Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
...executives involved are in business with one or the other of the two stars. Sony is profiting from Cruise's Jerry Maguire. Universal has signed Travolta for Primary Colors. Paramount released Cruise's Mission: Impossible. MGM distributed the Travolta hit Get Shorty. Warner has a project with Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman...
...Pilbeam's predecessor says maintaining the Core's philosophy is always of paramount concern...
...promises to deliver, of course, is the Titanic as no one has seen it. The director of Aliens, both Terminators and The Abyss, Cameron has "vast cinematic appetites," as an agent puts it, consistently delivering event films with dazzling effects. Nevertheless, Hollywood insiders can't fathom how Fox and Paramount--which are splitting the cost--will make money. Indeed, soon after shooting began, Paramount became spooked by the budget and demanded that Fox limit its exposure. Facing a possible court fight, Fox agreed...
...they were safe in this big luxury hotel," he says. "In fact, they were in a steel object over 2 1/2 miles of water...It's a metaphor for the inevitability of death. We're all on the Titanic." Maybe so, but at the moment executives at Fox and Paramount are probably feeling it more than the rest...