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...Pictures' adventure movie has been assiduously chronicled: how the Waterworld shoot in Hawaii was threatened by crew injuries and tsunami warnings; how a huge set sank toward the end of shooting; how the budget ballooned from $100 million to what now may be twice that; how the star, Kevin Costner, and the director, Kevin Reynolds, fought over various aspects of the film until Reynolds stormed out during the editing. Things can go wrong in movies; it's part of the gamble. On Waterworld, everything went wrong...
...Costner and the editing team rushed frantically to get the movie into theaters for its opening this Friday. The studio spent about $12 million in the past six weeks on postproduction, including 11th-hour reshoots. Universal publicists insisted on calling these scenes "snippets," but by then defensiveness was rampant. At the film's press junket, each journalist was subject to two security checks before being allowed to enter the screening room. While the film played, edgy Universal brass stood along the walls of the theater to monitor the crowd's reactions. "Please," a studio publicist jokingly begged a reporter before...
...Smokers are looking for Enola (Tina Majorino), a 10-year-old with a map tattoo that may point the way to dry land. With her guardian Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the girl hitches a ride on the trimaran of an outsider--part man, part fish--known as the Mariner (Costner). If anyone in this scurvy world can help them, he can. Hey, he can do anything. As we see in the opening scene, he knows how to transform his urine into drinking water...
...trying to explain budget overruns on Waterworld to Hollywood reporters weren't enough, Kevin Costner has found himself on the defensive with a group of people who once called him a friend. The director and star of 1990's Dances with Wolves, which treated Native American culture so respectfully, is suddenly persona non grata among Sioux activists in South Dakota. The rift is over Costner's efforts to acquire 630 acres of federal property in the Black Hills--land the Sioux consider sacred and claim was illegally seized in 1877 by the U.S. government...
KEVIN REYNOLDS Costner's Waterworld helmer abandons ship -- the buzz says just in time...