Cameron Crowe’s new star-studded movie already deemed a flop by Sony boss Amy Pascal six months before theatrical showing, according to hacked emails
Formerly titled Deep Tiki, and now back to just being called as the "Untitled Cameron Crowe project," the already completed movie is scheduled for release, originally this December, but then it was moved back to May 29, 2015. In announcing the change in screening schedule, Jeff Blake, chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution for Sony Pictures, told the Wrap, "Once we saw the film, we knew that it would make a perfect summer release. The movie is Cameron at his best."
Apparently, not all at Sony Pictures share Blake's sentiments. Following a pilot screening in November with trial audiences in California and in New York, Sony big boss Amy Pascal, according to a leaked hacked email obtained by the Defamer, slammed Crowe, saying: "Scores same as last time, and way way worse in NY. It's a wrap. There is no more to do. Cameron never really changed anything." She also found holes in how the movie itself unfolds. Said wrote: "People don't like people in movies who flirt with married people or married people who flirt. The satellite makes no sense. The gate makes no sense. I'm never starting a movie again when the script is ridiculous...It never, not even once, ever works."
Pascal also shared her misgivings about Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards winning producer Scott Rudin whom she said "didn't once go to the set. Or help us in the editing room. Or fix the script."
The movie written and directed by Crowe boasts of an able cast of stars and actors which include Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Danny McBride, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, and Bill Murray.
Apparently already anticipating a flop, the Sony boss lady wrote: "At least the marketing departments at both studios have something to sell like looks big and glossy. We have this movie in for a lot of dough and we better look at that."