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...impresario who produced Mean Girls and more than half a dozen other films under Lansing's watch. Her 2005 slate is highly diverse, ranging from a music film with gangsta rapper 50 Cent to a new version of War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg...
...director whose work set the tone for late 20th century pop culture at its most cheerfully leering; in Los Angeles. Always a picture taker and picture maker, he was an Army cameraman who shot World War II footage; the photographer of several early Playboy centerfolds; and a soft-core Spielberg whose first feature, the nudie comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas, grossed $1 million on a $24,000 budget. In the '60s he shifted to melodramas (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), to which he later added color and an insane pace, creating the nutty masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with...
...ghosts that possess Mitchell--James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Amis--are sturdy ones, and this master of voices knows science and generic utopian Asia, Steven Spielberg and British misanthropy. His language crackles with texture and bite: "Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman" and "[the] sequined gaggle of mantled goslings streamed past me." Mitchell, with typical impenitence, even invents a whole new dialect ("A yarnin' is more delish with broke-de-mouth grinds") for a race in the future. The propulsive zing of his sentences and the unexpected U-turn of his narrative give added fuel...
Rarely, a Christian message is implicated in a Hollywood film. Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which an ordinary guy sees the light and travels far to make contact with extraterrestrials, was conceived by its original screenwriter, Paul Schrader, as Saul's transforming journey to become the Apostle Paul. The Matrix (the first one, not the sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited...
...opened a window into troubles at the high-flying studio, launched in a blaze of publicity in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. The IPO filing reveals that DreamWorks' animation division lost more than $350 million over the past five years. It also warns of a litany of potential pitfalls, from the studio's meager slate of big-budget films to its undersized library of movies from which to generate cash during lean years...