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When the Olympic torch was lit earlier this month, Hollywood watched its box office go up in flames. Moviegoing dropped more than 20% as four new films--Disney's Kazaam, MGM's Fled, Universal's The Frighteners and Columbia's Multiplicity--withered in a dreadful midsummer conflagration...
Trimming the number of films is simpler than cutting production and advertising budgets. Ironically the most aggressive trimmer has been Disney, the same company that started the more-is-better strategy a few years ago. Studio chairman Joe Roth says the company will cut its output from 35 movies a year to 18; creative types are already bracing for a Disney downsizing...
...doesn't take a genius to figure out that MTV cannot keep us entertained by watching anthropomorphized critters sing--that's Disney's job--and the video magnate has obvious trouble even evoking the fast-forward whatever world of music and meat that it has created for adolescents the world over...
...evolves into hundreds of channels and on-demand services, the cable business has regressed to brutal trench warfare over ever slimmer slivers of market share; the game is to control maximum channels in order to ensure a sufficient outlet for ever growing streams of new and recycled programming. Thus Disney buys Capital Cities/ABC; Viacom buys Paramount and launches UPN; and so on through the merger-mad '90s. "The best way to beat back competition," says Gary Arlen, founder of the research firm Arlen Communications, based in Bethesda, Maryland, "is to have your own content and make sure your vertical integration...
GARGOYLES Disney plans live-action feature based on its syndicated Saturday-morning-TV cartoon...