Word: tristar
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Unlike the television version, the online game--created by Columbia TriStar Interactive--is in a multiple-choice format. Players log-on and can choose a category--much like in the TV game--and can select one of four possible questions for the given answer...
...variety show in 1998. But can the world's two most famous living Mormons shed their baggage of terminal cuteness? The suits in TV land seem to think so. "They're in their mid-30s. They're parents. They've lived a life just like anybody," says Columbia TriStar Television Distribution president Barry Thurston, who looked at 15 or more celebrities' talk-show ideas before choosing the toothy twosome. "A lot of celebrities want to sing with Donny and Marie...
Sony never needed new leadership more than it did in April 1995, when Nobuyuki Idei leapfrogged a dozen more senior executives to become the company's president. As the world's trailblazer in entertainment electronics, Sony invaded Hollywood in 1989 by buying Columbia and TriStar Pictures; in November 1994 the corporation took a $3.2 billion write-off for five years of studio mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop...
Miramax has always had a genius for picking films. Sometimes it picks them out of the gutter. The Miramax tactic: find a pretty orphan, take it home, dress it up and show it off. When TriStar said no to Pulp Fiction, the Weinsteins eagerly said yes and snagged their biggest hit ever. Last year 20th Century Fox backed out of The English Patient just before the film was to begin shooting. Instead Fox pinned its Oscar hopes on another sweeping morality play, The Crucible--only to see it swept away, at the box office and in the Oscar race...
...five nominees for Best Picture, only one, TriStar's Jerry Maguire, was produced by one of the major studios. Not that they didn't trot out their usual quota of ambitious and/or self-important "prestige" projects--films whose stars and makers might reasonably have felt they had a shot at winning heaps of major nominations. Why did so many of these offerings fail? Has Hollywood lost the knack for marketing serious pictures? Take blustery movies about killing Englishmen: Does anyone really think Braveheart (last year's Best Picture) is significantly better than Michael Collins (only two minor nominations this year...