Hollywood What If Chapter 328
It was Natalie Portman... Kazir was actually surprised to hear that the young actress was on the list of actresses auditioning for Pirates of the Caribbean. He hadn't expected Natalie to be ied in the film.
Also, Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge Of The Sith was still in produ, so Kazir thought Natalie would be too busy to work on another project.
Uedly, the woman actually did well in the audition. Kazir witnessed her performahis caused Kazir and the others to give it serious sideration. The three actresses fit the role, with Julia Roberts taking the top spot because of her box office appeal. Sed was Keira and third was Natalie.
In the end, the decisioed with Kazir, since he was the director of the film. Even Renner and Harold couldn't pete with him in this situation.
Kazir decided to take the audition tapes back to his house to watch them again.
"Babe, have you made a decision?" Angelina appeared and handed Kazir a bowl of sliced apples.
"No, I'm still not sure."
Julia Roberts was out of the list for financial reasons, but Kazir was still torween Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman.
"Let's see... Didn't you see that Natalie stealing g you?" Angelina frowned slightly at the TV. On the s, Natalie was gng at a certain dire on a while.
"No, I don't think so." Kazir shook his head.
"Sheesh, you are too dense. Anyway, Keira Knightley is the best choice. I don't like that Natalie Portman."
"You think so?"
"Yeah. Now that I think about it, why didn't you invite me for this role, Elizabeth Swann? With my age ay, I easily pass the audition." She asked Kazir curiously.
"Well... This project has kissing ses--"
"Pfft--!"
Suddenly, Angelina almost choked on her food when she heard Kazir's answer. She hadn't expected Kazir to care about that!
"Kazir, ahem, ahem. You're famous for being a heartless guy who didn't care about yirlfriend's partner in a movie. The hat you watched your ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz kiss Matt Damon o of The Bourne Identity is all over Hollywood. People said you didn't mind Cameron kissing Matt! Oh, I also remember you made me walk naked o of Wanted! You even took a shot of my naked ass and showed it to the audience! And now you're suddenly scious of my kissing ses?"
Angeli on a long tirade and Kazir had only one answer.
"Yes."
"Yes?"
"I just realized that I'm unfortable with you doing that... I'm sorry."
"Aww, don't be, babe." She hugged Kazir and began to kiss his cheek.
"Anyway, I don't like this Natalie, so you should hire Keira Knightley instead."
"... Alright."
Kazir finally nodded. Keira Knightley's sary was affordable and it was no problem for Kazir.
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Goldman Sachs, represented by Vance Goodhood, and someone from Man Stanley finish their iations.
Man Stanley was the firm hired by 20th tury Fox to acquire Grey Pictures.
Both Goldman Sachs and Man Stanley were famous iment firms on Wall Street, and they had their issiohis deal was done.
After thinking about it and talking to the executives at Grey Pictures, Kazir decided to work with 20th tury Fox instead.
After much tug-of-war, Grey Pictures would sell 30% of its stock for 3.5 billion in stod cash. 1 billion in cash and 2.5 billion in stock, the equivalent of 3.5% of 20th tury Fox.
Now Kazir was the sed rgest individual shareholder of 20th tury Fox, after Rupert Murdoch, who owhe majority of the shares.
Most of the pany's shares were spread among panies and iment firms. Only two individuals have their own piece of the pertage.
The iations were already finished and both sides sighe traow Goldman Sachs and Man Stanley began to perfect the transas.
Kazir and many of his acquaintances kept quiet about the acquisition. None of the Big Five knew about it... Yet.
A few hours ter that day, a piece of news suddenly broke that shook Hollywood, no, the whole try.
20th tury Fox and Grey Pictures decided to work together to promise a better future in filmmaking and to create wonderful movies.
No figures were given, but it was firmed that 20th tury Fox had acquired part of Grey Pictures.
The news made a lot of noise.
Suddenly, the stock price of 20th tury Fox, which was 21.72, went up to 25.19 in just one day. The stock market then closed. The stock went up more than 15% in just one day. And that was because of the news about Grey Pictures and 20th tury Fox.
People in Hollywood realized that the value of Grey Pictures was enough for people to i in 20th tury Fox. They khat the movies Grey Pictures rodug were profitable!
"What's going on?"
Chairman Michael Eisner smmed down the neer and nearly overturhe table in anger. His face was red with rage as he read the news of 20th tury Fox's acquisition of Grey Pictures.
He realized that his st ce for survival was vanishing into thin air. He ched his fists.
Last year, Walt Disney basically didn't make a dime at the box office because their biggest movie was a terrible flop. Even though they released dozens of movies, the loss they suffered from John Carter was irreparable.
If not for the DVDs, toys and merdise that Walt Disney sold, the pany might have to take out a loan from the bank. They stayed afloat, but their situation was not good. John Carter was a bad iment and the board wao bme Michael Eisner.
He tried tairust by trying to buy Grey Pictures, no matter how much they spent, but the result didn't work out for him.
Now Michael Eisner khat his time as chairman of one of the rgest media panies in the world was over.
Walt Disney, Paramount, Sony-bia and Warner Brothers weren't expeg this oute. They were trying to make pns on how to increase their chips to get Kazir's i, yet they were spped by the news.
As for the other news, Grey Pictures' uping projects such as The Equalizer, Wanted 2 and Pirates Of The Caribbean would be distributed by 20th tury Fox.
The TV show Game of Thrones would also be released exclusively by Fox. This project got a lot of people excited because they khat Grey Pictures never did b projects.
One of the reasons why many people ied in 20th tury Fox stock.
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[Sorry if I'm absent tely, stuff happens. Regarding numbers and math, just don't ask me why they are wrong or overprice... I also don't know the answer.]