By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Re: Disney
By the way… even though I am laughing about the “reporting” going on around Stanley Gold and Roy Disney’s whining about the lack of a serious search for someone than Bob Iger to replace Michael Eisner at Disney, they are right. There is no serious search for an Eisner replacement at Disney.
But what make me laugh is the idea that this is anything but business as usual for any corporation. As Eisner regained his power base enough to even say the words “Bob Iger” as his successor without being mocked, he also gained the power to withstand this kind of lightweight backbiting.
To the winner, comes the spoils. That is war. That is business. Deal with it.
And ironically, the lack of interest within Disney to make a change as significant as the one that was made when Eisner was hired is also a reason why a candidate as serious as Peter Chernin could be will be hard to get. Why would Chernin go to Disney to maintain what’s been built? He’s doing that at Fox and making more money than he ever would at Disney.
On the other hand, changes at Paramount/Viacom and Sony are indicators of seismic shifts much like the one that first brought Eisner into Mouse control. Eisner & Co. started attacking their weaknesses a couple of years ago and its starting to pay some dividends. And so, the continuation of the status quo instead of a shake-up had the support it needs.
And here’s a topper – if New Miramax turns out to be more New Line/Dimension than Old Miramax, that could be a huge success story that other studios would try to emulate… just as they try to emulate Searchlight now. And as for that job… DeLuca has more movies in play at Sony since he arrived four months ago than he had the entire time at DreamWorks. He’s tan, rested and ready. And as long as he doesn’t get Snow White to smear her lipstick…
When will Roy Disney give it up? He looks like a fool.
Eisner turned a two bit animation company into a worldwide power. It is just jealousy really.
Eisner deserves to go out on his own terms there.
Deluca took the Dreamworks shit job JUST to give the finger to Bob Shaye
Do you really think he’s gonna be answerable to NINA JACOBSEN when he gets $1.5 a picture against 5% of teh gross and they have PUT him on two pics already? I mean…. THINK before you type.
what does “snow white smear her lipstick” mean? i’m confused.
never mind, i just got it. duh me!!! sorry….
SIDEWAYS, LOST IN TRANSLATION, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, DAY AFTER TOMORROW, Dodgeball- all films Deluca begged DReamworks to make ….and he’ll NEVeR go to Miramax
He’ll go to Miramax if they offer it to him. Count on that.
Joe
They offered it to him
He declined
So did Mechanic
So count my farts instead, boyo.
if that is true that M De Luca & Bill Mechanic were offered Miramax post and they declined than that’s good news for all but Miramax. One has to wonder about a company’s future when they hyped COld Mountain to death and left the Fire in their Hand all but ignored until the DGA nominated it (City of God).