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This Patrick Goldstein story is three days old and shame on me for not paying attention, but I didn't understand the magnitude of Twilight until I saw it the night before last and particularly what a massive...no, titanic miscalculation it was for Paramount's MTV Films to have put their development of the Twilight novels into turnaround back in '06.

Brad Weston

Goldstein reports that "three ex-Paramount executives [have] all pointed the finger at Brad Weston, now the Paramount's production chief.

Weston, naturally, "insists he never killed the project, saying it was the responsibility of Scott Aversano, who succeeded early Twilight champion David Gale, the MTV Films president who's now a Paramount-based producer. "However, by the studio's own timeline, the project was put in turnaround in early 2006," Goldstein writes. "Aversano didn't take over MTV Films until late August 2006 and had no functional budget to buy projects until the year's end.

"MTV executives who were involved with the project say Weston questioned the genre's commercial prospects, telling them to watch Cursed, a 2005 teen-oriented werewolf film that he'd made while an executive at Dimension Films, that had failed at the box office."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 20, 2008 at 10:17 AM

comment #1

Deschain says ...

Nobody knows anything

Posted by Deschain at November 20, 2008 10:45 AM

comment #2

Howlingman says ...

Well, Brad, I hate to break it to you, but CURSED flopped because it was a massive pile of shit.

Posted by Howlingman at November 20, 2008 11:06 AM

comment #3

joemart says ...

As were the early drafts of TWILIGHT. It was reported that the climax in the Paramount/MTV drafts had the vampires driving around on jet skies.

If I was Weston, I'd torpedo that movie as well. The real blame shoud be the MTV execs who let the writer go down that road. What were they thinking, drinking or smoking?

Posted by joemart at November 20, 2008 11:17 AM

comment #4

Howlingman says ...

Given my experiences, joemart, the jet-skis were probably the executive's idea in the first place.

Posted by Howlingman at November 20, 2008 11:29 AM

comment #5

Pelham123 says ...

Anybody expecting anything resembling thought from anything MTV-related is already going down the wrong road.

Posted by Pelham123 at November 20, 2008 11:49 AM

comment #6

corey3rd says ...

nobody wants to see a film about a girl with body hair issues

Posted by corey3rd at November 20, 2008 11:50 AM

comment #7

Filmshark says ...

Brad Weston would put Harry Potter in turnaround if he was given the opportunity. I think every other studio should take a look at all the projects he rejected because they must be better than the crap he is pushing through production: Love Guru, Case 39 and Dance Movie. Adam Goodman will CRUSH him. Goodman pushed through Transformers, Disturbia and Eagle Eye.

Weston will announce his production deal on 4/13/2009 where he can continue to make movies like Super Mario Brothers and Cursed.

Posted by Filmshark at November 20, 2008 11:50 AM

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George Prager says ...

Not enough broads!
For a picture like this to work you need a lot of broads. Broads with big cans-- not like this skinny broad who gets all the screen time. How about a vampire movie about a bunch of vampire teens who witness a murder, kind of like I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER crossed with DISTURBIA. But I want lots of blood, lots of action and lots of broads with big cans!

Posted by George Prager at November 20, 2008 12:01 PM

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SandyMcTire says ...

MTV Productions gave us "Election."

They released it up against "The Mummy" and couldn't promote it well at all, but regardless, almost ten years later, they still have goodwill to spare as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by SandyMcTire at November 20, 2008 12:39 PM

comment #10

gruver1 says ...

Wells to George Prager: That's funny, man. Very funny. Good one.

Posted by gruver1 at November 20, 2008 12:51 PM

comment #11

theultimatebiu says ...

And here goes the blaim game. I am sure they will be kicking themselves harder come Sunday/Monday

Posted by theultimatebiu at November 20, 2008 1:15 PM

comment #12

Ryansi51 says ...

who the fuck spells BLAME "BLAIM?"

im sorry, but you might be the only person to have ever done that. good on you.

Posted by Ryansi51 at November 20, 2008 4:40 PM

comment #13

D.Z. says ...

They were probably right about dropping Watchmen, though, unless Snyder can keep it under a reasonable budget.

Posted by D.Z. at November 20, 2008 8:02 PM

comment #14

K. Bowen says ...

I'm the farthest thing from an insider, thankfully, but how much of this is about hesitation to produce a film aimed at a female audience? It seems like female-oriented films have had a big year - Sex and the City, Mamma Mia, Twilight, etc., You don't have to love the films to see this as good news.

Posted by K. Bowen at November 20, 2008 8:37 PM