This episode starts a mini-series of episodes on Orion Pictures, perhaps the best independent distributor not just of the 1980s but of all time. This episode will cover the first five years of their history (1978-1982), as well as some backstory going all the way back to 1951 in order to set their success story up.
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The movies discussed during this episode:
Amityville II: The Possession (1982, Damiano Damiani)
Arthur (1981, Steve Gordon)
The Awakening (1980, Mike Newell)
Caddyshack (1980, Harold Ramis)
Die Laughing (1980, Jeff Werner)
The Escape Artist (1982, Caleb Deschanel)
Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)
The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980, Piers Haggard)
First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
The Great Santini (1979, Lewis Jon Carlino)
Hammett (1982, Wim Wenders)
The Hand (1981, Oliver Stone)
Heartbeat (1980, John Bynum)
A Little Romance (1979, George Roy Hill)
A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982, Woody Allen)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
Over the Edge (1979, Jonathan Kaplan)
Prince in the City (1981, Sidney Lumet)
Promises in the Dark (1979, Jerome Hellman)
Rollover (1981, Alan J. Pakula)
Sharky's Machine (1981, Burt Reynolds)
Simon (1980, Marshall Brickman)
Sphinx (1981, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Split Image (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
10 (1979, Blake Edwards)
Time After Time (1979, Nicholas Meyer)
Under the Rainbow (1981, Steve Rash)
The Wanderers (1979, Philip Kaufman)
Wolfen (1981, Michael Wadleigh)
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