Hollywood What If

Chapter 352

Some of the women in the audience squealed when Jay Leno showed Kazir's topless pictures. In these pictures, Kazir was walking on the beach wearing sunglasses.

Kazir chuckled and blushed slightly, embarrassed.

"I actually don't know how the tabloids found those pictures. Production was taking a break at the time, so I decided to go to the beach and have some fun. They probably took those pictures while I was on break."

He casually lied while maintaining his grin. Those pictures were taken to promote the movie. Not by accident, but on purpose.

But of course, Kazir had to keep the novelty. In this business, lying has always been part of the job.

Oh, you tore your ACL while filming an action scene? How brave and dedicated are you? How can you still run like a cheetah then?

Oh, you don't have a stunt double? What, you're going to latch onto a plane a hundred feet off the ground? Wow, does your insurance cover that?

So you're not on steroids? You got ripped in two months? It's because you eat healthy meals every day, go to the gym, and maintain a perfect set of muscles. Yeah, yeah, you're not lying. *wink wink*

In this business, lying has always been part of the job.

"I'm not going to lie, I actually thought of a movie about pirates while riding one of the rides at Disney World."

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The opening day (July 9, 2003) of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was $13.50 million.

Unlike Spider-Man, which earned $39 million, and The Revenant, which earned $15 million on its first day, The Curse of the Black Pearl had a lower opening box office.

However, 20th Century Fox and Grey Pictures were happy with this result. Their expectations for this pirate movie were not that high.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines only made $9 million on the same day, so The Curse of the Black Pearl easily won first place that day.

On the second day, Thursday, July 10, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl made another $10.48 million.

The movie had an unorthodox premiere, as The Curse of the Black Pearl premiered on Wednesday.

On Friday, July 11, the film earned another $14.84 million.

On Saturday, July 12, it made another $17.41 million.

On Sunday, it made another $14.37 million.

The first weekend of Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl grossed $70.62 million.

Those numbers made a lot of people sit up and take notice. Publishers who were ready to bash the movie stopped their intentions before making a fool of themselves. The critics who wanted to criticize the movie also became quiet.

There was no reason to bash a movie that made $70 million at the box office. After all, money was an important aspect of the industry.

The plot of the movie was great. It was also entertaining. The acting was impeccable.

No matter what the "professionals" said, the movie was a success. The audience enjoyed the movie, which was the most important thing.

Some of the film critics were disappointed that Kazir returned to his usual style - entertaining the mindless audience instead of making an art film about the hardships of human life. Ah, really disappointing.

Now that Kazir had gotten what he wanted from the Academy Awards, there was no reason to please them... Unless Pirates Of The Caribbean had a chance to compete at the Oscars.

Johnny Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow has been praised by many people, even critics. He had a chance to compete for Best Actor, although his chances of winning were slim.

However, the movie had an amazing makeup, character design, sound editing and also visual effects. In this aspect, Pirates Of The Caribbean could probably compete for at least one or two awards.

The news this week was about Johnny Depp's amazing performance and how Kazir Grey broke the curse of pirate movies.

Waterworld was a flop.

Cutthroat Island was also a flop.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was a flop.

But Pirates of the Caribbean was the opposite of a flop.

After that, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl did well at the box office.

On its second week, Friday, July 18, The Curse of the Black Pearl officially crossed the $100 million mark. To be exact, the movie earned $109.47 million.

Everyone was surprised, but not by much. If Kazir was the director, the movie would surely make money.

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Bad Boys II was the sequel to Bad Boys which was released in 1995 and was directed by Michael Bay. It starred Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith were famous black actors with dozens of movies under their belts.

To make matters worse, Michael Bay was also an amazing director. He was known as the explosive director, not because of his explosive behavior, but because of his addiction to explosions. This director loves to make things explode.

Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and now Bad Boys II.

His filmography was similar to Kazir's in that all of his movies were profitable. The only difference was that Kazir produced one movie a year while Michael Bay could only produce one movie every two years. In that aspect, Kazir was better.

The first day of Bad Boys II made $16.88 million, $3 million more than the first day of Pirates Of The Caribbean.

On its second day, July 19, Bad Boys II made another $16.20 million. This was $6 million more than the second day of Pirates Of The Caribbean...

Maybe... Maybe Pirates Of The Caribbean would lose to Bad Boys II.

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[Author's note: Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing with my life lately. Anyway, since I know I have a lot of backlogged chapters on my Patreon, I decided to post three chapters a day for five days straight].