Word: hollywoodizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a year ago Cannon Group provoked sneers -- and envy -- in Hollywood with such low-brow but high-profit films as Death Wish 3 and Breakin'. Now the studio is a fallen star. Cannon is slashing its production schedule this year by more than 65%. The studio last month narrowly avoided filing for bankruptcy because of its debt load, which reached $200 million at the end of 1985. Warner Communications at least temporarily rescued the studio by investing $75 million in exchange for a 23% stake in Cannon stock and $25 million worth of company bonds...
Driving with friends along a Hollywood highway, I heard a tirade against bad drivers. Or, as they called them, "Those stupid Mexicans." A Spanish street sign gave way to a discussion about the prevalence of Spanish-speaking people in parts of southern California. Or as they called them, "Those stupid Mexicans...
...matter of fact, I don't particularly want to see this version made--I better not say why. Some of the people involved I'm crazy about, others I don't approve of," she says. (The Hollywood Rumour Mill states that actress Allie Sheedy is one of the persons being talked to.) "I don't have any say--my opinion is solicited," Robison adds...
...huge and unexpected triumph of A Room with a View has brought in lavish Hollywood offers but has failed to alter Merchant's pinchpenny philosophy. Made for a mere $3 million -- one-fourth the cost of the average Hollywood movie -- it is expected to gross $50 million and is a strong contender for Oscar nominations. Maurice, which is also an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, will cost even less, $2.5 million, and feature two relatively unknown actors, James Wilby as Maurice and Hugh Grant as Clive, his first romance. "Ismail has tremendous charm and substitutes it for the lack...
Their diverse backgrounds led them to their natural subject, the often amusing conflict of cultures. Their limited budgets forced them to work on canvases that were, by Hollywood standards, miniature. A Room with a View, their best picture so far, is an exquisite, almost delicious comedy of manners about Edwardian conventions being routed by the warming sun of Italy...