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Peter Bart: As Seth Rogen Cosplays A Studio Exec On TV, Hollywood Wishes His Pipe Dreams Were Real
The dealmaking machinery seems stalled at some studios due to legalistic clashes over mergers, but at Continental Pictures, the green lights are flashing. Faux but green.
Seth Rogen, production chief of the fictional Continental, is closing…
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Peter Bart: Even AI Titans Can’t Predict Future Of Movies About AI Titans
The techie titans who grabbed our attention and our Oscars in The Social Network almost 16 years ago are ready to capture our screens again. Their forays are omniscient as well as ominous.
In upcoming movies like The Social Reckoning and Artificial…
Peter Bart: YouTube-Birthed Movies ‘Obsession’ & ‘Backrooms’ Resurrect ’60s Easy Rider Dreams
Always alert to mood swings, Hollywood this week is coping with some dauntingly positive portents. Box office numbers are strong, magic money from Oracle, Amazon or Abu Dhabi is materializing and newly muscled majors are greenlighting product.
Some optimists even see hints of a '60s-style…
Peter Bart: With ‘Disclosure Day’, Steven Spielberg Has A Close Encounter Of The Cerebral Kind
A calm and gracious man, Steven Spielberg over the years has carefully masked his passion for mayhem – creative mayhem, that is. Perhaps it has cost him: Through the last decade he has missed the unique excitement of a summer mega-hit.
The opening…
Peter Bart: Billionaire CEOs Could Take A Lesson From The Courtly Father Of Public Relations
Edward Bernays, a calm, courtly man renowned as the "Father of Public Relations," would likely have been confounded by the erratic public behavior of today's billionaire CEOs.
Bernays preached his doctrine of "engineered consent" to rescue stumbling CEOs. Since he died in 1995, however, his…
Peter Bart: Hollywood’s Dearth Of A Salesman Has Directors Struggling To Fill A Summertime Void
Hollywood will need some zealous promotion to sell its franchise-heavy summer movie season but also some hard work from taciturn filmmakers.
The popcorn season was once a fever dream for studios who could call upon Bogart, Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor…
Peter Bart: Filmmakers Quietly Await Hollywood’s Greenlight On A Trumpian Era ‘All The President’s Men’
The two biggest box office hits of the moment, Michael and The Devil Wears Prada 2, are unique as “period flashbacks”; they are, at once, of the present and the past. Could they be the model for a new genre?
If so, would filmgoers revisit that…
Peter Bart: Will Moviegoers Dig Tom Cruise As A Billionaire Savior In A Trumped-Up World?
Tom Cruise's next movie is a comedy about the world's most powerful man who decides to become humanity's savior. Even Cruise's admirers might wonder how this character will be welcomed by Trumped-out filmgoers who might prefer more conventional “revenge”…
Peter Bart: Finding Movies That Will Galvanize America Has Become A Tough Bet
Even as Ryan Gosling launched his “Hail Mary” and Super Mario re-discovered his “Galaxy,” the bets were piling up on Kalshi: Which movie would win the summer?
Or would there be a winner at all? The mega-hits of seasons past reflected a comfy…
Peter Bart: Hollywood Studios Assess Their New Leaders As High On Polish, Skimpy On Candor
As new leaders assume power in Hollywood, the town is trying to deal with their operating styles.
"Why are you bothering me?" That was Jack Warner's usual way of opening a meeting in a previous generation. "You have four minutes," was Lew…
Peter Bart: Oscar Week Brings Comforting Distraction From Hollywood’s Regime Changes & Very Risky Business
While compulsively watching The Sopranos on HBO 20 years ago, I never imagined that the network itself soon would become corporate bounty. As such it was conquered successively by AT&T, Discovery, Warners and Paramount+.
The dealmaking agonies of HBO reflect a Hollywood agenda committed more to…
Peter Bart: Trumpian Disruptions, AI & Tariffs Stall Growth, Put CEOs On Endangered Species List
I've never believed in ghosts but Lew Wasserman's intruded on me this week. Lew was CEO not only of Universal but of Hollywood in general until around 2000, and thus he'd be surprised to learn that his peers today are an endangered species.
Even…
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