"Nobody Knows Anything" Part XXIV


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David Card | August 24, 2005, 09:10 AM

I gotta stop quoting William Goldman, but the movie industry just won't let me. On countering the 2005 box office slump:

    Mr. Lynton (Michael Lynton, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment) said he would focus on making "only movies we hope will be really good." At Fox, executives said they are looking to limit marketing costs. At Universal, Mr. Shmuger (Marc Shmuger, vice chairman of Universal) said he intends to reassert "time and care and passion" in movie production. Some of his own summer movies, he conceded, should never have been made.


 
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