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...June the 39 Clues team got a major boost: DreamWorks acquired the film rights, with Steven Spielberg planning to produce and direct. "The 39 Clues takes creative leaps to expand the story experience from the pages of the books to multiple stages of discovery and imagination," Spielberg said, in an uncharacteristically robotic statement. "We have the opportunity to develop this property that says 'film,' 'family,' 'fun' and 'franchise...
...Steven Spielberg is no stranger to India. He shot part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind here in 1977 and the second Indiana Jones installment was set in a temple and dungeon complex in colonial-era India. (The movie was initially banned in India by angry politicians who said it perpetuated negative stereotypes.) Now Spielberg may be going back to the subcontinent - not for a new movie but for cash, thanks to a reported tie-up with Reliance Big Entertainment, part of the sprawling conglomerate run by Bombay-based billionaire Anil Ambani. The deal, first reported by the Wall...
...made artful alliances with directors of equally robust creativity: Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron (with whom he was working on next year's Avatar). Winston's last handmade triumph was the metal suit that industrialist Tony Stark forges in Iron Man. The hard work and ingenuity Stark lavishes on his titanium tuxedo were worthy of Stan the Man himself...
...Emmys: for the gremlin-like creatures in the TV movie Gargoyles and (shared with Baker) for the old-age makeup worn by Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Moving into feature films, he forged productive relationships with directors as imaginative as he: Burton, Steven Spielberg for Jurassic Park and A.I. and James Cameron on Aliens and The Terminator, T2 and the Universal Studios park attraction, T2: 3D, an amazing blend of film, FX and live action that Winston co-directed...
...Athens, the country's 32-medal gold rush was second only to that of the U.S. Now China is hoping its home-turf advantage in Beijing will vault it into first place. If the People's Republic succeeds, the controversies over protests in Tibet, arms for Darfur, Steven Spielberg's pulling out as adviser to the Games--all that loss of face to date will have been worth it. It will also be a balm for a nation still hurting from the death of 70,000 in the May 12 earthquake...