The game begins with four rival studios, and six studios are added later.

Now Universal faces the proposition of selling its films to a company that owns a rival studio.

As one top distribution executive at a rival studio said: "Normally the last week is when you're cooking with audience interest.

Several distribution executives at rival studios said the film's appeal to black audiences seemed limited.

"It's hilarious," said an executive at a rival studio who received a copy of the document last week.

"Animation is the source of money that will make Dreamworks work," an executive at a rival studio said in an interview earlier this year.

"Now everyone wants a 'Twins' deal," grumbled one executive at a rival studio.

It was dropped because the rival studios had already begun their films.

Serveral top executives at rival studios believe neither man's job is particularly secure.

Studio executives mess up, get fired and then win bigger contracts at rival studios.