 In 1980, he became executive vice president of marketing for Fox.In his five years as a marketing chief, Cort planned and supervised the campaigns of such films as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Midnight Express", "The China Syndrome", "All That Jazz", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Nine to Five".He then served as executive vice president of production at Twentieth Century Fox, where he oversaw the making of "Romancing the Stone", "Bachelor Party", and "Revenge of the Nerds".