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Apocalypse Now went so far overbudget that Francis Ford Coppola had to mortgage his house. Titanic's tab was so big two studios had to go dutch. And don't get me started on Waterworld. But no story factory in recent memory has gotten less bang for its buck (no pun intended, of course) than the White House, in this, its ongoing remake...
...COPPOLA'S PINOCCHIO CASE...
...Francis Coppola's trial attorneys in his $80 million case against Warner Bros. (TIME's affiliate), I found your item on the jury's verdict troubling [NOTEBOOK, July 20]. The verdict had nothing to do with Warner's "reneging on a deal to remake Pinocchio." There was never any such "deal." Warner was held liable for intentionally interfering with Mr. Coppola's efforts to make Pinocchio for a different studio (Columbia Pictures). In addition, you ignored the foreign grosses and income for Mr. Coppola's films, which would more than double the figures you quoted...
...also failed to mention the jury's findings that Warner acted fraudulently and with malice when it prevented Mr. Coppola from making Pinocchio. The jury's award of $60 million in punitive damages (on top of the $20 million in compensatory damages it awarded earlier) was designed to punish Warner for that malicious wrongdoing. It was the largest civil award ever against a major film studio. BRIAN EDWARDS Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger Los Angeles...
Spielberg's first important theatrical film was The Sugarland Express, made in 1974, a time when gifted auteurs like Scorsese, Altman, Coppola, De Palma and Malick ruled Hollywood. Their god was Orson Welles, who made the masterpiece Citizen Kane entirely without studio interference, and they too wanted to make the Great American Movie. But a year later, with Jaws, Spielberg changed the course of modern Hollywood history. Jaws was a hit of vast proportions, inspiring executives to go for the home run instead of the base hit. And it came out in the summer, a season the major studios...