MGM Creates New Finance Prez/CFO Gig

COMMENTS (6)

• I think Mary Parent can do it even though the karma of this place just sucks!!!!

  Comment by kkate — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 10:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hate much these days, “Can’t Take It”?

  Comment by Jack Burton — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 10:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• @Jack Burton – seen some of your comments and they are hate filled. That other commenter has a point.

  C’mon, “Hot Tub” is MGM’s idea of reviving the lion?????

  Movies now are always the aging promiscuous dude who relives his sleazy youth, or the young dewy-eyed female who finds her true love and gets married. Are we living in the 1950s still?

  Comment by bad movies — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 11:33am PDT  Reply to this post

• there’s a contraction in the business. mgm’s probably in no man’s land, not huge, not a small independent

  it’s not like there’s not enough (bad) entertainment going around

  so what’s this guy going to do, nothing personal against him

  Comment by what difference is it going to make? — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 1:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• My advice to Bedi A. Singh: Keep It Simple.

  There are just too many complications in film financial management these days, and it’s hurting the whole industry. Simplify, and everyone will be much happier.

  I wish MGM good luck, and hope they can make that all important connection with the audience.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 1:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• mgm’s probably in no man’s land, not huge, not a small independent

  MGM’s size may be its saving grace.

  It has the distribution capability to put films in theatres all over the world, it has backers with deep pockets and what appears to be a genuine interest in the company’s success, and, most importantly, it is small.

  The majority of the studios operating today aren’t just big, they’re bloated. They’ve become Jabba the Hutt after a binge at an all you can eat BBQ, can’t respond quickly to changing trends, and have deeply ingrained and hidebound management cultures that are more concerned with how films play to their colleagues and rivals at the Malibu golf club than in Peoria.

  MGM can reorganize itself into a lean, efficient organisation, and can become successful if it aims for the acceptance of the audience above everything else.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday May 13, 2008 @ 6:17pm PDT  Reply to this post