Tom Rothman Interview

[narrows101]

Mostly about their year so only posting the relevant parts.

FOX recoups from summer 2008 and looks ahead to 2009 with biggies that include James Cameron's AVATAR, WOLVERINE and more!

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IESB: For the past 10 years, Fox has done great at the summer box office, this year was a little tough. What are you looking to do different next year, or the next couple of years, are you looking for more blockbusters, more tentpoles?

Tom Rothman: I'll tell you the truth of the matter is that we actually had, the irony of the way these things go, we actually had a great first half, beginning the year, winter and spring was terrific for us. We had, Horton, that did tremendously well worldwide, that was the bulk, Alvin and the Chipmunks worldwide was huge, over $350 worldwide and then we had a lot of nice, fairly solid doubles, triples movies - 27 Dresses, What Happens in Vegas and we even did very well with The Happening because it did $100 million overseas. So the first half of the year was very good for us.

The summer was a disappointment and there's no two ways about that, but ultimately, it's really simple - the movies weren't good enough, that we had for the summer and we had made the decision because of the strike and because of other things that we were not going to rush certain movies, right, we took an extra year on Wolverine for example, when originally we had hoped to have that for the second half of this summer. Same with Day the Earth Stood Still, we could have rushed to update Day the Earth Stood Still but we took a decision to have, to give the movies the proper time they needed and the films that we had in the summer, they just weren't good enough to hold their own.

So, we didn't actually lose a lot of money but we certainly had, for us, certainly having had nine summers in a row that have been top notch, we had an off summer. But, the good news about it is, I guess because of that, from basically now, from Max Payne through all the way through all of next year through Avatar we are absolutely loaded for bear.

For the whole article, click here:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5554&Itemid=99

 

[the a1ant]

T4p

 

[Dark Victory]

My thoughts on Tom Rothman........

 

[chaseter]

I hate you Tom Rothman

He doesn't rush Wolverine but instead he goes and repaints a set to suit his needs. What a ****. And every single movie you listed up there Mr. Rothman as helping your revenues sucked a big one. Your studio produces nothing but pure ****. Here is to hoping that Wolverine is a salvageable movie for the fans.

 

[TheVileOne]

Anyone see Tom Rothman playing himself on Entourage?

 

[BMM]

I did. I felt like "booing" at the TV.

 

[RonStoppablefan]

This makes me sad =[

 

[gap5ewl]

what a greedy *****e

 

[Hugh'sMrs]

Anyone see Tom Rothman playing himself on Entourage?

Yes I did.

Apparently he's the only nice studio boss in Hollywood.

 

[narrows101]

Last part of Rothman's interview:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5599&Itemid=99

IESB: So, we get teased in the Wolverine trailer with Deadpool, he's a fan favorite, another second tier Iron Man-like character, and Ryan Reynolds has been dying to play this guy for years and I think that's why he even did the cameo because he wants a stand alone film. Any movement there?

TR: Yes and no, I mean, Deadpool is an integral part of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, we are in the process now, of doing all the CG work to create that character at an A +++ level, that's being done in truly as state of the art fashion as possible...

IESB: Scarring and all?
TR: It will be very rewarding for the fans, let's put it that way. It's a high level endeavor because he figures importantly in the movie, so whether he'll spin off into his own movie, if that's what you're asking, I don't know the answer. We will have to see.

IESB: Wolverine, how dark is it? The Dark Knight has been the darkest superhero movie and is still making money, compared to The Dark Knight, how dark is Wolverine?

TR: It's pretty dark, but, I don't know, I haven't seen the movie yet. But, it's in that realm, it's thematically a very dark story, so it is not Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

 

[the a1ant]

we are in the process now, of doing all the CG work to create that character at an A +++ level, that's being done in truly as state of the art fashion as possible...

That sounds really interesting

Thanks Narrows

 

[Neto Magnus]

yes cuz we all know Tom Rothman tells the truth.

 

[xmangambit]

Man they should be putting all the CG into GAMBIT'S red and black eyes! These guys need to learn what's important. What CG does Deadpool need by the way? CG sword?

 

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shoot--I quoted the very same paragraph that narrows101 did

 

[Halcohol]

yes cuz we all know Tom Rothman tells the truth.

I'd buy that for a dollar.