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Timing matters. Steven Spielberg's 1997 slave-revolt tale got shut out amid plagiarism charges. The suit was dropped, but not in time for ANTHONY HOPKINS or DJIMON HOUNSOU to take home a statue...
When an arty director has an international hit, it's usually because audiences have been allowed to mistake it for something conventional. Viewers can see Koreeda's rigorously unsentimental film as a Spielberg lost-kids plot rendered in Japanese and in slow motion. And they can feast on the child actors, all of them unaffected and adorable. Yagira, with the smooth androgyny of an anime hero, is a real eye magnet; the camera, puppylike, practically licks his face. Yet this precocious thespian is a real kid. When he was finally handed his Best Actor trophy, he asked, "Can I take...
Abrams, 38, credits his taste for serious popcorn, in part, to school days spent sick at home watching The Twilight Zone. "That show was what I aspired to do," says Abrams, who, Spielberg-style, started making his own Super-8 movies at age 8. "It was an allegory--instead of telling stories about communists, it told stories about aliens. I didn't understand a lot of what was going on, but I felt the gravity...
Irish director Terry George (Some Mother's Son) may not have Steven Spielberg's skills, but he is a serious and persistent man. This comparatively low-budget film (roughly $16 million) was not an easy sell to the studios. In the end, the financing deal involved 12 signatories on three continents and 93 documents--and this was before a payroll car heading for the South African location was hijacked...
...Since Titanic's release, DiCaprio has starred in four films. The first, The Beach, was a mess. The others--Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can and now The Aviator, a Howard Hughes biography out nationwide Dec. 25--are big-budget period pieces directed by either Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese, in which DiCaprio plays a historically inspired, convention-bucking protagonist. These are serious gigs--De Niro-when-he-was-young-and-good gigs. DiCaprio has done three of them in four years--and nothing else. Scorsese, who was recruited by DiCaprio to direct The Aviator, believes that...