie was produced and distributed by Universal.

Marvel Pictures, which had just independently produced films at the time, was eager to expand its power and considered this film under the Marvel Universe, but the film was different from Marvel's own works from the screen to the style.

And all this, after Disney acquired Marvel, began to get out of control.

Universal simply held on to its distribution rights.This leads to a very embarrassing problem: Hulk and related characters can appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but if Hulk wants to make a solo movie, then Universal Pictures will have the right to release physical films, negotiate with theaters, and confirm the release rights such as dates and even film productions.

To put it bluntly, if Marvel Pictures wants to make a Hulk movie, Universal will be the leader in the creativity and style of the film, and it must be distributed by Universal!

If we say that in 2008, Marvel Studios could swallow Universal's anger, but later, with Disney as the backstage, its films are sold all over the world. How can Marvel Studios, which pursues the unity of the movie universe, look at other people's faces?
Therefore, Hulk, who has appeared many times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, may not be able to appear in his personal movie in the short term.

During the period, Mark Ruffalo joked in an interview: "Maybe they (Universal Pictures) don't want to make money...

It can be seen that Hulk is the first foreign aid in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There is no independent film, and the baby feels bitter.

It is precisely because Ang Lee screwed up the "Hulk" movie that investors now know that not all of Marvel's superheroes can be successful.

What's more, the movie that Marvel is going to shoot now is "Iron Man", which can only be regarded as a second-rate hero among Marvel superheroes.

So this is also an opportunity that Li Feng can fight for.

But when the time comes to meet Brad Gray, you still have to pay something. After all, although your name is hot and very useful, it doesn't mean that he will give up his own interests and agree to cooperate with him!
So Li Feng must still have to pay some price, but what the price is depends on the negotiation between the two parties!

After taking a shower, Li Feng walked out of the bathroom and put on clean clothes, which were not formal attire, but casual clothes. At this time, Li Feng no longer needed to use external clothes to set off his identity.

After eating breakfast by himself, Li Feng got in the car and went to Paramount's headquarters in Los Angeles.

At this time, Paramount is in full swing, just like its logo of "Snow Mountain Surrounded by Stars", like a high mountain, firmly sitting on the throne of Hollywood overlord.

(End of this chapter)