EXCLUSIVE: Although his traditionalist technique made him an unlikely candidate, we included Sony Movement Footage Group chairman Tom Rothman in our 2022 Cannes Disruptors journal. At a time when each different main prioritized the constructing of streaming companies above all else due to the Netflix juggernaut, Rothman was invited to defend his mannequin. The one which sustained studios eternally, the place turning motion pictures into tangible culturally related entities via aggressive advertising would result in large ancillary gross sales via Sony’s output cope with Netflix, the place everybody else had lower off. His argument that Wall Road would quickly notice that subscriber progress was a false metric and that revenue is the telltale indicator would quickly come to roost because the shine got here off streaming ventures which have prices rivals billions to construct.
Rothman is in Cannes immediately to toast the 100th birthday of Columbia Footage, and present a restored print of the 1946 Charles Vidor-directed Gilda, with Rita Hayworth in high type. He took a second to replace Deadline on what’s essential for a film enterprise struggling to regain its mojo after the strikes. It’s also a second the place Sony has thrown in with Apollo to swallow Paramount International, leaving Hollywood with one fewer main studio, after Disney swallowed Fox. Rothman wouldn’t touch upon that, however had lots to say concerning the enterprise.
DEADLINE: How does it really feel to preside over a centennial anniversary?
TOM ROTHMAN: It’s essential to notice that the studio is 100, not me.
DEADLINE: In your shock look as a Deadline Disruptor two years in the past, you made compelling arguments for the normal income waterfall that also maintain up. So, the place’s the enterprise going now?
ROTHMAN: Lemme simply pause whereas I break up my crystal ball. I’ll attempt to reply that within the context of the hundred years factor, as a result of it does give some helpful perspective. I’ll simply say this, the extra issues change, the extra they keep the identical. And for 100 years via many, many various distribution fashions, via the arrival and eventual extinguishing of the studio system, via the invention and mass adoption of tv after which different types of residence leisure, via the introduction of the VHS, after which HBO after which the 300 channel cable universe. By all of it, motion pictures endure, and what’s true even on this streaming second is that profitable motion pictures turn out to be extra worthwhile.
All of these different shops had been seen as, uh oh, that’s going to be the demise star for motion pictures, have actually added worth as a result of there’s some very basic connection between mass audiences and filmed leisure, if an viewers is moved in these seats in the dead of night. What was true 100 years in the past is true immediately. It’s a must to make issues that the viewers responds to, passionately. If there’s a change, it’s been an evolution and I’ve seen it via the course of my profession.
DEADLINE: What’s the evolution?
ROTHMAN: There was a time when good was adequate. How is it? It’s…good. Now, good Is demise. Solely nice works. Good just isn’t adequate. We’ve to make nice issues and now we have to make issues which can be culturally crucial. But when we do, that for all of the, to make use of your phrase chaos that is happening proper now, I’m truly very enthusiastic about it. These two motion pictures that got here out on the identical day final summer time, that’s a non-repeatable phenomenon. However I don’t imagine that the success of Oppenheimer and Barbie is non-repeatable. Each had been made by tremendous gifted artists who took actually daring steps and made one thing very authentic for the viewers and the outcomes adopted. Nice is tough, and the dangers are very, very excessive. So are the rewards.
DEADLINE: You point out evolution. You’ve run studios a very long time throughout which we noticed the rise of the primary greenback gross famous person, after which excessive ideas and superheroes driving tent pole franchises. All of that has hit a wall. What’s subsequent?
ROTHMAN: I can’t fake to know, however I can inform you our technique, which does relate to the query you ask. I’m a pupil of Hollywood historical past, and also you’re proper, audiences affections have at all times gone in massive traits. I imply, Columbia is 100 years previous, however we’re on the previous MGM lot. For 20 years, the MGM musical was successful just because it was that. After which it got here a degree the place it was not successful just because it was an MGM musical. These traits have at all times continued. The traits in viewers affection we’ve had the final 15 or 20 years has been the good IP period, the place all the things is a film of one thing else. A film of a comic book guide, a film of a online game, a film of a toy. And but a lot of the motion pictures that actually register and actually transfer the tradition are motion pictures. They’re not likely motion pictures of one thing. My intuition concerning the viewers is that final yr, I’m speaking about 2023 now, 24 of the 25 high motion pictures had been all IP primarily based motion pictures. I believe three or 4 years from now, that isn’t going to be true. It is going to be possibly half. I believe we’re exiting the period of the tyranny of IP, if I could coin a phrase. Having stated that, our greatest motion pictures this yr can be IP and the largest motion pictures within the enterprise can be IP. Nonetheless in all, I believe that the viewers is hungry. Hungry for brand new, hungry for originality, and also you’re going to see an increasing number of of contemporary experiences that break via. At Sony, we’re definitely making that wager. Now, I imagine that for these to succeed, they must be nice. And it’s solely nice filmmakers who make nice motion pictures. And so now we have proper now in all probability the biggest variety of actually high administrators making movies for us than we’ve had at anybody time in a studio possibly ever.
Rita Hayworth in 1946’s ‘Gilda’
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DEADLINE: Title some which can be doing initiatives you’re enthusiastic about?
ROTHMAN: I’ve to preface by saying, I really like all my youngsters. Let’s be clear about that. However in step with what we’re talking about, authentic motion pictures by signature administrators, we’ve bought Taika Waititi making Klara and the Solar. We’ve bought Jason Reitman, we made Juno with him again at Searchlight, and he’s doing one of many coolest movies we’ve had right here in a very long time. It’s the Saturday Evening Stay film, which isn’t about Saturday Evening Stay, however a real-time take a look at the 2 hours main as much as the primary night time of the primary broadcast. Speak about mayhem and being on the sting and on the within of a revolution, an atom-splitting second. I used to be on the opposite finish of that. I used to be there in school in that second when the world modified, if you simply felt youth climbing over the barricades. And that is the unbelievable behind-the-scenes take a look at these two hours, which till I learn Jason’s fabulous script, I had no concept NBC needed it to fail. That was the entire thing. They needed Carson on Saturday night time.
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That was the one cause they let the lunatics within the constructing. And it performs virtually like an excellent sports activities drama, which is that proper up till the top, you don’t know if the institution goes to push the button and let ’em air, or go to Carson. And it’s a improbable ensemble, all these younger actors. It’s life imitating artwork, simply the best way the unique Not Prepared for Prime Time Gamers had been, earlier than all of them broke via. You want that to be within the palms of a very gifted filmmaker.
I believe I’ve made eight motion pictures with Danny Boyle and I maintain him within the Pantheon and now we have his new 28 Days trilogy. It’s 28 Years Later, however not in any approach a literal sequel. Nice forged, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer…
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DEADLINE: Cillian Murphy who simply gained the Finest Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer, was the indelible protagonist within the authentic. Will he be again?
ROTHMAN: Sure, however in a shocking approach and in a approach that grows, let me put it that approach. That is Danny at his finest, mixed with a really business style, like we had with Edgar Wright and Child Driver. Generally if you put an actual signature director right into a business area, it elevates it. So now we have that Darren Aronofsky’s subsequent movie with Austin Butler, which is Darren’s most business entry ever. And he and Austin are very, very fired up about it. It’s referred to as Caught Stealing, primarily based on a cool guide, an motion thriller with a signature director to raise it.
However as soon as once more, it’s authentic. It’s a film. The trade wants stuff like this. It’s at all times dangerous. However I’d say that the best danger, after which I’ll positively discuss this one with a younger developing director, Kogonada. After Barbie, Margot Robbie had her choose of each script within the universe and she picked one referred to as A Huge Daring Lovely Journey. It’s one of the poetic beautiful scripts I’ve ever learn. There are dangers as a result of the viewers has not already purchased into the IP, however I’d argue to you that the far higher danger is that we bore the viewers to demise if we don’t attempt to increase and provides the viewers some new stuff. The viewers gained’t disappear, it’ll simply slim. However for us to do this, we wish to be within the palms of tremendous, tremendous gifted filmmakers. So, in order that a part of our slate is extraordinarily filmmaker pushed.
DEADLINE: The previous knowledge was {that a} star gave you a gap weekend and put your movie on a robust path. What’s the pecking order now?
ROTHMAN: I’m a believer in distinction, and I stated this one yr at CinemaCon; I believe stars are extra worthwhile than ever, however streaming doesn’t make stars. Solely motion pictures make stars. Stars are tremendous worthwhile, in the best function. Daybreak Metal taught me this 30 years in the past and it’s as true then as now. Rather less true throughout the studio system, however the minute that broke down, the operative rule turned that expertise follows materials. So if you need a star, you’ve bought to have nice materials. And the good materials will get you an excellent filmmaker and that can get you a star. The celebs that the viewers need, they’ve their choose. So at a very good studio, we’re not sellers at that time within the course of, we’re patrons. We’ve to persuade the most effective expertise on the planet to do it. The 2 co-equal issues, is the standard of the fabric and the standard of the director. Consider me, the standard of the paycheck is approach down the pecking order to the true expertise on the planet, who understand how good is the fabric and the way good is the filmmaker. So yeah, in that order, I’d say in all probability first materials as a result of that’s what brings you the filmmaker. The thought and execution of it. The freshness and the originality of it, goes to get you an thrilling filmmaker after which that filmmaker will entice the most effective, entice the most effective forged. However please don’t misunderstand me, large IP motion pictures are going to remain large. The Legend of Zelda goes to be enormous for us. Large.
DEADLINE: Your director, Wes Ball, discovered a strategy to revive but once more the Planet of the Apes franchise. The final trilogy by Matt Reeves was laborious to high. Moving into, I assumed, do we’d like extra of this? Seems the reply was, sure, due to the weird entry level. Nonetheless, primarily based what you’re saying about motion pictures needing to be nice, folks have checked out large video video games as IP and infrequently, it has not labored. How does Zelda adhere to what you’ve stated about freshness?
ROTHMAN: As a result of the film is being developed and made within the closest attainable collaboration with [Nintendo video game designer] Shigeru Miyamoto. He’s a real genius in that world, and it’s actually his sturdy imaginative and prescient that’s motivating it. He created it and understands it completely. You solely to take a look at the outcomes of Tremendous Mario Brothers to see. The bigger level I’m making is that I believe a wholesome slate going ahead just isn’t going to be one aspect of the divide or the opposite. It’s going to have a stability of massive IP strong sequels. Let me inform you when the final of the Spider-Verse motion pictures comes with Phil Lord and Chris Miller, it’s going to be a major occasion, as will the subsequent Tom Holland Spider-Man movie. And when all of the Karate Child storylines come along with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan and a brand new younger karate child. For these followers, that’s going to be a major second. We’ve these. The third and final Venom, goes to be enormous.
However I simply imagine that the true win for us is to have a slate that balances these motion pictures with a number of the extra adventurous stuff. There’s a major phase of the viewers on the market, which is underserved for adventurousness. They’re underserved for newness, they’re underserved for cultural urgency.
DEADLINE: For awards season, you have got Right here, an adaptation of a celebrated graphic novel. It reunites the Forrest Gump workforce of Bob Zemeckis, Eric Roth, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. I wrote lots about it when Invoice Block at Miramax jumped in and located risk-averse studios reluctant due to its uncommon vantage level.
ROTHMAN: We’re distributing it within the U.S., this Forrest Gump. I can inform you it’s emotional and daring and, in its type, not like virtually some other movie ever made. In each film I’ve ever seen, the characters go to varied locations. On this movie, the place stays a continuing and varied characters cross via it, over eons and generations. It’s deeply profound — an outline of the immutable impermanence of the human situation. Its additionally a brilliant cool use of AI, which reveals its worth, when used correctly, as a device in creativity. There are second right here which can be emotionally shattering.
DEADLINE: Eric Roth advised me the de-aging of Hanks and Wright, utilizing their previous work, is awe-inspiring. You point out Jason Reitman capturing younger folks coming over the wall. I consider one thing like Quibi, which from its inception felt like one thing an older particular person would assume children needed, they usually rejected it outright. It’s laborious for people who find themselves older to anticipate what younger audiences need, as you came upon in a great way with the shock success of the Sydney Sweeney-Glen Powell rom-com Anybody However You. What in your thoughts is the largest menace to maintaining these younger folks from redeveloping or higher prizing the theatrical expertise? And what are you doing to fight that?
ROTHMAN: It comes again to the identical factor, which is that now we have to make issues which can be culturally pressing to them. So now we have to be in enterprise with younger voices and now we have to make tales which can be relatable to younger audiences and produce cultural urgency to them. That is totally different after we had been in our twenties. Motion pictures had been profitable by default. We went to the flicks. That was an exercise. If you happen to needed to this point a lady, that’s what you probably did. You went to the flicks.
The viewers on the whole, however notably a youthful viewers, now not goes to the flicks. They go to a film. It’s now a programmatically pushed choice, not an general behavioral choice. It’s programmatic. What’s it a couple of explicit film that’s important and compelling and urgently relatable sufficient for me that I’m going to go to see it? By which case, they may completely go to the flicks, completely, however they won’t do it as a matter in fact. I kind of smile about it as a result of I believe 100 years in the past, that’s just about the identical, that folks went each week, with their nickels. However even then, you needed to make stuff that folks actually needed to see.
That’s extra important now. And the bar is greater. That’s the distinction. The bar is greater to get younger folks to be excited to exit, to care. We had an exquisite success with Anybody However You, a film that spoke very loudly to folks of their 20s. That’s what it was. If you happen to had been in your twenties, your late teenagers or your 20s or your early 30s, that film was actually very, very relatable to you. Why? I believe as a result of you may’t bottle these items, clearly. I believe a part of it will what we had been speaking about earlier than, a part of it’s they hadn’t seen a very nice romcom within the theaters shortly. And sure, we had the weather. The course by Will Gluck was wonderful, and chemistry between the 2 leads was nice. The ending was improbable, and folks went out into the car parking zone with a giant smile on their faces. Collectively, they only hadn’t had that enjoyable shortly, they usually needed to share it. So there’s a communal facet to film going, for those who can entry that, then you definately get the uptick from that communal expertise. All your folks go together with you and also you expertise it as soon as.
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DEADLINE: This appeared like one which benefited from Sweeney’s Euphoria following, and TikTok as a automobile to succeed in that viewers.
ROTHMAN: There was a phenomenon round it, and that film was very effectively marketed on the planet the place a younger viewers lives. Tv promoting, fully irrelevant to that film. Irrelevant, irrelevant. TikTok was all the things on that movie, and that’s the place we offered it and that’s how we promoted it. And the social promotion was terrific. It wasn’t an accident as a result of we all know that’s the place the viewers for that film lives.
DEADLINE: How a lot of the way forward for P&A does that signify for motion pictures? It must be cheaper than the normal TV spend, regardless that that has helped give theatrical motion pictures cultural relevance and a zeitgeist really feel that straight-to-streaming titles simply don’t have.
ROTHMAN: The reply to your query is sure, advertising will turn out to be rather more environment friendly. Linear tv, particularly stay sports activities, remains to be related. You’ll see numerous advertisements for Dangerous Boys on stay sports activities. Holistically, the reply to your query is sure, digital is by far and away infinitely extra essential than any linear promoting. And it’s rather more targetable throughout the board, throughout the board.
DEADLINE: If I spent $60 million on TV, how a lot is digital going to value?
ROTHMAN: It is determined by whether or not you have got the best parts for it. Right here we had two rising stars, considered one of whom, Sydney, had a really sturdy social following to start with Euphoria, they usually had been very sport. You might want to have expertise that’s sport and keen and sensible about it. After which you are able to do lots for lots much less. Like 30% much less. However it’s important to be keen to take the leap and depart a number of the previous crutches behind.
The pivot to digital has allowed us to be way more environment friendly with our spending and way more focused, so that you simply’re not having to carpet bomb the world simply to get the folks that you really want. Youngsters usually are not watching tv, they’re on their telephones and you may attain them there. It’s a must to see the basic behavioral shift from our era, the place we’d say, let’s go to the flicks this weekend. After which, okay, what do you wish to see? How about this? How about that? It’s not the best way it really works now. Possibly it does for the boomers, however not youthful audiences. They’re, what do you wish to do that weekend, with our restricted assets. Dinner with associates? Tickets to a live performance? A brand new sequence dropping on a streamer? Or, possibly there a specific film I’m dying to see as a result of I heard it’s nice. Or I’ve seen it on my feed and it seems actually enjoyable. That’s the character of selection.
And that’s why what we make must be nice and pressing, as a result of what I simply described is a ruthless equation. What it means is to us is that the bar is excessive. The film enterprise has gone from primary to quantity 5, by way of what an adolescent would possibly do on a weekend. However you may nonetheless succeed tremendously. Now, whereas I’ve Deadline right here, I’m going to make use of this bully pulpit to boost a very good concern, and I hope somebody in exhibition someplace is studying this. We want for ticket costs to come back down.
DEADLINE: Clarify.
ROTHMAN: I believe it’s not wholesome. I perceive why it occurred, and that exhibition went via a horrible near-death expertise with Covid. I get the intuition to boost costs. However I believe general, for those who search for instance at how each Tuesday in America, each single Tuesday is the largest day of the week. Why? Due to the half-price tickets. It’s basic client economics: simply decrease the costs and also you’ll promote extra. You’ll make it up in quantity, and concessions. I do assume that’s related for younger customers. All of them have their streaming companies, which since you pay by the month, it feels prefer it’s free. And films, notably in large city markets, they’re costly. So meaning it higher be tremendous particular. I want exhibition might see its approach in direction of doing extra pricing experiments, not taking them up, however taking them down.
Effectively, what’s a good value to see a film on a Friday night time? That I don’t know. And I assume it relies upon. Pay attention, if the film’s adequate and it modified your life as motion pictures did for me, then I assume it’s nevertheless many payments you’ve bought in your pockets. You’ve bought that sequence The Movie That Lit My Fuse. Motion pictures change lives. There’s a price proposition in pricing for 2 constituencies which can be essential to us. Youngsters are attempting to make hire, they don’t have numerous disposable revenue. And the second very important pricing-sensitive phase is the household viewers. It’s too dang costly to take your entire household to the flicks proper now, even when the youngsters get in half value or no matter. I sound like I’m arguing in opposition to my very own enterprise, however I’m not. I’m lobbying that I believe we’d endear ourselves rather more, notably to that household viewers, if the value is moderated some. Exhibition will argue, honest sufficient, moviegoing remains to be nice worth. It’s nonetheless a fraction of the price of a Broadway present or a soccer sport. However for lots of people bringing a household of 4 or six to the flicks, that may be an costly endeavor.
I also needs to say in equity, the manufacturing aspect of the enterprise must get its personal value home so as, too. Streamers, who don’t have a person film-profit-based mannequin, inflated the price of making movies and all of the studios, who do have such a mannequin, succumbed to various levels. Mega-negatives turned Giga-negatives, and budgets are up throughout the board. This isn’t simply unhealthy for us studios, it’s unhealthy for the viewers. Excessive destructive prices lower artistic danger taking, which decreases the power to push for the sort of originality I spoke of earlier than. As an alternative, it results in repeating the tried and true, and the tyranny of IP. The trick, as I’ve stated earlier than to you Mike, is to be creatively reckless, however fiscally prudent on the identical time. Fiscal self-discipline is usually is known — employed appropriately, it’s a artistic device, as a lot as a monetary one.
And whereas we’re dreaming, motion pictures must be shorter. Casablanca was 1 hour 42 minutes, with credit, and you realize, that was fairly good.
DEADLINE: Finest Cannes reminiscences?
ROTHMAN: I’ll provide you with two. Again within the days when indies had been indies and I used to be operating the Samuel Goldwyn Firm, we introduced David Lynch’s Wild at Coronary heart. It was thought that film was too outrageous, scandalous. And we took the danger and put the film in Cannes with everybody saying it was going to be the demise of us, proper? And the alternative occurred. I bear in mind being within the theater on the finish, via the standing ovations. This was lengthy earlier than they timed them. That film went on to win the Palme d’Or, an unbelievable feat, an unbelievable reversal, and an excellent second for David Lynch and our little firm. Abruptly…
DEADLINE: It was hotter than Georgia asphalt.
ROTHMAN: That’s the road. Excellent. Very spectacular. My first Cannes expertise I’ll at all times bear in mind. That was a Jim Jarmusch movie I co-produced referred to as Down by Regulation. David Picker, who was an excellent mentor of mine, gave me recommendation I nonetheless observe to at the present time. Once you stroll up the steps to the Palais, you get to the highest of the steps and they’re going to attempt to push you into the theater. Don’t do it. Cease, flip round and look. What you’ll see is the purple carpet and an exquisite Mediterranean sundown and a whole bunch of movie lovers throughout. The film gained’t have screened but, the critiques gained’t be in but, however you should have labored actually, actually laborious to get to that second, and that place. And you have to cease for a minute and look. It’s what could be referred to immediately as practising gratitude and appreciating the privilege and the fun of a life within the film enterprise. And I did that that night time, and I’ve finished it each night time since once I’ve been there.
DEADLINE: The studio hits 100 years previous. What does that matter to those younger audiences you covet and the best way to you convey the historical past that has introduced the craft to the place it’s now?
ROTHMAN: The reality is, they don’t give a sh*t, proper? I give a sh*t, however they don’t. Whether or not one thing they wish to see comes from Columbia or Warner Brothers or Common, they don’t give a flying f*ck. However as a result of we’re 100 years previous, now we have two issues. We’ve one of many nice movie libraries that not solely has ever existed, however that may ever exist it doesn’t matter what tech firm is available in. They don’t have Lawrence of Arabia to promote. And we do. And the worth that that library creates provides us the chance to make new issues. That’s the very first thing our historical past provides us in worth for immediately. So the buyer might not give a hoot about our previous hundred years, but when we do our job proper, they’re going to care very a lot about what we carry them this yr and the subsequent yr and the subsequent yr. That library permits it. The second factor is to take nice filmed leisure comes from a willingness to take dangers. A secure establishment is best in a position to take artistic dangers. So the power of our historical past and the soundness of who we’re immediately, look, you say there’s been numerous chaos and numerous change, however not right here. The administration that’s in place has been right here 10 years. We’re strong, we’re worthwhile, and we’re secure. And that permits us to be daring. May now we have taken the danger on As soon as Upon a Time…in Hollywood if we had been laden with debt and we didn’t have a library? Whereas the buyer won’t care that is the place Frank Capra made all his nice motion pictures, one factor permits the opposite.
DEADLINE: Two extra. Nonetheless not troubled to be the key with out a streaming service? Some would say in the long run it makes you susceptible as a result of larger is best.
ROTHMAN: I’d say that the well mannered response is, they’re not paying consideration. The rude approach of claiming they need to get their heads out of their asses. And you may quote me, clearly the alternative is true. We didn’t lose billions and billions and billions of {dollars} on a common leisure community. As an alternative, we turned a strategic content material provider, for lack of a greater phrase, an arms vendor. And now we have, definitely, essentially the most favorable and profitable ancillary offers on the planet due to it. So our product is extraordinarily, our content material that we make is extraordinarily, extraordinarily worthwhile. Now, are there days when it will be simpler for me and my job if I might say, you realize what, I like this film. It’s not likely over the bar sufficient for theatrical. It’s not going to fulfill what I talked about earlier, that programmatic demand, however I sort of prefer it and I’ll simply slide it via a streaming service. It might make my job simpler. We don’t have that. We’re within the burn the boats enterprise. If we’re in it, we bought to win it. However holistically, occasions have confirmed that it’s the best mannequin.
(L-R) Tom Rothman and Quentin Tarantino
DEADLINE: Final one: Deadline not too long ago broke information that Quentin Tarantino scrapped The Film Critic as his closing movie. It was going to star Brad Pitt as Cliff Sales space from As soon as Upon a Time…in Hollywood, and also you had been going to have that movie in your slate. What does that really feel like, considering you have got that movie, and getting the decision from him that you simply abruptly don’t?
ROTHMAN: I’d simply say this. I’ve unbounded respect for Quentin, and he’s a real artist, and his artwork is extra essential to him than the rest. I respect that. And I believe he’s very, very decided that his tenth film can be his final characteristic movie. I’m positive he’ll go on to do many, many vibrant, artistic issues as a result of he’s an absolute fountain of creativity, however he needs his final film to be significant to him. And what are you going to say actually to that? Besides, proper on child. So yeah, I believe it’ll go down as … and Kubrick and numerous nice administrators had them … as possibly one of many best motion pictures the world won’t ever see. I’m enormously consoled by absolutely the certainty that no matter film he does determine to make as his final film will actually be even higher.
DEADLINE: And it is going to be with you?
ROTHMAN: Effectively, let’s simply say Mike, that I’m very optimistic about that.
