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After seeing a rough cut of the film and reading the script, we can say that Clones seems poised to get the series back on track--and provide an exhilarating two hours of serious fun. It should easily ace the last movie in chills (when two icky centipedal creatures called "kouhuns" crawl into the sleeping Padme's bed) and thrills (when Anakin and Obi-Wan drag-race the changeling Zam Wessel across Coruscant's wonderfully varied urban nightscape...
Granted, the man had his hands full. "Here I find myself having to do a lot of design work on Empire and get the script done while I'm also starting a bunch of companies--ILM, Skywalker Sound and Lucasfilm. I was starting a video-game company. I was developing digital film editing. At the same time I was starting Pixar"--yes, he was the original owner of that pioneer computer-animation studio, then sold it to Steve Jobs in 1985--"and launching digital animation and digital filmmaking. I was working on Raiders of the Lost Ark," which he executive...
...film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the life story of Gong Show creator Chuck Barris, is one of three Kaufman-penned movies due out this year. Another, Adaptation, is the result of Kaufman's failed attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's novel The Orchid Thief into a movie script. Nicolas Cage plays Kaufman. This is the definition of power: stars want to play you in movies about your failures...
...doesn't go to parties or take meetings. "I do a lot of walking," says Kaufman, politely deflecting inquiries. "I walk and write. I walk and think, and then I stop and take out my pad and write something." And then he doesn't care if you buy his script or not, but it's going to be made the way he wants it made. He's shy, but he's not a pushover...
...Many relevant facts suggest otherwise. Wouldn't you consider Harvey to be "back on track" after acquiring the Sundance hit and Best Picture Oscar nominee In the Bedroom for $1.5 million and seeing it gross more than $35 million domestically? And what about acquiring the French sensation Amelie at script stage for $1 million and watching it gross $31 million in the U.S.? Should Harvey really "admit defeat" after Miramax received 15 Academy Award nominations, the most of any studio? And isn't the impressive upcoming Miramax slate, which includes Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and George Clooney's Confessions...