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<text id=91TT2049>
<title>
Sep. 16, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 16, 1991 Can This Man Save Our Schools?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 49
Business Notes
ENTERTAINMENT
Hitting Below Orion's Belt
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<p> The motion pictures of American angst-meister Woody Allen have
never made a lot of money by Hollywood standards, but they are
worth their weight in prestige. Which is why some of the world's
most powerful movie studios behaved not unlike the shark in Jaws
when word got around that after 11 films with Orion Pictures
(including Hannah and Her Sisters his top earner for the studio
at $40 million), the director was considering at least a temporary
move to another studio. Reason: despite such recent cash coups as
Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs, Orion carried a
$300 million bank debt from an earlier string of failures that
made it unable to finance Allen's next project.
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<p> After weighing offers from Disney and 20th Century Fox,
Allen announced last week that he would make his upcoming film
for Sony-owned Tri-Star Pictures. A deciding factor was
Tri-Star's chairman, Mike Medavoy, who was Orion's head of
production for much of Allen's career and thus is familiar with
Woody's singular style of filmmaking. If Orion fails to recover
from its financial fix, the cineast's sabbatical may become a
permanent leave.
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