Kassar Gives Cool New Interview

Here’s one of those interviews where an old legend behind many of the manly movies we love opens up and spills some unknown goods.  Mario Kassar has spoken with Deadline on a variety of things, from Netflix to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s private jet.  Here are a few samples;

On Netflix;

Many, many years ago I met with John Malone and I wanted to do one of theRambos and have it released on one of his cable channels first for a lot of money. I was gonna go cable and then theatrical. I was going to do that experiment before anyone thought about it. It was going to be an amazing first week or two on cable as the biggest trailer in the world, for a lot of money upfront.

On Arnold’s infamous plane;

Arnold did get the plane. That was a gimmick, but it was true. A big star like Arnold would get paid his huge fee weekly guaranteed, but with a plane we could pay it off over many years and amortize the cost, so it actually worked out for us financially and also was a major marketing coup.

You can read the full interview here.