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That's not even remotely true. There are many reasons for a movie (or literally any other project) to not do well and many inflection points among the movie's d

That's not even remotely true. There are many reasons for a movie (or literally any other project) to not do well and many inflection points among the movie's development process which could have massively changed the impact. Politics in this case also played a big part around the movie's launch, for instance. It's impossible for you to say with certainty that a single decision caused the movie to flop and it's disingenuous to think so. Especially disingenuous to say it's one person's fault that an entire movie was pitched, greenlit, made, and then flopped. There are literally thousands of people who made decisions along the way, starting from the initial greenlight which would have been given by multiple people.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
> That's not even remotely true. That's a rather bold statement (mine was equally rash). I suspect the reality comes in, somewhere between. In any case, I am not into excusing the top management, when it comes to these failures. I think that lower-echelon bus-fodder hunts can be symptoms of terrible, unaccountable, higher-level managers. Even if someone lower down the chain made the error, it can often be determined that the environment (maybe even the reason they have the ability to screw things up), was because of top management. When I was a manager, successes were owned by my team, and the failures were 100% mine. Managers are critical, and I have come to learn that the vast majority of them are ... shall we say ... works in progress?