Harvey Weinstein took a deep breath and sat down. However, his mind was not calming down.
'Why is this happening to me? I didn't do anything bad. Why do people hate me?'
Harvey Weinstein was one of the major shareholders of Miramax, he was the current CEO. He founded the company together with his brother and so far their business was doing well.
They couldn't compete with the Big Six but most of the movies they produced won Academy Awards, giving them a good amount of profit in DVD's market.
Videotapes were already outdated and the majority of people used DVD players since the start of the century.
For Miramax, as long as their movie won one award at the Oscars, they have a sure way of profit.
All they had to do was plaster "Award Winning Director/Actor" on the cover of the DVD and it would catch people's attention.
The influence of the Academy Awards around this time was strong and people respected the Academy's taste in terms of movies.
Last time, Miramax promoted Good Will Hunting and they expected a good harvest at the Oscars. But in the end, they only got the Best Supporting Actor.
Nothing bad, the movie still earned money in the DVD market. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck put distance from him after Good Will Hunting. Well, a lot of people distanced themselves from Harvey after The Blair Witch Project.
However, Harvey could not get the fact that this was the nth time Grey Pictures fucked him up.
Harvey Weinstein had a strong connection in Hollywood and he found that Grey Pictures was the reason why his identity as the investor of The Blair Witch Project came out to the public. He was still mad about it... He actually wanted to hire a hitman but he knew the consequences if he did so.
'I'm not an evil person. I will never do something bad to another person.'
Harvey said to himself. He was not a bad person.
Perhaps he was just horny so he did some stuff to women. Or perhaps he believed that he was a saint who would never hurt a person. Maybe he was delusional.
The # MeToo movement showed the true color of Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein suffered the most out of it.
It was actually sad that a bunch of news regarding sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and ra-pe culture came to surface in the 2010s even though this kind of stuff was already happening a few decades ago. As if people just heard about ra-pe for the first time... Well, the media just turned a blind eye to the injustice of small people in Hollywood.
The internet was the reason why the # MeToo movement was successful in the first place.
Actress Virginia Rappe was sexually assaulted in 1921. The rapist lost his career as a result.
Director Roman Polanski ra-ped a 13-year-old girl... The director fled the United States after that. He was currently filming The Pianist this year. It was a mystery how the Academy let the director compete at the Oscars.
Patricia Douglas, a film extra, suffered ra-ped by one of the employees of MGM. The actress got blacklisted in Hollywood after that incident.
These were just a few of the information regarding sexual harassment in Hollywood. If we listed all of them, this chapter might not be enough. All I wanted to say was that Hollywood was never a paradise. A lot of creepy people lived there. Probably Epstein Island was just the tip of the iceberg.
You know, the internet was a fucked up place but it also did something good. At least people had platforms to say their opinions. Unlike news networks that were bought and would never speak the truth.
"Fucking shit--!"
Harvey Weinstein slammed his fists against the table. No matter how much he tried to calm down, he could not get over that Grey Pictures was messing up his business again.
Grey Pictures and 20th Century Fox announced that they would release Mr. And Mrs. Smith on August 7, 2002.
That sounds about right... But it would be a disaster for Miramax. Because their movie would also be released on the same day.
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams was produced by Miramax. Mind you that the production cost of this movie was $38 million. Obviously, Miramax had put a lot into this project.
Yet Grey Pictures decided to release their movies on the same day. That would affect the box office of Spy Kids 2 tremendously.
CCU movies always have a good opening.
It was impossible to change the release schedule since Miramax already talked to the Cinema Alliance.
Their initial agreement was that Spy Kids 2 would get 4000 theaters but earlier, Cinema Alliance said to him that Spy Kids 2 could only get 3300 theaters.
Cinema Alliance decided to support Mr. And Mrs. Smith instead of Spy Kids 2. They gave the movie 4000 theaters on its opening day.
That was enough to make sure that Mr. And Mrs. Smith would earn a lot on its first day.
This fact made Harvey Weinstein livid.
Out of spite, he decided to contact his usual middleman to bring young unknown actresses to his office... He wanted to cool down.
He knew that shit had hit the fan and it was impossible to change it, so he might as well calm down... Despite the blood-boiling anger.
Most of the time, Harvey would promise these young actresses that he would give them roles in his next projects to entice them and it worked.
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Kazir had five movies that were set to be released this year. Three of them already had their premieres and currently raking in money at the box office.
The Hangover Part 3 just made over $360 million worldwide. From the looks of it, this would be the last installment of this franchise for the time being. Warner Bros could not afford the cast anymore.
The Bourne Supremacy grossed $190 million at the North American box office and its international release would start next week, in August.
Meet The Fockers was on its 15 days of screening and the movie made $172 million.
So far, the three movies have been doing well... They were doing great, actually.