Warner Bros Honcho Decrees: No More Films With Female Leads

The Warner Bros Honcho is a jerk.

It reminds me of how the CBS executives want to use the example of Katie Couric to suggest that women should not be evening news anchors.

Regardless, I'd pay not to see Jodie Foster in her new movie. Just the posters give me a head ache.

Jodie Foster really sensed the zeitgeist. The world was crying out for more cinematic gun violence, and more self-righteous, white, American vigilantes shooting people for the greater good.

What about the female leads in Ishtar, Heaven's Gate, Waterworld, Adventures of Pluto Nash, etc., etc.?

Jodi F was really good in the movie. Incredible acting, so subtle, nuanced, effective. I thought it was compelling, riveting nd at the move I attended people clapped at the end. Other have told me about clapping in the theatre at the end also. That's a little discomforting because it ain't the usual smarmy phoney gotta-do-the-right-thing ending.

Yes, please. Give us more movies with the annoying likes of Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey. Morons.

My family decrees: WE WILL BOYCOTT WARNER BROS. FILMS.

Well of course it was the fault of the actresses they weld so much influence in the industry. they did everything in their power to further ruin the screenplay, encouraged crap directions, made sure bad scenes were not put on the editing floor and went on MSM to tell America this movie SUCKS. where is Bugs Bunny when you need him for crucial decisions- out trying to get some tail as usual.

Hollywood continues to be ruled as a white man's good old boy club. Their one principle: greed. Sex sells. Violence sells. (Don't get me wrong, I like both at times.) But the main leading roles go to men. And if you are an openly gay man, you don't get the leading role. And the woman had better be a box office draw, or else. Ben Stiller can make a film that tanks, and he'll get another, and another, and another. Same with Owen Wilson. But if you're a minority, a woman, or GLBT, you better deliver. Otherwise, only white men need apply.

Sick...

It always cracks me up when the ReichWing talking heads whine on about 'Liberal Hollywood'

The movie industry is making the same mistakes as the record industry. With every movie they make they try to swing for the fences putting all the money, effort, and talent into making movies that will reap the most money at once. Meaning the most formulaic films for the most easy to amuse audience, 15-year-old boys or people with the emotionally maturity level of a 15 year-old-boy constitutes the bulk of films in the market.

It was the same kind of problem that led to deep problems with the record industry, pop music for 15-year-old boys and girls who will eventually figure out how to get the product cheap or at no cost. Movies and music made for fringe parts of the market (that often can reap great rewards because so little was put into the work that if any audience that it can justify the expense) and movies and music of a high quality that endures (meaning you want to own it and watch it over and over and over again) isn't part of the long term planning for producers. Just like the rest of corporate America, movie studios are only concerned with the next quarter grosses and not with producing films that will bear artistic and, possibly, monetary fruit in the future.

There was a time when movies were made for women. In the 30's-50's housewives constituted a huge portion of the audience so much so that daytime matinees where often the most lucrative for the industry. Now those women are working and, instead of spending their hard earned cash on themselves, they give it to their teenagers who spend it on brain-dead movies and video games. When adults seize back control of the family pursestrings and splurge on themselves (on things other than sports cars and plastic surgery) then our culture will reflect the sophisticated tastes that are out there but are often ignored for the easy buck.

What an incredably STUPID idea this man has!

do you think this might have anything to do with Warner Bros receiving all that money from Abu Dhabi?

Hollywood is the ultimate Revenge of the Nerds - arrested adolescents who cut their teeth making fun of the popular kids in high school yearbook. They graduate to television where they can sit in a room and say things like "Courtney Cox' womb is full of twigs." When they finally work their way to the top, they hate and resent the women who suddenly pay attention to them. Gee, Mr. Robinov, do you feel better now??

The male posters on here can decry the lack of female blockbusters. But just watch the next time a Something's Gotta Give comes out and succeeds. The entertainment media will inundate us with stories about the shock felt in Hollywood. Then the little boys, who will not understand why a relatively inexpensive film could resonate with a demographic that will show up and pay the same price as the men, will ruin the film's legacy with copycats that flop. And they will come out again and announce that films about women cannot succeed.

But they can pat themselves on the back (or wherever) because beautiful actresses return their calls.

In order to make profitable movies with female leads, especially in the action-blockbuster genre, which is where the big bucks come from these days, they need female leads who can handle the action stunts credibly. OR big-name actresses who haven't gone formulaic.

Jodie Foster hasn't done good work ever since Silence of the Lambs. Her space-time epic sucked, as did Panic Room and Flightplan. A lot of the action in Mila Jovovich's Ultraviolet and Charlize Theron's Aeon Flux clearly had to work around the actresses. By contrast, Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon and similar Chinese films broke the mold for both cinematic beauty, poignant storytelling, and high-end action.

Moral: Get female action leads from China and Hong Kong. Perhaps the writers too. And keep studio suits from meddling. End of problem.

The rest of this story is basically: "Warner chairman is simplistic exec tired of losing millions to pc; female lawyer smells big lawsuit $$."

follow the money, honey: http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide

although now his comments are out in the public, you can expect an entire division to be devoted to women led, female-centric films soon. AND it should succeed for a few months before it losses everyone their shirts and careers.

before bashing male-centric movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI's_100_Years..._100_Movies

men and women are drawn by male actors, men are rarely if ever drawn by female actresses, and women themselves often have reservations about specific actresses. One female poster called today's crop of female actresses "BIMBOS".

Sheese, imagine if this man had said that.

The internet and the changing
demographics of America
have Hollywood on the run.

They continue to pump out
psychotic crap and don't understand
when "small" movies become huge
hits.
Like movies about Greek weddings
or little girls and their grandfathers.
Or penguins.

They need to learn Spanish, Mandarin
and Urdu.
Red dots.

Song and dance.
People are afraid.

No more psycho-killer, vampire ghost,
crooked cop, yadda yadda yadda,
war worship nostaligia over so-called
"good wars".

A culture as spiritually dead
as America
can't make movies anyway.

And who says Jodie Foster
is a "female" lead??

Maybe they should just concentrate on making good movies. I have seen about ten movies this year - maybe one or two of them was good. You just get kind of weary and figure it isn't worth your time & money to go the the theater.

Maybe we should also take the classic movies with female leads off the shelf. So...no more Wizard of Oz, Alien (all three...where even the big ol' monster was a broad), Gone with the Wind.

Jodie Foster has made some really good movies, but this latest one sounds like a loser. Whether the lead is a male or female, the action flick where an injured party goes after those who did the injury is not new. It has been done many times before, and, given how very talented and intelligent Ms. Foster is, I cannot understand why she chose to even make this latest movie.

I would really like to know why Ms. Foster has quit making good movies.

When all else fails, blame Nicole Kidman, Dept.

From Defamer.com:

Warner Bros.: Hey, Why Is No One Paying Attention To Our Cheaper Flops?

http://defamer.com/hollywood/jeff-robinov/

Today's NY Times' looks at the strategy that Warner Bros. executives are embracing going forward from the bomb-strewn summer...

In the story, shellshocked-but-resolute WB muckity-mucks Jeff Robinov and Alan Horn lament that people have harped on their higher-profile disasters, while ignoring all the money they've proudly lost on lower-budgeted projects.

They want to make money.

It's their buisness what kind of movie they make.

If someone else can beat them with movies starring women, they will change their tunes.

Nothing personal!

A film is only as good as its script. No actor can take a lemmon and turn it into a a rolls royce. Not going to happen. Don't blame the actors, blame who is writing this garbage that is passing for film making. On the slip side of this, you have to have good actors, and fame ain't going to cut it if they can't act.
I worked in this industry as an associate producer, I have seen directors choose people they know couldn't act, but would give it up on the casting couch. Good actors are those who can improvise, make it look effortless. Most won't take scripts that are crap, wait for something decent to work in.
Hollywood needs to open its eyes to the new writers coming out of areas that don't get alot of play time. Some of the best writers are people who you never see, or hear about. Those are the ones who should be making movies. Not this formula crap. It might sell, but its nothing to be proud of.

I HAVEN'T SEEN JODIE'S FILM, BUT WILL WHEN IT COMES OUT ON DVD; WHERE IT WILL PROBABLY MAKE QUITE A LOT OF MONEY. I DON'T GO TO THEATERS ANY MORE BECAUSE EVEN IN A HICK TOWN LIKE TALLAHASSEE IT COSTS ABOUT 25 BUCKS FOR TWO PEOPLE. BEING A MORON, ROBINOV CAN'T BLAME KIDMAN FOR "INVASION'S" POOR PERFORMANCE SINCE IT WAS A REMAKE OF A REMAKE THE WASN'T ALL THAT GREAT THE FIRST TIME AROUND. I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE A FILM WITH A FEMALE LEAD SINCE IT USUALLY HAS SUBTANCE WHEN COMPARED TO THE BANG-BANG DRIVEL THAT ACCOMPANIES PITT, CRUISE AND CROWE.

One woman....
Its probably been years since a little sausage found its way into your huge open sore....I mean vagina....I'm sure you screamed rape after that one, so you could claim true victimization...Do you recieve child support for rape?
Woman need to relax.
Being subservient to men isn't such a bad lot in life...You'll get used to it...Again.
Get out your burkas girls. If we lose in Iraq you will be wearing the islamofashions you so despise. Then it'll be back to the grind...Sucking your man's sausage when your not birthin' his babies and cooking his and his dogs meals.
Cheers

Women cannot carry a leadership position no matter how politically correct it may seem.

Hillary would still be known as the name of a cow if Hillary "can't make her mind up" Rodham Clinton wasn't the wife of "lack of character and impeached" Bill Clinton.

It will be sad in 2008 when Giuliani, or McCain walks away with the presidency because the dumbassed Democrats put Hillary up instead of someone who can really lead this country.

I'm a democrat with a lot to lose if a republican is elected president in 2008,
but I will never vote for some godamn vagina like Hillary just because she was once the wife of a president. The ONLY reason she won the NY Senate seat was because of her husband.
Hell, she probably can't even suck cock very well....Her husband had to get it somewhere else...
Gag...gag....

Who really cares what he says ?
He'd sell his own momma for a box office success.

For the most part, films that come out of this studio are all formula stuff anyway.

Not like a new idea or concept is going to cross their minds .... sheesh ...... do another remake why don't ya ...... and wonder why you flop on your face !