Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the insistent use of freeze-frame prevents this from being the most consistently attractive studio release in recent memory. The sense of slow motion is oddly timed, as when a short still interrupts some slight motion, the motion continues for three or four seconds, and then a newspaper photo of the new and different scene is plastered across Foley's vision and the screen. Fortunately, the frequent freeze-frame is less pervasive than the edgy, upbeat score, which adds at least as much to the general geniality of the movie as the cinematography...
...hasn't hesitated to take on a major employer. Heston's first skirmish in the cultural war dates back to 1992, when, in what he calls "one of my proudest moments," the actor stood up at the shareholder meeting of Time Warner, owner of Warner Bros. studio and this magazine, to read out loud the violent lyrics of Ice-T's Cop-Killer CD, distributed by the company. But Heston limited his attack on media violence to rap music and has had little to say about film or television. "I'm part of the problem," he acknowledges with a chuckle...
SAVE FACE In ads for Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks describes the events of June 6, 1944, as "...the last great invasion of the last great war." Couldn't the studio afford research? The Iwo Jima invasion took place nine months later...
...Daily) is up 127 percent over the same period. Rupert wants to catch up, which is the main reason why News Corp. announced Monday that it would be offering 20 percent of its sexiest subsidiary, the Fox Group -- home to the Fox television network, the 20th Century Fox movie studio and the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to the public in a stock offering later this year. And this time, says Nelson Schwartz of FORTUNE magazine, Murdoch will get top dollar. "Entertainment stocks are very hot right now," Schwartz notes. "There's no Asian exposure because people don't stop going...
...juiciest stuff and use the proceeds to pay off some of News Corp.'s sizable debt load -- which should pay off in a rising stock price. (News Corp. immediately gained $2 on the announcement.) And if there isn't exactly synergy between a baseball team and a movie studio in the entertainment industry, the formula works on Wall Street. Says Schwartz: "He's maximizing the value that he has by putting all the hot properties on sale together." Just imagine if the Dodgers start winning...