Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original, which Coppola would embellish considerably. Now he dreams of some day cutting both features together into a single huge family epic. He also wanted to have Marlon Brando in just one scene of Part II. Brando refused, not because of the film, but because he was furious at Paramount Executive Frank Yablans, who was furious at him for rejecting the Oscar...
When filming actually began, the company moved from Lake Tahoe to Santo Domingo, which was to serve as prerevolutionary Cuba. They were rained out for days on end, although Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of the board of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company, comforted Coppola when he complained about the weather. Gulf & Western has holdings in Santo...
...movie world, tempers and memories are short, contracts and knives long. So it was when the president of Paramount Pictures, Frank Yablans, 39, the promoter of such blockbusters as Love Story ($84 million net), The Godfather ($145 million) and Frank Yablans ($250,000 a year), finally got an offer he could not refuse. The remaining 6½ years of his ten-year contract were bought up by Paramount. Yablans rejected the idea that he had created a personality less lovable than Genghis Khan. "I am not a cocky bastard," he said. "I have my style, and in this business...
...Brando blockbuster, so we'll play it their way. Actually, this isn't bad movie. The critics said it was one of the rare films that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning off the set during the ads. Ch. 4, 9 p.m. Color, 2 hours. (Conclusion Monday...
...Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...