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Am currently reading Disney War, and I was not a little shocked by just how relevant Katzenberg's rant was 20 years ago. It was just a year after Batman, which arguably changed the movie business forever and led the way to the current craze of over-budgeted preordained smash-hits based on known properties and the obsession with opening weekend. I wrote about it two years ago, for Batman's 20th anniversary. Had no idea Katzenberg beat me to the bunch by two decades.
For those who care: http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-23rd-1989-twenty-years-later-how.html
Commented Feb 11, 2011 on Jeffrey Katzenberg's notorious memo: How does it hold up 20 years later? at The Big Picture
Jeffrey Katzenberg's notorious memo: How does it hold up 20 years later?
In late January 1991, fax machines were humming all across Hollywood, spreading the news that Jeffrey Katzenberg, then head of production at Disney, had written a scalding, often self-critical 28-page memo blasting the movie industry's “tidal wave of runaway costs and mindless competition.” Hol...
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