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A studio takes a film away from its director, recuts it, and puts out the revised version over the director’s objections. Read the full post.

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Martin Stevens
Thu 03/22/07 4:49 PM

Sometimes a director plays ball with the patron studio (certainly not a saint in this case) that pays (her) to take the reins to make an expensive motion picture– (and this one was alot more expensive than any press release would indicate…)– and sometimes NOT. In a case like this a studio can have no choice but create a confrontation (her publicist at work) just to do what might actually be rational for the presentation of the material, It’s Taymor’s material— just less of it — and that may be MORE as an experience for the average viewer. Personally, who gives a damn about the average viewer? I don’t but studios do. It’s Show-BUSINESS people! If she wants to make a movie for more than 50 million- she either has to play ball or take the lumps. What would you do if you were Joe Roth and the distributor said they don’t like the how long the movie is? You’d cut twenty minutes out and release it.

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Cody
Fri 07/13/07 9:43 PM

Taymor’s version all the way! Joe Roth has nothing on her! I really hope she wins in this battle.

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