Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes it really is a small, small world. Next week DreamWorks--the studio founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen--opens its first cartoon feature, Antz. The computer-animated story of life in an ant colony, Antz features the voices of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone and Dan Aykroyd. In November Pixar, the creator of Toy Story, and Disney, the studio where Katzenberg was chairman for 10 years, plan to release A Bug's Life, which also happens to be the computer-animated story of life in an ant colony. It features the voices of NewsRadio...
...Good Ship United States, soaking up the remnants of our parents' and older acquaintances' good fortunes, loudly predicting our own success in a few years. A few years of an economy in the wastebasket might cause us to stop thinking about choosing a decorator for our midtown studio and start considering how we might actually make a useful contribution to the world around...
...Romano, a representative of Local 481, the union for motion picture studio mechanics, explains the fee-free concept...
Romano says his union regularly engages in deferment contracts with independent filmmakers. Such an agreement entitles workers to low wages and benefits with the understanding that they will be fully compensated upon the successful completion of a project--the signing on of a big studio...
...standard for both quality (i.e. winning Oscars) and financial success, Saving Private Ryan will be revered as a pinnacle of moviemaking. And the movie of ideas will continue to occupy a secondary berth underneath such displays of fireworks. The Truman Show was also made by a major Hollywood studio and cost a lot of money, but through a cleverly fabricated story it manages to give its viewers something new to think about...