Before the summer vacation, Ronan went to San Francisco, convened the board of directors of Netflix Network, and identified new investors in Netflix Network, including several companies or institutions including the Pacific Investment Foundation, which will become new shareholders of Netflix Network in the next few months.

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

The new business is online live broadcasting, which will take about a year to plan, and is expected to be launched in the middle of next year.

At present, Netflix has developed rapidly through crazy money burning, and the five major businesses all occupy the position of industry leaders, and the traditional four major Internet businesses are not only the leaders in their respective industries, but also the distance between them and the latecomers.

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

In the smartphone market, Android phones have been launched with more than 20 smartphones from multiple brands.

Thanks to the surge in smartphone sales and the global popularity of the Internet, as well as Netflix's continuous promotion, as of the end of April, the Netflix network had 162.45 million registered users worldwide, with nearly 100 million paying users.

Netflix's market capitalization is soaring toward its $100 billion goal.

While in collaboration with Kongscat and ATamp; After the cross-shareholding and the expansion of this financing, Relativity Entertainment's direct control of Netflix will be reduced to 65%, but the continuous rise in the stock price will further increase the value of the assets held by Relativity Entertainment.

However, the Netflix network also has difficulties to face, since last year, the growth rate of DVD online rental and sales as Netflix's business has slowed down significantly, and it is expected that the growth rate of business volume in 2007 will hardly exceed 5%, and the DVD industry has reached a peak.

If nothing else, the DVD industry will gradually go downhill in the future, and the situation that movies are not as good as the discs will change.

Corresponding to the slowdown in the DVD business, Netflix's streaming business is growing faster and faster.

With the popularization of the Internet, the continuous upgrading of hardware equipment, and the development of technology, Internet VOD is becoming an important broadcast channel for entertainment programs.

Netflix still releases at least one new season a month, either brand new or a sequel to a previous hit.

Shameless, Lost, Hannah Montana, Breaking Bad, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, and many more, have all been hugely successful.

The Big Bang Theory, Spartacus, Stranger Things, House of Cards and A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones will be followed by Netflix streaming.

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

In contrast, "House of Cards" is still progressing unhurriedly, and David Fincher continues his slow-working style, and the series will not be completed until next year.

"Stranger Things" also began formal preparations, and Ronan saw a familiar name in the cast list - Saoirse Ronan.

The child star, who looked quite sweet when she was a girl, will play the most important role of a little girl in the series.

Ronan roughly remembers that last year, Peter Jackson recommended but was rejected by him, and the former heroine was Saoirse Ronan.

It's a pity that Peter Jackson was born for Tolkien all his life.

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

The series production department and the screenwriter department plan to produce a series from the official U.S. agencies to Mexico to Colombian drug trafficking organizations based on the drug trade that has become more and more widespread in the United States in the past two years, and are currently collecting various materials and contacting the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI.

Because of the huge traffic and number of users of Netflix streaming, the two official organizations are very interested in Shahai Entertainment's drama plan and are also interested in cooperating.

As we all know, the official establishment of the United States has always been willing to cooperate with Hollywood.

With the support of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, and after getting 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 happening on the border between the United States and Mexico, and I don't know how many are suitable for adaptation into film and television works.

For these two sides, they are tired of each other.

Mexico is too far from paradise and too close to the United States.

The day after returning from San Francisco, Ronan got a data report that "Human Skin Inn 2" was removed from North American theaters, and the final North American box office totaled $47.35 million.

In addition, Weinstein Pictures' Oscar-winning film "The Queen" was released overseas by Embassy Pictures, and with the help of the Oscar effect, the cumulative box office has now approached 45 million US dollars.

Elizabeth II has many selling points in the Western market, and is definitely one of the most suitable characters for film and television adaptations today.

With her own life, the queen redefined what it means to be a queen and a crown prince.

Every queen has a legendary life, and ****** is no exception, her husband cheats, her sister is bad, and her son and his wife are not worried, which is really very interesting.

Ronan is also considering whether to adapt it into a TV series based on the life of Elizabeth II.

However, he still took into account that William's side had always gotten along well, and even if he wanted to adapt, he would win the support of the royal family.

The adaptation of the life of Elizabeth II was not unusually difficult, requiring a long period of planning and communication with Buckingham Palace in London.

If it's a drama centered on historical figures, there is undoubtedly more freedom.

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

But if the living characters are made into film and television works, it is not easy.

The historical figure who is still standing at Buckingham Palace, a figure who has witnessed it from the twenties of the twentieth century to the present, made her into a series, from a certain moment in her life, and continued to be filmed, and she had to be prepared in advance.

These things are not suitable for Ronan to come forward, and it is very suitable to hand them over to Shahai Entertainment to communicate, even if the negotiation with the royal family collapses, he can clean up the chaos behind him with a word.

In fact, all the top executives have a common talent, and they use it perfectly - let their subordinates take the blame for themselves.

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

In addition to the live-action TV series project, Shahai Entertainment is also working with Marvel Entertainment to develop animated series, George Clint and Kevin Feige, after holding several contact creative meetings with Netflix Streaming, decided to produce the "Iron Man" animated series as a supplement between movies, and broadcast it on Netflix Streaming as a platform.

In addition, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Captain America will also have animated episodes later.

These comic book superheroes have also appeared in cartoons in the past, but this time, under the leadership of Kevin Feige, they have a clear and unified world view, and although the animated series will not affect the plot of the movie, it can also be used as a supplement to the content beyond the movie.

For example, the first season of the "Iron Man" animated series will tell how Tony Stark cleaned up the mess after the war with Obadi.

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 manga superhero movies are gradually coming to the commercial mainstream, and there are three big-budget superhero movies in this summer file, namely "Spider-Man 3", "Hulk" and "The Dark Knight".

Two Marvel and one DC.

Hulk has the most uncertain future.

Because "Spider-Man 3" is a sequel, the market response is needless to say, and the trend of "The Dark Knight" becoming a god with the Joker and Heath Ledger is extremely obvious, and it only needs to be a big hit after its release.

The second part of the new "Batman" trilogy has not yet been released, and the series is almost certain to be a huge success, and after the huge success of the God-making project, Warner Bros. and DC Comics naturally put a third "Rise of the Dark Knight" on the agenda.

Even, Warner Bros. is considering continuing to shoot a sequel and then string it in tandem with the Justice League movie plans that are in the pipeline.

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

Sand Sea Entertainment, a subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, has the investment authority for the series, and 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.

Ronan personally negotiated the conditions, which put Warner Bros. in a dilemma, and no one thought that the Batman movie, which almost killed "Batman and Robin" in the nineties, could be rejuvenated in the hands of Christopher Nolan.

Especially the death of Heath Ledger, with Hollywood's usual promotional style, Warner Bros. simply received a super gift package.

When Warner Bros. first sent Charles Rowan to negotiate with Ronan, Ronan put forward several conditions because of the full force of dealing with Disney at that time, and basically everything was negotiable.

Unexpectedly, Warner Bros. suddenly went without news until Heath Ledger's misfortune happened......

But it is impossible for Ronan to give up his investment rights on the same terms when "The Dark Knight" is about to be a super hit, and then he has asked Shahai Entertainment to find various excuses to reject Warner Bros. Negotiations.

Charles Rowan, representing Warner Bros., was stopped at George Clint and couldn't even see Ronan in person.

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