Does anyone else recall this e-mail from James? It is in response to Cindy's being booted out of Imperia around last Christmas. It speaks for itself. Things really do seem to come around. Still I wouldn't wish this on anyone...looks like he is definately getting screwed.
Posted by: insanity
In reply to: None Date:12/27/2006 1:17:55 PM
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email from james:
Regarding Cindy. I am not going to get into an online debate with
her. I didn't even read her inane ramblings. I had the class to say
publicly that she is not with us and that I harbor no ill will, and
wish her the best. I am going to leave it at that. She can talk
trash all she wants, it's more of a reflection on her than on me as
far as I'm concerned. I don't like drama and I feel that nothing good
comes of putting dirty laundry out there on display. Everything is
moving forward as planned. I saw that she said I am a liar, I don't
know how she can say that since I never stated why we terminated her
or disclosed any info about her publicly.
We have had a NUMBER of top fighters and other people in the MMA
industry contact me today to tell me that they are glad Cindy is no
longer with us and that they look forward to moving forward on the
project. Cindy is not the only person in the industry who is
connected with the UFC, the IFL and fighters etc. I think Cindy is
going to be very surprised about what we put together behind closed
doors without her knowledge within the MMA community. She is going
to be in for a surprise in the upcoming weeks.. =) I have also been
in contact with some high level people who she thinks are her friends,
again, she is going to be in for a shock...LOL....
Let me recount a story about a past experience....
No one is bigger than the movie itself. On my last project "All That
I Need" I had this girl named (lets call her Beth) that I hired on as
a Production Coordinator and she worked hard so I promoted her to
Producer. We shot the movie and she started to think she was all that
and started telling me and everyone else how things were going to be.
She let her self importance go to her head. I ended up firing her.
She freaked out and talked shit about me and the production on the
message boards. She refused to return all the company documentation
and contacts that she worked for on behalf of the company which is
called in legal terms conversion.
So Beth was fired and threw a hissy fit. After her hissy fit died
down, and the smoke cleared all the actors and everyone else continued
on supporting the project, and not Beth. Because as I stated, no one
person is bigger than the project itself. Beth wrote me and told
me the movie would go no where without her. Well the project went
over to Cannes, and some of the other actors and I went as well and
the movie got theatrical distribution which was bigger than she could
ever imagine. We had a big premier in Southern California for the
movie and Beth tried to crash it. Instead she ended up having to buy
a ticket like every other regular person to go see the movie. Her
name wasn't even in the credits because as a director I can decide who
is in the credits and who isn't. And she had a cameo in the movie and
I edited that out as well. Years latter, no one even remembers Beth
anymore. She is not in the credits of the movie, she is not on IMDB
nor is her speaking role in the movie. She tried to protest with IMDB
to leave her name in the credits but they go by the director and what
he has to say about the project. Last I heard she moved to Texas and
gave up her movie aspirations. At the end of the day, a movie has a
life of its own and a lot of people end up working on it. It's a
collaboration and no one person is responsible for its success or
failure. Once you start filming there is about 70 different people
with different jobs involved in the project.
As time went on Beth became more and more disillusioned. She could
not believe that the project moved on without her or that it was more
successful than she could ever imagine. She thought her dismissal
would be a minus for the project and that it would go down the tubes.
Instead, a $40K movie went to Cannes and was released theatrically.
Beth also assumed all the actors would be on her side, in the end the
actors were concerned about the project and it's success.
A year and a half from now when the movie is completed and in
theaters, all of this drama won't matter. I know, because in
Hollywood you deal with a lot of dramatic and self important people
who have an inflated sense of self worth. I have seen this movie
before, and I know how it turns out. It turns out that all of this
stuff doesn't matter in the long run no matter how big a deal it seems
in the short term.
Happy new year,
James
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