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...upcoming plans for "A Midwife's Tale," Kahn-Leavitt is excited about its air date on PBS next year and about plans for a CD-ROM and web site. The next step, she says, is to find a theatrical distributor to place the film in art houses throughout the country...
...guys in question, Tom Sammon and Brad Scurlock, wanted to release an early iteration of their deep-interview software on CD-ROM and invited Diller to invest 5% or 10% of the necessary capital. Diller tested the product and counteroffered: he'd put in 100% if they would return to the garage until he deemed their product ready for prime time...
...even more farsighted than the resulting film. Today he is as much a businessman as he is a filmmaker: his shrewd skill in reinvesting his profits (among other things, he owns Industrial Light & Magic, the premier special-effects house, and LucasArts, one of the nation's top four cd-rom makers) has enabled him to become sole owner of what is essentially his own ministudio. "I think what drives him as a businessman is control," says McCallum. "Control over his work. That's primary...
...diversified empire. In 1994 the firm launched a multimedia design group to build gee-whiz tools for game designers and film producers. Last week Autodesk (800-215-9742) released its first consumer offering, Picture This Home! Kitchen, which packs a Ferrari-class graphics engine into a $50 CD-ROM. Remarkably streamlined (especially considering that it was built by the team behind AutoCAD, a program that takes years to master), the software lets users dream-design a kitchen by clicking through thousands of cabinets, wallpapers and appliances and then morphing the results onto photo-realistic 3-D settings. (A special accounting...
...comes with a steamy sales pitch. Imagine a 5-in. CD that holds 20 times more data than a CD-ROM and offers the richest sound you've ever heard and the lushest images you've ever seen. Throw in digital TV, the standards for which were approved by the feds last month, and the result just might be the culmination of the consumer electronics industry's long search for a grand unified theory of home entertainment: one hardy, gleaming box that plays music better than your stereo, video better than your vcr, and software better than your...