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Disney has deposed Spielberg and Geffen, hoping to force them to take the witness stand, perhaps to discuss DreamWorks and Katzenberg's performance, including a purported loss of more than $20 million on the studio's maiden picture, The Peacemaker...
Eisner had other plans. One August morning, he handed Katzenberg a press release that was about to be distributed. It mentioned, in passing, that Katzenberg would be leaving the company. Katzenberg went on to launch DreamWorks in partnership with Steven Spielberg and music mogul David Geffen. Katzenberg was the only one who had to mortgage himself to put up the $33 million seed money. In these circumstances, the lawsuit--for which his attorneys had logged 9,000 expensive hours as of September--has proved to be an especially big pain in the wallet...
...appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, took in $47 million at the North American box office, equal to the grosses of both the previous Disney effort, The Black Cauldron, and its follower, The Great Mouse Detective...
Since 1990, Warner Bros. and Spielberg's Amblin have collaborated on the small-screen Tiny Toon Adventures. Ah, TV, where the real money is, and where Paramount went for its 1996 hit, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, which grossed (heh heh, he said "grossed") a robust $63 million. (Next up for Paramount: a Rugrats feature.) "A movie can't compare financially with a successful series like The Simpsons on TV," says Fox's Mechanic. Says Peter Chernin, president of Fox's parent News Corp.: "We should have done a Simpsons movie five years ago." Simpsons creator Matt Groening...
...SIZEMORE, getting the part of Sarge in Saving Private Ryan was a big break. He got to act opposite TOM HANKS and be directed by Steven Spielberg. But first he had to get through boot camp. "They took us to the forest somewhere in England," says Sizemore. "All we had was World War II blankets and rations. It was so hard." All the actors got up at 4:30 a.m., and neither he nor Hanks (who plays a captain) got star treatment during the exercises. "Tom and I had to run in the front," says Sizemore. "I threw...