Hollywood What If Chapter 524
The fifth spot was taken by Shrek the Third. This franchise was produced by DreamWorks. Shrek was DreamWorks' first big success in 3D animation and probably the franchise that started their steady business. The movie grossed $813 million after months of screening.
The sixth highest-grossing movie of 2007 was John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, an action film set in the Continental Cinematic Universe, produced by Grey Pictures. The movie grossed $709 million.
Ratatouille took the seventh spot. The movie was about a rat who could cook... Yeah, people had no idea what substances the writers at Pixar inhaled while thinking up this movie. Ratatouille was a 3D cartoon movie, and kids loved to watch that kind of thing. Even adults watched it. Naturally, Ratatouille grossed $623 million.
As for the eighth spot, I Am Legend was about a man who lived in a zombie-apocalyptic world. Starring Will Smith, the movie grossed $585 million.
The ninth spot was taken by The Simpsons Movie, which grossed $536 million.
The tenth spot was taken by National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The movie grossed $459 million. This franchise had potential, but Walt Disney decided to drop it for some reason.
300, Zack Snyder's second movie, actually took the eleventh spot by grossing $456 million. The director was happy, and so was 20th Century Fox. Even though the movie didn't reach the top 10, for a mid-budget film, 300 earned quite a lot of money.
With that, the top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2007 were listed. Based on the list, the biggest winner this time was still Grey Pictures. It wasn't surprising anymore.
Three of the movies on the list were produced by Grey Pictures. They were Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Shadows Beneath, and John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum. These three movies grossed over $2.89 billion. This amount of money was hard to comprehend for the average person... 99% of the population would never acquire this kind of money. But for Grey Pictures, this was their yearly average revenue.
Unfortunately, Shadows Beneath was technically owned by Universal Pictures, since the copyrights to the movie were sold to them by Kazir personally. Grey Pictures only earned around $150 million from the transaction.
Some people thought that this business deal was a stupid move for Grey Pictures. And honestly, they weren't wrong. If Kazir had decided to keep the copyrights and just let 20th Century Fox distribute the horror movie, Grey Pictures would probably have earned more money.
But for Kazir, who had so much money in his name, a few hundred million dollars were basically nothing... This statement was too offensive to hear, not going to lie. Kazir was at the point in his life where money meant nothing. He just wanted to feel the thrill of making transactions with big studios.
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Enzo Park wiped the sweat from his forehead after practicing the stunt choreography with a stuntman. He was breathing hard after the training.
The choreography for Ninja Assassin was intense. Despite the fatigue, Enzo nodded to himself, knowing that this training was worth it. Besides, he loved doing stuff like this, he loved being active and working out.
He had been training for four months and now remembered almost every stunt he needed to perform. For this movie, Ninja Assassin, Enzo Park said that he would personally participate in the stunts. He felt like he was slowly becoming a ninja. He even studied the way of ninjas. He was excited to see his stunts on the big screen.
Of course, due to the insurance policy, he was not allowed to take part in dangerous stunts.
The stunt director of the movie was his brother, Tae-Won Park.
By the way, Enzo Park was just a stage name. Enzo's real name was Hae-Won Park. Hollywood was not a fan of Asian names, so Asian actors had to adopt Western names to be part of the circle.
Tae-Won Park made sure that every action stunt would match Enzo's expertise in martial arts. They had to promote Enzo's mastery in martial arts, this was a form of marketing. A lot of men liked martial arts, and that was a way to garner fans. As his brother, Tae-Won was proud of what Enzo had achieved in Hollywood.
Now, Enzo Park would star in his own action movie after so many years in Hollywood. The movie was also going to be directed by Kazir Grey! Look at that! How many actors would salivate in jealousy at the idea of working with Director Grey?
Jackie Chan and Jet Li used to do difficult stunts to make a name for themselves in Hollywood, and Tae-Won Park set the same road for his brother. This strategy was approved by Kazir to follow the usual steps of Asian action stars in Hollywood.
Of course, he had no intention of adding dangerous stunts that could endanger lives... These kinds of stunts would be taken on by professional stuntmen.
Unlike most CCU movies that followed literal explosive scenes with tons of destruction and heart-palpitating stunts, Ninja Assassin focused mostly on close combat.
There would also be some cameos from The Rock and Paul Walker. Currently, The Rock was still not that expensive to cast, while Paul Walker was still finding his footing in Hollywood, so more jobs meant more exposure.
Enzo had already achieved a certain level of fame in Hollywood, but his name was still not at a household level where everyone recognized him. And even if people did recognize him, they mostly called him by his CCU name, which was Raizo.