HWI 72

Hollywood What If Chapter 72

The month of July was part of the summer when students could play around and watch movies. 

Every film company understood how important the summer schedule was because this was the season when film companies could earn a big amount of cash. 

Phenomenon, Courage Under Fire, A Time to Kill, and many movies were released in the month of July. 

However, the month of July was only dominated by two movies. It was The Hangover and Independence Day. 

At the end of the month, which was July 31, Independence Day had $228.99 million. Honestly, that was a very big amount of money in just a month. This might be one of the reasons why Independence Day became the highest-grossing movie of 1996. 

Everyone in Hollywood understood that the movie would earn more. It still didn't lose its freshness and more moviegoers would watch it. 

As for The Hangover, it grossed $207.01 million. It was amazing that these two movies were released almost at the same time and their box offices were over 200 million dollars each. 

The people in the marketing departments of film companies concluded that people were highly interested in Science Fiction. Especially when it had good graphics. 

Regarding The Hangover, it was brought by the scandal. Many people heard the movie because of Kazir's scandal. So people became interested in the movie. 

However, let us not forget another fact. In the entire history, the first movie that was advertised in the Super Bowl was Independence Day. It caused a huge shock after it was advertised. Because almost hundreds of millions of people watch Super Bowl every year. 

Publicity. The two movies had good publicity. That might be the clear conclusion. 

Even Disney felt that their decision in troubling Kazir Grey was wrong. Phenomenon didn't have any good results at all. The scandal they created was useless. They helped Kazir Grey and Warner Bros instead. 

To make the matter worst, Salvatore Barlowe announced that Kazir Grey would never work with Walt Disney and Universal Pictures. 

Yes, the agent fucking announced it! Not afraid of the consequences at all. After all, there were four giants that Kazir could cooperate with. 

"... Michael."

Harvey Weinstein wiped his forehead. He was the one responsible for fanning the flame regarding the scandal.

Michael Eisner was closing his eyes. The performance of their movies this year was a bit tilted. 

Even their big production movies such as The Rock and Ransom didn't generate 200 million dollars. Their animated movies were getting weaker too. 

'That's why we need another blood in this company.'

This was the reason why he invited his friend, Michael Ovitz, as the president of Walt Disney.

Michael Eisner was the chairman of Walt Disney and he controlled the company for around a decade. He was talented and brought the company to glorious years. 

However, Michael Eisner understood that the hand-drawn animation industry was slowly losing its competency. 

'That's why we need to acquire Pixar too.'

He was thinking of so many things. 

"Did Michael Ovitz agree with this decision of causing a scandal on Kazir Grey?"

"He was quiet about it."

Harvey Weinstein replied. Michael Ovitz was the founder of CAA. Obviously, he didn't want to help Harvey Weinstein with his plan. He just kept a blind eye to it. 

"So you're saying that WMA had a way to smear Kazir's reputation? They gave you the Cassandra Hoecrap's contact number and you started doing this?"

"... That's right."

"Now this is a bit complicated. I can't believe that you got manipulated by WMA."

"..."

Harvey Weinstein gritted his teeth. He was the founder of Miramax and he had a huge sense of pride. It didn't sit well with him that Napoleon Dynamite escaped his grasp so he decided to smear Kazir's reputation. 

"You don't have to explain yourself. I understand. You can leave now."

"..."

Harvey Weinstein didn't have a choice but to leave. Walt Disney was the major shareholder of Miramax. They basically owned it. The fat guy left the office with indignant. 

"... I should probably kick the Weinstein brothers out of Miramax."

Michael Eisner sighed. The one who controlled Miramax was the Weinstein brothers, even Micheal Eisner could not interfere. 

Since Michael Eisner was an authoritarian person, he already planned to kick the Weinstein brothers. 

"This might be a good situation."

When Harvey Weinstein used Walt Disney's strength to cause trouble for Kazir, Micheal Eisner kept a blind eye. Because he felt like Kazir Grey was nothing but a newcomer. Yet his current movie was very successful.

So this Kazir Grey caught Michael Eisner's attention. 

"Let's see if he is useful or dangerous."

While the politics were happening in Hollywood, Kazir and the cast of The Hangover flew to the United Kingdom. 

Australia and the United Kingdom were both English-speaking countries. Hollywood usually released movies in their countries because of language similarity. Of course, there were other English-speaking countries too but these two countries generated huge amounts of money. 

After going to the United Kingdom, the cast would go to other countries in Europe. Artistic Films were very prominent in Europe and they respect films. 

Although lately, European countries were hating on Hollywood because of its success. European artistic films were losing their strength. 

"Do you think we will meet Princess Diana?"

Reese Witherspoon asked him after they came out of the private plane. The plane was owned by Warner Bros. 

"Princess Diana? Ah!" 

Kazir remembered that Princess Diana was still alive at this point. 

'Her death is really heartbreaking...'

Now, he became interested in meeting the woman. 

'Regarding the conspiracy theories about her and the Royal Family... I actually didn't know what exactly happened.'

"I'm amazed at Princess Diana because she is a real person... Unlike her husband."

"Reese, you should keep your voice low. The Royal Family has control over this country. We don't want to anger them."

"Really?"

"Well... That's what I heard."