My Hollywood System

Chapter 44:

Chapter 44:

3 January 2011

East Street, Los Angeles

A 1268 sqft house on the east street of LA with a 0.25 acres Lot and 2 bedrooms, separate bathrooms attached to each of them.

It was Will’s new residence, which he had bought recently. He could have bought a better one but decided against it as he needed funding for his future movies.

*Yawn*

Yawning a little, Will woke and went to the kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. The past month has been intense and [The Blair Witch Project] was about to hit the $200 million mark.

He had bought this house for $500k and was still getting used to living in it as it had been less than a week since he shifted here. The house was moderately furnished with a modern touch to it.

It had a parking lot and was enough for someone like Will, who didn’t have any family to live with. June had been busy as she had even gotten roles for some commercials, and she rarely visited, not that Will blamed her, he himself had been busy trying to keep up with all the e-mails and letters he kept receiving.

*Sip*

He sipped on the coffee and immediately regretted it as he wasn’t prepared for the burn that his tongue received.

Ruffling his hair with his hand, he went and opened his laptop like usual. It has become a habit of his to check and keep track of the daily news.

[The Christmas movie from Foxstar Studios ‘The Santa of My Dreams’ had finally crossed the $20 million mark...]

[US president to give a speech on 6th Janua.....]

There were many news and articles, but the one in the trending section was occupied with the all too familiar [The Blair Witch Project], causing a smile on Will’s face.

[The modern pioneer of the found footage technique, ‘The Blair Witch Project’, had been the talk of the whole country for the past 2 months. This camcorder trend has brought about many similar videos on MeTube with millions of views, but the originator of the trend, the youngest multi-millionaire director of Hollywood, Will Evans, is still on the rise.

Some youths from famous film schools have even started idolising him, and everyone has the same question in their minds, ‘What’s next?’.

According to the hints provided by Will on the famous talk show ‘Night Talks with Tuffin’, it was pretty clear that he would be working on some new movies, which had caused many speculations to rise from the audiences and experts alike.

Would he continue with his horror trend and release another horror movie? Or would he work in another genre altogether? If yes, then would he succeed in it or will his first popular movie become his last?

There are a lot of questions, and people are enthusiastically waiting for the answers.]

Will, who read through the article made by Hollywood Times, had a satisfied smile on his face.

As he was about to go bathe and start his day, his phone buzzed beside his laptop.

[1 unread message from ‘Uncle Ben’]

[Hey, Will. I just texted to remind you about our meeting. Come to the MCA office at 4 pm.]

Will, who already had the meeting in his mind, didn’t need the reminder but still appreciated it.

Benjamin had helped him a lot even though he wasn’t even his relative.

Will went to the bathroom and took a bath. After that, he dressed up in neat black and white clothes with his inner shirt tucked in and an unbuttoned black blazer on the top.

He went to the parking lot and started driving his Yundai Sailor.

On the way to the MCA office, he thought about the call Benjamin had talked about.

He had received the anticipated call almost a week ago. It was by Edward Friedman, the director who had taken up [17 Again].

He congratulated Will for the massive success of [The Blair Witch Project] and praised him for his excellent direction in the movie.

Will repeated calmly.

“You know how to act?”

Benjamin blurted abruptly, making Edward chuckle.

After some talk, Will said casually.

“Not like I’m asking for the role. Director Friedman can reject if he doesn’t like my audition.”

Edward thought for a moment and then laughed heartily as he patted Will’s shoulder.

“Hahaha, Why not. Why not. Since it’s like that, I would obviously like to see you act.”

Edward was very surprised and excited regarding Will’s declaration. If this genius scriptwriter and director turned out to be a good actor, too, he was sure to take Hollywood by a storm. And letting him audition for the role wouldn’t bite him, so he agreed to it.

Benjamin was still feeling surreal from the situation as he never knew about his best friend’s son as he kept showing one talent after the other. He seemed like a completely different person from the boy he had helped get admission at EUC back then.

He got a bit emotional as he thought about how Will’s dad would feel after seeing him do so well and how much must Will miss his dad.

The meeting came to an end after some time, and Edward left the duo for some other appointment he had. Apparently, he was really busy with the preparations of [17 Again] and had made some time to meet with Will. This improved Edward’s impression in Will’s eyes.

As Will was about to bid farewell to Benjamin, the latter informed him about something important.

“[17 Again] is getting distributed by Foxstar studios, and the new distribution head had told me that he was really interested in meeting you if you had any new projects.”

From Benjamin, Will found out that this new distribution head was none other than James Dankworth, the previous distribution head’s assistant.

Apparently, the previous distribution head was kicked when it was found out that he rejected [The Blair Witch Project] without even watching it, and James was appointed as the new distribution head with strict supervision on his head.

Will was quite surprised hearing all this as Foxstar Studios rejected him earlier. But he understood that the fault was Chandler’s, the previous distribution head, and James was just following his order, and even then, he was hesitating.

Will agreed to meet up with the new distribution head as in business; there were no real enemies, only interests.

After that, Will, too, remembered something very important that he had found out and took out his smartphone, and he opened an image and showed it to Benjamin.

“Isn’t this an actor contracted with MCA?”

Benjamin glanced at the photo and said,

“Oh yes, he is. If I remember correctly, his contract is going to end soon too. He had worked in a few films, but they barely managed to recover the budget cost.”

“Oh, is that so, hmm.”

Will was surprised after seeing this guy’s movie when he was binging through some movies by MCA. He was one of the biggest celebrities from his previous life, and now he was working on movies that didn’t suit him at all.

A smile crept at Will’s face as the plan to open his own production house had solidified in his heart.

The actor that Will mentioned was none other than Robert Downey Jr., mostly known for his role of iron-man.

The guy in the pic looked every bit like him, and after watching his movies, Will had confirmed that his acting style and voice were also the same, just his name was different. Micheal Elrod was his name on this alternate earth.

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