Chapter 258： [Surprised and anxious]

These two things have become the variables of Blue Star Technology's acquisition of Marvel Comics.

The copyright statement was that Jack Kirby's family issued 45 notices of termination of copyright through the media on the same day and handed them to Amazing Entertainment, Blue Star Technology, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and other companies that have used these comic characters.

Blue Star Technology also received a copy of Marvel Comics' debt from Merrill Lynch.

"It's so good!"

Staying in the hotel, Zhang Bowen looked at the contents of the New York Times with a bitter smile and shook his head. All of the original sins should be amazed by the comic company itself. Earlier, it sold the copyright of the ip character to the outside world. It's unrealistic, you can't live without selling these IPs, which is also a last resort.

However, this notice of statement indicates that they plan to take back some of Kobe's creative characters as early as 2014.

Jack Kirby is a well-known North American cartoonist. His "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Thunder Thor", and "Hulk" are the treasures of Marvel Comics.

The day before yesterday, the news that Blue Star Technology intends to acquire Amazing Comics was revealed. In addition, Sony Columbia owned the rights to "Spider-Man" and Fox owned the rights to "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men." Paramount And Universal holds distribution rights for some films.

It's not easy to understand the relationship inside, but the merger and acquisition of Blue Star Technology Group and Marvel Comics, no matter the success or failure, will come to an end before the release of "Iron Man".

This merger and acquisition case has also attracted much attention in the industry and Hollywood. After all, Bluestar Technology's investment in the film entertainment industry is quite expensive. Last month, it signed digital movie copyright lease contracts with major movie companies, with a total amount exceeding $ 5.2 billion sky-high price.

This time Bluestar Technology launched an acquisition of Amazing Comics, Hollywood is actually very vigilant. Disney's sudden jump out of the bar is the best example.

But it is interesting that Marvel Comics is so angry that it is reasonable to say that someone jumped out to raise the price and be surprised.

If that's the case, of course, surprise is well paid, but the point is that Disney Pictures doesn't have any sincerity and really wants to buy surprise comics, it just wants to obstruct Blue Star Technology Group.

六 The six major Hollywood movie giants are famous for their clans. The interests in them, they have a few points, and they are extremely resistant to outsiders entering the field.

I want to know that when Sony entered Hollywood, it also paid a lot of tuition, and lost a lot of money to gain a foothold in Hollywood before finally being recognized by several major traditional movie giants in Hollywood.

Now, Sony Columbia Pictures is the same.

But it ’s extremely angry for Amazing Comics. You do n’t want to buy it because you do n’t buy it. Is n’t that forcing Amazing Comics to go up the cliff ...

哪 How can there be so much love in the mall game?

Only sincere love for Franklin on the US bill, without any false elements in it.

The key point of the outbreak of the copyright battle is the comic series created by Jack Kirby. The point of the dispute is whether he was sold to Amazing Corporation as an independent author, or is a work of work completed as an employee of Amazing Corporation. .

Kirby has died for more than ten years. During his work at Marvel Comics, he once created many classic comic characters with another company's pillar, Stan Lee.

After Kirby's family jumped out, all the monsters followed.

For example, a Los Angeles law firm also jumped out to issue a statement saying that they had similar lawsuits earlier this year to help Superman creator Jerome Siegel's heirs to get back some of the copyright.

Obviously, this law firm wants to entrust Kirby's family lawsuit to them, so that they can take over this list with Bluestar Technology Group or Marvel Comics.

比较 One of the more interesting things is that Stan Lee has been going on all occasions as the spokesperson for Marvel Comics, but many people do n’t even know Kirby ’s name.

In fact, this is also one of the reasons why in the 1970s, Jack Kirby switched to Marvel Comics' rival dc.

根据 Under North American copyright law, the author or heir can resume the process of obtaining copyright after a period of initial authorization.

In other words, by 2017, Kirby's children can claim that they own the rights to "Fantastic Four", and the "Hulk" and "X-Men" will expire in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Amazing comics are anxious, very anxious, and very angry, scolding Walt Disney for murder, you are not my father, and you are not allowed to consider others as godfathers, do you want me to die?

I have to say that at this time, Disney did not want to buy Amazing Comics at all. Luo Sheng's previous Disney acquisition of Marvel was because of the unprecedented success of "Iron Man" and finally saw the potential huge commercial value among them. Only $ 4.2 billion to acquire Marvel Pictures, which is Marvel Comics.

But now, this North American comics giant is not worth the price at all.

Only the day after the fermentation, the third day of the interview between Zhang Bowen and Avi Arad, Marvel Comics spokesman declined to comment on the incident.

And Zhang Bowen and Bluestar Technology Group did not sit idle and do nothing. At a temporary media conference, Lao Zhang personally attended and announced that the copyright dispute in the merger and acquisition of Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics. China has been fully considered.

As time goes by, the risks are getting bigger and bigger, Amazing Comics is really anxious this time, afraid that the thighs passing by this time will slip away without holding.

Alas, on April 17th, Avi Arad finally settled the board and flew to China on the same day.

Because Zhang Bowen has returned to China a week ago and has not stayed in the United States for long.

This is actually a strategy. Bluestar Technology really wants to merge the Amazing Comics company into its Majesty, but it shows an optional interest to the outside world. In this way, it surprises the comics who are anxious to "find Godfather". The company met in a hurry.

Uh ...

On the second day after Zhang Bowen returned to China, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed the audited financial results for the first quarter of 2008.

As of the first quarter report on March 31, 2008, Bluestar Technology Group ’s global total revenue was US $ 44.8 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 394, a chain decrease of 317, and a net loss of US $ 177.5 billion.

Last year, 2007 was undoubtedly the highest light moment since the establishment of Bluestar Technology Group. The annual revenue for the whole year was as high as US $ 28152 billion ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Excluding exchange rate changes, it was converted into about RMB 190 billion. One.

Comparison: For the full year of 2007, sales were US $ 16 billion. Although this is also an astronomical figure, Bluestar Technology has clearly taken a lead.

But after entering 2008, the performance finally inevitably fell sharply. This is inevitable. At present, the entire world economy is in the cold winter period. For the Blue Star Technology Group, which relies heavily on advertising profits and overseas income, the sharp fluctuations in performance are also As expected.

The economic crisis has come, major companies have reduced their budgets, continued to increase revenue and reduce expenditures. These advertising expenditures must be cut as much as possible.

It is the most important thing to survive.

Given the circumstances of the large environment, Bluestar Technology Group, as a world-class multinational technology group, accounts for more than 80% of its overseas revenue, which is naturally subject to large fluctuations.

It is also inevitable that losses are inevitable, because at the same time that revenue has been greatly reduced, Luo Sheng has not implemented open source and throttling expenditures of the company, reducing operating budgets, and it is not surprising that net profits have been lost.

Not only that, but he was also buying and buying in the cold winter, with billions of dollars of investment in one blink.

Uh ...

(Today there is a chapter with monthly tickets and more, the noun has been burst ~~~ Wow, I cried ~~)