Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Schwarzenegger a million rounds of ammunition and 75 words of dialogue, most notably the ultimate death threat: "I'll be back." Playing a robot villain, he also played with moviegoers' expectations; they could root for him to die and cheer when he kept coming back. As Arnold recalls, "A studio executive called me after The Terminator and said, 'I can't believe it. I only saw you a few seconds without your clothes on, and they all went for it.' Then all of the sudden I got all of these action scripts that were unrelated to the body. Each step...
...enough to think about the script and the director," he says. "I must ask, Who is the studio? What is the international program? How much money do they have to spend on promotion? I don't want to make a decision to work | hard at something, to believe in something 100% and then have an executive in there who doesn't believe in spending a lot of money. I've had that happen. Predator opened at $12 million, and Barry Diller ((who runs 20th Century Fox)) said, 'We don't want to support the second week of the movie...
SURVIVORS by James Balog (Abrams; $49.50). The Florida panther and other endangered fauna are placed in the unaccustomed atmosphere of a studio, where they sit for their portraits. Suffused with an eerie light, they take on the dignity and importance of icons and give the matter of survival a fresh urgency and new focus...
...network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...
...Monroe's frequent absence from the set threw the production into turmoil. She called in sick for the first two weeks of shooting, arrived late or not at all many other days and enraged studio bosses when she left the set to fly to Washington for President Kennedy's birthday party. As shooting fell further and further behind schedule, Fox executives, already reeling from budget overruns on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza Cleopatra, fired her and sued for breach of contract. But they quietly hired her back weeks later when co-star Dean Martin, out of loyalty to Monroe...