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“We make a lot of sh!tty movies" 
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Universal Chief Ron Meyer

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3-D is a seductive gimmick that audiences and studios should resist carefully.
“I’m not a believer that every film should be 3-D,” said Meyer, acknowledging his own fiscal concern over Universal’s expensive upcoming 3-D film 47 Ronin, led by Keanu Reeves. “I think there’s a place for it; I think certain films lend themselves to it. Warner Bros. did Journey to the Center of the Earth; that movie would have never worked had it not been 3-D. The only thing that made that film palatable at all was the 3-D aspect.”


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Re the Wolfman remake. Meyer: “We all went wrong. It was one of those things… like I said, we make a lot of bad movies. That’s one we should have smelled out a long time ago. It was wrong. The script never got right…”

Leopold: “The cast -”

Meyer: “—was awful. The director was wrong. Benicio [del Toro] stunk. It all stunk.”


http://www.movieline.com/2011/11/univer ... ost-wo.php

Have a read at that, it's about the most honest (unfortunately short) interview with a studio head I've seen :o

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it wont stop them pumping out a load of [LIFTED] though. Or pillaging foreign films to destroy and make PG/family friendly etc.

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it wont stop them pumping out a load of [LIFTED] though. Or pillaging foreign films to destroy and make PG/family friendly etc.


Rating system abuse is really starting to piss me off - if it's not making the likes of Die Hard 4 even worse via PG Whatever, it's enabling dumb parents and their consequently dumb kids to visit the cinema...

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Hmm might just be a Ratner moment.

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Hmm might just be a Ratner moment.


My thought exactly. Looking for a big severence bonus before things go t*ts up?

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