With that in mind, we now proudly present the first teaser trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Before you click play, however, humor us as we adjust our Mola Ram headdress, clear our throats, and joyously declare, "19 years!!!"

• Indy 4 Trailer

But we hear his removal might also have something to do with the three costly sexual harassment suits that have been brought against him (that we know of). Plus there was that screaming food fight he had with his wife in the commissary of the new CAA building that could have been caused by her finding out about his taking his girlfriend with him to the recent Sundance festival and then flying in a hooker from Vegas to join them. We're just saying. Maybe he should have made a movie about that.

While the hooker, mistress, sexual harassment, and food-fight elements certainly might broaden the appeal of a potential First Look project, setting it at Sundance and the CAA building (do they even have a commissary?) might make a movie adaptation a little too inside baseball to do decent box office, leaving Winterstern right where he is now: involved in a disastrous, money-losing project that still gets him fired. Maybe it really was time for both sides to mutually decide to move on and get a fresh start.

• Wassup Fucker [WOW Report]
• The One Where The Guy Spends Too Much, His Movies Tank, And He Loses His Fancy Studio Job [Defamer]

But Mr. Winterstern's first movie choices didn't register with the public. Despite some good reviews, "The Dead Girl," about a mysterious corpse, took in a paltry $19,000. "Wassup Rockers," about a group of skater boys, written and directed by Larry Clark ("Kids"), took in just $620,000. The box office returns didn't deter First Look from moving into the gleaming new building that was erected as headquarters for the Creative Artists Agency. Furnished at a cost of $4 million, the headquarters are "excellent, really fantastic, but you kind of go, 'Wait, this isn't Paramount, where you're expecting to do a $70 million movie,' " said Gavin Polone, a producer who had meetings there recently and admired the cavernous entryway and zebra-stripe woodwork.

"They're an independent, and they'll come back and say, 'Make it for less.' And we'll say, 'The amount less you want us to spend to make the movie is what you spent on the receptionist station,' " he added.

Senior executives, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, said the company had $50 million in losses last year. Mr. Winterstern said the loss was not nearly that high but declined to be more specific.

Indeed, the executive's effectiveness in getting producers to work on the cheap may have been somewhat undermined by the excessive opulence of their surroundings, as Polone would go on to recount how an argument over the costs of a proposed low-budget feature was frequently interrupted by one of Winterstern's malfunctioning, diamond-encrusted robot butlers, which kept entering the office every thirty or so seconds to ask his boss if he needed his caviar plate freshened up.

• An Aspiring Mogul’s Quick Rise and Fall [NY Times]