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STANLEY KUBRICK died in March, days after finishing his controversial film Eyes Wide Shut. But that may not be the last moviegoers see of his work. Warner Bros. owns the rights to AI, a science-fiction flick Kubrick wanted to do about artificial intelligence. Warner co-chief TERRY SEMEL says there is a script and even storyboards completed for the movie. Normally, Kubrick never did storyboards--he preferred to let movies develop over a long period--but he had to do them for AI, which mixes computer-generated figures with human actors. As with all things Kubrickian, the story line...
That something is Cruise and Kidman. Kubrick was usually star shy, preferring ensemble casts of solid players to huge names. But when Terry Semel, who runs Warner Bros. in tandem with Robert Daly, gave the project its green light, he said, "What I would really love you to consider is a movie star in the lead role; you haven't done that since Jack Nicholson [in The Shining]." Kubrick was concerned that a movie star wouldn't share his tireless work ethic. Nevertheless, the Cruises were approached...
...unclear. For his part, Weinstein says that despite his reputation as a control freak (filmmakers have nicknamed him Harvey Scissorhands), the new magazine won't have any more trouble from him than TIME and (Time Inc.-owned) ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY get from their corporate cousin, Warner Bros. co-chairman Terry Semel. When a reporter notes that those magazines don't report to Semel--and weren't expressly conceived to funnel ideas to Warner Bros.--Brown interjects that the proof of integrity will ultimately lie, as it should, with the magazine itself. "There is a kind of whiff of corruption that comes...
...from second to fourth in market share and, thanks to other underachievers like Mad City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, averaged the lowest gross per film of the six major studios. The trade and business press have slammed longtime co-chairmen BOB DALY and TERRY SEMEL for relying too much on old formulas and older stars. The pair have been stretched thin since they added responsibility for Time Warner's music division in 1995, yet they continue to micromanage studio operations. Still, thanks to strong TV and overseas operations, Warner's entertainment division is expected...
...that's not coasting." The studio didn't blink when Warner and Disney warned that Jerry Maguire would get steamrollered if it opened at Christmas, in competition with their respective offerings, Mars Attacks and The Preacher's Wife. According to Sony executives, Warner chiefs Bob Daly and Terry Semel even tried to enlist Tom Cruise to delay Jerry Maguire's Dec. 13 opening. (Daly says he knows nothing about such an effort...