Hollywood What If Chapter 260
"Warner Brothers is ied in my pany. That is obvious. But the timing is odd. If I'm not mistaken, Time Warner and Aoing te this year... Now that I think about it, I haven't heard any news about their merger. Is this another butterfly effect?"
Kazir wondered in fusion. He was surprised that Terry Semel had personally visited Grey Pictures for the first time to inquire about the possibility of acquiring Grey Pictures.
Terry Semel was no ordinary man, he was the CEO of Warner Bros. and someone like that doesn't just visit audio.
"Should I hire a detective and do some resear Time Warner and AOL?"
AOL was a web portal and online service provider. This pany was very famous in the 90's but lost its strength in the 2000's. It merged with Time Warner and people called it the worst merger in corporate history. In the end, AOL lost and failed to adapt and became a small subdivision of AOL Time Warner.
"Is this a method to hide the news of their merger?"
The merger of AOL and Time Warner was supposed to cost about 5 billion, but it turned out to be 165 billion. As for how it got so big, there were many factors.
However, the merger of Time Warner and AOL was a disaster.
"If this is really a way to be them, then that's good. But I have to think twice before I sell them shares. I don't want to be associated with a sinking ship. If AOL and Time Warner de, it will affect Warner Brothers and possibly Greg Pictures."
Kazir admitted that he was never good enough at corporate politics. He fug hated it when he used his mind to think about that stuff. He should put his mind to something that made him happy, like movies.
But because of Warner Bros., he couldn't help but think about it.
"Warner Brothers is not so bad. They are a giant in the industry. They do Grey Pictures."
But Kazir had no iion of selling Grey Pictures just for the tip. He wao see what effect Wanted would have on audiences. If the result ositive, the worth of Grey Pictures would increase, possibly to 2 billion or maybe 2.5 billion.
Ahing was the videotape profit from Wanted and other CCU movies.
Because of Wahe other movies also had an increase in sales. In total, the profit from videotapes and peripherals reached more than 180 million. This was the profit of the previous year (2000).
However, the profits of videotapes became smaller pared to DVDs. The DVD sales ated for more than 50% of the peripheral profit st year.
In addition, Grey Pictures worked with clothing brands to promote their CCU clothing, such as T-shirts with the faces of the protagonists. Then Hasbro hoped to buy their chts to make a figures of the CCU characters. This business colboration art of the 180 million profit.
Hasbro was the toy pany that made Transf.I. Joe and Beybde.
Yes, Hasbro now had the lise to produce toys for the tial ematiiverse. Everything from a figures to paper toys and stuff.
"Stel Willow seems to be very active tely, maybe because of the bonus and the shares I promised her, she's w harder."
Kazir had no iion of taking his pany public because it would affect the pany. As for selling some shares to one of the Big Six for prote, that was Kazir's iion all along. Otherwise, the pany wouldn't survive that long.
Grey Pictures didn't have distribution, didn't have a media backer, and didn't have a seat in MPAA film rating.
But uher studios that lost money on some of their films, all the films Grey Pictures produced were profitable. That was the biggest differeween them and Grey Pictures.
Perhaps because of this and the hat Warner Bros. was ied in Grey Pictures, some of the Big Six felt that Grey Pictures was worth acquiring. More specifically, they wanted Kazir Grey, the brains behind the pany.
Was creativity really so important? In Hollywood, creativity means a huge risk of loss. Hollywood was not made for art, it was made for business. So a movie with too much artistise would never work. All they wanted were movies that would make them more money.
And surprisingly, Kazir's creativity fit in well. Using realistic a stunts and creating a ematiiverse. It was creative, but it didn't turn them off. Instead, they wanted more.
Kazir Grey is a perfect fit for this industry. That was why the Big Six wanted him.
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February was not a good month for Hollywood. A lot of movies were released every week, but most of them didn't do well. Some of these movies deserved a better ce, but fate was cruel to them.
The most coveted schedule was always taken by the Big Six. These six giants would always have a battle in the summer to see who would make more mohe Big Six would leave January, February, Mard April to the small studios to release their movies ahe small studios get some crumbs.
In February, only one movie made more than 100 million. It was Hannibal, produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). The film grossed 350 million. Yes, MGM became one of the small studios that had to settle for crumbs to get by. The pany could not pete with the Big Six in the summer uhey used 007 Bond movies. But even the Bond films were faltering, especially when Peirce Brosnan annouhat he was doh the franchise.
In March, only two films grossed over 100 million.
The first was The Mexi, which grossed 145 million. Produced by DreamWorks.
The sed y Kids. Spy Kids grossed 197 million. It roduced and distributed by Walt Disney. It was very sad that even these lesser known schedules were dominated by the Big Six.
Small studios didn't have the strength to pete with them. Marketing and promotion were difficult because they didn't have any e with the media (television, radio and neers).
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[This is the st chapter today.]
[Shout out to Luizinho for reminding me about MPAA film rating. This is actually an important aspect if a movie will make mo the box office. If MPAA decides that movie deserves a R-rated or NC-17 rating, that movie will have a strong ce of flopping.]
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