The Best Entertainment Era

Just before the arrival of the summer vacation, Ronan went to San Francisco, convened the board of directors of Netflix Network, and confirmed the new investors of Netflix Network, several companies or institutions including the Pacific Investment Foundation, in the next few Within a month, he will become a new shareholder of Netflix Network.

In addition to the five major industries of DVD online rental and sales, online video, social sharing, Android development and online streaming media, Netflix is ​​also preparing to develop new businesses.

The new business is online live broadcasting, which takes about a year of planning and is expected to go live in the middle of next year.

At present, Netflix is ​​developing rapidly through crazy money burning, and all five major businesses occupy the leading position in the industry. Needless to say, the four traditional Internet businesses are not only the leaders in their respective industries, but also the distance from the latecomers is getting closer and closer. further away.

Android also occupies more than half of the smartphone market, and the other half is occupied by Apple. Nokia insists on the independently developed Symbian system. Because of the existence of Android, a huge alliance of interests, there are very few users.

In the smart phone market, there are more than 20 smart phones of multiple brands on the market for Android phones.

Thanks to the sharp increase in sales of smartphones and the global popularity of the Internet, coupled with Netflix’s persistent promotion, as of the end of April, Netflix’s global registered users reached 162.45 million, and paid users were close to 100 million.

Netflix's market value is on the way to a goal of $100 billion.

Although Relativity Entertainment’s direct holding on Netflix will be reduced to 65% after the cross-shareholding with Comcast and AT\u0026T and this financing expansion, the continuously rising stock price makes Relativity Entertainment The value of the assets held in the hands further increases.

However, Netflix Network also has difficulties to face. Since last year, the growth rate of online rental and sales of DVDs, which is the origin of Netflix’s business, has slowed down significantly. It is expected that the growth rate of business volume in 2007 will hardly exceed 5%. Has reached a peak.

If there is no accident, the DVD industry will gradually go downhill in the future, and the situation that the movies are not as good as the discs are selling well will change.

Corresponding to the slowdown of DVD business, Netflix's streaming media business is developing faster and faster.

With the popularity of the Internet, the continuous upgrading of hardware equipment, and the development of technology, Internet on-demand is becoming an important channel for broadcasting entertainment programs.

Netflix streaming still releases at least one new season every month, which may be a brand new series or a sequel to a previous hit series.

Shameless, Lost, Hannah Montana, Breaking Bad, American Horror Story and The Walking Dead, which have already launched, have all achieved great success.

Follow-ups include The Big Bang Theory, Spartacus, Stranger Things, House of Cards, and A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones.

As a key project, A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones has finished all filming and is currently undergoing post-production. It will be available on Netflix's streaming media platform as soon as this year.

In contrast, the progress of House of Cards is still unhurried. David Fincher has continued the style of slow work and meticulous work. This series will not be completed until next year.

Stranger Things has also begun formal preparations. Ronan saw a familiar name in the list of actors-Saoirse Ronan.

The child star, who looked quite sweet in her teenage years, will play the most important role of a little girl in the series.

Ronan roughly remembered that Saoirse Ronan was the former heroine of The Lovely Bones, which was recommended by Peter Jackson but rejected by him last year.

Unfortunately, Peter Jackson was born for Tolkien in this life.

In addition to these, Shahai Entertainment is also preparing new episodes for Netflix streaming.

The drama production department and the screenwriter department, based on the increasingly rampant drug trade in the United States in the past two years, plan to produce a drama series from the U.S. official agencies to Mexico and then to Colombian drug trafficking organizations. Currently, various materials are being collected, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Contacted the FBI.

Due to the huge traffic and number of users of Netflix streaming media, the two official organizations are very interested in Shahai Entertainment's series plan and intend to cooperate.

As we all know, the official agencies of the United States have always been happy to cooperate with Hollywood.

After receiving the support of the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, and obtaining a lot of first-hand information, Ronan also approved the project, and the production department of Shahai Entertainment officially named it Narcos.

There are too many stories on the border between the United States and Mexico, and I don’t know how many of them are suitable for adaptation into film and television works.

For these two sides, looking at each other is disgusting.

Mexico is too far from paradise and too close to America.

On the second day after returning from San Francisco, Ronan got a data report, Human Skin Inn 2 was released from North American theaters, and the final North American box office totaled 47.35 million US dollars.

In addition, Weinstein Films' Oscar-winning film The Queen was released and released overseas by Embassy Pictures. With the help of the Oscar effect, the cumulative box office has reached nearly 45 million US dollars.

Queen Elizabeth II has a lot of selling points in the western market, and she is definitely one of the most suitable characters for film and television adaptation.

The queen has redefined what it means to be a queen and a crown prince with her own life.

Every queen has a legendary life, and **** is no exception. Her husband is cheating, her sister is upset, and her son and his wife are not at ease. It is really interesting.

Ronan is also considering whether to adapt a TV series based on Queen Elizabeth II's life.

However, he still took into account the good relationship with William, even if he wanted to adapt it, he would still win the support of the royal family.

The difficulty of adapting Queen Elizabeth II's life is not so great, requiring long-term planning and communication with Buckingham Palace in London.

If it is a drama centered on historical figures, the degree of freedom is undoubtedly greater.

After all, most of the historical figures made into film and television works are dead, and their merits and demerits, anecdotes and anecdotes have been written in history books and lace news, and the controversy is relatively laughable.

But it is not easy to make living characters into film and television works.

The historical figure who still stands in Buckingham Palace, a figure who has witnessed from the 1920s to the present, filmed her into a drama series, starting from a certain moment in her life and continuing to film, must be prepared in advance .

It's not suitable for Ronan to come forward about these matters, and it's best to leave it to Shahai Entertainment to communicate. Even if the negotiation with the royal family collapses, he can clean up the chaos behind with a single sentence.

In fact, all high-level managers have a common talent, and they use it with great proficiency-letting their subordinates take the blame for themselves.

If you can't even use this trick, it can be said that you don't even have the most basic management skills.

In addition to live-action TV series projects, Shahai Entertainment is also working with Marvel Entertainment to develop animated series. After George Clint and Kevin Feige held several contact creative meetings with Netflix Streaming Media, they decided to produce Iron Man Animated series, as a supplement between movies, and played on Netflix streaming media as a platform.

In addition, the Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Captain America will be followed by animated episodes.

These comic book superheroes have also produced cartoons in the past, but this time under the leadership of Kevin Feige, they have a clear and unified worldview. Although the animated series will not affect the plot of the movie, they can also be used as an introduction to the movie. content additions.

For example, the first season of the Iron Man animated series will tell how Tony Stark cleaned up the chaos after the battle with Obaday.

The animated series of Black Widow can also test the market's reaction to female superheroes as absolute protagonists before independent films.

The summer file is coming, and the superhero movies of comics are gradually entering the commercial mainstream. There are three big-budget superhero movies in this summer file, namely Spider-Man 3, Hulk and The Dark Knight.

Two for Marvel and one for DC.

The future of The Incredible Hulk is the least clear.

Since Spider-Man 3 is a sequel, needless to say the market response, The Dark Knight has a very obvious trend of relying on the Joker and Heath Ledger to become a god, and it will be a big hit after it is released.

The second part of the new Batman trilogy has not yet been released, and it is almost certain that the series will be a big success. After the great success of the God-making project, Warner Bros. and DC Comics naturally put the third Dark Knight Rises on the agenda .

Even, Warner Bros. is considering continuing to shoot a sequel, and then linking it with the Justice League movie project that is in preparation.

But to achieve this, there is a prerequisite that Warner Bros. can't get around.

Sand Lake Entertainment, a subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, has the right to invest in series. As long as the series continues to be filmed, Sand Lake Entertainment can maintain more than 40% of the investment share and continue to receive profit sharing.

The conditions that Ronan personally negotiated put Warner Bros. in a dilemma. No one thought that the Batman movie that almost killed Batman and Robin in the 1990s could be revived in the hands of Christopher Nolan. brilliance.

Especially with the death of Heath Ledger, Warner Bros. received a huge gift package in Hollywood's usual publicity style.

When Warner Bros. sent Charles Rowan to negotiate with Ronan for the first time, Ronan put forward a few conditions because he was trying his best to deal with Disney at that time, basically everything can be negotiated.

Unexpectedly, there was no news from Warner Bros. until the tragedy of Heath Ledger...

But it was impossible for Ronan to give up his investment rights under the same conditions when The Dark Knight was about to become a super hit, and then asked Shahai Entertainment to find various excuses to reject Warner Bros.'s proposal to negotiate.

Charles Rowan, who represented Warner Bros., was stopped at George Clint's place, and Ronan couldn't even see his face.

The release of The Dark Knight is getting closer and closer, and the feedback from all sides shows that The Dark Knight will explode. Warner Bros. is gradually unable to sit still. CEO Kevin Tsuhara came to the Relativity Building , visit Ronan.

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