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- <text id=90TT2912>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Hollywood
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- HOLLYWOOD
- Is It a Wrap At Last?
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- <body>
- <p> When aspiring movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti visited the
- White House Oval Office two weeks ago, he boasted to President
- Bush that he would soon complete the cliff-hanging takeover of
- MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did
- in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After
- months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe
- Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3
- billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian.
- </p>
- <p> A onetime waiter who is appealing a conviction for
- fraudulent bankruptcy in his native Italy, Parretti raised cash
- for the deal by tapping European companies he controls and
- selling rights to movies controlled by Pathe and MGM/UA. Time
- Warner agreed to pay $125 million for home-video rights to the
- 1,700 films in the studios' library. Time Warner, which dropped
- a breach-of-contract suit that it had filed earlier against
- Parretti, also bought home-video rights to 11 current and
- forthcoming movies, including Quigley Down Under and Rocky V.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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