By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
The Male Director Challenge: 2004 (Year 5 of 15)
As in 2003, there were (for the 2nd year in a row) only 5 newcoming directors whose movies hit the Top 50 at the domestic box office in 2004.
#8 Grosser – The Bourne Supremacy – Paul Greengrass – Experienced director with big indie credibility from Bloody Sunday, teamed with an infrastructure that had made the previous, troubled production, a success.
#19 – Dodgeball: An Underdog’s Story – Rawson Marshall Thurber – Big heat coming off of “Tony Tate: Linebacker” ads had Hollywood scrambling for his first film project. This was it.
#21 – The Grudge – Takashi Shimizu – This enormously experienced Japanese director got to remake his film in English.
#27 – Along Came Polly – John Hamburg – Red-hot comedy screenwriter got his shot to direct. (He had made an indie film and directed TV as well)
#30 – Anchorman – Adam McKay – Will Ferrell’s brain (so to joke) got to direct one of their projects.
Studio experienced directors making films in the Top 50 in 2004 were: Raimi, Gibson, Roach, Cuaron, Emmerich, Turteltaub, Zemeckis, Proyas, Petersen, Soderbergh, Segal, Sommers, Moore, Silberling, Shyamalan, Scorsese, Mann, Eastwood, Marshall, Phillips, Waters, Gosnell, Casavettes, Anderson, Scott, Spielberg, Hewitt, Hackford, Russell, Roth, Payne, Wayans, Johnston, Ruben, Tarantino, Demme, Sullivan, O’Connor, Berg, Del Toro, Oz
Below is a link to a list of the candidates for NFL head coach prospects from the NFL. Half of them are black. The NFL is hugely popular with the public and sells bunches of tickets for people to watch black performers directed by black coaches.
Hollywood can’t hide behind the ticket-buying public as an excuse for their sexism and racism. Well, they and their apologists try, but it’s bs.
http://mmqb.si.com/2015/06/10/nfl-future-head-coaching-candidates-adam-gase-josh-mcdaniels-teryl-austin/
Please finish this. You have a decade to go! We want to see the rest!