Exclusive: Elizabeth Gabler breaks silence on Sony move, Disney exit, HarperCollins and streaming plans
. And Gabler was on the all-too-shortlist of women in the top ranks of the movie business — while Disney was a bit short of women in high-level jobs.
So Gabler took three execs from Fox 2000 with her and is in the process of adding two or three more to set up her division, 3000 Pictures, at Sony. Murray says HarperCollins is putting up "very significant" money to cover half of Gabler's overhead and development. Would the publishing company co-finance movies? "Anything's possible," he says. "We're big spenders, and if we get something that really works, we'd love to follow it all the way through.
When news broke about your move to Sony, you initially weren’t happy with the way the story was reported. Why not? And when I told my staff, I was not crying. I said, “You guys, you know what? We're holding our heads high. We're professionals. That's what we always have been.”
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