SUBMITTED BY flikchik

October 7, 2002 —

....When Disney scuttled Ron Howard's proposed ''The Alamo'' this summer, its excuse was cost. It didn't make economic sense to the studio to spend $125 million to make a movie on which the ''Beautiful Mind'' team of director Howard, producer Brian Grazer, and star Russell Crowe would take a quarter of the gross before Disney saw its first dollar. Plus, the R-rated movie would exclude teens and turn off overseas audiences. But now that Disney is making a much cheaper version of the movie, with Howard producing but not directing, the studio thinks it can get the same stars, including Crowe, Billy Bob Thornton, and Ethan Hawke.

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