With the help of executives Glenn Williamson and Bob Cooper, and Steven Spielberg in his capacity as studio partner, Ball was convinced to develop the project at DreamWorks ; he received assurances from the studio — known at the time for its more conventional fare — that it would not " iron the out ".

Spielberg — who was later awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award — had the idea of making Indiana a Boy Scout.

held the global record until it was usurped by Jurassic Park — another Spielberg directed film — in 1993, although it managed to hold on to the domestic record for a further four years, where a Star Wars reissue saw that film reclaim the record.

Bluth formed Sullivan Bluth Studios with backing from businessman Morris Sullivan, while film director Steven Spielberg — a long-time animation fan who was interested in producing theatrical animation — helped Bluth to produce 1986's An American Tail.

Spielberg became interested in film preservation when he went to view the original master of his film Jaws, only to find that it had badly decomposed and deteriorated — a mere fifteen years after it had been filmed.

* 2006 — Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson, Steven Spielberg, and Andrew Lloyd Webber

A new generation of filmmakers, the so-called " Easy Riders and Raging Bulls "— Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and others — were aware of the creative potential of sound and wanted to use it.

* October 1 — DreamWorks SKG and Tecmo announce a movie adaptation of the video game Fatal Frame has been fast-tracked with John Rogers and Steven Spielberg involvement.

To coincide with the third film in the series, Jurassic Park III — the first film not based on a Michael Crichton novel and not directed by Steven Spielberg — a number of software related merchandise items for the PC, Arcade and Game Boy Advance were released.

A 1985 graduate of UCLA's school of Theater, Film and Television, Holland got his career break when Steven Spielberg saw his UCLA thesis film CHICKEN THING — a 12 minute comedy horror short — and hired Holland to write and direct on the second season of AMAZING STORIES.

Spielberg had arranged for a plane to fly over the stadium with a banner reading " 15 Years of Lousy Football — We've Had Enough.

Steven Spielberg, who directed her in E. T.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

It was finally given to Spielberg, who decided to direct.

Gordon shared the finished script with Hanks, who liked it and in turn passed it along to Spielberg to direct.

This was his first collaboration with Steven Spielberg, who later co-produced Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Spielberg hired Menno Meyjes, who had worked on Spielberg's The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun, to begin a new script on January 1, 1986.

When Spielberg decided he wanted it to move, the prop was sent to John Carl Buechler in Los Angeles, who resculpted it over three days to blink, snarl, snort and wiggle its ears.

Spielberg suggested casting Ford as Jones, but Lucas objected, stating that he did not want Ford to become his " Bobby De Niro " or " that guy I put in all my movies ", a reference to Martin Scorsese, who often worked with Robert De Niro.

Spielberg had originally offered the role to Roman Polanski, who was intrigued at the opportunity to work with Spielberg but decided to turn down the role because he wouldn't be able to make the trip to Tunisia .< ref >

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

In discussing the mixed critical reception of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg said, " I sympathize with people who didn't like the MacGuffin ( the crystal skull ) because I never liked the MacGuffin.

A number of filmmakers have had their movies honored for their achievements in visual effects ; i. e., five films produced by George Pal, five by producer George Lucas, five by director James Cameron ( who began his career in Hollywood as an effects technician ), four by directors Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, and three by director Robert Zemeckis.

* In the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the real story of Frank Abagnale, a con man who stole over $ 2. 5 million through forgery, imposture and other frauds, which are dramatized in the film.

These included Spielberg ; Debra Winger ; Burtt's sleeping wife, who had a cold ; a burp from his USC film professor ; and raccoons, sea otters, and horses.

Longtime Spielberg collaborator John Williams, who composed the musical score for E. T., described the challenge of creating a score that would generate sympathy for such an odd-looking creature.

Warshaw and other Atari executives presented this design to Spielberg, who did not express enthusiasm.

Hal Ashby, who worked with Dillon on Bound for Glory, suggested her for the part to Spielberg.

Spielberg conducted a series of method acting techniques to help Guffey, who was cast when he was just three years old.

Spielberg explained, " I wanted to make Close Encounters a very accessible story about the everyday individual who has a sighting that overturns his life, and throws it in to complete upheaval as he starts to become more and more obsessed with this experience.

Some of these even combined all released material from the 1977 and 1980 versions, but none of these versions were edited by Spielberg, who regards the " Collector's Edition " as his definitive version of Close Encounters.

To achieve a tone and quality that was true to the story as well as reflected the period in which it is set, Spielberg once again collaborated with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, saying, " Early on, we both knew that we did not want this to look like a Technicolor extravaganza about World War II, but more like color newsreel footage from the 1940s, which is very desaturated and low-tech.

The project was set aside because of delays on 1941, but the concept of making a small autobiographical film about childhood would stay with Spielberg.

Spielberg ensured the puppeteers kept away from the set to maintain the illusion of a real alien.

Spielberg even allowed her access to the set pieces from the film.

Letters to Miss Celie in the movie The Color Purple ( film ) by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, are addressed to " Hartwell County, Georgia " suggesting that the movie is set either in Hartwell or Hart County.

Released for the film's 30th anniversary, the set contained all three official versions of the film from 1977, 1980, and 1998 and a new interview with Spielberg, who talks about the film's impact 30 years after its release.

The LEGO Group officially encouraged the creation of brickfilms with the release of set # 1349 LEGO Studios Steven Spielberg MovieMaker Set.

Shortly afterward, Spielberg set up the project at his studio DreamWorks, though he did not pursue direction of the film due to his full slate.

When Spielberg set up Road to Perdition at DreamWorks, he contacted screenwriter David Self to adapt the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins into a feature film.

Cameron was so proud of his results that he even invited Steven Spielberg and George Lucas on set to view the system in action.

* Steven Spielberg can be seen wearing a Blue Harvest cap during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in the Indiana Jones: Making The Trilogy documentary on the bonus disc of the 2003 Indiana Jones DVD box set.

Amon Göth's house in Płaszów ( 2008 ); Despite the Hollywood implications drawn from Steven Spielberg | Spielberg's film set ( constructed in Liban Quarry a short distance away from Płaszów ) and from the film scene in Schindler's List, Amon Göth could not shoot from this balcony, because his villa sits at the foot of a steep hill.

The design of the set for The Terminal, as noted by Roger Ebert in his reviews and attested by Spielberg himself in a feature by Empire magazine, was greatly inspired by Jacques Tati's classic film Play Time.

Steven Spielberg, director of The Color Purple, had a clause written into his contract barring Guber from ever coming to the set.

' Once, hearing the phone ring at home while in the shower, he took a call from Steven Spielberg on the set of Schindler's List, agonising over a scene in Steven Zaillians script.

Dark's films of this period won him accolades such as " the Steven Spielberg of the soft-core set " and " the Martin Scorsese of the erotic thriller ".

'" While on the set of Raiders, Spielberg read the Night Skies script to Melissa Mathison ( who was there to see her then-boyfriend and future husband Harrison Ford ) and she cried after hearing it because " the idea of an alien creature who was benevolent, tender, emotional and sweet ... and the idea of the creature's striking up a relationship with a child who came from a broken home was very affecting ".