Word: reiner
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directed by Carl Reiner...
What do you get when you blend the female psycho-killers of "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct" with unabashed, potentially idiotic slapstick? Carl Reiner's "Fatal Instinct," that's what. True to its synthetic title, the movie satirizes various psycho-thrillers of recent years, including "Cape Fear," "Body Heat," and "Sleeping with the Enemy...
...Reiner's favorite comic techniques is to manipulate music and sound to confound the auditory expectations audiences have been virtually conditioned to experience in suspense movies...
...scrutiny. With six-year-old Castle Rock, Turner is getting no library of movies; the company controls the TV rights to none of its films. Three of Castle Rock's five hits -- When Harry Met Sally, , Misery and A Few Good Men -- were directed by company co-founder Rob Reiner, which means that for $160 million or so Turner is mainly getting the brainpower of Reiner -- yet only, perhaps, until he and partner Alan Horn have a falling-out with their new boss and walk away...
...latest deal, he was able to offer Coke the services of top filmmakers as collaborators on its ads. Film directors Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men) and Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon), for example, were among those producing the new Coke commercials. "What we do every day," explains Ovitz, "is listen to ideas, encourage them, nurture them. This is no different. Instead of creating a story that is TV or feature-film length, we shifted to stories that are 30 seconds or 60 seconds long." As for what Coca- Cola paid CAA for its work...