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You MUST READ THIS, article on Rothman and his fellow crony at Fox:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/business/media/12movie.html?_r=1&oref=login
That depiction made me physically sick. I like the NYT a lot (best paper in the country) but I was very pissed when I read this in the movie section today.
These are the bastards who ruined X-Men 3 and here we have the justification. His attempt at covering up the Bryan Singer fiasco at the end of the article was infuriating. He doesn't mention that he "brought" Singer onto X1 to kill it in 2000 and cut their budget and took 6 months of post-production away from it with a ****ty marketing campaign because he thought the franchise was worthless. Or how in X3 he led Singer around for a year before signing him and completely tries to underplay throwing a creative director off the set (nor mentions he had to be invited back on to direct an episode of House for them).
He ****ing lies through his teeth. This man takes credit for The Day After Tomorrow, Chaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and X3? That bastard. And what he says about supporting and protecting Ridley Scott on Kingdom of Heaven is bull****. It was he who demanded KOH be cut DOWN BY AN HOUR SO THERE'D BE ONE MORE SCREENING A DAY. He was the one who had that movie gutted and ruined it and if he thinks Scott will forget he needs to watch the director's cut special features.
But it all becomes clear now that this is the ******* who put the cure in over the Dark Pheonex Saga and is likely the one Penn hinted at had Cyclops killed off. I think we have someone worthy of termination here (and more than one meaning too).
Why not celebrate Amy Pascal instead? She makes big hits and gives her creative force time. Sam Raimi asks for more money and another year she gives it to him, she doesn't ****ing fire him and tries to beat him to the theaters, demand shorter films or say in the paper how filmmakers have egos that need to be squashed.
The fact that it was this son of a ***** who closed out a potentially hilarious Jay Roach frat pack comedy is just another reason he needs to be....dealt with.
Alas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/business/media/12movie.html?_r=1&oref=login
That depiction made me physically sick. I like the NYT a lot (best paper in the country) but I was very pissed when I read this in the movie section today.
These are the bastards who ruined X-Men 3 and here we have the justification. His attempt at covering up the Bryan Singer fiasco at the end of the article was infuriating. He doesn't mention that he "brought" Singer onto X1 to kill it in 2000 and cut their budget and took 6 months of post-production away from it with a ****ty marketing campaign because he thought the franchise was worthless. Or how in X3 he led Singer around for a year before signing him and completely tries to underplay throwing a creative director off the set (nor mentions he had to be invited back on to direct an episode of House for them).
He ****ing lies through his teeth. This man takes credit for The Day After Tomorrow, Chaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and X3? That bastard. And what he says about supporting and protecting Ridley Scott on Kingdom of Heaven is bull****. It was he who demanded KOH be cut DOWN BY AN HOUR SO THERE'D BE ONE MORE SCREENING A DAY. He was the one who had that movie gutted and ruined it and if he thinks Scott will forget he needs to watch the director's cut special features.
But it all becomes clear now that this is the ******* who put the cure in over the Dark Pheonex Saga and is likely the one Penn hinted at had Cyclops killed off. I think we have someone worthy of termination here (and more than one meaning too).
Why not celebrate Amy Pascal instead? She makes big hits and gives her creative force time. Sam Raimi asks for more money and another year she gives it to him, she doesn't ****ing fire him and tries to beat him to the theaters, demand shorter films or say in the paper how filmmakers have egos that need to be squashed.
The fact that it was this son of a ***** who closed out a potentially hilarious Jay Roach frat pack comedy is just another reason he needs to be....dealt with.
Alas.
