In a matter of months, Hollywood has seen the closest thing to a clean sweep of top studio marketing executives the likes of which hasn’t happened in recent memory.
Last week’s ouster of Oren Aviv (top photo at left) from Twentieth Century Fox was only the latest in a rather astonishing series of firings at Hollywood’s movie studios:
- Marc Weinstock (top at right) was shown the door at Sony Pictures after a summer of underperforming movies including “After Earth,” “White House Down” and “Elysium.”
- Anne Globe (top in middle), a close deputy to DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, was fired after the disappointing opening of “Turbo” and last year’s failure to get an Oscar nom for “Rise of the Guardians.”