At night, in the presidential suite near New World Films, Emmanuel held a contract in front of Lester with a contract, "This is the purchase price I negotiated with Ron Pereman." ”

Lester picked up the contract drawn up by Ron Pereman, which listed the price and royalties of the Marvel characters he wanted to buy.

It's been two days since Lester and Ron Pereman met, and Marvel character rights Fei Emmanuel has been trying to lower the price.

But in the absence of an advantage, Emmanuel tried his best to reluctantly let Ron Pereman reduce the price a lot.

For the filming rights of "Spider-Man" alone, Bird Film and Television will spend $9 million to acquire.

The 300 Marvel characters that Lester wants to acquire, Fields and his team have calculated that it will cost $580 million to successfully acquire.

Looking at the five-year expiration time for the copyright fee and the ownership of Marvel characters mentioned in the contract, Lester handed the contract to Phil and said: "Submit my opinion to Mr. Ron Pereman, and the ownership period of all Marvel characters will be changed to eight years." ”

"I'll call him. ”

Fields took the contract, listened to Lester's words, opened it and looked at the copyright fees and other things written inside, took out his mobile phone and got up and walked quietly.

"Why eight years. Emmanuel looked at Lester suspiciously, "The five-year ownership period of the Marvel characters written in the contract group, as long as we make a comic book of Marvel characters, five years can have this character for five years, which is not much different." ”

"I can't shoot it. Lester shook his head helplessly, "I made Fields for eight years purposeful. “

"Why can't you shoot it, isn't the DC character manga also filmed," 'And the purpose is ......

Emmanuel looked at Lester suspiciously.

Before Leicester called him over, Emmanuel was helping the actor he had signed to cast auditions.

Emmanuel isn't very clear about what's going on with Marvel, especially the comic book market that Fields and Chris have investigated.

Lester also knew that Emmanuel, as an agent, only paid attention to things related to Hollywood, and rarely paid attention to this kind of market that had nothing to do with him, so he told Emanuel about the Fields report.

After listening to Lester's words, Emmanuel was stunned and said, "You mean, the comic market is slowly shrinking with a probability of two percent. ”

"Yes. Lester nodded.

As the time was about to enter the late 80s, before the Internet was up, some entertainment models such as video games and KTVs were slowly being established.

Perhaps these entertainment models are not so popular, but they are slowly squeezing all kinds of markets, and the comic market is one of the most squeezed.

In the 80s, the comic market was changed to youth viewing, and comic companies such as Marvel and DC made a lot of changes in order to meet the interests of the people in this era.

But the situation that Fields discovered made Lester establish a long-term plan for Marvel in his heart.

In Lester's view, there are very few Marvel characters who can change movies with current technology.

It would take at least the mid-nineties to make a movie as good as DC's Batman and Superman.

At that time, there were a lot of breakthroughs in technology, and it was possible to make films that were difficult to complete.

After hearing this, Emmanuel disagreed with Lester's words, and said rhetorically: "You are so sure that the comic market economy will break down in a few years." ”

"Not sure. Lester shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm betting that as long as the comic book market economy breaks down, Marvel will be affected by that time," 'At that time......

Emmanuel stared at Leicester with wide eyes, and finally said in amazement: "You are so patient, you want to arrange such a long time to get Marvel." ”

At this time, Fields came back from the call, and Lester hurriedly asked, "Did Mr. Ron Perreman agree to my terms?"

"Agreed. ”

Fields' words relieved Lester.

Once Ron Perreman does not agree to the ten-year Marvel character ownership period, as long as five years have passed, the copyright of the Marvel character he owns will be taken back, and the copyright fee he spent will be a splash.

……

The next day, Lester and Fields came to the reception room of New World Pictures again.

Lester looked at the assistant who entertained them and asked, "What about Mr. Ron Pereman!"

Hearing Lester ask him, the assistant put the water in front of them and said, "Guys, please wait a minute, Mr. Ron Pereman is in a meeting with the board of directors. With that, he turned and left the reception room.

The group didn't have to wait long, and Ron Pereman sat in front of Lester and the others with his lawyers and assistants.

'This is the latest contract and Mr Leicester can take a look. "The lawyer brought by Ron Pereman was holding two contracts and putting them in front of Lester.

Leicester didn't check the contract and handed him over to Fields to see if there were any problems with the contract.

Fields flipped through the copyright fee and the duration of the ownership period, and saw that it was a good thing for the two parties, so he handed him to Lester and said, "There is no problem with the contract, it can be signed." ”

Getting confirmation from Fields, Lester picked up a pen and signed his name on both contracts, then pushed it in front of Ron Pereman, "It's your turn, Mr. Ron Pereman." ”

Ron Pereman filled in his name and handed over the contract to Lester for Asuka Films.

"Happy working together!"

The two stood up and clasped hands, and Ron Pereman looked at Lester with a smile, "Mr. Lester, look forward to our next cooperation." ”

"I'm looking forward to it too!"

Lester smiled and echoed Ron Pereman with a nonchalant face, but scolded the fox in his heart.

Although the Marvel characters sold by the other party have been reduced a lot, they are still a little higher than the value of the characters.

In order to avoid the dispersion of the copyrights of some important characters in Marvel, Lester had to agree to the price negotiated by Ron Pereman and Emmanuel.

After getting the copyright to adapt some important Marvel characters, Lester and Fields stayed here for a night, then drove and went to the copyright union with the signed Marvel character copyright contract.

After showing the important logo and recognition of the contract, Lester successfully registered with the copyright union the adaptation rights of 300 Marvel characters owned by Asuka Film and Television in the past eight years.

Lester also drove a Lamborghini back to Bird Films, and continued to edit the unfinished film of "Batman".

At this time, Warner Bros. also began to promote "Batman" in the United States, and the stills of Batman Bruce Wayne starring Michael Keaton were released.

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