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...updating of the old Japanese monster series, by the Independence Day team, has been teased so cannily ("Size Does Matter") that now industry folk have only one debate: Which film will come in second? Analyst Alan Kassan of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell picks Saving Private Ryan. "A great script, Steven Spielberg directing, Tom Hanks starring--I'd take points in that...
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (July 24). Tom Hanks, Hollywood's most improbably reliable box-office lure, hasn't starred in a film since 1995, so it's nice that his friend Steven Spielberg gave him this chance for a comeback, in a World War II G.I. drama with Matt Damon. The potential gross here is the same as for an old Hanks film...
Shutt and Jones are popular with directors like Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. But they may have resisted, fatally, a cost-cutting re-engineering scheme. And Bronfman thought they were too quick to write off movies that did not have hit potential...
From the start, it was apparent that DreamWorks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen had made an ambitious--and risky--choice when they decided that their first animated feature, The Prince of Egypt, would be a retelling of the story of Moses. "You can't deal with this like some trivial fairy tale," Geffen admonished Katzenberg, who was chairman of the Disney studio during the making of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Lion King. Prince of Egypt, which will open Dec. 18, has to entertain, but it must also have a grandeur befitting its subject matter...
...black successes and authority exist, their achievements are still limited by the institutions of white America. The fact that there are no black NFL team owners demonstrates these limits as well. In cinema, Debbie Allan had to push for ten years until she could get the backing of Steven Spielberg to produce Amistad. Moreover, Puffy's success has depended on the suburban white teenagers who have become the biggest consumers of hip-hop and Puffy's target market...