Hollywood Starts with Animation
Chapter 685

There Are Many Bad People

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As The Scorpion King exploded with firepower, the situation for the film Saw became somewhat dire. However, considering it was merely a low-budget horror movie, pulling in over $30 million in just one week was already a miraculous feat.

What more could you possibly ask of it?

Furthermore, the current Wald Pictures, which claimed to be the "top-tier entity beneath the Big Six Hollywood Studios," saw its president, Kevin Feige, remaining the most dazzling star in the room, sought after by many.

For instance: the boss of Lionsgate, Gustav.

His full name was Frank Gustav, a Canadian banker and mining investor.

Since founding Lionsgate in 1997, he had developed his film business step by step, overcoming every obstacle with steady, calculated progress.

As of now, Lionsgate's production capacity alone was enough to guarantee at least six films per year. In terms of distribution, Lionsgate was also working hard to expand, managing its own North American distribution channels. It was effectively in a state of "I can do it without relying on the big companies," and because of this, it was viewed as an "outlier" by many Hollywood film studios.

If Gustav were from Great China, he would surely say: "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan?"

That's right!

Frank Gustav was a man of immense ambition!

When he first founded Lionsgate, he had said: "If I didn't have the heart to compete for the top spot, to be the best, why would I have entered the film industry? Was I making less money in banking and mining investments?"

At the same time, he was also a man of reckless audacity!

After the 9/11 attacks, a documentary film project titled Fahrenheit 9/11 emerged. Even though the major Hollywood studios knew it had a high probability of making money,

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