Oscar bait success of summer blockbusters like "Jaws" and "Star Wars" (both of which had also been nominated for Best Picture), independent filmmakers refined Carr's methods of exploiting the Oscars. Merchant Ivory, who produced lavish costume dramas, often based on novels by Henry James or E. M. Forster, began to time their releases to align with the awards season. Their 1985 adaptation of Forster's "A Room with a View" won three of the eight Oscars it was nominated for. By 1991 the modern film-release calendar, in which studios released the movies they had the highest Oscar hopes for in autumn and December,
Mrs. Doubtfire in December 2011, during an interview by "Moviehole," Williams stated again that the chances of a sequel are "highly unlikely." In 2011, Williams said: In 2014, Chris Columbus stated, in turn: In April 2014, it was announced that a sequel was in development at 20th Century Fox. Williams and Columbus were expected to return, and "Elf" screenwriter David Berenbaum was hired to write the script. However, after Williams' death in August 2014, plans for a sequel were permanently cancelled. On January 22, 2015, "Entertainment Weekly" reported that a musical adaptation of "Mrs. Doubtfire" was in the works, with music by