Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
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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
The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
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It's tougher today because it's corporate Hollywood.
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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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A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain.
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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.
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