The family hopes to keep the company as an operating entity that once had a balance sheet brimming with billions of dollars.

He added that the company was, "creating a single operating entity, with a multidisciplinary management team."

The company consisted primarily of two primary operating entities.

The most likely crisis is the collapse in the common stock of the operating entity.

As an operating entity," he added, "Thompson wasn't in question.

The companies have been operated as separate operating entities within Westmark since 1987, and the management of each company will not change.

But, he said, the intention of the plan is to enable Orion to continue as an operating entity that may produce films in the future.

The theory holds true because the operating entity is considered fundamentally equivalent to the combined assets of the company.

The trust in turn, "flows" all of its income received from the operating entity out to unitholders.

But as an operating entity, with the investment and apparatus in place, within a couple of years we'll turn a profit because we already have revenues.