Word: profitability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Since rents have been escalating, some places going for $60 per square foot... only high-profit-margin, national chain stores or those that appeal to faddish markets survive, since they are able to pay top dollar," Gifford said." The Ma and Pa stores are being forced out, and that's a shame...
...Sinatra's vaults, where, except for 16-mm rentals and a few TV airings, it remained for 25 years. Alas for conspiracy buffs, the star's suppression of the film cannot be linked with Kennedy's assassination. It was all about money. In a dispute with U.A. over profit participation -- there were suspicions, says Director John Frankenheimer, that the studio was cooking the books -- Sinatra withheld rights to the movie. But it is of such snits that cult films are made. As Axelrod has said, "It went from failure to classic without ever passing through success." Now the filmmakers have...
Spike Lee, a Black director/screenwriter, made his first feature film for just $125,000. She's Gotta Have It is a classic Hollywood Cinderella story. Besides the critical kudos, Lee's film earned $8 million. That's 6400 percent profit...
IMAGINE this: a white director who has just made a film that turned a zillion percent profit walks into a major movie studio. He wants to make a musical. Lots of production numbers. Lots of extras. Lots of locations. He'd get at least $20 million. Probably more...
...publisher's only sensible gamble, of course, was that Rothchild would lose. Had the nearly impossible happened and Rothchild transformed his modest pile into $5 million or $10 million, the book project would have lost its urgency. If he had finished the year with, say, $25,500, a respectable profit of more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious...