After 2000 until 2012, Hollywood relied too much on DVD sales to make money.
Take Martin's Davis Studio, for example, the regular edition DVD of a popular movie sold for 15 to 20 US dollars, while the Blu-ray version could fetch about 30 US dollars, and the mass production cost was only one percent of that.
Subtracting channel costs, the net profit from one ordinary DVD could exceed 10 US dollars.
With the rise of Netflix, the online streaming market rapidly expanded, ready to replace DVDs as the first major offline revenue source after a movie's theatrical window.
Davis Studio made a first-year bid of 100 million US dollars,
Negotiations like this would not reach an agreement quickly and could extend until "John Wick: Chapter 3" was taken down from North American theaters.
After vacationing in Hawaii, Martin and his group returned, and Bruce immediately took people to Paris to meet Orlina.