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Do your homework and stand your ground.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Homework
Interesting
Stand Your Ground
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We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Commercial
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Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Profit
Meeting
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One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Brando
Conversation
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The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Decision
Consists
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
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I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
Peter Bart / Journalist
New York
Brat
Grew Up
Manhattan
Hanging
Movie Theaters
Theaters
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Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Behavior
Stars
Study
Detect
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The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Becoming
Corporate
Creative
Creative Process
Creativity
Danger
Hollywood
Purely
Resides
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A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Decision
Given
Green
Light
Made
Picture
Finally
Meeting
Whether
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Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Coverage
Example
Stars
Too Much Information
Ultimate
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The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Commitment
Financial
Media
Reducing
Picture
Companies
Major
Motion
Motion Picture
Sector
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It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Corporations
Creativity
Levels
Nurture
Corporation
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Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Ceo
Entertainment
Entertainment Business
Intention
Lasts
Leaving
October
Steps
Disney
Michael
No Intention
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Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Affair
Cutting
Falling In Love
Implications
Love Affair
Serious
Carries
Final Cut
Frame
Historically
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It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Activity
Corporations
Hollywood
Regard
Tv Shows
Years
Irritant
Minor
Multinational
Overall
Relatively
Playground
Recent
Recent Years
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The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Discussion
Paramount
Consist
Meeting
Perhaps
Script
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Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Fewer
Groups
Investment
Next
Next Year
Significant
Slate
Two
Years
Borne
Costs
Funds
Hedge
Portion
Produced
Reduced
Substantially
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Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Attitude
Cozy
Emerging
Entertainers
Evidence
Gay
Moved
Velvet
Attitudes
Basic
Open
Certainly
Lifestyles
Though
Underground
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Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Movie
Continuing
High Profile
Marketplace
Past
Phenomenon
Summer
Years
For Example
Overseas
Registered
Same Level
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The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
Peter Bart / Journalist
Running
Financing
Half
People
Percent
Willing
Picture
Beginning
Money Today People
Model
Overseas
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