1. Kubrick never "handed over" A.I. to Spielberg. He was contracted with Warners to produce and direct A.I. immediately upon completion of Eyes Wide Shut. After – a year after – Kubrick's death, Spielberg appropriated Kubrick's A.I. pre-production materials from the Kubrick Estate (ie Jan Harlan, Christiane, mainly) and cynically INVENTED the myth of "My Friend Stanley" wanting the infantile-nihilist philistine Spielberg to "direct" A.I.. It's yet another obscene example of Hollywood Mogul-generated hype based on lies. All of this is so widely documented that it's quite disturbing that the doc's narrator, Malcolm MacDowell would stoop to such a low level of sheer ignorance.

2. The Napoleon project was not abandoned because of the box-office failures of other Napoleon projects/films. The Napoleon project was abandoned because at the end of the 1960s most all Hollywood studios/majors were virtually bankrupt. MGM was bailed out by being taken over by a casino operator , who bought MGM so that he could change the public image of gambling casinos, adding the logo to all his casinos and hotels, while completely shutting down all film production. This era was a transition to predominantly low-budget Hollywood movies (a regime that would last until the late-1970s), which is why Kubrick's next movie, A Clockwork Orange, had a budget of just $1.8m. Given that Kubrick, a few years later, could raise $11m to make Barry Lyndon, based on a totally obscure 19th century novel by Thackeray about a purely fictional, socially marginal character, it's clear that Kubrick had reached some underlying narrative and structural deadlock in his own attempts to make a film about Napoleon ie it wasn't due to any financial or studio drawbacks.