Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the exodus of key executives to form Orion Pictures in 1978, United Artists was left with very little in the production pipeline. Although the company was bolstered by continuing franchises and film series, the volume of original productions diminished during this period. By the fourth quarter of 1980, UA was reduced to five releases: the horror comedy Motel Hell and the backstage drama The Idolmaker , along with three auteur projects, Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories , Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull , and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate . With negligible marketing efforts and grosses for the first two films, UA executives Bach and Field focused their energy on the auteur driven films. By the fourth quarter of 1980, the press was ready to engage with the UA auteur films as much for their budgets and production histories as for their aesthetics. The era of the ‘risky megabuck trend,’ to cite a Variety term from the era, was evidenced in a direct way by UA. This chapter examines this point in UA history with an eye to understanding how two factors – the construction of a cautionary tale within Hollywood on big budget auteur projects and the rise of enfotainment (entertainment industry news) – helped to shape the discourse surrounding Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.013 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".