[Shout out to Emerlee S and Айнур К!]
Hollywood What If Chapter 127
Now that the sing of Taken was rey Pictures and Paramount signed a distribution deal. Paramount would receive a 20% profit fee after distributing their videotapes to the market. The tract was for five years.
Grey Pictures produced 3 million copies of videotapes at a cost of about 2.7 million. Produg videotapes was cheap, but the profit was big.
Besides, Taken had two videotapes. The normal one and the luxury version.
The normal videotape cost 30 dolrs while the luxury version cost 60 dolrs. The luxury version came with three tial s. People still oblivious about these s except for the time wheired agent Bryan Mills threw them to the ninja. A year ter, however, these s would bee a sold-out item.
Aside from the s, the deluxe version had the extended version of the movie, a longer viewing time thaheatrical release. Kazir Grey added 15 minutes of footage to the deluxe version.
The tent of the extended version was the ss about the tial ematiiverse, such as the versation with the ninja. Iended version, Bryan Mills even fought a killer who could bend the trajectory of bullets.
2 million copies of normal videotapes and 1 million copies of luxury videotapes. They never inteo produce many luxury versions for the scarcity effebsp;
The videotapes of Taken would be in Walmart, Blockbuster and other movie stores at the start of December. Paramount and Grey Pictures hoped that Taken would sell at least 1 million copies in its first month.
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As the days of November passed, Kazir Grey visited the iment firm that handled his iment.
As usual, the stockbrokers tried to sell him iments and insurance, but Kazir felt that their choices were dubious, so he stuck to his usual ones.
'If I remember correctly, I also visited this p November st year.'
Kazir chose only three pao i in. Nokia, Cisd Microsoft.
Last year, his iment in Nokia grew to 2.4 million. He also ied another 3.3 million in Nokia st year.
U year, Nokia's stock pricreased only 21.78%.
So this year his iment in Nokia increased to 6.9 million.
"Nice," Kazir muttered as he looked at the specifiumber.
As for Cisco, his 2.7 million plus 3.3 millio up 31.4%.
That made his stake in Cisco 7.8 million. It was not bad to see his iment increase by another million dolrs. It was actually a good thing.
As for the st one, he had 3 million in Microsoft, plus he ied 3.3 million st year. As always, Microsoft was one of the best iments of the '90s.
With a 56.44% increase in value, his money in Microsoft was now 9.8 million. There was a reason why millionaires and billionaires would never lose money, because they had many ways to make it. They would never reach a point where they would be poor and homeless.
With the three iments bined, Kazir had 24.5 million. His money grew even though he did nothing.
Seeing that his money was growing again, he decided to i another 30 million and split it three ways. The iment firm he chose was very trustworthy and he was fident about his money.
He also po withdraw all the money around the st quarter of 1999. He khat the I bubble would burst around 1999 and 2000.
He po buy a house at that time.
'I didn't need a house because I'm a workaholic type, but it's not bad to buy a few houses.'
After his visit to the iment firm, Kazir Grey returo his office as usual. While most of the employees were w, Kazir Grey was doing his job as a director. Writing the script and drawing the storyboard.
He retty lohese days, but he was used to it anyway.
Reese Witherspoon joihe crew of There's Something About Mary, and it might take three or four months to finish shooting.
Even Salvatore Barlowe was busy helping Brianna Evans in her role iruman Show.
"As long as everybody is happy."
Kazir shrugged and sat down. He began to draw sketches with his pen. He drew a man in a suit, with shoulder-length bck hair and a short beard.
The man, the Baba Yaga, John Wick, Mr. Jonathan Wibsp;
As long as the actor passed the appearance requirements, he would have a ce to show his ag talent. Then Kazir would meet him for the final round of auditions.
To be ho, he had a few actors in mind, but he was not sure if they would agree to his requirements.
"We need a protagonist as soon as possible to give him more time to train. Because John Wick is different from Taken. It's a-packed, I'm not even lying."
The gunfights and hand-to-hand bat filled almost the entire movie. There was never a dull moment, it was all adrenaline.
"Not only the protagonist, I also have to traiher actors. Because most people in the John Wiiverse are assassins and killers. Hell, even a beggar is an assassin."
With that in mind, he began writing his requirements for the other cast members. They would have to sign a training traake sure they would not make any mistakes during the shooting.
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Another week passed and December arrived. The crew began to return one by one.
On their agenda was the first round of auditions for the role of John Wick.