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...conglomerate Transamerica, is scooping up wads of money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn't we make that...
...Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...
...contract to Paramount, responsible for up to 24 new films over the next six years. Among his projects: a sequel to Chinatown and a remake of the 1946 classic, Notorious. Evans' decision to quit as production chief may be due in part to a falling out with Charles Bluhdorn, autocratic chairman of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western. Paramount cut Evans' slice of Chinatown's profits from 25% to 12½%, and the two men have not spoken for months. "Charlie has been like a father to me," says Evans. "But you don't necessarily...
...Happen Here) are essentially businessmen. Every studio but Twentieth Century Fox has been acquired by a conglomerate, and the products show it. You could see it Tuesday night on the show. Francis Ford Coppola, accepting the Best Picture Award for God-father II opened his speech, "When Charlie Bluhdorn came to me with the idea for a second part..." Charlie Bluhdorn. Charlie Bluhdorn of Gulf and Western, baby, Zanuck lost his job at a stockholders meeting...
Domingo, and Bluhdorn reassured Coppola that "the rain is good for my sugar cane." It was not so beneficial for Pacino, who caught pneumonia, forcing a month's delay. Principal photography was finally completed in nine months, but the problems had just started. Editing, always a trial, threatened to go out of control. With whole plots altered or dropped, there was substantial doubt that the film could meet its opening dates at the theaters...