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...money back? Aren't the studios in business to turn a profit? Normally, yes. But nothing about Titanic is normal. After an arduous shoot during which Mechanic fought bitterly with Cameron and even more bitterly with Paramount Pictures, Fox's partner on the film, Mechanic admits to spending a smidgen less than $200 million. (That's without the additional millions it will cost to market it.) The picture will have to gross about $350 million for Fox to break even...
Universal looked for some sort of sweetener--like the promise of a partnership on an upcoming Cameron project. None was offered. In August 1996, Paramount president John Goldwyn called Fox to inquire if Paramount might step in. Paramount had teamed with Fox on Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic, with the happiest of results: good box office, Oscars. Paramount's tough but charming chairman, Sherry Lansing, had concerns. Could a young star like DiCaprio carry a film this big? And the $100 million budget seemed low. But that Sunday afternoon, Fox executive Tom Rothman eloquently persuaded Lansing that Titanic would...
Communication in any form requires cooperation, but on computer networks the need to agree on common rules of communication is paramount...
This is not a contract dispute so much as a workplace divorce. Katzenberg and Eisner go back years, first at Paramount Pictures and then at Disney, where they presided over one of the most spectacular turnarounds in Hollywood history. But after 10 very good years, bad things started to happen. Frank Wells, Disney's charismatic No. 2 man, was killed in an April 1994 helicopter crash. Four months later, Eisner required emergency bypass surgery. To Katzenberg this seemed a logical time for his own advancement. He lobbied strenuously for the Wells...
Since 1990, Warner Bros. and Spielberg's Amblin have collaborated on the small-screen Tiny Toon Adventures. Ah, TV, where the real money is, and where Paramount went for its 1996 hit, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, which grossed (heh heh, he said "grossed") a robust $63 million. (Next up for Paramount: a Rugrats feature.) "A movie can't compare financially with a successful series like The Simpsons on TV," says Fox's Mechanic. Says Peter Chernin, president of Fox's parent News Corp.: "We should have done a Simpsons movie five years ago." Simpsons creator Matt Groening...