George Clooney To Hedge Fund Honcho Daniel Loeb: Stop Spreading Fear At Sony

Germanlady

Interesting read about Sony and film making overall these days.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/george-clooney-slams-sony-investor-daniel-loeb/#more-554389

StirredNotShaken

Great read. Whatever you think of his acting - I think he's brilliant - Clooney certainly has one of the highest levels of integrity in Hollywood today. I love that he keeps the Batman picture in his office and is willing to admit he made a mistake with that role.

WillyGalore

Yes, Clooney comes across as a bloody nice bloke and all round good egg :-)

I hope he never ventures into politics as I'd hate to see him corrupted by the system.

MajorDSmythe

Not Bond News, moved to General Movies & TV.

Germanlady

Thanks. Was trying to after posting first with editing, but it didn't work.

Richardo

Clooney is a masterclass all unto himself and a silver fox to boot. A+ article, thanks for posting.

boldfinger

Very interesting read, thanks for posting @Germanlady!

Germanlady

You're welcome.

Germanlady

Good!
http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/sony-to-third-point-owning-100-of-its-entertainment-businesses-is-critical-to-sonys-success/

Germanlady

New update - they are not giving up. Not so good.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/sony-to-third-point-owning-100-of-its-entertainment-businesses-is-critical-to-sonys-success/

Bentley

Great guy who makes fabulous films

Suivez_ce_parachute

Well, well, less movies for Sony, and budgets cuts for the next year in the Entertainment Business,

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-sony-pictures-budget-cuts-20131120,0,5879512.story#axzz2lgZYJEoa

WillyGalore

Suivez_ce_parachute wrote:

Well, well, less movies for Sony, and budgets cuts for the next year in the Entertainment Business,

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-sony-pictures-budget-cuts-20131120,0,5879512.story#axzz2lgZYJEoa

Obviously it won't affect Bond given the money SF made for Sony and MGM.

Suivez_ce_parachute

Alas what it means is that despite early feedback that Loeb was not successful in imposing his views to Sony management, we now see the first announcements from Sony that look as if they were straight from Loeb's plan...
It has been said here a few months ago, it is very likely that Sony took all the risks and saw far less money than EON and MGM did (3 times less according to some sources : $50M of profit for Sony with Skyfall). Briefly, Sony's a bit of a milk cow for the others. Loeb wants this to stop. If Sony/Loeb wants to re-negotiate the EON/MGM Bond deal, pray it won't mean 1 or 2 years of delay.

I continue on the "production timelime" thread, with more explicit comments from the CEO of Sony Entertainment about now putting financial pressure on directors... Loeb seems to have won.