Shion's counterattack method was simple, which was to bring up the copyright agreement between Fox and Marvel regarding "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four".
As we all know, although Marvel's comic characters have begun to rise in recent years, Fox and Sony can be said to have made a lot of money.
But because of past copyright agreements, whether it is "X-Men" or "Spider-Man", Marvel's share of the profits can be said to be only a tiny bit.
If movie profits are compared to a big cake, Marvel probably only gets a small piece of the cream.
Of course, this is also related to Marvel's operational ideas in the early years.
At that time, Marvel's plan was to use movies as a promotional channel to help boost comic sales.
So when Marvel first sold the copyright, the copyright fees they paid were abnormally low.
Everyone knows what happened next, so I won't repeat it here.
In a nutshell, when he sold his son, he didn't feel any pain at all, but now he regrets it so much that his intestines turn green.
After Washimine acquired Marvel, one of its important tasks was to recover Marvel's existing copyrights.
Thanks to the huge box office losses of "The Hulk" and "Fantastic Four", the valuation of the film copyrights of Marvel characters in these two films has been reduced significantly.
This made it a lot easier for Washimine to help Marvel recover the copyright.
After some efforts, there are only three parts of Marvel's copyrights left outside, namely the Spider-Man series held by Sony, and the X-Men series and Fantastic Four series held by Fox.
Let's not talk about Spider-Man and the X-Men. As an IP that has successfully passed the test of the market, it would be impossible for Sony and Fox to let go.
Therefore, Marvel is just hoping to seek cooperation.
Sony is relatively easy to talk to, even though Sony's game department and Washimine's game department are fighting each other to the death in the home console market.
However, the two sides have always had a good cooperative relationship in the film industry. In the early years, Washimine even acquired MGM together with Sony Columbia.
The reason why Sony is in this situation is due to the very serious factional struggle within it.
I don't know if this can be considered a traditional skill of the Japanese, but internal fighting is always more intense than external fighting.
As long as Washimine offers enough benefits, Sony Columbia is not opposed to cooperating with this old rival of its own game department.
But no matter how friendly Sony Columbia is to Washimine, basic business rules must still be followed.
Especially now that the "Spider-Man" series has become Sony Columbia's most powerful cash cow.
Just like the problem of "no great generals in Shu, no more Zhuge Liang" in the Three Kingdoms series, Sony Columbia's performance in recent years has been supported by Spider-Man alone.
Sony has no performance, so it reboots Spider-Man.
This will be Sony Columbia's tried and tested trick in the next 10 years.
Although it is far from that point now, Spider-Man's important position has been highlighted.
Columbia is still very cautious and careful about whether to bring its younger brother Marvel Studios into the game.
As for 10 years later, when Sony clung to Marvel Studios and cried out, "For the sake of the party and the country, let's drag Perter Parker to play together," that is a story for the future.
Although Sony Columbia rejected Marvel's cooperation on Spider-Man, they still returned the copyright of Thor to Marvel in order to ensure a good cooperative relationship between Sony Columbia and Washimine Entertainment.
However, compared with Sony and Columbia, which still planned to coexist peacefully, 20th Century Fox had completely torn its relations apart.
Since the other party doesn't care about his face, Shion doesn't intend to be polite to him.
There were many problems in the copyright sharing agreement signed between Fox and Marvel for "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four". There is nothing wrong with simply calling it an unequal business agreement.
Marvel was weak before, and had to rely on Fox's meager share to maintain the company's operations, so it could only be angry but not speak out against these unfair terms.
This time, Washimine directly brought out the relevant copyright clauses again, and after careful study, he filed a lawsuit against Fox.
According to the analysis of Washimine's legal department, the agreement between Marvel and Fox on "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" contains serious legal loopholes and asymmetries.
Washimine proposed that the two parties need to sign a new agreement and let Fox compensate Marvel with 250 million US dollars.
Although everyone knew that Washimine's request was an outrageous one, given Fox's previous ugly face, other Hollywood companies all stood by and watched with a wait-and-see attitude.
Fox, on the other hand, was extremely uncomfortable with this lawsuit. Although Washimine's legal department was powerful, it was not just there to do nothing.
If the two sides really were to confront each other in court, it would be hard to say who would win or lose.
But the problem is that Fox considers itself one of the big six in Hollywood, but it is being pressed so hard by a new company that has only been in Hollywood for less than 5 years. This is really embarrassing.
Fox, unable to save face, began to retaliate deliberately. On the one hand, it was arguing with Washimine over the Marvel copyright issue, and on the other hand, it began to find loopholes in Washimine Entertainment and then retaliate.
The protest against the accelerated playback function of the [See Moon] website at the beginning of the year had the shadow of Fox behind it.
So after seeing Washimine's movie UBW become a huge hit, Fox certainly couldn't sit still.
Especially when thinking of the scene in which the first half of Fate crushed the Fantastic Four, in which they invested hundreds of millions of dollars, all the executives of Fox felt as if there was a live fly stuck in their throats and felt extremely uncomfortable when they saw the rising box office of UBW.
Normally speaking, facing such an opponent, Fox's best response is to remain unchanged, reduce the popularity of UBW by keeping silent, and frantically promote its own "X-Men".
This is not a particularly difficult operation for a media group like Fox.
In fact, Fox did the same thing at the beginning. No matter how popular UBW was, no media affiliated with Fox reported on the related matters, as if the movie did not exist.
But many things in the world are often beyond human subjective control, especially when humans, the most uncertain factor, are involved.
I don't know whose unlucky kid it was, but he took out the article from last year on the Internet that compared Fate and "Fantastic Four", and reposted it on the Internet after making some modifications.
The gist of it is that someone told me in real life that UBW was a bad movie, and that "X-Men 3" which came out afterwards was a good movie.
I don't want to get into a fearless quarrel with anyone, so after analyzing the two movies, I wrote this article to criticize them.
The following are some of the reasons why UBW is better than X-Men: one, two, three...
For this guy who likes to watch the fun and not mind the trouble, a sentence suddenly popped up in Nanaya's mind:
In real life, I am timid; online, I strike back with force.
Regardless of whether the person who first wrote this article had such intentions, things started to get out of control since he pushed the first domino.
As a replica of last year's article, this 2.0 version naturally retains the content of "a fight between elementary school students".
And X-Men fans also responded to this immediately.
"You still say that "X-Men" is about elementary school students fighting each other, but don't you see the UBW shot by Nanaya Kiryu? The last fight between Shirou Emiya and Gilgamesh was totally disorganized. They were just weaklings fighting each other and could do nothing except throwing their treasures at each other. You still say that the fighting scenes of X-Men are bad, haha~"
This is still considered to be a reserved person. I guess this viewer has also watched UBW and is quite restrained in his words.
But most of the brainless haters don't care about that. How dare you look down on a movie I like?
I'm going to kill you!
"Rubbish! Bullshit! What a crap! I won't even watch it if you give me a ticket!"
"I was trying to show off on purpose, but I overdo it and ended up spraining my back."
"X-Men tells the story of the ugliness and beauty of human nature. UBW is not even qualified to clean up the mess of X-Men. It pretends to be profound, but it comes up with something inappropriate. It is just a clown who is trying to attract attention!"
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Where there are people who abuse Fate, there will naturally be die-hard fans who defend Fate.
Faced with the attacks from X-Men fans, these people naturally didn't want to be left out and jumped out one after another.
"What the hell are your X-Men? Wolverine's claws can only pierce metal security doors and give Magneto an anal massage, right?!"
"Fate is so great! Long live our king! Die to those trash mutants!"
"With your IQ, it will probably take you millions of years to understand fate! Go back to the Congo forest, you apes!"
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This war of words escalated as both sides went back and forth, and even spread from North America to various networks around the world.
At the beginning, everyone focused their attacks on the two fixed series, X-Men and Fate, but no one knew which wicked guy was doing it, or if someone did it on purpose.
Anyway, gradually, the quarreling parties focused not only on these two projects, but also on Fox and Washimine's past works.
There was even a bizarre scene where "Super Plumber" players and "Titanic" viewers had an online argument with each other.
With things developing to this point, the people who should be the most angry are probably the senior executives of Fox.
"Damn Washimine!"
During a Fox board meeting, a man punched the table so hard that the thermos on the table jumped.
"That little bitch must have dragged us into this on purpose, just to take advantage of the popularity of X-Men 3!"
No one dared to respond, even though everyone present knew that the guy who was roaring was just fantasizing.
But for the sake of their work, no one would raise any objection.
"What should we do now? The fire has already started," another executive asked. "It's no use ignoring fate now."
"Then launch a comprehensive counterattack! In the war of public opinion, we at Fox have never been afraid of anyone!"
This sentence started a war without smoke.