Life Raft

Congratulations to Mark Gill, one of the more candid wise men of the indie production-distribution field, for his new gig as president of Millennium Films. The idea is to “produce and finance five to eight star-driven, wide-release films per year with budgets between $20 and $80 million” as long as Gill can convince his bosses — Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson — that this or that project is a good bet.

If you’ve been around for 20 years and are a member of the club, you will always land a job sooner or later.

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11 thoughts on “Life Raft”

  1. Even though those names have been on like a hundred action B-movies in the last few years, I still get a delighted smile every time I see the name “Boaz Davidson” in the credits of a semi-legit 2010s movie, as he’ll always be the Cannon-tastic auteur of “Last American Virgin” and “Going Bananas.”

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  3. Mr Del Toro, get that Mountains of Madness budget down to $80 mil, yank back Cruise and Cameron and give Mark Gill a call…

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  4. I’m still dreaming of Godard signing an Avi Lerner cocktail napkin in Cannes so we can see Godard’s “Huckleberry Finn” starring Jaden Smith as Huck and Gary Busey as Jim.

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  5. Mr Del Toro, get that Mountains of Madness budget down to $80 mil, yank back Cruise and Cameron and give Mark Gill a call…

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