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...despite troubles at recently acquired ABC, its theme parks are booming and the studio is enjoying a bumper crop of holiday hits, including Ransom and 101 Dalmatians. Analysts were unperturbed. "This is as good a time as any to have this kind of change in top management," said Harold Vogel of Cowen...
...says the studio is profitable now, and the past couple of years have brought a few successes, such as Bad Boys and Jumanji. But the misses far outnumbered the hits, and the studio has never had a major blockbuster. "There have to be big strains," says industry analyst Hal Vogel. "The whole '96 schedule really didn't work very well--and this is after years of trying. Where are they? They're not anywhere...
...thing the studios have learned is that not even kids want to see kids' movies. "They want what's slightly illicit," says David Vogel, president of Disney's family-fare division. Rather than being an enticement, the family-film label is now used sparingly. Even though Meledandri's division is called Fox Family Films, the studio won't release pictures under that banner for fear of driving audiences away...
...Hollywood's own definition of 'family' needs to change," says Meledandri. "Family films need to be thought of in the tradition of Star Wars or Indiana Jones--movies that are not geared to kids." Disney's Vogel points out that some of the most successful pictures of all time are now perceived as family films even if they didn't start out that way. Millions of kids eventually saw Jurassic Park, for example, but Universal, which released it, initially warned that young children might find it too scary. "If it had been marketed under a family label, would it have...
...home," says novelist and longtime friend Josh Greenfeld, "Mario is the Godfather." The author's pals complement his deep family relationships. The group, which includes Vogel, Catch-22 author Heller and novelist and playwright Bruce Jay Friedman, gets together for a boys-only lunch every month. Friedman recalls encountering Puzo's writing when he hired him as an assistant editor for the adventure magazines Male and Men. "You knew that he was a natural and a master storyteller," says Friedman. "I'm just disappointed that I didn't become his agent." Plans for a new book are already under...