September 8, 2000

The movie was eventually loved by all, but now everybody wants to know what the DVD is gonna look like when it hits your shelves on November 28, 2000. Well, here are all the dirty details:

• an "extensive" deleted scenes section
• a gallery of production art (including some 150 images)
• the theatrical trailer
• interview footage with director Bryan Singer
• TV spots
• behind-the-scenes featurette
• anamorphic transfer
• dual DTS and Dolby 5.1 soundtracks
• easter eggs

September 8, 2000

The actress who is currently best known for appearing as the poster-girl for Cameron Crowe's upcoming film ALMOST FAMOUS (Kate Hudson), and for being the daughter of actors Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson (and let's not forget actor Kurt Russell as her stepdad) has apparently been chosen to play Spidey's girlfriend Mary Jane Watson opposite Tobey Maguire in the upcoming SPIDERMAN movie.
  

September 8, 2000

A decade after winning an Oscar for his role as Tommy in GOODFELLAS and plenty of "missed opportunities" since, respected actor Joe Pesci is headed towards the small screen...that's right, television! Pesci has signed to star in a TV pilot in which he will have a recurring role playing a mid-level mobster who acquires a comedy club as collateral for a debt. Pesci's character will be unfamiliar with the comedy club scene, and his on-the-job learning experiences will be mined for laughs. Director David Steinberg and writer-producer Tim O'Donnell are also attached to the show, and have just now begun pitching the project to prospective network buyers.

"I'm funny how? What the f__k is so funny about me!?!"
  

September 8, 2000

Directors Andy and Larry Wachowski are promising that the fight scenes in the next two Matrix movies are set to be more explosive and breathtaking than the sequences featured in the first. They have called on the stunt team to choreograph even more high kicking action, with fight co-ordinator Wu Ping already at the drawing board. Ping is currently overseeing another film in Hong Kong entitled BLACK MASK 2, but is already auditioning potential fight doubles and actors for the martial art scenes.
  

September 7, 2000

First, Katie Holmes removes her top for the upcoming Sam Raimi film called THE GIFT, and now actress Christina Ricci has joined the party, with her recent announcement regarding her first nude scene for the upcoming film PROZAC NATION. Christina also has a love scene with Johnny Depp in director Sally Potter's new film entitled THE MAN WHO CRIED, but playing a gypsy in the film, no nudity was required for that one.

But in PROZAC NATION, director Erik Skjoldbjaerg decided that a nude scene would show the character's complete emotional nakedness. In the movie, Ricci plays a girl who is clinically depressed and wants to kill herself every day. Naturally, Ricci called for a closed set on the day of her disrobing.
  

September 7, 2000

Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep will co-star in Spike Jonze's next film entitled ADAPTATION. The film is written by the same man who wrote BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, Charlie Kaufman, and is a black comedy about a fictionalised adaptation – hence the title – of "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean. According to Variety, Cage will take the role of an insecure and sexually frustrated screenwriter while Streep takes the role of Orlean herself. The current budget is set at $20-25 Million.
  

September 7, 2000

THE BARBER MOVIE is a script written by the Coen brothers, currently shooting in Los Angeles, with a probable release date sometime in 2001. The film stars Billy Bon Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, among many others, in a homage to film noir. Stax recently had the good fortune of reading the script, and said that it was "chock full of memorable characters, hilarious dialogue, and it maintained a consistent tone throughout despite some of the Coens' (at times needless) absurd plot tangents." Read his entire review here
  

September 7, 2000

I guess the word on the street is getting a little warmer for this film, as new pictures of Jim Carrey in his GRINCH outfit have been released on Premiere France's website. This is only one of the 10 pictures below. Click here to check them all out. The film is set for release on November 17, 2000.

September 7, 2000

Not online yet, two upcoming films plan to unveil their new trailers before two of this weekend's movie releases. The new BLAIR WITCH trailer will be attached to THE WAY OF THE GUN this coming Friday, while Rob Zombie's horror flick entitled HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES will see its trailer debut before Keanu Reeves' thriller THE WATCHER.
  

September 7, 2000

Universal and Amblin Entertainment announced on Tuesday that they are planning to re-release a spiffed-up version of Steven Spielberg's E.T. in March of 2002, complete with never-before-seen footage, computer-generated enhancements and a digitally remixed soundtrack. Spielberg said, "I also wanted to enhance that experience with advances in technology and some new footage. I want to thank Universal for giving us this opportunity to do it for the 20th anniversary."
  

September 5, 2000

CA was able to get their hands on the second teaser poster for the upcoming GRINCH movie. Here it is: 

September 5, 2000

According to screenwriter Allison Burnett (a man, believe it or not), Richard Gere "ruined" AUTUMN IN NEW YORK by chopping up his script as he saw fit. Burnett said, "Richard Gere, like most movie stars, is a narcissistic fool who destroys nearly every movie he touches. He has script approval, which gave him the power to bring in hack re-writers to dismantle Ryder's character and any of the scenes she appeared in without him. He was afraid she'd steal the movie from him. Movie stars are in control of the scripts. The lunatics have the keys to the asylum." Yipes!
 

September 4, 2000

A new film entitled THE REPLICANT will be released in early 2001 by Artisan Films. The film will star action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme as a serial killer. The story goes like so, "Two cops are after a serial killer (Van Damme) without much luck until they find a blood sample from which they create a fully grown clone of the guy. This clone has the mind of a child and can help them in the search for the guy, trouble is the clone's mind will quickly become an exact copy of the killer and could turn out to be as bad - or worse than the original." The director on board is Ringo Lam and the film co-stars Michael Rooker and Catherine Dent.
 

September 4, 2000

Actor Ryan Phillippe has been very open about his intentions to protect his new-born daughter Ava (with wife Reese Witherspoon) from the press, even if it means resorting to "physical violence" to do so. The great-looking young actor, soon to be seen in THE WAY OF THE GUN, said that he and the little lady intend to leave Hollywood as soon as their child reached school age because they want her to have a "normal childhood". The actor went on to say, "She didn't ask to be born to two actors, so the one thing I still cling to is that if anyone tries to invade my child's privacy, I will put up a fight. If I were to ask the paparazzi not to take a picture of her, and they do it anyway, I will take physical action."
   

September 4, 2000

We all knew that Lara Croft, the star of the upcoming film TOMB RAIDER, played by Angelina Jolie, would be smooth and sexy, but what about the car that she intends to drive? Well, apparently the filmmakers are going all out to make this one big sexy, shapely movie! Check out her sleek Aston-Martin below:

September 4, 2000

Another Marvel comic book is ready to hit the big screen and this time it's GHOST RIDER featuring the flaming skeleton biker from hell. Ironically, the actor being eyed for the role is Johnny Depp, who is currently filming another film entitled simply FROM HELL. Stephen Norrington and David Goyer are presently respectively slated as director and writer of the GHOST RIDER pic. The duo previously worked together on another movie based on the Marvel Comics character BLADE. Estimated budget at this time: $75Million