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When Spielberg formed DreamWorks with Geffen and former Disney movie czar Jeffrey Katzenberg, he realized both his value to MCA (he had kept Universal profitable with such hits as E.T., Back to the Future and Jurassic Park) and his personal debt to Sheinberg, whom he calls a mentor. So DreamWorks said some of its products could be distributed by MCA-in a deal that could be worth $1 billion over the next decade-if Matsushita would keep Sheinberg and chairman Lew Wasserman aboard. The Japanese never responded to the offer...
Your article focused on the true spirit of what men of resources, like David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg, are attempting to do and can do [BUSINESS, March 27]. They have a vision that is directed by the energy of hoping and the solace of dreams. They are determined to please those who must write the checks, but intend to stay in control of the helm...
...want to. The dream is more alluring: surely somewhere there has to be someone who knows something. If not, why aren't we in cellular phones like all the other sensible people? This year the popular betting is that there are three such someones, that their names are Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen, and that what passes for a millennium--or, anyway, a damned good special-effects version of it--may be at hand...
...didn't. Bet you something else too: that the Messrs. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen are just as surprised as you are. When it comes to the movies, we are all hostages to the conventional wisdom of the moment--the smart and the smarter, the dumb and the dumber...
...year ago, acting on that wisdom, Katzenberg was getting ready to release The Lion King, and even then, before the $315 million rolled in (not to mention the record $450 million in home-video sales it has racked up in the past two weeks), it didn't look like a high-stakes gamble; Disney animation has been a sure thing ever since Beauty and the Beast. At the same time, Spielberg was preparing to send forth The Flintstones (domestic gross: $135 million), and that was a pretty sure thing too. Lesser men than he had observed that the boomer market...