EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney, who yesterday sent his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslov to Hollywood to show Sony and Fox a first cut of their Oscar-season period film The Monuments Men, has spent most of his career navigating the challenge of making provocative movies at studios obsessed with tentpoles. While he’s won Oscars — the latest the Best Picture prize he shared with Heslov and producer-director Ben Affleck for Argo — Clooney is also the guy who kept a photo of himself as Batman prominently displayed on his office wall, as a cautionary reminder of what can happen when you make movies solely for commercial reasons.
Working on post-production for his latest directing effort in Italy to ready for Sony’s December 18 release, Clooney spoke to me about his new movie and how it’s getting harder to make films likeMonuments, Argo and the Smokehouse-produced August: Osage County. The discussion turned toward recent critical comments made by Third Point LLC hedge fund head Daniel Loeb and the pressure he is placing on Sony Pictures chiefs Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, centered around the under-performing back to back summer films After Earth and White House Down. Loeb, whose fund controls 7% of Sony stock, is pressing for Sony to spin off its entertainment assets and likened those misfires to historic flops Waterworld and Ishtar. Though Clooney and Heslov base their Smokehouse Pictures banner at Sony, and Loeb’s influence is growing there, Clooney has never been shy about standing up to what he feels is wrong. So, buckle up.
jin ri ，xie 霆feng yu zhou xun “mi lian ”绯wen chuan de fei fei yang yang ，bao dao cheng ，zhou xun yu xie 霆feng bu jin yi jing mi mi lian ai ban nian ，er qie huan tong zhu yi dong da lou fang bian tan qing 。dui ci ，shuang fang jing ji ren du yi jing biao shi fou ren 。zuo ri ，gang mei zai du bao liao ，cheng xie 霆feng yin wei dan xin shi qing yu yan yu lie ，mu qian yi jing huo su ban jia ，er suo wei “feng xun lian ”shi nv fang zhu dong ，nan fang wu yi ，ling shi jian you zai qi bo lan 。
er zuo wei zhou xun de hao you ，chen kun zuo ri ye zai wei bo shang fa biao yan lun li cheng hao you ，cheng qi shi “ai qiang ti zhi ”。ta xi li xie dao ：“ru guo neng yong yu yan ba ai kan re nao de ren shuo qing xing ，na jiu bu shi yu le quan liao ！ni qu fang jia ba ！yin wei ni shi ai qiang de ti zhi ，er qie ni ，jie ba ！”yan yu zhi zhong jin xian dui hao you de li ting ，tong shi huan fu shang zi ji yu zhou xun de qin mi he zhao 。xi li yan lun yi chu ling chen kun huo de yi pian wang you li ting ，cheng hu chen kun “gou ye men ”！geng you wang you feng chen kun wei “zhong guo hao huo ban ”，li zan ta dui peng you gou zhang yi 。
bu guo ，zai chen kun fa bu de he zhao que yin qi da jia zheng yi 。zhao pian shang ，su yan de zhou xun lian se lue xian an chen ，bing you ming xian de dou dou he ban dian ，ling wang you men jing hu “zhou xun ，ni de lian shi zen me liao ”。ye you wang you kai wan xiao di gao hu yao zhou xun he chen kun “jue jiao ”：“jiao dao ge hui fa ni su yan zhao lai chen tuo zi ji mei mao de peng you ，huan shi jue jiao liao ba 。”
Said Clooney: “I’ve been reading a lot about Daniel Loeb, a hedge fund guy who describes himself as an activist but who knows nothing about our business, and he is looking to take scalps at Sony because two movies in a row underperformed? When does the clock stop and start for him at Sony? Why didn’t he include Skyfall, the 007 movie that grossed a billion dollars, or Zero Dark Thirty orDjango Unchained? And what about the rest of a year that includes Elysium, Captain Phillips, American Hustle and The Monuments Men? You can’t cherry pick a small time period and point to two films that didn’t do great. It makes me crazy. Fortunately, this business is run by people who understand that the movie business ebbs and flows and the good news is they are ignoring his calls to spin off the entertainment assets. How any hedge fund guy can call for responsibility is beyond me, because if you look at those guys, there is no conscience at work. It is a business that is only about creating wealth, where when they fail, they get bailed out and where nobody gets fired. A guy from a hedge fund entity is the single least qualified person to be making these kinds of judgments, and he is dangerous to our industry.”
Why is he dangerous?
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