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What movie studio wouldn't be dancing in the streets with films like The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves to its credit? Answer: Orion Pictures, the studio that released both hits. The Jodie Foster thriller and the Kevin Costner western come at the end of a losing streak that has lasted more than two years and helped run up $500 million of debt with such busts as The Hot Spot, State of Grace and Valmont. So even though Lambs and Wolves together have grossed a stellar $230 million, Orion is struggling to keep the wolves from...
...Director Orion Ross, along with producers Hannah Feldman and Thomas M. Lauderdale, made Duchess memorable both in innovation and production quality. The play they so successfully interpreted describes the plight of a young widowed noblewoman, the Duchess (Tanya Selaratnam), whose forbidden relationship with a lower-class man subjects her to the indignation of her brothers...
...major acquisition. The Japanese company first sent a group of top executives to meet with Ovitz in Hawaii, where they talked about everything from world politics to prospective merger partners. A team of CAA experts then prepared a list three possible targets. The Japanese company rejected one studio, Orion, as too small. Another candidate, Paramount, was dismissed because some of its holdings, ranging from publishing (Simon & Schuster) to sports (the New York Knicks), didn't fit into Matsushita's strategy. Ovitz recommended MCA, which had the mix of show-biz operations that Matsushita wanted...
Havel's creative script is not wasted on director Orion Ross. Ross molds the play into a dimension not only of sight, but of sound. The play opens with China Forbes off-stage, singing in her clear, strong, beautiful voice, while John Ducey and Blake Spraggins bumble about in pantomime as social scientists Karel Kriebl and Emil Machal. And in the first true scene, Ross creates a breakfast interlude in which the clanking of silverware, plates and glasses speak as much as the characters at the table...
...Adams House courtyard is not exactly Central Park, but directors Tom Hopkins and Orion Ross use the space creatively. A fire escape is the tool for a dramatic entrance in one scene, and Hopkins and Ross manufacture chase scenes that give new meaning to the phrase "running around in circles...