Producers picked the Studio City home because it looked relatable and middle-class.
So, if you could pick what Studio Ghibli tackled next, what would it be?
In the past, Mr. Redford noted, indie-spirited pictures like "The Candidate" or "Jeremiah Johnson," both of which he starred in but did not direct, might pick up studio backing after some behind-the-scenes horse trading in which Mr. Redford also agreed to accept more conventional roles.
The BFG is in line for a Hollywood remake after Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio picked up the film rights to the book.
The angle at which he passed the document to the Prime Minister meant some of the names were picked by a studio camera.
He has bought at Manhattan's low points: in 1982, he purchased a one-bedroom co-op in the West Village for less than $100,000; then, in late 2001, he picked up a studio in Tudor City for just over $100,000.
He tussled for many years with his father, the legendary cigar-chomping movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who virtually brought his son up on the lot of the 20th Century Fox studio, picked him to take over the reins at 26 and fired him nine years later.
Aside from tests involving college sophomores, there are data from "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" -- where, as Surowiecki puts it, "random crowds of people with nothing better to do on a weekday afternoon than sit in a TV studio picked the right answer 91percentt of the time".
As you can see in the first such ad, for the new Warner Brothers film Where The Wild Things Are, the movie studio picked three previously popular stories on Digg about the movie.
Fortunately, the studio picked a director Debney had worked with on three other films: Jon Favreau.
