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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here with another end of the week report from AICN's ace archivist Elston Gunn. Once again Elston has put together a comprehensive rehash of all the confirmed filmic news you may have missed during the past work-week. So grap that mid-morning mug of hot Java, your fave tasty munchie, sit back, and scan through the week that was in this edition of...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Jeff Daniels joins the cast of BLOODWORK for Warner Bros and director/star
Clint Eastwood. It's about one of the most effective FBI serial killer
investigators who, after being sidelined by a heart-transplant operation,
decides to turn his badge in to spend more time restoring his boat.
However, an incident puts back on the job.
* Justin Chambers (THE MUSKETEER) will join Elisabeth Shue and Joseph
Fiennes in LEOPOLD BLOOM. He'll play a painter whose affair with an
unfaithful young mother takes a dark turn.
* Michael Landes (UPN's "Special Unit") and A.J. Cook (THE VIRGIN SUICIDES)
will star in FINAL DESTINATION 2 for New Line and director David R. Ellis.
* Charlie Hunnam is in final talks to star in NICHOLAS NICKELBY, based on
the Charles Dickens novel, for writer/director Douglas McGrath and Hart
Sharp Entertainment Inc. Jamie Bell, Nathan Lane and Christopher Plummer
also will star in the project, which begins production in April in London
and Liverpool.
* Martin Sheen and Amy Adams (PUMPKIN) join the cast of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
for DreamWorks and director Steven Spielberg.
* Adam Goldberg will star in the indie comedy THE HEBREW HAMMER about a
handsome Orthodox Jew who goes on a mission to save Hanukkah. He joins
forces with Esther, the gorgeous and dangerous daughter of the world's top
Jewish leader, to topple the evil Santa and save Hanukkah for future
generations. Production begins in late April.
* Anthony Anderson and Gabrielle Union join DMX and Jet Li in Warner Bros.'
action pic CRADLE TO THE GRAVE for director Andrzej Bartkowiak and producer
Joel Silver. Shooting begins March 11.
* Edward Burns is in talks to star in Lions Gate Films' suspense drama
CONFIDENCE, written by Doug Jung, for director James Foley. It's about a
master con man, who swindles a few thousand dollars from an unsuspecting
victim who turns out to be an accountant for a major crime kingpin.
* Ashley Judd is in negotiations to star in BLACKOUT for Paramount Pictures
and Intertainment AG. The project, written by Sarah Thorp, is described
only as a female-driven gritty thriller.
* Cuba Gooding Jr. will star in the Paramount Pictures/MTV Films' THE
FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS about a Los Angeles hip-hop producer who travels to a
small Southern town to collect an inheritance. As stipulated in the will,
he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can get the
dough.
* Meg Ryan is in talks to star in the erotic thriller IN THE CUT, based on
the novel by Susanna Moore, for director Jane Campion. It's about a writing
teacher who becomes sexually involved with a detective on a serial murder
investigation. Production is expected to begin in New York in July.
* Johnny Depp and Robin Williams is in talks with director Terry Gilliam to
star in GOOD OMENS, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
It's about the battle between heaven and hell to find the newborn antichrist
after it is misplaced at the hospital. Gilliam will also work on an
adaptation of Mitch Cullin's TIDELAND.
* Jim Carrey will star in BRUCE ALMIGHTY, written by Steve Oedekerk, for
director Tom Shadyac. The Universal comedy is about a self-proclaimed
victim who complains so much that he's empowered by God to run the world he
feels is so unfair.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Jon and Erich Hoeber (MONTANA) will write ALICE for Dimension and director
Wes Craven. The project is a Gothic horror version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND,
taking place after Alice has been put in a mental institution by her wicked
aunt. It is based on Electronic Arts' video game "American McGee's Alice."
* Disney grabbed the family action-adventure pitch UNNATURAL HISTORY from
Charles Segars and Jeff Phillips about a family who must navigate its way
out of the museum after things go haywire when all of the exhibits come to
life.
* New Line Cinema has acquired the psychological thriller script THE NUMBER
23, written by Fernley Phillips, about a man who is obsessed with an obscure
book titled THE NUMBER 23 and becomes convinced that the book is based on
his own life.
* MGM has picked up the script BUDDY LIST from writer Mark Loughlin for
Zide/Perry Entertainment on board to produce. The teen comedy is about a
group of high school freshmen who use an e-mail account and their Internet
savvy to win an invite to the hottest party of the year, where they get to
party with the A-listers of their school.
* Disney has purchased a pitch based on the life of the only black ever to
win an Olympic medal for fencing. Keith Mitchell and Allie Dvorian will
write the UNTITLED PETER WESTBROOK STORY for producer Debra Martin Chase.
* Frank Spotnitz ("The X-Files") will direct and produce INTO THE ETHER for
Dimension Films about a medical resident who suspects patients in the
hospital where she works are dying through unnatural means. Spotnitz will
also rewrite Brian Carr's script.
* 20th Century Fox optioned the script NYPD NANNY from writer Greg Ostrin
for Davis Entertainment to produce. The project is described as KINDERGARTEN
COP meets MRS. DOUBTFIRE.
* Ryne Douglas Pearson will adapt the Ken Follett novel CODE FOR ZERO for
Columbia and Red Wagon. It's a drama set during the 1950s space race,
revolving around an American scientist whose memory was erased. He tries to
put the pieces back together but discoverss that his life is even more
complicated when his memory returns.
* Michael Apted is in talks to direct Columbia Pictures' TELL NO ONE, based
on the novel by Harlan Coben, about a man who receives a mysterious e-mail
appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he
frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being
implicated in her death.
* Disney is in negotiations with Guillermo del Toro to direct the big-screen
version of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. Based on Kenneth Grahame's 1908
children's tale, the project will be a live-action/CGI version of the
classic animal adventure story.
* Writer/director Dan Minahan (SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS) is in early talks
to direct Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon in THE FLYING SMITHS for
Working Title. Written by George Wing, the romantic comedy centers on a
trapeze artist who loses his eye in a circus accident and subsequently falls
in love with the woman whose child swallows his eye.
* Michael and Gerald Cuesta (L.I.E.) will adapt Brady Udall's novel THE
MIRACLE LIFE OF EDGAR MINT, with Michael Cuesta attached to direct, for
United Artists and Single Cell Pictures. The darkly humorous project tells
the story of Edgar Mint, who on the first page of the novel gets run over by
the mailman at age 7. The rest of the book follows the half-Apache,
half-white narrator as he goes through similarly unfortunate experiences,
such as a near-fatal beating and a tumble off a cliff.
* Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin are in talks with Disney to write a sequel
to SNOW DOGS. The writing duo has also sold an untitled pitch to Universal
in the vein of ERIN BROCKOVICH and DANGEROUS MINDS.
* Director McG (CHARLIE'S ANGELS) will direct the next installment of Warner
Bros. Pictures' SUPERMAN franchise, with J.J. Abrams ("Felicity" and "Alias"
creator) set to pen the script. Jon Peters will produce.
* Singer Jensen Entertainment has bought the pitch CRIME WAVE, a comic
thriller by Pierce Gardner (LOST SOULS) and Kim Zubick. It's about a
picture-perfect town turned upside down by its first crime wave. The
company also purchased the pitch THE WRONG TARGET from writer/director
Matthew Ross, about a single father's attempt to rescue his kidnapped son,
who was the wrong target.
* DreamWorks and Montecito partners Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock have
drafted the writing team of Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield will write
the comedy THE GRAND TOUR for DreamWorks and Montecito Pictures about the
harried process in which parents and kids tour college campuses before
choosing the one that gets the checks. Blaustein (BEYOND THE MAT) will
direct.
* Tamra Davis (CROSSROADS) will direct KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN, an extreme
sports picture to feature an original score by her husband, Beastie Boys
rapper Mike D. The project stars daredevil BMX biker Mat Hoffman; motocross
racer Travis Pastrana; surfers Sunny Garcia, and Andy and Bruce Irons;
snowboarders Marc Frank Montoya and Tina Basich; freestyle skier Mike
Basich; and skateboarders Seth Morrison, Eric Koston and Steve Berra.
* Rupert Wainwright (STIGMATA) is in talks to develop and direct BLOOD OF
SHERWOOD at Warner Bros. about Jarrow, a young man who was lost as a baby
and presumed dead. He learns that he is the son of Robin Hood, now a shell
of his former self after falling into a 20-year depression. When Robin must
help restore England to its former glory, Jarrow joins his father and
breathes life into his newfound dad and the former Merry Men as they battle
against the Normans.
* Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE) will direct the DreamWorks comedy DATE
SCHOOL for Red Hour Films and Firm Films. It's about the proprietor of a
Learning Annex-type dating school who falls for a skeptical student. Abby
Cohn and Mark Silverstein wrote the script.
* DreamWorks has picked up the pitch THE STORM RETURNS from Brian Koppelman
and David Levien (KNOCKAROUND GUYS), who will write, direct and produce the
project. The story is set in St. Louis in the wake of the Gulf War. It
follows a group of recently discharged soldiers who have become warriors
without a war and enlist in a battle to clear a vicious drug gang out of a
housing project.
* DreamWorks has optioned the action-comedy script AMAZING HEROES from Matt
Lopez. It's about two 12-year-old fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, who
discover that the girl has superpowers. The boy feels he was shortchanged,
and the girl sees it as a curse. Ultimately, the two work out their
differences and end up saving the world from an alien supervillain
* Columbia Pictures and Winchester Films have nabbed the pitch LIL' HOMIES
from writers Freddie Gutierrez, Wesley Johnson and Scott Taylor. It's about
a group of four ethnic kids who find a treasure map leading them to
crisscross New York in an attempt to find the treasure.
* New Line Cinema has picked up the young romantic pitch HOW TO DEAL about a
teenager who, surrounded by examples of love gone wrong, decides it doesn't
exist. Heidi Ferrer wrote the first draft, with a second draft by Neena
Beber.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Universal Pictures and Misher Films have grabbed the rights to hip-hop
pioneer Russell Simmons' autobiography, LIFE AND DEF: SEX, DRUGS, MONEY AND
GOD. The film will chronicle the career of Simmons, a former street hustler
and concert promoter who co-founded, among other companies, Def Jam Records,
the comedy showcase Def Comedy Jam and the fashion label Phat Farm.
* Paramount Pictures has optioned Glen David Gold's novel CARTER BEATS THE
DEVIL for studio-based C/W Prods. and filmmaker Robert Towne. The story is
set in 1920s America and follows Charles Carter, aka Carter the Great, a
brilliant stage magician known for outrageous stunts carried out on
elaborate sets. He runs into major problems when he puts on the most
outrageous stunt of all, using President Warren G. Harding.
* Saville Prods. has picked up the rights to the life story of British ski
jumper Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, who became an overnight celebrity at the
1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, for his bumbling performances and
last-place finishes. Simon Kelton, who worked as a British ski journalist,
is writing the script.
* Warner Bros. has purchased the rights to Philip K. Dick's
semi-autobiographical novel, A SCANNER DARKLY, for Section 8 -- the
production shingle of Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney -- to produce.
The story follows Bob Arctor, a man so in the grip of drug dementia his
brain can't even recognize himself. Gripped by delusions, Arctor can't
discern between his day job as a narcotics officer and his paranoid
alter-ego, Fred, who's submersed in the addict's lifestyle. The project is
a possible candidate for either a CGI or traditional animation treatment.
* SHREK producer John H. Williams will develop a computer-animated feature
based on the British cartoon "Schnozz." The story centers on a crossbreed
mutt and a group of rejected animals he meets as he attempts to follow in
the footsteps of his famous police dog father.
* Catch 23 Entertainment has acquired feature film rights to Alex Simmons'
graphic novel series BLACKJACK from Platinum Studios. Michael Jai White is
in early talks to star in the project, about the exploits of black
soldier-of-fortune Arron Day as he roams the globe in search of a life of
adventure and danger.
GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* Watch the animated web cartoon "Enron: Facing the Music" at This Location .
* Toronto based b-movie filmmakers Sick & Twisted Productions is holding a
panhandling event to benefit the production of BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR on
Sunday, February 24th, 2002 from 10AM to 4PM at the corner of Queen St. &
John St. in Toronto, Canada. For more info visit Their Sick Site
* Visit This Site for more info on The Twine Tour, a savage
account of a 30 day journey across America in search of the weird
attractions in existence. The highlight of the journey is the world's
largest balls of Twine.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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Is this the movie that is being called the "urban" version of the Goonies? They should really look into changing the title of it.
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This was good, Elston...
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Boy, this one smells about as sweet as week-old shit. Can't we just take Cuba's Oscar away and, I dunno, give it to some Canadian ice-skaters or something?
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Why is it films that have "ethinic" or "blacks" in the logline, feel we with dread? As the Great "Not another teen movie" explains, black people are only allowed to say: "Shit!", "Damn!" and "thats Whack!" The only thing worse then a Token Black Movie character, is a Token Black Movie. Its time for other ethnic minorities to be the focus of these types of movies. How about Mexicans or Cubans?
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But why is a film about Eddie the Eagle necessary. I mean really, could we not just forget about him. Or perhaps there's a potential trilogy in the works, with biopics planned for the Trevor 'the tortoise' and Eric 'the eel'. Or maybe they could all unite with that Ozzie who won the ice scating the other day and use their individual talents and powers to fight crime. Sounds like a winner.
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Kindergarten Cop meets Mrs. Doubtfire?!? *weeps openly*
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I just puked my heart out. Hollywood has become so fucking lame.
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THE MAN WHO LOVED THE GORTONS FISHERMAN - Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as a man who can only inherit his father's money if he rides a dogsled carrying a gospel group to Boston and then replace the Gorton's Fisherman. UNTITLED MEG RYAN EROTIC THRILLER - ewwww!
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Peter F. Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction. Sci-Fi at its best. Start reading it, and you'll be hooked.
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Is this finalised yet? I keep hearing rumours.
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The one thing I'm wondering about the casting is who's playing who? Is Depp Aziraphale and Williams Crowley? Or Depp playing Pulsifer and Willams Shadwell? Has this casting bit progressed to that point yet?
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She's a neutrum, totally clean and aseptic. And ya've seen some current photos of her? She's getting old and wrinkled. Next stop for Meg: takin' Granny roles.
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has the world gone mad? Has that glossy, fad director even read a comic book in his life?
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apparently.
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The Unnatural History one sounds crazy as hell...but kinda Scooby-Dooish, if u know what I mean. And the news about McG and Superman....old news, people...I knew of this last week.
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A lot of people thought she looked way too old to be playing the cute, cuddly girl in kate and leopold. The film was a boxoffice dissapointment. Now, she's getting naked and trying to change her image and do soimething different to prove she can be sexy.
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The Flying Smiths??? Some kid swallows the trapeze artist's eyeball?!! What the fuck?!!!! And people say that Hollywood can't find an original idea...My question is, does the kid choke on the eyeball? An eyeball is almost the size of a golf ball for chrissake...
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atribiance, Childhood's End does indeed rock. My suggestion, and personal favorite Sci Fi book, is 'Stranger in a Strange Land' by Robert A. Heinlein. You'd do well to grok some of the insights of this book.
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but i love lord of the rings. but i'm starting to get annoyed with that lotr music loop that plays EVERY time the page loads. wether it be it when i first get to the site, or when i back outof an article to look at another one. i love lotr, but damn if that music playing over and over isnt just getting annoying, very, very annoying.
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On one hand, we have the sublime news about Good Omens progresssing nicely. If Depp is Crowley and Williams Aziraphale, I think this would work rather well. Keep your eyes open could be rather trendy if it doesn't become a vanity project for alt culture, and the new Superman might be OK, although I will continue to mourn Burton and Cage's Superman Lives. Other than that though, we have the cliched (Bloodwork, Blackout), the dodgy sounding (Blood of Sherwood, Cradle to the Grave), the blatant rip offs (Amazing Heroes/ Spy Kids anyone?, Lil Homies / Goonies) and then those movies which simply MUST NOT get made, such as Snow Dogs 2, NYPD Nanny, Bruce Almighty (well the writer is responsible for Kung Pow for Chrissake, and it sounds a bit Bedazzled anyway) and the odd for the sake of it The Flying Smiths. I weep for the industry, and only the thought of two more LotRs, Star Wars and Matrixes and at least one Spider-Man keeps me sane.
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Feb 18, 2002 11:45:54 AM CST
Damn, Harry....is news of Kevin Smith's death not considered
by terry_1978
He played Ares on Xena, one of the most hilarious characters ever. He had the whole comic book villain thing down pat.
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That Cuba Gooding "Sister Act 3" movie sounds like absolute crap. Always knew he was incredibly overrated... Just because you can yell on command in a movie does not make you an actor. "Good Omens" sounds great, though, looking forward to seeing Depp and Williams work together. I think that Terry and Johnny are a natural pair, they really seem to work well together.
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If somebody made a movie about Santa Claus saving Christmas from the Jews the shit would hit the fan, but this is ok? Cripes. sk
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This is a surefire way to kill a franchise that has been on life support for years. RIP Supes.
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The difference is that this film is a minority taking on a majority, and that generally is considered societally acceptable and always has been. It's also ridiculously unrealistic, on the scale of Canada invading the US. Christians trying to stamp out Hanukkah would have literally Nazi-esque subtones to it, where as this is flatly absurd. Even so, it would never fly as a studio film.
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Feb 18, 2002 1:43:12 PM CST
I watched the Olympics on CBC last night, and then I ate the bow
by durhay
Because Bob Costas talks too damn much.
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he IS a genius. As far as SUPERMAN, McG should be shot. Oliver Stone was attached to this, imagine a Stone film based on how SUPERMAN is controlled by the government, like in Dark Knight Returns, and he has to decide which is a greater evil or something like that with BALLS.
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whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa. Jon Peters??? The man who wrote felicity????? Is Superman going to get a new haircut and then the film will end? Directed by McG. This is soo poor. We're better off without a SUPERMAN film. We really are, thanks.
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Harry, please tell me you are polishing up your book length rant AGAINST McG directing Superman. Where are you on this one buddy? You couldn't be stopped on Scooby Doo! Not that it helped but come on! It's soooo sad. Anyways, I do have to say, I just watched Waking the Dead and Billy Crudup might make a good Superman. But McG would just suck...ARRRR
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Feb 18, 2002 2:32:56 PM CST
Wow, there sure are a lot of shitty sounding movies getting made
by billy talent
I would like to see Meg Ryan naked in a bad art movie though. Enjoyed her in 'Hurlyburly' (Mmmm, I could sure go for a Jack in the Box!). Probably means more of Keitel's ass, though. Some of these movies I'm quite certain will never be made, but it's good that Hollywood spends money on them anyways. If you can come up with an idea as good as 'Goonies with a hip-hop twist' then you deserve a living.
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He'd be a damn good choice to play Superman. He should be him. Not some lame-ass crapster like John Travolta or some other A-list lump of turd. Billy Crudup is your man. It will be a star-making turn akin to that of a certain Christopher Reeve. Rock on.
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They're both totally wrong for Superman (and anyone who says Burton should be directing this should check out http://dcboards.warnerbros.com/files/Forum30/HTML/007213.html for proof otherwise). Not that it matters who directs the film. Hell, it doesn't even matter that Jon Peters is still producing it. SMALLVILLE and JUSTICE LEAGUE have already destroyed Superman beyond the point of repair. The current comics are portraying Superman as a whiny, wimpy, self-loathing coward who's pu$$y-whipped by his emotionally abusive wife. The traditonal Superman, as created by Siegel and Shuster and carried forth by their successors, no longer exists. All Superman is now is a meaningless brand name that can be slapped on anything, and the masses will lap it up. Whether Tim "King of Hacks" Burton directs this or McG--lord of MATRIX-imitation camp--directs this is of no consequence. Superman has already been ruined. All the Peters/McG movie will do (and all the Peters/Burton film WOULD have done) is be a mercy-killing.
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i mean, that book is about MY life; i feel so violated by hollywood. in other news, Final Destination was great, but a sequel without Wong/Morgan is just a betrayal of what the first movie was. And Genius Wes Craven on Alice will be amazing (i just hope they have the guts to cas Eliza Dukshu or someone as equally hot and intense)
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he's in no way a bad director. Nic Cage is wrong as well. McG is much worse. How much cash has been wasted on making this film (on pay-or-play contracts)? How many millions for Burton and Cage? Probably more than any other film in history.
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Am I the only one who thought Burton's Batman films were booooring! Burton even said so himself in an interview I read about him a couple of years ago. Everyone whines about Shumacher but I thought all 4 sucked the high hard one. Burton is a terrible director at making action sequences. It's amazing how this guy can make crap after crap, yet people continually kiss his ass.
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That was as legitimate a gold medal as has ever been given. All those other guys got greedy and stupid and fucked up their chance, and Steven Bradbury had absolutely NOTHING to do with it. It's the very nature of all competitive sport. Exactly the same thing happened in the semi-finals, and no-one kicked up a stink then. BTW, the sooner Gilliam is shooting GOOD OWENS the sooner I can breathe easy. After DON QUIXOTE I just wait for Gilliam's amazing projects to just fall apart any second. I bet he does too.
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Feb 18, 2002 5:33:51 PM CST
Come on now, Buzz Maverik must be pulling our legs! No studio wo
by regis travolta
Oh my God they would! Those aren't Buzz Maverik spoof items THOSE TWO TITLES ARE REAL MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We're all doomed I tell you, doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please God just make California fall into the ocean right now with that Big Earthquake you've been threatening us with. I'll swim to Catalina island and be fine.
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The storyline here is pretty much a WORD FOR WORD account on how my parents met. Which we always thought was uncanny, as the EXACT same thing happened to my brother and lovely sister-in-law 25 years later to the DAY. AS it tuned out, their daughter was named Reese. Coincidence? Now, my barber says the same thing happened to his friend, George. Not sure if he's telling the truth or just saying it so that we have something in common. I mean, the guy can't even decide if its his friends left eye or right which falls out.
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Santa represents the commercialized rape of Christmas!! Now the fat bastard is going after Hannakah too? The Hebrew Hammer is completely justified in his attempts to defeat the raindeer enslaving tyrant!!!
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yo, Christopher, I second that vote for the voluptuous Ms. Mia Kirschner in HH, or any movie for that matter. She can mazel my tov any day. Yahweh bless them Canadian indie flicks! Check "Love and Human Remains" for Mia as a slinky dominatrix, and, my personal fave, as a kittenish, and somewhat mysterious laptop dancer in Atom Egoyan's much underrated dark drama, "Exotica". A damn fine film that builds ever so slowly but which, for me personally, carries a powerfully emotive conclusion. Ms. Kirschner just might break your heart in this little gem.
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TAKEN FROM THE DAREDEVIL TALKBACKS...I had just settled in to smoke a pipeful of mushrooms, get in touch with the Original Soul and maybe cheat it a couple of hands of blackjack when the phone rang. It was the writer-director of DAREDEVIL, Mark Paul Gossleaar (yes, the boy who played Screech on 90210 has grown up to be the writer and/or director of such crap as A FEW GRUMPY OLD MEN and THE DWARF KID). He was going to try his hand at Daredevil but then he got to reading the talkbacks. "So many of the talkbackers wanted Marlon Brando that I fired Duncan's ass," he said. "Then, I had to fire Affleck because nobody wants to see Affleck beating up on a guy who's almost 80 years old." "Who'd you hire?" "Clint Eastwood." "Clint Eastwood will be playing Matt Murdoch and Daredevil." "Well, a stunt man will play Daredevil because Clint won't wear tights. But that created other casting trouble. I ended up firing Jennifer Garner because she looked like Eastwood's granddaughter. Now, Gina Lollabrigida is coming out of retirement to play Elektra." "Well, she was hot the 50s. Did you ever see TRAPEZE?" "No. I hired her because she was old and she looked sorta Mediterranean." "So who's Foggy now?" "The character is now called Fogey and he'll be played by Lee Majors. Charles Bronson will be Bullseye and we're getting Ronald Reagan out of bed to play Stick. I need your help, Buzz. This script was written for people who are still continent. I have a million dollars for you, I have the Suburban filled with Cuban cigars and I have a call into the Purdys." "We'll talk after they call back. Also, I get a new perk with each job. You have to babysit my rottweilers. You! Not an assistant or your agent."...So here's a few excerpts: P. 33 -- EXT. ROOFTOP -- NIGHT Daredevil and Elektra square off, sais vs. billy club. DAREDEVIL: "What happened to you, Elektra?" ELEKTRA:"Gravity!" P.110 INT. THE KINGPIN'S OFFICE -- NIGHT The Kingpin hefts Daredevil over his head but suddenly drops him. KINGPIN:"Oh, God! My bacck!" DAREDEVIL:"I gotta pee." See you at the WGA arbitration hearings....
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