With a grim face, Ekpilmut walked towards the conference room with a determined step, and everywhere he passed, the employees pretended to keep their heads down and were busy with their work.

Stan Lee's face was pale, and his eyes were filled with complicated anger and helplessness. Things are completely out of his control, his friend and partner has already shown his attitude, and he, the general counsel, does not have many shares in his hands, which is nothing more than to prevent the fate of Marvel being acquired.

The door of the conference room was pushed open, and there were already four people waiting inside, and seeing Stan Lee also coming, several people stood up to greet him, after all, the old man has fought for Marvel all his life and deserves everyone's respect.

After everyone sat down, Ike looked around and said in a low voice: "You should have seen this morning's paper, right? I can tell you clearly, things are what the report says, and I have decided to accept Andy Smith's acquisition intention, and I am willing to sell my shares, you all decide whether to sell your shares, if the total number of shares you are willing to sell is more than 50%, then, we can start negotiations." ”

The four shareholders looked at Stan Lee, who had a red face and anger in his eyes, and they all looked at each other.

"I have twenty-one percent of the shares in my hands, I can sell them, I wonder how much Andy Smith is ready to bid?" asked a shareholder in his thirties, pushing his glasses and opening without hesitation.

Ike saw the second-generation young man who inherited the shares of his old friend, and said without the slightest emotional fluctuation: "Andy Smith has preliminarily decided to use $2 billion as the acquisition capital... ”

"It's not good for the price... ”

"I can't accept this offer either... ”

"Quiet! I have rejected his offer, but from this offer, I believe everyone has also seen his sincerity, our total assets of Marvel are about 2.3 billion, Andy Smith He should understand very well, it is undoubtedly just to delineate an interval for the next negotiations, I will strive for the greatest interests for everyone, and it will definitely not be less than 2.3 billion."

Ike's words made several people nod in agreement, and they all considered it seriously.

"Everyone should also notice that the financial market in the United States is a bit weird recently, they are all smart people, here is Michael young, we have experienced this situation many times, when we can't see the market clearly, we need to prepare cash to wait and see, which is the main reason why we old guys can stand.

Marvel has now eased up, and it can also bring you a generous reward for all the hard work and perseverance you have put in over the years!

If there is no opinion, then everyone initials an agreement, stating the amount of shares they are willing to sell, and I will negotiate on behalf of you, and after the price is negotiated, I will notify you, and after everyone agrees, the transaction can be completed. ”

Stan Lee watched the other four shareholders take over the agreement, and read it roughly, only two shareholders who had cooperated for many years nodded apologetically at him, and the other two young people who inherited the property signed the agreement without the slightest hesitation.

Holding a large company worth more than 200 million, so many IP copyrights, but never making a lot of money, but borrowing from the bank again and again, and even losing money for a few years, and not even getting dividends, why keep the shares of such a company, talk about feelings? Don't be funny!

"Stan... Forget it, you definitely won't sell, so in addition to the six percent in your hand, ninety-four percent of the shares have decided to sell, so be it, everyone be patient and wait for the news!"

Also, no matter how much IP copyright you have, you can't exchange it for a knife, it's also garbage.

For Andy, this is undoubtedly very beneficial, if you wait another year, the rich and handsome Iron Man will be released, and then want to buy Marvel after winning 585 million global box office, I am afraid that there is no need to think about 4 billion.

And now, hehe, none of the six major studios are interested in Marvel, only interested in being able to take over the rights to a few popular superheroes.

No one knows better than Andy who will dominate Hollywood movies in the future, all of them are popular IP adaptations, and superheroes have completely dominated Hollywood's summer vacation.

In the future, Hollywood films, pure action movies and science fiction films are already a general trend in decline, and they are no longer a panacea that can guarantee the box office.

On the contrary, superhero movies began to exert force, and they have almost become a DU movie genre, mixing action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction, love and other forms, which can attract the audience to the greatest extent, and most importantly, these superheroes must have a wide fan base.

Generations of Americans, as well as people from other countries who have been influenced by American culture, are potential consumers.

Of course, and most importantly, computer digital imaging technology has taken over the production of special effects, and Hollywood's film industry has completed the upgrade, and technology has begun to compete with creativity.

3D, IMAX, Dolby Atmos, and awesome motion expression capture technology can fully bring out the imagination of the comics.

It can be said that whoever holds the IP copyright is qualified to cut the biggest piece of the big cake in Hollywood for himself.

And if Andy successfully acquires Marvel, he can effortlessly transform Marvel from an IP provider to an IP giant in the whole industry.

It's true that Summit Entertainment Film Company is a new film company, but it started with distribution, and it is no worse than any of the Big Six in terms of distribution ability.

In the '80s, the U.S. government lifted the antitrust laws of Hollywood studios, and instead encouraged the Big Six to return to the era of controlling the entire industry chain.

It's a pity that even if the six major discoveries don't carry out the industry-wide layout, they will not affect their own interests in the slightest, but can get rid of all kinds of huge expenses and build movie theaters in the United States, without the slightest interest in the government's expectations.

The subdivision of the industry has allowed Hollywood film companies to grow more rapidly. Otherwise, there would not have been a DreamWorks that rose rapidly in the cracks of the Big Six, almost becoming the seventh largest example.

However, Andy wants to connect his industries together, and he has to be slaughtered, Nima, Marvel is too skilled in digging pits and burying himself, and filling and digging pits has always been Marvel's forte.

Marvel struck a deal with Paramount in 2005 for the latter to release 10 Marvel-made movies over the next 8 years.

Andy looked at the details of Marvel that Ekpilmut had sent him, and he had a toothache.

He knows better than anyone that before he crossed over, "Captain America 3" was still being filmed, and "Avengers 2" ended with a total global box office of 1.4 billion, and this film is only the 10th movie produced by Marvel.

The first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has returned a global box office of up to $3.74 billion with a total cost of $1 billion with 6 films, and the second phase is about to end with more than $6 billion at the box office.

Andy knows about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the second phase also has "American Team 3 Civil War" and "Avengers 3 Infinity War", "Thor 3".

Approaching the big cake of 9 billion, Andy said that he would not let Paramount share it, and if he didn't want to, he would spend money to eliminate the disaster.

"What a pit dad from Nima!" Andy threw the papers in his hand onto the desk, frowning and pinching his temples.

Although he was very irritable, Andy reluctantly continued to pick up the discarded materials and read them.

Andy's acquisition of Marvel is not only to use Marvel's character image to make movies, but more importantly, the peripheral effects brought by the movie, especially in terms of toys and dolls.

A good peripheral development can earn up to three times the box office revenue, and for an influential character, it's almost a sure-fire deal.

Before several "Spider-Man" box office hits, even though there were many peripheral copyrights such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor, etc., the retail sales of licensed goods were less than 200 million US dollars.

This is also the reason why Andy dared to shout so low.

But just a year later, in 2008, the Mutants and Spiders were turned into a series by FOX and Sony, and after the release of Iron Man, retail sales of Marvel's licensed merchandise soared to $4 billion.

And after the release of "The Avengers", this amount reached $6 billion.

After a year, the situation, capital, and status will be turned upside down, which is why Disney used 4.2 billion cash plus shares to acquire Marvel in 2009, converted into US dollars, Disney spent about 5.4 billion to complete the acquisition.

And Andy's entry point at this time is undoubtedly a big benefit, the price of cabbage in 96, and the dark period before dawn in 2007.

Andy loves Jack Ma's quote - today will be cruel, tomorrow will be more cruel, the day after tomorrow will be beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night.

The people who are now being kicked out by Andy's acquisition are undoubtedly the people who will die tomorrow!

Knock Knock –

"Please come in. Andy didn't look up, but continued to look at the information in his hand.

"Boss. ”

"Al, sit down first, what to drink, tell Tori, let her get it for you, I'll finish reading it right away, wait a minute. Andy looked up at Alvitatre and continued to look at the information.

It was about five minutes before Andy put the papers back on the table and saw Al sipping his coffee.

"How about it? Does the think tank have any suggestions for some of the licensing documents and some agreements they signed with other companies sent by Marvel, and is there room for maneuvering?"

Al put down the coffee cup, frowned, shook his head with a serious face, and said, "It's almost impossible to pay the price." ”

Andy couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and said helplessly, "Let's talk about it." ”

"If the agreement with Paramount is to be broken, it will need to pay about $130 million, and Spider-Man's copyright will not be recovered, but it can continue to fight the lawsuit with Sony Columbia, and it should be possible to reach an agreement to increase the copyright share. As for, FOX's X-Men... There is no chance at all!"

Alvert finished speaking solemnly, looking at the boss who fell into silence, he was also very helpless, this Marvel company is definitely a strange thing in the wonderful, how can there be comics still drawn, and the business of selling out the copyright of the entire series in the publication is really powerless.