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** January 10th/11th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
Dark Horizons - Let me first of all wish the best movie page out there, Dark Horizons, a very Happy 1 Year Anniversary! They also added a killer update today, you simply must check out!
U.S. Marshals - here are some more pictures from the upcoming "sequel" to The Fugitive starring Tommy Lee Jones and Wesley Snipes: Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3 - [ Thanks to Chris for donating them ]
Burt Reynolds, who made a big splash in "Boogie Nights,'' is in final talks to join "Mystery Alaska,'' a Disney hockey movie set to start shooting Jan. 26 in Canada. Variety reports that the picture is about a young hockey team in Alaska that gets a chance to play the visiting New York Rangers. Colm Meaney (''Con Air'') is also in talks, while Russell Crowe (''L.A. Confidential'') and Ron Eldard are already signed. Jay Roach will direct from a script by David E. Kelley.
At First Sight - Mouse Hunt star Nathan Lane has joined the cast of "At First Sight,'' a fact-based medical drama about a blind man who recovers his sight. Formerly titled "Sight Unseen,'' Variety says the project is based on a true story documented by renowned physician and author Oliver Sacks. Val Kilmer and Miro Sorvino will star for director Irwin Winkler. MGM is aiming for a Christmas 1998 release. Kilmer plays a man who has been blind all his life until undergoing experimental surgery to restore his sight. Lane will portray a therapist who specializes in cases involving the visually impaired. Sorvino plays Kilmer's love interest. Kelly McGillis and Steven Weber also star.
Christian Slater must serve three months in jail for assault and being under the influence of cocaine. That's what a Los Angeles judge ruled yesterday. Slater's attorney had argued that the actor should be given credit for the 118 days he had voluntarily spent in a lockdown drug rehabilitation facility after his arrest on Aug. 22. But the judge rejected his request. Slater has until Jan. 14 to turn himself in and begin serving his sentence. Slater was convicted of assaulting a policeman and his girlfriend and being under the influence of cocaine after a late-night party in West Los Angeles.
Editors Note - Yesterday (January 10th 1998) was my highest rated day ever. About 300 visitors visited movie-page.com that day. I know it doesn't sound like a lot of people, but to me it does :-) So please come back once in a while, I update almost every day, if only I find enough news to have a full update. And don't forget to send in movie scoops, it would really help out this page a lot!
** January 9th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
Posters - quite a few movie posters today. The one for Lethal Weapon 4 is very nice, can't wait to see the movie!
Godzilla - if you are one of the many that weren't able to retrieve that third Godzilla New Years Eve teaser, fear not! Good old Akers Mic just added it, it works great, and it downloads fast:
Practical Magic - Oscar-winners Vanessa Redgrave and Dianne Wiest are both in negotiations to join the cast of Griffin Dunne's next helming effort, "Practical Magic," sources said. The pair would join Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in the comic fable about three generations of women in a family of witches.
Luc Besson has committed to direct girlfriend Milla Jovovich in the title role of "Joan of Arc," an epic about the 15th-century French martyr who led an uprising against the British and was burned at the stake. Besson, who last directed Jovovich in "The Fifth Element," will begin production of the film in France and around Europe in June.
Jack Nicholson, who is currently riding waves of critical acclaim for his starring role in As Good As It Gets, now wants to step behind the camera to direct as well as star in the MGM feature "Julip." While no deal is in place, insiders said Nicholson has agreed to develop a new script with author Jim Harrison -- who wrote the 1994 novella on which the film will be based - and his daughter Jamie Harrison. Kevin Walls had scripted a previous draft.
Arlington Road - Polygram Films has won the rights to distribute Lakeshore Entertainment's thriller "Arlington Road," starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack, which begins shooting this month. Pic features Robbins and Cusack as a seemingly normal married couple. Bridges, their next-door neighbor and a professor specializing in terrorism, starts to suspect the pair are hatching a deadly plot.
Random Hearts - Director Sydney Pollack and Harrison Ford, last seen together wooing "Sabrina" for Paramount, are in talks to reunite on a picture based on Warren Adler's novel "Random Hearts" for TriStar Pictures, sources said Thursday. Pollack would direct and Ford would topline the story of a man and a woman having an affair who are killed in a plane crash. The only clue that linking them is a pair of identical keys.
** January 8th 1998 - Movie News/Rumours **
The Mask Of Zorro - The always great 'Dark Horizons' posted some very cool pictures from the new Zorro flick starring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins: Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4.
Nicolas Cage may end up on death row at Warner Bros., following the studio's purchase of a pitch for a prison thriller about capital punishment that is being set up under the Oscar-winning actor's Saturn Films production banner. Cage and Saturn co-topper Jeff Levine will produce the noirish project, currently titled "The Life of David Gale." The project may serve as a starring vehicle for Cage.
The 13th Floor - Independence Day and Godzilla helmer-producer Roland Emmerich and producing partner Ute Emmerich will produce The 13th Floor, a $15 million-plus thriller set to begin shooting in L.A. on Jan. 26. Columbia Pictures has signed to handle North American distribution on the film, to be produced under Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's Centropolis banner.
Laurence Fishburne is going to star and produce a movie based on "A Queer Kind of Death,'' a suspense novel featuring a gay detective. The story is set in 1960s New York and follows Detective Pharoah Love as he investigates the death of a male model found electrocuted in a bathtub. But before that, Fishburne will shoot the sci-fi thriller "Matrix,'' playing the leader of a gang of computer hackers.
The Birdcage II - United Artists is proceeding with a sequel to "The Birdcage," the 1996 box office hit starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, sources said Tuesday. The studio has hired Emmy-winning scribe Bruce Vilanch to write "Birdcage II," and will attempt to cast stars from the original production, which was written by Elaine May. The comedy about a gay couple that pretends to be straight was based on the French film, "La Cage Aux Folles."
Editors Note - The news are getting a little better, I hope, but I still REALLY need some good movie scoops. So I'm asking one more time, please send me your movie news or scoops, it would help both this page, and I think the public would appreciate it too :-)
