Sony Pictures email hack - AGAIN! - this time its adam sandler.

A little over a week ago Sony Pictures was hacked by a group known as the Guardians Of Peace, leading to a massive outpouring of information as well as the leaking of four films that Sony has either recently released or were about to release into theaters. Just when you thought it was safe to work at Sony Pictures again, out comes a new story about negative employee feedback on one of the studios most valuable commodities: Adam Sandler movies. 

Gawker found what they call, "a giant list of workplace complaints" from anonymous employees that lament the current state of the Sony Pictures' business operation. In particular, the rants target the Sony Pictures slate of films which have been very kind to Sandler's trademark schtick. If you're a Sandler fan, this blurb from the longer rant at large is not going to be something you'll want to hear. 

There is a general "blah-ness" to the films we produce. Although we manage to produce an innovative film once in awhile, Social Network, Moneyball, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we continue to be saddled with the mundane, formulaic Adam Sandler films... Let's raise the bar a little on the films we produce, and inspire employees that they are working on the next Social Network.

To be fair, the Adam Sandler films that "bleed the studio dry" tend to rake in a lot of profit compared to the budgets they run up. If there was any sort of project that's bleeding Sony dry, it's The Amazing Spider-Man franchise and its consistently under-performing ways that have supposedly run up huger price tags than Sony would like to admit. While that franchise's latest sequel was the number 1 grossing film on Sony's roster this year, its budget is still a secret. So on the financial end, the roasting of Adam Sandler's filmography at Sony is a bit harsh. 

On the other hand, the artistic merits of films like Click and the Grown Ups series is a platform for fair game in roasting Adam Sandler's career, and the following quote is more attuned to that point of order. 

Perhaps it's a generational thing, but I've been disappointed with the content of some of the films we've been producing lately. I don't think people who know me would consider me a prude, but the boorish, least common denominator slate strikes me as a waste of resource and reputation. 

Sony is a studio in crisis right now, and with emails like these floating around the internet, the studio is not only going to have to tighten their security, they're also going to work on their public image. While the whole Sony hack scenario has proven to be a nightmare since it started, it could provide the studio an opportunity to push for some of the past glory they've been known to experience. Maybe these leaked internal complaints can be fuel for a Sony Pictures renaissance. Or, at the very least, they'll be wise and start to make films like Grown Ups 3 on the Crackle platform, where they can join films like Joe Dirt 2. 


Source: cinemablend
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