MTL - After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood-Chapter 168

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After watching for a while, Robinov raised his head and said solemnly:

"Don't be too happy, everyone, let's take a look at the word of mouth first."

"Although the word of mouth this time has not collapsed as thoroughly as Batman The Dark Knight III, but overall, it is not too ideal."

Robinoff poured a puddle of cold water down, and the executives stopped the noise for a while.

Some executives looked at Robinoff and wondered:

"What do you mean, President?"

Robinoff continued:

"I mean, next, we have to control public opinion and not let the negative comments in it ferment."

"The box office on the first day was quite good, and we have to control the decline in the box office."

"Yes!"

"I understand. I will contact various film critics right away to promote Superman together and suppress those negative public opinions in advance."

"Um."

 

The next day, on countless media.

The polarized film reviews have dazzled countless audiences.

The Times, led by Vic, lashed out at Superman, the core point being that attacking Superman is a complete remake of Batman's Dark Knight.

It's blatant plagiarism.

On the other hand, there are many media's advocacy of Superman, and at the same time, there are explanations for the so-called plagiarism.

For reference, this is just for reference, and there is absolutely no plagiarism.

In such a public opinion war, considering that Warner Bros. paid millions in public relations expenses, a black man like Vic was beaten and retreated.

Countless spectators entered the cinema and watched Superman.

The next day, Superman was reborn, earning 44 million at the box office, a slight drop, much to the delight of Warner Bros.

Just in a good situation.

On the third day, public opinion changed dramatically.

Plagiarism is always plagiarism.

Countless Steve Kevin fans were so dissatisfied with Superman's copying of Batman that they even launched a parade.

Millions of dollars cannot be suppressed by this huge public pressure.

Superman's reputation plummeted, causing numerous boycotts.

since this day.

The box office of the movie Superman Rebirth took a nosedive, and the data plummeted.

The third day only made 38 million box office results.

On the fourth day, it only made 30 million at the box office.

・・・

However, thanks to the millions of dollars in public relations expenses in the early stage, the speed of the box office collapse was much slower, coupled with the huge popularity of Superman itself.

Although the box office fell sharply, Warner Bros. was still able to make a small profit from the Superman project.

Of course, the Superman project failed, but the reason for the failure was that the word of mouth was bad, or it was plagiarism.

As for the quality, it is recognized by the public.

So Warner Bros., instead, became more interested in imitating Steve Kevin's films, especially Steve Kevin's superheroes.

and their route too much.

Under such circumstances, Superman's reputation failed, and Warner Bros. turned its attention to Green Lantern among the Justice League giants.

Because of Kevin's various guidance, Warner Bros. embarked on a road of no return ahead of schedule.

Lost the big IP of Harry Potter again.

Under various factors, Warner will only tend to cooperate more and more with Kevin in the future.

・・・

In a flash, two months have passed.

Spider-Man has been released worldwide.

Dawn Film Company.

Kevin dressed in cool beach clothes and sat in his office.

Dawson held a stack of data and was reporting something to him.

...

"Spider-Man has achieved a total of 1.21386 billion US dollars at the global box office. Excluding all the cost of publicity, our profit is initially estimated to be around 400 million US dollars. This is just pure box office profit. ."

"Spider-Man's various accessories have seen a huge increase in sales driven by the movie. At the same time, many TV stations are asking us to authorize them to do related TV shows, and Disney is willing to spend 10 million US dollars to buy a year's Granted, they're going to do a special Spider-Man event throughout the year."

"..."

It took more than half an hour to say this.

Kevin finally figured out what happened during the vacation.

The first is that Spider-Man has been released, and the profit in the early stage is directly 400 million US dollars. This figure, in this era, is an extremely terrifying figure.

There are no more than 500 billionaires in the United States at this time.

This is still calculated by Kevin as he grows older.

You know, in 2020, there was a data that the number of billionaires in the United States announced at that time was 2,605.

This is based on statistics from the tax office.

Counting the few big people who can't even move the tax bureau, let's count 2,700 billionaires.

And many of them made their fortunes through the Internet age. The money in the Internet age is much better than it is now.

In this day and age, five hundred is already an exaggerated number, and the gold content of the current billionaire is even more exaggerated.

This is just the first profit of Spider-Man, the follow-up peripheral licensing, plus DVD sales and so on.

It is also expected to have a profit of more than 200 million US dollars.

But this profit will be an unusually long payback time.

Chapter 248 Anime IP

Then there's the Warner Bros. Superman movie.

When the box office data came out on the first day, Dawson was surprised, but the subsequent word of mouth was criticized by countless audiences because the plot was too similar to Batman.

This led to a very huge decline. It was released in advance after only 20 days of release.

When the news was told to Kevin, Kevin couldn't help but cheer up, which was not what he expected.

In the previous life, Warner, with the template of Marvel's success in front, still turned into that half-dead look.

Now, without Marvel's template ahead, it's more difficult for them to **** on their own.

And Kevin's Batman Dark Universe awaits them.

Kevin really can't think of any chance of them being successful.

Kevin even thought about it, and there may be opportunities to acquire DC in the future.

After all, Warner Bros. was poached by him, and DC was led astray by him. Whether the future Warner Bros. can continue the glory of this giant is anyone’s guess.

"I see."

"How is the Harry Potter crew getting ready?"

Dawson flipped through the information in his hand, raised his head and said:

"The main actors have been assembled, but according to your request, we have only completed part of the Hogwarts Academy in the suburbs, and we are still catching up."

"Well, you can shoot other plots first, and then shoot the plots in the academy after the academy is built."

Dawson nodded.

"Then it's no problem, everything is ready and can start shooting at any time."

"Okay, you immediately notify the crew and gather at the MGM studio in three days to start filming."

"Yes."

After the instructions, Kevin left the company and went to a high-end headhunting company.

Yep, this time Harry Potter, Kevin played with real big money.

The total investment is 130 million US dollars.

It is the film with the largest investment among all his films, in which MGM and Dawn Films each allocate half of the funds to share the copyright income.

The copyright belongs to Dawn Films.

I won't say much about the details of these left-handed and right-handed actions. On the whole, it is basically the movie that Kevin invested in alone.

In order to maximize the benefits of the film.

Like director Kai Ge, the movie may not make money, but the studio left by the filming can get a lot of benefits outside the movie.

To this end, Kevin directly took a large piece of wasteland in a suburb thirty miles away from San Francisco.

Suburban land is relatively cheap. Even so, it cost Kevin $70 million, and he has to pay a large amount of taxes to the municipality every year.

This is also Kevin's attempt to expand his film business.

During these two months, Kevin is not completely playing, he is also thinking about the future development.

The core of his career is in movies, and this will definitely not change.

But how can the benefits of the film be maximized?

After some hard thinking, Kevin thought of Disney.

There is no need to say much about the size of Disney. A single amusement park will be a gold-sucking cave in later generations.

You can make a lot of cash every year, which is different from those virtual economies, this is the real economy.

High risk-taking ability.

Financial network companies, rising fast, but also dying fast.

This kind of company has never been what Kevin wanted to do.

But Disney can.

The biggest factor in Disney's success is the countless animation IPs it has in hand.

Speaking of which, I have to mention MGM.

MGM also holds some good anime IPs.

Among the animation IP, there is a ranking in the future.

Among them, the most powerful anime IP, that is, the most profitable anime IP, is the well-known Pokémon, also known as Pokémon.

The fourth place is the well-known Mickey Mouse.

Eighth place Mario, tenth place Harry Potter.

Marvel came in at eleventh place.

Of course, this is also related to time. Marvel started relatively late, so the total revenue created is not as good as the previous one, and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped.

But this also shows the importance of IP.

And MGM has a god-level IP like cat and mouse, which urgently needs Kevin to develop.

Plus the IPs of Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, Marvel, etc. are in hand.