Hollywood What If Chapter 195
The first week of The Bourne Identity grossed 39.15 million.
Using this trend, the week would also be a positive result. Even though The Bourne Identity was released, the promotion didn't stop. There were many advertisements all over the pce, radio stations and TV els were promoting the movie.
People heard the title of the movie everywhere. The word of mouth about the movie was als. People liked The Bourne Identity and ree to their friends.
Even Kazir Grey and Cameron Diaz were seen dating and ag lovey-dovey. The media used this method as another form of promotion.
The movie had the same ingredients as Taken and John Wick. Because of this, people were already used to the uyle of the movie. The movie was realistic, but it had a touch of non-realism. Sihese ingredients had been shown in the previous movies, people were already used to them and accepted them easily.
Together with people's positive opinion, more moviegoers decided to see The Bourne Identity. There were no good movies in August anyway.
The box office of The Bourne Identity for the sed week (August 22, 1999) was 68.52 million.
August was the least popur month in the summer schedule, so this amount was expected. In fact, this amount was already a huge thing, sidering that The Bourne Identity didn't have a strong cast. Matt Damon and Cameron Diaz were A-list stars, but they were not superstars.
pared to Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise, the cast of The Bourne Identity was A-list at best. Their box office appeal was not star-studded.
Anyway, the third week (August 29, 1999) came and The Bourne Identity already grossed 86.60 million.
Just 14 million and The Bourne Identity would cross the 100 million mark.
The produ cost of The Bourne Identity was 50 million. Grey Pictures' initial iment was 60 million, but it went down to 50 million when all was said and done. A blessing frey Pictures as they were short on cash as they have two projects this year.
For reference, a movie generally make a profit if the box office is 2.5 times the produ cost.
This means that for The Bourne Identity to be profitable, it would have to gross over 125 million. Based orajectory of the film, The Bourne Identity would exceed 150 million. Of course, that was based on statistid probabilities. No one knows the future, uh, except Kazir Grey...
'The North Ameri box office for The Bourne Identity will be around 150 million. That's a good business. After all, we have the overseas release to get more profit.'
If the movie did well in North America, it would definitely do well iionally. That would be the case with The Bourne Identity.
If Kazir's dedu was correct, The Bourne Identity would have made 200 million iionally. People all over the world like to see aovies, hehe.
'In that case, our profit for The Bourne Identity will be over 100 million. As long as nothing bad happens, The Bourne Identity will bring us more than 100 million.'
It was amazing that a situation like this could happen. Iing in movies was a quick way to make a profit, but it was not a sure thing. There were cases where the movie flopped.
'A movie be finished in a year and the iment will be returned quickly. As long as you know the trick, you make it big.'
The fourth week (September 5, 1999) came and The Bourne Identity grossed 107 million.
In four weeks, The Bourne Identity crossed the 100 million mark. This was an obvious ahat the movie was successful.
"These people... I swear, they always try to harass me when my movies e out!"
Kazir muttered, rubbing his forehead.
"Well, every movie you direct is successful. They want to gratute you." Cameron Diaz sat o him and rubbed her skin against him.
"gratutions my ass, they wao work with them."
"That's a good thing."
"I know... It's just that some people are trying to invite me to those parties again and I never like going to parties."
Cameron just smiled ahe man grumble.
"Besides, a lot of agents are trying to tact me. Most of them are trying to offer me a better trad leave CAA."
The William Morris Agency (WMA) tried to tact him again. This time they expressed their thoughts and hoped that Kazir Grey would return to his "inal home". They said that Carl Morin and Lawlor Dean no longer worked at WMA and that no one would harass him again.
'Bullshit, they only want me because of my status and power to get them roles for their ts.'
CAA loved him for that. Most members of his cast came from CAA.
Not only WMA, but even UTA (Ualent Agency) tried to get him on their roster. They dropped the tract down to 2% ission! They were crazy.
Unfortunately for them, Kazir was not ied. What he needed was stability. The tial ematiiverse was still in its infancy, and he didn't want to cause trouble.
Besides, his retionship with Salvatore Barlowe and CAA was going well. Much better than with WMA, who kicked him out.
'I don't want to tell Cam, but a actually tried to push his t on me just for a role. Of course I never agree.'
The actress was beautiful, but Kazir was immuo beautiful women. He had no reason to have sex with a woman just because his libido was boiling. He was mature enough to trol his primal urges.
Not only that, but even his crew members got caught iurbulehey were getting recruited by other studios, leaving Kazir and the produ to find new workers to takeover their positions.
'Freddie from the camera department was hired by a produ studio to direct a small budget movie. I don't bme him. If I were in his position, I'd take the risk.'
Some of the important people in the crew were almost kidnapped as well. Entig them with higher sary aer position.
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[Author's note: I know it's te, but rest in peace to Akira Toriyama, the Mangaka/Creator on Ball, Dr. Slump, Blue Dragon, and Drago (Artist). His creations are masterpieces that created many childhood memories for me and many people. His legacy will never be fotten].
[Another Note: I know I was gone for a almost a week now. I have no excuse, I reached the point of my life where I want to spend my whole day ying in my bed, watg YouTube shorts and do nothing. And yes, I fug hate myself.]