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...Producer Dino De Laurentiis is known for some oversize movies, among them Conan the Barbarian and the 1976 remake of King Kong. But now the flamboyant founder of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall Street speculators were pouring money into the Beverly Hills-based firm, but it lost $20.5 million during the six months ending in August, thanks in part to such flops as Tai-Pan and King Kong Lives. To raise cash, the company is struggling to find buyers for its library...
...have a bigger star than Sylvester Stallone," boasts Lawrence Gleason, marketing chief for De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the movie-production company owned by Filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis. And who is that superluminary? "Greed," says Gleason. The base emotion has a starring role in the U.S. opening of De Laurentiis' $10 million flick, Million Dollar Mystery, which premieres June 12. Mystery is the first movie to offer its audience a shot at a $1 million prize for solving the film's lost-treasure puzzle...
...Dino De Laurentiis promised that if I wrote the script for Year of the Dragon, he would produce Platoon. But he backed out because he couldn't get an American distribution deal, and I was in despair. Nothing was coming to me from the studios, and I decided to make a break from Hollywood. Richard Boyle, the guy a lot of the film is based on, was a friend. On the way to the airport one day, he gave me some notes. "Here, you might like this," he said. I read the sketches of his trips to El Salvador...
...movie version of her Pulitzer-prizewinning stage play Crimes of the Heart. On Broadway, Crimes was a simple, one-set, six-character kitchen comedy about three eccentric sisters in Mississippi. Shot here (Mississippi was rejected, perhaps because it looks too much like North Carolina, perhaps because Studio Head Dino De Laurentiis has his headquarters 45 minutes away, in Wilmington), the film version will cost about $9 million, a low number by current accounting...
...world offered Oscars for interviewing children, Anna Freud would win for lifetime achievement, Art Linkletter would walk off with the trophy for most tots questioned, and Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles would be hands- down, standing-ovation winner of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He might also win the Dino De Laurentiis plaque for epic production. To date, Coles has spent 28 years toting notebook, crayons and tape recorder around the world, attempting to glean moral and political insights from children, an effort that now runs to seven books and more than a million words...