{"id":1284,"date":"2009-01-11T08:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T15:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/father-of-the-brat-pack-gone\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T15:22:51","slug":"father-of-the-brat-pack-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/11\/father-of-the-brat-pack-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Of The Brat Pack Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the LA Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ned Tanen, Movie Executive With a Taste for Youth Films, Dies at 77<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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By\u00a0WILLIAM GRIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

Ned Tanen, a studio executive who seemed to have a Midas touch in bringing youth-oriented films like\u00a0\u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cAnimal House\u201d to the screen, died at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday. He was 77.<\/p>\n

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\n[Mr. Tanen] compiled an enviable record of box-office hits and critical successes, based in no small part on his talent for identifying films that would appeal to young ticket-buyers, including \u201cE.T.: The Extraterrestrial.\u201d After his studio career, he independently produced films by\u00a0John Hughes<\/a>, including\u00a0\u201cSixteen Candles\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe Breakfast Club.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1980 he helped Universal set a Hollywood record of $290 million for a single studio\u2019s box-office receipts with films like\u00a0\u201cCoal Miner\u2019s Daughter,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe Blues Brothers\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cSmokey and the Bandit II,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0then broke it two years later. At Paramount, films like\u00a0\u201cPretty in Pink,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTop Gun\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cCrocodile Dundee,\u201d<\/a>all released in 1986, earned $600 million, giving Paramount more than double the gross revenues of its nearest competitor. The studio finished first the next year as well.<\/p>\n

In the early 1970s, after working as a production supervisor on\u00a0Milos Forman<\/a>\u2019s film\u00a0\u201cTaking Off,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0he went into film production full time, helping to develop projects like \u201cAmerican Graffiti,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Deer Hunter,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u201cSmokey and the Bandit\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cJaws\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for Universal, MCA\u2019s film subsidiary.<\/p>\n

In 1976 he became president of Universal\u2019s film-producing division, and two years later he was named president of Universal Pictures, its distribution arm. In December 1982, riding a wave of hits, as well as critical successes like\u00a0\u201cMelvin and Howard\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cMissing,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0he resigned from Universal, saying he was exhausted and, he told The Wall Street Journal, tired of playing \u201cthe Hollywood game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from the LA Times Ned Tanen, Movie Executive With a Taste for Youth Films, Dies at 77 By\u00a0WILLIAM GRIMES Ned Tanen, a studio executive who seemed to have a Midas touch in bringing youth-oriented films like\u00a0\u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d\u00a0and \u201cAnimal House\u201d to the screen, died at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday. He was 77. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}