As new leaders assume power in Hollywood, the town is trying to deal with their operating styles.
“Why are you bothering me?” That was Jack Warner’s usual way of opening a meeting in a previous generation. “You have four minutes,” was Lew Wasserman’s opening for a one-on-one session.
While Hollywood’s earlier studio chiefs could be abrasive, their successors today are at once more polished and less available. Instead of one-on-one encounters with executives or filmmakers, they prefer to Zoom or text or schedule corporate presentations.
The new boss of Paramount-Skydance-Warner Bros, David Ellison, has favored techno-speak in his carefully produced opening messages to staff or shareholders. He’s insistent that a $79 billion corporate debt should not inhibit his planned $30 billion spend on content. Takeovers do not have to constrain creativity, he asserts.
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