At noon, Li Yanggang had just finished his lunch and was taking a nap on the sofa when Carl, the general manager of Woodpecker copyright company, knocked on the door and entered.
“boos。”Carl woke Li Yang up in a low voice and said,""I've already discussed it with Marvel Entertainment. The copyright transfer contract can be signed at any time. Marvel Entertainment is also preparing to hold a press conference to announce the copyright transfer deal to the outside world. Marvel Entertainment wants to ask for your opinion and hopes that you can give me face and attend it in person!”
"Press conference? Marvel Studios was trying to increase their net worth!”Li Yang shook his head and smiled. He instantly understood Marvel Entertainment's intentions.
Today, as many manga masters gradually aged, the world of manga in various countries was in a state of decline. The new generation of manga artists were unable to create manga stories that were comparable to their predecessors. This led to the decline of the manga publishing business. Only film and animation were making a profit.
Although Marvel Studios was very famous, it was also a household name in the entire US.
However, with the decline of the comics business, Marvel struggled on the verge of bankruptcy several times and experienced many layoffs. If it weren't for the income from selling and authorized character copyrights, Marvel would have collapsed long ago.
Now, Li Yang had bought the film and television copyrights of ten heroes at a price of 100 million meters of gold. This was equivalent to announcing to the outside world that these copyrights were very valuable. Even a young tycoon like Li Yang had to spend a huge sum of money to buy them, and it was a huge sum of 100 million meters of gold.
Needless to say, once the contract was signed, this good news would be announced by the media. Marvel's depressed stock price would rise slightly, and Marvel's massive hero copyrights would also increase in price.
Such a thing was undoubtedly killing two birds with one stone for Marvel Studios. It was a powerful shot in the arm.
In fact, Marvel Entertainment didn't need to be in such a miserable state. As long as they were a little more open-minded, they could develop the massive number of heroes under Marvel Entertainment. Comic adaptation was the only way for Marvel Entertainment to achieve glory.
In the eyes of the world, before 2008, Marvel Entertainment was in an empty treasure mountain and could not find a suitable hoe to dig.
Of course, it couldn't be said that Marvel's executives were stupid. After all, no one could predict the future.
It was a very simple principle. If the manga adaptation plan was initiated and the heroes were brought to the big screen, the investment for any movie would be calculated in the hundreds of millions.
If such a huge investment were to fail, Marvel would immediately decline and declare bankruptcy. There would be no hope of a comeback. After all, reality had already proved that people did not like real-life comic heroes. There was no possibility of appreciation for Marvel's massive number of character copyrights.
Marvel's market value was less than four billion dollars. How could they spend one or two hundred million dollars to start the manga adaptation project? It didn't have the money to film it at all!
Even if Marvel Studios were to look for investors, others might not be willing to be the first to eat the crab.
For investors, it was best not to try the unknown. There were many ways to make money, so there was no need to fight for that possibility.
However, when Marvel Studios launched their manga adaptation plan and proved the value of the heroes in the Marvel Universe, investors naturally rushed in with cash.
"Boss, do you need to attend the press conference? If you don't want to show up, then I'll reject Marvel Entertainment's request.”Seeing that Li Yang did not reply, Carl asked again.
"Why not? Marvel Studios wants to take this opportunity to increase their value, and I also want to take this opportunity to hype up the popularity in advance. Woodpecker copyright company has been established for so long, it should also show its strength.”Li Yang's gaze was wise as he agreed to participate in the press conference.
Marvel Studios had their own plans, and so did Li Yang.
Perhaps the outside world might think that Marvel Studios was making a lot of money, but in reality, could Li Yang suffer a loss?
This was equivalent to confirming the saying, it might seem like you've profited, but in fact, I'll never lose!
"Boss, once Woodpecker gets the rights to these ten heroes, the movie shooting plan will be very costly. Without hundreds of millions of dollars invested, how can we make a good movie?”Carl reminded him carefully.
He was not optimistic about his boss's manga adaptation plan. He felt that his boss might make a loss and end up with a big loss.
Now, before the contract was signed, he wanted to persuade his boss to change his plan.
One had to know that the boss 'net worth was only 1.1 billion dollars. He had spent 100 million dollars on the acquisition of the copyright, and he had to invest another 200 million dollars to start filming the first manga film. That added up to 300 million dollars.
If the investment of 300 million rice gold was lost, it would definitely hurt the boss.
"I know what you're worried about. Don't you trust my judgment?”Li Yang stared at Carl, his eyes full of confidence.
"Boss, I'll go and reply to Marvel Entertainment first!”Carl smiled and didn't say anything else, because it was useless for him to say anything more. It would only annoy his boss.
When he reached the door, Carl turned around and walked back.""Oh right, there's one more thing. Scarlet and Taylor have already arrived in New City. I've arranged for them to stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Boss, do you want to talk to them personally, or should I do it?”
Since the boss valued these two people, Carl naturally had to pay attention to them.
"I won't show up for this kind of thing. You just have to sign them. You can give them more signing fees and relax the contract, but the contract has to be long.”Li Yang instructed.
Right now, be it Scarlet or Taylor, they were far from being able to compare to ten years later. Scarlet was slightly better off and had some fame, while Taylor was still a fledgling and had no fame at all.
Twenty years should be their most golden twenty years. As long as they were in control during this period of time, this initial investment would naturally bring a lot of continuous returns.
After Li Yang finished, Carl nodded and left.
"Movies, music, financial investment, the scope of business is still too monotonous. I have to speed up the pace of development. If I don't make it in time, it'll be too late to regret it later!”Li Yang rolled his eyes and thought about the next step.
"Oh, I almost forgot. In 2005, Xiao Mazi's Facebook was just established. Now is a good time to take advantage of it!”Li Yang's eyes lit up as he found his next target.
Facebook was founded in February last year. The market value of this Internet company had exceeded 500 billion dollars in 10 years. It was a big gold mine that couldn't be missed.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。