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High- Concept' Films The decade of the 1. Designed and packaged for mass audience appeal, few. The era was characterized by the introduction of 'high- concept' films. Simpson was the first producer to understand and exploit the significance. MTV. His action- packed, loud, flashy, simplistic, and tightly- structured.
His lowest common- denominator. MTV generation, such as in his debut film Flashdance.
By the end of the 8. Driving Miss Daisy. Bill & Ted's. Excellent Adventure (1.
James Cameron's Aliens (1. Die Hard (1. 98. 8)). The average ticket price at the beginning. However, fears of the demise. Hollywood proved to be premature. The Search for a Blockbuster: The. Francis Ford Coppola.
William Friedkin, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The industry continued. Star Wars (1. 97. There were others that were successful. Ghostbusters (1. 98.
Romancing the Stone (1. Back to the Future (1. Following this model, Hollywood continued to search, with.
In retrospect. many of the blockbusters in the 8. Big Losers, Flops and Bombs: Turkeys of the 8. Decade. See extensive sub- section of site on . Within a few years, it was becoming clear that. Auteur. Michael Cimino's and United Artists' incomprehensible, over- long epic Western film. Heaven's Gate (1. Wyoming's Johnson County wars cost.
It was originally. November, 1. 98. 0 NYC premiere. The film was immediately pulled, re- cut and then. It stunned its studio by becoming the biggest flop in. US box- office was about $1. UA's corporate parent, Transamerica, had to sell.
MGM for only $3. 50 million as a result. Bank- rolled support for independent 'auteur' directors of. New Wave of 7. 0s directors (who controlled their own production costs. Best Director winner for The Deer Hunter (1. The end of the era also arrived due to similar failures.
Peter Bogdanovich with At Long Last Love (1. Martin Scorsese with New York, New York (1. Steven. Spielberg with 1. Sung Myung Moon and his Reunification. Church - it was an embarrassment that was quickly withdrawn, with a. US box- office of only $5 million.
Hugh Hudson's (famous for the Oscar- winning Chariots. Fire (1. 98. 1)) miscalculated historical epic of the American Revolution. WB's Revolution (1. Al Pacino miscast as an.
New York fur trapper. It grossed only $3. The film's colossal failure curtailed Hudson's. I Dreamed of Africa. Pacino wouldn't star in another film.
Sea of Love (1. 98. John Huston's first and sole musical, Annie (1. Broadway musical.
The rights to the show were sold in 1. Howard the Duck (1. Steve Gerber's 7. Marvel Comics character (which went out of print in 1. George Lucas (and his screenwriting pal, director Willard Huyck), was one of the worst and least successful big- budget films ever made. Lucas hired Willard Hyuck and his wife Gloria Katz (the screenwriter for Lucas' film American Graffiti (1. This misguided Universal film domestically grossed about $1.
The. highly- anticipated Shanghai Surprise (1. Handmade. Films (headed by the Beatles' George Harrison), starred newlyweds: pop diva. Madonna and volatile actor Sean Penn. Lacking a coherent plot. It was a very expensive comedy film ($5.
Warren Beatty, Isabelle Adjani and Dustin Hoffman (who. Oscar the next year for Rain Man (1.
Writer/director Terry Gilliam's (of Monty Python. The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (1. Despite four Oscar nominations, it had a US gross of only. And one more at the start of the 9. Brian De Palma's political.
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1. Tom. Wolfe's best- selling saga about stockbroker Sherman Mc.
Coy, featured. multi- million dollar contracts for its miscast stars Tom Hanks and Bruce. Willis. Savaged by critics, it had a budget of $4. Unexpected Successes: Who would know or be able to predict that other films would be successful: Louis Malle's low- budget, overly- long My Dinner. With Andre (1. 98. Wallace Shawn and theater director Andre Gregory. Victor/Victoria (1. Paris, in which Julie Andrews pretended to be a man - -.
James Garner. Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1. Rupert Pupkin (Scorsese's favorite actor Robert De. Niro), self- proclaimed as The . Murray Abraham) vying for the favor of an Austrian. James. Cameron's The Terminator (1. Sarah Connor - the unsuspecting future mother of John - the leader of. T- 8. 00 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who journeyed back in time to assassinate her); the intense and lean film established an action film genre.
Little. Shop of Horrors (1. Roger. Corman horror film in the 6. Audrey II that consumed demented dentist Steve Martin as. Big. business increasingly took control of the movies and the way was opened. Japanese) ownership of Hollywood properties. To. save money, many more films were being made in non- US locations by mid- decade. A number of the studios were taken over by multi- national conglomerates.
United Artists (acquired in 1. Kirk Kerkorian and temporarily abandoned) was bought and merged. MGM in 1. 98. 1 to form MGM/UA; the company's film library was. Ted Turner in 1. 98. TV channel. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.; then, in 1.
MGM was purchased. Sony Entertainment of Japan - home to both Columbia Pictures and. Tri. Star Pictures (see below)2. Twentieth) Century Fox was taken over.
Marvin Davis in 1. Australian publisher Robert Murdoch in 1. Fox, Inc. The film production unit was renamed simply. Fox Film Corporation in 1. Fox. Columbia Pictures was purchased by the Coca- Cola. Company in 1. 98. Tri- Star Pictures was also created - .
Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS); Tri- Star Pictures. Loew's Theaters in 1. British film producer David Puttnam. Columbia Pictures for a few years beginning in 1.
Sony Corporation of America purchased Columbia Pictures Entertainment. Inc. With this kind of pressure, the most popular. Budgets and. actors salaries skyrocketed out of control, and powerful agents for agencies. Creative Artists Agency (CAA) negotiated outrageous deals. Notable 1. 98. 0s Milestones: 3. Sherry Lansing was named president of production.
Century Fox in 1. Dawn Steel became VP for production at Paramount Studios. Columbia Pictures in 1. CNN (Cable News Network) began. Sony's. superior video recording standard, termed Betamax, was overtaken.
VHS (Video Home System) developed by JVC, with a longer record. VHS commanded 9. 5% market share, Sony.
Betamax in 1. 98. Pioneer began to market its videodisk. Beatle John Lennon was shot dead on December.
New York apartment by Mark Chapmanin 1. MTV began. broadcasting on August 1st at 1. Video Killed the Radio Star - the debut single. British duo - the Buggleschild- teen star and cover model Brooke Shields was.
Milos Forman's Ragtime (1. James Cagney's first film - a . His conservative. Soviet Union was reflected. Hollywood's many action- adventure films of the decade with aggressive.
Rocky, Rambo, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Steven. Seagal, Clint Eastwood and others) - even his futuristic anti- missile. Lucas' 7. 0s film Star Wars. Jodie. Foster was stalked by mentally- impaired John Hinckley, who tried to. Reagan in late March. Jane Fonda (sporting a striped. Jane Fonda's. Workout (1.
VCRGeorge Lucas' THX sound system made its debut - the. THX- certified auditorium was Return.
Jedi (1. 98. 3) - see more belowduring the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1. Vic Morrow were killed in a freak helicopter. Hollywood. sets. Walt Disney Productions and Westinghouse Broadcasting. The Disney Channel in April, 1.
Vanessa Williams won the 1. Miss America title (crowned in September, 1. Penthouse magazine (September. January, 1. 98. 5) in 1. Century Fox began to openly solicit. American Movie Classics cable- TV channel.
Voyager Company introduced its Criterion. Collection line of 'special edition,' high- quality, feature- packed. CAV (full feature). DVDs by the turn of the centuryin 1. Robert Redford's Sundance Institute (established. Utah/US Film Festival and later renamed it the Sundance. Film Festival (held annually in January) - .
Sony Betamax (1. 98. The pre- recorded video of Disney's.
Sleeping Beauty (1. And then to illustrate the burgeoning video industry. E. T.: The. Extra- Terrestrial (1. Tri- Star Pictures Motion Picture Company, one of Hollywood's. CBS Inc., Columbia Pictures, and Time- Life's premium cable service Home.
Box Office (HBO) (founded in 1. HBO and Showtime both functioned. On the other hand, multi- plex movie theatres with. Multi- track. Dolby stereo sound, the THX sound system (named after George Lucas' first. Dolby SR (. The first movie to be shown in a THX- certified auditorium. Return of the Jedi (1.
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