Chapter 65: bought it

"Hello, this is Ryan's studio."

"What, caa?"

"Sorry, I don't plan to change the agent for the time being." Sophia hung up the phone very simply.

Caa is still far from the behemoth of her previous life, so she refused very simply.

Still, Sophia made a phone call to Ryan.

Ryan was taken aback for a moment, what the **** is changing the manager! And it was CAA who kicked him away back then.

"Never mind."

"Reject directly next time."

After hanging up the phone, Ryan continued to read the materials about Marvel comics.

Until the beginning of December, after a month of negotiations, the two sides made some concessions to each other, and finally reached an agreement.

In the name of its wholly-owned studio, Ryan bought the copyright of more than 2,000 superhero characters from Marvel Comics, including all associated characters in the comics.

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

To this end, Ryan needs to pay a one-time buyout fee, up to 53 million US dollars,

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

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

Fortunately, Marvel Comics finally made some concessions on the stalemate fee, and the box office has changed from a pure profit to a global box office, but it is not 5%, but 2%.

For the remaining peripheral derivative products, Marvel Comics enjoys a 3% profit share.

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

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

But after two thousand years, it is impossible for Marvel Comics to agree.

For offline videotapes and TV broadcasting rights alone, a high-proportion sharing agreement will be offered, not to mention peripheral derivative products of movies or animated feature films, etc.

In 2000 years, Marvel comics can start a 50% profit sharing, and set various restrictions, it is absolutely impossible to be so loose.

Another point is that Ryan made a concession, but in order not to have similar incidents with 20th Century Fox in his previous life, that is, the dispute between the Fantastic Four, the two parties signed a very strict contract.

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

Ryan Studios has the right to adapt any derivative characters created by Marvel Comics. At the same time, unless it is approved by Ryan Studios, Marvel Comics must not discredit the positive superhero image, and must not suspend publication without reason.

In the previous life, Marvel comics first put the Fantastic Four in all kinds of black and all kinds of green, and then stopped publishing directly, almost messing up the copyright of the Fantastic Four in the hands of 20th Century Fox. superhero characters composition.

At the same time, the two parties also signed a supplementary copyright. All the superhero copyrights of Marvel Comics owned by Ryan Studios can enjoy the above terms, including the purchased Iron Man, Hulk and Namor, Fantastic Four Xia and other copyrights.

As for the X-Men and Daredevil copyrights that have not yet been traded with 20th Century Fox, there is no need to be so.

The contract signed by Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Comics is more thorough, or it can be said to be a complete robbery.

The moment the agreement was reached, Ryan couldn't help finding someone to celebrate. Unfortunately, Helen was still busy contacting the distribution department of 20th Century Fox, paying attention to the promotion and release of "Saw 2".

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

The only few people who are close have almost no time, and they are not even in the United States at all.

It was only then that Ryan realized that he didn't seem to have many friends who could be regarded as friends at all. As for the people he knew from working in the film crew, he hadn't contacted them for a long time. He even changed his phone number, just to avoid some troubles .

Of course, this can be regarded as a normal state in Hollywood. Many big stars or well-known directors rarely have other friends except for a few friends in the circle.

One is that there is no time to know each other, the other is that there is no common language, and some other reasons.

As a result, a phenomenon has gradually appeared in Hollywood, the so-called friends who eat, drink, play with you, and even take yours. Friends of some big stars sometimes move their cars by car. a luxury.

Friends?

Resisting the urge to roll his eyes, Ryan pushed the word out.

What kind of friends are these, he is simply raising a group of ancestors, he is not so idiotic, unless it is a group of young and beautiful beauties, maybe he can think about it.

In desperation, he could only go out with Swift for a little celebration.

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

"The next step is to focus on 20th Century Fox and buy the copyright of the X-Men as soon as possible." Ryan put down the knife and fork in his hand and said, "Other investments can be temporarily stopped."

The rise of superhero movies in the previous life, apart from Marvel's "Avengers" and Warner Bros.' "Justice League", is the most successful adaptation of "X-Men", and even became a superhero series.

As of the previous life, many films have been shot, "X-Men", "X-Men 2", "X-Men 3: The Last Battle", "Wolverine", "X-Men: First Class", "King Kong Wolf 2", "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "Deadpool", "X-Men: Apocalypse", "Wolverine 3: Mortal Standing", "Deadpool 2", "X-Men: Dark Phoenix" , a total of twelve movies, almost comparable to "The Avengers" and "Justice League".

From the above, it can be seen that the value of X-Men's copyright is almost comparable to that of Spider-Man.

"no problem."

Swift readily agreed, and asked: "I just have a question, do you want to use the copyright of these superhero characters to fill the creative space of Blue Sky Studios, or do you want to adapt them into live-action movies like Superman!"

As a stock and investment broker, he has long noticed something strange about Ryan's recent investment plans.

Blue Sky Studio's ambition ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is by no means to produce some ordinary special effects, and has already started preparing to produce a 3D animation feature film, which is expected to be formally prepared next year.

The real use of the copyrights of more than 2,000 superhero characters just bought is to shoot live-action superhero movies just like Warner Bros.

"A live-action superhero movie is just an idea in the future. At least within five years, or even within ten years, no live-action superhero movie will be prepared." Ryan said half-truthfully.

Ten years later, there will be no problem with starting the Avengers, and the X-Men will not be so late. In the late 1990s or early 20th century, the first X-Men series film can be prepared.

The premise is that at that time, Ryan already had enough strength, as well as distribution channels, hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, copyright channels for peripheral products, 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. They are all superhero dolls from Marvel Comics." Ryan handed Swift a large bag full of superhero dolls.

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

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

For the Swift couple, the most precious thing is little Taylor. Otherwise, the family would not live on the farm. They hope that little Taylor can grow up in a warm environment.

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

Well, and Sofia's father too.