Hollywood What If

Chapter 348

The Matrix Reloaded basically dominated the last two weeks of May. There were no profitable movies at that time except Matrix.

The Big Six were smart enough to understand that facing something as powerful as The Matrix Reloaded would be bad for their business.

The Matrix Reloaded had a promising result and the Big Six decided not to release their movies close to Matrix Reloaded because their movies would be badly affected by Matrix Reloaded.

So within two weeks, The Matrix Reloaded easily grossed $217 million at the North American box office. The Matrix gained a lot of fans all over the country. Even the fashion sense was affected by this movie because a lot of people were now wearing black windbreakers with sunglasses and things like that. The influence of this movie was massive, many people couldn't deny it.

Unfortunately, the two sequels would be a disappointment for many people. The Matrix Reloaded had a lot of philosophical scenes that confused the audience and affected the box office.

"We can't follow our plan."

Alan Horn, the COO (Chief Operating Officer) of Warner Brothers announced in the meeting.

The results of The Matrix Reloaded were studied by professionals. Although The Matrix Reloaded made a lot of money in its first two weeks, the executives clearly saw that the audience response was not good.

CinemaScore gave the movie a B+, and that was just the first 5,000 votes. That rating would continue to drop.

Based on that score alone, the audience didn't like the movie. Not that much.

"If this continues, we will have to release the third movie this year to get as much profit as possible."

If they let the third Matrix movie come out in a few years, the audience would lose all interest.

So before it could happen, the executives at Warner Brothers agreed that they had to release the third movie this year. That was the safest way.

They didn't want to wait any longer because it was obvious that the fans were losing interest.

"It's a good thing we shot the second and third movies at the same time, the Wachowskis just need time to polish the movie..."

Speaking of the Wachowskis, Alan Horn regretted that he trusted them so much. They should have controlled the movie.

Well, The Matrix Reloaded was filled with meaningless philosophy about life and stuff. The audience didn't like that at all. They wanted to see an action and adrenaline movie. You see, human is a simple species. They bought the tickets to watch an action movie, not to get lectured.

"This year we will release the third movie to make as much profit as possible."

That is what happened in the original timeline. Warner Brothers realized that this franchise would lose all of its value if they didn't release the third movie as soon as possible.

So they decided to release the third movie, The Matrix Revolution, in November of the same year and grab as much money as they could. Then they killed the franchise for almost two decades.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

This taught them that trusting directors too much and letting them edit the movie would be too bad for business. Only a few directors like Kazir Grey had a sense of post-production for the purpose of making money.

This director could edit a movie to entertain the audience, not to make some philosophical bullshit. After all, people watch movies to escape reality.

"Start promoting The Matrix Revolution. Announce that the third movie is coming out this year," Alan Horn said, and management was determined to make it happen.

So yes, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolution would be released in the same year. A good move for Warner Brothers.

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Two weeks after the release of The Matrix Reloaded, the animated film Finding Nemo was released simultaneously in 3,374 theaters.

This was a movie animated by Pixar for Walt Disney. Walt Disney basically owned this company since Steve Jobs focused more of his attention on Apple. Walt Disney and Steve Jobs were the two biggest shareholders of Pixar.

With a budget of $94 million, this animated film easily captured the attention of many hearts... No lie, Finding Nemo was a masterpiece.

On its first day alone, Finding Nemo grossed $20.20 million at the North American box office.

This movie was rated PG-13, so the whole family could see it with no problem. And that was the magic of animated movies like Finding Nemo, every age could enjoy it.

Parents could enjoy it, understand the plot and be touched by how the father clownfish suffered and sacrificed just to find and save his son.

Children enjoyed it because it was a cartoon. It was a common knowledge that kids love to watch cartoons.

Even though Disney was an asshole sometimes, it didn't change the fact that Walt Disney was the greatest animation studio in Hollywood. Their movies were deep and close to the human heart... Except for the old racist/prejudice movies. Like Song Of The South, Pocahontas, and Peter Pan... Disney decided to forget about those movies because they didn't fit their family oriented image.

Anyway, Finding Nemo was a great movie and dominated June without any problems. From May 30 to June 27, Finding Nemo was the king of the box office. It made $244.27 million at the box office.

On June 27, 2003 another big movie was released. It was produced by Sony-Colombia with the title Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

It starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Lui.

This action film with three female protagonists was very well received.

On its first weekend, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle grossed $37 million at the box office.

In the same weekend, Finding Nemo only made $9 million, making Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle the week's box office champion.

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[Yeah... I'll post another chapter in an hour.]