Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aladdin, which may be the most beautiful video game ever made, features the first game characters hand-drawn by Disney's studio artists. Aladdin's release will be closely tied to that of the home-video version of the movie, which Disney predicts will be the best-selling videotape in history...
Thus began a massive consolidation in which every major Hollywood studio either bought a video-game company, started its own in-house interactive department, or did both. "People used to ask, What's the risk of getting in this business?" says Steve Eskenazi, an analyst at the investment firm Alex. Brown & Sons. "This year the question is, What's the risk of not getting into the business...
...when a movie studio agrees to license a video game, it gets involved in the game's design from the start. When Steven Spielberg realized that a plot he was considering for a movie would work better as a game, he took it to his friend George Lucas, whose own video-game operation turned the idea into a spelunking adventure called The Dig. At Sony Interactive, every movie script that Columbia buys is screened by the video-game department for its game potential. If it looks promising, says Olaf Olafsson, president of Sony Electronic Publishing, a separate scriptwriting team develops...
...sudden vogue for stand-up comedians is based on solid Nielsen evidence. First Roseanne and later Seinfeld, Home Improvement and Martin showed that joking at the Improv can be a springboard to prime-time success. Now producers and studio executives are scouring the comedy clubs for the next Tim Allen or Martin Lawrence. "It's a feeding frenzy," says a comedy producer. "A lot of these people you might cast as the second or third lead in an ensemble. But now, the studios want to build shows around them...
From the Harvard Lampoon castle to NBC's Studio 6A, Conan O'Brien '85 hit the late night television scene Monday night with topical humor, self-effacing charm, and a leg-wrestling match...