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- Oct. 29, 1990: Coming Attractions?
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 35
- Coming Attractions?
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
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- <p> Producers are the idea mongers of Hollywood. Operating
- behind the scenes, they pitch the concepts to studios, assemble
- the talent and hammer out the contracts. But in their quest for
- the sure thing, they often come up with strange ideas and
- fractured formulas. A look at some of the odder concepts
- working their way toward the screen:
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- <p> An American James Bond (studio: Paramount; producers: Don
- Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer). Who could be better at
- overdoing a cinematic tradition than the producers of Beverly
- Hills Cop I and II ? This pricey vehicle may have trouble
- getting to the screen for under $75 million.
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- <p> I Married a Witch (Columbia; Michael Grais and Mark Victor).
- The writers of Poltergeist I and II want to capture the spirit
- yet again. But this one sounds like a feature-length Bewitched
- rehash. And probably not as funny.
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- <p> Michael Jackson Meets Batman (Warner Bros.; Anton Furst).
- This proposal from the production designer of Batman has a
- quirky logic to it, teaming music's baddest icon with pop
- culture's most marketable superhero. If the movie bombs, maybe
- the sound track could offset the losses.
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- <p> Fresh Prince Goes into the Army (Warner Bros.). The studio
- has yet to release New Jack City, a troubled rap-crack epic.
- With Fresh Prince (Will Smith) getting lackluster ratings on
- NBC, why gamble millions more on another rap film?
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- <p> Honey, I Blew Up the Baby (Disney). Studio boss Jeffrey
- Katzenberg is eager to repeat the success of Honey, I Shrunk
- the Kids. In one of the script concepts being considered, a
- child is Xeroxed to huge size. But copies usually fade, and
- star Rick Moranis will demand a huge salary.
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