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  1. 1 day ago · He noted that the basic storyline was developed on February 25 and was successfully pitched the following day to Paramount Studios chief Ned Tanen. Tanen was intrigued by the concept, but wary that the Writers Guild of America was hours away from picketing the studio. Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week.

  2. Jun 22, 2024 · An irreverent story about warring fraternities at an early 1960s college campus, Animal House was almost never made because Universal president Ned Tanen hated the script.

  3. Jun 21, 2024 · According to Matty Simmons' "Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House," these were the words of the Universal boss Ned Tanen after he read the first outline...

  4. 12 hours ago · By 1970, Cimino's agent Michael Gruskoff was approached with an offer from studio executive Ned Tanen to produce a slate of low-budget films for Universal Pictures, with Conquering Horse among them. [38] [43] The estimated budget for the film had gone far over what initially was projected, and would have cost Universal substantially more than their cut-off figure of $1 million to produce it.

  5. Jun 20, 2024 · Studio head Ned Tanen flat-out hated everything about the movie, starting with the screenplay, which was written by an unknown sketch comedian named Harold Ramis. Ramis, at this point, had...

  6. Jun 20, 2024 · Studio head Ned Tanen flat-out hated everything about the movie, starting with the screenplay, which was written by an unknown sketch comedian named Harold Ramis. Ramis at this point had literally ZERO experience in the movie business.

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  8. Jun 11, 2024 · Shelton’s failed pitches included a memorable meeting with Paramount Studios executive Ned Tanen, who scoffed at “Bull Durham” because he saw no profits in its future. Advertisement. Shelton described the meeting in his remarkable 2022 book, “The Church of Baseball,’’ which recounts the making of the movie.