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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedParamount, Disney team for feature film production. (Paramount Pictures Corp., Walt Disney Co. to produce film based on Piers Paul Read's book, 'Alive')
Video Business, October, 1991
Traditionally rivals, Hollywood studios rarely team up to produce a feature film. As recently reported in The New York Times, Paramount Pictures and the Walt Disney Company announced Sept. 9 that the two giants would jointly produce a fact-based drama of a rugby team stranded in the Andes and resorting to cannibalism to survive.
The movie is based on the 1974 book Alive, by Piers Paul Read, chronicling the team's months-long ordeal in South America.
The studios reported they would co-finance the project, with an expected production budget of $20 million. Distribution will be split, probably with one studio handling domestic theatrical distribution and the other selling to the foreign market. No video details were reported at the time of the...
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