Peter Brown, CEO of AMC, Disses Stephen Soderbergh

In an interview with Wired, the CEO of AMC stabs his insult pin at Stephen Soderbergh's Bubble.

He says "We want to put up on the large screen a product made with that format in mind. Bubble, and some of these other direct-to-video titles, are simply not. We want to serve steak, not hamburger."

Oh, Mr. Brown, that's a very Roland Emmerich-centric view of what the big screen wants and benefits, isn't it? Shame on you.

Wired fight back, but he's not listening. The whole exchange makes me feel sick. It's the cinema chains that are killing cinema - not DVD, not VOD, not the internet. High ticket prices, bad presentation, ill-trained staff and extortion at the concession stand - that is what's killing cinema.