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I remember looking at all the prequel fans on the imdb message board of “Force Awakens” the night it was released complaining about Daisy Ridley etc

FINALLY! Someone who understands what true cinema is about. I’ve always said that spread sheets are just as important, if not more so, than the script, which is why I am excited for “Dawn of TurboTax: The Auditors Revenge” by Intuit Studios

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Yes, I’ve always thought of Feige as sort of the Sokurov figure in all this.

As an audience member, the one thing I’m really looking for in an evening’s entertainment is a fiscal reality that fits in nicely with a corporate long term strategy. That’s why I admire Fellini’s wily use of debt-service coverage ratios, and why I think Welles was robbed of the 1941 Academy Award for Best Strategic Use of Weight Average Maturities.

And what a model of the artistic enterprise that thing is.

Studio executives and directors are not two separate groups. To make a good movie you need a good director with a vision but you also need a studio executive who make it a reality. Their goal is mutual: a good and financially successful film.

There’s a difference between supervision and interference. Supervision is what Kevin Feige does at Marvel, having a vision, a plan and making sure the movie fits nicely in their long term strategy from the first day of preproduction. Interference is what DC did when it turned out that people didn’t like BvS and when they realized that David Ayer was making a different movie than the one they advertised at Comic Con last year.

“Name a film that improved after studio interference.”

Revenge of the Sith comes to mind

Name a film that improved after studio interference.

Directors at this level are obsessed with film. Studio heads are obsessed by accounting, managerial economics, operations research, organizational behavior, policy, quantitative analysis, human resource management, marketing, and business law. I think it’s pretty clear from which group a good film would emerge.

The truth is it’s way more complicated than that. The execs give the money, in this case a lot and I don’t blame them for wanting to know how it is spent and what they get in return because if the final product is unwatchable and don’t bring in any money, they lose their jobs too. The directors are artists and need supervision because even the best directors can make bad movies, especially if it’s their first big film.

The bigger problem was that they forgot to supervise Zack Snyder, overreacted when the BvS reviews came in and wanted too much control which is also a bad thing:

The second problem was that with the first trailer they promised a completely different movie than what was in the making.

It’s a fucking shame. I want these movies to succeed but warner bros keeps on fucking it up.