Director Michael Cimino has a complicated history. As Oscar and Razzie winner who only made seven films, Cimino frequently found himself struggling with producers to get his vision out.
When the producers of The Sicilian felt his version was too long he used his final cut clause to give them something else. It wasn’t a good idea.
Show Notes
Articles
Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall In the Land of Fame and Fortune – by Bruce McNall, Michael D’Antonio https://books.google.com/books/about/Fun_While_It_Lasted.html?id=Y5bcwAEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
Michael Cimino’s FINAL CUT – Steve Garabino, Vanity Fair (March 2002) https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/04/ciminos-final-cut-200203
Contract Law: Film Directors and Editing Rights for Television – Susan M. French https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1084&context=elr
VIDAL SUES TO GET CREDIT ON ‘SICILIAN’ – LA Times, Feb. 17, 1987 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-14-ca-2975-story.html
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Cover Art by Kat Manderfield http://katmanderfield.com
Music by Jingle Punks, Josh Lippe and the Overtimers, and Kevin MacLeod.
Hot Swing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100202Artist: http://incompetech.com/
The Dukes of Hazzard was a top ten show heading into its fifth season. That’s when a report came out revealing just how much the show had earned in merchandising. And that’s when the stars of that show realized how much they weren’t getting. In this episode of The Industry we take a look at the contract dispute that led to two replacements joining a top ten show and how that show would never be in the top ten again. Byron Cherry (Coy Duke) helps tell the story of Coy and Vance.
Aliens, mountain men, and Jesus were the stars of the day for Sunn Classic Pictures. Throughout the 1970s, Sunn Classic proved to be a highly successful independent movie studio, cranking out pseudo-documentaries and G rated nature themed movies like it was going out of style. They used unique methods to get their ideas and to get their movies out to the public. The Industry takes a look at the history of the company that specialized in inventing history.