A community portal about Steven Spielberg with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Steven Allan Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award -winning American film director and producer. He is the most financially...
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A community portal about Steven Spielberg with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Steven Allan Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award -winning American film director and producer. He is the most financially successful motion picture director of all time. He has directed and/or produced a number of major box office hits, giving him great influence in Hollywood. As of 2006, he has been listed in Premiere and other magazines as the most "powerful" and "influential" figure in the motion picture industry, and at the end of the 20th century LIFE named him the most influential person of his generation.
Despite having put in over six months of work on his planned remake of the James Stewart classic Harvey, Steven Spielberg is pulling the plug on the project because he could not interest either Tom Hanks or Robert Downey Jr. in taking on the role immortalized by Stewart. Click here for more
Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Studios have bought the rights to the book "War Horse," about the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I -- a novel that was adapted into a hit play now running in London and expected in New York in 2011.
DreamWorks has tapped Lee Hall, who wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Billy Elliot" and the book and lyrics for "Billy Elliot: The Musical," to adapt "War...
London, Dec 22 (ANI): Steven Spielberg is all set to bring ‘War Horse’ on the big screen after he bought the rights to the children’s story that became a huge West End hit.
Theatre audiences have been mesmerised by the tale of a boy who braves the trenches of the First World War in the [...]
DreamWorks has bought the rights to the 1982 novel by Michael Morpugo, on which the play is based. "With its innovative use of life-size puppets to depict the horses of the first world war, the story of a young Devon farmhand who braves the trenches in an effort to find his beloved colt has proved a huge success on stage."...
Putting aside preferences for certain actors, directors, writers, and so on, there's no denying that putting together a movie is one damn difficult task no matter the talent trying to put it together. A recent article from Variety proves just that as it informs us that iconic director Steven Spielberg has given up on his recent taking on of Harvey, the remake of the 1950 Jimmy Stewart film about a man who befriends a six and a half foot tall...
Steven Spielberg will no longer direct the Harvey remake at 20th Century Fox, reports Variety .
The studio was preparing an early 2010 start for the film, an adaptation of Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a man who befriends a six and a half foot tall invisible rabbit.
The trade says the project has been a challenge to pull together since Spielberg committed last August. One of the biggest challenges has been setting a star...
Dealmakers Impact Report '09: The players involved wouldn't let the deal fall apart -- Few deals in recent years have played out against as dramatic a backdrop or contained as many twists as the pact between Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider's DreamWorks and Indian media conglom Reliance.
After Tom Hanks said no and he couldn't get in sync with Robert Downey on the script, Steven Spielberg has walked away from his planned remake of Harvey, the classic movie starring Jimmy Stewart as the small-town drunk with the invisible six-foot rabbit pal. Variety has the story.
Probably for the best. As amazing as Spielberg is, remakes don't often live up to the original. Not clear what the legendary director will take up as his next...
Back in August, we learned that Steven Spielberg had decided to remake the Jimmy Stewart classic, Harvey. We've heard little else about the film since then, aside from the fact that Tom Hanks didn't want the lead role, and today it appears that we won't be hearing much else for some time. Spielberg has apparently left the project after creative disputes with his latest potential lead, Robert Downey Jr.
I'm sad to say it, but I'm sort of glad...
Philanthropy: Celebs gather to help fight anti-Semitism -- While seated at the Anti-Defamation League dinner Dec. 9 honoring Steven Spielberg, co-chair Sid Sheinberg was asked if he could distill the importance of the League's work.
London, Dec 18 (IANS) Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to bring a novel based on the World War I to the big screen.
The Oscar winner has bought the rights to Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 book “Warhorse”, which follows the relationship between a boy and his horse in the backdrop of the war, reports hollywood.com.
“From the [...]
London, December 05 (ANI): Director Steven Spielberg has decided to step out from the remake of classic movie ‘Harvey’ after failing to find a Hollywood A-lister to play the lead role.
Late actor James Stewart had made the character of Elwood P. Dowd famous in the 1950 film.
But, in the current project, top actors including Tom [...]
Steven Spielberg has picked up another prestigious award to add to his impressive collection.The Hollywood director has landed the Motion Picture Sound Editors' (MPSE) 2010 Filmmaker Award.The famous director will be honoured at next years MPSE's Golden Reel awards ceremony held on 20 February.The award is being given for his g...
After spending the last six months trying to set up a remake of the classic 1950 Jimmy Stewart film Harvey, and now he’s letting it go. According to Variety, Spielberg delivered the news to 20th Century Fox who had reserved soundstages for the legendary director to use. Spielberg intended to make Harvey his debut feature [...]
The digital effects company Weta has wrapped production on James Cameron’s Avatar, but they still have plenty of work on their plates. According to MarketSaw, the Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson collaboration of Tintin is their next order of business, which will be followed by the upcoming film, The Hobbit.
According to the site, Weta’s first delivery [...]