Even the most diehard of Adam Sandler fans admit the comedic actor's latest films don't have the zest of his earlier years. After his oddly emotionally resonant Funny People, Sandler's resume degenerated to the most horrendous comedies of the past couple years, including the Grown Ups movies, That's My Boy and Jack and Jill. Turns out, the studio backing those movies—Sony— doesn't really care for them either.
Amidst the recent breaching into Sony's personal files by hackers, resulting in everything from upcoming and newly released Sony pictures like Annie and Fury being leaked to the publishing the social security numbers of over 47,000 people online, including Judd Apatow and Sylvester Stallone, a newly released report titled "Sony_2012_Comments" from Sony's personal files was mostly looked over.
Expect for one source, of course, which could be Gawker. In their thorough search of Sony's leaked files, amongst the most telling is one where a Sony employee went to town explaining why they need to stop producing and distributing Sandler's newest movies.
It's a long file, but there are a number of juicy tidbits spitted out here. Talking about how Sony "needs to change deal structure that has been in place with Happy Madison, as this arrangement has disproportionately benefited Adam Sandler and his team, relative to SPE," they talk about the "general 'blah-ness' to the films we produce," with some quality movies like The Social Network, Moneyball and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo being degenerated by "the mundane, formulaic Adam Sandler films."
"In TV and Theatrical, I hope management looks closely at the money spent on development and term deals to ensure efficiency. There are a lot of term deal personnel as well as creative personnel, yet we only release a dozen or so Columbia Pictures a year, for example. And will we still be paying for Adam Sandler? Why," the report goes on.
It continues from there, but it ends with "[T]he studio needs to change deal structure that has been in place with Happy Madison, as this arrangement has disproportionately benefitted Adam Sandler and his team, relative to SPE." Ouch.
At the very least, it's interesting to see this behind-the-scenes look at the company. As this is the company's report from 2012, the same year That's My Boy and Hotel Transylvania came into theaters, Sony would then go on to produce and distribute Grown Ups 2, but not his following films, including Blended, The Cobbler and Men, Women and Children. So perhaps the studio has learned? It doesn't really matter either way, though, for Sandler already as a four-film deal with Netflix set.
Image courtesy of Peter West/ACE/INFphoto.com
There has been a critical error on your website.<\/p>
Learn more about debugging in WordPress.<\/a><\/p>","data":{"status":500},"additional_errors":[]}