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...find yourself in a money pit, try not to brag about it. It's one thing to wave off the corporate bean counters' attempts at cost control, as a studio source says Columbia president Mark Canton did last winter on Last Action Hero, but Canton and his boss, Sony Pictures chairman Peter Guber, were publicly cavalier about the mega-yen budget. A modestly priced Last Action Hero, Guber said at a conference in March, "would wind up being Last starring Arnold Schwarz." At the time, the line seemed funny...
...Sound philosophical. As Canton says, the movie business is "cycular." * And as his more eloquent boss Guber says, "Failure is not the end game -- it is an almost inevitable cul-de-sac on the road to success...
...first movie (Above the Law), Spy as the hipper-than-thou champion of attitude journalism. Both like to make fun of short people. Both offered sleek twists on tired genres: Seagal the martial-arts movie, Spy the glossy gossip rag. Both are deeply indebted to Creative Artists Agency boss Michael Ovitz, who is Seagal's movie mentor and Spy's eternal obsession. And both have sturdy Time Warner credentials: Seagal as one of Warner Bros.' most reliable moneymakers (Hard to Kill, Under Siege) and Spy as a publication founded by former TIME writers Kurt Andersen (now back at TIME...
...million at the box office, and three times as likely to earn $100 million. For action movies with blockbuster eyes, the R has nearly become the dread X. Cliffhanger, the R- rated Sylvester Stallone thriller, earned a cozy $50 million in its first 17 days. But, says TriStar boss Mike Medavoy, "would I have preferred a PG-13 on that movie...
Fatherhood in America is being crushed in the collision between private needs and public pressures. Should Dad be the new, cool father? Or Mother's Big Assistant? What will the boss say? And what can be learned from an earlier generation of fathers, even as the current one vows to be different and struggles to figure...