A few days later.

After accepting Zhuke's commission, Kandy, a negotiating expert, immediately contacted Marvel. After several days of hard work, he finally successfully started the first negotiation on Spider-Man copyright issues.

However, the direction of things was beyond Zhuke's expectations.

"What? You said Marvel Leo spoke up?!"

Zucker frowned.

Upon hearing this, Kangdi shook his head: "It's not just that, there are other problems."

Other questions?

"That's right!"

Lawyer Zhang Wei on the side said: "This involves the historical issues of Spider-Man. Currently, MGM Pictures and Columbia Pictures have also joined the copyright acquisition of Spider-Man."

Hiss ~~!

Zhuke couldn't help but gasp.

Sony Columbia, one of the top six in Hollywood, and MGM, which is a lean camel that is bigger than a horse, are not casual characters, and can even be said to be a behemoth!

Wald Pictures, compared to them, is not a unit of size at all.

No, to be precise, it is not the same dimension at all.

.........

Spider-Man’s historical problem?

Originally in 1985, the script for "Spider-Man" was sold to Cannon Films.

In 1989, Cannon Film was poorly managed and was acquired by France's EMI Film Company. Menahem Golan, chairman of Cannon Film, went to Twentieth Century Fox with Spider-Man's copyright.

During Fox, Golan sold the script adaptation of Spider-Man to Columbia Pictures, ready to film James Cameron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger will also play Dr. Octopus.

But.

At this time, Columbia was acquired by Sony Pictures, resulting in a miscarriage of shooting plans. Later, MGM acquired some of the assets of Twentieth Century Fox, including Spider-Man's script, but Columbia Pictures insisted that the copyright should belong to them.

Therefore, the copyright of "Spider-Man" has become a three-party competition between Zhuke, MGM and Sony!

"Condy, Lawyer Zhang, even if Sony and MGM join in, it's just a matter of price. What's there to worry about?" Zhuke gritted his teeth.

Even so, Zhuke's move undoubtedly offended two giant companies.

MGM and Columbia are both extremely influential in Hollywood or globally. As long as they make a little effort on media and theater distribution issues, Juke's Wald Pictures will struggle.

"snort!"

"I just don't believe in this evil!"

Even if you are a big company, so what?

I'm not afraid of offending you, after all, that's Spider-Man!

.........

More than ten days later.

The copyright issues of "Spider-Man" have finally settled!

Zucker took the copyright to Spider-Man for $9 million.

Compared with Sony in history, it has paid $2 million more.

Of course, Zhuke won not only the copyright of Spider-Man, but also the copyright of comic characters related to Spider-Man, such as Venom, Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Mystery, etc., which can be adapted at will. Marvel only provides some creative control on this basis to avoid conflict with the storyline of MCU.

However, there is another key point in the contract.

"Marvel's subsequent image issues regarding Spider-Man, including the comic plot, Zucker's Wald Pictures, have the final veto."

Regarding this issue, Marvel shareholders, even Walder Pictures' CEO Victor, are a little puzzled.

"Haha, will I tell you that I am a time traveler and know some of the problems that happened later?" Zhu Ke thought to himself.

The image of Spider-Man is indeed particularly important!

For example: After Fox's "Fantastic Four 1" was successful, Marvel once proposed to Fox to increase its box office share, but was rejected.

However, how did Marvel do it?

OK, if you don't add money to me, then I will blackmail them all in the Fantastic Four comics.

Heroes become villains!

It's completely bad.

Bad pus-flowing one!

Not only that, they were also written to death!

As a result, "Fantastic Four" made many American audiences extremely disgusted, resulting in extremely bleak box office of "Fantastic Four 2" and caused huge losses. The third and fourth parts that had been planned were still in the womb.

"I have to say that Marvel is cruel enough!"

If Zhuke knows this piece of information about the future, of course he cannot give Marvel the opportunity to take advantage of it.

Zhuke is certainly happy to take down Spider-Man's copyright.

Even if it costs $9 million, once you think of the future glory of "Spider-Man", you won't care about the extra $2 million you spend.

But.

Now the problem is here!

Zhuke's current working capital is only more than 3 million US dollars, and he still owes a large amount of money from the bank, so there are still hundreds of millions of dollars to film "Spider-Man".

"It seems that I can't be lazy next, I have to find a way to get some money!"

That night.

When Zucker finished his meal at home, he accidentally received a call.

"Is Juke Wald?"

The voice coming from the phone was a man, and his tone was not very friendly.

"I am, who are you? I tell you, I don't have a wife, let alone a son. If you say you kidnapped my son, just tear the tickets. If you say I won the prize, I must also tell you that I have won two refrigerators, three microwaves, three Mercedes-Benz, five BMWs, and a cash prize of $270 million. Well, you continue, what am I going to win this time?"

Zhuke kept talking.

Since you have a bad tone, don't expect me to have a good tone.

Look at me bragging to death!

"Mr. Wald, please don't joke!" the man on the phone said with anger suppressed his anger.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Ke curled his lips disdainfully: "Then tell me."

"Mr. Wald, let me introduce myself. My name is Kentucky Dwight. I work at MGM Pictures and serve as deputy manager of the production department."

"Oh? Then what?"

"I know that you can sell the copyright of Spider-Man that you have won. Of course, we MGM will not let you suffer a loss. How about $9.1 million? You made $100,000."

Upon hearing his words, Zucker laughed out loud.

Man, that's Spider-Man!

You send the beggar!

Not to mention adding $100,000, even if you add $10 million, Zhuke won’t sell it!

Think about it, as long as "Spider-Man" is successfully released, the profits it brings to Zucker will be calculated in billions of dollars!

"Friend, how many dishes are you going tonight, and you're going to drink like this?" Zhuke said disdainfully.

The man on the phone was stunned immediately.

"What do you mean?" the man puzzled.

"Haha! I mean to let you get out! You should go to bed early when you are old, but I don't have time to chat with you."

After Zhu Ke finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

How about you MGM?

Although MGM is still known as a big company, it only has the shell of a big company. Looking at what good movies they have produced after the 1990s, except for the only one or two movies, they have relied on 007 to prosper.

"Make you arrogant. When I have money in the future, I will be the first to buy you, hum!"

"" says something thankful.
Chapter completed!