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  Hollywood What If Chapter 121

  "So what's Sony-bia's decision?"

  Harrison Ford sat down with a gss of whiskey in his hand. He tried to calm his nerves, but it was hard to do so.

  "Harrison, I need you to listen to me calmly."

  "Brittany, I 't calm down when my movie is involved in this situation."

  Harrison Ford was a t of UTA (Ualent Agency). His agent was Brittany Balbo.

  Three agencies in Hollywood could pete with each other in rivalry. CAA, WMA and UTA. These three ageook over most of the market.

  "So what's her decision?"

  Harrison asked, drinking his alcohol and trying his best to calm down.

  "They didn't agree to increase the advertising budget too much, they added a little bit."

  Sony-bia would increase the promotion budget if they thought the movie romising. But for Air Fore, it was peting against Taken, which was currently hot.

  Sony-bia felt there was no point in increasing the budget. So they decided to maintaiatus quo. They would spend 5 million on advertising for the week.

  "..."

  Harrison Ford put down the gss and rubbed his forehead. He had been expeg this oute.

  At first, he was fident that Air Fore would defeat Taken in a straight fight... But the news about sex traffig was getting a lot of people ied!

  Harrison gritted his teeth. It would be a lie to say he was not affected. He chose his movies seriously.

  Harrison Ford had many blockbuster movies because of his ability to choose the best script. Air Fore had all the ingredients to be a blockbuster.

  However, the result was different from what he thought.

  It was August 3, 1997. Ten days had passed sihe release of Air Fore. The movie grossed 80.73 million. If you pare it to other movies that were released that year, it was an amazing achievement. Harrison Ford was happy with the amount.

  Unfortunately, Air Fore was released the same time as Taken. By August 3, 1997, Taken had grossed 122.15 million. It was only ten days, but Taken had already crossed the 100 million mark.

  Paramount would receive 25% of the box office while ema Alliance would receive 40%. Grey Pictures would receive only 35% of the gross.

  Paramount has already guaranteed 30.53 million in the cake. While ema Alliance would receive more than 48.86 million. Grey Pictures assured 42.75 million.

  However, Taken's box office was steadily rising. These three divisions would get more as time went on.

  Paramount, ema Alliand Grey Pictures were all happy.

  Especially Kazir Grey. As a director, the best he could get was 20% of the North Ameri box office. Well, he never had the experience of having that kind of treatment. Kazir Grey got 10% of the North Ameri box office for The Hahat was the highest tract he got so far.

  Even though Kazir Grey owned Grey Pictures, it was a legitimate pany and he couldn't bully it. So his sary was 5 million and 10% worldwide box office... Not North America, but worldwide.

  Which means that 10% of the box office would go into his private bank at, 10% worldwide box offibsp;

  The produ budget of Taken was 25 million dolrs. More than that would be pure profit... After taxes.

  "Damn." That was all Harrison could say.

  "Harrison, you o think seriously about this. You and Kazir are both Jewish, you have a good ce of w together. I heard that Grey Pictures is going to start another project, maybe you tact Kazir ahe script."

  Harrison Ford sighed and leaned against the chair, closing his eyes to think about the situation.

  "You're right, Brittany. It's not like I lost. The performance of Air Fore already exceeded my expectations. Brittany, try to get in touch with Grey Pictures. I want to read their script."

  "I uand."

  The two eheir versation. Even though Harrison was still bitter, he khat having bad blood against a talented director was not good for him. He became famous in the first pce because of Gee Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

  Star Wars and Indiana Jones were movies that would never be fotten, even three decades ter.

  .........

  ......

  ...

  Sometimes no one would expect the oute of a movie. Everyone believed that Air Fore would be the winner, but three days before the release, their opinions ged.

  Grey Pictures was getting bombarded with calls. More people were trying to tact them. But Kazir wao keep all the scripts in his library. He didn't want to share them or sell them if the price wasn't right.

  'To make matters worse, Warner Brothers and 20th tury Fox are ied in my a scripts like John Wid Fast And The Furious.'

  He realized that Warner Bros and 20th tury Fox felt that his ematiiverse could be successful, so they wao buy the a scripts, either food or bad reasons.

  Of course, Kazir didn't want to sell any scripts reted to the tial ematiiverse. He was just getting started.

  As for the other scripts, such as edy and thriller/suspense, Sony-bia began tag Grey Pictures to acquire Final Destination.

  'No one had written the script, so I decided to put it in my name... First e, first served.'

  Kazir Grey stretched his arms after polishing the script of his project. Even though Taken had just been released and he was going pces to promote the movie, Kazir still took his ce to polish his script.

  The title of his project was... John Wick. The reason he chose this movie was because of its low budget. John Wick had a produ budget of 20 to 30 million drey Pictures was still not ready to spend money on big movies.

  "Directrey, that's your cue."

  The assistant director told him the interview was about to begin.

  "Okay." Kazir Grey closed his ptop after saving his script.

  "Break a leg."

  "..."

  Even though it was a standard greeting, "Break a leg" was a little... not used to it.