Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

On February 2002, 2, as another important newspaper in the western United States, the "San Francisco Chronicle" reported to readers all over the United States that it was always going smoothly. The Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group encountered fraud when it invested in Marvel Entertainment, and the entire acquisition is expected to lose between US$20 billion and US$40 billion.

"The Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, which has just acquired Marvel Entertainment, has to face a very embarrassing reality. The film and television adaptation rights of the main animation characters under Marvel Entertainment have been sold to 90th Century Fox Film Company as early as the 20s. Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Lionsgate Entertainment, and New Line Films, which means that Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, which wholly acquired Marvel Entertainment, had to face the situation of "nothing from the bamboo basket". "

The San Francisco Chronicle's news report came out, and countless calls flew to Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group.Fortunately, Lansing, who is used to seeing big scenes and is familiar with crisis public relations, immediately issued a "seal order" within the group. All calls are only allowed in and not out, and incoming calls are transferred to the public relations department. There was only one sentence in the reply, "I'm sorry, we can't give you an answer to the question you asked. The company is currently holding an emergency meeting, and it is expected to make a public statement later tonight."

This is the first time that Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group has encountered such a tense atmosphere. Although Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group has not responded yet, the shares of its two companies, Galaxy Film Entertainment Group and Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group, are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. All stocks and the Nasdaq fell sharply.Obviously, the market is not optimistic about Hollywood's magical tycoon-Jed Sherman this time.

Although Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group does not accept any media interviews for the time being, the goal is too big. Everyone knows the location of Sherman Burbank Media Plaza where Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group is located.After nearly ten years of construction, the Sherman Burbank Media Plaza has become a landmark building like the NBC Burbank Film and Television Center. Since the two landmark buildings are only separated by a street, the Sherman Burbank Media Plaza And NBC Burbank Film and Television Center is known as the landmark of the media in Burbank.

Today's Sherman Burbank Media Plaza consists of a large soundstage area and the Twin Towers as well as a tower and outbuildings.What amazes the residents of Burbank most is that one-third of the Sherman Burbank Media Plaza is a public green space, which matches the temperate oceanic climate of Los Angeles, and it is almost full of trees and flowers in full bloom.Generally speaking, as long as it is not too close to the office area of ​​Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, even though it is a private area, the green garden is open to the citizens of Burbank, which once became a scene of Burbank.

But to the surprise of Burbank citizens today, the security guards of the always friendly Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group became extremely serious, pulling up the isolation line early and not allowing anyone to approach the Sherman Burbank Media Plaza.Seeing luxury cars driving rapidly into the underground garage of Sherman Burbank Media Plaza, sharp-eyed reporters naturally recognized that these people were either senior management or core staff of Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group.Normally, these characters appearing on the streets of Los Angeles would attract paparazzi to take crazy shots, but today they suddenly gathered together. It seems that Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group is in big trouble this time.

Suddenly everyone heard the sound of a helicopter, and saw a helicopter marked with the Sherman family slowly landing on the apron on the top floor of the building.Several reporters couldn't help but have a toothache. After all, there are still relatively few tycoons with private jets in this era. It seems that Jed Sherman deliberately drove a helicopter to work because he felt that the driving speed was too slow.

The meeting room on the top floor was full of people. In addition to the most core managers, executives from Galaxy Film Entertainment Group, Galaxy TV Company, Marvel Entertainment Company, and Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Group were also present.Everyone is not a fool, more or less they have their own eyes and ears in the company, now that the company has suffered such a big loss, how could they not know.The atmosphere in the conference room was very wrong. The executives of Galaxy Movies, Galaxy TV, and Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting all looked at the executives of Marvel Entertainment with anger in their eyes.This acquisition was originally thought to enrich everyone's copyright library, but what I didn't expect to buy back was a pile of useless rubbish.If I knew this was the case, it would be better to use the acquisition fee as a bonus to reward contributing employees.

The executives at Marvel Entertainment could only smile wryly. In fact, they were not clear about the authorization of Marvel’s comic characters, because Marvel Entertainment has always had a company called Marvel Copyright Management Center that is responsible for character authorization, and This company has always been controlled by the original old shareholders. Everyone knows that Marvel once had a large-scale authorization operation to save itself in the 90s, but they did not expect that Marvel has no movies and TV shows with heroic missions. right to edit.

"I'm sure you all know the reason for calling everyone here today. What I want to say is that the report in the "San Francisco Chronicle" is basically true, and some of the situation is worse than what was announced." Jed looked at John, "Cologne Mr. Bo, I would like to trouble you to introduce the current ownership of the film and television copyright of Marvel Entertainment superheroes and the difficulty of recycling."

John nodded, ordered someone to turn on the projector, and then introduced: "At first, we only wanted to evaluate the commercial value of the superheroes under Marvel, but what we didn't expect was that we discovered such an embarrassing truth. According to the classification of superheroes, there is only one most valuable s-level hero at present, that is 'Spider-Man'. At present, the right to adapt Spider-Man's film and television is in the hands of Columbia Pictures under Sony Pictures Entertainment Group. In view of our cooperation with Sony The relationship between the group and the redemption difficulty of Spider-Man film and television adaptation rights are also S-level. Fortunately, the contract signed between Marvel and Columbia Pictures is the adaptation rights of three film and television works within 20 years, so we can get them back in 2012 at the earliest The right to adapt 'Spider-Man'. However, at present, the possibility of Spider-Man joining Marvel's ultimate universe plan is zero. The absence of Spider-Man alone will cost our plan nearly 10 billion or so at the box office , and that doesn't include the possibility of columbia pictures using the "spiderman" movie to snipe us. The x-men series as an a-level hero belongs to 20th century fox, and iron man, who is also an a-level hero, belongs to paramount Film company. According to the information I have so far, the X-Men are said to have been put on the filming process by Fox Films. Iron Man is currently in an awkward position within Paramount, and we have a great possibility to redeem the film and television adaptation rights of Iron Man. As a B-level hero, the film and television adaptation rights of the Fantastic Four belong to Fox Films; Captain America and Thor is owned by Paramount Pictures; Hulk is owned by Universal Pictures. Other C-level heroes are basically owned by Fox Films, New Line Films and Lionsgate Entertainment.”

"We can only make a version of "Spiderman" after Sony finishes filming." Jia Fei quickly figured it out, "Maybe we can adopt the same plan as we filmed "Batman" and make a prequel or a parallel version." Universe? The "X-Men" series is estimated to be difficult for us to come back. Fox not only released the first part of "X-Men" last year, but the second part has also been included in the shooting plan. It is said that in addition to Fox In addition to filming the entire "X-Men", we will also take a few moments to shoot separate episodes. The first one to be put on the list is "Wolverine". Although we will not come back, we can consider co-production with them "X-Men" series. This way we can have the X-Men come to the Avengers cameo at the right time, and more importantly keep the consistency of the 'Marvel Ultimate Universe'. Except for "Batman" and "X-Men" In addition, the recovery of the film and television adaptation rights of other characters is only a matter of money. Any problem that can be solved with money is basically not a problem."

After Jia Fei's analysis, Jed had to admit that the situation seemed a little optimistic.New Line, Lionsgate, etc. can basically spend money to get back the adaptation rights, and the heroes in their hands are not important heroes, so the redemption price must not be too high.I have a good relationship with Viacom Group and News Corporation, and it is not particularly difficult for me to redeem most of the adaptation rights of heroes in the hands of Fox and Paramount.It's just that the extra cost made Jed very upset, he patted the table, "The question now is, how did Andreessen Data Company bypass the various security controls within our Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group and become our cooperation partner?" company?"

Jia Fei nodded, "Yes, why did Andreessen Data become our key cooperative customer? If I remember correctly, there are at least three security gates that can prevent this from happening. That is, why our company's internal monitoring The mechanism didn't work?"

All the company's top executives agreed with Jade's internal investigation. Compared with this investment mistake, they were more worried about the loss of internal control.How can a large company not make mistakes?But a large company must not make mistakes, so it needs to establish internal monitoring and early warning mechanisms.Jade has always pursued the most advanced company management mechanism, so Jade's company hired two management service companies, McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group, to establish an internal monitoring mechanism.And indeed, with the help of the two major management consulting companies of the later generations, Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group did not have any problems.In particular, the so-called "three early warning gates" in the company made the company's executives very confident. They did not expect this fact to slap everyone in the face.Jed not only hired a law firm and an investigation company to conduct an internal review of the company, but also launched some black forces to investigate secretly.

"I'll leave a word here. If you really do something sorry for the company, come to my office within three days and confess to me. I can still forgive you once." Jed said coldly, "After three days, you will be punished by me." Anyone who finds out, you will lose more than just money, I guarantee that you will regret why you betrayed me!"