During the negotiations, Ronan could clearly feel that Marvel Comics really wanted to continue selling her son. The negotiations with Robert Lee took so long, on the one hand, because of the competition at the beginning of Yijiang Film, and on the other hand, they wanted to sell for a good price.

Over the years, Marvel has had to rely on selling her son to overcome difficulties, and this time is no exception.

There is no other source of funds, but those who are willing to borrow or invest are too demanding, especially for Avi Arard, which may affect his authority and control at Marvel.

But Marvel isn't only one way to choose from.

“Merry Lynch is willing to relax loan repayment time.”

In the conference room, Avi Arad's most trusted deputy and his strongest supporter at Marvel, said: "But we need to use the copyrights of more than 100 characters as collateral, and during the mortgage they have the right to sell these characters."

"The price we pay is too high," said one executive.

Thinking about it, it is impossible for Merrill Lynch to claim copyrights for ordinary characters, and the copyrights of these more than 100 well-known comic characters fall into the hands of Merrill Lynch, and Marvel has almost no possibility of taking them back.

Avi Arad didn't speak, but was just frowning and thinking.

Another executive looked at Avi Arad and Isaac Palmatt at this time and said, "Can you consider the investment of Carl Icahn?"

Avi Arad's two sharp eyes, like a knife, immediately fell on the man.

Isaac Palmat said slowly: "Marvel's internal stability has just been stable. Should we let another ambitious player enter Marvel and continue to be in turmoil?"

The man wanted to tell the difference, Avi Arad raised his hand to stop him and said, "Don't consider Karl Icahn's funds."

Carl Icahn once competed with Avi Arad for Marvel a few years ago. He is Avi Arad's opponent. Isn't it a joke about his own power to introduce his funds?

Isaac Palmatt said at this time: "There is another way, everyone can discuss it." He said directly: "Do you still remember what happened last year? Michael Jackson wanted to acquire Marvel and came to him in person."

Someone reminded: "That's Michael Jackson who wants to play Spider-Man, but he doesn't know that the copyright of Spider-Man is no longer in our hands."

"Michael Jackson's financial resources are not a problem." Many people are full of doubts: "But he is troubled and there are too many scandals. If we accept his capital injection, will he bring these troubles to Marvel?"

Many people are shaking their heads for this statement. Marvel's internal friction in the past few years once led to requesting bankruptcy, which naturally rejected the troublesome people.

Avi Arad said: "Michael Jackson is too casual. He said he wanted to acquire Marvel for Spider-Man. Now Spider-Man copyright is not in Marvel, and he has no interest at all. Even if he is interested, if we introduce his funds and he makes some unsubstantiable demands, what should we do?"

With decades of "hard efforts" by North American media, Michael Jackson has been demonized.

Thinking of Michael Jackson's various rumors, everyone objected.

Seeing this, Isaac Palmatt said: "Ronan Anderson's relativity entertainment is the best choice."

The meeting room was quiet.

Someone asked, "Isn't the price inappropriate?"

"You can negotiate the price slowly." Someone said.

Someone also reminded: "Authorization is OK, but the situation like "Fantasy Four" will never happen again."

This series of Marvel sold too badly. Not only did it not have the right to directly participate in the later share, but even if there were new related characters in the Fantastic Four Comics, the copyright was still from Twentieth Century Fox.

Avi Arad said: "We have had several rounds of negotiations with Ronan Anderson himself, and Relativity Entertainment is not against Marvel's enjoyment of late-stage share."

Everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.

Someone said: "Relativity Entertainment's bid is too low, so it's better to mortgage the copyright directly to Merrill Lynch."

"Relativity Entertainment only has 35 superheroes and associated characters." Someone directly refuted: "There are more than 100 superhero characters in the list of Merrill Lynch's evidence!"

Avi Arad raised his hand to stop his subordinates from arguing and said: "Combining with Relativity Entertainment will not only solve the current crisis in Marvel, but also ensure that we will have income for a long time in the future."

Those who oppose it no longer speak. After all, if you can participate in the post-production sharing of the movie, your income is far from being a one-time deal like the current licensing fee.

Avi Arad said again: "It's December, and our debts in Merrill Lynch's evidence are about to expire, and it is not a solution to drag on them."

At this meeting, Avi Arad unified the opinions within Marvel.

In the next two days, lawyer Dinah Ampton also rushed from Los Angeles to New York and joined Ronan's negotiation team to participate in the final negotiations between Relativity Entertainment and Marvel Comics, specifically dealing with some legal issues.

When the basic authorization fee was discussed at $30 million, the two sides reached an agreement.

This basic licensing fee is enough to ensure that Marvel survives the immediate crisis. In addition to licensing fees, Marvel also attaches great importance to later-stage share income.

"The box office share of five percent is not much!" Isaac Palmatt said: "The box office share of the movies that we authorized by Ghost Rider is also 5 percent."

Robert immediately refuted: "Ghost Rider has always been a legendary magic masterpiece. He has a series of stories exclusively in Marvel. Since his creation, he has become a popular popular comic that has become popular in North America several times. Look at this list of Relativity Entertainment, except Captain America, which other characters can compare to Ghost Rider?"

"If it is Spider-Man, Hulk and Fantastic Four, the box office share of 5% is not too much, but these..." He shook his head: "Hollywood adapted movies are based on the influence of the original work. Second- and third-tier works require a total box office share of 5%, which is without precedent in Hollywood! Three% of the box office profit share is the most reasonable proportion!"

Speaking of now, Ronan rarely speaks directly and waits to make the final decision.

After several days of division, Ronan was not in a hurry. Without competitors, time was not good for Marvel.

Marvel basically sold her own son completely, and even if she wanted to find someone to sell the remaining godsons, she had no idea how to start for a while.

After all, this is not a few years later.

Marvel now has completely different concepts from Marvel after Iron Man.

In mid-December, Relativity Entertainment and Marvel Comics finally reached a licensing agreement on 35 superheroes and related characters.

The basic authorization fee is US$30 million. The purchaser is Shahai Entertainment Film Company, a subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, and the fee needs to be paid in one lump sum before Christmas.

The most arguing is the negotiation of the later-stage share of the share. Nowadays, the adaptation of Hollywood movies is a must for the adaptation of new writers or companies without strength.

Marvel was cheated by Twentieth Century Fox once, and of course she would not give up on the later share.

In terms of box office, the two parties reached a 5% net profit share of box office; offline home entertainment, TV stations and other venues copyright authorization, Marvel enjoys a 20% share of the share; surface authorization 20%...

Marvel enjoys 30% of the profit share in terms of movie copyright.

The later period is divided into settlements every year.

This is also the most common proportion of comic-adapted movies in the industry. Marvel was cheated by people in the past two years, and there are various supervision and restrictive terms in the later share agreement.

"Blade Warrior" adapted by Xinyi Film has a pretty good response and is also a film with very good commercial revenue in the cut film.

But as the copyright holder of the original copy, Marvel only received a poor $25,000 late share from "Blade Warrior".

The contract is very rigorous. After Marvel was successively cheated by 20th Century Fox and New Line Film, she will naturally focus on the theory of relativity and Shahai Entertainment.

Ronan made concessions in this regard. He did not intend to cheat Marvel. This was a win-win cooperation. The agreement signed by both parties stipulates that Shahai Entertainment has priority adaptation rights for all relevant authorized characters in Marvel Comics. Shahai Entertainment has the right to expand movies based on characters, and like authorized by X-Men and Spider-Man, Shahai Entertainment has the right to expand movies based on characters.

To put it bluntly, Relativity Entertainment bought not only the copyrights of these characters, but also the copyrights of their comic universe.

This is the same as the authorizations of Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, etc.

Given Marvel's appropriate post-production share, Marvel will continue to create comics about these characters and open up new stories, and Sand Sea Entertainment can also adapt them based on these.

Like the previous life of "Fantastic Four", 20th Century Fox was silent. In order to protect the copyright, he even made a random film, which caused Marvel to directly kill the Fantastic Four in the comics and then announced the suspension of publication.

This is simply mutual harm.

In addition, Ronan also signed a supplementary clause with Marvel about "Iron Man".

Currently, the copyright of Iron Man is in the hands of Xinyi Films. Xinyi Films, like the first two film companies that own copyrights, is not interested in the adaptation of Iron Man and wants to sell the copyright back to Marvel.

The supplementary clause requires Marvel to assist Shahai Entertainment in obtaining the copyright of "Iron Man", and all the fees incurred in the middle will be responsible for Shahai Entertainment.

With the signing of the agreement, Ronan obtained the copyright of the project that is crucial in the future. Even if Marvel Comics has a situation beyond what he knows in the future, at least it will allow Shahai Entertainment to film from "Iron Man" to "Avengers 4".
Chapter completed!