Post-shadow Development Plan

"You old fox is heartless, so don't blame me for being unrighteous! Come, let the legal department go!"

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pS: Let me tell you a piece of good news, the illustrations and character designs for this book have all been completed, and the queue is starting.

Although judging from the current situation, it will definitely be after the Chinese New Year next year when it is Mi Jiang's turn to be on Maobai, but there is finally something to look forward to. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Chapter 368

Ziyuan's method of counterattack is very simple, which is to use Fox's original copyright agreement with Marvel on "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" as an issue.

As we all know, although Marvel's comic characters have begun to rise in recent years, Fox and Sony can be said to be making a lot of money.

However, because of previous copyright agreements, whether it is "X-Men" or "Spider-Man", Marvel's own profits can be said to be only a small profit.

If movie profits are compared to a big cake, what Marvel gets is probably only a touch of cream.

Of course, this is also related to Marvel's operating ideas in the early years.

At that time, Marvel's abacus was to use movies as a promotional channel to help increase the sales of comics.

Therefore, when the copyright was first sold, Marvel's copyright fee was extremely low.

Everyone knows what happened next, so I won't repeat it.

In a word, when I sold my son, I didn't feel sorry for the cub who sold my grandfather, but I regretted that my intestines were green.

After Jiufeng acquired Marvel, one of the important tasks was to reclaim Marvel's copyrights.

Thanks to "The Incredible Hulk" and "Fantastic Four", which suffered from box office losses, because the film copyright valuations of the Marvel characters in these two films have been reduced a lot.

This made it easier for Jiufeng to help Marvel recover the copyright.

After some hard work, there are only three parts left by Marvel in the end, namely the Spider-Man series in Sony's hands, and the X-Men series and Fantastic Four series in Fox's hands.

Not to mention the little spider and the X-Men, as an IP that has successfully passed the market test, it is only a ghost that Sony and Fox are willing to let go.

Therefore, Marvel just hopes to seek cooperation more.

Sony is pretty easy to talk to, even though the Sony game department and Jiufeng game department are fighting to the death in the home console market.

But in the field of film, the two sides have always had a fairly good cooperative relationship. Even in the early years, Jiufeng and Sony Columbia bought MGM together.

The reason why Sony has this situation is due to its very serious internal factional struggles.

I don't know if this is considered a traditional Japanese art skill, anyway, internal fighting is always stronger than external fighting.

In the case of Jiufeng giving enough benefits, Sony Columbia does not reject cooperation with this old rival of its own game department.

But no matter how friendly Sony Columbia is to Jiufeng, the basic business rules still have to be followed.

Especially now that the "Spider-Man" series has become Sony Columbia's most powerful cash cow.

Just like the Three Kingdoms Killing series has the problem of "there is no general in Sichuan, and Zhuge Liang will come out again", Sony Columbia's performance in the past few years has been supported by the little spider alone.

Sony has no performance and restarts Spider-Man.

This will be Sony Columbia's tried-and-true move in the next 10 years.

Although it is far from reaching such a point now, the important status of Spider-Man has been highlighted.

Columbia is still very cautious and careful about whether to bring the younger brother of Marvel Pictures to play.

As for 10 years later, Sony hugged the thigh of Marvel Pictures and cried, "For the sake of the party and the country, let's play with Xiao Chong" is something later.

Although Sony Columbia rejected Marvel's cooperation on Spider-Man, they returned the copyright of Thor to Marvel to ensure a good cooperative relationship between Sony Columbia and Eagle Peak Entertainment.

However, compared with Sony Columbia, which still intends to coexist peacefully, 20th Century Fox has completely torn its face.

Since the other party doesn't care about face, Zi Yuan doesn't intend to be polite to the other party.

Back then, Fox and Marvel had many problems in the copyright sharing agreement signed between "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four", and there is no problem at all if it is directly said to be an unequal business agreement.

Marvel was weak before, and it had to rely on Fox's meager share to maintain the company's operations, so it can only be angry and dare not speak out about this overlord clause.

This time Jiufeng directly brought up the relevant copyright terms, and after a careful study, he sued Fox with a lawsuit.

According to the analysis of Jiufeng's legal department, there are serious legal loopholes and inequalities in the agreement between Marvel and Fox on "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four".

Jiufeng proposed that the two parties need to re-sign the agreement and ask Fox to pay Marvel $2.5 million.

Although everyone knew that Jiufeng's request was a big mouth for a lion, but in view of Fox's ugly face before, all other Hollywood companies stood by with a spectator mentality.

Fox, on the other hand, was extremely uncomfortable with this lawsuit. Even though Jiufeng's legal department was great, Fox's legal department was not just for nothing.

If the two sides really want to confront each other in court, it is not sure who will win.

But the problem is that Fox considers itself to be one of the top six in Hollywood, so it is so embarrassing to be pressed so hard by a new company that has just entered Hollywood for less than five years.

Fox, who couldn't hold back his face, began to deliberately retaliate. On the one hand, he and Jiufeng were slowly arguing about Marvel's copyright, and on the other hand, he began to think of ways to find loopholes in Jiufeng Entertainment, and then retaliated.

The protest at the beginning of the year about the accelerated playback function of the [See Moon] website has the shadow of Fox behind it.

So after watching Jiufeng's movie ubw explode, of course Fox couldn't sit still.

Especially when thinking of last year's first half of Fate's "Fantastic Four", which invested hundreds of millions of dollars, was hung on the ground, all Fox executives watched ubw's rising box office, and suddenly felt as if their throats were stuck Living with a live fly is extremely uncomfortable.

Normally speaking, facing such an opponent, Fox's best way to fight is to remain unchanged and respond to all changes, reduce the popularity of ubw by keeping silent, and frantically build momentum for his "X-Men".