1993 was a terrible year for Marvel.

As early as two years ago, because of dissatisfaction with Marvel's collection of the copyrights of all its contracted cartoonists into their own hands, some Marvel signed cartoonists put pressure on Marvel executives to change the contract, and after being rejected by Marvel's senior management, when their contracts expired in early 93, a large number of Marvel's top cartoonists led by Mark Farran refused to renew their contracts, and then successively announced their separation from Marvel and formed their own comic book publishing company belonging to their young people, namely Image Comics!

Due to the large number of cartoonists who left the country, it immediately hit the giant company that joined forces with DC to almost monopolize the publishing of comics in the United States. And Disney, which has always had a strong interest in Marvel, also took the opportunity to fall into Marvel and opened 9. The $7.4 billion price tried to take advantage of Marvel's internal turmoil, and at this time, the Goodman family, who owned Marvel Publishing, also had the idea of selling Marvel, but they were very angry and rejected Disney, because just two years ago, Disney had offered Marvel a sky-high price of more than $1.4 billion.

However, although he strongly rejected Disney's acquisition, Lin Xiaozhi knew that now was the only opportunity to buy Marvel at a super low price. Because of the split of Image Comics, a large number of young signed cartoonists have left, so that the entire American publishing industry thinks that Marvel has suffered a heavy blow, even if it does not die, but I am afraid that the future is bound to decline, there are many people who hold this view, even the Goodman family, which owns Marvel Publishing Company, has released signals to sell Marvel again and again since the beginning of the year.

But unfortunately, in addition to Disney, there are no other financially powerful forces that have shown interest in Marvel.

Historically, Disney's low offer led the Goodman family to reject negotiations with Disney in anger. But I don't want to survive the initial pain of the split, by 93 Marvel has basically relieved, and then in the second year, as more and more newcomers can take charge of themselves, Marvel finally got out of the pain of the split of Image Comics, regrouped and continued on the road.

The tragic Disney, because of its momentary downfall gave Marvel time to recover, ended up missing out on the acquisition opportunity in 93, and they had to quote 42 before Lin Xiaozhi was reborn. With a sky-high price of 400 million US dollars, he finally got his wish and ate the big fat meat of Marvel.

However, although Disney paid the price for its short time, it was not a loss-making business. In the year when it bought Marvel, Disney established Marvel Studios and ambitiously launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan, only in the first stage before Lin Xiaozhi's rebirth, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and other superheroes were put on the big screen in turn, and then they were gathered together through "The Avengers" - in the first stage, Marvel with 6 films, with a total cost of $1 billion, in exchange for as much as 37. The global box office of 400 million US dollars has made a lot of money.

In the second, third and fourth phases of the following, Lin Xiaozhi has no chance to see it, but I believe that with the popularity of superhero movies in the first stage, Disney may have already recovered its investment and made a lot of money. It is also because of this that he is full of infinite desire for Marvel, which has unimaginable high-quality IP resources!

"What, look down on doll paintings? The copyright of the doll painting is like the copyright, and it seems difficult to adapt it into a movie now, but with the development of computer special effects technology, no one dares to say that the technology will not work in five or ten years. At that time, it will be the time for the copyrights of those high-quality doll paintings to explode! Let's just talk about it now, the movies "Superman", "Batman", and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" shot by Americans based on doll paintings have swept away hundreds of millions of box offices from all over the world. ”

Doll painting is the name of Hong Kong people for comics, Lin Xiaozhi has actually been supporting and investing since a few years ago, trying to give birth to a series of superhero comics belonging to Chinese on the basis of Hong Kong comics. However, over the past few years, the results have not been good. "Resident Evil" and "Black Man" are the only two successful superhero comics in Hong Kong, the former relying on the movie and the Japanese game company to adapt it to bring huge attention, and the latter because of Jet Li's powerful acting.

In addition, a series of comics created by Media Asia have huge limitations, "Fengyun" is too martial arts, it is both internal strength and magic and semi-mythology, so that foreigners who don't understand what is called the Eight Veins of the Strange Classics can't understand it at all, although it is also a high-quality IP, it can only make money in China in the future, and at most it will go to Southeast Asia? Japan and South Korea give it a try.

Some others, either imitating "Fengyun" or copying the setting of "Dragon and Tiger Gate", kill people and destroy people at every turn, not only are they too angry, but they are still the set of Jingu martial arts in their bones, which are all inferior IPs that cannot be exported to Europe and the United States.

Of course, Lin Xiaozhi also knows that if you want to reverse the painting style of Hong Kong comics, it is not something that can be done overnight. So even though he expressed his dissatisfaction with Ma Rongcheng again and again, he never gave a cent of the investment money that should be allocated, and he also used his relationship with Kadokawa Books to invite many mature professional cartoonists from Japan for training, but if you want to count on them to provide you with high-quality IP resources to adapt movies, you can't count on them in a short period of time.

Although he had a simple analysis with Ye Weixin, he knew it by looking at his eyes, and those who didn't understand still didn't understand. Lin Xiaozhi could only sigh and lead the topic to other aspects, but he made up his mind in his heart, and as soon as Song Nianhui got the Standard Chartered Bank done, he immediately raised money to win Marvel.

With the arrival of the summer vacation, Hong Kong cinemas, which have been tepid for a while, finally have a hint of summer atmosphere.

Golden Harvest Cinemas took the lead in firing the first shot of this year's summer box office battle, launching "Serious Crime Team" starring Sammo Hung and Yuan Biao, which openly confronted "Fang Shiyu" starring Jet Li filmed by Zhengdong Film Company.

Although Jackie Chan rejected "Serious Crime Team" because of the relationship between "Hurricane Rescue", this movie is still very tasteful, and "Fang Shiyu" starring Jet Li, who has been in Hong Kong in the past two years, is only two days apart, but the two movies are inseparable in terms of word-of-mouth, box office and attendance, and they immediately heated up the atmosphere of this year's summer file.

Yongsheng's "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" did not disappoint, it was only two and a half weeks later than the release time of "Serious Crime Team" and "Fang Shiyu", but as soon as it landed in theaters, it quickly set off a frenzy of laughter in Hong Kong, and the box office was climbing steadily, and it quickly caught up with the footsteps of "Serious Crime Team" and "Fang Shiyu", easily won 20 million box office, and sprinted to a higher level.

"Truman's World" also landed in Debao Cinemas shortly after the release of "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance", although it was also predicted before that this slow and bland movie with a slow and flat plot in the early and middle stages may not meet the preferences of young Hong Kong fans who have just had a summer vacation, but the box office on the first day of release was only half of that of "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance", and the box office in the four days at the end of the first week together barely exceeded 3.5 million, which still disappointed Ye Weixin for several days.

Fortunately, although its performance in Hong Kong was tepid, when it landed in European theaters a few days later, word of mouth and box office soared rapidly, but then when it landed in the United States, like many American movies that were crushed by "Jurassic Park" in the same period, "Truman's World" won praise from many critics, but almost all American audiences were attracted to watch "Jurassic Park", and the box office was tepid, far worse than being screened almost at the same time as it, but because of the novel creativity, "The Grim Reaper", which attracted some young American fans to pay for tickets, barely achieved the purpose of snatching some meat from the mouth of "Jurassic Park".

In July, the Hong Kong box office failed to release a blockbuster film, but instead became the stage for the trio of "Serious Crime Unit", "Fang Shiyu" and "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance".

On July 24, after nearly a month of negotiations, Song Nianhui finally succeeded in defeating Standard Chartered Bank, persuading Lloyds Bank, whose attitude had changed sharply due to the sudden intervention of Standard Chartered management, to sell its Standard Chartered shares to himself, coupled with the shares that have been continuously absorbed in the past month, Kowloon Bank finally increased its holdings of Standard Chartered shares to more than 51% and successfully obtained a controlling stake in Standard Chartered.

Although Song Nianhui told Lin Xiaozhi the good news as soon as possible, he didn't have much excitement. Because just two or three days ago, "Jurassic Park" officially landed in the traditional sphere of influence of Hong Kong films, was released in Taiwan Province, and once again replicated its success in the United States in a very short period of time!

Coming to an end of its North American screenings, "Jurassic Park" has already earned more than $300 million at the box office, and is still gradually landing in European markets.

In Asia, although the monster has only just been released in Taiwan Province and South Korea, it only took a few days for this monster to conquer South Korea and Taiwan, and after the box office exceeded 1.8 billion won in the first week of release, "Jurassic Park" is still raging in South Korea and is hitting higher box office records.

In Taiwan, the box office of "Jurassic Park", which was released for half a month, is still hot, and thousands of families collectively enter the theater to watch the movie, especially in Taipei, which contributed nearly 60 million Taiwan dollars to the box office in the first two weeks alone, as of the end of the second week of "Jurassic Park" in Taiwan, the box office of this film in Taiwan has fiercely exceeded 100 million New Taiwan dollars, which has greatly shocked the Hong Kong film industry across the water, and Hong Kong entertainment newspapers even shouted "The wolf is coming", which shows the panic and uneasiness in the heart!

The success of "Jurassic Park" in the Taiwan and South Korean markets immediately boosted the confidence of Universal Pictures and Spielberg, who were still worried about the water and soil, and they were no longer satisfied with the conservative release strategy formulated by Lin Xiaozhi, who took away his distribution rights in Japan and Hong Kong.

Although Lin Xiaozhi has won the distribution rights of "Jurassic Park" in Japan and Hong Kong, it does not mean that the official cannot bypass it and contact more theaters to screen his own movies. And if he obstructs it, he will not only annoy other investors and lose the opportunity to continue to invest in the remaining films, but also offend many theaters in Hong Kong and Japan.

If it's just Hong Kong, a place the size of a projectile, but more than 200 theaters have been squeezed out, you can imagine how fierce the competition is. Debao Cinemas has many competitors in Hong Kong, such as Golden Harvest Cinemas, such as Golden Princess Cinemas, such as Xinbao Cinemas, such as other small and medium-sized cinemas, but even so, Debao has never been afraid of any challenge. Because Debao has 47 cinemas in Hong Kong, although the number of cinemas is less than that of Golden Harvest, it does not have a franchise cinema, of which more than seventy percent of the cinemas are newly built chain standard cinemas in the past three years, and the overall configuration is also the most new in Hong Kong, and it is not afraid of the threat of other cinemas.

However, although Media Asia in Hong Kong can not be afraid of pressure from other theaters, in Japan, one of the foreign markets that Media Asia cares about the most in the next ten years, even if he has already owned a medium-sized cinema chain in Japan through the acquisition of Kadokawa Pictures, in order for Media Asia's films to be screened in Japan in the future, Lin Xiaozhi must also give enough respect to Japanese theaters.

Under his pressure, Lin Xiaozhi had no choice but to advance the previously arranged screening time of "Jurassic Park" in Japan and Hong Kong, and a tragic box office battle came.

On August 5th, a few days earlier than the early "Jurassic Park", the much-anticipated "Once Upon a Time 3" officially landed in Hong Kong and Japan, slightly later than the two places, Taiwan will officially screen the film in two days, and it will also officially land in the South Korean market four days later.

did not disappoint those who were expecting, "Huang Feihong 3" soon set off a kung fu frenzy again in the four places as soon as it was released, and slogans such as "Bao Zhilin", "Guangdong Ten Tigers Huang Feihong", and "Foshan Shadowless Feet" can be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys and young people's mouths.

However, although "Once Upon a Time 3" performed very strongly, and it did attract many audiences in South Korea and Taiwan after its release, its performance can only be described as bleak compared to "Jurassic Park", which crushed everything.

A few days later, following the big sales in Europe and the United States, Taiwan and South Korea, "Jurassic Park" officially landed in Japan and Hong Kong in the spotlight, although Media Asia only gave it part of the high-quality schedule and schedule arrangement, but on the first day of release in Japan, "Jurassic Park" easily won more than 200 million yen at the box office, which made the Japanese media exclaim. However, in Hong Kong, the hometown of Hong Kong films, the performance of "Jurassic Park" is obviously much worse, although it won a box office of 1.53 million Hong Kong dollars on the first day of release, it is still a lot worse than "Once Upon a Time 3", which exceeded 2 million in a single day, and with the release of "Hurricane Rescue" soon after, Media Asia once again allocated a part of the high-quality schedule and number of screenings to "Hurricane Rescue", "Jurassic Park" in Hong Kong The number of screenings and moviegoers in Hong Kong did not rise but fell, far less eye-catching than its overseas performance.

After entering September, with the strong attack of "The Mummy", "Jurassic Park", which was close to the end of its release, finally showed its decline, and it took only three weeks to catch up with the box office, and finally had to be drawn with a box office success of 50 million Hong Kong dollars but not too outstanding. In Japan and the United Kingdom, "The Mummy", which novelly references a large number of ancient Egyptian mythological stories, was released with overwhelming publicity, and the box office soared rapidly, and soon replaced "Jurassic Park", which has been released for more than a month and is in full decline, and has become the favorite of major theaters......

In Europe and North America, amid the exclamations of the media, an Oriental Hollywood that belongs to Chinese-language films is walking gently as if it were the same!

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