Andy suddenly felt a different feeling of complacency in his heart as he looked at the response attitude shown by the three of them.

In this world, it may be courage to bow your head, but it must be strength to raise your head. No one is asking about poverty in the downtown area, and wealthy in the deep mountains and have distant relatives.

Unconsciously recalling his predecessor's death in the streets of Los Angeles, everyone's ridicule, disgusted faces and sarcastic words, Andy still couldn't help but sigh.

Why succeed?

For you, there are people standing to serve you when you eat!

When you put down your knife and fork and talk to you, others will stop and listen to you!

In order to ensure that as long as you don’t smoke, no one in the whole house dares to smoke!

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If you don’t drink it, it’s useless for you to lift it up!

Success is to make yourself the most annoying person before

"Thank you very much for your importance and support for "Resident Evil"! There is no problem with joining the Universal Studios theme park family!" Haruhiro Tsujimoto, the young president of Capcom Game Production Company, was very humble. He nodded and bowed while talking, showing a hint of flattery.

Of course, the other party's flattery is not pretending. To be honest, as a glorious person, Disney is the most ideal form that many peers want to become. Even some game companies such as Ubisoft want to develop in the direction of Disney, not to mention that Capcom, which is no longer glorious but has many famous game images in its hands. Capcom is naturally very willing to extend an olive branch from Andy.

Well-known characters, film and television games, theme parks, various surroundings and other models, in the past, only Disney and Universal Studios were doing this model, but the scale of Universal Studios theme park is naturally incomparable to Disney. However, with the acquisition of Andy Smith, a business genius, Disney is facing a great enemy, even other entertainment companies are staring at the actions of NBC Universal.

Sure enough, not long after, the controlling stake in Universal Studios Osaka, the huge investment plan with Celestial Capital Investment to build a new theme park, and compete with Disney for the Asian market. Their efforts and courage are amazing. You must know that they are now under the shadow of the global financial crisis.

For Capcom, who is extremely glorious on the surface but is actually suffering serious losses and is almost bankrupt, this is a desperate trend.

"Haha, okay, I like Tsujimoto's pleasure and simplicity!" Andy smiled happily, his smile was extremely bright, and he continued to say, "Actually, we can cooperate more deeply. I learned that Capcom, founded by the Tsujimoto's family, has many resources, game brands, game characters, such as Mega Man, Street Fighter, etc. Imagine if these game characters appear in the theme park of Universal Studios in the future, and even have their own special zones, what would be like!"

After Andy's incense bait was sprinkled, Haruhiro Tsujimoto's expression immediately became exciting, and he leaned forward with a more humble expression, lowered his head and bowed and said, "Mr. Smith, please take care of him!"

The conversation between the two made Sony North America CEO Howard Singer look at his immediate boss, Sony President Sony, with a smile on his face, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his waist was kneeling straight on the cushion, not knowing what he was thinking.

This time, apart from accompanying Sony's North American president to discuss cooperation with Andy Smith, the most important thing is to come here in person to meet Andy, a young richest man in the world with a strong background. There is nothing else, just because Andy Smith is so dazzling.

Especially the identity of Andy Smith, the chairman of Qualcomm, is something that Nobuyuki Irii must not ignore. After all, developing mobile phones is also an important plan for Sony in the future.

In public and private, Nobuo Iri hopes to take this opportunity to establish friendship with Andy Smith.

As for Sony's North American president, Howard, his idea is simpler and more direct. He hopes to promote cooperation between his Columbia Film Company and Universal Pictures. If possible, it is best to establish an alliance. However, he himself knows that this is a luxury for the alliance.

There is no way. Since Andy Smith took over Marvel, she has started to do Spider-Man articles. She either redistributes the interests or threatens to breach the contract to get back the copyright of Spider-Man. Although the box office of the subsequent movies of the Spider-Man series is not ideal, the profits this IP brought to Sony Columbia are indeed extremely generous. How could they let go? After being tossed by Marvel for a few consecutive times, they could only grit their teeth and divide some of the benefits to Marvel.

Through the story of the little spider, Howard deeply understood how difficult and slutty the young man in front of him with a sunny and harmless smile was.

To be honest, Sony Columbia did not have a good life in Hollywood, which has a huge relationship with its foot basin gene. Although Sony has always been very careful to reduce its presence, it is useless. You should know that movies have always been the pride of Americans. Sony's intervention caused panic in the United States. Sony was frightened by the side that year that this was not an invasion of foot basin culture. They did not want to send foot basin managers to Columbia. They emphasized that the key to success after the acquisition is to "not highlight the characteristics of foot basin companies" and ensure that the acquired companies maintain American characteristics.

However, goose is useless.

Even though it acquired MGM and had a huge movie library, sales and TV copyright and other good assets, as an outsider in Hollywood, Sony still suffered huge losses. It was not until after hiring Howard that Sony gradually made a profit.

Howard admires Andy Smith from the bottom of his heart. Universal Pictures is also a half-dead film company with weak profits. However, Universal Pictures has been reborn in a short period of time, especially the acquisition of Marvel Group. Now it seems like a stroke of magic. Everyone in Hollywood knows that NBC Universal is going to take off completely.

There is no way. Although Sony Columbia has always been famous for the number of films released, the number of 23 films in 2007 was the first among the six major companies. Last year, 20 films were released, which was the same as Warner, the number one. But it couldn't stand the fact that each of their big-selling films brought a bunch of box office garbage. Especially the IPs at the big-box office are still from other people.

Faced with the new behemoth Universal Studios, which was pieced together by Andy Smith, Howard really hopes to get online. Whether it is Hulu Video, the second largest video website behind youtube, or Universal Studios Theme Park, it is a huge movie library that Sony Columbia can revitalize and borrow TV copyrights.

Hearing a series of words about Howard seeking cooperation, Andy showed serious listening and nodding from time to time responding to what Howard said, but he just smiled and said nothing.

Andy only sneered in his heart about Sony Columbia's idea of ​​free-ride and establishing alliances. He knew better than anyone else that in Hollywood in the future, those who win the Marvel IP will win the world.

The struggle between Marvel and Sony Columbia over the rights of film derivatives has begun since he acquired the Marvel Group.

Everyone knows that in 1999, with the recession of the entire comics industry, Marvel, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, had to sell the copyright of its most popular "Spider-Man" movie to Sony's subsidiary Columbia.

Sony refused to trade Marvel's deal to "sell" characters other than Spider-Man. Later, Marvel made a comeback with the character Iron Man that Sony looked down upon. With Iron Man's success, it became a joke in the circle after dinner. But in fact, the contract signed between Marvel and Sony was not simple at that time. Marvel, who sold his IP and was desperate, even left a hand for him.

Except for Sony, which enjoys the benefit of the derivatives of the Spider-Man movie series, it does not include other forms of derivatives. Moreover, there is a specific time limit for the copyright of Marvel's movies. Sony must release a new Spider-Man movie every five years. If a new Spider-Man movie is not produced for more than five years, the copyright of the movie will return to Marvel's hands.

More than 900 comic characters in the comics that have connections with Spider-Man, such as the big villain Venom, and the hero Spider-Woman. These heroes and villains do not belong to Sony, but are owned by Sony in the form of "sharing rights". In this case, either Sony develops them in a specific way with a movie with Spider-Woman, or they are "locked" and cannot be developed into movies at will.

Previously, Andy told Marvel Group to make trouble with Sony without showing off, just to get half of the rights to make huge profits in the movie derivatives.

Sony has long planned to add Spider-Man series derivatives, but in the face of Marvel Group, which is a villain who wants to turn over the table and put on a villain attitude that doesn't matter half of me, and everyone doesn't play, Sony can only give up half of the power back to Marvel. The Marvel Studios that came from behind did make it difficult for Sony to continue to develop Spider-Man movies but cannot enjoy subsequent benefits. If you lose Spider-Man, the golden IP, what else can Sony, who is used to the big box office, do?
Chapter completed!