Congrats to yesterday’s winners who’ll be moving on to the Sweet Sixteen round to determine Hollywood’s forever GOAT: Walt Disney, the Warner Brothers, Louis B. Mayer and Darryl Zanuck from the “Old Hollywood” bracket, plus Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, Bob Iger, Donna Langley and Ari Emanuel from the “2010s-Now” all advanced.
We’re getting down to the eras semifinals in the last two brackets today: “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls” (1970s-1980s) and the dawn of the “Big IP Era” (1990s-2000s). Some tricky, exciting matchups below. Choose wisely!
A super-agent versus an iconic multi-hyphenate, and the blockbuster director takes on TV’s programming wunderkind. Can the kid stay in the picture against the thoroughly modern mogul in David Geffen? And a Paramount legacy face-off as Sherry Lansing takes on Barry Diller. Let’s go:
Two future media-investing titans —Peter Chernin and Peter Guber — will meet in the Sweet Sixteen if they can get past their formidable round two competition today. Meanwhile the indefatigable Tom Cruise goes up against the last time Warners leadership was stable, and the Kennedy-Marshall ticket faces Titanic competition in James Cameron. Can’t wait to see how you vote:
Getty Images credits from top image: Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives; Pierre-Gilles Vidoli/Variety/Penske Media; Lawrence K. Ho/for Los Angeles Times; Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection
