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3 days ago · It was Michael Eisner’s appointment as president of Paramount Pictures in 1976 which would transition his immense influence into the film industry. John Travolta was an integral force, once Paramount had chosen the actor for the role of Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, earning him an Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
2 days ago · And after a little more than two decades of ownership, filmmaker Breck Eisner. —the eldest son of ex-Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner —is now ready to part ways with his longtime Los ...
2 days ago · When Michael Eisner and Frank Wells took over Disney in another tumultuous period for the company, the 1980s, they decided to release many of the most sought-after animated titles on VHS, a ...
2 days ago · The project was revamped in 1985 by Michael Eisner, the then-new CEO of Disney. Amblin Entertainment, which consisted of Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, were approached to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit alongside Disney. The original budget was projected at $50 million, which Disney felt was too expensive.
1 day ago · Michael Eisner phoned Schwartz, and urged him to back out of his commitment to DreamWorks, but he refused and left the project. After Schwartz's departure, his three songs, "Written in Stone", "Destiny", and "China Doll", were dropped amid story and character changes by 1995.
4 days ago · When Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg took over Disney in the mid-1980s, they wanted to restore the animated division to its past glory. They took a look at The Rescuers which had ended up becoming a popular film with a couple of successful theatrical releases and a hit on home video.
4 days ago · The Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner was hired to ensure the performance of the studio's next animated projects, despite having virtually no animation experience. Eisner himself had been a theater major in college.
