Following the recent flop of two feature films with female stars, Warner Bros. head of production Jeff Robinov has decreed that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." According to Deadline Hollywood:
This Neanderthal thinking comes after both Jodie Foster's The Brave One (even though she's had big recent hits with Flightplan and Panic Room) and Nicole Kidman's The Invasion (as if three different directors didn't have something to do with the awfulness of the gross receipts) under-performed at the box office recently.
This is not good news for the prospects of the Wonder Woman movie.
Meh. I didn't have faith in WB in the first place. At least now we can see them more clearly for what they are.
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2007-10-07 01:31:41
That seems like a really odd and stupid thing to say from a leading movie studio.
Maybe if they had a good story, and movie with a leading lady things would be more to their financial expectations. I don't care if the leading actor is a monkey, a bad movie is a bad movie, and it will not get one cent of my money.
They are really missing the point if they honestly believe the public would not be interested in a Wonder Woman movie, or for that matter, a Power Girl movie. Idiotic studio heads.
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2007-10-07 04:17:55
On the whole, I'm inclined not to take this at face value.
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2007-10-07 09:17:39
I don't doubt it at all. He may have been partly joking when he said it, but there's a nugget of authenticity down there.
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2007-10-07 10:25:56
Lingster wrote:
I don't doubt it at all. He may have been partly joking when he said it, but there's a nugget of authenticity down there.
