Hollywood What If Chapter 378

  flix, a famous oreaming service where you have to pay monthly to watch movies. In faetflix was the first to popurize this business.

  With the adva of teology, flix followed the trend perfectly and started the monthly payment streaming service. Where you could watch movies in your home without buying DVDs and visiting Blockbuster.

  Besides, who likes to visit Blockbuster anyway? The workers in your local Blockbuster store were arrogant bunch of pricks.

  Watg movies online was faster and easier, with no hassle at all. The biggest factor why flix became successful. After the success of flix other streaming services followed suit such as Disney+ and Hulu.

  For around 7 per month(individually), a person could happily watch movies oflix.

  You know the drill, flix and Chill, somebody's daughter getting drilled... Ahem, anyway.

  The founders of flix were Mardolph and Reed Hastings. The two started the pany with the idea of selling or renting DVDs by mail.

  They made a profit, but not that huge either. Things started to ge when the pany used a new business method called online DVD rental.

  Kazir stopped for a sed and decided to turn around. He looked at the man who was arguing with the security... He had no idea about Mardolph's appeara he indeed reized the name.

  "What's happening here?"

  He decided to strike up a versation. He was not sure why, but he decided to do it anyway.

  The security realized that Kazir Grey showed up and respectfully expihe situation.

  "I see. You let him in, I vouch for his name."

  "Yes, sir."

  The security left the two.

  Mardolph was fused at first but then he recalled the director's name.

  "Um, are you Directrey? Kazir Grey?"

  "That's right. That's me."

  "Thanks for helping me."

  "I heard that you have something to talk to Tom Rothman, maybe I hear about it first?"

  "R- Really? Give me ten minutes and I'll tell you about our pany."

  The two found a quiet pd Marc gave Kazir a business card with flix clearly printed on it.

  "I'm Mardolph, CEO of flix."

  Marc seemed nervous but he expined well how their pany ran.

  "A DVD rental through mailing, huh? That's an iing idea. But I'm sure you have more reasons why you snuck to this party, right?"

  "Sir... We're hoping that flix will be the sole distributor of 20th tury Fox's DVDs."

  "..."

  Kazir just shut his mouth. That kind of business proposal was tant. Not even 20th tury Fox, or other studios won't easily agree with that.

  So far, Blockbuster, Walmart, HollywoodVideo, and Movie Gallery are the major movie stores in North America, with Blockbuster being the most popur.

  As for flix, it was nobody.

  Even Mardolph was not fident, he was sweating a bit.

  If Kazir didn't know the future, he would surely walk away after that statement.

  "How many movies does flix have in their film library?"

  "3... 300."

  "300?"

  Kazir eechless... It was too small. For the record, Blockbuster had more than 10 thousand movies in its film library. With 70% of them being B-movies.

  Don't uimate B-rated movies. Even though they were lower quality pared to Hollywood movies, many people would still e them.

  A horror movie enthusiast might watch all kinds of zombie movies and ssher movies, just for the sake of it. And God knows how many horror B-movies were out there.

  Even though these movies were not famous, there were still some people who would watch them.

  In fact, Kazir's horror movies were getting popur tely, giving Kazir a few thousand dolrs per month. These three horror movies film rights were bought by Blockbuster, meaning they were the sole distributor of these movies. Being a director, Kazir had a measly 3% of the sales and that tract would st for another decade.

  Because flix only has 300 movies in its catalog, Kazir was disappointed. It means that flix had few products to sell, and these products were not even high quality.

  'I guess that's why they are desperate to form a tract with 20th tury Fox.'

  20th tury Fox has been in business since 1935. Their film library was massive.

  Unfortunately, Kazir was not looking for that. What he wanted was the cept of oreaming. He was waiting for Mardolph to hook him with the idea.

  Yet it seemed that Mardolph didn't have that on his sleeve.

  'Perhaps it's still too early. Well, uploading a 5-minute video oer is already a hassle, the i speed is limited. Furthermore, watg videos oer is also not optimized. I guess I'm asking for too much.'

  It would be a lie if Kazir said that he was not ied in iing iflix, but he khat flix's early history was full of losses. Kazir didn't want his iment to be wasted.

  If he had to i, then it should be around the time wheflix started the oreaming service. He had no iion of joining the hardship of flix. What Kazir wanted was the easy and safe ways of making a profit. At the moment, flix was not worthy.

  'I'm not ied in acquiriflix, I already have a lot of things to think about. I'm good with being a shareholder.'

  Besides, he had no idea how oreaming works.

  'I guess I'll wait a few years, huh.'

  "It's nice meeting you, Marc."

  Kazir stood up, showing that he lost i in Marbsp;

  "D- Director, you please introduce me to Tom Rothman."

  Marc also stood up, ready to grab Kazir's thigh.

  "You should look for his secretary. Well then, see you ime Marc. Perhaps in a few years."

  He excused himself, leaving Marc alo might look cruel but that's how business works. Even Tom Rothman won't listen to Marc's proposal.

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  [Author's his is my respoo the possible plot of iing oflix. flix had the monopoly for a few years, but tely a lot of streaming services are fightiflix. And in my opinion, YouTube is still the best... Because it's free. There are not many movies though, but hey, I'm not a movie fan anyway.]

  [Also, don't take this novel seriously. Like, bruh, this novel is just a fanfi.]