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According to Reference for Business: "Of the first 18 movies the company had released as Orion Pictures Corporation, ten had been profitable, five had broken even, and three had losses of less than $2 million."[6] One such film, Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club, was mired in legal troubles and Orion lost $3 million of its investment.[6] "We've had some singles and doubles [but haven't] had any home runs," lamented Krim.[6] In September 1984, Orion distributed Amadeus, which garnered many accolades, winning eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[6] That year, on April 3, 1984, Orion Pictures launched Orion Entertainment Group, that would consist of four groups, Orion Television, Orion Home Video, Orion Pay Television and Orion Television Syndication, and the new organization would produce and distribute product for television, home video, pay and syndicated markets, with Jamie Kellner serving as president.[16] On October 26, 1984 the company released the James Cameron-directed science fiction film The Terminator which was well received by critics and audience and led to a franchise involving five further films though none of the follow-ups were distributed by Orion.

In February 1990, Orion signed a deal with Columbia Pictures Entertainment in which the much larger studio would pay Orion $175 million to distribute Orion's movies and television programs overseas. Orion had previously licensed its films to individual distributors territory by territory.[6] That same month, Mike Medavoy left Orion and became head of Tri-Star Pictures.[27]

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In July 1997, Metromedia shareholders approved the sale of Orion (as well as Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment and Motion Picture Corporation of America) to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). This led to the withdrawal of 85 employees, including Krevoy and Stabler, while 111 other employees were to be laid off within nine months, leaving 25 of them to work at MGM. Orion also brought with it a two-thousand film library, ten completed movies and five direct-to-video features for future release[43] and the Krevoy and Stabler movie put picture distribution deal.[42] Krevoy and Stabler retained the right to the Motion Picture Corporation of America name and their three top movies. Metromedia retained Goldwyn Entertainment's Landmark Theatre Group.[43] One Man's Hero (1999) was the last film released by Orion for 15 years.

What made Roger Ebert so great? Was that being his long time dedication since 1967, to reviewing movies? Or perhaps his fuzzy personality and witty descript? Or perhaps his open-mindedness to see nearly every big-screen movie no matter how mundane, stupid, or childish? Or perhaps his willingness to speak his own mind without fear on subjects including: video games (not art?), and politics (progressive liberal), or the act of creative writing..

Then, there are reviews done that connected well with myself on the understanding of my own desires in new movies. Often, that calls for something different, creative and interesting. Also, we both seem to love intelligently written science fiction.

I always appreciated his choice in a personal favorite of mine, Dark City, to be his chosen best movie for 1998, and Being John Malkovich the year after. Both are great movies, also daring approaches in creative storytelling. Yet both movies, I felt were widely ignored and dubbed too weird by the masses to give them the wider respect they deserved.

And often, Ebert likes to have fun in his reviews. He reminds us, that some movies are created to primarily entertain. If he is entertained, we are..or at least, could be entertained. For example, his review of Speed, starring Keanu Reeves (1994).

Orion emerged from bankruptcy on Nov. 5, 1992, and had earmarked $72 million for P&A for the 10 pictures. Every single one was a commercial failure. These films were initially set for release in 1992, but the bankruptcy led to a staggered release through 1993 and 1994. Most of these movies were ignored upon release and then subsequently forgotten.

After they wasted most of their capital on their 10 in-house movies, they did act as a rent-a-distributor for a few years and then made a handful of small investments into some small pictures, but Orion was shuttered in 1999.

The Dark Half was finally released on April 23, 1993, and received a muted response from critics. It quickly bombed out of theaters with just $10,611,160 on a $16 million budget. Out of the entire slate of delayed Orion movies, the terrible box office returns from The Dark Half was their second-highest. After The Dark Half flopped, Romero was not able to get another movie off the ground until he made the low budget Bruiser in 2000.

Don't get me wrong, of all the DC movies that I think should be made, New Gods is pretty low on the list compared to others like Flash or Green Lantern Corps. And even with a director attached, I still see it only about as likely to be made as any other title on that thirty-something long list of "in-development" DCEU movies.

That does bring up the interesting point of who the villain of the New Gods movie would be? Normally Darkseid would be a given, but if you want him to be the big bad of the DC movies, having him beaten or overcome in his first outing is not going to give him that image.

Soviet Navy school ship, three-mast barque Tovarishch (originally German Gorch Fock (1933), returned to Germany in 2003) appears in the movie as Orion. This is one of a dozen movies where Tovarisch has participated.

The filmmakers previously spoke about how Orion and the Dark is not like other DreamWorks Animation movies, given its inclusion of the Grim Reaper and how the film directly addresses death. Production designer Tim Lamb previously teased in a Cartoon Brew interview that the film will also have an indie tone, as it is intentionally not quite as polished as most DreamWorks films typically are.

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Santa Cruz has 9 theatres with 23 individual screens and two drive-in screens in addition to The Movie. Defendant United Artist Communications [UA] operates 5 theaters with a total of 11 screens which show first run movies.

Defendant Nickelodeon Inc. operates two theatres, one, the Nickelodeon, with 4 screens, plays mostly first run films, the other, the Sashmill, plays vintage movies. The owners of the Nickelodeon, William and Nancy Raney, have emphasized exhibition of "motion pictures with a more serious theme, motion pictures which [they] believe[] educate as well as entertain." The Nickelodeon is colloquially known as an art house for its choice of movies.

Distributors have sweeping discretion in licensing their movies. Universal Amusements v. General Cinema, 635 F. Supp. 1505, 1515-1517 (S.D.Tex.1985). They take into consideration a myriad of factors, such as the percentage terms and guarantees offered, theatre quality, seating capacity, location and performance records. The distributors assert that the single most important factor in deciding how to license a picture is the perceived "grossing potential" of the theatres. Grossing potential is based upon a perception of the theatre's past grossing history on comparable motion pictures. They note that because new theatres have no grossing history, it is common practice for the new entrant to offer substantial guarantees in order to win pictures and develop a history.

The Movie alleges a 15 U.S.C. 1 conspiracy in the unreasonable restraint of trade whereby the defendant exhibitors coerced and induced the defendant distributors to refuse to grant plaintiff licenses for first run commercial and art motion pictures. In effect, defendants as a group allegedly boycotted plaintiff with the purpose of eliminating it as a competitor and price cutter. The distributors allegedly refused to deal with plaintiff and exacted excessive terms for the movies it was allowed to license.

Plaintiff relies on a deposition statement from Mr. Bill Raney that while involved in oral negotiations, not bidding, he had on a few occasions received information about competing offers. The Snyder's had likewise *659 received information from a distributor of Mr. Raney's offers on a film. Distributors on occasion, it appears, provide information concerning offers they have already received in order to receive a higher offer from another exhibitor. These disclosures occurred in negotiations, not written bidding and appear to have favored plaintiff and competition. In addition, Mr. Raney declared that he had not received bid tipping from any of the individual defendant distributors. Without any further evidence of bid tipping on particular movies or which defendant distributors may have engaged in bid tipping, the Court cannot find this conduct as evidence of a conspiracy among the various defendants to restrain trade. e24fc04721