Hollywood What If Chapter 206

  The theatre went dark for a sed before the credits rolled.

  The audience cpped, but didn't stand up. They already khe routihey remained in their seats, waiting for the post-credits se.

  The influence of Taken on the female popution was quite good and the audiehis time had many women, unlike John Wid The Bourne Identity.

  The tial ematiiverse was heavily based on male audiences, but the effect of Taken on females gave the ema a good male/female ratio.

  If Taken 2 was well-received, then the film in the tial ematiiverse would also have a rge female audienbsp;

  Well, this time Taken 2 leveled up and the audience could clearly feel the adrenalihis film was great!

  Then, a few seds after the credits rolled, the post-credits se appeared.

  [Marcus was walking, limping as he moaned in pain. He was he shore, where he had a yacht at the ready in case of a dangerous situation.]

  [This time he realised the enemy was quite strong. Perhaps the retired agent could go head to head with his friend John Wick].

  [Before Marcus could reach the shore, his feet stopped he cliff. Beh the cliff was a strong current of waves that could engulf anything.]

  ["Heh, I guess you guys have shown your true iions." Marcus could not help but chuckle.]

  [He looked at the two people, his remaining teammates for this mission. There were five, but two were killed by the retired agent.]

  ["Your retionship with the Fraternity is getting sour and Slone didn't like that."]

  ["Is it because I want to retire from this job?" Marcus grimaced. The wound in his left leg hurt.]

  ["That's one of the reasons."]

  [The two Fraternity members raised their guns. Marcus was shot in the chest, but he could still move. Marcus, determio survive, jumped dowreacherous cliff.]

  [The post-credits se ended with Marcus disappearing into the waves].

  This se was a bit of a shock as they thought Marcus' appearan the film had already ended. Now the audience became ied in the Fraternity and how this anisation would affect the films.

  The audience cpped and people started to stand up and leave the ema iement. Some of them were greeted by the people from emaScore to t up the film's ratings.

  At the Paramount Theatre, the cast of Taken 2 stood up and received a standing ovation from the audienbsp;

  It was known that the cast and director of the film would be interviewed after the premiere.

  Most of the questions were directed at Liam Neeson and Brianna Evans. These two actors had given good performahis year and their box office appeal reciated.

  Of course, some reporters and film critics asked Willem Dafoe and Scarlett Johansson a few questions.

  They were curious about Willem Dafoe's role in the film, as the post-credits se was about him.

  Willem Dafoe was actually clueless about his role in the film. Although he khat his s time in the film would be a lot. Director Kazir Grey assured him.

  As for Scarlett Johansson, the questions about her were quite mild as she was still a minor.

  The other star of the film was her than the director, Fremont Smith. This young director proved that he could hahe pressure and successfully make a big budget film.

  "I just want to thank directrey fivihe ce to direct this film. God knows hoy I am right now. Of course, I want to thank my parents for believing in me. I believe that with stroermination and a lot of hard work I do anything. I have to dream higher and bigger."

  Fremont looked at his parents, who were at the premiere. His mother was g, while his father was rubbing his wife's back, smiling and proud of his son.

  Fremont Smith smiled and waved his hand, trying his best not to cry.

  The premiere was over and the first hurdle had been taken.

  Everything would be decided after the midnight and first day box office. On the basis of these data, the professionals would determihe film's forecast. Of course, the result might not be 70% or 80% correbsp;

  The critid even the industry professionals thought that Titanic was going to be a huge box office flop after the first week's data was collected.

  But instead of falling, Titanic's box office went up.

  Nobody knows the future.

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  4 November 1999.

  Two big-budget films were released at midnight. The first was Taken 2 from Grey Pictures, distributed by Paramount Pictures.

  The sed was The Bone Collector, distributed by Universal Pictures.

  In its first 24 hours, The Bone Collectrossed 7 million. To make that amount of money in one day was impressive.

  Unfortunately for The Bone Collector, it against a strong oppo.

  The first day box office for Taken 2 was a whopping 17 million. That is hoeople went to see the film on the first day alone. On top of that, the film's reputation was strong.

  Based on this, they cluded that Taken 2's first-week box office would be huge, around 55-60 million. Only big movies with a lot of promotion could get the same treatment of 60 million in one week.

  However, most of these big projects were released in the summer. Taken 2 did well despite the timing, even though it was not heavily promoted. It seemed that people just wao see the film.