Hollywood What If Chapter 212
The third week of release of Taken 2 ended and the result was very good. On November 21, 1999, the movie already grossed 132.48 million.
The state of Hollywood was gettier and the power of the media was getting stronger. People loved to watch movies on weekends and that was the reason why the box office was better on weekends.
Kazir Grey made the most of his time, knowing that he didn't have much to do tely.
The director of Taken 2, Fremont Smith, was out promoting the movie with the cast. They visited many national and local TV shows.
Paramount Pictures already promised to promote the movie, they khat the box office of Taken 2 would make their appetite better. They were also the distributor of the videotapes and DVDs. As long as Taken 2 did well, Paramount would make a better profit from the bined box offid videotapes/DVDs.
Sometimes Brad Grey regrets that he didn't agree with Kazir's decision.
He should have let Grey Pictures i 30% in the movie, at least Paramount owhe chts to Taken.
Grey Pictures would have approval rights, but that was nothing pared to the profit that Taken brought in. The influence of Taken in North America was strong because of the viral kidnapping that happehree years ago. That was the main reason why the movie grossed over half a billion at the worldwide box offibsp;
Also, Taken art of a huge universe and every movie seemed to be profitable. Even John Wick, which had an average box office, was raking in money in the videotape market.
Obviously, the people who saw Taken also saw John Wid The Bourne Identity. That means they have to watch the three movies to get the whole plot. So yeah, more money...
Paramount Pictures regretted that they didn't get a share of this huge amount of money! Why the hell did they not agree to Kazir's terms at the time?
If CErey could go ba time, he would sp his past self and yell at him to agree to Kazir's dition of iing 30% in the movie! Hell, he would even twerk in front of the director to vince him.
Money.
People would do anything to get a lot of money.
Just like straight men said, 20 dolrs is 20 dolrs, so it's not gay... Ahem, pletely irrelevant, but you get the point. Money make a person go crazy and do something stupid.
Not only Paramount, but also the other movie pahat Kazir Grey tacted four years ago had regrets.
Apparently, the eous pn Kazir called "ematiiverse" was a big hit! The four films released by Grey Pictures were doing well at the box offid at the videotape market.
That roof enough that the ematiiverse rofitable.
Suddenly, Warner Bros. had an epiphany, or to be more precise, they itched to follow Kazir's footsteps and create their own ematiiverse. In fact, they already had the best subject to use. It was her than Dics! The Justice League! Where heroes from different ied a superheranization to protect the Earth from disaster.
However, there was something that worried them... They had no idea where to start. They felt they o i money in these projects, but money was not enough to achieve success.
You need someone who make sure that the project will be a success! That's right, they need someone like Kazir, or more precisely, they need Kazir Grey!
The man, the myth himself, the director who made the impossible possible, directrey...
The said director was having a good time, watg old movies. Today he was watg the iie with the Wind, the best movie of the 1940s.
Kazir Grey didn't know that his status was improving again. He received so many invitations from different personalities in the industry, but as usual, he refused most of them. He didn't like parties and talking ters, especially if the strangers were only ied in his status and money.
So many women talked to him every time he attended a party, and they always flirted with him.
Movie? No, I want to talk to you about my feelings and how you give me a role in your project.
Editing cuts? What's that? Anyway, I want to tell you about my sweet kitten. If you want, you see it ter, my soft tight "kitten"...
What about the produ crew? Nah, I want to talk to you about produg a baby.
Yep, it may sound eous, but Kazir has heard these kind of pickup liely.
Holy, Kazir Grey wao nod his head and say yes to their advances, but his fear of women made him shake his head and walk away. Beautiful female strangers scared him the most.
After watg the iic movie, Kazir Grey got up and ged his clothes. He had a meeting with an iment pany. He had heard that his iment had already surpassed 120 million st time, so he was sure it would increase again this time.
Now that he was a millionaire, he realized that making money was not so hard... Or maybe he was just delusional. The hardest step in being a millionaire was earning the first 1 million.
In his past life, his worth was just over 1 million. His life back then was not that bad, but he was extremely depressed after he got divorced, lost his father, and had no tact with his older brother. He also had never met his mother in his previous life.
He had a hard time eg with the opposite sex and could never put his heart into them, as if he was afraid of getting hurt again.
He khat life was never a bed of roses. This led him to the truth that it was better to be a b man than a passionate o least his expectations would never be high and his pain would be less.
[Author's note: Rereading this chapter, I realized that there is no versation at all. There's no reason to have a versation anyway...]