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...script wasn't supposed to end this way. On Oscar night the DreamWorks team of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg was hoping--probably expecting--to hear Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan, named Best Picture. Certainly, the glittering assemblage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was shocked. When Shakespeare in Love was announced, there was an audible gasp...
Which makes it a bit more awkward for DreamWorks to spin the news that Spielberg and his two top executives, the married couple of Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, are balking at taking on the expanded film production that DreamWorks feels its live-action studio needs in order to thrive. DreamWorks, which released six films in 1998, wants at least to double that output. But Spielberg and his partners will restrict themselves to overseeing no more than half a dozen films a year. Spielberg also will revive his previously dormant production-company banner, Amblin, for some films. His financial stake...
...While Spielberg's associates affirm that he is as devoted as ever to the ambitious effort to launch the first new studio in decades, most industry professionals will conclude that the famed filmmaker--by far DreamWorks' most valuable asset--is growing weary. The resurrection of the Amblin label, in their view, could signal that Spielberg is creating an escape vehicle in case the need arises. (The Amblin logo, which last appeared on Zorro, has until now been attached only to non-DreamWorks projects that were in the works before the new company was born...
This weekend the aforementioned "Saving Private Ryan" will likely win the Oscar for Best Picture. But if its director had grown up in today's world, I have to wonder if the film would ever have been made. Growing up outside of Phoenix, Ariz., Steven Spielberg didn't have many friends and was often picked on by his peers. He does not look back fondly on his days in the schoolyard, and it is unfortunate that, as a boy, he had such a difficult time. But if he had been dragged into a therapy group and taught to be more...
Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg's WWII baby is clearly the front-runner here, and notonly because its Oscar victory been foreshadowedby the Golden Globes, the DGA awards and hundredsof critics' associations. Private Ryan is aquintessentially American movie. Despite criticalhyperbole setting the film up as a panculturalantiwar film a la All Quiet on the WesternFront, it is as hyperpatriotic as any JohnWayne picture of the 50s. And that's what theAcademy wants--clean lines. Kill the damnedGermans, and try to get out alive.Shakespeare in Love: John Madden's lovelyfilm came out of nowhere to wow the movie goingpublic with something that...