[Epilogue: A Dad's Boring Everyday Life]
In 2001, the internet bubble burst. Pillow Health Trust and Lion Corleone seized the opportunity to scoop up some internet stocks.
From 2001 to 2003, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with Lion Corleone's collaborations with Disney, Fox, and MGM on Pirates of the Caribbean, X-Men, and Spider-Man, brought enormous sales from film merchandise both online and offline.
Especially Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2002 opened a huge gold mine.
By the end of 2003, Lion Corleone acquired the split MGM, gaining its extensive library and domestic and international channels, while shedding its massive debt and relinquishing the James Bond rights.
This marked Lion Corleone officially joining the ranks of Hollywood's Big Seven.
In 2004, Netflix merged with the newly founded YouTube video platform, and Lion Corleone innovatively launched online streaming platforms.
By 2005, Lion Corleone's horror film universe, Middle-earth TV movie universe, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Harry Potter franchise matured.
By 2007, Lion Corleone was deeply embedded in the internet world. Charlie Corleone, a board member of Google and Amazon, leveraged these relationships to establish joint online ticketing platforms with Rotten Tomatoes, IMAX Dolby, and the Corleone Theater Company.
Together with Hollywood's other six majors, they ultimately helped scrap the Paramount Decree.
Afterwards, Hollywood's Big Seven completely dominated the theater market, jointly sharing online ticketing platforms based on MPAA.
In 2008, the News Corp phone-hacking scandal intensified. As a friend, Charlie swallowed a huge portion of News Corp's American newspaper business.
Since then, using strong offline news teams and internet partnerships, Charlie built a massive and comprehensive new media network.
By 2012, after European antitrust and U.S. regulatory reviews, Twenty Century Fox was fully acquired by Lion Corleone.
That year, Lion Corleone's global online merchandise and streaming platforms dominated 34% of the North American film and TV market, surpassing the new Hollywood Big Six.
By 2014, after two years of integration absorbing Fox and News Corp assets, and expanding in internet media, online video, and mobile smart platforms, Lion Corleone became a truly unbeatable global entertainment unicorn corporation.
Based on Pillow Health Trust as its core, Charlie Corleone became the top tycoon of the information age, not just in America but worldwide.
In 2015, when Charlie's third child was born, he chose to retire early, having allocated all parts of the company, to focus on family and raising kids.
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