PDLP Chapter 107 Negotiations With Marvel
Chapter 107 Negotiations With Marvel
However, such an acquisition of hundreds of millions of dollars in Polaris Capital,
Elizabeth needs to seek Lin Xuan's consent, otherwise, she will not sign
So this investment has never been signed,
This is why Elizabeth is anxious to find Lin Xuan,
Naturally, Lin Xuan would not disagree with acquiring a 15% stake in Netflix for US$100 million.
On the contrary, he felt that the shares were a bit too small.
However, this requires buying and selling in the secondary market.
It is impossible for Polaris to let the founder team increase new shares or acquire more shares.
After agreeing to Netflix on the phone, Lin Xuan asked about another matter
"Elizabeth, how are things going at Marvel?"
"Avi Arad is considering!"
Elizabeth said.
In fact, from an investor's point of view, she actually disagrees with Lin Xuan's investment in Marvel.
Although Sony's investment in "Spider-Man" did make a lot of money.
However, Marvel itself is a debt company that suffers losses all the year round.
In 1996, it even almost filed for bankruptcy, although it survived by selling the copyright of the comic company.
But this is still not a long-term solution.
In fact, before the filming of "Iron Man 1", Marvel has not been favored.
After all, Marvel's hottest X-Men and Spider-Man have been authorized to go out.
For major film and television companies, Marvel is just a tool person and an IP provider.
So when Lin Xuan once said to acquire Marvel, Elizabeth immediately objected.
However, even so, there is still no determination to stop Lin Xuan.
No one knows better than him that 2005 was definitely the best time to acquire Marvel.
Why, because now Marvel owner Avi Arad is hesitant to invest in a Marvel hero movie of his own.
Sony's Spider-Man released in 2002 caused a global frenzy, even raking in $820 million at the box office
Spider-Man's success made Marvel lose, because Marvel's share was only tens of millions of dollars, and it also gave Marvel Pictures great confidence.
That is, modern computer technology is already very mature, capable of vividly displaying superheroes on the screen, and at the same time, the market has a huge demand for comic-book adaptations.
So Marvel executives are hesitating whether to make a movie by themselves
But if you want to make your own movie, you have to sell your own.
Because Marvel has no money on its books.
Therefore, in the middle of 2005, Marvel borrowed from the bank with the copyright of Captain, Nick Fury and other characters, and successfully obtained a loan of 525 million US dollars, and began to produce "Iron Man".
It can be said that 2005 was the time when Marvel was most short of money.
Although they can indeed obtain funds by mortgaging copyright, what if the movie hits the street.
Without the X-Men, without Spider-Man, if there is no Captain, Nick Rui and other characters,
What else does Marvel have, basically it can declare bankruptcy.
However, at this moment, Polaris Capital arrived
What moved Avi Arad the most was that although Polaris Capital acquired Marvel, it promised not to participate in the management.
The top management of Marvel is still them and will not change.
This is very attractive to high-level executives such as Avi Arad.
It's a desperate effort to invest in movies by yourself. If it succeeds, it will make a lot of money, but if it fails, the whole family will go bankrupt.
Still receive Polaris capital and pass on the investment risk, but whether the company wins or loses in the future belongs to others.
This is where Avi Arad and other Marvel executives hesitate.
The main reason is that they still don't give up and are considering whether to take a gamble.
After thinking about it, Lin Xuan thinks it's better to let Elizabeth start with her contacts, as long as Marvel can't successfully mortgage the copyrights of Captain, Nick Fury and other characters,
So what else does Marvel make "Iron Man"
During this period of time, Elizabeth, the heir to the ancient aristocracy of Europe, has established a foothold in Wall Street.
For this reason, Lin Xuan did not hesitate to buy a mansion in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the name of the company, and also bought a villa in the Upper Island area.
This mansion alone cost him 160 million US dollars.
In addition, a series of expenses such as Elizabeth's travel vehicles, clothing, dinner parties, etc.
The 1 billion US dollars allocated to the other party to establish Polaris Capital at the beginning was only about 800 million US dollars.
Of course, in terms of the results, the money was not very worthwhile.
Elizabeth thus broke into the high society.
Became friends with many rich men, senators, daughters, fashion magazine editors, etc.
In this way, it will be possible for Polaris Capital to carry out a series of operations in the beautiful country in the future.
For example, the establishment of private equity funds, the short selling of US stocks during the 2008 financial crisis, the acquisition of some companies that cannot be acquired as flower growers, etc.
In short, Polaris and Elizabeth are a pawn played in the beautiful country.
Promising to visit her in the beautiful country after a while, Lin Xuan hung up on Elizabeth.
And two weeks after the Spring Festival, "A World Without Thieves" jointly produced by Star Entertainment, China Film Group Corporation, and Media Asia Film and Television Distribution (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. was officially released.
Due to various reasons, the movie was released one month later than in the previous life.
Almost missed the Lunar New Year schedule.
However, in terms of results, it was better than the previous life, with a box office of 50 million in the first week and a cumulative box office of more than 110 million in the four weeks since its release.
When it was time to draw, the cumulative box office reached 1. (Li Hao) 3.6 billion.
The box office is 10 million higher than the previous life, which may be due to Star Entertainment's spare no efforts in publicity.
After the movie is downloaded, it will be divided according to the box office.
The total investment is 30 million, Star Entertainment invested 20 million.
According to the agreement, the producer can get 40% of the box office share,
In addition to Xiying acquired by Xingkong, as the distributor, it can get 5% of the total box office.
The final share is 43 million, and the profit is 23 million.
Of course, it will take some time for the money to be settled before it can be returned to Star Entertainment's company account.
Although Lin Xuan looked down on the money, this was the first movie Star Entertainment cast.
It can be said to be of milestone significance.
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