Tom Rothman leaving FOX

Tom Rothman leaving FOX

From EW.com, ((Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman and CEO Tom Rothman will step down from his posts at the end of this year, announced Fox on Friday. ))

I say good riddance. I've never liked this guy. Rothman seemed to actively try to run the FOX studio in the ground with poor decisions. (Like rushing X-Men 3 into production without Bryan Singer) And, you don't leave a company with another year and a half on your contract unless you pissed someone off.

I remember hearing rumors of Bryan Singer being escorted off of FOX studio when he took the job for Superman Returns. And Hit Fix brings up a good point about the X-Men Franchise, (( Even so, it's always been a matter of friction between his vision of the franchise and the vision of the filmmakers in charge of things.  In a perfect world, Fox would be five or six films into a strong unified franchise, taking full advantage of the story opportunities that exist in decades worth of "X-Men" storytelling.  Instead, a personality clash with Bryan Singer hobbled the series at a crucial moment, and until last year's "X-Men: First Class," it looked like the entire series was going to end up dented and ruined, a waste of an amazing asset.  In general, Marvel comic movies have not fared well at the studio, and Rothman's personal feelings about the material got in the way of what should have been fairly simple adaptations. ))

And, if you heard about some of the story elements that Singer wanted to bring after X2, you'd be pissed they never succeed in bringing them to light. And, what we got was an uneven X3 movie instead directed by one of the worst hacks in the business.

Sadly, Tom Rothman will find another studio to screw up.