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September 21, 2007
Question Of The Day - Wither DreamAmount
How many errors of fact can you find in this very tardy L.A. Times article on DreamWorks vs Paramount?
Okay... now how many events of spin can you find in the piece, which after a Brad Grey interview is interestingly willing to shove the blame on poor, old, crazy Sumner?
I don't have the time to deconstruct right now... but it's coming.
I will offer my favorite piece of spin before I post and run... In seven years of an 8% distribution deal with DreamWorks Animation (already 18 months old, btw) that Paramount paid for in an additional high 8-figure transaction, Paramount - Ms Eller argues - could earn as much from each DWA movie as it did from Shrek The Third for a seven year potential total of $800 million.
WOW! The giant hairy balls on that one!!!
The story in all these stories, my friends, is who is telling their bestest versions of the stories and who is allowing it.
Posted by poland at September 21, 2007 05:52 PM
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Heat stated; "WOW! The giant hairy balls on that one!!!" There's nothing else to state after such a statement. Yep. Going to back away now. Going to leave it alone. Yep. Back off. Running now.
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at September 21, 2007 08:48 PM
This LA Times article is one of the worst article about DreamWorks vs Paramount I've ever seen....
Posted by: marychan at September 21, 2007 09:13 PM
At this rate, in about two years Paramount will have sunk to the level of MGM, fighting for the scraps tossed away by the big guys.
Posted by: Cadavra at September 22, 2007 11:03 AM
This whole Dreamworks Paramount thing just reminds me of an old quote, "I gave an exclusive interview to every paper in town."
Posted by: movielocke at September 22, 2007 03:03 PM
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