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- <text id=91TT2049>
- <title>
- Sep. 16, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Hitting Below Orion's Belt
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The motion pictures of American angst-meister Woody Allen have
- never made a lot of money by Hollywood standards, but they are
- worth their weight in prestige. Which is why some of the world's
- most powerful movie studios behaved not unlike the shark in Jaws
- when word got around that after 11 films with Orion Pictures
- (including Hannah and Her Sisters his top earner for the studio
- at $40 million), the director was considering at least a temporary
- move to another studio. Reason: despite such recent cash coups as
- Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs, Orion carried a
- $300 million bank debt from an earlier string of failures that
- made it unable to finance Allen's next project.
- </p>
- <p> After weighing offers from Disney and 20th Century Fox,
- Allen announced last week that he would make his upcoming film
- for Sony-owned Tri-Star Pictures. A deciding factor was
- Tri-Star's chairman, Mike Medavoy, who was Orion's head of
- production for much of Allen's career and thus is familiar with
- Woody's singular style of filmmaking. If Orion fails to recover
- from its financial fix, the cineast's sabbatical may become a
- permanent leave.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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