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Brown and Galotti will enjoy profit participation to start with, which will eventually turn into equity stakes. The partnership will produce journalistic specials of some sort for ABC (also owned by Disney) that will feature Brown doing interviews. Beyond that, details are sketchy, perhaps even to the principals themselves. But Weinstein makes the whole thing sound easy: "The idea is to marry the two cultures together and say, 'This is a brilliant story that takes place in England; we'll give that to Anthony Minghella [director of The English Patient]. This is something that's feminist and sexy; that sounds...
...Urban Cowboy to, more recently, Con Air and The Peacemaker. In fact, optioning magazine and newspaper articles has been a growing trend in Hollywood the past few years. Susan Lyne, a former executive editor of Premiere who pursued magazine-based movie projects for Disney and now works for ABC, cites economics: "You're no longer able to buy high-end books for under seven figures, while magazine options for the most part are still five-figure purchases. And a 10,000-word magazine article is often more than enough source material for a two-hour movie; in some cases, they...
...suspects have been indicted and no grand jury impaneled, but ABC is encouraging development of a TV movie based on the JONBENET RAMSEY murder case. Knowledgeable sources say execs at the Disney-owned network have been considering a prime-time docudrama offering a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Ramsey family. "It would look at an American tragedy without getting into significant aspects of the ongoing investigation," remarks a participant. A script should be finished by late July, with the narrative focusing on JonBenet's life rather than the mystery surrounding her death or the subsequent legal wrangles. No other...
...killed his career--after remarking on national TV that black people lacked "some of the necessities" to be major league managers; in Fullerton, Calif. As short stop on the Dodgers farm team, Campanis worked with second baseman Jackie Robinson to perfect the double play. But during a 1987 ABC tribute to his former teammate's breaking the color barrier, Campanis dropped the ball. He was fired two days later...
...they gently allude to Generation X, which also means "desperate marketing tool." And even though the skateboard faithful loathe the mainstream hype, they have grudgingly accepted the event. It is, after all, the only venue where skateboarders, banned from their towns' streets, can watch their heroes sign autographs on ABC's Wide World of Sports (ABC, like ESPN, is owned by Disney). "Now when I tell people I'm a professional skateboarder, they don't say, 'There's no such thing.' Instead they say, 'Oh, are you in the X-Games?'" says Tony Hawk, 30, the world's best skateboarder...