HWI 503

Hollywood What If Chapter 503

Spider-Man 1 and Spider-Man 2 were directed by Kazir after the director signed two movie deals for Sony-Colombia. It was the best decision they made as this business deal elevated their studio. It helped them discover how they could survive in the industry.

Kazir changed how Hollywood looked at superhero movies. Now, many studios were interested in trying the genre because of what Kazir did.

The success of Spider-Man made Sony-Colombia keep up with the other giant studios and maintain its relevance. Kazir was a major factor in that.

Unfortunately, Kazir expressed that he won't direct the third Spider-Man movie because he had other plans to do so. Sony-Colombia did its best to convince the director but he was not budging. They offered him a better contract, but Kazir was already a billionaire at that point.

A lot of people were disappointed to hear that Kazir wouldn't direct the third movie. Sony-Colombia was disappointed, especially the executives. Even the management of Marvel Comics was disappointed; they had a good relationship with Kazir, but feelings were hard to control.

In the end, Sony-Colombia had to hire another director for the Spider-Man 3. It was sad news for the Spider-Man fans all over the world... Perhaps Sony-Colombia could find a way to include Kazir in the project.

They did try.

Sony-Colombia hoped that Kazir would participate in the project, they even wanted to hire him as the head of the editor team of Spider-Man 3. They resorted to competing in buying Shadows Beneath just to convince Kazir but their plan didn't work. Universal Pictures got the last laugh.

By the way, Sony-Colombia was actually not confident that Shadows Beneath would be successful at the box office considering its genre, horror movies were also Kazir's weakness in his filmography.

Sony-Colombia didn't expect that the horror movie would become the highest-grossing horror of all time. They regret that they didn't do their best to acquire the rights to this movie.

Everyone believed that The Sixth Sense, the best horror movie of all time, would lose its position as the highest-grossing horror movie after Shadows Beneath was released.

After all, The Sixth Sense had an amazing plot twist that shocked people even today... Well, Shadows Beneath also had a plot twist though. This just proved that Kazir was THAT GUY. The director was breaking records after records like it was a Sunday morning. At this point, fans may hype the director but he would still be recognized as underrated. The stats were not lying.

As of now, Shadows Beneath grossed $891 million at the box office after five months of screening. It made the movie the highest-grossing horror movie of all time... Unless another movie could defeat it.

The second highest-grossing horror movie was now The Sixth Sense, which grossed $672 million at the worldwide box office.

If something was terrifying about these facts, it was the fact that Shadows Beneath would probably continue making more money as the movie was still screening all over the world.

Anyway, Sony-Colombia released Spider-Man 3 on May 4 and it was a success.

In just three days, the movie casually grossed $151 million. No one would deny that the movie was a success.

Spider-Man 3 was almost the perfect copy of the original Spider-Man 3 from Kazir's timeline.

Kazir worked with the Marvel Studio to write the script and Kazir had a strong authority in making decisions. Also, he was the best scriptwriter in Hollywood so it was easy to convince Sony-Colombia to make the original version of Spider-Man 3.

As for why Kazir didn't change the plot of Spider-Man 3? He had a simple reason.

He had no idea what to write. He also had no idea what to change. Kazir was just a person, after all. He couldn't come up with great stories like Artificial Intelligence, sad to say.

In his opinion, Spider-Man 3 was perfect the way it was. Sure, it had a lot of downs, but it was still a great movie, and Kazir enjoyed it.

Because of that, some fans had mixed reviews regarding the third movie. Still, Spider-Man 3 was making huge money.

In just ten days of screening, Spider-Man 3 grossed $240 million. It was close to recouping their production cost which was $258 million... Yeah, it cost a lot to make Spider-Man 3.

Sony-Colombia kept promoting the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man on many platforms. When May 17 arrived, the movie grossed $258 million... Now they are starting to make a profit.

Too bad because a strong rival was released on May 17. It was none other than that the most handsome ogre of all time, Shrek! To be precise, Shrek The Third!

Shrek The Third was a computer animation movie produced by DreamWorks Animation led by Jeffrey Katzenberg. Shrek was the first computer-animated movie that DreamWorks released, and it was a massive success. Since then, Shrek became one of the franchises that made DreamWorks Animation relevant. If not for this bad-mouthed green ogre, DreamWorks Animation would be long gone.

Anyway, Shrek The Third grossed $122 million after four days of screening. It was weaker compared to the performance of Spider-Man 3 but it was an amazing feat.

Also, because of Shrek's The Third, Spider-Man 3 only grossed $29 million between May 17 to May 20. Having two powerful movies released in the same month was tough to look at because one would lose while the other would win.

But this month of May was tougher to look at because three big movies would compete to dominate the month.

When May 24 arrived, Shrek The Third grossed $150 million while Spider-Man 3 grossed $289 million.

On the same day, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End was released in cinemas.