Word: execs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than today's big spenders. With all its effects, The Lost World cost about $75 million, peanuts compared with this summer's Speed 2: Cruise Control, heading for $140 million, and The Titanic, at about $200 million. During an Amistad pre-production conference, Spielberg flummoxed Katzenberg and DreamWorks film exec Walter Parkes by demanding that the already relatively frugal $56 million budget be cut an additional $20 million. "I saw The English Patient," he said. "I know we can do this for less." Spielberg enjoys talking about his work. "I'm deciding whether to use my castle or my second...
...Taylor (keyboards) and 16-year-old Isaac (guitar). You'd be hard-pressed to find more appealing youngsters. Raised largely in Tulsa, Okla., they are endearingly innocent and spontaneously rambunctious. Their mother schools the three (and three younger siblings) at home, and their father works as a financial exec for an oil-drilling company. The family traveled a lot, and the brothers passed the time listening to their parents' vintage records--"Johnny B. Goode, Splish Splash [and] Good Golly, Miss Molly," remembers Isaac. They began singing at local events, eventually sent tapes to record companies, and landed a deal...
...even Walt. The Lion King earned $300 million at the domestic box office, more abroad, and zillions more in video. This summer's Disney feature, Hercules, looms huge: it might make Simba roar with envy; it will surely spur the rebels at DreamWorks, under the command of former Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg, to draw bigger and faster on their animation slate. On TV, The Simpsons, now in its eighth superb season, begot Ren and Beavis, Duckman and King of the Hill. Disney and Warner stores sell upmarket T shirts and gewgaws based on new and classic cartoons...
...recently finished the HBO film In the Gloaming, his directorial debut, has been offered the role of the wheelchair-bound nosy neighbor in a remake of the 1954 thriller Rear Window. "It's going to be a real showcase of what people in [Reeve's] condition can do," says exec producer Robert Gaulin. "Chris is extremely excited about it." Reeve's publicist says the actor is merely considering...
...volatile business, the Weinsteins have long been king of the indies. "They're artists, entrepreneurs and passionate maniacs," says DreamWorks exec Jeffrey Katzenberg. "They have extraordinary gut meters for what's good, they're unbelievable salesmen, and they're equally painful to have to deal with. Together they are the Irving Thalberg of our time...