Now that the streaming business has just emerged, both Twentieth Century Fox and other companies want to get a share of this newly emerging industry.

After all, Netflix's streaming business has proven that this industry has great potential.

As one of the traditional content producers, traditional content manufacturers including Twentieth Century Fox also do not want to lose their former advantages and status.

But other companies have only truly realized the value of this industry this year. Netflix streaming seems to be a step ahead, but in fact it has taken more than a few positions.

Since Ronan took Netflix, he has been preparing for the streaming media business, taking advantage of many advantages such as Foresight, and quickly accumulated and bought out a large number of necessary content copyrights and network technologies in more than a few years.

This actually raises the entry threshold for latecomers.

There are more than one Hollywood video websites, but Fox Online is currently online.

Other companies are not giving up this market, but are accumulating strength.

Online video playback has never been a Hollywood position in the past. This is a brand new industry for Hollywood as a whole. Hollywood's large companies are actually more cautious. After all, if hundreds of millions or even one billion dollars are spent, once there is a mistake, it is very likely to affect the normal operation of the company.

In some ways, Twentieth Century Fox is more radical and bold. In less than a year, it spent $1.2 billion, from integrating copyrights to patent licensing to merger network companies, and it made a Fox Online come out.

Fox Online's technology is not mature enough, and the main manifestation is that the highest definition is only the secondary clarity of Netflix streaming media. Once the highest definition is selected, the buffering that appears from time to time requires the audience to wait patiently.

In this fast-paced era, audiences are no longer as patient as they were ten years ago.

The most important point is that Fox Online is officially launched, and no heavyweight new drama has been launched.

Ronan originally thought that a real streaming media or other business competitor would have to wait at least half a year or even a year before it would appear.

Twentieth Century Fox obviously couldn't wait.

"The emergence of competitors is not a bad thing for Netflix." Ronan turned off the "Real Lies" that was buffered from time to time and said to Connie: "Tell Mark Randolph to pay attention to Fox Online appropriately, so that they feel a little urgency."

Connie responded: "Okay."

Ronan tapped the table lightly, Netflix walked in front of everyone, but competitors would definitely appear one after another, not just the streaming business.

Connie's phone rang and she looked down: "New news from Fox Online."

Ronan waved his hand, Connie went to answer the phone, said a few words, and soon came back, saying: "The news I just got is that Twentieth Century Fox is in contact with Amazon's Jason Gillal and is preparing to invite this capable player from Jeff Bezos to serve as CEO."

She emphasized: "Jason Giral is interested in the invitation from Twentieth Century Fox."

Ronan asked: "Is there any restriction on Jason Gillal's contract on Amazon?"

Because Ronan has been increasing his holdings in recent years, it is also a relationship with Amazon's larger shareholders. Connie has some understanding of Amazon's situation, thought for a while, and said: "Jason Gillal is a very important manager of Amazon, one of Jeff Bezos's important deputy, and should have a very high resignation clause."

"Confirm." Ronan said: "If it exists, you inform Scott Swift to find a suitable opportunity in the name of Amazon's major shareholders and remind Amazon's management that the interests of Amazon shareholders must be safeguarded."

Connie understands that this is to let Amazon management avoid letting Jason Gillal go at no cost due to human relationships.

From another perspective, it also increases the cost of poaching people on Fox Online.

This is not a big problem, just do business according to the contract.

Although Amazon has shown certain strength now, it is not yet an extremely powerful Amazon in the future. It also has competitors like ebay with close strength.

Ronan considered the future and said to Connie: "Tell Scott Swift that my personal investment foundation will continue to increase its holdings in Amazon stocks. In addition, I want to enter the Amazon board of directors."

Not only Amazon, but also Apple, Ronan has already reached a tacit understanding with Steve Jobs, and Steve Jobs will also push him to Apple's board of directors.

"By the way." Ronan asked instead: "Is there any new progress on Twentieth Century Fox and Terminator?"

Connie said: "There are some. Twentieth Century Fox asked to get the copyright of the filming of the sequel to "Terminator", but Warner Bros. said that since the end of "Terminator 3", it has been planning for "Terminator 4" early, and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources. Twentieth Century Fox's request seriously damages the interests of Warner Bros. and must pay Warner Bros. $50 million in compensation."

Ronan was not surprised. If he had done this, the six major companies were never one.

As for whether it was planned in the early stage, it was not difficult to get some copywriting materials with the ability of large Hollywood companies. Creativity and copywriting were sometimes worthless, but sometimes it was valuable.

Connie's words continue: "Warner Bros. says that if Twentieth Century Fox does not compensate, Warner Bros. will continue to prepare for Terminator 4."

Ronan asked with a smile: "Did there be any response from the Twentieth Century Fox?"

"The two sides are tug of war," Connie said quickly: "Twentieth Century Fox said it was willing to pay Warner Bros. another $10 million in addition to the $20 million copyright refund fee, but Warner Bros. insisted that $50 million would not give up."

She knew what happened before and after: "The two sides should reach an agreement soon. Warner Bros. just wanted to take the opportunity to ask for money. Twentieth Century Fox raised its offer. It is estimated that the copyright of the sequel to "Terminator" will be back to Twentieth Century Fox."

Luo Nan nodded slightly and reminded: "Keep paying attention."

The more the price it costs to get back the copyright of the sequel of "Terminator" to shoot, the more urgent it will be to shoot and produce a new "Terminator" movie.

After all, we have to find a way to get back the investment.

Ronan hopes that the Terminator series will fail as before, as always, to the point where even hardcore movie fans want to vomit when they hear the name.

It seems that Twentieth Century Fox has accumulated a number of top-notch commercial film projects, which may be released in large numbers in the next two or three years.

Two days later, new news about Twentieth Century Fox reached Ronan.

Twentieth Century Fox reached an agreement with Jason Giral, who will serve as CEO of Fox Online.

At the same time, Scott Swift joined forces with several shareholders to send a letter to question Amazon's management.

There is a case where Disney shareholders sued Disney's board of directors, and Amazon's management will not harm its own interests for the sake of 20th Century Fox. It is immediately notified 20th Century Fox and Jason Giral. There is no problem with Jason Giral resigning and joining Fox Online. Please pay a liquidated damages of US$60 million for early resignation.

Of course, this money cannot be paid by Jason Gillal, but can only be borne by the 20th Century Fox, who is poaching people.

Twentieth Century Fox did not have senior management talents involved in the Internet business, so she wanted to poach people from outside. With Amazon gritting her teeth, she finally signed her favorite CEO for $60 million.

In this regard, it also shows the determination of 20th Century Fox to compete with Netflix Network in its Internet business!

Subsequently, Fox Online announced plans for a new drama.

In addition to the previously tentative "X-Men" spin-off, there is also a heavyweight series that has been included in the Fox Online development list!

This is "Terminator's Extraordinary"!

After paying $20 million in copyright rebate and $20 million in compensation, Twentieth Century Fox took back the filming rights for the sequel to "Terminator" from Warner Bros.

Tens of millions of dollars also prompted Twentieth Century Fox to increase its determination to further develop the Terminator Series.

It was only after the news came back that Ronan learned that Twentieth Century Fox also had the copyright of a film and television adaptation of the manuscript of "Terminator" that had never been published by James Cameron.

Therefore, in addition to the sequel to the Terminator movie, Twentieth Century Fox has prepared a TV series plan.

Whether it is a science fiction movie or a science fiction series, wanting to have a slightly better effect means a huge investment in capital.

Despite the unexpected situation, Ronan still watched all this happen coldly. After all, it was impossible for everything to develop completely in the direction of the plan.

He also doesn't remember watching TV series related to "Terminator".

Ronan personally called James Cameron to inquire about the so-called "Terminator" manuscript was just the first-page script that was abandoned in the creation of "Terminator 2" back then. After the movie was released and sold, it was directly bought by 20th Century Fox. It was not a specialized or other literary work he created.

The content of the manuscript is the first version of "Terminator 2" envisioned by James Cameron. John Connie is not a child, but a young man, and is being hunted by a robot sent by Skynet from the future. Sarah Connor needs to take John Connor around and train John Connor to become the leader of the future resistance force.

This is indeed a legend of the main plot of "Terminator".

After Ronan asked about the relevant situation, he just asked Connie's assistant team to keep his attention to the "Terminator" series, and then went to Shahai Entertainment.

Since the project "Hannah-Mentana" has reached an agreement, Shahai Entertainment is also preparing to gather people to prepare.
Chapter completed!