Chapter 1792 There Is Also a Little Spider

Why are banks backing MGM again? It's not because of the "007" series. Every fool knows that as long as it is around, MGM can come back to life again.

From this perspective, Bond is not only the savior of Britain and the entire Western world, but also the hero of MGM.

In order to make a good turnaround, the reorganized MGM immediately chose to call on Bond. The company's new CEO at the time invested half of MGM's funds in filming new films in the "007" series. MGM, which had lost its vitality, successfully counterattacked by relying on its own accumulation over the years.

"Skyfall" became the highest-grossing action film in film history at the time, earning a total of $1.1 billion worldwide and winning multiple Oscars and nominations.

In addition to the "007" series of movies, MGM also co-produced "The Hobbit" with New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., striking out with both fists and making the lion's roar resound across Hollywood again.

Driven by these two films, MGM's annual revenue once returned to the US$1 billion mark, with a net profit of half a billion US dollars.

However, due to the previous financial crisis, MGM lost the global distribution rights of "The Hobbit" and only retained the TV broadcast rights of the film. When the film is released from theaters and promoted to TV stations, MGM can gain a certain amount from it. commercial returns, and the copyright of the "Lord of the Rings" series is firmly controlled by the original author's estate trust fund - the Tolkien Trust Fund.

If you want to continue to develop, you must rely on the "007" series. The following year, Danjaq, which owns most of the copyrights, took back all the leftover "007" copyrights, and has since then fully controlled all the copyrights of the "007" series.

However, the shared copyright still means that MGM cannot collapse. Once it collapses, Danjaq will become the sole copyright owner of 007, and MGM may still be sold at a low price.

It is already a consensus in Hollywood that a successful series can save a company. Why does Disney invest heavily in acquiring Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and even now Fox?

As long as finances still allow, buying the series rights by acquiring companies is the longest-term value investment.

Sanford suggested that Yang Cheng include MGM in the negotiations, also out of this consideration. Who doesn't want the company he works for in the future to be stronger?

After learning about the copyright ownership of 007 from Sanford, Yang Cheng asked, "How many shares of MGM does Sony still hold?"

Sanford shrugged, "Not much. After the reorganization, MGM concentrated on the "007" series and gained a lot of blood. The management gradually broke away from Sony's control.

Therefore, if it can sell for a higher price, Sony does not mind including MGM in the negotiations, as long as it guarantees their investment share in the "007" series. "

Yang Cheng nodded when he heard this. If that's the case, we can talk~

Sanford said happily, "As long as we master "007", the merged company will be invincible in the future."

Yang Cheng said, "Not only that, but also the little spider~"

Sanford patted his forehead, "Yes, but this is a bit troublesome~"

Yang Cheng frowned, "What's going on?"

The most valuable IP in Sony's hands is "007" and the other is Spider-Man. If there are problems with these two copyrights, then there will be a question mark as to whether the merger can be negotiated.

As we all know, the author of the Spider-Man comic series is Stan Lee, the "Father of Marvel." In 1985, Marvel Comics collaborated with Cannon Pictures to launch a live-action Spider-Man movie.

Cannon Films purchased the five-year movie rights to Spider-Man for $225,000 and a share of the revenue.

At that time, Tom Cruise was even approached to discuss starring in the film. However, Cannon took away a large amount of the Spider-Man movie budget due to the filming of "Superman 4" and "The Battle of Time". Subsequently, these two movies failed miserably at the box office. The Spider-Man movie was shelved.

In the 1990s, Carocco Pictures acquired the rights to the Spider-Man movie. At that time, James Cameron of Carocco Films, yes, it was James Cameron who had submitted a script for a Spider-Man movie and had the opportunity to direct it. Spider-Man movie. However, due to financial and legal difficulties, it was eventually abandoned.

Next, Carloco Pictures went bankrupt, and Marvel went bankrupt. At that time, the ownership of Spider-Man's movie rights was already in great confusion.

On the one hand, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired Carocco and obtained the rights to the Spider-Man scripts created by everyone including James Cameron. On the other hand, Marvel Comics officially released "Spider-Man" in 1999. The rights were transferred to Columbia Pictures.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia had a huge conflict over the rights to Spider-Man.

However, because MGM executives jumped to Columbia with the 007 copyright, both parties took a step back. Columbia gave up the copyright to the 007 series of movies and obtained the copyright to all Spider-Man scripts.

At this point, Columbia, a subsidiary of Sony, has fully obtained the copyright to the Spider-Man series of movies.

After acquiring the rights to Spider-Man, Columbia Pictures invited Spider-Man comic fan Sam Raimi to film the first version of the "Spider-Man" trilogy.

The subsequent "Amazing Spider-Man" two-part series was an innovation made by Sony based on the tone of Nolan's "Batman" series of movies. Compared with the first version, while the visual effects were upgraded to 3DIMX, there were also more Serious dark style and deeper themes.

Although the "Amazing Spider-Man" series offers sophisticated production and more exquisite visual effects, the too serious tone obviously does not fit in with the funny nature of the little spider, and it failed miserably at the box office.

Later, as everyone knew, the first movie in the Marvel Universe, "Iron Man," was released, ushering in the era of superhero adaptations of the movie universe.

The continuous high box office success has naturally become an opportunity to promote cooperation between Sony and Marvel. Sony, which holds the copyright of Spider-Man, does not dare to ruin its good cards, and joint production with Marvel is undoubtedly a more stable decision.

As expected, the first "Spider-Man" jointly produced by both parties will be released next year. No one in the world except Yang Cheng knows what kind of results it can achieve.

There is no doubt that the new Spider-Man will achieve both word-of-mouth and box office success, which also provides the foundation for Marvel to put forward more demanding requirements for Sony to share the money.

Yang Cheng only knows that in the next few years, Marvel and Sony will be at loggerheads over the issue of account sharing, and he doesn’t know what will happen after that.

No matter what, Marvel's ability to control superheroes must be higher than Sony's. After all, he is Spider-Man's biological father. Although he once sold his own son in order to survive, who can understand it? Better than kissing me?

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