My Hollywood System

Chapter 186:

The media agencies which ‘confirmed’ that Will was dead and selling off the articles on his name, were extremely disappointed when Will woke up from the coma. The story was basically selling off like hotcakes, even after almost three weeks, the demand was still up there.

Now that Will woke up, they unfortunately weren’t able to milk the topic.

But due to their habits of being adaptive, as soon as Will came out of the coma, they started writing and releasing articles on the updated situation; which was Will being out of coma, alive and kicking.

One of the articles was from LA times which was a prominent magazine. Unlike the other articles on different websites, they took a completely different approach with the article.

It was named “The Dark three weeks of Hollywood”.

[Three weeks ago, during the party held by the CEO of Allen Studios, Ashton Banasiewicz, Will Evans was found stabbed and he later ended up in coma.

The news spread to almost everyone and if you are reading the article, you must know it too.

The party which started and was running completely normal for two hours, was stopped by the sudden incident. It was also revealed how Matthew Collins, the perpetrator of this incident, had been stalking Will for months.

The reason Matthew had stabbed him was because he had blamed Will for the losses his agency, MCA had incurred. There were various reports of him having several mental problems.

Due to Collin’s mental issues, the police mentioned how he was taken to a mental asylum instead of being in custody.

Surprisingly, Matthew Collins just hadn’t gone crazy and stabbed Will. Apart from that, a lot of things came out.

When police investigated Matthew’s family and him, they found that Matthew ran shady businesses with his family. The reports, sources and evidence are still under investigation, which also means that there would be no exit for Matthew from what he did.

However, there are some sources saying that there’s much to be revealed from this incident and the authorities are looking into it.

On the other hand of the whole situation, Will Evans was under the treatment of City hospital for almost three weeks, unconscious and in a coma.

It has been mentioned in a lot of media articles how a lot of executives from OP Pictures, Foxtar, and Kron Studios have made visits to the hospital during the first week of Will being in a coma.

According to our information sources, they reported how all those high-class people had tried to get the best possible doctors and best treatments for Will to successfully get his consciousness back.

But one could easily question whether it was really out of empathy for Will Evans? The answer was a clear no.

It is very well known that all those companies, OP Pictures, Foxtar and Kron Studio have one or more projects going on with Dream Vision.

OP Pictures have the deal of the [Friends] series, the newest RBO sensation. Kron Studio had the rights to distribute [Catch Me If You Can]. There was not a lot that was revealed about it but recently, even Tom Hanks was roped in.

It was clear how big the movie was going to be.

Lastly, Foxtar had two deals with Dream Visions according to our sources. They are, [Hitch], a romantic comedy and [Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows].

Taking the numbers into consideration, [Friends] had around $500k invested per episode, [Hitch] the movie that was going to be distributed by Foxstar has an investment of 70 million dollars, mainly due to the marketing cost which has been kept pretty high.

Everyone already knows about [Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows] as it was one of the most anticipated sequels in Hollywood, with the first movie earning over a billion dollars. So, the budget might go well over 200 million dollars.

Every project Will was involved in has a budget that was well-planned and investments that were totally worth when the product is out. [Catch Me If You Can] had $52 million invested in it and going by what Kron studios executives had said in an article, they are expecting it to earn even more than Leo’s debut movie [Liberty City].

In all these projects, only [Friends] had released last week and it opened up to spectacular numbers due to Will Evans’s promoting it himself. The theme song had already gotten to the top of music charts, becoming one of the reasons for the show to do this well.

But the main reason was definitely the fact that many considered [Friends] to be Will’s last project. Especially because a lot of articles pointed it out.

OP studios and RBO are already looking forward to continuing the series and it is reported that the deal between them and Dream Vision is for 3 seasons.

It’s also reported that OP studios are very interested in doing more partnerships with Dream Vision.

Because of the huge partnership’s that Will and the studios has, it’s evident that rather than caring about Will, the studios care more about the losses they will get if he had stayed in the coma for a long time, especially Foxstar who are still waiting for the script of [Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows] to be written.

As for [Hitch] and [Catch me if you can], although the pre-production is going on, the studios were worried that by the time they release, the media would move on from the topic of Will Evans and these projects won’t get the same hype as [Friends].

But all this had gone to dust as Will Evans finally woke up on Thursday, so the studios have taken a sigh of relief…]

***

Will was still in the hospital bed, looking at the documents in his hand. These are the documents related to the operations of Dream Vision that were brought by Amanda. As he was in a coma for a while, there were a lot of things that had been stuck.

On the desk, beside Will, there were a lot of gifts given by people he knew, all of them wishing him quick recovery.

A lot of gifts had come from his fans and some were from actors he had worked with, even those who weren’t part of DTA. There was even a set of Spiderman comics given by Stan Lee.

Will handed the files over to Amanda after signing them off, one by one.

“How has the company been?” He asked Amanda while looking over at her. She still looked more or less the same.

Amanda, who took the file and placed it on her lap, smiled while replying, “Chaotic and messy.”

The two adjectives described the whole situation of Dream Visions. Ever since Will was sick, things had become tough to manage.

“A lot of employees were worried. Still a bit worried but it has gone away since you woke up, but it took a lot to function properly since you practically made it like the company can’t go wrong until you were there. But after the incident-” Amanda took a short breath.

“Yeah?” Will questioned.

“Well, after the incident, they stopped feeling the protection and confidence that they had within themselves whenever you were around. It is more like, the one sane person which kept everything going due to all the trust we had kept on you, suddenly disappeared. It was truly hard for them as they didn’t know what the future of the company would be without you.” Amanda said, honest with her words.

“Hmm… It must have been tough for you to still get things going. How are the projects though?” Will questioned.

Hearing Amanda’s words made him realize that things would get messy if one day, he took a big break. He can’t leave everything to Amanda and would need to get more people involved.

Though there were several high salary employees, none of them was the type to be a leader.

“I’m pretty sure you know [Friends] is already released. RBO and OP Pictures looked as if they could not wait to start the next season by next year, but since you were in a coma they didn’t voice it out. It was pretty obvious though.” She said with another smile. “[Catch Me If You Can] and [Hitch] basically stopped in the middle of pre-production for more than a week.” Amanda said while her emotions suddenly didn’t feel bright.

“Why?” Will asked, noticing her sudden silence.

“It was mainly because no one, literally no one, in the crew could work properly. Especially Leo and Marcus.” She said, shaking her head in disappointment.

“That’s too bad, what about others? [Terminator]?” Will asked.

“It got halted for a while but will be able to be released next month. Exactly right when we planned, [Ultimate Spiderman]. The release date is the same too.” Amanda said. Mega works had apparently decided to distribute [Terminator] and this would be their second collaboration after [Liberty City].

“I might need a complete list with all the details upto now, what was done and not done while I was out.” Will said emotionlessly.

“Sure, and I heard that doctors said you would be able to go home next week.” Will nodded, hearing her words. “Will you start working right away?:

Amanda knew who Will Evans was. Although she personally did not want Will to start working right away, she knew his personality of a workaholic.

“I won’t.”

It took Amanda by surprise.

“I need to spend some time alone, and maybe go on a few dates with June. I feel like I have been neglecting her for a while.”

“That’s true. Oh yeah, speaking of that, we have begun suing media companies that were writing too many false articles about you.” Amanda said, with a slightly mocking tone.

It was then the door of the room opened and an old man entered the room.

Both the faces of Amanda and Will turned to look at the man who came with a bouquet of flowers. And looking at the man, Will remembered the end of the video screen he had seen before waking up.

As for the man, he was Ashton Banasiewicz.

…

//DreamNote//

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