Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
by Nancy Griffin, Kim Masters
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Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two film packagers well known for spending other people's money and ripping off credit for other people's work went on a deliberate campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives. With the exception of Batman, Jon Peters and Peter Guber were barely involved with the most successful films they "produced." Steven Spielberg wouldn't allow them on the set of The Color Purple, and they werre on the set of Rain Man only once, show more briefly. With the help of one of Michael Milken's top lieutenants, they succeeded. It was the most audacious sales job of their careers: This unlikely team got Sony to give them the richest deal in Hollywood history. show lessTags
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- Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood
- People/Characters
- Sony Pictures Entertainment; Jon Peters; Peter Guber
- Important places
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Do not combine with Hit and Run by Allison Brennan and Laura Griffin. Different book and Laura Griffin is a different author than Nancy Griffin.
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- Nonfiction, Business, Biography & Memoir, History
- DDC/MDS
- 791.4302320973 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions Supervision Film production
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- PN1998.3 .P46 .G75 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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