The remarkable, Orwellian "Brazil, " which he co-wrote and directed in 1985, is still a classic case of visionary filmmaker vs. shortsighted studio (or, if you're a studio executive, clear-sighted studio vs. enfant terrible).
Richard Kind gives a dynamic performance as mega-maniacal studio executive Marcus Hoff.
"This is a serious concern and we don't know when it will be resolved, " said one senior movie studio executive involved in the discussions.
No studio executive contacted would comment on Kocher's scheme on the record, but it looks likely to be the backbone of any eventual security standard.
Kim Williams, the Australian chief executive of the studio, brags that Australia will emerge early in the next century as the main base outside the United States for the production of English language films.
And here, he's doing a movie in which Robin Wright plays a version of herself, and she's being asked by a Hollywood studio executive to kind of digitize herself, give herself over so that her likeness will live on on movie screens long after she does.
While many believe digital photography and phone cameras have doomed the industry, CPI's troubles were also connected to the details of its own product, said John Johnson, chief executive of Picture People, a competing photo studio with 150 outlets in malls and stores across the country.
"We've been working on it for five years, " said Janos Kovacs, chief executive at the puzzle-master's Rubik Studio design firm.
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Joining us now here in Studio 3A in Washington is Bill Shore, founder and executive director of Share our Strength, an organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in the United States.
Patrick Soderlund, executive vice president of the EA Games Label, told me the studio is taking the technology that James Cameron utilized for Avatar and pushing it even further for this new game.
But insiders say Mr. Horn, a 70-year-old industry veteran, has brought gravitas to the top of a studio embroiled in drama since 2009, when Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger filled the job with Rich Ross, a television executive who had no filmmaking experience.
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One of the earliest stories that made the rounds had Woo turning away a high-level executive at Sony Pictures who had asked him if he was interested in working with the studio.
Although the show's line producer reported the hitting incident to the studio's human resources department, there was no investigation until an ABC senior executive saw a National Enquirer story about it at a grocery store two months later, according to testimony.
With all the writers going into season two with the top credit of executive producer, their salaries represent a big drain on the show's budget, the studio president says, joking, "there's a reason we make the show in North Carolina" instead of Washington, where it's set.
He was president of Caesars World, and when that company was sold to ITT in 1995 he moved over to MGM as chief executive under majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, who in recent years has been more focused on his movie studio and auto investments than on his casino company.
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