June
5
Universal's Meyer Signs for Five More Years
I think this is the first time I've gotten a press release at 5:33 AM.
The announcement came from NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker: Universal Studios prexy and CEO Ron Meyer will continue to run the studio for five more years, through 2012. (He supervises the studio's motion picture division, parks, resorts, and operations.) Who knew that the soft-spoken ex-CAA co-founder and president, who for two decades ran that agency with Mike Ovitz, would wind up being the industry's longest-running studio chief? He's been running Universal since 1995, through thick and thin, Vivendi, Diller, GE. He's a survivor. And he's still making the transition from a post-Stacey Snider Universal with co-heads Marc Shmuger and David Linde. Judd Apatow's raucous $30-million comedy Knocked Up should prove a much-needed smash. But some of Universal's big-ticket movies need to work this summer, too: the $200175-million Evan Almighty and $125-million The Bourne Ultimatum, for starters.
UPDATE: The LAT goes over the upcoming sked with Linde and Shmuger.
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