Chapter 359: Marvel Universe (Three Changes)
"It's beautiful, hole-in-one, I haven't hit that kind of enjoyment in a long time."
Jobs walked over and slapped his hands in congratulations: "I can't believe it, you're still a newbie." ”
Hu Yifei smiled: "Thank you, this is also the first time I have played this kind of magic rod." ”
"Congratulations...... Robert squeezed out an ugly smile and walked over, "A good ball!" ”
Hu Yifei smiled lightly, "Thank you!" ”
"Honey, I'm a little tired." Scarlett said.
"Then let's go get some rest." Hu Yifei said: "Steve, I won this game, don't forget your treasured red wine." ”
"I can't forget you."
Hu Yifei was about to leave the sun, and Robert hurriedly chased after him, "Mr. Galen Hu, how about a chat together?" ”
"May I ask who you are?"
Robert: "......"
It was Scarlett who cleared him up, saying, "This is Mr. Robert Iger, the chairman of the Disney Group." ”
Hu Yifei really didn't know him, so he turned around and stared at him carefully, "It's a pleasure to meet you, we have been famous for a long time." ”
Robert Egpi didn't smile, a little unbearable to talk to the young man like this, his face twitched a few times and said bluntly: "Of course! I have to admire you, young man, this game is very well done. Tell me, what do you want to do? Marvel, or Pixar? ”
"I want them all."
Hu Yifei smiled: "Mr. Robert, why don't you find a shady place to sit down and have a good chat, Scarlett is not in good health." Robert glanced at Scarlett, who was a little pale, and finally nodded.
……
When Robert left, it was already night, and Disney, who was at a disadvantage, encountered a fall into the well, and he naturally didn't have a good face. As soon as he went out, he was photographed on the front face by more than a dozen squatting reporters, and suddenly the stinky face was photographed, and the next day this face appeared on the front page of the Duojia media newspaper.
"Disney Chairman Robert took the initiative to meet with Jobs and Hu Yifei yesterday, and the three parties talked secretly all day, and they didn't leave the venue until the evening with an ugly face."
"Disney really lost the watermelon and picked up the sesame seeds this time."
Affected by this photo, the stock prices of Disney and Marvel fell collectively the next day, and the stock price of Pixar began to strengthen.
It didn't make people wait long, and the two sides couldn't wait to negotiate.
In the end, a swap was formed, and Disney traded the Marvel shares in its hands to the family pictures at the current price, and the remaining Pixar shares in the hands of the family pictures formed a stock swap with Disney, helping Disney to reach the acquisition of Pixar, with a share exchange ratio of 2.3:1 between the two parties. After all, Pixar is a much more powerful behemoth than Marvel, and even the remaining shares are enough for Hu Yifei to own about 5% of Disney's shares and really enter the Disney board of directors.
At this point, Hu Yifei changed hands and began to acquire Marvel shares, as of the day after the two parties signed the agreement.
There is no obstacle to the acquisition of Marvel, and the complete acquisition was reached within a day, owning 75% of Marvel's shares, Disney also retains about 15% of Marvel's shares, and the remaining 10% or so of the shares are in the hands of several important Marvel figures.
Hu Yifei's first order after buying Marvel was to temporarily delist Marvel. Reorganize Marvel into a comprehensive entertainment company, including Marvel Comics, Marvel Studios and Marvel TV, as well as three divisions around Marvel. This toss has made many of the benefits that were originally promised disappear. Hu Yifei has completed complete control of Marvel. Even on the day of the company's handover, he did not appear, which made many people worried.
After all, the image of greed before was really not very good-looking. It's definitely time to offend the new boss.
Disney did not abandon it, and the two sides reached an agreement that all Marvel movies will be distributed by Disney in the future, as in the previous cooperation model with Pixar.
The New York Times: "The Oil Tyrant Strikes a Perfect Takeover Victory!" ”
Washington Daily: "A perfect takeover war, costing only half a billion dollars, became Disney's personal majority shareholder and owned a majority of Marvel's ......"
In this transaction, Marvel's stock price rose and fell like a roller coaster, and Hu Yifei decisively withdrew from the competition after Disney announced his intervention, using the high stock price to empty some shares, and making a big profit for his subsequent acquisition of Pixar. After that, it cut into Disney's key point, forcing Disney to give up Marvel and instead devote itself to the competition for Pixar.
After all, Pixar is where they have to go.
Disney's passive deal made "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" break $325 million at the North American box office within three weeks, but it still didn't make them happy.
The whole process of "fighting" can be described as ups and downs, with causes and consequences, and there are twists and turns in between, even if it is a very financial report, it also makes ordinary readers watch it with relish.
There are also American experts and scholars who have studied "The Art of War" and released a report on the art of war: what encircled Wei to save Zhao, the stone of the mountain can attack jade, and the enemy must be saved, and other rankings appeared one after another, so that Hu Yifei, who read this article, was also stunned. "Is it that powerful? So, Marvel's thing is done? ”
Erica smiled admiringly: "It's still the boss who is amazing." What we couldn't accomplish in months was easily done by you in just a few weeks. ”
Hu Yifei smiled and said: "This is not easy, and it is not very clever, it can only be said that it is lucky." Who do you like to be the CEO of Marvel Studios? ”
Erica said: "Based on my survey, as well as opinions within Marvel, they decided to form a Marvel creative committee and recommend it to be led by Ike Parmut, the former head of Marvel Entertainment. Also included are former Marvel Entertainment chairman Alan Vane, renowned comic book author Brian Michael Bendis (author of the Age of Ultron comics), Marvel publisher Dan Buckley, and former Marvel editor-in-chief and current chief creative officer Joe Quisada. They are the biggest names in Marvel, and in the Marvel film creative team, they are responsible for providing the main ideas and outlines, in other words, they can give the most appropriate script decisions. ”
"Of course, in the end, it's up to you to make any decision, my boss."
Hu Yifei was noncommittal, and carefully looked at the information handed over by Erica. The Marvel Creative Committee is indeed no small matter, although to a certain extent, the film production department of Marvel Studios has complained about the Creative Committee, but the films they have intervened in have been surprisingly well received. The top-rated "Iron Man 1", "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Captain America 2", as well as the highest-grossing "Avengers 1", were heavily influenced by the creative committee.
And "Iron Man 2", "Iron Man 3" and "Avengers 2" are basically letting go. The unaffected "Iron Man 3" is one of Marvel's worst-rated movies, and its setting was even completely abandoned in "Avengers 2". And the nondescript character settings and flawed plot in "Iron Man 3" have become the biggest flaw of the movie, especially the setting of the villain Manda, which is really laughable.
And several uncontrolled movies, which are in charge of Kevin Feige. It was this contradiction that led to Kevin Feige's later resignation.
But there's no denying that Kevin Feige knows more about movies than the Creative Council, both in terms of the production process and the market, and Kevin Feige must know more about movies than Ike Parmut. Moreover, without a creative committee that procrastinates, the production cycle of the film may also be shortened. From a business point of view, this is also a matter that cannot be overlooked.
Thinking of this, he spoke, "Erica, the creative committee can exist. Also, look for Kevin Feige......"
Erica was stunned: "Kevin Feige? Producer of the "X-Men" series, "Spider-Man" series, "Hulk", "Fantastic Four"? ”
"That's right, it's him. Let's just say I'm going to hire him as the new CEO of Marvel Studios, responsible for developing the Marvel Universe project! ”
…… (To be continued.) )