Work Delegation

Alexander was busy scribbling away on his papers and Helena was leisurely watching not far from him.

The babysitter has mostly gotten used to the surprises that her little client is giving her. She now found it best to keep quiet and not disturb him while he was immersed in his own little world.

Whilst she was off daydreaming, Alexander was sorting out building images in his head. Combing all the images that Other Joe has seen was quite the hassle.

There were architectural wonders like Burj Khalifa and Australia's weird shell building. A lot were from works of fiction like the Avengers Tower and Tony Stark's mansion.

None of them fit the style he was going for as they were too overblown to just be used as a lowkey building complex.

He also wasn't even an architect or anyone related to this field, so it was best that he didn't need to overthink things.

Alexander was only drawing what his artistic senses were telling him to be aesthetically pleasing. By the end of his building montage, he submitted a lot of janky-looking but passable exteriors to his grandfather.

It was only up to his rich grandpa whether he be willing to incorporate it or not at all.

The little boy also did not dwell on it for long because his grandfather told him that his next site visit would only be when all the facilities are open for business.

The entire place was way too far and secluded for the Los Angeles of today, so he also didn't find it interesting to continue checking up on the place.

He was left to enjoy his home life as he had always been. Reading books, drawing what he wants, and occasionally listing out script ideas that he wanted to go for.

The boy was commissioned to draw up the Cosmic logo, so he was hard at work on that.

There was also the conditioning he had to do to prepare for a long session of filming. He had to be in sync with his American Mob or else the movie would be hard to watch.

Kid Psychic's selling point is to have an insanely powerful kid fight off the supernatural. He isn't the bumbling and broken Kageyama Shigeo but a smart and mature boy.

Jodie Foster, Kirsten Dunst, and Natalie Portman made their mark by being adults in a kid's body, so he planned to take that shock factor up a notch.

While he was cooped up in his home, Mark was in the finishing stages of his preparation. It was his best estimate that the filming will start by late June or early July.

Hiring the cast would only thing be left on the agenda and their character descriptions were already compiled by his son, so it would only be a matter of picking the right ones.

His employees were also busy at work but also questioning where their boss had gotten the crazy idea of filming three films at once.

They have seen the script and they really had no idea where he got the confidence that even the first film would even be watched by the audience. They know of Mark Creed's reputation in the industry, so it was no surprise that they had no confidence in him.

To top their confusion up, he plans to act alongside his four-year-old son. The crew was already getting headaches from thinking about this money-splurging father and what might be a super-spoiled son. They also had the grandfather to worry about.

By this point, they treated this Kid Psychic trilogy as a weird gig that a rich family wanted to try out.

While Mark was amidst the sea of doubt that his employees were giving him, Sullivan was having troubles of his own.

The old man was busy traveling in certain countries along with a correspondent from Mark's distribution company.

The distribution company had a network in North America while it's overseas distribution was only at its bare minimum. In fact, the major studios mostly monopolized the overseas sector and Mark's overseas capabilities are barely anything.

Well-connected Sullivan was there to patch up where they are lacking and have them lobby 'Kid Psychic 1' a year before its release. Businessmen gain success from having a lot of personal relations, so the problem of overseas distribution is only a matter of contacting the right people.

Of course, he didn't forget to be lowkey as usual lest he triggers the wrath of certain industry giants.

Alexander told him that Kid Psychic needed a shock factor that would overcome its inherent weakness of obscurity and drag people to the theaters to watch it.

Sullivan planned to showcase it simultaneously in North America and the very next day would be the overseas release. A nationwide release and a day later of a global release is what he was going for.

It had to be said that having such a coordinated release strategy was hard to pull off in this decade. In this era, popular movies are traditionally released through a sequence of premiering from one state to the other.

If the movie flops in one region, it would be hard to lobby it in the film schedule of another region's screen.

Theatre companies working together to propagate one movie is a monumental task. However, with the right incentives, incessant lobbying, scheduling, and secretive methods. Sullivan did not doubt that he can make it possible.

If the box office figures of that strategy would fail to shock audiences, he didn't know what would.

Of course, appropriate advertising is needed but the cost of that is minimal compared to the money burned in the previous strategy.

Forming film copies for a lot of movie theaters cost insane but it was a necessary sacrifice to kickstart their family's integrated business.

If the first movie develops a following, then repeating the same strategy in the following sequels is a peace of cake.

The Creed trio had all their work designated to themselves and by the moment Mark said that filming is to be started, they were pretty much done with most of their task.

Old Sullivan's job was the hardest but he only needed to delegate it to his personnel for now because he wanted to see how his cute grandson would act on camera.