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Automat Pictures "RAMBO" Interview with Mario Kassar

2023-09-03First Blood

The following paragraph is an excerpt of a transcript from an interview Automat Pictures did with Mario Kassar on January 27, 2002.

How did you meet Andy Vajna?
MK : I met Andy Vajna about, God, 25 years ago, maybe? He
start a company in, um, in Hong Kong, uh, called PanAsia, where he
was releasing, um, fore-- uh, foreign, uh, films like from the --
from Europe or for -- from the States in the Far East, and I was
at that time based in Europe. And then I was working, uh, for,
um, another person in the Far East called Arthur -- the Arthur
Davis Organization, something like this. And then I met Andy
Vajna and I was not very happy where I was -- uh, with the person
I was working with, so Andy asked me, he said, "To -- do you wanna
do something together? Do you want me -- you -- can you find me
movies for, um, the Far East, Hong Kong, Thailand," you know, all
those places. I said, "Sure, why not?" And then, you know, from
that day on, then I introduce him to everybody in Europe and got
him the movies for Hong Kong, and that's how I met him.

Read the full interview here (PDF, 22 pages)