I’m in Hollywood Chapter 645: Not worth the loss

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In an office of Universal Pictures Headquarters, Michael Eisner put down 《Variety》 magazine, which published the first half of the financial report of Firefly in his hand, and he couldn't help feeling some emotion.

Although the net profit of all business of Firefly Group is only more than 600 million, which is less than half of the total profit of Firefly and ABC last year, this is beyond everyone ’s expectation. Generally, in the process of the merger of two large companies Because of the turbulence caused by integration and restructuring, it is very common for new companies to experience a decline in performance in a short period of time. But Firefly Group has gone through this turbulent period very smoothly. Michael Eisner has to admit that if he sits in that seat, he can hardly do better.

After undergoing a heart bypass surgery, the body of the Michael Eisner is not much different from the previous one, except for the need to maintain a vegetarian diet. Moreover, with the excellent Box Office score of "The Mummy", after the body recovered, Michael Eisner easily returned to his position of UniversalCEO, but now, another difficult problem he has to face, but before his surgery, in order to appease Board of Directors , Personally pull in Universal as Michael Ovitz of Chairman.

Thinking about how to squeeze out Michael Ovitz, who has been trying to share his power, out of Universal. The office door rang a few times before Michael Eisner regained his consciousness. Thinking that the next one needed more thought to deal with, Michael Eisner quickly rejuvenated.

A smiling bald head Fatty walked into the office under the guidance of the secretary. Michael Eisner showed a warm look and took the initiative to stand up and reach out to the other party: "Mr. Perelman, I am glad to see you."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Eisner."

After the secretary delivered two coffees, Michael Eisner and Ron Perelman chatted a few words casually, and then asked knowingly: "I do n’t know what Mr. Perelman asked me about today?"

Ron Perelman took out several copyright transfer contracts from the briefcase and handed them to Michael Eisner, saying: "Before saying this, I think Mr. Eisner can take a look at this."

Michael Eisner simply scanned the copies of several contracts and put them aside. Tao: "So, Marvel wants to get the help of Universal to avoid bankruptcy protection, right?"

"Yes. I think we can cooperate," Ron Perelman said: "From these copyright transfer documents, we can see that Firefly is targeting Marvel this time, not simply wanting to retaliate. They must have coveted Marvel for a long time. Eric Williams's vision of film development also indirectly shows that Marvel's Superhero copyright is definitely more valuable than imagined. As long as Universal can help Marvel get rid of this crisis, then we can become the most solid partner and we can jointly develop Marvel in the future Of these Superhero projects. "

Michael Eisner tickled the corner of his mouth quietly and asked, "So, Mr. Perelman, what do Universal need to do?"

Ron Perelman froze for a while, but said quickly: "I only need Universal to make a gesture of acquiring Marvel at a high price, just a gesture, Universal does not have to pay any price at all. As long as this good news prevents Marvel from being forced to enter Bankruptcy protection procedures, then I have enough time to deal with things inside Marvel. "

The sneer of Michael Eisner will almost overflow: "Then, Marvel will have a deep cooperation with Universal, right?"

Ron Perelman replied very surely if it wanted to or not: "Of course."

Michael Eisner finally no longer concealed his sneer, and said unkindly: "Mr. Perelman, I am fully aware of the difficulties encountered by Marvel. At the same time, I am also fully aware of your character You do n’t have to play with these little means with no substantive content. If you want the help of Universal, you can, but I need to see the real benefits. ”

Ron Perelman's face became a bit sullen, but he still said: "Mr. Eisner. In this case, how can Universal be willing to help Marvel?"

"As long as Marvel transfers the popular hero movie copyright that I still have in hand to Universal, I can promise to support Marvel publicly."

"This is impossible ..." Ron Perelman subconsciously blurted out, but then realized his gaffe, and quickly converged his expression, saying: "Mr. Eisner. This condition is too much."

Marvel has lost the copyright of "Spider-Man", "Fantastic Four" and "Hulk". With the attitude shown by Firefly, Ron Perelman guessed that it would be very difficult for Marvel to take back these three Superhero copyright. If you transfer the remaining few popular Superhero copyright to Universal, Ron Perelman can't imagine the value of Marvel.

Although Marvel always publicly claims that it owns thousands of Superhero, in fact, this calculation method counts all the characters in the Marvel comic system as consider as finished, and the water is ridiculously large. In the Marvel comics, there are actually dozens of Superhero characters that are really well known to the public, and Superhero with the equivalent popularity of DCBatman and Superman will not exceed 10.

Although Ron Perelman is aware of Firefly's covetment of Marvel, it still feels that what Firefly really wants is Superhero under Marvel and Batman and Superman with the same film and television adaptation potential, not the entire Marvel.

Once the requirements of Michael Eisner are met, the Superhero copyright valued by Firefly of Marvel is accidentally transferred to Universal, then he will completely lose this bargaining chip.

Michael Eisner's thoughts are actually the same as Ron Perelman. He also doesn't think the whole Marvel is a treasure with great adaptation potential.

So, from the beginning, Michael Eisner was not too interested in participating in this muddy water. Although he also really wanted to take this opportunity to win several popular heroes copyright of Marvel, but Firefly has already shown such an aggressive attitude, Ron Perelman is also shrewd like a fox, then it is almost impossible for Universal to get a fisherman ’s profit of.

Not to mention, Universal is currently negotiating with Nicole Kidman on the sequel of "The Mummy". If the Firefly is angered by the blending, Michael Eisner is worried that Eric will make Nicole Kidman withdraw from the "The Mummy" series. If the current lucrative project is messed up because of a goal that has no prospect at all, it is a worthless thing. (To be continued.)