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Various

 * http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-termbox26-2009may26,0,5803981.story
 * 25 Essential Fansites
 * TrekMovie mentioned by AP
 * The Godfather Wars
 * The Matrix at Alantis International
 * King Kong at AI
 * Gort Pummels Fox Sports Robot; NFL Fans Rejoice, 2008-11-26
 * The Matrix at Alantis International
 * King Kong at AI
 * Gort Pummels Fox Sports Robot; NFL Fans Rejoice, 2008-11-26

Jackson Biography

 * (covers up to the cancellation of Kong)
 * (Miramax)
 * (everything up to Mortensen's casting)
 * (the shoot and reception)

Spielberg
<!-- Spielberg loved how he could control and manipulate people and life with filmmaking. He repeats that sneaking onto the lot tale, (not the setting up his own office nonsense though), his family picked him up, but it impressed the studio with his tenacity and they did give him a pass. On the fourth day, the guard let him in without showing his pass due to his suit making him look like a pro. He continued visiting Uni for two-and-a-half months before school began again. Uni felt more familiar to him than his own house. He became quite a nuisance directing Night Gallery because he wanted control of the edit, whereas most tv shows have the producer directing after it wraps.

This video verifies Spielberg's themes of communication, in tune with his theme of tolerance (if we can talk to aliens in CE3K, why not with the Reds in the Cold War?). Steven said he prefers foreign lang interviews because he can make more profound answers by observing body language when translators speak. See "Phone home" in E.T., Colour Purple, Terminal, Amistad ("Stand up!") et al. for examples in film.

Jaws is better because the shark didn't work. Richard Dreyfuss would not have boarded the mothership is the married father Spielberg is made it today. Spielberg's fascination with theory of relativity meant no one gets off the mothership older. Pauline Kael warned Spielberg the knives were sharpened for 1941; the audience laughed at the Jaws spoof but the rest of the film was too noisy to hear any gags. Lucas said ROTLA couldn't go overbudget because he was his friend and it was his money he was preparing; the brisk shoot meant he couldn't mope over 1941 being panned. E.T. partly came about with the idea of Puck being a foreign exchange student. Spielberg loves Harryhausen but couldn't think of a realistic way (story and effects) to do it. It's much more interesting to put dinos in our world, rather than us in a lost world (granted this was done after the sequels).

CP is his first "grown up" film, it doesn't "go better with the smell of popcorn", and it was a stepping stone to Empire and Schindler. Schindler's more mysterious than Rosebud. It's his most important film. Spielberg's grandma taught English to Hungarian survivors, and learnt numbers using the survivors' tattoos as a toddler; one did a magic trick to make his 6 look like a 9. Ryan was promised years ago for his dad. He shot the opening in order and effectively made it up as he went along, like the real people did. He expected the film to disappear after one weekend due to the violence. Sullivan brothers. He felt the last battle was superior as you had gotten to know the characters. He had to fill in AI's "gene sequence" as Kubrick left a lot of the story unfinished, but he used each idea from the 95-page story treatment. Teddy is Jiminy Cricket. The film says people only hate robots because they resemble humans; he was reminded of a concentration camp.

He considers Empire to be his most profound film about loss of innocence, he was scared whether Raiders or Ryan gave their all in the openings alone, we're meant to believe Schindler doesn't care for his workers in the bit where he confronts Goth after the liquidation, and the scene where he gives people water is a double reference, Stern is Schindler's only ever honest friendship, and rubbishes those who thought Kubrick was going to end A.I with the blue fairy underwater. His two collaborations with Tom Cruise reflect post-9/11 fears, Minority Report in particular questioning how much power we give to the gov for hope of protection. Bridge in WOTW was taken out at the last minute, while the train improvised during pre-viz; Spielberg was exploring how terrorism renders us immune to horror.-->


 * (Spielberg shoots fast to create discipline in his actors)


 * 

Schindler's List

 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935936.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935936.html

Munich

 * Production notes
 * Nov 09, 2005
 * Deadly Games
 * Spielberg takes on terror
 * Todd Alcott:
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117903599.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117906335.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117908921.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117924623.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117926025.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117926419.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117928443.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117930047.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_vstory/VR1117931768.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117933729.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117934338.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117934495.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_vstory/VR1117934795.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_vstory/VR1117934884.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117934961.html
 * http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117935088.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935131.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935173.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935186.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935217.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935557.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117935676.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117935858.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117935998.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936224.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117936494.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117936572.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937037.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117937185.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937190.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937280.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937461.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_vstory/VR1117937581.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117937660.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117937880.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117938633.html
 * http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117941021.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117978328.html
 * http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117978328.html

Star Trek

 * Generation Ex
 * Hot Seat
 * Brothers from Another Planet
 * Killing off Captain Kirk
 * Come Fly with me
 * Thriving Enterprise
 * Nine Lives
 * Laugh Trek
 * Free Enterprise
 * Making Treks
 * Generation 'Exit'?
 * Movie Preview: Star Trek Nemesis
 * Falling Star
 * Final Voyage

Pixar

 * EW
 * Toy Wonder
 * Volley of the Dolls
 * Big Events: Toy Story 2
 * Movie Preview
 * Don't miss the inside joke in Toy Story 2
 * Toy Tinkers


 * JHM
 * The Pixar Way Part I
 * The Pixar Way Part II
 * Playing with Toys -- Part I : Funky Filmmaking in Frogtown
 * Playing with Toys -- Part II : How Howdy Doody showed us the way
 * Playing with Toys -- Part III: "So where was the dog ?"
 * Playing with Toys -- Part IV : Coming in for a soft landing on a pile of ... shaving cream ?!


 * NYT
 * Will Pixar Be the Hero Of Hollywood Animation?
 * Excerpt: The Pixar Touch


 * TIME
 * TS2 Sneak Preview
 * Home of the Toys


 * AWN
 * Toy Story 2 is not your typical Hollywood sequel
 * The Secret of Pixar Storytelling


 * 

Watchmen

 * Out of respect to those who hadn't read the graphic novel, I left out a lot of spoilerific details before its release (some unused cites pertaining to adaptation left on talk page)


 * Watchmen: Behind the mask
 * Filming the unfilmable
 * Zack Snyder Watchmen Interview
 * Watchmen Screenwriters Interview
 * 
 * 
 * http://www.collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/11125/tcid/1
 * http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1606068/20090227/story.jhtml
 * http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/03/02/lee-iacocca-is-alive-and-well-and-not-looking-forward-to-watchmen-movie/
 * http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1606427/story.jhtml
 * http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/03/06/exclusive-watchmen-director-lists-his-favorite-additions-subtractions-from-the-comic-book/
 * 
 * 
 * 2 3
 * http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4947
 * http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/03/watchmen-screen.html
 * http://creativescreenwritingmagazine.blogspot.com/2009/03/watchmen-q.html

Narnia

 * Production notes
 * Production notes
 * Production notes
 * Production notes
 * Production notes
 * Production notes
 * Production notes

Wallace and Gromit

 * Production notes
 * Production notes

Kingdom of Heaven

 * (they worked two-and-a-half years on the script but he had to do Cinderella Man)
 * (they worked two-and-a-half years on the script but he had to do Cinderella Man)

Godzilla

 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml
 * http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/delgado.shtml