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Article: Ted Turner takes $90 million gamble on `Gods and Generals'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 25, 2003
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Byline: David Hiltbrand
WASHINGTON _ Nearly 138 years after the surrender at Appomattox, another Civil War battle is being waged in cineplexes across the country.
Can "Gods and Generals" capture an audience beyond re-enactors and ardent students of the War Between the States? Or will this solemn three-hour, 40-minute re-creation of the Confederacy's early momentum go down as Turner's Folly?
The $60 million film _ written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, creator of 1993's well-received "Gettysburg'' _ has been entirely financed by Ted Turner, who recently resigned as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner. And, in an unusual distribution deal with ...