A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
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Universal had hoped that 'Meet Joe Black' would be their big summer picture, and they just couldn't get it ready. So the only picture they had left for summer, basically, was 'Out Of Sight.' That was their big summer picture -- George Clooney picture. It didn't really work very well.Peter Bart
When I was at MGM some years ago, I remember that there was a serious discussion of trying to remake some of the (Spencer) Tracy and (Katharine) Hepburn pictures. And that's a great idea except that they were successful because of Tracy and Hepburn.
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Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.
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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.
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
Peter Bart
The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again
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