Media Wildcatter

摘要

BY THE TIME THE IDEA of making a movie about the life of singer Ray Charles was pitched to I Philip F.Anschutz,just ' about every major Hollywood studio had passed on it.Young people wouldn't know Charles,producer Stuart Benjamin was told.And biographies of African Americans don't sell well,the naysayers added.Even Anschutz' advisers said it would be better as a TV movie.But the 65-year-old financier,a longtime Charles fan,went with his gut and backed the film with US37 million.Ray went on to score two Oscars-including best actor for Jamie Foxx-and gross US125 million at the box office.