Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Barker and more Studio Executives on THR's Roundtable
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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Mr. Jeffrey Katzenberg had his eye on the future of things. Considering its almost 10 years and with streaming services, studios are now considering putting Blockbusters (Mulan 2020-Disney +) on our devices rather than the cinema in the name of the times (COVID and accessibility). A testament to his vision.
My favorite part is when Jim makes the distinction between the movie business and the music business 52:00
I love watching these full length roundtable discussions. Please do more of these.
these shows by hollywood reporter are friggen amazing!
I cant believe I have just stumbled upon them now !
looking forward to this years stuff..
Michael Barker's portion at 0:14:22 is extremely inspiring and heartfelt. SPC for the win!
Please get the heads over at disney and warner brothers
That alone would be worth the price of admission
Love this series THR, put more of them in FULL!
This discussion with the studio executives give amazingly interesting insights in to Hollywood today. Thank you so much to the Hollywood Reporter and 'threnetwork'.
It's nice to see that there's still passion in these Hollywood faces of America's 1%...
Although these people are part of the 1%, they aren't the same as the Wall Street, or Bank owners 1%. Each and every person here has earned every bit of their wealth fairly. They aren't laundering money, and they aren't taking advantage of the less fortunate.
jed52
You're misinformed.
Super Dynamite Yes, there are sharks in all arenas, but it's cynical to dismiss all the executives as money grubbing sleaze bags.
jed52
They are not "money grubbing sleaze bags" and neither are the participants of the world market. The few bad apples get caught and go to prison. The media villainizes entire industries and as a result we get "occupy Wall Street" and comments like the one you made. It's not right.
Super Dynamite You know this, how?
Agree passionately with you. These roundtable discussions with directors, screenwriters, and now, composers are superb. Thank you Hollywood Reporter and 'thernetwork'.
great to see other opinions about the business great interview :D
Is this the first year they interviewed the executives? This was incredibly fascinating hearing and discussing with some of the most powerful people in hollywood whom are quite mysterious and closed off media-wise
I love "Battleship" and I will always defend that movie as being great. It is highly rewatchable for me.
What an excellent interview! Loved the ending speech about creativity
such an insightful interview
Insightful, keep them coming.....
There is a lot of optimism about the future of movies from these major players in Hollywood. That's great to see.
Michael Barker's speech at 14:40 ... awesome. Sounds like an awesome guy
500 million dollars and overall very positive reviews disagree. It was a smash hit for the studio.
I really think there should be an updated version of this due to the streaming wars now, hopefully the 2022/23 table will be be more diverse 😅
They clearly enjoy their jobs and who wouldn't? They are incredibly lucky to have such fun, powerful jobs in hollywood
Interesting point, in every other roundtable they get a glass of water maybe. in this they get a full meal, a tray of fruit, what i can only imagine is orange juice with vodka, all using semi expensive dinnerware. For the people that pay the check, not the people that make the money, have the ideas, make the work. Little sad.
FINALLY! These people speak my language!
katzenberg is still pissed! LOL
That fruit plate is amazing.
I Enjoyed how that guy at the beginning refuses the salad
gets better as it goes on
Great discussion!
EXECUTIVES- Look, speaking as a member of the movie watching audience, we are tired of seeing remakes. Also, more importantly, movie tickets are too expensive. I honestly was thinking about watching battleship, Green Latern and couple of other movies, but when movie tickets are 12 to 15 dollars, I say no thanks.
Stephen Galloway. check out the actor, directors videos.
i start drifting off 25 minutes in.best job .philanthropy these nutz. i wanna make a movie
This was so incredibly interesting.
The best round table ever. JK's answers (just made my day) about the 10yrs in film future comparing it with sports. It was a brilliant answer that so many big guests celeb lectures I went in LA were not able to answer. That's why I
Why did they cut the audio when Katzenberg was talking about Saving Private Ryan losing the Oscar? why did they censor that part?
you couldn't have looked very hard, it tells you in the description that its Stephen Galloway lol
Where's Warner Brothers?
Absolutely agree!
Interesting discussion. I do believe that the awards are a joke, but I guess someone has to win them.
@32:45 is a question and discussion about how the Oscar voting process works. "The craft is what's being awarded...". Then apply Kramer vs. Kramer winning Best Picture over Apocalypse Now. A complete contradiction. I wish I was part of this discussion!!!
34:10 did STOMP show up at the restaurant?
I wish Harvey Weinstein was on the panel. Especially when Katzenberg was talking about campaigning and Saving Private Ryan's loss to Shakespeare in Love.
Can't find the main moderator's name anywhere. Can anyone tell me his name?
where's Harvey?!
where is Kevin Feige?
check the other interviews..actors..actreses..they really real/neat
Very interesting. Executives don't get enough of an outlet to speak publicly and too much 'flak', especially now that certain directors are such stars and speak openly about studio interference. Studios are necessary to finance (big) movies. Without them, they wouldn't be there, so fair game to them to try and find balance between 'art' and a product which will help them make their money back. If you don't wanna deal with that, finance independently.
This is easily the most uncomfortable round table ever. These people are constantly in direct competition with each other, competitions that cost billions.
It's extremely painful to see the guy talking about "how life of pie obviously had a significant budget" just by pointing at the cgi tiger, when the visual artists studio has declared bankruptcy because they didn't get payed adequately looking at the movies intake. (NAB : "The State of the VFX Industry and where do we go from here? - Scott Ross and Scott Squires"
Normal dslr camera in a soundproof housing called a "blimp"
Thin Red Line, American History X, Truman Show >>>>> Saving Private Ryan
The fruit on the table is kind of weird
Yeah, it's 100% obvious I'm not talking about money...
They're more humans than I thought. :p
STOP INTERRUPTING! Please interviewers, just let your guests speak.
Avatar??? Come on, that movie showed that no matter how much money you invest on it, you can't buy originality.
The best film of 1982 for me was "An Officer and a Gentleman" which did not even receive a best picture nomination. The man against all odds is much more entertaining than the alien against all odds.
THR's Stephen Galloway keeps interrupting the executives and it's very annoying
This is so ironic I am 23years old. And yes I dream to achieve and Academy Award and own a house in Malibu near a beach. I will not give it up. Atleast not the award part.
power play?
came here thinking it was a harlem shake video. :(
This post is supposed to be a joke, right? If not, that's a seriously sad state of affairs.
Big ass camera @6:00. Or small Asian?
The achievement of something great in the eyes of your peers, the pinnacle of success ... Uh ... is that why Stanley Kubrick was never even nominated for anything?
What a fucking joke!
someone tell them to calm down with the reboots!
Nobody wants the salads!
Why does no one want salad?
Salad play
The question @30:44 - "why didn't hurt locker do better at the box office, even with an academy award?"
Listen to Rob Friedman's response... "America is not ready to view the conflicts that we are in as entertainment." Then apply "American Sniper".
The formula used to determine and project a film's success and ROR is 96% wrong.
In all essence, The Hurt Locker is a drama with very few suspenseful scenes scattered throughout. Although the film was CLEARLY the best film of that years nominees, it is still a drama and dramas do much less at the box office than action films like American Sniper, which like The Hurt Locker, took place during the same Iraq war in front of the same backdrop.
Rob Friedman's "OPINION" that America is not ready to be entertained by films about our current conflicts is completely wrong and that thought process is one of the main reasons why the majority of green-lit studio films fail at the box.
In MY OPINION, the only thing that is saving their jobs is the global market revenue.
Nobody wants the salad??
Nobody's eating anything, pity
@19:30
The interviewer doesn't agree with Gandhi winning the Oscar over E.T.!?!?!?!?!?!
I loved E.T. As much as the next guy, but come on.
Lol, fuck salads.
The fact that all the executives on this roundtable are Americans from Anglo- American studios shows clearly that Hollywood and the most important studios simply ignore the real world of filmmaking and lose most of the available talent. They are not talking about movies. they are talking bout their shared point of view. They are talking about the small world of angloamerican movie business they live in- kinda cultural delusion, because not one of the bigger productions makes it to profit if not pushed into European and Asian and Australian theatres by immense advertisement campaigns. They unite to just rule the global film distribution with the options of products from expensive american filmmaking. There is no chance for them to see the best scripts for the best possible movies to produce in their small and limited radar, not even see the best movies made around the world, not even to get the cooperation of the globes best actors, writers and directors. How could you believe that a small space like this could be the center of the global interest on movies, focused on one language, on one culture? Its all about pretending. Almost nothing said here matters for someone who is interested in good movies.
Their business is making huge, mass-consumed event pictures, but pretty much all of these studios have speciality branches that produces art films as well, like Fox Searchlight and Sony Classics.
As for your point of view about "American filming" Hollywood hasn't been exclusively American in a long time. There are directors and actors pretty much from all over the globe and the shooting of these films also take place in many countries. You have people like Alejandro González Iñárritu, Ang Lee, Neill Blomkamp and the list goes on and on.
Finally, the country where advertisement is most needed for film is the US. Take China, for instance. While the box-office of Hollywood films there rivals America's, they invest less than 10% of what the P&B budget is in the US.
They need to greenlight Blur Studios' The Goon and Grant Morrison's Sinatoro.
The Hurt Locker was good. Could use more movies like it.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower was great.
Movies need to open digitally. They're dragging their heels and falling behind the vanguard: sites like this one.
Movies are decreasing in popularity relative to the superior art medium of videogames.
35:19 harsh cursewords.
Studio executives are 'number crunchers" (i.e., they will usually only green-light a project if the 'numbers' don't jibe with their stock holders and board member wishes). This also means they will read the financials of past projects to see how they did at the box office. There is no skill in becoming a studio executive. If you are good with numbers and can analyze P&L statements, you can become a vice president of production at any studio. The real skill is being a filmmaker (director, writer, even an actor) and making a film from "without" those skills I outlined earlier. The executive simply monitor the money and hope a profit is made --- not whether a movie is good or not.
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I totally agree with you that film making is a team sport. When making my short film in Syracuse, I needed everyone on board to complete the film. The question is whether executives at studios actually know what is involved in making a film. keep in mind that the marketing, research and accounting departments of the studios have a huge part to play in green-lighting a project. They know nothing about the process of film making -- just what makes a profits and what they "think" doesn't make a profit. Directors, writers and actors go through this gauntlet all of the time. The film makers are not the executives (they are just the "money" people). But the people who put ideas from script to screen.
***** *slow clap* well said buddy, well said
egdapo
Yes, it was well said, but it was half true. I was speaking regarding the industry as a whole. Not of its parts.
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I, myself, made a short film at Syracuse University (S.I. Newhouse). It was viewed on Syracuse Cable. Does that make me qualified to judge some of the most demanding and sough-after jobs in the world. The answer to that is: No.
First, we have to define "jobs". Let's take the positions of, say, vice president of casting; vice president of television production; or even president of distribution & marketing. Keep in mind I'm speaking of Hollywood executive positions at the major studios (even the "Mini's", as they call them, will hire in certain high-level positions where having a film background is not necessary or required). None of the positions require any film-making experience. Even doesn't require being the media industry at all. Especially vice president of distribution & marketing. Yet, it is that division that controls how a motion picture is to be marketed to exhibitors, me and you.
You're one of the most well spoken idiots I've come across on youtube. Quite fascinating really.
Did you really say the being a studio executive requires no skill? You seriously are delusional and will never make it in the industry. Sorry. I think you're just a bitter and sore loser.
That Stephen Galloway has got to be the worst interviewer, always interrupting. Wish he didn't do these things
hahaha as if you couldn't predict that battleship would be a failure
@47:33
THE MOST important part of the round table discussion, as it pertains to the landscape of film industry revenue stream and delivery methods. After listing to this portion of the discussion I realize one thing; this group absolutely does not understand "the black swan" (Nassim Taleb) and are ill prepared for the improbable event, ie. China, an international market shift, next-gen piracy, hackers, generational change and what drives theater goers, actor draw, etc. They are speaking in "the now". It's the equivalent of giving a 5 Day weather forecast for the past 5 days instead of the coming 5 days. Right now they are all living in a giant mansion with beautiful windows but the mansion has no foundation. It's as clear as day. There's a flock of black swans headed right for them.
Why did the music industry go out of business? A black swan destroyed the music industry.
So ✡
ted should never have been green lit. Awful film. Just like a family guy movie
A study done by entertainment-securities attorney, John W. Cones, finds that 70 - 80 percent of the top three executives in the MPAA studio/distributors are "politically liberal, not very religious Jewish males of European heritage." Given this, why is there such little diversity in the executive ranks when many are calling for more diversity in Hollywood? Could discrimination (cronyism, nepotism and favoritism) in the executive suites be the cause of the lack of diversity at the talent, crew and conglomerate levels? Does a narrowly defined "control group" of executives only green-light movies that appeal to their interests, values, cultural perspectives and prejudices? Is this why Hollywood studios and New York networks are promoting a liberal agenda and suppressing conservatives? Is this why Hollywood is promoting European style- socialism and anti-Christian values? Is this why Hollywood is promoting the Globalist Agenda Trump is working to roll back? MAINSTREAM -- a 4-part mini series NOT "coming to a theater near you" addresses the lack of diversity in Hollywood and its repercussions on a democratic society. Get on high quality DVD at www.mecfilms.com/mainstream.html or watch at ua-cam.com/video/evYyDsmSzdo/v-deo.html