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Movie News: 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.
Lost In Space 2?: Even
though I've heard rumors that this project is dead,
'ritchiek' sends in some possible new information: Ghostbuster 3: When talking to Jam! Movies, Dan Aykroyd said this about his third Ghostbusters script: "It's ready." "But if we are going to make it, Harold Ramis and I might have to take less to give Bill Murray more." Gravity: New Line Cinema has purchase "Gravity," a sci-fi thriller by best-selling novelist Tess Garritsen. Rick Yorn and Cathy Schulman of Artists Management Group brought the project into New Line. AMG is expected to produce. The book, described as "Titanic" in outer space, is due to hit bookstores in September. It centers on a female NASA astronaut stranded alone on a space station after her entire crew is killed by a mysterious virus. She is forced by circumstances to re-establish a relationship with her estranged husband as he becomes her only chance of survival. Eyes Wide Shut: Trent from Countdown to EWS has managed to find the full ShoWest clip (84 seconds) with sound! I haven't had the time to download it yet, but it's probably NOT censored at all, so keep that in mind before watching it. Thanks again to 'Trent!'
Kaye Project: British director Tony Kaye ("American History X") is developing a feature film to shoot in Iceland. The apocalyptic story, loosely based on the introduction to rapper Busta Rhymes' CD "Extinction Level Event," is an investigation into how the entertainment world has glorified extreme violence, including gang violence and technological warfare. The English-language film, to be budgeted in the $5 million-$10 million category, will be produced by Kaye in conjunction with Icelandic-based Panartica. Although the script is only in treatment form, Kaye has begun meeting with Icelandic actors. The Stepford Wives - the 1974 horror movie about men and their subservient spouses, is getting the remake treatment. Paramount and producer Scott Rudin teamed up to snare the property in a deal potentially worth $2.5 million if the project goes ahead. The original film starred Katharine Ross as a newcomer to a New York suburb whose picturesque scenery is a facade. She learns that her neighbors lead blissful lives because the husbands have banded together to have their wives transformed into robotized models of their former selves. The new and "improved" models don't complain, and are completely devoted to their hubbies, according to Variety. Requiem for a Dream: Artisan Entertainment and Gotham-based Palmer West’s Sibling Prods. will finance and produce “Pi” helmer Darren Aronofsky’s second feature, “Requiem for a Dream.” Slated to start shooting in mid-April on location in Coney Island, pic will star Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Christopher McDonald along with Jared Leto, who had been announced earlier as in talks for the project. Based on the Hubert Selby Jr. novel, pic delves into drug addiction and delusional dreams in the lives of a young man (Leto), his girlfriend (Connelly), best friend (Wayans) and mother (Burstyn). Aronofsky adapted the screenplay and will helm.
The Hollow Man: Variety reports that Kevin Bacon is finalizing a deal to play the title role in "The Hollow Man," a drama about an invisible man. Bacon and Elisabeth Shue play scientists who were former lovers and who - with another scientist that Shue's character is romantically involved with - discover the secret of invisibility. The guinea pig is Bacon, who begins to use his vanishing act to create havoc. Director Paul Verhoeven ("Starship Troopers") will start directing the Columbia Pictures project in April from a script by Andrew Marlowe ("Air Force One"). Down to You: Shawn Hatosy (“In & Out”) will star opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles in the Kris Isaacson-helmed romantic drama “Down to You” for Miramax Films. Hatosy will play a frat-guy party animal and Prinze’s college buddy. Movie Trailers: The full (though not uncut) "Eyes Wide Shut" teaser is finally available online in Quicktime. For a look at the uncut clip, visit Countdown to EWS. Also a trailer for the new muppets adventure, "Muppets From Space."
Chief: Morgan Freeman ("Se7en") will star in, and his company Revelations Entertainment will produce with Ed Solomon’s Infinite Monkeys, a serio-comedy project titled “Chief” for Paramount Pictures. Pic, based on a true story that was the subject of a PBS “Frontline” docu, is about an African tribal chief’s son, who is sent to the U.S. to learn how to bring his tribe into the 20th century. As he studies, he is pushed so far away by his father that he ultimately decides to stay in the U.S. and join corporate culture. When his father takes ill, the tribe expects the son to return. Trey Ellis penned the script, Variety reports. Seed of Chucky: Universal has inked a deal with “Child’s Play” creator Don Mancini to write and direct the fifth installment of the profitable horror franchise, tentatively titled “Seed of Chucky.” David Kirschner, who produced “Bride,” will produce, and Jennifer Tilly is said to be in talks to reprise her role as Tiffany, Chucky’s lovelorn human girlfriend. Pic is based on Mancini’s original idea, described as a spoof of “Rosemary’s Baby” in which the chip off the old Chuck is “a little gender confused” - leaving a wide berth for future installments. Mancini is currently at work on “Seed of Chucky,” which is expected to go before the cameras in time for a 2000 release, according to Variety.
Urban Legend II: Variety reports that Phoenix Pictures are set to buy Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman’s pitch for a sequel to the teen pic "Urban Legend." Plot details were kept under wraps, but Phoenix senior exec VP Rick Hess said the scribes came up with “such a unique and suspenseful take on the sequel that we decided to do it.” Sequel will be produced by Gina Matthews, Neal H. Moritz and Brad Luff. Former staffer Nick Osborne will exec produce. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas: Thomas Gibson (TV's "Dharma & Greg") has been cast as the villain in "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas." In Universal Pictures' "Flintstones" sequel, Gibson will play Chip Rockefeller, the richest man in Rock Vegas and Fred's (Mark Addy) rival for Wilma (Kristen Johnston). Shooting begins in mid-May. Star Wars: Episode II: 'richard'
sends in a follow-up to the scoop from Friday about
Thomas Mild being cast in Episode II: Black Mask: A trailer for the upcoming Jet Li ("Lethal Weapon 4") film "Black Mask." This is actually one of his older films, which will now be released theatrically in the US.
Domu: Guillermo Del Toro ("Mimic") is in talks to write and direct "Domu" for Disney and producer Don Murphy. "Domu," based on a classic Japanese book, was described as being similar to "The Shining" in theme, only centering on an old man and a little girl who live in an apartment block. Del Toro's credits include "Cronos" and the upcoming "The Bullfighter." Murphy has produced "Apt Pupil," "Permanent Midnight," "Natural Born Killers" and "Double Dragon." Women Talking Dirty: Elton John is teaming up with Woody Allen's former producer to make his film company's debut feature "Women Talking Dirty," starring Helena Bonham Carter. The $5 million picture, directed by Coky Giedroyc ("Stella Does Tricks"), started shooting Sunday at London's Shepperton Studios. Bonham Carter plays a lively and outspoken single mother in Edinburgh, who develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist portrayed by British TV actress Gina McKee. John will serve as an executive producer, the music supervisor and also will write the score. The film is being fully financed by Doumanian's private investors. No international or domestic distribution is yet in place, according to Variety.
Deep Blue Sea: The Official Site recently added some new images from this upcoming action film starring Thomas Jane, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgård, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J and Michael Rapaport. 'DBS' looks set to be released August 6th, 1999 in the US. Head Over Heels: Claire Danes ("The Mod Squad") is close to a deal to star in the comedy "Head Over Heels,'' Daily Variety said in its Monday edition. The Universal project, which will shoot this summer, is a romantic comedy set in the world of modeling. It centers on a woman attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him kill someone, the paper added. The Love Letter: A trailer for the DreamWorks film 'Love Letter' is now available. This film stars Kate Capeshaw and Tom Selleck, and is set to be released May 21st, 1999. Also a trailer for "Lost And Found," starring Sophie Marceau and David Spade.
Reindeer Games: James Frain ("Elizabeth") has joined the cast of Dimension Films' "Reindeer Games" for director John Frankenheimer. Shooting begins today in Vancouver. The thriller, centering around a Christmastime heist of a casino, stars Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise and Charlize Theron. Frain will play Affleck's cellmate who sets off the course of the events that play out in the film. In addition, Donal Logue ("Blade") and Danny Trejo ("Con Air") have been cast as members of the gang headed by Sinise. Ehren Kruger wrote the script which is being produced by Marty Katz, Bob Weinstein and Chris Moore. Spiderman: Cinescape reports that even though Sony bought James Cameron's Spider-Man treatment from MGM as part of the settlements that left Sony with the rights to the webslinger movie franchise, it now appears that James Cameron will not make the Spider-Man movie. "I have definitely moved on," the director reportedly told the World Entertainment News Network recently. "It was something I really wanted to do eight years ago when I was first after the project. But your ideas change and the ways in which you want to proportion your life's energies. When you make a film every two or three years, you make that decision very carefully and not just because everyone wants you to make it." Cameron was confidant that Sony "will find some young man or woman to bring it alive." Fox hopes to release it summer 2001. Editors Note: In all the confusion the last couple of days, I forgot to add the reults of last week's poll. Anyway, here they are now.
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