Peter Bart
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"Peter Benton Bart" is an American journalist and film producer. He is perhaps best known for his lengthy tenure (from 1989–2009) as the editor in chief of Variety (magazine)/Variety, an entertainment-trade journal/trade magazine.

Bart was also a co-host, with film producer Peter Guber, of the weekly television series, Shootout (TV series)/Shootout (formerly Sunday Morning Shootout), carried on the AMC (TV channel)/AMC television channel from 2003 to 2008 and subsequently seen in broadcast syndication/syndication and in 53 countries around the world.

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A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain.

The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Universal had hoped that 'Meet Joe Black' would be their big summer picture, and they just couldn't get it ready. So the only picture they had left for summer, basically, was 'Out Of Sight.' That was their big summer picture -- George Clooney picture. It didn't really work very well.

The broader question.

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

That's a little too much in the way of product opening on Christmas day, actually. They're going to bump each other off. That's a shame.

It's tougher today because it's corporate Hollywood.

Something delicious about Warren Beatty, a well-known womanizer, making his debut in front of a bunch of nurses.

When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.