Word: filming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feldman and his partner, Charles Meeker, eventually bought the rights for a relatively modest $300,000. They started feeling pressure almost immediately. Attorneys representing several Creative Artists clients and other Belushi colleagues, like director John Landis (The Blues Brothers), wrote letters warning that portraying them in the film would be an invasion of privacy. Ovitz himself phoned, says Feldman, and "told me it wasn't a good idea to make this picture." (Ovitz says he was simply giving Feldman "friendly advice" that "a lot of people we deal with -- clients and nonclients -- really didn't want to see John...
When no Hollywood studio came through, Feldman and Meeker got backing from a New Zealand company, Lion Screen Entertainment Ltd. The producers put up $1 million of the film's $13 million budget themselves. They hired Larry Peerce (Goodbye Columbus) to direct and chose Chiklis, a little-known New York actor, for the lead role after auditioning more than 200 aspirants. Following several delays, shooting began last...
When the producers started showing their finished film to studio executives, the response was another collective cold shoulder. "It becomes a matter of power," contends Feldman. " 'We didn't want you to make this movie, and you did. Now you're going to suffer.' " Studio executives scoff at Feldman's conspiracy charges. "We passed on the movie because it was totally uncommercial and pretentiously arty," says one. Yet several prospective deals seemed to dissolve suspiciously, including one with New Visions Pictures, an independent company headed by director Taylor Hackford...
...Entertainment has come to the rescue and is making plans for a July or August release. Then Wired can finally be judged by the people it was intended for: the audience. But repercussions from the unpopular project may not be over. Actor J.T. Walsh, who plays Woodward in the film, was set to appear next in Loose Cannons, a comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd. According to insiders, Walsh was let go after just one day on the set, to avoid upsetting Aykroyd. All of which may simply set the stage for another round of the Belushi media blitz. Anyone...
...career covered the spectrum, from classics to commercials. Old- timers still remember his controversial rejiggerings of Shakespeare and his War of the Worlds radio drama, which had many listeners believing New Jersey had been invaded by Martians. And, of course, every generation has embraced Citizen Kane, his brilliant 1941 film based on the life and times of press lord William Randolph Hearst...