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Entertainment & Sports

Sep. 25, 2001

Movie Execs Won't Pull Plug on Big Moneymakers

Getting movies out of the jokey violence business and exclusively into mom, apple pie and the movie version of "Gilligan's Island" could be a tough nut to crack.


        By Ross Johnson

        From the Sept. 16 edition of the New York Times:
        "In response to the terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon on Tuesday, television and film executives say movies involving terrorism, explosions, hijackings and the kind of jokey violence popular in the films of the 1990s will be ra...

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