Word: paramount
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...Paramount Pictures group, the person on the hot seat is its chairman, Sherry Lansing, 60, who smashed the industry's glass ceiling in 1980 when she became the first woman to head production at a major studio. Lansing is the first to admit that there's no surefire way of predicting the next blockbuster. "Sometimes you can make all of the right decisions, and the movie gods will shine on you. Other times they don't," she says. "Luck is needed in nearly every business, but even more so in this one, where you have to catch the zeitgeist...
...certainly had her share of luck. Lansing has been responsible for bankrolling many of the past decade's biggest hits (Titanic, Forrest Gump, Braveheart). But Paramount has recently faced rocky times, scoring well with quirky, smaller films such as Mean Girls and School of Rock while stumbling with big-budget titles like the remake of The Stepford Wives and the effects-heavy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...
This season will put her method to the test. In addition to a fantasy starring Jim Carrey (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), a kiddie cartoon featuring cable TV's SpongeBob SquarePants and a remake of Alfie with Jude Law, one of Paramount's most anticipated releases is Team America: World Police, a raunchy, red-hot political satire from the South Park crew, using goofy marionettes...
...often you get to see so clearly how money is the only difference between genius and insanity. If Paramount hadn't given first-time director Kerry Conran $40 million to make the action movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow (opening Sept. 17), Conran would still be filming his brother acting out scenes in front of a blue screen in his apartment, then staying up all night turning that footage into a giant-robot movie on his Macintosh. He would have been that guy in your IT department you go to only when...
...have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount...