Word: warners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other studio heads, who can be stirred to animation animus when they shiver in the shadow of the cartoon colossus. "We're rooting for Anastasia," says Bob Daly, Warner Bros. and Warner Music Group chairman and co-CEO. "It would be great for the entire industry if a non-Disney animated film became a real...
Birthright? Well, yes. For 60 years, since its release of the cinema's first cartoon feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney has been the brand name for animation. Its chief rivals in the '40s and '50s, Warner Bros. and MGM, which were besting Disney in the quality and appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg...
...Warner, which saw the part-animated Michael Jordan jape Space Jam earn $350 million in world theatrical release and merchandising, is preparing a fully animated feature, The Quest for Camelot, an Arthurian romance about a girl's search for Excalibur. The film, with songs by hitmakers David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager (at home she is Mrs. Robert Daly), has had a troubled history: it lost its director and two lead animators, and its release was bumped from this holiday season to next May. The Warner team's next project: Iron Giant, from Ted Hughes' novel about...
Since 1990, Warner Bros. and Spielberg's Amblin have collaborated on the small-screen Tiny Toon Adventures. Ah, TV, where the real money is, and where Paramount went for its 1996 hit, Beavis and Butt-head Do America, which grossed (heh heh, he said "grossed") a robust $63 million. (Next up for Paramount: a Rugrats feature.) "A movie can't compare financially with a successful series like The Simpsons on TV," says Fox's Mechanic. Says Peter Chernin, president of Fox's parent News Corp.: "We should have done a Simpsons movie five years ago." Simpsons creator Matt Groening...
...take a backseat to Senate tradition. That's the lesson Senator Mike Enzi (R., Wyo.) learned last week when his request to bring a computer to the floor for note taking was soundly rejected by the Rules Committee. "We didn't start out with laptops," says chairman John Warner (R., Va.), "and I don't think...