Tom Rothman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q7793644: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as studio. The films the hosts said they were behind, which the two lists below run through too: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); Ricki and the Flash (2015); The Lady in the Van (2015); The Walk (2015); Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Titanic (1997): 1 line

  1. unmapped (shared-technology) · through Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), which they were behind as studio executive / champion: Titanic ⇒ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (the host's read). The film exists because James Cameron's Mexican Titanic tank, with a gimbal, was still usable for the ship set.
    “James Cameron had done the legwork to build out the system to be able to basically shoot this on a gimbal in a tank of a proper set.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:30:47 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Studio (5) everyone in studio

What was said about them, by kind

industry (2)

  1. industry (studio slate): Tom Rothman → The Walk. Rothman's first TriStar films were The Walk, The Lady in the Van and Billy Lynn, each arguably the worst film of a best-director winner.
    “He arguably made the 3 worst films in each of those filmmakers careers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:44:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (studio interference): Tom Rothman → Ricki and the Flash. Rothman's micromanaging explains the too-big sets and too-bright scenes that smother Demme.
    “Tom Rothman, who is notoriously very controlling at Fox, very domineering and sort of micromanaging of everything, even just to the visual scheme of the movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:32:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Tom Rothman: Rothman was a studio exec who had long wanted to make the Aubrey books; he handed Weir a captain's sword, saying take command of the HMS Surprise, and Weir asked to keep the sword.
    “is take command of the HMS surprise. And Peter Weir is like, can I keep the sword?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman · 1:01:20 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)