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Concerned parents said the ability to find affordable child care is of paramount importance...
...some may be true. But he was never like that with me." Noyce took the actor's suggestions about Simon's elaborate disguises (they give the film a lift and an edge) and pumping up the romance. "The truth is that we made a different film from the one Paramount financed," Kilmer says, "and they went along with it." They also paid for a new ending, shot in January, after preview groups nixed a death scene for Shue's character...
...convocation of moguls had gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that pink palace on Sunset Boulevard, to divvy up Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, in the works for the summer of 1998. Paramount had the script; DreamWorks had the dream director, Steven Spielberg. That the two studios would agree to share the picture is not that unusual. But which one would get to distribute it in the U.S., and which would get the rest of the world? Both sides wanted the domestic release, which means getting the glory if the picture...
...this weighty issue? They flipped a coin. Not without some maneuvering, of course. Team DreamWorks, which consists of Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Spielberg, was determined that Spielberg should follow a premonition and call tails. "I believe in Steven's premonitions," Katzenberg explains. But Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, Paramount's parent company, and a man who would negotiate a sunrise, insisted that Spielberg toss his own quarter while he, Redstone, made the call. The DreamWorkers gave in. Redstone, to their relief, called heads. Tails...
DreamWorks, which has yet to release its first film, wants to get Spielberg-directed projects on track. (He did Lost World, this summer's Jurassic Park sequel, for Universal. Amistad, his first for DreamWorks, will open at Christmas.) Katzenberg says there are no losers, since Paramount gets control over domestic distribution of the comet movie Deep Impact, another joint venture to be produced--but not directed--by Spielberg. Meanwhile, the DreamWorkers should work on developing Spielberg's psychic abilities. Maybe they could have skipped all that trouble over the sitcom Ink and held off the splashy announcement about their dream...