Camp Allen: What A Showbiz Snorefest!

COMMENTS (14)

• Anything with Charlie Rose moderating gets a second look…

  Comment by Red Dead Revenge @ Stonehenge — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 5:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does anyone still give a s#*t what Barry Diller has to say about entertainment? What has he done in the last ten years besides buy and sell Internet companies and bitch and moan how everybody is wrong and he’s right about paid content for online newspapers. Snorefest? More like a has-been-out-of-touch-with-current-trends fest. Blech!

  Comment by Truthman — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 6:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Diller, Chernin and Katzenberg? What is this, 1997?

    Likewise Chernin — the guy and his company get kissed into whatever Fox scripts they want and STILL the best they can manage for Fall 2010 is a weak A&E procedural (plus their bloated 15-executive producers Tera Nova). Way to pick em, guys! Classic “country club” media mogul who needs his assistant(s) to type his emails. SNOOOOZE

    Katzenberg is a slightly different story in the sense that he’s a legitimate tastemaker and pioneer of modern animation — the broadest and most marketable of feature film categories. And he’s a behind the scenes player in the 3D tv conversion, which I’m sure he’ll be the only one on the panel really conversant in. But still – does Katz have anything truly new to say?

    But who would have REALLY been interesting on this panel? Here are my suggestions:

    Spike Jonze — the man behind a low-cost $500 million franchise with Jackass — and a new 3D Jackass film on the way in a few months. He’s the anti-Cameron.

    Ike Perlmutter — convinced Disney Marvel was worth 4 billion even WITHOUT movie rights to Spiderman, XMen and Fantastic Four.

    The CEO of Redbox, Gregg Kaplan has singlehandedly changed a GIANT segment of the movie business and driven down prices in the name of consumer convenience.

    And to round things out Bob Greenblatt can outline how he’d turn around NBC if given the opportunity.

    And how about NIKKI as a moderator?

    Comment by INterested Observer — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 8:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • i’d hardly say spike jonze is the ‘anti-cameron,’ ‘where the wild things are’ cost over $100 mill

      Comment by pets — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 8:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• The media handpuppet/moderators should be ashamed of themselves for prostituting themselves.

  Comment by Bruce — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 7:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Whaaa? Dildos? I must have missed that last year. Oh well. At least they’ve got Anderson Cooper up in there. (Sun Valley that is)

  Comment by Peggy — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 9:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They need to add a panel discussion to that list. They can call it how not to be irrelevant in industry. Boring who cares about they’re little meeting.

  Comment by Thenextmogul — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 9:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I know what I’d be doing through these panels – hanging at the bar with Rupert or rowing across a lake with Bob I. And need I mention the shadow puppet contest with the Google guys?

  Comment by F. — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 10:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Tom Friedman? That walrus-moustached clown should be working at Big Lots.

  Comment by Get a Real Job — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 10:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Maybe Iger can unload ABC at the gabfest.

  Comment by lsb — Tuesday July 6, 2010 @ 10:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Matthias Döpfner stands for a modern Europe in media? The guy who buys up other brands/companies on leverage, which is pretty much a management strategy of the 1990s? Whose claim to fame is that his digital revenues increased by 50 percent this year (and almost all of that increased revenue has come from companies bought up)? ^.^

  @ Bruce. All the media types prostitute themselves like this. After all, you must consider that these people are either their own bosses or the friends of their bosses. Also, you’ll make what? A quick 30,000 to 50,000 for maybe a day of work?

  And it gives Anderson Cooper some time off from the BP beaches ^.^

  Comment by Nurf? — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 12:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• Well, I’m sure there will be lots of quiet discussion about the secret copyright treaty and placing digital locks on everything, and hopefully closing every public library in the land.

  Comment by Lumiere — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 12:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• Isn’t Ken Auletta the media writer for the New Yorker?

  Comment by gelusil — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 4:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• perhaps the camp will have a thursday night time special of Lebron James making his annoucement on ESPN live from the camp…would make a lot of sense

  Comment by sports fan — Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 8:03am PDT  Reply to this post