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2 August 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Sharply lower profits at its ABC network were being blamed in large part for a 7.1 percent decline in income at the Walt Disney Co. during the company's third quarter ended June 30. Operating income plummeted 34 percent to $288 million from $439 million a year ago, the result of lower ad rates that reflected poor ratings at the network and its owned-and-operated stations as well as higher program costs. The TV division was also hurt by the bankruptcy of Adelphia Communications, the sixth largest cable operator, which has been unable to make payments of some $50 million in carriage fees. In a statement, Disney Chairman Michael Eisner expressed confidence that the network will improve its performance when the new season begins next fall. Analysts noted that the fate of Disney President Robert Iger may hinge on that performance. "It could be Iger's last stand," Jack Myers, who publishes the media newsletter The Myers Report, told today's (Friday) New York Daily News. "He's the guy there to make sure the company's doing well and it's not." The company also reported a significant drop in attendance at its theme parks and losses from the box-office flop Bad Company.

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11 July 2002 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Recently divorced Silence of the Lambs star Sir Anthony Hopkins has made a public appearance with his new love Stella Arroyave. The couple appeared together at a special dinner in Los Angeles, where Oscar-winner Sir Anthony, 64, handed over his honorary mayorship of Pacific Palisades to Police Academy actor Steve Guttenberg. The couple appeared at ease with each other and often shared intimate moments, with Stella, a 46-year-old antiques dealer, at one point leaning over to whisper something in his ear. The couple was first spotted together last month at the New York premiere of his new film, Bad Company. The Hannibal star divorced wife Jennifer in April after 29 years of marriage.

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18 June 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Catching analysts -- and even executives at Warner Bros. -- completely off guard, the live-action theatrical version of Scooby-Doo raked in $54.2 million in ticket sales over the weekend, making it the second-biggest June opener in history (behind the $54.9 million for 1999's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), and setting up a new canine franchise to rival Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, and the Shaggy Dog. It was also the third-biggest opener of this year, after Spider-Man and Star Wars: Episode II. Although it earned only half what Scooby-Doo did, Universal's The Bourne Identity was born at the box office with $27.1 million -- a nice baby trove by anyone's reckoning. MGM's Windtalkers, however, was a disappointment, grossing just $14.5 million, although reportedly costing more than $100 million to produce. Sliding from first to fourth place, Paramount's The Sum of all Fears took in $13.5 million in its third week. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):

1. Scooby-Doo, Warner Bros., $54,155,312, (New); 2. The Bourne Identity, Universal, $27,118,640, (New); 3. Windtalkers, MGM, $14,520,412, (New); 4. The Sum of All Fears, Paramount, $13,456,325, 3 Wks. ($84,470,597); 5. Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones, 20th Century Fox, $9,438,607, 5 Wks. ($270,752,477); 6. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., $8,874,585, 2 Wks. ($34,000,024); 7. Spider-Man, Sony, $7,515,984, 7 Wks. ($382,537,669); 8. Bad Company, Disney, $5,872,984, 2 Wks. ($21,584,029); 9. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks, $5,223,491, 4 Wks. ($63,496,649); 10. Undercover Brother, Universal, $4,424,295, 3 Wks. ($31,353,150).

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17 June 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Astonishing box-office analysts, the mostly live-action theatrical version of Scooby-Doo took in an estimated $56.4 million to become the biggest attraction at the nation's movie theaters over the weekend, earning more than twice the amount of the No. 2 film, The Bourne Identity, starring Matt Damon, which bagged $27.5 million. Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage, was in third place with a disappointing $14.5 million. (The MGM film reportedly cost more than $100 million to produce.) All three films debuted on Friday. The Sum of All Fears, which had held the top spot over the previous two weekends, slipped to fourth place with $13.5 million, to bring its 17-day total to $84.5 million. The success of Scooby-Doo -- it was the biggest June opening in history -- was particularly surprising given the generally poor reviews the film received on Friday and the high failure rate of similar projects that have attempted to convert classic Saturday-morning cartoons into live-action features. In reporting on the film's achievement, today's (Monday) Wall Street Journal commented: "Rival studio executives have been snickering for months about the box office prospects for the Warner Bros. movie Scooby-Doo, saying that a film with a B-level cast and based on a cornball 1970s cartoon character stood no chance in a summer of big-budget blockbusters. They aren't laughing now."

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

1. Scooby-Doo, $56.4 million; 2. The Bourne Identity, $27.5 million; 3. Windtalkers, $14.5 million; 4. The Sum of All Fears, $13.5 million; 5. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, $9.8 million; 6. Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, $9.2 million; 7. Spider-Man, $7.4 million; 8. Bad Company, $6.1 million; 9. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, $5.5 million; 10. Undercover Brother, $4.6 million.

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11 June 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Paramount tallied up its final weekend receipts for The Sum of All Fears Monday and reported that the sum was $19.2 million, making the movie the biggest money maker for the second week in a row. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which received mixed reviews on Friday, debuted in second place with $16.2 million. Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones dropped to third place with $14 million, while Bad Company premiered in fourth place with a disappointing $11 million. Sony's Spider-Man, in its sixth week, completed the top-five list with $10.3 million. Overall, the box office was up 9.5 percent over the same weekend a year ago, with the top 12 films earning $103.3 million.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date): 1. The Sum of All Fears, Paramount, $19,230,111, 2 Wks. ($62,314,003); 2. Divine Secrets of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Warner Bros., $16,167,412, (New); 3. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, 20th Century Fox, $14,011,713, 4 Wks. ($255,106,352); 4. Bad Company, Disney, $11,007,367, (New); 5. Spider-Man, Sony, $10,311,062, 6 Wks. ($370,428,183); 6. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, DreamWorks, $9,303,808, 3 Wks. ($53,648,859); 7. Undercover Brother, Universal, $7,301,145, 2 Wks. ($23,619,365); 8. Insomnia, Warner Bros., $6,122,478, 3 Wks. ($52,017,508); 9. Enough, Sony, $3,782,592, 3 Wks. ($33,813,043); 10. About a Boy, Universal, $2,653,520, 4 Wks. ($32,448,670).

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10 June 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

The Sum of All Fears sold the biggest sum of movie tickets for the second week in a row, taking in an estimated $18.7 million. The "chick flick" Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood opened in second place with about $16.4 million. Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones slipped to third place with $13.9 million, while the Chris Rock-Anthony Hopkins starrer Bad Company tanked in its debut with just $10.5 million. Even though the box office was up about 8 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago, analysts expressed surprise that -- given May's outstanding performance -- the box office was not performing more robustly. "I think we're just in a lull," Exhibitor Relations chief Paul Dergarabedian told Reuters. "It's a little slow now, then some big movie will come along and set the world on fire again."

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations: 1. The Sum of All Fears, $18.7 million; 2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, $16.35 million; 3. Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones, $13.9 million; 4. Bad Company, $10.5 million; 5. Spider-Man, $10 million; 6. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, $9.4 million; 7. Undercover Brother, $7.3 million; 8. Insomnia, $5.9 million; 9. Enough, $3.6 million. 10. About a Boy, $2.7 million.

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7 June 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

With Bad Company, a comedy thriller that stars the unlikely duo of Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins, you takes your critic and you makes your choice. Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post observes: "Though not great, it's actually a little better than the dim Sum of All Fears currently flattening Baltimore in theaters across the nation." "Bad Company is often hilarious, thanks to Chris Rock working at full tilt and his odd-couple chemistry with Anthony Hopkins," writes Lou Lumenick in the New York Post.Across town, Jami Bernard in the New York Daily News comments: "The title gets it half right: Bad Company is bad, as well as boring, botched and other B-words." And, noting that the film had been postponed following the Sept. 11 attacks, Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times observes that the film "has the whiff of something gone stale. Though it may have sat on the shelf for a while, this project had gone bad long before it was released." Many of the critical naysayers raise the question, why would Anthony Hopkins have agreed to appear in it? Sam Allis of the Boston Globe is one of them. "We assume he had a bad run in the market or a costly divorce," he writes, "because there is no earthly reason other than money why this distinguished actor would stoop so low. This is an uncommonly bad movie." And if you really want to read a review that represents the sum of all jeers, try this one from Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star: "Bad Company feels like the kind of movie that might have been designed by a marketing software program for MBA studio executives. All concept and no content, overly art directed and artlessly rendered, brilliantly cast and terribly performed, it's the kind of movie that might make you angry if it wasn't so deeply inconsequential."

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5 June 2002 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Controversial comedian Chris Rock has branded former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani "crazy," insisting he shouldn't be getting all the praise he does for his time in office. The star of the upcoming movie Bad Company says that since leading the people of New York back to relative normalcy following the terrorist attacks of 9-11, Giuliani has been heaped with praise. But Rock insists that the politician did nothing special--and he's still the "crazy" character many perceived him to be before the attacks. He says, "Rudy did his job--that's all he did. Hey, the guy went out of his way, I will say. But that's the gig. You know, I had a girlfriend who was sexually attacked years ago, when I was seventeen or whatever, and I nursed her back to health, helping with the swollen eyes, feeding her, getting her back to the point where she could go outside. But I was her boyfriend--that was my gig. It's not like they should put me on the cover of Boyfriend Monthly." He adds, "Put it this way, if Rudy Giuliani hadn't left office, he was gonna do something crazy eventually. That's just him--he's crazy. He would've had a dust tax on all the dusty buildings or something. He did a good job but that's what he was supposed to do."

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