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...financial settlement has not been made known, but it is probably about $23 million. (Diana reportedly asked for $75 million, a sum not unheard of. Actress Amy Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case...
...Angeles and Las Vegas they flock to Country Star for barbecued twang and to Dive!--the submarine creation of Dreamworks' filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg--for simulated undersea adventures. Dive! has also surfaced on the Barcelona waterfront. The Harley Davidson Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...
...psychic powers. The season has already been a sweltering one for blockbusters: Twister has earned more than $215 million at the U.S. box office, Mission Impossible more than $160 million. But ID4, with heroic humankind battling an army of soulless space lizards, may well be the biggest. Says Steven Spielberg, who evoked the wonder of interplanetary communication in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: "I could never make an evil, aggressive alien movie, but I would sure pay to see one. I'll pay to see this one. Based on the way I think people...
...seeing something new--and be blown away. During the cold war, even the cheesiest sci-fi filmmaker, like the legendarily dyscompetent Ed Wood, had some moral admonition in mind ("He tampered in God's domain"). Now it's size that counts; sense and scruples don't. As Spielberg says, "If the '70s and '80s were the era of the What if? movie, then the '90s are the era of the What the heck! movie. We say, 'Hey, this is so beyond our logical grasp, so out of this world, that we're just going along for the ride...
Emmerich made his early films in Germany--and in English, for the world market. In 1989, after a clever Spielberg-rip-off kids' fantasy (Making Contact) and a comedy about moviemaking (Ghost Chase), he directed Moon 44, an outer-space Dirty Dozen with a story line that would recur in ID4: for a desperate space battle, a former combat pilot must assemble a ragtag band of flyers, including a loser with heroically suicidal tendencies. Devlin played the computer-nerdy male ingenue; after Moon 44, he and the director became filmmaking partners...