Washington, D.C., Hilton Hotel.

Ronan and a black charcoal head walked out of a living room at about the same time, and the two shook hands tightly.

"Mr. Anderson, it is very rare to find a young man of your own insight. The words of the black charcoal head were more out of politeness: "I believe that you will achieve even more in the future." ”

Ronan said politely, "I believe you are the same." ”

Both laughed at the same time.

Black charcoal said: "It's a pity that you have to go back to Los Angeles today, otherwise I will introduce a few more friends to you." ”

Ronan smiled and said, "When you come to Los Angeles one day, you must greet me in advance." ”

Black Charcoal smiled with a mouth full of white teeth: "I will definitely contact you then." ”

The two of them exchanged a few more polite words, and soon left separately.

Ronan got into a black Mercedes and asked the driver to go straight to Washington Dulles Airport.

Connie, who was next to her, raised the baffle and whispered, "Just now the New York side replied, the real estate tycoon is very happy to meet us, he said that he will come to visit Los Angeles this month." ”

Ronan nodded, "Keep in touch with him." ”

He was not surprised by this answer, that is a media expert who claims to be the ruler of Twitter, according to Netflix, on Netflix Sharing, it is an absolute super active user.

Maybe after more than ten years, this Netflix will rule the country?

While Netflix is preparing for the streaming media business, it is also preparing for the listing, and the streaming media business can be called a money-burning machine, and it is difficult to support it by relativity entertainment alone.

The streaming media business will not be officially launched until the first half of the year, and even if there is a Goldman Sachs cooperation in the listing, it will not be until after next year at the earliest.

In contrast, Netflix's DVD rental and sales business is in full swing, with an average of 500,000 daily shipments, and if it weren't for the huge amount of money spent on other new businesses, it could have made a profit of more than $40 million in the first two quarters of this year.

With enough content to support it, Netflix has expanded its business in this area, encroaching on a large part of the territory of traditional lessors.

Therefore, the competition between Netflix and Pepsi is becoming increasingly fierce, and a decisive battle may even break out at any time.

Ronan has enough confidence in Netflix, because Netflix belongs to the present and the future, and Pepsi is already in the past.

The rapid development of the Internet industry will not only bring about changes in the industry, but also lead to the reshuffle of many traditional industries.

"The Wedding Guest" is a steady box office trend, sharing the biggest cake of the North American film market this week with "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", which enters the second weekend.

Some, by contrast, are frowning.

At his mansion in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Jack Chan asked his agent, "How much does the failure of this film affect me?"

"......" the agent is not easy to answer.

Jack Chan has a calm attitude and a good mentality, because he knows that failure in Hollywood is not the end of the world, because there is still a vast market behind him to support himself: "If you have anything to say, don't worry." ”

The agent could only tell the truth: "Jack, in the short term, it will be difficult for you to get a heavyweight role in Hollywood." ”

"Hey......" Jack Chan sighed: "Years of hard work, a movie is all ruined." ”

He changed back to Cantonese: "It's really unfair to step on a horse!"

Jack Chen's Hollywood agent, a foreigner who couldn't understand the latter words, said: "I suggest that we hold back for a while, and wait for the negative impact of this box office failure to fade away, and then we will fight for new roles." Moreover, I will urge New Line Pictures to prepare "Rush Hour 3" as soon as possible, as long as this sequel is successful, the impact of this failure is nothing. ”

"Do as you say. "Jack Chan was mentally prepared.

The agent added: "Recently, don't show your face in public. ”

Jack Chen said directly: "I have booked a plane ticket and will go back to the East next week." ”

Hollywood has failed, just go back to the East to pick up the film, as long as the East hometown is guarded, at least it can be invincible.

By the way, the script about the intersection of the Qin Dynasty and modern times is good, you can try it, anyway, the appeal over there is very strong, and the possibility of failure is very small.

At the beginning of the new week, Jack Chan filmed the loss of Hollywood and returned to his home turf as an international superstar.

In fact, compared to Hollywood stars, this is also a kind of luck, after all, no matter how you mix outside, there will always be a way out, and the audience there is often very tolerant and nostalgic.

Vin Diesel has no way back in Hollywood, but his self-confidence has not been dampened by the failure of Star Legends 2.

"The box office champion was won by "Wedding Proud"? Heh...... Vin Diesel is still confident: "It was just a small accident. ”

Agents can't argue with their clients, especially a high-minded star like Vin Diesel.

The box office of "Wedding Guests" in North America reached $41.12 million in the first weekend, surpassing the $34.91 million of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" the following weekend, and won the box office title, which is really well deserved.

If "Star Saga 2" is only a few million dollars lower than these two movies, it is acceptable to say that it is a small accident, but the figure of $11.57 million seems to be a bit too big, right?

Of course, compared to Walt Disney's "Around the World in 80 Days", "Star Legend 2" is quite acceptable, after all, the former's production cost of $110 million made a miserable box office of only $7.5 million in the first weekend......

It is estimated that for a long time in the future, Hollywood studios will not dare to easily use the main creators of this film to engage in the creation of first-line commercial productions.

"Around the World in 80 Days" and "Star Saga 2" were undoubtedly the losers in this weekend's large-scale opening films, with "The Wedding Proud" being the biggest winner, and "Garfield's $21.71 million" barely being among the winners.

Vin Diesel looked at the agent in silence: "Why don't you speak?"

The agent smiled and said, "Universal Pictures is going to postpone the originally scheduled "Star Saga 3" indefinitely. ”

Vin Diesel snorted coldly: "Then it's better not to cooperate, don't we still have an invitation from Shahai Entertainment?"

The agent hurriedly asked, "How can we reply to Shahai Entertainment?"

"How do you reply?" Vin Diesel stared at his agent suspiciously: "Didn't I tell you four conditions last time?"

The agent was slightly surprised: "Or those four conditions?"

Vin Diesel asked rhetorically: "Why not?"

The agent didn't know how to answer for a moment, just glanced at Vin Diesel, and that expressionless face seemed to have the strength of Tom Hanks and the arrogance of Tom Cruise.

It's a pity that this person has not studied Oriental culture and doesn't know that there is still a kind of qi in the world, called Wang Bazhiqi!

Vin Diesel said: "When you contact Shahai Entertainment, by the way, tell them that I have a very tight schedule and don't have time to entangle with them. ”

The agent could only nod: "Okay, I will communicate with Shahai Entertainment." ”

The question is, can Shahai Entertainment accept it? If "Star Legends 2" is successful, take a box office champion or something, these conditions are all negotiable.

But how do you talk about it now?

Bring money into the group, serve as a producer, and decide the direction of the storyline...... These seem to be grabbing the power of the first producer, right?

Vin Diesel waved his hand: "Go ahead, I'm going to think about how the storyline of "Fast and Furious" continues." ”

To a certain extent, Vin Diesel is thinking very seriously about the "Fast and Furious" series, and for some reason, he has a vague feeling that this series seems to be very important to him.

To continue the style of racing and action, the audience of pure drag racing is too narrow, and the suitable action scenes are different.

In order to increase the importance of Dominic Toretto in the series and become the absolute protagonist and core, as long as the sequel movie is well received, he can take advantage of the situation to kidnap the film company and make them have to give up part of the power and revenue, so that it is possible to take the lead of the series.

In the first "Fast and Furious", he was only one of the two protagonists, or even just a supporting actor.

By the second part, he quit, and Paul Walker was the absolute male lead.

No, to continue to participate in the series, it has to be absolutely central.

Paul Walker starred in two films, he only starred in one, and only had enough power to be the absolute protagonist in and out of the film.

Vin Diesel sat in his office with a very good mentality, completely throwing the failed Star Saga 2 behind him, and even automatically forgetting about it, began to seriously think about the next possible project to work on.

Failure will eventually pass, success lies in the future!

The agent left, and Vin Diesel suddenly had an idea, should he talk to Ronan Anderson directly?

Ronan Anderson is the boss of Relativity Entertainment, and he has absolute control over Shahai Entertainment, and his cooperation with him is completely a strong alliance.

Vin Diesel has the confidence to work together.

Let the agent contact Shahai Entertainment first, and then find a chance to talk to Ronan Anderson yourself.

The success of "Wedding Guest" has made up for the gap of Shahai Entertainment in comedy films, and the "Hangover" project, which has already completed the script, is also naturally on the agenda.

At the moment, only Bradley Cooper can be identified as one of the protagonists, and the rest of the manpower needs to be recruited.

Subsequently, "Wedding Guests" spent its second weekend in North America.

The box office trend was unusually stable, and the next weekend box office was down only 25 percent from the opening weekend, collecting another $30.85 million.

In the face of the newly released four medium-sized films "Happiness Terminal", "Crazy Dodgeball", "Love Notebook" and "Napoleon", "Wedding Guest" has received very little impact and the trend is unusually stable.

This weekend, the most promising film is undoubtedly Spielberg's new film "Happiness Terminal" with Tom Hanks, and the film is also joined by Oscar Best Supporting Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

But the film's opening weekend box office was only $19.05 million.