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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing…
Thanks to Roku and its executives, Rob Holmes and David Eilenberg, who co-hosted a Puck private dinner with me on Tuesday night at San Vicente Bungalows. Great to chat with execs from Netflix, Hulu, Lionsgate, Springhill, WME, Anonymous Content, AMC and some savvy producers. We’ll do another one soon.
Let’s begin…
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- Someone please take the Amazon film job already: A lot of head-scratching around town over a Wall Street Journal story suggesting Netflix’s Scott Stuber is jockeying to run film for Amazon Studios and its MGM unit. Sources close to Stuber say he’s not going to Amazon. Nor is Sean Bailey, the Disney Studios production president, who actually did meet a few times but bowed out six or seven weeks ago. Emma Watts may or may not still be in the mix, depending on who you ask. Humble suggestion for Amazon’s Jeff Blackburn and Mike Hopkins: Hire Jeff Robinov. Yes, he’s putting together that film fund with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and RedBird Capital. And yes, he’s objectively weird. But if you look at the films and the numbers, the guy had a pretty great run at Warner Bros...
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Zaslav’s Hamptons-Hollywood Vanity Project |
Since taking over WBD in April, David Zaslav has run the company like a cost-cutting vigilante… until it comes to an odd gangster movie project written by his Hamptons buddy, Nick Pileggi. |
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You gotta feel a little bit bad for Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, the new Warner Bros. film studio heads. They’re trying to put together big, “theatrical” projects for a company, Warner Bros. Discovery, that now says it wants to prioritize movies that can make millions in theaters first, and they’ve got a few they are almost ready to greenlight. Ryan Gosling, for instance, has agreed to star with Margot Robbie in the prequel to the Ocean’s movies, one of Warners’ biggest franchises outside of DC and Harry Potter. If deals close, the co-stars of next summer’s Barbie, also at Warners, will reunite with filmmaker Jay Roach, with whom De Luca worked with way back on Austin Powers at New Line.
Not bad, right? For film executives, Ocean’s checks many of the “theatricality” boxes: Proven I.P.; big stars in their prime; the chance, in success, to do several sequels with different heists, or even a TV spinoff for HBO Max. And with what I’m told will be a much bigger budget than Steven Soderbergh’s Clooney-led Ocean’s movies and the Sandra Bullock spinoff, the new one will feel more theatrical and maybe even summer-worthy, while not costing anywhere near the $200 million Netflix burned on Gosling’s The Gray Man. Win win... |
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