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🕑 Added 2025-05-08 16:11:10 +0000 UTCHollywood What If Chapter 585
In the second week of May, only Star Trek performed amazingly. Star Trek had been a famous TV Show before it was even a movie. It was comparable to Star Wars. Or perhaps it followed the fame of Star Wars and became successful... Well, history had to say no.
Because Star Trek was a powerful opponent, the Big Six didn't release their blockbusters in the same week as Star Trek. That would be a disaster to both sides and they didn't want that.
Imagine if Star Trek and Fast & Furious 3 were released in the same week, that box office sales for both movies would be affected. The two movies had to divide the market which was bad. Naturally, to avoid that situation, the Big Six would have some talk and announce the release dates of their top movies. If the other studios were not confident in facing it, then they would let it be and dominate the week.
As for Star Trek, the movie grossed $579 million.
For reference, Star Trek was released first before Star Wars.
The Star Trek franchise began as a television series that premiered in 1966 on NBC, while Star Wars was released in 1977. It was easier to say that Star Trek paved the path for space-type science fiction to become popular.
The original Star Trek only had three seasons, it was cancelled because it was not profitable. But in 1979, after the huge success of Star Wars, the series was revived. Perhaps NBC saw the potential so they revived the series. In the 80s, 90s, and early 00s, Star Trek had a stable run and it had a cult following. It was famous for almost three decades. The franchise had movies and spin-offs.
In fact, the estimated value of Star Trek was $10-15 billion. Anyone would agree that it was a huge amount of money.
Unfortunately, Star Trek: Enterprise, the last TV Show of the franchise ended in 2005 because of lower ratings.
Then four years after that, the franchise was revived as a film trilogy by Paramount Pictures. Star Trek (2009) was the first movie of the trilogy. Based on its performance, Paramount Pictures was confident that they could film the two remaining sequels with profit on the line.
In the third week, Angels and Demons were released. This Thriller/Suspense grossed over $541 million. Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code were actually connections, both were starred by Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. The Da Vinci Code was a controversial movie and so did Angels and Demons. Perhaps this was the reason why it performed well.
Also, these movies were actually part of a trilogy called Robert Langdon trilogy. They were adapted from the novels that Dan Brown wrote. The trilogy starred Tom Hanks and was directed by Ron Howard.
The movies were:
The Da Vinci Code(2006)
Angels and Demons(2009)
Inferno(2016)
Around the same week as Angels and Demons, Terminator Salvation was released.
Unlike the other Terminator movies, Terminator Salvation was based on the future where Skynet was the ruling entity and humans were killed. Sadly, Terminator Salvation didn't have its iconic robot T-800 which meant that Arnold Schwarzenegger was also missing. But hey, we have Christian Bale to fill in the missing spot as John Connor. Despite lacking Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie still grossed $420 million. The movie was distributed by Warner Brothers(international) and Sony-Colombia(domestic).
In the last week of May, Night at the Museum and Up was released.
Night at the Museum: Battle of Smithsonian grossed $468 million. Distributed by 20th Century Fox, this sequel of a successful franchise did well at the box office. Also, Night at the Museum was a trilogy but the third movie would be released in 2014.
As for Up... The first ten minutes of this animated movie were heartbreaking. Walt Disney captured the essence of life by giving us Up. It was not surprising that this movie grossed $1 billion. The movie was just magnificent, majestic, amazing, any kind of adjective you could describe. Overall, Up was a great movie, almost as if you are watching a movie about a house flying in the sky using thousands of balloons... Ahem.
May was just the start of the summer schedule yet Hollywood already showed their cards. The fact that most of these blockbusters grossed at least $400 million showed the power of the summer. You really earned a lot of money around this season.
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Speaking of Walt Disney, the company was happy that Up was performing well at the box office. However, they were also sad about a certain fact.
"Why is this always happening to us!?" Robert Iger slammed his fists against the table as he glared at the executives of ABC.
They had been doing their best just to collaborate with Grey Pictures. They contacted the studio, they communicated peacefully, they promised them a good timeslot, they promised an intense promotion, and they even sent gifts. In fact, they tried to bribe some people just to get the contract regarding Modern Family.
Everyone in ABC did their best but they still failed. Today, Grey Pictures and 20th Century Fox signed a contract. Modern Family would be broadcast by Fox TV.
"Tell me, are there fourth-dimension entities that stopped us from getting a collaboration with Grey Pictures? Are they voting and determining whether we have a chance to work with Grey Pictures? Tell me--! Speak, or else I might say something that could break the fourth wall."
The executives from NBC shut their mouths as they looked down. They also didn't know. For some reason, even though they did their best, the outcome was still against them. Perhaps Robert Iger was right, there might be entities that voted in a poll to stop from collaborating with Grey Pictures.
