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Not long ago, executives at MGM, the smallest of Hollywood’s seven major studios, thought they had the formula for success: big-name stars, A-list directors, high-profile projects and aggressive marketing campaigns.
But the formula backfired. Two Bruce Willis movies tanked. A pricey remake of “Rollerball” flopped. And Nicolas Cage couldn’t save John Woo’s mega-budget “Windtalkers.”
So MGM’s management went looking for “smaller movies,” such as “A Guy Thing,” a comedy that opens Friday. With a modest $20 million budget, the film stars Jason Lee, Julia Stiles and Selma Blair and centers on a guy who wakes up the morning after his bachelor party with another woman and spends the rest of the film trying to cover it up.
