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...DreamWorkers could break up."These people have professionally married each other, and I wish them the best,'' says Sheinberg. "I share the view of the world that they'll have great children. I also know that the reality is that 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce. So, we'll all wait and see." This happens all the time in show business--when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed in 1924, Samuel Goldwyn had already been forced out of the company. At DreamWorks, Katzenberg is a man with a mission; the other...
...publicity rankles the people at Universal and MCA, its corporate parent. MCA boss Sidney J. Sheinberg, who is concerned by a tone in the press he calls "Hard Copy journalism," claims that the Journal story is "unfair, irresponsible and in a great number of places inaccurate." The film's producer, Charles Gordon, who has spent months undersea and under siege, says the no-toilet story is "insane. We had bathrooms on boats out on the water, two feet away from the trimaran where the scenes were shot. When I read stuff like this, it drives me crazy...
Twenty years ago, another Universal movie with a watery setting went 100% over budget and stoked pessimistic press reports. How, folks wondered, could Jaws ever make money? The pain and payoff of Jaws surely prompted Sheinberg, who had supervised it, to meet with Waterworld's producers long before the shooting began and ask, "My God, do you guys know what you're getting into?" Gordon's reply: "We think we have an idea of what we're getting into. And we're sure it'll be worse than what we think...
Last spring Universal chief Tom Pollock declared, "Waterworld will not cost any more than $65 million." That number may have a sacred resonance at Universal, since it was the production cost for the studio's top hit of the '90s, Jurassic Park. And here Sheinberg and Pollock may slip into melancholia: virtually all Universal's megamovies of the past 20 years-including Jaws and Hollywood's all-time champ, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial-were directed or produced by Steven Spielberg, who last fall decided to form an independent multimedia company with fellow Poo-Bahs Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
Universal must now find other filmmakers who can bring in the big-grossing films-and at a price that won't provoke grimaces from MCA's Japanese owner, Matsushita, which Sheinberg has accused of trying to stunt his company's growth. Asked if the Matsushita board had expressed vexation over the Waterworld embarrassments, he replies, "None. I can blame them for a lot of things, but I can't blame them for that...