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...backdrops, which would lend a "magical" air and keep the budget at a bearable $30 million. The final decision was radical: to shoot the picture in seven primary and secondary colors that would define the characters and story while adding a unique visual humor. "Love it or hate it," Disney movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg kept saying, "Dick Tracy will look unlike any movie you've ever seen...
...Walt Disney Co. ((is)) soliciting paid product placements in a new film, "Mr. Destiny." Companies such as Campbell Soup Co., Nabisco Brands and Kraft General Foods Group are believed to have been contacted . . . The cost structure, as outlined in letters to marketers, is $20,000 for a visual, $40,000 for a brand name mention with the visual and $60,000 for an actor to use the product...
...Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through at Self -- by making a clumsy unannounced visit to her Connecticut home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed him as having shown insufficient regard...
That spare-no-expense approach can apply to every facet of moviemaking. Disney has gone about $5 million over budget on Dick Tracy, in part because the studio decided, five months after the film had been shot, to upgrade the 57 matte-painting backdrops that were used to help create a comic-book appearance. The improved matte work includes twinkling lights and moving boats and cars. Paramount had to frantically accelerate the editing of Days of Thunder to get the film ready for its summer release. The speedup meant that crews had to work around the clock, piling up mountains...
...with the sound of moguls offering congratulations or condolences based on industry polls of Friday-night receipts. With so much money at stake, this summer's calls could be highly emotional. "There are a number of films that can do $100 million or more," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney Studios. "But you can't look for another Batman; that's a fool's mission. There will be triples and home runs, but probably no grand slams...