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Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP
Father Geek here, just in from the Alamo Drafthouse screening of SPIDER-MAN, and it kicked my butt, but not so much as to keep me from posting Elston's latest report on everything that happened out in Hollywoodland during the latest work-week... Lots of coolness you may have overlooked during those hurried coffeebreak surfing sessions. Sooooo once again Father Geek is turning you over to the nimble fingers of our man Gunn and...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Ed Harris is in talks to join Cuba Gooding Jr. in RADIO for Revolution
Studios and director Mike Tollin. Shooting begins this fall. It's about
the true-life story of a white football coach in a small South Carolina town
who befriends a mentally challenged black man who is barely literate. Under
the coach's mentoring, their relationship helps transform the social
dynamics of the team and the school. Mike Rich (THE ROOKIE) scripted.
* Kirsten Dunst is in talks to star in GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING for
director Peter Webber. Production begins in August. Ralph Fieenes is
attached to play the male lead.
* Michael Michele is in final talks to star opposite Matthew McConaughey and
Kate Hudson in Paramount's HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS for director Donald
Petrie (MISS CONGENIALITY). Shooting starts in June in New York.
* Natasha Richardson will co-star with Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes in
Revolution's THE CHAMBERMAID. Wayne Wang directs.
* Robert de Niro will produce and possibly star in a remake of the Japanese
crime drama KAOSU, which is being developed as a vehicle for Benicio Del
Toro. It's about a young grifter who gets involved in the kidnapping of the
wife of a wealthy businessman. The woman is all too willing to be tied up
and stored in the grifter's house when the kidnapper leaves to make his
ransom demand. Things become complicated when he returns home and finds the
woman dead.
* Brian Cox will play father to Edward Norton's character in THE 25th HOUR
for director Spike Lee. Based on the novel by David Benoiff, the project
chronicles the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins a
seven-year jail term for drug dealing.
* Kate Winslet is in talks to star opposite Johnny Depp in NEVERLAND for
Miramax and director Marc Forster (MONSTER'S BALL). Production begins
mid-June in London. The project is based on Allan Knee's play THE MAN WHO
WAS PETER PAN, about how James M. Barries's relationship with four
fatherless boys and their mother led to the creation of Peter Pan.
* Kate Beckinsale will star in the action pic UNDERWORLD for Lakeshore
Entertainment, Screen Gems and director Len Wiseman. It's described as
"Romeo and Juliet" set in the world of vampires and werewolves.
* Naomi Watts will star opposite Heath Ledger in the Gregor Jordan-helmed
NED KELLY. Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths, Orlando Bloom, Joel Edgerton and
Peter Phelps also star.
* Marcia Gay Harden, Rita Moreno, Daryl Hannah, Susan Lynch, Maggie
Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Martinez join Mary Steenburgen and Lili Taylor in
CASA DE LOS BABYS for writer/director John Sayles. Shooting begins this
summer in Mexico. It's about six American women who travel to an unnamed
South American country with hopes of adopting a baby.
* Los Angeles Lakers forward Rick Fox is in talks to join the cast of Walden
Media/Phoenix Pictures' HOLES for director Andrew Davis, as well as the
indie pic AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER for director J. Mills Goodloe.
* Jerry Springer will star opposite Christopher Lambert in the thriller
CITIZEN JURY. Larry Smith will direct the project, written by Tony Clark
and Frank Rehwaldt.
* Halle Berry will star in and produce a remake of the 1974 pic FOXY BROWN,
and character study BROWN-EYED GIRL, both for MGM.
* Penelope Cruz joins and Jeff Bridges is in talks to join Bob Dylan,
Jessica Lange and Luke Wilson in MASKED & ANONYMOUS for director Larry
Charles and Intermedia Films.
* Barry Pepper will star in THE SNOW WALKER about a pilot in the 1950s who
crashes his plane in the North and gets aid from a female Inuit to help him
survive the climate. Charles Martin Smith will direct from his own
adaptation of a Farley Mowat short story. Pepper will also join the cast of
Spike Lee's THE 25th HOUR.
* Luke Wilson will star with Kate Hudson in ALEX AND EMMA, a modern
adaptation of Dostoevsky's short story THE GAMBLER, which Rob Reiner is set
to direct this fall.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Universal Pictures is in final talks to option Astonish Comics' HEROBEAR &
THE KID to be produced as an animated feature for Chuck Gordon's Daybreak
Prods. and Adrian Askarieh's Prime Universe Prods. Mike Kunkel created the
series about a little boy named Tyler who inherits a stuffed polar teddy
bear from his dead grandfather. The bear comes to life as a superhero and
the duo embark on adventures together. Kunkel is attached to direct the
project and will co-write the script with Jeph Loeb.
* Sharon Maguire (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY) will develop and direct the
English-language remake of the German film ALLES BOB! (EVERYTHING BOB!) for
Scott Free Prods. The feature is a modern comedy that follows the
adventures of Bob, a philanderer who is about to give up his bachelor life
to marry a beautiful, wealthy woman whom he doesn't truly love. When he
falls in love with an older woman with three children, he begins to realize
that true love may be more important than money
* 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises have purchased an untitled pitch,
described as a live-action dog musical, that Daniel Bernstein will write
with Jonathan Treisman producing. Bernstein also will write the musical
lyrics for the film. The pitch is based on a story treatment titled WHEN
BOGEY MET GARBO, by Joseph Lawson, which Treisman optioned and enlisted
Bernstein to come aboard.
* Steve Faber and Bob Fisher have been hired to do a rewrite on the
Montecito/DreamWorks Pictures comedy CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.
* Actor-producer Jeff Fahey has optioned Christopher Dean Johnston's comedy
script TRAILS OF THE WARLOCK for Fahey to produce through his Leadville
Pictures with TriCoast Studios. It's about an inept man who attempts to
earn his legacy as a serial killer.
* The Coen brothers are in talks to write and direct a remake of the Peter
Sellers/Alec Guinness British black comedy THE LADYKILLERS. The original
centered on four accomplices in a robbery who try to kill their
indestructible elderly landlady. The new project is set in the South and
revolves around an eccentric lady who unwittingly rents out rooms in her
house to a gang of professional thieves. They plan to use the innocent
address as a hideout while they plot a big heist. However, they find
they're no match for the woman. Barry Sonnenfeld and Tom Jacobson will
produce.
* Miramax has optioned Brent Goldberg and David T. Wagner's (NATIONAL
LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER) script A HORSE'S TALE to be developed into an animated
pic. The story is told from a circus horse's point of view.
* Richard Eyre (IRIS) is in talks to direct THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN
with Juliette Binoche attached to star and Javier Bardem being courted to
join her. Anthony Minghella and Leigh Jackson have written the screenplay,
based on Katie Campbell's novel. Eyre (IRIS) is also attached to direct
COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY, a comedic drama set in 17th century England.
Based on playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's work of the same title, the Artisan
Pictures project tells the story of a leading stage actor who is playing
women's roles in 1661 England. When the king declares it illegal for men to
act in women's roles, the great thesp finds himself downsized. Tribeca
Films will produce with Artisan.
* Tim Burton will direct BIG FISH, based on the book by Daniel Wallace, for
Columbia Pictures. John August wrote the script. It's about exaggerator
Edward Bloom and his son William, who returns home only to find out his
father is dying of cancer. Desperate to know the man before it's too late,
William searches to distinguish fact from fiction, with much of the story
told in flashback.
* Spyglass is developing ANGEL OF DEATH about the true story of Efren
Saldivar, who poisoned patients at the Glendale Activist Medical Center, and
the investigator, Sgt. John McKillop, who helped crack the case. Saldivar
was sentenced to life without parole for six of the murders. James Manos
("The Sopranos") has written a script and production is expected to begin
late summer.
* Producer Hawk Koch Jr. and writer/director Michele Ohayon are working on
STEAL A PENCIL, the true story of two lovers whose courtship took place
while they were separated in a concentration camp. They reunited in
Amsterdam after he was liberated by the Russians and she by the Americans.
The two lived happily ever after in America. Koch and Ohayon may also
develop a feature version of the documentary COLORS STRAIGHT UP at Morgan
Freeman's Revelations banner. Robert Dolman (upcoming THE BANGER SISTERS) is
writing a script.
* Sony has grabbed the THE PRICE, a supernatural thriller set in a hospital
written by Alex Sokoloff and Kimball Greenough. Laura Ziskin (SPIDER-MAN)
will produce the pic, the plot of which is being kept under wraps.
* Gore Verbinski is in final talks to direct PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN for
Jerry Bruckheimer and the Walt Disney Co.
* King of Pop Michael Jackson is teaming with writer-director Bryan Michael
Stoller on a big-screen adaptation of Jennings Michael Burch's book THEY
CAGE THE ANIMALS AT NIGHT for Icon Prods. Stoller will adapt and co-direct
with Jackson. The book is the true story of the author's account of being
left at an orphanage and bouncing around from one foster home to another.
* Spyglass Entertainment has picked up the comedy pitch FEELS LIKE THE FIRST
TIME from brothers Steven and Daniel Altiere that Maverick Entertainment
also is producing. It's about a relationship-phobic woman who returns to
her high school past to prevent her younger self from losing her virginity
to the boy who dumped her on prom night.
* Frank Oz is in talks to direct POWERS, based on the Image Comics book, for
Columbia Pictures and producer Mace Neufeld. The story centers on homicide
detective Christian Walker who solves crimes that are superpower-related.
This project will have him lead an investigation into a killer who has been
knocking off, one by one, the band of superheroes that had been securing
peace and enforcing good will in the country.
* Tony Scott is in talks to direct Universal's AMERICAN CAESAR for Red Wagon
Entertainment. William Nicholson (SHADOWLANDS) wrote the script about a
modern-day Caesar and Brutus story set in the U.S. Army. In the story, a
populist general takes over the White House, but things get interesting when
one of his officers detects danger in the general's hidden mission.
* New Line Cinema picked up the car racing comedy script DIESEL DEBUTANTES
from scribes Gregg Rosen and Brian Sawyer for Urban Entertainment to
produce. It's about a twentysomething debutante who inherits a losing race
car team only to become the lead driver and turn the team's odds around.
* Myriad Pictures has purchased the script INDIGO from writer Alex Torres.
It's being described as a supernatural thriller about astral projection in
the vein of FLATLINERS.
* Brett Ratner (RUSH HOUR) is in early talks to direct Paramount's PAYCHECK,
based on the short story by Philip K. Dick, about a man who has part of his
memory erased and must find clues to his past and use the information to
uncover a government secret. Dean Georgaris wrote the screenplay.
* Universal, Fox and Paramount are in a ferocious bidding battle for the
script THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, a big-budget, high-concept sci-fi film in
which the world is ravaged by global warming. Rolan Emmerich will direct the
script he co-wrote with Jeffrey Nachmanoff. It's about an abrupt climate
change that has dramatic consequences for the world. It looks likely that
production would begin in the fall.
* Jim Isaac (JASON X) will direct SKINWALKERS for Gold Circle Films about
two sects of battling werewolves; one embraces their nature, while the other
fights the beast within.
* Ron Nyswaner will adapt the Intermedia/Pacifica project TRIAL BY JURY
which Sam Raimi is attached to direct and produce. It's based on
author-historian D. Graham Burnett's nonfiction book, based on his
experience as a jury foreman in a gruesome New York murder case. The case
included transvestitism, male prostitution and rape and a jury sequestering
that lasted four days.
* Nick Guthe will direct his dark comedy script MINI'S FIRST TIME for RKO
Pictures. The story centers on a promiscuous Beverly Hills girl who falls
in love with her stepfather and plots with him to kill her alcoholic mother.
* Firm Films has optioned the feature rights to the novel TRUTH OR DIE by
Guy Toubes and David Ackerman. The project will be adapted by Craig Borten
and Melissa Wallack and is described as a 1960s-set pic about a newly
graduated medical researcher who gets a call from the government offering
him a high profile job in the field. At first, he thinks his research will
be used to find cures for terminal diseases, but he later finds out that his
research is being used to develop biological warfare. Borten and Wallack
are also working on a pitch about an ex-con who becomes a coach to a reform
school football team and ends up trying to prevent the players from
following the path he took.
* Mike Hodges will direct Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan
Rhys-Meyers and Malcolm McDowell in the noir thriller I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M
DEAD. Trevor Preston wrote the pic about a former gang boss who is drawn
back into the game to avenge his brother's tragic death.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Gavin and Greg O'Connor, via their Solaris shingle, have optioned film
rights for TV: A NOVEL, by Brian Brown. The book follows the advent of
television through the life of Caesar Fortunato, a directorial maven in
television sports and inventor of the instant replay. But his dissolute
lifestyle finally catches up with him when his network is bought out by a
media giant and his new boss refuses to deal with him.
* Cowboy Pictures and Janus Films will jointly re-release a new print, with
new subtitles, of Akira Kurosawa's THE SEVEN SAMURAI. The film will be
nationally released in the fall and winter.
* Vin Diesel has opted not to star in Universal's sequel to THE FAST AND THE
FURIOUS. Instead, the project will be built around Paul Walker's cop
character Brian O'Conner. However, Diesel is still attached to star in
CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK for whick Akiva Goldsman has been tapped to do a
rewrite.
* MGM and Bruce Willis' Cheyenne Enterprises have signed a first-look deal
for projects from Stan Lee's new company, POW! Entertainment. Three
superhero action-adventures are already in consideration: THE FEMIZONS, with
Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman attached to script; THE DOUBLE MAN, with
Antoine Fuqua attached to direct a script by Alan McElroy; and NIGHTBIRD,
with negotiations to bring in a writer.
* Filmmaker William Gazecki (WACO: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT) has launched
OpenEdge Media, a production company focusing on documentaries. The company
is in production on three projects and has over a dozen in development.
These projects include CROP CIRCLES: QUEST FOR TRUTH; INTO THE MYSTIC, about
psychotropic plants and psychedelic use throughout history; and GOD'S TRUTH:
THE ORPHANS OF DUPLESSIS; a story of injustice and coverup by the Catholic
Church.
* Intermedia Films has picked up remake rights to BILLY JACK while a deal
for DreamWorks to remake HAWAII FIVE-O has changed from being exclusive
negotiator to one of several bidders in the new pic.
* Andrew Lauren Prods. has optioned Melvin Jules Bukiet's novel AFTER, with
Srdjan Dragojevic (PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAMES) attached to direct from
his own screenplay. It's a post-Holocaust heist film in which three
survivors try to steal a 64-cubic-foot block of gold, made from the melted
fillings of murdered Jews.
* Independent producer Jim Miller has optioned movie rights , through his
IKO Prods., to the Sea Monkeys toy that famously promised children the
opportunity to "create instant life." Miller is shopping the idea of a
CG-animated SEA MONKEYS feature to several studios.
* Quentin Tarantino will executive produce a project based on the Marvel
comic series, MORT: THE DEAD TEENAGER for Maverick Films. The movie's main
character, Mort, is a teenager who is beheaded in a train accident at the
start of the film. He descends in the Netherworld and meets Teen Death, the
son of the Grim Reaper, and the two have some adventures.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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May 07, 2002 1:01:20 AM CDT
"Romeo & Juliet" with vampires & werewolves? Does this have som
by lenny nero
So many werewolves. Fear them.
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Didn't Cuba Gooding, Jr. play a retard in Snow Dogs, too? For doing movies as bad as Chill Factor and Instink, he should have to give his Oscar back. Now, with taking an Academy softball part, he's trying to get another one. WTF is Ed Harris thinking? For that matter, WTF is Ralph Fiennes thinking? A J-Lo movie? That's more like territory for his low-rent, Prince-lookalike brother Joseph, isn't it? Will Kate Winslet pee on Johnny Depp and become Tinklebell in Neverland? And the two questions I know the answer to -- Isn't Montecito Ivan Reitman's company? Yes. So doesn't that mean this Criminal Procedure movie will suck the salty yogurt slinger? Indeed. Take a bite of my sandwich.
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May 07, 2002 1:33:15 AM CDT
Buzz Maverik's Weekly Recap --Drug Free Since May 7, 2002...
by buzz maverik
TAKEN FROM MICHAEL MANN'S UPCOMING BIO-PIC "MAV" STARRING ALEC BALDWIN AS ME, DANIEL BALDWIN AS MY BROTHER, STEPHEN BALDWIN AS MY OTHER BROTHER, BILLY BALDWIN AS MY OTHER OTHER BROTHER, AND ADAM BALDWIN AS MY OTHER OTHER OTHER NON-RELATED BROTHER...A strange trend has overtaken Hollywood. Sequels to films that have failed to make it out of development hell are now all the rage. I recently reported that BEATNIKS VS. THE SERIAL KILLERS was going into production while BEATNIKS VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS is dead in the water. It has recently come to my attention that while the Farrley Brothers have dropped their plans for THE UNTITLED BOOGER MOVIE (in which Jim Carey and Ben Stiller were in talks to play G.I.'s who died while testing radioactive nosedrops and whose personalities were passed on to human sized, sentient boogers who then had a road trip adventure), they have moved on to MR. BOOGER in which Adam Sandler would play a kookie young inventor who strikes it rich with a formula that creates instant boogers and has every kid in the country bugging their parents for it...Girls, have we got a movie for you. Dame Judi Dench, Glen Close, Meryl Streep and Pamela Anderson will star in Cassandra McGurk's HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN POTHOLDER. Guys, you can see the booger movie...Jimmy Fallon will play a crack addict drafted by a pee wee baseball team to be their coach in Steve Cramm's LITTLE LEAGUE LOSERS for Paramount...Nicholas Meyer is returning to the director's chair with ENEMYSTERY for Sony. The scenario features an unlikely team up of Jerry Falwell (James Gandolfini), Larry Flynt (Robert Downey Jr.), G. Gordon Liddy (Johnny Depp) and Timothy Leary (Matthew Lillard) who must band together to stop a serial killer (Tom Green)... The most interesting project this week is Tavish Field's MARGOT & JENNIFER'S BEACH HOUSE about the infamous hangout of the movie brat generation. Described as a BIG CHILL/BREAKFAST CLUB for the EASY RIDER/RAGING BULL set, we find nymphomaniac Margot Kidder (Jordana Brewster) and roomate/Waldo Salt's daughter Jennier Salt (Rachel Leigh Cook) hosting a weekend party for some of the hottest young filmmakers of the '70s including Steven Spielberg (Jason Biggs), Brian De Palma (Gandolfini again), Martin Scorsese (Chris Kattan), John Milius (Randy "Macho Man" Savage), Michael Crichton (Jerry O'Connell), Julia Phillips (Natasha Lyonne) and Paul Schrader (Leonardo DiCaprio). Things become too intense when everybody says how they really feel about everybody else...See you at SPIDER-MAN...
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May 07, 2002 1:34:38 AM CDT
What's up with Halle Berry holding up the production of X-Me
by monkey_king
Remakes, remakes. Is nothing sacred in Hollywood anymore? Apparently not since they can't come up with anything original and have to remake BILLY JACK, FOXY BROWN and, dare I say it, Romeo & Juliet with vampires and werewolves playing th forbidden lovers. How about filming a faithful version of Bruce Lee's THE SILENT FLUTE or finishing the GAME OF DEATH with CGI and Donnie Yen standing in for the Bruce scenes, using Bruce's original script and notes. Even better, how about ressurecting Stallone's floundering career and cast him as the lead in LEGEND OF THE DUELIST. Unique and different folks! Let's do away with the remakes already.
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OHHH, I think I just wet myself
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Ok, now that I've changed pants, I do have to agree w/King--while the thought of seeing Seven Samurai on the big screen does make me get as excited as a thirteen-year-old in his sister's underwear drawer (God, that's a disurbing visual) I am rather disappointed that Hollywood has to resort to remakes and re-releases to flush out their schedule. Mabey they should rethink giving the Micheal Bay's out there 300 mil to put out Pearl Harbor and use it to make ten In the Bedrooms. Just a thought. On the plus side, this could mean they've chosen NOT to re-make Samurai and just stick to the original (yeah, I doubt it, too).
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Seems that the door that Halle Berry supposedly broke down is being put sealed again. Foxy Brown? What a joke. Denzel will probably star in a remake of Ghoulies. Look at Loius Gossett Jr. and Cuba Godding Jr.....There's a fair share of others that have fallen since triumphs..Robin williams..Kim Basinger..the lsit goes on
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or how about "My Fair Lady" with robots? "Birth of a Nation" with hamsters? "Titanic" with historical accuracy?
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Frank Oz directing Powers. Thank you Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi for making comic book properties viable so that gems like this can be made!!!
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this remake of 'kaosu' with bobby D and benny DT is all well and good but where's that mamet-script/scorsese-directed "re-imagining" of kurosawa's 'high and low' (kidnappers mistakenly snatch son of millionaire's chauffeur, not son of millionaire - moral minefield and mucho tension ensues)? now THAT would the shit*****i just don't get it: vampires are kinda sexy and werewolves have their strange kind of primal sex appeal but i can't see these two types of monster being attracted to one another, even if one of them is kate beckinsale. i'd still rather see that 'silver strike' flick - that's the infamous "'black hawk down' with werewolves" we've all heard about*****dude, they're filming 'ned kelly' about 20km from my house! on a serious note, it's good to see the aussie film industry taking a bite of the globalisation cookie and getting a decently-budgeted project with some overseas finance up and running*****'masked and anonymous' sounds like the weirdest fucking thing in weeks*****sorry, 'herobear and the kid' does. wouldn't you rather see the adventures of happy scrappy, hero pup instead?*****jeff fahey's making a comedy about an inept serial killer? oh, jeff. i had such high hopes for you once*****the news that the coens are going the ealing route and taking on 'the ladykillers' fills my heart with song and eases some of my jeff fahey-related pain*****here's a difficult one: tim burton directs 'big fish'. i like tim's work most of the time but the fact is, he's a natural stylist, not a natural storyteller. if we wants to spin a good yarn, he needs it to be in his favourite genre: the outsider. 'big fish' ain't really that, but i guess he could sorta work his favourite theme into it. but he'd better have a fucking good script and a strong-willed producer making sure he does right by this one. it's a good book, it could be a great movie*****michael jackson co-directing 'they cage the animals at night' - so... many...jokes! must... resist... urge to mock!*****oh, 'legally blonde', what hast thou wrought? 'diesel debutantes'? are you out of your fucking mind, hollywood? mark my words: the heroine of this movie will wear a pink crash helmet at some stage during the film. and we will all laugh accordingly*****coolest title of the week: 'i'll sleep when i'm dead'*****uncoolest news of the week: akiva goldsman set to butt-fuck potentially cool 'pitch black' sequel. just go away, akiva*****buzz maverik, the 'margot and jennifer's beach house' story was the shit!!! if half the stories in 'easy riders, raging bulls' are true, i'd hand over hard cash to see it on the big screen! make this puppy NOW, hollywood! and hire buzz maverik as the new head of MGM!*****any major dude will tell you...now five-tone has too.
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May 07, 2002 3:06:50 AM CDT
I'm developing ELSTON & BUZZ'S WEEKLY RECAP ROAD TRIP BU
by regis travolta
And you'll all get to be extras in it! Filming begins in August right smack dab in the middle of Death Valley. Be there or be square!
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is going to be fantastic! I thought Gregor Jordan's TWO HANDS was great, and the cast for this is awesome!! Can it get any better? Hopefully! This thing is filming so VERY close to my house...
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Stupid Enter key. What I was trying to say was, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Claire Danes replacing Sofia Bush, in TERMINATOR 3!!!!!!
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LuLu McAdoo stars as a down-on-her-luck R&B backup singer who joins her daughter on the police force in STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOP! Twee Dudley is Phil Collins and Dorothy Puddingbosom is his muse in the rock opera SUE, SUE SUDIO.
Neil Diamond is in the studio working on a special edition of TURN ON YOUR HEARTLIGHT to coincide with the rerelease of E.T. The new version will replace any mention of guns
with walkie-talkies, the word "terrorist" with "hippie," and will include a rap that
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It's one thing remaking the work of a guy who has been dead over 2000 years, but why oh why oh why do you feel you have the right to remake Ladykillers. Just a couple of days ago I was defending you against a guy who said you were over-rated fools. Now I'm not so sure
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After "Neverland" they can make "Wonderland" about how Lewis Carroll's very special relationship with nude, prepubescent girls inspired him to write "Alice in Wonderland." sk
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....Apocalypse...
"Actor-producer Jeff Fahey has optioned Christopher Dean Johnston's comedy script TRAILS OF THE WARLOCK for Fahey to produce through his Leadville Pictures with TriCoast Studios. It's about an inept man who attempts to earn his legacy as a serial killer." This sounds like a laugh riot. Ha. Ha.
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Pay attention to how superhero movies CAN be done - you've got two of the greatest icons in the business - Superman and Batman - don't they deserve scripts and directors equal to (if not superior to) Spider-Man, X-Men, The Hulk and Daredevil? Must we be forever subjected to movies where the hero is relegated to the background, and the villains are more campy than Caesar Romero? Aside from Superman I (and I'm deliberately overlooking the horrible writing for Luthor, the abomination of Otis, the mis-casting of Lois), you have failed to honor your characters - Marvel is showing up as chumps - get a clue. (Thank you - and while we're on the subject of remakes, how about The Hideous Sun Demon - fun story done in a bad way - why not make it uber-cool?)
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I can't wait to see Kirsten in "Girl With a Pearl Necklace." Oh no, wait, that's the movie that *I* wrote for her. Never mind...
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There's going to be a sequel to Romeo and Juliet. But as they die in the end (sorry to spoil it for those that haven't seen Baz Lurhman's movie), the sequel sees them brought back to life as zombies by Macbeth and the Wyrd sisiters. Terror strikes as the evil Hamlet lets lose his indestructable army of werewolves to take over the world, or a fair share of it. Only Romeo and Juliet, with their new found super zombie powers, stand a chance in defeating them.But first they have to consult the guidance of the mysterious but wisecracking Falstaff to aid them on their quest. ...Man, what a lame movie sendup. Don't laugh to make me feel comfortable and accepted, I don't need your pity. Just shut up and read the next post.
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May 08, 2002 4:37:02 AM CDT
Gee, I cant wait to see attack of the clones! Who's with me?
by crazy fresh dj
There, that'll divert everyones attention away from my previous post....
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