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1991-93 Theatrical Film Releases
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Rev. 4.4 Copyright 1991 by Eric Carter CIS 76050,3563
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10/19/91
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Legend
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70mm = 70mm prints available
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(SR) = Dolby Spectral Recording
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(SRD) = Dolby Digital Sound
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(CDS) = Cinema Digital Sound
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1.33, 1.66, 1.85, 2.21, 2.35 = Aspect Ratios
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Most Films shot with 65mm negative and 70mm 'scope blowups have aspect ratio
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of 2.21
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Release dates are *very* subject to change.
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Angelika Films
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THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE 1.85 May 10 (NY)
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Dir: Simon Callow
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Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger, Austin
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Pendleton, Beth Dixon
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Producer: Ismail Merchant
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Screenplay: Michael Hirst, based on Caston McCullers' novella and Edward
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Albee's play.
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D.P.: Wakter Lassally
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Start Date: 6/25/90, Austin, TX
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Advanced word is sensational on the fruits of Mr. Callow's directorial debut,
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particularly the quality of Ms. Redgrave's thesping.
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Aries Entertainment
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DR. PETIOT September
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Dir: Christian de Chalong
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THE STORY OF BOYS AND GIRLS 1.85 August 23
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Dir: Pupi Avati
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Cast: Davide Bechini, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere
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Producer: Antonio Avati
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Screenplay: Pupi Avati
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Comedy of manners centers on the engagement dinner of a young Italian couple
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from different backgrounds in 1936. Superb buzz.
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SUPERSTAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL 1.66 February 22
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Rating: None
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Dir: Chuck Workman
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Cast: Dennis Hopper, Sally Kirkland, Sylvia Miles, Holly Woodlawn, Taylor Mead,
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Bob Colacello, Gerard Malanga, Viva, Ultra Violet, David Hockney, Roy
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Lichtenstein, Fran Leibowitz, Bobby Short
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Producer: Chuck Workman
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Screenplay: Chuck Workman
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Documentary about the great father of pop art. Co-feature is Oscar-winning
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short PRECIOUS IMAGES.
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Avenue (Said to be getting out of distribution. Will use either Miramax or
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------ New Line)
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AMERICAN HEART 1992
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Dir: Martin Bell
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Cast: Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong, Lucinda Jenney, Don Harvey, Tracey
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Kapinsky, Shareen Mitchell, Christian Frizzell
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Producers: Rosilyn Heller, Jeff Bridges
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Screenplay: Peter Silverman
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D.P.: Jim Bagdonas
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Start Date: 8/13/91, Seattle
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Furlong was apparently signed for this plum role of the estranged son of
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Bridges in this sub-$10 million drama before the release of T2.
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DADDY NOSTALGIA 2.35 April 12 (NY,LA)
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Rating: "PG"
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Dir: Bertrand Tavernier
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Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure
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Producer: Adolphe Viezzi
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Screenplay: Colo Tavernier O'Hagan
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D.P.: Denis Lenoir
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Drama about a screenwriter who becomes reacquainted with her ailing
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father. Bogarde's first film in 12 years has outstanding advanced
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word. Acclaimed at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. A real "actor's
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film". "These foolish things remind me of you..."
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MISTER JOHNSON 1.85 March 22 (NY,LA)
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Rating: "PG-13"
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Dir: Bruce Beresford
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Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi
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Producer: Michael Fitzgerald
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Screenplay: William Boyd, based on Joyce Cary's novel
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D.P.: Peter James
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Start Date: 1/15/90, Northern Nigeria
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Period drama of the 1920's concerns the relationship between an
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irrepressible Nigerian clerk and a British colonial officer. Eziashi
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received an British Academy Award acting nomination. Beresford was
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in Africa directing this film when his previous outing DRIVING MISS
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DAISY won its Oscars. Film was postponed from LA Oscar-qualifying run in
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December.
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THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY 1.85 April 12
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Rating: "R"
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Dir: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Cast: John Malkovich, Andie McDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Peter
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Riegert, Joss Ackland, Rudi Davies, Bill Paterson
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Producer: Jon S. Denny
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Screenplay: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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D.P.: David Watkin
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Start Date: 1/15/90, London
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Twice delayed release finds a penniless commodities trader stranded
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in a London hotel room with his suspicious girlfriend as he tries to
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bilk the management. Excellent advanced word on this romantic comedy. "Love
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is more than dollars and sex."
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THE PLAYER Spring, 1992
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Dir: Robert Altman
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Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher
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Producer: David Brown
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Everyone in Hollywood has a cameo in this one.
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SEX, DRUGS, ROCK AND ROLL 1.85 Sept. 6 (Seattle, San Francisco)
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Sept. 13 (NY, LA, Minneapolis)
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Sept. 20 (wider) Sept. 27 (yet wider) October 11 (widest)
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Rating: "R" for strong language, and for drug and sex-related dialog.
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Dir: John McNaughton
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Cast: Eric Bogosian
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Producer: Fred Zollo, Steven A. Jones
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Screenplay: Eric Bogosian, based on his 1-man show
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D.P.: Ernest Dickerson
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Start Date: 12/1/90, Boston
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Film version of Bogosian's off-Broadway one man show. It is a
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satirical view of rock stars, "street" people, corporate greed and
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wasted youth, where he portrays 14 different characters offering varied
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scathing views of society. 60 - 70 prints maximum on this release. Advanced
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word is excellent.
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Borde Releasing
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FLESH GORDON MEETS THE COSMIC CHEERLEADERS March 22 (LA)
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Dir: Howard Ziehm
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Cast: Vincent Murdocco, Robyn Kelly
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Producer: Maurice Smith
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Flesh returns to once again save the universe.
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Buena Vista (Disney)
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101 DALMATIANS 1.33/1.85 (Walt Disney) July 12
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Rating: "G"
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Yes, it's back. The film with over 50,000,000 spots returns for a
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fifth release. One of Disney's finest villains, Cruella De Vil lights
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up the screen along with all of those puppies. The film is being released in
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the 1.85 format with black borders printed on the film preserving the original
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1.33 aspect ratio.
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ALADDIN (Walt Disney) 70mm November, 1992
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Dir: John Musker, Ron Clements
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Producer: Don Ernst
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Screenplay: John Musker, Ron Clements
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Start Date: 3/15/91, Los Angeles
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Disney goes to the era of the Flying Carpet with another big-budget animated
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film. Once again Ashman and Menken provided the music and tunes.
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ALIVE (Touchstone/Paramount) 1992
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Dir: Frank Marshall
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Cast: TBA
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Exec. Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
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Producer: Robert Watts
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Screenplay: Monte Merrick
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Co-production between two studios is another version of that Andes plane
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crash cannibalism episode of several years ago. It hasn't been announced if
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Disney or Paramount will release domestically. Marshall directed
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ARACHNOPHOBIA.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Walt Disney) 70mm November 13 (NY)
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Dir: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale November 15 (LA)
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Producer: Don Hahn November 22 (wide)
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Screenplay: Linda Woolverton
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Start Date: 7/1/90, Los Angeles
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A new Disney full-length animated feature (their 51st) re-tells the
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classic tale. Songs by multiple award winners (the late) Howard Ashman
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and Alan Menken of THE LITTLE MERMAID fame. Advanced word is
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sensational...even better then Ariel's film! Screened as a work in progress
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at the New York Film Festival to great notices. Will open exclusively at New
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York's Cinema 1 on November 13th and at Hollywood's El Capitan on November
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15th, both in 70mm. The El Capitan singers and dancers will be performing.
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Approximately ten 70mm prints will be struck.
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BILLY BATHGATE (Touchstone) November 1
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Rating: "R"
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Dir: Robert Benton
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Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill
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Producers: Arlene Donovan, Robert F. Colesberry
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Screenplay: Tom Stoppard
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D.P.: Nestor Almendros
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Start Date: 9/26/90. Saratoga Springs, NY, North Carolina, New York City
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Negative Cost: $45 million
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Film version of E.L. Doctorow's 1989 best-seller about a young lad
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taken under the auspices of renowned gangster Dutch Schultz. Benton
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and Hoffman teamed together in KRAMER VS KRAMER. Disney has delayed this
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prestige item from June 28. Word is that some re-shoots were necessary and
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Dustin Hoffman had been busy with HOOK, so this had to wait....
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BLAME IT ON THE BELLBOY (Hollywood) March 6, 1992
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Rating: "PG-13"
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Dir: Mark Herman
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Cast: Dudley Moore, Patsy Kensit, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas
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Katsulas, Alson Steadman, Bronson Pinchot
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Producers: Steve Abbott, Jenny Howarth
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Screenplay: Mark Herman
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A farce based on the tried and true gimmick of mistaken identity. The word
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is good.
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BLUE MAAGA (Touchstone) 1992
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Dir: Brian Gibson
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Producer: Dawn Steel
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Screenplay: Lynn Siefert
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Start Date: 1/92, Jamaica, Calgary Alberta
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Jamaican bobsled team makes its way to the Olympics. Director Jeremiah
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Chechik has bowed out due to "creative differences". Based on the true story.
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Gibson won an Emmy for directing his Emmy-winning wife Lynn Whitfield in HBO's
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THE JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY and another Emmy for HBO's MURDERERS AMONG US: THE
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SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY. He also directed POLTERGEIST II. The script is
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undergoing a rewrite by Tony Winkler.
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BORN YESTERDAY (Hollywood) July 31, 1992
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Dir: TBA
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Cast: Melanie Griffith
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Producer: Dino Conte
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Screenplay: Douglas McGrath
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Start Date: 1/92
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Griffith takes on the role that won an Oscar for Judy Holliday. Remake of
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the Garson Kanin play/film.
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CLOSE TO EDEN (Hollywood) April 3, 1992
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Dir: Sidney Lumet
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Cast: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal
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Producers: Howard Rosenman, Steve Golin
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Screenplay: Robert J. Avrech
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D.P.: Andrzej Bartowiak
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Start Date: 9/23/91, New York
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An action thriller set in New York's Hassidic community where a female
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Goy (Irish, in this case) must infiltrate. Avrech co-wrote BODY DOUBLE.
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DECEIVED September 27
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Rating: "PG-13"
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Dir: Damian Harris
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Cast: Goldie Hawn, John Heard
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Producers: Michael Finnell, Wendy Dozoretz, Ellen Collett
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Screenplay: Mary Agnes Donoghue, Derek Saunders (Bruce Joel Rubin's pseudonym)
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When Hawn's husband (Heard) dies, it turns out he had a fake identity and
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she's in big trouble. Formerly titled THE MRS. Rubin wrote JACOB'S LADDER and
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GHOST, for which he won an Oscar.
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THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (Hollywood) Christmas 1992
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Dir: TBA
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Cast: Eddie Murphy
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Producer: Leonard Goldberg
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Screenplay: Marty Kaplan
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Start Date: 4/92
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Yet another mistaken identity comedy (along with some drama) about a con man
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who gets elected to Congress. Murphy gets $12 million.
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THE DOCTOR 1.85 (Touchstone) July 24 (NY, Chicago,LA,Toronto)
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August 2 (wider)
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Dir: Randa Haines
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Cast: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Adam Arkin,
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Mandy Patinkin, Charlie Korsmo
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Producer: Laura Ziskin
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Screenplay: Robert Caswell
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D.P.: John Seale
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Start Date: 11/12/90, San Francisco, Los Angeles
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Drama about a doctor who himself becomes a cancer patient. Hurt
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replaces Warren Beatty in the title role, after "creative
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ifferences" induced Beatty to drop out. Haines directed Hurt in
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CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD. 400 prints will be circulating come August.
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ENCINO MAN (Hollywood) July 4, 1992
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Dir: Les Mayfield
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Cast: Pauly Shore
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Producer: Les Mayfield
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Screenplay: Shaun Shepps, Dana Olsen
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Start Date: 12/91, Los Angeles
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Two teenagers discover a frozen caveman in the backyard.
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ERNEST SCARED STUPID October 11
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Rating: "PG"
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Dir: John Cherry
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Cast: Jim Varney, Eartha Kitt, John Cadenhead, Bill Byrge, Austin Nagler, Shay
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Astor, Jonas Moscartolo
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Producer: Stacy Williams
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Screenplay: Charle Gale, Coke Sams, Daniel Butler, from Cherry's story
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D.P.: Hanania Baer
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Start Date: 5/20/91, Nashville
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Ernest accidentally releases a dreadful troll that has been entombed for 200
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years....on Halloween.
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FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Touchstone) December 20
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Dir: Charles Shyer
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Cast: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, Martin Short, George
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Newbern, Kieran Culkin
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Producers: Carol Baum, Howard Rosenman, Susan Landau, Cindy Williams
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Screenplay: James Orr, James Cruikshank
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D.P.: John Lindley
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Start Date: 4/15/91, Los Angeles
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Remake of the Vincente Minelli classic with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth
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Taylor. There's a very familiar last name in that cast. Shyer directed BABY
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BOOM.
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GONE FISHIN' Summer 1992
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Dir: Steve Herek
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Cast: John Travolta
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Producer: Debra Hill
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Screenplay: Jeffrey Abrams, Jill Mazursky
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Start Date: 12/91, Orlando
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Comedy/adventure about two hen-pecked husbands. Shot at Disney-MGM Studios.
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THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE (Hollywood) February 7, 1992
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Dir: Curtis Hansen
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Cast: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca DeMornay
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Producer: Rick Jaffa
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Screenplay: Amanda Silver
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This Hitchcockian thriller about a vengeful nanny is a pickup from
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Interscope.
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HONEY, I BLEW UP THE BABY June, 1992
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Dir: Randall Kleiser
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Cast: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, John Shea, Lloyd Bridges,
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Amy O'Neill, Keri Russell, Ron Canada, Gregory Sierra, Linda Carlson, Julia
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Sweeney, Leslie Neale
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Producers: Dawn Steel, Edward S. Feldman
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Screenplay: Thom Eberhardt
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D.P.: John Hora
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Start Date: 6/17/91, Los Angeles, Las Vegas
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Sequel to the 1988 smash HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS. This time, the new baby
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has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions and goes on a rampage of Vegas.
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THE MARRYING MAN 1.85 (Hollywood) April 5
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Rating: "R" For language and sensuality.
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Dir: Jerry Rees
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Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Elisabeth Shue, Paul Reiser, Armand
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Assante, Fisher Stevens, Peter Dobson, Robert Loggia
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Producer: David Permut
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Screenplay: Neil Simon
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D.P.: Donald Thorin
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Start Date: 5/19/90, Los Angeles
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Film concerns a quickie marriage of a millionaire and a Vegas
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lounge singer. See Kim sing, See Kim throw tantrum, See Kim and Alec
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tear up the set? "Every man has a weakness. For millionaire Charley Pearl
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she's blonde, beautiful, and loves to say 'I DO'."
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MEDICINE MAN (Hollywood) 2.35 70mm 1992
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Dir: John McTiernan
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Cast: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco
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Exec Producer: Sean Connery
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Producer: Andy Vajna
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Screenplay: Tom Schulman
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This film is on its third title. First we had THE STAND, followed by THE
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LAST DAYS OF EDEN. Whatever they call it, this ecologically-themed romance
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is set against the backdrop of the deepest Amazonian jungles, where the
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principals have discovered a plant from which a cure for cancer may be found.
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Prospects are bright. Schulman won an Oscar for DEAD POETS SOCIETY.
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NEWSIES (Walt Disney) 70mm early 1992
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Dir: Kenny Ortega
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Cast: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Ele Keats, Max Casella,
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Robert Duvall, Ann-Margaret, Marty Belafsky, Arvie Lowe, Aaron Lohr, Trey
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Parker, Gabriel Darmon, Kevin Tighe
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Producer: Michael Finnell
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Screenplay: Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, David Fallon, Tom Rickman
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D.P.: Andrew Laszlo
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Start Date: 4/15/91, Los Angeles
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Musical set in a newspaper environment in the 1890's. Concerns
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young striking newspaper workers. Famed hoofer Ortega choreographs, as well
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as directing. Bale toplined sensationally in Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN.
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Eight songs from Oscar winner Alan Mencken (THE LITTLE MERMAID). Score is by
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J.A.C. Redford. Ann-Margret's first on-screen singing performance since TOMMY
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in 1975. Has been described as "a cross between WEST SIDE STORY and OLIVER".
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NOISES OFF (Touchstone) 1992
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Rating: "PG-13"
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Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
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Cast: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Mark
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Linn-Baker, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Nicolette Sheridan
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Exec. Producers: Peter Bogdanovich, Kathleen Kennedy
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Producer: Frank Marshall
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Screenplay: Marty Kaplan, based on Michael Frayn's play
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D.P.: Timothy Suhrstedt
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Start Date: 5/20/91, Los Angeles
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Negative Cost: $12 million
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Stellar cast should amply serve the big-screen version of this
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hilarious stage comedy. Title change is expected. Marshall got his showbiz
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start as a location manager on Bogdanovich's 1968 directing debut TARGETS.
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From Amblin' Entertainment.
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ONE GOOD COP 1.85 (Hollywood) May 3
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Rating: "R" for violence, language and drug content.
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Dir: Heywood Gould
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Cast: Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Kevin Conway,
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Rachel Ticotin
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Producer: Laurence Mark
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Screenplay: Heywood Gould
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D.P.: Ralf D. Bode
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Start Date: 8/20/90, New York
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A policeman's three young daughters are lift in his partner's care.
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OSCAR 1.85 (Touchstone) April 26
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Rating: "PG"
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Dir: John Landis
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Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Don
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Ameche, Chaz Palmintero, Vincent Spano, Yvonne DeCarlo, Harry
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Shearer, Eddie Bracken, Kurtwood Smith, Marisa Tomei, Linda Gray,
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Joey Travolta, Kirk Douglas, William Atherton
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Producer: Leslie Belzberg
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Screenplay: Mike Barrie, Jim Mulholland
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D.P.: Mac Ahlberg
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Start Date: 9/10/90, Los Angeles, Orlando, FL.
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A comedy about a poor guy who suddenly gets money and spends it on
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a disaster of a party. This film was impacted by the huge fire on
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the Universal backlot last year which destroyed some of their sets
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and forced them to move the shoot to Universal in Florida.
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PARADISE September 18 (NY)
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Rating: "PG" September 20 (LA)
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Dir: Mary Agnes Donoghue October 4 (wide)
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Cast: Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, Elijah Woods
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Producers: Patrick Palmer, Scott Kroopf
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Screenplay: Mary Agnes Donoghue, based on Jean-Loup Hubert's 1987 film LE GRAND
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CHEMIN
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Start Date: 3/25/91, South Carolina
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Those remakes of French films continue unabated..... At least the Johnsons
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get to work together. They play a couple grieving over the loss of their own
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child when they asked to care for the child of a friend. Donoghue wrote
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BEACHES, this is her directorial debut.
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PASSED AWAY (Hollywood) April 10, 1992
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Dir: Charlie Peters
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Cast: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Maureen Stapleton, Pamela Reed, Nancy
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Travis, Tim Curry, Peter Riegert, Blair Brown
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Producer: Larry Brezner
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Screenplay: Charlie Peters
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Start Date: 10/91, Pittsburgh
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Drama about four estranged siblings who gather for their father's funeral.
|
||
|
||
PRINCESS OF MARS (Hollywood) 70mm Summer, 1993
|
||
Dir: John McTiernan
|
||
Cast: Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts (tentative)
|
||
Producers: Michael Engelberg, Andy Vajna
|
||
Screenplay: Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Bob Gale
|
||
Start Date: 6/92
|
||
Huge, huge film based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic science fiction
|
||
story. Budget will likely be largest in Disney history. Mega-outlook.
|
||
|
||
THE ROCKETEER 2.35 (Walt Disney) 70mm (SR) June 21
|
||
Dir: Joe Johnston
|
||
Cast: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul
|
||
Sorvino, William Sanderson
|
||
Producers: Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon, Lloyd Levin
|
||
Screenplay: Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo
|
||
D.P.:Hiro Narita
|
||
Start Date: 9/10/90, Los Angeles, Santa Maria, CA.
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
A racing pilot who discovers a jet-powered backpack battles the
|
||
Nazis in 1938. Based on the comic series of a few years ago.
|
||
Campbell is a former soap-opera actor. Johnston last directed HONEY,
|
||
I SHRUNK THE KIDS. Connelly starred in LABYRINTH. Visual Effects
|
||
in this Art-Deco themed film are from ILM, which has 100 people working on the
|
||
film in motion control, animation, computer graphics, models stages camera and
|
||
optical departments. Merchandising galore. Huge prospects. Score is by
|
||
James Horner. Disney is distributing 26 70mm prints. All 35mm prints are
|
||
in Dolby SR.
|
||
|
||
RUN 1.85 (Hollywood) February 1
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Geoffrey Burrowes
|
||
Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kelly Preston, Ken Pogue, Christopher Lawford
|
||
Producer: Raymond Wagner
|
||
Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Michael Blodgett
|
||
D.P.: Bruce Surtees
|
||
Start Date: 4/4/90, Vancouver
|
||
Suspense story about a Harvard law student on a road trip who is
|
||
falsely blamed for the death of a mob boss' only son.
|
||
Production halted when Tracy Pollan was released from the film. After
|
||
recasting, production three weeks behind schedule. Originally slated for
|
||
September, then November, 1990 release. "...because your life depends on it!"
|
||
|
||
SCENES FROM A MALL 1.85 (Touchstone) February 22
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Cast: Bette Midler, Woody Allen, Bill Irwin
|
||
Producers: Paul Mazursky, Pato Guzman, Patrick McCormick
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Start Date: 6/11/90, New York, Stamford, CT, Los Angeles
|
||
The couple are about to celebrate their fifteen wedding anniversary, but
|
||
find their marriage tested by jealously, fear and misunderstandings.
|
||
Filmed in Stamford Town Center of Connecticut and Beverly Center in LA.
|
||
Rescheduled from 12/25/90.
|
||
|
||
SHIPWRECKED 2.35 (Walt Disney) February 15
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Nils Gaup
|
||
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Stien Smested, Louise Haigh
|
||
Producer: John M. Jacobsen
|
||
Screenplay: Nils Gaup, Bob Foss, Greg Dinner
|
||
D.P.: Erling Thurmann-Andersen
|
||
Start Date: 3/90, Fiji, Spain, U.K., Norway
|
||
First English language film from the director of the stunning Lap
|
||
1988 Oscar nominee PATHFINDER. Story concerns young Norwegian boy
|
||
who finds himself shipwrecked on a South Pacific island and Pirates
|
||
about. Fine for young ones.
|
||
|
||
SISTER ACT (Touchstone) 1992
|
||
Dir: Emile Ardolino
|
||
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Mary Wicks,
|
||
Bill Nunn, Wendy Makkena, Joe Maher, Richard Portnow, Jenifer Lewis, Charlotte
|
||
Crossley
|
||
Producer: Scott Rudin
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Cash, Jack Epps
|
||
D.P.: Adam Greenberg
|
||
Start Date: 9/20/91, Los Angeles, Reno, San Francisco
|
||
Whoopi Goldberg gets to sing. She plays the ex-girlfriend of a mobster who
|
||
is whisked into the witness protection program as a nun. In the convent she
|
||
leads the nun's choir to national fame and the limelight, where naturally, she
|
||
is vunerable to publicity and the wrath of her ex and his henchmen. Maggie
|
||
Smith plays the Mother Superior.....This script was originally written as a
|
||
vehicle for Bette Midler. Ardolino directed THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY.
|
||
|
||
STEEPLECHASE (Hollywood) Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: Patrick Hasburgh
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Patrick Hasburgh
|
||
Start Date: 2/92
|
||
Sexy ski instructor tries to make it in the real world in this comedy. Also
|
||
known as ASPEN.
|
||
|
||
STRAIGHT TALK (Hollywood) April 3, 1992
|
||
Dir: Barnet Kellman
|
||
Cast: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Teri Hatcher, John Sayles, Jay
|
||
thomas, Michael Madsen, Spaulding Gray, Charles Fleischer, Deirdre O'Connell
|
||
Producer: Robert Chartoff, Fred Berner
|
||
Screenplay: Patricia Resnick, Craig Bolotin
|
||
D.P.: Peter Sova
|
||
Start Date: 7/29/91, Chicago
|
||
MURPHY BROWN director Kellman makes his feature debut with an intriguing
|
||
casting match-up. Parton is a small-town woman who accidentally becomes a
|
||
talk radio star (shrink) in the big city and captures the heart of the reporter
|
||
assigned to profile her.
|
||
|
||
SWING KIDS (Hollywood) Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: Thomas Carter
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Mark Gordon, John Manlius
|
||
Screenplay: Jonathan Feldman
|
||
Start Date: 1/92
|
||
Story of rebellious teenagers in Nazi Germany whose love for American swing
|
||
music drives their passions against the tyranny.
|
||
|
||
TRUE IDENTITY (Touchstone) 1.85 August 23
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Charles Lane
|
||
Cast: Lenny Henry, Charles Lane, Anne-Marie Johnson, Frank Langella,
|
||
J.T. Walsh, Andreas Katsulas, Ruth Brown, Peggy Lipton, James Earl Jones
|
||
Producers: Carol Baum, Teri Schwartz
|
||
Screenplay: Andy Breckman
|
||
D.P.: Tom Ackerman
|
||
Start Date: 11/12/90, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Hot British comic Henry makes his American feature debut in this silly
|
||
comedy about a black man who disguises himself as a white assassin in
|
||
order to expose a corrupt businessman. Lane directed the acclaimed
|
||
silent, B&W film SIDEWALK STORIES.
|
||
|
||
UNTITLED TAYLOR HACKFORD FILM (Hollywood) May 22, 1992
|
||
Dir: Taylor Hackford
|
||
Cast: Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Damian Chapa, E.J. Castillo, Roxann Biggs,
|
||
Tom Wilson, Karmin Murcelo, Victor Rivers, Jenny Gago, Carlos Carrasco,
|
||
Geoffrey Rivas, Danny Trejo, Victor Mohica, Noah Verduzco, Delroy Lindo, Tom
|
||
Towles, Cing Rhames
|
||
Producer: Taylor Hackford, Jerry Gershwin, Stratton Leopold
|
||
Screenplay: Jimmy Santiago, Jeremy Iacone
|
||
D.P.: Gabriel Beristain
|
||
Start Date: 5/6/91, Los Angeles, San Quentin
|
||
Epic production of the genesis of the Mexican-American "mafia". A.K.A.
|
||
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT.
|
||
|
||
V.I. WARSHAWSKI (Hollywood) 1.85 July 26
|
||
Dir: Jeff Kanew
|
||
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Charles Durning, Jay O. Sanders, Angela Goethals,
|
||
Stephen Meadows, Frederick Coffin
|
||
Producer: Jeffrey Lurie
|
||
Screenplay: David Aaron Cohen
|
||
D.P.: Jan Kiesser
|
||
Start Date: 11/5/90, Chicago, Los Angeles
|
||
Turner gets her first solo starring role as a Chicago detective.
|
||
Kanew directed TROOP BEVERLY HILLS. Formerly titled sans initials.
|
||
|
||
WHAT ABOUT BOB? 1.85 (Touchstone) May 17
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Frank Oz
|
||
Cast: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo,
|
||
Tom Aldrich
|
||
Producer: Laura Ziskin
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Schulman
|
||
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
|
||
Start Date: 8/27/90, New York, Virginia
|
||
Negative Cost: $35 million
|
||
An extremely neurotic man takes desparate measures when his
|
||
psychiatrist leaves on an extended vacation. Schulman won an Oscar
|
||
for writing DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Moved up from a May 24th release. Terrific
|
||
advanced notices.
|
||
|
||
WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT (Touchstone) Christmas 1993
|
||
Dir: Rob Minkoff
|
||
Cast: Voice of Charles Fleischer, TBA
|
||
This prequel to the 1988 smash hit WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT will tell us just
|
||
how Roger and the voluptuous Jessica got hooked up in the first place.
|
||
|
||
WHITE FANG 1.85 (Walt Disney) January 18
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Randal Kleiser
|
||
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, James Remar
|
||
Producer: Marykay Powell
|
||
Screenplay: Jeanne Rosenberg, David Fallon, based on Jack London's novel
|
||
D.P.: Tony Pierce-Roberts
|
||
Start Date: 2/26/90, Haines, AK
|
||
Hawke (DEAD POETS SOCIETY, DAD, EXPLORERS) goes to Alaska to
|
||
handle his late father's gold claim. Brandauer shows him the ropes.
|
||
Meets a wolf-dog. Share adventures. Terrific family film. Music by Basil
|
||
Poledouris. "In the wilderness the greatest adventure of all is survival."
|
||
|
||
WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN 1.85 (Walt Disney) May 24
|
||
Rating: "G"
|
||
Dir: Steve Miner
|
||
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Schoeffling
|
||
Producer: Matt Williams
|
||
Screenplay: Matt Williams, Oley Sassone
|
||
D.P.: Daryn Okada
|
||
Start Date: 9/17/90, South Carolina
|
||
True story of Sonora Webster, a stunt rider at the famed Steel Pier
|
||
of Atlantic City. She continued to perform after an accident left
|
||
her permanently blind.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Cannon
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN KICKBOXER
|
||
Dir: Frans Nel
|
||
Cast: John Barrett, Keith Vitali, Brad Morris, Terry Norton, Ted LePlatt
|
||
Producer: Anant Singh
|
||
Start Date: 2/90, South Africa
|
||
A kickboxer finds himself in a fight against the kickboxing sportsman of the
|
||
year to save his half-brother's honor and his own.
|
||
|
||
FIFTY-FIFTY September 6 (regional)
|
||
Dir: Charles Martin Smith
|
||
Cast: Peter Weller, Robert Hays
|
||
Producers: Maurice Singer, Raymond Wagner
|
||
Start Date: 10/90, Malaysia, Rome
|
||
American mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a small island nation
|
||
in the South China Sea. Filmed in Malaysia and Rome.
|
||
|
||
THE HITMAN October 25 (wide)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong gangster violence, and for language
|
||
Dir: Aaron Norris
|
||
Cast: Chuck Norris, Al Waxman, Michael Parks
|
||
Producer: Don Carmody
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Geoffrion, Don Carmody
|
||
D.P.: Joao Fernandez
|
||
Start Date: 12/19/90, Vancouver
|
||
When mobs compete for control of the Montreal drug trade, a cop working for
|
||
the Mafia ends up with three mobs and the police on his trail. Do I detect
|
||
nepotism at work here? Norris finally gets to play a bad guy. Film gets
|
||
class booking in LA, with the National, Hollywood Pacific and Universally
|
||
Odious.
|
||
|
||
HUMAN SHIELD November
|
||
Rating: "R" War violence.
|
||
Dir: Ted Post
|
||
Cast: Michael Dudikoff
|
||
Producers: Christopher Pearce, Elie Cohn, Boaz Davidson
|
||
Start Date: 12/90, Israel
|
||
An action film about an ex-Marine who tries to rescue his younger brother
|
||
from terrorists in Iraq.
|
||
|
||
NO PLACE TO HIDE
|
||
Dir: Richard Danus
|
||
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau
|
||
Producer: Alan Amiel
|
||
Start Date: 5/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A suspense film.
|
||
|
||
RESCUE ME August (regional)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Arthur Alan Seidelman
|
||
Cast: Michael Dudikoff
|
||
Exec Producers: Jere Henshaw, David A. Smitas
|
||
Producer: Richard Alfieri
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Snyder
|
||
Start Date: 2/4/91
|
||
A romantic comedy.
|
||
|
||
TERMINAL BLISS Fall
|
||
Dir: Jordan Alan
|
||
Cast: Luke Perry
|
||
Rich East-Coast kids have lots of sex and drugs. Perry is one of the
|
||
stars of BEVERLY HILLS, 90210.
|
||
|
||
YOUNG COMMANDOS March 22
|
||
Rating: "R" for war violence, and for language.
|
||
Dir: Peter Manoogian
|
||
Cast: Nick Cassavetes, Eric Douglas, Mike Norris, Tony Peck, Matthew Penn,
|
||
James Ryan
|
||
Producer: Harry Alan Towers
|
||
Screenplay: Andrew Deutsch
|
||
Start Date: 7/90, Africa
|
||
Gee, all of those last names sound familiar.....
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Capitol Entertainment
|
||
---------------------
|
||
|
||
A PAPER WEDDING 1.33 June 21 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Michel Brault September 20 (LA)
|
||
Cast: Genevieve Bujold, Manuel Aranguiz
|
||
This 1990 Canadian feature has a theme similar to GREEN CARD, although it was
|
||
made first. The glorious Ms. Bujold marries a Chilean political exile whose
|
||
residence permit has expired.
|
||
|
||
RIKYU January 18 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara
|
||
Cast: Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomo Yamazaki
|
||
Drama set in 16th-Century Japan which chronicles the relationship between a
|
||
warlord (Yamazaki) and his spiritual mentor (Mikuni). Teshigahara directed
|
||
WOMAN IN THE DUNES.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Capstone Films
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
UNDERTOW September 18 (NY)
|
||
Rating: None
|
||
Dir: Thomas Mazziotti
|
||
Cast: Peter Dobson, Burtt Harris, Erica Gimpel
|
||
Producers: Burtt Harris, Thomas Mazziotti
|
||
Screenplay: Thomas Mazziotti, based on the play "Raw Youth"
|
||
Well-reviewed drama about ex-convict who tries to entrap a gay congressman.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Castle Hill
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
ALLIGATOR EYES February 15 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: John Feldman
|
||
Cast: Annabelle Larsen, Roger Kabler, Mary McLain, Allen McCullough
|
||
A psychological road thriller about three friends who meet a mysterious blind
|
||
woman on their way from New York to North Carolina.
|
||
|
||
OPENING NIGHT May 17 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: John Cassavetes
|
||
Cast: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert,
|
||
John Cassavetes
|
||
Producer: Al Ruban
|
||
Screenplay: John Cassavetes
|
||
The late John Cassavetes' drama about an aging actress (Rowlands) thrown into
|
||
a midlife crisis by the death of one of her adoring fans. NY Premiere as part
|
||
of the John Cassavetes Film Retrospective at Cinema 1. Film was test-booked
|
||
13 years ago in Los Angeles but pulled after a week by Cassavetes and never
|
||
released.
|
||
|
||
PRAYER OF THE ROLLERBOYS August 30 (regional)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Rick King
|
||
Cast: Corem Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, J.C. Quinn
|
||
Producer: Robert Mickelson
|
||
Screenplay: W. Peter Iliff
|
||
This teen-themed futuristic film concerns the little guy against the fascist
|
||
ruling class, only this time on rollerblades. Small film has received some
|
||
surprisingly decent notices, particularly in London.
|
||
|
||
REUNION 2.35 March 15 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Jerry Schatzberg
|
||
Cast: Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West
|
||
Producer: Anne Francois
|
||
Screenplay: Harold Pinter, based on Fred Uhlman's novel
|
||
D.P.: Bruno de Keyser
|
||
A man returns to Germany after 55 years to renew a friendship that began
|
||
during the Nazi era. "Their friendship should have lasted a lifetime..."
|
||
|
||
STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY 1.66 May 10
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Cynthia Scott
|
||
Cast: Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Winifred Holden, Cissy Meddings, Mary
|
||
Meigs, Catherine Roche, Michelle Sweeney, Beth Webber
|
||
Producer: David Wilson
|
||
Film concerns a group of older women who are stranded at a deserted farmhouse
|
||
far from civilization.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Cinecom
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
|
||
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD February 8 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG" February 22 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Tom Stoppard
|
||
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Ian Richardson, Joanna Miles,
|
||
Donald Sumpter, Iain Glen
|
||
Producers: Emmanuel Azenberg, Michael Brandman
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Stoppard
|
||
D.P.: Peter Biziou
|
||
Start Date: 1/8/90, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
|
||
Stoppard adapts his acclaimed play to the big screen. Top cast. Winner of
|
||
the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Best Picture.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Cinetel
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
DEADLY SURVEILLANCE
|
||
Dir: Paul Ziller
|
||
Cast: Michael Ironside
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Ziller
|
||
An action thriller.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Cinevista
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
BLACK LIZARD 2.35 September 18 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Kinji Kujasaku
|
||
Cast: Akihiro Maruyama, Isao Kimura, Yukio Mishima
|
||
American Premiere of this film that has been described as a "Japanese Valley
|
||
of the Dolls" is at New York's fab Film Forum.
|
||
|
||
FOREVER MARY April 19 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Marco Risi
|
||
Cast: Michele Placido, Alessandro di Sanzo, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno
|
||
Drama about a teacher at a Sicilian juvenile detention center who tries to
|
||
protect the children from the sadistic guards and staff. In Italian with
|
||
English subtitles.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Circle Releasing
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE KILLER 1.85 April 12 (NY)
|
||
Dir: John Woo
|
||
Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Sally Yeh, Danny Lee
|
||
Crime thriller set in Hong Kong where a hitman is assigned to one last job.
|
||
In Chinese, with English subtitles. No one under 17 is admitted to this
|
||
critically accaimed, incredibly violent film.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Columbia
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
BOYZ N THE HOOD 1.85 July 12
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: John Singleton
|
||
Cast: Larry Fishburne, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
|
||
Producer: Steve Nicoliadis
|
||
Screenplay: John Singleton
|
||
Start Date: 10/8/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Feature debut from USC film school grad Singleton. Being shown "Un Certain
|
||
Regard" at the Cannes Film Festival. "Welcome to the 'Hood. South Central
|
||
L.A."
|
||
|
||
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA August 14, 1992
|
||
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
|
||
Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost
|
||
Producer: Chuck Mulvehill, Fred Fuchs
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Hart
|
||
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
|
||
Start Date: 10/14/91, Los Angeles
|
||
A very visual production of the classic tale, filmed entirely on the lot at
|
||
Columbia Studios once HOOK vacated the premises. This will be based on the
|
||
original "Dracula" story, rather than the play or the Bela Lugosi film. There
|
||
are 60 sets and 175 special effects shots. All the effects will be done in
|
||
camera, rather than at with blue screens. Magicians, mirrors and trapdoors
|
||
will replace optical houses.
|
||
|
||
CITY SLICKERS (Castle Rock) 1.85 June 7
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Ron Underwood
|
||
Cast: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Jack Palance, Kyle Secor,
|
||
Helen Slater, Josh Mostel, David Paymer, Phil Lewis
|
||
Producer: Irby Smith
|
||
Exec Producer: Billy Crystal
|
||
Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
|
||
D.P.: Dean Semler
|
||
Start Date: 9/11/90, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, NM, Durango, CO
|
||
Comedy about three friends from L.A. who go on a cattle drive from
|
||
Montana to Wyoming. Talk about tenderfeet! "Yesterday they were businessmen.
|
||
Today they're cowboys. Tomorrow they'll be walking funny". Opens at London's
|
||
Odeon Leicester Square flagship on October 4.
|
||
|
||
DOUBLE IMPACT 1.85 August 9
|
||
Dir: Sheldon Lettich
|
||
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme
|
||
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
|
||
Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich, Steve Mearson, Peter Krikes
|
||
D.P.: Richard H. Kline
|
||
Start Date: 11/4/90, Hong Kong
|
||
Van Damme plays twin brothers who take on the Chinese mafia to
|
||
avenge the murder of their parents and reclaim their absconded
|
||
inheritance.
|
||
|
||
FALLING FROM GRACE Straight to Video
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: John Mellencamp
|
||
Cast: John Mellencamp, Mariel Hemingway, Kay Lenz, Claude Akins
|
||
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry
|
||
D.P.: Victor Hammer
|
||
Start Date: 7/23/90, Seymour, IN
|
||
Rocker Mellencamp goes to the silver screen in this semi-autobiographical
|
||
drama about a musician trying to deal with his success while living in his
|
||
small, Midwestern hometown. Delayed to 1992 to coincide with his new album.
|
||
Formerly titled SOUVENIRS.
|
||
|
||
A FEW GOOD MEN (Castle Rock) Christmas 1992
|
||
Dir: Rob Reiner
|
||
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon
|
||
Producers: David Brown, Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner
|
||
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, based on his play
|
||
D.P. Bob Richardson
|
||
Start Date: 10/21/91, Los Angeles, Washington DC
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
Wow. The stage play comes to the big screen with very impressive
|
||
credentials. Nicholson works only 10 days for a whopping $500,000 per.
|
||
|
||
GLADIATORS March 6, 1992
|
||
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
|
||
Cast: James Marshall, Cara Buono, Robert Loggia, Ossie Davis, Cuba
|
||
Gooding Sr., Brian Dennehy
|
||
Producer: Steve Roth
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan, Lyle Kessler
|
||
D.P.: Tak Fujimoto
|
||
Start Date: 1/21/91, Chicago
|
||
Marshall of TWIN PEAKS fame plays a young, working-class boxer.
|
||
Herrington last directed ROAD HOUSE. Kazan wrote REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. Fiklm
|
||
was screened August 22 at the Culver Theatre in LA. It scored 85% in the top
|
||
two boxes. The target audiences (males and females under 21) scored 93% with a
|
||
definite recommend of 75%. Those are excellent figures.
|
||
|
||
HARD PROMISES 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Martin Davidson & Lee Grant
|
||
Cast: Sissy Spacek, William Petersen, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff
|
||
Perry, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight
|
||
Producer: Cindy Chvatal
|
||
Screenplay: Julie Selbo
|
||
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, Austin, TX
|
||
|
||
HERO Christmas, 1992
|
||
Dir: Stephen Frears
|
||
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, Geena Davis
|
||
Producer: Laura Ziskin
|
||
Screenplay: David Peoples
|
||
Start Date: 10/30/91, Los Angeles, Chicago
|
||
|
||
HEXED Fall 1992
|
||
Dir: Alan Spencer
|
||
Cast: Arye Gross, Claudia Christian
|
||
|
||
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS July 31, 1992
|
||
Dir: Andrew Bergman
|
||
Cast: James Caan, Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, Noriyuki (Pat) Morita,
|
||
Anne Bancroft, Peter Boyle, Seymour Cassel, Lainie Kazan
|
||
Producer: Mike Lobell
|
||
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman
|
||
D.P.: William A. Fraker
|
||
Start Date: 8/19/91, Las Vegas, New York, LA, Kauai
|
||
New York private detective overcomes his fear of commitment and flies to Las
|
||
Vegas to get married. Then thinks go awry.... Bergman wrote and directed
|
||
THE FRESHMAN. Kazan plays the role she has perfected...a Yenta.
|
||
|
||
THE INNER CIRCLE December 25 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky
|
||
Cast: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovitch, Bob Hoskins
|
||
Producer: Claudio Bonivente, in association with Mosfilm
|
||
Screenplay: Andrei Konchalovsky, Anatoly Usov
|
||
D.P.: Ennio Guarnieri
|
||
Start Date: 8/20/90, Moscow
|
||
Reportedly the first major film to shoot inside the Kremlin walls,
|
||
this prestige project by expatriate Konchalovsky depicts Hulce as
|
||
Ivan Sanshin, who is thrust into Stalin's inner circle when he
|
||
becomes his personal projectionist. Formerly titled THE PROJECTIONIST.
|
||
|
||
INTO THE WOODS Christmas 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Brian Henson
|
||
Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Patrick Duncan Kenworthy
|
||
Screenplay: TBA
|
||
Start Date: late 1992
|
||
Zadan anticipates a $30 million budget on this big-screen adaptation of the
|
||
Tony-winning musical. It will be co-produced by Jim Henson Productions and
|
||
will feature live action mixed with Henson puppets. Stephen Sondheim and James
|
||
Lapine will consult on the production. Filming will be either in Los Angeles
|
||
or London.
|
||
|
||
LATE FOR DINNER (Castle Rock) September 20
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: W.D. Richter
|
||
Cast: Brian Winner, Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Marden, Colleen Flynn,
|
||
Peter Gallagher, Bo Brundin
|
||
Producers: W.D. Richter, Dan Lupovitz
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Andrus
|
||
D.P.: Peter Sova
|
||
Start Date: 3/5/90, Santa Fe, Los Angeles
|
||
This film, from Castle Rock Entertainment, is a time-travel comedy about
|
||
unbreakable bonds of family and friendship.
|
||
|
||
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN June 19, 1992
|
||
Dir: Penny Marshall
|
||
Cast: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Tracy Reiser, Ann Cusack,
|
||
Megan Cavanagh, Rosie O'Donnell, Bitty Schram, Renee Coleman, Freddie Simpson,
|
||
Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, David Strathairn, Jon Lovitz, Garry K. Marshall
|
||
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Elliot Abbott
|
||
Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
|
||
D.P.: Miroslav Ondricek
|
||
Start Date: 7/10/91, Chicago, Evansville IN, Cooperstown NY
|
||
Negative Cost: $34 million
|
||
Hanks manages an all-female baseball team. But can Madonna handle a real
|
||
chaw? Geena Davis replaced Debra Winger who was unhappy with the "stunt
|
||
casting" of Ms. Ciccone. Marshall's last film was the highly-decorated
|
||
AWAKENINGS.
|
||
|
||
MACHINE GUN KELLY 1992
|
||
Dir: Marek Kanievska
|
||
Cast: William Baldwin
|
||
Producer: Sam Arkoff
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Werb, Anna Hamilton-Phelan
|
||
Start Date: 10/91, Texas, Kansas
|
||
Will the old producing master of B-movies move up a letter in the alphabet?
|
||
Baldwin last scored big in BACKDRAFT.
|
||
|
||
MEN OF RESPECT January 18
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: William Reilly
|
||
Cast: John Tuturro, Katherine Borowitz, Dennis Farina, Peter Boyle, Stanley
|
||
Tucci, Steven Wright, Rod Steiger
|
||
Producer: Ephraim Horowitz
|
||
Screenplay: William Reilly
|
||
A drama about a New York City crime family. "You only respect what you
|
||
fear".
|
||
|
||
MIDKNIGHT 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Michael Jackson
|
||
Exec. Producer: Anton Furst
|
||
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson
|
||
Start Date: 1992
|
||
The Gloved One focuses on another aspect of his multi-media Sony MegaDeal.
|
||
|
||
MO' MONEY July 10, 1992
|
||
Dir: Peter Macdonald
|
||
Cast: Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl, Harry
|
||
J. Lennix
|
||
Producer: Michael Rachmil
|
||
Screenplay: Damon Wayans
|
||
D.P.: Don Burgess
|
||
Start Date: 7/8/91, Chicago
|
||
Negative Cost: $14.5 million
|
||
If that title sounds familiar, then you must watch "In Living Color". One
|
||
of the Wayans brothers has extended the concepts of the skits into a
|
||
feature-length script. "A film about a man who shoulda' left home without it".
|
||
|
||
MORTAL THOUGHTS 1.85 April 19
|
||
Dir: Alan Rudolph
|
||
Cast: Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel
|
||
Producers: John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov
|
||
Exec Producers: Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin (New Visions)
|
||
Screenplay: William Reilly, Claude Kervin
|
||
D.P.: Elliot Davis
|
||
Start Date: 2/20/90, Resumed 3/7/90, New Jersey
|
||
Suspense comedy about two women who get involved in a murder cover-up.
|
||
Rudolph's last film was the delightful LOVE AT LARGE.
|
||
|
||
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (Castle Rock) October 9, 1992
|
||
Dir: Billy Crystal
|
||
Cast: Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner
|
||
Producer: Billy Crystal
|
||
Screenplay: Lowell Hanz, Babaloo Mandel
|
||
D.P.: Don Peterman
|
||
Start Date: 11/7/91, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Billy makes his directorial debut directing himself. New Line International
|
||
handles the foreign markets.
|
||
|
||
MY GIRL November 27
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Howard Zieff
|
||
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macauley Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Griffin
|
||
Dunne
|
||
Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Screenplay: Laurice Elehwany, Barbara Benedek
|
||
D.P.: Paul Elliot
|
||
Start Date: 1/21/91, Florida
|
||
The daughter of an undertaker must come to terms with matters of
|
||
life and death. Culkin is receiving $1 million for this role,
|
||
although that figure was negotiated before HOME ALONE was released.
|
||
Formerly titled BORN JAUNDICED and I AM WOMAN. Film was tested in early
|
||
August at Cineplex 900 North Michigan Ave. Theatre in Chicago. It scored 82%
|
||
in the top two boxes. The target under-25 group was 88% with a definite
|
||
recommend of 60%. Filmmakers successfully appealed a PG-13 rating down to a
|
||
PG. Many fans of young Mr. Culkin may be shocked by the ending...
|
||
|
||
THE PICKLE September 11, 1992
|
||
Dir: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Cast: Danny Aiello, Shelley Winters, Dyan Cannon, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn,
|
||
Ally Sheedy, Barry Miller, Griffin Dunne, Little Richard, Paul Mazursky
|
||
Producer: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Start Date: 9/23/91, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Aiello plays a director in the midst of previewing his new film. Is this
|
||
autobiographical?
|
||
|
||
POETIC JUSTICE Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: John Singleton
|
||
Second film from the acclaimed young director of BOYZ 'N THE HOOD.
|
||
|
||
THE PRINCE OF TIDES December 20
|
||
Rating: "R" A scene of sex-related violence and strong language.
|
||
Dir: Barbra Streisand
|
||
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan,
|
||
Jeroen Krabbe, Jason Gould
|
||
Producer: Barbra Streisand
|
||
Screenplay: Beck Johnson, Pat Conroy, based on Conroy's novel
|
||
D.P.: Stephen Goldblatt
|
||
Start Date: 6/18/90, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
Babs' first directing job since YENTL in 1983 concerns a Southern
|
||
high school teacher and a New York psychiatrist. Oh yes, she's not
|
||
the southerner.... Advanced word is wonderful, particularly for Nolte.
|
||
Research screening audience at LA's Culver Theatre in early August gave it
|
||
100% above Very Good for males under 30 and 96% for females! The definite
|
||
recommend was 80%. Delayed from September release. Music is by James
|
||
Newton Howard (Bab's old beau).
|
||
|
||
RADIO FLYER 2.35 70mm February 14, 1992
|
||
Dir: Richard Donner
|
||
Cast: Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam
|
||
Baldwin, Rhea Perlman
|
||
Producers: Lauren Schuler-Donner, Richard Donner
|
||
Exec Producers: Michael Douglas, Rick Bieber, David Mickey Evans
|
||
Screenplay: David Mickey Evans
|
||
D.P.: Laszlo Kovacs
|
||
Start Date: 6/18/90, halted 6/25/90, resumed 10/3/90, L.A., Novato, Sonora, CA.
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million.
|
||
Infamous production from first-time scripter Evans, whose initial
|
||
deal included big bucks and directing chores. Production shuttered
|
||
after it became apparent he couldn't direct. Rosanna Arquette was
|
||
paid off on her play-or-pay contract. Donner brought in...rewrites
|
||
done. Evans gets an exec producer credit. This story is of two brothers who
|
||
build a kind of flying machine to escape their abusive lives. Now we'll see
|
||
if a red wagon can fly! Visual flying effects from Zoran Perisic's
|
||
Oscar-winning Zoptic system used so effectively in SUPERMAN. Additional
|
||
Visual Effects from Apogee Productions. From Stonebridge Entertainment.
|
||
Postponed from July 12 due to being behind schedule. Promotional partners
|
||
Dairy Queen and Kraft Marshmallows were very upset. Columbia reimbursed DQ
|
||
some $2 million for expenses on the aborted promotion. After languishing with a
|
||
"Fall" release date, Columbia has decided on President's Day weekend 1992.
|
||
|
||
REMAINS OF THE DAY Christmas 1992(limited)
|
||
Dir: Mike Nichols
|
||
Cast: Jeremy Irons
|
||
Screenplay: Harold Pinter
|
||
|
||
RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON 1.85 August 2
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: William A. Graham
|
||
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause, Lisa Pelikan
|
||
Exec Producer: Randal Kleiser
|
||
Screenplay: Leslie Stevens
|
||
D.P.: Robert Steadman
|
||
Start Date: 6/7/90, Taveuni, Fiji
|
||
A nationwide search for a teens who look good in loincloths was necessary
|
||
for this one, folks. The son of the characters portrayed by Chris Atkins and
|
||
Brooke Shields in the first film is about to be rescued from the island when
|
||
the ship sinks. This time he is stranded with a teenaged girl and her dying
|
||
mother. Oy. Shot in Super-1.85.
|
||
|
||
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE May 15, 1992
|
||
Dir: Barbet Schroeder
|
||
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven R. Weber, Peter Friedman,
|
||
Stephen Tobolowsky, Michele Farr, Tara Karsian, Christina Capetillo, Johnny
|
||
Dapolito
|
||
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
|
||
Screenplay: Don Roos, based on John Lutz' novel "Single White Female Seeks the
|
||
Same"
|
||
D.P.: Luciano Tovoli
|
||
Start Date: 7/8/91, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $15.8 million.
|
||
After the triumph of REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, Schroeder tackles even more risque
|
||
material. The title SWF places an ad for a roommate and later regrets it...
|
||
|
||
THE SPIRIT OF '76 March 8 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
"Three visitors from the future just made an embarassing discovery. Our past."
|
||
"Don't pretend you can't remember."
|
||
|
||
STEPHEN KING'S SLEEPWALKERS April 10, 1992
|
||
Dir: Mick Garris
|
||
Cast: Alice Krige, Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, Ron Perlman, Jim Haynie, Lyman
|
||
Ward, Cindy Pickett, Dan Martin, Glenn Shadix
|
||
Producers: Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Nabeel Zahid
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen King
|
||
Start Date: 6/24/91
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
This supernatural horror flick wrapped production on 9/4/91 and features
|
||
visual effects from John Dykstra's Apogee Productions. Creature effects are
|
||
from Tony Gardner's Alterian Studios. Music is by Nicholas Pike.
|
||
|
||
STONE COLD 1.85 May 17
|
||
Rating: "R" For strong violence, language and sensuality. Recut from "NC-17".
|
||
Dir: Craig R. Baxley
|
||
Cast: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray,
|
||
Arabella Holbeg
|
||
Producer: Yoram Ben Ami
|
||
Screenplay: Walter Doniger, Howard Cushnir
|
||
D.P.: Alexander Gruszynski
|
||
Start Date: 6/4/90, Mobile, New Orleans, Jackson, Biloxi, MS
|
||
"The Boz" makes his feature debut in this story about an undercover
|
||
G-Man ina case involving an outlaw banker bent on assassinating a
|
||
high-ranking government official. Formerly titled THE BROTHERHOOD.
|
||
|
||
THE TAKING OF BEVERLY HILLS October 11
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Sidney J. Furie
|
||
Cast: Ken Wahl, Matt Frewer, Harley Jane Kozak, Robert Davi
|
||
Producer: Graham Henderson
|
||
Screenplay: Rick Natkin, David Fuller, David J. Burke
|
||
A cop goes to the aid of Beverly Hills' rich and famous when they are
|
||
victimized by a plan to steal $1 billion. Frewer is Max Headroom. From Nelson
|
||
Films.
|
||
|
||
UNDER SUSPICION 2.35 February 7, 1992
|
||
Dir: Simon Moore
|
||
Cast: Patrick Bergin, Laura San Giacomo
|
||
Producer: Brian Eastman
|
||
Screenplay: Simon Moore
|
||
Start Date: 2/18/91, London
|
||
This story is set in London of the late 30's. An amoral divorce
|
||
detective, whose wife helps him establish fake adultery cases, turns
|
||
out to be the chief suspect when his wife is slain. Bergin
|
||
(MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON) was last seen as the nutso husband in
|
||
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. San Giacomo (SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE) was
|
||
Holly Hunter's sister in ONCE AROUND. Formerly titled THE OTHER WOMAN. Opened
|
||
in London in September to very positive notices.
|
||
|
||
YEAR OF THE COMET (Castle Rock) 1992
|
||
Dir: Peter Yates
|
||
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Timothy Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik, Robert
|
||
Hardy, Julia McCarthy, Timothy Bentinck, Ian McNeice, Arturo Venegas, Chapman
|
||
Roberts, Nick Brimble, Andrew Robertson, Shane Rimmer, David Bamber, Martin
|
||
Benson
|
||
Producer: Nigel Wooll
|
||
Screenplay: William Goldman
|
||
D.P.: Roger Pratt
|
||
Start Date: 5/27/91, Scotland, England, France
|
||
No, it isn't a science-fiction extravaganza, it's an adventure. Yates gave
|
||
us such features as BULLITT, THE DEEP and, dare I say it, KRULL.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Expanded Entertainment
|
||
----------------------
|
||
|
||
THE BRITISH ANIMATION INVASION March 1
|
||
A compilation of top-notch animated shorts from the U.K.
|
||
|
||
TOO OUTRAGEOUS ANIMATION
|
||
Another compilation of animated shorts.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Four Seasons
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
PERFECTLY NORMAL 1.85 February 15 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" For language and a scene of sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Yves Simoneau
|
||
Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley, Deborah Duchene, Kenneth Walsh
|
||
Producer: Michael Burns
|
||
Screenplay: Eugene Lipinski, Paul Quarrington
|
||
Comedy about what happens to a man when he meets someone who urges him to
|
||
act on his dreams. Coltrane was one of the NUNS ON THE RUN. "Ever meet
|
||
someone...who could talk you into anything?"
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Four Square Prods.
|
||
------------------
|
||
|
||
KILLER TOMATOES EAT FRANCE Spring, 1992
|
||
Dir: John DeBello
|
||
Cast: John Astin, Marc Price, Angela Visser
|
||
Another Killer Tomatoes film, this time shot on location in Paris and
|
||
environs.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Fries Entertainment
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
PRINCES IN EXILE February 22 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Giles Walker
|
||
Cast: Zachary Ansley, Nicholas Shields, Stacy Mistysyn, Alexander Chapman,
|
||
Chuck Shamata
|
||
Producer: John Dunning
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Wiesenfel, based on Mark Shreiber's novel
|
||
A Canadian film about teenagers coming of age has a twist...the protagonist
|
||
and most of the friends he makes at a special summer camp are young cancer
|
||
victims. From the National Film Board of Canada. "Meet the heirs to an empty
|
||
throne."
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Greycat Films
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE BACHELOR
|
||
Cast: Keith Carradine, Miranda Richardson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Max von Sydow
|
||
Producer: Mario Orfini
|
||
Carradine plays a man of privilege who can't decide what to do with his life.
|
||
Richardson plays a dual role in this Italian film.
|
||
|
||
THE DARK BACKWARD July 26 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Adam Rifkin October 18 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Caan, Rob
|
||
Lowe
|
||
Producer: Brad Wyman, Cassian Elwes
|
||
Screenplay: Adam Rifkin
|
||
Black comedy about a no-talent comedian (Nelson) who briefly attains fame
|
||
because of *very* odd circumstance. Dismal boxoffice performance in exclusive
|
||
NY bow at the Quad Theatre does not bode well, although virtually no promotion
|
||
was used.
|
||
|
||
THE HORSEPLAYER
|
||
Dir: Kurt Voss
|
||
|
||
NOIR ET BLANC May 24 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Claire Devers
|
||
Cast: Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial
|
||
Screenplay: Claire Devers, adapted from a Tennessee Williams story
|
||
French film about the sado-masochistic relationship between a timid
|
||
accountant and a black masseur. Should do very well when it opens in
|
||
Greenwich Village. In French with English subtitles.
|
||
|
||
RESIDENT ALIEN
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Nossiter October 18 (NY)
|
||
Cast: Quentin Crisp, John Hurt, Sting, Holly Woodlawn, Fran Leibowitz
|
||
Documentary about Quentin Crisp. World Premiere engagement at Manhattan's
|
||
Angelika Film Center.
|
||
|
||
STAGES Fall (LA)
|
||
Dir: Randy Thompson
|
||
First film from this Seattle director concerns comedians on the road. It
|
||
will be retitled.
|
||
|
||
1000 PIECES OF GOLD September 27 (NY)
|
||
This American Playhouse film is the story of a Chinese woman facing hardships
|
||
and discrimination as an indentured servant in the old west. It has received
|
||
regional releases, including 10 weeks at the Metro in Seattle and a good
|
||
booking at the Opera Plaza in San Francisco. It opens at Coolidge's Corner in
|
||
Boston in September and then in New York.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hemdale
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS September
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Cast: Rip Torn
|
||
|
||
BRIGHT ANGEL 1.85
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Michael Fields
|
||
Cast: Lili Taylor, Dermot Mulroney, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Burt Young,
|
||
Sam Shepard
|
||
Love in a small Montana town. Based on two short stories by Richard Ford.
|
||
|
||
COLLISION COURSE Fall
|
||
Cast: Jay Leno, Pat Morita
|
||
|
||
COMPLEX WORLD early Fall
|
||
Dir: James Wolpaw
|
||
|
||
HIGHWAY TO HELL Fall
|
||
Dir: Ate de Jong
|
||
|
||
IMPROMPTU 1.85 April 12 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: James Lapine
|
||
Cast: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands
|
||
Producers: Stuary Oken, Daniel A. Sherkow
|
||
Screenplay: Sarah Kernochan
|
||
D.P.: Bruno De Keyzer
|
||
Period piece centered on the relationship between cross-dressing writer
|
||
George Sand and flamboyant composer Frederic Chopin. Davis is George Sand,
|
||
Grant is Frederic Chopin, Patinkin is Alfred DeMusset, Peters is Marie
|
||
D'Agoult, Sands is Franz Liszt. Great advanced word on this oft-delayed
|
||
release. "He's about to fall in love with the most scandalous woman of
|
||
his time."
|
||
|
||
THE LEGEND OF WOLF MOUNTAIN 1992
|
||
Dir: Craig Clyde
|
||
Cast: Bo Hopkins, Robert Z'Dar, David Shark, Don Shanks, Nicole Lund, Natalie
|
||
Lund, Vivian Schilling, Mickey Rooney
|
||
Producer: Bryce Fillmore
|
||
Screenplay: Craig Clyde
|
||
|
||
LOVE AND MURDER
|
||
Rating: "R" Language.
|
||
|
||
PRIMARY MOTIVE
|
||
Dir: Daniels Adams
|
||
Cast: Judd Nelson, John Savage, Sally Kirkland, Jose Ferrer
|
||
Producer: Tom Gruenberg
|
||
Screenplay: Daniel Adams, William Snowden
|
||
D.P.: John Drake
|
||
Start Date: 4/22/91, Luxembourg, Boston
|
||
|
||
REEFER AND THE MODEL
|
||
Dir: Joe Comerford
|
||
|
||
REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC 1.85 April 19 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Robert Dornhelm
|
||
Cast: August Schmolzer, Felix Mitterer, Viktoria Schubert, Angelica Schutz
|
||
Docudrama about director Dornhelm's return to his native Romania during the
|
||
1989 revolution to rescue his childhood friend, Dominic, who was accused of
|
||
killing 80 of his colleagues. In German with English subtitles.
|
||
|
||
THE TALE OF RUBY ROSE
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Roger Scholes
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
IFEX
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
CITY ZERO 1.66 March 22 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Karen Shakhnazarov
|
||
Cast: Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov, Armen Djigarkhanian
|
||
Screenplay: Karen Shakhnazarov, Alexander Borodyansky
|
||
D.P.: Nikolai Nemolyayev
|
||
Satire of life in post-Glasnost Russia follows a Moscow engineer who becomes
|
||
stranded on a business trip and is thrust into a series of macabre events.
|
||
Winner of Best Film, Chicago International Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
IMAX
|
||
----
|
||
|
||
AT THE MAX 70mm IMAX October 18
|
||
Dir: Julien Temple, Roman Kroitor, David Douglas, Noel Archambault
|
||
Cast: The Rolling Stones
|
||
Exec. Producers: Michael Cohl, Andre' Picard
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
The concert film of the Stones' Steel Wheels and Urban Jungles
|
||
tours from 1990 in the 70mm large-frame IMAX format. The 89 minute film is the
|
||
first feature in the format. It will open at some of the domestic IMAX
|
||
and OMNIMAX screens. The suggested ticket price will be $12 - $15. European
|
||
and Asian engagements will commence in the Spring of 1992. There are 74
|
||
permanent IMAX and OMNIMAX theatres in the world. Apparently IMAX is having
|
||
great difficulty getting the theatres to book this film since a lot of them are
|
||
associated with educational and research institutions and they feel a Stones
|
||
concert film would not be appropriate. The California Museum of Science and
|
||
Industry in Los Angeles has booked the film.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Interama
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
HERDSMEN OF THE SUN May 8 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Werner Herzog
|
||
1988 documentary about Herzog's visit with the Wodaabe nomads of the southern
|
||
Sahara gets its first American exposure at the fab Film Forum. In English and
|
||
Peul with English subtitles. It runs 52 minutes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Interstar
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
|
||
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING November 1
|
||
Dir: Russell Mulcahy
|
||
Cast: Christopther Lambert, Sean Connery
|
||
This turkey finally gets a theatrical release in the U.S. through new
|
||
distributor Interstar. It will probably be a quick playoff then on to
|
||
Showtime and home video.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
I.R.S. Media
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
BLOOD & CONCRETE, A LOVE STORY September 13 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" September 20 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Jeffrey Reiner
|
||
Cast: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin, Harry Shearer, James Le Gros,
|
||
Mark Pellegrino, Nicholas Worth
|
||
Producer: Richard LaBrie
|
||
Screenplay: Richard LaBrie, Jeffrey Reiner
|
||
D.P.: Declan Quinn
|
||
Start Date: 6/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Detective searching for drug kingpin comes upon small-time car thief fighting
|
||
for his life and his troubled singer-girlfriend.
|
||
|
||
DECEMBER December 7
|
||
Dir: Gabe Torres
|
||
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Brian Krause, Jason London, Wil Wheaton, Chris Young
|
||
Screenplay: Gabe Torres
|
||
Five prep school students debate whether to join the military a day after the
|
||
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
|
||
|
||
DELUSION 2.35 June 7
|
||
Rating: "R" For Language and sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Carl Colpaert
|
||
Cast: Jim Meltzer, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Robert Costanzo, Tracey Walter,
|
||
Jerry Orbach
|
||
Producer: Dan Hassid
|
||
Screenplay: Carl Colpaert, Kurt Voss
|
||
D.P.: Geza Sinkovics
|
||
White collar criminal on the run comes upon car crash of a showgirl and her
|
||
hitman-boyfriend. "She only wanted love. But money's better than nothing."
|
||
|
||
ME, MYSELF AND I 1992
|
||
Dir: Pablo Ferro
|
||
Cast: George Segal
|
||
Screenplay: Julian Barry
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Screenwriter Barry won an Oscar for LENNY.
|
||
|
||
RAGE AND HONOR 1992
|
||
Dir: Terrence Wink Less
|
||
Cast: Cynthia Rothrock
|
||
Screenplay: Terrence Wink Less
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
MGM-Pathe
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
ALONE TOGETHER November 8
|
||
Dir: Chris Menges
|
||
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine
|
||
Hawn is a single mom living in Key West circa 1969. Her husband is a
|
||
frazzled Vietnam vet. She works as a stripper, her son deals drugs. Anything
|
||
to make ends meet.... Menges directed A WORLD APART. May get a title change.
|
||
|
||
THE BABOON HEART 1992
|
||
Dir: Tony Bill
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Sierchio
|
||
Start Date: 12/91
|
||
Madonna is aching to topline in this romantic drama about a New Jersey
|
||
waitress who falls in love with a strange young man who hides the fact that he
|
||
suffers with a very weak heart. Screenwriter used to deliver liquor to the
|
||
director's house.
|
||
|
||
COMPANY BUSINESS 1.85 September 6 (regional)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Nicholas Meyer
|
||
Cast: Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov
|
||
Producer: Steven Charles-Jaffe
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer
|
||
D.P.: Gerry Fisher
|
||
Start Date: 3/19/90, Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Washington, D.C.
|
||
When a spy swap goes awry, a CIA man and a KGB man become friends and escape
|
||
to Paris. Formerly titled DINOSAURS and PATRIOTS. Music by Michael Kamen.
|
||
|
||
CRIMINALS Straight to Video
|
||
Dir: Eugene Levy
|
||
Cast: John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepard, Sean Young, Ornella Muti,
|
||
Richard Lewis, Giancarlo Giannini, Joe Flaherty
|
||
Producer: Dino DeLaurentiis
|
||
Screenplay: Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, based on 1960 film CRIMEN (...AND
|
||
SUDDENLY IT'S MURDER), written by Rodolfo Sonego, Giorgio Arlorio, Stefano
|
||
Strucchi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Oreste Biancoli
|
||
D.P.: Giuseppe Rotunno
|
||
Start Date: 2/20/91, Rome, Monte Carlo
|
||
|
||
THE CUTTING EDGE early 1992
|
||
Dir: Paul Michael Glaser
|
||
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Terry O'Quinn
|
||
Producers: Robert Cort, Cynthia Sherman, Dean O'Brien
|
||
Screenplay: Tony Gilroy
|
||
D.P.: Elliot Davis
|
||
Start Date: 4/8/91, Toronto
|
||
A family film set against the 1992 Olympic figure skating competition.
|
||
|
||
CRISSCROSS TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and drug-related scenes, and for brief but strong
|
||
sensuality.
|
||
|
||
CROOKED HEARTS September 13 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Michael Bortman
|
||
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Cincent D'Onofrio, Peter Berg,
|
||
Julliette Lewis, Noah Wyle
|
||
Producers: Rick Stevenson, Dale Pollock, Gil Friesen
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Bortman
|
||
D.P.: Tak Fujimoto
|
||
A father's infidelity threatens the destruction of his family. "They smother
|
||
you with love. Drive you to insanity. Shield you from the truth... ...What
|
||
are families for?"
|
||
|
||
DEAD WOOD 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Screenplay: Pete Dexter
|
||
Start Date: 1992, South Dakota
|
||
Story is about the final days of Wild Bill Hickok. Dexter wrote the
|
||
acclaimed PARIS TROUT and RUSH.
|
||
|
||
DELIRIOUS 1.85 August 9
|
||
Dir: Tom Mankiewicz
|
||
Cast: John Candy, Emma Samms, Mariel Hemingway, Renee Taylor
|
||
Producers: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman, Doug Claybourne
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freedman
|
||
D.P.: Robert Stevens
|
||
Start Date: 3/14/90, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Candy finally gets to play a romantic leading role in this twice
|
||
delayed film. He plays the writer of a daytime soap "Beyond Our
|
||
Dreams" who crosses over into a living nightmare. He is furious
|
||
because the show's star (Samms), who is also the woman of his dreams
|
||
may be canned and replaced by a dull and lifeless actress (Hemingway).
|
||
In a fit of anger, he crashes his car. Upon awakening, Candy
|
||
discovers that he has entered the very world of his soap opera,
|
||
living in the town of Ashford Falls that he created for the soap!
|
||
|
||
DIGGSTOWN RINGERS 1992
|
||
Dir: Michael Ritchie
|
||
Cast: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt
|
||
Producer: Robert Schaffel
|
||
Screenplay: Steven McKay
|
||
Start Date: 12/1/91, Georgia, Louisiana
|
||
|
||
FIRES WITHIN June 28 (Miami, San Antonio)
|
||
Rating: "R" For sensuality and language
|
||
Dir: Gillian Armstrong
|
||
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Jimmy Smits, Vincent D'Onofrio
|
||
Producers: Wallis Nicita, Lauren Lloyd
|
||
Screenplay: Cynthia Cidre, Peter Barsocchini
|
||
A woman struggles to find a new life after her husband is imprisoned by the
|
||
Castro regime. Romantic drama is set in Miami's Cuban community.
|
||
rmstrong directed HIGH TIDE. Title keeps bouncing between FIRES WITHIN and
|
||
DISTANT SHORES.
|
||
|
||
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN (SR) August 23
|
||
Dir: Simon Wincer
|
||
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Robert Ginty, Chelsea Field
|
||
Producer: Jere Henshaw
|
||
Screenplay: Don Michael Paul
|
||
D.P.: David Eggby
|
||
Start Date: 10/29/90, Tucson, L.A., Las Vegas
|
||
An "apocalyptic cowboy movie about two men trying to save a rock 'n roll
|
||
club" slated for foreclosure circa 1966. Wincer last directed QUIGLEY DOWN
|
||
UNDER. Once again Wincer uses anamorphics on his film.
|
||
|
||
INDIAN RUNNER (SR) September 20 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Sean Penn
|
||
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, David Morse, Charles Bronson, Sandy Dennis
|
||
Screenplay: Sean Penn
|
||
Penn makes a fine directorial debut in this story of rivalry between two
|
||
brothers, one a good guy, the other, not. Bronson and Dennis are the parents.
|
||
|
||
LIEBESTRAUM September 13 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong sensuality and language.
|
||
Dir: Michael Tuchner
|
||
Cast: Kevin Anderson, Kim Novak, Pamela Gidley
|
||
Producers: Eric Fellner, Mike Figgis, Mike Flynn
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Figgis
|
||
D.P.: Juan Ruiz-Anchia
|
||
Start Date: 6/27/90, Binghamton, NY
|
||
Thriller about a dying woman's recollections aboujt a love triangle she
|
||
was involved in when first married. Memories have murderous consequences.
|
||
Debuts at Boston Film Festival. Tuchner directed INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
|
||
"A story of lust, murder and dreams." Word is good.
|
||
|
||
LIFE STINKS July 26
|
||
Dir: Mel Brooks
|
||
Cast: Mel Brooks. Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard
|
||
Morris, Teddy Wilson, Billy Barty, Rudy DeLuca
|
||
Producer: Mel Brooks
|
||
Screenplay: Mel Brooks, Rudy DeLucas, Steve Haberman
|
||
D.P.: Steven Poster
|
||
Start Date: 6/8/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
Brooks stars as a billionaire forced to live with the street people of LA.
|
||
|
||
THE MAN IN THE MOON October 4 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" October 25 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Robert Mulligan
|
||
Cast: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon, Jason
|
||
London, Emily Warfield, Bentley Mitchum, Ernie Lively
|
||
Producer: Mark Rydell
|
||
Screenplay: Jenny Wingfield
|
||
D.P.: Freddie Francis
|
||
Start Date: 6/11/90, Louisiana
|
||
Relationship of two teenage sisters is tested and later marred when they fall
|
||
in love with the same 17-year-old boy. Opens in 15 markets...release widens
|
||
slowly thorugh October and November. Advanced word is good, particularly the
|
||
quality of the acting. Music is by James Newton Howard.
|
||
|
||
NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER January 11
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Brian Gilbert
|
||
Cast: Sally Field, Alfred Molinam, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth
|
||
Producers: Harry J. Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland
|
||
Screenplay: David W. Rintels
|
||
D.P.: Peter Hannan
|
||
Start Date: 2/18/90, Tel Aviv
|
||
Sally Field plays an American mother whose life turns to Islamic terror
|
||
when she visits Iran with her middle eastern husband. Based on a true story.
|
||
Music is by Jerry Goldsmith. "In 1984, Betty Mahmoody's husband took his wife
|
||
and daughter to meet his family in Iran. He swore they would be safe. They
|
||
would be happy. They would be free to leave. He lied."
|
||
|
||
OF MICE AND MEN 1992
|
||
Dir: Gary Sinise
|
||
Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise
|
||
Prodicers: Russ Smith, Gary Sinise
|
||
Screenplay: Horton Foote
|
||
Start Date: 9/16/91, Los Angeles, Northern California
|
||
New film version of the classic Steinbeck play by the folks who should be
|
||
able to do it right.
|
||
|
||
ONCE UPON A CRIME February, 1992
|
||
Cast: John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepard, Sean Young
|
||
A detective spoof.
|
||
|
||
RICH IN LOVE 1992
|
||
Dir: Bruce Beresford
|
||
Cast: Albert Finney, Piper Laurie, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, Kyle MacLachlan,
|
||
Kathryn Erbe, Ethan Hawke, Alfre Woodard
|
||
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on Josephine Humphrey's novel
|
||
Start Date: 9/8/91, Charleston SC
|
||
A young girl struggles to find her identity. Reteaming of the creative team
|
||
behind DRIVING MISS DAISY.
|
||
|
||
RUSH December 25
|
||
Dir: Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Cast: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh
|
||
Screenplay: Based on Kim Wozencraft's autobiographical novel
|
||
Leigh is a cocaine-addicted undercover narc. This is Ms. Zanuck's directorial
|
||
debut. She won an Oscar for co-producing DRIVING MISS DAISY. Post-production
|
||
is at Skywalker Sound. Musical score is by Eric Clapton. RUSH may move a few
|
||
days forward in December.
|
||
|
||
SHATTERED 2.35 (SR) October 11
|
||
Rating: "R" Sensuality, language and violence.
|
||
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen
|
||
Cast: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Corbin
|
||
Bernsen
|
||
Screenplay: Wolfgang Petersen, Andrew Birkin
|
||
D.P.: Laszlo Kovacs
|
||
Start Date: 2/12/90, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon
|
||
Negative Cost: $22 million
|
||
The director of DAS BOOT and ENEMY MINE adapts Richard Neely's erotic
|
||
suspense novel to the screen. This independent production is about
|
||
an amnesia victim whop must solve a murder and spy on his wife to uncover truth
|
||
about his past. Formerly called THE PLASTIC NIGHTMARE. Last seen on the
|
||
release schedule for June 14th.
|
||
|
||
THELMA AND LOUISE 2.35 (SR) May 24
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Ridley Scott
|
||
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena David, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen,
|
||
Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky
|
||
Producers: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk, Dean O'Brien
|
||
Screenplay: Callie Khouri
|
||
D.P.: Adrian Biddle
|
||
Start Date: 6/11/90, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Moab, UT
|
||
Comedy about a waitress and a housewife who take a road trip which
|
||
turns into a frantic adventure. Excellent advanced word. Delayed
|
||
due to MGM-Pathe's financial problems. "Somebody said 'get a life'...so they
|
||
did".
|
||
|
||
TIME BOMB September 27
|
||
Rating: "R" (St. Louis, KC)
|
||
Dir: Avi Nesher
|
||
Cast: Michael Biehn, Patsy Kensit, Richard Jordan, Tracy Scoggins
|
||
Producer: Raffaela De Laurentiis
|
||
Start Date: 5/90
|
||
Biehn is a brainwashed former CIA assassin, currently a watchmaker. Kensit
|
||
is his doctor. The body count is high in this one as they try to stop an
|
||
assassination in LA while other operatives gun for him. Nesher is a former
|
||
Israeli Special Forces man. Word is excellent.
|
||
|
||
THE VAGRANT early 1992
|
||
Dir: Chris Walas
|
||
Cast: Marshall Bell, Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Mitzi Kapture, Colleen
|
||
Camp, Stuart Pankin, Patrika Darbo, Teddy Wilson, Mark McClure, Derek Loughran
|
||
Producer: Gillian Richardson Walas
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Jefferies
|
||
D.P.: Jack Wallner
|
||
Start Date: 3/18/91, Phoenix
|
||
Contemporary black comedy about a homeless man who terrorizes the new owner
|
||
of a house he formerly occupied. Walas won an Oscar for his special effects
|
||
work on THE FLY. He directed THE FLY II.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
MK2
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
CROSS MY HEART 1.85 April 5 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Jacques Fansten
|
||
Cast: Sylvain Copains
|
||
French drama about a 12-year-old recently orphaned boy who struggles to keep
|
||
his situation hidden from authorities who would send him to an orphanage.
|
||
Film has been featured at film festivals in Toronto, Montreal, Sarasota and
|
||
Palm Springs. "Can you keep a secret?" American re-make is to be directed by
|
||
Steven Spielberg for Universal.
|
||
|
||
EVERY OTHER WEEKEND 1.85 June 19 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Nicole Garcia
|
||
Cast: Natalie Baye, Joachim Serreau, Felicie Pasotti, Miki Manojlovic, Henri
|
||
Garcin, Gilles Treton, Marie Daems, Michelle Goddet, Susan Carlson, Jacques
|
||
Boudet, Jacques Vincey
|
||
Producer: Alain Sarde
|
||
Screenplay: Nicole Garcia, Jacques Fieschi, Anne-Marie Etienne, Philippe LeGuay
|
||
D.P.: William Lubtchansky
|
||
Tale of a struggling actress hoping to recapture the love of her childen.
|
||
Garcia makes her directorial debut. She is best known for starring in MON
|
||
ONCLE D'AMERIQUE.
|
||
|
||
LA BELLE NOISEUSE October 4 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Jacques Rivette
|
||
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birken, Emmanuelle Beart, Marianne Denicourt, David
|
||
Bursztein, Gille Arbona, the hand of painter Bernard Dufour
|
||
Producer: Jacques Rivette
|
||
Screenplay: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette
|
||
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1991, this film acclaimed film
|
||
meticulously depicts the process of creating works of art.
|
||
|
||
TAXI BLUES January 18 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Pavel Lounguine
|
||
Cast: Piotr Zaitchenko, Piotr Mamanov, Natalia Koliakanova, Elena Sofonova
|
||
Exec Producer: Pierre Rival
|
||
Screenplay: Pavel Lounguine
|
||
Serio-comedy about a Moscow cab driver and a jazz musician was the Soviet
|
||
Union's official entrant into the Foreign Language Oscar category. Best
|
||
Director Award winner at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Miramax
|
||
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|
||
|
||
AMBITION May 31
|
||
Rating: "R" For violence, sensuality and language.
|
||
Dir: Scott D. Goldstein
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Clancy Brown, Cecelia Peck, Richard Bradford, Grace
|
||
Zabriskie, Haing S. Ngor
|
||
Producer: Richard E. Johnson
|
||
Screenplay: Lou Diamond Phillips
|
||
Start Date: 6/11/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A writer becomes obsessed with a murderer about whom he is writing.
|
||
"Please tell me this is fiction." Music is by Leonard Rosenmann. Formerly
|
||
titled MIND GAME.
|
||
|
||
ANTONIA AND JANE October 25 (NY)
|
||
Rating: None
|
||
Dir: Beeban Kidron
|
||
Cast: Imelda Staunton, Saskia Reeves
|
||
Producer: George Faber
|
||
Screenplay: Marcy Kahan
|
||
This British comedy from the BBC is the wise and funny story of two women--
|
||
one a cool beauty and the other a perennial lost soul -- who spend each year
|
||
preparing for their annual reunion lunch.
|
||
|
||
AY, CARMELA (Prestige) February 8 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Carlos Saura
|
||
Cast: Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego
|
||
Producer: Andres Vicente Gomez
|
||
Screenplay: Carlos Saura
|
||
Story of two cabaret performers trapped between political factions during
|
||
the Spanish Civil War. In Spanish with English subtitles. Saura directed
|
||
CARMEN. Maura starred in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Maura
|
||
won the Actress of the Year award at the European Film Awards for this role.
|
||
Pajares won Best Actor at the Montreal Film Festival. "Across the battlefields
|
||
of Spain, she won the heart of every man."
|
||
|
||
BABY BLOOD
|
||
Dir: Alain Robak
|
||
|
||
BLACK RAINBOW Sold to Showtime
|
||
Dir: Mike Hodges
|
||
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Tom Hulce, Jason Robards
|
||
Producers: J. Questad, G. Helman
|
||
A medium's predictions endanger her own life.
|
||
|
||
CROSSING THE LINE 1.85 August 9 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" August 23 (regional)
|
||
Dir: David Leland
|
||
Cast: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Ian Bannen, Billy Connelly
|
||
Producer: Stephen Woolley
|
||
Screenplay: Don MacPherson
|
||
A Scottish miner-turned-boxer fights corruption in the boxing game in this
|
||
drama from the directory of WISH YOU WERE HERE and the producer of SCANDAL.
|
||
Neeson has received great critical acclaim for this role in the U.K. Was
|
||
titled THE BIG MAN.
|
||
|
||
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE November 22
|
||
Dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski
|
||
Cast: Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter
|
||
Producer: Leonardo de la Fuente
|
||
Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
|
||
This film, which premiered at Cannes in the Offcial Selection, is the
|
||
romantic drama of two physically identical women who are born on the same day
|
||
in two different countries and lead separate but similar lives. The radiant
|
||
Jacob stars in the double role for when she won Cannes' Best Actress prize.
|
||
Opens the New York Film Festival on September 20.
|
||
|
||
DROWNING BY NUMBERS (Prestige) 1.85 April 26
|
||
Rating: "R" For numerous scenes of nudity, sensuality, and for language.
|
||
Dir: Peter Greenaway
|
||
Cast: Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Bernard Hill, Juliet Stevenson
|
||
Producers: Kees Alexander, Denis Wigman
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Greenaway
|
||
This 1987 black comedy is about male potency, female solidarity
|
||
and murder, all set in a nice country landscape. Greenaway's last
|
||
film was the ultra-controversial THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND
|
||
HER LOVER.
|
||
|
||
ECOTOPIA 1992
|
||
Dir: Rene Daalder
|
||
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Drew Barrymore
|
||
Producer: Kesse Kasander
|
||
Screenplay: Rene Daalder, William Vigil, Doug Freel
|
||
D.P.: David Sperling
|
||
Start Date: 12/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
ERASERHEAD 1992
|
||
Dir: David Lynch
|
||
Cast: John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeannes Bates, Judith Anna
|
||
Roberts, Laurel Near, V. Phipps-Wilson
|
||
Producer: David Lynch
|
||
Screenplay: David Lynch
|
||
Re-issue of Lynch's cult fave first film.
|
||
|
||
EVERYBODY'S FINE 1.85 May 31 (NY,LA)
|
||
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore
|
||
Cast: Marcelo Mastroianni
|
||
New film from the director of CINEMA PARADISO.
|
||
|
||
THE GRIFTERS January 23
|
||
Dir: Stephen Frears
|
||
Cast: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening
|
||
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Robert Harris, James Painten, Peggy Rajski
|
||
Screenplay: Donald Westlake
|
||
Story of LA con artists based on cult crime novelist Jim Thompson's
|
||
tome. Impressive credentials. Frears directed DANGEROUS LIAISONS.
|
||
Thompson also wrote story for AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. Bening scored in
|
||
Valmont and co-stars in Mike Nichols' upcoming REGARDING HENRY with
|
||
Harrison Ford for Paramount. Had Oscar qualifying runs in NY and LA
|
||
last December. Frears, Huston and Bening received Oscar nominations.
|
||
|
||
HEAR MY SONG Christmas
|
||
Dir: Peter Chelsom
|
||
Cast: Ned Beatty, David McCallum, Tara Fitzgerald, Shirley Ann Field
|
||
Producers: Simon Field, Adrian Dunbar
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Chelsom, Adrian Dunbar
|
||
A magical British film that combines comedy and music, HEAR MY SONG is the
|
||
story of a young man who has troubles with love and truth. He enlists the aid
|
||
of legendary Irish tenor and fugitive Joseph Locke to solve his difficulties.
|
||
The film weaves truth and fiction in a unique way and culminates in a triumphant
|
||
reconciliation. Screened at the Toronto and Boston Film Festivals. Whimsical
|
||
film is a crowd pleaser.
|
||
|
||
HIGH ART
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong graphic violence, and for language and sensuality.
|
||
|
||
HIGH HEELS December 25
|
||
Dir: Pedro Almodovar
|
||
Cast: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bose
|
||
Producer: Agustin Almodovar
|
||
Screenplay: Pedro Almodovar
|
||
A comedy about a mother and her estranged daughter whose love/hate
|
||
relationship is reconciled when one of them murders a shared lover. From
|
||
the auteur of the outrageous!
|
||
|
||
IRON AND SILK (Prestige) 1.85 February 15
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Shirley Sun
|
||
Cast: Mark Salzman, Pan Qingfu, Jeanette Lin Tsui, Vivian Wu
|
||
Producer: Shirley Sun
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Salzman, Shirley, based on his book
|
||
Salzman plays himself in this film based on his collection of essays about
|
||
his experiences as an English teacher and martial arts student in China. "As a
|
||
student in America, he searched for ancient wisdom. As a teacher in China, he
|
||
learned to find it within himself."
|
||
|
||
JOHNNY SUEDE 1992
|
||
Cast: Brad Pitt
|
||
Exec. Producer: Steven Starr
|
||
|
||
JOURNEY OF HOPE 1.66 April 19 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Xavier Koller
|
||
Cast: Necmettin Cobanoglu, Nur Surer, Emin Sivas, Mathias Gnadinger, Yman Okay,
|
||
Dietmar Schonherr
|
||
Producers: Alfi Sinniger, Peter Fueter
|
||
Screenplay: Xavier Koller
|
||
D.P.: Elemer Ragalyi
|
||
This year's surprise Oscar winner for Foreign Film. Opens at New York's
|
||
57th Street Playhouse.
|
||
|
||
JU DOU 1.66 March 17 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Zhang Yi-Mou, Yang Fend Liang
|
||
Cast: Gong Li, Li Bao-Tian, Li Wei
|
||
Screenplay: Liu Heng
|
||
Oscar nominee for Foreign Film, acclaimed at the Cannes, Toronto and
|
||
New York Film Festivals, this Chinese period piece depicts a 1920's tale
|
||
of adultery, murder and revenge. It has become something of a political
|
||
football as well, being banned in China. Chinese national intellectuals pass
|
||
well-played videocassettes of JU DOU amongst themselves.
|
||
|
||
KAFKA December (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Steven Soderbergh
|
||
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Armin Muller Stahl, Jeroen
|
||
Krabbe, Joel Grey
|
||
Producer: Paul Rassum
|
||
Screenplay: Lem Dobbs
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million
|
||
Fictionalized thriller about writer Franz Kafka as he becomes involved with
|
||
the investigation of the disappearance of one of his colleagues
|
||
at the insurance company at which he works. This is the second feature for
|
||
the hot director of "sex, lies and videotape". Shot on location in Prague,
|
||
Czechoslovakia. Will probably open the second week of December to qualify for
|
||
the Oscars.
|
||
|
||
K-2 November 8
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Frank Roddam
|
||
Cast: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Raymond Barry
|
||
Producers: Jonathan Taplin, Marilyn Weiner
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Roberts, Patrick Meyers
|
||
Based on the play of the same title, K-2 is a character-driven
|
||
action-adventure about two American friends attempting to ascend the second
|
||
highest peak in the world, which is also the most difficult.
|
||
|
||
LOVE CRIMES November 1
|
||
Dir: Lizzie Borden
|
||
Cast: Sean Young, Patrick Bergin
|
||
Producers: Lizzie Borden, Rudy Langlais
|
||
Screenplay: Allan Moyle
|
||
Start Date: 7/15/90, Atlanta, Savannah GA
|
||
Erotic thriller about a female attorney's hunt for a man accused of
|
||
committing sex crimes while posing as a well-known fashion photographer.
|
||
Borden directed WORKING GIRLS and Moyle wrote PUMP UP THE VOLUME.
|
||
|
||
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART December
|
||
Dir: Vincent Ward
|
||
Cast: Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Anne Parillaud, Clothilde Coureau
|
||
Producer: Tim Bevan
|
||
Screenplay: Vincent Ward, Louis Nowra
|
||
The epic tale of a love affair torn apart by world at war. When two young
|
||
children meet at an orphanage, they forge an extraordinary romance that spans
|
||
three decades. Parrillaud was LA FEMME NIKITA, Bergin last starred in SLEEPING
|
||
WITH THE ENEMY and the Fox version of ROBIN HOOD. Ward directed THE NAVIGATOR.
|
||
|
||
MIND GAME July
|
||
Dir: Scott D. Goldstein
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Clancy Brown, Cecilia Peck, Richard Bradford,
|
||
Grace Zabriskie, Haing S. Ngor
|
||
Producers: Richard E. Johnson, Gwen Field
|
||
Screenplay: Lou Diamond Phillips
|
||
Phillips wrote and stars as a writer who becomes obsessed with his
|
||
subject, a convicted killer.
|
||
|
||
THE MIRACLE 1.85 July 3 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Neil Jordan July 19 (regional)
|
||
Cast: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington
|
||
Producer: Stephen Woolley
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Jordan
|
||
D.P.: Philippe Rousselot
|
||
Start Date: 4/30/90, U.K.
|
||
This psychological drama from the director of MONA LISA concerns a pair of
|
||
Irish teens who invent fantasy lives for the residents of a seaside town.
|
||
They actually meet one of them and are swept up into an adventure.
|
||
|
||
PARIS IS BURNING (Prestige) August 9
|
||
Dir: Jennie Livingston
|
||
Acclaimed documentary about Harlem's voguing drag balls is blown up to 35mm
|
||
from 16mm along with a new title song from Dee-Lite. The film played at New
|
||
York's wonderful and small Film Forum for 17 sold-out weeks starting in the
|
||
Spring. It grossed an astonishing $532,000. Prestige picked up the film and
|
||
opens it in 23 markets.
|
||
|
||
PASTIME August 9 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Robin B. Armstrong August 23 (wider)
|
||
Cast: William Russ, Glenn Plummer
|
||
Producer: Eric Tynam Young, Robin B. Armstrong
|
||
A Fifties minor league baseball story revolves around two players:
|
||
a white has-been and a black rookie. Formerly called ONE CUP OF COFFEE.
|
||
|
||
THE POPE MUST DIET August 30
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sensuality
|
||
Dir: Peter Richardson
|
||
Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Beverly D'Angelo, Herbert Lom, Paul Bartel, John
|
||
Sessions, Salvatore Cascio, Balthazar Getty, Alex Rocco
|
||
Producer: Stephen Woolley
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Richardson
|
||
D.P.: Frank Gell
|
||
Start Date: 11/5/90, Yugoslavia
|
||
Formerly titled SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES. "The wrong man. The wrong place.
|
||
The wrong job." After all of the commotion over the media refusing to run the
|
||
advertising as THE POPE MUST DIE!, Miramax has changed the title a week after
|
||
the film's release.
|
||
|
||
PROSPERO'S BOOKS 1.77 November 8 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Peter Greenaway
|
||
Cast: John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Isabelle Pasco, Michel Piccoli,
|
||
Ian Richardson
|
||
Producers: Kees Kasander, Phillippe Carcassonne
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Greenaway
|
||
Start Date: 3/26/90, Holland
|
||
An adaptation of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST from the director of THE
|
||
COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER. It faithfully follows the plot,
|
||
characters, and text of the original in which Prospero, Duke of Milan, after 12
|
||
years of forced exile on a remote island, plans a revenge and then a
|
||
reconciliation with his enemies. The film is called PROSPERO'S BOOKS because
|
||
it is structured around 24 magic volumes that Prospero's friend, Gonzalo,
|
||
hurriedly put into Prospero's boat as a charitable act to ease his exile.
|
||
These books have enabled the learned Prospero to transform his barren island of
|
||
exile into an eclectic haven of Renaissance learning, pictorial imagery and
|
||
classical mythology. Had to bow out of the Cannes Film Festival due to the
|
||
complex special effects being incomplete. Shot in HDTV and partially financed
|
||
by NHK. Has some wild visual effects via Quantel's video paintbox. Opened in
|
||
London on August 23. Advanced word is SENSATIONAL.
|
||
|
||
A RAGE IN HARLEM 1.85 May 3
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, sensuality and language.
|
||
Dir: Bill Duke
|
||
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Danny Glover, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae
|
||
Screenplay: based on Chester Himes' novel
|
||
Start Date: 4/23/90, Cincinnati
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Based on the Chester Himes novel "Cotton Comes to Harlem" and filmed in
|
||
Cincinnati. Duke's feature directorial debut. Has directed series television,
|
||
such as HILL STREET BLUES. He was last seen as an actor in PREDATOR.
|
||
Wonderful advanced word.
|
||
|
||
THE REFLECTING SKIN June 28 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Philip Ridley
|
||
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan
|
||
In this British drama, a young boy becomes convinced that a mysterious next
|
||
door neighbor is a female vampire. He becomes obsessed with saving his
|
||
brother from her. Ridley wrote THE KRAYS.
|
||
|
||
RULES OF THE GAME TBA
|
||
Dir: Matthew Meshekoff
|
||
Cast: Courtney Cox, Arye Gross, Kevin Pollak
|
||
Producer: Bobby Newmyer
|
||
Screenplay: Noah Stern
|
||
A heartwarming and comical look at a modern couple as they learn the rules of
|
||
sex and love.
|
||
|
||
SPOTSWOOD late January, 1992
|
||
Dir: Mark Joffe
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, Rebecca Rigg, Russell
|
||
Crowe
|
||
Producers: Timothy White, Richard Brennan
|
||
Screenplay: Max Dann
|
||
D.P.: Ellery Ryan
|
||
Start Date: 7/30/90, Melbourne
|
||
Comedy-romance about a time and motion expert called in to modernize an
|
||
ailing moccasin factory. Terrific advanced word. Up for Best Picture in the
|
||
Aussie equivalent of the Oscars. "Like an Ealing comedy."
|
||
|
||
TATIE DANIELLE (Prestige) May 17
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Etienne Chatlliez
|
||
Cast: Tsilla Chelton, Catherine Jacob, Isabelle Nanty, Neige Dolsky, Eric Prat,
|
||
Laurence Fevrier
|
||
Producer: Charles Gassot
|
||
Screenplay: Florence Quentin
|
||
Chelton plays a mean old woman in an acclaimed performance.
|
||
Chatlliez' last film was LIFE IS A LONG QUET RIVER. Advertising catch-phrase:
|
||
"You haven't met her yet, but she hates you already.....Just when you thought
|
||
it was safe to go back to the movies." Delayed from an April 12 release.
|
||
|
||
TRUTH OR DARE 1.85 (SR) May 10 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong sexual dialog and situations. May 17 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Alek Koshishian
|
||
Cast: Madonna
|
||
Exec Producer: Madonna
|
||
Producers: Tim Clawson, Jay Roewe
|
||
D.P.: Robert Leacock
|
||
This is a documentary of Madonna's "Blond Ambition" Tour. Advanced word is
|
||
excellent. Known as IN BED WITH MADONNA overseas. Adds 400 screens on May 17.
|
||
|
||
URANUS (Prestige) 1.85 August 23 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Claude Berri
|
||
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Philippe Boiret, Michel Galabru
|
||
Screenplay: Claude Berri, Arnette Langman
|
||
D.P.: Renato Berta
|
||
Family shares home with strange bedfellows following World War I. The most
|
||
painful film to come out of France in a long time. Based on Marcel Ayme's 1947
|
||
novel. Berri's first film since JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING.
|
||
|
||
VOYEUR (Prestige) August 2
|
||
Dir: Alex Van Warmerdam
|
||
Cast: Alex Van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek
|
||
Producers: Laurens Geels, Dick Maas, Rob Swaab
|
||
Screenplay: Alex Van Warmerdam
|
||
Dutch film about a 31-year-old man who has never set foot outside
|
||
of his parents' penthouse. Sounds sick.
|
||
|
||
WHAT THE MOON SAW
|
||
Dir: Pino Amenta
|
||
|
||
THE WIND 1992
|
||
Dir: Robert Dornhelm
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Ireland
|
||
Dornhelm directed REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC, Sheridan directed MY LEFT FOOT.
|
||
|
||
YOUNG SOUL REBELS November 20 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Isaac Julien December (wide)
|
||
Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber
|
||
Producer: Nadine Marsh-Edwards
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Hallam, Derrick McClintock, Isaac Julien
|
||
Murder mystery in 1977 London's counter-culture scene won the International
|
||
Critics Week prize at Cannes.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
New Line Cinema
|
||
---------------
|
||
|
||
ACES: IRON EAGLE III (New Line) November 27
|
||
Rating: "R" for war violence
|
||
Dir: John Glen
|
||
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., Rachel McLish, Horst Buchholz, Christopher Cazenove,
|
||
Sonny Chiba
|
||
Producer: Ron Samuels
|
||
Start Date: 1/2/91, Tucson
|
||
A third in the series of successful films about fighter pilots. Gossett's
|
||
"Chappy" Sinclair teams up with three maverick WWII fighter jocks to battle a
|
||
German drug lord in the South American jungles. The producer is "Wonder Woman"
|
||
Lynda Carter's hubby. Bodybuilding champ McLish makes her big screen dramatic
|
||
debut.
|
||
|
||
AFRAID OF THE DARK (Fine Line) 1992
|
||
Rating: "R" Violence and a scene of sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Mark Peploe
|
||
Cast: Fanny Ardant, James Fox, Paul McGann, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens,
|
||
Susan Wooldridge, Struan Rodgers, David Thewlis, Ben Keyworth
|
||
Producer: Simon Bosanquet
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Peploe
|
||
D.P.: Bruno de Keyzer
|
||
Start Date: 9/3/90, London
|
||
A psychological thriller about an 11-year-old boy whose world becomes blurred
|
||
when the boundaries between disturbing daydream and reality become dangerously
|
||
unclear. Peploe was the screenwriter for THE SHELTERING SKY and THE LAST
|
||
EMPEROR.
|
||
|
||
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (Fine Line) 1.66 May 19 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" for sensuality and language. June 14 (LA & selected cities)
|
||
Dir: Jane Campion
|
||
Campion, New Zealand-based director of SWEETIE, strikes again "Angel".
|
||
It is the compelling and epic biography of New Zealand poet and novelist Janet
|
||
Frame. The film has extraordinary dramatic power and an accessibility which
|
||
should bring the filmmaker the broader audience she richly deserves. It has
|
||
won over twenty awards and prizes at festivals around the world. Had its debut
|
||
in competition at the Venice Film Festival where it received a 15 minute
|
||
standing ovation, screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 1990 and
|
||
the New York Film Festival in October, 1990. Opened at the Lumiere in London
|
||
on 9/28/90.
|
||
|
||
BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME August 30 (regional)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" November 15 (wider)
|
||
Cast: Marc Singer, Kari Wuhrer
|
||
This Republic Picture is getting a rather perfunctory regional release then
|
||
it's off to the video stores. It is a time-travel story and has been reported
|
||
as "silly".
|
||
|
||
BOOK OF LOVE (New Line) February 1
|
||
Dir: Robert Shaye
|
||
Cast: Chris Young, Keith Coogan, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Josie Bissett
|
||
Producer: Rachel Talalay
|
||
Screenplay: William Kotzwinkle, based on his novel "Jack In the Box"
|
||
A timeless comedy in which a successful but disillusioned advertising writer
|
||
takes a humorously nostalgic look back into the '50s in an attempt to recapture
|
||
his teenage dreams, ideals and the girl that got away. Music is by Stanley
|
||
Clarke. "Guys need all the help they can get."
|
||
|
||
BORIS & NATASHA
|
||
Dir: Charles Martin Smith
|
||
New Line has finally picked up this live-action tale of the two no-goodniks
|
||
from Rocky & Bullwinkle fame. The film has been mired in the legal muck left
|
||
behind by the demise of MCEG.
|
||
|
||
CADENCE (Republic) 1.85 March 15
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Martin Sheen
|
||
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Larry Fishburne, MNichael Beach, Ramon
|
||
Estevez
|
||
Producer: Richard Davis
|
||
Screenplay: Dennis Shryack
|
||
A rebel and a loner, Army private F.F. Bean (Charlie Sheen) lands himself in
|
||
a work-camp stockade where he is forced to make a choice. He can either join
|
||
the all-black "soul patrol" of prisoners, or side with the bigoted commander of
|
||
the stockade, Sergeant Otis McKinney (Martin Sheen).
|
||
|
||
CHAINS OF GOLD Sold to Showtime
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Rod Holcomb
|
||
Cast: John Travolta, Marilu Henner
|
||
A social worker rescues a child from the Miami drug trade.
|
||
|
||
COLD HEAVEN
|
||
Dir: Nicholas Roeg
|
||
|
||
CONVICTS
|
||
Dir: Peter Masterson
|
||
Cast: Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Lukas Haas
|
||
Producers: Sterling Van Wagenen, Jonathan Krane
|
||
Screenplay: Horton Foote, based on his play
|
||
Start Date: 1/90, Hahnville LA
|
||
Rescued from the MCEG debacle.
|
||
|
||
THE DARK WIND (Seven Arts) January, 1992
|
||
Dir: Errol Morris
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Gary Farmer, John Karlen
|
||
Producer: Patrick Markey
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Jimenez, Eric Bergren, Mark Horowitz
|
||
Start Date: 9/10/90, Tuba City AZ, New Mexico
|
||
Based on the popular and award-winning novels by Tony Hillerman, THE DARK
|
||
WIND teams up Navajo police officer Jim Chee (Phillips) with Hopi reservation
|
||
Lt. Leaphorn (Ward) to solve a seemingly mundane case of vandalism which turns
|
||
into revenge, murder and witchcraft. Morris directed THE THIN BLUE LINE.
|
||
|
||
DEAD ON
|
||
Dir: Michael Schroeder
|
||
Cast: Ray Sharkey, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Miles O'Keefe
|
||
Producer: Lisa Hansen
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Sevi
|
||
D.P.: Jamie Thompson,
|
||
Start Date: 10/29/90, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
DEAD SLEEP
|
||
Dir: Alec Mills
|
||
Cast: Linda Blair, Tony Bonner, Sueyan Cox
|
||
Producer: Stanley O'Toole
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Rymer
|
||
Start Date: 3/12/90, Queensland
|
||
Psychological thriller about the controversy surrounding certain shock
|
||
therapies.
|
||
|
||
DEADLY SURVEILLANCE Sold to Showtime
|
||
Dir: Paul Ziller
|
||
Cast: Michael Ironside
|
||
Two detective, bitter rivals, team up to catch a cop killer.
|
||
|
||
DEEP COVER 1992
|
||
Dir: Bill Duke
|
||
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Larry Fishburne
|
||
Producer: Pierre David
|
||
Screenplay: Henry Bean
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Undercover cop drama. Duke directed A RAGE IN HARLEM. Bean wrote INTERNAL
|
||
AFFAIRS.
|
||
|
||
DEFENSELESS (Seven Arts) 1.85 August 23
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Martin Campbell
|
||
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh
|
||
Producers: Rene Missel, David Bombyk
|
||
Screenplay: James Hicks
|
||
In a murder case where there are more suspects than clues, T.K. Katwuller
|
||
(Barbara Hershey) is both attorney and suspect when she is called on to defend
|
||
her old college roommate (Mary Beth Hurt) accused of murdering her husband
|
||
(J.T. Walsh).
|
||
|
||
DICE RULES (Seven Arts) May 17
|
||
Rating: "NC-17"
|
||
Dir: Jay Dubin
|
||
Cast: Andrew Dice Clay
|
||
Producer: Fred Silverstein
|
||
Screenplay: Andrew Dice Clay, Lenny Shulman
|
||
This concert film was dumped by 20th Century Fox last year with the film
|
||
undeveloped after their relationship soured. Remember THE ADVENTURES OF FORD
|
||
FAIRLANE? Seven Arts picked it up and here it is in all of its raunchy glory.
|
||
Filmed at Madison Square Garden.
|
||
|
||
DROP DEAD FRED (New Line) 1.85 May 24
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Ate De Jong
|
||
Cast: Phoebe Cates, Rick Mayall, Marsha Mason, Carrie Fisher, Tim Matheson
|
||
Producer: Paul Webster
|
||
Screenplay: Carlos Davis, Anthony Fingleton
|
||
D.P.: Sandi Sissel
|
||
Start Date: 8/6/90, Minnesota
|
||
A romantic comedy about the reemergence of a young woman's imaginary
|
||
childhood playmate, "Drop Dead Fred", who returns to help her recover her
|
||
youthful dreams.
|
||
|
||
FAST GETAWAY (Cinetel)
|
||
Dir: Spiro Razatos
|
||
Cast: Corey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock, Leo Rossi, Ken Lerner, Marcia Strassman
|
||
Producers: Paul Hertzberg, Lisa M. Hansen
|
||
Screenplay: James Dixon
|
||
D.P.: Jacques Haitkin
|
||
Start Date: 5/31/90, Coloradi, Utah
|
||
In this action adventure, a bright young man's estranged family wants him to
|
||
pursue a career in banking. Mom thinks the best route is with an MBA while Dad
|
||
opts for a more direct approach - bank robebry.
|
||
|
||
FATAL CHARM
|
||
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
|
||
|
||
FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (New Line) 1.85 (SR) September 13
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Rachel Talalay
|
||
Cast: Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Yaphet Kotto; Cameo Appearances by Roseanne
|
||
Barr, Tom Arnold, Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp
|
||
Producer: Aron Warner
|
||
Screenplay: Michael DeLuca
|
||
Start Date: 11/14/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A female psychologist and her young patients travel back to Springwood to
|
||
meet the "Master of Menance" in his final dream battle. The last 10 Climactic
|
||
Minutes (The Death of Freddy) are filmed in all-new Freddyvision! It's a
|
||
computer-enhanced 3-D process which will require special glasses. Talalay
|
||
produced HAIRSPRAY, CRY BABY, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. PARTS 3 & 4. Music is
|
||
by Brian May. Set an all-time boxoffice record for a September weekend ($13
|
||
million).
|
||
|
||
FRIDA: THE BRUSH OF ANGUISH 1992
|
||
Dir: Luis Valdez
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Eduardo Rossoff, Donald Zuckerman
|
||
Screenplay: Luis Valdez, Lupe Valdez
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Mexico, France
|
||
|
||
GEORGE'S ISLAND (Fine Line) October 25 (LA)
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
One house in LA will be opening this children's film from Canada.
|
||
|
||
PAUL MCCARTNEY'S GET BACK (7 Arts) (SR) October 25 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Richard Lester
|
||
Cast: Paul McCartney
|
||
Producers: Henry Thomas, Philip Knatchbull
|
||
D.P.'s: Jordan Cronenweth, Robert Paynter
|
||
Film version of McCartney's latest music tour.
|
||
|
||
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (New Line) 1992
|
||
Dir: James Foley
|
||
Cast: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey,
|
||
Jonathan Pryce, Ed Harris
|
||
Producers: Jerry Tokofsky, Stanley R. Zupnik
|
||
Screenplay: David Mamet, Based on his Play
|
||
D.P.: Juan Ruiz Anchia
|
||
Start Date: 7/22/91
|
||
Incredible cast makes the wait possibly worth it. This award-winning play
|
||
took five years to get the film version off the ground. Spacey (LOST IN
|
||
YONKERS) and Pryce (MISS SAIGON) won Tony Awards just this season.
|
||
|
||
A GNOME NAMED GNORM (Seven Arts) January 17, 1992 (test)
|
||
Rating: "PG" 6 cities
|
||
Dir: Stan Winston
|
||
Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Jerry Orbach, Claudia Christian
|
||
Producers: Ted Field, Robert W. Cort, John Watson, Scott Kroopf, Richard Lewis,
|
||
Pen Densham
|
||
Screenplay: Pen Densham
|
||
An action-comedy about an undercover cop and a gnome named Gnorm who team up
|
||
to retrieve a magical energy source that's been stolen by a dishonest cop.
|
||
Makeup effects whiz Stan Winston directs. Hall was last seen in EDWARD
|
||
SCISSORHANDS. Formerly called UPWORLD.
|
||
|
||
HANGIN' WITH THE HOMEBOYS (New Line) 1.85 May 24 (New York)
|
||
Rating: "R" For strong language and a strong sex scene. September 27 (national)
|
||
Dir: Joseph B. Vasquez
|
||
Cast: Doug E. Doug, Mario Joyner, Shari Headley, John Lequizamo, Nestor Serrnao
|
||
Producer: Richard Brick
|
||
Screenplay: Joseph B. Vasquez
|
||
D.P.: Anghel Decca
|
||
Start Date: 8/90, New York
|
||
In the tradition of DINER and AMERICAN GRAFFITI, this hip ensemble comedy
|
||
focuses on four young men from the Bronx, New York, and one Friday night that
|
||
will change their lives forever. National release delayed from July 26th to
|
||
due BOYZ fears.
|
||
|
||
HOUSE PARTY 2 (New Line) October 23
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sensuality
|
||
Dir: George Jackson, Doug McHenry
|
||
Cast: Kid 'n Play, Full Force, Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, A.J. Johnson,
|
||
Queen Latifa
|
||
Producers: George Jackson, Doug McHenry
|
||
Screenplay: Daryl Nickins, Rusty Cundieff
|
||
D.P.: Francis Kenny
|
||
Start Date: 4/4/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Kid 'n Play reprise their hilarious roles in this romantic teen comedy sequel
|
||
to the critically acclaimed HOUSE PARTY. Kid leaves his black neighborhood and
|
||
heads for college, where he encounters "a whole new world". Film will be
|
||
playing on about 1000 screens, the largest opening for a black-themed film
|
||
ever.
|
||
|
||
LET HIM HAVE IT (Fine Line) November (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Peter Medak
|
||
Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds, Tom Courtenay, Mark McGann, Eileen
|
||
Atkins
|
||
Exec. Producer: Jeremy Thomas
|
||
Producers: Luc Roeg, Rob Warr
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Purvis, Robert Wade
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Stapleton
|
||
Start Date: 11/26/90, U.K.
|
||
Set in London of 1953, this crime drama is based on a true story about the
|
||
flagrant abuse of the British legal system. Two teenaged boys are brought up
|
||
on charges after breaking into a warehouse, one having shot a policeman. One
|
||
of them, Derek Bentley, was charged as an accessory to the crime. Since he was
|
||
seventeen, he was tried as an adult, and despite unprecedented public outrage,
|
||
he was hanged for a murder he did not commit. This incident eventually led to
|
||
the abolishment of capital punishment in Britain. Medak directed THE KRAYS,
|
||
Thomas produced THE LAST EMPEROR.
|
||
|
||
LIGHT SLEEPER (Seven Arts) 1992
|
||
Dir: Paul Schrader
|
||
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt,
|
||
Victor Garber
|
||
Producer: Linda Reisman
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Schrader
|
||
Negative Cost: $4 million
|
||
Dafoe is an unfocussed 40-year old who is a drug delivery boy in this
|
||
film. The former Mrs. William Hurt is Mrs. Paul Schrader.
|
||
|
||
LONDON KILLS ME 1992
|
||
Dir: Hanif Kureishi
|
||
Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Emma McCourt, Justin Chadwick, Roshan Seth
|
||
Exec Producers: Tim Bevan, Graham Bradstreet
|
||
Screenplay: Hanif Kureishi
|
||
Start Date: 1/21/91, London
|
||
The story of Clint (Charwick), a street kid who hangs out with a gang of drug
|
||
dealers, the leader of which is Clint's tough friend Muffdiver (Mackintosh).
|
||
When Clint is brutally beaten on his 20th birthday, he decides he needs to live
|
||
an "ordinary" life. Clint's efforts to escape the daily hustle on the streets
|
||
creates a humorous web of diverse experiences and intriguing characters. Hanif
|
||
Kureishi wrote MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE and SAMMI AND ROSIE GET LAID.
|
||
|
||
MIDNIGHT HEAT 1992
|
||
Dir: John Nicolella
|
||
Cast: Michael Pare, Adam Ant, Dennis Hopper, Daphne Ashbrook, Charlie
|
||
Schlatter, Tracy Tweed, Little Richard, Cindy Valentine, Joe Lara, Tony Todd,
|
||
Luca Bercovici
|
||
Producers: Kandice King, Lance King
|
||
Screenplay: Max Strom, John Allen Nelson
|
||
D.P.: Chuck Mahoney
|
||
Start Date: 7/1/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (Fine Line) September 29 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" October 18 (national)
|
||
Dir: Gus Van Sant
|
||
Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert, Jessee Thomas, Rodney
|
||
Harvey
|
||
Producer: Laurie Parker
|
||
Screenplay: Gus Van Sant
|
||
Start Date: 11/1/90, Pacific Northwest, Italy
|
||
This bold, mesmerizing adventure is a lyrical and darkly comic story about
|
||
the search for an actual, and metaphorical, home and family. River Phoenix
|
||
is Mike Waters, a soulful troubled street hustler searching for his
|
||
mother (he's also a narcoleptic). Keanu Reeves is Scott Favor, whose street
|
||
life is an act of rebellion against his father, the local mayor. As they
|
||
travel from Portland to the midwest to Italy, their lives are confounded and
|
||
enriched by a colorful band of companions, "customers" and lost relatives --
|
||
until their individual destinies threaten to separate them.
|
||
Van Sant wrote and directed the highly acclaimed DRUGSTORE COWBOY, winner of
|
||
Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay of 1989 by the National Society
|
||
of Film Critics.
|
||
|
||
NAKED TANGO (New Line) (SR) August 23 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Leonard Schrader
|
||
Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey, Cipe
|
||
Lincovski
|
||
Producer: David Weisman
|
||
Screenplay: Leonard Schrader
|
||
D.P.: Juan Ruiz-Anchia
|
||
Stylish, erotic drama about a rebellious wife who, while escaping hubby, is
|
||
imprisoned in a bordello.
|
||
|
||
PAST MIDNIGHT (Cinetel)
|
||
Dir: Jan Eliasberg
|
||
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Clancy Brown
|
||
Producer: Lisa Hansen
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Norwood
|
||
D.P.: Bob Yeoman
|
||
Start Date: 3/5/91, Seattle
|
||
Obsessed social worker becomes dangerously close to client convicted of
|
||
murder. Eliasberg is an award-winning TV director (LA LAW). She was also the
|
||
first woman to direct such action shows as CRIME STORY, MIAMI VICE and WISEGUY.
|
||
|
||
PELTIER (Seven Arts) late October
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Michael Apted
|
||
Exec. Producers: Robert Redford, Bonni Lee
|
||
A powerful feature-length documentary which examines the controversial case
|
||
of Leonard Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was
|
||
convicted of killing two FBI agents in a shoot-out at the Ogala Reservation in
|
||
1975.
|
||
|
||
PYRATES
|
||
Dir: Noah Stern
|
||
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick
|
||
Exec Producers: Andrew Meyer, Tom Taylor
|
||
Screenplay: Noah Stern
|
||
Start Date: 11/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Two lovers burn up everything in sight.
|
||
|
||
QUEENS LOGIC (Seven Arts) 1.85 February 1
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Steve Rash
|
||
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, John Malkovich, Joe Mantegna, Ken Olin,
|
||
Tony Spiridakis, Tom Waits, Chloe Webb, Jamie Lee Curtis
|
||
Exec. Producers: Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin
|
||
Producers: Stuart Oken, Russ Smith
|
||
Screenplay: Tony Spiridakis
|
||
A charismatic ensemble cast stars in this unusual drama about five friends
|
||
from Queens, New York who are about to share an emotionally explosive weekend
|
||
that will teach them something new about themselves, life and love. "Made
|
||
right here in the neighborhood."
|
||
|
||
RAMBLING ROSE (Seven Arts) September 20
|
||
Rating: "R" Sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Martha Coolidge
|
||
Cast: Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, John Heard
|
||
Producer: Renny Harlin
|
||
Screenplay: Calder Willingham
|
||
D.P.: Johnny Jensen
|
||
Start Date: 9/17/90, Wilmington NC
|
||
An off-center slice of life story that deals with the inescapable sexuality
|
||
of an alluring young woman and her effect upon a Southern family when she comes
|
||
to live with them and care for their children. Harlin directed DIE HARD 2 and
|
||
THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE. Coolidge directed the wonderful REAL GENIUS.
|
||
Advanced word is terrific, particularly the thesping. Selected as the sole
|
||
American entry of the Montreal Film Festival (opening night attraction).
|
||
Musical score is by Elmer Bernstein.
|
||
|
||
THE RAPTURE (Fine Line) October 4 (NY, LA, Atlanta)
|
||
Rating: "R" Strong sensuality and for some language and violence.
|
||
Dir: Michael Tolkin
|
||
Cast: Mimi Rogers, Patrick Bauchau, David Duchovny
|
||
Producers: Nick Wechsler, Nancy Tenenbaum, Karen Koch
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Tolkin
|
||
D.P.: Bojan Bazelli
|
||
Start Date: 8/31/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Michael Tolkin (screenwriter of GLEAMING THE CUBE and THE PLAYER) makes his
|
||
directorial debut with a daring and personal exploration of three of today's
|
||
hottest topics: sex, God and Armageddon. Hallucinatory and provocative, THE
|
||
RAPTURE stars Mimi Rogers as Sharon, a woman who seeks to fill the emptiness in
|
||
her life through anonymous sexual encounters. She becomes increasingly lost
|
||
and unhappy, and finally finds salvation in God. Born again and convinced that
|
||
the end of the world is imminent, Sharon takes her convictions to the outer
|
||
limits. Ultimately, she must confront her faith and face the consequences of
|
||
the actions her beliefs force her to take. Will be presented at the New York
|
||
Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
RESERVOIR DOGS (7 Arts) 1992
|
||
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
|
||
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim ROth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney,
|
||
Michael Madsen
|
||
Producer: Lawrence Bender
|
||
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
|
||
D.P.: Andrzej Sekula
|
||
Start Date: 7/29/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (7 Arts) 1992
|
||
Dir: Robert Redford
|
||
Cast: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Emily Lloyd, Brenda Blethyn,
|
||
Ncole Burdette, Steven Shellen, Edie McClurg, Susan Traylor
|
||
Producer: Patrick Markey
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Friedenberg
|
||
D.P.: Philippe Rousselot
|
||
Start Date: 6/17/91, Livingston MT
|
||
|
||
ROADSIDE PROPHETS (Fine Line) 1992
|
||
Dir: Abbe Wool
|
||
Cast: Adam Horovitz, John Doe, David Carradine, Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie,
|
||
John Cusack
|
||
Producers: Peter MCCarthy, David Swinson
|
||
Screenplay: Abbe Wool
|
||
D.P.: Tom Richmond
|
||
Start Date: 9/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A modern road movie about two loners on a winding motorcycle odyssey in
|
||
search of Jackpot, Nevada, wisdom and themselves. In this 1990's "Easy Rider",
|
||
the wandering duo encounters a succession of eccentric "prophets", played by
|
||
famous and infamous characters past and present, including John Cusack, Timothy
|
||
Leary, Arlo Guthrie and David Carradine. Wool wrote SID AND NANCY.
|
||
|
||
RUBIN & ED
|
||
Dir: Trent Harris
|
||
|
||
SERIOUS MONEY November
|
||
Dir: James Lemmo
|
||
Producer: Lisa Hansen
|
||
Screenplay: James Lemmo, Leo Rossi
|
||
Start Date: 2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Two hustlers, the mob and the government.
|
||
|
||
SHADOW OF CHINA (Fine Line) March 10
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
|
||
Cast: John Lone, Vivian Wu, Sammi Davis
|
||
Producers: Elliot Lewitt, Don Guest
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Maxwell, Mitsuo Yanagimachi
|
||
A contemporary drama set amid the political fervor of recent developments in
|
||
mainland China. Lone and Wu starred in THE LAST EMPEROR. Davis was in HOPE
|
||
AND GLORY. "A sweeping epic of one man's ascent to power...and his fall from
|
||
grace."
|
||
|
||
STEPKIDS (New Line) November 1
|
||
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver
|
||
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Margaret Whitton, David Straithairn, Ben Savage
|
||
Producers: Gerald Olson, Laurie Pearlman
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Mugavero
|
||
D.P.: Theo van de Sande
|
||
Start Date: 9/18/90, Mammoth Lakes, Los Angeles
|
||
A funny and touching story of a 15-year-old girl whose parents have divorced
|
||
and remarried so many times, that she now feels lost in a sea of stepkids.
|
||
Silver last directed CROSSING DELANCEY.
|
||
|
||
SUBURBAN COMMANDO (New Line) October 4
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Burt Kennedy
|
||
Cast: Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller, Jo Ann
|
||
Dearing, William Ball
|
||
Producer: Howard Gottfried
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Cappello
|
||
An action/adventure comedy for the whole family. Hulk Hogan plays Shep
|
||
Ramsey, an intergalactic mercenary who visits Earth in an attempt to evade
|
||
bounty hunters. Hilarious complications and an unlikely friendship ensue when
|
||
Shep rents a room from a typical suburban family (Duvall, Lloyd).
|
||
|
||
SWEET TALKER (Seven Arts) May 10
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Michael Jenkins
|
||
Cast: Bryan Brown, Karen Allen, Chris Haywood, Bill Kerr, Bruce Spence, Bruce
|
||
Myles, Paul Chubb
|
||
Exec. Producers: Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin
|
||
Producer: Ben Gannon
|
||
Screenplay: Tony Morphett from a story by Ton Morphett and Bryan Brown
|
||
D.P.: Russell Boyd
|
||
A romantic family comedy about a con-artist, newly released from prison, who
|
||
turns a sleepy seaside village upside down with his bogus investment scheme
|
||
while capturing the heart of the town's innkeeper. This Aussie import was
|
||
obviously timed to capitalize on the publicity generated by Bryan Brown's
|
||
appearance in FX 2.
|
||
|
||
TALKIN' DIRTY AFTER DARK (New Line) November 22 (LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" For sexual dialog, other strong language and sex scenes.
|
||
Dir: Topper Carew
|
||
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Darryl Sivad, John Witherspoon
|
||
Producer: Patricia Stallone
|
||
Screenplay: Topper Carew
|
||
Start Date: 1990, Los Angeles
|
||
A talented ensemble of notable and up-and-coming comics star in this
|
||
hilarious film about a night in the life of a comedy club deep in the heart of
|
||
south-central Los Angeles.
|
||
|
||
TEENAGE MUTANT TURTLES II:
|
||
THE SECRET OF THE OOZE (NL) 1.85 March 22
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Michael Pressman
|
||
Cast: Ernie Reyes, Jr., Paige Turco, David Warner
|
||
Special Appearance by Vanilla Ice
|
||
Producers: David Chan, Kim Dawson
|
||
Screenplay: Todd W. Langen
|
||
D.P.: Shelly Johnson
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, North Carolina, New York
|
||
Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo come to life again in a new
|
||
adventure that introduces two new "mutants" from Jim Henson's creature shop.
|
||
And yes, TURTLES III will be out about the same time next year! From Golden
|
||
Harvest. Opened on a record 3,010 screens.
|
||
|
||
TOM AND JERRY - THE MOVIE (7 Arts) 1992
|
||
Dir: Phil Roman
|
||
Voices: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Charlotte Rae, Rip Taylor, David Lander, Henry
|
||
Gibson, Howard Morris, Tony Jay, Ed Gilbert
|
||
Producer: Phil Roman
|
||
Screenplay: Dennis Marks
|
||
Start Date: 11/5/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Joe Barbera is a consultant on this feature-length animated film based on the
|
||
MGM star duo's antics. A late 1992 release is planned. Music is by Henry
|
||
Mancini.
|
||
|
||
TOO MUCH SUN (Cinetel) January 25 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Robert Downey
|
||
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Howard Duff, Eric Idle, Ralph Macchio, Andrea Martin,
|
||
Laura Ernst, Jim Haynie, Leo Rossi, Jennifer Rubin
|
||
Producer: Lisa M. Hansen
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Downey
|
||
D.P.: Robert Yeoman
|
||
Start Date: 2/26/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A daringly frank comedy about sex, money and what people will do for both.
|
||
Downey wrote and directed PUTNEY SWOPE. "Laugh Your Head Off."
|
||
|
||
TRUST (Fine Line) 1.85 July 26 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" August 16 (LA & selected cities)
|
||
Dir: Hal Hartley
|
||
Cast: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson
|
||
Producer: Bruce Weiss
|
||
Screenplay: Hal Hartley
|
||
Start Date: 4/4/90, New York
|
||
A film that takes a look at the modern nuclear family; two deconstructed
|
||
suburban families, whose parents lead trivial, routine lives, while their
|
||
offspring strive for an alternative route. Shelley made her film debut in
|
||
Hartley's THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH. TRUST was the co-winner of the first annual
|
||
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and was
|
||
awarded three prizes at the 1991 Houston Film Festival including Grand Prize
|
||
for Best Theatrical Feature.
|
||
|
||
WATERLAND (Palace) 1992
|
||
Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal
|
||
Cast: Jeremy Irons
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Prince, based on Graham Swift's novel
|
||
Start Date: 9/16/91, Pittsburgh, London
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Contemporary drama about a British teacher in an American high
|
||
school. Irons is a history teacher who breaks through his students' wall of
|
||
indifference by relating his and his family's difficult personal experiences
|
||
in the Europe of World War II. Gyllenhaal directed the acclaimed PARIS TROUT.
|
||
Judy David and Ethan Hawke are apparently interested in the project.
|
||
|
||
WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME 1992
|
||
Dir: Anthony Hickox
|
||
Cast: Zach Galligan, Patrick Macnee, Alexander Godunov, Bruce Campbell, Martin
|
||
Kemp, Michael DeBarres, John Ireland, Maxwell Caulfield, Jim Metzler, Billy
|
||
Kane
|
||
Screenplay: Anthony Hickox
|
||
D.P.: Gerry Lively
|
||
Start Date: 4/29/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA 1992
|
||
Dir: John Duigan
|
||
Cast: Nathaniel Parker, Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York
|
||
Screenplay: John Duigan, based on Jean Rhys' novel
|
||
Start Date: 7/91, Jamaica
|
||
|
||
XTRO II: THE SECOND ENCOUNTER (New Line)
|
||
Rating: "R" For sci-fi/horror violence and language
|
||
|
||
ZANDALEE (Seven Arts) Straight to Video
|
||
Rating: NC-17
|
||
Dir: Sam Pillsbury
|
||
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Joe Pantoliano
|
||
Exec. Producers: Staffan Ahrenberg, Nicole Saguin
|
||
Producers: William Blaylock, Eyal Rimmon
|
||
Screenplay: Mari Kornhauser
|
||
D.P.: Walt Lloyd
|
||
Start Date: 2/5/90, New Orleans
|
||
An emotionally complex tale of passions lost and found in New Orleans' French
|
||
Quarter. It is a romantic tragedy, starring Nicholas Cage as Johnny Collins, a
|
||
talented artist whose only religion is self-gratification. Formerly titled
|
||
ADIOS. Opened theatrically overseas....straight to video in the U.S.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
New Yorker Films
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
CHARLOTTE AND LULU
|
||
Dir: Claude Miller
|
||
|
||
KORCZAK 1.66 April 12 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Andrez Wajda
|
||
Cast: Wojtek Pszoniak
|
||
True story of the legendary Polish-Jewish teacher and doctor, Janusz
|
||
Korczak, who protected Jewish orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. In Polish with
|
||
English subtitles. Shot in Black and White.
|
||
|
||
TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM
|
||
Dir: Kaizo Hayashi
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Nordisk
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
MEMORIES OF A MARRIAGE January 28 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Kaspar Rostrup
|
||
Cast: Ghita Norby, Frits Helmuth
|
||
Danish film about the ups and downs of a marriage is an Academy Award
|
||
nominee for Foreign Film. In Danish with English subtitles. "A love affair
|
||
that lasted a lifetime."
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October Films
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
LIFE IS SWEET October 25 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Mike Leigh
|
||
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis
|
||
Producer: Simon Channing-Williams
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Leigh
|
||
Warm British comedy about family relationships and food opens exclusively
|
||
at the Manhattan's Angelika Film Center with fine advanced notices from the
|
||
London debut.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Off-White Productions
|
||
---------------------
|
||
|
||
PARIS IS BURNING 1.33 March 13 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Jennie Livingston
|
||
The sensational film about the New York "Houses" where Drag Queens come out
|
||
in Voguing parties. The film that would not leave Manhattan's Film Forum!
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Orion
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
ARTICLE 99 January 1992
|
||
Dir: Howard Deutch
|
||
Cast: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson, Forest Whitaker, Kathy
|
||
Baker, John Mahoney, John C. McGinley, Keith David, Jeffrey Tambor, Eli
|
||
Wallach, Julie Bovasso
|
||
Producers: Michael Levy, Michael Gruskoff
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Cutler
|
||
D.P.: Richard Bowen
|
||
Start Date: 10/8/90, Kansas City, MO
|
||
Negative Cost: $17.6 million.
|
||
An irreverent comedy about a group of doctors and nurses working in a VA
|
||
hospital. They are skilled in their profession, but they are equally skilled
|
||
in taking on the bureaucracy they work for. Deutch is Thompson's hubby.
|
||
|
||
BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY 1.85 (SR) July 19
|
||
Dir: Peter Hewitt
|
||
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Hal Landon Jr., Joss Ackland,
|
||
William Sadler, Sarah Trigger, Annette Azcuy, Amy Stock-Poynton, Pam Grier
|
||
Exec. Producers: Ted Field, Robert W. Cort
|
||
Producer: Scott Kroopf
|
||
Screenplay: Ed Solomon, Chris Matheson
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Wood
|
||
Start Date: 1/2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $24.6 million
|
||
This time Bill and Ted go to Hell and are replaced on earth by evil,
|
||
identical twin robots.
|
||
|
||
BLUE SKY April, 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Tony Richardson
|
||
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Chris O'Donnell, Amy
|
||
Locane, Carrie Snodgress
|
||
Producers: Robert H. Solo, Lynn Arost, Jessica Lange
|
||
D.P.: Steve Yaconelli
|
||
Screenplay: Rama Blum, Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner
|
||
Start Date: 5/14/90, Selma, AL, Florida
|
||
Negative Cost: $15.6 million
|
||
Lange stars in this dramatic period piece about an unhappy wife who moves to
|
||
a military base with her family and finds herself caught in a cover-up
|
||
involving nuclear bomb tests.
|
||
|
||
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? May, 1992
|
||
Dir: Bill Fishman
|
||
Cast: David Johansen, John C. McGinley, Fran Drescher, Nipsey Russell, Rosie
|
||
O'Donnell, Al Lewis, Tone Loc
|
||
Producer: Robert H. Solo
|
||
D.P.: Rodney Charters
|
||
Screenplay: Erik Tarloff, Ebbe Roe Smith, Peter McCarthy
|
||
Start Date: 8/27/90, Toronto, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $10.7 million
|
||
"There's a holdup in the Bronx..." Feature film version of the long-running
|
||
'60s TV sitcom with Officers Toody and Muldoon. Fishman directed TAPEHEADS.
|
||
|
||
CHINA MOON September, 1992
|
||
Dir: John Bailey
|
||
Cast: Ed Harris, Madeline Stowe, Benicio Del Toro, Charles Dance
|
||
Producer: Barry M. Osborne
|
||
D.P.: Willy Kurant
|
||
Screenplay: Roy Carlson
|
||
Start Date: 10/8/90, Florida
|
||
Negative Cost: $14.6 million
|
||
|
||
CLIFFORD July, 1992
|
||
Dir: Paul Flaherty
|
||
Cast: Martin Short, Charles Grodin
|
||
Producers: Larry Brezner, Pieter Jan Brugge
|
||
Screenplay: Steven Kampnamm, Will Aldis
|
||
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
|
||
Start Date: 7/24/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $18.8 million
|
||
Short gets to stretch on this one. He plays an obnoxious ten-year-old!
|
||
Delayed from a June, 1991 release.
|
||
|
||
THE DARK HALF February, 1992
|
||
Dir: George A. Romero
|
||
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris, Robert Joy,
|
||
Rutanya Alda, Kent Broadhurst, Tom Mardirosian
|
||
Exec. Producer: George A. Romero
|
||
Producer: Declan Baldwin
|
||
Screenplay: George A. Romero
|
||
D.P.: Tony Pierce-Roberts
|
||
Start Date: 10/15/90, Pittsburgh
|
||
Negative Cost: $16.1 million
|
||
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this one is about a writer
|
||
whose alter ego, the author of several vicious crime novels, takes on a life of
|
||
his own. Hutton gets to play dual roles.
|
||
|
||
EVE OF DESTRUCTION January 18
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Duncan Gibbins
|
||
Cast: Gregory Hines, Rene Soutendijk
|
||
Producers: Robert W. Cort, David Madden
|
||
Screenplay: Duncan Gibbins, Yale Udoff
|
||
Soutendijk plays dual roles, that of lady scientist and her android
|
||
creation that goes amuck. Hines teams with scientist version to take
|
||
the android down. From Nelson Films. "Its creator made it in her own image.
|
||
The military made it deadly. Now only one man can stop her."
|
||
|
||
THE FAVOR March 1992
|
||
Dir: Donald Petrie
|
||
Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Harley Jane Kozak, Ken Wahl, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt
|
||
Producer: Lauren Shuler-Donner
|
||
Screenplay: Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott
|
||
Start Date: 9/19/90, Portland, OR
|
||
Negative Cost: $12.9 million
|
||
A woman keeps dreaming about her high-school sweetheart. Petrie directed
|
||
MYSTIC PIZZA and OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.
|
||
|
||
FX/2: THE DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION 1.85 May 10
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Richard Franklin
|
||
Cast: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy
|
||
Producers: Dodi Fayed, Jack Wiener
|
||
Screenplay: Bill Condon
|
||
D.P.: Victor Kemper
|
||
Start Date: 4/30/90, Toronto
|
||
Negative Cost: $16.4 million
|
||
It's five years later and movie special effects wizard Rollie Tyler (Bryan)
|
||
and cop-turned-private eye Leo McCarthy (Brian) face the most treacherous
|
||
challenge of their careers. Rollie has become a high-tech toymaker and is
|
||
enlisted to help trap a would-be killer. This film has been pushed back from
|
||
an April 5th release date. Music is by Lalo Schifrin.
|
||
|
||
LITTLE MAN TATE October 9 (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
Rating: "PG" October 18 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Jodie Foster
|
||
Cast: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Harry Connick Jr., Debbie
|
||
Mazar, Josh Mostel, George Plimpton
|
||
Producers: Scott Rudin, Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Frank
|
||
D.P.: Mike Southon
|
||
Start Date: 7/11/90, Cincinnati
|
||
Negative Cost: $9.8 million
|
||
Jodie makes her directorial debut with this story of a boy genius caught
|
||
between the worlds of his working mom (Ms. Foster) and a child psychologist
|
||
(Dianne Wiest). Fine advanced word.
|
||
|
||
LOVE FIELD January, 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Kaplan
|
||
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Brian Kerwin, Beth Grant, Louise
|
||
Latham, Peggy Rea
|
||
Producers: Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury
|
||
Screenplay: Don Roos
|
||
D.P.: Ralf D. Bode
|
||
Start Date: 4/2/90, Rocky Mount, NC, Virginia, Washington, DC
|
||
Negative Cost: $17.7 million
|
||
Interracial love story set against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination.
|
||
Kaplan directed THE ACCUSED. Haysbert (MAJOR LEAGUE) replaced Denzel
|
||
Washington as the love interest. Has been pushed back to 1992 from October 18th
|
||
at Michelle Pfeiffer's request, due to FRANKIE AND JOHNNY's October 11th
|
||
playdate.
|
||
|
||
MARRIED TO IT March 1992
|
||
Rating: "R" Language and a scene of sensuality
|
||
Dir: Arthur Hiller
|
||
Cast: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart
|
||
Masterson, Ron SIlver, Cybill Shepard
|
||
Producer: Thomas Baer
|
||
Screenplay: Janet Kovalcik
|
||
D.P.: Victor J. Kemper
|
||
Start Date: 7/30/90, Toronto, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $14.3 million
|
||
A comedy featuring three married New York couples with radically different
|
||
lifestyles. Leonard was the suicidal thespian in DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Music is
|
||
by Henry Mancini. Film runs 110 minutes. Advanced word is tepid.
|
||
|
||
MISSING PIECES 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Leonard Stern
|
||
Cast: Eric Idle, Robert Wuhl, Lauren Hutton, Bernie Kopell, Kim Lankford,
|
||
Richard Belzer
|
||
Producer: Aaron Russo
|
||
Screenplay: Leonard Stern
|
||
D.P.: Peter Stein
|
||
Start Date: 10/10/90, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
The comedic adventures of an idealist, a greeting card writer and a gifted
|
||
cellist. Marvin Hamlisch will provide the musical score.
|
||
|
||
MYSTERY DATE 1.85 August 16
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Wax
|
||
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, B.D. Wong
|
||
Producer: Cathleen Summers
|
||
Screenplay: Parker Bennett, Terry Runte
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Wood
|
||
Start Date: 7/31/90, Vancouver
|
||
Negative Cost: $9.6 million
|
||
An upbeat romantic comedy. Hawke was last seen in WHITE FANG. Fisher
|
||
Stevens in *not* from India (SHORT CIRCUIT) and B.D. Wong is a Tony winner from
|
||
M. BUTTERFLY. Advanced word is good.
|
||
|
||
OFF AND RUNNING 1992
|
||
Dir: Edward Bianchi
|
||
Cast: Cyndi Lauper, David Keith, Richard Belzer, Anita Morris, Johnny Pinto
|
||
Producer: Aaron Russo
|
||
Screenplay: Mitch Glazer
|
||
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
|
||
Start Date: 2/8/90, Miami, New York, Washington, DC
|
||
Formerly titled MOON OVER MIAMI.
|
||
|
||
PROBABLE CAUSE January 1993
|
||
Negative Cost: $25 million
|
||
|
||
ROBOCOP 3 June, 1992
|
||
Dir: Fred Dekker
|
||
Cast: Robert Burke, Nancy Allen, John Castle, CCH Pounder, Bruce Locke, Felton
|
||
Perry, Robert DoQui
|
||
Producer: Patrick Crowley
|
||
Screenplay: Fred Dekker
|
||
D.P.: Gary Kibbe
|
||
Start Date: 2/4/91, Atlanta
|
||
Negative Cost: $23.5 million
|
||
This one's "on the cheap".
|
||
|
||
SHADOWS AND FOG February 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Woody Allen
|
||
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Madonna, John Malkovich, Jodie Foster, Donald
|
||
Pleasence, Kenneth Mars, Fred Gwynne, David Straithairn, Kate Nelligan
|
||
Exec. Producers: Jack Rollins, Charles Joffe
|
||
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
|
||
Screenplay: Woody Allen
|
||
D.P.: Carlo Di Palma
|
||
Start Date: 11/19/90, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $21.8 million
|
||
*Everyone* wants to work with Woody! And yes, it's in Black and White and
|
||
set in the Roaring Twenties. It's Woody's most expensive film ever. His
|
||
next film, which goes into production in November, '91 will be for TriStar
|
||
and his old friend Mike Medavoy.
|
||
|
||
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1.85 (SR) February 14
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Demme
|
||
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
|
||
Screenplay: Ted Tally Based upon novel by Thomas Harris
|
||
Producer: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
|
||
Negative Cost: $19.7 million
|
||
Hopkins plays a brilliant psychiatrist imprisoned in a ward for the
|
||
criminally insane, who is called on as a unique "consultant" for the
|
||
FBI. Foster is an FBI recruit with whom the doctor plays dangerous
|
||
mind games. Advanced word was sensational when the screenings began in
|
||
September, 1990. Delayed from October, 1990 opening. *Big* hit.
|
||
|
||
THERE GOES MY BABY October 1992
|
||
Dir: Floyd Mutrux
|
||
Negative Cost: $10.5 million
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Orion Classics
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
EUROPA, EUROPA 1.66 June 28
|
||
Rating: "R" For mature treatment of Holocaust themes.
|
||
Dir: Agnieszka Holland
|
||
Cast: Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Andre Wilms, Aschley Wanninger, Hanns
|
||
Zischler
|
||
Producers: Margaret Menegoz, Artur Brauner
|
||
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland, based on memoirs of Salomon Perel
|
||
True story of a young Jew who successfully posed as a loyal German Nazi to
|
||
escape death during World War II. Filled with suspense and touches of humor,
|
||
it comes with excellent advanced word.
|
||
|
||
HOWARD'S END March, 1992
|
||
Dir: James Ivory
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, James Wilby, Helena Bonham Carter
|
||
Producer: Ismail Merchant
|
||
Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel by E.M. Forster
|
||
D.P.: Tony Pierce-Roberts
|
||
Start Date: 4/22/91, U.K.
|
||
The creators of A ROOM WITH A VIEW and MAURICE tackle yet another E.M.
|
||
Forster novel. Two wealthy English families' contrasting views of life force
|
||
them into battle of style as they compete for inheritance of a house.
|
||
|
||
JACQUOT DE NANTES Spring 1992
|
||
Dir: Agnes Varda
|
||
Biography of the childhood of Ms. Varda's late husband, director Jacques
|
||
Demy.
|
||
|
||
LOVE WITHOUT PITY 1.85 May 31 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Eric Rochant
|
||
Cast: Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier
|
||
Producer: Alain Rocca
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Rochant
|
||
A buoyant boy-meets-girl romance that is one of the most acclaimed and
|
||
successful debut features to come from France in years. Set in contemporary
|
||
Paris, this film tells the story of a perpetual dropout whose sole interests
|
||
are sleeping late, chain-smoking and prowling the Paris streets for new
|
||
girlfriends. He amasses a vast array of female companions due to his
|
||
considerable charm. One day he meets Nathalie, a ravishingly seductive woman
|
||
who is extremely smart as well. They fall in love. In a lyrical style
|
||
anchored in the French New Wave, Rochant evokes the tentative stabs at romance
|
||
made by this very mis-matched pair.
|
||
|
||
MY FATHER'S GLORY 1.85 June 21 (NY,LA)
|
||
Dir: Yves Robert
|
||
Cast: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
|
||
Screenplay: based on the novel "Souvenirs" by Marcel Pagnol
|
||
A turn of the century tale of live in Provence opens at Manhattan's Loew's
|
||
Fine Arts. Superb word.
|
||
|
||
MY MOTHER'S CASTLE 1.85 July 26 (NY,LA)
|
||
Dir: Yves Robert
|
||
Cast: Philippe Caubere, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
|
||
Screenplay: based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol
|
||
This story of a young Frenchman and his fetching mother opens at Manhattan's
|
||
Loew's Fine Arts. It is the sequel to MY FATHER's GLORY.
|
||
|
||
OPEN DOORS 1.85 March 29 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Gianni Amelio
|
||
Cast: Gian Maria Volonte, Ennio Fantastichini, Renzo Giovampietro, Renato
|
||
Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci, Silverio Blasi, Vitalba Andrea
|
||
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
|
||
Screenplay: Gianni Amelio, Vincenzo Cerami
|
||
D.P.: Tonino Nardi
|
||
Italian import concerns a man who commits three murders of vengeance in
|
||
Palermo of 1937. Academy Award Nominee for Foreign Film. Winner of four
|
||
European Film Awards including Best Film. Winner of four Di Donatello Awards
|
||
include Best Picture, Best Actor. "In the compelling tradition of BREAKER
|
||
MORANT and TWELVE ANGRY MEN."
|
||
|
||
RAISE THE RED LANTERN 1992
|
||
Dir: Zhang Yimou
|
||
|
||
RHAPSODY IN AUGUST December 20 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Akira Kurosawa
|
||
Cast: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Ohtakara,
|
||
Mitsunori Isaki, Richard Gere
|
||
Producer: Hisao Kurosawa
|
||
Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, based on Kiyoko Murata's novel "In the Cauldron"
|
||
D.P.s: Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda
|
||
Start Date: 7/3/90, Chichibu, Gotemba, Izu, Nagasaki, Tokyo
|
||
The film tells the tale of a group of four children who spend their summer
|
||
vacation with their grandmother, who is a survivor of the atomic bomb dropped
|
||
on Nagasaki. There is a common Japanese belief that the bombing of Hiroshima
|
||
and Nagasaki were unjustifiable acts of American terrorism, and had nothing to
|
||
do with ending the war. The youngest child becomes deeply resentful of the
|
||
U.S. when he learns that the bomb killed his grandfather. But his feelings are
|
||
confused when an American uncle, played by Richard Gere (speaking Japanese),
|
||
visits from Hawaii. Gere is shocked to learn that his grandmother lost her
|
||
husband in the bombing, and asks, on behalf of the U.S., for her forgiveness,
|
||
which she happily gives.
|
||
The film was savaged by foreign journalists at a preview screening in Tokyo,
|
||
claiming that Kurosawa was ignoring Japan's role in starting the war by bombing
|
||
Pearl Harbor and massacring hundreds of thousands in Nanking and Manila.
|
||
Kurosawa explained that he was not attempting to defend Japan's role in the
|
||
war. "This is a film about a family - not war or peace". The moral of the
|
||
tale was intended to be that it is the leaders of countries, and not the
|
||
ordinary people, who are responsible for wars.
|
||
|
||
THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF
|
||
INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE September 27 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" October 11 (LA, SF)
|
||
Dir: John Bailey
|
||
Cast: Lily Tomlin
|
||
Exec Producers: Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner
|
||
Producer: Paula Mazur
|
||
Screenplay: Jane Wagner, based on her play
|
||
Film version of Lily Tomlin's award-winning one-woman show opens exclusively
|
||
at Manhattan's 57th St. Playhouse. Then at LA's Royal Theatre and San
|
||
Francisco's Castro. Excellent advanced word.
|
||
|
||
SLACKER April 19
|
||
Dir: Richard Linklater
|
||
Cast: Richard Linklater
|
||
Producer: Richard Linklater
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Linklater
|
||
D.P.: Lee Daniel
|
||
Start Date: 1990, Austin, TX
|
||
I'm glad to see someone else worked on this film!
|
||
|
||
A TALE OF SPRINGTIME TBA
|
||
Dir: Eric Rohmer
|
||
Cast: Anne Teyssedre, Hughes Quester, Florence Darel
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Rohmer
|
||
The French filmmaker spins a story of romantic tension and intrigue when a
|
||
high school teacher stays over at the apartment of her girlfriend's father.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Paramount
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
THE ADDAMS FAMILY 1.85 November 22
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
|
||
Cast: Raul Julia, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Dan
|
||
Hedaya, Judith Malina, Carel Struycken, Elizabeth Wilson, Dana Ivey, Paul
|
||
Benedict
|
||
Producer: Scott Rudin
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Wilson, Caroline Thompson
|
||
D.P.s: Owen Roizman, Gale Tattersall
|
||
Start Date: 11/26/90, Los Angeles, Roanoke, VA
|
||
Negative Cost: $35 million
|
||
A spectacular production based more on Charles Addams' original comic strips
|
||
than on the campy Sixties' TV series. Orion Pictures has sold the
|
||
domestic distribution rights to this most promising film to Paramount. Could
|
||
hit big. Soundtrack will feature some work by M.C. Hammer.
|
||
|
||
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS November 8
|
||
Dir: Robert Lieberman
|
||
Cast: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Randall, Kevin Nealon, Lauren
|
||
Bacall, Amy Oberer, Leslie Nielsen, Thora Birch, Andrea Martin
|
||
Producer: Marykay Powell
|
||
Screenplay: Thom Eberhardt, Gail Parent, Neal Israel, Richard Kramer
|
||
D.P.: Robbie Greenberg
|
||
Start Date: 7/22/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Ex-NBC chief Brandon Tartikoff takes over Paramount Pictures. He sees a
|
||
script called "All I Want For Christmas". He says, "If TV movies have 30-day
|
||
shooting schedules, why can't features?" This one does. In what must be
|
||
record time for modern feature films, this one will take 4 months from start of
|
||
principal photography to hitting the neighborhood screens. Leslie Nielsen
|
||
plays Santa. A portent of things to come at Paramount? Mebbe it will be
|
||
available on homevideo for Christmas, 1991? Seven-year old Hallie O'Fallon
|
||
(Birch) think that a department store Santa can help bring her estranged
|
||
parents back together.
|
||
|
||
BEBE'S KIDS Summer, 1992
|
||
Voices: Saison Love
|
||
Exec. Producers: Reginald and Warrington Hudlin
|
||
Producers: Tom Wilhite, Willard Carroll
|
||
Screenplay: Reginald Hudlin
|
||
Start Date: 10/2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Animated film features characters created by the late comedian Robin Harris
|
||
(DO THE RIGHT THING, HOUSE PARTY). Saison Love has been signed to perform the
|
||
voice of Harris.
|
||
|
||
BEVERLY HILLS COP III Summer, 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Eddie Murphy
|
||
Another formula film. This time Murphy gets $15 million up front.
|
||
|
||
BODY PARTS 2.35 August 9
|
||
Dir: Eric Red
|
||
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Brad Dourif, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delany, Zakes Mokae, Peter
|
||
Murnik, John Walsh
|
||
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Red, Norman Snider
|
||
A thriller about a psychologist who has the limb of a criminal grafted onto
|
||
his body, only to find that it controls his behavior. Gross.
|
||
|
||
BOOMERANG June, 1992
|
||
Dir: Reginald Hudlin
|
||
Cast: Eddie Murphy
|
||
Producers: Brian Grazer, Warrington Hudlin
|
||
Screenplay: Barry Blaustein, David Sheffield
|
||
Start Date: 11/11/91, New York
|
||
The Hudlin Brothers scored with HOUSE PARTY. Now they get a major deal at
|
||
Paramount. Murphy is a ladies' man who falls in love with a girl who can't
|
||
stand him. Eddie will get $12 million for this one.
|
||
|
||
THE BUTCHER'S WIFE October 25
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Terry Hughes
|
||
Cast: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Frances McDormand, Margaret
|
||
Colin, Max Perlich, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Hanft, Mary Steenburgen
|
||
Producer: Wallis Nicita, Lauren Lloyd
|
||
Screenplay: Ezra Litwak, Marjorie Schwartz
|
||
D.P.: Frank Tidy
|
||
Start Date: 10/8/90, North Carolina, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Moore plays the psychic this time, also in Manhattan (ala' GHOST). Daniels
|
||
is a psychiatrist who believes that the psychic next door is tampering with his
|
||
patients. Director Hughes makes his feature debut. He directs THE GOLDEN
|
||
GIRLS for TV. Film delayed from August 23 opening. Word is that there is some
|
||
reshooting going on.
|
||
|
||
COLUMBUS 2.35 70mm October 1992
|
||
Dir: Ridley Scott
|
||
Cast: Gerard Depardieu
|
||
Producers: Ridley Scott, Alain Goldman, Mimi Polk
|
||
Screenplay: Roselyne Bosch
|
||
D.P.: Adrian Biddle
|
||
Start Date: 12/3/91, Spain, West Indies
|
||
Negative Cost: $42-$44 million
|
||
One of two features in production on the exploits of Christopher Columbus, in
|
||
commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of the New World. The
|
||
competing feature from the Salkinds has yet to get distribution.
|
||
|
||
CITIZEN KANE May 1
|
||
Dir: Orson Welles NY, LA, D.C., Chicago, SF, Seattle, Boston, Houston
|
||
Cast: Orson Welles May 12 Hartford
|
||
Producer: Orson Welles
|
||
Screenplay: Orson Welles
|
||
One of the all-time greats gets a 50th Anniversary re-issue with brand-new
|
||
35mm prints.
|
||
|
||
COOL WORLD 1992
|
||
Dir: Ralph Bakshi
|
||
Cast: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne
|
||
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Grais, Mark Victor
|
||
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
|
||
Start Date: 3/15/91, Las Vegas, Los Angeles
|
||
Combined animation-live action film reportedly tells the story of real people
|
||
who find themselves in a cartoon world and can't figure out why.
|
||
|
||
DEAD AGAIN 1.85 August 23
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Donald Sutherland, Andy Garcia, Derek
|
||
Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Miriam Margolyes
|
||
Exec. Producer: Sydney Pollack
|
||
Producers: Charles H. Maguire, Lindsay Doran
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Frank
|
||
D.P.: Matthew F. Leonetti
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, Los Angeles
|
||
HENRY V Oscar nominee Kenneth Branagh makes a film about a Forties
|
||
bandleader wrongly executed for his wife's murder and reincarnated in the
|
||
Ninties.
|
||
|
||
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER 2.35 (SR) January 18
|
||
Dir: John Milius
|
||
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson
|
||
Exec Producer: John McTiernan
|
||
Producer: Mace Neufield
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Dillon, David Shaber
|
||
A Navy squadron launches an illegal attack on Hanoi near the end of the
|
||
Vietnam War. Visual Effects from Introvision and Rhythm and Hues. Music is
|
||
by Basil Poledouris. "The only thing they can count on is each other."
|
||
|
||
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY October 11
|
||
Rating: "R" For language and sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Garry Marshall
|
||
Cast: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo, Nathan Lane,
|
||
Laurie Metcalf, Jane Morris, Tim Hopper
|
||
Producer: Garry Marshall
|
||
D.P.: Donte Spinotti
|
||
Screenplay: Terrence McNally, adapted from his play FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE
|
||
CLAIR DE LUNE
|
||
Start Date: 1/29/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Film version of McNally's off-Broadway hit show about the romance between a
|
||
short-order cook and a waitress. Advanced word is good.
|
||
|
||
HE SAID, SHE SAID 2.35 February 22
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Ken Kwapis, Marisa Silver
|
||
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Sharon Stone
|
||
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
|
||
Screenplay: Brian Hohlfield
|
||
D.P.: Stephen H. Burum
|
||
Start Date: 6/18/90, Baltimore
|
||
A romance told from both points of view. The male point of view segments are
|
||
directed by Mr. Kwapis, the female ones by Ms. Silver. The directors are also
|
||
an item.
|
||
|
||
INDECENT PROPOSAL 1992
|
||
Dir: Adrian Lyne
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Sherry Lansing
|
||
Screenplay: Amy Jones
|
||
Start Date: 1/92
|
||
Lyne and Lansing team up one again after FATAL ATTRACTION made so much money
|
||
for Paramount (although it officially just *barely* went into the black)
|
||
|
||
THE INNOCENT 1992
|
||
Dir: John Schlesinger
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Norman Heyman, Chris Sievernich, Wieland Schulz-Kiel
|
||
Screenplay: Ian McEwan
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Berlin
|
||
|
||
JENNIFER EIGHT 1992
|
||
Dir: Bruce Robinson
|
||
Cast: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, John Malkovich,
|
||
Producer: Scott Rudin
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce Robinson
|
||
Start Date: 9/23/91, Vancouver
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
Garcia stars as Sgt. John Berlin, a former L.A. cop who joins the police
|
||
force of a Northern California town. In his obsessive pursuit of a homicide
|
||
investigation, he believes that he's on the trail of a dangerous killer who has
|
||
just claimed his eighth victim, code-named Jennifer. Helena Robertson
|
||
(Thurman) is a blind woman whose friend has disappeared. Helena may have
|
||
encountered the killer and could provide Berlin with his only chance of solving
|
||
the crimes. The more deeply Berlin becomes involved in the case, the more
|
||
authorities doubt the very existence of the killer. Henriksen plays Freddy
|
||
Ross, Berlin's friend and colleague. Baker is Freddy's wife, Margie.
|
||
Malkovich is St. Anne, the FBI investigator assigned to the case. Garcia
|
||
received an Oscar nod for THE GODFATHER PART III. He also co-stars in DEAD
|
||
AGAIN. Henriksen will be seen in ALIEN3. Baker was recently seen in EDWARD
|
||
SCISSORHANDS and is in the upcoming ARTICLE 99. Malkovich was recently in
|
||
QUEENS LOGIC, THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY and THE SHELTERING SKY. Robinson directed
|
||
WITHNAIL AND I. He was Oscar-nominated for writing THE KILLING FIELDS.
|
||
|
||
JUICE February 1992
|
||
Dir: Ernest Dickerson
|
||
Producers: Neal Moritz, David Heyman, Peter Frankfurt
|
||
Screenplay: Ernest Dickerson, Gerard Brown
|
||
Negative Cost: $5 million
|
||
Spike Lee's cinematographer makes his feature directorial bow with a
|
||
film concerning four black Harlem youths whose brief encounter with
|
||
crime takes a deadly turn. This independent production has been picked up by
|
||
Paramount, who have a $10 million P&A budget.
|
||
|
||
LAME DUCKS TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Dennis Dugan
|
||
Cast: John Turturro, Mel Smith, Bob Nelson, Nancy Marchand, John Savident,
|
||
George de la Pena, Spike Alexander, Juli Donaki
|
||
Producers: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Gil Netter
|
||
Screenplay: Pat Proft
|
||
D.P.: David M. Walsh
|
||
Start Date: 12/10/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Madcap comedy about three men commissioned to start a ballet company. Dugan
|
||
last directed PROBLEM CHILD.
|
||
|
||
NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR 1.85 June 28
|
||
Dir: David Zucker
|
||
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson, Robert
|
||
Goulet
|
||
Exec. Producers: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
|
||
Producers: Robert K. Weiss
|
||
Screenplay: David Zucker, Pat Proft
|
||
D.P.: Robert Stevens
|
||
Start Date: 11/27/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Sequel to the smash hit from 1987. In early May they shot an opening scene
|
||
with Zsa Zsa Gabor in which she slaps another cop and gets arrested.
|
||
|
||
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS September 27
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Stan Dragoti
|
||
Cast: Scott Bakula, Robert Loggia, Hector Elizondo, Harley Jane Kozak, Evander
|
||
Holyfield, Sinbad, Kathy Ireland, Jason Bateman, Larry Miller, Dick Butkus,
|
||
Earl Campbell, Roger Craig, Ben Davidson, Tony Dorsett, Ed Jones, Jim Kelly,
|
||
Jerry Rice, Herschel Walker, Randy White
|
||
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme
|
||
Screenplay: Rick Natkin, Dave Fuller
|
||
D.P.: Peter Stein
|
||
Start Date: 4/17/90, Denton, TX
|
||
Negative Cost: $13.5 million
|
||
Football comedy about the cleanup of a corrupt college football program where
|
||
an honest coach (Elizondo) and his assistant (Loggia) are faced with the
|
||
challenge of making champions of a group of unconventional athletes led by a
|
||
34-year-old quarterback (Bakula).
|
||
|
||
1900 February 1
|
||
Rating: "NC-17"
|
||
Dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
|
||
Cast: Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Donald Sutherland,
|
||
Burt Lancaster
|
||
Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
|
||
Screenplay: Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci
|
||
Bertolucci's long masterwork finally gets the restored, uncut treatment here
|
||
in the U.S. in Dolby Stereo.
|
||
|
||
PATRIOT GAMES 2.35 70mm June 1992
|
||
Dir: Philip Noyce
|
||
Cast: Harrison Ford
|
||
Producer: Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
|
||
Screenplay: W. Peter Iliff, based on Tom Clancy's novel
|
||
Start Date: 11/2/91, London, Baltimore, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $35 million
|
||
Alec Baldwin pulls out of this sequel to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER due to
|
||
scheduling problems when the start date was pushed back to November. He will
|
||
be starring on Broadway with Jessica Lange in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in
|
||
February. Harrison Ford will apparently be paid $9 million to take over the
|
||
film. Ford will also be in the subsequent sequel, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER.
|
||
The producers are now bidding big for the following property, THE SUM OF FEARS,
|
||
in which Ford would again topline. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER will be
|
||
directed by John McTiernan, who helmed THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. John Badham
|
||
was in the works to direct PATRIOT GAMES, but couldn't strike the right deal.
|
||
Noyce directed DEAD CALM. ...OCTOBER grossed $120 million domestically and
|
||
$77 million overseas.
|
||
|
||
THE PERFECT WEAPON 1.85 (SR) March 15
|
||
Rating: "R" For martial arts violence and some language.
|
||
Dir: Mark DiSalle
|
||
Cast: Jeff Speakman, John Dye, Dante Basco, Mako, Mariska Hargitay, Prof. Toru
|
||
Tanaka, Seth Sakai, Clyde Kusatsu, James Hong, Danny Kamekona, Beau Starr
|
||
Producers: Mark DiSalle, Pierre David
|
||
Screenplay: David C. Wilson
|
||
D.P.: Russell Carpenter
|
||
Start Date: 9/21/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Ken-Po Karate expert returns home to avenge the death of his girlfriend. "No
|
||
gun. No knife. No equal." "Just try him."
|
||
|
||
REGARDING HENRY 1.85 July 10
|
||
Dir: Mike Nichols
|
||
Cast: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening
|
||
Exec. Producer: Robert Greenhut
|
||
Producers: Mike Nichols, Scott Rudin
|
||
Screenplay: Jeffrey Abrams
|
||
D.P.: Giuseppe Rotunno
|
||
Start Date: 9/14/90, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
A homeless person shoots a ruthless lawyer whose marriage is
|
||
faltering in the head. In fighting for life, he learns to appreciate the
|
||
important things in life. Big prospects.
|
||
|
||
SCHOOL TIES 1992
|
||
Dir: Robert Mandel
|
||
Cast: Bredan Fraser, Matt Damon, Randall Batinkoff, Chris O'Donnell, Cole
|
||
Hauser, Anthony Rapp, Ben Affleck, Andrew Lowery, Amy Locane
|
||
Producer: Sherry Lansing
|
||
Screenplay: Darryl Ponicsan
|
||
D.P.: Freddie Francis
|
||
Start Date: 9/3/91, Massachusetts
|
||
|
||
SOAPDISH 1.85 May 31
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Michael Hoffman
|
||
Cast: Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Kline, Elisabeth
|
||
Shue, Cathy Moriarty, Carrie Fisher, Teri Hatcher, Garry Marshall
|
||
Producer: Alan Greisman
|
||
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman, Robert Harling
|
||
D.P.: Ueli Steiger
|
||
Start Date: 10/22/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A great cast in a potentially terrific comedy. They play the cast and crew
|
||
of a long-running TV soap opera. The writers have THE FRESHMAN and STEEL
|
||
MAGNOLIAS to their credit.
|
||
|
||
STAR TREK VI-THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY 2.35 (SRD) 70mm December 6
|
||
Dir: Nicholas Meyer
|
||
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter
|
||
Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, David Warner, Christopther Plummer,
|
||
Jack Palance, Kim Cattrall, Michael Dorn, Kurtwood Smith, John Shuck, Mark
|
||
Lenard, Brock Peters, Rosana De Soto, Iman, Paul Rosilli, Christian Slater
|
||
Exec. Producer: Leonard Nimoy
|
||
Producers: Steven-Charles Jaffe, Ralph Winters
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer, Denny Martin Flynn, based on Gene Roddenberry's
|
||
1966 TV series STAR TREK.
|
||
D.P.: Hiro Narita
|
||
Start Date: 4/16/90, Los Angeles, Alaska
|
||
Negative Cost: $27.5 million
|
||
Second unit Alaskan Glacier photography was directed by producer
|
||
Steven-Charles Jaffe, who also produced GHOST. This will be the final voyage
|
||
for our intrepid original cast, as they are long in the tooth and ready to be
|
||
retired. There will be substantial "tie-ins" to the ST:TNG world. Visual
|
||
Effects by ILM, Score by James Horner. TREK VII, anyone? Film moved up
|
||
a week to avoid the terror that is HOOK. Plot is common knowledge
|
||
by now. Suffice it to say, there are tensions involving the Klingons, a
|
||
Peace mission and assassinations. Excellent advanced word.
|
||
|
||
STEPPING OUT October 4
|
||
Rating: "PG" (NY, LA, SF, Toronto)
|
||
Dir: Lewis Gilbert
|
||
Cast: Liza Minelli, Shelley Winters, Andrea Martin, Ellen Greene, Julie
|
||
Walters, Sheila McCarthy, Jane Krakowski, Carol Woods-Coleman, Robin Stevan,
|
||
Bill Irwin
|
||
Producers: Lewis Gilbert, John Dark
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Harris
|
||
D.P.: Alan Hume
|
||
Start Date: 8/27/90, Toronto
|
||
Liza plays a tap dance teacher in this musical comedy, under whose tutelage a
|
||
group of women find themselves and each other. Gilbert last directed
|
||
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Songs are by Kander and Ebb. Advanced word is mixed at
|
||
best.
|
||
|
||
TALENT FOR THE GAME April 26 (Florida)
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Robert M. Young
|
||
Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Jeff Corbett, Jamey Sheridan, Terry
|
||
Kinney, Janet Carroll, Tom Bower, Tom Ryan
|
||
Producer: Martin Elfand
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Pierson, David Himmelstein, Tom Donnelly
|
||
D.P.: Curtis Clark
|
||
Start Date: 8/13/90, Idaho, Los Angeles
|
||
Olmos plays a baseball scout who discovers an incredible young pitcher. Film
|
||
was also tested in Seattle then sent straight to video.
|
||
|
||
TRUE COLORS 1.85 March 15
|
||
Rating: "R" For language and sensuality. (NY,LA,D.C., Toronto)
|
||
Dir: Herbert Ross
|
||
Cast: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark
|
||
Producers: Herbert Ross, Laurence Mark
|
||
Screenplay: Kevin Wade
|
||
D.P.: Dante Spinotti
|
||
Start Date: 3/23/90, Richmond, Charlottesville VA, Montana, Annapolis MD,
|
||
Washington DC
|
||
Two Washington, D.C. attorneys become involved with the same woman.
|
||
|
||
WAYNE'S WORLD 1992
|
||
Dir: Penelope Spheeris
|
||
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Lara Flynn Boyle, Donna Dixon, Colleen
|
||
Camp
|
||
Exec. Producer: Howard W. Koch
|
||
Producer: Lorne Michaels
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
|
||
Start Date: 8/2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Another hang-over from Mr. Tartikoff's bag o' tricks winds up at Paramount as
|
||
a feature is made of the Cable-TV public access show segment of NBC's Saturday
|
||
Night Live starring those two mid-pubescent air-guitarers hits the big screen.
|
||
Lowe plays a TV exec who sees commerical potential in the access show. Boyle
|
||
is Wayne's ex-girlfriend and Dixon is Garth's dream girl, a curvaceous doughnut
|
||
shop employee.
|
||
|
||
WUTHERING HEIGHTS 1992
|
||
Dir: Peter Kosminsky
|
||
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
|
||
Producer: Mary Selway
|
||
Screenplay: Anne Devlin, based on Emily Bronte's novel
|
||
Start Date: 10/91, England
|
||
Remake of the classic tale is the first product from Paramount Europe.
|
||
Producer Selway's name will be recognized as one of the very top casting
|
||
directors in the biz.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Pilgrims 3 Films
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH October 11 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Juan Jose Campanella
|
||
Cast: Karen Young, Harley Cross
|
||
Fictional family is torn apart by an adolescent's aggressions. Excellent
|
||
word, including sensational notices for young Harley Cross as the boy.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Quartet Films
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
THE SLEAZY UNCLE 1.66 February 22 (NY)
|
||
Rating: None
|
||
Dir: Franco Brusati
|
||
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Andrea Ferreol, Simona Cavallari,
|
||
Stefania Sandrelli
|
||
Producers: Leo Pescarolo, Guido DeLaurentiis
|
||
Screenplay: Leo Benvenuit, Piero De Bernardi, Franco Brusati
|
||
A new comedy from the director of BREAD AND CHOCOLATE. "To him Fun is a
|
||
four letter word...LIFE!"
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Samuel Goldwyn
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
BLACK ROBE November 1 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" For strong violence and sensuality
|
||
Dir: Bruce Beresford
|
||
Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt, Aden Young
|
||
Producers: Robert Lantos, Stephanie Reichel, Sue Milliken
|
||
Epic adventure of a Jesuit priest and his apprentice struggling to survive
|
||
during the first clash between European and native American cultures in the
|
||
wilderness frontier of 1634 will be released in time for 1991 Oscar
|
||
consideration. The world premiere is September 5th at Toronto's Festival of
|
||
Festivals. Beresford directed DRIVING MISS DAISY and MISTER JOHNSON.
|
||
Excellent advanced word. The leader in the films nominated for Canada's Genie
|
||
Awards for Cinematic excellence.
|
||
|
||
CITY OF HOPE 2.35 October 11 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language and sensuality scene
|
||
Dir: John Sayles
|
||
Cast: Vincent Spano, Tony LoBianco, Joe Morton, Anthony John Denison, Todd
|
||
Graff, Angela Bassett, Barbara Williams, Louis Zorich
|
||
Producers: Sarah Green, Maggie Renzi
|
||
Screenplay: John Sayles
|
||
Start Date: 7/10/90, Cincinnati
|
||
Snowballing effect of corruption and decay on a modern American city, known
|
||
as "Hudson City". Gee, didn't I used to live there? Sayles lives in my old
|
||
town of Hoboken, NJ, which just happens to be in Hudson County. *Superb*
|
||
advanced notices. Grand Prize Winner at the Tokyo Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
LA FEMME NIKITA 2.35 (SR) March 8
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Luc Besson
|
||
Cast: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Tcheky Karyo, Jeanne Moreau,
|
||
Jacques Boudet
|
||
French thriller about a hardened criminal transformed by an underground
|
||
government agency into a political assassin. Besson directed SUBWAY.
|
||
|
||
LIVIN' LARGE! September 20
|
||
Dir: Michael Schultz
|
||
Cast: T.C. Carson, Lisa C. Arrindell, Afrika Baby Bam, Blanche Baker, Julia
|
||
Campbell
|
||
Exec. Producer: David Picker
|
||
Screenplay: Fred Johnson, William M. Payne
|
||
D.P.: Peter Lyons Collister
|
||
Start Date: 10/16/90, Atlanta
|
||
A black newscaster goes from obscurity to network news while grappling with
|
||
his identity. Schultz directed CAR WASH! Formerly titled THE TAPES OF DEXTER
|
||
JACKSON.
|
||
|
||
MADAME BOVARY December 25
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Claude Charbol
|
||
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Lucas Belvaux
|
||
Producer: Marin Jarmitz
|
||
French hit based on the Gustave Flaubert classic faithfully reproduces the
|
||
book, including using some of the same dialogue.
|
||
|
||
MISSISSIPPI MASALA February 1992
|
||
Dir: Mira Nair
|
||
Cast: Denzel Washington, ASarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Tico
|
||
Wells, Charles Dutton
|
||
Producers: Mira Nair, Micharl Nozik
|
||
Screenplay: Sooni Taraporeavala
|
||
D.P.: Ed Lachman
|
||
Start Date: 8/27/90, Greenwood MS, Kampala Uganda
|
||
Story of an Indian family that was forced to flee Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972.
|
||
Twenty years later they find themselves in Greenwood MS, where the daughter
|
||
falls in love with an entrepreneurial carpet cleaner (Washington), which causes
|
||
tension within both the Indian and Black communities.
|
||
|
||
MR. WONDERFUL 1992
|
||
Dir: Anthony Minghella
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Marianne Moloney
|
||
Screenplay: Vicki Polon, Amy Schor
|
||
Start Date: 12/91, New York
|
||
|
||
MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS 1.85 (SR) March 22
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg
|
||
Cast: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty,
|
||
Mickey Rooney, Gary Busey
|
||
Producers: Martin Poll, E.K. Gaylord II
|
||
Screenplay: Joel Don Humphreys
|
||
A rural man attempts to prove his mettle in a local rodeo. This
|
||
well-review contemporary western features music by James Horner.
|
||
|
||
THE PLAYBOYS May, 1992
|
||
Dir: Gillies MacKinnon
|
||
Cast: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo O'Shea, Niamh Cusack, Ian
|
||
McElhinney, Stella McCusker, Niall Buggy
|
||
Producer: Bill Cartlidge, Simon Perry
|
||
Screenplay: Shane Connaughton, Kerry Crabbe
|
||
D.P.: Jack Conroy
|
||
Start Date: 7/1/91, Ireland
|
||
Tara is a strong-willed woman who falls for a traveling actor when his troupe
|
||
sets ip their theatre in her village during the late 1950s. The town police
|
||
sergeant, who has long been in love with Tara, is determined to destroy this
|
||
budding romance. Connaughton wrote MY LEFT FOOT.
|
||
|
||
ROCK-A-DOODLE April, 1992
|
||
Rating: "G"
|
||
Dir: Don Bluth
|
||
Cast: Voices of Glen Campbell, Ellen Greene, Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris,
|
||
Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen
|
||
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
|
||
Screenplay: David N. Weiss
|
||
Animated musical about a rooster with the power to bring up the sun. From
|
||
Bluth/Sullivan Productions, creators of AN AMERICAN TAIL, THE LAND BEFORE TIME,
|
||
THE SECRET OF NIMH and ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. Opened in London in July, 1991
|
||
to good notices.
|
||
|
||
STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN 1.85 May 22
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Matty Rich
|
||
Screenplay: Matty Rich
|
||
This winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival is
|
||
the story of life in the projects, actually filmed in Brooklyn's Red Hook
|
||
housing development. He took a page from Robert Townsend's book, getting
|
||
financing from credit cards. "From 19-year-old filmmaker Matty Rich comes
|
||
a daring new film straight from his own life."
|
||
|
||
TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY 1.33 May 3
|
||
Dir: Anthony Minghella
|
||
Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Michael Maloney
|
||
Producer: Robert Cooper
|
||
Screenpolay: Anthony Minghella
|
||
D.P.: Remi Adefarsin
|
||
Woman's dead lover reappears as a ghost. Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
SGE
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
MCBAIN September 20 (NY,LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" Strong war violence, language and drug use. October 25 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Christopher Walken, Maria Conchita Alonso
|
||
Negative Cost: $16 million
|
||
This action film involves a group of Vietnam vets who honor a
|
||
pact made to a former comrade 20 years previously. Features extensive
|
||
computer generated effects. $1.1 million ad-pub budget for the 130 print NY,
|
||
LA openings. When the film goes wide, about 1200 prints will be in
|
||
circulation.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Skouras
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS 1.85 March 29
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Paul Schrader
|
||
Cast: Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren
|
||
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
|
||
Screenplay: Harold Pinter, based on the novel by Ian McEwan
|
||
A British couple vacationing in Venice fall under the spell of a local
|
||
couple. Features music by Angelo Badalamenti. "The appearance of innocence.
|
||
The heat of desire..."
|
||
|
||
THE END OF INNOCENCE January 18
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Dyan Cannon
|
||
Cast: Dyan Cannon, John Heard
|
||
Producers: Thom Tyson, Vince Cannon
|
||
Screenplay: Dyan Cannon
|
||
Ego-fest for Ms. Cannon who suffers a nervous breakdown. Played for a week
|
||
in LA last December for Oscar qualification.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
South Gate
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
AFTER MIDNIGHT
|
||
Dir: Allan Holzman
|
||
Cast: Deborah Harry, James Russo, Tim Thomerson, Paige French, Grace Zabriskie
|
||
Producers: J. Luchauco Pelman, Yoram Pelman
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Peploe
|
||
D.P.: Ilan Rosenberg
|
||
Start Date: 11/12/90, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
JULIA HAS TWO LOVERS 1.85 March 22 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Bashar Shbib
|
||
Cast: Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles
|
||
Producer: Bashar Shbib
|
||
Screenplay: Daphna Kastner, Bashar Shbib, based on short story by Kastner
|
||
D.P.: Stephen Reizes
|
||
Romantic comedy/drama about a woman in a bad relationship who gets
|
||
involved with a man who dialed a wrong number.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Streamline Pictures
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
FIST OF THE NORTH STAR August 30
|
||
Animated
|
||
|
||
THE PROFESSIONAL: GOLGO 13 December 25
|
||
Animated
|
||
|
||
ROBOT CARNIVAL March 15
|
||
Animated
|
||
Nine different Japanese animated films in a science fiction anthology.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Studio Three Film
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
POPCORN February 1
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Mark Herrier
|
||
Cast: Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace Stone, Derek Rydall, Elliott
|
||
Hurst, Kelly Jo Minter, Malcolm Danare, Ray Walston, Tony Roberts
|
||
Producers: Torben Johnke, Gary Goch, Ashok Amritraj
|
||
Screenplay: Tod Hackett
|
||
Murder mystery about a film student who recognizes scenes from her own
|
||
nightmares while watching a cult horror film. "Buy a bag..Go home in a box."
|
||
|
||
RICH GIRL April 26
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Joel Bender
|
||
Cast: Don Michael Paul, Jill Schoelen, Ron Karabatsos, Sean Kanan, Willie
|
||
Dixon, Paul Gleason
|
||
Producer: Michael B. London
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Elliot
|
||
D.P.: Levie Isaacks
|
||
Spoiled socialite discovers musical talent and love for a musician.
|
||
Paul wrote and co-produced MGM-Pathe's HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN.
|
||
|
||
VICTIMS
|
||
Dir: Pieter Van Rensaleer
|
||
Cast: Roger Pretto, Sherri Rose
|
||
Producer: Michael Charles Preger
|
||
Immigrant rises to the top of business world and suffers shattering
|
||
consequences of his illicit love affair.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Symphony Pictures
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
SECRET SOCIETY December
|
||
Dir: Diane Keaton
|
||
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Diane Keaton
|
||
Producers: Martin Sheen, William R. Greenblatt
|
||
A story of racial injustice in the South.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Tara Releasing
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
THE VANISHING 1.85 January 25 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: George Sluizer
|
||
Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna Ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus
|
||
Producers: Anne Lordon, George Sluzier
|
||
Screenplay: Tim Krabbe, adapted by George Sluzier
|
||
Creepy Dutch-French thriller that has turned into a bona-fide Art-House hit.
|
||
A young woman disappears from a roadside rest stop while on holiday with her
|
||
boyfriend. The film has been held over at New York's Cinema 12 for so long,
|
||
that the French film NOIR ET BLANC had to go elsewhere after waiting several
|
||
weeks.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Taurus
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
TWO EVIL EYES October 25
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Dario Argento, George Romero
|
||
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Ramy
|
||
Zada, Sally Kirkland
|
||
Producer: Dario Argento
|
||
Screenplay: Dario Argento, George Romero
|
||
An elaborate Poe-fest features makeup effects by Tom Savini. This anthology
|
||
has two films-within-a-film. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" stasrs
|
||
Barbeau and Zada. "The Black Cat" toplines Keitel and Kirkland.
|
||
Should be a royal gross-out. It's only opening a year late...originally
|
||
scheduled for 10/26/90. Roll-out will be 200 prints.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Trimark
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
AND YOU THOUGHT YOUR PARENTS WERE WEIRD October 18
|
||
Cast: Alan Thicke, Marcia Strassman, Sam Behrens
|
||
Producer: Just Betzer
|
||
Thicke provides the voice of a robot in this family film.
|
||
|
||
THE BALLOON MAN 1992
|
||
Dir: Stanley Kramer
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Stanley Kramer
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Pearlman, Bob Woodburn, Stanley Kramer
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
Romantic comedy is Stanley Kramer's first film since THE RUNNER STUMBLES in
|
||
1979.
|
||
|
||
BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Dir: Deryn Warren
|
||
Cast: Apollonia Kotero, Mark Hamill, Amanda Wyss
|
||
Producers: Marc Springer, Deryn Warren
|
||
Screenplay: Gerry Daly
|
||
D.P.: Levie Isaacks
|
||
Start Date: 6/14/90, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
A DOG OF FLANDERS 1992
|
||
Dir: Daniel Petrie
|
||
Cast: Richard Harris, Max Von Sydow
|
||
Producer: Gary Omura
|
||
Screenplay: David Keating
|
||
Start Date: 9/16/91, Bokrijk Belgium
|
||
|
||
DOLLY DEAREST
|
||
Rating: "R" for horror violence
|
||
Dir: Maria Lease
|
||
Cast: Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn
|
||
Producer: Daniel Cady
|
||
Screenplay: Maria Lease
|
||
Start Date: 7/9/90, Santa Fe NM
|
||
Couple re-opening a doll factory discover it's haunted.
|
||
|
||
INTO THE SUN January, 1992
|
||
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
|
||
Producers: Oliver Hess, Kevin Kallberg
|
||
Screenplay: John Brancato, Michael Ferris
|
||
Start Date: 3/5/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Two captured ace pilots are caught in plot to destroy chemical weapons plant.
|
||
|
||
LEPRECHAUN 1992
|
||
Dir: Mark Jones
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Jeffrey B. Mallian
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Jones
|
||
Start Date: 10/28/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
NEON CITY
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence
|
||
Dir: Monte Markham
|
||
Cast: Michael Ironside, Vanity, Lyle Alzado
|
||
Producer: Jeff Begun
|
||
Screenplay: Buck Finch
|
||
Start Date: 1/7/91, Utah
|
||
Eight people are trapped together in an armored transport. Markham starred
|
||
in the TV series THE SECOND HUNDRED YEARS.
|
||
|
||
NEWMAN August
|
||
Dir: Tony Cookson
|
||
Cast: Marcia Strassman, Joshua Miller, Edan Gross
|
||
Producer: Just Betzer
|
||
Screenplay: Tony Cookson
|
||
D.P.: Paul Elliott
|
||
Start Date: 7/10/90, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
NIGHT OF THE WARRIOR
|
||
Dir: Rafal Zielinski
|
||
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Anthony Geary, Kathleen Kinmont, Arlene Dahl, Bill Erwin,
|
||
Ken Foree
|
||
Producers: Mike Erwin, Thonmas Griffith, Lorenzo Lamas
|
||
Screenplay: Thomas Griffith
|
||
D.P.: Edward Pei
|
||
Start Date: 3/26/90, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
PSYCHIC Straight to Video
|
||
Rating: "R" For violence and sensuality.
|
||
Dir: George Mihalka
|
||
Cast: Zach Galligan, Catherine Mary Stewart, Michael Nouri
|
||
Producers: Tom Berry, William Webb
|
||
Screenplay: Miguel Tejada-Flores, Mark McQuade Crawford, William Crawford, Paul
|
||
Koval
|
||
D.P.: Ludek Bogner
|
||
Start Date: 12/20/90, Toronto
|
||
College student becomes prime suspect as he predicts when serial killer will
|
||
strike again.
|
||
|
||
THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT Sold to Showtime
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence.
|
||
Dir: Jeffrey Obrow
|
||
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Belinda Bauer, Richard Bradford, Grace Zabriskie,
|
||
Jarrett Lennon
|
||
Producer: Venetia Stevenson
|
||
Screenplay: Jeffrey Obrow, Stephen Carpenter, based on Dean R. Koontz' novel
|
||
Start Date: 8/6/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Fanatical church leader believes young boy is the Anti-Christ.
|
||
|
||
TO DIE FOR II: SON OF DARKNESS September (test market)
|
||
Dir: David Price
|
||
Cast: Steve Bond, Scott Jacoby, Remy O'Neill, Jay Underwood, Amanda Wyss,
|
||
Michael Praed
|
||
Producer: Peter Foster
|
||
Screenplay: Leslie King
|
||
Start Date: 11/9/90, Lake Arrowhead, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
WARLOCK January 11 (western U.S.)
|
||
Rating: "R" March 29 (N.E. U.S.)
|
||
Dir: Steve Miner
|
||
Cast: Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Richard Grant
|
||
Producer: Steve Miner
|
||
Screenplay: D.T. Twohy
|
||
A warlock and a witch hunter carry their battle to the present from
|
||
the 1600s. Opened in Europe in 1989 to great boxoffice. Music is by Jerry
|
||
Goldsmith. "He's come from the past to destroy the future. Satan also has one
|
||
son."
|
||
|
||
WHORE October 4 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "NC-17" October 18 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Ken Russell
|
||
Cast: Theresa Russell, Benjamin Monton, Antonio Fargas, Sanjay, Elizabeth
|
||
Morehead, Michael Crabtree, John Diehl
|
||
Producer: Michael D. Pariser
|
||
Screenplay: Ken Russell, Deborah Dalton, based on the play "Bondage" by David
|
||
Hines
|
||
D.P.: Amir Mokri
|
||
Start Date: 8/20/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Theresa Russell is an L.A. prostitute who takes on a sordid assortment of
|
||
men in cars. She gives a running commentary of her experiences directly to the
|
||
camera. Apparently this film lacks the usual style and verve of Ken Russell's
|
||
projects. The filmmakers are very distraught by the rating, as they feel that
|
||
all of the young women who were captivated by PRETTY WOMAN should see this
|
||
film, which is far more realistic.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
TriStar
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
ANOTHER YOU July 26
|
||
Dir: Maurice Phillips
|
||
Cast: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Mercedes Ruehl, Stephen Lang, Vanessa
|
||
Williams
|
||
Producers: Ziggy Steinberg
|
||
Screenplay: Ziggy Steinberg
|
||
Start Date: 9/17/90, New York, restarted 10/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Peter Bogdanovich left this picture after production had commenced. It's a
|
||
comedy about a compulsive liar and a habitual con man. Phillips directed THE
|
||
AMERICAN WAY.
|
||
|
||
BASIC INSTINCT February, 1992
|
||
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
|
||
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis
|
||
Arndt, Leilani Sarelle
|
||
Producer: Alan Marshall
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
|
||
D.P.: Jan De Bont
|
||
Start Date: 4/5/91, San Francisco, Carmel, Los Angeles
|
||
Very controversial thriller about a lesbian serial killer and the cop who
|
||
becomes sexually obsessed with one of three dangerous suspects.
|
||
|
||
BINGO! August 16
|
||
Dir: Matthew Robbins
|
||
Cast: Cindy Williams, David Rasche, Robert Steinmiller Jr., David French, Joe
|
||
Guzaldo, Kurt Fuller
|
||
Producer: Thomas Baer
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Strain
|
||
D.P.: John MacPherson
|
||
Start Date: 9/12/90, Vancouver
|
||
A dog runs away from the circus and joins a family. Robbins last directed
|
||
'batteries not included'.
|
||
|
||
BUDDY COPS 1992
|
||
Dir: Allan Metter
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: David Permut, Robert Kosberg
|
||
Screenplay: David O'Malley, B.J. Nelson
|
||
Start Date: 10/91, Dallas
|
||
|
||
BUGSY CDS December 20
|
||
Dir: Barry Levinson
|
||
Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott
|
||
Gould, Joe Mantegna
|
||
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty
|
||
Screenplay: James Toback
|
||
D.P.: Allen Daviau
|
||
Start Date: 1/21/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
This time Warren Beatty plays a bad guy...the legendary gangster Bugsy
|
||
Siegel. Levinson last directed AVALON. Dynamite cast. Advanced word is very
|
||
mixed on this film. Two (sic) many directors spoil the broth?
|
||
|
||
CHARLIE (Carolco) 1992
|
||
Dir: Richard Attenborough
|
||
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Milla Jovovich,
|
||
Mildred Harris, Moira Kelly, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, Penelope Ann Miller, Paul
|
||
Rhys, Marisa Tomei, Nancy Travis
|
||
Producers: Richard Attenborough, Mario Kassar
|
||
Screenplay: William Boyd, based on "My Autobiography" by Charles Chaplin and
|
||
"Chaplin -- His Life and Art" by David Robinson
|
||
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
|
||
Start Date: 10/14/91, England, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $31 million
|
||
This biopic headlining Downey as Charlie Chaplin has jumped from
|
||
Universal to Carolco. This story of his life begins with his impoverished
|
||
youth in London, continues with his major achievements during Hollywood's
|
||
Golden Age, his fears concerning "talkies", his conflicts with J. Edgar Hoover,
|
||
his exile from America and his brief, triumphant return to accept his special
|
||
Academy Award. Downey will age from 19 to 83 in the process. Aykroyd plays
|
||
Mack Sennett (of Keystone Kops fame), Geraldine Chaplin plays her real
|
||
grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. Jovovich (RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON) is Mildred
|
||
Harris, Chaplin's child actress first wife. Kelly (THE CUTTING EDGE, THE BOY
|
||
WHO CRIED BITCH) is Oona Chaplin, his last and dearest wife. Kline works with
|
||
Attenborough for the second time (CRY FREEDOM), this time as Douglas Fairbanks
|
||
Sr. Lane (COTTON CLUB, A LITTLE ROMANCE) is Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's third
|
||
wife and one of the biggest stars of the 40's. Miller (AWAKENINGS, OTHER
|
||
PEOPLE'S MONEY) is Edna Purviance, the Nevada secretary who became Chaplin's
|
||
first leading lady. Rhys (Royal Shakespeare Co., VINCENT AND THEO) is Chaplin's
|
||
elder half-brother Sydney who became Charlie's business manager after abandoning
|
||
his own acting career. Tomei (OSCAR) plays early silent screen star Mabel
|
||
Normand and Travis (AIR AMERICA) is would-be actress Joan Barry, who almost
|
||
destroyed Chaplin.
|
||
|
||
CLIFFHANGER 1992
|
||
Dir: Renny Harlin
|
||
Cast: Sylvester Stallone
|
||
Screenplay: Mike France
|
||
Start Date: late '91
|
||
Stallone is a park ranger who must make a daring rescue of fallen friends
|
||
while mountain climbing. Screenwriter France is a former TriStar stagg
|
||
reader. There are two other major parts, one male, one female, as yet uncast.
|
||
|
||
CITY OF JOY December 19 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Roland Joffe
|
||
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Art Malik, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
|
||
Producers: Roland Joffe, Jake Eberts
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Medoff, based on Dominique Lapierre's novel
|
||
D.P.: Peter Biziou
|
||
Start Date: 2/9/91, Calcutta India, London England
|
||
An American doctor travels to Calcutta and unexpectedly finds love and beauty
|
||
surrounded by the city's stifling poverty. Apparently the filmmakers have been
|
||
experiencing problems with the locals on location. The film will return to
|
||
India in the Fall to shoot the monsoon season scenes. Some interior pickup
|
||
shots were done at Pinewood Studios in London in late August.
|
||
|
||
THE DOORS (Carolco) 2.35 70mm (SR) (CDS) March 1
|
||
Rating: "R" For heavy drug content, strong sexuality and language
|
||
Dir: Oliver Stone
|
||
Cast: Val Kilmer, Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon,
|
||
Michael Madsen, Billy Idol, Kathleen Quinlan
|
||
Producers: Bill Graham, Sasha Harhari, A. Hitman Ho
|
||
Screenplay: J. Randal Johnson, Oliver Stone
|
||
D.P.: Robert Richardson
|
||
Start Date: 3/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Oliver Stone's psychdelic, loud, rockin' tale of Jim Morrison and his
|
||
Phoenix-like rock group The Doors, centerpiece by a bravura performance by Mr.
|
||
Kilmer. SPFX from ILM. CDS prints are 35mm only. 70mm prints are Dolby "A",
|
||
with a 70mm SR print at the Ziegfeld in Manhattan. A "hard" 'R' rating.
|
||
"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors..."
|
||
|
||
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES 1992
|
||
Dir: Gus Van Sant
|
||
Cast: Jodie Foster, Madonna, Uma Thurman
|
||
Have thumb will travel?
|
||
|
||
THE FISHER KING September 20 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Terry Gilliam September 27 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, Mercedes Ruehl
|
||
Producers: Debra Hill, Lynda Obst
|
||
Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese
|
||
D.P.: Roger Pratt
|
||
Start Date: 5/21/90, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Williams is a visionary street person who takes radio D.J. Bridges through a
|
||
side of New York he never imagined in this dramatic comedy. Film delayed
|
||
from early summer release. TriStar has very high hopes for this one,
|
||
critically, as well as commercially. Gilliam last directed THE ADVENTURES OF
|
||
BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Limited September 20th bow is in New York, LA, Toronto,
|
||
Chicago, Boston and Washington with exclusive engagements.
|
||
|
||
HOOK 70mm CDS (SR) December 11
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith,
|
||
Phil Collins, Charlie Korsmo, Glenn Close, David Crosby, Quincy Jones, Caroline
|
||
Goodall, Amber Scott, Dick Monahan
|
||
Producer: Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
|
||
Screenplay: Jim V. Hart, Malia Scotch Marmo
|
||
D.P.: Dean Cundey
|
||
Start Date: 2/19/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $68 million
|
||
In this sequel to PETER PAN, Hoffman is Capt. Hook, Williams is a grown-up
|
||
Peter Pan (attorney), Roberts is Tinker Bell, Hoskins is Smee and Smith is Gran
|
||
Wendy. Capt. Hook and Peter now fight as 35-year old equals. Film features
|
||
spectacular sets and Visual Effects from ILM. Aa Tinker Bell, Roberts will
|
||
not work with any of the rest of the cast, but in front of a bluescreen. Her
|
||
wings will be animated separately and matted into her shots. Huge outlook.
|
||
Spielberg last directed INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. Film is way
|
||
over budget and schedule. Outrageous contract terms for Spielberg and Messrs
|
||
Hoffman and Williams have the trio taking more of the revenue than TriStar!
|
||
(About 40% of the gross). Some have speculated that the film would have to
|
||
gross some $500 million to break even! (That's somewhat inflated, methinks).
|
||
Carrie Fisher wrote Tinkerbell's dialogue and also did a script polish.
|
||
They will have a heckuva time meeting the December 11th date, so there has
|
||
been talk of a 12/18 or 12/25 opening. The producers are adamant about
|
||
releasing the film this year, though. (Visions of Oscars dancing in their
|
||
heads?) The producers plan to release HOOK in formats galore: 70mm SR, 70mm
|
||
Dolby A, 70mm CDS, 35mm SR, 35mm Dolby A, 35mm CDS.
|
||
|
||
HUDSON HAWK 2.35 CDS (SR) May 24
|
||
Rating: "R" for language.
|
||
Dir: Michael Lehmann
|
||
Cast: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Richard E. Grant, Andie MacDowell, Sandra
|
||
Bernhard, Donald Burton, James Coburn, Frank Stallone
|
||
Producer: Joel Silver
|
||
Screenplay: Steven E. DeSouza, Dan Waters
|
||
D.P.: Jost Vacano
|
||
Start Date: 7/9/90, New York, Rome, Budapest, London, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $70 million
|
||
This action comedy has had a very difficult gestation. Willis is
|
||
an ex-safe cracker duped into stealing priceless DaVinci originals. Silver
|
||
certainly knows how to spend the bucks. Visual Effects courtesy of ILM.
|
||
Big, Big Outlook. Lehmann directed HEATHERS and MEET THE APPLEGATES.
|
||
|
||
L.A. STORY (Carolco) February 8
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Mick Jackson
|
||
Cast: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah
|
||
Jessica Parker
|
||
Producers: Daniel Melnick, Michael Rachmil
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Martin
|
||
D.P.: Andrew Dunn
|
||
Start Date: 4/16/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A comedy about modern life in Los Angeles. "Something funny is happening in
|
||
L.A."
|
||
|
||
MY NEW GUN 1992
|
||
Dir: Stacy Cochran
|
||
Cast: Diane Lane, James Le Gors, Stephen Collins, Peggy Lipton, Bill Raymond
|
||
Producer: Michael Flynn
|
||
Screenplay: Stacy Cochran
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Teaneck NJ
|
||
Housewife finds herself the reluctant owner of a gift from her husband....a
|
||
handgun.
|
||
|
||
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (Carolco) 2.35 70mm (SR) CDS July 3
|
||
Dir: James Cameron
|
||
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
|
||
Exec. Producers: Gale Anne Hurd, Mario Kassar
|
||
Producer: James Cameron
|
||
Screenplay: James Cameron, William Wisher
|
||
D.P.: Adam Greenberg
|
||
Start Date: 10/9/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $94 million
|
||
This is the BIG one, folks. By now you've all heard the stories on how this
|
||
has turned into the most expensive film ever. $80, $90, even $100 million has
|
||
been mentioned. This is a huge, huge production and we have been promised the
|
||
most spectacular, sensational visual effects ever committed to film. (I hope
|
||
the story is good.) There are FIVE effects houses working on this one,
|
||
including ILM, Fantasy II Film Effects, 4-Ward Prods. and Stan Winston, Inc.
|
||
ILM's computer graphics division hired 20 new programmers just for this
|
||
project and had to make an investment of over $3 million to win the contract!
|
||
(The new employees are permanent, of course..a total of 35 in computer graphics
|
||
now. ) A cyborg killing machine is sent back in time to kill hero John Connor
|
||
while is still and infant. If it succeeds, three billion people will die in a
|
||
nuclear holocaust on Judgement Day: August 29, 1997. One of the all-time
|
||
boxoffice performers in its early stages of release. Opened in the U.K. on
|
||
August 16 breaking most existing boxoffice records with similarly glowing
|
||
notices, including a new world record for a single screen at Odeon's flagship
|
||
Leicester Square theatre in London. Boxoffice records are now falling around
|
||
the world. Worldwide boxoffice projections exceed $425 million.
|
||
|
||
THUNDERHEART 1992
|
||
Dir: Michael Apted
|
||
Cast: Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Sheila Tousey
|
||
Producers: Robert DeNiro, John Fusco, Jane Rosenthal
|
||
Screenplay: John Fusco
|
||
D.P.: Roger Deakins
|
||
Start Date: 6/13/91, Rapid City, SD
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
DANCES WITH WOLVES' Oscar nominee Greene co-stars in this film concerning
|
||
the investigation of an FBI agent who is sent to South Dakota to uncover the
|
||
murder of an Indian tribesman. Through his efforts he discovers his own Indian
|
||
heritage. The Sioux have permitted the filmmakers to shoot in locations that
|
||
are the sacred grounds of the tribe. Kilmer last starred in THE DOORS.
|
||
Apted has a couple of documentaries under his belt most recently, PELTIER
|
||
and 35 UP, along with CLASS ACTION and GORILLAS IN THE MIST. From Tribeca
|
||
Films.
|
||
|
||
TOY SOLDIERS 1.85 April 26
|
||
Rating: "R" For violence and language.
|
||
Dir: Daniel Petrie, Jr.
|
||
Cast: Sean Astin, Louis Gossett Jr., Denholm Elliott, Wil Wheaton, Keith
|
||
Coogan, Andrew Divoff, R. Lee Erney, Michael Champion, George Perez, T.E.
|
||
Russell, Mason Adams, Shawn Phelan
|
||
Producers: Jack Freedman, Patricia Herskovic, Wayne Williams
|
||
Screenplay: Daniel Petrie, Jr.
|
||
D.P.: Tom Burstyn
|
||
Start Date: 9/5/90, Charlottesville, VA
|
||
A prep school is overtaken by Colombian drug terrorists. Some of the guys
|
||
started their own rock band during production, including Wheaton, Aston and
|
||
Coogan.
|
||
|
||
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER 1992
|
||
Dir: Roland Emmerich
|
||
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry
|
||
Orbach
|
||
Producer: Craig Baumgarten, Allen Shapiro
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch
|
||
D.P.: Walter Lindenlaub
|
||
Start Date: 8/12/91, Arizona
|
||
With those two headliners, you know the ground'll be a-shakin' in this one.
|
||
|
||
WOODY ALLEN FALL PROJECT '91 Fall 1992
|
||
Dir: Woody Allen
|
||
Cast: Woody Allen
|
||
Screenplay: Woody Allen
|
||
Start Date: 11/91, New York
|
||
Woody has been greenlighted on doing one film for TriStar, because Orion is
|
||
destitute.
|
||
|
||
WILDER NAPALM 1992
|
||
Dir: Glen Gordon Caron
|
||
Cast: Dennis Quaid
|
||
Producers: Barry Levinson, Mark Johnson
|
||
Screenplay: Vince Gilligan
|
||
D.P. Jerry Hartleben
|
||
Start Date: 11/4/91, Florida
|
||
Quaid is a carnival clown in an offbeat, contemporary romantic film.
|
||
|
||
ZORRO 1992
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Nancy Larson
|
||
Zorro gets the Amblin' treatment.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Triton
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
21 October 4
|
||
Dir: Don Boyd (NY, LA, SF, Dallas, Toronto)
|
||
Cast: Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepard, Partick Ryecart, Sophie Thompson, Maynard
|
||
Eziashi
|
||
Producers: Morgan Mason, John Hardy
|
||
Screenplay: Don Boyd, Zoe Heller
|
||
D.P.: Keith Goddard
|
||
Start Date: 1990, London
|
||
Patsy Kensit is a tough Nineties girl who gets involved with many a man.
|
||
It has been said that this film will make Ms. Kensit a major film star. She
|
||
appeared as Mel Gibson's short-lived flame in LETHAL WEAPON 2.
|
||
|
||
ALAN AND NAOMI January, 1992
|
||
Cast: Lukas Haas
|
||
|
||
HAIR DRESSER'S HUSBAND February 7, 1992
|
||
|
||
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALPYSE Christmas
|
||
Dir: Fax Bahr
|
||
Top-notch documentary concerning the ordeal of Francis Coppola's shoot on
|
||
APOCALYPSE NOW will be given a limited theatrical run after exposure on
|
||
Showtime. 60 hours of 16mm footage shot by Eleanor Coppola was discovered in
|
||
Zoetrope's vaults. Excerpts of this footage, along with newly shot interviews
|
||
with the filmmakers and actors (sans Brando) go into the docu.
|
||
|
||
HEAVEN AND EARTH 1.85 February 15 (LA,SF)
|
||
Rating: None March 1 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Haruki Kadokawa
|
||
Cast: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Tsunehiko Watase
|
||
Producer: Haruki Kadokawa
|
||
Screenplay: Toshio Kamata, Isao Yoshihara, Haruki Kadokawa
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
The most expensive film ever undertaken by a Japanese producer,
|
||
this epic film will be distributed by the company in which the filmmaker has a
|
||
large equity stake. Has become number one grossing domestic film in
|
||
Japanese history.
|
||
|
||
THE LUNATIC January 1992
|
||
Dir: Lol Creme
|
||
Ribald comedy with a lusty German woman who takes two Jamaican lovers while
|
||
on vacation in a small village. Director was a founding member of the rock
|
||
group 10CC.
|
||
|
||
MEET THE APPLEGATES 1.85 February 1
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Michael Lehmann
|
||
Cast: Ed Begley, Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman
|
||
Producer: Denise Di Novi
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Lehmann, Redbeard Simmons
|
||
Second film from writer/director of HEATHERS, this long finished
|
||
film has been resurrected by Triton Pictures, after fiscal demise of
|
||
New World Pictures. Story begins in the Amazon rainforest where a
|
||
group of insects decides to infiltrate the U.S. in the guise of a
|
||
typical American family to learn more about the species that is
|
||
destroying its habitat. "Four decent, self-respecting South American beetles
|
||
have just mutated into something really revolting...the typical American
|
||
family."
|
||
|
||
MINDWALK October 11 (Seattle)
|
||
Dir: Bernt Capra October 18 (S.F.)
|
||
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye October 25 (L.A.)
|
||
Producer: Adrianna AJ Cohen November (wide)
|
||
Politically correct film set against the remarkable Abbey of Mont Saint
|
||
Michel, this ecological conservation film deals with a meeting of three minds.
|
||
Ullmann is a scientist, Waterston a politician and Heard a poet. They
|
||
exchange, debate and share ideas about controversial ideas facing the world in
|
||
the 1990's. It is based on a book "The Turning Point" by director Capra's
|
||
brother Fritjof, who also wrote "The Tao of Physics". Director Bernt was
|
||
production designer on THIS IS SPINAL TAP and BAGDAD CAFE. Film has garnered
|
||
great kudos at festivals in Sundance, Denver and Cleveland. It was at the
|
||
Seattle Film Festival in May. Popular among those who don't mind talky films.
|
||
|
||
SCANNERS II: THE NEW ORDER
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and graphic sci-fi action
|
||
Dir: Christian Duguay
|
||
Cast: David Hewlett, Yvon Ponton, Raoul Trujillo, Michael Rudder
|
||
Producer: Rene Malo
|
||
Screenplay: B.J. Nelson
|
||
D.P.: Rodney Gibbons
|
||
Start Date: 11/22/89, Montreal
|
||
Sequel to David Cronenberg's mild hit of nearly a decade ago. Fine advanced
|
||
notices. Will probably go straight to video.
|
||
|
||
TOTO THE HERO February 21, 1992
|
||
Dir: Jaco van Dormael
|
||
Screenplay: Jaco van Dormael
|
||
Winner of the 1991 Cannes Camera d'Or award is a French-language film about
|
||
a man who looks back at his earlier life, surmising what it might have been and
|
||
what it has become. This film is the largest grossing French-language film
|
||
from Belgium in history.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Triumph
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
AMBULANCE
|
||
Dir: Larry Cohen
|
||
Cast: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Richard Bright, Red
|
||
Buttons
|
||
Producers: Moctezuma Esparza, Robert Katz
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Cohen
|
||
Another thriller from Larry Cohen..this time strange ambulances take people
|
||
away. The doctors are dealing in human guinea pigs. Excellent advanced word.
|
||
Postponed from a 10/90 opening.
|
||
|
||
BLUE MOVIE BLUE 1992
|
||
Dir: Zalman King
|
||
Cast: Nina Siemaszko, Tom Skerrit, Robert Davi
|
||
Exec. Producer: Mark Damon
|
||
Producers: David Saunders, Rafael Eisenman
|
||
Screenplay: Zalman King, George Gary
|
||
D.P.: Mark Reshovsky
|
||
Start Date: 10/12/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A beautiful woman's romance with a handsome, wealthy man is jeopardized when
|
||
he sees her in a fake porno film. Think of it as WILD ORCHID II....
|
||
|
||
BRENDA STARR Fall
|
||
Dir: Robert Ellis Miller
|
||
Cast: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor,
|
||
Charles Durning, Eddie Albert, Nestor Serrano, Henry Gibson
|
||
It's finally coming out!! This has only been completed for about four
|
||
years, caught up in litigation with Dino DeLaurentiis' defunct company. And
|
||
then it's reported quite awful, as well. It's so old, in fact, that I didn't
|
||
feel like digging that far back in the archives to get all of the production
|
||
info. Delayed once again, this time from September 6. Funded by some BCCI
|
||
accounts.....
|
||
|
||
BY THE SWORD
|
||
Dir: Jeremy Paul Kagan
|
||
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Eric Roberts
|
||
Start Date: 9/90, New York
|
||
Fencing academy instructor is jealous of the success of his new instructor.
|
||
|
||
EMINENT DOMAIN (SVS) April 12 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: John Irvin
|
||
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Johdi May, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate,
|
||
Pip Torrens
|
||
Producer: Shimon Arama
|
||
Screenplay: Andrzej Krakowski
|
||
D.P.: Witold Adamek
|
||
Start Date: 1/29/90, Warsaw
|
||
Romantic thriller about a member of the Polish Politburo and his wife who
|
||
attempt to maintain their love under the stress of the Communist regime. "They
|
||
kidnapped his daughter, drugged his wife and then demanded one last thing...his
|
||
trust."
|
||
|
||
EYES OF AN ANGEL 1992
|
||
|
||
THE GATE II 1992
|
||
Dir: Tibor Takacs
|
||
Cast: Louis Tripp, Pamela Segall, James Villemaire, Simon Reynolds
|
||
Producer: Andras Hamori
|
||
Sequel to the moderate hit of 1986 with the same director.
|
||
|
||
HIT MAN 1992
|
||
Dir: Roy London
|
||
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Sherilyn Fenn, Louis Anderson, Conchata Ferrell, Seymour
|
||
Cassell, Jim Belushi, Sharon Stone, Lois Chiles
|
||
Producer: Amin Q. Chaudri
|
||
Screenplay: Kenneth Pressman, based on his play "Insider's Price"
|
||
D.P.: Yuri Sokol
|
||
Start Date: 1/9/91, Pittsburgh, Sharon, PA
|
||
Suspense film starring a TWIN PEAKS luminary. Music is by Michel Colombier,
|
||
who performed the same services on NEW JACK CITY.
|
||
|
||
HOMICIDE October 9 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" October 11, 18, 25 (wider)
|
||
Dir: David Mamet
|
||
Cast: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Natalija Nogulich, Ving Rhames, Rebecca
|
||
Pidgeon
|
||
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Michael Hausman
|
||
Screenplay: David Mamet
|
||
Story of a tough Jewish cop torn between rotten politicians, unpredictable
|
||
violence and racial tensions. Excellent advanced word. Opening night
|
||
attraction at the Cannes Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
LEATHER JACKETS 1992
|
||
Dir: Lee Drysdale
|
||
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Cary Elwes, D.B. Sweeney, Chris Penn, James Le Gros,
|
||
Marshall Bell
|
||
Producer: Cassian Elwes
|
||
Screenplay: Lee Drysdale
|
||
Fonda has a torrid romance with Elwes with San Francisco gang wars as a
|
||
background motif.
|
||
|
||
YEAR OF THE GUN November 1
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: John Frankenheimer
|
||
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow
|
||
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
|
||
Screenplay: David Ambrose, Jay Presson Allen
|
||
D.P.: Blasco Giurato
|
||
Start Date: 10/8/90, Rome
|
||
Suspense film dealing with the Italian Red Brigade terrorists during the
|
||
1970's. Frankenheimer last directed THE FOURTH WAR. Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Troma
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
|
||
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR February 22
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Brian Yuzna
|
||
Cast: Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Kathleen Kinmont, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana
|
||
Udenio, David Gale
|
||
Producer: Brian Yuzna
|
||
Screenplay: Woody Keith, Rick Fry
|
||
D.P.: Rick Fichter
|
||
Sequel doesn't live up to the original.
|
||
|
||
CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN May 10 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Dan Hoskins May 24 (LA)
|
||
Cast: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff, Don Clafa
|
||
Screenplay: Dan Hoskins
|
||
Producer: Maria Snyder
|
||
Biker babes make a pit stop in armpit of America where they take on flesh
|
||
hungry zombies. MTV's Martha Quinn has a choice cameo.
|
||
|
||
CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH PART 2: March 29 (LA)
|
||
SUBHUMANOID MELTDOWN April 12 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" For scenes of nudity and sexuality, for comic horror violence and
|
||
grossness, and for language.
|
||
Dir: Eric Louzil
|
||
Cast: Leesa Rowland, Lisa Gaye, Brick Bronsky
|
||
Producers: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
|
||
D.P.: Ron Chapman
|
||
Start Date: 2/90, California, Yuma AZ
|
||
Revolt of a mutant race of sub-humanoids who were raised to perform life's
|
||
more menial tasks. Another Troma coma!
|
||
|
||
DEAD DUDES IN THE HOUSE
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: J. Riffel
|
||
Producers: Mark Bladis, J. Riffel
|
||
"Hip-hop" yuppies buy dilapidated mansion only to discover it is haunted.
|
||
|
||
HAUNTING FEAR
|
||
Dir: Fred Olen Ray
|
||
Cast: Jan-Michael Vincent, Karen Black
|
||
Producer: Diana Jaffe
|
||
Innocent woman is lured into crippling paranoia as her unfaithful husband and
|
||
his murderous mistress consire to drive her nuts.
|
||
|
||
SGT. KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D.
|
||
Dir: Lloyd Kaufman
|
||
Cast: Rick Gianasi, Susan Byun, Noble Lee Lester
|
||
Producers: Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
|
||
Screenplay: Lloyd Kaufman, Andrew Osborne, Jeffrey W. Sass
|
||
D.P.: Bob Williams
|
||
A $4 million budget (unheard of from Troma) is going into this film
|
||
"blending Japanese and American cultures" with car crashes and a fall
|
||
from a 20 story building. A cop assumes the powers of a legendary
|
||
Japanese hero. "He traded in his nightstick for a chopstick". Hilarious
|
||
advanced word.
|
||
|
||
WIZARDS OF THE DEMON SWORD
|
||
Dir: Fred Olen Ray
|
||
Cast: Russ Tamblyn, Lyle Waggoner
|
||
Producer: Grant Austin Waldman
|
||
Quest through land with highwaymen, dinosaurs and heroic knights.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Turner Pictures
|
||
---------------
|
||
|
||
GRAND ISLE
|
||
Dir: Mary Lambert
|
||
Cast: Kelly McGillis, Ellen Burstyn, Adrian Pasdar, Julian Sands
|
||
Producers: Carolyn Pfeiffer, Kelly McGillis
|
||
Screenplay: Hesper Anderson, based on Kate Chopin's novel
|
||
Ted Turner tests the domestic theatrical distribution waters for the first
|
||
time with this period piece concerning a woman's struggle for liberation in
|
||
turn-of-the-century Louisiana. Originally titled "The Awakening". Advanced
|
||
word is not good.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
20th Century Fox
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
29TH STREET November 1 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: George Gallo
|
||
Cast: Danny Aiello, Lainie Kazan, Frank Pesce, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Forster
|
||
Producer: David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: George Gallo
|
||
D.P.: Steven Fierberg
|
||
Start Date: 10/22/90, Wilmington, NC
|
||
Gallo met a character named Frank Pesce (Frank the Fish) while on the set of
|
||
MIDNIGHT RUN, which he wrote. He was so intrigued by his stories of his New
|
||
York Italian-American neighborhood of the Seventies that he wrote and directed
|
||
a movie about it. Here it is. LaPaglia was the scene stealeing hood in
|
||
BETSY'S WEDDING. (He's actually an Aussie.) Story concerns a lucky
|
||
Italian-American who becomes finalist in a $6.2 million lottery as his father
|
||
and local thugs start making plans how to spend the money. The film closed the
|
||
Montreal Festival on Sept. 2.
|
||
|
||
AGE OF INNOCENCE 1993
|
||
Dir: Martin Scorsese
|
||
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer
|
||
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Barbara DeFina
|
||
Screenplay: Jack Cocks, Martin Scorsese
|
||
Start Date: 3/92
|
||
|
||
ALIEN3 70mm CDS May 22, 1992
|
||
Dir: David Fincher
|
||
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Paul
|
||
McGann, Ralph Brown, Daniel Webb, Lance Henriksen
|
||
Producers: David Giler, Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll
|
||
Screenplay: John Fasano, Larry Ferguson
|
||
D.P.: Alex Thomson
|
||
Start Date: 1/14/91, London
|
||
Negative Cost: $47+ million
|
||
Third time's the charm? Ripley arrives on an orbiting prison space station
|
||
only to again be faced with battling the Alien while hindered by the lack of
|
||
technology in this new place. Fincher is a first-time feature director,
|
||
having conquered the music video world already, particularly for Madonna.
|
||
Visual Effects are provided by Boss Films. Supervisor Richard Edlund says the
|
||
EFX will be vastly more sophisticated and numerous than in the previous two
|
||
films. The title alien will be more mobile than in the past and there will
|
||
be some "digital scene creation", such as Edlund used in GHOST's end sequence.
|
||
Production design by multiple Oscar winner Norman Reynolds. There had been
|
||
talk that the film needed a month of reshoots, but those plans were scuttled
|
||
and only a week or so's worth of shooting will occur. Fox' exec. VP Tom
|
||
Sherak says "there's no better way to launch Summer 1992 that with this latest
|
||
chapter in the series, which is a stunning continuation of the story both
|
||
creatively and technologically". Film has been twice delayed, from
|
||
November/December 1991, to January/February 1992, to Memorial Day Weekend,
|
||
1992.
|
||
|
||
BACK IN THE USSR January 1992
|
||
Rating: "R", for some language and violence, and for a scene of sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Deran Serafian
|
||
Cast: Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski
|
||
Producers: Lindsey Smith, Ilmar Taska
|
||
Screenplay: Lindsey Smith
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, Moscow
|
||
This romantic thriller was shot in and around Moscow. It depicts an American
|
||
student caught up in art theft and murder. as he is framed for murder when a
|
||
priceless icon is stolen. Whaley was last seen in CAREER OPPORTUNITIES and
|
||
THE DOORS. Negoda starred in LITTLE VERA. Formerly titled ICONS.
|
||
From Largo Entertainment. May only receive limited theatrical exposure and/or
|
||
go straight to video.
|
||
|
||
BARTON FINK 1.85 August 21 (NY, LA, SF,
|
||
Rating: "R" DC, Chicago)
|
||
Dir: Joel Coen
|
||
Cast: John Goodman, John Turturro, John Mahoney, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner,
|
||
Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Portnow, Steve Buscemi
|
||
Producer: Ethan Coen
|
||
Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen
|
||
D.P.:Roger Deakins
|
||
Start Date: 6/27/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Three John's, huh? A successful New York playwright living in L.A. copes
|
||
with writer's block and the intrusions of an eccentric neighbor. Goodman
|
||
appeared in the Coen Brother's RAISING ARIZONA, Turturro was in their MILLER'S
|
||
CROSSING. Winner of three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including
|
||
the Palme D'Or for Best Picture, Best Direction and Best Actor for Mr. Turturro.
|
||
Fox is *very* slowly platforming the picture with wonderful results. The film
|
||
will never go past 250 screens.
|
||
|
||
CLASS ACTION 1.85 March 15
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Michael Apted
|
||
Cast: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
|
||
Producers: Ted Field, Scott Kroopf, Robert W. Cort
|
||
Screenplay: Samantha Shad, Carolyn Shelby, Christopher Ames
|
||
Courtroom drama with the busiest actor in Hollywood. Estranged father and
|
||
daughter attorneys have at each other on a case that puts them both in physical
|
||
jeopardy. Apted last helmed GORILLAS IN THE MIST. Music from James Horner.
|
||
|
||
THE COMMITMENTS 1.85 (SR) August 14 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Alan Parker
|
||
Cast: Robert Arkins, Angeline Ball, Johnny Murphy, Andrew Strong, David
|
||
Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Felim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Ken
|
||
McCluskey
|
||
Producers: Lynda Miles, Roger Randall-Cutler
|
||
Screenplay: Dick Clement, Ian LeFrenais, based on Roddy Doyle's novel
|
||
D.P.: Gale Tattersall
|
||
Start Date: 8/20/90, Dublin
|
||
The tale of an Irish rock group devoted to black American soul music. Parker
|
||
last helmed COME SEE THE PARADISE. Critical word is superb. A sequel is
|
||
now in the works. Platformed with terrific results...will never go past 650
|
||
screens.
|
||
|
||
THE CROWDED ROOM Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: James Cameron
|
||
Producers: James Cameron, Larry Kassanoff
|
||
Based on Daniel Keyes' "The Minds of Billy Milligan". From Lightstorm
|
||
Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
DUTCH 1.85 July 19
|
||
Dir: Peter Faiman
|
||
Cast: Ed O'Neill, JoBeth Williams, Ethan Randall
|
||
Producers: John Hughes, Richard Vane
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
D.P.: Chuck Minsky
|
||
Start Date: 11/25/90, Chicago, Los Angeles, Georgia
|
||
A stuck-up rich kid gets a ride home for Thanksgiving from his mother's
|
||
blue-collar boyfriend (O'Neill). Faiman directed CROCODILE DUNDEE.
|
||
|
||
DYING YOUNG 1.85 June 21
|
||
Dir: Joel Schumacher
|
||
Cast: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst
|
||
Producers: Sally Field, Kevin McCormick
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Friedenberg
|
||
D.P.: Juan Ruiz-Anchia
|
||
Start Date: 11/12/90, San Francisco, Mendocino County, Los Angeles
|
||
A doomed romantic triangle concerning a dying New England aristocrat, a
|
||
bluw-collar woman hired to care for him and the healthy man he urges her to
|
||
fall in love with. Sounds sappy.... Roberts teamed with Schumacher in
|
||
FLATLINERS. Fox is terrified of releasing this film, which has tested very
|
||
well in screenings. They didi't know how to market it. It nearly changed
|
||
to two other titles, FOREVER YOUNG and ALL FOR LOVE. It has jumped around the
|
||
release schedule from May to June, back to May, to July 3rd, to the Fall, and
|
||
finally to June 21st.
|
||
|
||
THE ENDANGERED Summer, 1992
|
||
|
||
FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST Easter 1992
|
||
Dir: Bill Kroyer
|
||
Cast: Voices of Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward,
|
||
Robin Williams, Grace Zabriskie
|
||
Exec. Producers: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field
|
||
Producers: Peter Faiman, Wayne Young
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Cox, based on original children's stories by Australian author
|
||
Diana Young
|
||
Start Date: 6/4/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Animated feature with an ecological theme uses mythical characters to deal
|
||
with the threat to the world's rain forests. Delayed from 11/22/91. There
|
||
would have been an unprecedented THREE major animated films opening the same
|
||
day! Principal animation was completed by the 120+ animators in early October
|
||
1991. The animation has been called "visually stunning".
|
||
|
||
THE FIVE HEARTBEATS 1.85 (SR) March 29
|
||
Rating: "R" for language.
|
||
Dir: Robert Townsend
|
||
Cast: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells,
|
||
Harold Nicholas, Diahann Carroll
|
||
Producer: Loretha C. Jones
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Townsend, Keenan Ivory Wayans
|
||
D.P.: Bill Dill
|
||
Start Date: 3/19/90, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Ficticious story about the formation and success of a black singing group.
|
||
Townsend gave us HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE. "They were just five guys from the
|
||
neighborhood, but together they created a sound that rocked America."
|
||
|
||
FOR THE BOYS 1.85 70mm CDS November 20 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Mark Rydell November 27 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Norman Fell, Jack Sheldon, Dori
|
||
Brenner, Karen Martin, Shannon Wilcox, Bud Yorkin
|
||
Exec. Producer: Mark Rydell
|
||
Producers: Bette Midler, Bonnie Bruckheimer, Margaret South
|
||
Screenplay: Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez, Linda Laub
|
||
D.P.: Stephen Goldblatt
|
||
Start Date: 1/2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
A musical comedy about a USO song and dance team, spanning three wars: WWII,
|
||
Korea and Vietnam and some fifty years. Midler and Rydell teamed for THE ROSE.
|
||
This is Midler's first producing credit. Score is by Dave Grusin. Songs will
|
||
be standards from the 1940s and 1950s, with The Divine One singing more than
|
||
six songs. Film has been moved up to escape the Christmas rush with about
|
||
1200 prints. The CDS prints will be 35mm only.
|
||
|
||
FORTRESS 1992
|
||
Dir: Stuart Gordon
|
||
Cast: Christophe Lambert
|
||
Producers: John David, John Flock
|
||
Screenplay: Troy Neighbors, Steven Feinberg
|
||
Start Date: 9/9/91, Queensland Australia
|
||
|
||
THE GOOD SON Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: Michael Lehmann
|
||
Cast: Mary Steenburgen
|
||
Producer: Larry Mark
|
||
Screenplay: Ian McEwan
|
||
Start Date: 11/4/91, New England
|
||
There is life after HUDSON HAWK....
|
||
|
||
GRAND CANYON 2.35 70mm December 25
|
||
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Cast: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary Louise
|
||
Parker, Alfre Woodard
|
||
Producers: Charles Okun, Michael Grillo, Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
|
||
D.P.: Owen Roizman
|
||
Start Date: 3/11/91, Los Angeles
|
||
A very personal serio-comic look at the ups and downs of L.A. life in the
|
||
Ninties, ala' THE BIG CHILL. Due to enthusiastic screenings, Fox will now open
|
||
the film wide (850 screens) on Christmas Day and JACK THE BEAR will move to
|
||
1992.
|
||
|
||
HOFFA Christmas, 1992
|
||
Dir: Danny DeVito
|
||
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
|
||
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
|
||
Screenplay: David Mamet
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Washington DC
|
||
Negative Cost: $35 million
|
||
The long in the works biopic about Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. I wonder how
|
||
much of the budget is Jack's fee?
|
||
|
||
HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK November 20, 1992
|
||
Dir: Chris Columbus
|
||
Cast: Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
Start Date: 11/91, Chicago
|
||
Will lightning strike twice? The first film has passed the $500 million
|
||
worldwide boxoffice gross watermark.
|
||
|
||
HOT SHOTS: AN IMPORTANT MOVIE! 1.85 (SR) July 31
|
||
Dir: Jim Abrahams
|
||
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, George C.
|
||
Scott, Jon Cryer, William O'Leary, Kevin Dunn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kristy
|
||
Swanson
|
||
Producer: Bill Badalato
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
|
||
D.P.: Julio Macat
|
||
Start Date: 1/10/91, Los Angeles
|
||
A parody of flyboy films ala' TOP GUN, from one of the folks who brought us
|
||
AIRPLANE! Sheen lampoons the Tom Cruise character. "Realistic" flying effects
|
||
from Dream Quest Images.
|
||
|
||
JACK THE BEAR 1992
|
||
Dir: Marshall Herskovitz
|
||
Cast: Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes
|
||
Producer: Ron Yerxa
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Zaillian, based on Dan McCall's novel
|
||
D.P.: Fred Murphy
|
||
Start Date: 4/3/91, Los Angeles
|
||
In this film directed by the co-creator of "thirtysomething". DeVito plays a
|
||
single father raising his young sons in an Oakland neighborhood which is
|
||
populated by misfits. He becomes the host of a late-night TV horror show, and
|
||
as such, attains popularity with the local kids. Delayed from Christmas 1991
|
||
to sometime in 1992.
|
||
|
||
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS Summer, 1992
|
||
Dir: Michael Mann
|
||
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Madeline Stowe, Jodhi May, Eric Schweig, Russell Means,
|
||
Steven Waddington, Wes Studi, Maurice Roeves
|
||
Producers: Michael Mann, Hunt Lowry
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Mann, Christopther Crowe, based on James Fenimore Cooper's
|
||
novel
|
||
D.P.: Dante Spinotti
|
||
Start Date: 6/17/91, Asheville, NC
|
||
Negative Cost: $37 million
|
||
The Oscar winner toplines in another version of this classic tale from the
|
||
man who gave us MIAMI VICE. Set against the backdrop of the French-Indian
|
||
wars, Lewis plays a frontiersman who was raised by Mohican Indians. He
|
||
falls in love with the daughter of a British colonel (Stowe). Lewis has
|
||
apparently put on a lot of muscle for this role. Morgan Creek International
|
||
holds foreign distribution rights.
|
||
|
||
LOVE POTION #9 February 14, 1992
|
||
Dir: Dale Launer
|
||
Cast: Tate Donovan, Sandra Bullock, Dale Midkiff, Mary Mara
|
||
Producer: Tom Hammel
|
||
Screenplay: Dale Launer
|
||
D.P.: William Wages
|
||
Start Date: 10/7/90, Atlanta
|
||
Romantic comedy about two shy scientists who create a love potion that stirs
|
||
the desire of every member of the opposite sex they meet. Launer makes his
|
||
directorial debut. He wrote RUTHLESS PEOPLE.
|
||
|
||
MANNEQUIN II: ON THE MOVE May 17
|
||
Dir: Stewart Raffill
|
||
Cast: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale, Terry Kiser, Stuart Pankin, Meshach
|
||
Taylor, Cynthina Harris
|
||
Producer: Edward Rugoff
|
||
Screenplay: Edward Rugoff, David Isaacs, Ken Levine, Betsy Israel
|
||
D.P.: Larry Pizer
|
||
Start Date: 4/23/90, Philadelphia
|
||
Modest success for the original certainly required Gladden Entertainment to
|
||
proceed with this sequel.... A young man from the 20th Century (Ragsdale)
|
||
falls in love with a peasant girl (Swanson) who was turned to wood 1,000 years
|
||
ago by an evil sorcerer.
|
||
|
||
MY COUSIN VINNY March/April, 1992
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Lynn
|
||
Cast: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne,
|
||
Lane Smith, Bruce McGill, Austin Pendleton
|
||
Producer: Dale Launer
|
||
Screenplay: Dale Launer
|
||
D.P.: Peter Deming
|
||
Start Date: 2/11/91, Georgia
|
||
Comedy with Pesci as a lawyer who uses his East Coast swagger to defend two
|
||
cousins framed for murder. Lynn directed NUNS ON THE RUN. Launer wrote LOVE
|
||
POTION #9 and RUTHLESS PEOPLE.
|
||
|
||
NAKED LUNCH January 17, 1992
|
||
Dir: David Cronenberg
|
||
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure,
|
||
Michael Zelniker, Nicholas Campbell, Joseph Scorsiani
|
||
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
|
||
Screenplay: David Cronenberg, based on William Burroughs' novel
|
||
D.P.: Peter Suschitzky
|
||
Start Date: 1/21/91, Toronto
|
||
Surreal, nightmarish adventure based on Burroughs' literary classic. A
|
||
writer who fears his talent finds liberation when mysterious entities send him
|
||
to Interzone....a fictitious place overrun by witches, junkies, spies and
|
||
shape-shifting monsters. Word is really good.
|
||
|
||
NIGHT AND THE CITY November 1992
|
||
Dir: Irwin Winkler
|
||
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Jessica Lange, Christopher Walken
|
||
Producers: Jane Rosenthal, Irwin Winkler
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Price
|
||
Start Date: 11/91, New York
|
||
Remake of the 1950 Jules Dassin classic about a New York hustler trying to
|
||
make his way as a boxing promoter. DeNiro replaces Tom Hanks in the lead role.
|
||
DeNiro and Lange reteamed after CAPE FEAR. A Martin Scorsese presentation.
|
||
From Tribeca Productions.
|
||
|
||
ONLY THE LONELY 1.85 May 24
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Chris Columbus
|
||
Cast: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, James Belushi, Anthony Quinn,
|
||
Kevin Dunn, Bert Remsen, Milo O'Shea
|
||
Producers: John Hughes, Hunt Lowry
|
||
Screenplay: Chris Columbus
|
||
D.P.:Julio Macat
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, Chicago
|
||
Romance between the shy daughter of a mortician and a New York policeman who
|
||
lives with his mother. Maureen O'Hara came out of her 17-year retirement to do
|
||
this one, playing John Candy's mom. She headed back to her home in Ireland to
|
||
continue her happy retirement. From the people who brought you HOME ALONE.
|
||
|
||
POINT BREAK 2.35 70mm July 12
|
||
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
|
||
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lory Petty
|
||
Exec. Producer: James Cameron
|
||
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert Levy
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Iliff, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow
|
||
D.P.: Don Peterman
|
||
Start Date: 7/9/90. Los Angeles, Hawaii
|
||
A young FBI agent goes undercover among a group of Southern California
|
||
surfers who are bank robbers. Mrs. James Cameron (Bigelow)'s last film was
|
||
BLUE STEEL. Formerly titled RIDERS ON THE STORM.
|
||
|
||
PRELUDE TO A KISS March/April, 1992
|
||
Dir: Norman Rene
|
||
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Patty Duke, Ned Beatty, Kathy Bates, Stanley
|
||
Tucci, Sydney Walker
|
||
Producer: Michael Gruskoff
|
||
Screenplay: Craig Lucas, from his play
|
||
D.P.: Stefan Czapsky
|
||
Start Date: 4/8/91, Los Angeles
|
||
The hit Broadway play about a newlywed who finds that his wife's soul
|
||
has entered the body of an elderly man comes to the big (or small) screen.
|
||
|
||
RAPID FIRE March/April, 1992
|
||
Dir: Dwight Little
|
||
Cast: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso
|
||
Producers: Robert Lawrence, Jerry Olsen
|
||
Screenplay: Alan B. McElroy
|
||
D.P.: Ric Waite
|
||
Start Date: 5/28/91, Los Angeles, Chicago
|
||
Bruce Lee's son stars in this thriller. An art student helps a Chicago cop
|
||
break up the city's heroin biz. Another martial-arts flick.
|
||
|
||
RISING SUN late 1992/early 1993
|
||
Dir: Philip Kaufman
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Crichton, based on his novel
|
||
Crichton's new novel about the insidious influence of Japanese interests in
|
||
an America of the very near future will be directed by the very capable Mr.
|
||
Kaufman, whose last project was HENRY AND JUNE. Kaufman also helmed THE RIGHT
|
||
STUFF and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978).
|
||
|
||
SHINING THROUGH 2.35 70mm CDS January 31, 1992
|
||
Dir: David Seltzer
|
||
Cast: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, Sir
|
||
John Gielgud
|
||
Producers: Howard Rosenman, Carol Baum
|
||
Screenplay: David Seltzer, based on Susan Isaacs' novel
|
||
D.P.: Jan De Bont
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/90, Berlin, England
|
||
A World War II romantic thriller involves a secretary working in the New York
|
||
office of the OSS who goes on a spy mission to Berlin. She is half-Jewish and
|
||
she infiltrates German security by posing as a housekeeper for Nazi officer
|
||
Liam Neeson. Douglas is her occasional lover and permanent boss. Seltzer
|
||
directed PUNCHLINE. The word is good. Delayed from 11/8/91 release.
|
||
|
||
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY 1.85 (SR) February 8
|
||
Rating: "R" For wife abuse terror and a sex scene
|
||
Dir: Joseph Ruben
|
||
Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson
|
||
Producer: Leonard Goldberg
|
||
Screenplay: Ronald Bass
|
||
D.P.: John Lindley
|
||
Start Date: 4/2/90, Wilmington, NC
|
||
A wife changes her identity to escape her abusive husband. Visual Effects
|
||
work from Introvision. "She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her
|
||
name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she's ever
|
||
met. Her husband."
|
||
|
||
STORYVILLE 1992
|
||
Dir: Mark Frost
|
||
Cast: James Spader, Jason Robards, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
|
||
Producers: David Roe, Edward R. Pressman
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Frost
|
||
Start Date: 4/29/91, New Orleans
|
||
TWIN PEAKS co-creator Mark Frost makes his directorial debut with this tale
|
||
of a young attorney with congressional ambitions who helps uncover the sins of
|
||
his powerful Louisiana family's dynasty.
|
||
|
||
THE SUPER October 4
|
||
Dir: Rod Daniel
|
||
Cast: Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Ruben Blades, Madolyn Smith Osborne
|
||
Producer: Charles Gordon
|
||
Screenplay: Sam Simon, Nora Ephron
|
||
D.P.: Bruce Surtees
|
||
Start Date: 10/29/90, New York
|
||
A slumlord (Pesci) is forced to live in one of his own tenements in a
|
||
contemporary tale of poetic justice. Pesci recently won an Oscar for
|
||
GOODFELLAS. From Largo Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
THIS IS MY LIFE February, 1992
|
||
Dir: Nora Ephron
|
||
Cast: Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Dan Aykroyd
|
||
Producer: Lynda Obst
|
||
Screenplay: Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, based on Meg Wolitzer's novel
|
||
D.P.: Robert M. Stevens
|
||
Start Date: 3/18/91, Toronto
|
||
Kavner gets her first starring role and Ephron makes her directorial debut in
|
||
this story of a young girl growing up in the shadow of a famous mother. Ephron
|
||
last wrote WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... Kavner is currently visible in AWAKENINGS
|
||
and ALICE.
|
||
|
||
TOYS Christmas, 1992
|
||
Dir: Barry Levinson
|
||
Cast: Robin Williams
|
||
Producer: Mark Johnson
|
||
The director and star of GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM are reunited.
|
||
|
||
UNLAWFUL ENTRY (Largo Entertainment) 1992
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Kaplan
|
||
Cast: Ray Liotta, Kurt Russell
|
||
Producer: Charles Gordon
|
||
Screenplay: Lewis Colick
|
||
Start Date: 10/14/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Russell is a husband whose world goes awry after his house is burglarized.
|
||
|
||
USED PEOPLE (Largo Entertainment) Fall, 1992
|
||
Dir: Beeban Kidron
|
||
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Marcello Mastroianni,
|
||
Marcia Gay Harden, Sylvia Sidney
|
||
Screenplay: Todd Graff
|
||
Start Date: 9/11/91, New York, Toronto
|
||
Comedy-drama about recently widowed woman who is courted by a longtime
|
||
admirer on her husband's funeral day is set in Queens NY of 1969.
|
||
Tandy plays MacLaine's mother. Screenwriter Graff was featured in THE ABYSS.
|
||
|
||
WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP Summer, 1992
|
||
Dir: Ron Shelton
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez, Tyra Ferrell, Kadeem
|
||
Hardison, Marques Johnson, Nigel Miguel, Freeman Williams, Cylk Cozart
|
||
Producers: David Lester, Don Miller
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Shelton
|
||
D.P.: Russell Boyd
|
||
Start Date: 5/20/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Ernest Harden Jr.
|
||
Mr. Shelton continues with his sports fancy with a basketball comedy/drama.
|
||
Snipes hits big twice in NEW JACK CITY and JUNGLE FEVER. Harrelson is from
|
||
CHEERS.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Universal
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN ME 1992
|
||
Dir: Edward James Olmos
|
||
Cast: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Evelina Fernandez, Danny Haro, Cary
|
||
Hiroyuka Tagawa, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Daniel Villareal, Domingo Ambriz
|
||
Producers: Edward James Olmos, Sean Daniel, Robert M. Young, Irwin Young
|
||
Screenplay: Floyd Mutrux, Edward James Olmos
|
||
D.P.: Ray Villalobos
|
||
Start Date: 6/3/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $16 million
|
||
Olmos wears all the hats in this period piece about the Mexican
|
||
Mafia.
|
||
|
||
AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST November 22
|
||
Rating: "G"
|
||
Dir: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells
|
||
Cast: Voices of James Stewart, John Cleese, Dom DeLuise, Amy Irving, Phillip
|
||
Glasser, Nehemiah Persoff, Erica Yohn
|
||
Exec. Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
|
||
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Robert Watts
|
||
Screenplay: Flint Dille
|
||
Start Date: 10/89, London
|
||
In this sequel to the big-grossing 1986 film about Spielberg's mouse
|
||
grandfather emigrating to America, he heads on out west to pursue his dream of
|
||
becoming a lawmouse. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
ARMY OF DARKNESS 1992
|
||
Dir: Sam Raimi
|
||
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Marcus Gilbert
|
||
Producer: Robert Tapert
|
||
Screenplay: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
|
||
Start Date: 5/20/91, Southern California
|
||
Sam Raimi's next shockfest features effects by KNB Effects Group, Alterian
|
||
Studios and those nice folks at Introvision. His last feature was DARKMAN.
|
||
|
||
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD December 6 (NY, LA, SF,
|
||
Chicago, Toronto)
|
||
Dir: Hector Babenco Jan/Feb 1992 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Tom Waits, Kathy
|
||
Bates, Niilp Kivirinta, Stenio Garcia, Nelson Xavier, Jose Dumont
|
||
Producer: Saul Zaentz
|
||
Screenplay: Hector Babenco, Jean-Claude Carriere, based on Peter Mathiessen's
|
||
1965 novel
|
||
Negative Cost: $36 million
|
||
Independently produced ecological drama was filmed deep in the
|
||
Brazilian jungles. Two American mercenary pilots are stranded in the South
|
||
American jungle and accept a job to bomb a tribe of Indians off their land. A
|
||
prestige pickup release for a prestigious film.
|
||
|
||
THE BABE 1992
|
||
Dir: Arthur Hiller
|
||
Cast: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, James Cromwell, Joseph
|
||
Ragno, Ralph Marrero, Brett Hadley
|
||
Producer: John Fusco
|
||
Screenplay: John Fusco
|
||
Start Date: 5/13/91, Chicago
|
||
Goodman stars as Babe Ruth in yet another in the wave of baseball-themed
|
||
films.
|
||
|
||
BACKDRAFT 2.35 70mm May 24
|
||
Rating: "R" for a scene of sensuality
|
||
Dir: Ron Howard
|
||
Cast: William Baldwin, Kurt Russell, Jason Gedrick, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott
|
||
Glenn, Robert De Niro, Rebecca de Mornay, Donald Sutherland
|
||
Exec. Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Producers: Richard B. Lewis, Pen Densham, John Watson
|
||
Screenplay: Gregory Widen
|
||
D.P.: Mikael Salomon
|
||
Start Date: 7/23/90, Chicago
|
||
A tale of firefighting brothers pitted against a politically motivated police
|
||
commissioner. Visual Effects from ILM, who gained lots of flame experience
|
||
with ALWAYS. From Imagine Entertainment. Shot in Super-35. "Where there's
|
||
smoke, there's fire."
|
||
|
||
BEETHOVEN February, 1992
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Steve Rash
|
||
Cast: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones
|
||
Exec Producer: Ivan Reitman
|
||
Producers: Joe Medjecuk, Michael C. Gross
|
||
Screenplay: Edmond Dantes, Amy Holden Jones
|
||
D.P.: Victor J. Kemper
|
||
Start Date: 5/1/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Comedy about a St. Bernard named after the great composer. Rash directed THE
|
||
BUDDY HOLLY STORY. Will possibly be a Christmas release, likely not until
|
||
1992.
|
||
|
||
A BRONX TALE 1992
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Robert DeNiro
|
||
Producers: Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal
|
||
Screenplay: Chazz Palminteri
|
||
Start Date: 10/91
|
||
From Tribeca Productions.
|
||
|
||
CAPE FEAR 2.35 CDS November 13 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" For strong violence and language. November 15 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Martin Scorsese
|
||
Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck,
|
||
Martin Balsam, Joe Don Baker
|
||
Exec. Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
|
||
Producer: Barbara DeFina
|
||
Screenplay: Wesley Strick
|
||
D.P.: Freddie Francis
|
||
Start Date: 11/19/90, Ft. Lauderdale, Dania, Florida
|
||
Remake of the 1962 thriller from J. Lee Thompson about a lawyer terrorized by
|
||
an ex-con. Three of the stars from the original, Peck, Mitchum and Balsam
|
||
appear in supporting roles. This is Scorsese's first collaboration with
|
||
Spielberg, aside from his acting in AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS. Talk is that
|
||
DeNiro's portrayal of the sadistic psychotic is quite frightening. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES 1.85 March 29
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Bryan Gordon
|
||
Cast: Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney
|
||
Producers: John Hughes, A. Hunt Lowry
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
A yound department store custodian finds himself locked in on his first night
|
||
on the job, along with a troubled girl and two incompetent thieves. (When have
|
||
we seen those two guys before) Hughes wrote HOME ALONE. Gordon directed RAY'S
|
||
MALE HETEROSEXUAL DANCE HALL, an Oscar-winner. "Maximum comedy at minimum
|
||
wage!"
|
||
|
||
CHARLIE CHAN 1992
|
||
Dir: David Mamet
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
|
||
Producers: John Davis, Wayne Williams
|
||
Screenplay: David Mamet
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
This Imagine Entertainment film will be budgeted on the southern side of $20
|
||
million. A worldwide search for the actor to be the new Charlie Chan is
|
||
underway. Mamet most recently wrote and directed HOMICIDE.
|
||
|
||
CHILD'S PLAY 3 August 30
|
||
Dir: Jack Bender
|
||
Cast: Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Travis Fine, Dakin Matthews, Donna Eskla,
|
||
Dean Jacobsen, Andrew Robinson
|
||
Producers: David Kirschner, Robert Latham Brown
|
||
Screenplay: Don Mancini
|
||
D.P.: John Leonetti
|
||
Start Date: 2/4/91, Missouri, Los Angeles
|
||
Yet More Chuck (up).
|
||
|
||
CLOSETLAND March 6 (NY,LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" For language and psychological torture March 8 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Radha Bharadwaj
|
||
Cast: Madeline Stowe, Alan Rickman
|
||
Exec. Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
|
||
Producer: Janet Meyers
|
||
Screenplay: Radha Bharadwaj
|
||
D.P.: Bill Pope
|
||
Start Date: 6/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $4 million
|
||
This film from Imagine Entertainment has only two characters in a
|
||
room. It deals with the jailing and psychological torture of a children's book
|
||
writer in a ficticious country. She is coerced into declaring herself a
|
||
subversive. Only for the most committed, and endorsed by Amnesty International.
|
||
|
||
COOL AS ICE (Alive) October 18
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: David Kellogg
|
||
Cast: Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter
|
||
Producers: Carolyn Pfeiffer, Lionel Wigram
|
||
Pale rapper Vanilla Ice makes his feature film debut in this music-motorcycle
|
||
film as a free-wheeling stranger who roles into town, falls in love with a high
|
||
school honor student and does some rappin'. The film was tested August 13 at
|
||
the Cineplex Universal City with the target young female audience. It received
|
||
92% in the top two boxes and 79% in the top box. The definite recommend level
|
||
was an astounding 90+%.
|
||
|
||
COP AND A HALF 1992
|
||
Dir: Henry Winkler
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Producer: Paul Maslansky
|
||
Screenplay: Arne Olsen
|
||
From Imagine Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
CREATURE 1992
|
||
Dir: Frank LaLoggia
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Alex Gartner, Stanley Buchthal
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Matheson, based on John Saul's novel
|
||
Start Date: Fall, 1991
|
||
This story of experiments in athletic training should prove a very timely
|
||
entertainment.
|
||
|
||
THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT 1992
|
||
Dir: Patrick Read Johnson
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Sean Daniel, Jack Freedman, Patricia Herskowitz, Wayne Williams,
|
||
Gary Kurtz
|
||
Screenplay: Ray Gideon, Bruce Evans, John Bishop, based on Steven Hunter's
|
||
novel
|
||
Start Date: 2/92
|
||
A nuclear-themed action thriller concerns bad guys who take over a nuclear
|
||
missile silo and threaten to start World War III. Ordinary Americans save the
|
||
day.
|
||
|
||
DEATH BECOMES HER 1992
|
||
Dir: Robert Zemeckis
|
||
Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn
|
||
Producers: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey
|
||
Screenplay: David Koepp, Martin Donovan
|
||
Start Date: 12/2/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Streep is a vain actress Hawn writes beauty books. Uncast is the part of
|
||
Streep's plastic surgeon hubby. Kevin Kline bowed out because Universal balked
|
||
at his $3 million fee. Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges are reportedly under
|
||
consideration. Both women swallow a potion they think will grant them eternal
|
||
youth. However their bodies die while their spirits still inhabit them.
|
||
Sounds weird, but what to expect from the writer/producers of APARTMENT ZERO?
|
||
Chock-full of special visual effects.
|
||
|
||
FAR AND AWAY 2.21 70mm CDS Summer 1992
|
||
Dir: Ron Howard
|
||
Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney,
|
||
Cyril Cusack, Niall Tobin
|
||
Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
|
||
Screenplay: Bob Dolman
|
||
D.P.: (65mm) Mikael Salomon
|
||
Start Date: 5/28/91, Billings MT, Boston, Ireland
|
||
The first American feature to be shot in 65mm since what seems like forever
|
||
is a sweeping romantic adventure of about an Irish tenant farmer who becomes
|
||
the unwilling traveling companion to the daughter of his wealthy landlord. They
|
||
are caught up in the Oklahoma land rush after emigrating to the U.S. The
|
||
film is expected to be released in Cinema Digital Sound. Audio Post-production
|
||
will be handled by Skywalker Sound, as was Howard's last feature BACKDRAFT.
|
||
Film has also been known has THE IRISH STORY, AN IRISH STORY and "Untitled".
|
||
Shot in Panavision's System-65.
|
||
|
||
FATHER'S DAY 1992
|
||
Dir: Brian DePalma
|
||
Cast: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich
|
||
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
|
||
Screenplay: Brian DePalma
|
||
Start Date: 10/91
|
||
Davidovich, who was so effective as BLAZE, gets to play Lithgow's wife in
|
||
this one, a contemporary psychological thriller. New wife Hurd produces the
|
||
film.
|
||
|
||
THE FLINTSTONES 2.35 70mm Christmas 1993
|
||
Dir: Richard Donner
|
||
Cast: John Goodman
|
||
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
The start date for this live-action feature based on the legendary cartoon
|
||
series has been pushed back a year, since director Donner will be in
|
||
post-production on LETHAL WEAPON 3 at the time that Fred Flintstone Goodman
|
||
will be on hiatus from ROSEANNE in 1992. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE Christmas (limited)
|
||
Dir: Jon Avnet January 1992 (wide)
|
||
Cast: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker,
|
||
Cicely Tyson, Stan Shaw
|
||
Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
|
||
Screenplay: Fannie Flagg, Jon Avnet, based on Flagg's novel
|
||
Start Date: 6/10/91, Juliette GA
|
||
Tandy plays octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode who lives in a nursing home down
|
||
South. Bates is the overweight Evelyn Couch, whose husband ignores her at 40.
|
||
They become friends and Ninny relates colorful tales of her life in Whistle
|
||
Stop, Alabama, and the ladies do some female bonding and swap recipes for
|
||
fried green tomatoes and cornbread. Masterson plays the young Ninny
|
||
Threadgoode.
|
||
|
||
GUN FOR HIRE
|
||
Dir: Bruce A. Evans
|
||
Cast: Christian Slater
|
||
Producer: Raynold Gideon
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
|
||
A romantic action comedy featuring the nearly over-exposed Mr. Slater. The
|
||
screenwriters are responsible for STAND BY ME.
|
||
|
||
HARD WAY, THE 2.35 March 8
|
||
Rating: "R" Strong language and some violence.
|
||
Dir: John Badham
|
||
Cast: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang
|
||
Producers: Rob Cohen, William Sackheim
|
||
Screenplay: Daniel Pyne, Jeff Reno, Ron Osborne, William Sackheim,
|
||
Lem Dobbs
|
||
D.P.s: Robert Primes, Donald McAlpine
|
||
Start Date: 5/21/90, New York
|
||
Fox plays Nick Lang, a successful actor who researches his new role by going on patrol with an
|
||
excitable cop (Woods). Cop is not happy, but must "babysit" as well
|
||
as catch a killer who's picking off New Yorkers at random. Filmed on
|
||
location in New York City. "There's only one way these two are going to get
|
||
along..."
|
||
|
||
HOUSESITTER 1992
|
||
Dir: Frank Oz
|
||
Cast: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris, Donald Moffat,
|
||
Peter MacNicol, Richard Shull, Laurel Cronin, Roy Cooper, Christopher Durang
|
||
Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Stein
|
||
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
|
||
Start Date: 8/5/91, Boston
|
||
Hawn is a con-artist who, after a one-night stand with architect Martin,
|
||
moves into his empty country house and passes herself off as his wife.
|
||
Hawn replaced Meg Ryan about a month before shooting began. This romantic
|
||
comedy was formerly titled YOURS TRULY. Delany plays the other woman in
|
||
Martin's life. From Imagine Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
JUNGLE FEVER 1.85 (SR) June 7
|
||
Dir: Spike Lee
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Lonette McKee, Spike Lee, John
|
||
Turturro, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Anthony Quinn
|
||
Producer: Spike Lee
|
||
Screenplay: Spike Lee
|
||
D.P.: Ernest Dickerson
|
||
Start Date: 8/20/90, New York
|
||
The story of a married black architect who has a love affair with his
|
||
Italian-American secretary. They are forced to confront their preconceptions
|
||
about race, sex, and the current New York City racial climate. Snipes may
|
||
currently be seen in NEW JACK CITY. Spike sneak previewed the film on 3/19.
|
||
Film was shown in competition at Cannes. Score is by the great Stevie
|
||
Wonder. Film broke opening weekend house record during September London
|
||
engagement at the Empire 2.
|
||
|
||
JURASSIC PARK 70mm Summer 1993
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Crichton, based on his novel
|
||
Start Date: September 1992
|
||
Negative Cost: $50+ million
|
||
Big, big film version of Crichton's bestseller concerning genetically
|
||
engineered dinosaurs at a futuristic amusement park whose pea-brains
|
||
turn out to have minds of their own. Rights and screenplay cost Universal $2
|
||
million. Visual Effects from ILM. HUGE outlook. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
KING RALPH 1.85 February 15
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: David S. Ward
|
||
Cast: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt,
|
||
Exec. Producers: Sydney Pollack, Mark Rosenberg
|
||
Producer: Jack Brodsky
|
||
Screenplay: David S. Ward
|
||
D.P.: Kenneth MacMillan
|
||
Start Date: 4/17/90, London
|
||
Goodman plays a Las Vegas lounge lizard who ascends to the throne of England
|
||
when the entire royal family is killed in a group photo accident. Opened in
|
||
London on March 28. The British feel it is irrevernt enough! "A comedy of
|
||
majestic proportions."
|
||
|
||
A KISS BEFORE DYING 1.85 April 26
|
||
Dir: James Dearden
|
||
Cast: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, James Russo, Diane Ladd
|
||
Producer: Robert Lawrence
|
||
Screenplay: James Dearden, from Lawrence Roman's 1956 screenplay, based on Ira
|
||
Levin's novel
|
||
D.P.: Mike Southon
|
||
Start Date: 3/5/90, London, New York
|
||
Remake of the classic Fifties' thriller, from the screenwriter of FATAL
|
||
ATTRACTION.
|
||
|
||
LIONHEART January 11
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Sheldon Lettich
|
||
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan,
|
||
Brian Thompson
|
||
Producers: Ash R. Shah, Eric Karson
|
||
Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme
|
||
Van Damme is a runaway solider who becomes involved in street fighting for
|
||
bucks. Released in the Fall of 1990 in Europe as AWOL. "A Damme Great Time at
|
||
the Movies." "When the streets are a jungle...there can only be one king."
|
||
|
||
LEAVING NORMAL 1992
|
||
Dir: Edward Zwick
|
||
Cast: Christine Lahti, Meg Tilly, Patrika Darbo, Lenny Von Dohlen, Maury
|
||
Chaykin, Brett Cullen
|
||
Producer: Lindsay Doran
|
||
Screenplay: Edward J. Solomon
|
||
D.P.: Ralf Detler Bode
|
||
Start Date: 4/10/91, Vancouver
|
||
Normal, Wyoming is where they're leaving. A second failed marriage and she
|
||
meets an outspoken cocktail waitress. They run off for Alaska together. Zwick
|
||
last directed GLORY.
|
||
|
||
THE LOOTERS 1992
|
||
Dir: Walter Hill
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Produer: Robert Zemeckis
|
||
Producer: Neil Canton
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
|
||
Start Date: 11/4/91, Chicago
|
||
Two Chicago firefighters turned looters, one good, one evil, must go to a
|
||
dangerous place in order to recover buried treasure.
|
||
|
||
MAD DOG AND GLORY 1992
|
||
Dir: John MacNaughton
|
||
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Bill Murray, Uma Thurman, Kathy Baker, David Caruso, Mike
|
||
Starr
|
||
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Barbara De Fina
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Price
|
||
D.P.: Robby Muller
|
||
Start Date: 7/15/91, Chicago
|
||
DeNiro plays Wayne Dobie, a timid police photographer sarcastically nicknamed
|
||
"Mad Dog", who inadvertently saves the life of a local gangster, Frank Milo
|
||
(Murray). Milo is aggressively grateful to Dobie and presses him into
|
||
accepting a gift -- a beautiful young girl named Glory (Thurman) -- who will be
|
||
his for a week. MacNaughton directed HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER.
|
||
Price received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of THE COLOR OF MONEY.
|
||
He also scripted SEA OF LOVE. Muller shot PARIS, TEXAS. The film shoot is
|
||
scheduled for 10 weeks.
|
||
|
||
MOBSTERS 2.35 July 26
|
||
Dir: Michael Karbelnikoff
|
||
Cast: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor,
|
||
Anthony Quinn, F. Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn Boyle, Michael Gambon,
|
||
Christopher Penn, Frank Collison, Nick Sadler, Leslie Bega, Bill Bastiani, Andy
|
||
Romano
|
||
Producer: Steve Roth
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Mahern, Nicholas Kazan
|
||
D.P.: Lajos Koltai
|
||
Start Date: 12/5/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Yes, folks, it's just like it sounds. A period piece and these guys play
|
||
some of the most legendary mob men in history (as young men, 'natch. Need
|
||
those demographics). Slater is Lucky Luciano, Dempsey is Meyer Lansky, Grieco
|
||
is Bugsy Siegel. He'd better not run into Warren Beatty.... Kazan wrote
|
||
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. The foreign release will have an additional 24 minutes
|
||
of footage.
|
||
|
||
MR. BASEBALL 1992
|
||
Dir: Fred Schepisi
|
||
Cast: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert, Aya Takanashi, Markus
|
||
Flanagan, Chuck Fick
|
||
Producers: Doug Claybourne, Fred Schepisi
|
||
Screenplay: Ed Solomon, Monte Merrick, Gary Ross
|
||
Start Date: 9/10/91, Nagoya & Tokyo Japan, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
This long delayed film about an American baseball player in Japan is finally
|
||
in production after many rewrites. It was originally titled TOKYO DIAMOND.
|
||
|
||
ONCE AROUND January 18
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
|
||
Cast: Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfuss, Laura San Giacomo, Danny Aiello,
|
||
Gena Rowlands
|
||
Producers: Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson
|
||
Screenplay: Malia Scotch Marlo
|
||
D.P.: Theo Van De Sande
|
||
Start Date: 2/17/90, Durham NC, Boston
|
||
English-language feature debut for Oscar-nominated director of MY
|
||
LIFE AS A DOG is a Boston-based comedy about a woman (Hunter) who falls in
|
||
love with a wealthy older man (Dreyfuss) and the effects of their relationship
|
||
on her family. San Giacomo is the sister and Aiello and Rowlands the
|
||
parents. Music is by James Horner. "The Bellas were one big happy family.
|
||
Then Renata met Sam..."
|
||
|
||
OTHER WOMAN 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Meryl Streep
|
||
Screenplay: Carrie Fisher, Meryl Streep
|
||
|
||
THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (Alive) November 1
|
||
Rating: "R" for terror/violence
|
||
Dir: Wes Craven
|
||
Producer: Wes Craven
|
||
Cast: Everett McGill, Brandon Adams, Yan Birch
|
||
Screenplay: Wes Craven
|
||
Young people are kidnapped and kept imprisoned in a house during the owners'
|
||
search for the "perfect children". McGill (TWIN PEAKS, DUNE and QUEST FOR FIRE)
|
||
is the psychopath who keeps those booby-traps well-oiled.
|
||
|
||
PROBLEM CHILD 2 July 3
|
||
Dir: Brian Levan
|
||
Cast: John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Laraine Newman
|
||
Producer: Robert Simonds
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
|
||
Start Date: 1/18/91, Orlando
|
||
This first wasn't much of a problem for Universal, grossing some $50+ million
|
||
domestically.
|
||
|
||
PURE LUCK 1.85 August 9
|
||
Dir: Nadia Tass
|
||
Cast: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelly, Harry Shearer, Scott Wilson
|
||
Producers: Francis Veber, Lance Hool
|
||
Screenplay: Herschel Weingrod
|
||
D.P.: David Parker
|
||
Start Date: 12/17/90, Acapulco, Mexico City, U.S.
|
||
Remake of the 1981 French comedy LE CHEVRE, about the search for a missing
|
||
girl.
|
||
|
||
SCENT OF A WOMAN 1992
|
||
Dir: Martin Brest
|
||
Cast: Al Pacino
|
||
Producer: Martin Brest
|
||
Screenplay: Bo Goldman, based on Dino Risi's 1975 film PROFUMO DI DONNA
|
||
Start Date: 12/91, New York
|
||
Drama about bitter war veteran who's been blinded and the innocent 17-year
|
||
old boy assigned to care for him. Brest last directed MIDNIGHT RUN for
|
||
Universal.
|
||
|
||
SHOUT October 4
|
||
Dir: Jeffrey Hornaday
|
||
Cast: John Travolta, Jamie Walters, Richard Jordan, Heather Graham, Linda
|
||
Florentino
|
||
Producer: Robert Simonds
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Gayton
|
||
D.P.: Robert Brinkman
|
||
Start Date: 10/15/90, Los Angeles, Stockton
|
||
Travolta is a music teacher who introduces his students to rock music in
|
||
1950s Texas. John gets to dance again. Hornaday choreographed FLASHDANCE.
|
||
Formerly titled MIDNIGHT RIDER, ALL SHOOK UP and SHAKE IT UP. *Repeatedly*
|
||
delayed.
|
||
|
||
SNEAKERS 1992
|
||
Dir: Phil Alden Robinson
|
||
Cast: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Mary McDonnell
|
||
Producers: Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
|
||
Screenplay: Phil Alden Robinson
|
||
D.P.: John Lindley
|
||
Start Date: 10/21/91, San Francisco, Los Angeles
|
||
Robinson scored big with FIELD OF DREAMS. McDonnell was Oscar-nominated in
|
||
DANCES WITH WOLVES.
|
||
|
||
SPARTACUS 2.21 70mm April 26 (NY, D.C., L.A.,Toronto)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" 70mm May 3 (Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Denver)
|
||
Dir: Stanley Kubrick 35mm (SR) May 3 (31 additional cities)
|
||
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov,
|
||
Charles Laughton
|
||
Producers: Kirk Douglas
|
||
Screenplay Dalton Trumbo, based on Howard Fast's book
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million (1960)
|
||
Painstakingly restored as much as possible after the film's 1960 butchering
|
||
at the hands of censors and studio executives, this epic is back. Film
|
||
restoration expert extraordinaire Robert Harris tackled the job, after doing
|
||
the same for NAPOLEON and LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. This Super Technirama film was
|
||
202 minutes at the final preview, 189 minutes at the pre-censorship,
|
||
pre-release version. Then it was cut to 187 minutes at the pre-censorship
|
||
level. After that it was cut to 161 minutes and released. The restored,
|
||
converted Super Panavision 70 version runs 187 minutes plus 10 minutes of
|
||
overtures. Enjoy.
|
||
|
||
STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT 1992
|
||
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode
|
||
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams
|
||
Producers: Ivan Reitman, Michael C. Gross, Joe Medjuck
|
||
Screenplay: Blake Snyder, Will Davies, Will Osborne, Daniel Petrie Jr.
|
||
D.P.: Frank Tidy
|
||
Start Date: 5/14/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Sly stays in the comic mood.. May possibly open this Christmas.
|
||
|
||
STREETRACER 1992
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Anthony Yerkovich
|
||
Screenplay: Anthony Yerkovich, Kem Nunn
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Los Angeles
|
||
From Imagine Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED 1992
|
||
Dir: Robert Harmon
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Michael Preger
|
||
Screenplay: David Himmelstein
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, North Dakota
|
||
Forum member Robert Harmon remakes the creepy English film of the early
|
||
Sixties about a village where the children acquire strange powers (and really
|
||
bright eyes).
|
||
|
||
WELCOME TO BUZZSAW 1992
|
||
Dir: Francis Veber
|
||
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Heidi Kling, Marian Mercer, Courtney
|
||
Peldon
|
||
Producers: Ted Field, Robert Cort, Michael Hertzberg
|
||
Screenplay: Joshua & Daniel Goldin
|
||
D.P.: Donald Thorin
|
||
Start Date: 1/1/91, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles
|
||
A black comedy concerning an investment banker who runs into trouble in a
|
||
desolate logging town. His wallet has been stolen and it contains a phone
|
||
number worth some $60 million! Broderick and Jones are reunited again after
|
||
their 1987 smash FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF. Veber directed THREE FUGITIVES.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Warner Brothers
|
||
---------------
|
||
|
||
THE ARROWTOOTH WALTZ 1992
|
||
Dir: Emir Kusturica
|
||
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor, Paulina Porizkova,
|
||
Michael J. Pollard
|
||
Producer: Paul Gurian
|
||
Screenplay: Emir Kusturica, David Atkins
|
||
Start Date: 4/1/91, Douglas AZ
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Production resumed in September on this comedic western after
|
||
ceasing in June when the director had a nervous collapse due to the fast-paced
|
||
working style of the American crew and completion bond company pressures.
|
||
(Not to speak of the tantrums and fuss of Dunaway and Lewis) Kusturica
|
||
directed TIME OF THE GYPSIES. May be called OUT OF THIS WORLD.
|
||
|
||
BATMAN RETURNS 1.85 70mm June 1992
|
||
Dir: Tim Burton
|
||
Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken,
|
||
Michael Murphy, Vincent Schiavelli, Michael Gough, Christi Conaway, Marlon
|
||
Wayans, Paul Reubens, Jan Hooks, Steve Witting, Andrew Bryniarski
|
||
Exec. Producers: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Michael Uslan
|
||
Producers: Tim Burton, Denise DiNovi
|
||
Screenplay: Dan Waters, based on the DC comics
|
||
D.P.: Stefan Czapsky
|
||
Start Date: 9/3/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Here we go again! $90 - $100 million budget? Murphy is the mayor of
|
||
Gotham. Film is shooting on nine stages at Warner Brothers in Burbank.
|
||
Reubens is the Penguin's father.
|
||
|
||
BLADE RUNNER 2.35 September 27 (LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" For violence. 1992 (wider)
|
||
Dir: Ridley Scott
|
||
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy, Daryl Hannah,
|
||
Edward James Olmos
|
||
Warner Brothers very successfully tested a 35mm reduction print of the 70mm
|
||
workprint that was previewed before the original 1982 theatrical release of
|
||
BLADE RUNNER. Lack of narration, lack of upbeat ending and different cuts make
|
||
for superior film than the originally released product. Scott will complete
|
||
that version for limited theatrical exposure in 1992, then home video.
|
||
|
||
THE BODYGUARD 1992
|
||
Dir: Mick Jackson
|
||
Cast: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston
|
||
Producers: Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson, Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Start Date: 11/91
|
||
Production starts in November on this new production from Costner's Tig
|
||
Prods. Ms. Houston makes her big-screen debut as the mega-star who needs
|
||
guarding.
|
||
|
||
BORN TO RIDE ?
|
||
Dir: Graham Baker
|
||
Cast: John Stamos, John Stockwell, Teri Polo, Kris Kamm, Keith Cooke, Thom
|
||
Mathews
|
||
Producers: Fred Weintraub, Sandra Weintraub
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Pardridge, Janice Hickey
|
||
Start Date: 3/13/90, Yugoslavia
|
||
Has disappeared from the WB release slate.
|
||
|
||
A CLASS ACT Spring 1992
|
||
Cast: Kid 'n Play
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Brenne, John Semper, Cynthia Friedlob, Michael Swerdlick,
|
||
Wayne Rice
|
||
High school musical comedy with the guys who scored in two HOUSE PARTY films.
|
||
|
||
CURLY SUE October 25
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: John Hughes
|
||
Cast: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Allsan Porter, John Getz, Edie McClurg, Fred
|
||
Dalton Thompson
|
||
Producer: John Hughes
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
D.P.: Jeff Kimball
|
||
Start Date: 11/13/90, Chicago
|
||
This guy writes more scripts like he's doing a TV series! Talk about
|
||
prolific. A romantic comedy about an appealing little orphan girl who, along
|
||
with her street-wise guardian, charms her way into the life of an uptight,
|
||
cynical big-city woman attorney.
|
||
|
||
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE 1.85 March 22 (NY,LA,Toronto)
|
||
Rating: "PG" April 5 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Albert Brooks
|
||
Cast: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry
|
||
Producer: Michael Grillo
|
||
Screenplay: Albert Brooks
|
||
D.P.: Allen Daviau
|
||
Start Date: 2/90, Los Angeles
|
||
A comedy about the afterlife. Yes, the title explains what you'll have to do
|
||
once you die. Visual effects from Dream Quest Images. "The first true story
|
||
of what happens after you die."
|
||
|
||
DENNIS THE MENACE 1993
|
||
Producer: John Hughes
|
||
Dennis comes to the big screen in a live-action version of the venerable Hank
|
||
Ketchum comic strip.
|
||
|
||
DOC HOLLYWOOD 1.85 August 2
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Michael Caton-Jones
|
||
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Bridget Fonda, Woody Harrelson, Barnard
|
||
Hughes, David Ogden Stiers, Frances Sternhagen, Roberts Blossom
|
||
Producer: Susan Solt
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Seaman, Jeffrey Price, Daniel Pyne
|
||
D.P.: Michael Chapman
|
||
Start Date: 11/7/90, Gainesville, FL & Los Angeles
|
||
Fox plays a career-driven doctor relocating to his new Beverly Hills
|
||
practice who finds himself stranded in a rural South Carolina town. Caton-Jones
|
||
directed SCANDAL and MEMPHIS BELLE.
|
||
|
||
DOGFIGHT Sept. 13 (NY/Toronto)
|
||
Rating: "R" For pervasive strong language and a sexual scene. Sept. 27 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Nancy Savoca
|
||
Cast: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Holly Near
|
||
Producers: Peter Newman, Richard Guay
|
||
Screenplay: Bob Comfort
|
||
D.P.: Bobby Bukowski
|
||
Start Date: 5/2/90, Seattle
|
||
It is 1967 and a group of Marines about to leave for Southeast Asia compete
|
||
to see who can "pick up" the ugliest girl. When one of the Marines squires a
|
||
shy, plain but sweet girl, she shows him a side of life that he'd never
|
||
encountered before and he learns some valuable lessons about prejudice in
|
||
the process. Savoca directed TRUE LOVE. Fine advanced word.
|
||
|
||
DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD 1.85 June 7
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Stephen Herek
|
||
Cast: Christina Applegate, Jayne Brook, Joanna Cassidy, Josh Charles, John
|
||
Getz, Keith Coogan, David Duchovny, Robert Gorman, Danielle Harris, Christopher
|
||
Pettiet, Kimmy Robertson, Concetta Tomei
|
||
Producers: Robert Newmyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Landau, Tara Ison
|
||
D.P.: Timothy Suhrstedt
|
||
Start Date: 5/7/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Ms. Applegate, infamous due to her role in Fox' "Married With Children"
|
||
toplines in this comedy about a precocious teenager who throws a wild party
|
||
when her parents leave home. She is forced to assume an adult identity when
|
||
the babysitter drops dead. Mr. Herek directed CRITTERS and BILL AND TED'S
|
||
EXCELLENT ADVENTURE. Formerly titled THE REAL WORLD.
|
||
|
||
FREEJACK 70mm January 1992
|
||
Dir: Geoff Murphy
|
||
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, David Johansen,
|
||
Jonathan Banks, Amanda Plummer, Vincent Schiavelli, John Shea
|
||
Producers: Stuart Oken, Ronald Shusett
|
||
Screenplay: Ronald Shusett, Steve Pressfield, Dan Gilroy
|
||
D.P.: Amir Mokri
|
||
Start Date: 1/28/91, Atlanta, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
A science fiction adventure. Jagger plays a 21st Century bounty
|
||
hunter who plucks Estevez from his 20th Century race car just before he dies
|
||
and whisks him into the year 2020. Immortality is a prime subject here.
|
||
Murphy directed YOUNG GUNS II. Shusett last wrote TOTAL RECALL. Visual
|
||
Effects are from Dream Quest Images, with recent Oscar winner Alex Funke (TOTAL
|
||
RECALL) supervising. Images include a "spiritual switchboard" where in the
|
||
year 2009 the superrich can store their souls in search of new and better
|
||
bodies. From Morgan Creek. Postponed from November, 1991. Estevez has
|
||
been involved in some reshoots in October.
|
||
|
||
GUILTY BY SUSPICION 1.85 March 15
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Irwin Winkler
|
||
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Annette Bening, Martin Scorsese
|
||
Producer: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Screenplay: Irwin Winkler
|
||
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
|
||
Start Date: 3/30/90, Los Angeles
|
||
DeNiro plays a film producer under fire from the House Un-American
|
||
Activities Committee in 1951. Scorsese is a blacklisted director.
|
||
The now-ubiquitous Bening gets yet another job. Delayed from limited
|
||
Christmas opening for Oscar qualifications. Winkler directorial debut after
|
||
years of top-notch producing. "All it took was a whisper." Formerly titled
|
||
FEAR NO EVIL.
|
||
|
||
HOOVER 1993
|
||
Dir: Francis Coppola
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Quincy Jones
|
||
Screenplay: based on "J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets" by Curt Gentry
|
||
Coppola and Quincy Jones team up for the first time to film the biopic on Mr.
|
||
FBI's life from 1924 until the time of Nixon. Revealed will be the undue
|
||
influence Hoover had over 10 presidencies.
|
||
|
||
HURRICANE SMITH 1992
|
||
Rating: "R" For action violence, sensuality and language.
|
||
Cast: Carl Weathers
|
||
|
||
IF LOOKS COULD KILL 1.85 March 15
|
||
Rating; "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: William Dear
|
||
Cast: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett, Gabrielle Anwar
|
||
Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
|
||
Screenplay: Darren Star
|
||
D.P.: Doug Milsome
|
||
Start Date: 4/16/90, Canada
|
||
Comedy-adventure about high school student mistaken for a secret agent. Bill
|
||
Dear directed HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS. "He's having the adventure of someone
|
||
else's life."
|
||
|
||
INNOCENT BLOOD 1992
|
||
Dir: John Landis
|
||
Cast: Anne Parillaud
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Wolk
|
||
Start Date: 1/92
|
||
A sexy female vampire with a conscience who does not feed on innocent people.
|
||
One of her most ruthless victims, a mob boss, survives her attack and is
|
||
transformed into an even more insidious vampire whom she must destroy with the
|
||
aid of an undercover cop. "Vampire noir" is how this project has been
|
||
classified. Parillaud scored big in LA FEMME NIKITA. Landis characterizes
|
||
the film as "Goodfellas meets Dracula". Roger Corman is also starting a film
|
||
by the same title.
|
||
|
||
JFK 2.35 70mm CDS (SR) December 20
|
||
Dir: Oliver Stone
|
||
Cast: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon,
|
||
Sally Kirkland, Michael Rooker, Jay O. Sanders, Numa Bertell, Laurie Metcalf,
|
||
Gary Grubbs, Brian Doyle Murray, Joe Pesci, Beata Pozniak, Jack Lemmon, Walter
|
||
Matthau, John Candy, Donald Sutherland, John Larroquette, Jim Garrison
|
||
Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
|
||
Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, based on books "On the Trail of the
|
||
Assassins" by Jim Garrison, "Crossfire" by Jim Masrs
|
||
D.P.: Robert Richardson
|
||
Start Date: 4/15/91, Dallas, New Orleans, Washington DC
|
||
An outrageous cast in what may be to many an outrageous film concerning the
|
||
alleged conspiracies in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A big event film
|
||
for Warner Brothers. Stone last directed THE DOORS, Costner last starred in
|
||
ROBIN HOOD: POT. The CDS prints will likely be 35mm only.
|
||
|
||
THE LAST BOY SCOUT 2.35 70mm (SR) December 6
|
||
Dir: Tony Scott
|
||
Cast: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Danielle Harris, Chelsea Field, Taylor Negron
|
||
Producers: David Geffen, Joel Silver
|
||
Screenplay: Shane Black
|
||
D.P.: Ward Russell
|
||
Start Date: 3/11/91, Los Angeles
|
||
The script for this film about an ex-football player and a detective who
|
||
investigate a murder connected with pro football gambling earned a record $1.75
|
||
million for Mr. Black, who penned LETHAL WEAPON and had a featured acting role
|
||
in PREDATOR. Detective Joe Hallenbeck, an ex-CIA agent, teams with a former
|
||
star football player to uncover a web of intrigue and corruption when the
|
||
athlete's girlfriend is murdered in this action thriller. Tony Scott
|
||
directed TOP GUN, REVENGE and DAYS OF THUNDER. Test-screened in early October
|
||
to positive results.
|
||
|
||
LETHAL WEAPON 3 2.35 70mm Summer, 1992
|
||
Dir: Richard Donner
|
||
Cast: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Rene Russo, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe,
|
||
Damon Hines, Ebonie Smith
|
||
Producers: Richard Donner, Joel Silver
|
||
Screenplay: Jeffrey Boam, Robert Mark Kamen
|
||
D.P. Jan De Bont
|
||
Start Date: 10/2/91, Los Angeles, Orlando
|
||
Yet a third in the very popular series. The producers are paying the city
|
||
of Orlando $50,000 to use the October 24th demolition of Orlando City Hall as a
|
||
backdrop to film Mel Gibson and Danny Glover running from an exploding
|
||
building. Russo last seen in FREEJACK.
|
||
|
||
M. BUTTERFLY 1993
|
||
Dir: David Cronenberg
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: David Geffen
|
||
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang, from his play
|
||
Cronenberg seems oddly correct to direct the big-screen version of the
|
||
Tony-winning play about a French diplomat who was jailed for treason having
|
||
been accused of conspiring with his Chinese Communist mistress of 20 years who
|
||
he thought was a woman, but was a man.
|
||
|
||
MALCOLM X 1992
|
||
Dir: Spike Lee
|
||
Cast: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Kate Vernon, Al Freeman
|
||
Jr., Theresa Randle, Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall
|
||
Producer: Marvin Worth, Spike Lee
|
||
Screenplay: James Baldwin, Arnold Perl, Spike Lee
|
||
Start Date: 9/16/91, New York, Mecca, Cairo, Soweto
|
||
Negative Cost: $25 million
|
||
The long-in-development biopic has Spike Lee at the helm after wresting the
|
||
project away from Norman Jewison. Largo Entertainment distributes overseas.
|
||
This is the first non-documentary to ever receive permission to shoot in
|
||
Mecca (2nd Unit). Will shoot in Cairo in mid-January. Nelson Mandela will
|
||
be photographed in Soweto. Spike Lee and Denzel Washington (among others)
|
||
are deferring salary in order to come in on budget.
|
||
|
||
THE MAMBO KINGS Christmas (limited)
|
||
Dir: Arne Glimcher
|
||
Cast: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi
|
||
Arnaz Jr., Celia Cruz, Tito Puente
|
||
Producers: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Screenplay: Cynthia Cidre
|
||
Two brothers, fresh from Havana, arrive in New York in 1953, bringing with
|
||
them their vibrant, heart-wrenching mambo songs, and dreams of love and fame.
|
||
By day, they struggle to find work in a strange country; by night, they return
|
||
to their roots through their music. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
|
||
by Oscar Hijuelos. Linda Ronstadt has recorded two songs in Spanish for the
|
||
soundtrack. Tito Puente and Celia Cruz also perform on the soundtrack.
|
||
Glimscher produced GORILLAS IN THE MIST.
|
||
|
||
MEETING VENUS November 15
|
||
Rating: PG-13 (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
Dir: Istvan Szabo
|
||
Cast: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson
|
||
Producer: David Puttnam
|
||
Screenplay: Istvan Szabo, Michael Hirst
|
||
D.P.: Lajos Koltai
|
||
Start Date: 8/6/90, Budapest, Paris
|
||
A comedy about an up-and-coming conductor staging an opera in Paris with an
|
||
international opera company. Needless to say, the results are chaotic at best.
|
||
Kiri Te Kanawa provides the voice for the Diva portrayed by Ms. Close. Szavo
|
||
directed MEPHISTO. Advanced word is mixed. Opened huge in Italy in September.
|
||
|
||
MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN 2.35 70mm early 1992
|
||
Dir: John Carpenter
|
||
Cast: Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill, Michael McKean
|
||
Producer: Bruce Bodner
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Collector, Dana Olsen
|
||
D.P.: William A. Fraker
|
||
Start Date: 3/7/91, San Francisco, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
A Wall Street Securities analyst becomes invisible and, as such, a CIA
|
||
target. This film has been five years in gestation. William Goldman was the
|
||
previous screenwriter. Ivan Reitman and Dick Donner have been involved as
|
||
director before. Visual Effects for this story are from ILM. Warner Brothers
|
||
test-screened a rough-cut on October 9th to "sensational" results. Chevy
|
||
Chase says this project is "head and tails" above anything he's done.
|
||
|
||
MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Greg Beeman
|
||
Cast: Teri Garr, Jon Lovitz, Jeffrey Jones, Thalmus Rasulala, Dwler Brown,
|
||
Kathy Ireland, Eric Idle, Wallace Shawn, Tony Cox, Debbie Lee Carrington
|
||
Producer: Michael Phillips
|
||
Screenplay: Ed Solomon
|
||
D.P.: Jacques Haitkin
|
||
Start Date: 8/22/90, Southern California
|
||
An outrageous comedy about the surprising interplanetary adventures of Marge
|
||
and Dick Nelson, an ordinary middle-aged couple who are abducted and taken to a
|
||
tiny world ruled by the most vain and insecure character in the universe, Tod
|
||
Spengo, who falls for mom. Dad saves the world.
|
||
|
||
THE NEVERENDING STORY II: THE NEXT CHAPTER February 8
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: George Miller
|
||
Cast: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp,
|
||
Martin Limbach
|
||
Producer: Dieter Geissler
|
||
Screenplay: Karin Howard
|
||
More adventures in the land of Fantasia. Yes, the Rock-Biter is back...
|
||
and with an offspring! Co-featured with BOX-OFFICE BUNNY short starring Bugs
|
||
Bunny (rated "G").
|
||
|
||
NEW JACK CITY 1.85 March 8
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Mario Van Peebles
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice T, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson
|
||
Producers: Doug McHenry, George Jackson
|
||
Screenplay: Thomas Lee Wright, Barry Michael Cooper
|
||
D.P.: Francis Kenny
|
||
Start Date: 4/16/90, New York
|
||
Provocative film about urban drug kingpin and the cops who go undercover to
|
||
stop him. Look for NEW JACK CITY 2 in 1992.
|
||
|
||
NEW JACK CITY 2 Summer 1992
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Doug McHenry, George Jackson
|
||
Sequel to the 1991 hit starts shooting in early 1992. There will be teaser
|
||
trailers on 3000 screens promoting the film at Christmas 1991.
|
||
|
||
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE 1.85 February 15
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Dan Aykroyd
|
||
Cast: Chevy Chase, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Demi Moore, Taylor Negron, Peter
|
||
Aykroyd, Bertila Damas, Valri Bromfield, Paul Garcia, John Davelkis
|
||
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
|
||
Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd
|
||
D.P.: Dean Cundey
|
||
Start Date: 5/7/90, Los Angeles
|
||
Aykroyd makes his big-screen directorial debut in this comedy,
|
||
formerly titled GIT, then VALKENVANIA. A yuppie couple (Moore, Chase) make a
|
||
terrifying detour into a little Pennsylvania town run by a 106-year
|
||
old judge (Aykroyd) and his sheriff (Candy).
|
||
|
||
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY October 18
|
||
Rating: "R" Language and sex-related dialogue.
|
||
Dir: Norman Jewison
|
||
Cast: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie
|
||
Producers: Norman Jewison, Ric Kidney
|
||
Screenplay: Alvin Sargent, based on Jerry Sterner's play.
|
||
D.P. Haskell Wexler
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/90, New York, Los Angeles, Connecticut
|
||
Film version of the acclaimed off-Broadway play about an old New England
|
||
company trying to save itself from being engulfed by a greedy corporation.
|
||
Jewison last directed MOONSTRUCK.
|
||
|
||
OUT FOR JUSTICE 1.85 April 12
|
||
Rating: "R" For strong violence and language, and for sensuality and drug use.
|
||
Dir: John Flynn
|
||
Cast: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champs, Shareen J.
|
||
Mitchell
|
||
Producers: Steven Seagal, Arnold Kopelson, Peter MacGregor-Scott
|
||
Screenplay: Lance Hill, Steven Seagal
|
||
D.P.: Ric Waite
|
||
Start Date: 10/9/90, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
A Brooklyn cop attempts to catch a boyhood adversary (Forsythe..Flat Top in
|
||
DICK TRACY) who is now a coke-addicted cop killer. Flynn directed LOCK UP.
|
||
"He's a cop. It's a dirty job...but somebody's got to take out the garbage."
|
||
Formerly titled THE NIGHT and THE PRICE OF OUR BLOOD.
|
||
|
||
PASSENGER 57 1992
|
||
Dir: Kevin Hooks
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes
|
||
Producer: Dan Paulson
|
||
Screenplay: David Loughery
|
||
Snipes is a tough airline security chief who is called on to free American
|
||
hijack victims from drug terrorist abductors. Hooks last directed STRICTLY
|
||
BUSINESS. Snipes starred in JUNGLE FEVER and NEW JACK CITY. Loughery wrote
|
||
DREAMSCAPE and STAR TREK V.
|
||
|
||
RECKLESS KELLY 1992
|
||
Dir: Yahoo Serious
|
||
Cast: Yahoo Serious
|
||
Producers: Yahoo Serious, Warwick Ross
|
||
Screenplay: Yahoo Serious
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Australia
|
||
Why would Warner Brothers finance another picture from Yahoo Serious after
|
||
the U.S. disaster that was YOUNG EINSTEIN? Because the film is very
|
||
inexpensive, and he is very popular Down Unde, that's why.
|
||
|
||
RICOCHET 2.35 (SR) October 4
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sensuality, and for language and drug
|
||
content
|
||
Dir: Russell Mulcahy
|
||
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Kevin Pollack, Lindsay Wagner, Ice T,
|
||
Josh Evans
|
||
Producers: Joel Silver, Michael Levy
|
||
Screenplay: Steven E. DeSouza
|
||
D.P.: Peter Levy
|
||
Start Date: 1/28/91, Los Angeles
|
||
An escaped murderer, bent on revenge against the man who sent him to prison,
|
||
puts a diabolical plan into action and forces his adversary to fight fire with
|
||
fire. Mulcahy directed HIGHLANDER.
|
||
|
||
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES 1.66 (SR) June 14
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Kevin Reynolds
|
||
Cast: Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Mary
|
||
Elizabeth Mastrantonio
|
||
Producers: Pen Densham, John Watson, Richard B. Lewis
|
||
Screenplay: Pen Densham, John Watson
|
||
D.P.: Doug Milsome
|
||
Start Date: 9/6/90, England, France
|
||
Negative Cost: $60 million
|
||
A huge-scale, rather comic look at the legend of Robin Hood and his merry
|
||
men. This production boasts the hottest name in filmdom today in
|
||
Costner. Freeman is his sidekick. Rickman, the perfect heavy, is the Sheriff
|
||
of Nottingham. Mastrantonio makes a fetching Maid Marion. This is the second
|
||
entrant in the battle of the Robin Hoods (three different attempted
|
||
productions, two actually made). Now it's up to the public to decide....
|
||
Opens on 2100 screens. Sneaked in Sacramento on 3/27 with the best preview results
|
||
in Warner Brothers history. 68% of the preview cards rated it "excellent", 30%
|
||
were "very good". Film re-cut in May due to Mr. Rickman "stealing the show" as
|
||
the Sheriff of Nottingham. Opens in London on July 19. Recorded in Q-Sound.
|
||
From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
ROVER DANGERFIELD August 2 (limited)
|
||
Dir: James George, Bob Seeley August 23 (regional)
|
||
Cast: Voice of Rodney Dangerfield
|
||
Exec. Producer: Rodney Dangerfield
|
||
Producer: Thomas Wilhite
|
||
Screenplay: Rodney Dangerfield
|
||
Start Date: 12/15/89, Los Angeles
|
||
Will Rodney get respect animated as a dog? Some Visual Effects work from
|
||
Rhythm and Hues. Woof.
|
||
|
||
SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO August 23 (west)
|
||
Dir: Mark L. Lester September 20 (east)
|
||
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Tia Carrere, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa,
|
||
Toshishiro Obata
|
||
Producers: Mark L. Lester, Martin E. Caan
|
||
Screenplay: Jonathan Lemkin, Dennis Hackin
|
||
D.P.: Mark Irwin
|
||
Start Date: 1/14/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Lundgren is a caucasian American raised in Japan. Lee is a half-Asian,
|
||
half-Caucasian San Fernando Valley native. They team up for some martial-arts
|
||
chop-socky to fight some nasty Yakuza.
|
||
|
||
SINGLES
|
||
Dir: Cameron Crowe
|
||
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Jim True,
|
||
Sheila Kelly, Devon Raymond, Bill Pullman
|
||
Producer: Richard Hashimoto
|
||
Screenplay: Cameron Crowe
|
||
D.P.: Ueli Steiger
|
||
Start Date: 3/11/91, Seattle
|
||
This ensemble piece centers around a Seattle apartment complex. Crowe last
|
||
gave us the terrific SAY ANYTHING.
|
||
|
||
SPEED RACER 1993
|
||
Dir: Patrick Read Johnson
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Joel Silver, Richard Donner
|
||
Screenplay: Patrick Read Johnson, John Lau
|
||
Big-screen adaptation of the Japanese cartoon series.
|
||
|
||
STAY TUNED 1992
|
||
Dir: Peter Hyams
|
||
Cast: John Ritter
|
||
Producer: Arnie L. Schmidt
|
||
Screenplay: Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein
|
||
Start Date: 10/13/91, Vancouver
|
||
|
||
STRICTLY BUSINESS November 8
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Kevin Hooks
|
||
Cast: Halle Berry, Joseph C. Phillips, Tommy Davidson, Anne Marie Johnson,
|
||
David Marshall Grant, Kim Coles
|
||
Producers: Pamela Gibson, Andre Harrell, David Kappes
|
||
Screenplay: Pamela Gibson, Nelson George
|
||
A successful "Buppie" investment broker risks his career, his fiancee and his
|
||
luxurious possessions over his infatuation with a beautiful, exotic young woman
|
||
who he has only seen. He enlists the aid of a street-smart mailroom clerk who
|
||
works in his firm. The clerk gives the broker a crash course in the wilder
|
||
side of life and helps him meet the girl of his dreams -- in exchange for a leg
|
||
up on the corporate ladder. Hooks is a two-time Emmy Award winner and the son
|
||
of actor Robert Hooks. Musical score is by Michael Colombier (NEW JACK CITY).
|
||
Formerly titled GO NATALIE.
|
||
|
||
SWITCH 2.35 May 10
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Blake Edwards
|
||
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Jobeth Williams, Jimmy Smits, Lorraine Bracco, Tony
|
||
Roberts, Perry King
|
||
Producer: Tony Adams
|
||
Screenplay: Blake Edwards
|
||
D.P.: Dick Bush
|
||
Start Date: 4/18/90, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Ellen Barkin plays a Madison Avenue Male Chauvinist who dies and is
|
||
reincarnated as a woman. She must make amends with all of the women he/she
|
||
slighted while alive as a man. Another Blake Edwards mixer! Advanced word is
|
||
mediocre.
|
||
|
||
THAT NIGHT 1992
|
||
Dir: Craig Bolotin
|
||
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Juliette Lewis, Helen Shaver, Eliza Dushku, John
|
||
Dossett, J, Smith-Cameron
|
||
Producer: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Screenplay: Craig Bolotin
|
||
D.P.: Bruce Surtees
|
||
Start Date: 9/3/91, Baltimore
|
||
A romantic drama.
|
||
|
||
THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER
|
||
Dir: Richard Williams
|
||
Cast: Voices of Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, Joan Sims
|
||
Producers: Imogen Sutton, Richard Williams
|
||
An animated folk tale from the ancient East about saving the city and winning
|
||
the princess' hand. Long-awaited from triple-Oscar-winning Williams (WHO
|
||
FRAMED ROGER RABBIT).
|
||
|
||
UNFORGIVEN 1992
|
||
Dir: Clint Eastwood
|
||
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
|
||
Producer: Clint Eastwood
|
||
Screenplay: David Webb Peoples
|
||
D.P.: Jack N. Green
|
||
Start Date: 8/26/91, Alberta Canada
|
||
Yes, it's a western. Same title as the 1960 Burt Lancaster-Audrey Hepburn
|
||
western, too.
|
||
|
||
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD 2.35 70mm December 25
|
||
Dir: Wim Wenders (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
Cast: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Max von Sydow, Jeanne Moreau, Rudiger
|
||
Vogler, Sam Neill, Ernie Dingo, David Gulpilil, Lois Chiles, Allen Garfield
|
||
Producers: Jonathan Taplin, Anatole Dauman
|
||
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Peter Carey
|
||
D.P.: Robby Muller
|
||
Start Date: 4/20/90, Venice Italy, France, Portugal, U.S., Japan, Australia,
|
||
Germany, USSR, China, Mali
|
||
Negative Cost: $23 million
|
||
A huge-scale science fiction romance/road story filmed around the
|
||
world in nine countries by Berlin's great Wim Wenders. This futuristic (set
|
||
in 1999) thriller concerns a man's efforts to retrieve a valuable invention
|
||
(a device to permit blind people to see recorded images) and a woman's pursuit
|
||
of the mysterious man she loves. Moreau plays Hurt's blind mother, Von Sydow
|
||
is his father. Production was to have been in 65mm, but the demanding location
|
||
requirements resulted in a 35mm production. Title song is by the Irish group
|
||
U2. Other acts on the soundtrack include Neneh Cherry, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Patti
|
||
Smith, Peter Gabriel and Robbie Robertson. Early notices are quite positive
|
||
on some aspects, but mixed on others. Film runs a epic 178 minutes and
|
||
apparently seems somewhat truncated at that length. Wenders also has a
|
||
five-hour cut that he would like to make the film festival rounds and on home
|
||
video. Opened in Germany to mixed business in September. Reviews in Berlin
|
||
were dreadful, they loved it in Munich.
|
||
|
||
WHITE SANDS 1992
|
||
Dir: Roger Donaldson
|
||
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mimi Rogers, M.
|
||
Emmet Walsh, Samuel L. Jackson
|
||
Producers: William Sackheim, Scott Rudin
|
||
Screenplay: Daniel Pyne
|
||
D.P.: Peter Menzies
|
||
Start Date: 8/13/91, New Mexico
|
||
This thriller features Dafoe as a small-town sheriff whose seemingly
|
||
routine investigation into a murder balloons into an intricate plot involving
|
||
the FBI and the CIA.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Zeitgeist
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
POISON 1.85 April 5 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Todd Haynes
|
||
Cast: Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman, Scott Renderer, James
|
||
Lyons
|
||
Producer: Christine Vachon
|
||
Screenplay: Todd Haynes, based on stories by Jean Genet
|
||
D.P.: Maryse Alberti
|
||
Start Date: 1990, New York
|
||
Todd Hayne's hugely controversial film was underwritten by the NEA.
|
||
Bible-thumpers are complaining about the homo-erotic moments in the film (sight
|
||
unseen). Film involves three separate interrelated stories inspired by the
|
||
works of Jean Genet, about obsession, fantasy and violence. Opens at New
|
||
York's Angelika Film Center. Brilliant winner of the Sundance Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Release Timeline
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 11
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
LIONHEART (Universal)
|
||
NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 18
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
THE END OF INNOCENCE (Skouras)
|
||
EVE OF DESTRUCTION (Orion)
|
||
FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER (Paramount)
|
||
MEN OF RESPECT (Columbia)
|
||
ONCE AROUND (Universal) (limited)
|
||
RIKYU (Capitol) (NY)
|
||
TAXI BLUES (MK2) (NY)
|
||
WHITE FANG (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 23
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
THE GRIFTERS (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 25
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
TOO MUCH SUN (New Line) (NY)
|
||
THE VANISHING (Tara) (NY)
|
||
WARLOCK (Trimark) (western U.S.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 28
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
MEMORIES OF A MARRIAGE (Nordisk) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 1
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
1900 (Paramount) (limited reissue)
|
||
BOOK OF LOVE (New Line)
|
||
MEET THE APPLEGATES (Triton)
|
||
POPCORN (Studio Three)
|
||
QUEENS LOGIC (New Line)
|
||
RUN (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 8
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
AY, CARMELA (Prestige) (NY)
|
||
L.A. STORY (TriStar)
|
||
THE NEVERENDING STORY II: THE NEXT CHAPTER (Warner)
|
||
ROSENKRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Cinecom) (NY)
|
||
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 14
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 15
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
ALLIGATOR EYES (Castle Hill) (NY)
|
||
HEAVEN AND EARTH (Triton) (LA, SF)
|
||
IRON AND SILK (Prestige) (NY)
|
||
KING RALPH (Universal)
|
||
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (Warner)
|
||
PERFECTLY NORMAL (Four Seasons) (NY)
|
||
PRINCES IN EXILE (Fries) (NY)
|
||
SHIPWRECKED (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 22
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (Troma)
|
||
HE SAID, SHE SAID (Paramount)
|
||
PRINCES IN EXILE (Fries) (NY)
|
||
ROSENKRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Cinecom) (LA)
|
||
SCENES FROM A MALL (Buena Vista)
|
||
THE SLEAZY UNCLE (Quartet) (NY)
|
||
SUPERSTAR: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANDY WARHOL (Aries) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 1
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
THE BRITISH ANIMATION INVASION (Expanded)
|
||
THE DOORS (TriStar) 70mm, CDS
|
||
HEAVEN AND EARTH (Triton) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 6
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
CLOSETLAND (Universal) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 8
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
CLOSETLAND (Universal) (wide)
|
||
THE HARD WAY (Universal)
|
||
LA FEMME NIKITA (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
NEW JACK CITY (Warner)
|
||
THE SPIRIT OF '76 (Columbia) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 10
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
SHADOW OF CHINA (New Line) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 13
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
PARIS IS BURNING (Off-White) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 15
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
CADENCE (New Line)
|
||
CLASS ACTION (20th Fox)
|
||
GUILTY BY SUSPICION (Warner)
|
||
IF LOOKS COULD KILL (Warner)
|
||
THE PERFECT WEAPON (Paramount)
|
||
REUNION (Castle Hill) (NY)
|
||
ROBOT CARNIVAL (Streamline)
|
||
TRUE COLORS (Paramount) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 17
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
JU DOU (Miramax) (NY,LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 22
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
CITY ZERO (IFEX) (NY)
|
||
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (Warner) (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
FLESH GORDON MEETS THE COSMIC CHEERLEADERS (Borde) (LA)
|
||
JULIA HAS TWO LOVERS (South Gate) (NY)
|
||
MISTER JOHNSON (Avenue) (NY, LA)
|
||
MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE (New Line)
|
||
YOUNG COMMANDOS (Cannon)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 29
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES (Universal)
|
||
CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH PART 2: SUNHUMAINOID MELTDOWN (Troma) (LA)
|
||
THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (Skouras)
|
||
THE FIVE HEARTBEATS (20th Fox)
|
||
OPEN DOORS (Orion Classics)
|
||
WARLOCK (Trimark) (N.E. U.S.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 5
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
CROSS MY HEART (MK2)
|
||
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE (Warner) (wide)
|
||
THE MARRYING MAN (Buena Vista)
|
||
POISON (Zeitgeist)
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 12
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
CLASS OF NUKE 'EM HIGH PART 2: SUNHUMAINOID MELTDOWN (Troma) (NY)
|
||
DADDY NOSTALGIA (Avenue) (NY,LA)
|
||
EMINENT DOMAIN (Triumph) (NY,LA)
|
||
IMPROMPTU (Hemdale)
|
||
THE KILLER (Circle) (NY)
|
||
KORCZAK (New Yorker) (NY)
|
||
OUT FOR JUSTICE (Warner)
|
||
THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY (Avenue)
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 19
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
FOREVER MARY (Cinevista) (NY)
|
||
JOURNEY OF HOPE (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
MORTAL THOUGHTS (Columbia)
|
||
REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC (Hemdale) (NY)
|
||
SLACKER (Orion Classics)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 26
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
AMBITION (Miramax)
|
||
DROWNING BY NUMBERS (Prestige)
|
||
A KISS BEFORE DYING (Universal)
|
||
OSCAR (Buena Vista)
|
||
RICH GIRL (Studio Three)
|
||
SPARTACUS (Universal) 70mm (NY, Washington, Toronto, LA)
|
||
TALENT FOR THE GAME (Paramount) (Florida)
|
||
TOY SOLDIERS (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 1
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
CITIZEN KANE (Paramount) (NY, LA, D.C., Chicago, S.F., Seattle, Boston)
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 3
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
ONE GOOD COP (Buena Vista)
|
||
A RAGE IN HARLEM (Miramax)
|
||
RICH GIRL
|
||
SPARTACUS (Universal) 70mm (Boston, Chicago, Denver, Seattle) 35mm (23 cities)
|
||
TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 8
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
HERDSMEN OF THE SUN (Interama) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 10
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (Angelika) (NY)
|
||
CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN (Troma) (NY)
|
||
FX/2: THE DEADLY ART OF ILLUSION (Orion)
|
||
STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY (Castle Hill)
|
||
SWEET TALKER (New Line/Seven Arts)
|
||
SWITCH (Warner Brothers)
|
||
TRUTH OR DARE (Miramax) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 17
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
BORN TO RIDE (Warner)
|
||
DICE RULES (New Line/Seven Arts)
|
||
MANNEQUIN II: ON THE MOVE (20th Fox)
|
||
OPENING NIGHT (Castle Hill) (NY)
|
||
STONE COLD (Columbia)
|
||
TATIE DANIELLE (Prestige)
|
||
TRUTH OR DARE (Miramax) (wide)
|
||
WHAT ABOUT BOB? (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 19
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 22
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 24
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
BACKDRAFT (Universal) 70mm
|
||
CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN (Troma) (LA)
|
||
DROP DEAD FRED (New Line)
|
||
HANGIN' WITH THE HOMEBOYS (New Line) (NY)
|
||
HUDSON HAWK (TriStar)
|
||
NOIR ET BLANC (Greycat) (NY)
|
||
ONLY THE LONELY (20th Fox)
|
||
THELMA AND LOUISE (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 31
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
AMBITION (Miramax)
|
||
EVERYBODY'S FINE (Miramax) (NY, LA)
|
||
LOVE WITHOUT PITY (Orion Classics)
|
||
SOAPDISH (Paramount)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 7
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
CITY SLICKERS (Columbia)
|
||
DELUSION (IRS)
|
||
DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD (Warner)
|
||
JUNGLE FEVER (Universal)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 14
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (Warner Bros.)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 19
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
EVERY OTHER WEEKEND (MK2)
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 21
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
DYING YOUNG (20th Fox)
|
||
MY FATHER'S GLORY (Orion Classics) (NY)
|
||
A PAPER WEDDING (Capitol)
|
||
THE ROCKETEER (Buena Vista) 70mm
|
||
TALKIN' DIRTY AFTER DARK (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 28
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
EUROPA, EUROPA (Orion Classics)
|
||
FIRES WITHIN (MGM)
|
||
NAKED GUN 2 1/2: THE SMELL OF FEAR (Paramount)
|
||
THE REFLECTING SKIN (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 3
|
||
------
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE MIRACLE (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
PROBLEM CHILD II (Universal)
|
||
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (TriStar) 70mm, CDS
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 10
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
REGARDING HENRY (Paramount)
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 12
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
101 DALMATIANS (Buena Vista)
|
||
BOYZ 'N THE HOOD (Columbia)
|
||
POINT BREAK (20th Fox) 70mm
|
||
TRUST (New Line/Fine Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 13
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
BLOOD & CONCRETE (IRS)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 19
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
BILL AND TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY (Orion)
|
||
DUTCH (20th Fox)
|
||
MOBSTERS (Universal)
|
||
MY MOTHER'S CASTLE (Orion Classics) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 24
|
||
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|
||
|
||
THE DOCTOR (Disney) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 26
|
||
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|
||
|
||
ANOTHER YOU (TriStar)
|
||
THE DARK BACKWARD (Greycat)
|
||
LIFE STINKS (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
TRUST (New Line)
|
||
V.I. WARSHAWSKI (Buena Vista)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 31
|
||
-------
|
||
|
||
HOT SHOTS: AN IMPORTANT MOVIE! (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 2
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
DOC HOLLYWOOD (Warner)
|
||
THE DOCTOR (Buena Vista)
|
||
RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON (Columbia)
|
||
ROVER DANGERFIELD (Warner Bros.) (limited)
|
||
VOYEUR (Prestige)
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 9
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
BODY PARTS (Paramount)
|
||
CROSSING THE LINE (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
DELIRIOUS (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
DOUBLE IMPACT (Columbia)
|
||
PARIS IS BURNING (Prestige)
|
||
PASTIME (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
PURE LUCK (Universal)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 14
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
THE COMMITMENTS (20th Fox) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 16
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
BINGO! (TriStar)
|
||
MYSTERY DATE (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 21
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
BARTON FINK (20th Fox) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 23
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
DEAD AGAIN (Paramount)
|
||
DEFENSELESS (New Line/Seven Arts)
|
||
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
NAKED TANGO (New Line) (NY)
|
||
ROVER DANGERFIELD (Warner Bros.) (regional)
|
||
THE STORY OF BOYS AND GIRLS (Aries)
|
||
TRUE IDENTITY (Buena Vista)
|
||
URANUS (Prestige) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 30
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
CHILD'S PLAY 3 (Universal)
|
||
THE POPE MUST DIET (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 6
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
COMPANY BUSINESS (MGM-Pathe) (regional)
|
||
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK AND ROLL (Avenue) (Seattle, SF)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 13
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
DOGFIGHT (Warner) (NY, Toronto)
|
||
FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (New Line)
|
||
LIEBESTRAUM (MGM-Pathe) (limited)
|
||
SEX, DRUGS, ROCK AND ROLL (Avenue) (NY, LA, Minneapolis)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 18
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
PARADISE (Buena Vista) (NY)
|
||
UNDERTOW (Capstone) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 20
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
THE FISHER KING (TriStar) (limited)
|
||
INDIAN RUNNER (MGM-Pathe) (limited)
|
||
LATE FOR DINNER (Columbia)
|
||
LIVIN' LARGE! (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
MCBAIN (SGE) (NY,LA)
|
||
PARADISE (Buena Vista) (LA)
|
||
RAMBLING ROSE (New Line/Seven Arts)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 27
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
1000 PIECES OF GOLD (Greycat) (NY)
|
||
BLACK LIZARD (Cinevista) (NY)
|
||
BLADE RUNNER (Warner) (LA)
|
||
DOGFIGHT (Warner) (LA)
|
||
THE FISHER KING (TriStar) (wide)
|
||
HANGIN' WITH THE HOMEBOYS (New Line) (wide)
|
||
NECESSARY ROUGHNESS (Paramount)
|
||
THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Orion Classics) (NY)
|
||
TIME BOMB (MGM-Pathe) (Kansas City, St. Louis)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 29
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (New Line/Fine Line) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 4
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
21 (Triton) (limited)
|
||
LA BELLE NOISEUSE (MK2) (NY)
|
||
THE MAN IN THE MOON (MGM-Pathe) (limited)
|
||
PARADISE (Buena Vista) (wide)
|
||
THE RAPTURE (New Line/Fine Line) (NY, LA)
|
||
RICOCHET (Warner)
|
||
SHOUT (Universal)
|
||
STEPPING OUT (Paramount) (limited)
|
||
SUBURBAN COMMANDO (New Line)
|
||
THE SUPER (20th Fox)
|
||
WHORE (Trimark) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 9
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
HOMICIDE (Triumph) (NY, LA)
|
||
LITTLE MAN TATE (Orion) (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 11
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH (Pilgrims 3) (NY)
|
||
CITY OF HOPE (Samuel Goldwyn) (NY, LA)
|
||
ERNEST SCARED STUPID (Disney)
|
||
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (Paramount)
|
||
HOMICIDE (Triumph) (wide)
|
||
MINDWALK (Triton) (Seattle)
|
||
THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Orion Class.) (LA,SF)
|
||
SHATTERED (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
THE TAKING OF BEVERLY HILLS (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 18
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
THE DARK BACKWARD (Greycat) (wider)
|
||
LITTLE MAN TATE (Orion) (wide)
|
||
MINDWALK (Triton) (San Francisco)
|
||
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (New Line/Fine Line) (wide)
|
||
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (Warner)
|
||
RESIDENT ALIEN (Greycat) (NY)
|
||
WHORE (Trimark) (wide)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 23
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
HOUSE PARTY 2 (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 25
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
ANTONIA AND JANE (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
THE BUTCHER'S WIFE (Paramount)
|
||
CURLY SUE (Warner)
|
||
GEORGE'S ISLAND (New Line) (LA)
|
||
PAUL MCCARTNEY'S GET BACK (New Line) (NY, LA)
|
||
HIGHWAY TO HELL (Hemdale)
|
||
THE HITMAN (Cannon)
|
||
LIFE IS SWEET (October Films)
|
||
THE MAN IN THE MOON (MGM-Pathe) (wide)
|
||
MCBAIN (SGE) (wide)
|
||
MINDWALK (Triton) (LA)
|
||
TWO EVIL EYES (Taurus)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other October Releases
|
||
----------------------
|
||
|
||
PELTIER (New Line/Seven Arts)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 1
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
29TH STREET (20th Fox) (NY, LA)
|
||
BLACK ROBE (Samuel Goldwyn) (NY, LA)
|
||
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING (Interstar)
|
||
LOVE CRIMES (Miramax)
|
||
THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS (Universal)
|
||
STEPKIDS (New Line)
|
||
YEAR OF THE GUN (Triumph)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 8
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (Paramount)
|
||
ALONE TOGETHER (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
K-2 (Miramax)
|
||
PROSPERO'S BOOKS (Miramax)
|
||
STRICTLY BUSINESS (Warner)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 13
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disney) 70mm (NY)
|
||
CAPE FEAR (Universal) CDS (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 15
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
BEASTMASTER 2 (New Line) (wider)
|
||
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disney) 70mm (LA)
|
||
CAPE FEAR (Universal) CDS (wide)
|
||
MEETING VENUS (Warner) (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 20
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
FOR THE BOYS (20th Fox) 70mm, CDS (NY, LA)
|
||
YOUNG SOUL REBELS (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 22
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Paramount)
|
||
AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST (Universal)
|
||
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Disney) 70mm (wide)
|
||
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Miramax)
|
||
TALKIN' DIRTY AFTER DARK (New Line) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 27
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
ACES: IRON EAGLE III (New Line)
|
||
FOR THE BOYS (20th Fox) 70mm, CDS (wide)
|
||
MY GIRL (Columbia) (wide)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other November Releases
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
|
||
THE HUMAN SHIELD (Cannon)
|
||
LET HIM HAVE IT (New Line)
|
||
MINDWALK (Triton) (wide)
|
||
SERIOUS MONEY (New Line/Cinetel)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Fall Releases
|
||
-------------------
|
||
|
||
BRENDA STARR (Triumph)
|
||
COLLISION COURSE (Hemdale)
|
||
COMPLEX WORLD (Hemdale)
|
||
STAGES (Greycat) (LA)
|
||
TERMINAL BLISS (Cannon)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 6
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD (Universal) (NY, LA, SF, Chicago, Toronto)
|
||
THE LAST BOY SCOUT (Warner) 70mm
|
||
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (Paramount) 70mm
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 7
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
DECEMBER (IRS)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 11
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
HOOK (TriStar) 70mm CDS
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 19
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
CITY OF JOY (TriStar) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 20
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
BUGSY (TriStar) CDS
|
||
FATHER OF THE BRIDE (Disney)
|
||
JFK (Warner) 70mm CDS
|
||
THE PRINCE OF TIDES (Columbia) (wide)
|
||
RHAPSODY IN AUGUST (Orion Classics) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
December 25
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
GRAND CANYON (20th Fox)
|
||
HIGH HEELS (Miramax)
|
||
THE INNER CIRCLE (Columbia)
|
||
MADAME BOVARY (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
THE PROFESSIONAL: GOLGO 13 (Streamline)
|
||
RUSH (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD 70mm (Warner) (NY, LA, Toronto)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other December Releases
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
|
||
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE (Universal) (limited)
|
||
HEAR MY SONG (Miramax)
|
||
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (Triton)
|
||
KAFKA (Miramax) (NY, LA)
|
||
THE MAMBO KINGS (Warner) (limited)
|
||
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART (Miramax)
|
||
SECRET SOCIETY (Symphony)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 17, 1992
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
A GNOME NAMED GNORM (New Line/7 Arts) (six city test)
|
||
NAKED LUNCH (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 31, 1992
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
SHINING THROUGH (20th Fox) 70mm, CDS
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other January, 1992 Releases
|
||
----------------------------
|
||
|
||
ALAN AND NAOMI (Triton)
|
||
ARTICLE 99 (Orion)
|
||
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD (Universal) (wide)
|
||
BACK IN THE USSR (20th Fox)
|
||
THE DARK WIND (New Line)
|
||
FREEJACK (Warner) 70mm
|
||
FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE (Universal) (wide)
|
||
INTO THE SUN (Trimark)
|
||
LOVE FIELD (Orion)
|
||
THE LUNATIC (Triton)
|
||
SPOTSWOOD (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 7, 1992
|
||
----------------
|
||
|
||
HAIR DRESSER'S HUSBAND (Triton)
|
||
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE (Disney)
|
||
UNDER SUSPICION (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 14, 1992
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
LOVE POTION #9 (20th Fox)
|
||
RADIO FLYER (Columbia) 70mm
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 21, 1992
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
TOTO THE HERO (Triton)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other February 1992 Releases
|
||
----------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
BASIC INSTINCT (TriStar)
|
||
BEETHOVEN (Universal)
|
||
THE DARK HALF (Orion)
|
||
JUICE (Paramount)
|
||
MISSISSIPPI MASALA (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
ONCE UPON A CRIME (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
SHADOWS AND FOG (Orion)
|
||
THIS IS MY LIFE (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 6, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
BLAME IT ON THE BELLBOY (Disney)
|
||
GLADIATORS (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 27, 1992
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
YEAR OF THE COMET (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other March 1992 Releases
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
|
||
THE FAVOR (Orion)
|
||
FERNGULLY, THE LAST RAINFOREST (20th Fox)
|
||
HOWARD'S END (Orion Classics)
|
||
MARRIED TO IT (Orion)
|
||
MY COUSIN VINNY (20th Fox)
|
||
PRELUDE TO A KISS (20th Fox)
|
||
RAPID FIRE (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 3, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
CLOSE TO EDEN (Disney)
|
||
STRAIGHT TALK (Disney)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 10, 1992
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
PASSED AWAY (Disney)
|
||
STEPHEN KING'S SLEEPWALKERS (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other April 1992 Releases
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
|
||
BLUE SKY (Orion)
|
||
ROCK-A-DOODLE (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 15, 1992
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 22, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
ALIEN3 (20th Fox) 70mm, CDS
|
||
UNTITLED TAYLOR HACKFORD FILM (Disney)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other May 1992 Releases
|
||
-----------------------
|
||
|
||
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? (Orion)
|
||
THE PLAYBOYS (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Spring 1992 Releases
|
||
--------------------------
|
||
|
||
A CLASS ACT (Warner)
|
||
KILLER TOMATOES EAT FRANCE (Four Square)
|
||
THE PLAYER (Avenue)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 19, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other June 1992 Releases
|
||
------------------------
|
||
|
||
BATMAN RETURNS (Warner) 70mm
|
||
BOOMERANG (Paramount)
|
||
HONEY, I BLEW UP THE BABY (Disney)
|
||
PATRIOT GAMES (Paramount) 70mm
|
||
ROBOCOP 3 (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 4, 1992
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
ENCINO MAN (Disney)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 10, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
MO' MONEY (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 31, 1992
|
||
-------------
|
||
|
||
BORN YESTERDAY (Disney)
|
||
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other July, 1992 Releases
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
|
||
CLIFFORD (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 14, 1992
|
||
---------------
|
||
|
||
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Summer 1992 Releases
|
||
--------------------------
|
||
|
||
BEBE'S KIDS (Paramount)
|
||
THE ENDANGERED (20th Fox)
|
||
FAR AND AWAY (Universal) 70mm CDS
|
||
GONE FISHIN' (Disney)
|
||
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (20th Fox)
|
||
LETHAL WEAPON 3 (Warner) 70mm
|
||
NEW JACK CITY 2 (Warner)
|
||
SISTER ACT (Disney)
|
||
WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 11, 1992
|
||
------------------
|
||
|
||
THE PICKLE (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other September, 1992 Releases
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
CHINA MOON (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 9, 1992
|
||
---------------
|
||
|
||
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other October 1992 Releases
|
||
---------------------------
|
||
|
||
COLUMBUS (Paramount) 70mm
|
||
THERE GOES MY BABY (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 20, 1992
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other November 1992 Releases
|
||
-----------------------------
|
||
|
||
ALADDIN (Disney) 70mm
|
||
NIGHT AND THE CITY (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Fall 1992 Releases
|
||
------------------------
|
||
|
||
THE CROWDED ROOM (20th Fox)
|
||
THE GOOD SON (20th Fox)
|
||
HEXED (Columbia)
|
||
STEEPLECHASE (Disney)
|
||
SWING KIDS (Disney)
|
||
UNTITLED WOODY ALLEN (TriStar)
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USED PEOPLE (20th Fox)
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Other December 1992 Releases
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DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (Disney)
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A FEW GOOD MEN (Columbia)
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HERO (Columbia)
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HOFFA (20th Fox)
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REMAINS OF THE DAY (Columbia) (limited)
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TOYS (20th Fox)
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Other 1992 Releases
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AFRAID OF THE DARK (New Line)
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ALADDIN (Disney) 70mm
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ALIVE (Disney/Paramount)
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AMERICAN HEART (Avenue)
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AMERICAN ME (Universal)
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ARMY OF DARKNESS (Universal)
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THE ARROWTOOTH WALTZ (Warner)
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THE BABE (Universal)
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THE BABOON HEART (MGM-Pathe)
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BLADE RUNNER (Warner)
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BLUE MAAGA (Disney)
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BLUE MOVIE BLUE (Triumph)
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THE BODYGUARD (Warner)
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A BRONX TALE (Universal)
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THE BUBBLE MAN (Trimark)
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BUDDY COPS (TriStar)
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CHARLIE (TriStar)
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CHARLIE CHAN (Universal)
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CLIFFHANGER (TriStar)
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COLUMBUS (Paramount)
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COOL WORLD (Paramount)
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COP AND A HALF (Universal)
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CREATURE (Universal)
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THE CUTTING EDGE (MGM-Pathe)
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THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Universal)
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DEATH BECOMES HER (Universal)
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DEEP COVER (New Line)
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DIGGSTOWN RINGERS (MGM-Pathe)
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ECOTOPIA (Miramax)
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ERASERHEAD (Miramax)
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EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (TriStar)
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EYES OF AN ANGEL (Triumph)
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FATHER'S DAY (Universal)
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FERNGULLY (20th Fox)
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FRIDA: THE BRUSH OF ANGUISH (New Line)
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||
THE GATE II (Triumph)
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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (New Line)
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||
HIT MAN (Triumph)
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||
HOUSESITTER (Universal)
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||
HURRICANE SMITH (Warner)
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||
INDECENT PROPOSAL (Paramount)
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||
THE INNOCENT (Paramount)
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INNOCENT BLOOD (Warner)
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||
JACK THE BEAR (20th Fox)
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||
JENNIFER EIGHT (Paramount)
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||
JOHNNY SUEDE (Miramax)
|
||
LEATHER JACKETS (Triumph)
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||
LEAVING NORMAL (Universal)
|
||
THE LEPRECHAUN (Trimark)
|
||
LIGHT SLEEPER (New Line)
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||
LONDON KILLS ME (New Line)
|
||
MACHINE GUN KELLY (Columbia)
|
||
MAD DOG AND GLORY (Universal)
|
||
MALCOLM X (Warner)
|
||
MEDICINE MAN (Disney) 70mm
|
||
ME, MYSELF AND I (IRS)
|
||
MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN (Warner)
|
||
MIDNIGHT HEAT (New Line)
|
||
MISSING PIECES (Orion)
|
||
MR. BASEBALL (Universal)
|
||
MR. WONDERFUL (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
MY NEW GUN (TriStar)
|
||
NEWSIES (Disney) 70mm
|
||
NOISES OFF (Disney)
|
||
OFF AND RUNNING (Orion)
|
||
OF MICE AND MEN (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
PASSENGER 57 (Warner)
|
||
PASSED AWAY (Disney)
|
||
THE PLAYBOYS (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
RAGE AND HONOR (IRS)
|
||
RESERVOIR DOGS (New Line)
|
||
RICH IN LOVE (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
RISING SUN (20th Fox)
|
||
A RIVER RUNS THROUGHT IT (New Line)
|
||
ROADSIDE PROPHETS (New Line)
|
||
ROCK-A-DOODLE (Samuel Goldwyn)
|
||
SCENT OF A WOMAN (Universal)
|
||
SCHOOL TIES (Paramount)
|
||
SNEAKERS (Universal)
|
||
STAY TUNED (Warner)
|
||
STOP OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT (Universal)
|
||
STORYVILLE (20th Fox)
|
||
STRAIGHT TALK (Disney)
|
||
STREETRACER (Universal)
|
||
THAT NIGHT (Warner)
|
||
THE VAGRANT (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
THUNDERHEART (TriStar)
|
||
TOM AND JERRY - THE MOVIE (New Line)
|
||
UNFORGIVEN (Warner)
|
||
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER (TriStar)
|
||
UNLAWFUL ENTRY (20th Fox)
|
||
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Universal)
|
||
WATERLAND (New Line)
|
||
WAYNE'S WORLD (Paramount)
|
||
WELCOME TO BUZZSAW (Universal)
|
||
WHITE SANDS (Warner)
|
||
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA (New Line)
|
||
WILDER NAPALM (TriStar)
|
||
THE WIND (Miramax)
|
||
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Paramount)
|
||
ZORRO (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January, 1993 Releases
|
||
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|
||
|
||
PROBABLE CAUSE (Orion)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Summer, 1993 Releases
|
||
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|
||
|
||
BEVERLY HILLS COP III (Paramount)
|
||
JURASSIC PARK (Universal) 70mm
|
||
PRINCESS OF MARS (Disney) 70mm
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Christmas, 1993 Releases
|
||
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|
||
|
||
THE FLINTSTONES (Universal) 70mm
|
||
INTO THE WOODS (Columbia)
|
||
WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT? (Disney) 70mm
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other 1993 Releases
|
||
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|
||
|
||
DEAD WOOD (MGM-Pathe)
|
||
DENNIS THE MENACE (Warner)
|
||
HARD PROMISES (Columbia)
|
||
HOOVER (Warner)
|
||
MIDKNIGHT (Columbia)
|
||
M. BUTTERFLY (Warner)
|
||
SPEED RACER (Warner Brothers)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
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