Hollywood What If Chapter 198

  If everythi well with F*ght Cl*b, the movie would gross 200 million at the worldwide box office. That was a huge deal.

  "Haha, it looks like 20th tury Fox and David Fincher reciled this time."

  He still remembered how 20th tury Fox banned David Fincher after the tragedy of Alien 3.

  Anyway, David Fincher was his friend and Kazir Grey was happy to see his friend succeed.

  "... Sigh, maybe he will invite me to drink again."

  Drinking with David Fincher was a bad idea.

  Kazir decided to open the page of the neer ahe tents.

  There was an expnation why F*ght Cl*b was doing well even in October. The one who wrote the article was a movie critibsp;

  Kazir raised his eyebrows when he saw his name.

  The film critic said that the aesthetic of the filmmaking was ging. After the release of Kazir Grey's films and the Wachowskis' Matrix, people became ied in watg a films with serious stunt chraphy. Especially Kazir Grey's hand-to-hand bat.

  The aovies created by Kazir Grey emphasize making the fight ses as grounded and realistic as possible.

  Although Kazir's movies had a bit of the supernatural, such as bending bullets and ninjas, people preferred to watch that rather than a topless man raining bullets with a heavy mae gun without reloading.

  Because of this, the performance of F*ght Cl*b was affected and brought a better box offibsp;

  "So this critic is saying that I'm the reason why Fight Club is thriving, is that right?" Kazir tilted his head and wondered.

  He khat he was ging the future, and it seemed that he was ily ging the future of F*ght Cl*b, too, because of his movies.

  Anyway, David Fincher was his friend and he was happy that his movie was successful.

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  Awo weeks passed and Kazir was busy again. October passed and November was there to greet them with a bunch of horror movies.

  F*ght Cl*b grossed over 72 million and is already sidered a box office hit.

  As for The Bourne Identity, it grossed 147 million after three months iers. However, the movie was already losing steam and had only 500 theaters. Maybe two weeks ter, The Bourne Identity would be dropped by the ema Alliance. Well, it seemed that The Bourne Identity would cross the 150 million mark within those two weeks.

  Grey Pictures had already received their 40% share of the 100 million from ema Alliahe remaining money would be sent ohe Bourne Identity fis run.

  Sony-bia only received 20 million because of the tract. Holy, Sony-bia was losing money on this. They were bleeding and gambling with their future. Bruce Almighty was still in the filming stage and needed more time in post-produ because of the special effects it needed.

  Some of the higher-ups at Sony-bia were not happy about the deal. Sony-bia ied more than 15 million in prints and advertising for The Bourne Identity.

  The fact that they could get more money from ema Allia least 10 million, eased their minds a bit.

  In addition, the iional performance of The Bourne Identity has been astounding.

  In just 50 days of release, the film had already grossed 138 million.

  17 million in the UK.

  14 million in Germany.

  15 million in Italy.

  13 million in Spain.

  27 million in Japan.

  9 million in Australia.

  These are just the major tries that tributed to the iional box office for The Bourne Identity.

  Keep in mind that Sony-bia distributed the films in hundreds of tries. Of course, local theaters would get a cut of the box offibsp;

  Sony-bia might get 28 million. Not bad, holy, but not good either. At least they spent less money on iional promotion.

  Matt Damon and the cast of The Bourne Identity flew around the globe for a month just to promote the movie, it was very exhausting... Kazir was not with them because he had another project to take care of.

  The worldwide box office for The Bourne Identity was 285 million. There was a good ce that it would cross the 300 million mark.

  If there was ohing that Sony-bia was disappointed about, it was the fact that they could only get 20% of the videotapes and DVD sales of The Bourne Identity.

  They were only the distributor of The Bourne Identity and Grey Pictures owned all the chts.

  Sihe Bourne Identity art of a huge ematiiverse, and ohat ematiiverse became a huge success, many people would be ied in buying the videotapes to plete their sets.

  With that in mind, the videotapes and DVD sales of The Bourne Identity could be over 100 million in its first year. And Sony-bia could only lick 20% of that huge amount.

  Ahing, Robert Ludlum was the author of the Jason Bourne novels, and he also had a piece of this delicious pie.

  Even though the 3% reve was small pared to Sony-bia, it was still 7 to 8 figures in cash. As long as Grey Pictures sold the videotapes and DVDs or rehe movie to an online movie ptform, Robert Ludlum would get 3% of the revenue.

  Everybody got their piece of the pie, and everybody was happy. Everybody got their profit, no matter how big or small it was.

  It was a win-win situation, although Grey Pictures had the st ugh. They were able to make more than 100 million at the box office this time.

  After all that, Grey Pictures still didn't have time to celebrate. Because Taken 2 would be released in the first week of November, distributed by Paramount Pictures.

  This time Fremont Smith was the one who was having a hard time because of stress. His iic afro was long gone, he cut his hair short because he didn't have time to take care of it tely. He was so busy w on Taken 2 that he didn't have time to take care of himself.

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  [Author's Note: Not gonna lie, this chapter is super ky to read.]