Steven Spielberg
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Born:
December 18, 1946
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Born as:
Steven Allan Spielberg
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I dream for a living
Remarkable:
Steven and his wife Kate Capshaw have eight children.
Biography:
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA), Spielberg began experimenting with
8mm short films when he was only in grade school. After he had directed
episodes of TV series Spielberg`s first feature-length TV movie, Duel
(1971), earned the filmmaker critical praise and a chance to jump to the
big screen.
The nightmarish production problems on the big budget Jaws
(1975) almost detoured his rise to prominence. But his success could
still grow bigger. He hit gold again directing Raiders of the Lost
Ark (1981) but the highest grossing movie of all time up to
that point was the alien story, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(1982).
In the late 1980s, a string of relative disappointments coincided
with a period of personal upheaval for Spielberg. He made a major career
resurgence in 1993 with the special effect-heavy dinosaur extravaganza Jurassic
Park.
Steven produced and directed Schindler's List (1993) a
stirring film about the Holocaust and won finally best director at the
Oscars.
In the mid-nineties Spielberg co-founded the production company
Dreamworks, responsible for many box office successes in the nineties
and the new century. In 2006 he sold it for $1.6 billion to Viacom, the
parent company of Paramount Pictures.
Steven kept on filming in the new century, and made movies like Minority Report (2002), War of the Worlds (2005) and Munich (2005). In 2008, after years in the making, he finally delivered Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford.
This year Steven will release The Tin tin movie or an Abraham Lincoln
bio-pic.
Selected Movies:
Bibliography » Books:
Bibliography » Web:
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Ain‘t it cool news - Spielberg, Jackson and Tin Tin
Back Shelf Beauties: Movies You Should Rent When the New Stuff Is Gone - Dreamworks and Indian money
BBC - Tintin film is finished but not finished
BBC - Spielberg shows his collection
Deadline - Spielberg may direct a biopic
DVD Times -
DVD town -
Empire - Raiders is the second best film
Entertainment weekly - Spielberg is the best director
Filmschool rejects -
Financial Times - Spielberg finalises $825m financing
Forbes - Highest-Paid Men
Goop - Spielberg likes classic movies
Guardian -
Harrison Ford: The Films - Destruction of the world in HD
High-Def digest - Minority report in Blu-ray
Los Angeles Times - Spielberg talks about Tintin
New York Times - Spielberg reworks contract
New York Times - Spielberg and his invisible friend
Rumors and new films
- Interstellar -
The film explorers travel through a worm hole and into another dimension.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- Indiana Jones 5 -
Unknown story
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- George Gershwin -
A chronicle of the live of the famed Broadway composer and pianist.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- Chocky -
A boy forms an unusual imaginary friendship with an alien.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- The 39 Clues -
The globe-trotting adventures of a powerful and mysterious family known as the Cahills.
Status: Maybe, maybe not
- The adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn -
The adventures of the popular Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy.
Status: The film will be released within 19 months (October 26, 2011)
- Lincoln -
The film will be based on the biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Status: Uncertain, release date may be in 2011
News
-March 10, 2010
The high-definition version of War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins will be released June 1st. All features that were found on the two-disc special edition DVD release will be ported over and, with the exception of the theatrical teaser trailer, will be presented in standard definition.
Source / More (Web)
-February 21, 2010
Spielberg about the adaptation of the popular Hergé creation Tintin. He used the performance capture technique out of “my respect for the art of Hergé and wanting to get as close to that art as I could. The costumes seem to fit better when the medium chosen is a digital one”.
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-February 18, 2010
A new dino-centric TV show called Terra Nove is close to being on-the-way. It's about a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to the strange and inhospitable environs of prehistoric Earth. The project would put Spielberg back to work with dinosaurs for the first time since the Jurassic Park films.
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-February 01, 2010
Zachary Quinto will play famed composer and pianist George Gershwin in a biopic at DreamWorks Pictures. Gershwin, with brother Ira, was responsible for more than a dozen Broadway shows before dying at 38 years old. This is one of three projects that Steven Spielberg is looking at to direct next.
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-January 25, 2010
Steven Spielberg's sci-fi smash based on the short story by Philip K. Dick will descend on Blu-ray April 20. The two-disc set will include the following supplements: The Future According to Steven Spielberg; Inside The World of Precrime; Phillip K. Dick, Steven Spielberg and Minority Report; Minority Report: Future Realized ; Minority Report: Props of the Future and a lot more.
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More news!
Trivia
Director Billy Wilder wanted to direct Schindler’s list. “I would have been very, very careful with Schindler’s list. [] It was a very, very good picture. I tip my hat. ”
--Source: Conversations with Wilder, Page 22
He has a personal fortune in excess of 2.6 billion dollars $US.
Steven has a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
It’s located between Highland avenue and Orange Drive.
Steven has his handprints set in cement on Hollywood Boulevard (Hollywood, USA, in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theater).
Source / More (Web)
Spielberg says that his alter ego in Saving private Ryan is Corporal Upham, the cowardly pacifist. Tom Hanks disagrees: “I think who Steven fantasizes himself being is Mellish who pulls out his star of David and says Jude, Jude as the German P.O.W.`s are going by”
--Source: Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Page 232
