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- PEOPLE, Page 81A Cash Cow for Sony?
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Andrea Sachs
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- "If anybody could exhibit the potential of being the
- greatest selling superstar of all time, Michael Jackson can."
- You better believe it; Japan's Sony Software is betting it'll
- make a cool $1 billion that it's so. Those words of praise came
- from Sony Music president Tommy Mottola last week as Sony and
- the Gloved One signed perhaps the biggest show-biz deal ever.
- Anxious to stockpile entertainment software for its growing
- audio-video empire (Sony Music, Columbia Pictures), Sony sought
- and got a longterm multimedia contract with Jackson that
- includes film and music projects. Sony figures that since his
- albums Thriller and Bad made about $700 million in retail sales
- alone, the new deal should have billion-dollar potential.
- Insiders gasped at the gamble, but it squelched rumors that
- Jackson was looking to sign on elsewhere.
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