Posted on 10/11/2018 8:17:09 AM PDT by C19fan
Annapurna Pictures, the boutique film and TV studio started by Oracle scion Megan Ellison, has run into financial difficulties that on Tuesday resulted in the exit of its film division head and the announced jettisoning of two upcoming films with marquee talent, multiple individuals told TheWrap.
Ellison is “reevaluating” the studio’s film division and is expected to take a more active role in day-to-day development and production after a rocky 18 months that included Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit” and the modest indie hit “Sorry to Bother You,” one insider said.
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Get woke, go broke.
The only movies I have any knowledge of are “Zero Dark Thirty” about the hunt for Bin Laden, “Phantom Thread” supposedly being Daniel Day Lewis’s last movie, and the hate whitey movie “Detroit” which bombed at the box office. This Ellison scion burned through tens of millions of dollars for vanity projects. This studio was going to produce a hit job on Dick Cheney but that has been cancelled as the money has dried up.
“Get woke, go broke.”
PREACH!
Leftist political movies usually bomb. People want to be entertained.
Larry Ellison’s son David is also a Hollywood producer. He runs Skydance Media. Unlike his sister David realizes one has to make movies people want to see to make money, for example, Mission Impossible movies.
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