(The error in the previous chapter has been fixed, the timing is wrong, sorry sorry.) ）

Sony did not agree to sell the copyright of its superheroes to Zhou Fangyuan, to be honest, this news was actually expected by Zhou Fangyuan.

Who let the first movie of the family have been filmed and released? Those who are willing to spend money to buy shares still see the value of superhero IP after all, and Sony has money, even if the investment fails, they will lose it. What's more, the "Spider-Man" series of movies did not lose money, but made a lot of money, in this case, Sony will sell the copyright again when it loses its mind.

But this makes people very depressed, after all, Spider-Man used to be the king of sales, and among all Marvel superheroes, he is a superhero with a particularly high status. This status does not refer to the status of this character among all heroes, but to the status of this hero in the hearts of the audience, and such a status will not be shaken in the future, otherwise Spider-Man will not launch a lot of sequels one after another.

The reason why the later Dutch version was launched was not because Tobey Maguire's version of Spider-Man was not good, on the contrary, Toby's version of Spider-Man was initially more recognized by the audience, and the reason why Toby was no longer filmed in the later stage was because Toby's salary was too high, and there was no problem with literary films looking for him, after all, the cost of literary films themselves was not high. However, movies like superheroes, especially special effects, have always been high, so the actors' salaries must be strictly controlled. What's more, Toby himself is not willing to play Spider-Man again, he is an ideal actor, and he hopes to break through the previous shackles, so Sony will no longer look for Toby to shoot in the later stage.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, the second reason is that Marvel's own cinematic universe has begun to take off, as a high-value member of the Marvel superhero team, Sony will certainly not let Spider-Man fly solo, whether it is a negotiation with Marvel, or mutual popularity, Sony has decided to change the Dutch brother to play Spider-Man, on the one hand, it is to start a new story, and on the other hand, it can also be integrated with the Marvel Universe, why not?

Therefore, Sony's purchase of Spider-Man is definitely a very successful investment. It's a pity that such an opportunity was missed by Zhou Fangyuan, but there is no way, the filming time of Spider-Man was in January last year, and at that time, the Yuanfang Group as a whole was just starting, and if you want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, Zhou Fangyuan at that time couldn't do it. Even if he could do it, he didn't have the energy and effort, so even if he thought of it at that time, he was afraid that he would not have a chance to achieve his expected plan, so if he missed it, he missed it, and it was useless to regret it.

As for forcibly snatching it from Sony...... Hehe, that's impossible.

What kind of company Sony is, I believe many people know, let's say a few terms - the world's audio-visual, video games, communication products and information technology and other fields of pioneers, is the world's earliest portable digital products pioneer, is one of the world's largest electronic product manufacturers, one of the world's three major video game industry giants, one of the six major Hollywood film companies in the United States. Its brands include Xperia, alkman, Sony music, Columbia Cinematica, PlayStation, etc.

How about it, do you feel like Sony is awesome when you look at this?

In fact, Sony is not very powerful, what is really powerful is the behemoth behind Sony.

The Mitsui Foundation, founded in 1961, currently consists of 25 large companies. Among them, Mitsui Bank, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. are the three pillar enterprises of the consortium. Its core companies include Sakura Bank, Mitsui & Co., New Prince Paper, Toshiba, Sony, Sanyo, NEC, Toyota Motor, Mitsukoshi, Toray, Mitsui Fudosan and others. It is not an exaggeration to say that the consortium has strengths in the chemical, heavy machinery, general electrical machinery, automobile manufacturing, real estate, nuclear power generation, semiconductor, medical and office electronic equipment industries.

In the time and space before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth, Huaxia had several acts of resisting Japanese goods, but although it was a Japanese goods, the products of those companies were actually of little significance, and Fusang would not hurt his muscles and bones.

Because there is such a company called Mitsui & Co., which is not an ordinary company.

If we look at the history of Fuso, including the Meiji Restoration's overthrow of the government at the time, who paid for it? When Xinhai Revolution broke out in China, there was no money when Wu Chang rebelled, who gave the money? Where did Mr. Sun get the money? In the Mitsui Foundation, Mitsui & Co. is actually a comprehensive trading company of the Mitsui Foundation, but you may all know Toyota and Toshiba, which actually belong to the Mitsui Foundation. It has such a system, the consortium has more than 20 core enterprises, not called enterprises, but enterprise groups, Toyota is only a part of them, in addition to peripheral affiliated enterprises, that is, companies that are closely related to it. Also, after World War II, it supported companies such as Sony, which many people may not know.

With such a behemoth standing behind, if Zhou Fangyuan wants to be tough with Sony, isn't it self-defeating?

Of course, with the development trend of today's society, and with the fact that the Mitsui consortium itself is not too strong in its alliance, there will probably not be the behavior of the entire consortium to deal with the distant group, but even if a few big guys in it make a move, Zhou Fangyuan's distant group has no ability to resist. In other words, if you want to be just positive, basically, after the Yuanfang Group has fully grown up, it may have the ability to be tough with Mitsui in certain fields, and even suppress the other party, but if you want to talk about the overall front, the Yuanfang Group may not have this ability even in the future.

In addition to the Mitsui consortium, Sony itself is also quite powerful.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Sony's layout in the United States is far from being comparable to the current Zhou Fangyuan.

Historically, after Sony's fiasco in the Betamax vs. VHS video recording competition, Akio Morita decided that it was necessary to combine the most high-end hardware with cutting-edge content in order to master the market. So on September 25, 1989, under the leadership of Akio Morita, Sony successively acquired CBS's film and music division, making it a subsidiary of SPE. Under the background of time and space at that time, Fusang's economy grew substantially, establishing the status of the world's second largest economy, while the economy of the United States at that time was going downhill like a sluggish state; Fuso was defeated by the United States in World War II, and many Fuso enterprises frantically acquired the enterprises of the United States for the sake of national self-esteem, but the many rice companies were powerless to fight back.

Among them, Mitsubishi's purchase of the landmark Rockefeller Center in New York and Sony's purchase of Columbia's Samsung Pictures at a sky-high price of $6 billion set a record for Fuso's largest overseas merger and acquisition at that time.

Of course, this acquisition with the highest amount of money in the history of Fuso also made Sony the company with the highest loss in the history of Fuso. For example, in the late 1980s, Fuso began to break out in a bubble economic crisis, and Sony's motion picture business group also suffered losses for several years due to poor box office, which became the main obstacle to Sony's profit at that time. It wasn't until 1997 that Howard Stringer led the reforms, gradually profited and acquired the historic MGM Pictures in November '04.

After the acquisition of MGM, Sony became the world's largest film company in one fell swoop, integrating Columbia, MGM and Lianmei, which had long been acquired by MGM, and the heritage of the three film companies was monopolized by it, even if Sony often has a bad box office in the future, but it cannot be denied that Sony will become the world's largest film company in the future, even Disney after the rise of the Marvel Universe is not as good as each other.

In this case, how can Zhou Fangyuan snatch Spider-Man from the other party?

It's just impossible!

If Sony is willing to sell, he can buy it, if Sony is not willing to sell, just like now, Zhou Fangyuan has no way at all.

Because Sony is not short of money at all, before Zhou Fangyuan's rebirth, Sony's market value was more than 60 billion US dollars, which doesn't look like a lot, but the problem is that all people's attention is on industry, and industries such as the Internet are rarely involved, and the most involved part is foreign investment. The disadvantage of the real industry is that it makes money slowly, and the market value does not go up, and the advantage is that the money is stable, unless it is a global event that directly affects the avalanche of a certain industry, the real industry basically rarely has major problems. In particular, the entity has achieved the degree of Sony, and the roots are quite stable. There is also the Mitsui consortium behind it, to be honest, it is not Zhou Fangyuan who raises the morale of others to destroy his prestige, in fact, Sony in this period is really not short of money or people.

Then if the other party rejects him outright, he has no choice.

Of course, it's not really that there is nothing to be done.

As far as Zhou Fangyuan knows, in the near future, Sony will encounter a big crisis.

The PlayStation game console defeated the fierce rival Nintendo, forced out SEGA, the digital camera took the lead in the traditional camera brand, the image receiving chip monopolized the market, and the VAIO series of personal computers sold well, which really made Sony in the limelight for a while. However, since the global economic recession in 2001, the Internet bubble, the development of PlayStation in 1994, there have been nearly 10 years since the release of original products, and in the field of electronics, because alkMan does not support MP3 format, Apple's iPod digital walkman has become a hot seller around the world, replacing alkMan's original position.

EGA, which has its own technology of Trillon technology, misestimated the development of LCD TVs by developing high-definition imaging technology independently, so that Sharp and Samsung, which have LCD technology, have achieved a leading position in TV images... A series of decision-making errors and shrinking prices for electronics have caused Sony's unprecedented success in 2000 to suffer a serious setback this year.

And just next year, Sony will release its 2002 fiscal year statements, and after the news of the company's huge losses is revealed, Sony's crisis will surface. As far as Zhou Fangyuan knows, this crisis directly triggered the terrible impact of Sony's stock falling by 25% for 2 consecutive days, and induced the high-tech stocks in the Fuso stock market to dive one after another, driving the Nikkei Stock Average to fall sharply, shaking the Fuso stock market, and the stocks of high-tech companies were sold off one after another. Nobuyuki Idei has been criticized for dreaming for too long and not doing his job properly, and he has gone from being the most successful CEO in the past to being the worst CEO.

Next year, Nobuyuki Idei will also say that the Internet is like a meteorite falling, and the dinosaurs were tragically extinct, and Sony is in such a crisis.

This may be an opportunity, Sony's stock diving, the market value evaporated, and the impact is huge, if Zhou Fangyuan has the opportunity, he may not be able to give Sony a ruthless, but in this way, the beam between the two sides can be regarded as a conclusion. But having said that, just as it is difficult for the Yuanfang Group to shake Sony under normal circumstances, it is difficult for Sony to shake the Yuanfang Group under normal circumstances, and the Yuanfang Group does not raise funds and does not go public, so it is impossible for Sony to use the stock market to toss the Yuanfang Group.

"It's an opportunity......"

Zhou Fangyuan touched his chin and thought silently in his heart.

However, if he only relies on himself, he is afraid that it will be difficult to do this, so for the time being, he just has such an idea, and in the future, he will have to find more partners, and there must be professionals to give advice.

Well, unconsciously pulled away.

In short, Zhou Fangyuan didn't have any good way to do it at this time, and all he could do was wait and see.

Fortunately, now he has bought a large number of superhero copyrights from several companies, among which Zhou Fangyuan values the most, there is no doubt that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is still the most.

And if you want to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the first kick at the start is undoubtedly Iron Man.

Iron Man is the first installment of the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first installment of the entire series, and its place in film history is unquestionable, and the global box office of nearly $600 million also proves the success of this heroic character. And more importantly, this hero doesn't rely on mutation. Mutation is a thing, it's awesome, but the uncertainty is too high, even the audience who likes fantasy will not put their fantasies on top of mutation. On the contrary, a combination of rich and young people and high-tech mecha like Iron Man is more likely to resonate with the audience - at the very least, when the audience brings in the role, Iron Man's sense of substitution must be higher than that of Hulk.

Therefore, Iron Man was successful in the original time and space, and because of its success, Marvel and Disney saw the money of the superhero series, so the follow-up movies kept jumping out like giving birth to a child, and finally achieved the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

And Iron Man, as a member of the Avengers, has been bought by Cao Yan, so if he wants to make a superhero movie, don't think about it, his first goal will be on Iron Man. What's more, he still remembers the content of the Iron Man movie, it is not difficult to adapt, and in terms of special effects, if he is willing to spend money, he is not afraid that he will not be able to do the effect he wants, so what else can stop Zhou Fangyuan?

After ending the copyright purchase plan, Zhou Fangyuan flew back to Los Angeles directly, called Cameron and Mike to his side, and began to discuss the feasibility of filming "Iron Man".

At the same time, after a short period of internal consultations, the investment companies that were originally optimistic about Facebook and Twitter began to apply for the next round of investment in these two companies, and it didn't take long for the investment application to be sent to Zhou Fangyuan, who looked down and couldn't help laughing.