I want to acquire Marvel in the summer, not to make a movie.

Because the current special effects technology is not up to date, if you make superhero movies, the cost alone is enough to be astonishing.

If you don’t use special effects to shoot, the picture will be quite rough and without a superhero appearance, so it will naturally be difficult to attract comic fans.

The acquisition of Marvel in the summer is mainly aiming to adapt it into an animated film.

Although Marvel's comics have average sales now, they still have a wide audience in the United States.

This is mainly because the United States was founded too short and its cultural accumulation was not deep enough, so any best-selling work could become the mainstream culture of the United States. For example, "Star Wars", "Star Trek", superhero comics, such as Dungeons and Dragons.

Therefore, the cartoon adapted from Marvel Hero Comics is believed to attract many viewers.

This is a bit like Jin Yong's martial arts drama and Qiong Yao's romance drama. No matter how many versions have been filmed or how familiar the audience is with the story, as long as the new version is broadcast, the ratings will generally not be low.

It is said that there are more than 3,000 superheroes under Marvel, including the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, etc.

Moreover, its comics have been created for more than fifty years, with all kinds of wonderful stories and various distinctive villains. To be honest, if it is adapted into a cartoon, there is no need to worry about no material available.

Hannah Barbara Animation Company has been founded for so many years, and the technology of making animation is definitely the best in the industry. What they lack is wonderful stories.

Now, giving them the Marvel story treasure house is no less than giving them a mountain of gold. If they are smart enough, they will definitely dig a lot of gold from the Marvel story treasure house.

Wait for a few more years, and after the special effects technology matures, then slowly turn Marvel heroes into real-person characters in summer, and you can make a lot of money.

Seeing Xia Tian looking confident, Xia Xue immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

...

In the next period of time, Xia Xue began to acquire Hannah Barbara Animation Company.

At the same time, Xia Tian also quietly launched a acquisition of Marvel.

He wants to invest exclusively in the acquisition of Marvel, but not in Columbia Pictures or Snow Media.

Because he knows the value of Marvel, it is a huge treasure house worth tens of billions of dollars.

In his previous life, almost half of the Hollywood film industry was occupied by Marvel's hero films. It has even formed a fashion. Once Marvel movies are released, it will immediately set off a craze for movie viewing. Whoever doesn't watch them is like being out of date.

Even the mainland, which is not familiar with Marvel comics, after several bombings of Marvel blockbusters, the people have begun to know "Thanos", "cosmic gems", "Hydra", etc.

In this case, treasures like this must be kept in your own hands so that you can ensure that you achieve the best interests.

...

Entering May.

Xia Xue's acquisition of Hannah Barbara Animation Company is in full swing.

As Xia Tian expected, during the acquisition process, a third party participated in the bidding, which raised the acquisition price to US$400 million.

Under such circumstances, Taft Company was quite imposing and would not sell it if it was killed by $400 million.

"What's going on? No one was willing to buy this company before. Why did one appear now?" Xia Xue said in confusion.

Before the formal acquisition, she asked someone to investigate and knew that Taft Broadcasting Corporation had not managed well in recent years, so she always wanted to sell Hannah Barbara Animation Company to cash out.

But unfortunately, because the animation industry is in a downturn, many investors dare not get involved easily. Therefore, it has been sold for more than two years and still cannot be sold.

Now that she was just about to take over, she immediately rushed out of the second house. It was a coincidence that she was fighting at this time.

"Brother has told me before to worry that someone maliciously raises the price. Could it be that someone is deliberately making trouble?" Xia Xue thought.

After thinking of this, she continued negotiations with Taft while sending people to investigate the origin of the third party.

After some careful investigation, it was finally confirmed that the so-called third-party investors were actually children's care hired by Taft. The purpose was to raise the price so that you can make more money.

In fact, although Hannah Barbara is an old animation company, she has created many popular works, bringing laughter and joy to countless American children.

But after all, today is different from the past. Nowadays, the animation industry in the United States is sluggish, and many people believe that the era of animation has passed, and the future will be the era of electronic games. Therefore, although Taft wants to sell Hannah Barbara, no one is willing to take over.

This is like the stock market and the real estate market. Buy up or down. When the animation industry has money to make money, whether it is a consortium, film companies, or investors, they would rather borrow money or spend more money, and they would buy it. Once they find that it is not profitable, they are unwilling to take over even if they sell it cheaply.

Therefore, after finally meeting Xia Xue, the takeover, Taft Broadcasting Company wanted to rob Xia Xue and make a fuss. In their opinion, Xia Xue was still willing to take over at this time, and she must be stupid and has a lot of money, and she will not cheat her.

However, they did not expect that Xia Xue was not a fool, but was quite smart. She quickly found out the details of the third party and placed the evidence on the negotiating table.

"If your company does not sell it sincerely, then we will no longer waste our energy." Xia Xue said coldly to the chairman of Taft.

Seeing that his diorama was exposed, Taft was also embarrassed. The momentum he had accumulated was immediately lost due to the price increase of a third party, and he would no longer give up on the selling price.

Xia Xue took the opportunity to push the price to $285 million. Although Taft was reluctant, he finally agreed.

Xia Xue then applied for a loan from the bank in the name of Snow Media and successfully took down Hannah Barbara, the old animation company.

...

After taking over Hannah Barbara Animation Company, Xia Xue has opened three animation channels.

One is for children under the age of seven, one is for teenagers aged seven to thirteen, and the other is for teenagers aged fourteen. This is also formulated according to the grading standards of American TV programs.

The reason why it is divided into three channels is because Xia Xue wants to maximize the value of Hannah-Barbara's film library. Otherwise, they will be broadcast on one channel and will not be broadcasted in those years.

Opening two more channels to correspond to a more segmented audience, not only can it attract more subscribers, but it also costs one channel and one subscription fee. Opening two more channels can earn more subscription fees.
Chapter completed!