Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 92 "Prodigal Son"

   Pack it all?

When Roland's solemn words appeared, Perelman, who wanted to deceive the person behind the copyright transaction, was stunned for a moment, and within a few seconds, this man who was holding a cigar and lived on the Forbes list of the world's richest people all year round The guy just leaned back and chuckled—if, half a minute ago, he thought that Roland really knew that someone wanted to buy the copyright, or that the guys behind him seemed to be interested in Marvel, then now, All doubts have been wiped out, and Perelman can say with certainty that the one who is interested in the copyright is Roland himself, because-Roland's question is really 'stupid' and cute.

  So cute that he doesn't want to go around in circles anymore.

Putting the cigar next to his mouth, he took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled. When the light blue smoke ring continued to spread, the Perelman with his legs crossed felt that he could teach the young Roland a lesson. .

   "Roland, do you know why I asked James and you to increase the value of the stock by means of film projects?"

   "Because I want to let those investors know that I have great confidence in Marvel's film and television."

"Now, the entire American comics market is saturated. No matter what method I use, unless DC is swallowed up from Warner, the value of Marvel will absolutely not continue to rise, and its stock price will only stay at The estimated 20 yuan or so, can’t go up—and this is actually the limitation of the market.”

"In this case, letting investors focus on the film and television cake is the best way to increase the stock price. James has box office appeal, and you have box office appeal. Investors will have a great deal of interest in the whole project." With a lot of confidence, they will feel that when I sell the copyright, I can get back the 2% to 5% box office return agreed upon."

"For example, if the global box office is 500 million, then sell the copyright and promise 2% of Marvel to get 10 million, although this 10 million is very small compared to the 500 million box office. But among them, there is no production cost, no publicity cost, no interference from the box office share ratio, it is lying there and taking money for nothing..."

   "You guys who make movies know much more about things like box office share and operating costs than I do."

   "Can this kind of special effects film cost less than 100 million yuan?"

   "With a global box office of 500 million yuan, excluding the share ratio of each country, it would be pretty good to get 250 million yuan."

   "After deducting the production and publicity, I'll count it as a net profit of 100 million."

"Film companies have worked hard and worked hard for a year, but they can only earn 100 million at the box office. Other derivative products such as video tapes are the big profits. As for us, we have nothing to do, and we can get money just by sitting there. Take ten percent of your movie profits."

   "The most important thing is that we have not authorized these things around the toy."

  "The film company wants to sell, but they have to pay us."

   "So in this case, how can I sell you all the copyrights?"

   "For James' sake, and for your willingness to cooperate with me, I sold you two sets the most."

  "These two sets of copyrights are actually equivalent to giving investors a shot in the arm, making them feel that our "Spider-Man" plan is just around the corner. As for the others...I don't think you can make movies now."

   "I said it so clearly, can you understand?"

  As James Cameron's big backer, the guy who will make truck drivers have the courage to hold a knife and force Fox's top executives to invest more in the future, Perelman doesn't think there will be any problems with his straightforward words.

  Since Roland readily agreed to his hype plan, they are like grasshoppers on a rope.

   Want the horse to run fast, but also want the horse not to eat grass?

  He can't do this kind of thing.

  Although he is a jackal on Wall Street, which guy who works with him is not earning a lot of money?

  For them, money is just a number, and the source of their pleasure is the continuous acquisition of companies and value-added mergers and acquisitions.

   Just like many film star directors hope that their films will be a big hit.

  The number of box office is their greatest pleasure.

  Even if they cannot be seen or touched, that is the greatest manifestation of their value.

   And these... Roland understands it all.

  The reason why Marvel in the later generations can dominate the valuation and crush DC is not because it has opened up the entire industry chain.

  From the creation of comics, to the process of film and television, to the sale of various derivatives to benefit from, and then Disney's Marvel Park, the purpose of all this is to squeeze out all the value of the entire IP as much as possible.

He also knew that the reason why Perelman wanted to do it himself was to let those Hollywood tycoons eat their own copyrights, because selling cheap was not his goal at all. Selling, drawing cakes for those investors, let them change their initial impression of Marvel, from a comic company to a copyright licensing trading company.

  Transformed from a copyright authorization transaction company to an upstream production enterprise in the IP industry chain.

   After all, the comics market in America has long been saturated.

  If you want to make a fuss about comics, you will die miserably.

   In this way, Roland's "serious inquiry" was just to see how good the relationship between Perelman and Cameron is, and whether this financial giant will really sell him something.

   As for eating it all...

   Stop joking, okay?

Even if he can afford the money to acquire Marvel, let alone whether Perelman can sell it to him, other film companies will not look at him for nothing. No matter how worthless Marvel is, for Sony For film companies such as , Universal, Fox, and MGM, it doesn't take much effort to eat it. Not only that, but with the Jewish gang, it is even more impossible for Roland to eat it alone.

  This kind of deal that breaks through eight figures, it is hard not to let people imagine that it is the Jewish gang who really want the Marvel IP.

  In front of the Jewish Gang, which owns the No. 1 IP in America, "Star Wars", swallowing all the IPs of Marvel will really provoke the nerves of Hollywood giants, and this is actually the disadvantage of being close to the Jewish Gang.

  The Jewish Gang can help Roland wipe out all the enemies in the project and get the best resources in the circle, but they have never been restless. They own their own property, and they have long been a thorn in the side of the Seventh.

  The world's best special effects company, the world's largest film and television IP...

   This thing is not owned by capital, isn’t that a joke!

  Of course, even if Roland knew it, he wouldn't show it.

  Under Perelman's careful explanation, he, who was pretending to be stupid, showed a look of sudden realization.

   "Is that so?"

   "Ronald, with you here, Marvel's stock will definitely skyrocket."

   "Unfortunately, if it weren't for the fear of being investigated by the SEC, I would have bought shares after Marvel went public..."

   "I bought all my salary of more than 1.5 million yuan to Berkshire Hathaway..."

   "Looking at it now, I feel really bad..."

"Hahaha..." Hearing Roland's layman's investment method, Cameron, who hadn't spoken since Roland talked about buying the copyright of Marvel, suddenly laughed, "You bought Warren Buffett's company stock? "

   "Then you have something to wait..."

   “Buffett has always been a steady guy.”

   "It is estimated that when you become an adult, your 1.5 million will not become 6 million."

Buffett's company is already very legendary. From 7 dollars per share in 1964 to now breaking 10,000, it has increased more than 1,000 times, but it is obviously not a good time to enter the pit at this time. Still want it to go straight up?

   Isn't that a dream?

  Of course, this is the view of many financial investors. Compared with them, Roland knows that when the Internet bubble bursts, the unit price of this company's stock will be at least 90,000.

  When he was traveling, no company in this world could be as stable as it.

   "Well... James... If I knew about your relationship with Ronald, I would definitely follow you to buy it..."

   "Don't laugh at me anymore, let's go back to the topic of Marvel characters."

  After showing his 'ignorance' of investment in front of Perelman and Cameron, Roland took the initiative to bring the topic back to the film and television copyright that Perelman wanted to sell.

   "No problem, who do you want?" This time, Perelman answered happily.

  For him, the two copyrights are just toys thrown to Roland.

  If Roland wants it, give it to him!

  As long as he takes it, the hype will be stable.

  However, for Roland, these two copyrights are of great significance.

  Perelman promised to authorize him for 20 years, then he can buy the copyright with peace of mind and sleep at home.

  Can’t shoot?

  If you can’t take a picture, just throw it there...

  Twenty years!

  That’s until 2011!

  Such a long time is enough for him.

   In this way, after thinking for a while, Roland turned around and asked the first goal in his heart.

   "Will X-Men sell?"

Before the hot guy Kevin Feige fiddled with movies, the most profitable Marvel IP besides "Spider-Man" was "X-Men". Of course, even if it was making money, it was still earning less. much loss.

  The investment in the first film was 75 million, and the global box office was 296 million. The second film invested 110 million, and the global box office was 407 million. It seems that it is going up, but in reality? The third part directly lost all the money earned from the first two parts.

   210 million investment, 459 million global box office.

   This is simply half a lifetime of hard work, returning to before liberation overnight.

  Then the next three parts—

  "First Battle" lost money, "Reversal of the Future" finally reached hundreds of millions, and "Apocalypse" went back again.

  As for personal movies, let alone.

   "Wolverine", a loss, "Wolverine 2", a small profit, "Wolverine 3", the feelings are just right.

   As for Dark Phoenix?

  Can we leave out that shampoo ad?

so…

  Although "X-Men" really has twenty years of feelings, but...

   This thing is really a bargain!

  Of ten movies, only five made money!

   There are only two movies with hundreds of millions of profits!

   To put it bluntly, after 20 years of fumbling at Fox, the entire "X-Men" has earned them less than 300 million yuan.

  If it is considered an investment, this transaction is a loss to grandma's family!

  However, even so, when Roland mentioned "X-Men", Perelman, who was still extremely straightforward, shook his head.

   "Roland, I'm sorry, but this combination cannot be sold to you."

"You can look through the annual comic sales list, except for "Spiderman", it is "X-Men", and the rest are either "Wolverine", "Gambit" and other personal magazines, or "Fantastic Four Xia "These guys..."

   "I can't sell these famous characters on the sales list to you personally."

   "If Marvel's most valuable superheroes are sold to you, isn't the hype we talked about earlier all in vain? If several characters in the family are sold to individuals, what else can I show investors?"

  With Cameron here, Perelman has already said very sincerely.

  He almost told Roland directly, choose two guys you like but are not very popular, and I can give it to you for free.

  Although this behavior does not match his previous atmosphere, but the capitalist...

  Before signing the contract, their promises are like farting.

  However, Roland knew it well.

  Perelman said before that if "X-Men" wants to sell to Fox, a major manufacturer, then he will definitely not consider himself.

   And he asked this question because he wanted to know whether the other party would sell the combination to him.

  If he is unwilling to sell, then he will choose something else.

   And if you're willing to sell...

  He's being rude...

   "Then... will "The Avengers" be sold?"

After being rejected by Perelman twice, Roland, who was sitting there, seemed to have a headache, and thought for a long time after "racking his brains", before reporting that this appeared at the same time as "X-Men", but the popularity was not tepid. Composition of fire.

After resolutely rejecting Roland many times, when Perelman heard the name of this second-line group, he was finally not as decisive as before. After pondering for a few seconds, he slowly shook his head and said: "This...not good Sell."

   Not selling well?

   Isn't that a joke?

   Roland was overjoyed, but he still looked at the other party with a look of 'why is it so troublesome'.

Under his gaze, Perelman also quickly organized his words, saying: "I sold Iron Man and Hulk to Universal last year, so there are two people missing, and Thor and Captain America belong to the popularity I mentioned before." characters, so there are two less, so the six founders in the 616 universe can only sell you Ant-Man and the Wasp."

"If you don't mind, I can sell it. If you don't like it, the third- and fourth-tier characters, such as Hawkeye, Swordsman, Fantasy World, Black Knight, Black Widow, including Hydra from S.H.I.E.L.D. It can be counted together…”

   "As for the Guardians of the Galaxy..."

   "Also count it in."

Yes…

   What Perelman said is not easy to sell is because the combination has been disassembled almost, and there is nothing in it at all.

  Although from the beginning, he planned to sell some 'junk' to Roland, but after Roland picked out the 'junk', he felt that there was always something wrong with cheating a child who was willing to cooperate with him.

   "The Avengers", the popularity is pretty good, right...

but-

   What the **** is it that the six founders cut off four and then sell them?

The valuable things were either picked up by Universal, or they had been authorized to go out to make movies. In this case, what Roland picked up were all leftovers that no one wanted. In this case, it would be better to sell the entire world view to He forgets...

   Anyway—

   This kind of thing that has been dissected is sold to others, and no one takes it!

  Pure use as waste.

  However, when Roland listened to Perelman as compensation, he dumped out those guys who were not ranked at all like trash, and packed up the world view of "Avengers" that lacked a backbone and handed it to him.

he…

   Almost laughed out loud like a pig!

  That's right, these characters are indeed **** now, and after the lack of the Big Four, the entire IP of "Avengers" has lost most of its color, and there is no investment value at all, but for Roland, this is not important at all!

   Just one "Guardian of the Galaxy", he can make a lot of money, okay?

  With them here, what a **** bicycle!

Although they got the filming schedule only by relying on the reunion, the two movies earned nearly 600 million. That is an indisputable fact. Although the comics are not comparable to others, the movie is comparable to the IP of "X-Men" Much more popular!

   And now...

  Perelman is going to throw this garbage to himself?

  He didn't accept it, so I'm sorry for the bald man!

"Can…"

   "Although I haven't bought the comics of "Guardians of the Galaxy", this is the copyright I can buy..."

When Roland replied in a relaxed tone, Cameron, who had been watching from the sidelines, had a smile on his face, but he shook his head silently in his heart—in his opinion, Roland’s way of shopping is If I go out, I am afraid that I will be deceived to death by others.

  The soul of a group has been dismantled, and you still buy a fart worldview?

  What's the use of those S.H.I.E.L.D. Hydra? This is a setting!

  Even if you buy it, when other people want to shoot it, you can create a name for the villain organization, it’s okay!

  And what Hawkeye, Fantasy World, Black Widow...

  What do you want them to do!

   It's a waste of money to hold something that can't be released in a single-player movie!

   There are only two people who can make movies.

   An Ant-Man, a Wasp.

   But for these two unpopular guys, isn’t it just a waste of money to make a movie?

  And if Roland were to know what the truck driver was thinking, he would at most just smile.

  Even if the Avengers is broken, he has to buy it.

  The reason is actually very simple.

When Spiderman is held by the truck driver, the Fantastic Four has been sold, and the X-Men is about to be sold by Perelman, he is buying the fragmented and unwanted Avengers at a price that cannot be sold The S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, and if they take away the Guardians of the Galaxy, which no one is watching at all, what cards can Marvel have to play?

Gone…

  The reason why Marvel in the previous life was able to turn around with the Avengers was because Kevin Fitch conceived of Niubi?

No…

  Because they didn't have any combos they could play.

   As long as there are Spider-Man and X-Men, Kevin Feige will not use the Avengers.

   Otherwise, why did he have to find Fox first to propose a series of movies in the mutant universe, instead of communicating with Marvel executives to organize his own Avengers?

  Kevin Fitch is indeed awesome, but a clever woman can’t live without rice, this sentence is not for nothing!

  I, Roland, blew out your Marvel's last hole card in 1991. Do you want to turn around?

   Come and beg me...

   After all, begging Roland to give up the **** seems to be the easiest way compared to begging other film companies to redeem the IP.

  Of course, while Perelman nodded in agreement, Roland also thought of an idea of ​​collecting IP.

  Iron Man and Hulk have been sold, but Thor and Captain America are not?

It doesn't matter!

   I, Roland, can still buy it!

   Isn’t Fox really thinking about making a sequel to Home Alone?

   Yes, change it with IP.

  Now, these four IPs add up to less than one million. As long as Fox gets it, he can immediately communicate with Spielberg who regards himself as a shadow. What is fifteen million? Just give up! The two parties signed a sequel contract at a price of 10 million, of which 1 million was paid off with IP!

  Trash IP for a hot sequel!

  After this village, there will be no such shop!

  As long as the other party is willing to agree, it is a win-win situation!

  Fox gets the sequel guarantee, Roland gets all the crap.

Perfect!

And after deciding to buy the dilapidated Avengers and the **** ticket of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, and Guardians of the Galaxy, Roland and Perelman didn't bother with the specific number of people and roles, because those things would There are dedicated people to talk to.

   As for the second goal?

   While eating all the 'garbage', Roland had nothing to buy.

  Although he really wants to buy Deadpool, the box office champion of this R-rated movie, but considering that the role of Deadpool will only be released in February this year, it is better for him not to mention it.

   What's more, even if he mentions it, he can't buy it.

  Because of this thing, there is no storyline at all!

In this way, after finalizing the intention to purchase the plan, Roland became more comfortable. In stark contrast to him, Perelman, who was more comfortable after cleaning up the garbage, and his grandmother who felt that Roland had lost money Home truck driver.

because…

  After Roland heard what Perelman said, "X-Men" was priced at 2 million, he also agreed to Perelman's proposal, the total price of garbage packaging, a price of 1 million...

   One million!

  Half of the copyright of "Jurassic Park"!

  A real prodigal!

  However, even if Roland saw what Cameron was thinking, he had no intention of explaining it.

   After raising the juice and lightly touching Perelman's wine glass, the two sides of the temporary alliance became even happier.

  When Roland was curious about what the truck driver, who had been silent and witnessed the completion of the transaction, would gain after he got the broken Avengers Alliance as a hype reward, Perelman, who was in a good mood, shook his head and said—

   "You will know about this matter tomorrow."

Note: ①Marvel's annual sales in 1990 were only over 70 million yuan, plus 11 million copyright income, the net profit was only 5.4 million yuan, and the 2% to 150% pure box office share is just a big pie drawn, For example, "X-Men" allowed Marvel to receive a pure dividend of 5.92 million. This money slowed down Marvel, which had just completed bankruptcy and reorganization. Although the money was small, they were a costless business, which is why When Cameron announced that he was going to shoot "Spider-Man", Marvel's stock rose wildly, because as long as "Terminator 2" can have the box office, the one-year dividend is equivalent to two and a half years of Marvel's desperate efforts. The most important thing is the box office dividend. , not profit dividends, don’t look at that time from the current perspective, the way Perelman hyped at that time hit the market directly, and not everyone is a time traveler. ②The first thing after Marvel’s bankruptcy and reorganization was to sell Spider-Man to Sony. They also wanted to sell all the IPs at a price of 25 million. Sony didn’t want it at the time. There is no value at all. ③ It is unrealistic to acquire the copyrights of the entire line in the name of the Jewish gang. After Marvel went bankrupt, Michael Jackson wanted to acquire it, but as soon as the news came out, Universal, Fox, and Sony directly bid to squeeze him out, and then After squeezing out MJ, they didn't buy it again, just like the overseas distribution of DreamWorks was cheated by the seven major alliances, the giants don't want it, and they won't let you buy it. ④ In 1990, the movies of Hulk and Captain America came out, but they went to grandma’s house. Compared with Batman next door, the copyright value of Marvel movies plummeted.

  (end of this chapter)