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...than a Mel Gibson summer movie? Last week's announcement that publication of Disney chairman MICHAEL EISNER's autobiography is being postponed "indefinitely" by Random House. The book's planned October release just happens to be a month before the trial date set for former Disney movie chief JEFFREY KATZENBERG's lawsuit against Disney. Katzenberg's attorney won a discovery motion to get all transcripts, notes and computer disks used for Eisner's book that pertain to his client, but so far those materials have not turned up. A Disney spokesperson denies any link between the delay and the suit...
Bruckheimer's next megalomovies are Armageddon, a sci-fantasy with Bruce Willis, and Enemy of the State, with Will Smith enmeshed in a top-level conspiracy. "Jerry's not the least bit fulfilled yet," says DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, who helped bring S. and B. to Disney. "He feels energized and excited." So it's Mr. B. for Big now. Like Cruise in Top Gun, Bruckheimer is flying solo and flying high...
...often too preoccupied to be a perfect dad. "On the Jurassic Park shoot my family was with me," he says, "but I'm not quite sure I was with them." He would now be a full-time father to the seven little Capshaw-Spielbergs. Kate even got Katzenberg to promise that Spielberg would work only until 5:30. And did Katzenberg have to sign a binding document? "Let me ask you this," he counters. "Is the Bible a binding document...
...with a shudder the morning at DreamWorks when he glanced at his daily log and saw that "every meeting I had scheduled had nothing to do with directing movies. That's when I realized that what I do best is what my partners would want me to do: direct." Katzenberg agrees. "The best thing Steven can do for us is to stay on a movie set," he says. Spielberg's deal with DreamWorks is that he will direct one film "at home" for every two he makes outside. Amistad is a DreamWorks venture; The Lost World is for Universal...
...making them for less 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...