Lady in Hot Water: Disney cans Jacobson!

Lady on frozen Water - Disney gives Jacobson the cold shoulder and all Stuntman Mike could do was hop on the Zamboni and terrorize the staff.

According to the New York Post's Page Six:

"Shyamalan was once Disney's hottest property, churning out the 1999 smash, "The Sixth Sense," followed by "Unbreakable," "Signs" and "The Village." But things soured last year when production president Nina Jacobson told him she and chairman Dick Cook didn't "get" his script for "Lady in the Water, a "Splash"-like fantasy about a building super (Paul Giamatti) who rescues a sea nymph (Bryce Dallas Howard).

"Jacobson also blasted a scene in which a movie critic is assaulted, ripped the director for giving himself a part, and criticized character names. "You said it was funny; I didn't laugh. You're going to let a critic get attacked? They'll kill you for that . . . Your part's too big, you'll get killed again . . . What's with the names?"

Once this story was prominently featured in Entertainment Weekly, you just knew there would be a head rolling. The Los Angeles Times reports:

"Jacobson, 40, one of Hollywood's most respected movie executives, was fired Monday morning by her boss, studio Chairman Dick Cook, when she called him from the hospital room where her partner was about to deliver their third child. Despite the record-breaking performance of Disney's current release, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," she was hearing rumors and wanted reassurance that her job was safe. It wasn't."

I side with Jacobson. She was right not to green-light "Lady in the Water" for Disney but she did not go far enough in criticizing the screenplay.