Chapter 63: go to marvel comics

On the second day after Sophia left the United States, Ryan and his team went to the headquarters of Marvel Comics to formally meet with the head of Marvel Comics, Ronald Perelman.

Along the way, Ryan was thinking about the issues of Marvel Comics. According to the information Swift investigated and combined with the memories of his previous life, he tried to reach a permanent buyout contract with Marvel Comics.

According to past life memories, when Disney bought Marvel Comics, which is Marvel, it spent a full $4 billion.

That includes a bunch of superhero character rights, as well as the entirety of Marvel Comics.

At that time, Marvel Comics had already established Marvel Film and Television, spending huge sums of money to prepare a large-scale Avengers alliance plan, and the first Avengers movie "Iron Man" was a big box office hit.

For a while, the whole of Hollywood knew about the rise of Marvel Films and the Avengers. It can be said that Marvel was at a peak at that time, and its market value was naturally scary.

But the current Marvel Comics is not the ambitious and promising Marvel Film and Television. The sales of the entire company’s comics have been declining. Spiderman, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc. The character copyright has already been sold.

Moreover, Ronald Perelman, the head of Marvel Comics, is full of conflicts with a group of shareholders. The development plan formulated by the former is constantly blocked by other members of the board of directors.

He now only wants to raise the company's stock price as soon as possible, so as to continue to reduce his shareholding.

The latter believes that the reason why Marvel Comics has fallen to where it is today is the fault of Ronald Perelman alone. In private, some people have begun to propose to remove Ronald Perelman from his position and replace him Drive out of Marvel Comics and save the remaining funds, otherwise the company's funds will be squandered by him sooner or later.

According to the trajectory of the previous life, what the shareholders never expected was that Ronald Perelman directly declared the Marvel Comics company bankrupt in a fit of anger, and in the end, both parties suffered losses.

As for the acquisition of Marvel Comics as a whole, it is simply impossible. Even though the market value of Marvel Comics continues to decline, it is still close to $30 per share.

Ryan had already asked Swift to stop buying Marvel shares, and even liquidate the shares he had already bought.

This decision was called by Swift, the most sensible choice, which made Ryan very depressed, and he didn't know that the stock price of Marvel Comics was so high now, otherwise a fool would buy Marvel shares.

You know, the stock price of Marvel Comics will drop to around $2 in a few years.

"Ryan Gosling, the director, screenwriter, producer, and sole investor of "Saw"."

"Ronald Perelman, owner of Marvel Comics."

In an office on the Marvel Comics building, Swift introduced each other very skillfully.

""Saw"?"

"A very good horror movie." Ronald Perelman, who was still looking very strong, looked at Ryan in surprise, unexpectedly, the visitor was so young.

"Thank you Mr. Perelman for your compliment."

"It is my greatest honor to come to Marvel Comics." Ryan was very polite.

At that moment, Ronald Perelman smiled, asked everyone to sit down, and went straight to the topic: "I heard that you are very interested in the copyright of superhero characters?"

"I want to buy them out permanently!"

Ryan said very frankly: "I personally like the superhero characters of Marvel Comics very much, and I just invested in an animation studio, so I want to buy some copyrights of superhero characters to fill the creative space of the studio."

"At the same time, it can also boost the Marvel Comics stock price."

Speaking of this, Ryan showed a hint of helplessness, and said: "I am also one of the investors of Marvel Comics. Although the number of stocks I own is pitifully small, it is still shrinking."

When talking about this, Swift suppressed a smile. In his opinion, buying shares of Marvel Comics is the worst investment.

It's no secret that Marvel Comics' performance is poor. The market value is constantly depreciating, and the stock price is also falling again and again.

Ronald Perelman is well aware of this.

At that moment, he laughed loudly and said, "It seems that you chose to invest in Marvel comics at the wrong moment."

When he bought Marvel comics back then, he only spent more than 80 million U.S. dollars. After the completion, he promoted the company to go public and reduced his holdings by 20% of the shares in one fell swoop. It can be said that he has made a lot of money.

Even now, the value of the shares in Marvel comics in his hand is not a small number.

"So I want to permanently buy the copyrights of more than 2,000 superhero characters under Marvel Comics at a price of 15 million US dollars. First, it can fill the animation studio's character copyrights, and second, it can boost the stock price of Marvel Comics and take the opportunity to cash out." Ryan said half-truthfully.

"A very good idea."

Ronald Perelman showed a hint of appreciation, and said, "If it weren't for some reasons, I couldn't help but sell the shares of Marvel Comics, lest the stock price continue to depreciate."

"However, the price of 15 million US dollars is really too low. What you want is more than 2,000 copyrights of superhero characters, and they are permanent copyrights."

"If it can be higher than 50 million U.S. dollars, I can try to persuade other shareholders to agree with you to permanently buy the copyright of more than 2,000 superhero characters."

50 million US dollars, or 50 million US dollars in 1994, the lion opened his mouth properly.

As for the reason, it is very simple. To boost the stock price of Marvel Comics, at least a transaction of tens of millions of dollars is needed, not just a mere $15 million.

"No, no, the price of 50 million US dollars is really too high, and the copyrights of first-line superheroes such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc., have long been sold by Marvel Comics went."

"The remaining superhero copyrights are all second- and third-tier superheroes, and they are not worth 50 million US dollars at all." Ryan pointed to the point. Marvel Comics no longer has any particularly famous superhero copyrights.

I have to say that it is unambiguous that Marvel Comics sells its own son.

"However, there are many superhero copyrights under Marvel Comics, such as Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Punisher, Humanoid, Vampire Mobius, Wolverine, etc. The main purpose of your coming."

"And, I can agree to sign a supplementary clause that any copyright of Marvel superhero characters you buy can be regarded as a permanent copyright, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc., those who Marvel Comics has already sold the rights to the superhero characters." Ronald Perelman's tone was not slow, adding some chips.

In the negotiations some time ago, Marvel Comics did not agree to this supplementary clause at all, and even some slightly famous second-line superheroes refused to sell the copyright permanently, and there must be a time limit.

In fact, Ronald Perelman doesn't care about how many superhero copyrights are sold, even if they are sold permanently. He only cares about one thing now, how to increase the company's stock price.

To put it bluntly, he is an investor, he has no comic ideals, and only wants to get the maximum benefit.

Even if Marvel Comics fell apart because of this~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it has nothing to do with him.

He is involved in a wide range of businesses, far more than just a comic book company.

"These are second-tier superhero characters, long outdated, how many young people still remember?"

"In contrast, I want the copyright of Spider-Man more. Spider-Man is the representative of Marvel's superheroes."

"It's impossible for me to pay such a high fee for the copyright of some second- and third-tier superhero characters." Ryan refused to budge.

Even Captain America, the most famous among them, has become unpopular now. In terms of recognition, it is far inferior to Superman, Batman, and Spiderman.

"50 million US dollars is my bottom line, otherwise I would rather refuse this cooperation." Ronald Perelman naturally will not give up his interests easily, otherwise the group of shareholders on the board of directors will have to fall apart.

In desperation, Ryan could only back down a step, saying: "50 million US dollars is not impossible, unless it is like the agreement between Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox, which permanently owns the copyright of all characters and can be extended to any appearing character." Among the comic characters who have copyrighted characters, they automatically own the copyright of the characters in their comics.”

"At the same time, Marvel Comics no longer enjoys any form of share, including animation, film and television, TV series, and peripheral products of film and television works, etc."

It can be said that this is a complete robbery, and it is harsher than the 20th Century Fox contract.

"This is absolutely impossible." Ronald Perelman directly refused.

The contract with 20th Century Fox in the past few months has made many high-level executives of the company dissatisfied.

If he agrees again, such harsh conditions will definitely cause shock at the company's top management.