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After saying yes, Fox went looking for a partner to share the risk, and possible reward, of a period piece replete with effects but devoid of major stars. Partnering on big pictures is increasingly common--Braveheart and Starship Troopers were team efforts--but the pitfalls are dramatically manifest in the feuding over Titanic...
Universal looked for some sort of sweetener--like the promise of a partnership on an upcoming Cameron project. None was offered. In August 1996, Paramount president John Goldwyn called Fox to inquire if Paramount might step in. Paramount had teamed with Fox on Braveheart, Mel Gibson's epic, with the happiest of results: good box office, Oscars. Paramount's tough but charming chairman, Sherry Lansing, had concerns. Could a young star like DiCaprio carry a film this big? And the $100 million budget seemed low. But that Sunday afternoon, Fox executive Tom Rothman eloquently persuaded Lansing that Titanic would...
...this simply a matter of artistic genre. While Pocahontas and Anastasia provide two of the most glaring cases in recent years, non-animated films, such as Mel Gibson's Braveheart or Kirk Douglas' classic Spartacus are strewn with the same sort of historical problems, if perhaps to a lesser degree. Notably, these movies are also, first and foremost, dramatic vehicles...
Bones on cinema: "I watch Braveheart once a week and Clueless on a regular basis. I don't even like those videos but I'm too lazy to go to the video store...
...Prepare yourself for nightly news clips featuring a blue-faced Mel Gibson in a kilt. Some 700 years post-'Braveheart'; voters in Scotland will decide on two initiatives that could give the kingdom its first parliament since 1707. One would create a separate Scottish Parliament; another would give that body the power to levy taxes. If a parliament is created, it would administer Scotland's share of the UK government budget, currently $22.5 billion. That appears to be enough for locals, who support the idea of a parliament but balk at it actually having any power over their wallets...