HWI 283

Hollywood What If Chapter 283

The cold breeze still lingered, but not as cold as in December. Last year's event was something that many people would never forget, and perhaps it affected people's perception of the weather.

Now that another year has come, it is time to move on and let go of the past. Suffering has always been a part of life, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to look forward to. New year, new life.

With that in mind, there was no promising movie in January. This was to be expected as January has never been a famous month for Hollywood to release movies.

Still, it was kind of disappointing that of all the movies that were released in January 2002, only one movie made more than $100 million.

It was Snow Dogs, released by Walt Disney. And yes, it was about dogs...

The fact that The Count Of Monte Cristo and A Walk To Remember were released in the same month and didn't cross $100 million was discouraging. Because those two movies were pretty good.

The Count Of Monte Cristo was based on a famous novel of the same name, and yet it didn't work at the box office.

A Walk To Remember was also based on a novel of the same name, but it didn't do well either.

While January was bleak for Hollywood, Kazir was very busy that month. He visited the production sets of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and The Bourne Supremacy. He also had his own project to work on.

Even though Kazir was still in the USA, he didn't have much time for himself. Much more about Angelina.

Kazir knew that love was important, but his love and passion for filmmaking was stronger than any kind of love. He left his home in the first place just to be a filmmaker. That alone was enough to show how much he loved movies.

Most of the time, Kazir spent more time at work than with Angelina. It caused a bit of a fight, but the couple was mature enough to understand each other.

Two bad, because in March, Kazir would leave the country to go to Canada and start filming The Revenant. Their relationship was a bit rocky and they only had a month to fix it.

How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days would also start shooting in March and Angelina would be busy as well. Both of them won't have time for each other after March.

So to make things better, Kazir and Angelina attended a party together. This party was none other than the celebration party for Spider-Man.

Angelina and Kazir entered the party hand in hand and were greeted by many people, mostly people related to Sony-Columbia.

People congratulated Kazir for his outstanding ability to create blockbuster after blockbuster. Just as they predicted, Spider-Man successfully surpassed $900 million in the first week of February.

To date, Spider-Man is the highest grossing film of 2001. John Wick Chapter 2 came in second with $621 million.

In third place was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with a current worldwide gross of $620 million. This was followed by The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with $582 million.

2001 was a bad year and people used movies to escape reality and have fun. Many of the audience preferred these four movies mainly because of their special effects, magic or supernatural aspects and cool action stunts.

Hehe, it was also funny that the two currently highest grossing movies of 2001 were strongly related to Kazir Grey.

Kazir was the director of Spider-Man and he was also the writer/executive producer of John Wick Chapter 2.

However, with John Wick Chapter 2 already finished its run, there was no chance for the movie to increase its box office. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone would soon surpass this CCU movie.

"Congratulations Kazir!" Said Tobey Maguire, who was slightly tipsy.

"Congratulations, director." Producer Jezebel Salome was strict as always and didn't touch alcohol tonight.

"Yow, are money maker has arrived!" Willem Dafoe said jokingly and gave Kazir a big hug.

Angelina was happy to see her man doing well in his career. She was proud of him. At the party, Angelina decided to look around for someone.

Angelina was the type who loved to make fun of someone. It helped her boost her self-esteem and confidence. You see, she loved it when someone was jealous of her.

So yes, she was going to look for Kirsten Dunst. She knew that Kirsten had a crush on her boyfriend and she loved to jab Kirsten with that fact.

That was the reason why Angelina wanted to see Reese's reaction the last time. Too bad, it seemed that Reese had already moved on. Well, Angelina had a new target.

"Babe, I'll be right back. You can talk to your friends while I'm gone." Angelina told Kazir and the man nodded.

"Okay, take care."

Kazir said after kissing her hand. Angelina smiled and left her man to tease Kirsten.

Kazir and the others began to talk.

A few minutes into the party, two people approached Kazir. They were Stan Lee and Avi Arad.

Avi Arad was the current CEO/Chairman of Marvel Comics, while Stan Lee was the creator of many Marvel characters.

From the serious expressions on their faces, Kazir knew they were going to talk about the superhero copyrights that Grey Pictures owned.

After so many years in the industry, Grey Pictures has successfully acquired all of the MCU characters. Most notably the original Avengers: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye. It was time-consuming, but Kazir knew their importance, so he acquired them.

Kazir excused himself and went to the garden to talk to the two of them. This was going to be a serious talk.

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