Weinsteins: More Misses Than Hits
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Now that the Weinsteins have what they want â independence â they canât seem to achieve what they keenly desire â success on their own terms.
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Mostly, these lists give me an excuse to remind readers of good and great films that they may have missed. But in some respects, the actual list is the least of it.
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In the history of motion pictures not many women directors have made an impressionable mark during the last one hundred-plus years.
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The Bull makes some good points -- but not good enough.
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Successful movies are almost always films that can easily be described. Studio executives must be pitched movie plots in minutes. However, once a movie is greenlit, shot, and sent to theaters, it's received with a barrage of verbose criticism and media analysis.
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Hollywood is only marginally ahead of its lackluster 2005 in terms of dollars and cents. Studios are miles ahead in terms of summer hits and misses, though.
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Disappointing results reflect flaws in the business model, not an "aberration."
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These low rated picks show that a stock doesn't have to be loved to outperform.
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For many top Wall Street executives, humiliation and defeat do not necessarily result in professional exile.
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Miramax Films is gunning for Oscar gold next year. But the honor and prestige coming from award-winning movies may not be enough to save the jobs of company founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein.
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Why looking only at a company's earnings can lead to disaster.
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When it comes to getting Oscars, Martin Scorsese is one of the unluckiest men in Hollywood. As we approach the 79th Annual Academy Awards this Sunday, the big question is "will his luck change?" This year, he is heavily favored to take home the Best Director Oscar, but an upset isn't out of the question. Martin Scorsese has been down this road before and always lost. The real question is, does it matter?    Of course it doesn't. If Crash winning Best Picture last year hasn't dispelled the myth that the Academy Awards have anything to do cinematic merit, then you're likely the type of person who thought Pearl Harbor should have won Best Picture. Even if Scorsese loses once again, that only means he's in the same boat as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles etc. Also, I don't know anyone who still adores Ordinary People, but Raging Bull gets a spin in the old DVD player at least once a year. And the Goodfellas disc (despite being one of those early crappy "flipper" discs that splits the movie onto both sides of the DVD) gets watched even more than that. Kevin Costner? Didn't he direct The Postman?
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The problem with most bad movies about aspiring talents is that not enough of them, as Ed McMahon used to say, &quot;reach for the stars -- and catch &#39;em.
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The two wide releases entering the marketplace last weekend barely made a ripple as &quot;Shark Tale&quot; ruled the North American box office for a third round.
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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A box-office surprise, the movie jabs hard at Americans' biases.
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In Hollywoodâs upper reaches this week, few are bothering to count past two. As in Adam Sandler has already booked his two âpre-strikeâ pictures, so letâs try Vince Vaughn.