Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blitz tactics by razor-sharp David O. Selznick saved his Duel in the Sun from losing the box-office battle. To combat the panning of Duel by critics, Selznick shrewdly ran Duel simultaneously in several theaters in selected cities. Thus he cashed in before adverse comment could get around. Hollywood guessed that Duel's box-office gross is over $7,000,000, half of what Selznick needs to break even...
With fewer pictures scheduled, Hollywood will concentrate on 1) the sprightly, clever picture which can easily show a profit because of the small original cost, or 2) the surefire spectacle, such as the coming $6,000,000 Joan of Lorraine (heavily "insured" by Ingrid Bergman's star-power...
...Most studios were in the best financial position they had ever known. Last year they showed a total net profit of $125 million. This year, if box office held only "sensational," they might do $100 million. And by turning choosy again, U.S. moviegoers stood to gain. They would frighten Hollywood into making better pictures...
...June Screen Writer cracked out with a parody by Screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, which tells the story of J. Arthur Rank's second visit to Hollywood as Lewis Carroll might have told...
Thanks to the fact that the ice was broken with the Wilder-Sistrom movie of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, Hollywood can now get by with filming this kind of shabby "realism." The blessing is mixed. Apparently, U.S. moviegoers have matured to the point where they will stand for reasonably frank images of unhappy marriage, sour love affairs, and of a disease so gravely epidemic as Mr. Young's obsessive desire to stay in the money at all costs. But in this, as in most such "adult" movies, the semi-maturity is well mixed with trashiness...