As Hollywood slashes spending, nobody has felt the brunt as much as movie producers

For Movie Producers, a Golden Age Fades - WSJ.com

LOS ANGELES—They still sit on the northern edge of the Universal Pictures lot—symbols of an era when producers were the kings of Hollywood.  The Tuscan-style villa covered in ivy, with balconies and a fountain in an interior courtyard, was built to fit the tastes of Robert Zemeckis, the writer and producer of "Back to the Future" and "Forrest Gump." A huge, white modernist structure housed Ivan Reitman, who made "Ghostbusters" and "Dave." A blue Cape Cod house with Adirondack chairs in the front yard provided a cozy office for Michael Lobell, the producer of "Striptease" and "Honeymoon in Vegas."