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...Emperor of this teeming, hugely profitable world can hear the occasional renegade whisper below his palace balcony. "Critics say the problem with George and Steven [Spielberg] is that they've created these well-made megamovies that are basically B movies," Lucas observes. "Jaws, they say, was just a big horror movie. Star Wars is just a big sci-fi film. That our films are not like The Exorcist, The Godfather and the great films of the '70s. Well, they were B movies too. And Gone With the Wind was just a soap opera." Lucas thinks of himself as a Marin...
George Lucas hasn't exactly been known to feel the force of politics. Unlike his friend Steven Spielberg, Star Wars supremo Lucas doesn't make campaign contributions to the Democrats or, as far as we know, anyone. But could there be a heavy hint of party affiliation in his latest epic? Consider: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute...
...Spielberg's colleagues say he simply doesn't want to run a full-fledged film division cranking out a dozen or more movies a year. "We've been fairly vocal in saying that there's only a certain extent to which we can change our stripes and become pure executives," Parkes says. "We're happier focusing on a smaller number of pictures."(Spielberg declines to comment...
DreamWorks principals say they need to increase production to compete with other studios, which typically release 15 to 20 films a year. They can either make more deals with outside producers or, more likely, hire a high-powered executive to run the live-action division alongside Spielberg's operation. An open question is how involved Katzenberg--who spent 10 years as head of the Disney studio but fared poorly in live action--will be in building the slate. Until now, the area had primarily been Spielberg's domain, while Katzenberg focused on animation and television...
Another rumor has Sony as a potential DreamWorks partner. Certainly Sony chief John Calley and Spielberg have bonded personally: Calley is advising the director as he mulls over buying a yacht. But Calley says no corporate conversations are under...