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A fascination with Abraham Lincoln

Filmmaker Salvador Litvak has been trying to make a movie about Abraham Lincoln for 12 years, a dream that was finally realized with the completion of his independent film “Saving Lincoln.”

A close encounter with Steven Spielberg’s dad

For Arnold Spielberg\’s birthday in the late 1950s, his wife, Leah, gave him a Brownie movie camera. He had little chance to enjoy the present because it was immediately appropriated by his 13-year-old son, Steven.

A river runs through it: Answering Spielberg’s ‘Munich’

There is a scene at the end of Steven Spielberg’s controversial 2005 film, “Munich,” that disappointed a lot of Israel’s supporters. Spielberg’s camera caresses the dramatic Manhattan skyline, pans over the East River and ends hauntingly at the Twin Towers, which were still standing at the time of the film’s events.

Spielberg purchases screen rights to WikiLeaks

Director Steven Spielberg has purchased the screen rights to the WikiLeaks story. Spielberg bought the rights to \”WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange\’s War on Secrecy,\” written by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the Guardian reported Wednesday.

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