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...broom out" some of the details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes like this that had induced him to cut his price in order to make the picture. Besides, Russell was certain that back in Burbank he had Warner Bros.' support. One of its senior executives had told him that if he couldn't occasionally green-light a movie like this one, he didn't want...
There are several times in the calendar year over which the executives of big Hollywood studios--Sony, MGM, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, etc.--just seem to salivate. This past summer, the prime time to release big-budget and sometimes quirky films, box office receipts totaled a touch over $3 billion, the biggest ever in the history of movie making. Summer is one season where the amount of hype and advertising simply inundates various forms of media; but Christmastime and the preceding period is no less intense in film circles when various movies with varying appeal play (to variable degrees...
...same name in 1946, which in turn inspired a Broadway musical The King and I. Hoping to capitalize on the success of the theatrical version, the show was then produced into a movie starring Yul Bryner in 1956, followed by an abysmal animated feature released by Warner Bros. this past year. All the different versions of the Anna to date have been banned in Thailand due to gross historical inaccuracies and ethnic stereotyping...
David O. Russell: I had just finished filming Flirting with Disaster and Warner Bros. invited me to come look at their logs--the logs of all their properties--and I saw this script, which actually I've never read fully, described, and I just jumped on it. I've always wanted to have a larger canvas, and I've had some experiences in the Third World, in Nicaragua after I graduated from college, and it seemed a huge opportunity to deal with a subject that had never really been dealt with, comedically or dramatically. As I researched it, I found...
Heyman says Warner Bros. "has already got a lot of calls from parents wanting their kids to be in the movie." But, he says, "the good news is it's not a star-driven film. It's the child's film, and the child is not going to command a $20 million fee. So the primary cost will be in the special effects. We want to make all of that as believable and fantastical as possible. Technology is now incredible...