Comments on: Warner Bros. Bans Female Lead Movies – UPDATED

By: scoville

scoville — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:47:21 +0000

Lot’s of blind faith and assumptions going on around here. I almost thought I was reading AICN.

By: Butter On My Popcorn

Butter On My Popcorn — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:58:25 +0000

I am personally banning myself from seeing superhero movies with female leads….Catwoman,UltraViolet, Elektra, and Alexander the Great.

By: miles

miles — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:03:40 +0000

Make sure to keep us updated if this does come into effect.

i will definitly boycott WB if they adopt this policy.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:15:08 +0000

Hey, there’s another Kristina!

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:22:14 +0000

The internet has made everyone delusional.

By: Tip

Tip — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:26:30 +0000

Hey, cool…if we’re now taking credit for things we didn’t do, can I be known as the guy who invented sliced bread? I hear people like that stuff.

By: Servant of Krom

Servant of Krom — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:21:34 +0000

Flawless Victory

By: Kristina

Kristina — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:53:11 +0000

So I can see The Dark Knight guilt-free now? Yay!

By: DarkKinger

DarkKinger — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:40:21 +0000

The Movie Blog FTW!!!

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:36:53 +0000

Busted!!!! This is just like the paramount situation last year. Paramount took movie blog down, John got the word out, and then suddenly Parmamount was all “opps it was just an accident”. They got busted and had to do damage control. Then they accidentally took down iesb after that too.

Good job campea

By: Goon

Goon — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:35:29 +0000

^good call.

the update of the woman saying ‘they didnt give us a chance to first respond’ makes Nikki Finke look really bad, IMO. if she has as much influence as she supposedly does she could have made a call and let them affirm/deny at the time. I mean, it only took John here the rest of the day and I dont think he’s as big as this blog apparently is. Irresponsible journalism, Ms. Finke. Very irresponsible. If WB is telling the truth, Finke time murdered everyone involved in this thread today.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:31:44 +0000

I had a big long response that was in relation to this…but…there’s one film that should be mentioned that sort of made me doubt the story to begin with.

Million Dollar Baby.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:28:48 +0000

Well, if Robinov loses his WB parking space by this next weekend, that will say it all, eh?

By: Salem

Salem — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:28:48 +0000

I was right. I said that they would deny or recant those words…

I’m always right. Even when I’m wrong, I’m right.

By: Goon

Goon — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:25:27 +0000

I object to people patting themselves on the back just ASSUMING they made them change a policy you cant even prove existed. For all you know they simply dont realize the power of the internet and either didnt know or didnt care about nikki’s blog. i’d also remind you this article came just before the weekend. of course a major studio isnt going to acknowledge such claims until they are known and/or worth addressing.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:23:54 +0000

This came up the other day in the Zoetrope disccusion boards. Some of the same arguements I seen (and made) over there by others and myself align with the comments here that this guy at WB needs a good sock to stuff in his piehole.

I also agree that if this is indeed the new policy at WB, the other studios should take some advantage of this, and start greenlighting films or looking to that audience which WB has chosen to avoid. Which is to say, any audience. When I go see a film, it does not matter who is in the lead or not. If it’s a good film, it is a good film. If it is a bad film…

Myself, I don’t understand WB’s reasoning. I heard about how supposedly “no one” wants to see butt kicking ladies, but “Kill Bill” was a success. We had TV shows like “Buffy”, we even got “Bionic Woman” back…Sarah Connor is on the way. Then, there’s the non-action roles. As pointed out above “The Devil Wears Prada” was a huge hit.

Oh, can I say one title? Can I? Can I? Gio, have you heard of this film?

It was called….
Million Dollar Baby

But, out of curiousity….L have to ask. If anyone knows the answer, please say so.

How many films has Warner’s turned down in the last five to ten years that had a female lead that became a hit with another studio and/or got oscar nominations/wins (which helps out revenue for the film afterword)?

As for boycotting WB…I won’t boycott Batman Begins. I’ll tell you why. See, come June, I believe there’s a number of strikes going on? When strikes happen, doesn’t it give studios an excuse to clean some house?

You heard me right.
This Robinov fella might just be losing his parking space by June.
If it were me running WB, I might not even wait that long to get rid of the clown.

By: Terrance

Terrance — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:19:59 +0000

Excellent news! And well done John. They obviously got caught with their pants down and have been in damage control all day! You and the other websites did put wb in this corner and you brought about positive change! Good job to you all!

By: Goon

Goon — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:14:55 +0000

I cant change it, but I dont like how you continue to maintain that Robidov made that statement. you have no evidence, just hearsay, and the studio has denied it and pointed at their film schedule as evidence to the contrary. I think you’re simply believing what you want to believe, and that their slowness in handling the situation is not good evidence AT ALL.

I mean, Kerry took forever to address the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, does that mean everything they said against him was true?