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• Shmuger had no real power. If he did he would have done what, historically, every studio chairman does after a string of box office IEDs: fire the head of marketing. Instead, he keeps the punk and gets punked. Putz.

  Comment by ExExec — Tuesday October 6, 2009 @ 6:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Don’t worry, I’m sure everyone at Universal’s frowns will turn upside down when Couples Retreat opens huge this weekend.

  Comment by Be happy! — Tuesday October 6, 2009 @ 7:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Still very surprised that COUPLES RETREAT (haven’t seen it) is coming out as PG-13 fare.

    Comment by Terry McCarty — Tuesday October 6, 2009 @ 10:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Couples Retreat looks REALLY bad. Even the trailers are hard to watch.

    Comment by LV — Thursday October 8, 2009 @ 9:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• “No, we have no plans to make less movies.” That’s a bold statement, but a good sign.

  Nice quote from The Independent today entitled “Bloodbath in Hollywood”:

  “The new Hollywood is different. The most important ability for any would-be movie executive of the future is to be able to identify promising concepts.”

  Comment by sp — Tuesday October 6, 2009 @ 8:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @sp
  “Nice quote from The Independent today entitled “Bloodbath in Hollywood”:

  “The new Hollywood is different. The most important ability for any would-be movie executive of the future is to be able to identify promising concepts.”

  Great article! Thanks for the tip… guess Hollywood is not as recession-proof as it think it is…

  Comment by gp — Wednesday October 7, 2009 @ 7:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• Unlike Brad Grey at Par, who in my opinion is close to being out of a job, Ron Meyer is impressive in how he can shake things up and stay ahead of the eight-ball in a changing business…

  The buildling up of his int’l operations under Kosse is a great example of seeing where the future is and then going after it.

  Comment by InsideOperator — Wednesday October 7, 2009 @ 7:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• No plan to make less movies. Just a plan to make really bad movies. I would suggest Water World II. With a $500,000,000 budget not counting ad spending and make the entire movie set in CG with funny animated characters like Jar Jar. Perfect movie for Universal.

  Comment by Mr. E — Wednesday October 7, 2009 @ 11:53am PDT  Reply to this post

• If you’re only making 15-18 flix a year – why would one of them be dreck like Love Happens? Then again, that movie was actually made in late 2007/early 2008 and kept in the vault for nearly 18 months. Which is a big ass clue that it’s a dud. Didn’t Ron Meyer bother to watch the movie or was he too blinded by doing yet another favor for his daughter’s good friend Jennifer Aniston?

  Comment by Stacy — Thursday October 8, 2009 @ 8:09am PDT  Reply to this post