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- <text id=91TT2854>
- <title>
- Dec. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Hollywood
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 23, 1991 Gorbachev:A Man Without A Country
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 61
- Business Notes
- HOLLYWOOD
- Dances with Creditors
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- <p> Turning out Academy Award-winning films is no guarantee of
- financial success, or even survival. Just ask Orion Pictures,
- which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week.
- Despite such recent commercial and artistic hits as Dances with
- Wolves and Silence of the Lambs, the studio, known for allowing
- directors considerable creative freedom, was unable to support
- $570 million in debt and other obligations. The bankruptcy was
- triggered when bondholders decided to halt final negotiations
- on a deal to swap $285 million of debt for 70% of the
- motion-picture studio's stock.
- </p>
- <p> Unlike its main competitors, Orion, founded in 1982, lacks
- a rich corporate parent to help finance the skyrocketing cost of
- film production, marketing and distribution. To make ends meet,
- Orion even had to sell off the theatrical rights to a major film
- it had developed, The Addams Family, which already has grossed
- more than $67 million for rival studio Paramount Pictures.
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- </body></article>
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