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...panel entitled, “The Media: Entertainment and Politics” was held under a tent in JFK park and featured NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw, Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures Mike Medavoy and David E. Sanger ’82, White House correspondent for the New York Times...
...begin, Medavoy, the Hollywood insider, described a blurring of the line between news and entertainment...
...Medavoy said he finds the political split troublesome as well...
...difficult, and the director was said to have been disillusioned as well by the normal run of Hollywood hustling. According to an associate, Malick found the whole ancillary process of marketing a movie "sickening"--and who wouldn't? "He said he always planned to take a break," recounts Mike Medavoy, Malick's agent at the time of Badlands and currently the head of Phoenix Pictures, which is producing The Thin Red Line for Fox. "He just didn't plan to take such a long break...
...office, and three times as likely to earn $100 million. For action movies with blockbuster eyes, the R has nearly become the dread X. Cliffhanger, the R- rated Sylvester Stallone thriller, earned a cozy $50 million in its first 17 days. But, says TriStar boss Mike Medavoy, "would I have preferred a PG-13 on that movie...