I'm a bit disappointed -- surely there must be something juicier in this trove than bog-standard corporate bitching and admissions that their worst talent is, uh, the worst.
To be honest, these emails actually paint a fairly good picture of Sony: they know they're saddled with crap, they know they are not executing as well as they should, and they're even trying to increase their original output and reduce formulaic content. Some of the material even looks uninformed: MIB3 might not have made a profit but that's likely because of "hollywood accounting", most of that money probably ended up at Sony subsidiaries anyway; $600m revenue couldn't disappear even in Will Smith's deep pockets.
I'm actually more inclined to cut them some slack now, than I was when the silly North-Korean movie was announced.
To be honest, these emails actually paint a fairly good picture of Sony: they know they're saddled with crap, they know they are not executing as well as they should, and they're even trying to increase their original output and reduce formulaic content. Some of the material even looks uninformed: MIB3 might not have made a profit but that's likely because of "hollywood accounting", most of that money probably ended up at Sony subsidiaries anyway; $600m revenue couldn't disappear even in Will Smith's deep pockets.
I'm actually more inclined to cut them some slack now, than I was when the silly North-Korean movie was announced.