“Rupert has been the most influential person in Hollywood in the last 25 years. He has been the key driver of trends that now define the industry.”
“I do not remotely share Rupert’s politics, but he was an excellent boss of a creative operation because creativity involves risk, and Rupert understood risk,” said Tom Rothman, a former Fox movie chief who now is chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. “And I admire him for that.”Rothman and other Fox veterans credit Murdoch for encouraging them to take risks.
Murdoch shrugged off problems that might have rattled others. When the budget for James Cameron’s epicwas ballooning, Murdoch told Chernin: “Don’t let it overwhelm you. Keep your head down and keep going.” “He would come in and talk about what shows he liked, or what shows he didn’t like,” Greenblatt said. One particular show, “Party of Five,” about five siblings trying to make it after their parents were killed by a drunk driver, didn’t escape Murdoch’s critique.
He used his media outlets to amass enormous political power and was instrumental in breaking the print unions in London in the mid-1980s. Later, he helped launch a satellite TV service, now known as Sky, to challenge the venerable BBC. entertainment not to get into entertainment. It was part of a broad strategy to get into the media industry — the heart of the media industry.”buying the [Fox] studio wasn’t about rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars. Fox, for him, was always a business deal,” Block said in an interview. “He recognized that compelling content was key to gaining economic and political power.”
His company quickly snapped up an independent TV station group and scurried to launch the fourth network, Fox Broadcasting Co.“When the Fox network first went on the air, a lot of people didn't even get the station. People would put tin foil on their antenna, and move it around to try to get a picture,” said Ed O’Neill, who starred as Al Bundy in “Married … With Children,” one of Fox’s original hits. “When I’d go back to visit my family [in Ohio], no one knew I had a television show.
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