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...real," or is it that artful contradiction, Disney reality? For this is Disney's Animal Kingdom, the spectacular, instructive, $800 million new species of theme park that will open next week, surrounded by the usual ballyhoo and, for Disney, the usual naysayers and pickets (see box). "We're in the magic business," says chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, "and this park is all about magic and illusion...
...David Geffen had made an ambitious--and risky--choice when they decided that their first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt, would be a retelling of the story of Moses. "You can't deal with this like some trivial fairy tale," Geffen admonished Katzenberg, who was chairman of the Disney studio during the making of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King. Prince of Egypt, which will open Dec. 18, has to entertain, but it must also have a grandeur befitting its subject matter...
...Katzenberg, The Prince of Egypt represents a rather personal drama. This is his first effort in animation since he was ejected from the Disney fold in 1994 and his first chance to show that Disney's resurgence was at least in part due to him. (Some DreamWorkers have dubbed the new movie Zion King.) And since DreamWorks hasn't produced its first big hit after 3 1/2 years in business, some Hollywood observers believe that the company's very future hangs in the balance. "Emotionally, we have a lot invested," Katzenberg admits. Financials, however, he insists, are "not an issue...
...Disney is keenly aware of the stakes. The company has high hopes for its own computer-animated release this November: A Bug's Life, created by Steve Jobs' Pixar, the folks who brought the world Toy Story in 1995. When DreamWorks moved the premiere of Prince of Egypt to December to keep it away from A Bug's Life, Disney announced it was moving Mighty Joe Young--a picture starring Bill Paxton and an ape--from this summer to Prince's new date. DreamWorks has its own computer-created insect feature, Antz, coming...
ENTERTAINMENT Play Disney's The Lion King Song My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic) Touring Riverdance...