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Paramount's moviemaking renaissance is a tribute to the painstaking teamwork and sales know-how of Chairman Frank Mancuso, 53, the marketing whiz who took over the studio's top job in September 1984. A 25-year Paramount veteran, Mancuso worked his way up through the company's marketing and distribution ranks. Along the way, he became an important ingredient in Paramount's success over the years. Mancuso, says one of his superiors at Gulf & Western, "has an extraordinary sense of what is going to work in the * marketplace and how to position it." As Paramount chief, he has clearly...
...anyone over 18, or not on a date, go to a noisy, rowdy theater with poor projection and get glop on his shoes when a few months later he can rent the same movie--or any other movie--and see it whenever he wants at home? Paramount Chairman Frank Mancuso puts the challenge more positively: "If owners are to survive, they must start building the video theaters of the future...
...intriguing film about men male ambition, last, fantasy and love--projected onto the widescreen of male friendship. Writer-director Bobby Roth explores the treacherous every man's zone between comradeship and rivals in the lifelong friendship of roughish artist. Arthur Blue (Peter Coyote) and staid businessman Eli Kahn (Nick Mancuso). Unfortunately for Roth's thirty-five year old heroes, three women keep coming between Blue and Eli, tangling up the friends' good intentions and bringing out their competitive worst...
...defiantly ordinary action picture that Murphy ignites with his urchin charm, is by far the runaway hit of this holiday season. In its first 23 days Cop earned $64.5 million--more than the combined take of its three closest competitors (Dune, City Heat, and 2010). Trumpets a jubilant Frank Mancuso, who runs Paramount Pictures, the studio releasing Cop: "The picture is so dominant that it's hard to determine who's No. 2." In December, when 17 new releases were vying for attention, one of every three box-office dollars came from moviegoers paying to see Eddie Murphy. And only...
Gulf & Western replaced Diller with Frank Mancuso, 51, Paramount's marketing chief. Michael Eisner, 42, Diller's former second in command, quit his post, apparently because Mancuso got the job he wanted. There were rumors that Diller would bring Eisner to Fox, which needs an infusion of fresh ideas...