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...told, he directed 14 films in the 70s; no American worked at that pace, or at his level. The decade ended with Altman's second largest box-office grosser, Popeye, after which Hollywood and its most persistent renegade tired of each other's company for a time. Other directors might go into retirement or hiding. Altman moved to the side streets, to the movie equivalent of off-Broadway, to fashion his next career: as the formidable director of stage plays on film and videotape (10 of them, from 1982 to 1988). In 1992 he stormed back from exile with...
...even the shrewdest movie executives, picking projects that will resonate with today' s finicky audiences is a hit-or-miss proposition. Those who are mining the 2006 box office results for ways to raise their average might consider lifting a page from the Sony Pictures script...
...Since launching its colossally successful Spider-Man franchise in 2002, the movie studio has racked up at least $1 billion in North American box office revenues annually, even in years when the web-spinning superhero was on a hiatus. That streak was in jeopardy last year after a string of pricey flops (Remember Lords of Dogtown, Stealth and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo?). Although Sony wound up hitting the $1 billion mark, it sank to third in the year-end rankings, putting it out of the top two places for the first time in the Spider-Man era. "Last year...
...short order, however, it has rebounded to set an industry record by releasing 12 movies that opened in first place. Among them: The Da Vinci Code, Click, The Pink Panther and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The hit parade has put Sony back atop the box office heap this year, with over $1.3 billion in domestic revenues already on the books and several high-buzz flicks--including the just-released Bond remake Casino Royale and next month's The Pursuit of Happyness starring audience favorite Will Smith as a homeless father--expected to add significantly to that total...
...instance, sources say Sony persuaded the actress--who got a reported $20 million to headline its Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003--to accept cash up front and a share of the revenue after the studio covered its production and marketing costs, rather than a percentage of the box office take from opening day forward...