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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.tv
Subject: Re: Ted Turner Buys MGM/UA
Message-ID: <6706@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 16:48:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 16:48:35 1985
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Summary: 

In article <765@houxa.UUCP> lmv@houxa.UUCP (L.VANDERBILT) writes:
>
>By UA, I assume United Artists which I thought was
>owned by Transamerica Corp. in San Francisco...
>are you sure it is owned by Kirk??

Yes, UA is United Artists.  It used to be owned by Transamerican Corp., before
"Heaven's Gate".  That film wound up costing the studio over $40 million while
taking in revenues in the neighborhood of $1 million.  While not the sole reason
Transamerican offloaded UA, "Heaven's Gate" was certainly one reason.
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        			Peter Reiher
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