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Yes. Directors of Spielberg's stature have, can, and do make such requests and arrangements. There is a term in the motion picture business: juice, meaning power.

Spielberg is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood.

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Show us links to credible information supporting your assertion. Spielberg would waste his “power” on requesting a TV network to show a film of his on this or that date.