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Science fiction for a global market - St. Petersburg Times
January 01 1990
Japanese companies nab top talent for film venture.
HOLLYWOOD-In another of the myriad ways in which Japan is entering the American movie business, two Japanese companies are spending $30-million to produce a science-fiction film for international release and a related but factual series for Japanese television.
Gakken, one of Japan's leading publishing companies,and NHK enterprises, a subsidiary of Japan's national broadcasting network, have put up the money for Solar Crisis, a special-effects adventure movie about a mission to the sun that stars Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Jack Palance, Corin "Corky" Nemec and Tim Matheson.
Solar Crisis, in which space travelers try to solve the problem of solar flares that are dehydrating the earth, is being directed by Richard Sarafian (Eye of the Tiger).
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