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There is a wonderful movie fighting to get out of this $50 million musical. Unfortunately for Producer Ray Stark, the movie is Camille, that transcendent Garbo weepie, which Daddy Warbucks takes his button-eyed orphan to see at a Radio City Music Hall advance screening. (Quite a bit in advance...
The first anvil hint is dropped in the opening scene: in a dormitory of Miss Hannigan's Dickensian orphanage, the eldest of six orphans jumps from bed to bed-and one galumphing foot lands splat! on the forehead of a younger girl. It's no wonder that when...
With the prospects for quick payoffs fading, venture-capital firms that have been the Daddy Warbucks of the industry are tightening their purse strings. They are now slow to provide more money to companies for research. Says Brooke Byers, a partner in the San Francisco firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield...
Coca-Cola can test that record in May when Columbia releases Annie. The film version of the Broadway musical cost $40 million to make, and it will have to be a blockbuster to earn a profit. Regardless of how the film fares, however, Columbia and its shareholders now have less...
Surrounded by youthful cast members from the film Annie, including Newcomer Aileen Quinn, 10, Veteran Director John Huston, 75, seemed as pleased as Daddy Warbucks during a Dow Jones upswing. The screen version of the Broadway hit was his first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter...