chapter 357

    "why do bad things keep happening to us? why?"

    ronald meyer couldn''t help but ask himself, gritting his teeth in anger and disappointment. he was angry that their big movies this year were shot down by their rivals, and they lost the chance to make more money.

    this year, ronald could already predict their status in the rankings. universal pictures would be at the bottom of the big six.

    sony-columbia already had steady franchises to make money, while universal pictures had nothing but jurassic park and the mummy. everything after that were mid-tier franchises like american pie and chronicles of riddick/pitch black.

    universal pictures could start with the remake of jaws, but that kind of genre had already lost all its novelty. there were already a lot of shark horror movies in the industry.

    to make matters worse, sony-colombia, the company that had risen from its lowest point, was asking to buy the copyrights to king kong!

    everything has been chaotic lately.

    bad boys ii lost against pirates of the caribbean.

    american wedding also lost to the equalizer.

    there was no good news at all. ronald meyer felt that comcast might kick him out of universal pictures and put all the blame on him.

    if he knew that this would happen to him if he tried to destroy kazir''s reputation by spreading false news that the guy was a wife beater, he would immediately stop his past self from blowing himself up.

    for some reason, ronald felt that what he did to kazir was the catalyst for this outcome.

    everything started to go downhill after he tried to sabotage kazir.

    ''... if we can''t work with kazir, we might as well destroy his image.''

    this was his idea a few years ago, and now it seemed that this idea was coming back to his mind.

    actually, ronald meyer didn''t know it, but kazir stole a couple of movie franchises from universal pictures.

    the fast and the furious.

    meet the parents trilogy.

    bruce almighty.

    the jason bourne series.

    tom hardy and charlize theron, these two hated each other on the set of mad max: fury road.

    dwayne "the rock" johnson and vin diesel hated each other while filming the fast and furious franchise.

    the list goes on.

    ''... i can''t believe i''m going back to film spider-man.''

    the atmosphere on the set of spider-man was kind of eerie for kazir. especially when the producer and one of the actors didn''t like each other.

    jezebel salome and kirsten dunst. jezebel was a strict woman and she didn''t like kirsten''s free attitude, of course kirsten didn''t like jezebel either after those hurtful words she said.

    the set of spider-man 2 will probably lack female workers as well, because jezebel didn''t like to work with other women.

    in fact, kirsten wanted to leave the franchise. she didn''t want to be mary jane anymore, spider-man gave her a lot of bad memories. jezebel salome and angelina jolie to be exact.

    however, sony-colombia was afraid that the franchise would be affected if she left, so they calmed her down with more money.

    after all, money could buy a lot of things.

    kirsten was only in it for the money, but her commitment to the franchise was long gone.

    "... next year could be a difficult year for me."

    kazir felt the disturbance in the force. something was coming, and he didn''t know if he could overcome it or not.

    life was like an elevator, sometimes you''re way up and sometimes you''re down in the parking garage.

    kazir prepared himself because he knew that life would give him sour lemons... he might have to learn to make lemonade.

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    [i feel like the plot is running smoothly lately, so i need to add some spice, i want to hear your thoughts on it.]

    [for clarification, i don''t hate universal pictures. in fact universal pictures is far better than walt disney in any angle. unfortunately, the plot just went that way so i have to go with the flow.]

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