Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Corporation on December 20 approved alterations in plans for the Medical School power plant now under construction, increasing the projected cost of the plant from $56 million to $80 million, Hale Champion, vice president for financial affairs, said yesterday...
Champion said the projected cost increase can be misleading because the new estimate may include different cost components than previous estimates. Some only included construction costs while others included engineering expenses and the cost of land, he said...
...does not stand for general audiences (as the Motion Picture Association of America says it does in its rating system), it stands for gold. Dayton, who also broke in as a director on the movie, expects to gross $20 million from Hawk and recover its $1.2 million production cost in about a month...
...walk away feeling entertained, not emotionally drained. Dayton's first film, made in 1973, was Where the Red Fern Grows, a tale of a boy and his two hunting dogs. Financed with the help of Dayton's surgeon father-in-law, Dr. George Doty, Fern cost $500,000 but already has grossed $8 million. It starred Dayton's 16-year-old nephew, Stewart Petersen. who has become a fixture in many D-D films, and James Whitmore. Next came Seven Alone, about orphans struggling to survive on the Oregon Trail. It cost $500,000, starred Aldo...
Dayton's budgets are growing. One of his new films, Powder Keg, is expected to cost $5 million. But Dayton strives to hold down costs by using few big-name stars, shooting his films quickly (usually in six weeks or less), and doing distribution and television advertising himself. D-D creates its own commercials for its films, and pummels local markets with five-to seven-day TV blitzes before a film opens. Another innovation is the "host" system. Under it, D-D representatives collect the company's share of box-office receipts nightly at each theater, speeding cash...