Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to offer the independents some brand-new shows produced by 20th Century-Fox's studios. This so-called first-run syndication business is flourishing right now. Among the biggest hits: Entertainment Tonight, Wheel of Fortune and People's Court. The Fox studio still lags behind such rivals as Paramount Television and Tribune Entertainment, an independent TV group that produces the cop opera Dempsey & Makepeace. 20th Century-Fox now makes only four shows for first-run syndication, including $100,000 Pyramid and Dance Fever. At the moment, Murdoch is in no hurry to assume the financial risk of turning...
...worse as a Jew, his physical safety was in danger every minute he stayed in Germany. He soon found his way to Paris where he again faced dire poverty. As Whelan points out in detail, Capa was broke most of his life. The need to make money was always paramount in Capa's mind even if he ended up wasting it away in food and wine...
Given Hollywood's current taste for Spielbergian light-and magic shows, an "actor's movie" is a dying breed. But in Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film mixing the dangerous ingredients of politics and movie glamour itself, the actors' contributions are paramount...
Screenwriters may be low on Tinseltown's totem pole, but they have one obvious advantage over more glamorous folk, like stars and directors: they get paid whether their movies are made or not. Paramount's vice president of production, David Madden, estimates that 900 to 1,000 assigned-scriptwriters are in the "or not" category, turning out scripts that are shown around town, perhaps optioned, then stuffed back into the desk drawer...
...name. As Critic Veronica Geng has noted, Spielberg translates from the German as "play mountain." The hero of Close Encounters finds his way to the starship by molding a mountain out of a dirt hill. At the beginning of both Raiders and Indiana Jones, the hilly Paramount Pictures logo dissolves into other fantasy mountains. More directly autobiographical is the genesis of several of his films. Close Encounters was born one night when young Steven's father woke the six-year-old and drove him to a large meadow to see a meteor shower. E.T. and The Goonies find their wellsprings...