This is why I'd never make it in the Hollywood Studio System: Sony just extended their contract with Michael De Luca becasue they are so happy with the work he's done for them as producer. He's the guy that brought us THE LOVE GURU, GHOST FIDER, ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE and A MAN APART and yet Sony just renewed his 'first look' deal through 2001 because, as Amy Pascal (co-chairman of Sony Pictures) says, 'He brings us fantastic projects... and he so loooves movies'. The extra 'o's in loves are hers.
Due, only in part I'm sure, to the hits Sony took on De Luca's choate folio of films, Sony laid off 3.5% of their workforce earlier this year, but hey, Mike loooves movies, so that's ok. Maybe his Paul Bettany vehicle, PRIEST, will turn things around for Sony. It sure smells like a winner. It's about a reble priest who tosses off the yolk of church law and tracks down the vampires who kidnapped his niece... I shit you not.
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