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...scrunched down in his chair, as a friendly giant will do in an auditorium seat--especially a giant writer seated in front of god filmmaker Steven Spielberg--5 ft. 10 in.--who directed Jurassic Park and will produce a movie version of The Lost World, and whose company, Amblin Entertainment, is responsible for putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEET MISTER WIZARD | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...agreement to become the Dream team, Iger was sitting on one side of Spielberg, Boris Yeltsin on the other (Yeltsin is one of the few international players who has not been rumored as a potential DreamWorks partner). It was then that Iger, who had quarreled with Spielberg over an Amblin TV project on the Civil War, patched things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEY, LET'S PUT ON A SHOW! | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...Katzenberg his second in command. Now the lads must come of age--be ready to play daddy, not dutiful son, and do their own mentoring. The bet here is yes. Katzenberg was a paternal nudge to the Disney animators. Spielberg has nurtured the careers of director Robert Zemeckis and Amblin exec Kathleen Kennedy, now an independent producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEY, LET'S PUT ON A SHOW! | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

...former Harvard medical student wrote it as a movie screenplay. It languished until the late 1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Angels with Dirty Faces | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...billion on MCA, whose prime asset is Spielberg. Since 1982, five of the six Universal films to gross at least $100 million at the domestic box office (E.T., Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Jurassic Park and The Flintstones) have come from Spielberg's Amblin. Another Spielberg film, Schindler's List, | earned $96 million and a slew of Oscars. Universal Studios Florida, the company's pricey rival to Walt Disney World, is virtually a Spielberg shrine, with major rides celebrating E.T., Back to the Future and Jaws. But without its main man, Universal is a crippled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: A Studio Is Born | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

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