Hollywood What If Chapter 304
For those who think otherwise, xXx was indeed a movie. Some might mistake it for ariple x...
xXx roduced by Sony-bia and starred Vin Diesel as Xander Cage. A daredevil who became a spy for the National Security Agency. This movie was a box office hit, grossing more than 277 million. The produ cost of the film was 88 million.
Actually, Kazir thought about including the movie in the tial ematiiverse, but he decided not to. Simply for the reason that CCU already had a lot of movies to focus on.
Kazir khat he could not acquire all the promising scripts in Hollywood, or else the Big Six might get together and attack him.
Besides, Vin Diesel was already cast in Fast and The Furious. If they decided to add xXx to the CCU, they would have to find another actor to py Xander Cage.
Ice Cube was the protagonist of xXx: State Of The Union, the sequel to the first film, and State Of The Union grossed 113 million. It's not a bad performance, but it's not that good. Maybe the audience wao see Vin Diesel instead of Ice Cube. Which was right, because the third movie, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, grossed 346 million.
xXx was actually a good franchise, but Kazir felt that CCU was already bloated. So yes, Kazir passed on the projebsp;
Now that Kazir thinks about it, Vin Diesel had some good franchises under his belt, even though many audiences hated the guy.
Fast and The Furious
xXx
Pitch Bck/Riddick
Guardians of the Gaxy
Vin Diesel was able to keep his career going as long as he was involved in one of these franchises.
On its first weekend, xXx grossed 50.34 million.
As for Mr. And Mrs. Smith, the movie grossed 96.69 million after ten days iers.
So both movies had their fair share of tickets sales. There was some fri, but in the end it all came down to audience choibsp;
Sony-bia could have sabotaged Mr. And Mrs. Smith by spreading dirty rumors about the cast, but Sony-bia held back. It was not worth it, especially when they needed Kazir to direct Spider-Man 2 in 2004.
Kazir had already proven that he could make billions at the box office, and Sony-bia didn't want to end their retionship because of a small dispute.
Ahing was that Vin Diesel was also a cast member of Cd Sony-bia's feelings towards Mr. And Mrs. Smith were plicated.
After the release of xXx, nothing big happened in August and most of the movies that were released were mediocre and nothing surpassed 100 million at the box office except Spy Kids 2, Mr. And Mrs. Smith and xXx. The tter two domihe month.
By the end of August, Mr. And Mrs. Smith had earned 146.08 million, while xXx had earned 117.26 million.
Of course, the cast of Mr. And Mrs. Smith had to travel around the world to promote the film, even though it had only been in North America for a month. The iional sing was a serious money.
If Sony-bia's home court was Japan, then Australia was 20th tury Fox's home court. In fact, most of the movies 20th tury Fox ied in were filmed in Australia because the studio could get a tax break there. After all, Rupert Murdoch was Australian, and he could snap his fio make way for 20th tury Fox.
September came and the cold treatment iers obviously happened. Most students and people went back to their usual things.
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After almost half a year of waiting, Sony-bia has already made its payment to Kazir Grey. Calg the worldwide box office for Spider-Man took a long time because the movie made a lot of money.
After some math-thingy, Sony-bia firmed that Spider-Man actually grossed 1.09 billion.
Now, do not be shocked, but Kazir actually earned 294.3 million as his box office share! This was just one project, but he made that mubsp;
Of course, Sony-bia paid this amount per round and not as a single payment.
Kazir already received 27 million from them as his sary and the 294.3 million was his box office share.
In the tract, both parties agreed that Kazir would receive 27 million as his sary and 27% of the worldwide box office, he also had a 7% peripheral profit share.
The amount he received from Sony-bia was already over 300 million.
It may seem that Sony-bia lost a lot in this deal. They sacrificed their short-term profit for the long-term.
Fortunately, after the success of Spider-Man, Sony-bia earned 300 million from peripherals such as DVDs and a figures. The peripherals they could sell with Spider-Man were endless.
They could sell toy cars with Spider-Man design, then boom, easy profit.
They could sell t-shirts with printed Spider-Man, boom, easy profit.
Hell, they could sell a toilet bowl with a Spider-Man design and crazy people would buy it.
That was the power they got after hiring Kazir. They didn't regret hiring someone like him. His value was equal to the amount they pay him.
No one could guarahat a superhero movie like Spider-Man would succeed iers, but Kazir made sure it did.
... Although they admit that it was a bit painful to give Kazir that amount of money. After all, 300 million was a huge amount of money.
On top of that, Marvel ics also had their share, so Sony-bia couldn't take all the profits.
Still, everyone was sure that Spider-Man 2 would happen. Sony-bia wao make it a trilogy and they wanted Kazir to make it.
A single movie grossing 1 billion dolrs? Are you kidding me? Of course Sony-bia would milk this franchise for all it was worth! Spoiler alert, Sony-bia had three different franchises of Spider Man with three different actors. They were MILKING it.
This was also the reason why Sony wao buy Grey Pictures. Grey Pictures could make profitable movies and Sony wahem. More specifically, they wao tinue w with Kazir Grey.
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