Hollywood What If Chapter 266
Promoting a big movie was very difficult. Since Spider-Man redicted to gross more than 400 million outside the U.S., Sony-bia felt they needed a lot of publicity.
The cast of Spider-Mao Japan as their first stop. The culture of Japan and the U.S. were not the same at all, and the Ameris had a hard time adjusting to their week in Japan. Only Kazir knew how to use chopsticks.
Fortunately, most of the major tries that tributed to the box office were English-speaking, such as Great Britain and Australia.
Kazir was a famous and important director. With that in mind, Kazir personally told Frank Price that he would only promote the film for three weeks. After that he would return to the U.S. to attend the premiere of John Wick Chapter 2.
Frank Price had no problem with that. Kazir was the director but he never showed his fa the movie, the audience wao see the cast like Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe more than him.
Another reason was that Frank Price wao maintain a good retionship with the director. He was w with Kazir for the fourth time and he khat Kazir was an amazing talent.
John Wibsp;
The Bourne Identity
Wanted
Spider-Man
These four films were distributed by Sony-bia and they were all successful. Unfortunately, Sony-bia couldn't maximize their profits because three of these movies were solely owned by Grey Pictures.
But hey, Spider-Man did well, so that's good.
Reizing this fact, Frank Price eveo Sony headquarters to get approval to take rey Pictures. Sony-bia was weak because they couldn't make a successful franchise. If Sony-bia acquired Grey Pictures, that problem would be over.
Sony romoting their DVD pyers to the masses and Sony-bia was an important part of that project. Even though Sony-bia was currently surviving, Sony wao maintain its position in the US.
Sony's ma felt that acquiring Grey Pictures would be a good thing, so they decided to start an acquisition pn. Besides, Grey Pictures was just a start-up pany and the highest worth it could get was 4 billion... Uhe Big Five decided to pete and increase the value of Grey Pictures.
Three panies had already agreed to acquire Grey Pictures. Although there was no official annou and they were all still id listen stage.
Another reason why Frank Price let Kazir leave the promotion earlier was because John Wick Chapter 2 was also going to be distributed by Sony-bia. If Kazir's presence would help the movie sell more tickets, then Sony-bia would let the guy attend the premiere.
Acc to the tract, this was the st time Sony-bia would distribute their films. Grey Pictures and Sony-bia signed a deal for four movies.
After that... Kazir's pns were unknown at the time, and it was not certain that he would rehe trabsp;
Ohing was for sure, Sony-bia would not fall for another 20% of the box office as a distributiohis tract was a terrible deal for Sony-bia.
In exge for Bruce Almighty and writing the spy for 21 Jump Street, Sony-bia bled a lot. Although w with Grey Pictures has given them something good as well.
Now more audiences are realizing that Sony-bia is gettier because their ret movies have been mostly successful.
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Late on the night of August 16, 2001, at the Dolby Theaters in Los Ahe lobby was filled with fans eager to see the movie.
Also, most of the fans were wearing bck tuxedos. They looked professional a. Most of the men in tuxedos had shoulder length hair and beards. Some of these were fake, but most were real hair and beards.
Kazir heard that his fans were starting to get a reputation. He decided to reach out to the fan base and invited 100 Grey fans to the premiere.
This was the first time Grey fans were officially io a premiere. Kazir also promised Grey that he would sign autographs after the premiere in the buildio the Dolby Theater. The fans could get their merdise signed by the famous director himself.
Kazir attehe premiere alone because Angelina romoting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider overseas.
Before Kazir could ehe theater, he heard a loud cheer from the fans. He turo find Tom Cruise walking down the red carpet.
The actor waved to reporters and fans, basically stealing the spotlight. Tom Cruise remained famous for the wo decades. One of the actors who maintained his popurity and relevahroughout the decades.
"Show-off." Kazir chuckled.
He was actually the one who had ihe actor to see John Wick Chapter 2. He wao talk to him about possible movies they could work on together.
But surprisingly, Tom Cruise did not attend the premiere with his wife. Maybe the rumors were true. Maybe the retionship between them is already over.
Maybe Eyes Wide Shut (1999) made their retionship rocky because that was the st time the couple worked together and the result of the movie was good but not the best.
The cast of Eyes Wide Shut was star-studded. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and director Stanley Kubrick. Damn, it was basically a dream team.
The produ cost of Eyes Wide Shut was 65 million and the box office was 162 million. So yeah, not too bad. Unfortunately, the couple went cold on each other after that.
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[Author's Note: year, I want Kazir to pete for the Oscars. I like Tom Cruise as an actor, so he will work with him. I'm going to make a poll about the possible movies they make to wi Director a Actor].
[By the way, do you want Kazir to ge his girlfriend or stay with Angelina for a while? I make a poll about that as well]
[Edit: The patrons had decided the fate of our Mbsp;
[Another Edit: I know some of you might not like Tom Cruise, but bear with me. I've watched Tom Cruise movies when I was a child and I say I'm a fan. I like him as an actor. As for his personality outside his job, I 't say he is perfect. My favorite Tom Cruise movie is War Of The Worlds.]