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Robinov Renewal Likely
2:34PM Andrew Belonsky | It’s looking more likely that Warner Bros. Picture Group’s president Jeff Robinov’s renewing his contract.
Fans’ Wizard Hats Droop With Anger, Sorrow as Warners Pushes Back ‘Harry Potter 6′
10:00AM STV | Warner Bros. sent surprising word today that it has bumped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from a release this November all the way back to July 17, 2009 — a savvy numerological strategy landing Potter exactly one year’s worth of Fridays from its opening day for The Dark Knight. Studio boss Alan Horn officially attributed the move to more practical considerations, however, namely the fact that Warners’ vibrant content chain is missing a few links next summer thanks to the writer’s strike. But don’t get any ideas about Jonze-esque hold-ups or other snags, added Jeff Robinov: More »
5 Burning Questions We Still Have For ‘Content Kings’ at Warner Bros.
5:15AM STV | We took the better part of two days to process the NYT’s recent recognition of Warner Bros. as the crown jewel at Time Warner, where Jeff Bewkes, Barry Meyer, Alan Horn and Co. are venerated at length for emphasizing “content” (i.e. their film and TV properties) ahead of “distribution” outlets like AOL, DVD and on-demand services. It’s an oddly situational success story; in fact, it opens with WB chairman Meyer literally inhaling the incoming fax telling him The Dark Knight made $66 million on opening day, and namechecks Two and a Half Men among a handful of TV series that are finding lucrative traction internationally. There’s also the HBO factor and the Turner channels’ flourishing as well.
Hollywood Women On Working In A Schlong-Obsessed Industry
7:00AM Defamer Hollywood | In what is quickly escalating into a bitter, Riggs vs. King-esque volley played out on the cement courts of the media – first Deadline Hollywood Daily claimed Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov was scrawling “DEEP TURNAROUND” in pink hi-liter on any project with a female lead, then Robinov fights back by listing every chick-flick he’s ever made, will make, or hopes to remake for Variety – now Salon enters the fray, assembling an impressive panel of industry women to weigh in on the state of the Hollywood sexes. While the discussion takes several interesting turns, we join them in the midst of a lively debate over the feminist merits of beauty-and-the-schlub megahit Knocked Up: Kimberly Peirce: I just love when she’s having that mood swing. That is hilarious. Margaret Nagle: I totally believed her having sex with him to begin with. More »
