With the success of Iron Man, Wanted and the Dark Knight movies it looks like the next two to three years will be comic book movie years. It had been hit or miss with Marvel with hits like Spider-Man and some misses like the second Fantastic Four (movie). Warner Brothers DC Superman Returns did okay but not as phenomenal as the Dark Knight movie.
How do you profit from this?
If you are a creator or owner of comic book character rights, this is the time to pitch your characters since studios are goobling up comic book stories or trying to build their franchise. Disney will be developing in house their own comic book line characters apart from what they license already. I give the window two to three years before people get tired of them since these things seem to go in cycles. I may be completely wrong here but that is my story and I am sticking with it.
If you own comic book related collectibles, now is the time to sell your Watchmen comics with the movie coming out, anything related to recent comic book movies or collectibles. It has been my experience that after the movie is out is a bad time unless you are one of the first people who can buy or sell the collectible item.
My motto on collectibles is that if you sold it a profit, count your blessings. You don’t want to be the owner of a mint condition set of Watchmen comics at $400 if you cannot sell them for $150 two years later!
If you are planning on buying anything for speculation I would stick with rare items. Limited items from the Comic Con, true items of scarcity are the way to go. That is the way to get collectors interested in buying something from you and better yet, to pay top dollar.
I posted on somebody else’s blog a comment about what happens if a movie that costs $180 million dollars fails at the box office? A lot of studio people will cry and even worse, they will stop making movies in that genre for awhile because they goofed with the previous film.
Follow the entertainment companies like Marvel, Disney and Warner Brothers. Keep in mind that if they have other divisions other than their movie division they may net out with a loss despite a great year in their film division. Also, film division profits are notariously all over the map.
Due your own due diligence, super friends!
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