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...script wasn't supposed to end this way. On Oscar night the DreamWorks team of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg was hoping--probably expecting--to hear Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan, named Best Picture. Certainly, the glittering assemblage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was shocked. When Shakespeare in Love was announced, there was an audible gasp...
...Jeffrey Katzenberg's motives for creating the movie The Prince of Egypt must be judged over time [COVER, Dec. 14]. Was it Katzenberg or others at Disney who had the Midas touch for creating successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial...
...quickly became clear that certain elements typical of Disney-style animated films would be out of place. A talking camel was cut. Comics Steve Martin and Martin Short, cast as charlatan priests, were directed to turn in subdued performances. Lucrative tie-ins were another sensitive issue. Katzenberg says, semiseriously, "We came up with the Red Sea boogie board. We had the 40-years-in-the-desert water bottle. We had the parting-of-the-Red-Sea shower curtain." But ultimately, both DreamWorks and its partner Burger King concluded that they would be doing themselves "a terrible disservice" if they pushed...
...have the support of a goodly portion of religious communities, from liberal Christians to conservatives Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to Rabbi Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, and Muslim leader Maher Hathout. "Hollywood got this one right," Falwell says. Evangelist Robert Schuller has even laid hands on Katzenberg and blessed him. The executive says he will gladly accept all the help he can get. If family audiences pause from their enjoyment of Paramount's Rugrats or Disney's A Bug's Life to commune with his version of one of the greatest stories ever told, then Katzenberg's prayers...
After four years of leading his people through the desert--southern California can get as dry as the Sinai--Jeffrey Katzenberg has delivered his tablets of celluloid. Percolating with biblical scholarship and Hollywood showmanship, burdened with more ambitions and pricey hopes than any movie since Titanic, The Prince of Egypt means to tell the most imposing old fable using the most sophisticated forms of animation. But old traditions die hard--as they should, when they are as supple as the Disney model. Led by directors Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, the DreamWorks team uses a more sumptuous version...