The studio passed on it, calling it " a wimpy Walt Disney movie ", so Spielberg approached the more receptive Sid Sheinberg, president of MCA.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Interactive, which just started in that time, needed fresh and unusual projects, and TenNapel approached Spielberg with the idea of claymation game, with Spielberg accepting it for publication.

Sacha Baron Cohen was originally cast as Abbie Hoffman, while Spielberg approached Will Smith for the role of Bobby Seale, and planned to meet Heath Ledger about the possibility of playing Tom Hayden.

Film director Steven Spielberg approached Team Andromeda to say he was impressed by the game's presentation at the 1995 E3 show.

Spielberg later co-produced the World War II themed television miniseries Band of Brothers and its counterpart The Pacific with Tom Hanks.

Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in American Graffiti and Star Wars, but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.

Directed by Steven Spielberg and co-starring Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken, the film was shot in 147 different locations in only 52 days, making it " the most adventurous, super-charged movie-making " DiCaprio had experienced yet.

Spielberg, the writers, Harrison Ford, Jonathan Ke Quan, Anthony Powell and makeup designer Tom Smith were nominated for their work at the Saturn Awards.

Most recently, in the fall of 2004, director Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise filmed scenes for War of the Worlds here, with Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins.

* The 2002 film Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and with Tom Cruise as main actor, was based on the story.

Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures or simply Tiny Toons, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros.

In 2001, Schwimmer played Captain Herbert M. Sobel in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks ' HBO World War II miniseries Band of Brothers.

Steven Spielberg, who with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen had established DreamWorks SKG, was the main executive producer of the film, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto and Don Murphy serving as co-executive producers.

His television roles have included a recurring role in Joss Whedon ’ s Angel as the lawyer Lindsey MacDonald, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced series Close to Home on CBS, the TNT television film Crossfire Trail in which he appeared alongside Tom Selleck, and he played the role of Abe Wheeler in the Steven Spielberg produced miniseries Into the West.

She appeared as " Marion Leckie ", mother of Robert Leckie in the HBO series The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which aired in 2010.

He served as talent agent to Hollywood actors such as Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, and Barbra Streisand, as well as directors such as Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, and Sydney Pollack.

He stars as one of the three leads in the big-budget HBO miniseries The Pacific, from executive producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Bruce Timm, best known as a major principal of the DC animated universe, originally intended it to be a straightforward superhero action-adventure cartoon with comic overtones, but executive producer Steven Spielberg asked series producer and writer Tom Ruegger and the Animaniacs team to turn Freakazoid!

In recent years, various Hollywood and sports stars have built retreats in Muskoka, including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Mike Weir, Martin Short, Harry Hamlin, Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.

Director Steven Spielberg, impressed by Otto's performance in The Lord of the Rings, called her to ask if she would play opposite Tom Cruise in the big-budget science fiction film War of the Worlds ( 2005 ).

In June 2012, Wright joined the film Before I Sleep starring David Warner, Chevy Chase, Eric Roberts, Tom Sizemore, James Rebhorn, Cynthia Gibb, Sasha Spielberg, and Campbell Scott.

It was also used by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in their miniseries The Pacific.

The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

It was alleged that Liefeld was too preoccupied by aspirations of Hollywood production deals, spending time in meetings with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise, to effectively publish comic books or participate in the business side of the Image venture, a criticism that Liefeld admits is at least partly true.

However when the executive producer Steven Spielberg went to acquire the rights in 1986, MGM's pre-1986 library ( which Tom and Jerry were a part of ) was being purchased by Turner Entertainment which created a series of legal complications.

Due to this Spielberg was unable to acquire the rights and Tom and Jerry's inclusion in the film was scrapped.

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

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

It was labeled one of the finest war films ever made and earned Spielberg his second Academy Award for direction, and Hanks another Best Actor nomination.

That same year, Hanks collaborated with director Spielberg again, starring opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit crime comedy Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr.

Hanks with Steven Spielberg at the National World War II Memorial in March 2010

Hanks was sent a copy of the graphic novel Road to Perdition by Steven Spielberg while he was filming Cast Away ( 2000 ).

He teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

: by producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Tony To

Other productions included an early example of a formatted documentary, Thighs, Lies & Beauty, an investigation of the myths and reality surrounding the beauty business for BBC1 ; The Art of Tripping, a 2 hour dramatised documentary for Channel Four on drug taking and the arts starring Bernard Hill ; a Frontline ( Channel Four ) current affairs film featuring the story of South African Jann Turner whose father was assassinated in front of her when she was 13, and as an adult returns to South Africa to look at the arguments for revenge versus reconciliation in the new South Africa ; Steven Spielberg on " Schindler's List " and Tom Hanks & The World According to Gump, both for the BBC ; and Wagner vs Wagner, for Channel Four, featuring Richard Wagner's great grandson on the composer's political and cultural legacy of anti-semitism and race hatred.

As a supervising producer of the critically-acclaimed mini-series " Band of Brothers " for HBO in 2001, Jendresen was one of the recipients of that year's Emmy Award for " Outstanding Miniseries ", which he shared with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, among others.

* 2001: Film Band of Brothers ( TV miniseries ) Part Ten-Points, directed by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

Bob served in the 101st Airborne and was a partial inspiration for the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks production Band of Brothers.

In August, 2009, Steven Spielberg announced that he was planning on doing a remake of " Harvey ", reaching out to Tom Hanks and Will Smith to play Elwood Dowd.

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.

The film was not released in Malaysia after Spielberg refused to cut the violent scenes ; however, the film was finally released there on DVD with an 18SG certificate much later in 2005.

The film was later nominated for eleven Academy Awards, with wins for Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing, and Best Director for Spielberg, but lost the Best Picture award to Shakespeare in Love, being one of a few that have won the Best Director award without also winning Best Picture.

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

Because of this, he and Eagle Scout director Steven Spielberg later decided to depict the young Indiana Jones as a Life Scout in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Mendes later met with Spielberg ; impressed by Mendes ' productions of Oliver!

The gang also made frequent cameos in the 1990 spinoff series Tiny Toon Adventures, from executive producer Steven Spielberg where they played teachers and mentors to a younger generation of cartoon characters ( Buster, Babs and the gang ), plus occasional cameos in the later Warner shows Animaniacs ( also from Spielberg ) and Histeria!

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

Filming resumed two days later at Elstree, where Spielberg swiftly filmed the library, Portuguese freighter, and catacombs sequences.

Raiders of the Lost Ark ( later marketed as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ) is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford.

Spielberg enjoyed working with the children, and he later said that the experience made him feel ready to be a father.

Kassar then told him to arrive at the San Jose Airport a few days later to have a meeting with Spielberg.

Ministry would later make a brief cameo appearance in the Steven Spielberg film AI: Artificial Intelligence, performing the song.

Duel is a 1971 television ( and later full-length theatrical ) film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Richard Matheson, based on his short story.

Schindler's Ark ( released in America as Schindlers List ) is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg later cast Vaughn in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

" Spielberg conceded and told Loomis to license the Star Wars property, made by his friend George Lucas, instead, which Loomis later did.

The set's release coincided with the DVD re-release of the 1953 film from which the show was spawned ( the updated version from Steven Spielberg being released on DVD later the same month ).

" Kiley was introduced as the narrator for the tour first in the novel by Michael Crichton, and later in the film adaptation by Steven Spielberg.

Nearby, in Spielberg, there used to be the Formula One track known first as Österreichring, later as A1-Ring, where races were held from 1970 to 1987 and from 1997 to 2003.

Spielberg, who was later attached to Rain Man for several months as its director, has said that he " never had a single meeting " with Guber on either project.