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- <text id=91TT0807>
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- Apr. 15, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Dances with Debt
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- <p> What movie studio wouldn't be dancing in the streets with
- films like The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves to its
- credit? Answer: Orion Pictures, the studio that released both
- hits. The Jodie Foster thriller and the Kevin Costner western
- come at the end of a losing streak that has lasted more than two
- years and helped run up $500 million of debt with such busts as
- The Hot Spot, State of Grace and Valmont. So even though Lambs
- and Wolves together have grossed a stellar $230 million, Orion
- is struggling to keep the wolves from the door.
- </p>
- <p> To attract new investors, the studio last week disclosed
- plans for a "major capital or financial restructuring" and an
- executive shake-up that pushed chairman and octogenarian
- co-founder Arthur Krim into an essentially powerless position.
- Such actions may not be enough. Orion's upcoming releases look
- weak--and the studio is so hungry for cash that last month it
- sold its most promising new picture, a movie version of TV's
- cult hit The Addams Family, to Paramount at a loss.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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