Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 960 Three major Hollywood giants invest in Marvel Entertainment

The impact of "The Avengers" breaking $10 billion at the global box office is still brewing, but Chen Hao just posted a celebratory microblog and there was no movement.

Even though the post was full of praise, likes and retweets quickly exceeded 10, but Chen Hao just hid in the Haotian Building and continued editing "Gravity".

He also ignored the media's request for an interview and did not show up.

The time soon came to May 2012, 5. Haotian Music released the second album of this year, "Dare to Love" by Sister He!
The physical pre-sale of the album plus the first week only sold less than 7 copies, which is even worse than before.

The number of downloads of the digital album has reached 30, which is a steady increase compared with the past.

But Haotian Music is not happy, because the contracts of Li Yuchun, Sister He, Zhang Jingying and Zhang Jie will all expire in July, but the four of them are determined to leave.

Faced with such a situation, Haotian Music made a certain retreat, but gave up after still not getting a response to the contract renewal.

However, with the departure of the 4 people, Haotian Music will only have Zhang Hanyun, Xue Qian, two veterans, and Xu Song who just joined this year and has not yet released an album.

The good news is that Haotian Productions will produce a music talent show "The Voice of China" this year, and Huo Shaowen can only hope that he can dig out new Li Yuchun, Zhang Jingying and Zhang Jie from it.

At the same time, Hu Jin, who had already flown to the United States, received a joint invitation to negotiate shares from Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony Columbia, Universal and 20th Century Fox.

The seven parties will restart negotiations on taking a stake in Marvel Entertainment. Obviously, the Hollywood giants can no longer sit still after the global box office of "The Avengers" breaks 10 billion US dollars.

They have to hurry up and lower the price, or the price they pay will be too high.

However, Hu Jin also knows the way of negotiation, and now Marvel Entertainment has taken the initiative, so he is not in a hurry.

The biggest issue in the negotiations is naturally the valuation of Marvel Entertainment, which is estimated at US$140 billion.

The six big Hollywood giants felt that the price was too high, and they were only willing to value it at 100 billion US dollars!
The two sides are fighting with each other, but after all, the transaction involves tens of billions of dollars. Even if one party wants to sell and the other is eager to buy, it is not so easy to get it done, so there are still some talks.

And just as the two sides were negotiating fiercely, another week passed, and the new week's North American weekend box office rankings were freshly released!
In the third week of its release, "The Avengers" once again held the championship with a terrifying box office of 3 million US dollars, and successfully achieved three consecutive championships in the weekend box office rankings in North America!
And "The Avengers" still maintained a "thriller" single-hall box office of US$12958 in the third week of its release!And the cumulative total box office in three weeks also soared to 4.57 million US dollars!
At the same time, "The Avengers" once again took 6 records under its command.

First of all, in the third week, 5505 million U.S. dollars was earned in a single week, second only to "Avatar"'s 6849 million U.S. dollars, ranking second in film history;
Second, the cumulative box office exceeded 14 million U.S. dollars in only 4 days, and the 18 days it took to defeat "The Dark Knight" ranked first in film history;

Third, the cumulative box office exceeded 17 million US dollars in only 4.5 days, and the 27 days that defeated "The Dark Knight" ranked first in film history;

Fourth, as of the third weekend, the cumulative total box office reached 4.57 million US dollars, breaking the total box office of "The Hunger Games" of 3.91 million US dollars, and becoming the number one box office in the history of Tianchi Films;

Fifth, the cumulative box office in North America is 4.57 million US dollars, surpassing the 2 million US dollars of "Shrek 4.41", temporarily ranking fifth in film history, and the ranking will continue to rise;

第六，全球总票房达到11.8亿美金, 超越《变形金刚3》的11.23亿美金入驻北美前四甲，即将赶超《哈利波特7》的13.28亿美元。

Three weeks after its release, "The Avengers" has a North American box office of $3 million, ranking fifth in the box office of North American film history.

排名前4的分别是7.605亿美元的《阿凡达》、6.594亿美元的《泰坦尼克号》、5.352亿美元的《蝙蝠侠前传2：黑暗骑士》以及4.745亿美元的《星球大战前传1：幽灵的威胁》。

Now it seems that it should not be a big problem to surpass "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" and "Batman Episode 2: The Dark Knight", but whether it can catch up with "Titanic" will be a question mark.

At the same time, the global box office of "The Avengers" has reached 11.8 billion U.S. dollars, ranking fourth in the global film history box office list!
前3位分别是27.897亿美元的《阿凡达》、21.875亿美元的《泰坦尼克号》以及13.417亿美元的《哈利波特7》！
It should not be too difficult for "The Avengers" to surpass "Harry Potter 7", but it is estimated that this is the end, because the first and second rankings are too strong, and there is no hope at all!
The box office of "The Avengers" in the third week is still creating box office miracles, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger.

Not to mention the media's touting, what is more critical to Liang Tianchi is that the negotiations on buying a stake in Marvel Entertainment were cut short and quickly settled.

After the box office of "The Avengers" came out in the third week, the Hollywood giants obviously realized that the more delays, the more dangerous they were, so they finally quoted US$120 billion, saying that this was the final price and would not increase.

At the same time, it also hinted that if Liangtianchi Films closes if it doesn't do well, it will face simultaneous encirclement and suppression by the six Hollywood giants.

Although there is a lot of filth among each other, facing the threat brought by the increasingly powerful Liangtianchi Film Industry, the six major Hollywood companies can temporarily form an alliance to suppress Liangtianchi Film Industry together.

Especially now that Liang Tianchi Pictures has not acquired MGM, has not had its own global distribution channels, and has no MPAA qualifications.

Hu Jin also knows that this should be the bottom line of the Hollywood tycoons. If it weren't for the constant filth among the Hollywood tycoons, even if Marvel's entertainment value is high, it may not be possible to negotiate.

Therefore, Liang Tianchi Pictures finally agreed to the valuation offer, but it had to strive for more benefits in other aspects.

What needs to be explained here is that US$120 billion is the final transaction price, but not all the six giants agree to this offer, and they are not monolithic.

In the end, there were only three Hollywood giants who invested in Marvel Entertainment, namely Disney, Sony Columbia and Universal.

Paramount and 20th Century Fox thought the $120 billion valuation was too high and pulled out.

And although the capital flow is sufficient, Warner Bros. is actually more of a spoiler, because he has a Marvel superhero movie under his own banner, which has been stabilizing Marvel's DC Comics before it became popular.

Whether it is Superman or Batman, they have crushed all Marvel superheroes except Spiderman before.

And after seeing Chen Hao make the Marvel superhero movie universe sound and colorful, even far exceeding expectations, Warner Bros. has already started copying homework.

Warner Bros. is already starting to form its own DC superhero movie universe, and the Justice League, which is the target of the Avengers, has already heard rumors.

Let’s talk about the results of the shareholding negotiations.

Marvel Entertainment will restart its own Marvel Studios, and all future Marvel superhero movies will be produced by Marvel Pictures.

The overall valuation of Marvel Entertainment is 120 billion U.S. dollars, and Liang Tianchi Pictures has given up 40% of the shares this time, with a total value of 48 billion U.S. dollars.

Among them, Disney bought 20%, Sony Columbia bought 12%, and Universal bought 8%.

In other words, Disney has to pay $24 billion, Sony Columbia has to pay $14.4 billion, and Universal has to pay $9.6 million.

48 billion US dollars, it is impossible for the three Hollywood giants to pay all in cash, and the final model adopted is shares + cash.

However, Liang Tianchi Pictures still needs to acquire MGM, so Liang Tianchi proposed that at least 35 billion US dollars in cash must be guaranteed, and the rest can be mortgaged by shares.

最终，迪士尼给出了20亿美元+价值4亿美元的股权，索尼哥伦比亚拿出了10亿现金+价值4.4亿美元的股权，环球拿出了5亿现金+价值4.6亿美元的公司股权。

And as of 2011, the debt of Marvel Entertainment has been repaid from the original US$5.7 million to only US$2.2 million, and this debt will be assumed by the new Marvel Entertainment.

除此之外，量天尺将拥有已经出品的5部漫威超级英雄电影以及正在制作还未上映的《钢铁侠3》以及《雷神2》的100%的收益，为期5年！
At the same time, Chen Hao also made a request that if the works after Liang Tianchi involve the film copyrights of the three companies, the three companies must authorize them at a low price.

This is not to say that Liang Tianchi can use the films of the three companies to directly develop sequels, but that if the plot scenes in the three films appear in the film, the three companies must agree to use Tianchi.

Also, Sony Columbia's Spider-Man and Universal's Hulk officially return to Marvel!
The four companies discussed for another 2 days, and after thoroughly finalizing all the details, the agreement was formally signed!

"Disney, Sony Columbia, and Universal officially invest in Marvel Entertainment!" --- "Los Angeles Times"

""The Avengers" hit the box office, Marvel Entertainment is valued at 120 billion U.S. dollars, and three Hollywood giants have been introduced!" - "Hollywood Reporter"

"Chen Hao spent 7.8 million US dollars to buy Marvel Entertainment, and now it has skyrocketed to 122.2 billion US dollars!" --- "Variety Show"

……

As soon as the four companies signed the contract, the media already broke the relevant news.

After all, this news has been circulating in Hollywood for a long time, and the media even knew the specific time node, just after the release of "The Avengers".

As soon as this news came out, it was obvious that the entire Hollywood was shocked, and even Wall Street was shocked.

After all, this is a business case worth as much as $48 billion!

That's a lot of money even in finance, let alone Hollywood.

After the news leaked, the new Marvel Entertainment simply held a press conference on Monday.

On May 2012, 5, the press conference of Marvel Entertainment attracted the attention of hundreds of media in North America, and the conference site was packed!

The heads of Tianchi, Disney, Sony Columbia, and Universal, as well as Kevin Fitch, president of Marvel Entertainment, attended the press conference.

After a burst of crackling flashes, the press conference officially began.

"Thank you for coming to Marvel Entertainment's press conference." Kevin Feige said, "Everyone should have received the news. That's right, Disney, Sony Columbia, and Universal have officially invested in Marvel Entertainment."

"Why do you three want to invest in Marvel?"

"In fact, Disney has wanted to acquire Marvel Entertainment for a long time. We contacted Tianchi right after the release of "Iron Man", but we couldn't reach a cooperation at that time, and now we finally got what we wanted." Dick Ku K laughed.

"Sony Columbia has been working closely with Tianchi. We know Tianji best, and Chen and I are also best friends." Davis laughed, "Chen was even introduced to Hollywood by me. I am optimistic about Marvel." Entertainment, because I am optimistic about Chen."

"Marvel Entertainment has successfully produced 5 superhero movies, and now "The Avengers" is even more popular around the world. Being able to join Marvel Entertainment is very beneficial to Universal's future development." Adam Ferguson laughed.

"The valuation of Marvel Entertainment is as high as 120 billion. Is it too high? Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. seem to have quit because the price is too high!"

"This kind of thing is different from the beholder's point of view. If you are optimistic about it, then it is worth the price. If you are not optimistic about it, then it is useless to say more." Dick Cook said, "Obviously, the three of us are unanimously optimistic about Marvel. The future of entertainment."

……

"Okay, thank you for your questions, Marvel Entertainment will announce three things next." Kevin Feige said, "The first thing is that Sony Columbia and Universal have joined Marvel Entertainment.

The Spiderman and Hulk under the two companies will also officially return to Marvel Entertainment. Marvel has finally gathered the 6 superheroes of its original Avengers!
The second thing is that "The Avengers" has been released for 4 weeks. At this time, the North American box office of the film has reached 5.13 million US dollars, officially surpassing the total box office of 1 million US dollars of "Star Wars Episode 4.74: The Phantom Menace". Temporarily ranked fourth in the box office list of North American film history!

It is only one step away from the US$3 million "Batman Prequel 5.35: The Dark Knight", which is the third in North American film history.

At the same time, the global box office of "The Avengers" reached 12.95 billion U.S. dollars, still ranking fourth in the box office of global movie history, and "Harry Potter 4" which is the third at 13.417 billion U.S. dollars is also close at hand!

The third thing is that after the release of "The Avengers" and the perfect conclusion of the first phase of the Marvel superhero movie universe, Marvel Entertainment will officially launch the second phase of the Marvel superhero movie universe.

第二阶段一共有6部电影，将陆续在2013-2015年之间上映，它们分别是《钢铁侠3》、《雷神2：黑暗世界》、《美国队长2：冬日战士》、《银河护卫队》、《复仇者联盟2》以及《蚁人》！”

(End of this chapter)