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...studio founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen--opens its first cartoon feature, Antz. The computer-animated story of life in an ant colony, Antz features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone and Dan Aykroyd. In November Pixar, the creator of Toy Story, and Disney, the studio where Katzenberg was chairman for 10 years, plan to release A Bug's Life, which also happens to be the computer-animated story of life in an ant colony. It features the voices of NewsRadio's Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Kevin Spacey and Denis Leary...
...said to be "furious" when he found out that DreamWorks was working on a movie about ants. It is an open secret that in background sessions with reporters at numerous publications, he has been complaining that Katzenberg swiped the idea for Antz on his way out the door from Disney in 1994 or sometime thereafter. Katzenberg's camp angrily denies that he ever heard of the Bugs project while at Disney and says that in fact the idea for Antz was pitched to Katzenberg by a DreamWorks executive named Nina Jacobson, who subsequently, as it happens, went to work...
...debut in November with The Prince of Egypt--the story of Moses, a project very dear to Katzenberg's heart. Katzenberg is hoping his Bible epic will be enough of a critical and commercial success to prove he actually did play a crucial role in the making of such Disney animated hits as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King--all released while he ran the Disney roost...
ELABORATE LIVES: THE LEGEND OF AIDA Another elaborate gamble is Disney's remake of the opera, with music by Elton John, opening Oct. 7 in Atlanta...
...about computers, you could take the time and trouble to design first-rate software that really turned them on. Or you could make computer mice shaped like cartoon characters. That's what Delta Millennium has done. Their mice are available in Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Little Mermaid and other Disney motifs for $40 each...