MPAA boss Dan Glickman: on his way out
p2pnet news view | MPAA News:- MPAA boss Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman won’t be laughing these days.
TorrentFreak reports he’s been told his services will no longer be required, and we had an email – no doubt prompted by the TF report – saying the same.
So who will the Hollywood moguls find to replace him? And can it be done within 18 months?
“Things may be far worse for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMGs universally despised RIAA than we’d hoped for (sorry, expected),” p2pnet reported recently, citing RIAA staff firings.
So naturally, “we were wondering how things are going over at the Big Music extortion unit’s brother organisation in La La Land,” we said in our report, accompanied by the pic on the right. And a subsequent search revealed»»»
MPAA to scale back budget, staff – Entertainment News …
3 Mar 2009 … The dire economy has hit even the industry’s chief lobbying arm, the Motion Picture Assn. of America, which has been forced to scale back – www.variety.com/articleVR1118000774.html?categoryid=3284
We continued, “Hollywood’s MPAA is to also suffer attrition (if it hasn’t already) with The Big Question Mark hanging over the head of current boss Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman. After all, his contract does end this year.”
The question has been answered, says Nikki Finke in Deadline Hollywood.
Hollywood CEOs are unhappy with Glickman, their discontent centering, “on the fact he’s a bad and boring speaker who has not repped the movie business well in Washington,” the story says, going on:
“The moguls in particular blame him for not being able to keep those $246M in tax breaks for studios and filmmakers intact within the stimulus package. The thinking is that Glickman, a Democrat like Jack Valenti (although that’s where the comparison ends), got outmaneuvered by Republican lawmakers. (I wouldn’t be surprised if the MPAA looks for a GOP lobbyist.)”
Finke says the MPAA board, “only voted to extend Glickman’s contract for another 18 months” and so, “Valenti had 38 years atop the organization, and Glickman will have 6 1/2.”
Rumours that Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol has already put his bid in should probably be discounted, but if he does replace The Joker, Glickman reportedly tried for the RIAA top job when Hilary Rosen was fir — sorry, resigned — but had to settle instead for the MPAA.
TorrentFreak – MPAA President to be Thrown Out, April 2, 2009
p2pnet – RIAA in deep trouble, February 27, 2009
Hollywood Reporter – MPAA budget takes $20 million hit, March 3, 2009
Variety – MPAA to scale back budget, staffMarch 3, 2009
Deadline Hollywood – Studios Plan To Replace MPAA’s Glickman, March 27, 2009
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