"Hello, this is Studio Ryan. ”

"What, CAA?"

"Sorry, there are no plans to change brokers at the moment. Sophia hung up very dryly.

CAA is far from being a behemoth in her previous life, so she refuses very simply.

Still, Sophia gave Ryan a call.

Ryan was stunned, what the hell was the change of agent! And it was the CAA that kicked him away in the first place.

"Ignore it. ”

"Directly refuse next time. ”

Hanging up the phone, Ryan continued to flip through the materials about the Marvel Comics.

It wasn't until early December, after a month of negotiations, that both sides made some concessions to each other, and an agreement was finally reached.

Ryan, in the name of his wholly-owned studio, bought the rights to more than 2,000 superhero characters in Marvel Comics, including all related characters in the comics.

As for the key share ratio, Marvel Comics has also made some concessions.

For this, Ryan needs to pay a one-time buyout fee, up to $53 million,

From the day of signing the contract, more than $30 million will be paid to Marvel Comics within a week, and the remaining $23 million will be paid within half a year.

All of a sudden, almost all the funds in the studio's account were used, just like Sophia said some time ago, he was about to enter the brink of bankruptcy.

Fortunately, the sharing fee, which has been deadlocked, Marvel Comics finally made some concessions, and the box office has changed from pure profit to global box office, but not five percent, but two percent.

For the rest of the peripheral derivatives, Marvel Comics enjoys a three-percent profit share.

For the current 1994 period, this agreement can be said to be very good.

Of course, it is far from being compared with the agreement reached between Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox, and the copyright fee is much higher.

But after 2,000 years, it is impossible for Marvel Comics to agree to it.

On the right to broadcast offline videotapes and TV stations alone, a high proportion of sharing agreements will be issued, not to mention derivative products around movies or animated feature films, etc.

In the 2,000 years, Marvel Comics could start with a 50 percent profit share and set various restrictions, which would never have been so lenient.

Another point, Ryan made concessions, but in order not to have an incident similar to that of Twentieth Century Fox in his previous life, that is, the dispute between the Fantastic Four, the two sides signed a very strict contract.

In this regard, Ryan even invited Baker Mackenzie, one of the three major commercial law firms in the United States, to formulate the terms of the contract.

Ryan Studios has the right to adapt all derivative characters created by Marvel Comics, and unless approved by Ryan Studios, Marvel Comics shall not discredit positive superhero characters, discontinue publication without reason, etc.

In the previous life, the Marvel Comics first took all kinds of Fantastic Four in black and all kinds of green, and then directly stopped publication, almost making a mess of the copyright of the Fantastic Four in the hands of Twentieth Century Fox, a superhero character combination that is almost comparable to the X-Men.

At the same time, the two parties also signed a supplementary copyright, all the superhero characters owned by Ryan Studios under Marvel Comics can enjoy the above terms, including the rights of Iron Man, Hulk and Namor, Fantastic Four and other copyrights that have been bought.

As for the rights to the X-Men and Daredevil, which have not yet been traded with Twentieth Century Fox, this is not necessary.

Twentieth Century Fox's contract with Marvel Comics was more thorough, or rather outright a robbery.

As soon as the agreement was reached, Ryan couldn't help but find someone to celebrate, but unfortunately Helen was still busy contacting the twentieth century Fox distribution department to pay attention to the publicity and distribution of "Saw 2".

Sofia stayed in Europe to spend Christmas with her mother, while Monica was in the UK filming "Leaving Las Vegas."

The only good people almost don't have time, and they are not even in the United States at all.

Ryan realized that it seemed that he didn't have many people who could be considered friends, and as for the people he knew from working in the crew before, they hadn't been in touch for a long time, and he even changed his phone number, just to avoid some trouble.

Of course, this is also a norm in Hollywood, many big stars or well-known directors, except for a few friends in the circle, rarely have other friends.

First, there is no time to get to know each other, second, there is no common language, and there are other reasons.

As a result, a phenomenon has gradually emerged in Hollywood, the so-called friends, who eat you, drink you, play with you, and take you, and some friends of big stars sometimes carry all kinds of luxury goods in a car.

Friends?

Ryan resisted the urge to roll his eyes and banished the word.

What kind of friend is this, he simply raised a group of ancestors to provide for, so he is not so idiotic, unless it is a group of young and beautiful beauties, maybe you can consider it.

In desperation, he could only go out with Swift to celebrate a little.

Of course, the two of them were talking about some work things.

Next, the focus should be on Twentieth Century Fox to buy the X-Men rights as soon as possible. Ryan put down the knife and fork in his hand and said, "Other investments can be stopped for a while." ”

In the previous life, the rise of superhero movies, in addition to Marvel's "Avengers" and Warner Bros.'s "Justice League", was the most successful adaptation of "X-Men", and even became a superhero series of films.

Up to the previous life, he has filmed many films, "X-Men", "X-Men 2", "X-Men 3: The Last Stand", "Wolverine", "X-Men: First War", "Wolverine 2", "X-Men: Future Past", "Deadpool", "X-Men: Apocalypse", "Wolverine 3: Mortal War", "Deadpool 2", "X-Men: Dark Phoenix", a full twelve movies, all of which are about to be comparable to "The Avengers" and "Justice League".

As can be seen from the above, the value of the X-Men copyright is almost comparable to that of Spider-Man.

"No problem. ”

Swift agreed and asked, "It's just that I have a question, do you want to use the copyright of these superheroes to fill the creative space of Blue Sky Studio, or do you want to adapt it into a live-action film like Superman!"

As a broker in stocks and investments, he has long noticed something unusual about Ryan's recent investment plans.

Blue Sky Studio's ambition is by no means to make some ordinary special effects, and it has already begun to prepare for the production of a 3D animated feature film, which is estimated to be officially prepared next year.

The real use of the rights to the more than 2,000 superhero characters that I just bought is nothing more than wanting to shoot live-action superhero films like Warner Bros.

"Live-action superhero films are just an idea for the future, and there will be no preparation for shooting live-action superhero films for at least five years, or even ten years. Ryan said half-truthfully.

Ten years later, there will be no problem at all to start the Avengers, and the X-Men will not have to be so late, in the late nineties, or the early twentieth century, the first X-Men series can be prepared.

The premise is that Ryan already has enough strength at that time, as well as distribution channels, hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, peripheral product copyright channels, special effects technology, etc., these problems need to be solved one by one, otherwise everything is just empty talk.

"By the way, this is a gift for little Taylor, and they are all superhero character figures from some Marvel Comics. Ryan handed Swift a large bag full of superhero figures.

These dolls were small gifts from Marvel Comics when the agreement was signed, including some classic comic books, which he sent back to his farm in Texas.

"Thank you, I think Taylor will like it very much. Swift showed a hint of joy.

For Mr. and Mrs. Swift, the most precious thing is little Taylor, otherwise their family would not live on the farm, just hope that little Taylor can have a warm growth environment since he was a child.

According to Ryan, the two of them are a pair of pet girls.

Well, and Sophia's father too.