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I knew there was a reason that David Cronenberg’s enigmatic film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash is one of my favorite motion pictures. So its producer, Oscar-winner Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Naked Lunch, Sexy Beast, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Tideland, Fast Food Nation, and Creation), was the keynote speaker at Film Independent’s 5th annual Filmmaker Forum in Los Angeles this weekend.
In a Q&A, Thomas was asked, ”Given these uncertain times with so many distributors going under, how do you know who to do business with and who’s going to be around six months from now?”
“Read Nikki Finke,” he replied.
After the laughter died down, Thomas added, “Or you just smell them.”
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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No need to laugh. However had a certain Zucker listened to Nikki, his network wouldn’t be in the mess it is in now. She told him to keep Kevin Reilly and not hire Ben Silverman. She told him to buy out Conan’s contract, or ditch Jay instead of giving him a comedy strip on weeknights. Finally she told him to go for ratings instead of profit.
So guess what, Jeremy Thomas reads Nikki Finke and avoids NBC Universal because Zucker hired Ben Silverman, gave Conan O’Brien the Tonight Show, Jay Leno a show at 10 PM weeknights, and he goes for a quick profit while avoiding Nikki.
Huh, so Cronenberg’s Crash is a favorite of yours? But that film utterly tanked at the box office. As we all well know, Nikki, your website judges the artistic validity of tv shows and films SOLELY by ratings and box office. So what gives?
@Pete.
You obviously don’t read this blog, dude.
Actually, dude, I do read this blog. Virtually every aspect of Nikki’s “analysis” of TV and movies involves box office and ratings as the main metric. Anytime anything underperforms, La Finke is there dancing on the grave. I just find it interesting that she is championing a box office flop like Cronenburg’s “Crash”, seemingly because someone is kissing her ass.
David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash’ is one of Nikki’s favorite movies? Well, I’ll be darned. She scores a couple of points in my ‘cool people’ scorecard.
CRASH is an intolerably bad movie. Torture porn for snobs.
In defense of Nikki, if she ever needed backup, I walked out of a theatre on Crash; it wasn’t the acting or anything else. It was when T. Howard was trapped in the SUV. Too realistic and I couldn’t take it anymore.
I bought the DVD and it’s still a tough watch, especially the scenes with T. Newton, with all of humanities beauty and ugly thrown up on the screen Crash has its moments.
In terms of money, well it did make all of its money back according to boxofficemojo.com it cost 6.6 and the wwgross 98 million.
Saw Zombieland, I haven’t laughed so hard at a film since Blazing Saddles and Martin L’s Run n tell that.
hey, genius! you are talking about the wrong CRASH!
@8 movies,
You’re referring to the wrong Crash. You’re thinking of Paul Haggis’ myopic, condescending fake politically-correct movie about race.
Croneberg’s Crash is actually good.
I would never have guessed Nikki was down with Cronenberg.So will we get a post about his plans to “re-remake” THE FLY? (Because you KNOW there’s some kind of story behind that….)
No, MoodNation, Crash (the ORIGINAL and ONLY) is a flat-out depth bomb masterpiece of rubber, motor oil and high grade Canadian KINK.
Nikki KINKE.
Eeeeh, Nikki, Cronenberg’s Crash might actually be worse than Haggis’s Crash.
Nothing is worse than Haggis’ Crash.
Anybody who made Sexy Beast and Rabbit Proof Fence gets my attention…
Oops, while I acknowledge the genius comment the OTHER CRASH.
Well, I walked out of that one too. Sex with amputees, NC-17, James Spader in another S/M movie. Umh, well, yes that didn’t make money.
But it had Deborah and Rosanna and if Nicky likes that movie, I like it too.
So there.