Hollywood What If Chapter 346
"No, but I also know that their superheroes have a better status than ours... We have to sell the movie rights of our superheroes just to stay afloat." Stan gave Kazir a side-eye and Kazir kept his smile...
Grey Pictures acquired a lot of superheroes from Marvel almost a decade ago.
20th tury Fox had X-Men and Fantastic Four.
New Line ema had Bde.
Sony-bia had Spider-Man.
As frey Pictures, the studio basically raided Marvel's library. Marvel ics was left with a few characters.
"It's a good thing we're uhe same pany, otherwise the iations would take a long time." Stan Lee added, and Kazir agreed.
The two sides decided to create audio to be called Marvel Studio. Kazir would be the director/executive and Avi Arad the producer. Grey Pictures transferred the film rights to this studio in exge for a share of the profits.
He khat making a superhero movie required a lot of iment, and Grey Pictures was in a tight spht now. It would be better to have a share of the profits than to shoulder a multi-million dolr budget.
Grey Pictures couldn't afford to i in Marvel movies anyway. Each Marvel movie would cost over 100 million to produbsp;
'Besides, I have to work with Stan Lee and the other people at Marvel iake sure the plot of the MCU is perfect. After all, I don't know all their superheroes.'
"By the way, Stan. Are you ied in doing cameos in the MCU?"
"Like you did in CCU?"
"Yeah. Just think of it as a tradition."
"Of course I'm happy to do it. I'm going to spend a lot of time o anyway, so I might as well put myself in front of the camera. I'm sure my grandkids will love it."
Avi Arad appeared a few mier. Uan Lee, Avi Arad's main topic of versation was business and how they could make sure their uping projects would be successful.
year, Kazir would be w for Sony-bia to produce Spider-Man 2. Sony-bia had already prepared everything they needed such as props and locations, all they had to do was shoot the movie.
Spider-Man was the highest grossing superhero movie at the time.
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The premiere of X-Men 2 started and people watched the movie.
The main plot of X-Men 2 was that Professor X was kidhe enemy wanted Professor X to use his power to manipute the mutants to kill each other. The team had to rescue Professor X before that could happen.
The CGI of X-Men 2 was better pared to the st ohe team had a higher budget and probably spent most of it on special effects.
X-Men had a budget of 75 million while X-Men 2 had a budget of 125 million. The differeweewo be seen in the movie.
Based on the audience rea, the movie did great.
The first day of X-Men 2 grossed 31.24 million. Marvel Studio and 20th tury Fox were happy. This was a good sign.
The sed day came, Saturday. The box office of X-Men 2 went up to 63.21 million.
Then on Sunday, the box office went up to 85.55 million.
The first weekend of X-Men was a success and it became the box office champion of the week.
X-Men 2 had no petitiohe first week of May arrived. The movie domihe first week of May and made 107.01 million at the North Ameri box offibsp;
Their trajectory slowed slightly when May 9 arrived and a promising edy was released.
Daddy Day Care, starring Eddie Murphy, roduced by Sony-bia with a budget of 60 million.
The first three days of Daddy Day Care grossed 27.62 million.
In the same three days, X-Men 2 grossed 39 million, bringing its total to 147 million.
So yes, X-Men 2 still won first pce that week.
Superhero movies were being more popur and more people wao see them. The hype that Spider-Maed had a positive effe X-Men 2.
As a result, X-Men 2 also domihe sed week of May.
Its reign only ended when Warner Brothers released Matrix Reloaded, one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Despite being an R-rated movie, The Matrix Reloaded sold a lot of tickets.
The Matrix, released in 1999, was highly regarded as one of the best R-rated movies of all time.
People were excited to see Neo again.
Unfortunately, the Wachowskis were given full authority over the produ. The Wachowskis decided to focus more on philosophical ses instead of giving the audience what they wanted.
The audience was left fused at the end of the movie.
This was one of the reasons why directors rarely had full authority over projects. Because most directors wao focus on artistid philosophical ses, fetting the fact that the main reason for produg movies is to make money.
Fortunately, Kazir khat the box office is the most important aspect of this industry. As long as you make money, people will respect you no matter what genre you make.
Horror directors, edy directors, a directors. As long as their movies make mohey stay relevant.
The first weekend of The Matrix Reloaded grossed 73.38 million, knog X-Men 2 off its throne.
While the summer season was busy for Hollywood, Kazir also spent time editing his project. All of the special effects for Pirates of the Caribbean were plete, and all he had to do was assemble each se into a movie.
With the help of Rector and the editing team, Pirates of the Caribbean was slowly taking shape as a story. Kazir was determio break the curse of pirate-themed movies.
In the middle of editing, Kazir received a message from someo was from his girlfriend, Angelina Jolie.
The woman wao meet him at a bar to talk. Of course, Kazir agreed. He also wao talk to Angelina about what happe time.
"Guys, the work today is done," Kazir announced.
"Finally, an early exit." Rector was the first to leave the room, his wife would be grumpy again if he returo the house te.