Word: tristar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WRONG TO LAUGH AT people's hurt feelings and sense of injustice? Even when those people are perpetually fussed over and paid millions a year? "What is all this about," wonders Mike Medavoy, chairman of TriStar Pictures. He means all the carping about Bill Clinton's fling with Hollywood. Medavoy is earnest and aggrieved, as are all the other wounded show-business Democrats. "What?" Medavoy asks rhetorically. "Bill Clinton shouldn't be talking to stars...
...this is also a movie. But it is not only a movie. It has become the accidental equivalent of a trashy best seller that expects you to know who's who even if it can't name names. TriStar Pictures knows this; it is opening the film a week early and at 800 theaters instead of the handful typical for an Allen release. The media tattlers who have already revealed the movie's reel-vs.-real twists know it. Soon so will the 'plex patrons; they will make this Allen's first hit since the 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters...
Sperling and Eisenson have said that, at thetime, they were interested in investing in therapidly expanding and potentially highlyprofitable movie business. the Avenue deal was oneof a pair of investments that also included amajor stake in Tristar Pictures...
...Tristar was highly successful. When Aeneas soldits stake in the company to ColumbiaPictures--later acquired by the SonyCooperation--Several years later, it did so at asubstantial profit...