So often we think of Hollywood kids in unflattering terms: troubled, entitled, squandered potential. This past weekend, however, I was charmed by an interaction between the children of two of Hollywood's greats.
The scene was the Tribeca Film Festival screening of a fun film titled Freaky Deaky,...
Comments | Posted November 15, 2011 | 1:07 PM
The best ideas are the obvious ones and that applies to bringing a film festival to Napa Valley. Who wouldn't want to attend a festival held in the valley with arguably the best restaurants and wine in the world? The inaugural...
(1) Comments | Posted May 19, 2011 | 8:37 PM
I did not see Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie but I did hear the crowd roaring from the confines of our sales booth. I did not see the fireworks but I did hear the thunderous explosions outside as we were still busy late at night closing deals inside. There were...
(6) Comments | Posted April 20, 2011 | 3:16 PM
As I arrived at Coachella this year I couldn't help but to reminisce about the US Festival, which took place in 1982 and 1983. Only about 85 miles from each other, both in the blistering heat and both filled with the best indie rock of their time. The 1983 US...
Comments | Posted October 28, 2010 | 8:37 PM
RICKY ROMA
Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real
estate. What are they?
(pause)
An opportunity. To what? To make
money? Perhaps. To lose money?
Perhaps. To "indulge" and...
(20) Comments | Posted September 30, 2010 | 4:24 PM
Reminiscent of Some Like it Hot, Tony Curtis was zooming along in a little dinghy to meet me at the dock. It was 1996, during the Cannes Film Festival, and he...
Comments | Posted September 20, 2010 | 3:44 PM
Ben Stiller, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Clint Eastwood and countless other stars attended The Toronto International Film Festival, but I didn't cross paths with any of them. I did, however, share a plane with Aaron Eckhart, and even though he's not exactly a superstar (at least...
(5) Comments | Posted September 1, 2010 | 5:57 PM
Eighteen months ago we started production on an animated film and, believe it or not, there was great debate at that time whether we should make the movie in 2D or 3D. Instinct told us to go with 3D. Ten months later,...
(12) Comments | Posted August 19, 2010 | 5:05 PM
Rooney who? You're telling me that someone who seems to have mixed up her own first and last names gets to play the title role opposite Daniel Craig in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? And she beat out Natalie...
(3) Comments | Posted April 27, 2012 | 12:59 PM