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...biggest hit was The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas' sequel to Star Wars. It means signing box-office stars at huge salaries: Burt Reynolds pulled in a reported $5 million for The Cannonball Run, Barbra Streisand $4.6 million for All Night Long. Directors are stars too: Francis Ford Coppola was offered $3 million to direct One from the Heart. Says Director Martin Scorsese, 38: "We're working ourselves right out of jobs. I'm concerned that the industry is being destroyed...
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Laid on at a cost of $4,000, it was a banquet fit for a movie king: white and green pasta, chicken with mozzarella and prosciutto, strawberries dipped in chocolate, vintage wine. Francis Ford Coppola, 41, the director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would...
...Coppola has always dreamed big about the movies. As a young man he went to Las Vegas to win enough money to buy a movie camera. In the early '70s he gambled successfully with Oscar-winning Godfathers, and then parlayed his work into a nine-hour TV mini-series that brought him more millions. Three-and-a-half years ago he came close to bankruptcy when a typhoon and other problems drove the cost of Apocalypse Now from the budgeted $12 million to over $30 million; now, 18 months after its release, the Viet Nam epic...
...Zoetrope lot: Hammett, a surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola's Olympian disregard for the bottom line led to deep financial trou ble. Last spring, Hammett, which had endured a dozen rewrites on its way to filming, was shut down before completion...