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1993-94 Film Releases
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(C)1993 Eric G. Carter
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All Rights Reserved
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February 24, 1993
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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 Stereo Digital/Dolby Spectral Recording
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(SS) = Stereo Surrounds
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(CDS) = Cinema Digital Sound
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(DTS) = Universal Digital Sound
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(SDS) = Sony Digitial Sound
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(TBA) = To Be Announced
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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 blowups from 'scope to 70mm
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have aspect ratio of 2.21
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Release dates are *very* subject to change.
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A.I.P. Studios
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DOUBLE THREAT January 8
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(regional)
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Angelika Films
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BY A THREAD TBA
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Dir: Craig Richardson
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Cast: Michael O'Hare
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A psychological drama.
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RED RAIN TBA
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Dir: Jim Kaufman
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Cast: Jennifer Beals, Shane Briant, Russel Crowe
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Producers: Rosa Colosimo, Will Spencer
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Screenplay: Rosa Colosimo
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D.P.: Dion Beere
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Start Date: 1/25/93, Australia, Italy
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Negative Cost: $7 million
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Aries Entertainment
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DR. PETIOT 1993
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Dir: Christian de Chalonge
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Cast: Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Zbignew Horoks
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Producers: Alain Sarde, Philippe Chapelier Dehesdin
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Screenplay: Christian de Chalonge, Dominique Garnier
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This film is based on the true story of France's most notorious
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criminal, who cremated dozens of people during WWII. Excellent
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macabre word. Opened in London on 10/25/92.
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HALFAQUINE: CHILD OF THE TERRACES March
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Dir: Ferid Boughedir
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Cast: Selim Boughedir, Carolyn Chelby
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Producers: Ahmed Attia, Eliane Stutterheim
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Screenplay: Ferid Boughedir
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A twelve-year-old Tunisian boy is no longer permitted to accompany
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his mother to the women's Turkish baths in this coming-of-age story.
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MARTHA AND I 1993
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Dir: Jiri Weiss
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Cast: Michel Piccoli, Marianne Sagebrecht
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Venice Festival Award winning film concerns the WWII marriage of a
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Jewish doctor to his German maid. Sagebrecht last enchanted in
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ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING.
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WAITING Spring
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Dir: Jackie McKimmie
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Cast: Noni Hazelhurst, Deborra-Lee Furness, Frank Whitten, Helen
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Jones, Fiona Press, Denis Moore
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Producer: Ross Matthews
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Screenplay: Jackie McKimmie
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Australian comedy-drama about the reunion of old friends hosted by
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an expectant mother.
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Buena Vista (Disney)
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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Walt Disney) April 2
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Dir: Stephen Sommers
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Cast: Elijah Wood, Laura Bundy , Jason Robards, Robbie Coltrane,
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Courtney B. Vance, Ron Perlman, Mary Louise Wilson, Dana Ivey
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Producers: Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi
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Screenplay: Stephen Sommers, based on Mark Twain's novel
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Start Date: 9/26/92, Natchez, MS
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Negative Cost: $11 million
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One of the entries in the Huck Finn wars. Wood scored in AVALON and
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PARADISE.
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THE AIR UP THERE TBA
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Dir: Paul Michael Glaser
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Cast: Kevin Bacon, Sean McCann, Eric Menyuk, Charles Gitonga Mainah,
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Yolanda Vasquez, Dennis Patrick, Winston Ntshona, Miriam Owiti, Ilo
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Mutombo, Nigel Miguel
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Producer: Rosalie Swerdlin
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Screenplay: Ken Kaufman, Max Apple
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D.P.: Jan Kiesser
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Start Date: 12/5/92, Toronto, Africa
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Comedy where an assistant college- basketball coach goes on a
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recruiting mission to Africa. Plot sounds quite similar to LOW
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FIVES. Formerly NBA star Bob McAdoo is technical consultant.
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Formerly at Universal.
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ALGONQUIN (Touchstone) April 23
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Dir: Mike Binderz
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Cast: Elizabeth Perkins, Diane Lane, Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, Kevin
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Pollak, Kimberly Williams, Matt Craven, Sam Raimi, Vincent Spano,
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Julie Warner
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Producers: Bobby Newmeyer, Jeff Silver
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Screenplay: Mike Binder
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D.P.: Tom Sigel
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Start Date: 8/27/92, Huntsville, Canada
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Ensemble comedy about nine friends who reunite at their old summer
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camp in Algonquin Park in Canada. Formerly titled TAMAKWA, has been
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changed back to the original title.
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ALIVE (Touchstone/Paramount) 1.85 (SRD) (SS) January 15
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Rating: :"R" rated for crash scenes too intense for unaccompanied
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children
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Dir: Frank Marshall
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Illeana Douglas, Sam
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Behrens, Ele Keats
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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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D.P.: Peter James
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Start Date: 3/16/92, British Columbia
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Co-production between two studios is another version of that Andes
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plane crash cannibalism episode of several years ago. Marshall
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directed ARACHNOPHOBIA. Features visual effects by ILM, crisp
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Michael Kahn editing and production design by Norman Reynolds. A
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total of 32 Dolby SR-D Digital prints were released.
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ANGIE, I SAYS (Caravan/Touchstone) TBA
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Dir: Martha Coolidge
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Cast: Geena Davis
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Exec Producer: Joe Roth
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Producer: Larry Brezner
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Screenplay: Todd Graff, based on Avra Wing's novel
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Start Date: 3/93
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The first project at Joe Roth's new Caravan Pictures deal at Disney
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features another script from the super-hot Graff (USED PEOPLE, THE
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VANISHING) after being put into turnaround at Fox. An independent
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Italian-American Queens, NY girl looks for love. A ninties version of
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MARTY. Madonna worked on the development of the project, but has
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decided to topline in a film produced by her Maverick company, as was
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originally announced. Rather than delay the shoot on this film, Roth
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dismissed Madonna and director Jonathan Kaplan and signed Geena Davis.
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Madonna was not pleased. Front-running director candidate Coolidge is
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hot after RAMBLING ROSE and LOST IN YONKERS.
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ASPEN EXTREME (Hollywood) January 22
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Rating: "PG-13" for seom language, drug content and nudity.
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Dir: Patrick Hasburgh
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Cast: Paul Gross, Peter Berg, Teri Polo, Finola Hughes, Tony Griffin
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Producer: Leonard Goldberg
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Screenplay: Patrick Hasburgh
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Negative Cost: $14 million
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Filmed on the slopes at Aspen is this action film from Aspen
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resident Hasburgh. Tony is Merv's son.
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THE BAD BOYS (Hollywood) TBA
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Dir: Michael Bay
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Cast: Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz
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Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer
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Screenplay: George Gallo, Tom Pope, James Toback, Larry Ferguson
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Start Date: TBA, Miami
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Mega-producers Simpson and Bruckheimer finally had a project going
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under their Disney deal, but it has been shelved for the time being
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for script work. Both Carvey and Lovitz have play-or-pay deals ($2
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million and $600K, respectively), so scheduling difficulties may
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really hurt this film's chances of getting made.
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BEAUTY (Hollywood) December
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Dir: TBA
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Cast: Bruce Willis
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Producers: David Willis, Suzanne Todd, Andy Vajna
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Screenplay: Gene Quintano
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Start Date: 2/93
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A fantasy where a medieval Sleeping Beauty wakes up in contemporary
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New York. From Cinergi.
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BEYOND INNOCENCE (Hollywood) Summer
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Dir: Sidney Lumet
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Cast: Don Johnson, Rebecca DeMornay, Jack Warden, Stephen Lang
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Producer: Martin Ransohoff
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Screenplay: Larry Cohen
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D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
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Start Date: 10/7/92, Toronto
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Johnson is a heavy in this murder mystery. DeMornay is the
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attorney who gets involved with him.
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BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT (Hollywood) (SRD) (SS) February 5 (Rochester, Tucson, Las Vegas)
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Rating: "R" for strong violence and language, and for sexuality and drug content Spring (wider)
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Dir: Taylor Hackford
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Cast: Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Damian Chapa, E.J. Castillo,
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Roxann Biggs, Tom Wilson, Karmin Murcelo, Victor Rivers, Jenny Gago,
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Carlos Carrasco, Geoffrey Rivas, Danny Trejo, Victor Mohica, Noah
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Verduzco, Delroy Lindo, Tom Towles, Cing Rhames
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Producer: Taylor Hackford, Jerry Gershwin, Stratton Leopold
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Screenplay: Jimmy Santiago, Jeremy Iacone
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D.P.: Gabriel Beristain
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Composer: Bill Conti
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Start Date: 5/6/91, Los Angeles, San Quentin
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Epic production of the genesis of the Mexican-American "mafia".
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Runs 157 minutes long. Excellent advanced word. Test marketed in
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three cities. Talk of a possible title change.
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BORN YESTERDAY (Hollywood) March 26
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Dir: Luis Mandoki
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Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, John Goodman
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Producer: Dino Constantine Conte
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Screenplay: Douglas McGrath, based on Garson Kanin's play and film
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D.P.: Lajos Koltai
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Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
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Griffith takes on the role that won an Oscar for Judy Holliday.
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Johnson plays the part William Holden filled. They had been pursuing
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Nick Nolte for the Broderick Crawford role in this remake of the
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Garson Kanin play/film, but now John Goodman will take that role.
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Mandoki directed WHITE PALACE.
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BUDDY COPS TBA
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Cast: George C. Scott
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Producer: David Permut
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CABIN BOY (Touchstone) TBA
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Dir: Adam Resnick
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Cast: Chris Elliott
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Producer: Denise DiNovi
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Screenplay: Adam Resnick
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Start Date: 2/17/93
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Spoiled prep school grad sails from Maine to Hawaii. Resnick and
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Elliott worked together on TV show GET A LIFE.
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THE CEMETERY CLUB February 3 (NY, LA)
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Rating: "PG-13" for sensuality and some language February 12 (wide)
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Dir: Bill Duke
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Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Lainie
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Kazan, Christina Ricci, Wallace Shawn, Lee Richardson, Jerry Orbach,
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Louis Guss
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Producers: Bonnie Palef, Sophie Hurst, David Brown
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Screenplay: Ivan Menchell, based on his play
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D.P.: Steven Poster
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Composer: Elmer Bernstein
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Start Date: 7/15/92, Pittsburgh
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Comedy about the relationship between thtree elderly Jewish widows
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who visit their late husbands' graves in Queens each month. One of
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the women falls in love, which causes a rift between the friends.
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Ricci scored big as Wednesday in THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Duke directed
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DEEP COVER and A RAGE IN HARLEM.
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THE COLOR OF KNIGHT TBA
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Dir: TBA
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Cast: TBA
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Producer: Andy Vajna
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Screenplay: Matthew Chapman
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A psychiatrist must take over his recently murdered best friend's
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therapy group in order to root out his killer. From Cinergi.
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COOL RUNNINGS (Touchstone) 1993
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Dir: Jon Turteltaub
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Cast: Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Rawle Lewis, Malik Yoba, John Candy
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Producer: Dawn Steel
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Screenplay: Jean Bereziuk
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D.P.: Phedon Papamichael
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Start Date: 2/1/93, Calgary, Jamaica
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Negative Cost: $14 million
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Story about the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics
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finally gets off the ground. Candy is the coach of the team.
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Turteltaub helmed the surprise moneymaker 3 NINJAS. Formerly titled
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BLUE MAAGA.
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DOUBLE BLAST TBA
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Dir: Tim Spring
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Cast: Linda Blair, Dale 'Apollo' Cook, Robert Z'Dar, Chuck Williams,
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Ron Hall, Joe Estevez, Lorne Berfield, Crystal Summer
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Producers: David Hunt, Chuck Williams, William Burr
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Screenplay: Paul Gulino
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D.P.: Zalton David
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Start Date: 1/11/93, Philippines
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A FAR OFF PLACE 2.35 (Walt Disney) March 12
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Dir: Mikael Salomon
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Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Maximillian Schell, Jack
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Thompson, David Marshall Grant, Karen Austin, Sarel Bok, Jean Pierre
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Castaldi
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Exec Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
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Producers: Eva Monley, Elaine Sperber
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Screenplay: Jonathan Hensleigh, Sally Robinson, inspired by the books
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of Sir Laurens can der Post
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D.P.: Pal Gyulay
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Start Date: 5/26/92, Zimbabwe, Namibia
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Teenaged orphans must make a thousand-mile walk across the Kalahari
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Desert in Africa. Directorial debut by ace D.P. Salomon explains
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spectacular cinematography. First 'scope film from Buena Vista since
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MEDICINE MAN. Witherspoon triumphed in THE MAN IN THE MOON. Has
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hilarious new Roger Rabbit short TRAIL MIX-UP attached. From Amblin'.
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FINAL TOUR TBA
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Dir: Daniel Petrie Jr.
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Producer: Patrick Hasburgh
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Screenplay: Daniel Petrie Jr.
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Start Date: 2/93, Vancouver
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GONE FISHIN' TBA
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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
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Studios.
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HOCUS POCUS (Walt Disney) 2.35 (SRD) July 23
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Dir: Kenny Ortega
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Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Thora Birch,
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Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw
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Producers: David Kirschner, Steven Haft
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Screenplay: Kenny Ortega
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D.P.: Hiro Narita
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Start Date: 10/12/92, Los Angeles, Salem, MA
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Negative Cost: $30+ million
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Three 17th Century witches are transported to present-day Salem, Mass.
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on Halloween night. The many visual effects including a talking
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animatronic cat. Najimy scored in SISTER ACT, Ortega didn't, in
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helming NEWSIES. EFX from Buena Vista.
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HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (W. Disney) February 3 (NY, LA)
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Rating: "G" February 12 (wide)
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Dir: Duwayne Dunham
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Cast: Robert Hays. Kim Greist, Benj Thall, Veronica Lauren, Kevin
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Chevalia
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Producers: Franklin R. Levy, Jeffrey Chernov
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Screenplay: Caroline Thompson and Linda Woolverton, based on Sheila
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Burnford's novel
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Composer: Bruce Broughton
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Two dogs and a cat cross the Sierra Nevada to rejoin their masters.
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Remake of the oft-loved tale. Dunham is one of David Lynch's
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editors...he directed a TWIN PEAKS segment. Woolverton wrote BEAUTY
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AND THE BEAST. Opened in Hollywood exclusively at the El Capitan.
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I LOVE TROUBLE (Touchstone) TBA
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Dir: Charles Shyer
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Cast: Julia Roberts
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Producer: Nancy Meyers
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Screenplay: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
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Producers are looking for Harrison Ford to come aboard as the male
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lead of this romantic comedy, ala' the Tracy-Hepburn films. Meyers
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and Shyer are responsible for the big hit FATHER OF THE BRIDE, as well
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as BABY BOOM and IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES.
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THE INKWELL TBA
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Dir: Matty Rich
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Cast: TBA
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Exec Producer: Irving Azoff
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Producer: Guy Riedel
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Screenplay: Trey Ellis
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Start Date: 5/93
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Negative Cost: $8 million
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Hot director Rich (STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN) directs this film
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about an idiosyncratic African-American teenager who "finds himself"
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when he finds love.
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IRON WILL TBA
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Dir: Charlie Haid
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Cast: Mackenzie Austin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Cox,
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August Schellenberg, George Gerdes, John Terry, Penelope Windust,
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Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Michael Laskin
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Producers: Patrick Palmer, Robert Schwartz
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Screenplay: Jeff Arch
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D.P.: William H. Wages
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Start Date: 1/9/93, Minnesota, Montana
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JEFFERSON IN PARIS 1994
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Dir: James Ivory
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Cast: Greta Scacchi
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Producer: Ismail Merchant
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Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Start Date: 9/93, Paris
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Negative Cost: $14 million
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Merchant/Ivory get their Disney deal going with a tale set in the
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18th Century when Thomas Jefferson was ambassador to France.
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JOEY COYLE Fall
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Dir: Ramon Menendez
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Cast: John Cusack
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Producer: Tom Musca
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Screenplay: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca
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Start Date: 2/1/93, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
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An unemployed longshoreman finds $1 million in unmarked bils and
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launders it through the Mafia. Menendez and Musca worked together
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on STAND AND DELIVER.
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THE LION KING 1st Half 1994
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Dir: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
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Voices: Robert Guillaume
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Producer: Don Hahn
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Screenplay: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts
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Music: Elton John
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Lyrics: Tim Rice
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Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
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Disney's 32nd animated feature concerns the coming-of-age of a young
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lion. Hahn produced BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Formerly titled KING
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OF THE JUNGLE.
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LIFE WITH MIKEY (Touchstone) August 13
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Dir: James Lapine
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Cast: Michael J. Fox
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Producers: Scott Rudin, Marc Lawrence
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D.P.: Laszlo Kovacs
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Start Date: 9/92
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A former child star becomes a talent agent because he loves children
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in this comedy. Lapine directed IMPROMPTU.
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THE MIGHTY DUCKS 2 (Walt Disney) TBA
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Dir: TBA
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Cast: TBA
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Producers: Jordan Kerner, John Avnet
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Screenplay: Steve Brill
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Start Date: 6/93
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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS November
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Dir: Henry Selick
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Producers: Tim Burton, Denise DiNovi
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Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
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Composer: Danny Elfman
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Start Date: 8/1/91, San Francisco
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This stop-motion animation holiday fantasy has secretly been in
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production for some time now. Elfman wrote ten songs and the score,
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as well as providing the singing voice for the lead character, Jack
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Skellington.
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ORIGINAL SIN TBA
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Dir: Mike Figgis
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Cast: Sharon Stone
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Producer: Andy Vajna
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Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
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Start Date: 3/93
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Negative Cost: $35 million
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Hot, hot Sharon Stone is a woman haunted by the memories of a man
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she loved in a past life. A talk-show host helps her find the man,
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while simultaneously falling in love with her. There is apparently
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more to the past love than she recalls....... Eszterhas wrote
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Stone's breakthrough film BASIC INSTINCT. From Cinergi.
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POCAHONTAS November 1994
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Composer: Alan Menken
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Disney's 33rd feature-length animated film is a romantic "Romeo and
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Juliet" with Pocahontas and John Smith.
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A PORTRAIT OF A LADY TBA
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Dir: James Ivory
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Producer: Ismail Merchant
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Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Start Date: 1993
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First film under the Merchant-Ivory deal with Disney.
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THE PROGRAM (Touchstone) Summer
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Dir: David S. Ward
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Cast: James Caan, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson, Halle Berry, Omar
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Epps, Jon Maynard Pennell, Abe Benrubi, Andrew Bryniarski, Duane
|
||
Davis, Joey Adams
|
||
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
|
||
Screenplay: Aaron Lathan, David S. Ward
|
||
D.P.: Victor Hammer
|
||
Start Date: 11/16/92, South Carolina
|
||
Negative Cost: $15-$20 million
|
||
Caan is the coach in this film which follows an incoming college
|
||
freshman and a quarterback in contention for the Heisman Trophy.
|
||
Over the course of the football season, the coach's program puts
|
||
itself above the needs of the players. "It's about love, sex, honor,
|
||
betrayal, winning, losing, drugs, booze, hard work and quitting. It's
|
||
about college." Co-produced with The Samuel Goldwyn Co.
|
||
|
||
QUIZ SHOW (Hollywood) TBA
|
||
Dir: Robert Redford
|
||
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Attansio, based on Richard Goodwin's book REMEMBERING
|
||
AMERICA
|
||
The 1950's TV quiz show scandals are taken to task in this film from
|
||
Baltimore Pictures.
|
||
|
||
RAT RACE (Touchstone) TBA
|
||
Dir: Amy Heckerling
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Amy Heckerling, based on Alain Renais' film MON ONCLE
|
||
D'AMERIQUE
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Inspired by Renais' wonderful 1980 film, which depicted the
|
||
inevitability of adult human behavior based on early upbringing,
|
||
including several scenes played by rats, Ms. Heckerling's entire film
|
||
will have rats used throughout the film.
|
||
|
||
RENAISSANCE MAN December
|
||
Dir: Penny Marshall
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Penny Marshall, Andy Vajna
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Burnstein
|
||
Negative Cost: $25+ million
|
||
A burned-out ad exec gets a job teaching Army personnel and falls in
|
||
love with teaching. Apparently Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks are both
|
||
considering this one. From Cinergi.
|
||
|
||
SANTA CLAUSE (Hollywood) December
|
||
Cast: Tim Allen
|
||
Producer: Robert Newmyer
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
|
||
Star of TV's "Home Improvement" makes his feature film debut in this
|
||
comedy of a young child's father who becomes Santa.
|
||
|
||
SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Touchstone) December
|
||
Dir: Luis Mandoki
|
||
Cast: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan
|
||
Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Bass, Al Franken, Susan Shilliday
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
A co-dependent relationship with a husband who discovers that his
|
||
wife is an alcoholic. This project has been jumping around since
|
||
1989, with directors Garry Marshall, Alan Pakula and Lasse Hallstrom,
|
||
actors Tom Hanks, Michelle Pfeiffer abd Debra Winger involved at
|
||
various stages. Mandoki helmed WHITE PALACE and GABY - A TRUE STORY.
|
||
|
||
SISTER ACT II (Touchstone) Summer
|
||
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg
|
||
Producers: Dawn Steel, Scott Rudin
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Will boxoffice lightning strike twice? Goldberg becomes the highest
|
||
paid actress in history for this project.
|
||
|
||
SLEEPING BEAUTY 2.21 70mm TBA
|
||
Disney's stylized Technirama animated feature makes yet another
|
||
appearance on the big screen. Delayed from an Easter 1993 opening.
|
||
|
||
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFSSNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 1.33
|
||
Summer
|
||
Following another painstaking frame-by-frame restoration, this all-
|
||
time Disney classic will resurface in Dolby Stereo.
|
||
|
||
THE SON-IN-LAW (Hollywood) July 30
|
||
Dir: Steve Rash
|
||
Cast: Pauly Shore, Lane Smith, Cindy Pickett, Carla Gugino, Mason
|
||
Adams, Dan Gauthier, Dennis Burkley, Patrick Renna
|
||
Producers: Peter Lenkov, Michael Rotenberg
|
||
Screenplay: Patrick Clifton, Susan McMartin, Shawn Schepps, Fax Bahr,
|
||
Adam Small
|
||
D.P.: Peter Deming
|
||
Start Date: 11/15/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Wacked-out comedy about a hip urban guy who masquerades as the
|
||
fiance of a Midwest farm girl. MTV's Shore scored well in ENCINO MAN.
|
||
|
||
STAKEOUT 2 (Touchstone) Summer
|
||
Dir: John Badham
|
||
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell
|
||
Producers: Jim Kouf, Lynn Bigelow
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Kouf
|
||
D.P.: Roy Wagner
|
||
Start Date: 1/11/93, Las Vegas, Vancouver
|
||
Sequel to the successful 1987 film. This time they must pose as a
|
||
family.
|
||
|
||
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON TBA
|
||
Producer: Nick Krantz
|
||
A new version of the tale of Darkest Africa.
|
||
|
||
STEEPLECHASE (Hollywood) 1993
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
SUPER MARIO BROTHERS (Hollywood) (SRD) May 28
|
||
Dir: Rocky Morton, Anabel Jankel
|
||
Cast: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper,
|
||
Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, Dana Kaminsky, Mojo Nixon
|
||
Producers: Roland Joffe, Jake Eberts
|
||
Screenplay: Barry Morrow, Ed Solomon
|
||
D.P.: Dean Semler
|
||
Negative Cost: $45 million
|
||
Start Date: 5/6/92, Wilmington, NC
|
||
Live-action comedy-adventure based on the video game is being co-
|
||
directed by the creators of the original MAX HEADROOM for British TV.
|
||
Tons of visual effects. From Lightmotive.
|
||
|
||
SWING KIDS (Hollywood) March 5 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Thomas Carter
|
||
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Sean Leonard,
|
||
Christian Bale, Frank Whaley
|
||
Exec Producers: Chris Meledandri, Frank Marshall
|
||
Producers: Mark Gordon, John Bard Manulis, Jan Balzer
|
||
Screenplay: Jonathan Feldman
|
||
Start Date: 2/3/92, Prague
|
||
Story of rebellious teenagers in Nazi Germany whose love for
|
||
American swing music drives their passions against the tyranny.
|
||
Branagh was last seen in PETER'S FRIENDS, Leonard scored big in DEAD
|
||
POETS SOCIETY, Bale also toplined Disney's NEWSIES and Whaley was last
|
||
seen in HOFFA. Carter has been scheduled to direct Lucasfilm's RED
|
||
TAILS.
|
||
|
||
TERMINAL VELOCITY (Hollywood) December
|
||
Dir: Kevin Reynolds
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Andy Vajna, Ted Field
|
||
Screenplay: David Twohy
|
||
Negative Cost: $50 million
|
||
A skydiving instructor investigates the death of a student and
|
||
stumbles onto an international conspiracy. Tentative helmer Reynolds
|
||
directed ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES. From Cinergi and
|
||
Interscope.
|
||
|
||
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Touchstone) November
|
||
Dir: Stephen Herek
|
||
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell
|
||
Exec Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
|
||
Producers: Joe Roth, Roger Birnbaum
|
||
Screenplay: David Loughery
|
||
D.P.: Dean Semler
|
||
Composer: Michael Kamen
|
||
Start Date: 4/15/93, Vienna, Salzburg, London
|
||
Fast-tracked by Disney in the Musketeers' War, this project has
|
||
reverted to Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures. Sutherland plays Athos,
|
||
Sheen is Aramis and O'Donnell is D'Artagnan. D.P. Semler won an
|
||
Oscar for DANCES WITH WOLVES.
|
||
|
||
TINA: WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (Touchstone) July 9
|
||
Dir: Brian Gibson
|
||
Cast: Angela Bassett, Larry Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis
|
||
Producers: Barry Krost, Doug Chapin
|
||
Screenplay: Kate Lanier, Larry Fishburne
|
||
D.P.: Jamie Anderson
|
||
Start Date: 12/9/92, Los Angeles, Sacramento
|
||
The life story of Tina Turner. Whitney Houston and Halle Berry were
|
||
among those who tested for the role that went to Ms. Bassett, who can
|
||
be seen in MALCOLM X. Fishburne plays Ike Turner.
|
||
|
||
TOMBSTONE TBA
|
||
Dir: Kevin Jarre
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Jim Jacks, Sean Daniel
|
||
Screenplay: Kevin Jarre
|
||
Start Date: 3/29/93, Arizona
|
||
An historial epic about Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at O.K. Corral
|
||
is one of two Earp features to be greenlighted for this year. Kevin
|
||
Costner was offered the lead in this one before taking the other. A
|
||
top-flight ensemble cast may be headed by Kurt Russell. From
|
||
Cinergi.
|
||
|
||
TOTALLY LONDON (Hollywood) TBA
|
||
Cast: Pauly Shore
|
||
Producers: Brad Weston, Bob Beitcher, Michael Rotenberg
|
||
Screenplay: Ryan Rowe
|
||
Shore goes to England to work for a Duke's family.
|
||
|
||
TRAIL MIXUP March 12
|
||
Dir: Rob Minkoff
|
||
Voices: Charles Fleischer
|
||
Exec Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Start Date: Summer '92, Orlando
|
||
This time Roger Rabbit goes out west in this short to be produced at
|
||
Disney Animation's Florida studios. This one is attached to the
|
||
front of A FAR OFF PLACE (an Amblin' film) as Mr. Spielberg is tired
|
||
of helping Disney productions at the boxoffice with his shorts.
|
||
|
||
TWIST (Touchstone) TBA
|
||
Dir: Frank Oz
|
||
Cast: Steve Martin
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Martin
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
Drama with comedic overtones concerns families and the criminal
|
||
element.
|
||
|
||
ULTIMATUM (Touchstone) TBA
|
||
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
|
||
Screenplay: Laurance Dworet, Robert Roy Poole, Jim Kouf, Ron Shelton
|
||
Thriller concerning political terrorism. Hurd produced ALIENS,
|
||
TREMORS and RAISING CAIN, among others.
|
||
|
||
UNTITLED PATRICK SWAYZE (Hollywood) June 25
|
||
Dir: Darrell James Roodt
|
||
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Diane Ladd, Brian Bonsall, Sabrina
|
||
Lloyd
|
||
Producers: Anant Singh, Nick Pileggi, Gillian Gorfil
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Spencer
|
||
Start Date: 11/16/92, San Antonio, New Orleans, Los Angeles
|
||
Swayze is a wayward father who goes on the lam with his two
|
||
children. Berry is the female lead, a reporter. She was most
|
||
recently seen in BOOMERANG. Bonsall plays Lt. Worf's son Alexander in
|
||
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Roodt directed SARAFINA! Pileggi
|
||
produced GOODFELLAS. Formerly titled JACK OF HEARTS and HONOR AMONG
|
||
THIEVES.
|
||
|
||
WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT (Touchstone) TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Voice of Charles Fleischer, TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Screenplay: TBA
|
||
This prequel to the 1988 smash hit WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT has been
|
||
put on hold since Disney and Amblin' cannot agree on a script after
|
||
innumerable attempts.
|
||
|
||
ZONE OF SILENCE TBA
|
||
Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer
|
||
Screnplay: John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
CannonCannon
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN CYBORG April 16
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and for language
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN NINJA 5 June 4
|
||
Cast: Michael Dudikoff
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN SAMURAI TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence
|
||
Dir: San Firstenberg
|
||
Cast: David Bradley
|
||
Producer: Alan Greenblatt
|
||
Screenplay: Courtney Joyner
|
||
An American Ninja's brother is killed and he goes to Turkey to find
|
||
those responsible.
|
||
|
||
CHICAGO LOOP TBA
|
||
Cast: James Spader, Theresa Russell
|
||
A suspense film.
|
||
|
||
COLD TO THE TOUCH TBA
|
||
Dir: Aaron Norris
|
||
Cast: Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels, Christopher Neame, Sheree J.
|
||
Wilson, Jack Adalist, Ori Levi, Asher Tzarfati, Elky Jacobs, Jack
|
||
Messinger
|
||
Producer: Chris Pearce
|
||
Screenplay: Don Thompson
|
||
D.P.: Joao Fernandez
|
||
Start Date: 10/28/92, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
|
||
Chuck's son Aaron gets to boss Dad around.
|
||
|
||
FIFTY/FIFTY February 26 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for scenes of violence, and for language
|
||
Dir: Charles Martin Smith
|
||
Cast: Peter Weller, Robert Hays, Charles Martin Smith
|
||
Producers: Maurice Singer, Raymond Wagner
|
||
Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Michael Butler
|
||
Two mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow the dictator of a
|
||
small island nation in the South China Sea in this comedy/adventure.
|
||
|
||
GOOD COP/BAD COP May 7
|
||
|
||
MIDNIGHT RIDE May 14
|
||
Dir: Bob Bralver
|
||
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Robert Mitchum
|
||
Producer: Ovidio G. Assonitis
|
||
Screenplay: Russell V. Manzatt, Bob Bralver
|
||
Thriller about a woman who gives a lift to a serial killer and her
|
||
husband who must save her.
|
||
|
||
MUMMY LIVES June 11
|
||
|
||
NIGHTMARE April 30
|
||
|
||
NO PLACE TO HIDE May 26
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
|
||
Dir: Richard Danus
|
||
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau
|
||
Producer: Alan Amiel
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Danus
|
||
A secret society threatens the life of a 14-year old orphan girl.
|
||
A detective risks his all to protect her. Formerly titled TIPPERARY.
|
||
|
||
NO RETURN TBA
|
||
Cast: Charles Bronson
|
||
Somehow I don't think they're talking about bottles...
|
||
|
||
OVER THE LINE August
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence, sexuality and language
|
||
|
||
PRISON HEAT August
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
|
||
|
||
RESCUE ME June 4
|
||
Dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman
|
||
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Dee Wallace Stone, Stephen Dorff, Ami Dolenz,
|
||
Peter DeLuise
|
||
Producer: Richard Alfieri
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Snyder
|
||
A high school nerd rescues the girl of his dreams from a kidnapping
|
||
with the help of a smuggler.
|
||
|
||
STREET KNIGHT March 12
|
||
Cast: Jeff Speakman, Bernie Casey
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Castle Hill
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN FRIENDS
|
||
Spring
|
||
Dir: Tristam Powell
|
||
Cast: Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina
|
||
British film based on Palin's true story about his grandfather.
|
||
|
||
FIVE GIRLS Spring
|
||
Dir: Amos Kollek
|
||
Cast: Amos Kollek, Mari Nelson, Marla Sucharetza
|
||
Producer: Julian Schlossberg
|
||
Screenplay: Amos Kollek
|
||
Israeli Kollek comes to New York to study prostitutes who walk the
|
||
streets. Cast mixes professional actresses and real prostitutes.
|
||
|
||
TRUSTING BEATRICE February 12 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "PG" for sensuality and language
|
||
Dir: Cindy Lou Johnson
|
||
Cast: Irene Jacob, Mark Evan Jacobs
|
||
Producer: Mark Evan Jacobs
|
||
Screenplay: Cindy Lou Johnson
|
||
A romantic comedy. Jacob starred in THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE.
|
||
Formerly titled CLAUDE. Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Columbia
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE September 17
|
||
Dir: Martin Scorsese
|
||
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
|
||
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Barbara DeFina
|
||
Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese, based on Edith Wharton's novel
|
||
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
|
||
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
|
||
Start Date: 3/24/92, Troy NY, Philadelphia, New York City
|
||
This $30+ million project was put into turnaround at Fox and has
|
||
found a home with Sony Pictures Entertainment, as Mark Canton snapped
|
||
it up. Fox balked at the increasing cost of the film, which is an
|
||
1870's doomed romance-drama. It is based on Edith Wharton's Pulitzer
|
||
Prize-winning novel. Lewis stars in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS for Fox
|
||
and Pfeiffer can be seen meowing in BATMAN RETURNS for Warner Brothers
|
||
and LOVE FIELD for Orion. Production Designer is Dante Ferretti (THE
|
||
NAME OF THE ROSE), editor is Thelma Schoonmaker (who else?), who
|
||
edited CAPE FEAR, GOODFELLAS, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST and RAGING
|
||
BULL, for which she was Oscared. This is one of only two pictures
|
||
that Scorsese is permitted to make outside his six-year exclusive deal
|
||
at Universal. Delayed from a Christmas, 1992 platform release.
|
||
|
||
AMOS & ANDREW March 5
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for drug content and some language
|
||
Dir: E. Max Frye
|
||
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Dabney Coleman, Michael
|
||
Lerner, Margaret Colin, Brad Dourif
|
||
Exec Producer: Jonathan Demme
|
||
Producer: Gary Goetzman
|
||
Screenplay: E. Max Frye
|
||
Composer: Richard Gibbs
|
||
Start Date: 4/1/92, Wilmington, NC
|
||
Comedy with a black filmmaker's adventure with a Martha's Vineyard
|
||
police chief and a kidnapper. Delayed from a February 26th
|
||
opening.
|
||
|
||
ANNIE AND THE CASTLE OF TERROR TBA
|
||
Dir: Lewis Gilbert
|
||
Cast: Patrick Stewart
|
||
Exec Producer: Ray Stark
|
||
Producers: William C. Nestel, Vicky Herman
|
||
Screenplay: Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming
|
||
Negative Cost: $16 million
|
||
Start Date: 4/5/93, Prague
|
||
Set on the eve of WWII in 1938, this sequel to ANNIE stars Stewart
|
||
as Daddy Warbucks alongside a yet-to-be-cast "more mature" Little
|
||
Orphan Annie. Film is an action/adventure, rather than a musical.
|
||
Production is scheduled during Stewart's hiatus from STAR TREK: THE
|
||
NEXT GENERATION. Gilbert directed several Bond films, as well as
|
||
ALFIE, EDUCATING RITA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE and STEPPING OUT.
|
||
|
||
BEFORE AND AFTER TBA
|
||
Dir: Barbet Schroeder
|
||
Cast: Meryl Streep
|
||
Parents cover up their son's heinous crime.
|
||
|
||
THE BLACK PANTHER TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes
|
||
Producers: Brad Weston, Bob Beitcher
|
||
Start Date: 1/93
|
||
An African king transforms into a black panther to do heroic deeds.
|
||
|
||
BLANKMAN TBA
|
||
Cast: Damon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans
|
||
Producer: Damon Wayans, Eric Gold
|
||
Screenplay: Damon Wayans
|
||
Start Date: 2/93
|
||
A spoof of superheroes.
|
||
|
||
BODILY HARM (Castle Rock) September 24
|
||
Dir: Harold Becker
|
||
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, Peter
|
||
Gallagher, Josef Sommer, George C. Scott
|
||
Producers: Rachel Pfeffer, Charles Mulvehill, Harold Becker
|
||
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, Jonas McCord
|
||
D.P.: Gordon Willis
|
||
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92, Los Angeles, Boston, Northampton, MA
|
||
Love triangle thriller from the author of LITTLE MAN TATE. Formerly
|
||
titled DAMAGES.
|
||
|
||
CALENDAR GIRL May 7
|
||
Dir: John Whitesell
|
||
Cast: Jason Priestley, Jay O'Connell, Gabriel Olds, Joe Pantoliano,
|
||
Kurt Fuller, Stephen Tobolowsky
|
||
Exec Producers: Penny Marshall, Elliot Abbott
|
||
Producer: Debbie Robbins
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Shapiro
|
||
D.P.: Tom Priestley
|
||
Start Date: 3/23/92, Los Angeles, Perris CA
|
||
Three friends leave their hometown in Nevada for Hollywood in 1962.
|
||
They hope to meet Marilyn Monroe.....The heartthrob from BEVERLY HILLS
|
||
90210 gets a feature starring role. Formerly titled ME AND MONROE.
|
||
|
||
CURE TBA
|
||
Dir: Francis Coppola
|
||
Screenplay: Diane Johnson
|
||
An AIDS story.
|
||
|
||
D'ARTAGNAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Sam Raimi
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Jon Peters, Brad Wyman
|
||
Screenplay: John Fasano
|
||
A prequel to the "Three Musketeers" story, loosely based on the
|
||
Alexandre Dumas story, this film tells a revisionist version how
|
||
D'Artagnan meets the other Musketeers. They are younger and hipper
|
||
than the original.
|
||
|
||
DAVY CROCKETT STORY TBA
|
||
Dir: David Zucker
|
||
Screenplay: David Pyne
|
||
|
||
DRACULA II TBA
|
||
Dir: Francis Coppola
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins
|
||
Hopkins is the only participant from BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA who's
|
||
signed on for the sequel thus far.
|
||
|
||
DRUMFIRE TBA
|
||
Dir: John Singleton
|
||
The third feature from the talented helmer of BOYZ 'N THE HOOD.
|
||
|
||
ED WOOD TBA
|
||
Dir: Tim Burton
|
||
Cast: Johnny Depp
|
||
Producer: Denise DiNovi
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
|
||
Start Date: 2/93
|
||
Biopic about the cult film director of PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE.
|
||
|
||
EL MARIACHI February 26
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence. (NY, LA, San Diego, San Antonio, Albuquerque)
|
||
Dir: Robert Rodriguez
|
||
Cast: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Peter Marquardt
|
||
Producers: Robert Rodriguez, Carols Gallardo
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Rodriguez, Carols Gallardo
|
||
D.P.: Robert Rodriguez
|
||
Negative Cost: $7,000!
|
||
First time director Rodriguez spins a futuristic action-adventure
|
||
gunslinger yarn set in Mexico. A lone mariachi musician enters a
|
||
small border town at the same time as a hit man. Rodriguez did not
|
||
even have sync sound. All dialogue is dubbed. Blown up to 35mm
|
||
from 16mm. In Spanish with English subtitles. Film debuted at the
|
||
Sundance Film Festival. Outstanding word.
|
||
|
||
FIRST KNIGHT TBA
|
||
Dir: Jerry Zucker
|
||
Producer: Jon Davison
|
||
Screenplay: Bo Goldman, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton
|
||
Negative Cost: $35+ million
|
||
Start Date: 5/93, United Kingdom
|
||
Another Arthurian tale for the big screen will be the first project
|
||
of Zucker since his $500+ million grosser GHOST.
|
||
|
||
FREE OF EDEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Andy Wolke
|
||
Cast: Sidney Poitier
|
||
Producer: Sidney Poitier
|
||
Screenplay: Yule Caise
|
||
Poitier is a teacher who "makes a difference" in tough educational
|
||
times.
|
||
|
||
GERONIMO TBA
|
||
Dir: Walter Hill
|
||
Producer: Neil Canton
|
||
Screenplay: John Milius
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
Biopic about the Native American chief.
|
||
|
||
GROUNDHOG DAY February 12
|
||
Rating: "PG" for some thematic elements.
|
||
Dir: Harold Ramis
|
||
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Steve Tobolowsky,
|
||
Brian Doyle-Murray
|
||
Producer: Trevor Albert
|
||
Screenplay: Danny Rubin
|
||
D.P.: John Bailey
|
||
Composer: George Fenton
|
||
Start Date: 3/16/92, Woodstock, IL
|
||
Murray is a disc jockey continually reliving one day in his life.
|
||
But will he see his shadow? It all takes place on Groundhog Day.
|
||
Trailer is hilarious. Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
HANS AND FRANZ TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon
|
||
Producers: Lorne Michaels, Bernie Brillstein
|
||
Saturday Night Live spin-off follows the two body builders who
|
||
travel to Hollywood to try to meet their idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
|
||
|
||
HEXED January 22
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality and language
|
||
Dir: Alan Spencer
|
||
Cast: Arye Gross, Claudia Christian, Adrienne Shelly, Robin Curtis,
|
||
Norman Fell, Michael Knight, Ray Baker, R. Lee Ermey, Brandis Kemp
|
||
Producer: Marc S. Fisher
|
||
Screenplay: Alan Spencer
|
||
D.P.: James Chressanthis
|
||
Start Date: 11/4/91, Ft. Worth, Irving TX
|
||
A neurotic thriller about a bellboy (Gross) who gets mixed up with a
|
||
beautiful but deadly model during her stay at his hotel. Shot in a
|
||
vacant Hilton in Texas. Hilarious trailer. Dreadful word.
|
||
|
||
HOUDINI TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Ray Stark
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Seaman, Jeffrey Price
|
||
A big screen treatment of the life of legendary illusionist Harry
|
||
Houdini comes to life after twenty years of development by mega-
|
||
producer Ray Stark. The film will approach the subject from the angle
|
||
of the relationship between Harry and his wife and how their lives
|
||
were interwoven with mysticism and spirituality. Bob Zemeckis has at
|
||
least temporarily dropped out of the project as director. Price wrote
|
||
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. The film is a Columbia-Universal co-
|
||
production, Universal holds the foreign rights.
|
||
|
||
I'LL DO ANYTHING November
|
||
Dir: James Brooks
|
||
Cast: Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Tracey Ullman, Joely
|
||
Richardson, Whittni Wright, Joely Fisher, Jeb Brown, Vicki Lewis, Anne
|
||
Heche, Robert Joy, Ian McKellan
|
||
Producers: James L. Brooks, Polly Platt
|
||
Screenplay: James L. Brooks
|
||
Songs: Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Carol King
|
||
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
|
||
D.P. Michael Ballhaus
|
||
Start Date: 8/24/92, Los Angeles
|
||
James L. Brooks' first feature since BROADCAST NEWS is a musical
|
||
movie about Hollywood where Nolte must age 20 years and has a six-year-
|
||
old daughter. A new film from Brooks is always welcome news. Albert
|
||
Brooks plays a sleazy film producer. Formerly titled IT'S ONLY A
|
||
MOVIE.
|
||
|
||
IN THE LINE OF FIRE (Castle Rock) July 23
|
||
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen
|
||
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott
|
||
Producer: Jeff Apple
|
||
Screenplay: Jeff Maguire
|
||
D.P.: John Bailey
|
||
Composer: Ennio Morricone
|
||
Start Date: 10/92, Washington DC, Chicago, LA
|
||
Negative Cost: $30+ million
|
||
Eastwood is Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan who, haunted by
|
||
JFK's assasination, is tracking down would-be presidential assassin
|
||
Malkovich. McDermott plays Eastwood's Secret Service partner.
|
||
Petersen is best known for DAS BOOT and THE NEVERENDING STORY. Lead
|
||
female role was turned down by Sharon Stone.
|
||
|
||
INTO THE WOODS December
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Brian Henson
|
||
Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
|
||
Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
JOHNNY SPAIN TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producers: Oliver Stone, Suzanne De Passe
|
||
Screenplay: Anna Hamilton Phelan
|
||
True story of the Black Panther who turned his life around in spite
|
||
of having been framed for a prison murder.
|
||
|
||
JOSH AND S.A.M. (Castle Rock) August
|
||
Dir: Billy Weber
|
||
Cast: Noah Fleiss, Jacob Tierney, Martha Plimpton, Chris Penn
|
||
Producer: Martin Brest
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Deese
|
||
D.P.: Don Burgess
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92., Billings, MT, Salt Lake City, Calgary
|
||
A 12-year-old boy convinces his 7-year old sibling that he is a
|
||
"strategically altered mutant", a killing machine. The boys set off
|
||
on the road to cure the S.A.M. spell and escape their unhappy lives.
|
||
Formerly titled KILLER S.A.M.
|
||
|
||
KARATE KID IV TBA
|
||
Dir: Chris Cain
|
||
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
|
||
Start Date: 6/93
|
||
I hear this time it's a girl.
|
||
|
||
THE LAST ACTION HERO 2.35 70mm (SDS) (SS) June 18
|
||
Dir: John McTiernan
|
||
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Mercedes Ruehl, Austin
|
||
O'Brien, Charles Dance, Anthony Quinn, Robert Prosky, Tom Noonan,
|
||
Frank McRae, Art Carney, Joan Plowright
|
||
Producer: Steve Roth, John McTiernan
|
||
Screenplay: Zak Penn, Adam Leff, rewrite by Shane Black and David
|
||
Arnott, polish by William Goldman
|
||
D.P.: Dean Semler
|
||
Composer: Michael Kamen
|
||
Negative Cost: $70 million
|
||
Start Date: 11/2/92, Los Angeles, New York
|
||
Exciting, action-packed heart-warming tale of a teenager who leaves
|
||
the real world onto the movie screen and meets his hero, Jack Slater,
|
||
a fictional film character, and goes with him on butt-kicking heroic
|
||
adventures. Schwarzenegger and McTiernan last worked together on
|
||
PREDATOR. R/Greenberg & Associates will be supervising the humongous
|
||
visual effects work on this fantasy mega-project. There will be lots
|
||
of digital F/X at film resolution. Goldman was paid $750,000+ to do
|
||
a quick script polish. D.P. Semler was Oscared for DANCES WITH
|
||
WOLVES. Young Mr. O'Brien is the teenager and was in THE LAWNMOWER
|
||
MAN. Oscar-winner Ruehl plays his mother. Oscar-winner Abraham is
|
||
an FBI agent. Amusing (and expensive) teaser trailer attached to
|
||
prints of A FEW GOOD MEN. Expect to see some prints in the new Sony
|
||
Digital Sound (SDS).
|
||
|
||
LOST IN YONKERS (Rastar) May 14
|
||
Dir: Martha Coolidge
|
||
Cast: Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, Irene Worth
|
||
Producer: Ray Stark
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Simon, based on his play
|
||
Start Date: 8/92
|
||
Neil Simon's Pultizer Prize and multiple Tony-winning play is
|
||
brought to the big screen by hot director Coolidge (RAMBLING ROSE) and
|
||
hot lead actress Ruehl. Ruehl won a Tony for the role she will
|
||
reprise and pocketed a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for
|
||
Supporting Actress for THE FISHER KING. Dreyfuss has signed on to
|
||
play Louie. Production wrapped on 10/16/92. Nine hours of film is
|
||
being edited digitally with an Avid system running on a Mac Quadra.
|
||
|
||
LOVE IN THE ATTIC TBA
|
||
Dir: Alphonso Caron
|
||
Cast: Geena Davis
|
||
Producers: Richard Donner, Lauren Schuler-Donner, Geena Davis
|
||
|
||
MACHINE GUN KELLY TBA
|
||
Dir: Marek Kanievska
|
||
Cast: William Baldwin
|
||
Producer: Sam Arkoff
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Werb, Anna Hamilton-Phelan
|
||
Will the old producing master of B-movies move up a letter in the
|
||
alphabet? Baldwin last scored big in BACKDRAFT.
|
||
|
||
MY GIRL II TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Anna Chlumsky
|
||
A sequel has already been green-lighted by Columbia and Imagine.
|
||
|
||
MY LIFE TBA
|
||
Dir: Bruce Joel Rubin
|
||
Cast: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman
|
||
Producers: Jerry Zucker, Hunt Lowry, Bruce Joel Rubin
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin
|
||
Start Date: 2/25/93, Los Angeles, Chicago
|
||
Oscar winning-screenwriter Rubin (GHOST, JACOB'S LADDER) makes his
|
||
directorial debut with this drama concerning a terminally-ill cancer
|
||
patient whose wife is pregnant. With the assistance of a faith
|
||
healer, the man learns to prepare himself spiritually and emotionally
|
||
for death. Kidman will play the expectant wife of cancer-stricken
|
||
Keaton. Chicago locations will double for Detroit. Zucker and
|
||
Rubin teamed for GHOST at Paramount.
|
||
|
||
NEEDFUL THINGS (Castle Rock) August 13
|
||
Dir: Fraser Heston
|
||
Cast: Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Max von Sydow, J.T. Walsh, Amanda
|
||
Plummer
|
||
Producer: Jack Cummins
|
||
Screenplay: W.D. Richter, based on Stephen King's novel
|
||
D.P.: Tony Westman
|
||
Start Date: Fall '92, Maine
|
||
The devil opens a novelty shop in town of Castle Rock and
|
||
manipulates the residents' lives. The production company Castle
|
||
Rock paid $1.75 million for the film rights. Harris is Sheriff
|
||
Pangborn, von Sydow is Gaunt, the shopowner. Bedelia is Polly
|
||
Chalmers and Walsh is Danforth Keeton III. Heston is Chuck's son.
|
||
|
||
NO FURTHER QUESTIONS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producer: Jon Peters
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Bass
|
||
A thriller concerning a rape victim who is accused of having staged
|
||
the event.
|
||
|
||
NORTH TBA
|
||
Dir: Rob Reiner
|
||
|
||
NOWHERE TO RUN 1.85 (SR) January 15
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, language and sexuality.
|
||
Dir: Robert Harmon
|
||
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Ted Levine
|
||
Exec Producer: Joe Eszterhas
|
||
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
|
||
D.P.: David Gribble
|
||
Start Date: 6/8/92, Napa Valley, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Hardened criminal breaks out of prison and hides in Northern
|
||
California's wine country, where he proceeds to fall in love with the
|
||
mother of two. He ultimately winds up protecting them from some bad
|
||
guys. Also known as PALS and NOWHERE TO RUN.
|
||
|
||
OUTLAWS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producer: Denise Di Novi
|
||
Screenplay: Boaz Yakin, Cassidy Heydt
|
||
Western about a group of female outlaws, from the producer of the
|
||
BATMAN films.
|
||
|
||
THE PICKLE April 30 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for a scene of sexuality and some language
|
||
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
|
||
Composer: Michel LeGrand
|
||
Start Date: 9/23/91, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Aiello plays a director in the midst of previewing his new film. Is
|
||
this autobiographical?
|
||
|
||
PIN CUSHION TBA
|
||
Dir: John Carpenter
|
||
Cast: Sharon Stone
|
||
Exec Producer: Scott Rudin
|
||
Producer: Joshua Donen
|
||
Screenplay: John Raffo
|
||
Start Date: 8/1/93
|
||
An action film for the sizzling Ms. Stone.
|
||
|
||
POETIC JUSTICE July 16
|
||
Dir: John Singleton
|
||
Cast: Janet Jackson, Tone Loc, Tupac Shakur, Keith Washington, Regina
|
||
King, Joe Torry, Tyra Ferrell, Roger Smith
|
||
Exec Producer: John Singleton
|
||
Producer: Steve Nicolades
|
||
Screenplay: John Singleton
|
||
D.P.: Peter Collister
|
||
Composer: Stanley Clarke
|
||
Start Date: 4/14/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Second film from the acclaimed Oscar-nominated young director of
|
||
BOYZ 'N THE HOOD is a Capra-esque street version of A MIDSUMMER
|
||
NIGHT'S DREAM. A nineteen-year-old hairdresser lives with death in
|
||
southwest L.A. Music superstar Janet Jackson takes the lead role
|
||
that every black actress in Hollywood was after. She is no stranger
|
||
to acting, having had featured roles in TV series GOOD TIMES and FAME
|
||
for several seasons. Rapper Tone Loc makes his feature debut.
|
||
Shakur is a rapper/postman who falls for Jackson. He starred in
|
||
JUICE.
|
||
|
||
REMAINS OF THE DAY November 5
|
||
Dir: James Ivory
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, James Fox,
|
||
Hugh Grant
|
||
Exec Producers: Mike Nichols, John Calley, Harold Pinter
|
||
Producer: Ismail Merchant
|
||
Screenplay: Harold Pinter, based on Kazuo Isigiro's novel
|
||
D.P.: Tony Pierce Roberts
|
||
Start Date: 9/14/92, England, Ireland
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Mike Nichols originally planned to direct Jeremy Irons in this
|
||
tale of an English butler. Now he will produce with the venerable
|
||
team of Merchant and Ivory getting involved, reuniting with Anthony
|
||
Hopkins after their superb teaming on HOWARDS END. Sounds good to
|
||
me!
|
||
|
||
RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION TBA
|
||
Dir: Frank Darabont
|
||
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Brad Pitt
|
||
Producer: Niki Marvin
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Darabont
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
This Castle Rock production depicts a young banker (Robbins) wrongly
|
||
accused of killing his wife and her lover. Freeman is his prison
|
||
cell-mate...a lifer. Pitt is a male hustler also in the slammer who
|
||
helps Robbins formulate his defense. Darabont wrote THE FLY II.
|
||
|
||
SEA WOLF TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Rickman, Andrew Chapman, based on Jack London's novel
|
||
|
||
STRIKING DISTANCE Fall
|
||
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
|
||
Cast: Bruce Willis
|
||
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Tony Thomopoulos, Hunt Lowry
|
||
Screenplay: Rowdy Herrington, Marty Kaplan
|
||
D.P.: Mac Ahlberg
|
||
Composer: Brad Fiedel
|
||
Start Date: 6/8/92, Pittsburgh
|
||
Negative Cost: $30+ million
|
||
The biggest suspense with this long-in-the-works action film had
|
||
been how much would Columbia pay Willis to star? He signed for $13
|
||
million a couple of years ago, but that was pre-BONFIRE and HUDSON.
|
||
With his fortunes again on the rise, post-BOY SCOUT, how much of a cut
|
||
would Willis take, if any? The film has reportedly been green-lighted
|
||
with Bruce getting $9 - $10 million. Film has a Pittsburgh-based
|
||
river patrol cop on the trail of a serial killer. Formerly titled
|
||
THREE RIVERS. Due to substantial scheduled reshoots, the release
|
||
date has slipped from May 21st. Word is not good.
|
||
|
||
SUNRISE IN HIS POCKET 1993
|
||
Dir: David Zucker
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber
|
||
Screenplay: TBA, based on Paul Hutton's book
|
||
The adventures of Davy Crockett are chronicled in this big-screen
|
||
adaptationof the forthcoming U. of Oklahoma Press book.
|
||
|
||
SWEENY TODD TBA
|
||
Dir: Tim Burton
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
|
||
Composer: Stephen Sondheim
|
||
Sondheim's great Broadway musical that copped eight Tony Awards
|
||
comes to the big screen. Macabre story is an interesting match for
|
||
Mr. Burton as director. Thompson co-wrote EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.
|
||
|
||
WILD KINGDOM TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Roseanne Arnold, Tom Arnold
|
||
Producers: Steve Nicolaides
|
||
Screenplay: Mitch Marcus
|
||
Start Date: Spring 1993
|
||
A family has an outlandish trip to a wild-animal park.
|
||
|
||
WOLF 1993
|
||
Dir: Mike Nichols
|
||
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mia Farrow
|
||
Exec Producers: Robert Greenhut, Neil Machlis
|
||
Producer: Doug Wick
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Romantic thriller about a contemporary werewolf had a script polish
|
||
by Elaine May. Old pal Nichols bowed out of the project at one
|
||
point and is back in. Nicholson in Bill Randall, who works at a
|
||
publishing firm. He is bitten by a wolf and due to the bit, becomes
|
||
more aggressive at work, going for the jugular of the top brass.
|
||
Farrow is his wife, Charlotte.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Concorde/New Horizons
|
||
|
||
|
||
ANGELFIST TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
|
||
|
||
BLACKOUT TBA
|
||
Cast: Don Wilson
|
||
Screenplay: Rob Kerchner
|
||
A karate thriller.
|
||
|
||
BLADEMASTER TBA
|
||
Dir: Hans Epstein
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Lavine
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria
|
||
|
||
BLOODFIST IV: DIE TRYING TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and language
|
||
Dir: Paul Ziller
|
||
Cast: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Cat Sassoon, Amanda Wyss, Liz Torres
|
||
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Ziller
|
||
A repo man nabs the wrong car and winds up tangling with the CIA.
|
||
|
||
BLOODFIST V: BLACKOUT TBA
|
||
Dir: Jeff Yonis
|
||
Cast: Don Wilson
|
||
Screenplay: Jeff Yonis
|
||
Start Date: 2/93, Los Angeles
|
||
They just keep churning them out...
|
||
|
||
BURIAL OF THE RATS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Film is based on a Bram Stoker story and is a co-production with
|
||
Russia's Mosfilm Studios.
|
||
|
||
CARNOSAUR TBA
|
||
Dir: Adam Simon
|
||
Cast: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon
|
||
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Henry Adam Knight, Adam Simon, based on Henry Knight's
|
||
novel
|
||
Start Date: 11/30/92, Arizona, New Mexico
|
||
Negative Cost: $7 million
|
||
A science-fiction thriller about genetic engineering, undoubtedly
|
||
timed to exploit JURASSIC PARK.
|
||
|
||
A CRY IN THE WILD 2 March
|
||
Cast: Matt McCoy
|
||
|
||
CURSE OF THE RED BARON TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Michael McDonald
|
||
|
||
DRUG BUSTER TBA
|
||
Based on the life story of drug-abuse fighter Dr. M. David Lewis.
|
||
|
||
FANTASTIC FOUR TBA
|
||
Dir: Oley Sassone
|
||
Cast: Alex Hyde-White, Michael Bailey-Smith, Rebecca Staab, Jay
|
||
Underwood, Carl Ciarfallo, Joseph Culp, Ian Trigger, Kat Green
|
||
Exec Producers: Bernd Eichinger, Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Steve Rabiner
|
||
Screenplay: Craig Nevius
|
||
D.P.: M. Parry
|
||
Start Date: 12/28/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Don't expect much from this low budget entry about the classic
|
||
Marvel heroes. The original intent was to shoot a $50 million epic,
|
||
but financing couldn't be arranged. Rather than lose the rights to
|
||
the film is production didn't commence by the end of 1992, Eichinger
|
||
mounted a $5 million cheapie.
|
||
|
||
FIREHAWK TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for war violence and strong language
|
||
|
||
GENTLEMAN JIM TBA
|
||
Cast: Mark Collver
|
||
Screenplay: Jonathan Winfrey
|
||
|
||
INNOCENT BLOOD Spring
|
||
Dir: Louis Morneau
|
||
Cast: Brad Dourif, Sherrie Rose
|
||
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Kirk Honeycutt
|
||
Thriller with the same title as John Landis' 1992 chiller.
|
||
|
||
INTO THE SHADOWS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: D.J. Godfrey
|
||
|
||
THE LIAR'S CLUB TBA
|
||
Cast: Wil Wheaton
|
||
|
||
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND FIRES
|
||
Dir: George Hickenlooper
|
||
A film where a camcorder is passed from person to person during the
|
||
LA riots.
|
||
|
||
OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS TBA
|
||
Dir: Catherine Cryan
|
||
Screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's novel
|
||
The story of a drifter who is kicked out of Singapore and picked up
|
||
by a sailing captain and given another chance in commerical trading.
|
||
|
||
ROGER CORMAN'S DRACULA RISING March
|
||
Rating: "R" for vampire violence, and for sexuality
|
||
Dir: Fred Gallo
|
||
Cast: Christopher Atkins, Stacey Travis, Doug West
|
||
Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Screenplay: Rodman Flender
|
||
Start Dte: 5/25/92, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania
|
||
|
||
THE SKATEBOARD KID TBA
|
||
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Bess Armstrong
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
|
||
STEPMONSTER TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for elements of horror
|
||
Dir: Jeremy Stanford
|
||
Cast: Alan Thicke
|
||
Producer: Steve Rabiner
|
||
Screenplay: Scott McGee, Christopher Wooden
|
||
Start Date: 4/8/92, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality, violence and language
|
||
Dir: Adam Friedman
|
||
Cast: Scott Valentine, Charlie Spradling
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Carolyn Gail, based on Katt Shea's 1989 film DANCE OF THE
|
||
DAMNED, written by Katt Shea and Andy Ruben
|
||
Start Date: 3/8/92, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
TOUGH COOKIES TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG" for mild violence and language
|
||
|
||
TOWER OF TERROR TBA
|
||
Rating: "NC-17"
|
||
|
||
WATCHERS III TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
|
||
Producer: Mike Elliott
|
||
Screenplay: Daryl Haney, based on Dean R. Koontz' novel
|
||
|
||
WHITE WOLVES TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG" for adventure peril and mild language
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
First Run Features
|
||
|
||
CHILDREN OF FATE May 26
|
||
Dir: Andrew Young/Susan Todd
|
||
|
||
EXECUTION PROTOCOL April 28
|
||
Dir: Stephen Trombley
|
||
|
||
FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR TBA
|
||
Dir: Monika Treut
|
||
|
||
GET THEE OUT! TBA
|
||
Dir: Dimitri Astrakan
|
||
|
||
TIME INDEFINITE May 12
|
||
Dir: Ross McElwee
|
||
|
||
UMINCHUL: THE OLD MAN AND THE EAST CHINA SEA TBA
|
||
Dir: John Junkerman
|
||
|
||
UTZ (Castle Hill) February 10 (NY)
|
||
Dir: George Sluizer
|
||
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul
|
||
Scofield
|
||
Screenplay: Based on Bruce Chatwin's novel
|
||
Film is about an eccentric Czech nobleman who obsessively collects
|
||
porcelain figurines. Rushed into release to capitalize on Sluizer's
|
||
THE VANISHING. Impressive cast, with two Oscar winners.
|
||
|
||
VENTS TBA
|
||
Dir: Richard Oretsky/Ralph Taragan
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Gloria Productions
|
||
|
||
A CAPTIVE IN THE LAND January 15 (NY)
|
||
Dir: John Berry
|
||
Cast: Sam Waterston, Alexander Potapov
|
||
Producers: Malcolm Stuart, John Berry
|
||
Screenplay: Lee Gold
|
||
D.P.: Pierre William Glenn
|
||
Composer: Bill Conti
|
||
In Arctic Circle Siberia, an American meteorologist spots a wrecked
|
||
Soviet plane and parachutes down with first aid. After finding only
|
||
one survivor, a storm closes in and shifts the ice cap upon which they
|
||
are situated, necessitating a land journey through the wilderness for
|
||
survival.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Gramercy Pictures
|
||
|
||
|
||
A DANGEROUS WOMAN December 17
|
||
Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal
|
||
Cast: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne
|
||
Exec Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
|
||
Producer: Naomi Foner
|
||
Screenplay: Naomi Foner
|
||
A social outcast and her aunt have their lives changed by a drifter
|
||
who answers their ad for a handyman. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
DAZED AND CONFUSED September 24
|
||
Dir: Richard Linklater
|
||
Producers: Richard Linklater, James Jacks, Sean Daniel
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Linklater
|
||
Comedy set in 1976 concerns twenty teenagers' last wild day of high
|
||
school. Linklater helmed SLACKER.
|
||
|
||
DREAM LOVER October 15
|
||
Dir: Nicholas Kazan
|
||
Cast: James Spader, Madchen Amick, Fredrick Lehne, Bess Armstrong,
|
||
Larry Miller, Kathleen York
|
||
Producer: Joni Sighvatsson, Lauren Lloyd, Wally Nicita
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan
|
||
Start Date: 9/10/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Nicholas Kazan makes his directorial debut with this psychological
|
||
thriller about an architect's discovery that the woman he married is
|
||
not who she had him believe. Kazan won an Oscar for writing REVERSAL
|
||
OF FORTUNE.
|
||
|
||
A HOME OF OUR OWN November 12
|
||
Dir: Tony Bill
|
||
Cast: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Amy Sakasitz, Soon-Teck Oh, Tony
|
||
Campisi, Miles Heulner, Clarissa Lassig, T.J. Lowther, Sarah Schaub
|
||
Producer: Dale Pollock, Bill Borden
|
||
Screenplay: Patrick Duncan
|
||
D.P.: Jean Lepine
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/92, Utah
|
||
The story of a family in the Fifties that loads up its car and moves
|
||
to rural Idaho From A&M Films.
|
||
|
||
KALIFORNIA July 30
|
||
Dir: Dominic Sena
|
||
Cast: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis
|
||
Producers: Steve Golin, Joni Sighvatsson, Aris McGarry
|
||
Screenplay: Tim Metcalf
|
||
Start Date: 5/11/92, Los Angeles
|
||
A cross-country road thriller in which the two principals join an
|
||
unwitting couple in a cross-country tour of historic murder sites.
|
||
|
||
KING OF THE HILL August 20
|
||
Dir: Steven Soderbergh
|
||
Cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Elizabeth McGovern, Karen Allen
|
||
Exec Producer: Robert Redford
|
||
Producers: Barbara Maltby, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
|
||
Screenplay: Steven Soderbergh, based on A.E. Hotchner's novel
|
||
Coming-of-age film where a 12-year-old boy lives a Huck Finn-like
|
||
existence.
|
||
|
||
LIGHTS OUT late October
|
||
Dir: Nigel Dick
|
||
Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary Stretch, Lisa Bonet
|
||
Producers: Steven Golin, Joni Sighvatsson, Gregg Fineberg
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Golin
|
||
Suspense thriller with a cop and a female reporter who hunt down a
|
||
madman.
|
||
|
||
POSSE May 7
|
||
Dir: Mario Van Peebles
|
||
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Charles Lane, Tiny Lister, Melvin Van
|
||
Peebles, Blair Underwood, Billy Zane, Stephen Baldwin, Isaac Hayes,
|
||
Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Salli Richardson
|
||
Producers: Jim Steele, Preston Holmes
|
||
Screenplay: Dario Scarpadane, Sy Richardson
|
||
D.P.: Peter Menzies
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Start Date: 10/15/92, Tucson, Santa Fe
|
||
Van Peebles stays in the Western groove after starring in GUNMEN
|
||
for Fox, he directs a black western for the new Gramercy Pictures.
|
||
The title refers to a posse of cowboys, four black and one white.
|
||
|
||
ROMEO IS BLEEDING September 10
|
||
Dir: Peter Medak
|
||
Cast: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy
|
||
Scheider, Ron Perlman
|
||
Producers: Hilary Henkin, Paul Webster
|
||
Screenplay: Hilary Henkin
|
||
D.P.: Darlusz Wolski
|
||
Start Date: 8/24/92, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Dark, sexually charged comedy from the director of THE KRAYS.
|
||
Ellen Barkin has bowed out due to her pregnancy.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Greycat Films
|
||
|
||
THE COLOR OF LOVE TBA
|
||
Dir: Melissa Pearson
|
||
Screenplay: Melissa Pearson
|
||
Film is described as a less angry variant of JUNGLE FEVER. It is
|
||
from the point of view of a white woman.
|
||
|
||
DINGO TBA
|
||
Dir: Rolf de Heer
|
||
Cast: Miles Davis, Colin Friels
|
||
Screenplay: Marc Rosenberg
|
||
This Australian film stars the late Miles Davis as trumpeter Billy
|
||
Cross. Friels plays an aspiring Aussie Jazz musician. Film was shot
|
||
in Australia and Paris. It has already one the Australian Writers
|
||
Guild Award for Best Screenplay and the Best Music Australian Film
|
||
Award for its score by Michel LeGrand and Miles Davis.
|
||
|
||
GHOST OF THE CIVIL DEAD TBA
|
||
Australian film was written by a former prison guard and inspired by
|
||
true events at a prison. Said to be as disturbing as HENRY: PORTRAIT
|
||
OF A SERIAL KILLER.
|
||
|
||
THE HORSEPLAYER TBA
|
||
Dir: Kurt Voss
|
||
|
||
LIFE IN THE LAFF LANE TBA
|
||
Road movie about three stand-up comics.
|
||
|
||
MANIKA, MANIKA, THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE April
|
||
Dir: Francois Villiers
|
||
|
||
THE MONTANA RUN TBA
|
||
Dir: Randy Thompson
|
||
|
||
NO TELLING April
|
||
Dir: Larry Fessenden
|
||
|
||
SINGAPORE SLING March
|
||
Dir: Niko Nikolaidis
|
||
|
||
WHERE SLEEPING DOGS LIE TBA
|
||
Dir: Charles Finch
|
||
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Sharon Stone, Tom Sizemore
|
||
Producer: Charles Finch
|
||
Screenplay: Charles Finch
|
||
Psychological thriller from the son of the late Peter Finch.
|
||
McDermott is an idealistic writer who compromises his principles for
|
||
de big bucks. Stone can be seen all over Michael Douglas in BASIC
|
||
INSTINCT.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hemdale
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN RANGLER TBA
|
||
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergena, Stephen Vidler
|
||
Negative Cost: $3.5 million
|
||
This period feature concerns an American who goes to the "Wild West"
|
||
of the outback. Formerly titled OUTBACK. Fahey scored in THE
|
||
LAWNMOWER MAN.
|
||
|
||
BREAKFAST OF ALIENS (Coyote Releasing) TBA
|
||
Dir: David Lee Miller
|
||
Cast: Vic Dunlop
|
||
Producer: Brian James Ellis
|
||
Screenplay: David Lee Miller, Vic Dunlop
|
||
A likeable perennial loser swallows an alien and becomes a
|
||
successful stand-up comic.
|
||
|
||
THE CHILDREN (Coyote Releasing) TBA
|
||
Dir: Tony Palmer
|
||
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Karen Black, Geraldine Chaplin, Britt
|
||
Ekland, Joe Don Baker
|
||
Producer: Andrew Montgomery
|
||
Screenplay: Timberlake Wertenbacker, based on Edith Wharton's novel
|
||
Story of a middle-aged bachelor who becomes the guardian of a group
|
||
of kids in 1920's Europe.
|
||
|
||
DARK WORLD TBA
|
||
Cast: Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones
|
||
|
||
GOBLINS TBA
|
||
Dir: Kenneth J. Hall
|
||
Cast: Billy DaMota
|
||
Producer: Connie Kingrey
|
||
Screenplay: Kenneth J. Hall
|
||
Start Date: 1/27/92, Miami
|
||
Creatures have a war with children in their efforts to turn humans
|
||
into pumpkins.
|
||
|
||
LOVE AND MURDER TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" Language.
|
||
|
||
LOVE YOUR MAMA March 5 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Ruby L. Oliver March 19 (wider)
|
||
|
||
MELTDOWN Spring
|
||
Dir: Yves Simoneau
|
||
Cast: Dolph Lundgren
|
||
Producers: George Braunstein, Ron Hamady
|
||
Screenplay: John Carpenter, Robert Roy Pool
|
||
Start Date: 7/92
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Lundgren is am anti-terrorist strongman in this bruising action-
|
||
adventure.
|
||
|
||
MOJO FLATS May
|
||
Dir: Lisa Gottlieb
|
||
Cast: Christina Applegate, Elizabeth Pena, Burgess Meredith, James
|
||
Remar, Peter Berg
|
||
A female buddy film that has two women from quite different
|
||
backgrounds brought together for an adventure. Formerly titled
|
||
TEHACHAPI.
|
||
|
||
PRIMARY MOTIVE TBA
|
||
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 TBA
|
||
Dir: Joe Comerford
|
||
|
||
RETURN TO WOLF MOUNTAIN TBA
|
||
Dir: Craig Clyde
|
||
Cast: Vivian Schilling, Nicole Lund, Jonathan Best, Bo Hopkins, Robert
|
||
Z'Dar, David Shark, Don Shanks
|
||
Producer: Bryce Fillmore
|
||
Screenplay: Vivian Schilling, Craig Clyde
|
||
Start Date: 4/19/93, Park City, UT
|
||
|
||
SEVEN MINUTES TBA
|
||
Dir: Klaus Maria Brandauer
|
||
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Reecca Miller, Elisabeth Orth
|
||
Producers: Moritz Borman, Rainer Soehnlein
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Sheppard, from his novel
|
||
Dennehy portrays the man who attempted to assassinate Hitler in the
|
||
early moments of WWII in Brandauer's feature directorial debut.
|
||
|
||
THE TALE OF RUBY ROSE TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
Dir: Roger Scholes
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Imperial Entertainment
|
||
|
||
|
||
NEMESIS January 29 (regional)
|
||
Composer: Michelk Rubini
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Interstar
|
||
|
||
|
||
EASTERN GUNS TBA
|
||
An Arizona western.
|
||
|
||
EYE OF THE WIDOW TBA
|
||
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross
|
||
|
||
KNIGHT MOVES January 22
|
||
Rating: "R"
|
||
Dir: Carl Schenkel
|
||
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin
|
||
Producers: Ziad El Khouri, Jean-Luc Defait
|
||
Screenplay: Brad Mirman
|
||
D.P.: Dietrich Lohmann
|
||
Composer: Anne Dudley
|
||
Lambert is a chess master and Skerritt a police chief (ala' "Picket
|
||
Fences") in this action drama about a serial killer on the rampage in
|
||
a Pacific Northwestern town. A 600-screen release with this husband
|
||
and wife team. From Repubic Pictures.
|
||
|
||
LITTLE SISTER TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Cast: John Hurt, Karen Young
|
||
A suspense film....hope there are no bursting chests.
|
||
|
||
A NEW WORLD TBA
|
||
Cast: Kevin Kline, Isabella Rosellini
|
||
A biography of composer Anton Dvorak.
|
||
|
||
A STAR FOR TWO TBA
|
||
Cast: Lauren Bacall
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
IRS Media
|
||
|
||
|
||
BANK ROBBERS TBA
|
||
Dir: Nick Mead
|
||
Cast: Lisa Bonet
|
||
Another racy film for Ms. Bonet.
|
||
|
||
CIRCUITRY MAN II: PRINCE OF PLUGS Spring 1994
|
||
Dir: Steven Lovy
|
||
Screenplay: Steven Lovy, Robert Lovy
|
||
|
||
EQUINOX Spring
|
||
Dir: Alan Rudolph
|
||
Cast: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tyra Ferrell, Marisa Tomei,
|
||
Tate Donovan, Lori Singer, Kevin J. O'Connor, Fred Ward, M. Emmet
|
||
Walsh
|
||
Producer: David Blocker
|
||
Screenplay: Alan Rudolph
|
||
|
||
ME, MYSELF AND I TBA
|
||
Dir: Pablo Ferro
|
||
Cast: George Segal, JoBeth Williams, Shelley Hack, Don Calfa, Betsy
|
||
Lynn George, Sharon McKnight, Ruth Gilbert, Bill Macy, Jaid Barrymore,
|
||
Sheila Scott-Wilkenson, Cheryl Paris, Hartley Haverty
|
||
Screenplay: Julian Barry
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Womanizing screenwriter (Segal) becomes involved with his neighbor,
|
||
who has a multiple personality disorder. Screenwriter Barry won an
|
||
Oscar for LENNY.
|
||
|
||
THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN TBA
|
||
Dir: Bruce Campbell
|
||
Cast: Bruce Campbell
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce Campbell
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Negative Cost: $3 million
|
||
EVIL DEAD series star Campbell becomes a first-time triple threat in
|
||
this modern-day Frankenstein story.
|
||
|
||
THE MUSIC OF CHANCE Spring
|
||
Dir: Philip Haas
|
||
Cast: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Joel Grey,
|
||
Samantha Mathis
|
||
Producers: Dylan Sellers, Frederick Zollo
|
||
Screenplay: Philip Haas, Belinda Haas
|
||
D.P.: Bernard Zitzermann
|
||
Start Date: 5/26/92, North Carolina
|
||
A high-stakes poker game goes bad.
|
||
|
||
RAGE AND HONOR TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and language
|
||
Dir: Terrence H. Winkless
|
||
Cast: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton
|
||
Producers: Don Penrick, Kevin Reidy
|
||
Screenplay: Terrence H. Winkless
|
||
Start Date: 10/28/91, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Kino
|
||
|
||
|
||
LA VIE DE BOHEME Spring (NY)
|
||
Dir: Aki Kaurismaki
|
||
Cast: Matti Pellonpaa, Evelyn Didi
|
||
This Finnish-French co-production played the Berlin and New York
|
||
Film Festivals. It will open at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
|
||
Kaurismaki directed ARIEL and the acclaimed THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL.
|
||
|
||
TITO & ME TBA
|
||
Dir: Goran Markovic
|
||
A Yugoslavian-French comedy in Croatian that played at the Sarasota
|
||
Film Festival.
|
||
|
||
VISIONS OF LIGHT February 24 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuelson
|
||
Cinematography documentary was shot in HDTV and presented that way
|
||
at the Sundance Film Festival. Theatrical bookings are in 35mm.
|
||
Following the exclusive LA engagement at the Nuart, will be the Castro
|
||
in San Francisco and the Film Forum in New York.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
MGM
|
||
|
||
|
||
BAD DESIRE TBA
|
||
Dir: John Schlesinger
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Ezra Swerdlow, Deborah Schindler
|
||
Screenplay: Matthew Chapman, based on Gary Devon's novel
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
Erotic political, social thriller concerns the private life of a
|
||
political candidate. He is obsessed with a teenaged girl and is led
|
||
to murder. Oscar-winner Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) tackles this
|
||
one after THE INNOCENT.
|
||
|
||
BASIC INSTINCT II (Carolco) TBA
|
||
|
||
BENNY & JOON April 1
|
||
Rating: "PG" for theme, a scene of mild sensuality and one use of
|
||
harsh language
|
||
Dir: Jeremiah Chechick
|
||
Cast: Johnny Depp, Aidan Quinn, Mary Stuart Masterson, JulieAnne
|
||
Moore, Oliver Platt, Liane Curtis, Dan Hedaya
|
||
Producers: Susan Arnold, Donna Roth
|
||
Screenplay: Barry Berman
|
||
D.P.: John Schwartzman
|
||
Composer: Rachel Portman
|
||
Start Date: 6/1/92, Spokane
|
||
Woody Harrelson is being sued by MGM for dropping out the the
|
||
picture, where he reportedly has a pay-or-play deal. He has been
|
||
replaced by Aidan Quinn, who most recently was so effective in THE
|
||
PLAYBOYS. Story concerns an offbeat man (Depp) who falls in love with
|
||
Benny's sister June. At one time Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
|
||
were close to doing this one.
|
||
|
||
BESSIE December
|
||
Dir: Bruce Beresford
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Screenplay: Horton Foote, based on Chris Albertson's book
|
||
Start Date: 9/92, Chicago, New York, The South
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
Double Oscar-winner Foote (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TENDER MERCIES)
|
||
pens a biography of blues legend Bessie Smith. This film will reteam
|
||
prime creative forces behind multiple Oscar winner DRIVING MISS DAISY.
|
||
|
||
BETTY BOOP TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Exec Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard Fleischer
|
||
Producers: Jerry Rees, Steven Paul Leiva
|
||
Screenplay: Jerry Rees
|
||
Max Fleischer's sexy cartoon character comes to the big animated
|
||
screen in the Zanuck's initial foray into animation. The film will be
|
||
set in the Thirties, but Betty will have a decidedly modern bent. The
|
||
film will focus on the adventures of Betty Boop and her pals, Koko and
|
||
Bimbo, as they travel to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
|
||
|
||
BODY OF EVIDENCE 1.85 January 15
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong sexuality, and for language and violence
|
||
Dir: Uli Edel
|
||
Cast: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Jurgen
|
||
Prochnow, Julianne Moore
|
||
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
|
||
Screenplay: Brad Mirman, Alison Cross
|
||
D.P.: Douglas Milsom
|
||
Start Date: 4/6/92, Oregon
|
||
Madonna is a woman standing trial for murdering her lover. Dafoe
|
||
is her defense attorney who compromises all when he falls for her.
|
||
Mantegna is the D.A. Edel helmed LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN. Originally
|
||
tagged with an "NC-17" rating, but cut in order to achieve an "R".
|
||
Has received an "18" rating in the U.K. Set to open there in the
|
||
March/April timeframe.
|
||
|
||
CLEAN SLATE TBA
|
||
Dir: Mick Jackson
|
||
Cast: Dana Carvey
|
||
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Screenplay: Robert King
|
||
Start Date: 3/15/93, Los Angeles
|
||
Carvey is an ex-cop turned private eye who is suffering from a case
|
||
of amnesia. Jackson is super-hot after helming the worldwide mega-hit
|
||
THE BODYGUARD.
|
||
|
||
DEADWOOD 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.
|
||
|
||
FATAL INSTINCT August 6
|
||
Dir: Carl Reiner
|
||
Cast: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, James
|
||
Remar, Christopher McDonald, John Witherspoon, Clarence Clemons
|
||
Producers: Katie Jacobs, Pierce Gardner
|
||
Screenplay: David O'Malley
|
||
D.P.: Gabriel Beristain
|
||
Composer: Richard Gibbs
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Formerly titled TRIPLE INDEMNITY.
|
||
|
||
GETTING EVEN WITH DAD TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producers: Katie Jacobs, Pierce Gardner
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Jennewein, Tom S. Parker
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, Chicago
|
||
|
||
THE METEOR MAN March 26
|
||
Dir: Robert Townsend
|
||
Cast: Robert Townsend, Bill Cosby, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones,
|
||
Marla Gibbs, Another Bad Creation, Sinbad, Frank Gorshin, Luther
|
||
Vandross, LaWanda Page
|
||
Exec Producer: Robert Townsend
|
||
Producer: Loretha C. Jones
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Townsend
|
||
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
|
||
Composer: Cliff Eidelman
|
||
Start Date: 4/13/92, Washington, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
An inner-city teacher is given extraordinary powers due to a meteor
|
||
shower, which he then uses to
|
||
clean up his drug-infested neighborhood. Cosby has a $100/day cameo
|
||
role as Marvin, the homeless man who at first chooses not to use the
|
||
special powers he has received. Features visual effects from ILM.
|
||
|
||
MRS. CALIBAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Paul M. Glaser
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producers: Norman Lear, Mark E. Pollack
|
||
Producer: Kathyrn Schenker
|
||
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher, based on Rachel Ingalls' novel
|
||
|
||
THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN December
|
||
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
|
||
Voices: Tim Curry, Martin Short, Jo-Anne Worley, Geoffrey Holder,
|
||
Annie Golden, Wayne Knight, June Foray, Tony Jay, Kendall Cunningham,
|
||
Stanley Jones, Phillip Clarke
|
||
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
|
||
Screenplay: Rachael Koretsky, Steve Whitestone
|
||
Composer: Barry Manilow
|
||
Start Date: 11/15/91, Ireland
|
||
Musical animated adventure has a shy romantic penguin named Hubie
|
||
pitted against the stormy high seas and enemies as he attempts to
|
||
return to his sweetheart in Antarctica. Film is caught up in the
|
||
bankruptcy of Bluth Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
RAMBO IV (Carolco) TBA
|
||
Cast: Sylvester Stallone
|
||
|
||
RICH IN LOVE 1.85 March 5 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for thematic material
|
||
March 19 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Bruce Beresford
|
||
Cast: Albert Finney, Piper Laurie, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, Kyle
|
||
MacLachlan, Kathryn Erbe, Ethan Hawke, Alfre Woodard
|
||
Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
|
||
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on Josephine Humphrey's novel
|
||
Start Date: 9/8/91, Charleston SC
|
||
Composer: Georges Delerue
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
A young girl struggles to find her identity when her mother
|
||
(Clayburgh) runs away. Her father (Finney) is depressed, her
|
||
sister (Amis) is pregnant and there are all sorts of other problems
|
||
and distractions. Reunion of the creative team behind DRIVING MISS
|
||
DAISY. Oscar-winner Delerue collapsed while conducting the last note
|
||
of the score...he died two days later.
|
||
|
||
SHADES OF GRAY 1993
|
||
Dir: Wes Craven
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Marianne Maddalena
|
||
Screenplay: Wes Craven, based on Timothy O'Neill's novel
|
||
Fact-based story of haunted West Point cadet room that has been
|
||
converted into a study alcove because no one will sleep in it.
|
||
|
||
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Fall
|
||
Dir: Fred Schepisi
|
||
Cast: Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen
|
||
Producer: Fred Schepisi, Arnon Milchan
|
||
Screenplay: John Guare, Based on his play
|
||
Start Date: 3/3//93, New York
|
||
D.P.: Ian Baker
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million
|
||
The great John Guare play is brought to the big screen by the
|
||
director of THE RUSSIA HOUSE, A CRY IN THE DARK and MR. BASEBALL.
|
||
Story finds a young black man who claims to be Sidney Poitier's son
|
||
and the effect he has on a group of affluent white Manhattanites. Ms.
|
||
Channing reprises her Broadway role. Will Smith is, of course, the
|
||
Fresh Prince.
|
||
|
||
SNAKE EYES Fall
|
||
Dir: Abel Ferrara
|
||
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo
|
||
Producer: Mary Kane
|
||
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, Nick St. John
|
||
D.P.: Ken Kelsch
|
||
Start Date: 2/8/93, LA, NY
|
||
Madonna's Maverick Pictures' first feature project will topline the
|
||
Material Girl herself. Ferrara is hot after BAD LIEUTENANT, as is
|
||
Keitel.
|
||
|
||
SOMETHING LINGERS TBA
|
||
Dir: Jon Amiel
|
||
Producers: Lawrence Turman, David Foster
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Fischer
|
||
An original thriller to be directed by the helmer of THE SINGING
|
||
DETECTIVE and QUEEN OF HEARTS.
|
||
|
||
SON OF THE PINK PANTHER 2.35 August 27
|
||
Dir: Blake Edwards
|
||
Cast: Roberto Begnini, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Robert Davi, Claudia
|
||
Cardinale
|
||
Producer: Tony Adams
|
||
Screenplay: Blake Edwards
|
||
Composer: Henry Mancini
|
||
Start Date: 6/1/92, Paris, Monte Carlo, Morocco, London, Jordan
|
||
Negative Cost: $25 million
|
||
The heretofore unknown bumbling son of Inspector Clouseau makes his
|
||
debut as the PINK PANTHER series continues/starts anew? Begnini has
|
||
nabbed the plum title role...he is the director/star of JOHNNY
|
||
STECCHINO, the smash-hit Italian comedy which is the biggest grossing
|
||
film Italian film ever. It debuted in the U.S. in September via New
|
||
Line. Lom and Kwouk reprise their long-running PINK PANTHER roles.
|
||
Delayed from a Memorial Day weekend release. This is Edwards' 50th
|
||
film.
|
||
|
||
A SUMMER STORY TBA
|
||
Dir: Bob Clark
|
||
Producer: Rene Dupont
|
||
Screenplay: Jean Shepard, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, based upon the Jean
|
||
Shepard novels
|
||
Clark directed the hugely successful PORKY'S films.
|
||
|
||
TERMINATOR 3 (Carolco) TBA
|
||
|
||
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT PART III 70mm Fall
|
||
Dir: Bud Friegen, Michael Sheridan
|
||
Producers: Bud Friedgen, Michael Sheridan
|
||
Start Date: 3/15/93, Los Angeles
|
||
The third installment of the homage to the glory days of MGM will
|
||
feature many musical and dance numbers never publicly seen, fresh from
|
||
the MGM vaults. The producers were editors on the first two THAT'S
|
||
ENTERTAINMENT installments.
|
||
|
||
THUMBELINA June 11
|
||
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
|
||
Voices: Jodi Benson, Carol Channing, Charo, John Hurt, Gino Conforti,
|
||
Barbara Cook, June Foray,l Gilbert Gottfried, Gary Imhoff, Kenneth
|
||
Mars
|
||
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
|
||
Screenplay: Carol Lynn Pearson
|
||
Composer: Bill Ross
|
||
Songs: Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman, Bruce Sussman
|
||
Start Date: 2/1/91, Ireland
|
||
Animated film based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of
|
||
the thumb-sized girl and her search for a prince had been picked up by
|
||
MGM, but is enmeshed in the Bluth Entertainment fiscal disaster.
|
||
Benson voiced THE LITTLE MERMAID.
|
||
|
||
TRIP HAMMER TBA
|
||
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
|
||
Producers: Pierce Gardner, Katie Jacobs
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Tesich, based on Dan McCall's novel
|
||
|
||
A TROLL IN CENTRAL PARK TBA
|
||
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
|
||
Voices: Dom Deluise, Cloris Leachman, Hayley Mills, Charles Nelson
|
||
Reilly, Jonathan Pryce
|
||
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
|
||
Screenplay: Stu Krieger
|
||
Start Date: 4/1/90, Ireland
|
||
Animated film about a gentle troll named Stanley who can create
|
||
flowers with but a touch. He is banished to Central Park and two
|
||
children help him confront the evil Queen Gnorga, whose touch turns
|
||
things to stone. Once again, Bluth Entertainment's demise threatens
|
||
this picture, which is near completion.
|
||
|
||
UNDERCOVER BLUES July 9
|
||
Dir: Herbert Ross
|
||
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry
|
||
Miller, Obba Babatunde, Tom Arnold, Park Overall
|
||
Exec Producers: Herbert Ross, Andrew Bergman
|
||
Producer: Michael Lobell
|
||
Screenplay: Ian Abrams
|
||
D.P.: Don Thorin
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
Start Date: 6/15/92, New Orleans, Los Angeles
|
||
A freelance spy couple have a baby and take time off from work in
|
||
this action-comedy. They go to New Orleans and find themselves
|
||
involved in a arms dealing case. Formerly titled CLOAK AND DIAPER.
|
||
|
||
UNTAMED HEART February 12
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for some strong language and violence, and for
|
||
sensuality
|
||
Dir: Tony Bill
|
||
Cast: Christian Slater, Marissa Tomei, Rosie Perez
|
||
Producer: Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Sierchio
|
||
Composer: Cliff Eidelman
|
||
Start Date: 3/23/92, Minneapolis
|
||
Negative Cost: $7.5 million
|
||
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.
|
||
After fighting for the female lead and winning it, Madonna has dropped
|
||
out. Formerly of NBC-TV's "A Different World", Tomei scored big in
|
||
MY COUSIN VINNY, with an Oscar nod for Supporting Actress. Formerly
|
||
titled THE BABOON HEART. Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
UNTITLED JAMES BOND TBA
|
||
Cast: Timothy Dalton
|
||
This one will reportedly be shot in China.
|
||
|
||
VIRTUE TBA
|
||
Dir: John Sacret Young
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov
|
||
Screenplay: Elisa Bell
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Miramax
|
||
|
||
|
||
BABY BLOOD TBA
|
||
Dir: Alain Robak
|
||
|
||
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Heap
|
||
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Graham Greene, Christopher
|
||
McDonald
|
||
Producers: Michael Spielberg, Brad Gilbert
|
||
Screenplay: Alison Cross, Chris Keyser, Jeffrey Polman
|
||
Start Date: 4/29/92, Arizona
|
||
|
||
CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE 1.85 January 29
|
||
Rating: "R" for horror violence and language
|
||
Dir: David Price
|
||
Cast: Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Christie Clary, Rosalind Allen
|
||
Producers: Scott Stone, David Stanley
|
||
A reporter and a Native American anthropologist attempt to
|
||
investigate a series of bizarre murders and run into those pesky
|
||
corncobs. From Dimension Pictures.
|
||
|
||
CLIVE BARKER'S PRIMAL (Dimension) TBA
|
||
Dir: Clive Barker
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Clive Barker
|
||
Screenplay: Erik Saltzgaber, Daniel Chichester
|
||
Negative Cost: $7 million
|
||
A race of beings who feed on human fear come back from the limbo
|
||
they were banished to long ago for revenge. State-of-the-art special
|
||
effects in this initial in-house production for Dimension Films. A
|
||
series of comics from Dark Horse and other tie-ins are anticipated.
|
||
|
||
DR. OFF (Dimension Pictures) TBA
|
||
A black man is a teacher by day....a superhero by night.
|
||
|
||
DUST DEVIL (Dimension Pictures) TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and sexuality, and for language
|
||
Cast: Chelsea Field, Robert Burke
|
||
|
||
ECOPHORIA (Dimension Pictures) TBA
|
||
Dir: Rene Daalder
|
||
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Drew Barrymore, Alice Kriege
|
||
Producer: Kees Kasander
|
||
Screenplay: Rene Daalder, William Vigil, Doug Freed
|
||
D.P.: David Sperling
|
||
Start Date: 8/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Science-fiction thriller set in the future when the dissipated ozone
|
||
layer has forced mankinds indoors to escape the harsh UV rays of the
|
||
sun. A new Garden of Eden is the hope for the future. Kasander
|
||
produced THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER and PROSPERO'S
|
||
BOOKS.
|
||
|
||
ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAY TBA
|
||
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Tullio Giordana, Francesco Barilli,
|
||
Giuseppe Bertolucci
|
||
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Bruno Ganz, Ornella Muti, Jean-Hugues Anglade,
|
||
Nicoletta Braschi, Maria Maddalena Fellini
|
||
Producer: Giovanna Romagnoli, Mario Orfini, Amedeo Pagani
|
||
Screenplay: Tonino Guerra
|
||
Four separate tales set in the different seasons. Guerra wrote
|
||
BLOWUP, AMARCORD and THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS.
|
||
|
||
ETHAN FROME March 12
|
||
Rating: "PG" for thematic elements
|
||
Dir: John Madden
|
||
Cast: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, Tate Donovan,
|
||
Katherine Houghton, Stephen Mendillo, Debbon Ayer, Jay Goode, Rob
|
||
Campbell
|
||
Producer: Stan Wlodkowski
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Nelson, based on Edith Wharton's novel
|
||
D.P.: Bobby Bukowski
|
||
Composer: Rachel Portman
|
||
Edith Wharton's classic novel comes in a new screen version.
|
||
Excellent word for this American Playhouse production.
|
||
|
||
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION Fall
|
||
Dir: Beeban Kidron
|
||
From the director of USED PEOPLE.
|
||
|
||
HIGH ART TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong graphic violence, and for language and
|
||
sensuality.
|
||
|
||
THE HOUR OF THE PIG Fall
|
||
Dir: Leslie Megahy
|
||
|
||
HOUSE OF CARDS (Pentamerica) 1993
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for theme
|
||
Dir: Michael Lessac
|
||
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Esther Rolle, Park Overall,
|
||
Asha Menina, Michael Horse, Shiloh Strong
|
||
Producers: Dale Pollock, Lianne Halfon, Wolfgang Glattes
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Lessac
|
||
D.P.: Victor Hammer
|
||
Composer: James Horner
|
||
A mother's young daughter suddenly becomes mute and develops unusual
|
||
abilities that medical science cannont explain. Postproduction was
|
||
done at the Skywalker Ranch. This is Lessac's feature directorial
|
||
debut. He is known for directing TV sitcoms. Previously titled
|
||
BEFORE I WAKE. Picked up by Miramax after being dropped by 20th Fox..
|
||
|
||
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS December
|
||
Dir: Bille August
|
||
Cast: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio
|
||
Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Maria Conchita
|
||
Alonso, Jan Niklas, Sarita Choudhury, Vincent Gallo, Teri Polo,
|
||
Joaquin Martinez
|
||
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
|
||
Screenplay: Bille August, based on Isabel Allende's best seller
|
||
D.P.: Jorgen Persson
|
||
Start Date: 1/18/93, Portugal, Copenhagen
|
||
Negative Cost: $24 million
|
||
Ryder replaced Bille August's wife Pernilla due to her pregnancy in
|
||
this family saga set in Chile. She will play Streep's daughter,
|
||
Blanca, who is Banderas' lover. Film centers on the rise of an
|
||
embittered lower-class man and his tragic romance with his elusive
|
||
bride. Film follows the family from the turn of the century to the
|
||
present, blending the supernatural with this reality. Incredible
|
||
cast! August is hot off of the Cannes Palme D'Or win for BEST
|
||
INTENTIONS.
|
||
|
||
INTO THE WEST May 7
|
||
Dir: Mike Newell
|
||
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Rory Conway,
|
||
Colm Meany, Johnny Murphy
|
||
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Tim Palmer
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
|
||
Start Date: 10/91, Dublin and Galway, Ireland
|
||
A magical modern western for the 90s with two young brothers and
|
||
their magic horse. From Miramax' new Family Films division.
|
||
Excellent word.
|
||
|
||
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE IRT April 16 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sexuality
|
||
Dir: Leslie Harris
|
||
Cast: Ariyan Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Jerard Washington, Ebony Jerido
|
||
Exec Producer: Leslie Harris
|
||
Screenplay: Leslie Harris
|
||
African-American teenager in Brooklyn finds her friendships and
|
||
aspirations strained by an unexpected pregnancy.
|
||
|
||
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE February 17 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality
|
||
Dir: Alfonso Arau
|
||
Cast: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne
|
||
Screenplay: Adapted from Laura Esquivel's novel
|
||
Mexico's official Oscar entry received 10 Ariel (Mexican Academy
|
||
Awards), including Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay.
|
||
|
||
THE MAGIC RIDDLE TBA
|
||
Cast: Voices of Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
|
||
Another family film from Miramax, this time it's animated.
|
||
|
||
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART 1993
|
||
Dir: Vincent Ward
|
||
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Anne Parillaud,
|
||
Clothilde Coureau
|
||
Producer: Tim Bevan
|
||
Screenplay: Vincent Ward, Louis Nowra
|
||
D.P.: Eduardo Serra
|
||
Composer: Gabriel Yared
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
MERCI LA VIE TBA
|
||
Dir: Bertrand Blier
|
||
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Jean
|
||
Carmet, Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Blanc
|
||
Producer: Bernard Merascot
|
||
Screenplay: Bertrand Blier
|
||
A coming-of-age film about two young women that has been picked up
|
||
by Miramax after playing in Paris for 8+ months, where it has grossed
|
||
$3.5 million nationwide.
|
||
|
||
MOTHER'S BOYS Fall
|
||
Dir: Yves Simoneau
|
||
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter
|
||
Gallagher, Luke Edwards, Colin Ward, Joey Zimmerman
|
||
Producers: Jack E. Freedman, Wayne S. Williams, Patricia Herskovic
|
||
Screenplay: Based on Bernard Taylor's novel
|
||
D.P.: Elliot Davis
|
||
Start Date: 12/7/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $8 million
|
||
A chilling suspense thriller in which a psychotic mother uses the
|
||
innocent children she abandoned to terrorize her ex-husband's
|
||
girlfriend. Reportedly, CBS is paying for 90% of the negative cost of
|
||
the film.
|
||
|
||
THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET May 14
|
||
Dir: Warren Leight
|
||
Producer: Michael Peyser
|
||
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Justine
|
||
Bateman, Jeanne Tripplehorne, Mike Mantell, Louise Lasser, Doris
|
||
Roberts, Christine Baranski
|
||
Screenplay: Warren Leight
|
||
Start Date: 10/21/92, New York
|
||
D.P.: John Thomas
|
||
Negative Cost: $8 million
|
||
The difficulty of finding true romance and affordable housing.
|
||
|
||
THE OPPOSITE SEX February 26
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sexual dialogue
|
||
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. Formerly titled RULES OF THE GAME.
|
||
|
||
PASSION FISH January 29 (wider)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: John Sayles
|
||
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
|
||
D.P.: Roger Deakins
|
||
Negative Cost: $4.8 million
|
||
Two women are uprooted from their city-based lives and wind up in
|
||
rural Louisiana. Oscar buzz for Woodard and Strathairn. The flip
|
||
side of DRIVING MISS DAISY. McDonnell and Woodard both starred in
|
||
GRAND CANYON. Opened in New York and Los Angeles in December 1992.
|
||
|
||
PRET-A-PORTER 1993
|
||
Dir: Robert Altman
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Start Date: Summer 1993, Paris
|
||
Altman is hot again with two green-lighted projects. This one is
|
||
an ensemble piece that follows the comings-and-goings of thirty
|
||
models, designers,editors, photographers, buyers, etc. in the fashion
|
||
world of Paris ala' THE PLAYER slanting the film industry. Real
|
||
people will play themselves, too!
|
||
|
||
THE PIANO October
|
||
Dir: Jane Campion
|
||
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
|
||
Producer: Jan Chapman
|
||
Love story from the superlative Ms. Campion from the superlative Ms.
|
||
Campion about a young woman who travels down to New Zealand in the
|
||
1850s with her daughter and her piano for an arranged marriage.
|
||
|
||
RUBY CAIRO April 16
|
||
Rating: "R" for a scene of strong sensuality, and for violence
|
||
Dir: Graeme Clifford
|
||
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Dillon, Michael Thomas
|
||
Negative Cost: $24 million
|
||
MacDowell is a woman who enters a world of danger and intrigue when
|
||
she attempts to uncover the plot behind her husband's mysterious
|
||
demise in a planecrash. Romantic thriller was shot in LA, Cairo,
|
||
Athens, Berlin and Veracruz. From Kadokawa Pictures. Clifford
|
||
directed FRANCES. Dillion wrote THE RIVER, Thomas wrote LADYHAWKE.
|
||
|
||
SACRED SEX TBA
|
||
Sensational Australian documentary about ritualistic sexual
|
||
practices in the New Age Ninties has been picked up for domestic
|
||
distribution by the company that thrives on controversy. Film has
|
||
been a blockbuster Down Under.
|
||
|
||
STRICTLY BALLROOM February 12 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "PG" for mild language and sensuality March 5
|
||
(wider)
|
||
Dir: Baz Luhrmann
|
||
Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia
|
||
Carides, Peter Whitford, Barry Otto
|
||
Producer: Tristram Miall
|
||
Screenplay: Baz Luhrmann, Andrew Bovell
|
||
D.P.: Steve Mason
|
||
Composer: David Hirschfelder
|
||
Miramax has snagged a hot Cannes property from Australia. This one
|
||
is about ballroom dancing. This Aussie equivalent of DIRTY DANCING is
|
||
the biggest grossing film ever Down Under.
|
||
|
||
WHAT THE MOON SAW TBA
|
||
Dir: Pino Amenta
|
||
|
||
THE WIND TBA
|
||
Dir: Robert Dornhelm
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
|
||
Start Date: 9/91, Ireland
|
||
Dornhelm directed REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC, Sheridan directed MY LEFT
|
||
FOOT.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
MK2
|
||
|
||
THE OAK January 22 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Lucian Pintilie
|
||
Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu
|
||
Satire about a Romanian schoolteacher whose life changes
|
||
dramatically following her father's passing. Shown at the 1992 New
|
||
York Film Festival. Excellent word. Exclusive premiere engagement
|
||
at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
New Line Cinema
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE ADVENTURES OF FARTMAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Lawton
|
||
Cast: Howard Stern
|
||
Producer: David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: Jonathan Lawton
|
||
Start Date: 5/93, New Yorl
|
||
Shock-jock Stern makes the leap to the silver screen in this
|
||
odiferous comedy. Lawton wrote PRETTY WOMAN.
|
||
|
||
THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO (Fine Line) October 8
|
||
Dir: Maggie Greenwald
|
||
Cast: Suzy Amis, Sir Ian McKellen, Bo Hopkins, David Chung, Carrie
|
||
Snodgrass, Sam Robards
|
||
Producers: Fred Berner, Brenda Goodman
|
||
Screenplay: Maggie Greenwald
|
||
D.P.: Declan Quinn
|
||
Start Date: 9/22/92, Montana
|
||
|
||
BARCELONA (Fine Line) TBA
|
||
Dir: Whit Stillman
|
||
Cast: Taylor Nichols, Christopher Eigeman
|
||
Producer: Whit Stillman
|
||
Screenplay: Whit Stillman
|
||
D.P.: John Thomas
|
||
Composers: Tom Judson, Mark Suozzo
|
||
Negative Cost: $5 million
|
||
Start Date: Spring '93, Spain
|
||
Oscar nominee Stillman (Original Screenplay for METROPOLITAN) helms
|
||
his second feature with this romantic comedy. Set in "the last decade
|
||
of the Cold War", this is the story of two American cousins (a Naval
|
||
Officer and a businessman) and their relationships with seversal
|
||
Spanish women.
|
||
|
||
BLINK (Fine Line) TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Apted
|
||
Cast: Madeline Stowe, Aidan Quinn
|
||
Producer: David Blocker
|
||
Screenplay: Dana Stevens
|
||
D.P.: Dante Spinotti
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Start Date: 3/93, Chicago
|
||
Stowe is a poet who was blinded due to child abuse. When a medical
|
||
procedure restores her sight, she witness a murder, but her brain does
|
||
not register what had occurred until hours later, as she has no depth
|
||
perception and is relearning "how to see". Quinn is the police
|
||
detective who doesn't know whether or not to believe her vision. An
|
||
erotic thriller from the director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, and most
|
||
recently, THUNDERHEART. Spinotti shot THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
|
||
|
||
BODIES, REST AND MOTION (Fine Line) April 9 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Michael Steinberg
|
||
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Eric Stolz, Tim Roth
|
||
Producers: Joel Castleberg, Allan Mindel, Denise Shaw
|
||
Screenplay: Roger Hedden
|
||
D.P.: Bernd Heinl
|
||
Start Date: 7/25/92, Tucson
|
||
A romance drama about young people suffering from personal inertia,
|
||
or "falling into ruts". Excellent word. Shown at the 1993 Sundance
|
||
Film Festival. Steinberg directed THE WATERDANCE.
|
||
|
||
BURN THISBURN THIS
|
||
TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Linda Yellen, Ray Katz
|
||
Screenplay: Don Jakoby, Linda Yellen, based on August Wilson's play
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Big-screen version of the erotic play about a contemporary woman who
|
||
comes up against her fear of intimacy when a tempestuous man enters
|
||
her life.
|
||
|
||
CORRINA, CORRINA TBA
|
||
Dir: Jessie Nelson
|
||
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta
|
||
|
||
DAD'S WEEK OFF TBA
|
||
Dir: Neal Israel
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Robert Harris
|
||
Screenplay: Elliot Stern, Denise Halma
|
||
Start Date: Spring '93
|
||
An accountant's job is in jeopardy, forcing him to stay home while
|
||
the wife and kids go off to a wedding. In the interim, he destroys
|
||
the house, imperils the dog, gets beaten up, nearly loses his job,
|
||
and comes close to ruining his marriage.
|
||
|
||
DAMAGE January 22 (wider)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong sexuality and for language
|
||
Dir: Louis Malle
|
||
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert
|
||
Graves, Leslie Caron, Ian Bannen
|
||
Producer: Louis Malle
|
||
Screenplay: David Hare, based on Josephine Hart's novel
|
||
D.P.: Peter Biziou
|
||
Composer: Zbignew Preisner
|
||
Start Date: 2/24/92, U.K., France
|
||
Sordid tale of a politician obessed with his son's lover. Very
|
||
fine pedigree. Rating appeal was lost...release was delayed for a
|
||
week while film was cut to achieve an "R" rating after being slapped
|
||
with the dreaded "NC-17". Opened in New York and Los Angeles on
|
||
12/23/92.
|
||
|
||
DEADBOLT TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence
|
||
|
||
DEAD ON TBA
|
||
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 TBA
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
DEATH RING TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence, and for sexuality and language
|
||
|
||
DELTA OF VENUS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Sarah Kernochan
|
||
This screen adaptation of Anais Nin's sensuous novel about a young
|
||
woman's wild sexual abandon, an author's erotic writing for an
|
||
anonymous man leads to an intense rediscovery of self.
|
||
|
||
EDDIE March 5
|
||
Cast: Rick Moranis
|
||
|
||
THE ENDLESS SUMMER 2 April, 1994 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Bruce Brown
|
||
Cast: Pat O'Connell, Robert Weaver
|
||
Producers: Ron Moler, Roger Riddell
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce Brown, Dana Brown
|
||
D.P.: Mike Hoover
|
||
Start Date: 4/14/92, South Africa, Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand,
|
||
Fiji, Tahiti
|
||
Bruce Brown is finally making a sequel to his classic 1966 surfing
|
||
documentary THE ENDLESS SUMMER, which was produced for $50,000 and
|
||
grossed $30 million over the years. He will once again travel to the
|
||
great surfing spots of the world and this time will use the latest in
|
||
underwater photography and sound technologies.
|
||
|
||
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES July 23
|
||
Dir: Gus Van Sant
|
||
Cast: Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Rain Phoenix, Victoria Williams, Faye
|
||
Dunaway, Roseanne Arnold, Pat Morita, Heather Graham, John Hurt
|
||
Producer: Laurie Parker
|
||
Screenplay: Gus Van Sant, based on Tom Robbins' novel
|
||
D.P.: John Campbell, Eric Edwards
|
||
Start Date: 9/14/92, Oregon
|
||
Negative Cost: $8.5 million
|
||
Young Virginia woman goes to New York to make a splash in the
|
||
fashion world. Ms. Phoenix is the head cowgirl of the twenty-five.
|
||
Project was formerly at TriStar.
|
||
|
||
EXCESSIVE FORCE (Fine Line) March 26 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and language and for sexuality and
|
||
drug use
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Hess
|
||
Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith, Charlotte Lewis, James Earl Jones, Lance
|
||
Henrikson, Tony Todd
|
||
Producer: Irwin Stoss
|
||
Screenplay: Thomas Ian Griffith
|
||
Start Date: 3/6/92, Chicago
|
||
Martial arts expert Griffith stars as Terry Conner in this action-
|
||
drama about a New York cop with a short fuse and fast fists. When
|
||
his partners are killed and $3 million disappears during a bust,
|
||
Conner fights to save his life and clear his name when he's suspected
|
||
by the law...and the mob. Griffith was featured in THE KARATE KID
|
||
PART III.
|
||
|
||
EYE OF THE STORM TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for scenes of strong violence, and for language
|
||
|
||
FAST GETAWAY (Cinetel) TBA
|
||
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 robbery.
|
||
|
||
F-TROOP TBA
|
||
Dir: Bobby Logan
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: David Permut, Bobby Logan
|
||
Screenplay: Bobby Logan
|
||
Arrgh. Yet another bad TV show comes to the big screen. There
|
||
will likely be cameos by original cast members Ken Berry, Larry
|
||
Storch, Melody Patterson and James Hampton.
|
||
|
||
FATAL CHARM TBA
|
||
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
|
||
|
||
JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY August 13
|
||
Dir: Adam Marcus
|
||
Cast: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder
|
||
Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
|
||
Screenplay: Dean Lorey, Jay Huguely
|
||
Start Date: 5/92, Los Angeles
|
||
What have we done to deserve this?
|
||
|
||
INCREDIBLE CRASH DUMMIES 1993
|
||
Start Date: Spring 1993
|
||
A film based on those dummies who do the TV public-service spots for
|
||
seat belt usage, if you can believe that.
|
||
|
||
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS TBA
|
||
Dir: John Carpenter
|
||
Screenplay: Michael De Luca
|
||
Horror film concerns an investigator who must find a missing horror
|
||
author and his final manuscript before it is published. The story,
|
||
which is the last of a series of best-sellers, reveals the truth about
|
||
an evil race of beings dedicated to regaining control of Earth.
|
||
|
||
THE HIDDEN 2: THE SPAWNING TBA
|
||
Dir: Seth Pinsker
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Michael Meltzer
|
||
Screenplay: Seth Pinsker
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Sequel to the good and gross 1987 science fiction feature starring
|
||
Kyle Maclachlan as the alien cop hunting for the horrific villain will
|
||
be the feature directorial debut for Oscar short film nominee Pinsker.
|
||
|
||
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (Fine Line) September 10 (NY, LA))
|
||
Dir: Nancy Savoca
|
||
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sebastian Roche',
|
||
Judith Malina
|
||
Exec. Producer: Jonathan Demme
|
||
Screenplay: Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay, based on Francine Prose's
|
||
novel
|
||
Start Date: 6/24/92, New York, Wilmington NC
|
||
Newly Oscar-anointed Director Demme gets an exec producer credit on
|
||
this comedy set in Manhattan's Little Italy by third-time helmer
|
||
Savoca.
|
||
|
||
THE LANE FROST STORY TBA
|
||
Dir: John Avildsen
|
||
Cast: Luke Perry
|
||
Producer: Michael Shamberg
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Brothers
|
||
Negative Cost: $7 million
|
||
Biopic about the champion bull rider Frost who was killed in a rodeo
|
||
at the age of 23.
|
||
|
||
THE LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS (Fine Line) February 26 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" for a moment of strong sexual language March 12 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Gillian Armstrong
|
||
Cast: Kerry Fox, Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Miranda Otto, Bill Hunter
|
||
Producer: Jan Chapman
|
||
Screenplay: Helen Garner
|
||
D.P.: Geoffrey Simpson
|
||
Composer: Paul Grabowsky
|
||
Aussie story of an inner-city Sydney household during a warm
|
||
Australian summer. Nominated for 11 Australian Film Awards.
|
||
Armstrong directed MY BRILLIANT CAREER and MRS. SOFFEL.
|
||
|
||
LEOLO (Fine Line) April 2 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Jean-Claude Lauzon April 7 (LA)
|
||
Cast: Ginette Reno, Pierre Bourgault, Maxime Collin, Giuditta Del
|
||
Vecchio, Julien Guiomar
|
||
Producers: Lyse Lafontaine, Aimee Danis
|
||
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Lauzon
|
||
Highly regarded Canadian film is the story of a young Montrealer's
|
||
who counters the banality and craziness of family life with wild
|
||
fantasies. A multiple Genie (Canadian Film) award-winner.
|
||
|
||
MAN'S BEST FRIEND September 17
|
||
Dir: John LaFia
|
||
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen
|
||
Producer: Chuck Roven
|
||
Screenplay: John LaFia
|
||
Start Date: 1/25/93, S. California
|
||
This canine answer to THE TERMINATOR offers a villain created in a
|
||
college biotechnology lab and eye-popping visuals. Kevin Yagher,
|
||
creator of Chucky, is special effects supervisor. Roven produced
|
||
FINAL ANALYSIS.
|
||
|
||
THE MASK TBA
|
||
Dir: Chuck Russell
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Werb
|
||
An ambitious visual effects film based on the Dark Horse Comic
|
||
series in which an ordinary man buys an ancient mysterious mask that,
|
||
when worn, turns him into an indestructible, wise-cracking superman.
|
||
Not one to use his powers against evil, he embarks on a vendetta
|
||
against everyone who had ever "done him wrong".
|
||
|
||
MENACE II SOCIETY May 26 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Allen and Albert Hughes
|
||
Cast: KK, Tha D
|
||
Producer: Darin Scott
|
||
Screenplay: Tyger Williams
|
||
Negative Cost: $2.5 million
|
||
21-year-old twins Allen and Albert make their feature debut after
|
||
directing many rap videos. Story concerns a Watts teenager embroiled
|
||
in the criminal activity of his peers who struggles to better his
|
||
situation. Film is to be a much grittier look at the "Hood" than
|
||
other films, most notably BOYZ 'N THE HOOD. Cameos for Charles S.
|
||
Dutton, Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Plummer and Bill Duke.
|
||
|
||
MERCY TBA
|
||
Dir: Jack Sholder
|
||
Screenplay: Jack Sholder, Brad Miurman, based on David Lindsey's novel
|
||
Houston's most prominent women are being murdered unconventionally.
|
||
|
||
MIDNIGHT HEAT TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong sensuality and violence, and for language
|
||
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
|
||
|
||
MINE TBA
|
||
Dir: Mary Lambert
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Resnikoff
|
||
A psychotic female terrorist who was raised in a Sixties radical
|
||
hippie family steals a baby from an innocent mother who must make a
|
||
hellish cross-country trip to retrieve her son.
|
||
|
||
MR. NANNY July 30
|
||
Rating: "PG" rated for comic action and mild language
|
||
Dir: Michael Gottlieb
|
||
Cast: Hulk Hogan, David Johansen, Sherman Hemsley
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Gottlieb
|
||
Start Date: 5/15/92, Miami
|
||
Formerly titled ROUGH STUFF.
|
||
|
||
NAKED IN NEW YORK (Fine Line) August 13 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Daniel Algrant
|
||
August 25 (LA)
|
||
Cast: Eric Stolz, Mary-Louise Parker, Timothy Dalton, Ralph Macchio,
|
||
Kathleen Turner, Tony Curtis, Jill Clayburgh, Lynne Thigpen
|
||
Exec Producer: Martin Scorsese
|
||
Producer: Fred Zollo
|
||
Screenplay: Daniel Algrant
|
||
D.P.: Joey Forsyte
|
||
Start Date: 11/9/92, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $5 million
|
||
Hot new award-winning filmmaker from Columbia U. gets his major
|
||
theatrical debut. He caught Scorsese's eye while winning a medal at a
|
||
film competition.
|
||
|
||
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S LOADED WEAPON 1 February 5
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for ribald humor and drug references.
|
||
Dir: Gene Quintano
|
||
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Curry, William Shatner,
|
||
Kathy Ireland
|
||
Producers: Suzanne Todd, David Willis
|
||
Screenplay: Don Holly, Gene Quintano
|
||
D.P.: Peter Deming
|
||
Composer: Robert Folk
|
||
Negative Cost: $8.2 million
|
||
Start Date: 6/22/92, Los Angeles
|
||
A new franchise for New Line resulting with the new association with
|
||
J2 Communications is the National Lampoon series of three upcoming
|
||
films over four years...the first jabs at the buddy/action genre ala'
|
||
the LETHAL WEAPON series from Warner Brothers/Silver. The original
|
||
script by Don Holly was acquired by Disney, who brought Quintano on
|
||
for a rewrite. Producer Willis is Bruce's brother. Features
|
||
cameos by Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Lewis, Erik Estrada,
|
||
Richard Moll, James Doohan and Beverly Johnson.
|
||
|
||
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 7 1993
|
||
Dir: Wes Craven
|
||
Cast: Robert Englund
|
||
Producer: Wes Craven
|
||
Screenplay: Wes Craven
|
||
|
||
OH, WHAT A NIGHT TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for elements of teen sexuality
|
||
|
||
PEACEMAKERS TBA
|
||
Producers: Suzanne de Passe, Cindy Cirlie, John Fasano
|
||
Screenplay: Cindy Cirlie, John Fasano
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
|
||
PYRATES TBA
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
RELENTLESS III TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
|
||
|
||
RIFF-RAFF (Fine Line) February 12 (NY)
|
||
Rating: None
|
||
March 17 (limited))
|
||
Dir: Ken Loach
|
||
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman, George Moss
|
||
Producer: Sally Hibbin
|
||
Screenplay: Bill Jesse
|
||
Composer: Stewart Copeland
|
||
A black comedy about a recent Glasgow prison inmate who gets a job
|
||
on a non-union construction site with a gang of workers converting a
|
||
rat-infested hospital into luxury flats. This critique of Thatcher's
|
||
Britain was shot in 16mm. The "R" rating which the film received has
|
||
been surrendered.
|
||
|
||
|
||
SHORT CUTS (Fine Line) September 24
|
||
Dir: Robert Altman
|
||
Cast: Tim Robbins, Jeff Daniels, Jack Lemmon, Fred Ward, Matthew
|
||
Modine, Andie MacDowell, Lily Tomlin, Laura Dern, Jennifer Jason
|
||
Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Seymour Cassell, Teri Garr, Robert Townsend,
|
||
Chrisopher Penn, Anne Archer, Frances McDormand, Buck Henry, Lori
|
||
Singer, Lyle Lovett, Annie Ross
|
||
Producer: Cary Brokaw
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Altman, Frank Barhydt, based on Raymond Carver's
|
||
short stories
|
||
Start Date: 7/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Ensemble comedy-drama set in contemporary working-class Los Angeles
|
||
has a NASHVILLE-like structure and huge cast. There are 27 major
|
||
parts, all which intertwine. Wound in early October. Altman's first
|
||
cut ran some six hours!
|
||
|
||
SKEETERS (Team Players) TBA
|
||
Cast: Cyril O'Reilly, Tracy Griffith
|
||
A low-budget science fiction film.
|
||
|
||
SO HELP ME GOD TBA
|
||
Dir: Tom Holland
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Cohen, Tom Holland
|
||
A contemporary courtroom drama where the ultimate evil possesses an
|
||
ordinary man who commits several gruesome murders.
|
||
|
||
SUNSET GRILL TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
|
||
Dir: Kevin Connor
|
||
Cast: Peter Weller, Lori Singer, Stacy Keach, Alexandra Paul, John
|
||
Rhys-Davies, Michael Anderson Jr.
|
||
Low-budget thriller about a hard-luck detective who, while
|
||
attempting to avenge the murder of his ex-wife, uncovers a sinister
|
||
conspiracy.
|
||
|
||
SURF NINJAS July 2
|
||
Rating: "PG" for comic martial arts action and some mild language
|
||
Dir: Neal Israel
|
||
Cast: Ernie Reyes Jr., Leslie Nielsen
|
||
Producer: Evzen Kolar
|
||
Screenplay: Dan Gordon
|
||
Start Date: 5/18/92, LA, Thailand
|
||
A wacked-out surf comedy.
|
||
|
||
SURVIVING THE GAME TBA
|
||
Producer: David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Bernt
|
||
An action thriller about a homeless man who is set up as human prey
|
||
by a group of wicked hunters.
|
||
|
||
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III March 19
|
||
Rating: "PG" for swashbuckling violence and mild language March 26 (wider)
|
||
Dir: Stuart Gillard
|
||
Cast: Paige Turco, Elias Koteas, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono, Vivian
|
||
Wu, Henry Hayashi, John Aylward, Travis Moon, Mark Caso, David Fraser,
|
||
Matt Hill, Jim Raposa
|
||
Exec Producer: Raymond Chow
|
||
Producer: Thomas Gray, Kim Dawson, David Chan
|
||
Screenplay: Stuart Gillard
|
||
D.P.: David Gurfinkel
|
||
Composer: John Du Prez
|
||
Start Date: 6/15/92, Astoria, OR
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
The third Turtle film will take over five sound stages at Stephen
|
||
Cannell's studio (perhaps). Storyline involves time-travel, between
|
||
today and the 17th Century. The Turtle outfits will no longer be from
|
||
Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
|
||
|
||
THREE OF HEARTS May 7 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language and sexuality
|
||
Dir: Urek Bogayevicz
|
||
Cast: William Baldwin, Sherilyn Fenn, Kelly Lynch, Joe Pantoliano,
|
||
Gail Strickland
|
||
Producers; David Permut, Joel Michaels, Matthew Irmas
|
||
Screenplay: Adam Greenman
|
||
D.P.: Andrzej Sekula
|
||
Composer: Richard Gibbs
|
||
Start Date: 4/13/92, New York
|
||
Provocative love story involves a love relationship between the Fenn
|
||
and Lynch characters which is rendered askew when Baldwin comes on the
|
||
scene. Filmed successfully sneaked at AMC Burbank in October.
|
||
|
||
UNHOLY FIRE TBA
|
||
Dir: George Romero
|
||
Producer: Peter Grunwald
|
||
Screenplay: Whitley Strieber, based on his novel
|
||
Start Date: Spring 1993
|
||
Story of a NYC priest implicated in the brutal murder of a parish
|
||
member. In unraveling this mystery of the slaying, the priest finds
|
||
he may be dealing with Satan himself.
|
||
|
||
VOLERE, VOLARE (Fine Line) February 3 (NY)
|
||
Rating: "R" for nudity
|
||
February 10 (LA)
|
||
Dirs: Maurizio Nichetti, Guido Manuli
|
||
Cast: Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Mariella Valentini,
|
||
Patrizio Roversi
|
||
Producers: Enesto di Sarro, Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
|
||
Screenplay: Maurizio Nichetti, Guido Manuli
|
||
This Italian import is a comic fantasy that blends live action and
|
||
animation. Star Nichetti is the acclaimed director of THE ICICLE
|
||
THIEF.
|
||
|
||
WAVE WARRIORS TBA
|
||
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Rob Schneider
|
||
Wacky surfer film made Down Under.
|
||
|
||
WHO'S THE MAN? April 23
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language
|
||
Dir: Ted Demme
|
||
Cast: Doctor Dre, Ed Lover
|
||
Producers: Maynell Thomas, Charles Stettler
|
||
Screenplay: Seth Greenland
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/92, New York
|
||
Rap film.
|
||
|
||
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA (Fine Line) April 16 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "NC-17"
|
||
Dir: John Duigan
|
||
Cast: Nathaniel Parker, Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York
|
||
Producer: Jan Sharp
|
||
Screenplay: John Duigan, based on Jean Rhys' novel
|
||
Start Date: 7/91, Jamaica
|
||
Period romance set in the 19th Century Caribbean details sexual
|
||
obsession between an English aristocrat and the French island lovely
|
||
that he takes for his wife.
|
||
|
||
YO, ALICE! 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: TBA
|
||
Negative Cost: <$10 million
|
||
A hip-hop musical film version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND that was
|
||
developed by Maurice Hines, who may choreograph and/or perform in the
|
||
film. In this version, Alice Huxley is a 17-year-old African-American
|
||
who ventures on a voyage of discovery when she and her friend Harvey
|
||
(who is transformed into the Rabbit) get sucked into the VCR. The
|
||
lead role will be cast with an unknown, but there will be some big
|
||
names in supporting roles.
|
||
|
||
YOJIMBO TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Arthur Sarkissian
|
||
Screenplay: Henry Bean
|
||
Start Date: 2/93
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Yet another remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic 1961 Samurai
|
||
film...this time the setting will be American and urban, a place where
|
||
violence has taken over and anarchy rules.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
New Yorker Films
|
||
|
||
|
||
TAIGA March 3
|
||
Dir: Ulrike Ottinger
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Northern Arts
|
||
|
||
CHILDREN OF NATURE May
|
||
Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
|
||
|
||
JIT April 16
|
||
Dir: Michael Raeburn
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October Films
|
||
|
||
|
||
CAGE/CUNNINGHAM TBA
|
||
Dir: Elliot Caplan
|
||
Documentary traces the collaboration of choreographer Merce
|
||
Cunningham and composer John Cage.
|
||
|
||
TWO MIKES DON'T MAKE A RIGHT March 31
|
||
|
||
UN COEUR EN HIVER June (NY)
|
||
Dir: Claude Sautet
|
||
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre Dussollier
|
||
Producer: Jean-Louis Livi
|
||
Screenplay: Claude Sautet, Jacques Fieschi, Jerome Tonnerre
|
||
Love triangle involved lovely young violinist and two violin makers.
|
||
Exclusive New York bow will widen to Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston,
|
||
Washington, and St. Louis.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Orion
|
||
|
||
|
||
BLUE SKY 1993
|
||
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. The late Tony Richardson's
|
||
last film.
|
||
|
||
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? 1993
|
||
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. Johansen stars as Gunther Toody and McGinley
|
||
portrays his sidekick, Francis Muldoon, two mismatched police
|
||
officers, partners by circumstance but not by choice. The
|
||
rollicking comedy also features cameo appearances by Penn & Teller,
|
||
Tone Loc and the Ramones with music by the Ramones, Coati Mundi, Lis
|
||
Delbello, MojoNixon and Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.
|
||
|
||
CHINA MOON 1993
|
||
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
|
||
This steamy thriller is about a veteran detective (Harris) in a small
|
||
Florida city whose backstreet romance with wealthy young widow spins a
|
||
web of deceit, betrayal and murder. His official investigation of
|
||
the crime backfires when the trail begins to point to him. "China
|
||
Moon" is the second TIG production, following Orion's "Dances With
|
||
Wolves."
|
||
|
||
CLIFFORD 1993
|
||
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
|
||
Martin Short stars in dual roles along with Charles Grodin, Mary
|
||
Steenburgen and Dabney Coleman in this comedy about a mischievous, 10-
|
||
year-old boy left in the care of his bachelor uncle (Grodin) while his
|
||
parents are in Hawaii. More than a few catastrophic
|
||
misadventures are in store for Clifford, a juvenile genius with a one-
|
||
track mind, as his dream of visiting Dinosaurworld becomes his
|
||
uncle's worst nightmare. Delayed from a June, 1991 release.
|
||
|
||
THE DARK HALF April 23
|
||
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. Opened
|
||
in London in 5/92.
|
||
|
||
THE FAVOR 1993
|
||
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 romantic comedy about Emily and Kathy, two best friends whose long-
|
||
time bond suddenly snaps when Emily's fantasy about her high school
|
||
sweetheart she hasn't seen in 15 years, and her request of an unusual
|
||
favor, puts their friendship to the ultimate test. Petrie directed
|
||
MYSTIC PIZZA and OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.
|
||
|
||
LOVE FIELD February 12 (wide)
|
||
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
|
||
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
|
||
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. Opened in New York
|
||
and LA for one week only Oscar qualification on 12/11/92.
|
||
|
||
MARRIED TO IT 1.85 (SR) March 26
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
ROBOCOP 3 July 30
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
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
|
||
In the film, Omni-Consumer Product Corp. (OCP), the company which
|
||
originally designed RoboCop, has scheduled Detroit's largest
|
||
neighborhood for extinction to make way for a gleaming new city in
|
||
the future. In his effort to serve public trust, RoboCop leaves the
|
||
Detroit Police Department and joins forces with a rebel group to help
|
||
them defend their homes. Among this determined band of homeless
|
||
revolutionaries is Nikko, a 10-year-old computer genius who idolizes
|
||
RoboCop. Her devotion and loyalty awakens in RoboCop the human
|
||
longings and fleeting but powerful memories of a murdered cop named
|
||
Murphy. Only a "PG-13" this time?
|
||
|
||
THERE GOES MY BABY 1993
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Floyd Mutrux
|
||
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Rick Schroder, Kelli Williams, Noah Wyle, Jill
|
||
Schoelen, Kristin Minter, Lucy Deakins, Kenny Ransom
|
||
Producer: Robert Shapiro
|
||
Screenplay: Floyd Mutrux
|
||
Negative Cost: $10.5 million
|
||
A bittersweet look at a time in history in the early 60s when things
|
||
are about to change for eight high school graduates, and for the rest
|
||
of the country.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Orion Classics
|
||
|
||
|
||
RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER February 5 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for theme
|
||
Dir: Gary Bennett
|
||
Cast: Betty Buckley, Jeff Daniels, Frederic Forrest, Graham Greene,
|
||
Linda Hunt, Robert Earl Jones, Austin Pendleton, Carolyn McCormick,
|
||
Ali Thomas
|
||
Producers: Nanette and Gary Sorenson
|
||
Screenplay: Gary Bennett
|
||
Negative Cost: $4 million
|
||
First pickup by Orion since they emerged from Chapter 11 protection
|
||
is a drama set in 2042 where a young woman and her mother are
|
||
incarcerated for breaking anti-abortion laws that are enacted due to a
|
||
constitutional amendment.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Pacific Pictures
|
||
|
||
|
||
SONS early 1993
|
||
Dir: Alexandre Rockwell
|
||
Producer: Marc Toberoff
|
||
Screenplay: Alexandre Rockwell
|
||
Rockwell gained notoriety with IN THE SOUP at the Sundance festival.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Paramount
|
||
|
||
|
||
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES November
|
||
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
|
||
Cast: Raul Julia, Angelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack,
|
||
Carol Kane, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Carel Struycken,
|
||
Christopher Hart
|
||
Producers: Scott Rudin, David Nicksay
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Rudnick
|
||
Start Date: 2/8/93, Los Angeles
|
||
The gang's back again for more big bucks. This is Yale-grad
|
||
Rudnick's first credited screenplay.
|
||
|
||
THE BADGER TBA
|
||
Cast: John Cusack
|
||
Screenplay: Michael O'Donaghue
|
||
|
||
BEVERLY HILLS COP III 1994
|
||
Dir: John Landis
|
||
Cast: Eddie Murphy
|
||
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme
|
||
Screenplay: Steve de Souza
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $55 million
|
||
Another formula film. This time Murphy gets $15 million up front.
|
||
It's like DIE HARD at an amusement park. De Souza wrote DIE HARD.
|
||
Joel Silver left the producer's chair and Neufeld and Rehme are
|
||
stepping in. They produced PATRIOT GAMES and THE HUNT FOR RED
|
||
OCTOBER. Delayed from a July release due to the rushed schedule and
|
||
humongous $70+ million budget. Is being reworked to $55 million. May
|
||
not show up until Memorial Day, 1994, which would be 1 year later than
|
||
the original projected release date.
|
||
|
||
BITTER ROOT TBA
|
||
Dir: John McTiernan
|
||
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry
|
||
Cavalry vs. Indians. Everyone has to have a western these days...
|
||
|
||
BLUE TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme
|
||
Screenplay: Jay Wolf
|
||
An original script about a baseball umpire school in Phoenix.
|
||
|
||
BLUE CHIP TBA
|
||
Dir: William Friedkin
|
||
Cast: Nick Nolte
|
||
Producer: Michelle Rappaport
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Shelton
|
||
Start Date: Spring 1993
|
||
A college football coach must deal with a conflict of principle.
|
||
|
||
BOPHA! Fall
|
||
Dir: Morgan Freeman
|
||
Cast: Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Malcolm McDowell, Marius Weyers,
|
||
Maynard Ezlashl, Malick Bowens
|
||
Exec Producer: Arsenio Hall
|
||
Producer: Lawrence Taubman
|
||
Screenplay: John Wierick, Brian Bird
|
||
D.P.: David Watkins
|
||
Start Date: 6/15/92, Zimbabwe
|
||
Freeman makes his directorial debut in this South African-based film
|
||
about a father and son's relationship set shortly after the 1976
|
||
Soweto uprising. Will get a title change.
|
||
|
||
THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: David Kirkpatrick
|
||
Producers: Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz
|
||
Screenplay: Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
Maybe Sherry Lansing will kill this project....please? Scheduled to
|
||
be cast with unknowns who look like the TV cast did in 1972.
|
||
|
||
THE CATCH TBA
|
||
|
||
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER 70mm 1994
|
||
Dir: Philip Noyce
|
||
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones
|
||
Producers: Bob Rehme, Mace Neufeld
|
||
Screenplay: Don Stewart, John Milius, based on Tom Clancy's novel
|
||
Negative Cost: $45 million
|
||
Start Date: 9/1/93, Los Angeles, Washington, Puerto Rico or Mexico
|
||
Clancy is royally mad at Paramount about this project. He thinks
|
||
Noyce (helmer of PATRIOT GAMES and current SLIVER) is a hack. Clancy
|
||
wouldn't mind seeing John McTiernan take over this one, even though he
|
||
complained about McT's work during the shoot of THE HUNT FOR RED
|
||
OCTOBER. In this film, Jack Ryan (Ford) helps the U.S. declare war on
|
||
the Colombia drug cartel.
|
||
|
||
THE CONEHEADS July 23
|
||
Dir: Steve Barron
|
||
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley
|
||
Producer: Lorne Michaels
|
||
Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Davis
|
||
D.P.: Francis Kenny
|
||
Start Date: 2/1/93, Los Angeles
|
||
Big-screen treatment of the Saturday Night Live staple of year's
|
||
past.
|
||
|
||
THE CROW August
|
||
Dir: Alex Proyas
|
||
Cast: Brandon Lee
|
||
Producers: Edward Pressman, Jeff Most
|
||
Screenplay: David Schow, John Shirley
|
||
Start Date: 2/1/93, Wilmington, NC
|
||
D.P.: Dariusz Wolski
|
||
A man is brought back from death and he adopts the persona of a
|
||
crow in order to avenge his and his girlfriend's deaths.
|
||
|
||
EMILY BRONTE'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG"
|
||
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 WUTHERING HEIGHTS 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. Negative notices
|
||
on the continent may lead to a straight to video on this one over
|
||
here.
|
||
|
||
THE EVENING STAR TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Shirley MacLaine
|
||
Producer: David Kirkpatrick
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Harling, based on Larry McMurtry's novel
|
||
The sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT follows Aurora and her three grown
|
||
and troubled grandchildren fifteen years later. Jack Nicholson is
|
||
interested in reprising his role as Garrett Breedlove, based on how
|
||
the script turns out.
|
||
|
||
FIRE IN THE SKY March 12
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for sci-fi violence
|
||
Dir: Robert Lieberman
|
||
Cast: James Garner, Robert Patrick, D.B. Sweeney, Craig Sheffer, Henry
|
||
Thomas, Bradley Gregg, Peter Berg
|
||
Producers: Todd Black, Joe Wizan
|
||
Screenplay: Tracy Torme
|
||
D.P.: Bill Pope
|
||
Start Date: 7/92, Arizona
|
||
Big-screen treatment of the well-known UFO abduction case of Travis
|
||
Walton, who reportedly was swiped by aliens in the woods near
|
||
Snowflake, Arizona in 1975 in plain view of his friends on their way
|
||
home from work. Patrick scored as the T-1000 cyborg in TERMINATOR 2.
|
||
Lieberman directed ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.
|
||
|
||
THE FIRM July 2
|
||
Dir: Sydney Pollack
|
||
Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jean Tripplehorn , Holly Hunter,
|
||
Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn, Jerry
|
||
Hardin, Gary Busey
|
||
Producers: Scott Rudin, John Davis, Sydney Pollack
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Towne, David Rayfiel, based on John Grisham's novel
|
||
D.P.: John Seale
|
||
Start Date: 11/9/92, Memphis, Boston, Washington, Cayman Islands
|
||
Cruise plays Mitch MeDeere, who is seduced into joining a Memphis
|
||
law firm. Once he's on board, he discovers that the firm is a front
|
||
for a Mafia family and he must give information to the FBI to save his
|
||
hide. Tripplehorn, who was last seen in BASIC INSTINCT, plays his
|
||
wife, Abby. Hackman is the evil Avery.
|
||
|
||
FLESH AND BONE November 5
|
||
Dir: Steve Kloves
|
||
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow
|
||
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Mark Rosenberg, Sydney Pollack
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Kloves
|
||
D.P.: Phillippe Rousselot
|
||
Start Date: 10/5/92, Austin
|
||
Texas love story where Quaid fills vending machines for his
|
||
livelihood and Ryan has just left her husband seeking a new life on
|
||
the road. Quaid and Ryan are real life marrieds. Kloves directed
|
||
THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS. Producer Rosenberg sadly passed away in
|
||
November, '92, leaving behind wide Weinstein.
|
||
|
||
FOREST GUMP TBA
|
||
Dir: Robert Zemeckis
|
||
Cast: Tom Hanks
|
||
|
||
GEORGIA O'KEEFE TBA
|
||
|
||
GILBERT GRAPE Fall
|
||
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
|
||
Cast: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio
|
||
Producers: David Matalon, Meir Teper, Bertil Ohlssen, Lasse Hallstrom,
|
||
Alan Blomquist
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Hedges, based on his novel "What's Eating Gilbert
|
||
Grape?"
|
||
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
|
||
Start Date: 11/2/92, Austin, TX
|
||
Bittersweet tale of a young man's struggle growing up in a small
|
||
Iowa town and his relationship with his obese mother, who continues to
|
||
gain weight at an alarming pace.
|
||
|
||
INDECENT PROPOSAL April 7
|
||
Dir: Adrian Lyne
|
||
Cast: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
|
||
Producer: Sherry Lansing, Michael Tadross
|
||
Screenplay: Amy Jones, William Goldman, based on Jack Engelhard's
|
||
novel
|
||
D.P.: Howard Atherton
|
||
Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
|
||
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...love those grosse pointes!) Film involves a young
|
||
cash-hungry couple who accept a deal from a rich guy for a night of
|
||
amour with the missus for $1 million. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
|
||
were interested but he backed out and she didn't pass the screen test.
|
||
Redford plays the rich guy, Moore is the young wife of Harrelson.
|
||
Harrelson is being sued, along with producer Lansing, by MGM for his
|
||
dropping out of their BENNY & JOON for this role. Redford will work
|
||
for SAG minimum with a percentage of the gross. Paramount originally
|
||
wanted this to be their big Christmas 1992 picture, but the timing did
|
||
not work out.
|
||
|
||
INTERSECTION TBA
|
||
Dir: Mark Rydell
|
||
Cast: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich
|
||
Producers: Mark Rydell, Frederic Colchan
|
||
Screenplay: David Rayfiel, Marshall Brickman
|
||
Start Date: 3/1/93, San Francisco, Northern California
|
||
An architect is torn between the passion of a new relationship and
|
||
the responsibilities he feels toward his estranged wife and 14-year-
|
||
old daughter, all during a car accident. Stone plays the devoted wife
|
||
(surprise!), while Davidovich (last seen in LEAP OF FAITH), is the
|
||
girlfriend.
|
||
|
||
THE LADY TAKES AN ACE TBA
|
||
Dir: Glen Charles
|
||
Cast: Sharon Stone
|
||
Producer: David Kirkpatrick
|
||
Screenplay: Les Charles
|
||
Start Date: 7/93, Los Angeles, San Diego
|
||
BASIC INSTINCT sensation Stone goes the comedy route.
|
||
|
||
LONG SHOT TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Bob Rehme, Mace Neufeld
|
||
Screenplay: Bill Link, based on James Grady's novel
|
||
Assassination of a presidential candidate is the central theme to
|
||
this political thriller whose protagonist is a secret serviceman
|
||
assigned to protect the victim.
|
||
|
||
MILK MONEY TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Melanie Griffith
|
||
Screenplay: John Mattson
|
||
Three 12-year-old boys pool their milk money to see a nekkid (sic)
|
||
lady in town, and run into Griffith, who is willing to satisfy them.
|
||
|
||
THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3 2nd Half 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Leslie Nielsen
|
||
The third (and final?) in the lucrative NAKED GUN series of gag
|
||
films from ZAZ.
|
||
|
||
PUPPET MASTER: THE MOVIE (Full Moon) 1993
|
||
Negative Cost: $4-7 million
|
||
Exploitation market specialists Full Moon Entertainment have a
|
||
feature based on their video series PUPPET MASTER that Paramount will
|
||
release theatrically, as well as on video.
|
||
|
||
RUNAWAY BRIDE TBA
|
||
Dir: Harrison Ford, Geena Davis
|
||
Screenplay: Sara Parriott, Josan McGibbon, Elaine May rewrite
|
||
This comedy is in a hunt for a director after Michael Hoffman
|
||
(SOAPDISH) dropped out over script problems.
|
||
|
||
THE SAINT TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Roger Moore
|
||
Producers: Robert Evans, Terry Macdonald
|
||
Screenplay: Terry Hayes, Michael Hirst
|
||
Start Date: 2/93
|
||
Simon Templar comes to the big screen. Noyce is fresh off of
|
||
PATRIOT GAMES. Moore probably plays a supporting role.
|
||
|
||
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER October
|
||
Dir: Steve Zaillian
|
||
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Larry Fishburne, Joan Allen, Max
|
||
Pomeranc, William H. Macy, Shelley Winters, Robert Stephens, David
|
||
Paymer, Jared Harris, Anthony Heald, Josh Mostel, Josh Kornbluth, Dan
|
||
Hedaya, Laura Linney
|
||
Exec Producer: Sydney Pollack
|
||
Producer: Scott Rudin, William Horberg
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Zaillian, based on Fred Waitzkin's novel
|
||
D.P.: Conrad Hall
|
||
Start Date: 7/1/92, Toronto
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million
|
||
Film about a chess prodigy.
|
||
|
||
SLIVER 2.35 May 21
|
||
Dir: Philip Noyce
|
||
Cast: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger
|
||
Producers: Robert Evans, Bill MacDonald
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas, based on Ira Levin's novel
|
||
D.P.: Vilmos Zsigmond
|
||
Start Date: 10/13/92, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Berenger is Jack Lansford, a writer of cop stories. Baldwin is
|
||
Zeke Hawkins, a charismatic multi-millionaire who may be a serial
|
||
killer. Stone is a New York publishing house editor who is the
|
||
object of their desires. Stone gets the big bucks for this one after
|
||
the mega-success of BASIC INSTINCT. That works out to $2.5 million
|
||
upfront, plus a percentage of the gross. A camera crew was filming
|
||
eruption footage at Kilauea in Hawaii when their helicopter crashed at
|
||
the Puu Oo vent in late November. All were rescued eventually.
|
||
Noyce directed PATRIOT GAMES and DEAD CALM.
|
||
|
||
STAR TREK VII 2.35 December 1994
|
||
Producer: Rick Berman
|
||
Screenplay: Rick Berman
|
||
|
||
STARWATCHER Spring 1994
|
||
Dir: Jean Giraud, Keith Ingham
|
||
Exec Producers: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk Soleta
|
||
Producer: Alain Guilot
|
||
Screenplay: Moebius, Jackye Fryszman
|
||
Negative Cost: $22 million
|
||
Start Date: 11/15/91, Paris
|
||
Billed as the "world's first computer animation feature", this film
|
||
is in production at producer Guilot's Paris -based Videosystem, which
|
||
is one of Europe's leading 3-D computer animation centers. The title
|
||
character is a hero in a world threatened by cyborgs who dream of
|
||
becoming human. The film uses real digitized faces, clay models and
|
||
virtual-reality techniques to enhance the realism.
|
||
|
||
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND TBA
|
||
Cast: Tom Hanks
|
||
Producer: Joe Vecchio
|
||
Robert Heinlein's science fiction classic is finally on the way to
|
||
the big screen.
|
||
|
||
THE TEMP 1.85 February 12
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and scenes of violence
|
||
Dir: Tom Holland
|
||
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway, Oliver Plkatt,
|
||
Dwight Schultz
|
||
Exec Producer: Howard W. Koch, Jr.
|
||
Producers: Tom Engelman, David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: Kevin Falls
|
||
D.P.: Steven Yaconelli
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
Start Date: 4/9/92, Los Angeles
|
||
A young food company marketing manager thinks his new temporary
|
||
secretary is ideal.... but his suspicions rise after a series of
|
||
mysterious mishaps. Holland directed FRIGHT NIGHT, FATAL BEAUTY and
|
||
CHILD'S PLAY. Expect an "R" rating for this erotic indie thriller.
|
||
|
||
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD TBA
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Bill Phillips
|
||
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Dabney Coleman, Rhea Perlman, Catherine O'Hara
|
||
Producer: Mort Engelberg
|
||
Screenplay: Bill Phillips
|
||
D.P.: Walt Lloyd
|
||
Daniels is criminal psychologist Willis Embry. He learns of $8.5
|
||
million buried in Cherry Hill, New Jersey from a dying convict. He
|
||
then makes a deal with one of his patients to dig up the loot in
|
||
return for half of the profits. Embry discovers that the money is
|
||
under the home of Jessica Lodge (O'Hara). Unfortunately for him, some
|
||
of the other inmates overheard the plans before escaping.... Formerly
|
||
titled PAYDIRT. Released in Phoenix to dismal boxoffice in October.
|
||
Will likely go straight to video.
|
||
|
||
THE THING CALLED LOVE July 16
|
||
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
|
||
Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock,
|
||
K.T. Oslin, Trisha Yearwood
|
||
Producer: John Davis
|
||
Screenplay: Carol Heikkinen
|
||
D.P.: Peter James
|
||
Start Date: 11/2/92, Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles
|
||
A young country singer enters the Nashville scene. Grammy-winning
|
||
country star Oslin makes her film debut as a "earth-mother" club
|
||
owner. Delayed from an April release.
|
||
|
||
TWILIGHT TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: James Woods
|
||
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme, James Woods, Ross Feinman
|
||
Jimmy Woods plays a baseball player-manager in this sports drama.
|
||
|
||
WAYNE'S WORLD 2 December
|
||
Dir: Penelope Spheeris
|
||
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey
|
||
Exec Producer: Howard Koch Jr.
|
||
Producer: Lorne Michaels
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Myers
|
||
Start Date: 6/1/93
|
||
When in doubt, make a sequel to a success...and quickly.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Roxie Releasing
|
||
|
||
MAN BITES DOG January 15 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "NC-17"
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Samuel Goldwyn
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN GLADIATORS: THE MOVIE TBA
|
||
The phenomenally popular action TV competition series is opened up
|
||
on the big screen to become a good vs. evil story.
|
||
|
||
THE BARRYMORES TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on "The Barrymores: The Royal Family of
|
||
Hollywood" by James Davis
|
||
|
||
FUNNY PECULIAR TBA
|
||
Dir: John Duigan
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Michael Shamberg
|
||
Screenplay: June Roberts, based on Amanda Thomas' novel "Riding the
|
||
Dolphin"
|
||
Start Date: 5/92
|
||
Humorous drama about the struggles of teenage schizophrenics in a
|
||
halfway house.
|
||
|
||
GOLDEN GATE Fall
|
||
Dir: John Madden
|
||
Cast: Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Tzi Ma, Stan Egl
|
||
Producers: Lindsay Law, Michael Brandman
|
||
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang
|
||
D.P.: Bobby bukowski
|
||
Start Date: 12/7/92, Northern California
|
||
The author of M. BUTTERFLY writes a love story of a young FBI agent
|
||
and a Chinese-American woman. The story covers the Fifties throught
|
||
the Seventies. Kirby was last seen as a stand-up comic in HOFFA.
|
||
"Some loves are impossible...But they are loves just the same."
|
||
|
||
GOSPEL TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Schultz
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Ntozake Shange
|
||
The rise, fall and rise of a young gospel singer.
|
||
|
||
HOLIDAY CITY TBA
|
||
Dir: Matty Rich
|
||
Producer: Martin Brest
|
||
Screenplay: Ruben Gonzalez
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
|
||
IL LADRO DI BAMBINI March 5 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Gianni Amelio
|
||
March 12 (wider)
|
||
Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalico, Giuseppe Ieracitano
|
||
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
|
||
A young military officer has the job of escorting two children
|
||
across Italy after their mother's arrest. Winner of the Jury Prize at
|
||
Cannes.
|
||
|
||
MAC 1.85 (SR) February 19 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language and some sexuality March 3 (wider)
|
||
Dir: John Turturro
|
||
Cast: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Capotorto, Katherine
|
||
Borowitz, Steven Randazzo, Ellen Barkin, John Amos
|
||
Producers: Brenda Goodman, Nancy Tenenbaum
|
||
Screenplay: John Turturro, Brandon Cole
|
||
D.P.: Ron Fortunato
|
||
Composers: Richard Termini, Vin Tese
|
||
Spike Lee vet actor Turturro makes his directorial debut and also
|
||
works the other side of the camera in this acclaimed film about three
|
||
Italian-American brothers in the construction business that won the
|
||
Camera D'Or at the Cannes Fest in '92.
|
||
|
||
MEMOIRS OF A CADDY TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: David Noonan, based on his novel
|
||
A coming of age story of brothers set in the Sixties.
|
||
|
||
MESMER TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Joel Gross, based on his play
|
||
Based on the life of Anton Mesmer, the father of hypnotism.
|
||
Hopefully mesmerizing.
|
||
|
||
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING May 7 (limited)
|
||
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
May 14 (wider)
|
||
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean
|
||
Leonard, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsdale, Michael Keaton
|
||
Producers: Stephen Evans, David Parfitt
|
||
Screenplay Adaptation: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92, Italy
|
||
Negative Cost: $10+ million
|
||
Supreme Shakespeare thesp Branagh now attacks another of the Bard's
|
||
works for the big screen. As usual, wife Thompson makes things a
|
||
family affair. The Branaghs play Benedick and Beatrice, Reeves is
|
||
Don John, Leonard is Claudio, Washington is Don Pedro ,Beckinsdale is
|
||
Hero and Keaton is Dogberry. "Romance. Seduction. Deception.
|
||
Revenge. Remarkable."
|
||
|
||
PETER'S FRIENDS 1.85 (SR) January 22 (wider)
|
||
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Rita Rudner, Stephen Fry, Hugh
|
||
Laurie, Phyllida Law, Tony Slattery
|
||
Producer: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Screenplay: Rita Rudner, Martin Bregman
|
||
D.P.: Roger Lanser
|
||
Start Date: 2/24/92, England
|
||
Negative Cost: $6 million
|
||
An ensemble piece set outside London that examines the relationships
|
||
of college friends who were members of a theatrical troupe at one time
|
||
and reunite a decade hence. Terrific entertainment. Opened in London
|
||
in early November, selected cities on 12/25/92.
|
||
|
||
RETURN TO MYSTIC PIZZA TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Albert Innaurato, Jenny Tripp
|
||
Sequel to the 1988 hit that brought Julia Roberts notoriety.
|
||
|
||
SAM BASS: THE MAKING OF AN OUTLAW TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: David Picker
|
||
Screenplay: William Roberts, Al Ruggiero
|
||
A western.
|
||
|
||
THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS TBA
|
||
Dir: Norman Rene'
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Craig Lucas, based on Jane Smiley's novel "The Age of
|
||
Grief"
|
||
Start Date: Fall '92
|
||
|
||
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY TBA
|
||
Cast: Eric Bogosian
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Bogosian, based on the story by James Thurber
|
||
|
||
THE STOLEN CHILDREN March 15 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Gianni Amelio
|
||
Cast: Enrico Lo Verso
|
||
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
|
||
Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner is a story of the relationship
|
||
between a railroad officer and the two children he escorts to an
|
||
orphanage after their mother is arrested for selling her 11-year-old
|
||
daughter into prostitution. Film won many David di Donatello film
|
||
awards, including Best Film, Director, Producer, Editor, Music and a
|
||
special prize for the two child leads. Amelio's OPEN DOORS won a
|
||
1990 Oscar nomination. This is the official Italian entry to the
|
||
Academy Awards.
|
||
|
||
WILD WEST April 9 (limited)
|
||
Dir: David Attwood April 16 (wider)
|
||
Cast: Sarita Choudhury
|
||
Producer: Eric Fellner
|
||
Screenplay: Harwant Bains
|
||
Raucous, irreverent British comedy about three Pakistani brothers
|
||
who form and country and western band.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Savoy
|
||
|
||
|
||
A BRONX TALE Fall
|
||
Dir: Robert DeNiro
|
||
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Robert DeNiro
|
||
Producers: Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal
|
||
Screenplay: Chazz Palminteri, based on his play
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
Start Date: 8/92, New York
|
||
DeNiro makes his directorial debut in this slice-of-life. From
|
||
Tribeca Productions. Rescued by new distrib Savoy when Universal
|
||
backed out.
|
||
|
||
DR. STRANGE TBA
|
||
Dir: Wes Craven
|
||
Based on the Marvel comic book.
|
||
|
||
FREE OF EDEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Garry Marshall
|
||
Producer: Alexandra Rose
|
||
|
||
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL TBA
|
||
Producers: Ray Stark, Jerry Leider
|
||
Those CBS TV properties just keep springing up in the cinema!
|
||
|
||
THE HONEYMOONERS TBA
|
||
Producer: Frank Price
|
||
A big-screen adaptation of the Jackie Gleason TV series.
|
||
|
||
THE LAST OF THE DOG MEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Tab Murphy
|
||
Exec Producer: Mario Kassar
|
||
|
||
SERIAL MOM TBA
|
||
Dir: John Waters
|
||
Cast: Kathleen Turner
|
||
Producers: John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov
|
||
Screenplay: John Waters
|
||
Start Date: Spring '93
|
||
Negative Cost: <$15 million
|
||
Upper-middle class "typical homemaker" mom is a serial killer. She
|
||
also makes obscene phone calls to the neighbors. Put into turnaround
|
||
by Columbia and quickly picked up at Savoy. Susan Sarandon *really*
|
||
wanted to do this one.
|
||
|
||
SHADOWLANDS TBA
|
||
Dir: Richard Attenborough
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins
|
||
Exec Producer: Frank Price
|
||
Producers: Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman
|
||
Screenplay: William Nicholson
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, Oxford
|
||
Love story of C.S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman, SHADOWLANDS had two
|
||
former incarnations as a BBC TV film and a stage play in London and
|
||
New York.
|
||
|
||
THE SIMPLE PLAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Mike Nichols
|
||
Screenplay: Based on Scott Smith's novel
|
||
Two brothers commit murder and discover a cache of loot.
|
||
|
||
THE TEXAS RANGERS TBA
|
||
Dir: John Milius
|
||
Screenplay: John Milius
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
Undoubtedly a rip-snorting Western from Mr. Milius.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
SGE
|
||
|
||
|
||
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS May 21
|
||
Dir: James Glickenhaus
|
||
|
||
TALONS OF THE EAGLE TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Kennedy
|
||
Cast: Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi, James Hong, Priscilla Barnes, Mattias
|
||
Hues, Pan Qing Fu, Eric Lee
|
||
Producer: Jalal Merhi
|
||
Screenplay: J. Stephen Maunder
|
||
D.P.: Curtis Peterson
|
||
Start Date: 4/7/92, Toronto
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Skouras
|
||
|
||
|
||
JOEY BREAKER April 16 (NY, LA)
|
||
Dir: Steven Starr
|
||
Screenplay: Steven Starr
|
||
Starr is the former head of William Morris' New York film office.
|
||
|
||
RUNNING COOL TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sexuality
|
||
|
||
THE SILVER BRUMBY TBA
|
||
Dir: John Tatoulis
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Colin South, John Tatoulis
|
||
Screenplay: Jon Stephens, Elyne Mitchell, John Tatoulis
|
||
D.P.: Mark Gilfedder
|
||
Start Date: 3/2/92, Melbourne Australia
|
||
|
||
WATCH IT March 26 (NY, LA, Chicago)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and for a scene of sexuality.
|
||
Dir: Tom Flynn
|
||
Cast: Peter Gallagher, John C. McGinley, Suzy Amis, Tom Sizemore, Lili
|
||
Taylor, Cynthia Stevenson, John Tenney
|
||
Producer: Thomas Mangan IV, Christopher Burch, John C. McGinley
|
||
D.P.: Stephen M. Katz
|
||
Composer: Stanley Clarke
|
||
Negative Cost: $3 million
|
||
Romantic relationship comedy about three practical jokers who share
|
||
a house in Chicago and the woman in their lives. The word is quite
|
||
good.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Sony Pictures Classics
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE ACCOMPANIST December
|
||
Dir: Claude Miller
|
||
Cast: Romane Bohringer, Elena Safonova, Richard Bohringer
|
||
Producer: Jean-Louis Levi
|
||
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young pianist gets involved with a famous
|
||
singer and her Nazi collaborator husband.
|
||
|
||
FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE TBA
|
||
Dir: Wim Wenders
|
||
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin,
|
||
Nastassja Kinski, Roberto Benigni, Horst Bucholz, Mikhail Gorbachev
|
||
Producer: Wim Wenders
|
||
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
|
||
Wenders spins a sequel to his masterpiece, WINGS OF DESIRE.
|
||
|
||
INDOCHINE 1.66 January (wider)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for some violence, sensuality and drug related scenes
|
||
Dir: Regis Wargnier
|
||
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Jean Pierre Aumont
|
||
Producer: Eric Heumann
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
This huge French hit is set in 1930 French Indochina. It concerns
|
||
the relationship between a mother and daughter during an era of
|
||
increased political activity between the French and Indochinese. Film
|
||
will play at Beverly Hills' Music Hall theatre and two screens at New
|
||
York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. It is the official French entry to the
|
||
Academy Awards. Film starts slowly and melodramatically, with several
|
||
unintentional laughs. Then about 1/3 of the way into this 160 minute
|
||
film, it turns quite compelling. Opened on 12/24/92 in New York and
|
||
Los Angeles.
|
||
|
||
JACQUOT DE NANTES May
|
||
Dir: Agnes Varda
|
||
Cast: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De
|
||
Villepoix
|
||
Producers: Agnes Varda, Perrine Baudin
|
||
Screenplay: Agnes Varda
|
||
Biography of the childhood of Ms. Varda's late husband, director
|
||
Jacques Demy. Demy helmed LOLA, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, among
|
||
others. This film was formerly on Orion Classics' release
|
||
slate.
|
||
|
||
THE LONG DAY CLOSES July
|
||
Dir: Terence Davies
|
||
Cast: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas
|
||
Lamont, Ayse Owens
|
||
Producer: Olivia Stewart
|
||
Negative Cost: $3.7 million
|
||
In competition at Cannes in 1992, this autobiographical film is the
|
||
second in Davies' series, after DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES. It is
|
||
set in Liverpool in 1955-56.
|
||
|
||
OLIVIER, OLIVIER February 24 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality, and for language
|
||
Dir: Agnieszka Holland
|
||
Cast: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin, Marine
|
||
Golovine, Jean-Francois Stevenin
|
||
Producer: Marie-Laure Reyre
|
||
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland, Regis DeBray
|
||
D.P.: Bernard Zitzermann
|
||
Composer: Zbignew Preisner
|
||
True story about a family's search for their son in the North of
|
||
France from the director of EUROPA, EUROPA and the forthcoming THE
|
||
SECRET GARDEN. Composer Preisner scored AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE
|
||
LORD, EUROPA EUROPA and THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE.
|
||
|
||
ORLANDO June
|
||
Dir: Sally Potter
|
||
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane,
|
||
Charlotte Valandrez
|
||
Based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, this film concerns a
|
||
character's journey through time...first as a man, then as a
|
||
woman....from an experience as a young nobleman in Elizabeth I's court
|
||
to the Asian steppes to Victorian England. Film opens in Italy in
|
||
12/92, Germany in 1/93 and London in 3/93.
|
||
|
||
THE STORY OF QIU JU March
|
||
Rating: "PG" for some language
|
||
Dir: Zhang Yimou
|
||
Screenplay: Liu Heng, from the novel "The Wan Family's Lawsuit"
|
||
The acclaimed director of JU DOU and RAISE THE RED LANTERN delves
|
||
into contemporary social comedy with this tale of revenge set in the
|
||
Chinese countryside complicated by the infamous bureaucracy of
|
||
Communist China.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Strand Releasing
|
||
|
||
|
||
FOR A LOST SOLDIER March
|
||
Dir: Roeland Kerbosch
|
||
|
||
MASALA March 12 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Srinivas Krishna
|
||
Cast: Srinivas Krishna, Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Sakina Jaffrey
|
||
Producer: Camelia Friebreg
|
||
Screenplay: Srinivas Krishna
|
||
A black comedy that has been popular on the film festival circuit.
|
||
Krishna plays a disillusioned man who is reluctant to enter into any
|
||
relationships following the death of his family in a plane crash.
|
||
|
||
MOD EXPLOSION Fall
|
||
Dir: Jon Moritsugu
|
||
Cast: Amy Davis, Elizabeth Canning, Bonnie Steiger, Victor E.
|
||
Aquitane, Justin Bond, Jacques Boyreau, Desi del Valle
|
||
Producer: Henry S. Rosenthal
|
||
Screenplay: Jon Moritsugu
|
||
D.P.: Todd Verow
|
||
Start Date: 9/23/92, San Francisco
|
||
|
||
NITRATE KISSES April
|
||
Dir: Barbara Hammer
|
||
|
||
PINK ULYSSES April
|
||
Dir: Eric de Kuyper
|
||
|
||
SURE FIRE May
|
||
Dir: Jon Jost
|
||
|
||
WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER March 12
|
||
Dir: Matthew Irmas
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Symphony Pictures
|
||
|
||
|
||
SECRET SOCIETY TBA
|
||
Dir: Diane Keaton
|
||
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Diane Keaton
|
||
Producers: Martin Sheen, William R. Greenblatt
|
||
A story of racial injustice in the South.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Trimark
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN HEART May (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and sexual situations
|
||
Dir: Martin Bell
|
||
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong, Lucinda Jenney, Don Harvey, Tracey
|
||
Kapinsky, Shareen Mitchell, Christian Frizzell
|
||
Producers: Rosilyn Heller, Jeff Bridges
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Silverman
|
||
D.P.: Jim Bagdonas
|
||
Composer: James Newton Howard
|
||
Start Date: 8/13/91, Seattle
|
||
Bridges is a dispossessed man who has been released from prison on
|
||
work furlough. He is reunited with his 14-year-old son (Furlong),
|
||
with whom he wants no ties. The boy ardently pursues the
|
||
relationship. Furlong was apparently signed for this plum role of the
|
||
estranged son of Bridges in this sub-$10 million drama before the
|
||
release of T2. This film has been in distribution limbo since Avenue
|
||
Pictures folded. It has opened only in Japan, where it was named
|
||
one of the ten best films of 1992 by the Society of Japanese Film
|
||
Critics. Excellent advanced word.
|
||
|
||
DBRAINDEAD TBA
|
||
Dir: Peter Jackson
|
||
|
||
THE BUBBLEMAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Stanley Kramer
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Stanley Kramer
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Pearlman, Bob Woodburn, Stanley Kramer
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Romantic comedy is Stanley Kramer's first film since THE RUNNER
|
||
STUMBLES in 1979.
|
||
|
||
CITIZEN SANE TBA
|
||
Negative Cost: $7 million
|
||
A superhero spoof.
|
||
|
||
CYBORG II: GLASS SHADOWS TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Schroeder
|
||
Cast: Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Billy Drago
|
||
Producer: Raju Patel
|
||
|
||
DEAD ALIVE February 12 (NY)
|
||
Dir: Peter Jackson
|
||
March 5 (LA)
|
||
Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin,
|
||
Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie
|
||
Producer: Jim Booth
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, France Walsh
|
||
D.P.: Murray Milne
|
||
Composer: Peter Dasent
|
||
New Zealand entry had U.S. preem at the Sundance Festival, where it
|
||
has been proclaimed a bloody cult fave. Intentionally hilarious in
|
||
spots it oozes in gruesome qualities with zombies, cannibalism and
|
||
other nasties. Excellent word. No one under 17 will be admitted.
|
||
|
||
DEADFALL May 14
|
||
Dir: Christopher Coppola
|
||
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Michael Biehn, Sarah Trigger, Charlie Sheen,
|
||
James Coburn, Peter Fonda, Talia Shire, Mark Coppola
|
||
Producer: Ted Fox
|
||
Screenplay: Christopher Coppola, Nick Vallelonga
|
||
Compser: David Shire
|
||
Negative Cost: $10 million
|
||
Both Coppolas are Cage's brothers. They are both Francis Ford
|
||
Coppola's nephews. Talia Shire is Francis' sister...her ex-hubby
|
||
David is composing. Whew.
|
||
|
||
DEATH WISH V Fall
|
||
Dir: Allan Goldstein
|
||
Cast: Charles Bronson
|
||
Exec Producers: Menahem Golan, Ami Artzi
|
||
Producer: Damian Lee
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Peters
|
||
Start Date: 2/15/93, Toronto
|
||
Die already!
|
||
|
||
A DOG OF FLANDERS TBA
|
||
Dir: Daniel Petrie
|
||
Cast: Richard Harris, Max Von Sydow
|
||
Producer: Gary Omura
|
||
Screenplay: David Keating, based on Ouida's novel, previously adapted
|
||
for 1959
|
||
20th Century Fox film.
|
||
Start Date: 9/16/91, Bokrijk Belgium
|
||
|
||
EXTREME JUSTICE April 16
|
||
Rating: "R" on appeal for strong graphic violence, language and for a
|
||
scene of sexuality
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn
|
||
The NC-17 rating was overturned on appeal.
|
||
|
||
FAITHFAITH
|
||
TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and violence.
|
||
|
||
A FATHER'S REVENGE TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for terrorist violence
|
||
|
||
GLASS SHADOW TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Schroeder
|
||
Cast: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Palance, Billy Drago, Allen
|
||
Garfield, Karen Shepard
|
||
Producers: Raju Patel, Alain Silver
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Yanover, Mark Geldman, Michael Schroeder
|
||
D.P.: Jamie Thompson
|
||
Start Date: 9/28/92, Los Angeles
|
||
|
||
INTERCEPTOR TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and language
|
||
Dir: Michael Cohn
|
||
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Elizabeth Morehead, Andrew Divoff
|
||
Producers: Kevin M. Kallberg, Oliver G. Hess
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Ferris, John Brancato
|
||
An action thriller about a daring international plot to steal the
|
||
Stealth fighter, the pride of the U.S. Air Force. A sadistic arms
|
||
dealer (Prochnow) plans to intercept a giant C-5 cargo jet en route to
|
||
the U.S. from the Middle East to steal its secret cargo of two Stealth
|
||
fighters.
|
||
|
||
THE KING'S WHORE TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality
|
||
|
||
LEPRECHAUN January 8
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Mark Jones
|
||
Cast: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Robert
|
||
Gorman
|
||
Producer: Jeffrey B. Mallian
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Jones
|
||
D.P.: Levie Isaaks
|
||
Composer: Kevin Kiner
|
||
Start Date: 10/28/91, Los Angeles
|
||
Davis, who played WILLOW, stars as a powerful, wicked leprechaun who
|
||
embarks on a reign of terror to seek revenge against the inhabitants
|
||
of a rural town who have stolen his pot of gold. Will test in two
|
||
markets. Film was recut after successful test engagements commencing
|
||
5/8/92. Re-rated from an "R".
|
||
|
||
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT II TBA
|
||
Dir: Stephen Cornwell
|
||
Cast: Brad Johnson, Marjean Holden
|
||
Producers: Mark Levinson, Doug Curtis
|
||
Screenplay: Kevin Rock, Kim Ketelsen
|
||
Negative Cost: $5 million
|
||
Start Date: 12/14/92, Southern California
|
||
Sequel to the cool 1984 film about the alleged 1943 Naval
|
||
experiments with mega-electromagnetism and time travel. Courteney
|
||
Cox dropped out of the female lead after a week due to scheduling
|
||
conflicts and was replaced by African-American actress Holden. If
|
||
Kevin and Whitney can do it, why not? Johnson starred in Steven
|
||
Spielberg's ALWAYS. Cornwell is the son of famous British novelist
|
||
John Le Carre, whose real name is David Cornwell.
|
||
|
||
SEPARATE LIVES TBA
|
||
Dir: Rick Rosenthal
|
||
Producers: David Madden, Diane Nabatoff
|
||
Screenplay: Stephan Pressfield
|
||
Start Date: 1/93
|
||
|
||
S.I.S. TBA
|
||
Dir: Mark Lester
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Ed Lauter, Chelsea Field,
|
||
Yaphet Kotto
|
||
Producer: Frank Sacks
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Boris, Frank Sacks
|
||
D.P.: Mark Irwin
|
||
Start Date: 7/8/92, LA
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||
|
||
SOLAR CRISIS 2.35 1993 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Alan Smithee
|
||
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Tim Matheson, Corky Nemec, Peter
|
||
Boyle, AnnaBel Schofield
|
||
Producers: Richard Edlund, James Nelson, Morris Morishima
|
||
Composer: Maurice Jarre
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Gannon, Crispan Bolt, based on Takeshi Kawata's novel
|
||
D.P.: Russ Carpenter
|
||
Negative Cost: $43 million
|
||
Film concerns a desperate mission to the Sun to attempt to alter a
|
||
solar flare that would destroy all life on Earth. Released and
|
||
financed in Japan several years ago, this film has gone through
|
||
reshoots and hell attempting to get a good U.S. distribution deal.
|
||
The director's credit is the dreaded Alan Smithee psuedonym since
|
||
Richard Sarafian became disenfranchised with the project. Test
|
||
bookings in Columbus, Des Moines and Austin on 11/25/92. Dreadful
|
||
word. National rollout pending in 1993. Visual effects from Boss
|
||
Films.
|
||
|
||
THE TIGRESS TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality and language
|
||
|
||
WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON April 16
|
||
Dir: Anthony Hickox
|
||
Cast: Julian Sands, Christopher Young, Paula Marshall
|
||
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert Levy
|
||
Screenplay: Kevin Rock, Sam Bernard
|
||
Start Date: 7/27/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Yes, it's a sequel to the stylish pic. In this one, the warlock
|
||
returns to Earth in search of runestones, which he requires in order
|
||
to "uncreate" the universe. Hickox directed HELLRAISER III. "When he
|
||
comes..all Hell breaks loose".
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
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|
||
|
||
TriStar
|
||
|
||
|
||
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producers: Marsha Nasatir, Steve Haft
|
||
Screenplay: Matthew Jacobs
|
||
One of three Huck Finn films in the works.
|
||
|
||
BITTER MOON (Carolco) TBA
|
||
Dir: Roman Polanski
|
||
Cast: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott-
|
||
Thomas, Victor Banerjee
|
||
Producer: Roman Polanski
|
||
Screenplay: Roman Polanski
|
||
D.P. Tonino Delli Colli
|
||
Start Date: 8/5/91, Paris
|
||
This Carolco production is the latest effort from the talented and
|
||
notorious Mr. Polanski. This erotic thriller was filmed aboard a
|
||
cruise ship that sailed from Venice to Istanbul and Athens, as well as
|
||
Paris.
|
||
|
||
BREAKING LEGS TBA
|
||
Dir: Bud Yorkin
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Bruce Jay Friedman
|
||
Producer: Bud Yorkin
|
||
Start Date: Spring 1992
|
||
Negative Cost: $15-$16 million
|
||
Yorkin produces and directs a cinematic version of the Off-Broadway
|
||
play that he co-produced. It concerns a young professor seeking
|
||
backing for a play he has written. He winds up getting it financed by
|
||
the mob. In the screen version he will come to Hollywood to try to
|
||
get his movie made. Yorkin is seeking Tom Hanks to topline.
|
||
|
||
CARTOONED 1994
|
||
Dir: Terry Gilliam
|
||
Producer: Laura Ziskin
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
|
||
CHAPLIN (Carolco) 1.85 (SR) January 8 (wide)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for nudity and language
|
||
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, David
|
||
Duchovny, Michael Goorjian
|
||
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
|
||
Composer: John Barry
|
||
Start Date: 10/14/91, England, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $31 million
|
||
This biopic headlines Downey as Charlie Chaplin. 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, MY
|
||
COUSIN VINNY) plays early silent screen star Mabel Normand and Travis
|
||
(AIR AMERICA, THREE MEN AND...) is would-be actress Joan Barry, who
|
||
almost destroyed Chaplin. Formerly titled CHARLIE. Film runs 144
|
||
minutes. Truly outstanding word on Downey's performance. Opened
|
||
December 17th at London's flagship Odeon Leicester Square and December
|
||
25th in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.
|
||
|
||
CLIFFHANGER 2.35 (Carolco) (SDS) (SS) 70mm May 28
|
||
Dir: Renny Harlin
|
||
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner,
|
||
Lion, Ralph Waite, Caroline Goodall, Scott Hoxby
|
||
Exec Producer: Mario Kassar
|
||
Producers: Alan Marshall, Renny Harlin
|
||
Screenplay: Mike France
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Wood
|
||
Composer: Trevor Jones
|
||
Start Date: 4/92, Cortina, Rome
|
||
Negative Cost: $73 million
|
||
Stallone is a park ranger who must make a daring rescue of fallen
|
||
friends while mountain climbing. Screenwriter France is a former
|
||
TriStar staff reader. Goodall is Stallone's woman (the heavy!) in
|
||
this film...she last played Peter Pan's wife Moira in HOOK. Janine
|
||
Turner stars in CBS-TV's NORTHERN EXPOSURE and gets to play a love
|
||
interest for Sly. Waite is of THE WALTONS notoriety. Way over the
|
||
original $47 million budget, as was Harlin's last film: DIE HARD 2.
|
||
Expect some prints in Sony Digital Sound.
|
||
|
||
COP GIVES WAITRESS $2 MILLION TIP 1993
|
||
Dir: Andrew Bergman
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Gary Adelson, Craig Baumgarten, Mike Lobell
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Metcalf, Jane Anderson, Andrew Bergman
|
||
Start Date: 5/3/93, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $20+ million
|
||
A transit cop and a waitress agree to share a lottery ticket. This
|
||
is Bergman's followup to HONEYMOON IN VEGAS. He also helmed THE
|
||
FRESHMAN.
|
||
|
||
COPS AND ROBBERSONS TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Ritchie
|
||
Cast: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
|
||
Producers: Ned Tanen, Nancy Graham Tanen, Ron Schwary
|
||
Screenplay: Bernie Somers, Mark Steven Johnson
|
||
Start Date: 3/8/93, Los Angeles
|
||
Grizzled cops (Palance is one of them) move into Chase's eccentric
|
||
household to stake out the home next door.
|
||
|
||
DRAGON TEARS TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Steven Johnson, based on Dean Koontz' novel
|
||
|
||
THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY 1994
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Chuck Roven, Bob Cavallo
|
||
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang, based on Isaac Asimov's novels
|
||
Issac Asimov's classic science fiction masterpieces come to the big
|
||
screen. Expect a huge film. Rights to the succeeding books in the
|
||
series have also been snared by TriStar.
|
||
|
||
FRANKENSTEIN December
|
||
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Cast: Kenneth Branagh
|
||
Exec Producer: Fred Fuchs
|
||
Producers: Francis Coppola, Jim Hart
|
||
Screenplay: Steph Lady
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, England
|
||
A faithful adaptation of the Shelley novel from a guy who can
|
||
probably do it justice! Frank Darabont is polishing the script.
|
||
|
||
GET SHORTY TBA
|
||
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
|
||
Cast: Danny DeVito
|
||
Producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
|
||
Screenplay: Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's novel
|
||
|
||
GODZILLA Summer 1994
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
Producers: Cary Woods, Rob Fried
|
||
Rights to the character and sequels were optioned from Toho. Expect
|
||
a storyline cautioning against nuclear proliferation and runaway
|
||
technology, in the Grand Godzilla Tradition.
|
||
|
||
GUARDING TESS December
|
||
Dir: Hugh Wilson
|
||
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicholas Cage
|
||
Producers: Ned Tanen, Nancy Graham Tanen
|
||
Screenplay: Hugh Wilson, Peter Torokvei
|
||
Start Date: 2/17/93, Baltimore
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
The creator of WKRP IN CINCINNATI writes and helms a big feature.
|
||
Formerly at Paramount, this was put into turnaround due to budget
|
||
haggles. Scott Rudin dropped from the project and Wilson took it to
|
||
TriStar.
|
||
|
||
HIDEAWAY 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Cathleen Summers
|
||
Screenplay: TBA, based on Dean Koontz' novel
|
||
Story is a battle between two men who have returned from the
|
||
dead....one good, the other evil. Dennis Quaid's production company
|
||
has the rights to this via TriStar. No word yet as to whether Quaid
|
||
will topline.
|
||
|
||
HIM TBA
|
||
Dir: Norman Jewison
|
||
Producers: Rob Fried, Cary Woods, Norman Jewison
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
|
||
THE KILLER TBA
|
||
Dir: Walter Hill
|
||
Cast: Denzel Washington, Richard Gere
|
||
Producer: Charles Roven
|
||
Screenplay: John Woo
|
||
A suspenser remake of the 1989 Hong Kong ultra-violent film of the
|
||
same title. It concerns an assassin's obsessive love for a young
|
||
singer who he has accidentally blinded in a nightclub shootout.
|
||
A former buddy tries to set him up and a cop uses his knowledge of the
|
||
obsession to trap him.
|
||
|
||
LEGENDS OF THE FALL TBA
|
||
Dir: Ed Zwick
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Ed Zwick, William Wittliff
|
||
Screenplay: Susan Shilliday, based on Jim Harrison's novella
|
||
A father and his three sons all have loved the same woman at some
|
||
time in their lives in this Montana-based piece that spans 1912 to
|
||
1932. Talks have been held with Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Sean
|
||
Connery to star.
|
||
|
||
LES MISERABLES TBA
|
||
Dir: Richard Attenborough
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
|
||
Screenplay: Alain Boublil, Calude-Michel Schonberg
|
||
Start Date: 1993, France, England
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
Big-screen adaptation of the musical stage hit. The trouble between
|
||
director Bruce Beresford and Mackintosh had caused Mr. Beresford to
|
||
drop out of the project and direct BESSIE at MGM. Now Dickie
|
||
Attenborough, fresh off of the mixed results of CHAPLIN, helms after
|
||
SHADOWLANDS at Savoy Pictures.
|
||
|
||
LOOK WHO'S TALKING 3 1993
|
||
Dir: Tom Ropelewski
|
||
Cast: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley
|
||
Producers: Jonathan D. Krane, Dan Berk
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Ropelewski, Leslie Dixon
|
||
Start Date: 4/22/93, Vancouver
|
||
The extremely profitable series continues as Mollie (Alley) loses
|
||
her job, while James (Travolta) is a successful airline pilot. The
|
||
kids, Mikey and Julie are older now, and it's the family dogs that
|
||
talk. Ropelewski directed MADHOUSE.
|
||
|
||
LOW FIVES TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Danny DeVito
|
||
Producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
|
||
Screenplay: William Goldman
|
||
Start Date: 1/93, Los Angeles, Africa
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
DeVito will possibly also direct this pic about a college basketball
|
||
scout (DeVito) who fulfills his lifelong goal to head coach when he
|
||
recruits a basketball superstar from a Third World nation. Sounds
|
||
*very* much like THE AIR UP THERE at Disney.
|
||
|
||
MANHATTAN GHOST STORY (Carolco) TBA
|
||
Cast: Sharon Stone
|
||
Producer: Robert Lawrence
|
||
A chilling tale of things that send shivers up your spine.
|
||
|
||
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY October 8
|
||
Dir: Woody Allen
|
||
Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Anjelica Huston, Diane Keaton
|
||
Exec Producers: Jack Rollins, Charles Joffe
|
||
Producer: Robert Greenhut
|
||
Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
|
||
D.P.: Carlo DiPalma
|
||
Start Date: 9/14/92, New York
|
||
Keaton replaced Mia Farrow in Woody's first film start since the
|
||
tawdry business with the Farrow clan. If this one doesn't do any
|
||
business, as didn't HUSBANDS AND WIVES, Woody's career is in BIG
|
||
trouble, critical acclaim or not. A book publisher's bored spouse
|
||
suspects her neighbor of killing his wife.
|
||
|
||
MARY REILLY 1994
|
||
Dir: Tim Burton
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Denise Di Novi, Rob Fried, Cary Woods
|
||
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
|
||
Start Date: 1/94
|
||
A young maid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and discovers Mr. Hyde.
|
||
|
||
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES 1993
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Lagravanese
|
||
|
||
MR. JONES April 16
|
||
Dir: Michael Figgis
|
||
Cast: Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft
|
||
Producers: Alan Greisman, Debra Greenfield
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Roth, Michael Cristofer
|
||
D.P.: Juan Ruiz-Anchia
|
||
Composer: Jack Nitzsche
|
||
Start Date: 11/11/91, Los Angeles, San Diego
|
||
A charming manic-depressive man falls in love with a psychiatrist.
|
||
|
||
MURDER, INC. TBA
|
||
Dir: Rob Weiss
|
||
Screenplay: Rob Weiss
|
||
Hot, chain-smoking New York writer-director Weiss fashions a dark
|
||
drama about a surrogate family that runs a murder-for-hire scheme.
|
||
Weiss has been called "the next Scorsese". His AMONGST FRIENDS
|
||
scored at the 1993 Sundance Festival.
|
||
|
||
OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! TBA
|
||
Dir: Jim George, Bob Seeley
|
||
Producer: Roland Joffe
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
Dr. Seuss-based animated feature.
|
||
|
||
OLD FRIENDS 1993
|
||
Producer: Laura Ziskin
|
||
|
||
ONE OF THE GIRLS TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Leslie Dixon, Marie Salem
|
||
Start Date: 6/93
|
||
|
||
PHILADELPHIA October 22
|
||
Dir: Jonathan Demme
|
||
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Robards,
|
||
Joanne Woodward, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Robert Ridgeley, Lisa
|
||
Summerour, Charles Napier
|
||
Producers: Ken Utt, Ed Saxon, Ron Bozman
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner
|
||
D.P.: Tak Fujimoto
|
||
Start Date: 10/21/92, Philadelphia
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
A contemporary AIDS tale concerning a gay AIDS-stricken attorney
|
||
(Hanks) and the homophobic attorney who represents him (Washington) in
|
||
a lawsuit against his former firm. That certainly is a lot of Oscars
|
||
up there! Formerly titled PEOPLE LIKE US.
|
||
|
||
PULP FICTION TBA
|
||
Dir: Quentin Tarantino
|
||
Producers: Lawrence Bender, Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
|
||
|
||
REALITY BITES 1993
|
||
Dir: Ben Stiller
|
||
The star of the Fox comedy show gets a movie deal.
|
||
|
||
RUDY September 10
|
||
Dir: David Anspaugh
|
||
Cast: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor
|
||
Producers: Rob Fried, Cary Woods
|
||
Screenplay: Angelo Pizzo
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Wood
|
||
Starts 10/25/92, South Bend, IN
|
||
True story of Rudy Ruettiger, who overcame his 5' 6" stature to
|
||
pursue his dream to play at least one down for Notre Dame. After
|
||
receiving the support of his teammates, including Joe Montana, he
|
||
played the last 22 seconds of the last game of his senior year, sacked
|
||
the quarterback and was carried off the field by his teammates. From
|
||
the same director/screenwriter who brought us HOOSIERS. First
|
||
theatrical feature shot on the Notre Dame campus since KNUTE ROCKNE,
|
||
ALL AMERICAN in 1940.
|
||
|
||
THE QUIZ SHOW TBA
|
||
Dir: Harold Becker
|
||
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss
|
||
Producers: Mark Johnson, Fred Zolo
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Antanasio
|
||
The scandalous days of the Fifties' television quiz shows are
|
||
relived. Disney has a similar project.
|
||
|
||
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE June 25
|
||
Dir: Nora Ephron
|
||
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Rosie O'Donnell, Rob Reiner,
|
||
Rita Wilson
|
||
Producer: Gary Foster
|
||
Screenplay: Nora Ephron, Jeffrey Arch
|
||
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
|
||
Start Date: 713/92, Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, New York
|
||
Ephron follows her directorial debut (IT'S MY LIFE) with a hot
|
||
property that was offered to (who else?) Julia Roberts.
|
||
|
||
SNIPER January 29
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and some language
|
||
Dir: Luis Llosa
|
||
Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane
|
||
Executive Producer: Mark Johnson
|
||
Producer: Robert Rosen
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Beckner
|
||
This negative pickup from Odyssey Entertainment and Baltimore
|
||
Pictures is set in the Central American jungles. Berenger is a
|
||
marine sniper and Zane is his untested new partner from the NSC.
|
||
Their mission is to terminate the life of a renegade Panamanian
|
||
general in charge of a resistance movement.
|
||
|
||
SO, I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER August 6
|
||
Dir: Tommy Schlamme
|
||
Cast: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer,
|
||
Brenda Fricker, Michael Richards
|
||
Producers: Rob Fried, Cary Woods
|
||
Screenplay: Robbie Fox, Barbara Benedek, Mike Myers, Neal Mullarkey
|
||
D.P.: Julio Macat
|
||
Start Date: 6/29/92, San Francisco
|
||
Myers, hot off of his mega-success on WAYNE'S WORLD plays a nebbish
|
||
in this comedy with Oscar-winner Fricker (MY LEFT FOOT). Script was
|
||
polished by Carrie Fisher. Delayed from a March release.
|
||
|
||
SPIDERMAN (Carolco) 70mm 1994
|
||
Dir: James Cameron
|
||
|
||
STARGATE (Carolco) 70mm Summer 1994
|
||
Dir: Roland Emmerich
|
||
Cast: Kurt Russell, James Spader
|
||
Exec Producer: Mario Kassar
|
||
Producers: Marc Frydman, Oliver Eberle
|
||
Screenplay: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
|
||
Negative Cost: $40+ million
|
||
Big budget science fiction opus about an interstellar shortcut
|
||
discovered by Earthmen (wormhole to you Trek-types or general
|
||
relativity buffs). Russell gets the biggest payday of his long
|
||
career...reportedly some $7million ($5 million upfront, $2 million
|
||
deferred). Visual effects from Oscar winner Kit West. If this film
|
||
doesn't roll by 12/1/93, domestic distribution would go to MGM.
|
||
"Buried in the sands of the past lies the gate to the future."
|
||
|
||
STARSHIP TROOPERS TBA
|
||
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
|
||
Producer: John Davidson
|
||
Screenplay: Edward Neumeier, based on Robert Heinlein's novel
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
|
||
SURPRISE PARTY TBA
|
||
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen
|
||
Screenplay: James Dearden
|
||
|
||
SYCAMORE DRIVE TBA
|
||
Dir: Costa Gavras
|
||
Screenplay: James Dearden
|
||
|
||
TAKING LIBERTY 1994
|
||
Dir: Martin Campbell
|
||
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
|
||
Screenplay: Peter Iliff, Peter Linett
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
The space shuttle Liberty is sent to rescue a crippled NASA
|
||
satellite early in the 21st Century. It is then hijacked by one of
|
||
the astronauts and piloted to an ex-Soviet space station, which is
|
||
being run by Iranians. A rescue mission is launched with an
|
||
experimential fixed-wing aircraft. Campbell directed CRIMINAL LAW.
|
||
Iliff wrote PATRIOT GAMES and POINT BREAK.
|
||
|
||
TIME FLIES TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Alvin Sargent
|
||
|
||
WEEKEND AT BERNIES 2 2.35 July 9
|
||
Dir: Robert Klane
|
||
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Tom Wright,
|
||
Steve James, Barry Bostwick
|
||
Producers: Victor Drai, Joseph Perez
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Klane
|
||
D.P.: Edward Morry III
|
||
Composer: Peter Wolf
|
||
Sequel to the surprise hit of 1989 has been picked up by TriStar
|
||
picks up right where the first film left off.
|
||
|
||
WILDER NAPALM October 22
|
||
Dir: Glen Gordon Caron
|
||
Cast: Debra Winger, Dennis Quaid, Arliss Howard, Jim Varney, M. Emmet
|
||
Walsh
|
||
Producers: Barry Levinson, Mark Johnson, Stuart Cornfeld
|
||
Screenplay: Vince Gilligan
|
||
D.P.: Jerry Hartleben
|
||
Start Date: 11/14/91, Florida
|
||
Quaid is a carnival clown in an offbeat, contemporary romantic
|
||
science fiction-comedy. Varney finally gets to play someone other
|
||
than Ernest (I hope). Howard is a volunteer fireman and Quaid is
|
||
his carnival clown twin brother who live together in a mobile home in
|
||
rural Virginia. They set fires (telekinetically) and vie for the
|
||
affections of the same woman (Winger). Negative advanced word.
|
||
Release has been repeatedly delayed for about a year now.
|
||
|
||
ZORRO (Amblin) 1994
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Screenplay: J. Randal Johnson, Joel Gross
|
||
Start Date: 1993
|
||
Amblin's long in development version of the man who loves practicing
|
||
his penmanship finally gets off the ground.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Triton
|
||
|
||
|
||
HYENAS April (NY)
|
||
Dir: Djibril Diop Mambety
|
||
Cast: Mansour Diouf, Ami Diakhate, Mahouredia Gueye
|
||
Screenplay: Djibril Diop Mambety
|
||
D.P.: Matthias Kalin
|
||
Composer: Wasis Diop
|
||
A Senegalese adaptation of Friedrich Durrenmatt's play "The Visit".
|
||
story is set in a poverty-stricken Senegalese village where the
|
||
inhabitants await the arrival of a wealthy former resident who has the
|
||
power to save the town. She only offers her help at a price,
|
||
however, and that price must be paid by a well-loved villager who
|
||
seduced and abandoned her long ago.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Triumph
|
||
|
||
|
||
AMBULANCE TBA
|
||
Dir: Larry Cohen
|
||
Cast: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Richard Bright,
|
||
Red Buttons
|
||
Producers: Moctezuma Esparza, Robert Katz
|
||
Screenplay: Larry Cohen
|
||
Composer: Jay Chattaway
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
BY THE SWORD TBA
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
JERSEY GIRLS 1993
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: David Burton Morris
|
||
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Jami Gertz, Sheryl Lee, Joe Bologna, Joseph
|
||
Mazzello
|
||
Producer: David Madden, Nicole Seguin, Staffan Ahrenburg
|
||
Screenplay: Gina Wendkos
|
||
Triumph picks up this indie production about girls who can take care
|
||
of themselves. Morris directed PATTI ROCKS. Pretty good word.
|
||
|
||
SHADOW OF THE WOLF March 5 (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for some violence and sensuality
|
||
Dir: Jacques Dorfmann
|
||
Cast: Lou Diamond Philips, Toshiro Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, Donald
|
||
Sutherland
|
||
Producers: Jacques Dorfmann, Claude Leger
|
||
Screenplay: Evan Jones, Rudy Wurlitzer, based on Yves Theribault's
|
||
novel "Agaguk"
|
||
Negative Cost: $31 million
|
||
Story of a group of Eskimos affected by the murder of a white trader
|
||
in the early 1900s.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Troma
|
||
|
||
|
||
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO Spring
|
||
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
|
||
Spectacularly animated story of two kids who leave their city to
|
||
live in a country house with their father and are helped through their
|
||
adventures by a colony of furry, mouselike creatures. Film will open
|
||
in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles with 200 prints. Huge financial
|
||
success in Japan, grossing over $80 million in all media.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
20th Century Fox
|
||
|
||
|
||
THE ABYSS: SPECIAL EDITION 2.35 (SR) February 26 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for language and some scenes of action
|
||
Dir: James Cameron
|
||
Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Todd
|
||
Graff
|
||
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
|
||
Screenplay: James Cameron
|
||
D.P.: Mikael Salomon
|
||
Composer: Alan Silvestri
|
||
Theatrical re-issue of THE ABYSS in the nearly 3 hour director's cut
|
||
that will make its laserdisc debut this Spring. Opens at Loew's
|
||
Village VII in New York and the Cineplex Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
|
||
|
||
AIRHEADS TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Lehmann
|
||
Cast: John Cusack
|
||
Producers: Bob Simonds
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Wilkes
|
||
Three struggling heavy-metalloid musicians take an L.A. radio
|
||
station hostage in order to get their music heard and a record deal.
|
||
It is a comedy....
|
||
|
||
BEST OF THE BEST II March 5
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong marital arts violence
|
||
Dir: Robert Radler
|
||
More chopsocky.
|
||
|
||
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES December
|
||
Dir: Penelope Spheeris
|
||
Cast: Jim Varney, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Erika Eleniak, Dabney
|
||
Coleman, Rob Schneider, Lea Thompson, Dietrich Bater
|
||
Producers: David Permut, Dale Launer
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
|
||
Start Date: 2/22/93, Los Angeles
|
||
The ever-popular TV series makes the transition to the silver
|
||
screen. Varney (of "Ernest" fame) is Uncle Jed, Leachman is Granny,
|
||
Tomlin is Miss Hathaway, Coleman is Mr. Drysdale, Eleniak (E.T., UNDER
|
||
SIEGE) is Elly May Clampett. Newcomer Bater is Jethro Bodine.
|
||
Schneider ("Saturday Night Live") is the villain, a bank employee who
|
||
attempts to embezzle money from Jed. and Thompson is his love
|
||
interest. Spheeris scored big with WAYNE'S WORLD.
|
||
|
||
BLACK CAT BONE: THE RETURN OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN TBA
|
||
Dir: John Hughes
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: John Hughes
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
Hughes has written a script that brings the Huck Finn character into
|
||
modern times.
|
||
|
||
BORN TO RUN TBA
|
||
Dir: Albert Magnoli
|
||
Cast: Richard Grieco
|
||
Producers: Bruce Binkow, Peter McAlevey
|
||
Screenplay: R.M. Badat
|
||
Start Date: 2/15/93, Vancouver
|
||
|
||
DIE HARD 3 70mm Summer 1994
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Bruce Willis
|
||
Co-production with Disney and Cinergi is still in development.
|
||
Plot with cruise ship taken over by terrorists was scuttled after
|
||
UNDER SIEGE surfaced.
|
||
|
||
FORTRESS TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong violence and language, and for sexuality
|
||
Dir: Stuart Gordon
|
||
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Kurtwood Smith, Loryn Locklin, Lincoln
|
||
Kilpatrick
|
||
Producers: John David, John Flock
|
||
Screenplay: Troy Neighbors, Steven Feinberg, Terry Fox
|
||
D.P.: David Eggby
|
||
Start Date: 10/21/91, Queensland Australia
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million
|
||
A futuristic action-adventure prison break film from the creator of
|
||
RE-ANIMATOR.
|
||
|
||
GHOST IN THE MACHINE July 9
|
||
Dir: Rachel Talalay
|
||
Cast: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Will Horneff, Ted Marcoux
|
||
Producers: Paul Schiff
|
||
Screenplay: Williams J. Davies, William H. Osborne
|
||
D.P.: Phil Meheux
|
||
Start Date: 11/30/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $12 million
|
||
High-tech thriller about a woman hunted by a serial killer
|
||
inhabiting computer systems in the form of a a computer virus. Will
|
||
feature "cutting-edge" visual effects. Davie and Osborne wrote
|
||
TWINS. Talalay directed FREDDY'S DEAD.
|
||
|
||
THE GOOD SON October
|
||
Dir: Joseph Ruben
|
||
Cast: Macauley Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel
|
||
Hugh Kelly, Quinn Culkin, Jackie Briiks, Ashley Crow
|
||
Producers: Mary Anne Page, Joseph Ruben
|
||
Screenplay: Ian McEwan
|
||
D.P.: John Lindley
|
||
Start Date: 11/19/92, Maine
|
||
Negative Cost: $17 million
|
||
Production was been delayed a year as Macauley Culkin had been
|
||
signed to play the "bad seed" and he was tied up with HOME ALONE 2.
|
||
This film takes place in a wintry environment so it will now be a 1993
|
||
release, rather than Fall 1992. Michael Lehmann of HEATHERS and
|
||
HUDSON HAWK infamy was signed as director. He didn't think Culkin was
|
||
old enough to play the character. He was considering two other boys
|
||
for the part, but Fox inked Macauley Culkin instead and delayed the
|
||
picture. Mac will get somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5-$2
|
||
million. Mac's manager-father strongarmed Fox at the last minute to
|
||
cast his sister Quinn as, who else...his sister. Producer Laurence
|
||
Mark was forced out, as well. Ruben directed TRUE BELIEVER,
|
||
DREAMSCAPE and the great THE POM-POM GIRLS.
|
||
|
||
GUNMEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Deran Serafian
|
||
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Patrick Stewart, Denis
|
||
Leary, Brenda Bakke, James Chalke, Robert Harper, Richard Sarafian,
|
||
Kadeem Hardison, Sally Kirkland
|
||
Producer: Laurence Mark, John Davis, John Flock
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Sommers
|
||
D.P.: Hiro Narita
|
||
Start Date: 4/20/92, Puerto Vallarta
|
||
Modern day western concerns a bounty hunter and a smuggler who each
|
||
have half of the puzzle as to the whereabouts of a fortune in cash.
|
||
Kirkland has been cast in a role originally penned for a man. Leary
|
||
is the guy in those obnoxious MTV blurbs. Formerly titled THE GREY
|
||
GUNMEN.
|
||
|
||
HAMLET TBA
|
||
Producer: Larry Brezner
|
||
Screenplay: Mike Werb
|
||
A smart and cute piglet works sniffing out drugs for a crooked cop
|
||
and winds up being adopted by an Orange County couple who run a fancy
|
||
eatery.
|
||
|
||
HARLEM September 10
|
||
Dir: Leon Ichaso
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Teresa Randle, Clarence Williams
|
||
III, Abe Vigoda, Larry Joshua, Ernie Hudson, Leslie Uggams, Joe
|
||
D'Allesandro
|
||
Producers: Rudy Langlais, Gregory Brown, Steve McGlothen
|
||
Screenplay: Barry Michael Cooper
|
||
D.P.: Bojan Bazelli
|
||
Start Date: 11/9/92, New York, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
Set in contemporary Harlem, this is a film of redemption where two
|
||
brothers build a drug-dealing dynasty in New York. Cooper wrote NEW
|
||
JACK CITY, Ichaso directed EL SUPER and CROSSOVER DREAMS. Formerly
|
||
titled SKEEZER. Snipes gets $2.25 million for this one.
|
||
|
||
HEAR NO EVIL March 19
|
||
Dir: Robert Greenwald
|
||
Cast: Marlee Matlin, Martin Sheen, D.B. Sweeney
|
||
Producer: David Matalon
|
||
Screenplay: Kathleen Rowell
|
||
Start Date: 4/27/92, Portland, OR
|
||
Formerly titled DANGER SIGN.
|
||
|
||
HIDEOUS MUTANT FREEKZ 1993
|
||
Dir: Alex Winter, Tom Stern
|
||
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Randy Quaid, William Sadler
|
||
Producers: Harry Ufland, Mary Jane Ufland
|
||
Screenplay: Alex Winter, Tom Steren, Tom Burns
|
||
D.P.: Jamie Thompson
|
||
Start Date: 5/15/92, Los Angeles
|
||
BILL AND TED alumnus Winter takes the co-director's chair as well as
|
||
toplining in this comic fantasy opening for Halloween. Mutants
|
||
created by mad doctor Quaid take over an old amusement park. Old co-
|
||
hort Reeves is Juan the Dog Boy. Film is rife with mechanical and
|
||
make-up creature effects. Winter ultimately metamorphoses into a nine-
|
||
foot monster. Expect a heavy metal/punk soundtrack.
|
||
|
||
HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX May 21
|
||
Dir: Jim Abrahams
|
||
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Richard Crenna, Valeria Golino,
|
||
Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Ryan Stiles, Michael Colyar, Rowan
|
||
Atkinson, David Wohl
|
||
Producer: Bill Badalato
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Abrahams, Pat Proft
|
||
D.P.: Matt Leonetti
|
||
Start Date: 10/10/92
|
||
Sequel to the 1991 hit will employ look-alikes of Presidents Reagan,
|
||
Carter, Nixon and Ford. Lloyd Bridges will play the "real"
|
||
president. Richard Crenna is Col. Denton Walters. (He played Walter
|
||
Denton on OUR MISS BROOKS).
|
||
|
||
JACK THE BEAR 2.35 April 2
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for elements of theme, and for some terror
|
||
Dir: Marshall Herskovitz
|
||
Cast: Danny DeVito, Gary Sinise, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert J.
|
||
Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes
|
||
Producer: Bruce Gilbert
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Zaillen, based on Dan McCall's novel
|
||
DeVito plays a widower who moves his family to Oakland, CA after his
|
||
wife's death. He becomes a late-night TV horror movie host and very
|
||
popular with the neighborhood kids. Herskovitz is known for TV's
|
||
thirtysomething". Film was delayed from 12/92 release. Shot in
|
||
Super 35.
|
||
|
||
THE MICK TBA
|
||
Producers: Richard Donner, Lauren Schuler-Donner
|
||
|
||
MRS. DOUBTFIRE December
|
||
Dir: Chris Columbus
|
||
Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field
|
||
Producers: Robin Williams, Marsha Williams
|
||
Screenplay: Randi Mayem Singer
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
Williams is the divorced dad who answers his ex-wife's (Field) ad
|
||
for a cleaning lady in order to spend more time with his children.
|
||
Williams does the part in drag ala' TOOTSIE. First film co-produced
|
||
by Robin and his wife Marsha.
|
||
|
||
ONCE UPON A FOREST May 28
|
||
Rating: "G"
|
||
Dir: Dave Michener
|
||
Voices: Michael Crawford, Glenn Close, Andrae Crouch, Ben Vereen
|
||
Producers: David Kirschner, Charles Grosvenor
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Young, Kelly Ward
|
||
Composer: James Horner
|
||
Negative Cost: $16 million
|
||
This animated film is yet another environmentally-themed project.
|
||
An oil spill and toxic fumes infiltrate an underwater paradise. So
|
||
far 15 merchandising licensees have been signed for the film.
|
||
|
||
ONLY THE STRONG August 13
|
||
Dir: Sheldon Lettich
|
||
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Geoffrey Lewis, Stacey Travis, Todd Sussman, Paco
|
||
Prieto, Richard Coca, Ryan Bollman, Christian Klemish
|
||
Producers: Stuart Shapiro, Steven Menkin, Sammy Hadida
|
||
Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich, Luis Esteban
|
||
D.P.: Edward Pei
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/92, Miami
|
||
|
||
THE PAGEMASTER Christmas 1994
|
||
Dir: Joe Johnston
|
||
Animation Dir: Maurice Hunt
|
||
Cast: Macauley Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick
|
||
Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Charles Fleischer, Phil Hartman, Frank Welker,
|
||
George Hearn, Robert Picardo
|
||
Producer: David Kirschner
|
||
Screenplay: David Kirschner, Ernie Contrearas, David Casci
|
||
D.P.: Alexander Gruszynski
|
||
Start Date: 9/21/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Negative Cost: $27 million
|
||
Co-venture between Hanna-Barbera (TBS) and Fox, this largely
|
||
animated film is bookended with live-action sequences. It involves a
|
||
boy who hides in a library, is turned into a cartoon and is sent on an
|
||
adventure through three tales in the fiction section by the
|
||
Pagemaster, whose voice is that of the librarian. There will be much
|
||
computer animation and visual effects work. 4-Ward Productions and
|
||
Xaos Productions are working on the visual effects.
|
||
|
||
THE PRETENDER 1993
|
||
Dir: George Gallo Jr.
|
||
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia
|
||
Producer: David Permut
|
||
Screenplay: George Gallo Jr.
|
||
Start Date: 3/92
|
||
|
||
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
|
||
Producer: Frank Marshall
|
||
Screenplay: TBA, based on the Peter, Paul and Mary song
|
||
Animated feature is the first project from the new Kennedy-Marshall
|
||
Productions banner, now that the husband-wife duo are leaving Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT 1993
|
||
Dir: Chris Columbus
|
||
Producer: Stan Buchtal
|
||
An action-adventure.
|
||
|
||
RISING SUN 2.35 July 30
|
||
Dir: Philip Kaufman
|
||
Cast: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Tia Carrere
|
||
Producer: Peter Kaufman
|
||
Screenplay: Philip Kaufman, based on Michael Crichton's novel
|
||
Start Date: 6/22/92, Los Angeles
|
||
Crichton's 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).
|
||
The super-hot Snipes joins the always hot Connery in heading the cast.
|
||
Snipes' part (Pete Smith) was originally written for a
|
||
caucasian...Crichton says it's fine.
|
||
|
||
ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS August
|
||
Dir: Mel Brooks
|
||
Cast: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Tracey Ullman, Issac
|
||
Hayes, Mark Blankfield, Mel Brooks, Patrick Stewart, Amy Yasbeck,
|
||
David Chappelle, Megan Cavanagh, Eric Allen Kramer, Matthew Porretta
|
||
Producers: Mel Brooks, Peter Schindler
|
||
Screenplay: Mel Brooks, J. David Shapiro
|
||
D.P.: Michael O'Shea
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
Start Date: 1/5/93, Los Angeles
|
||
Mel parodies ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES on the big screen. Elwes
|
||
is Robin, Lewis is the "royally neurotic" Prince John, Tony-winner
|
||
Rees is the Sheriff of Rottingham, Ullman is a chicken soup-brewing
|
||
sorceress named Latrine and Hayes is the ultra-cool mystic. Yasbeck
|
||
is the beautiful Maid Marian..in a chastity belt. Be prepared for
|
||
Rabbi Tuckman. In the BLAZING SADDLES tradition.
|
||
|
||
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR June 18
|
||
Dir: Daniel Stern
|
||
Cast: Thomas Ian Nicholas, Gary Busey, Patrick LaBrecque, Robert Hy
|
||
Gorman, Amy Morton, Eddie Bracken, Bruce Altman, Barry Bonds, Bobby
|
||
Bonilla
|
||
Producer: Bob Harper
|
||
Screenplay: Sam Harper
|
||
D.P.: Jack Green
|
||
Start Date: 9/23/92, Chicago
|
||
Negative Cost: $10-$14 million
|
||
Veteran actor Stern's feature directorial debut concerns a 12-year-
|
||
old boy who's a mediocre baseball player. While attempting to
|
||
impress his coach, he goes for a foul ball, falls and breaks his arm.
|
||
When the cast comes off four months later, he miraculously can throw
|
||
the ball 100 m.p.h. and winds up pitching for the Chicago Cubs, taking
|
||
them to the World Series.
|
||
|
||
ROOMMATES TBA
|
||
Dir: Alan Parker
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
John Cusack will likely star in this story of a young man who grew
|
||
up with his grandfather and winds up living with him again after his
|
||
parents pass away and his aunt abandons his grandfather.
|
||
|
||
THE SANDLOT April 9
|
||
Rating: "PG" some language and kids chewing tobacco
|
||
Dir: David Mickey Evans
|
||
Cast: Thomas Guiry, Michael Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi,
|
||
Omar York, Brandon Adam, Denis Leary, Karen Allen, James Earl Jones
|
||
Producers: Dale de la Torre, William S. Gilmore
|
||
Screenplay: David Mickey Evans, Robert Gunter
|
||
Evans makes his aborted directorial debut, after being jettisoned
|
||
from RADIO FLYER (which he wrote). Formerly titled BOYS OF SUMMER.
|
||
|
||
THE SCOUT TBA
|
||
Cast: Will Smith
|
||
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
|
||
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman
|
||
Start Date: 6/93
|
||
|
||
USED PEOPLE (Largo Entertainment) 1.85 January 22 (wider)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
Dir: Beeban Kidron
|
||
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Marcello
|
||
Mastroianni, Marcia Gay Harden, Sylvia Sidney
|
||
Screenplay: Todd Graff
|
||
Composer: Rachel Portman
|
||
Start Date: 9/11/91, New York, Toronto
|
||
Negative Cost: $20 million
|
||
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 a
|
||
featured actor in THE ABYSS. Kidron helmed ANTONIA AND JANE. Opened
|
||
December 16th in New York and Los Angeles.
|
||
|
||
THE VANISHING (SR) February 5
|
||
Rating: "R" for terror and violence, and for language
|
||
Dir: George Sluizer
|
||
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bulloock
|
||
Producers: Larry Brezner, Paul Schiff
|
||
Screenplay: Todd Graff, based on Sluizer's 1988 film SPOORLOOS,
|
||
written by Sluizer, Tim Krabbe, from Krabbe's novel "The Golden Egg"
|
||
D.P.: Peter Suschitzky
|
||
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
|
||
Start Date: 4/6/92, Los Angeles, Seattle
|
||
Graff gets yet another script into production. Travis is best known
|
||
from the THREE MEN AND A BRAT Disney films.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Two Moon Releasing
|
||
|
||
|
||
MOTORAMA January 13 (LA)
|
||
Dir: Barry Shils
|
||
Cast: Jordan Christopher Michael, Drew Barrymore, Shelley Berman, Jack
|
||
Nance, Susan Tyrrell, Garrett Morris, Flea, Meat Loaf, Sandy Baron,
|
||
John Diehl
|
||
Producer: Donald Borchers
|
||
Cameos by all but the first in the cast list in this comedy being
|
||
positioned as a cult title.
|
||
|
||
|
||
21st Century Releasing
|
||
|
||
|
||
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT TBA
|
||
Dir: Menahem Golan
|
||
Cast: Jon Voight
|
||
Producer: Menahem Golan
|
||
Screeplay: Joseph Goldman, based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel
|
||
Start Date: 5/93, Moscow
|
||
|
||
SILENT VICTIM TBA
|
||
Dir: Menahem Golan
|
||
Cast: Michelle Greene, Alex Hyde-White, Kyle Secor, Ely Pouget
|
||
Producer: Menahem Golan
|
||
Start Date: 9/25/91
|
||
Topical drama concerns women's rights, fetal rights and abortion.
|
||
Greene (L.A. LAW) is an unhappily married woman who attempts suicide
|
||
while not realizing she is pregnant. As a result, the fetus dies.
|
||
The child's father is the local D.A. and files murder charges against
|
||
her. She becomes a cause celebre' on the issues. Formerly titled
|
||
HOTHOUSE. Delayed from 12/15/91 release.
|
||
|
||
WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? TBA
|
||
Dir: Robbie Fox
|
||
Cast: Steve Guttenberg
|
||
Exec Producers: Ami Artzi, Steve Guttenberg
|
||
Producer: Menahem Golan
|
||
Screenplay: Robbie Fox
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Universal
|
||
|
||
|
||
30 WISHES TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael J. Fox
|
||
Cast: Michael J. Fox
|
||
Screenplay: Elisa Bell
|
||
Start Date: Summer '93
|
||
Fox makes his feature directorial debut in this comedy-drama about a
|
||
young man attaining his 30th birthday, where every birthday wish he
|
||
has ever had, comes true.
|
||
|
||
73 EASTING TBA
|
||
Dir: John McTiernan
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Tom Clancy, Joe Vecchio
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Clancy
|
||
Clancy is tired of people butchering his work as it makes the
|
||
transition to the cinema, so he's writing an original screenplay and
|
||
producing! This is a Persian Gulf war adventure and McTiernan is as
|
||
good a choice as anyone to direct! Clancy loved what McTiernan did
|
||
with THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER.
|
||
|
||
ARMY OF DARKNESS 1.85 February 19
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and horror
|
||
Dir: Sam Raimi
|
||
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Marcus Gilbert, Embeth Davidtz
|
||
Producer: Robert Tapert
|
||
Screenplay: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
|
||
Composer: Joseph Lo Duca
|
||
Start Date: 5/20/91, Southern California
|
||
Sam Raimi's next shockfest is a sword-and-sorcery tale in the Dark
|
||
Ages. Campbell goes back to medieval times to face an army of all the
|
||
men and women who have died on the battlefield through the ages and
|
||
have been called back to life by a heinous force. His weaponry
|
||
includes a '73 Olds that has been outfitted as a "death coaster".
|
||
Film features effects by KNB Effects Group, Alterian Studios and those
|
||
nice folks at Introvision. This is the third in the EVIL DEAD
|
||
series. Raimi's last feature was DARKMAN. Excellent advanced word.
|
||
The film lost an MPAA re-rating appeal. Features Introvision visual
|
||
effects.
|
||
|
||
BEETHOVEN 2 December
|
||
Dir: Rod Daniel
|
||
Cast: Charles Grodin
|
||
Exec Producer: Ivan Reitman
|
||
Producers: Joe Medjuck, Michael C. Gross
|
||
Screenplay: Len Blum
|
||
Start Date: Spring '93
|
||
Negative Cost: $15 million
|
||
This time Beethoven's new Mrs. has a litter of puppies!
|
||
|
||
BLACKOUT TBA
|
||
Dir: Darnell Martin
|
||
Exec Producer: Spike Lee
|
||
Screenplay: Darnell Martin
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
NYU Film grad Martin's feature directorial debut is a humorous drama
|
||
dealing with a young Latino woman in the Bronx who tries to break away
|
||
from the stereotypical existence of wife and mother.
|
||
|
||
THE BUM TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Jodie Foster
|
||
Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Screenplay: Ron Bass
|
||
Start Date: Fall '92
|
||
A love story about a new separated Malibu housewife and a beach bum.
|
||
From Imagine Films.
|
||
|
||
CARLITO'S WAY TBA
|
||
Dir: Brian De Palma
|
||
Cast: Al Pacino, Sean Penn
|
||
Producers: Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman, Willi Baer
|
||
Screenplay: David Koepp
|
||
Start Date: 3/8/93, New York
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
De Palma and Pacino are reunited in this tale of a barrio criminal
|
||
and his no-nonsense defense attorney. Pacino is the jailbird, Penn
|
||
is the shrewd lawyer.
|
||
|
||
CASPER TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
The animated friendly ghost comes to the big screen in a "live
|
||
action" version from Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
CATS TBA
|
||
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
|
||
Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese
|
||
An animated version of the mega-hit stage musical from Amblimation.
|
||
|
||
CB4 (SR) March 12
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language, and for sexuality and drug content
|
||
Dir: Tamra Davis
|
||
Cast: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Phil Hartman, Chris Elliott
|
||
Exec Producers: Brian Grazer, Sean Daniel
|
||
Producer: Nelson George
|
||
Screenplay: Chris Rock, Nelson George, Robert LoCash
|
||
A "Spinal Tap" style rap-comedy with a Saturday Night Live bent.
|
||
|
||
CHARLIE CHAN TBA
|
||
Dir: David Mamet
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producers: Stanley Weston, Brad Weston, Fred Levinson
|
||
Producers: Brian Grazer, 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 was underway, but project has stalled. Mamet sued
|
||
Imagine under terms of his play-or-pay contract for $1 million plus
|
||
interest. Mamet most recently wrote and directed HOMICIDE.
|
||
|
||
COP AND A HALF April 2
|
||
Rating: "PG" for mild language, violence and drug references
|
||
Dir: Henry Winkler
|
||
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Ruby Dee, Ray Sharkey, Norman Golden II, Holland
|
||
Taylor, Frank Sivero, Marc McCauley, Rocky Giordani
|
||
Exec. Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Producer: Paul Maslansky
|
||
Screenplay: Arne Olsen
|
||
D.P.: Bill Butler
|
||
Start Date: 4/13/92, Tampa
|
||
Negative Cost: $14 million
|
||
A story of a hard-as-nails policeman and a precocious boy. The boy
|
||
insists on becoming partners with the officer after he witnesses a
|
||
murder. He will not identify the killer until he is permitted to
|
||
wear a police badge and ride in a patrol car. The child's role was
|
||
originally written for Macauley Culkin, who priced himself out of the
|
||
running. It was re-written for a girl and Kurt Russell was to star.
|
||
They James Caan was slated with a male child. Now it'll be Burt.
|
||
From Imagine Entertainment. Open call for the boy's part says the boy
|
||
is "charismatic and outgoing with an old soul wisdom. He's
|
||
physically small and endearing, but with a feisty personality and a
|
||
keen sense of intelligence. He is street smart and intuitive, but
|
||
with the innocence of a child." Nine-year-old Norman Golden won the
|
||
role.
|
||
|
||
CREATURE TBA
|
||
Dir: Frank LaLoggia
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Alex Gartner, Stanley Buchthal
|
||
Screenplay: Richard Matheson, based on John Saul's novel
|
||
This story of experiments in athletic training should prove a very
|
||
timely entertainment.
|
||
|
||
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON TBA
|
||
Dir: John Carpenter
|
||
Producer: Sandy King
|
||
Remake of the classic horror film.
|
||
|
||
THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT TBA
|
||
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
|
||
missile silo and threaten to start World War III. Ordinary Americans
|
||
save the day.
|
||
|
||
DRAGON: A LIFE OF BRUCE LEE May 7
|
||
Dir: Rob Cohen
|
||
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, R.J. Wagner, Michael Learned
|
||
Exec Producer: John Badham, Dan York
|
||
Producer: Raffaella DeLaurentiis
|
||
Screenplay: Rdward Khmara, John Raffo, Rob Cohen
|
||
D.P.: Francis Kenny
|
||
Start Date: 5/11/92, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Seattle
|
||
Biopic of late martial-arts king Bruce Lee toplines his son!
|
||
Wagner portrays a Hollywood exec composite character.
|
||
|
||
THE FLINTSTONES December
|
||
Dir: Brian Levant
|
||
Cast: John Goodman, Rick Moranis
|
||
Exec. Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Bill Hanna,
|
||
Joseph Barbera
|
||
Producer: Bruce Cohen
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Jennewein, Tom Parker, Gary Ross
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
The start date for this live-action feature based on the legendary
|
||
cartoon series was been pushed back a year, since one-time director
|
||
Dick Donner was in post-production on LETHAL WEAPON 3 at the time that
|
||
Fred Flintstone Goodman will be on hiatus from ROSEANNE in 1992.
|
||
Moranis will be Barney Rubble. New helmer Levant is best known as
|
||
the director of BEETHOVEN. From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
FOR LOVE OR MONEY June 4
|
||
Rating: "PG" for elements of sensuality and mild language
|
||
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
|
||
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar
|
||
Producer: Brian Grazer
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
|
||
D.P.: Oliver Wood
|
||
Start Date: 4/20/92, New York
|
||
A concierge at one of New York's finest hotels wants to run his own
|
||
bed-and-breakfast establishment. In order to do so, he must woo an
|
||
investor, who he learns is having an affair with the woman he wanted
|
||
to date. Sonnenfeld directed THE ADDAMS FAMILY. From Imagine
|
||
Entertainment. Formerly titled THE CONCIERGE.
|
||
|
||
THE GERRY CONLON STORY TBA
|
||
Dir: Jim Sheridan
|
||
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson
|
||
Producer: Noel Pearson
|
||
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan, Terry George
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
The MY LEFT FOOT director and star reunite in this story of one of
|
||
the Guildford 4, who were wrongly convicted and jailed for the IRA
|
||
bombing of a pub in Guildford, England.
|
||
|
||
GUN FOR HIRE TBA
|
||
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 TARGET July 16
|
||
Dir: John Woo
|
||
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford
|
||
Brimley, Arnold Vosloo, Casi Lemmons
|
||
Producers: Sean Daniel, Jim Jacks, Robert Tapert, Sam Raimi
|
||
Screenplay: Chuck Pfarrer
|
||
D.P.: Russell Carpenter
|
||
Start Date: 10/1/92, New Orleans
|
||
Van Damme gets $3.5 million for this one, and director Woo (THE
|
||
KILLING) should make it a rousing actioner.
|
||
|
||
HEART AND SOULS August 6
|
||
Dir: Ron Underwod
|
||
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Jon Lovitz, Kyra Sedgwick,
|
||
Elisabeth Shue, Tom Sizemore, David Paymer, Alfre Woodard, Ernie
|
||
Hudson
|
||
Producers: Nancy Roberts, Sean Daniel, Dirk Petersmann
|
||
Screenplay: Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson, Erik Hansen, Gregory Hansen
|
||
D.P. Michael Watkins
|
||
Start Date: 12/1/92, Los Angeles, San Francisco
|
||
Ensemble comedy about several souls who vie for the body of a crash
|
||
survivor. Underwood directed CITY SLICKERS and TREMORS. Wilson
|
||
wrote SHORT CIRCUIT, TREMORS and "*batteries not included".
|
||
|
||
JUDGMENT NIGHT August 20
|
||
Dir: Stephen Hopkins
|
||
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff,
|
||
Jeremy Piven
|
||
Producer: Lawrence Gordon
|
||
Screenplay: Lewis Colick, Kevin Jarre
|
||
D.P.: Peter Levy
|
||
Start Date: 10/19/92, Chicago, Los Angeles
|
||
Estevez gets $3 million to star in this action film about six people
|
||
who take a wrong turn off a highway and are forced to face their own
|
||
demons. MTV infame Leary gets another acting gig. Hopkins helmed
|
||
PREDATOR 2. From Largo Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
JURASSIC PARK 2.35 70mm (SS) (DTS) June 11
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough,
|
||
Samuel Jackson, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero
|
||
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen
|
||
Screenplay: David Koepp, Adaptation by Malia Scotch Marmo, Michael
|
||
Crichton, based on his novel
|
||
D.P.: Dean Cundey
|
||
Composer: John Williams
|
||
Start Date: 8/24/92, Los Angeles, Kauai
|
||
Negative Cost: $65 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 payable to Mr. Crichton. William
|
||
Hurt declined the lead role. Visual Effects from ILM, Stan Winston,
|
||
and others. Film will be a new landmark in visual effects technology.
|
||
Production was caught in Hurriance Iniki on Kauai. Frequent
|
||
Spielberg collaborator Michael Kahn edits as the film is shot. HUGE
|
||
outlook. Expect to see little plastic dinosaurs at McDonald's. This
|
||
feature will use the new DTS digital sound system on between 1000 and
|
||
1500 prints. It has an optical disk synced to the projector in either
|
||
four or six track formats. Caveat emptor. No definitive word yet on
|
||
70mm prints. Moved up from a June 25th release date. Film's sound
|
||
design by Alan Howarth. Wrapped on schedule and quite under budget.
|
||
From Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
KIDSTUFF TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producers: Joe Dante, Mike Finnell
|
||
Screenplay: Sean McCarver
|
||
Comedic fantasy about an airline pilot who feels his son is not
|
||
macho enough, so he buys him some violence-oriented action figures.
|
||
The father is mysteriously shrunken to doll-size one day and must
|
||
fight off the war toys. Dante may eventually wind up as director.
|
||
|
||
THE LAND BEFORE TIME TBA
|
||
Producer: Roy Smith
|
||
Screenplay: John Loy, John Ludin
|
||
Start Date: 1/13/93, Los Angeles
|
||
A new animated project from Universal with an old working title.
|
||
|
||
LORENZO'S OIL 1.85 (SR) January 15 (wider)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for a child's life threatening ordeal
|
||
Dir: George ("Mad Max") Miller
|
||
Cast: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Zach Greenberg,
|
||
Kathleen Wilhoite
|
||
Producer: George Miller, Doug Mitchell
|
||
Screenplay: George Miller, Nick Enright
|
||
D.P.: John Seale
|
||
Start Date: 9/9/91, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C.
|
||
Nolte and Sarandon play two parents who go to almost any lengths to
|
||
secure a miracle cure for their terminally ill child in this most
|
||
emotionally-wrenching of fact-based films. This is Aussie director
|
||
Miller's first film since THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK. Opening date of
|
||
12/30/92 in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto was positioning for
|
||
Oscar consideration. Sarandon is being pushed on this one.
|
||
Excellent notices.
|
||
|
||
MAD DOG AND GLORY 1.85 March 5
|
||
Rating: "R" for sexuality, language, violence and drug content
|
||
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 was scheduled
|
||
for 10 weeks.
|
||
|
||
MATINEE (SRD) (SS) January 29
|
||
Rating: "PG" for language, mild violence and sensuality.
|
||
Dir: Joe Dante
|
||
Cast: John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz. Kellie
|
||
Martin, Lisa Jakub
|
||
Producer: Michael Finnell
|
||
Screenplay: Charlie Haas, Ed Naha, Jerico Stone
|
||
D.P.: John Hora
|
||
Start Date: 4/13/92, Orlando
|
||
Set in Key West during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this is
|
||
the story of how a Saturday movie matinee drastically affects the
|
||
social lives of four teenagers. Goodman is Lawrence Woolsey, the B-
|
||
horror filmmaker who comes to town to showcase his latest thriller
|
||
MANT ("half man, half ant, all terror!"). Moriarty is an actress (in
|
||
the film!) Haas wrote TEX and GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH, Naa wrote
|
||
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS and Stone wrote MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN.
|
||
First Dolby Stereo Digital film for Universal.
|
||
|
||
THE MOMMY MARKET TBA
|
||
Dir: Tia Brelis
|
||
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Anna Chlumsky, Aaron Metchik, Asher Metchik, Andre
|
||
The Giant, Maureen Stapleton
|
||
Producer: Raffaella DeLaurentiis
|
||
Screenplay: Tia Brelis
|
||
D.P.: Buzz Feitshans IV
|
||
Start Date: 9/6/92, Virginia
|
||
The story was adapted by Brelis from one written by his mother some
|
||
25 years ago. Children can erase the memory of their mother through
|
||
a magic spell and go to the Mommy Market to select a new mommy.
|
||
|
||
MUSTANG 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Martin Bregman
|
||
|
||
ON THE AIR TBA
|
||
Cast: Michael J. Fox, John Candy
|
||
|
||
THE OTHER WOMAN 1993
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Meryl Streep
|
||
Screenplay: Carrie Fisher, Meryl Streep
|
||
|
||
THE POOL Summer
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Joe Wizan, Todd Black
|
||
Screenplay: Alan Ormsby
|
||
Comedy/horror film concerns a man-eating wormlike monster that lives
|
||
in the drain of a family's swimming pool. The family's 14-year old
|
||
boy sees it eat the poolman, but no one believes him.
|
||
|
||
PRIME SUSPECT TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Tom Topor
|
||
American remake of the British TV police thriller miniseries
|
||
concerning a female Detective Inspector who tracks down a sex
|
||
murderer. Wonderful TV spot starred the magnificent Helen Mirren.
|
||
It would be a crime if she wasn't given the opportunity to reprise her
|
||
role for the big screen.
|
||
|
||
THE REAL MCCOY August
|
||
Dir: Russell Mulcahy
|
||
Cast: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp
|
||
Producer: Martin Bregman
|
||
Screenplay: William Osborne, William Davies
|
||
D.P.: Denis Crosnan
|
||
Start Date: 9/8/92, Atlanta
|
||
A female action comedy. Mulcahy directed HIGHLANDER.
|
||
|
||
SCENT OF A WOMAN 1.85 January 8 (wide)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Martin Brest
|
||
Cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Gene Canfield, James Rebhorn,
|
||
Gabrielle Anwar, Frances Conroy, Ron Eldard, Richard Venture
|
||
Producer: Martin Brest
|
||
Screenplay: Bo Goldman, based on Dino Risi's 1975 film PROFUMO DI
|
||
DONNA
|
||
D.P.: Don Thorin
|
||
Start Date: 12/3/91, New York
|
||
Drama about bitter war veteran who's been blinded and the innocent
|
||
17-year old prep school boy assigned to care for him. Brest last
|
||
directed MIDNIGHT RUN for Universal. D.P. Mikael Salomon left the
|
||
production and has replaced by Donald Thorin. O'Donnell was the older
|
||
brother in MEN DON'T LEAVE. Terrific notices for Pacino and
|
||
O'Donnell. Opened in selected markets on 12/23/92.
|
||
|
||
SCHINDLER'S LIST December 17
|
||
Dir: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
|
||
Producers: Gerald Molen, Branko Lustig
|
||
Screenplay: Steve Zaillian
|
||
D.P.: Janusz Kaminski
|
||
Start Date: 2/93, Poland
|
||
Negative Cost: $24 million
|
||
Spielberg *finally* gets to make the film about the Austrian man who
|
||
risked everything to help 1500 Krakow Jews escape the Nazi tyranny.
|
||
Neeson plays Schindler and Kinglsey is Mr. Stern. Steven says "It
|
||
will be the most authentic film I have made so far". European Jewish
|
||
organizations are giving problems over filming at Auschwitz, for which
|
||
Spielberg has been given permission directly from the Polish
|
||
government. There was talk that this may be shot in black and
|
||
white. From Amblin', naturally.
|
||
|
||
THE SHADOW 1993
|
||
Dir: Russell Mulcahy
|
||
Cast: Alec Baldwin
|
||
Producer: Martin Bregman, Willy Baer, Michael Bregman
|
||
Screenplay: David Koepp, based on Walter B. Gibson's characters
|
||
Negative Cost: $25 million
|
||
The first film in producer Bregman's $200 million five-year deal at
|
||
Universal is based on the classic Twenties and Thirties pulp novel and
|
||
radio character. Lead character Lamont Cranston carries two silver
|
||
.45 pistols and wears a cloak in his Shadow guise. He battles a
|
||
supernatural Eastern villain. "The Shadow Knows..." Mulcahy is
|
||
best known for the HIGHLANDER films. This project has been ten years
|
||
in development!
|
||
|
||
SMALL SOLDIERS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Screenplay: Gavin Scott
|
||
Fantasy adventure about a young boy's army of toy soldiers who come
|
||
to life. Sounds rather similar to KIDSTUFF, also at Universal. From
|
||
Amblin'.
|
||
|
||
SPLITTING HEIRS April 30
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for nudity and sexual dialogue
|
||
Dir: Robert Young
|
||
Cast: Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, John Cleese, Catherine
|
||
Zeta Jones
|
||
Exec Producer: Eric Idle
|
||
Producer: Simon Bosanquet
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Idle
|
||
Comedy where a man believes that he is fifteenth in a line of dukes
|
||
and will not rest until he assumes his rightful title.
|
||
|
||
STREETRACER TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Anthony Yerkovich
|
||
Screenplay: Anthony Yerkovich, Kem Nunn
|
||
Start Date: 1/92, Los Angeles
|
||
From Imagine Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
THE SWEET HEREAFTER TBA
|
||
Dir: Neal Jimenez
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Rosalie Swedlin
|
||
Screenplay: Neal Jimenez, based on Russell Banks' novel
|
||
Story tells how a fatal school bus accident alters life in a small
|
||
town in Upstate New York. Jimenez co-directed and wrote THE
|
||
WATERDANCE, as well as wrote THE RIVER'S EDGE and co-writing FOR THE
|
||
BOYS and A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT.
|
||
|
||
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED TBA
|
||
Dir: John Carpenter
|
||
Producers: Michael Preger, Sean Daniel, Jim Jacks, John Carpenter
|
||
Screenplay: David Himmelstein, John Carpenter
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
Remake of the classic British film about a village where a bunch of
|
||
kids have weird eyes......very Meg Foster.
|
||
|
||
WE'RE BACK November
|
||
Dir: Dick Zontag, Ralph Zontag
|
||
Voices: Walter Cronkite, John Goodman, John Malkovich, Julia Child,
|
||
Jay Leno, Martin Short
|
||
Exec Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
|
||
Producer: Steven Spielberg
|
||
Screenplay: John Patrick Shanley, based on Hudson Talbot's book
|
||
Start Date: 1/15/91, London, Los Angeles
|
||
Another Amblimation animated film produced in London. Dinosaurs are
|
||
taken aboard a spaceship and into the 21st Century where they evolve
|
||
intellectually. Weird cast, huh? American Film Technologies'
|
||
computer animation process, involving ink-and-paint functions, is
|
||
being utilized.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Warner Brothers
|
||
|
||
|
||
ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE TBA
|
||
Dir: Tom Shadyac
|
||
Cast: James Carrey
|
||
Producers: James Robinson
|
||
Screenplay: Jack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac, James Carrey
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, Miami
|
||
The star of IN LIVING COLOR makes his feature starring debut as a
|
||
pet detective who locates people's lost pets. He gets the call when
|
||
the Miami Dolphin's mascot gets stolen before the Super Bowl. From
|
||
Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
ARIZONA DREAM 2.35 TBA
|
||
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, 1991 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. Formerly called
|
||
THE ARROWTOOTH WALTZ.
|
||
|
||
BEING HUMAN September
|
||
Dir: Bill Forsyth
|
||
Cast: Robin Williams, John Turturro, Vincent D'Onofrio, Anna Gallena
|
||
Producers: David Puttnam, Robert F. Colesberry
|
||
Screenplay: Bill Forsyth
|
||
D.P.: Mick Coulter
|
||
Start Date: 9/28/92, Scotland, Morocco, New York, California, England
|
||
The wonderful Scottish director helms again....this time with well-
|
||
known talent..as Robin Williams plays men in five different epochs.
|
||
|
||
BODY SNATCHERS 2.35 1993
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence, nudity and language
|
||
Dir: Abel Ferrara
|
||
Cast: Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, Forest Whitaker, Billy Wirth,
|
||
Terry Kinney, Christine Elise, Reilly Murphy, R. Lee Ermey
|
||
Producer: Robert Solo
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas St. John, Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon
|
||
D.P.: Bojan Bazelli
|
||
Start Date: 2/5/92, Selma, Alabama
|
||
Tom Burman provides the special effects in this third and reportedly
|
||
very different version of the Pod People. Solo also produced the
|
||
1978 Phil Kaufman version for UA. Whitaker is a military doctor who
|
||
notices frightening changes in some of his patients. Anwar shone in
|
||
WILD HEARTS CAN'T BE BROKEN. Ferrara is red-hot after BAD LIEUTENANT.
|
||
|
||
BOGUS TBA
|
||
Dir: Norman Jewison
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Norman Jewison, Alvin Sargent
|
||
Jewison hopes to interest Gerard Depardieu in this father-son film
|
||
which features an eight-year-old boy with an imaginary friend.
|
||
|
||
BOILING POINT April 16
|
||
|
||
CHASERS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Tom Berenger
|
||
Screenplay: Joe Bateer, John Rice, Dan Gilroy, Joe Gayton
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
Two Navy chasers (military police) receive a routine assignment to
|
||
transport a prisoner back to the base. They find themselves in way
|
||
over their heads when the prisoner turns out to be a beautiful, tough
|
||
woman. From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
CHICO TBA
|
||
Dir: Chris Menges
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: David Puttnam
|
||
Screenplay: William Nicholson
|
||
Start Date: 1/93, Costa Rica
|
||
This project has been on the schedule for a long time without
|
||
getting off the ground. Story about Chico Mendes, the Brazilian
|
||
ecologist who was murdered by the son of a cattle rancher in the
|
||
struggle over the Amazonian rain forests. Menges directed A WORLD
|
||
APART.
|
||
|
||
THE CLIENT TBA
|
||
Dir: Joel Schumacher
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Getchell, based on John Grisham's novel
|
||
Start Date: 6/1/93, Memphis, New Orleans
|
||
Thriller about a female lawyer who must protect an 11-year-old crime
|
||
witness.
|
||
|
||
COMPANY OF ANGELS TBA
|
||
Dir: Kathryn Bigelow
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Kathryn Bigelow
|
||
Exec Producer: James Cameron, Larry Kasanoff
|
||
Start Date: early 1993, Spain
|
||
Winona Ryder was attached to this tale of Joan Of Arc after Sinead
|
||
O'Connor was dumped. Now the whole project is in doubt.
|
||
|
||
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT TBA
|
||
Dir: Terry Gilliam
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Mark Kamen
|
||
The fourth big-screen version of this venerable Mark Twain tale will
|
||
be ably aided by the vision of the wonderful Mr. Gilliam behind the
|
||
camera. Kamen wrote THE KARATE KID films, as well as LETHAL WEAPON 3
|
||
(co-scripter) and THE POWER OF ONE.
|
||
|
||
THE CRUSH April 2
|
||
Rating: "R" for language and terror violence
|
||
Dir: Alan Shapiro
|
||
Cast: Cary Elwes, Jennifer Rubin, Alicia Silverstone, Kurtwood Smith
|
||
Producer: Michael MacDonald
|
||
Screenplay: Alan Shapiro
|
||
D.P.: Bruce Surtees
|
||
Start Date: 9/24/92, Vancouver
|
||
An obsessive crush a young woman (Silverstone) developes over a
|
||
journalist (Elwes) who has moved into a guest house on her parents'
|
||
estate is the focus of Shapiro's theatrical directorial debut. She
|
||
wreaks havoc on his life and that of his photographer-girlfriend
|
||
(Rubin). From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
DAVE July 23
|
||
Dir: Ivan Reitman
|
||
Cast: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn,
|
||
Charles Grodin, Ben Kingsley
|
||
Producers: Ivan Reitman, Lauren Shuler
|
||
Screenplay: Gary Ross
|
||
D.P.: Adam Greenberg
|
||
Start Date: 8/13/92, Washington, Virginia, Los Angeles
|
||
Contemporary comedy about a fictional president and the man who
|
||
replaces him. Weaver is the First Lady. Tip O'Neill did a guest shot
|
||
as himself. The Virginia State Legislature in Richmond doubled for
|
||
the House of Representatives. Ross wrote BIG.
|
||
|
||
DEATH AND THE MAIDEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Roman Polanski
|
||
Producer: Thom Mount
|
||
Screenplay: Ariel Dorfman
|
||
Start Date: 4/15/93, Paris, Spain
|
||
The acclaimed play comes to the big screen with a top director at
|
||
the helm.
|
||
|
||
DEMOLITION MAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Marco Branbilla
|
||
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Lori Petty
|
||
Producers: Joel Silver, Howard Kazanjian
|
||
Screenplay: Peter M. Lenkov
|
||
Start Date: 2/8/93, Los Angeles, San Diego
|
||
Start of this project was delayed by several months to accomodate
|
||
Snipes' schedule. He reportedly is getting $4 million for this one
|
||
as the heavy.
|
||
|
||
DENNIS THE MENACE June 18
|
||
Dir: Nick Castle
|
||
Cast: Mason Gamble, Walter Matthau, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd,
|
||
Lea Thompson, Robert Stanton, Amy Sakasitz, Kellen Hathaway, Paul
|
||
Winfield, Arnold Stang
|
||
Producers: John Hughes. Richard Vane
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes
|
||
D.P.: Tom Ackerman
|
||
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92, Chicago
|
||
A very young Dennis (about 4 years old) comes to the big screen in a
|
||
live-action version of the venerable Hank Ketchum comic strip.
|
||
Patrick Johnson left as director, due to "creative differences" with
|
||
John Hughes. Johnson helmed SPACED INVADERS. Six-year-old Gamble
|
||
makes his screen debut as Dennis. Matthau and Plowright are Mr. &
|
||
Mrs. Wilson. Thompson and Stanton are Alice and Henry Mitchell. New
|
||
director is Nick Castle, of THE BOY WHO COULD FLY, TAP and THE LAST
|
||
STARFIGHTER fame. 3000 copies of the terrific teaser-trailer of
|
||
Dennis shooting his slingshot and the projectile ricocheting madly are
|
||
now in theatres.
|
||
|
||
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE TBA
|
||
Dir: Joel Schumacher
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Joel Schumacher
|
||
Screenplay: based on Andrew Neiderman's novel
|
||
Satan makes a big-screen turn. Dustin Hoffman considered the role,
|
||
but bowed out.
|
||
|
||
FALLING DOWN 2.35 (SR) February 26 (wide)
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and strong language March 5 (wider)
|
||
Dir: Joel Schumacher
|
||
Cast: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld,
|
||
Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Lois Smith
|
||
Exec Producer: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
|
||
Screenplay: Ebbe Roe Smith
|
||
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
|
||
Composer: James Newton Howard
|
||
Start Date: 3/25/92, Los Angeles
|
||
The lives of two men fall apart the same day. Duvall is an L.A.
|
||
cop on the verge of retirement who re-considers when partner Douglas'
|
||
behavior becomes increasingly violent and disturbing. Weld plays
|
||
Duvall's wife and Hershey is Douglas' estranged missus. Very mixed,
|
||
but controversial, word.
|
||
|
||
FEARLESS September
|
||
Dir: Peter Weir
|
||
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, John Turturro,
|
||
Tom Hulce
|
||
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Mark Rosenberg
|
||
Screenplay: Rafael Yglesias, based on his novel
|
||
D.P.: Alan Daviau
|
||
Start Date: 8/24/92, San Francisco, LA
|
||
A New York architect and a young working-class woman must come to
|
||
terms about surviving a plane crash that takes the lives of his
|
||
business partner and her baby. Features Introvision visual effects.
|
||
Formerly titled JOYRIDE.
|
||
|
||
FREE WILLY July 16
|
||
Rating: :"PG" for some mild language
|
||
Dir: Simon Wincer
|
||
Cast: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, Michael Madsen, Jayne Atkinson,
|
||
August Schellenberg, Michael Ironside, Richard Riehle, Mykel T.
|
||
Williamson, Michael Bacall
|
||
Exec Producers: Richard Donner, Lauren Shuler-Donner
|
||
Producer: Jennie Lew Tugend
|
||
Screenplay: Keith Walker, Corey Blechman, based on Keith Walker's
|
||
story
|
||
D.P.: Robbie Greenberg
|
||
Start Date: 5/18/92, Mexico City, Pacific Northwest
|
||
Director Wincer (QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, PHAR LAP, Emmy winner for
|
||
LONESOME DOVE) takes the reins of this production. 12-year-old
|
||
Richter makes his feature debut as a troubled young boy who forms a
|
||
close relationship with an Orca whale who has been captured from the
|
||
wild. Successful recruited sneak preview (95+% positive) at GCC's
|
||
Sherman Oaks Cinema in late October.
|
||
|
||
FRIENDLY VOICES TBA
|
||
Dir: Jon Avnet
|
||
Producers: Richard Donner, Lauren Schuler-Donner
|
||
|
||
THE FUGITIVE August 6
|
||
Dir: Andrew Davis
|
||
Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
|
||
Producers: Arnold Kopelson, Keith Barish
|
||
Screenplay: David Twohy, Jeb Stuart
|
||
Start Date: 2/3/93, Chicago, North Carolina
|
||
Negative Cost: $30+ million
|
||
Big screen treatment for the long-running TV series that starred
|
||
David Janssen. Davis hot after UNDER SIEGE. Jones is the relentless
|
||
police inspector who chases Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford) for the murder
|
||
of Kimble's wife. Ward is the love interest for Ford.
|
||
|
||
G.I. JOE Summer 1994
|
||
Dir: Sheldon Lettich
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Gene Kirkwood, Martin Abrams
|
||
Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich
|
||
Film will be released for th 30th Anniversary of the Hasbro toys.
|
||
Expect to be bombarded with tie-ins.
|
||
|
||
GRUMPY OLD MEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Donald Petrie
|
||
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Daryl Hannah, Kevin
|
||
Pollak, Ossie Davis, Burgess Meredith, Buck Henry, Christopher
|
||
McDonald
|
||
Producers: John Davis, Richard Berman
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Steven Johnson, Will Osborne, WIll Davies
|
||
Start Date: 2/2/93, Minnesota
|
||
Oscar winners Lemmon and Matthau work together for the first time
|
||
since 1981's BUDDY, BUDDY. They play two elderly neighbors, one a
|
||
widower, the other divorced, who are brought out of the doldrums when
|
||
an exotic woman enters their lives.
|
||
|
||
HEAVEN AND EARTH December
|
||
Dir: Oliver Stone
|
||
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Hiep Thi Le, Joan Chen, Dr. Haing S. Ngor,
|
||
Debbie Reynolds, Dustin Nguyen
|
||
Exec Producer: Arnon Milchan
|
||
Producers: A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
|
||
Screenplay: Oliver Stone
|
||
D.P.: Robert Richardson
|
||
Start Date: 10/26/92, Vietnam, Thailand
|
||
Stone completes his Vietnam trilogy with this tale from a Vietnamese
|
||
woman's point of view. Thile is a 19-year-old UC Davis student.
|
||
Reynolds makes a welcome return to the big screen after a 22 year
|
||
absence in a small dramatic part as Jones' mother.
|
||
|
||
HOOVER TBA
|
||
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. The
|
||
music of the era will also be a part of this film of a "complicated
|
||
man".
|
||
|
||
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY September
|
||
Dir: Joel Coen
|
||
Cast: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning,
|
||
John Mahoney, Jim True
|
||
Producer: Ethan Coen
|
||
Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi
|
||
D.P.: Roger Deakins
|
||
Negative Cost: $25 million
|
||
Start Date: 11/30/92, Wilmington, NC
|
||
Set in 1958 New York, this comedy concerns a young man who starts in
|
||
a conglomerate's mailroom and works his way up to head of the company
|
||
when the CEO jumps out a window. Newman takes the role of the evil
|
||
boss Sidney J. Mussburger, after Nicholson turned it down. Silver
|
||
Pictures is co-producing this film at Warner Brothers with WB picking
|
||
up half the production tab, plus domestic P&A expenditures. Film's
|
||
budget is double that of anything the Coen's have done before and Fox
|
||
passed on this one because of that. "An industrial fantasy set in the
|
||
1950's".
|
||
|
||
INCOGNITO TBA
|
||
Dir: Nicholas Meyer
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Steven-Charles Jaffe
|
||
Screenplay: Jordan Katz
|
||
Start Date: 7/93, U.K., Scandinavia
|
||
The world's best art forger is caught in a scheme to paint a lost
|
||
Rembrandt, where it results in him accused of stealing his own
|
||
painting and is framed for murder. From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
INDIAN SUMMER 1994
|
||
Dir: Bruce Beresford
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Screenplay: Akiva Goldsman
|
||
Start Date: 9/93, New England, Canada
|
||
New England is the setting for this mystery with a troubled
|
||
psychiatrist who becomes enthused with his vocation when he gets
|
||
involved with a murder case where the only witness is an autistic boy,
|
||
whose parents were the victims. Beresford will tackle this "A"
|
||
project after he completes BESSIE for MGM. Big names will be cast.
|
||
From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
THE INNOCENTS TBA
|
||
Dir: John Schlesinger
|
||
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott, Isabella Rossellini, Kelly Cole
|
||
Producers: Norman Heyman, Chris Sievernich, Wieland Schulz-Kiel
|
||
Screenplay: Ian McEwan, based on his novel
|
||
Start Date: 5/4/92, Berlin, Vienna
|
||
Romantic espionage thriller set in 1955 Berlin. Formerly to have
|
||
been directed by Jon Amiel, who is doing STRANGER WITHIN for Warner
|
||
Brothers instead. Cole is Nat King's son.
|
||
|
||
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE TBA
|
||
Dir: Neil Jordan
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: David Geffen
|
||
Producer: Stephen Wooley
|
||
Screenplay: Neil Jordan, based on Anne Rice's screenplay of her novel
|
||
Start Date: 1st Half, 1993
|
||
Hot, hot writer/director of THE CRYING GAME, MONA LISA and THE
|
||
COMPANY OF WOLVES will finally tackle Anne Rice's great novel of the
|
||
relationship between the vampires Lestat and Louis. Geffen Pictures
|
||
has had this project in development for years. Producer Wooley did
|
||
same for THE CRYING GAME.
|
||
|
||
THE KANGAROO KID TBA
|
||
Dir: Dean Semler
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Robyn Burke, Mike Lake
|
||
Screenplay: Maxwell Grant
|
||
D.P.: Andrew Lesnie
|
||
Start Date: 6/7/92, Australia, Dallas
|
||
|
||
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES TBA
|
||
Dir: Tommy Tune
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
|
||
Screenplay: Harvey Fierstein
|
||
Composer: Jerry Herman
|
||
Big-screen version of the smash Broadway musical.
|
||
|
||
LOVE AFFAIR TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening
|
||
Producer: Warren Beatty
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Towne
|
||
Remake of the 1939 RKO romantic comedy LOVE AFFAIR will sport a new
|
||
title for the Beattys. The 1957 Fox film AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER was
|
||
also a remake. Beatty may wind up helming himself.
|
||
|
||
M. BUTTERFLY October
|
||
Dir: David Cronenberg
|
||
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ian Richardson, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa
|
||
Exec. Producer: David Geffen
|
||
Producer: Gabriella Martinelli
|
||
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang, from his play
|
||
D.P.: Peter Suchitzky
|
||
Composer: Howard Shore
|
||
Start Date: 9/10/92, Toronto, France, Budapest, Beijing
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
MADE IN AMERICA May 21
|
||
Rating: "PG-13" for sexual situations and language
|
||
Dir: Richard Benjamin
|
||
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Paul Rodriguez, Will Smith, Nia
|
||
Long, Jennifer Tilly, Paul Rodriguez
|
||
Exec Producers: Carol Burnett, Marcia Brandwynne, Nadine Schiff
|
||
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Michael Douglas
|
||
Producer: Patrick Palmer
|
||
Screenplay: Holly Goldberg Sloan
|
||
D.P.: Ralf Bode
|
||
Start Date: 4/20/92, Los Angeles
|
||
A piece about life in Berkeley, California. Nia Long is a teenager
|
||
who discovers that her father (Danson) is not dead, as her mother
|
||
(Goldberg) would lead her to believe. Smith is the "Fresh Prince".
|
||
Formerly titled CHANGE OF HEART. From Stonebridge Entertainment.
|
||
|
||
MAJOR LEAGUE II TBA
|
||
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger
|
||
Screenplay: R.J. Stewart
|
||
Start Date: 8/93
|
||
The sequel to the 1989 hit finds the former champion Cleveland
|
||
Indians in last place, after their off-season celebrations render them
|
||
out of shape. The catcher Jake Taylor (Berenger) is now the manager.
|
||
|
||
THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE Summer
|
||
Dir: Mel Gibson
|
||
Cast: Mel Gibson, Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton, Gaby Hoffman, Richard
|
||
Masur, Geoffrey Lewis
|
||
Producer: Bruce Davey
|
||
Screenplay: Malcolm MacRury
|
||
D.P.: Don McAlpine
|
||
Start Date: 8/3/92, Maine
|
||
Gibson makes his debut behind the camera, as well as toplining in
|
||
this drama about an ex-con who was indicted for child abuse. He
|
||
makes a fresh start in a new town, but his past comes back to haunt
|
||
him. From Gibson's Icon Films.
|
||
|
||
MAVERICK TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Mel Gibson, James Garner
|
||
Producer: Mel Gibson
|
||
Mel Gibson plays the smooth Western gambler in this big-screen
|
||
adaptation of the small-screen program that made Garner a TV star.
|
||
He nabs a supporting role in the film.
|
||
|
||
THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET TBA
|
||
Dir: Gus Van Sant, Jr.
|
||
Producers: Oliver Stone, Janet Yang, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
|
||
Screenplay: Becky Johnston, David Franzoni, based on Randy Shilt's
|
||
biography
|
||
Start Date: 4/93, San Francisco
|
||
Openly gay Van Sant will direct the biography of openly gay and
|
||
murdered San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Harvey Milk.
|
||
|
||
MEN TBA
|
||
Dir: Sydney Pollack
|
||
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray
|
||
Producers: Mark Rosenberg, Paula Weinstein
|
||
Screenplay: Elaine May
|
||
Remake of Dorris Dorrie's German comedy reteams three of the TOOTSIE
|
||
principals and a three of those from <gulp> ISHTAR.
|
||
|
||
MONEY MEN TBA
|
||
Rating: "R" for violence and language
|
||
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper
|
||
Composer: Corey Lerios
|
||
|
||
MR. MAGOO TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Amblin' produces a live-action big-screen incarnation of the myopic
|
||
one. Reportedly Danny DeVito will be approached for the title role.
|
||
|
||
MR. WONDERFUL Summer
|
||
Dir: Anthony Minghella
|
||
Cast: Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt
|
||
Producer: Marianne Moloney
|
||
Screenplay: Vicki Polon, Amy Schor
|
||
Start Date: 7/27/92, New York
|
||
A Con Ed man falls back in love with his ex-wife. Minghella
|
||
directed the wonderful TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY, which won plaudits and
|
||
British Academy Awards for Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson. "One
|
||
woman's headache is another woman's...." From Samuel Goldwyn.
|
||
|
||
MURDER IN THE FIRST TBA
|
||
Dir: Marc Rocco
|
||
Cast: Christian Slater
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
Drama about a young attorney's relationship with a criminal.
|
||
|
||
NATURAL BORN KILLERS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Woody Harrelson
|
||
Producer: Oliver Stone
|
||
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
|
||
Stone may wind up directing this one, too.
|
||
|
||
THE NEVERENDING STORY III TBA
|
||
|
||
THE NEW AGE TBA
|
||
Dir: Michael Tolkin
|
||
Cast: Peter Weller, Isabelle Adjani
|
||
Producers: Nick Wechsler, Keith Addis
|
||
Screenplay: Michael Tolkin
|
||
Start Date: 2/22/93, Los Angeles
|
||
A satirical look at modern America from the creator of THE RAPTURE
|
||
and writer of THE PLAYER. A Hollywood agent and his wife lose their
|
||
cushy existence and must face the "Real World". In so doing, they
|
||
open a clothing store on Melrose in order to raise enough money so
|
||
they can afford a divorce!
|
||
|
||
NEW JACK CITY 2 TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Doug McHenry, George Jackson
|
||
Sequel to the 1991 hit.
|
||
|
||
THE NORTHMEN 1994
|
||
Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: David Heyman, Neal Moritz
|
||
Screenplay: Randall McCormick, Rupert Walters
|
||
Start Date: 10/93, U.K., Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Malta
|
||
Negative Cost: $40+ million
|
||
Swashbuckler set in medieval England and Scandinavia relates the
|
||
exploits of an English nobleman who is captured by Vikings. He
|
||
becomes assimilated into their culture before returning home. From
|
||
Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
THE NUTCRACKER November
|
||
Dir: Emile Ardolino
|
||
Cast: Macauley Culkin, Darci Kistler, Damian Woetzel, Kyra Nichols,
|
||
Jessica Lynn Cohen
|
||
Yeah, it's the holiday classic from Tchaikovsky.
|
||
|
||
PEANUTS TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producer: John Hughes
|
||
Screenplay: John Hughes, based on Charles Schulz' characters
|
||
A live-action feature based on the beloved Charles Schulz comic
|
||
strip.
|
||
|
||
THE PELICAN BRIEF December
|
||
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
|
||
Cast: Julia Roberts
|
||
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
|
||
Screenplay: Alan J. Pakula
|
||
Start Date: 3/93
|
||
|
||
A PERFECT WORLD December
|
||
Dir: Clint Eastwood
|
||
Cast: Kevin Costner
|
||
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson
|
||
Screenplay: John Lee Hancock
|
||
Start Date: 4/93
|
||
Sixties-set drama about the relationship between an eight-year-old
|
||
boy and the convict who kidnaps him. Steven Spielberg had to drop
|
||
out due to schedule conflicts with JURASSIC PARK. From Baltimore
|
||
Pictures.
|
||
|
||
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Producer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
|
||
The musical smash is up int the air again as a film.... Joel
|
||
Schumacher is once again off the film, after playing musical directors
|
||
with Franco Zeffirelli. Both quit over lack of creative control.
|
||
|
||
PINOCCHIO TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Exec Producer: Fred Fuchs
|
||
Producers: Francis Coppola, Brian Henson
|
||
Screenplay: Frank Galati, based on Carlo Collodi's story
|
||
A live-action version of the beloved classic tale "Pinocchio" using
|
||
characters and puppets created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
|
||
Scripter Galati won two Tony Awards for writing THE GRAPES OF WRATH He
|
||
received an Oscar nomination for co-writing THE ACCIDENTIAL TOURIST
|
||
with Lawrence Kasdan.
|
||
|
||
POINT OF NO RETURN 2.35 March 19
|
||
Dir: John Badham
|
||
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, Anne Bancroft,
|
||
Dermot Mulroney
|
||
Producer: Art Linson
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Getchell
|
||
D.P.: Michael Watkins
|
||
Composer: Gary Chang
|
||
Start Date: 3/30/92, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington
|
||
American remake of the hot French Hit LA FEMME NIKITA. Story is of
|
||
a hardened young woman, convicted of murder, who is recruited into a
|
||
covert organization of assassins rather than face the electric chair.
|
||
As part of her training, she is educated and polished in order to
|
||
blend in as she stalks her elite victims. The effect of this
|
||
training, however, is that the now-valuable assassin develops a
|
||
broader view of the world and a conscience, which makes her want to
|
||
escape from the deadly existence she leads. Fonda stars in the
|
||
upcoming SINGLES and SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. Getchell is also adapting
|
||
Tobias Woolf's THIS BOY'S LIFE for Warner Brothers, also to be
|
||
produced by Linson. Titled THE SPECIALIST at one time.
|
||
|
||
POOR TBA
|
||
Dir: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Screenplay: Paul Mazursky
|
||
Start Date: 9/93
|
||
A comedy from Morgan Creek about people who run into money problems.
|
||
|
||
THE POSTMAN TBA
|
||
Dir: TBA
|
||
Cast: Tom Hanks
|
||
Producer: Steve Tisch
|
||
Screenplay: Eric Roth, based on David Brin's novel
|
||
Negative Cost: $30+ million
|
||
David Brin's Hugo-winning post-apocalyptic science fiction tale of a
|
||
man who assumes the identity of a postman and traverses the devastated
|
||
landscapes of America reuniting the people is on the tentative track
|
||
at Warner Brothers with several directors standing in the wings.
|
||
|
||
THE RAINBOW WARRIOR TBA
|
||
Dir: Steven Seagal
|
||
Cast: Steven Seagal
|
||
Screenplay: Ed Horowitz, Robin Russin
|
||
Start Date: 3/31/93, Alaska
|
||
An ecological theme permeates this action-adventure featuring Steven
|
||
Seagal's directorial debut after the collapse of his MAN OF HONOR
|
||
project at Fox. An Alaskan oil worker plans to rat on an unsafe oil
|
||
drilling operation, but he is shanghaied by the oil company and left
|
||
to die in the wilderness. There he is rescued by Eskimos, who come
|
||
to regard him as a mythical figure, the Rainbow Warrior.
|
||
|
||
RECKLESS KELLY Summer
|
||
Dir: Yahoo Serious
|
||
Cast: Yahoo Serious, Alexei Sayle, Hugo Weaving, Tracy Mann, Sophie
|
||
Heathcote
|
||
Producers: Yahoo Serious, Warwick Ross
|
||
Screenplay: Yahoo Serious
|
||
Start Date: 10/12/91, 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 ($7.9 million), and he is very popular Down Under,
|
||
that's why.
|
||
|
||
THE SAINT OF FORT WASHINGTON September
|
||
Rating: "R" for language
|
||
Dir: Tim Hunter
|
||
Cast: Matt Dillon, Danny Glover
|
||
Producers: David Picker, Nessa Hyams
|
||
Screenplay: Lyle Kessler
|
||
Start Date: 4/6/92, New York
|
||
Homeless people in New York. Delayed from a New York exclusive
|
||
opening on 1/15/93.
|
||
|
||
THE SECRET GARDEN May 28
|
||
Dir: Agnieska Holland
|
||
Cast: Maggie Smith, Kate Maberly, Heyden Prowse, Andrew Knott, Laura
|
||
Crossley
|
||
Exec Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs
|
||
Producer: Fred Roos, Tom Luddy
|
||
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's
|
||
novel
|
||
D.P.: Roger Deakins
|
||
Start Date: 6/22/92, England
|
||
Big-screen adaptation of the classic children's novel upon which the
|
||
hit Broadway musical was based is helmed by the director of the
|
||
acclaimed EUROPA, EUROPA. Ten-year-old British TV actresss Maberly
|
||
is the lead in this story where an angry young orphan girl is forced
|
||
to live with her recluse of an uncle in Yorkshire. She becomes
|
||
friendly with a boy and they discover a secret garden which they
|
||
revitalize. It in turn infuses their lives with happiness.
|
||
|
||
SGT. ROCK TBA
|
||
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
|
||
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger
|
||
Producer: Joel Silver
|
||
Screenplay: John Milius, David Peoples
|
||
Silver Pictures finally has packaged this long-in-development
|
||
property in an attractive (and expensive) fashion. Arnold and
|
||
Verhoeven teamed up for TOTAL RECALL.
|
||
|
||
THE SOLOMON ORGANIZATION Fall
|
||
Producer: Arnold Kopelson
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Tolkin, based on Andrew Neiderman's novel
|
||
Negative Cost: $30 million
|
||
A man enlists the aid of a mysterious group who help him in
|
||
regaining custody of his daughter after a divorce.
|
||
|
||
SOMMERSBY 2.35 (SRD) February 5
|
||
Dir: Jon Amiel
|
||
Cast: Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, James Earl Jones
|
||
Exec Producers: Richard Gere, Maggie Wilde
|
||
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Steve Reuther
|
||
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer, Sarah Kernochan
|
||
D.P.: Philippe Rousselot
|
||
Composer: Danny Elfman
|
||
Start Date: 4/13/92, Hot Springs Virginia
|
||
This period drama concerns a woman whose husband returns from the
|
||
Civil War as a much better person than when he left. She is led to
|
||
suspect he is an imposter. This is an updated version of THE RETURN
|
||
OF MARTIN GUERRE. Amiel directed the delightful QUEEN OF HEARTS and
|
||
THE SINGING DETECTIVE. Flirted with the title STRANGER WITHIN for a
|
||
while.
|
||
|
||
SPEED RACER TBA
|
||
Dir: Patrick Read Johnson
|
||
Cast: TBA
|
||
Producers: Joel Silver, Richard Donner, Lauren Shuler-Donner
|
||
Screenplay: J.F. Lawton, Patrick Read Johnson, John Lau
|
||
Big-screen adaptation of the Japanese cartoon series.
|
||
|
||
A STONE COLD WAR TBA
|
||
Producers: Doug McHenry, George Jackson
|
||
Screenplay: William Mosley-Payne
|
||
Start Date: 4/15/93
|
||
|
||
SUPERMAN: THE NEW MOVIE TBA
|
||
Producers: Ilya Salkind, Alexander Salkind
|
||
Screenplay: Cary Bates
|
||
Negative Cost: $40 million
|
||
Start Date: 2/93
|
||
If they can come to terms, the part belongs to Chris Reeve. Brainiac
|
||
is the foe in this installment. Supe must also decide if he wants to
|
||
marry Lois Lane.
|
||
|
||
THAT NIGHT Spring (limited)
|
||
Rating: "PG-13"
|
||
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 set on Long Island of 1961 views young love/lust
|
||
and unwed motherhood through the eyes of an adoring 12-year-old
|
||
neighbor. Film was released in Australia in November, 1992.
|
||
|
||
THIS BOY'S LIFE 2.35 April 9 (NY, LA)
|
||
Rating: "R" for strong language and strong sexuality April 23 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Michael Caton-Jones
|
||
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio
|
||
Exec Producers: Peter Guber, Jon Peters
|
||
Producer: Art Linson
|
||
Screenplay: Robert Getchell, based on Tobias Woolf's book
|
||
D.P.: David Watkin
|
||
Composer: Carter Burwell
|
||
Start Date: 2/23/92, Vancouver, Washington
|
||
Top-notch cast stars in this biographical story of Tobias Woolf's
|
||
travels with his mother in the 1950s and the relationship between his
|
||
mother and his stepfather. Caton-Jones directed MEMPHIS BELLE.
|
||
Delayed from a Christmas, 1992 opening.
|
||
|
||
TRIAL BY JURY TBA
|
||
Dir: Woody Gould
|
||
Screenplay: Jordan Katz, Woody Gould
|
||
Start Date: 10/93
|
||
A young New York single mother is on the jury in a Mafia trial. When
|
||
her young son's life is threatened by the mob, she is faced with the
|
||
dilemma of saving him by casting a vote which will free the obviously
|
||
guilty defendant. From Morgan Creek.
|
||
|
||
TRUE ROMANCE July 30
|
||
Dir: Tony Scott
|
||
Cast: Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Patricia
|
||
Arquette, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Samuel L.
|
||
Jackson, Chris Penn, Bronson Pinchot, Michael Rapaport, Saul Rubinek,
|
||
Conchata Ferrell
|
||
Producers: Bill Unger, Sammy Hadida, Steve Perry
|
||
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
|
||
Start Date: 9/15/92, Los Angeles, Detroit
|
||
Negative Cost: $23 million
|
||
Second script of Tarantino's to be produced (RESERVOIR DOGS is the
|
||
first) concerns itself with two young lovers who have a brush with the
|
||
Detroit Mafia, after which they flee for LA with a suitcase full of
|
||
contraband. They are pursued by the cops and the mobsters.
|
||
|
||
UNFORGIVEN 2.35 January 15
|
||
(limited)
|
||
Rating: "R" for language, and violence, and a scene of sexuality
|
||
February 19 (wide)
|
||
Dir: Clint Eastwood
|
||
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
|
||
Producer: Clint Eastwood
|
||
Screenplay: David Webb Peoples
|
||
D.P.: Jack N. Green
|
||
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
|
||
Start Date: 8/26/91, Alberta Canada
|
||
A re-issue of the acclaimed western to capitalize on the accolades
|
||
and push on for the Oscars. Originally opened 8/7/92.
|
||
|
||
THE WITCHING HOUR TBA
|
||
Dir: Richard Donner
|
||
Producer: Lauren Shuler-Donner
|
||
Screenplay: Mark Allen Smith, based on Anne Rice's novel
|
||
D.P.: Stephen Goldblatt
|
||
Start Date: 12/93, New Orleans, Seattle, Los Angeles
|
||
A beautiful neurosurgeon is a descendent of a powerful line of
|
||
witches. From Geffen Pictures.
|
||
|
||
WITH HONORS TBA
|
||
Dir: Alek Keshishian
|
||
Cast: Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly
|
||
Producer: Paula Weinstein
|
||
Screenplay: Israel Horovitz, Raphael Yglesias
|
||
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
|
||
Start Date: 2/25/93, Chicago
|
||
Pesci stars in this true story of Damon Payne, who was a homeless
|
||
man in Cambridge, Mass. He once went to Thanksgiving dinner at a
|
||
Harvard off-campus house and stayed for 15 years. He became a cook
|
||
and mascot for the residents. Fraser plays Monty, a Harvard College
|
||
student who befriends the title character and Kelly is his love
|
||
interest, Courtney. Fraser was ENCINO MAN and starred in SCHOOL
|
||
TIES. Kelly may be seen in CHAPLIN. Formerly titled DAMON.
|
||
|
||
WRESTLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY October
|
||
Dir: Randa Haines
|
||
Cast: Robert Duvall, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Harris, Piper Laurie,
|
||
Sandra Bullock
|
||
Producer: Joe Wizan, Todd Black
|
||
Screenplay: Stephen Conrad
|
||
D.P.: Lajos Koltai
|
||
Start Date: 12/1/92, Fort Lauderdale
|
||
Amusing story of two 75-year-old men who become friends and find
|
||
their lives enriched by the experience. MacLaine plays Harris'
|
||
landlady. Haines helmed THE DOCTOR and CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD.
|
||
|
||
WYATT EARP TBA
|
||
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Cast: Kevin Costner
|
||
Producers: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Kasdan
|
||
Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan, Dan Gordon
|
||
Start Date: 5/93
|
||
Kasdan and Costner work together for the third time, after THE BIG
|
||
CHILL and SILVERADO, in this project that was originally a six-hour TV
|
||
mini-series.
|
||
|
||
ZALTMAN TBA
|
||
Dir: Luc Besson
|
||
Negative Cost: $80-$100 million
|
||
A huge science fiction epic from the director of LA FEMME NIKITA.
|
||
Warner Brothers will put up 40% of the budget for domestic
|
||
distribution rights.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Zeta Entertainment
|
||
|
||
|
||
GUNCRAZY January 20 (limited)
|
||
Cast: Tamra Davis
|
||
Cast: Drew Barrymore, James LeGros
|
||
Screenplay: Matthew Bright
|
||
A bad girl and bad boy. Raves! Originally shown on cable's
|
||
Showtime service.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Release Timeline
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 8
|
||
|
||
CHAPLIN (TriStar) (wider)
|
||
DOUBLE THREAT (A.I.P.) (regional)
|
||
LEPRECHAUN (Trimark)
|
||
SCENT OF A WOMAN (Universal) (wide)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 13
|
||
|
||
MOTORAMA (Two Moon) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 15
|
||
|
||
ALIVE (Touchstone/Paramount) (SRD)
|
||
BODY OF EVIDENCE (MGM)
|
||
A CAPTIVE IN THE LAND (Gloria Prods.) (NY)
|
||
LORENZO'S OIL (Universal) (wide)
|
||
NOWHERE TO RUN (Columbia)
|
||
PETER'S FRIENDS (Samuel Goldwyn) (wide)
|
||
UNFORGIVEN (Warner) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 20
|
||
|
||
GUNCRAZY (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 22
|
||
|
||
ASPEN EXTREME (Disney)
|
||
DAMAGE (New Line) (wider)
|
||
HEXED (Columbia)
|
||
KNIGHT MOVES (Interstar)
|
||
THE OAK (MK2) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 27
|
||
|
||
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT (Disney) (Tucson, Rochester, Las Vegas)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
January 29
|
||
|
||
CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE (Miramax)
|
||
MATINEE (Universal) (SRD)
|
||
NEMESIS (Imperial Ent.) (regional)
|
||
PASSION FISH (Miramax) (wider)
|
||
SNIPER (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 3
|
||
|
||
THE CEMETERY CLUB (Disney) (limited)
|
||
HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (Disney) (limited)
|
||
VOLERE, VOLARE (New Line) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 5
|
||
|
||
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S LOADED WEAPON 1 (New Line)
|
||
RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER (Orion Classics) (limited)
|
||
SOMMERSBY (Warner) (SRD)
|
||
THE VANISHING (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 10
|
||
|
||
VOLERE, VOLARE (New Line) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 12
|
||
|
||
THE CEMETERY CLUB (Disney) (wide)
|
||
DEAD ALIVE (Trimark) (NY)
|
||
GROUNDHOG DAY (Columbia)
|
||
HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (Disney) (wide)
|
||
LOVE FIELD (Orion) (wide)
|
||
RIFF-RAFF (New Line) (NY)
|
||
STRICTLY BALLROOM (Miramax) (NY, LA)
|
||
THE TEMP (Paramount)
|
||
TRUSTING BEATRICE (Castle Hill) (limited)
|
||
UNTAMED HEART (MGM)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 17
|
||
|
||
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (Miramax) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 19
|
||
|
||
ARMY OF DARKNESS (Universal)
|
||
MAC (Samuel Goldwyn) (limited)
|
||
UNFORGIVEN (Warner) (wide)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 24
|
||
|
||
OLIVIER, OLIVIER (Sony Classics) (limited)
|
||
TITO & ME (Kino) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
February 26
|
||
|
||
THE ABYSS: SPECIAL EDITION (20th Fox) (NY, LA)
|
||
EL MARIACHI (Columbia) (NY, LA, San Diego, San Antonio,
|
||
Albuquerque)
|
||
FALLING DOWN (Warner) (wide)
|
||
FIFTY/FIFTY (Cannon) (limited)
|
||
THE LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS (New Line)
|
||
THE OPPOSITE SEX (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 3
|
||
|
||
MAC (Samuel Goldwyn) (wider)
|
||
TAIGA (New Yorker)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 5
|
||
|
||
AMOS & ANDREW (Columbia)
|
||
BEST OF THE BEST II (20th Fox)
|
||
DEAD ALIVE (Trimark) (LA)
|
||
EDDIE (New Line)
|
||
FALLING DOWN (Warner) (wider)
|
||
IL LADRO DI BAMBINI (Samuel Goldwyn) (limited)
|
||
LOVE YOUR MAMA (Hemdale) (limited)
|
||
MAD DOG AND GLORY (Universal)
|
||
RICH IN LOVE (MGM) (limited)
|
||
SHADOW OF THE WOLF (Triumph) (limited)
|
||
STRICTLY BALLROOM (Miramax) (wider)
|
||
SWING KIDS (Disney) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 12
|
||
|
||
A FAR OFF PLACE with TRAIL MIX-UPTRAIL MIX-UP (Disney)
|
||
CB4 (Universal)
|
||
ETHAN FROME (Miramax)
|
||
FIRE IN THE SKY (Paramount)
|
||
IL LADRO DI BAMBINI (Samuel Goldwyn) (wider)
|
||
THE LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS (New Line) (LA)
|
||
MASALA (Strand) (NY)
|
||
STREET KNIGHT (Cannon)
|
||
WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER (Strand)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 15
|
||
|
||
THE STOLEN CHILDREN (Samuel Goldwyn) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 17
|
||
|
||
RIFF-RAFF (New Line) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 19
|
||
|
||
HEAR NO EVIL (20th Fox)
|
||
LOVE YOUR MAMA (Hemdale) (wider)
|
||
POINT OF NO RETURN (Warner)
|
||
RICH IN LOVE (MGM) (wide)
|
||
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 26
|
||
|
||
BORN YESTERDAY (Disney)
|
||
EXCESSIVE FORCE (New Line)
|
||
MARRIED TO IT (Orion)
|
||
THE METEOR MAN (MGM)
|
||
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III (New Line) (wider)
|
||
WATCH IT (Skouras) (NY, LA, Chicago)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
March 31
|
||
|
||
TWO MIKES DON'T MAKE A RIGHT (October)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other March Releases
|
||
|
||
A CRY IN THE WILD 2 (Concorde)
|
||
DANGER SIGN (20th Fox)
|
||
FOR A LOST SOLDIER (Strand)
|
||
HALFAQUINE: CHILD OF THE TERRACES (Aries)
|
||
HYENAS (Triton) (NY)
|
||
THE LIAR'S CLUB (Concorde)
|
||
ROGER CORMAN'S DRACULA RISING (Concorde)
|
||
SINGAPORE SLING (Greycat)
|
||
THE STORY OF QIU JU (Sony Classics)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 1
|
||
|
||
BENNY & JOON (MGM)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 2
|
||
|
||
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Disney)
|
||
COP AND A HALF (Universal)
|
||
THE CRUSH (Warner)
|
||
JACK THE BEAR (20th Fox)
|
||
LEOLO (New Line) (NY)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 7
|
||
|
||
INDECENT PROPOSAL (Paramount)
|
||
LEOLO (New Line) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 9
|
||
|
||
BODIES, REST AND MOTION (New Line) (NY, LA)
|
||
THE SANDLOT (20th Fox)
|
||
THIS BOY'S LIFE (Warner) (NY, LA)
|
||
WILD WEST (Samuel Goldwyn) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 16
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN CYBORG (Cannon)
|
||
EXTREME JUSTICE (Trimark)
|
||
JIT (Northern Arts)
|
||
JOEY BREAKER (Skouras) (NY, LA)
|
||
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE IRT (Miramax) (NY)
|
||
MR. JONES (TriStar)
|
||
RUBY CAIRO (Miramax)
|
||
WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON (Trimark)
|
||
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA (New Line)
|
||
WILD WEST (Samuel Goldwyn) (wider)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 23
|
||
|
||
ALGONQUIN (Disney)
|
||
THE DARK HALF (Orion)
|
||
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (New Line/Fine Line) (LA)
|
||
THIS BOY'S LIFE (Warner) (wide)
|
||
WHO'S THE MAN (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
April 30
|
||
|
||
NIGHTMARE (Cannon)
|
||
THE PICKLE (Columbia) (limited)
|
||
SPLITTING HEIRS (Universal)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other April Releases
|
||
|
||
BOYS OF SUMMER (20th Fox)
|
||
MANIKA, MANIKA, THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE (Greycat)
|
||
NITRATE KISSES (Strand)
|
||
NO TELLING (Greycat)
|
||
PINK ULYSSES (Strand)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Spring Releases
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN FRIENDS (Castle Hill)
|
||
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT (Disney) (wide) (SRD)
|
||
DEADFALL (Trimark)
|
||
EQUINOX (IRS)
|
||
FIVE GIRLS (Castle Hill)
|
||
INNOCENT BLOOD (Concorde)
|
||
LA VIE DE BOHEME (Kino)
|
||
MELTDOWN (Hemdale)
|
||
THE MUSIC OF CHANCE (IRS)
|
||
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Troma)
|
||
THAT NIGHT (Warner)
|
||
WAITING (Aries)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 7
|
||
|
||
CALENDAR GIRL (Columbia)
|
||
DRAGON: A LIFE OF BRUCE LEE (Universal)
|
||
GOOD COP/BAD COP (Cannon)
|
||
INTO THE WEST (Miramax)
|
||
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Samuel Goldwyn) (limited)
|
||
POSSE (Gramercy)
|
||
THREE OF HEARTS (New Line) (NY, LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 14
|
||
|
||
LOST IN YONKERS (Columbia)
|
||
MIDNIGHT RIDE (Cannon)
|
||
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Samuel Goldwyn) (wider)
|
||
THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET (Miramax)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 21
|
||
|
||
HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX (20th Fox)
|
||
MADE IN AMERICA (Warner)
|
||
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS (SGE)
|
||
SLIVER (Paramount)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 26
|
||
|
||
MENACE II SOCIETY (New Line)
|
||
NO PLACE TO HIDE (Cannon)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
May 28
|
||
|
||
CLIFFHANGER (TriStar) 70mm (SDS)
|
||
ONCE UPON A FOREST (20th Fox)
|
||
THE SECRET GARDEN (Warner)
|
||
SUPER MARIO BROTHERS (Disney) (SRD)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other May Releases
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN HEART (Trimark)
|
||
CHILDREN OF NATURE (Northern Arts)
|
||
JACQUOT DE NANTES (Sony Classics)
|
||
MOJO FLATS (Hemdale)
|
||
SURE FIRE (Strand)
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 4
|
||
|
||
AMERICAN NINJA 5 (Cannon) (limited)
|
||
FOR LOVE OR MONEY (Universal)
|
||
RESCUE ME (Cannon)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 11
|
||
|
||
JURASSIC PARK (Universal) 70mm (DTS)
|
||
MUMMY LIVES (Cannon)
|
||
THUMBELINA (MGM)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 18
|
||
|
||
DENNIS THE MENACE (Warner)
|
||
THE LAST ACTION HERO (Columbia) 70mm (SDS)
|
||
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
June 25
|
||
|
||
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (TriStar)
|
||
UNTITLED PATRICK SWAYZE (Disney)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other June Releases
|
||
|
||
ORLANDO (Sony Classics)
|
||
UN COEUR EN HIVER (October)
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 2
|
||
|
||
THE FIRM (Paramount)
|
||
SURF NINJAS (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 9
|
||
|
||
GHOST IN THE MACHINE (20th Fox)
|
||
TINA: WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT (Disney)
|
||
UNDERCOVER BLUES (MGM)
|
||
WEEKEND AT BERNIES 2 (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 16
|
||
|
||
FREE WILLY (Warner)
|
||
HARD TARGET (Universal)
|
||
POETIC JUSTICE (Columbia)
|
||
THE THING CALLED LOVE (Paramount)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 23
|
||
|
||
THE CONEHEADS (Paramount)
|
||
DAVE (Warner)
|
||
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES (New Line)
|
||
HOCUS POCUS (Disney) (SRD)
|
||
IN THE LINE OF FIRE (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
July 30
|
||
|
||
KALIFORNIA (Gramercy)
|
||
MR. NANNY (New Line)
|
||
RISING SUN (20th Fox)
|
||
ROBOCOP 3 (Orion)
|
||
THE SON-IN-LAW (Disney)
|
||
TRUE ROMANCE (Warner)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other July Releases
|
||
|
||
THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Sony Classics)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 6
|
||
|
||
FATAL INSTINCT (MGM)
|
||
THE FUGITIVE (Warner)
|
||
HEART AND SOULS (Universal)
|
||
SO, I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 13
|
||
|
||
JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY (New Line)
|
||
LIFE WITH MIKEY (Disney)
|
||
NAKED IN NEW YORK (New Line) (NY)
|
||
NEEDFUL THINGS (Columbia)
|
||
ONLY THE STRONG (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 20
|
||
|
||
JUDGMENT NIGHT (Universal)
|
||
KING OF THE HILL (Gramercy)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 25
|
||
|
||
NAKED IN NEW YORK (New Line) (LA)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
August 27
|
||
|
||
SON OF THE PINK PANTHER (MGM)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other August Releases
|
||
|
||
THE CROW (Paramount)
|
||
JOSH AND S.A.M (Columbia)
|
||
THE REAL MCCOY (Universal)
|
||
ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS (20th Fox)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other Summer Releases
|
||
|
||
BEYOND INNOCENCE (Disney)
|
||
THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE (Warner)
|
||
MR. WONDERFUL (Warner)
|
||
THE POOL (Universal)
|
||
THE PROGRAM (Disney)
|
||
RECKLESS KELLY (Warner)
|
||
SISTER ACT II (Disney)
|
||
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (Disney)
|
||
STAKEOUT 2 (Disney)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 10
|
||
|
||
HARLEM (20th Fox)
|
||
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (New Line/Fine Line) (NY)
|
||
ROMEO IS BLEEDING (Gramercy)
|
||
RUDY (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 17
|
||
|
||
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Columbia)
|
||
MAN'S BEST FRIEND (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
September 24
|
||
|
||
BODILY HARM (Columbia)
|
||
DAZED AND CONFUSED (Gramercy)
|
||
SHORT CUTS (New Line/Fine Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other September Releases
|
||
|
||
|
||
BEING HUMAN (Warner)
|
||
FEARLESS (Warner)
|
||
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (Warner)
|
||
THE SAINT OF FORT WASHINGTON (Warner) (limited)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 8
|
||
|
||
THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO (New Line)
|
||
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 15
|
||
|
||
DREAM LOVER (Gramercy)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
October 22
|
||
|
||
PHILADELPHIA (TriStar)
|
||
WILDER NAPALM (TriStar)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other October Releases
|
||
|
||
THE GOOD SON (20th Fox)
|
||
LIGHTS OUT (Gramercy)
|
||
M. BUTTERFLY (Warner)
|
||
THE PIANO (Miramax)
|
||
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER (Paramount)
|
||
WRESTLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY (Warner)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 5
|
||
|
||
FLESH AND BONE (Paramount)
|
||
REMAINS OF THE DAY (Columbia)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
November 12
|
||
|
||
A HOME OF OUR OWN (Gramercy)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Other November Releases
|
||
|
||
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES (Paramount)
|
||
I'LL DO ANYTHING (Columbia)
|
||
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Disney)
|
||
THE NUTCRACKER (Warner)
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Disney)
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WE'RE BACK (Universal)
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Other Fall Releases
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BOPHA (Paramount)
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A BRONX TALE (Savoy)
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DEATH WISH V (Trimark)
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GILBERT GRAPE (Paramount)
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GOLDEN GATE (Samuel Goldwyn)
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GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION (Miramax)
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THE HOUR OF THE PIG (Miramax)
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JOEY COYLE (Disney)
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MOD EXPLOSION (Strand)
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MOTHER'S BOYS (Miramax)
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SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (MGM)
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SNAKE EYES (MGM)
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THE SOLOMON ORGANIZATION (Warner)
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STRIKING DISTANCE (Columbia)
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THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT PART III (MGM) 70mm
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December 17
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A DANGEROUS WOMAN (Gramercy)
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SCHINDLER'S LIST (Universal)
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Other December Releases
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THE ACCOMPANIST (Sony Classics)
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BEAUTY (Disney)
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BEETHOVEN 2 (Universal)
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BESSIE (MGM)
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THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (20th Fox)
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A DANGEROUS WOMAN (Gramercy)
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THE FLINTSTONES (Universal)
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FRANKENSTEIN (TriStar)
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GUARDING TESS (TriStar)
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HEAVEN AND EARTH (Warner)
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THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (Miramax)
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INTO THE WOODS (Columbia)
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MRS. DOUBTFIRE (20th Fox)
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THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN (MGM)
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THE PELICAN BRIEF (Warner)
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A PERFECT WORLD (Warner)
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RENAISSANCE MAN (Disney)
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SANTA CLAUSE (Disney)
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SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Disney)
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||
TERMINAL VELOCITY (Disney)
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WAYNE'S WORLD 2 (Paramount)
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Other 1993 Releases
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BLUE SKY (Orion)
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BODY SNATCHERS (Warner)
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CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU (Orion)
|
||
CHINA MOON (Orion)
|
||
CLIFFORD (Orion)
|
||
COP GIVES WAITRESS $2 MILLION TIP (TriStar)
|
||
DEADWOOD (MGM)
|
||
DR. PETIOT (Aries)
|
||
THE FAVOR (Orion)
|
||
HIDEAWAY (TriStar)
|
||
HIDEOUS MUTANT FREEKZ (20th Fox)
|
||
INCREDIBLE CRASH DUMMIES (New Line)
|
||
INTERSECTION (Paramount)
|
||
LOOK WHO'S TALKING 3 (TriStar)
|
||
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART (Miramax)
|
||
MARTHA AND I (Aries)
|
||
THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES (TriStar)
|
||
MUSTANG (Universal)
|
||
THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3 (Paramount)
|
||
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 7 (New Line)
|
||
OLD FRIENDS (TriStar)
|
||
PRET-A-PORTER (Miramax)
|
||
THE PRETENDER (20th Fox)
|
||
PRISON HEAT (Cannon)
|
||
PUPPET MASTER: THE MOVIE (Paramount)
|
||
REALITY BITES (TriStar)
|
||
RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT (20th Fox)
|
||
SHADES OF GRAY (MGM)
|
||
THE SHADOW (Universal)
|
||
SOLAR CRISIS (Trimark) (wide)
|
||
SONS (Pacific)
|
||
STEEPLECHASE (Disney)
|
||
SUNRISE IN HIS POCKET (Columbia)
|
||
SURE FIRE (Strand)
|
||
SWEET TOOTH (Columbia)
|
||
THERE GOES MY BABY (Orion)
|
||
WOLF (Columbia)
|
||
YO, ALICE (New Line)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
1994 Releases
|
||
|
||
BEVERLY HILLS COP III (Paramount)
|
||
CARTOONED (TriStar)
|
||
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (Paramount) 70mm
|
||
DIE HARD 3 (20th Fox) 70mm
|
||
THE ENDLESS SUMMER 2 (New Line) (limited)
|
||
THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY (TriStar)
|
||
G.I. JOE (Warner Brothers)
|
||
GODZILLA (TriStar)
|
||
INDIAN SUMMER (Warner)
|
||
JEFFERSON IN PARIS (Disney)
|
||
THE LION KING (Disney)
|
||
THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN (IRS)
|
||
MARY REILLY (TriStar)
|
||
THE NORTHMEN (Warner)
|
||
THE PAGEMASTER (20th Fox)
|
||
POCAHONTAS (Disney)
|
||
SPIDERMAN (TriStar) 70mm
|
||
STARGATE (TriStar)
|
||
STARWATCHER (Paramount)
|
||
TAKING LIBERTY (TriStar)
|
||
ZORRO (TriStar)
|
||
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