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** January 5th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours ** Godzilla - here are some new, working links for the Godzilla New Year's Eve trailer. Thanks to Dark Horizons for finding them, and the owners of the web-sites for hosting them! Star Wars: Prequel 1 - "One of the
biggest misconceptions surrounding the production of
Episode I is that George is deliberately filming
misleading scenes in order to keep spies from revealing
the sensitive plot points of the movie. The story for
Episode I has been bouncing around in George's head for
the past 20 years and during this time George has
envisioned multiple versions of the plot (i.e., Should X
die in Episode I or should he/she survive until Episode
II?) In order to capture all these possibilities for the
plot, George has to film each variation. In the editing
room, George will select which version to include in the
final version of Episode I . . . Box Office - "Titanic'' ruled the waves at the box office for the third consecutive weekend, racking up $32.2 million, according to studio estimates. The movie is cruising along at full steam, and has now earned $156.4 million in its first 17 days, said a spokesman for Paramount Pictures. With no new wide releases, the top four movies remained the same. The James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' held steady in second with $14.1 million, followed by "As Good As It Gets'' with $12.3 million and "Mouse Hunt'' with $8.7 million. "Scream 2'' rose a notch to fifth place with $8 million, trading places with "Jackie Brown,'' which pulled in about $7.7 million. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 5 - If any of you gore fans are interested, I added a link to the TCM 5 movie script a few days ago in the script section. I don't really know if it's real or not, but check it out anyway! ** January 6th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours ** New Comedy - The success of science-fiction comedies from "Men in Black" to "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" has made the time ripe for the screen adaptation of the Douglas Adams sci-fi cult novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Hollywood Pictures president David Vogel has purchased screen rights to the book, with "Austin Powers" helmer Jay Roach to direct and Caravan's Roger Birnbaum to produce. Adams will write the script with Roach, with Vogel hoping to be in preproduction this time next year, to make it a summer event film for 2000. Trailers - lots of new, cool trailers today. A new trailer for The Big Lebowski, and trailers for the new comedies, "Blues Brothers 2000" and "Senseless". Links are further down this page :-) Star Wars: Prequel news - Episode 2 and 3 are apparently going to borrow a little bit from the Biblical book of Revelations. The Jedi Knights preserved peace and tranquility in the Old Republic for a thousand generations (an astounding and remarkable 25,000 to 30,000 years by our standards). In Biblical terms, a millenium was only a thousand years, but Lucas constructed his myth on a much broader time scale, unless Kenobi is exaggerating. This peace, which appears to be eternal and greatly taken for granted, exists under the divine protection of the Jedi Knights until the Antichrist (Vader), in service of the Devil (Palpatine), appears to fight the ultimate war (Armageddon) against the Jedi. [ A very special thanks to "Vecton" for this news ] Eyes Wide Shut - "The Sunday Times" has an interesting story about EWS with some news about the plot. [ Full Story ]
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** January 5th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
Godzilla - here are some new, working links for the Godzilla New Year's Eve trailer. Thanks to Dark Horizons for finding them, and the owners of the web-sites for hosting them!
Star Wars: Prequel 1 -
"One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the
production of Episode I is that George is deliberately filming
misleading scenes in order to keep spies from revealing the
sensitive plot points of the movie. The story for Episode I has
been bouncing around in George's head for the past 20 years and
during this time George has envisioned multiple versions of the
plot (i.e., Should X die in Episode I or should he/she survive
until Episode II?) In order to capture all these possibilities
for the plot, George has to film each variation. In the editing
room, George will select which version to include in the final
version of Episode I . . .
George is filming multiple versions of the same scene to keep his
options wide open. In the editing room, George will decide which
scene has the greatest dramatic impact and adds most to the
overall story arc of the saga. Some scenes that have been filmed
won't be seen in the film at all because they may not be needed
or add anything significant to the direction in which George
decides to go . . . One of the biggest problems is, of course,
deciding who lives and dies and who is related to whom. George
has the option to leave holes in the Episode I plot that can
later be filled in by the novels, comics or later Episodes. Do we
really need to know that X is Y's daughter at this point in the
prequels? That's the type of question George is asking himself.
So with 18 or so months to go until George has to hammer out a
final version of the movie, not even George knows, at this point,
exactly what we are going to see on May 25, 1999. And if you
accuse him of doing this on purpose to keep the film a secret and
a complete surprise for the public, his response to you would be
to laugh. He's filming Episode I this way to keep his options
wide open and it is only a secondary benefit that it keeps the
plot of Episode I shrouded in mystery. In Raiders of the Lost
Ark, just before the epic truck-chase scene, Sallah asks Indiana
Jones what he is going to do next. Indy replied that he didn't
know because he was making it up as he went along. That is
exactly what George is doing with this film. It would be neat if
George would release multiple versions of Episode I on video so
that we could select the story that we like best . . . but that's
not going to happen. George alone will decide the final form that
Episode I will take and it will not disappoint . . . " [
A very special thanks to "Vecton"
for this news ]
Box Office - "Titanic'' ruled the waves at the box office for the third consecutive weekend, racking up $32.2 million, according to studio estimates. The movie is cruising along at full steam, and has now earned $156.4 million in its first 17 days, said a spokesman for Paramount Pictures. With no new wide releases, the top four movies remained the same. The James Bond film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' held steady in second with $14.1 million, followed by "As Good As It Gets'' with $12.3 million and "Mouse Hunt'' with $8.7 million. "Scream 2'' rose a notch to fifth place with $8 million, trading places with "Jackie Brown,'' which pulled in about $7.7 million.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 5 - If any of you gore fans are interested, I added a link to the TCM 5 movie script a few days ago in the script section. I don't really know if it's real or not, but check it out anyway!
** January 6th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
New Comedy - The success of science-fiction comedies from "Men in Black" to "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" has made the time ripe for the screen adaptation of the Douglas Adams sci-fi cult novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Hollywood Pictures president David Vogel has purchased screen rights to the book, with "Austin Powers" helmer Jay Roach to direct and Caravan's Roger Birnbaum to produce. Adams will write the script with Roach, with Vogel hoping to be in preproduction this time next year, to make it a summer event film for 2000.
Trailers - lots of new, cool trailers today. A new trailer for The Big Lebowski, and trailers for the new comedies, "Blues Brothers 2000" and "Senseless". Links are further down this page :-)
Star Wars: Prequel news - Episode 2 and 3 are apparently going to borrow a little bit from the Biblical book of Revelations. The Jedi Knights preserved peace and tranquility in the Old Republic for a thousand generations (an astounding and remarkable 25,000 to 30,000 years by our standards). In Biblical terms, a millenium was only a thousand years, but Lucas constructed his myth on a much broader time scale, unless Kenobi is exaggerating. This peace, which appears to be eternal and greatly taken for granted, exists under the divine protection of the Jedi Knights until the Antichrist (Vader), in service of the Devil (Palpatine), appears to fight the ultimate war (Armageddon) against the Jedi. [ A very special thanks to "Vecton" for this news ]
Eyes Wide Shut - "The Sunday Times" has an interesting story about EWS with some news about the plot. [ Full Story ]
** January 7th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
Movie Section: The movie section is up....sorta.. It's not quite ready yet, and I have a few more pages to make. So within Monday it should be done! Here are the new pages that will be ready by then, I'm making one or two pages every day, if you have a suggestion for a movie I should make a page about, e-mail me :-)
Wag The Dog - New Line's Wag the Dog kicked up its heels over the New Year's weekend to become the top dog on the exclusives roster after Deconstructing Harry went wide. The Barry Levinson-helmed political farce fetched $252,208 in eight dog houses in New York and Los Angeles. Miramax's Good Will Hunting was the second-most-popular limited-release pic, scoring $221,480 in 10 classrooms on both coasts.
Titanic - The holidays are over but it should be smooth sailing for some time for the unstoppable "Titanic," which has emerged from the record year-end moviegoing period with a $157.5 million gross. Unlike 1997, when studios crammed the first two months of the year with pricey blockbuster wannabes, few films on the '98 horizon appear to have the sheer mass needed to slow "Titanic's" awesome progress.
I Know What You Did Last Summer II - Kevin Williamson, the writer of the teen horror films Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), says he has turned down an offer to write a sequel to Summer and has questioned whether other teen screamers currently in the works have a chance of succeeding. Williamson told the New York Post on Sunday, "Scream was in some ways the rebirth and the death of the slasher film. It exposes all the rules and conventions of the genre, so you can't do it straight anymore. but if you follow the Scream route, it'll look like a blatant rip-off."
Star Trek: 9 - One of Corona's regular contributors tells us Star Trek 9 is now in full-blown pre-production. Construction of the sets, including some cave-type dwellings, has long-since been completed. Another set, the bridge for another starship besides the Enterprise-E, is going through its final touch-ups. Could this be Riker's new command? [ Thanks to Corona ]
Nicolas Cage - It's his birthday today! I had to mention it, since he's one of my favorite actors! Happy Birthday Nic!
