[Shout out to Hamza I!]

  Hollywood What If Chapter 125

  Celebration. People tend to celebrate when something good happens.

  And well, geing a 200 million North Ameri box office is definitely a good thing.

  Grey Pictures officially created their own party and invited people in the industry. This was their first time throwing a party. They just hired a pnner a her do most of the work, the pany was just responsible for paying her.

  Grey Pictures was a udio and they had only dowo projects, The Hangover and Taken. However, these two movies could make a bined 1 billion.

  The Hangover has grossed over 500 million worldwide. As for Taken, the current status of the movie was 387 million.

  It was already October 20, 1997, and the internal promotion of Taken was over. Kazir and most of the cast returo the Uates after a tiring month of eravel. They had literally flown around the world.

  At the North Ameri box office, Taken was already losing steam, and the number of theaters showing the film dropped to 426. Still, the movie was making a few million every week. The current box office total for Taken is 265.63 million.

  As for the iional box office, the movie made 121.37 million. The good thing was that some tries just retly started to show Taken and the final box office would tio increase.

  Paramount believes that Taken will gross over 500 million.

  Unfortunately, each try had different ws regarding fn films. In some tries, Hollywood could only get 15% of the box offid the local theater panies would get the rest.

  So the profit was quite plicated in that regard. Still, the bigger the box office, the higher they get. So Paramount would still work to promote their movies.

  "gratutions Kazir! You are a superstar now!"

  "David, o meet you."

  Even though Grey Pictures was a udio, many famous people attehe party. They didn't care about the pany, they just wao make a e with Kazir Grey.

  Kazir romising director. And so far, his movies and scripts were making huge profits. Being friends with him was a good thing.

  "gratutions on The Game too. It's a great movie."

  "Kazir, let's not joke around here. The influence of The Game is nothing pared to Taken."

  David Fincher smiled. He did his best and believed that the movie would be great, but it was a shame that the result was not good.

  The Game was distributed by PolyGram Films, a sed-tier studio pany. Maybe that's why the movie didn't have a stroion. The Big Six were the Big Six because of their ability to promote their movies through various media.

  The movie was released oember 12 and it was a cold schedule. September was not the best month to release movies. One of the reasons why The Game didn't do well.

  So far, the movie has grossed more than 44 million as of October 20. It was not bad... However, the produ of The Game cost 80 million. One month had passed and they had not even recovered their iment.

  "I heard you have a new script, I read it?"

  "That's actually my problem right now. I'm trying to pitch this script to the Big Six, but none of them are ied."

  "I'll try to tact my friends at the 20th tury Fox and Warner Brothers." Kazir Grey's influence was growing.

  "Thank you, Kazir. My movie is a little different, I've decided to call it Fight Club, but it's still an experimental name."

  "Of course. Do you wao i in your movie?"

  "That depends."

  Kazir grinned. He remembered that the box office of Fight Club was not that great. However, it's videotape/DVD sales were different.

  'Maybe we get a share of the videotape profits.'

  It would have to be iated, and he khe Big Six would be tough on that kind of thing.

  "Let's enjoy the party."

  "Okay."

  The two ked wine gsses.

  The face of the party was her than Kazir Grey. He was the owner of Grey Pictures and the director of Taken. He had to greet a lot of people to make sure they felt wele. That was his duty as the main star of the party.

  He said hello to the people from Warner Bros who kept pestering him about The Hangover Part 2.

  He talked to the people from 20th tury Fox who asked him about the script for Napoleon Dynamite III.

  Even Sony-bia and Walt Disney came to the party to ask about his projebsp;

  All in all, his job was very tiring. Especially when there were so maiful women staring at him. He felt like a rey in the wilderness, surrounded by wolves.

  "Hello, Kazir."

  "Oh, hello, Cameron."

  "You call me Cam."

  Kazir was slightly shocked when a woman blocked his way to the bathroom. Moreover, the woman was someone he reized. It was her than Cameron Diaz. Cameron Diaz of the 90s was the bomb.

  Kazir looked helplessly at the woman's figure. She was sexy aiful. As a man, Kazir Grey could not help but admire her beauty.

  Yet he kept his posure. He was no fool, the woman definitely had a reason for talking to him.

  " I get your number?"

  "Ah? You mean my business number. Here, you take this..."

  "No, I want your private number. You know, so we talk privately..."

  She winked and leaned closer.

  "...I'm sorry, Cameron, but we're not close enough to exge private numbers. But if you are ied in w with Grey Pictures, this is the pany's taformation."

  Kazir pulled out a business card and ha to her.

  "Is that so? Maybe we meet ter? What do you think? I know a nice se here in L.A."

  She giggled.

  Kazir swallowed hard. He was just a man, and he uood that his former(past life) status was nothing pared to a famous actress like Cameron Diaz.

  Even though his lower half was screaming, Kazir kept his posure and deed her offer.

  "I'm sorry Cameron, but I have a lot of things to do."

  He walked away rather quickly and stiffly. Trying to hide his...