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With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would...
That was a vintage De Laurentiis performance from the mid-1980s, when bankers and investors were enthralled with the gruff-talking miniature (5-ft. 4-in.) movie mogul. De Laurentiis proceeded to lose nearly $200 million of their money in a grandiose and allegedly fraudulent attempt to build an entertainment...
Yet De Laurentiis' ability to dazzle and deal is scarcely diminished. In February the 70-year-old legend rose from the tar pits of defeat and litigation to form another company, Dino De Laurentiis Communications, with the financial backing of his friend Giancarlo Parretti, the controversial Italian moneyman who also...
The wave of foreign money comes at a time when U.S. investors have soured on film deals because of several flops among movie start-up ventures. Among them: the studio launched by producer Dino De Laurentiis, which filed for bankruptcy in 1988 after losing almost $200 million in two years...
Producer Dino De Laurentiis is known for some oversize movies, among them Conan the Barbarian and the 1976 remake of King Kong. But now the flamboyant founder of the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group is in colossal trouble with creditors, whom his company owes $122.6 million. Only a year ago Wall...