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Chris Pula Remembered, As Movie Marketing Maven Is Laid To Rest Today In Massachusetts
Remembering Marketing Maven Chris Pula, Buried Today In Massachusetts
He watched up close Pula’s highs and lows at New Line, Disney, and Fox, and the traumatic exits from each and generous settlements that gave him enough money to leave Hollywood to buy a spacious guest house — with four rooms for rent — on the water in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. I don’t know all the details, but when he got fired at Warner Brothers, I know Bob [Daly] and Terry [Semel] at the exit interviews said, ‘you talk too much.’ I’m sure he did; he never shut up at the marketing meetings. One could have watched an early cut of Home Alone and seen it as a live-action Road Runner v Wyle E Coyote cartoon, but Pula leaned into a different audience tug.
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