Chapter 797: History is still happening
"500 million dollars? Hunter, Marvel is fortunate to have been built up together, there are hundreds of characters here, even if an image is worth 10,000 yuan, it is more than 500 million dollars, right? In addition, the images of Captain America and Spider-Man have tens of millions of fans, and each of them will spend 100 million dollars to exceed 1 billion, and you actually say that 500 million will be sold? No matter who sells it, I won't sell it anyway!"
The other man waved his hand.
"No, I think that kid just likes heroes, he has no other ideas, otherwise he wouldn't have proposed that new clause, as long as this new clause is written into the agreement, Shengtang will definitely not forcibly buy it, it is beneficial to us!"
Obviously, after Liu Lang made it clear that he would not participate in the management of the other party, the shareholders of Marvel are very supportive of this cooperation, after all, the annual dividend of the two percent shares is one million US dollars, which is simply free money, even if the contract has to add that Shengtang Company has the right of first refusal, but they basically will not consider this matter, because in their opinion, this matter is impossible, as long as Marvel has so much heritage, it will not go bankrupt.
Stan Lee said with a slight shake of his head when he saw that everyone agreed and said nothing.
"Hey, guys, it's all my fault that the company has come this far! Pete, have you found the right person now?"
Stan Lee is one of the founders of Marvel, and has been the company's chairman and CEO since '72, ten years have passed, Marvel has gradually flattened from the glory days of the first few years, and in recent years there has been a crisis, the sales of comic books have basically not increased, and even a small decline, Stan Lee has done a lot of things, but the results are not ideal.
In fact, not only Marvel, but DC is also facing the same crisis.
There is no harm if there is no comparison, if the market is still Marvel and DC two companies competing for the comic book market, they will not feel how, but the Shengtang company was born to join the competition for this market, don't look at the Shengtang company only has a brand of Transformers, but they have made the reputation of Shengtang rise sharply with songs and movies, and the popularity of Transformers has also risen, and the image of Bumblebee has been added to "Toy Story".
Whether it is movies and songs, even the market share of Transformers' comic books and models is close to the image of Marvel's heroes, in this form, if Marvel does not change, it is really difficult to say whether it will go bankrupt in the future.
In two years, Shengtang surpassed Marvel's family business established for more than 30 years, and this huge gap strongly stimulated Marvel's shareholders.
So Marvel shareholders began looking for a new leader a year ago, hoping to lead Marvel out of the quagmire and start anew.
"We looked at a lot of people, and one of them was an investor on Wall Street named Perelman, and we thought he had a very good way of doing business, and this person was also very interested in the company, Stan, why don't we meet him in these two days?"
The man asked.
"How old is this Perelman?"
Stan Lee asked.
"It's not big, I'm only thirty-eight years old this year, and I'm in the prime of life!"
"It's good to be in the prime of life! energetic, not to mention, the mind is also flexible, unlike us, who have been doing comics all our lives, and don't know anything else, as Jimmy Liu said, the current era is not the same as before, TV and movies are the mainstream, we are all laymen in this industry, and only by introducing young ideas can we rise again!"
Stan Li sighed again and again, and the others also nodded frequently, and they were all stimulated by Liu Lang and Sheng Tang.
It was their decision that brought Marvel back to the "old ways".
Liu Lang's appearance has changed a lot of things, but this requires his active intervention, his country has changed dramatically because of Dr. Liu, and the benefits are immeasurable, and many enterprises have also changed their fate because of Liu Lang's intervention.
In fact, Liu Lang has changed a lot of things, such as Shengtang Company released a lot of songs that do not belong to this era, these songs are likely to change the fate of many people, so that more people like singing, and his "Slam Dunk", which triggered a basketball boom after its release in China, maybe a large number of excellent basketball players will appear in more than ten years, they may say: The reason why I became a basketball player is that I watched "Slam Dunk" when I was a child, and it was this comic that made me embark on the road of athletes.
This world still follows the relationship between cause and effect, and the appearance of Liu Lang, an "outlier", has brought "causes" to the people and things around him, so what has changed is his "effect", and with Liu Lang's influence increasing, then the things and scope that have been changed are more and more and more extensive.
Many things have changed because of this, but those things that Liu Lang did not intervene in still develop according to the inertia of the original history, such as the stock market crash in the United States, the fall of the space shuttle Challenger in the United States, and the failure ......... of the Hubble telescope after liftoff.
These things don't change because someone shows up, unless Liu Langsheng becomes an American in the United States.
Similarly, Marvel has also gone into decline like in the previous life, and the person named Perelman they are looking for is the last "gravedigger" of Marvel, under his "wise" leadership, Marvel went straight to bankruptcy, and finally had to start selling its property, for Marvel Perelman is a disaster star, but for Liu Lang he is a "lucky star" If he hadn't intervened, Shengtang's acquisition of Marvel might have taken longer, but in the long run, after the merger of Marvel and Shengtang, it will definitely go back to glory like in the previous life, just a change of boss, they were acquired by Disney in the previous life, and they are destined to be unable to escape this fate in this life.
Liu Lang taught Lucas and Lin Guodong face-to-face, let them "help" Marvel at a critical time, let them "die" faster, maybe the only change in Marvel in this life is to be acquired by Shengtang faster.
The three of them stayed in a hotel not far away, accompanied by Ye Jinsheng, Cheng Xian, Cattermole and Lin Liwan, who all came to conduct a pre-IPO roadshow with Liu Lang, and Lin Liwan and her team had to change the IPO plan at any time.
Just the next day, Stan Lee called and invited Liu Lang to return to Marvel again, and Marvel's board of directors approved the plan for both parties to participate in the shares.
Liu Lang and Stan Lee signed the agreement on behalf of Saint Tang and Marvel, and the dust settled on the matter, and the fate of Marvel's acquisition by Saint Tang was determined.
Lin Liwan and a group of people began to change the prospectus again, and then re-declare the stock exchange, these things will take three days, and these three days have become Liu Lang's most leisurely time.