Pity the Memoirs of a Geisha team. They expected to be celebrated for their decision to go with an all-Asian cast, a potentially risky move for a major Hollywood production, but instead find themselves the victims of the tricky cultural tensions between the Japanese and Chinese:

The Sunday NY Times chronicled Memoirs of the Geisha's noble march through the development process, in which Sony bravely ignored the project's poor prospects for Happy Meal tie-ins, its lack of malicious, sentient stealth bombers threatening the world with nuclear annihilation, and its tragic dearth of Caucasian-friendly roles to finally deliver an Oscar-baiting holiday moviegoing experience: