NextGenFanatic hey, thanks for commenting! Yep, a little bit of that, plus, it doesn't seem like Elison was interested in managing Gunn/Safran. He wanted all movie studios to report to Goldberg and Greenstein:
Another insider is more blunt in the assessment. Ellison never wanted DC to report directly to him in the first place and did not have time for studio politics, such as posturing between division heads.
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