News: June 7th-13th 1999

In this section you will find the latest news & rumours on current and upcoming Hollywood projects. To spice up the page we also serve a variety of new posters, images and reviews. If you have a scoop you'd like to share with everyone, please submit it to us.

Dungeons & Dragons: Jeremy Irons has joined the cast of indie "Dungeons & Dragons," the feature adaptation of the fantasy game. Warner Bros. will handle domestic distribution, and J&M Entertainment will manage foreign sales. Produced by Silver Pictures, Sweetpea Entertainment and J&M, "Dungeons" is about a young thief who is caught up in political upheaval and must restore the world to its proper balance. The cast includes Justin Whalin, Zoe McLellan, Marlon Wayans, Lee Arenberg, Thora Birch, Kristen Wilson, Robert Miano and Bruce Payne.

Movie Trailers: The Official DBS Site has released the full trailer for "Deep Blue Sea" - an upcoming action/horror flick about a team of scientists who are forced to battle genetically enhanced sharks. Also a link to the new 'The World Is Not Enough' teaser.

Monkey Bone: Variety recently reported that Megan Mullally has joined the cast of Fox Animation Studio’s “Monkey Bone,” opposite Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan and Dave Foley. In the live-action/stop-motion feature, Fraser plays a neurotic cartoonist who becomes comatose following a car accident. Trying to outwit Death (Goldberg), he uses a cartoon alter ego, Monkey Bone. Mullally will play Fraser’s sister. Henry Selick directs from a script by Sam Hamm. Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures is producing.

Dinner for Two at the El Cortez: Miramax Films, actor-producer Dustin Hoffman and director Tony Goldwyn, who collaborated on the romance “A Walk on the Moon,” will reunite for the dramatic comedy “Dinner for Two at the El Cortez.” Scripted by Jeremy Pikser (“Bulworth”), pic will be produced by Punch Prods.’ Hoffman and Jay Cohen, Avnet-Kerner’s Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner, and Colleen Camp. Pic, from an original screenplay by Ed Kaplan, was originally in development at Paramount Pictures. When the studio put it into turnaround, Jordan Kerner took it to Miramax co-prexy of production Bob Osher, with whom he had a strong relationship. Osher then.. Full Story >>>

Sleepy Hollow: For those interested, the 'Sleepy Hollow' script is now available online. 'Hollow' is an upcoming Tim Burton movie which stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. Thanks to 'Jonesey54' and Everything Depp, and also AICN for the pic!

Bless the Child: Jimmy Smits is near a deal to join Kim Basinger in Paramount's supernatural thriller "Bless the Child.'' Smits will play a detective who helps Basinger keep a child out of the hands of a satanist. ''Child'' will be directed by Chuck Russell ("The Mask," "Eraser") and produced by Mace Neufeld. "Bless the Child'' is based on a script by Cliff and Ellen Green that was rewritten by Don Roos and Russell, Variety reports.

The Invisible Circus: Blythe Danner ("Forces of Nature") has joined the cast of Fine Line's Cameron Diaz starrer "The Invisible Circus." Danner will play a mother coping with the death of her eldest daughter (Diaz) as her youngest daughter (Jordana Brewster) seeks to unravel her sister's mysterious passing. Writer-director Adam Brooks, who adapted the script from a novel by Jennifer Egan, began shooting last month. The film is produced by Julia Chasman and Nick Wechsler of Industry Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Big Daddy: LegitCrit recently caugh a studio screening of the latest Adam Sandler comedy "Big Daddy," click below to read his review:

Highlander: World Without End: The Official Site reports that "according to Hollywood rumors, Davis-Panzer and Miramax have resolved their creative differences concerning the next Highlander feature film: World Without End. Rumor also has it that the film starring Adrian Paul and Christopher Lambert will start shooting in October, 1999, with locations in Ireland, Isle of Man, Paris, New York and Toronto. It also seems that Methos might have a role in the movie, as well."

The Venice Project: Director Robert Dornhelm has begun production in Venice, Italy, on comedy "The Venice Project" (tentative title). The film stars Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Stockard Channing, Stuart Townsend and Linus Roache. Written by Nicholas Klien, "Venice" is about a princess (Bacall) who decides to put on an art show with the colorful characters who attend it, commenting on the state of art and how it will affect centuries to come. Hopper plays Bacall's immature brother from Venice, Calif. Channing plays an art dealer, while Townsend plays a painter. Other starring in the film are Ben Cross as a movie mogul, Victoria Secret model Frederique van der Wal as a depressed actress, Parker Posey as a journalist, Dean Stockwell as an art enthusiast and Cheech Marin, THR reports.

End of Days: A teaser poster for this upcoming action/thriller starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne and Robin Tunney. The image is courtesy of Dark Horizons and 'cmollett.'

Mystery Men: Universal Pictures has moved up the release date of comedy "Mystery Men" from Aug. 6 to Friday, July 30. Based on the Dark Horse Comic about aspiring superheroes, the film stars Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Geoffrey Rush and Greg Kinnear among others, according to THR.

Autumn in New York: Joan Chen is negotiating to direct Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in the love story "Autumn in New York." Appropriately, the film is set to begin shooting this fall in Gotham. In the Allison Burnett script, a playboy restaurateur (Gere) falls in love with a young woman (Ryder). Although the man is conflicted and tells her he doesn't commit to long relationships, she eases his mind by telling him she's specifically chosen him for that reason: She's dying, and wants to have one great love affair before the end. Full Story >>>

Shiny New Enemies: David Hyde Pierce ("Frasier") has joined the cast of Bel Air Entertainment's "Shiny New Enemies" for Swedish directing collective Traktor. Tom Wilkinson ("The Full Monty") has also joined the cast that includes Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek, Jeff Goldblum and Orlando Jones. In the ensemble comedy centering on a heist of priceless coins, Pierce will play Marty Kerner, a smarmy personal assistant to Bollingsworth (Wilkinson). At the same time, he is also having an affair with Bolingsworth's wife, Gina. When Bollingsworth lapses into a coma after an attempted suicide, Marty fears that Gina will lose out on his insurance money and tries to make sure the old man never wakes up again, THR reports.

The Iron Giant: A poster for "The Iron Giant" - an upcoming animated Warner Bros. film which features voices from Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston and Christopher McDonald.

Movie Trailers: Artisan Ent. has released a new trailer for "The Blair Witch Project." Click here to learn more about it. Also, BondIsBack.com has digitized the recent Entertainment Tonight 'The World Is Not Enough' preview, which included footage from the 'TWINE' teaser.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin: Actor Nicolas Cage is in negotiations with Working Title Films and Universal Pictures to star in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin,'' to be directed by "Notting Hill'' helmer Roger Michell. While a deal has not been finalized, sources said that Cage wants to do the World War II-era love story, which will likely go before the cameras next March in Italy. The film, based on Louis De Bernieres' British novel, is a ''Doctor Zhivago Di-like love story/drama set on the idyllic Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. Full Story >>>

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