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HWI 542
🕑 Added 2025-02-14 16:28:43 +0000 UTCHollywood What If Chapter 542
Inside the wide conference hall, where a long table had people talking about their plans, a nervous person started talking about their second-quarter profit.
He read the documents.
In this second quarter, the company's revenue was $1.8 billion. That was huge.
Grey Pictures's annual revenue was around $2 billion, sometimes less sometimes more. But they usually had revenue of more than $1 billion.
Yet 20th Century Fox's second quarter(April to June) grossed $1.8 billion in revenue. This was the power of 20th Century Fox, one of the Big Six of Hollywood. In three months, the company made $1.8 billion.
The Big Five probably earned at least $1 billion in revenue in these three months. April, May, and June were part of the summer schedule, and this was the season when a lot of people visited the theaters and watched movies.
Big movies such as Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and The Incredible Hulk were released within these three months. Two of these movies were distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Perhaps this was the reason why the company had a revenue of $1.8 billion. By computation, around 35% of this amount would be their profit.
"As of today, July 21, Iron Man grossed $315 million while The Incredible Hulk grossed $132 million at the North American box office."
"Other than that, there are other movies that performed well this summer such as Indiana Jones and Narnia. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull grossed $313 million while The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian ended its screening in North America with $139 million."
Even though Lucasfilm had a close relationship with 20th Century Fox, the distributor of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull was Paramount Pictures. Steven Spielberg and Paramount had a strong relationship so it was not surprising.
The Chronicles Of Narnia was the franchise that Walt Disney chose to follow the trend of adapting novels into movies.
The presenter licked his lips and clicked the next page. The slide show went to the next page which was a pie chart.
"This year, there are three superhero movies that were released. Two of them are from us and they perform well even internationally."
"Iron Man grossed $513 million worldwide. The movie is already losing its popularity. The expected box office is around $580 million."
"As for The Incredible Hulk, it has a lower box office compared to Iron Man but it's still a success nonetheless. $259 million is not a small amount..."
The presenter paused.
"Continue," Tom Rothman said and the presenter nodded.
"After 14 days of screening, The Dark Knight grossed $351 million. Furthermore, the movie was released internationally and grossed $241 million. Two weeks of screening, the overall box office of The Dark Knight is $592 million."
In just two weeks, the movie grossed more than half a billion.
The atmosphere in the conference room turned cold and everyone became quiet. All of the people inside looked at Kazir, one of the people responsible for the success of The Dark Knight.
Kazir shrugged. He had nothing to explain. He was hired by Warner Brothers; hence, he had to do his job... Besides, he earned more than $150 million directing The Dark Knight as of now. Once the box office of the movie reached its limit which was expected to be around $800 million, Kazir would probably earn $200 million. On top of that, Kazir had peripheral profit to earn in a few years which would probably be $70 million at least.
So yeah, even though some people didn't like Kazir's decision, it was clear that Kazir won. The money he earned was absolutely worth it working with Warner Brothers.
That fact was not liked by 20th Century Fox.
In fact, Kazir could see some people glaring at him.
Tom Rothman weakly sighed... His salary was actually smaller than Kazir which was understandable since Kazir was one of a kind.
The presenter could feel the tension so he decided to continue his presentation.
"For our next plan, in August we will release Mirrors, The Rocker, Babylon A.D., and Wanted 3."
"In September, we only have one movie to release which is The Equalizer 2."
As expected, Wanted 3 and The Equalizer 2 would be released in less popular schedules because they were not prioritized by the company. However, the profit they made by distributing CCU movies was around $500 million every year.
The meeting continued and the atmosphere became better. Overall, they were satisfied with what they achieved this quarter. The company was doing well.
The meeting then reached the next topic which was the approval of projects.
They approved the filming of Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian, Final Destination 3, Machete, and Wall-E.
20th Century Fox bought the script for Kazir's Wall-E and the director agreed because he didn't want to sour more their relationship.
"Hm, now that I think about it. Kazir, I still don't know what your next movie is. You seem kinda free lately. Most of the time, after you're done with your project, you immediately start a Nex project." Tom Rothman said to Kazir two chairs away from him.
"Tom, have you forgotten what we talked about a week ago? I said I had no intention of directing a movie in 2009. I want to take a rest." Kazir explained.
"What? I thought you were joking. We are talking about you, Director Grey, the workaholic director who films a movie every year... Are you sure you're doing well?"
Tom asked curiously, a bit worried.
Everyone knew that Kazir had experienced some horrible stuff within these past months.
Last year, Kazir also got killed.
Three weeks ago, he saw his friend almost dying.
It won't be a surprise if Kazir wants to take things slow and take a rest.
Tom Rothman apologized after realizing that he was being rude. At the end of the day, Kazir was a person and he needed rest after so many shit.
"If possible, I just want to lay on my bed all day and do nothing."
Completely relatable.
