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...auto mechanic and a former car distributor himself, James Robinson is a hands-on guy. So it was natural for him, in his new role as Hollywood's hottest independent producer, to do some fine-tuning on his $57 million movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when he felt that the editing left something to be desired. "I went in ((to the editing room)) with the smallest pocketknife," he explains figuratively. "The Sheriff of Nottingham's death scene was so prolonged it was almost comedic. I don't think you need to see a knife twisting 16 times...
Until recently, however, neither director had much visibility outside film- festival circles. Burnett, who supported his family and his film projects with foundation grants and odd jobs, couldn't even find a commercial distributor for his work. Now both are beginning to shake off the hothouse stigma. Lane, 37, is making his big-budget debut in August with True Identity, a $16 million comedy about a black man forced to pass for white in order to evade Mafia hit men. Although he had to ask for changes that would make the movie less offensive to blacks, Lane admits...
...this year's budget behemoth, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a $14 million jet as his salary, but even if he had worked for free, the movie would have cost more than $80 million, or about five times what the original Terminator brought its distributor. The early word is that the new picture is worth every penny, but movie execs dare to hope that T2 is the last of the spendthrift macho movies...
After emerging from the meeting, Robbins said that Cohen had acted fast to discontinue sales of the News. "He picked up the phone while we were in the office and called his distributor. He said `We're not handling the News anymore,'" Robbins said...
...mock Montrachet is probably reaching retailers through "gray-market" sales that bypass the U.S. distribution system, according to Wilson Daniels Ltd., DRC's American distributor, which denies any connection to the fakes. The counterfeiters produced a remarkable copy of a legitimate DRC bottle, perhaps by using a desktop computer. But a sharp-eyed Japanese consumer noticed that the vineyard designations on his bottles of Montrachet, vouching for the wine's authenticity, actually listed the name of a DRC red wine, and alerted Wilson Daniels. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is investigating...