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NEWS > BUSINESS > UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BOSS DOESN’T EVEN LIKE HIS OWN MOVIES
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BOSS DOESN’T EVEN LIKE HIS OWN MOVIES
November 7 2011
Hollywood, CA – Mediocre, stunk, crap, sh***y. These are all words used to describe some of Universal’s recent movie releases, though none of them were used by critics or even fans. All of those terms were used by Ron Meyer, the head of the studio which oversaw all the productions, acknowledging what many film lovers had been saying for a long time.
“Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it,” Meyer said of last summer’s flop ‘Cowboys & Aliens’.
Other films he criticized included ‘The Wolfman’, ‘Land of the Lost’ and ‘Babe: Pig in the City’. Meyer also spoke off-record about all the co-workers he hated, saving particular vitriol for a woman named Cheryl.
All of the movies Meyer noted were considered financial failures though at least one of them, ‘The Wolfman’, has a sequel currently filming.
“It is not just extremely rare to hear someone like Meyer speaking like that about his movies, it is totally unheard of. Studio heads past and present simply don’t make those kinds of frank statements about anything, particularly not their own product. It’s actually quite refreshing in a lot of ways,” said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. “One has to assume that he is either on the cusp of being fired or that he has been diagnosed with some type of fatal condition, otherwise we probably 
wouldn’t have heard these things come out of him. It’s too bad, he seemed like one of the good guys.”
Meyer has been head of Universal since 1995.
“It is certainly true that those movies weren’t very good, but that could be said for any number of Hollywood pictures. Lots of those movies aren’t very good but you don’t really see people dumping on them, at least not when they make money. Maybe that’s the breaking point,” continued Temple. “Or it could be, theoretically, that Meyer really does believe this about the movies. I mean most executives aren’t really the best people to talk to when you want movie advice, usually, but this may be the exception. Of course if he is dying, well people should probably get out of him what they can now.”
Meyer was also the founder of Creative Artists Agency, one of the premiere agencies in Hollywood.
“Meyer was really one of the more important people in Hollywood. You don’t see his name in lights, but many of those names in lights owe that to Meyer and it’s really a shame to see him gone. I guess we all go, though, and powerful movie studio executives are no different than the rest of us,” continued Temple. “Very sad.”
Meyer leaves behind a wife and four children.
William Ashford, Business Correspondent
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