To him, making it in Hollywood is all about knowing how to play the game.“I really like those guys,” he says. (He was never charged in connection with the incident.) He was one of the few in Hollywood to celebrate when Warner Bros. studio chiefs Terry Semel and Bob Daly left the studio, grousing recently that “they didn’t know who the [expletive] I was.”So it came as an even bigger surprise when Hollywood recently discovered that--Shazam squared!--Samaha had graduated to the big leagues, reinventing himself as the busiest deal maker in town.
But Samaha wants a bonus: The agency’s actress has to do a movie for Samaha--"and for scale,” he says. I was competitive when I was 12 and I haven’t changed. The Call of the Wild Watch Now. “He said, ‘I’ll give you $300 in dry cleaning,’ and I said, ‘You’ve got a deal.’ So when he made his first movie, guess who was in it. John Travolta. Movie stars like him because he’s a little larger than life.”Samaha’s timing is good--he arrived in Hollywood just as most of the major studios were losing their enthusiasm for financing expensive big-star projects. Both UCLA and USC have reported over 150 positive cases. Film producer and nightclub owner Elie Samaha is under criminal investigation by the FBI for possible fraud, representatives for Samaha acknowledged Wednesday. We’re not going to pay $500,000 for a rewrite and then not have the star do it. “If you’re a [expletive] actor,” Samaha replied, “how come your picture’s not on my [expletive] wall!” The argument raged for a while until Pants finally said, “OK, enough about my career--what about my shirt?”“Elie cut right to the chase,” recalls Pantoliano. Elie Samaha says with a sly grin. Both UCLA and USC have reported over 150 positive cases. “But they’re agents.
Why? “He’s getting a film director, so he knows he won’t have some [expletive] tenant.”Samaha loves the art of deal making so much that, as he bluntly says, “I get more excited about a great movie deal or real estate deal than I do about being in bed with a beautiful woman. “Or do you want to wait until after the Jewish holidays?”It is 5:30 on the second night of Passover, and the lights are out all over Hollywood. --so he doesn’t waste time with amenities. He chooses the movies and puts up the money. He gets by on four hours a night, thanks to morning workouts and nightly meditation. But it’s a sign of the William Morris Agency’s regard for Samaha that a roomful of top agents, most of them already late for family seders, are huddled in the office of Samaha’s pal Cassian Elwes, the agency’s movie financing and distribution expert, haggling with the dry cleaning and nightclub owner who has suddenly emerged as Hollywood’s hottest movie producer.Samaha is a blunt-spoken man in a perpetual hurry--on the drive over, when a young woman in a BMW is slow to turn in front of him, he barks, “Come on, grandma!"
Elie Samaha's mercurial rise as a prolific producer took a major hit Wednesday. Lambert says, “Just shake his hand.” Fogelman and Samaha shake hands. “In a business where it’s hard to get movies made, Elie has stepped up to the plate,” says William Morris President Jim Wiatt. You don’t have to wait around to get notes from 10 different development executives. “Elie is a fantastic seducer,” says producer Bill Gerber. “It’s the only way they make any money.”On the way back to his office, Samaha reveals that the negotiation was weighted in his favor.
He’s renovating his three-story offices at the east end of the Sunset Strip, but the new exterior walls won’t be just for show--he plans to rent them out as billboard space. His mother, who lives in Los Angeles and still cooks sumptuous Sunday meals for the family, had to come pick him up at the police station. He’s making so many movies that he couldn’t start the rival project until next year anyway. Wesley Snipes. “Who the [expletive] pays $300 for a [expletive] shirt?” Pants told Samaha he was an actor.
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