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...Nonsense. We got paid very well for our help, and both of those studios are stronger as a result. That means my clients will have more good places to bring their projects. Look, all of the big studio companies are deep in debt except for Disney. I have helped to bring more new capital into the entertainment business than anyone else in recent memory. It's all about expanding markets for my clients...
...together until a few years ago as independent producers; now they run Paramount, against whom CAA continually negotiates deals. CAA is also a regular bargainer with 20th Century Fox, which Joe Roth ran until late last year, when Ovitz helped him negotiate an astonishingly sweet producer's deal with Disney. And Mike Eisner, who runs Disney, is one of Ovitz's best friends. The beneficiaries of such coziness, of course, have no problem with the blurry roles; it is simply the way business is done. "I'd rather all the elements in a film came from the same agency," says...
EVER SINCE SIX FLAGS BEGAN RUNNING TV COMMERcials last year touting its theme parks over Disneyland, Disney chairman Michael Eisner has been steaming. He complained to Gerald Levin, chairman of Time Warner, which owns 50% of Six Flags. When the commercials kept running, Eisner pulled Disney's planned advertising (worth about $6 million) out of Time Inc. magazines. Six Flags refused to back down. A subsequent ad portrayed two dogs: a happy pup whose family had gone off for the day to visit Bugs Bunny at the local Six Flags park, and a lonely pooch whose owners had left town...
...specific ones for designer clothes, health products, sporting goods and so forth). Pay-per-view movie channels will proliferate, and premium services will grab up extra channels to "multiplex" their programming -- offering movies on several channels at staggered times to increase the viewer's options. (HBO, Showtime and the Disney Channel have already begun offering such a service in some cable systems...
...first glance there's little sign that anything unseemly could ever happen in this city. Little surprise, then, that a few years ago Spanish author Eduardo Mendoza called his novel about Barcelona "The City of Wonders." The city seems a more cheerful but more real version of Walt Disney World...