Hollywood Bosses Vow to Destroy Gibson

Newsmax ^ | 2/26/04

[areafiftyone]

I won't hire him. I won't support anything he's part of."

So says a chairman of major Hollywood studio quoted today by the New York Times in its latest attack on Mel Gibson and "The Passion of the Christ."

Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, who along with Steven Spielberg are the big cheeses at the powerful DreamWorks, and who just happen to be Democrat activists, are angry about the movie, according to the Times. And the chairmen of two other big studios say they won't work with Gibson.

"Amid the daily dealings of Hollywood, the film and the star have been fodder for unfavorable gossip. Dustin Hoffman has talked to friends about what he called Mr. Gibson's 'strangeness' during the ABC interview. The producer Mike Medavoy said Mr. Gibson's religious zealotry made him feel uncomfortable," the Times fretted.

'Antichrist' Welcome

Others, however, think Tinseltown's notorious avarice will rule in the end.

"If the movie works, I don't think it will hurt him. People here will work with the Antichrist if he'll put butts in seats," said John Lesher, an agent with Endeavor.

And the wallet-packing butts are there. The $30 million movie made up to $20 million or more on its debut Wednesday, Box Office Mojo estimated today.

The Associated Press today estimated Wednesday's take at more than $20 million, with a total so far of up to $26 million including previews Monday and Tuesday.

[areafiftyone]

Who are they - the freakin hollywierd mafia??? This is just one of the reasons why I have boycotted hollywierd movies since 9/11. BUT I AM MAKING AN EFFORT TO SUPPORT GIBSON BY SEEING HIS MOVIE!

[Indy Pendance]

Mel Gibson is too big a box office draw, wealthy enough to go it alone, it'll never work.

[facedown]

I have no interest in sitting through the movie, but I will buy a ticket!

[Molly Pitcher]

Hmmm....Hollywood Libs talking Blacklist here???!! I thought only the Right was guilty on that score...

[Rutles4Ever]

So what? They're irrelevant in the scheme of things.

[SAMWolf]

People here will work with the Antichrist if he'll put butts in seats

A sad commentary, not just about Hollywood, but about certain segments of American Society in general.

[Lion in Winter]

btt... I think I will order a couple more tickets.

[EggsAckley]

And the more and the louder they roar, the more successful Mel is. LOL!!

[Alissa]

And these are the same people who scream about their free speech when people boycott their Liberal Hollyweirdos productions!

[AZamericonnie]

Let's see...25 Million in one day? Seems to me maybe they'll be asking him for work!

[Uncle Hal]

I would guess after the Passion, Mel Gibson could do a series of religious films and have no trouble getting the films financed and marketed.

[ZGuy]

"People here will work with the Antichrist if he'll put butts in seats"

I think that's a given. . . even if it doesn't increase attendance. What they'll never do however, is work with Christ.

[Psalm 73]

"Dustin Hoffman has talked to friends about what he called Mr. Gibson's 'strangeness'..." -
Yeah, Hoffman, that model of saneness that he is.

"...Mike Medavoy said Mr. Gibson's religious zealotry made him feel uncomfortable,"
Hmmmm, he felt uncomfortable, huh? And this is a guy who pals around with the morally depraved Hollywood jet-setters.....

[Rutles4Ever]

Although it does smack of a blacklist. I wonder why such self-described Catholics like Martin Sheen are eerily silent while a fellow Catholic is getting skewered.

What courage.

[Fintan]

The only thing I can state with confidence about Hollywood's reaction to this movie is it will never be nominated for the plethora of self-indulgent awards these so-called creative geniuses heap upon themselves.

On the same token, if this were a Robert Redford movie about how global warming is decimating the whale population and forcing people to vote Republican then...

[highnoon]

>Yeah, Hoffman, that model of saneness that he is.<

"I'm an excellent driver"

[SF Republican]

How is the way the film portrayed the Jews different than the way Schindlers List portrayed the Germans?

[Ff--150]

Hollywierd can clean Gibson up if they'll get the feminazis to jump on Mel for having a lady play satan...

[Just mythoughts]

What started as a "pin-hole" of light, by the outraged ADL, is beginning to crack wide open.

Mel stepped big time upon the "religion" of Hollywood, and this is unacceptable. How dare Mel!

The same "HATE" for Mel is the same "HATE" for President Bush. The dots are now getting numbered for the connect the dot picture.