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Mather: Boasts "size does matter" on the front and "bigger is better" on the back, along with a graphic of the Mather Tower. Wasn't this ad campaign lifted from last spring's "Godzilla"? Guess when you're an enormous eyesore, you go with your strengths...
...another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood has had to resort lately to wayward asteroids, space invaders and Godzilla as a way to provide that strangely agreeable image, civilization getting wrecked. "Yeah," we tell ourselves, as the space rock/laser beam/Japanese reptile whacks another ugly office building. "That should only happen to everything...
...GODZILLA Size matters, but so do plot, character development, suspense, directing...
...Samaha, to finance the production. Distribution is planned via Franchise's ties to fellow indie Morgan Creek, whose movies are handled by Warner Bros. Krane adds that ROGER CHRISTIAN, a filmmaking protege of GEORGE LUCAS', is directing the summer '99 shoot, and Patrick Tatopoulos, who designed creature effects for Godzilla and Independence Day, will create the movie's aliens. Travolta, a Scientology adherent, will produce and star as a space villain named Terl. Hollywood insiders had gossiped that major studios shied away from the project because of the connection to Hubbard, but Krane insists the production is completely unrelated...
...million pulled in so far by Life is Beautiful, Hollywood will not have the impetus to change its ways. However, pushing for partial reform is not a pipe dream. Viewer revolt against megablockbusters has already begun in small measure. Predicted cash cows such as Deep Impact and Godzilla brought in less than expected at the box office. If the failure of these films starts a trend, then studios may begin to re-emphasize plot lines more over explosions. Though Hollywood may never become a mecca for high art, we can hope to receive a little more thematic bang...