OLD MOVIE NEWS - DECEMBER 1997

Halloween 7 - With "Scream 2" slashing through records at the box office, it's no wonder the woman who started the slice 'em, dice 'em craze is returning to her roots. In January, Jamie Lee Curtis goes before cameras to begin shooting Halloween: Revenge of Laurie Strode. Curtis will play the headmistress of an all-girls school. Imagine the possibilities there ...

Goosebumps - Helmer-writer-producer Tim Burton has struck a deal with Chris Meledandri's Fox Family Films to produce a feature version of "Goosebumps," based on R.L. Stine's bestselling series of children's thrillers. [ Yahoo! ]

The X-Files: The Movie - One of Corona's scoopers 'Matt' has seen some preliminary artwork for the teaser and one-sheet posters of The X-Files Movie, and he tells them a predominant theme is the use of bees and/or honeycombs in the posters. Definately sounds like those mutant killer bees will be back. [ Corona ]

Scream 2 - Miramax-Dimension's horror sequel "Scream 2" stalked off with an estimated $39.2 million over the weekend, slashing box office records and shocking even the most wildly optimistic industry prognosticators. The Wes Craven-helmed picture enjoyed the biggest non-summer opening ever, topping the $37.8 million bow of "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls," in November 1995. "Scream 2" nearly doubled the December opening record of $20.1 million, set last year by Paramount's "Beavis and Butt-head." [ Yahoo! ]

From The Ashes - Here's a cool scoop from an Anonymous source: A new movie called “From the Ashes” is possibly in the making at Universal Studios, and it is a post-apocolyptic drama. The exciting thing about this film is it is apparently the antithesis of a big-budget special effects extravaganza. It’s a character-driven story with a lot of philosophical and socialogical themes, somewhat like “Gattaca.” It’s still in the early stages of development, but it’ll be interesting to see where this project goes.

Click here to see some clips, pictures and even play a game on this Scream 2 page. [ E! Online ]

The Sea Wolf - Sony Pictures Entertainment arm Columbia Pictures has joined forces with Imagine Entertainment to develop a new feature film version of Jack London's classic high-seas tale The Sea Wolf. David Koepp (Jurassic Park, The Lost World) has signed on to write the screenplay for the project, which has been a pet project of Imagine principal Brian Grazer for a decade now. [ Yahoo! ]

Click Here to download some cool Starship Troopers wallpaper! [ E! Online ]

The PJs - Comedian Eddie Murphy will executive produce and serve as the voice of the lead character in a new stop-motion animated comedy The PJs, which Imagine Television is developing for Fox Broadcasting Co. The title refers to inner-city housing projects, and Murphy intends to voice the character of Thurgood Stubbs, the superintendent of the mythical Hilton-Jacobs project. The comedy will revolve around Stubbs, his family and his neighbors in the projects. [ Yahoo! ]

Bridget Fonda, hot off Jackie Brown for Miramax, is in talks to star opposite Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton in A Simple Plan for Paramount Pictures, sources said Friday. Fonda would play Paxton's wife in the pic about two brothers who find $4 million in a wrecked plane and decide to keep the money. Pic is slated to start shooting Jan. 5. [ Yahoo! ]

Here's a nice transcript of a James Cameron Interview held a few days ago for the Titanic Premiere in Mexico City. - Transcript. [ Thanks a lot to "Zej." ]

From The Ashes: here are some new rumours about this low-budget, post-apocolyptic drama that is in the making at Universal Studios. More people working at Universal Studios have now heard about it, but they don't know how far along Universal is with this project. From what someone heard, they are still talking about what actors will be in it. It seems they'll be going with character actors more than stars. Also, filming won't be taking place in L.A., though they are not sure exactly where they're going to shoot it. - Thanks to "Grape Ape."

Halloween 7 - Nightfall Productions, the company producing Halloween 7, reports that production on the film will begin January 26th in Los Angeles. Casting began last week and location scouting has begun. Jamie Lee Curtis has officially signed to return as Laurie Strode. Crew positions are not filled yet, with the exceptions of director Steve Miner, producer Paul Freeman, and executive producer Moustapha Akkad.

Some pictures from the new Hulk movie's set are available on this page. The site takes a while to load, so go grab a bite to eat or something while it loads.

Jackie Brown - The script for Quentin Tarantino's new movie Jackie Brown is now available on the internet, if you have seen the movie (or wanna spoil it), you can download or read a copy right here: Script

As Short as It Gets - If you have questions about the plot of the new Jack Nicholson-Helen Hunt movie, some of the answers may be on the cutting room floor. Director James L. Brooks says his first cut of "As Good as It Gets" was very long and lots of the back-story on Greg Kinnear's character had to be dropped. Originally, Skeet Ulrich was to have been the boyfriend of the Kinnear character but his role was reduced to a cameo. "It was a different story of how Greg met Skeet but it took 30 minutes to tell that story," Brooks says.

Seinfeld, the anchor of NBC's "Must-See" Thursday-night lineup, will not return for a tenth season. Jerry Seinfeld told the New York Times Thursday that he made the decision to cease production because he wanted the sitcom to go out on a high note. "I wanted to end the show on the same kind of peak we've been doing it on for years,'' Seinfeld said. "I wanted the end to be from a point of strength. I wanted the end to be graceful.'' NBC said in a statement that it understood Seinfeld's decision to move on. "To keep a show of this caliber at its peak has been a great undertaking," the statement read. "We respect Jerry's decision that at the end of this season it's time to move on."

New Chat - I added a java chat to movie-page.com today, it's very cool, and there is always someone using it. It also loads really fast (which is more than I can say about most java chats), check it out and tell me how you liked it :-)

New Movie Site - I would also like to invite you all to a new, cool movie page called The Upcoming Movie List, check it out, but don't forget about good old movie-page.com once you've seen how great it is :-)