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...five major studios this year will each release only eleven to 17 films, about half he number each would have produced a decade ago. Money is not the problem-film budgets have doubled since 1973. George Lucas' Star Wars and soon-to-be released extravaganzas by Francis Coppola and Steven Spielberg have a combined price tag of more than $63 million. Unfortunately, the studios' reliance on blockbuster epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press has become superfluous, even insipid. Rock groups like Eagles, who once celebrated the ambience...
George Lucas represents a new force in Hollywood-moviemakers who received their training in the film schools, not the studios. With Francis Ford Coppola, 38, as elder statesman heading a core group of four directors, the new artisans form a tightly knit tribe, remarkably-Tree of fraternal competition. Together, they have almost taken over the industry. Coppola scored with The Godfather, Martin Scorsese, 34, with Taxi Driver, and Steven Spielberg, 30, with Jaws, the top-grossing film of all time. John Milius, 33, directed The Wind and the Lion and has written several scripts; Producer Gary Kurtz, 36, produced both...
Film is their single frame of reference, the only thing they seem to think or dream about. For them history began about 1900, when the first murky images started flickering on whitewashed walls. Describing Lucas' happy marriage, Coppola can only call it "sort of romantic, like kids picking oranges in an old Jane Powell movie." There are notable similarities among the group. "They all seem to have repressed childhoods of one form or another," says a friend. "Marty Scorsese is asthmatic, Francis Coppola had polio when he was a child, and Steve Spielberg is slight of build, like George...
...U.S.C. he met his wife Marcia, who has become a top film editor. In addition to Star Wars, she has cut Scorsese's Taxi Driver and his upcoming New York, New York. About that time, Lucas also met Coppola, who has become a soul mate. Says Lucas: "We are opposites. If Francis says black, I say white. He is impulsive, always on the edge of trouble. I am inherently conservative. We complement each other." When he was only 23, Lucas received backing for THX-1138, an expansion of a science fiction short he had started at U.S.C. Though...
...enjoy. Both may have their way. Star Wars may well make Lucas a rich man, able to work on two levels. The movie may help the tribe as well. Instead of showing their friendship by pricking fingers and mixing blood like so many Tom Sawyers, the Big Four directors-Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg and Lucas-have traded scripts and sometimes even percentage points of the profits from their new films. They are not yet Metro, Goldwyn...