Chapter 324

Chapter 324

"How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" is a 2003 romantic comedy film starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. The plot revolves around a magazine columnist who bets that she can make a man fall in love with her and then break up with him in 10 days, while the man simultaneously tries to make her fall in love with him to win a bet of his own. It's a hilarious and heartwarming story full of comedic situations and romantic moments. (Chat GPT)

This was the plot of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days in Kazir's original timeline. The movie did very well at the box office.

So Kazir recommended the script to Angelina instead.

Kate Hudson lost the role to Angelina because Angelina had a stronger box office appeal. Of course, the production studio had to pay Angelina a higher salary than Kate Hudson, who was just starting her career in recent years.

Paramount Pictures paid Angelina $12 million for her role alone. Her team actually wanted a share of the box office, but Paramount gave them a high salary instead.

The production cost of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days was $50 million, yet Angelina already took more than 20% of the budget.

Besides, Matthew McConaughey was also a famous actor and his salary was not that small.

The reason why production costs kept going up was because of the actors/actresses. Their agents would go to the studio and ask for huge salaries and the studio couldn't help but say no. After all, the actors and actresses were the faces of the movies. Studios couldn't hire unknown actors off the street, even if they wanted to, or else their movies wouldn't sell.

Angelina and Kazir walked into the theater together. Usually, the male and female leads would appear together to promote the movie.

But Angelina was not comfortable with this. She and Matthew were just co-workers and didn't have a relationship. Paramount had no choice but to agree. They didn't want to upset Angelina and Kazir.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle Of Life was still being filmed and it would be detrimental to Paramount if Angelina decided to stop cooperating.

So they decided to let the couple attend the premiere together.

"Nice to meet you, Director Grey."

"Nice to meet you, too."

Matthew McConaughey greeted them. He was more interested in Kazir than Angelina, to be honest. Rumor had it that Kazir wanted to make a pirate movie and Matthew was interested.

"Well... That's one of the reasons."

He admitted. No matter how professional Kazir was, it was still uncomfortable to talk to Matthew because he knew that Matthew and Angelina had kissing scenes... And yes, he was jealous.

As for other reasons, Kazir preferred Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp and Jack Sparrow were meant to be and he didn't want to destroy that if possible.

Kazir knew that Matthew McConaughey was a great actor and he could probably do an amazing version of Jack Sparrow, but Kazir didn't need any of that.

A few minutes later, the premiere of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days began as the lights dimmed and the screen lit up.

......

...

...

The next day, the movie's results were tallied. On the first day, the movie grossed $7.96 million. February was not a good month to release movies, so it was amazing to see How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days earn that much.

On the second day (February 8, 2003) the movie earned another $10.05 million.

On Sunday, February 9, the film grossed $5.75 million.

Combining the first weekend box office, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days grossed $23.77 million. A success for Paramount Pictures and Angelina Jolie.

++++

[Yeah, this chapter doesn't have much. I'm just giving a little lee way before the Oscars, because that's the main plot before the shooting of Pirates Of The Caribbean. The next chapter would be the announcement of the Oscars nominations... Will Kazir be nominated for Best Director? Nah, I'm not heartless enough to deny him that, am I?]