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1992-93 Theatrical Film Releases
Rev. 1.1 Copyright 1992 by Eric Carter CIS 76050,3563
1/22/92
Legend
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70mm = 70mm prints available
(SR) = Dolby Spectral Recording
(SRD) = Dolby Digital Sound
(SS) = Split-Surround
(CDS) = Cinema Digital Sound
1.33, 1.66, 1.85, 2.21, 2.35 = Aspect Ratios
Most Films shot with 65mm negative and 70mm 'scope blowups have aspect ratio
of 2.21
Release dates are *very* subject to change.
Aries Entertainment
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DR. PETIOT TBA
Dir: Christian de Chalong
Cast: Michel Serrault
This film is based on the true story of France's most notorious criminal.
Excellent macabre word. Opened in London October 25th.
THE STATION January 3 (NY)
Rating: None
Dir: Sergio Rubini
Cast: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Ennio Fantastichini
A romantic thriller about love in a train station when a shy stationmaster in
an Italian village encounters a glamorous heiress while waiting for the train
one evening. In Italian with English subtitles.
Avenue (Avenue is now out of distribution. They will announce deals for
------ these films shortly.)
AMERICAN HEART
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
Start Date: 8/13/91, Seattle
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.
THE PLAYER Spring
Dir: Robert Altman
Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Peter Gallagher, Whoopi Goldberg, Anjeclica
Huston, Scott Glenn, Marlee Matlin, Andie MacDowell, Julia Roberts, Susan
Sarandon, Lily Tomlin, Jeff Goldblum, Jack Lemmon
Producer: David Brown
Everyone in Hollywood has a cameo in this one.
Buena Vista (Disney)
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ADVENTURES OF THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE February 14
Disney recycles another animated film.
ALADDIN (Walt Disney) 1.85 70mm November
Dir: John Musker, Ron Clements
Producer: Don Ernst
Screenplay: John Musker, Ron Clements
Start Date: 3/15/91, Los Angeles
Disney goes to the era of the Flying Carpet with another big-budget animated
film. Once again Ashman and Menken provided music and tunes.
BLAME IT ON THE BELLBOY (Hollywood) February 28 (limited)
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Mark Herman
Cast: Dudley Moore, Patsy Kensit, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Andreas
Katsulas, Alson Steadman, Bronson Pinchot
Producers: Steve Abbott, Jenny Howarth
Screenplay: Mark Herman
A farce based on the tried and true gimmick of mistaken identity. The word
is good. Opens January 24th in the U.K.
BLOOD IN...BLOOD OUT (Hollywood) TBA
Dir: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Damian Chapa, E.J. Castillo, Roxann Biggs,
Tom Wilson, Karmin Murcelo, Victor Rivers, Jenny Gago, Carlos Carrasco,
Geoffrey Rivas, Danny Trejo, Victor Mohica, Noah Verduzco, Delroy Lindo, Tom
Towles, Cing Rhames
Producer: Taylor Hackford, Jerry Gershwin, Stratton Leopold
Screenplay: Jimmy Santiago, Jeremy Iacone
D.P.: Gabriel Beristain
Start Date: 5/6/91, Los Angeles, San Quentin
Epic production of the genesis of the Mexican-American "mafia".
BOMBAY TBA
Dir: Stephen Herek
Cast: Emilio Estevez
Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Screenplay: Steve Brill
Start Date: 1/31/92, Minnesota
An ex-hockey-playing attorney gets arrested on a DWI charge and must do
community service for his debt to society. He is given the task of coaching
a pee-wee hockey team of 10-to-13 year olds in this inspirational story.
Herek last helmed DON'T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER'S DEAD.
BORN YESTERDAY (Hollywood) TBA
Dir: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Nick Nolte, Don Johnson
Producer: Dino Conti
Screenplay: Douglas McGrath, based on Garson Kanin's play and film
Start Date: Spring '92
Griffith takes on the role that won an Oscar for Judy Holliday. Nolte has
Broderick Crawford's role and Johnson plays the part William Holden filled
in this remake of the Garson Kanin play/film. Mandoki directed WHITE PALACE.
CLOSE TO EDEN (Hollywood) Summer
Dir: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal
Producers: Howard Rosenman, Steve Golin
Screenplay: Robert J. Avrech
D.P.: Andrzej Bartowiak
Start Date: 9/23/91, New York
An action thriller set in New York's Hassidic community where a female
Goy (Irish, in this case) must infiltrate. Avrech co-wrote BODY DOUBLE. May
open in the Fall.
CONSENTING ADULTS (Hollywood) TBA
Dir: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Kevin Kline (tentative)
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Screenplay: Matthew Chapman
Start Date: 1/27/92
Negative Cost: $18 million
Pakula and Kline are to be reteamed for the first time since SOPHIE'S CHOICE
in this "erotic thriller".
THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (Hollywood) Fall
Dir: TBA
Cast: Eddie Murphy
Producer: Leonard Goldberg
Screenplay: Marty Kaplan
Start Date: 4/92, Washington D.C.
Yet another mistaken identity comedy (along with some drama) about a con man
who gets elected to Congress. Murphy gets $12 million.
ENCINO MAN (Hollywood) July 3
Dir: Les Mayfield
Cast: Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Richard Masur, Michael DeLuise,
Ellen Blain, Megan Ward, Mariette Hartley
Producer: Les Mayfield
Screenplay: Shaun Shepps, Dana Olsen
D.P.: Robert Brinkmann
Start Date: 12/5/91, Los Angeles
Two teenagers discover a frozen caveman in the backyard.
GONE FISHIN' Summer
Dir: Steve Herek
Cast: John Travolta
Producer: Debra Hill
Screenplay: Jeffrey Abrams, Jill Mazursky
Start Date: 12/91, Orlando
Comedy/adventure about two hen-pecked husbands. Shot at Disney-MGM Studios.
THE GUN IN BETTY LOU'S HANDBAG (Touchstone) late Summer
Dir: Alan Moyle
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, Alfre Woodard
Exec Producers: Ted Field, Robert W. Cort
Producer: Scott Kroopf
D.P.: Chuck Minsky
Start Date: 1/12/92, Mississippi
Negative Cost: $13 million
An Interscope pickup.
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE (Hollywood) 1.85 January 10
Rating: "R" For terror, violence, a scene of sexual molestation and for
language.
Dir: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca DeMornay, Matt McCoy. Ernie Hudson
Exec Producers: Ted Field, Robert W. Cort
Producer: David Madden
Screenplay: Amanda Silver
D.P.: Robert Elswit
Negative Cost: $11.7 million
This Hitchcockian thriller about a vengeful nanny is a pickup from
Interscope.
HONEY, I BLEW UP THE BABY Summer
Dir: Randall Kleiser
Cast: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, John Shea, Lloyd Bridges,
Amy O'Neill, Keri Russell, Ron Canada, Gregory Sierra, Linda Carlson, Julia
Sweeney, Leslie Neale
Producers: Dawn Steel, Edward S. Feldman
Screenplay: Thom Eberhardt
D.P.: John Hora
Start Date: 6/17/91, Los Angeles, Las Vegas
Sequel to the 1988 smash HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS. This time, the new baby
has been enlarged to gargantuan proportions and goes on a rampage of Vegas.
Formerly titled HONEY, I BLEW UP THE BABY.
THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY March 6
Cast: Jean Smart
KING OF THE JUNGLE 70mm Fall, 1993
Screenplay: Linda Woolverton
Disney's 32nd animated feature concerns the coming-of-age of a young lion.
Woolverton wrote the sensational BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
MEDICINE MAN (Hollywood) 2.35 70mm February 7
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: John McTiernan
Cast: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco
Exec Producer: Sean Connery
Producer: Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Tom Schulman
This film is on its third title. First we had THE STAND, followed by THE
LAST DAYS OF EDEN. Whatever they call it, this ecologically-themed romance
is set against the backdrop of the deepest Amazonian jungles, where the
principals have discovered a plant from which a cure for cancer may be found.
Prospects are bright. Schulman won an Oscar for DEAD POETS SOCIETY.
NEWSIES (Walt Disney) 2.35 70mm April 3
Dir: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Ele Keats, Max Casella,
Robert Duvall, Ann-Margaret, Marty Belafsky, Arvie Lowe, Aaron Lohr, Trey
Parker, Gabriel Darmon, Kevin Tighe
Producer: Michael Finnell
Screenplay: Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, David Fallon, Tom Rickman
Composer: Alan Menken and Jack Feldman
D.P.: Andrew Laszlo
Start Date: 4/15/91, Los Angeles
Musical set in a newspaper environment in the 1890's. Concerns
young striking newspaper workers. Famed hoofer Ortega choreographs, as well
as directing. Bale toplined sensationally in Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN.
Eight songs from Oscar winner Alan Mencken (THE LITTLE MERMAID). Score is by
J.A.C. Redford. Ann-Margret's first on-screen singing performance since TOMMY
in 1975. Has been described as "a cross between WEST SIDE STORY and OLIVER".
NOISES OFF (Touchstone) TBA
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Mark
Linn-Baker, Marilu Henner, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Nicolette Sheridan
Exec. Producers: Peter Bogdanovich, Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Frank Marshall
Screenplay: Marty Kaplan, based on Michael Frayn's play
D.P.: Timothy Suhrstedt
Start Date: 5/20/91, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $12 million
Stellar cast should amply serve the big-screen version of this
hilarious stage comedy. Title change is expected. Marshall got his showbiz
start as a location manager on Bogdanovich's 1968 directing debut TARGETS.
From Amblin' Entertainment.
PASSED AWAY (Hollywood) April 10
Dir: Charlie Peters
Cast: Bob Hoskins, William Petersen, Pamela Reed, Nancy Travis, Tim Curry,
Peter Riegert, Blair Brown
Producer: Larry Brezner
Screenplay: Charlie Peters
Start Date: 10/9/91, Pittsburgh
Drama about four estranged siblings who gather for their father's funeral.
PINOCCHIO 1.33 June
Another re-release for this Disney animated classic.
PRINCESS OF MARS (Hollywood) 2.35 70mm Summer, 1993
Dir: John McTiernan
Cast: Tom Cruise (tentative)
Producers: Michael Engelberg, Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Bob Gale
Start Date: 6/92
Huge, huge film based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic science fiction
story. Budget will likely be largest in Disney history. Mega-outlook.
SISTER ACT (Touchstone) Summer
Dir: Emile Ardolino
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Mary Wicks,
Bill Nunn, Wendy Makkena, Joe Maher, Richard Portnow, Jenifer Lewis, Charlotte
Crossley
Producer: Scott Rudin
Screenplay: Jim Cash, Jack Epps
D.P.: Adam Greenberg
Start Date: 9/20/91, Los Angeles, Reno, San Francisco
Whoopi Goldberg gets to sing. She plays the ex-girlfriend of a mobster who
is whisked into the witness protection program as a nun. In the convent she
leads the nun's choir to national fame and the limelight, where naturally, she
is vunerable to publicity and the wrath of her ex and his henchmen. Maggie
Smith plays the Mother Superior.....This script was originally written as a
vehicle for Bette Midler. Ardolino directed THREE MEN AND A LITTLE LADY.
STEEPLECHASE (Hollywood) Fall
Dir: Patrick Hasburgh
Cast: TBA
Producer: TBA
Screenplay: Patrick Hasburgh
Start Date: 2/92
Sexy ski instructor tries to make it in the real world in this comedy. Also
known as ASPEN.
STRAIGHT TALK (Hollywood) April 3
Dir: Barnet Kellman
Cast: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Teri Hatcher, John Sayles, Jay
Thomas, Michael Madsen, Spaulding Gray, Charles Fleischer, Deirdre O'Connell
Producer: Robert Chartoff, Fred Berner
Screenplay: Patricia Resnick, Craig Bolotin
D.P.: Peter Sova
Start Date: 7/29/91, Chicago
MURPHY BROWN director Kellman makes his feature debut with an intriguing
casting match-up. Parton is a small-town woman who accidentally becomes a
talk radio star (shrink) in the big city and captures the heart of the reporter
assigned to profile her.
SWING KIDS (Hollywood) December
Dir: Thomas Carter
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Barbara Hershey, Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale,
Frank Whaley
Exec Producers: Chris Meledandri, Frank Marshall
Producers: Mark Gordon, John Manulis
Screenplay: Jonathan Feldman
Start Date: 2/4/92, 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 DEAD
AGAIN, Leonard scored big in DEAD POETS SOCIETY, Bale also toplines Disney's
NEWSIES and Whaley is in Fox' BACK IN THE USSR.
THE ULTIMATUM (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Screenplay: Laurance Dworet, Robert Roy Poole, Jim Kouf
Thriller concerning political terrorism. Hurd produced ALIENS, TREMORS and
RAISING CAIN, among others.
WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT (Touchstone) Christmas 1993
Dir: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Voice of Charles Fleischer, TBA
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Nat Mauldin
This prequel to the 1988 smash hit WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT will tell us just
how Roger and the voluptuous Jessica got hooked up in the first place.
Cannon
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50/50 April 3
Cast: Peter Weller, Robert Hays
THE AMERICAN SAMURAI May (limited)
Cast: David Bradley
HUMAN SHIELD February 7 (limited)
Rating: "R" War violence.
Dir: Ted Post
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Tommy Hinkley
Producers: Christopher Pearce, Elie Cohn, Boaz Davidson
Start Date: 12/90, Israel
An action film about an ex-Marine who tries to rescue his younger brother
from terrorists in Iraq.
MIDNIGHT RIDE March 13
Dir:
Cast: M. Dudikoff, Mark Hamill
NO PLACE TO HIDE March 13 (limited)
Dir:
Cast: Kris Kristofferson
RESCUE ME April 24
Cast: M. Dudikoff, Dee Wallace Stone
TERMINAL BLISS February 28
Dir: Jordan Alan
Cast: Luke Perry
Rich East-Coast kids have lots of sex and drugs. Perry is one of the
stars of BEVERLY HILLS, 90210.
TO THE DEATH May (limited)
Cast: Brad Morris, Michel Qissi
Castle Hill
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OTHELLO February 21 (NY)
Dir: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles
New York's Cinema II gets the honor of first presenting the restored film
of Orson Welle's rendition of Shakespeare's Othello. Having been shown at the
Cannes Film Festival in 1952 and winning the Palm D'Or there, it then virtually
vanished from view. Welles shot this film over a period of four years during
which he took breaks to do other projects and earn financing for this pet dream
film. It actually was picked up for release by United Artists and opened on
9/12/55 at the Pathe Paris in Manhattan. (That house is now the Loew's Fine
Arts). Reviews were mixed and patrons were caught up in the frenzy of the
Cinemascope years. It quickly disappered from sight. The nitrate negative
was discovered in a New Jersey warehouse, where it was restored frame-by-frame
over a ten-month period. The faulty soundtrack was restored with a new
digital stereo surround track and the film is now back to the original 91
minute director's cut. Go see it.
SHAKING THE TREE January 24 (limited)
Dir: Duane Clark
Story of loyalty and friendship between four young men over a span of a
decade.
VOYAGER January 31
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa
An engineer afraid of emotion suffers the loss of an old friend to suicide.
On an ocean voyage to a European conference he meets a woman and starts a
relationship...then the voyage ends. A love triangle with fine credentials.
Opens at NY's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
Columbia
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE December
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
Start Date: 3/92, Upstate New York, Paris
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.
AMOS AND ANDREW 1993
Dir: E. Max Frye
Cast: TBA
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Screenplay: E. Max Frye
Start Date: 1/92
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA August 14
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost,
Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Richard E. Grant, Tom Waits
Exec Producers: Robert O'Connor, Michael Apted
Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Charles Mulvehill, Fred Fuchs
Screenplay: Jim Hart
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
Start Date: 10/14/91, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $40 million
A very visual production of the classic tale, filmed entirely on the lot at
Columbia Studios once HOOK vacated the premises. This will be based on the
original "Dracula" story, rather than the play or the Bela Lugosi film. There
are 60 sets and 175 special effects shots. All the effects will be done in
camera, rather than at with blue screens. Magicians, mirrors and trapdoors
will replace optical houses. Shot with Arriflex cameras. Right on the 70
day shooting schedule and on budget, thanks to Coppola's innovative electronic
gear that enables cast and crew to see storyboard, script, and completed
footage on multiple video monitors simultaneously. Word is that it may get
slapped with an NC-17 rating.
FALLING FROM GRACE February 21
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: John Mellencamp
Cast: John Mellencamp, Mariel Hemingway, Kay Lenz, Claude Akins
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry
D.P.: Victor Hammer
Start Date: 7/23/90, Seymour, IN
Rocker Mellencamp goes to the silver screen in this semi-autobiographical
drama about a musician trying to deal with his success while living in his
small, Midwestern hometown. Delayed to 1992 to coincide with his new album.
Formerly titled SOUVENIRS.
A FEW GOOD MEN (Castle Rock) December 23
Dir: Rob Reiner
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Keifer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon,
Kevin Pollack, James Marshall
Producers: David Brown, Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, based on his play
D.P. Robert Richardson
Start Date: 10/21/91, Los Angeles, Washington DC
Negative Cost: $40 million
Wow. The stage play comes to the big screen with very impressive
credentials. Nicholson works only 10 days for a whopping $500,000 per.
GLADIATOR March 6
Rating: "R" for violence and language
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: James Marshall, Cara Buono, Robert Loggia, Ossie Davis, Cuba
Gooding Sr., Brian Dennehy
Producer: Steve Roth
Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan, Lyle Kessler
D.P.: Tak Fujimoto
Start Date: 1/21/91, Chicago
Marshall of TWIN PEAKS fame plays a young, working-class boxer.
Herrington last directed ROAD HOUSE. Kazan wrote REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. Fiklm
was screened August 22 at the Culver Theatre in LA. It scored 85% in the top
two boxes. The target audiences (males and females under 21) scored 93% with a
definite recommend of 75%. Those are excellent figures.
GROUND HOG DAY February 1993
Dir: Harold Ramis
Cast: Bill Murray
Producer: Trevor Albert
Start Date: 2/92, Punxsatawney, PA
Murray is a disc jockey continually reliving one day in his life. But will
he see his shadow?
HARD PROMISES January 31
Rating: "PG" (NY, LA, Chicago,Indianapolis)
Dir: Martin Davidson
Cast: Sissy Spacek, William Petersen, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff
Perry, Rip Torn, Shirley Knight
Producer: Cindy Chvatal
Screenplay: Julie Selbo
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Start Date: 10/1/90, Austin, TX
Petersen's character returns to his old hometown in order to win back his
ex-wife (Spacek) who is about to get married once again. Lee Grant was
replaced in the director's chair.
HERO December 18
Dir: Stephen Frears
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Cady Huffman, Joan Cusack,
Susie Cusack
Producer: Laura Ziskin
Screenplay: David Peoples
D.P.: Oliver Stapleton
Start Date: 10/30/91, Chicago, Los Angeles
This tentatively-titled film is a comedy about heroism -- a conniving crook
who stumbles into it, a desperate stranger who steals it and a star TV reporter
who gets an even bigger story than she bargained for. Hoffman is the crook,
Davis is the reporter and Garcia is the stranger. Joan Cusack is Hoffman's
ex-wife, sister Susie is Hoffman's defense attorney. Frears directed THE
GRIFTERS and DANGEROUS LIAISONS. Peoples wrote BLADE RUNNER. The story is
by Laura Ziskin (PRETTY WOMAN, WHAT ABOUT BOB?), Alvin Sargent (ORDINARY PEOPLE,
JULIA) and David Peoples. Film score is by George Fenton (DANGEROUS LIAISONS,
THE FISHER KING). The production designer is Dennis Gassner (BARTON FINK,
BUGSY). Huffman may be seen in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES on Broadway.
HEXED Fall
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 dduring her stay at his hotel. Shot in a vacant
Hilton in Texas.
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS July 10
Dir: Andrew Bergman
Cast: James Caan, Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, Noriyuki (Pat) Morita,
Anne Bancroft, Peter Boyle, Seymour Cassel, Lainie Kazan
Producer: Mike Lobell
Screenplay: Andrew Bergman
D.P.: William A. Fraker
Start Date: 8/19/91, Las Vegas, New York, LA, Kauai
New York private detective overcomes his fear of commitment and flies to Las
Vegas to get married. Then thinks go awry.... Bergman wrote and directed
THE FRESHMAN. Kazan plays the role she has perfected...a Yenta.
HOUDINI 1993
Dir: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: TBA
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenplay: Peter Seaman, Jeffrey Price
Start Date: 1992
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. Stark calls Zemeckis "the most important young adult director
since John Huston. He has vast cinematic knowledge, but it is never more than
a background for his feelings toward humanity." Price wrote WHO FRAMED ROGER
RABBIT. The film is a Columbia-Universal co-production, and it has not been
announced as to who will release it domestically.
THE INNER CIRCLE December 25 (NY,LA,Toronto)
Rating: "PG-13" January 17 (wide)
Dir: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Tom Hulce, Lolita Davidovitch, Bob Hoskins
Producer: Claudio Bonivente, in association with Mosfilm
Screenplay: Andrei Konchalovsky, Anatoly Usov
D.P.: Ennio Guarnieri
Start Date: 8/20/90, Moscow
Reportedly the first major film to shoot inside the Kremlin walls,
this prestige project by expatriate Konchalovsky depicts Hulce as
Ivan Sanshin, who is thrust into Stalin's inner circle when he
becomes his personal projectionist. Formerly titled THE PROJECTIONIST. Film
runs 140 minutes.
INTO THE WOODS Christmas 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Exec. Producer: Brian Henson
Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Patrick Duncan Kenworthy
Screenplay: TBA
Start Date: late 1992
Zadan anticipates a $30 million budget on this big-screen adaptation of the
Tony-winning musical. It will be co-produced by Jim Henson Productions and
will feature live action mixed with Henson puppets. Stephen Sondheim and James
Lapine will consult on the production. Filming will be either in Los Angeles
or London.
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN July 1
Dir: Penny Marshall
Cast: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Tracy Reiser, Ann Cusack,
Megan Cavanagh, Rosie O'Donnell, Bitty Schram, Renee Coleman, Freddie Simpson,
Anne Elizabeth Ramsay, David Strathairn, Jon Lovitz, Garry K. Marshall
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Elliot Abbott
Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
D.P.: Miroslav Ondricek
Start Date: 7/10/91, Chicago, Evansville IN, Cooperstown NY
Negative Cost: $34 million
Hanks manages an all-female baseball team. But can Madonna handle a real
chaw? Geena Davis replaced Debra Winger who was unhappy with the "stunt
casting" of Ms. Ciccone. Marshall's last film was the highly-decorated
AWAKENINGS.
MACHINE GUN KELLY TBA
Dir: Marek Kanievska
Cast: William Baldwin
Producer: Sam Arkoff
Screenplay: Michael Werb, Anna Hamilton-Phelan
Start Date: 2/92, Texas, Kansas
Will the old producing master of B-movies move up a letter in the alphabet?
Baldwin last scored big in BACKDRAFT.
ME AND MONROE TBA
Dir: John Whitesell
Cast: Jason Priestley, Jay O'Connell
Exec Producers: Penny Marshall, Elliot Abbott
Producer: Debbie Robbins
Screenplay: Paul Shapiro
Start Date: 2/92, Los Angeles
The heartthrob from BEVERLY HILLS 90210 gets a feature starring role.
MIDKNIGHT 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: Michael Jackson
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson
Start Date: 1992
The Gloved One focuses on another aspect of his multi-media Sony MegaDeal.
This was to be exec produced and designed by the late Anton Furst.
MO' MONEY June 5
Dir: Peter Macdonald
Cast: Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl, Harry
J. Lennix
Producer: Michael Rachmil
Screenplay: Damon Wayans
D.P.: Don Burgess
Start Date: 7/8/91, Chicago
Negative Cost: $14.5 million
If that title sounds familiar, then you must watch "In Living Color". One
of the Wayans brothers has extended the concepts of the skits into a
feature-length script. A con man working in a credit card company mail room
decides to go straight after falling in love. First he must foil a scam
already set into motion by some gangsters. "A film about a man who shoulda'
left home without it".
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT (Castle Rock) October 2
Dir: Billy Crystal
Cast: Billy Crystal, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Helen Hunt, Mary Mara
Producer: Billy Crystal
Screenplay: Lowell Hanz, Babaloo Mandel
D.P.: Don Peterman
Start Date: 11/7/91, Los Angeles, New York
Billy makes his directorial debut directing himself. New Line International
handles the foreign markets. This film has been having labor problems with the
screen extras.
MY GIRL SEQUEL Fall 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: Anna Chlumsky
A sequel has already been green-lighted by Columbia and Imagine.
NEEDFUL THINGS (Castle Rock) 1993
Dir: Peter Yates
Screenplay: W.D. Richter, based on Stephen King's novel
Start Date: Fall '92, Maine
OCTOBER SURPRISE 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Jon Peters
Screenplay: TBA, based on Gary Sick's book "October Surprise: America's
Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan"
Start Date: 1992
Peters Entertainment and Columbia acquired the rights to this book that
concerns the theory that the Reagan-Bush campaign and William Casey made a
secret deal with representatives of Iran in the final weeks of the 1980
presidential campaign to delay the release of U.S. hostages in Teheran until
after the election. The promise of arms in trade and improved relations were
the alleged booty. Columbia sees this project as having the scope and epic
quality of ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN.
THE PICKLE September 11
Dir: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Danny Aiello, Shelley Winters, Dyan Cannon, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn,
Ally Sheedy, Barry Miller, Griffin Dunne, Little Richard, Paul Mazursky
Producer: Paul Mazursky
Screenplay: Paul Mazursky
Start Date: 9/23/91, New York, Los Angeles
Aiello plays a director in the midst of previewing his new film. Is this
autobiographical?
POETIC JUSTICE Fall
Dir: John Singleton
Second film from the acclaimed young director of BOYZ 'N THE HOOD.
RADIO FLYER 2.35 70mm February 14
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Richard Donner
Cast: Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Adam Baldwin,
Rhea Perlman
Producers: Lauren Schuler-Donner, Richard Donner
Exec Producers: Michael Douglas, Rick Bieber, David Mickey Evans
Screenplay: David Mickey Evans
D.P.: Laszlo Kovacs
Start Date: 6/18/90, halted 6/25/90, resumed 10/3/90, L.A., Novato, Sonora, CA.
Negative Cost: $31 million.
Infamous production from first-time scripter Evans, whose initial
deal included big bucks and directing chores. Production shuttered
after it became apparent he couldn't direct. Rosanna Arquette was
paid off on her play-or-pay contract. Donner brought in...rewrites
done. Evans gets an exec producer credit. This story is of two brothers who
build a kind of flying machine to escape their abusive lives. Now we'll see
if a red wagon can fly! Visual flying effects from Zoran Perisic's
Oscar-winning Zoptic system used so effectively in SUPERMAN. Additional
Visual Effects from Apogee Productions. From Stonebridge Entertainment.
Postponed from July 12 due to being behind schedule. Promotional partners
Dairy Queen and Kraft Marshmallows were very upset. Columbia reimbursed DQ
some $2 million for expenses on the aborted promotion. Original $15 million
budget shot to hell. After languishing with a "Fall" release date, Columbia
has decided on President's Day weekend 1992. Yet another ending has been
shot for this project (making about 19!) in the winter. Advanced word is
excellent. Word is that there may not be any 70mm blowups after all.
REMAINS OF THE DAY Christmas (limited)
Dir: Mike Nichols
Cast: Jeremy Irons
Exec Producers: Peter Gubers, Jon Peters
Screenplay: Harold Pinter, based on Kazuo Isigiro's novel
Story concersn an English butler.
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE August 7
Dir: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven R. Weber, Peter Friedman,
Stephen Tobolowsky, Michele Farr, Tara Karsian, Christina Capetillo, Johnny
Dapolito
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Screenplay: Don Roos, based on John Lutz' novel "Single White Female Seeks the
Same"
D.P.: Luciano Tovoli
Start Date: 7/8/91, Los Angeles, New York
Negative Cost: $15.8 million.
After the triumph of REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, Schroeder tackles even more risque
material. Fonda is Allie, an ambitious businesswoman who discovers her
boyfriend Sam (Weber) has been two-timing her. After kicking him out, she
advertises for a roommate, and Hedy (Leigh) moves in. Her boyfriend eventually
moves back in and a deadly triangle develops.
STEPHEN KING'S SLEEPWALKERS April 10
Dir: Mick Garris
Cast: Alice Krige, Brian Krause, Madchen Amick, Ron Perlman, Jim Haynie, Lyman
Ward, Cindy Pickett, Dan Martin, Glenn Shadix
Producers: Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Nabeel Zahid
Screenplay: Stephen King
Start Date: 6/24/91
Negative Cost: $15 million
This supernatural horror flick wrapped production on 9/4/91 and features
visual effects from John Dykstra's Apogee Productions. Creature effects are
from Tony Gardner's Alterian Studios. Music is by Nicholas Pike.
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 adaptation
of the forthcoming U. of Oklahoma Press book.
THREE RIVERS 1993
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: Bruce Willis
Screenplay: Rowdy Herrington
Start Date: Spring '92
Negative Cost: $30+ million
The biggest suspense with this long-in-the-works action film is how much is
Columbia paying 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 will Willis take, if any? Columbia
reportedly wants to pay *only* $10 million....
UNDER SUSPICION 2.35 February 28
Rating: "R" for areas of strong violence and sensuality, and for language.
Dir: Simon Moore
Cast: Patrick Bergin, Laura San Giacomo
Producer: Brian Eastman
Screenplay: Simon Moore
Start Date: 2/18/91, London
This story is set in London of the late 30's. An amoral divorce
detective, whose wife helps him establish fake adultery cases, turns
out to be the chief suspect when his wife is slain. Bergin
(MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON) was last seen as the nutso husband in
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. San Giacomo (SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE) was
Holly Hunter's sister in ONCE AROUND. Formerly titled THE OTHER WOMAN. Opened
in London in September to very positive notices.
A VERY GOOD YEAR (Castle Rock) May 8
Dir: Peter Yates
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Timothy Daly, Louis Jourdan, Art Malik, Robert
Hardy, Julia McCarthy, Timothy Bentinck, Ian McNeice, Arturo Venegas, Chapman
Roberts, Nick Brimble, Andrew Robertson, Shane Rimmer, David Bamber, Martin
Benson
Producer: Nigel Wooll
Screenplay: William Goldman
D.P.: Roger Pratt
Start Date: 5/27/91, Scotland, England, France
Formerly titled YEAR OF THE COMET, it's a comedy-adventure in Europe about a
search for eternal youth and the world's rarest bottle of wine. Yates gave
us such features as BULLITT, THE DEEP and, dare I say it, KRULL. Score is from
Oscar-winner John Barry.
WOLF 1993
Dir: Mike Nichols
Cast: Jack Nicholson
Producer: Doug Wick
Screenplay: Jim Harrison
Concorde
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BLOODFIST 3 January 3 (Detroit)
CABEZA DE BACA February (NY)
IN THE HEAT OF PASSION January 24 (NY,Atlanta)
Cast: Sally Kirkland
Four Square Prods.
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KILLER TOMATOES EAT FRANCE Spring
Dir: John DeBello
Cast: John Astin, Marc Price, Angela Visser
A fourth Killer Tomatoes film, this time shot on location in Paris and
environs.
Greycat Films
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THE BACHELOR April (NY, LA)
Cast: Keith Carradine, Miranda Richardson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Max von Sydow
Producer: Mario Orfini
Carradine plays a man of privilege who can't decide what to do with his life.
Richardson plays a dual role in this Italian film.
THE COLOR OF LOVE
Dir: Melissa Pearson
Screenplay: Melissa Pearson
Film is described as a less angry variant of JUNGLE FEVER. It is frlm the
point of view of a white woman.
DINGO March (Portland, NY, LA)
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
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
Dir: Kurt Voss
LIFE IN THE LAFF LANE
Road movie about three stand-up comics.
RESIDENT ALIEN March
Dir: Jonathan Nossiter
Cast: Quentin Crisp, John Hurt, Sting, Holly Woodlawn, Fran Leibowitz
Documentary about Quentin Crisp. This had test engagements last year in New
York and Atlanta.
WHERE SLEEPING DOGS LIE
Dir: Charles Finch
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Sharon Stone
Producer: Charles Finch
Screenplay: Charles Finch
Psychological thriller from the son of the late Peter Finch.
Hemdale
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BEAUTIFUL DREAMERS January 31 (NY, LA)
Rating: "PG-13" February (wider)
Dir: John Kent Harrison
Cast: Rip Torn
Producers: Michael MacLear, Martin Walter
Screenplay: John Kent Harrison
Torn is Walt Whitman in this drama exploring his relationship with Dr.
Maurice Backe of the London, Ontario insane asylum and their effect on the
inmates. One week LA engagement in December is to Oscar-qualify. Opens in
five additional markets in February.
BED AND BREAKFAST February 14 (N.Eng.)
Cast: Roger Moore, Talia Shire
BREAKFAST OF ALIENS (Coyote Releasing) April 1
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) March 20
Dir: Tony Palmer
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Karen Black, Geraldine Chaplin, Britt Ekland,
Joe Don Baker
Screenplay: Timberlake Wertenbacker
Edith Wharton's story of a middle-aged bachelor who becomes the guardian of a
group of kids.
COLD HEAVEN February 28
Rating: "R" for language and sensuality
Dir: Nicholas Roeg
Cast: Theresa Russell, Talia Shire, Mark Harmon
Psychological thriller. Ms. Russell is Mr. Roeg's Mrs. $5 million P&A
budget.
COLLISION COURSE TBA
Cast: Jay Leno, Pat Morita
COMPLEX WORLD February 14 (Boston)
Dir: James Wolpaw
Cast: Stanley Matis
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.
HIGHWAY TO HELL Spring
Dir: Ate de Jong
Cast: Patrick Bergin, Chad Loew, Kristy Swanson, Richard Farnsworth
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
Negative Cost: $10 million
This science fiction comedy is an warped update of the legend of Orpheus and
Eurydice. From the director of DROP DEAD FRED. P&A budget is $5 million.
THE LEGEND OF WOLF MOUNTAIN (Coyote Releasing) March 13
Dir: Craig Clyde (Salt Lake City, Denver)
Cast: Bo Hopkins, Robert Z'Dar, David Shark, Don Shanks, Nicole Lund, Natalie
Lund, Vivian Schilling, Mickey Rooney
Producer: Bryce Fillmore
Screenplay: Craig Clyde
Negative Cost: $1 million
Family film set in Northern Utah. Test opening will be supported by
saturation advertising ala' the defunct Sunn Classics.
LITTLE NEMO May 22
Voices: Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, June Foray
Screenplay: Chris Columbus, screen concept by Ray Bradbury
Negative Cost: $30+ million
Animated family film about the land of dreams and nightmares is set to open
in 1000 theatres. Produced by Tokyo's TMS for the American market. Features
songs sung by Melissa Manchester. Prints and advertising expenditures will
top $10 million.
LOVE AND MURDER
Rating: "R" Language.
OUTBACK March 13
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergena, Steven Vidler
Negative Cost: $3.5 million
This period adventure is naturally situated in Australia. The film will be
tested in Salt Lake City and Denver.
PRIMARY MOTIVE
Dir: Daniels Adams
Cast: Judd Nelson, John Savage, Sally Kirkland, Jose Ferrer
Producer: Tom Gruenberg
Screenplay: Daniel Adams, William Snowden
D.P.: John Drake
Start Date: 4/22/91, Luxembourg, Boston
REEFER AND THE MODEL
Dir: Joe Comerford
SEVEN MINUTES March 20 (NY,LA)
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
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Roger Scholes
IMAX
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AT THE MAX 70mm IMAX January 10, '92 (Seattle)
March (Charlotte)
Dir: Julien Temple, Roman Kroitor, David Douglas, Noel Archambault
Cast: The Rolling Stones
Exec. Producers: Michael Cohl, Andre' Picard
Negative Cost: $10 million
The concert film of the Stones' Steel Wheels and Urban Jungles
tours from 1990 in the 70mm large-frame IMAX format. The 89 minute film is the
first feature in the format. It will open at some of the domestic IMAX
and OMNIMAX screens. The suggested ticket price will be $12 - $15. There
are 74 permanent IMAX and OMNIMAX theatres in the world. Apparently IMAX is
having great difficulty getting the theatres to book this film since a lot
of them are associated with educational and research institutions and they
feel a Stones concert film would not be appropriate.
Interstar
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EASTERN GUNS
An Arizona western.
EYE OF THE WIDOW
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross
LITTLE SISTER
A MIDNIGHT CLEAR March 6 (limited)
Dir: Keith Gordon March 13 (wide)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kevin Dillon, Frank Whaley
Screenplay: Keith Gordon, based on William Wharton's novel
Members of a high-IQ Army WWII thinktank get a taste of real combat when
they're confronted by a group of German soldiers in a remote location. Gordon
directed THE CHOCOLATE WAR and starred in CHRISTINE. Hawke last starred in
MYSTERY DATE and WHITE FANG.
A NEW WORLD
Cast: Kevin Kline, Isabella Rosellini
A biography of composer Anton Dvorak.
SPLIT SECOND April
Cast: Rutger Hauer
Due for a title change.
A STAR FOR TWO
Cast: Lauren Bacall
IRS Media
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GAS FOOD LODGING Spring
Cast: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye
ME, MYSELF AND I
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.
MY NEW GUN TBA
Dir: Stacy Cochran
Cast: Diane Lane, James Le Gors, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bill Raymond,
Bruce Altman, Maddy Corman
Producer: Michael Flynn
Screenplay: Stacy Cochran
D.P.: Ed Lachman
Start Date: 9/91, Teaneck NJ
Housewife finds herself the reluctant owner of a gift from her husband....a
handgun. Harper replaced Peggy Lipton in the cast.
ONE FALSE MOVE Spring
Cast: Bill Paxton
RAGE AND HONOR TBA
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
RUBIN & ED Spring
Dir: Trent Harris
Cast: Crispin Glover
SHAKES THE CLOWN February 28
(NY, LA, SF, Boston)
MGM
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THE BABOON HEART TBA
Dir: Tony Bill
Cast: Brad Pitt
Screenplay: Tom Sierchio
Start Date: 3/1/92
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. Annabella
Sciorra is said to be the leading candidate.
CRISS CROSS 1.85 March 6
Rating: "R" for language and drug-related scenes, and for brief but strong
sensuality.
Dir: Chris Menges
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, Keith Carradine
Hawn is a single mom living in Key West circa 1969. Her husband is a
frazzled Vietnam vet. She works as a stripper, her son deals drugs. Anything
to make ends meet.... Menges directed A WORLD APART. Title changed back to
original from ALONE TOGETHER. Delayed from November 8, 1991 release.
THE CUTTING EDGE March 20
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Paul Michael Glaser
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Terry O'Quinn
Producers: Robert Cort, Cynthia Sherman, Dean O'Brien
Screenplay: Tony Gilroy
D.P.: Elliot Davis
Start Date: 4/8/91, Toronto
A film set against the 1992 Olympic figure skating competition. Female
figure skater's partner is injured. Hockey player is recruited to replace
him. War of the Sexes. A pickup from Interscope.
DEAD WOOD 1993
Dir: TBA
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Pete Dexter
Start Date: 1992, South Dakota
Story is about the final days of Wild Bill Hickok. Dexter wrote the
acclaimed PARIS TROUT and RUSH.
DIGGSTOWN May
Dir: Michael Ritchie
Cast: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Oliver Platt, Heather Graham, Bruce Dern
Producer: Robert Schaffel
Screenplay: Steven McKay
D.P.: Gerry Fisher
Start Date: 10/11/91, Montanta, Sacramento, Los Angeles
OF MICE AND MEN May
Dir: Gary Sinise
Cast: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise
Prodicers: Russ Smith, Gary Sinise
Screenplay: Horton Foote
Start Date: 9/16/91, Los Angeles, Northern California
New film version of the classic Steinbeck play by the folks who should be
able to do it right.
ONCE UPON A CRIME March 20
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Eugene Levy
Cast: John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepard, Sean Young, Ornella Muti,
Richard Lewis, Giancarlo Giannini, Joe Flaherty
Producer: Dino DeLaurentiis
Screenplay: Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers, based on 1960 film CRIMEN (...AND
SUDDENLY IT'S MURDER), written by Rodolfo Sonego, Giorgio Arlorio, Stefano
Strucchi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Oreste Biancoli
D.P.: Giuseppe Rotunno
Start Date: 2/20/91, Rome, Monte Carlo
Comic caper set in Monte Carlo follows the exploits of a group who all end up
as suspects for the murder of an eccentric millionaire. This is Levy's feature
directorial debut after years of SCTV infamy. Formerly titled CRIMINALS.
RICH IN LOVE May
Dir: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Albert Finney, Piper Laurie, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, Kyle MacLachlan,
Kathryn Erbe, Ethan Hawke, Alfre Woodard
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on Josephine Humphrey's novel
Start Date: 9/8/91, Charleston SC
Negative Cost: $14 million
A young girl struggles to find her identity. Reunion of the creative team
behind DRIVING MISS DAISY.
RUSH 1.85 January 10 (wide)
Rating: "R" for graphic drug use and sensuality, language and violence
Dir: Lili Fini Zanuck
Cast: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott
Screenplay: Based on Kim Wozencraft's autobiographical novel
Leigh is a cocaine-addicted undercover narc. This is Ms. Zanuck's directorial
debut. She won an Oscar for co-producing DRIVING MISS DAISY. Post-production
is at Skywalker Sound. Musical score is by Eric Clapton.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION TBA
Dir: Fred Schepisi
The great John Guare play is brought to the big screen by the director of THE
RUSSIA HOUSE and A CRY IN THE DARK.
UNTITLED JAMES BOND TBA
Cast: Timothy Dalton
This one will reportedly be shot in China.
THE VAGRANT April
Dir: Chris Walas
Cast: Marshall Bell, Bill Paxton, Michael Ironside, Mitzi Kapture, Colleen
Camp, Stuart Pankin, Patrika Darbo, Teddy Wilson, Mark McClure, Derek Loughran
Producer: Gillian Richardson Walas
Screenplay: Richard Jefferies
D.P.: Jack Wallner
Start Date: 3/18/91, Phoenix
Contemporary black comedy about a homeless man who terrorizes the new owner
of a house he formerly occupied. Walas won an Oscar for his special effects
work on THE FLY. He directed THE FLY II.
Miramax
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AMERICAN DREAM March (Austin, MN)
Dir: Barbara Kopell
Oscar-winning documentary concerning the labor dispute at a Hormel meat
factory has been acquired by Miramax. It was filmed in Austin, Minn. Ms.
Kopell was responsible for HARLAN COUNTY, USA.
BABY BLOOD TBA
Dir: Alain Robak
CHILDREN OF THE CORN II (Dimension) TBA
DELICATESSEN early March
Comes with great word from London.
DR. OFF (Dimension Pictures) TBA
A black man is a teacher by day....a superhero by night.
DUST DEVIL (Dimension Pictures) TBA
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: 1/92, Los Angeles
ENCHANTED APRIL April
Dir: Mike Newell
Cast: Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker,
Alfred Molina, Michael Kitchen, Jim Broadbent
Producer: Ann Scott
Screenplay: Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel
BBC-produced comedy about four women who rent a castle in Italy to escape
their troubled lives in London. Film opens the London Film Festival on
November 6th. Newell directed DANCE WITH A STRANGER. Word is mixed.
ERASERHEAD (SR) April
Dir: David Lynch
Cast: John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeannes Bates, Judith Anna
Roberts, Laurel Near, V. Phipps-Wilson
Producer: David Lynch
Screenplay: David Lynch
Re-issue of Lynch's cult fave first film with new Dolby SR stereo
soundtrack. First public showing was at New York's stunning new Walter Reade
Theatre in December 1991.
HEAR MY SONG January 17 (SF)
Rating: "R" for language and a scene of sensuality January 19 (NY)
Dir: Peter Chelsom
Cast: Ned Beatty, David McCallum, Tara Fitzgerald, Shirley Anne Field, Adrian
Dunbar, William Hootkins
Producer: Allison Owen-Allen
Screenplay: Peter Chelsom, Adrian Dunbar
D.P.: Sue Gibson
A magical British film that combines comedy and music, HEAR MY SONG is the
story of a young man who has troubles with love and truth. He enlists the aid
of legendary Irish tenor and fugitive Joseph Locke to solve his difficulties.
The film weaves truth and fiction in a unique way and culminates in a triumphant
reconciliation. Screened at the Toronto and Boston Film Festivals. Whimsical
film is a crowd pleaser.
HELLRAISER III (Dimension Pictures) Summer
Rating: "R"
This pickup opens on 500 screens nationwide as the premiere attraction of
Miramax' new Dimension Pictures genre banner.
HIGH ART TBA
Rating: "R" for strong graphic violence, and for language and sensuality.
INTO THE WEST TBA
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.
JOHNNY SUEDE March
Dir: Tom DiCillo
Cast: Brad Pitt, Catherin Kenner, Calvin Levels
Producers: Yoram Mandel, Ruth Waldburger
Screenplay: Tom DiCillo
Mildly talented musician discovers his suede shoes, forms a band, sings
rock-a-billy and becomes a superstar in this comic fable. Pitt scored as the
charming thief in THELMA AND LOUISE.
KAFKA (SR) January 17 (LA, SF)
Rating: "PG-13" January 24 (NY)
Dir: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Alec Guinness, Armin Muller Stahl, Jeroen
Krabbe, Joel Grey
Producer: Paul Rassum
Screenplay: Lem Dobbs
Composer: Cliff Martinez
Negative Cost: $12 million
Fictionalized thriller about writer Franz Kafka as he becomes involved with
the investigation of the disappearance of one of his colleagues
at the insurance company at which he works. This is the second feature for
the hot director of "sex, lies and videotape". Shot on location in Prague,
Czechoslovakia. Played for one week only in December in New York and LA
to qualify for the Oscars.
K-2 February 21
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: Frank Roddam
Cast: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Raymond Barry
Producers: Jonathan Taplin, Marilyn Weiner
Screenplay: Scott Roberts, Patrick Meyers
Based on the play of the same title, K-2 is a character-driven
action-adventure about two American friends attempting to ascend the second
highest peak in the world, which is also the most difficult. Opened in London
in November to mixed notices at best.
LOVE CRIMES January 24
Rating: "R" for strong sensuality and language
Dir: Lizzie Borden
Cast: Sean Young, Patrick Bergin
Producers: Lizzie Borden, Rudy Langlais
Screenplay: Allan Moyle
Start Date: 7/15/90, Atlanta, Savannah GA
Erotic thriller about a female attorney's hunt for a man accused of
committing sex crimes while posing as a well-known fashion photographer.
Borden directed WORKING GIRLS and Moyle wrote PUMP UP THE VOLUME.
THE MAGIC RIDDLE TBA
Another family film from Miramax.
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART Summer
Dir: Vincent Ward
Cast: Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Anne Parillaud, Clothilde Coureau
Producer: Tim Bevan
Screenplay: Vincent Ward, Louis Nowra
The epic tale of a love affair torn apart by world at war. When two young
children meet at an orphanage, they forge an extraordinary romance that spans
three decades. Parrillaud was LA FEMME NIKITA, Bergin last starred in SLEEPING
WITH THE ENEMY and the Fox version of ROBIN HOOD. Ward directed THE NAVIGATOR.
MEDITERRANEO May
Dir: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio
Producers: Gianni Minervini, Mario & Vittorio Ceccho Gori
Screenplay: Vincenzo Monteleone
While stranded on a Greek Island during WWII, eight Italian soldiers find a
home among the men, women and children living there with a Mediterranean
culture similar to their own. Three years pass before a pilot delivers the
news that the enemy has become their ally, leaving the men with a waiting
period of trepidation, fear and outrageous expectation before returning to
Italy.
MERCI LA VIE May
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.
RAMPAGE Spring
Dir: William Friedkin
Cast: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell, Billy Green Bush
Producers: William Friedkin, David Salven
Screenplay: William Friedkin
This 1986 film depicts a deputy D.A. (Biehn) trying to get the death penalty
for a deranged murderer (McArthur), even though capital punishment is abhorrent
to him.
ROMEO IS BLEEDING TBA
Dir: Peter Medak
Cast: Madonna
Screenplay: Hilary Henkin
Thriller is co-production of Miramax and their landlord, Tribeca Productions.
RULES OF THE GAME March
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.
SKETCHES Spring
Dir: Neal Israel
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Jason Bateman, Jonathan Silverman, Annie Potts
Producer: Jonathan D. Krane
Screenplay: Paul Shapirt
Three friends on a cross-country trip resolve old problems between themselves
and remember why they loved each other as children in this 1989 film rescued
from the MCEG graveyard. Silverman and Howell are c ouple of college freshmen
whose goal is to live out every fantasy of their friend (Bateman) who is dying
of cancer.
SPOTSWOOD late February
Dir: Mark Joffe
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, Rebecca Rigg, Russell
Crowe
Producers: Timothy White, Richard Brennan
Screenplay: Max Dann
D.P.: Ellery Ryan
Start Date: 7/30/90, Melbourne
Comedy-romance about a time and motion expert called in to modernize an
ailing moccasin factory. Terrific advanced word. Up for Best Picture in the
Aussie equivalent of the Oscars. "Like an Ealing comedy."
WHAT THE MOON SAW
Dir: Pino Amenta
THE WIND
Dir: Robert Dornhelm
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
Start Date: 9/91, Ireland
Dornhelm directed REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC, Sheridan directed MY LEFT FOOT.
ZENTROPA (Prestige) mid-March
Dir: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Jean Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa
Winner of the Jury Prize and Grand Prix du Technique at Cannes in 1991, this
film concerns a naive American who goes to Germany after WWII to become a
conductor for Zentropa Railways. He falls for the Boss' daughter, who is a
Nazi terrorist. Formerly titled EUROPA.
MK2
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ALBERTO EXPRESS March 27 (NY)
Cast: Sergio Casttellito
FOR SACHA June 5 (NY, LA)
LA DISCRETE August (NY)
RASPAD April 24 (NY, LA)
New Line Cinema
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AFRAID OF THE DARK (Fine Line) July 24 (NY)
Rating: "R" Violence and a scene of sensuality. August 7 (LA + limited)
Dir: Mark Peploe
Cast: Fanny Ardant, James Fox, Paul McGann, Clare Holman, Robert Stephens,
Susan Wooldridge, Struan Rodgers, David Thewlis, Ben Keyworth
Producer: Simon Bosanquet
Screenplay: Mark Peploe
D.P.: Bruno de Keyzer
Start Date: 9/3/90, London
A psychological thriller about an 11-year-old boy whose world becomes blurred
when the boundaries between disturbing daydream and reality become dangerously
unclear. Peploe was the screenwriter for THE SHELTERING SKY and THE LAST
EMPEROR.
BURN THIS December
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Linda Yellen, Ray Katz
Screenplay: TBA, based on August Wilson's play
Negative Cost: $10 million
Start Date: 4/92
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. Scheduled
to be released in time for 1992 Oscar consideration. Will John Malkovich do
the honors?
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.
DEEP COVER April 17 (wide)
Dir: Bill Duke
Cast: Larry Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Clarence Williams III
Producer: Pierre David, Henry Bean
Screenplay: Michael Tolkin, Henry Bean
Start Date: 9/91, Los Angeles
Fishburne is an undercover narcotics cop who is seduced by the lifestyle of
drug dealers he is assigned to bring to justice. Duke directed A RAGE IN
HARLEM. Bean wrote and produced INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
DELTA OF VENUS October
TBA
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.
EDWARD II (Fine Line) March 20 (NY)
Dir: Derek Jarman April 10 (wide)
Cast: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin
Collins, Jerome Flynn, John Lynch, Dudley Sutton
Producers: Steve Clark-Hall, Antony Root,
Screenplay: Derek Jarman, Stephen McBride, Ken Butler, based on Christopher
Marlowe's play
D.P.: Ian Wilson
Fine Line has picked up North American rights to this complex angry
metaphorical Bard update reflecting the class-consciousness of modern British
society and its effect on people of differing histories. Powerhouse acting
won Ms.Swinton (as Queen Isabella) a Best Actress award at the Venice Film
Festival. Opened in London in October 1991. U.S. premiere is at the 1992
Sundance Film Festival in late January.
EXCESSIVE FORCE November
Dir: Jonathan Hess
Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith
Producer: Irwin Stoss
Screenplay: Thomas Ian Griffith
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.
FAST GETAWAY (Cinetel)
Dir: Spiro Razatos
Cast: Corey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock, Leo Rossi, Ken Lerner, Marcia Strassman
Producers: Paul Hertzberg, Lisa M. Hansen
Screenplay: James Dixon
D.P.: Jacques Haitkin
Start Date: 5/31/90, Coloradi, Utah
In this action adventure, a bright young man's estranged family wants him to
pursue a career in banking. Mom thinks the best route is with an MBA while Dad
opts for a more direct approach - bank robbery.
FATAL CHARM TBA
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
FRIDA: THE BRUSH OF ANGUISH TBA
Dir: Luis Valdez
Cast: TBA
Producers: Eduardo Rossoff, Donald Zuckerman
Screenplay: Luis Valdez, Lupe Valdez
Start Date: 4/92, Mexico, France
GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (New Line) September
Dir: James Foley
Cast: Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey,
Jonathan Pryce, Ed Harris
Producers: Jerry Tokofsky
Screenplay: David Mamet, Based on his Play
D.P.: Juan Ruiz Anchia
Composer: James Newton Howard
Start Date: 7/22/91
Incredible cast makes the wait possibly worth it. This award-winning play of
survival and ruthlessness in the high-stakes real estate game took five years
to get the film version off the ground. Spacey (LOST IN YONKERS) and Pryce
(MISS SAIGON) won Tony Awards just last season.
THE LAWNMOWER MAN (New Line) March 13
Dir: Brett Leonard
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright
Producer: Gimel Everett
Screenplay: Brett Leonard, Gimel Everett, Based on Stephen King's novel
A scientist uses computer technology to transform the simple-minded
"Lawnmower Man" into a intellectual sophisticate through Virtual Reality
Therapy. The experiment backfires, 'natch. A feature film with much
computer-generated footage. Slick.
LIVE WIRE May
Dir: Christian Duguay
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Ben Cross, Ron Silver, Lisa Eilbacher
Producer: Suzanne Todd, David Willis
Screenplay: Bart Baker
Start Date: 9/91, Washington, D.C.
Technology and terrorism combine to create the most insidious explosive ever
known in this topical action drama. When international terrorists begin
assassinating U.S. senators, the unorthodox bomb diffusion methods of the FBI's
top expert may be the only recourse to prevent catastrophe.
LONDON KILLS ME July 17 (NY)
Rating: "R" for drug use, language and some nudity July 31 (LA)
Dir: Hanif Kureishi August 7 (wide)
Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Emma McCourt, Justin Chadwick, Roshan Seth
Exec Producers: Tim Bevan, Graham Bradstreet
Screenplay: Hanif Kureishi
Start Date: 1/21/91, London
The story of Clint (Charwick), a street kid who hangs out with a gang of drug
dealers, the leader of which is Clint's tough friend Muffdiver (Mackintosh).
When Clint is brutally beaten on his 20th birthday, he decides he needs to live
an "ordinary" life. Clint's efforts to escape the daily hustle on the streets
creates a humorous web of diverse experiences and intriguing characters. Hanif
Kureishi wrote MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE and SAMMI AND ROSIE GET LAID.
MIDNIGHT HEAT 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
MONSTER IN A BOX April 24 (NY)
Dir: Nick Broomfield
Cast: Spalding Gray
Producer: Jon Blair
Screenplay: Spalding Gray
Another filmed monologue from the man who brought us SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA.
NIGHT ON EARTH (Fine Line) April 17 (NY)
Dir: Jim Jarmusch May 8 (wide)
Cast: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Armin Muehller-Stahl, Beatrice Dalle
Producer: Jim Jarmusch
Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
Cult fave Jarmusch's latest work is five vignettes that all take place aboard
taxicabs in five different cities (New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and
Helsinki). Financed largely by JVC, as was MYSTERY TRAIN. Was closing night
attraction at the New York Film Festival.
PAST MIDNIGHT (Cinetel) February 28
Rating: "R" for violence, sensuality and language
Dir: Jan Eliasberg
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Clancy Brown
Producer: Lisa Hansen
Screenplay: Frank Norwood
D.P.: Bob Yeoman
Start Date: 3/5/91, Seattle
Obsessed social worker becomes dangerously close to client convicted of
murder. Eliasberg is an award-winning TV director (LA LAW). She was also the
first woman to direct such action shows as CRIME STORY, MIAMI VICE and WISEGUY.
POISON IVY March
Rating: "R" for sensuality and language
Dir: Katt Shea Ruben
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Sara Gilbert, Cheryl Ladd
Exec Producers: Melissa Goddard, Peter Morgan
Producer: Andy Ruben
Screenplay: Katt Shea Ruben, Andy Ruben
Drew Barrymore is Ivy, a wild young hitchhiker with an unknown past who's
determined to secure her future through seduction. When befriended by an
impressionable schoolmate, Ivy uses every means at her disposal to infiltrate
and destroy her friend's family. "A Lolita for the 90's". Formerly titled
DESIRE, then POISON IVY.
PROOF (Fine Line) March 29 (NY)
Dir: Jocelyn Moorhouse April 3 (limited)
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Genevieve Picot, Russell Crowe April 17 (wide)
Producer: Lynda House
Screenplay: Jocelyn Moorhouse
An amusing psychosexual love triangle involving a blind photographer who is
obsessed with the manner photographs record images that he cannot see. The
film swept the 1991 Australian film awards and was the talk of the Toronto Film
Festival.
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.
RIFF-RAFF (Fine Line) May 13 (NY)
Dir: Ken Loach June 5 (LA + limited)
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.
ROADSIDE PROPHETS (Fine Line) March 27 (NY, LA)
Rating: "R" For language and a scene of drug use. April 3 (wider)
Dir: Abbe Wool
Cast: Adam Horovitz, John Doe, David Carradine, Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie,
John Cusack
Producers: Peter MCCarthy, David Swinson
Screenplay: Abbe Wool
D.P.: Tom Richmond
Start Date: 9/90, Los Angeles
A modern road movie about two loners on a winding motorcycle odyssey in
search of Jackpot, Nevada, wisdom and themselves. In this 1990's "Easy Rider",
the wandering duo encounters a succession of eccentric "prophets", played by
famous and infamous characters past and present, including John Cusack, Timothy
Leary, Arlo Guthrie and David Carradine. Wool wrote SID AND NANCY. Word is
not particularly encouraging.
SIMPLE MEN (Fine Line) September 25 (NY)
Dir: Hal Hartley October 16 (LA + limited)
Cast: Robert Burke, William Sage, Martin Donovan, Julia McNeal, Jeff McKay,
Matt Malloy, Jeff Howard
D.P.: Mike Stiller
Negative Cost: $3 million
Start Date: 11/6/91, Texas
Comedy of two brothers and their search for their long-lost father from the
director of TRUST. First TV window goes to PBS' AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE.
SKEETERS (Team Players) Summer
Cast: Cyril O'Reilly, Tracy Griffith
STEPKIDS (New Line) March
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Margaret Whitton, David Straithairn, Ben Savage
Producers: Gerald Olson, Laurie Pearlman
Screenplay: Frank Mugavero
D.P.: Theo van de Sande
Start Date: 9/18/90, Mammoth Lakes, Los Angeles
A funny and touching story of a 15-year-old girl whose parents have divorced
and remarried so many times, that she now feels lost in a sea of stepkids.
Silver last directed CROSSING DELANCEY.
SURF NINJAS November
SWOON (Fine Line) August 19 (NY)
Dir: Tom Kalin September 11 (wider)
Cast: Ron Vawter, Michael Stumm, Michael Kirby
Producer: Christine Vachon
16mm B&W pickup was spotted at the Independent Feature Market in New York.
Story of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, teenagers involved in a 1924
kidnap/murder of a young boy. Will make first TV appearance on PBS' AMERICAN
PLAYHOUSE. Vachon produced Todd Haynes' POISON.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III March 1993
Dir: TBA
Exec Producer: Raymond Chow
Producer: David Chan
Screenplay: Stuart Gillard
Start Date: 6/92, Vancouver
Negative Cost: $17 million
The third Turtle film will take over five sound stages at Stephen Cannell's
studio. Storyline involves time-travel, between today and the 17th Century.
The Turtle outfits will no longer be from Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
TOXIC CRUSADERS Spring 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Troma goes big-time with a $10 million New Line film starring a group of
environmental accident mutants (ala TMNT) based on THE TOXIC AVENGER. Headed
by Toxie, they will include Nozone, Major Disaster, Headbanger and Junkyard.
They fight the evil Dr. Killemoff, Psycho and Bonehead. <groan>
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME September
Dir: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Chris Isaak, Moira Kelly, Dana
Ashbrook, Michael Ontkean, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie, James Marshall
Exec. Producers: David Lynch, Mark Frost
Producer: Gregg Fienberg
Screenplay: David Lynch, Bob Engels
Start Date: 9/5/91, Los Angeles, Washington (state)
New Line paid $6 million to pick up this prequel to the TWIN PEAKS TV series
for domestic release. Storyline features the seven days before Laura Palmer's
murder.
VOLERE, VOLARE August 7 (NY)
Dir: Guido Manuli August 28 (LA + limited)
Cast: Maurizio Nichetti
Producers: Enesto di Sarro, Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
This Italian import is a comic fantasy that blends live action and animation.
Star Nichetti is the acclaimed director of THE ICICLE THIEF.
WATERLAND (Palace/Fine Line) October 9 (NY)
Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal October 23 (LA + limited)
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, John Heard, Miranda Richardson, David
Morrissey, Lena Heady, Grant Warnock, Callum Dixon, Cara Buono
Screenplay: Peter Prince, based on Graham Swift's novel
D.P.: Robert Elswit
Start Date: 9/16/91, Pittsburgh, London
Negative Cost: $8 million
Contemporary drama about a British teacher in an American high
school. Irons is a history teacher who breaks through his students' wall of
indifference by relating his and his family's difficult personal experiences
in the Europe of World War II. The family comes to life before their very
eyes. Gyllenhaal directed the acclaimed PARIS TROUT, as well as KILLING IN A
SMALL TOWN.
WE'RE TALKIN' SERIOUS MONEY TBA
Dir: James Lemmo
Cast: Dennis Farina, Leo Rossi
Producer: Lisa Hansen
Screenplay: James Lemmo, Leo Rossi
Start Date: 2/91, Los Angeles
Two hustlers, the mob and the government. Said to be hilarious.
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (Fine Line) February 28 (NY)
Dir: Charles Sturridge March 20 (wide)
Cast: Judy Davis, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rupert Graves
Producer: Derek Granger
Screenplay: Tim Sullivan, Derek Granger, Charles Sturridge, based on
E.M. Forster's novel
Turn-of-the-century romantic tragedy concerns two British ladies on holiday
in Tuscany. Sturridge directed A HANDFUL OF DUST and co-directed BRIDESHEAD
REVISITED. Shown at the Toronto Film Festival.
WHERE THE DAY TAKES YOU (Cinetel) May 22
Dir: Marc Rocco
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle, Will Smith, Kyle MacLachlan, Ricki
Lake, Sean Astin, Laura San Giacomo, Adam Baldwin. Balthazar Getty, James
LeGros, Peter Dobson, Alyssa Milano, Rachel Ticotin, David Arquette
Producer: Paul Hertzberg
Screenplay: Michael Hitchcock, Kurt Voss, Marc Rocco
D.P.: Bartlett Gersh
An outstanding ensemble of young actors star in this urban drama about
homeless teenagers and their struggle for respect and survival on the streets
of Hollywood. Good advanced word.
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA (Fine Line) May 1
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.
XTRO II: THE SECOND ENCOUNTER (New Line)
Rating: "R" For sci-fi/horror violence and language
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.
October Films
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ADAM'S RIB April (NY)
Orion (Finances willing)
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ARTICLE 99 March 13
Dir: Howard Deutch
Cast: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Lea Thompson, Forest Whitaker, Kathy
Baker, John Mahoney, John C. McGinley, Keith David, Jeffrey Tambor, Eli
Wallach, Julie Bovasso
Producers: Michael Levy, Michael Gruskoff
Screenplay: Ron Cutler
D.P.: Richard Bowen
Start Date: 10/8/90, Kansas City, MO
Negative Cost: $17.6 million.
An irreverent comedy about a group of doctors and nurses working in a VA
hospital. They are skilled in their profession, but they are equally skilled
in taking on the bureaucracy they work for. Deutch is Thompson's hubby.
BLUE SKY Fall
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? Summer
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, Mojo
Nixon and Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.
CHINA MOON Fall
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 Summer
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 Fall
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.
THE FAVOR May
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 TBA
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Jonathan Kaplan
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Brian Kerwin, Beth Grant, Louise
Latham, Peggy Rea
Producers: Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury
Screenplay: Don Roos
D.P.: Ralf D. Bode
Start Date: 4/2/90, Rocky Mount, NC, Virginia, Washington, DC
Negative Cost: $17.7 million
Interracial love story set against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination.
Kaplan directed THE ACCUSED. Haysbert (MAJOR LEAGUE) replaced Denzel
Washington as the love interest. Has been pushed back to 1992 from October 18th
at Michelle Pfeiffer's request, due to FRANKIE AND JOHNNY's October 11th
playdate.
MARRIED TO IT 1.85 (SR) TBA
Rating: "R" Language and a scene of sensuality
Dir: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart
Masterson, Ron SIlver, Cybill Shepard
Producer: Thomas Baer
Screenplay: Janet Kovalcik
D.P.: Victor J. Kemper
Start Date: 7/30/90, Toronto, New York
Negative Cost: $14.3 million
A comedy featuring three married New York couples with radically different
lifestyles. Leonard was the suicidal thespian in DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Music is
by Henry Mancini. Film runs 110 minutes. Advanced word is tepid.
MISSING PIECES 1993
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Leonard Stern
Cast: Eric Idle, Robert Wuhl, Lauren Hutton, Bernie Kopell, Kim Lankford,
Richard Belzer
Producer: Aaron Russo
Screenplay: Leonard Stern
D.P.: Peter Stein
Start Date: 10/10/90, New York, Los Angeles
The comedic adventures of an idealist, a greeting card writer and a gifted
cellist. Marvin Hamlisch will provide the musical score.
OFF AND RUNNING 1993
Dir: Edward Bianchi
Cast: Cyndi Lauper, David Keith, Richard Belzer, Anita Morris, Johnny Pinto
Producer: Aaron Russo
Screenplay: Mitch Glazer
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Start Date: 2/8/90, Miami, New York, Washington, DC
Formerly titled MOON OVER MIAMI.
PROBABLE CAUSE January 1993
Negative Cost: $25 million
ROBOCOP 3 Summer
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.
SHADOWS AND FOG March 20
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Madonna, John Malkovich, Jodie Foster, Donald
Pleasence, Kenneth Mars, Fred Gwynne, David Straithairn, Kate Nelligan
Exec. Producers: Jack Rollins, Charles Joffe
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
Screenplay: Woody Allen
D.P.: Carlo Di Palma
Start Date: 11/19/90, New York
Negative Cost: $21.8 million
*Everyone* wants to work with Woody! And yes, it's in Black and White and
set in the Roaring Twenties. It's Woody's most expensive film ever. His
next film, which went into production in November, '91 will be for TriStar
and his old friend Mike Medavoy. First showing is December 5th at New York's
new Walter Reade Theatre for the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
THERE GOES MY BABY Fall
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. The
Orion Classics
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THE ADJUSTER July
Rating: "R" for sensuality.
Cast: Elias Koteas, Maury Chaykin
DANZON July
Dir: Maria Novaro
This is a Mexican pickup.
HOWARD'S END March
Dir: James Ivory
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, James Wilby, Helena Bonham Carter
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel by E.M. Forster
D.P.: Tony Pierce-Roberts
Start Date: 4/22/91, U.K.
The creators of A ROOM WITH A VIEW and MAURICE tackle yet another E.M.
Forster novel. Two wealthy English families' contrasting views of life force
them into battle of style as they compete for inheritance of a house.
JACQUOT DE NANTES June
Dir: Agnes Varda
Biography of the childhood of Ms. Varda's late husband, director Jacques
Demy.
RAISE THE RED LANTERN February 7 (NY)
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Gong Li
This film is Hong Kong's official entry into the Foreign Language Oscar race.
Yimou directed the Oscar-nominated JU DOU. Opens at Manhattan's Lincoln Plaza
Cinemas.
A TALE OF SPRINGTIME May
Dir: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Anne Teyssedre, Hughes Quester, Florence Darel, Eloise Bennett
Producer: Margaret Menegoz
Screenplay: Eric Rohmer
D.P.: Luc Pages
The French film master spins a story of romantic tension and intrigue when a
high school teacher stays over at the apartment of her girlfriend's father.
A WOMAN'S TALE January (NY, LA)
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Paul Cox
Cast: Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye
Producers: Paul Cox, Santhana Naidu
Screenplay: Paul Cox, Barry Dickins
D.P.: Nino Martinetti
This Aussie film played at Beverly Hill's Music Hall for a one week
Oscar-qualifying run in December. Roger Ebert is quoted as claiming it "the best
film I have seen in 1991". It concerns an elderly, dying woman's budding
friendship with a young woman.
Paramount
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY II October
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Scott Rudin
Screnplay: Paul Rudnick
"Greed is good. Greed works."
ALIVE (Touchstone/Paramount) December
Dir: Frank Marshall
Cast: TBA
Exec. Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Robert Watts
Screenplay: Monte Merrick
Start Date: 1/92
Co-production between two studios is another version of that Andes plane
crash cannibalism episode of several years ago. Marshall directed
ARACHNOPHOBIA.
BEBE'S KIDS July
Dir: Bruce Smith
Voices: Saison Love
Exec. Producers: Reginald and Warrington Hudlin
Producers: Tom Wilhite, Willard Carroll
Screenplay: Reginald Hudlin
Start Date: 10/2/91, Los Angeles
Animated film features characters created by the late comedian Robin Harris
(DO THE RIGHT THING, HOUSE PARTY). Saison Love has been signed to perform the
voice of Harris.
BEVERLY HILLS COP III Summer, 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: Eddie Murphy
Another formula film. This time Murphy gets $15 million up front.
BOOMERANG June
Dir: Reginald Hudlin
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Robin Givens, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, Geoffrey Holder,
Halle Berry, David Alan Grier
Producers: Brian Grazer, Warrington Hudlin
Screenplay: Barry Blaustein, David Sheffield
D.P.: Woody Omens
Start Date: 11/13/91, New York
The Hudlin Brothers scored with HOUSE PARTY. Now they get a major deal at
Paramount. Murphy is a ladies' man who falls in love with a girl who can't
stand him. Eddie will get $12 million for this one.
COLUMBUS 2.35 70mm October
Dir: Ridley Scott
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Fernando Rey,
Fernando Garcia, Angela Molina, Tcheky Karyo, Kario Salem, Frank Langella, Mark
Margolis, Arnold Vaslu, Fernando Guillen
Producers: Ridley Scott, Alain Goldman, Mimi Polk
Screenplay: Roselyne Bosch
D.P.: Adrian Biddle
Start Date: 12/2/91, Spain, France, Costa Rica
Negative Cost: $40 million
One of two features in production on the exploits of Christopher Columbus, in
commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Discovery of the New World. The
competing feature from the Salkinds has yet to get distribution. This film
will likely have a title change. Depardieu is Columbus, of course. Ms.
Weaver plays Queen Isabella. The other film (directed by John Glen) has
George Corraface as Columbus, Tom Selleck as Ferdinand, Rachel Ward as Isabella
and Marlon Brando as Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor.
COOL WORLD July 1
Dir: Ralph Bakshi
Cast: Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne
Producer: Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Screenplay: Michael Grais, Mark Victor
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
Start Date: 3/15/91, Las Vegas, Los Angeles
Combined animation-live action film reportedly tells the story of real people
who find themselves in a cartoon world and can't figure out why.
EMILY BRONTE'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS Fall
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.
INDECENT PROPOSAL December
Dir: Adrian Lyne
Cast: TBA
Producer: Sherry Lansing
Screenplay: Amy Jones
Start Date: 3/2/92
Lyne and Lansing team up one again after FATAL ATTRACTION made so much money
for Paramount (although it officially just *barely* went into the black...love
those grosse pointes!)
THE INNOCENT TBA
Dir: John Schlesinger
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott, Isabella Rossellini
Producers: Norman Heyman, Chris Sievernich, Wieland Schulz-Kiel
Screenplay: Ian McEwan
Start Date: 3/92, Berlin, Vienna
Romantic espionage thriller set in 1955 Berlin. Formerly to have been
directed by Jon Amiel, who is doing SOMMERSBY for Warner Brothers instead.
INTERSECTION 1993
Dir: Mark Rydell
Producers: Sherry Lansing, Frederic Colchan
This one is a remake of LES CHOSES DE LA VIE.
JENNIFER EIGHT Fall
Dir: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, John Malkovich,
Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway, Perry Lang, Nicholas Love, Michael O'Neill, Paul
Bate, Bob Gunton, Lenny Von Dohlen
Producer: Scott Rudin
Screenplay: Bruce Robinson
Start Date: 9/23/91, Vancouver
Negative Cost: $20 million
Garcia stars as Sgt. John Berlin, a former L.A. cop who joins the police
force of a Northern California town. In his obsessive pursuit of a homicide
investigation, he believes that he's on the trail of a dangerous killer who has
just claimed his eighth victim, code-named Jennifer. Helena Robertson
(Thurman) is a blind woman whose friend has disappeared. Helena may have
encountered the killer and could provide Berlin with his only chance of solving
the crimes. The more deeply Berlin becomes involved in the case, the more
authorities doubt the very existence of the killer. Henriksen plays Freddy
Ross, Berlin's friend and colleague. Baker is Freddy's wife, Margie.
Malkovich is St. Anne, the FBI investigator assigned to the case. Garcia
received an Oscar nod for THE GODFATHER PART III. He also co-stars in DEAD
AGAIN. Henriksen will be seen in ALIEN3. Baker was recently seen in EDWARD
SCISSORHANDS and is in the upcoming ARTICLE 99. Malkovich was recently in
QUEENS LOGIC, THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY and THE SHELTERING SKY. Robinson directed
WITHNAIL AND I. He was Oscar-nominated for writing THE KILLING FIELDS.
JUICE January 17
Rating: "R" for strong language and some violence
Dir: Ernest Dickerson
Cast: Omar Epps, Jermaine Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Tupac Shakur
Producers: Neal Moritz, David Heyman, Peter Frankfurt
Screenplay: Gerard Brown, Ernest Dickerson
D.P.: Larry Banks
Negative Cost: $5 million
Spike Lee's cinematographer makes his feature directorial bow with a
film concerning four black Harlem youths whose brief encounter with
crime takes a deadly turn. This independent production has been picked up by
Paramount, who have a $10 million P&A budget. The soundtrack features rap/hip
hop music. 'natch.
LADYBUGS March 27
Dir: Sidney J. Furie
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackee, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff
Producers: Albert S. Ruddy, Andre Morgan
Screenplay: Curtis Burch
Middle-aged salesman agrees to coach a company-sponsored soccer team
composed of 13-year-old girls called "The Ladybugs", in hopes of securing a
promotion. A "Bad News Bears" type of comedy.
LAME DUCKS
Rating: "PG" Spring
Dir: Dennis Dugan
Cast: John Turturro, Mel Smith, Bob Nelson, Nancy Marchand, John Savident,
George de la Pena, Spike Alexander, Juli Donaki
Producers: David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Gil Netter
Screenplay: Pat Proft
D.P.: David M. Walsh
Start Date: 12/10/90, Los Angeles
Madcap comedy about three men commissioned to start a ballet company. Dugan
last directed PROBLEM CHILD. Scheduled to be retitled.
PATRIOT GAMES 2.35 70mm May 22
Dir: Philip Noyce
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones, Thora Birch, Samuel
Jackson, Sean Bean, Patrick Bergin, Polly Walker
Producer: Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme
Screenplay: W. Peter Iliff, based on Tom Clancy's novel
Start Date: 11/2/91, London, Los Angeles, Maryland
D.P.: Don McAlpine
Negative Cost: $42 million
Alec Baldwin pulls out of this sequel to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER due to
scheduling problems when the start date was pushed back to November. He will
be starring on Broadway with Jessica Lange in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in
February. Harrison Ford will apparently be paid $9 million to take over the
film. Archer plays Dr. Cathy Ryan and Birch is their seven-year old daughter
Sally. James Earl Jones once again is Admiral James Greer. Jackson is
Ryan's buddy. They are victimized by international terrorism in the
storyline. Ford will also be in the subsequent sequel, CLEAR AND PRESENT
DANGER. The producers are now bidding big for the following property, THE SUM
OF ALL FEARS, in which Ford would again topline. Talks for that sequel have
apparently broken down, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER will be directed by John
McTiernan, who helmed THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. John Badham was in the works
to direct PATRIOT GAMES, but couldn't strike the right deal.
Noyce directed DEAD CALM. ...OCTOBER grossed $120 million domestically and
$77 million overseas. Tom Clancy has stated his dissatisfaction with what
they have done to his story.
PAYDIRT April 24
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Bill Phillips
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Dabney Coleman, Rhea Perlman, Catherine O'Hara
Producer: Mort Engelberg
Screenplay: Bill Phillips
Daniels is a criminal psychologist who makes a deal with one of his patients
to dig up his buried treasure in return for half of the profits. Unfortunately
for him, some of the other inmates overheard the plans before escaping....
PET SEMATARY II August
Dir: Mary Lambert
Cast: TBA
Producer: Ralph Singleton
Start Date: 1/92, Atlanta
Greed.
THE SAINT December
Dir: Renny Harlin
Cast: TBA
Producer: Robert Evans
Screenplay: Terry Hayes
Simon Templar comes to the big screen. I hope Roger Moore gets a cameo.
SCHOOL TIES Fall
Dir: Robert Mandel
Cast: Bredan Fraser, Matt Damon, Randall Batinkoff, Chris O'Donnell, Cole
Hauser, Anthony Rapp, Ben Affleck, Andrew Lowery, Amy Locane
Producer: Sherry Lansing
Screenplay: Darryl Ponicsan
D.P.: Freddie Francis
Start Date: 9/3/91, Massachusetts
SHOW AND TELL August
Dir: Chris Crowe
Cast: Annabella Sciorra, Anthony LaPaglia, Jamey Sheridan, Deborah Unger, John
Leguizamo, Alan Alda, Jill Clayburgh, Anthony Heald
Producer: Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman
Screenplay: Chris Crowe
D.P.: Michael Chapman
Start Date: 10/21/91, New York, North Carolina
Formerly titled SESSIONS.
WAYNE'S WORLD February 14
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Lara Flynn Boyle, Donna Dixon, Colleen
Camp
Exec. Producer: Howard W. Koch
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Screenplay: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Start Date: 8/2/91, Los Angeles
Another hang-over from Mr. Tartikoff's bag o' tricks winds up at Paramount as
a feature is made of the Cable-TV public access show segment of NBC's Saturday
Night Live starring those two mid-pubescent air-guitarers hits the big screen.
Lowe plays a TV exec who sees commerical potential in the access show. Boyle
is Wayne's ex-girlfriend and Dixon is Garth's dream girl, a curvaceous doughnut
shop employee.
Samuel Goldwyn
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35 UP January 15 (NY)
Dir: Michael Apted
Producer: Michael Apted
Screenplay: Michael Apted
D.P.: George Jesse Turner
The fifth in director Apted's series of documentaries begun 28 years ago
following a group of people's lives every seven years has been picked up by
Goldwyn. It is the highest grossing documentary in Australian history.
BEST INTENTIONS May 22 (limited)
Dir: Bille August
Cast: Ghita Norby, Max Von Sydow, Pernilla Ostergreen, Samuel Froler
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
The story of Bergman's parents' courtship deals with class conflicts and
passions which lead to near violence. The film covers the decade of 1909 to
1918 before Ingmar's birth. The film was released in Sweden as a six hour TV
mini-series. Von Sydow plays his maternal grandfather. August directed
PELLE THE CONQUEROR.
MISSISSIPPI MASALA February 5 (NY)
Dir: Mira Nair February 14 (LA)
Cast: Denzel Washington, ASarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Tico
Wells, Charles Dutton
Producers: Mira Nair, Michael Nozik
Screenplay: Sooni Taraporeavala
D.P.: Ed Lachman
Start Date: 8/27/90, Greenwood MS, Kampala Uganda
Story of an Indian family that was forced to flee Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972.
Twenty years later they find themselves in Greenwood MS, where the daughter
falls in love with an entrepreneurial carpet cleaner (Washington), which causes
tension within both the Indian and Black communities. The word is excellent.
MR. WONDERFUL TBA
Dir: Anthony Minghella
Cast: TBA
Producer: Marianne Moloney
Screenplay: Vicki Polon, Amy Schor
Start Date: 1/92, New York
THE PLAYBOYS May 1
Dir: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo O'Shea, Niamh Cusack, Ian
McElhinney, Stella McCusker, Niall Buggy
Producer: Bill Cartlidge, Simon Perry
Screenplay: Shane Connaughton, Kerry Crabbe
D.P.: Jack Conroy
Start Date: 7/1/91, Ireland
Tara is a strong-willed woman who falls for a traveling actor when his troupe
sets ip their theatre in her village during the late 1950s. The town police
sergeant, who has long been in love with Tara, is determined to destroy this
budding romance. Connaughton wrote MY LEFT FOOT. Wright of THE PRINCESS BRIDE
replaced the preggers Annette Bening.
RETURN TO MYSTIC PIZZA Summer
Sequel to the 1988 hit that brought Julia Roberts notoriety.
ROCK-A-DOODLE April 3
Rating: "G"
Dir: Don Bluth
Cast: Voices of Glen Campbell, Ellen Greene, Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris,
Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
Screenplay: David N. Weiss
Animated musical about a rooster with the power to bring up the sun. There
is an 18 minute live-action sequence concerning the farm family. From
Sullivan/Bluth Productions, creators of AN AMERICAN TAIL, THE LAND BEFORE TIME,
THE SECRET OF NIMH and ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. Opened in London in July, 1991
to good notices. Will go out with 1500 prints.
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY TBA
Cast: Eric Bogosian
TRACES OF RED June
Dir: Andy Wolk
Cast: Jim Belushi, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Goldwyn, Jim Piddock
Producer: Mark Gordon
Screenplay: Jim Piddock
D.P.: Tim Suhrstedt
Start Date: 11/4/91, Palm Beach FL.
Erotic thriller about two police detectives involved with a politically
powerful woman. Formerly titled BEYOND SUSPICION.
SGE
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MCBAIN 1.85 January 31 (2nd rel.)
Rating: "R" Strong war violence, language and drug use.
Dir: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Christopher Walken, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Steve James,
Jay Patterson, T.G. Waits, Victor Argo
Producer: J. Boyce Harman, Jr.
Screenplay: James Glickenhaus
Negative Cost: $16 million
This action film involves a group of Vietnam vets who honor a
pact made to a former comrade 20 years previously. Features extensive
computer generated effects. Opened on 9/20/91 with a $1.1 million ad-pub
budget and 130 prints in NY and LA and tepid results.
Skouras
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HIGHWAY 61 March
Cast: Don McKellar, Valerie Buhagier
HUNTING February (LA)
Cast: John Savage, Kerry Armstrong
I DON'T BUY KISSES ANYMORE February 14 (LA)
Cast: Jason Alexander, Nia Peeples
Symphony Pictures
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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.
Taurus
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THE EYES OF THE WORLD late Fall
Dir: TBA
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Tracy Griffith
Screenplay: Melanie Griffith, Tracy Griffith
Start Date: Summer 1992
The Griffith sisters star together for the first time in a vehicle that they
also co-wrote. A portrait artist circa 1912 must choose between being famous
by compromising his art or painting his subjects as he really sees them.
Trimark
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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.
A DOG OF FLANDERS
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
DOLLY DEAREST February 21
Dir: Maria Lease
Cast: Denise Crosby, Sam Bottoms, Rip Torn, Chris Demetral, Candy Hutson
Producer: Daniel Cady
Screenplay: Maria Lease
Archaeologist Karl Resnick (Torn) unknowingly unleashes a terrifying evil by
opening a centuries-old mass grave in Mexico filled with the corpses of an
ancient cult, where hundreds of people were buried alive. Dollmaker Eliot
Read (Bottoms) has moved his family to Mexico after purchasing a factory so
that he can introduce the world to a beautiful doll, the Dolly Dearest. The
Read family little suspects the horror that awaits them as Dolly Dearest has
been possessed by the evil spirit.
THE FAVOUR, THE WATCH AND THE VERY BIG FISH March 13
Rating: "R" for language and sensuality
Dir: Ben Lewin
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc
Producer: Michelle de Broca
Screenplay: Ben Lewin
Louis (Hoskins), a struggling photographer, searches for the perfect model to
pose as Christ on the cross. His prayers are answered when he meets and falls
in love with a beautiful actress named Sybil (Richardson), who unwittingly
leads him to the perfect Jesus, a destitute ex-con (Goldblum). But Louis'
good fortune starts to unravel when he discovers that his Christ model is a
madman who is also in love with Sybil and is beginning to take his new-found
divinity far too seriously.
FINAL APPROACH 2.35 (SS) (CDS) March 6 (NY, LA)
Dir: Eric Steven Stahl
Cast: James B. Sikking, Hector Elizondo, Madolyn Smith, Kevin McCarthy
Producer: Eric Steven Stahl
Negative Cost: $13 million
This 'scope Cinema Digital Sound film's claim to fame is that it is the first
film to have an entirely digital soundtrack. It played a one-week
engagement in CDS at the UA Coronet in Westwood for Oscar qualification. It is
a psychological thriller concerning a test-pilot who finds himself in a bizarre
alternate reality. Notices are mediocre.
INTERCEPTOR April 3
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.
INTO THE SUN February 7
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Pare, Deborah Maria Moore, Terry Kiser
Producers: Oliver Hess, Kevin Kallberg
Screenplay: John Brancato, Michael Ferris
Start Date: 3/5/91, Los Angeles
A fun-filled action adventure about a young self-center Hollywood superstar
Tom Slade (Hall) who, in preparation for an upcoming film role, is teamed with
Captain Paul "Shotgun" Watkins (Pare), a tough, disciplined, by-the-book Top
Gun pilot stationed in Sicily. This incompatible duo become unlikely allies
when they are thrust unexpectedly into a real life-or-death situation involving
combat with rebel Middle Eastern soldiers.
LEPRECHAUN May 8
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
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.
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT II TBA
THE SILK ROAD February 21
Dir: Junta Sato
Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida, Koichi Sato, Anna Nakagawa, Tsunehiko Watase
Exec Producers: Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Gohei Kogure, Kazuo Haruna
Screenplay: Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Junya Sato, based on Yasushi Inoue's novel DUN
HUANG
A sweeping tale of romance and conflict in ancient China, a compelling
personal story of self-discovery set against an epic canvas of desert warfare
and chivalry. This landmark Chinese-Japanese co-production tells the story of
a young scholar's coming of age on the war-torn tribal fringes of the Song
Dynasty in the 11th Century. In Japanese with English subtitles.
STEPFATHER III: FATHER'S DAY March 20
Rating: "R" for violence and some sensuality
Dir: Guy Magar
Cast: Robert Wightman, Priscilla Barnes, Season Hubley, David Tom, John Ingle,
Dennis Paladino
Producers: Guy Magar, Paul Moen
Screenplay: Guy Magar, Lee Wasserman
The film traces the Stepfather's search for an ideal, ready-made family.
Arriving in the small town of Deer View, the Stepfather (Wightman) soon becomes
involved with single mother Christine (Barnes), who has a thirteen-year-old
paraplegic son Andy (Tom). Conflicts arise when Andy leaves for the summer
to live with his father. This temporary void in his new family leads to the
Stepfather's inadvertant involvement with another single mother Jennifer
(Hubley), who has recently moved into town with her young son. Andy's
unexpected early return throws off the Stepfather's plans, eventually bringing
about the final conflict between the Stepfather and his two families.
WARLOCK II TBA
Yes, it's a sequel to the stylish pic.
TriStar
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BASIC INSTINCT March 20
Dir: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis
Arndt, Leilani Sarelle
Producer: Alan Marshall
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
D.P.: Jan De Bont
Start Date: 4/5/91, San Francisco, Carmel, Los Angeles
Very controversial thriller about a lesbian serial killer and the cop who
becomes sexually obsessed with one of three dangerous suspects. Douglas was
paid a wallet-busting $14 million for this one. This was to have been
released in CDS.
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.
BUDDY COPS TBA
Dir: Allan Metter
Cast: TBA
Producers: David Permut, Robert Kosberg
Screenplay: David O'Malley, B.J. Nelson
Start Date: 10/91, Dallas
CHARLIE (Carolco) December
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
Start Date: 10/14/91, England, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $31 million
This biopic headlining Downey as Charlie Chaplin has jumped from
Universal to Carolco. This story of his life begins with his impoverished
youth in London, continues with his major achievements during Hollywood's
Golden Age, his fears concerning "talkies", his conflicts with J. Edgar Hoover,
his exile from America and his brief, triumphant return to accept his special
Academy Award. Downey will age from 19 to 83 in the process. Aykroyd plays
Mack Sennett (of Keystone Kops fame), Geraldine Chaplin plays her real
grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. Jovovich (RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON) is Mildred
Harris, Chaplin's child actress first wife. Kelly (THE CUTTING EDGE, THE BOY
WHO CRIED BITCH) is Oona Chaplin, his last and dearest wife. Kline works with
Attenborough for the second time (CRY FREEDOM), this time as Douglas Fairbanks
Sr. Lane (COTTON CLUB, A LITTLE ROMANCE) is Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's third
wife and one of the biggest stars of the 40's. Miller (AWAKENINGS, OTHER
PEOPLE'S MONEY) is Edna Purviance, the Nevada secretary who became Chaplin's
first leading lady. Rhys (Royal Shakespeare Co., VINCENT AND THEO) is Chaplin's
elder half-brother Sydney who became Charlie's business manager after abandoning
his own acting career. Tomei (OSCAR) plays early silent screen star Mabel
Normand and Travis (AIR AMERICA) is would-be actress Joan Barry, who almost
destroyed Chaplin.
CLIFFHANGER 2.35 TBA
Dir: Renny Harlin
Cast: Sylvester Stallone
Producers: Alan Marshall, Renny Harlin
Screenplay: Mike France
D.P. Oliver Wood
Start Date: 1/92
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. There are two other major parts, one male, one female, as yet uncast.
This project is very close to turnaround due to very high costs, reportedly
some $25 million below-the-line.
CITY OF JOY 1.85 April 3
Dir: Roland Joffe
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Art Malik, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Producers: Roland Joffe, Jake Eberts
Screenplay: Mark Medoff, based on Dominique Lapierre's novel
D.P.: Peter Biziou
Start Date: 2/9/91, Calcutta India, London England
An American doctor travels to Calcutta and unexpectedly finds love and beauty
surrounded by the city's stifling poverty. Apparently the filmmakers have been
experiencing problems with the locals on location. The film will return to
India in the Fall to shoot the monsoon season scenes. Some interior pickup
shots were done at Pinewood Studios in London in late August. Delayed from
Christmas limited release.
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES TBA
Dir: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Jodie Foster, Madonna, Uma Thurman
Have thumb will travel?
HELL CAMP TBA
Dir: Milos Forman
Cast: Dylan Walsh
Producer: Michael Hausman
Screenplay: Adam Davidson, Milos Forman
D.P.: John Bailey
Start Date: 1/92, Tokyo, New York
Story of a New Yorker sent by his Japanese-owned company to train in Japan
where he becomes an accomplish sumo wrestler has been put on hold due to
conflicts with the Sumo Wrestling Society of Japan. It was to have begun
production on 11/18/91 for a Christmas 1992 release.
HIDEAWAY 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Cathleen Summers
Screenplay: TBA, based on Dean Koontz' novel
Book is to be released in January 1992. 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.
LEGENDS OF THE FALL 1993
Dir: Ed Zwick
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: TBA, 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 1993
Dir: Bruce Beresford
Cast: TBA
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Screenplay: Alain Boublil, Calude-Michel Schonberg
Start Date: Spring 1992, France, England
Negative Cost: $40 million
Big-screen adaptation of the musical stage hit.
MR. JONES Fall
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
Start Date: 11/11/91, Los Angeles, San Diego
A charming manic-depressive man falls in love with a psychiatrist. That's
two Gere films this year dealing with psychiatrists.....
THE MISTRESS TBA
Dir: Barry Primus
Cast: Robert Wuhl, Robert DeNiro, Martin Landau, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach
Exec Producer: Robert DeNiro
Producers: Meir Tepper, Ruth Charny
Screenplay: Jonathan Lawton
TriStar has domestic rights to this showbiz comedy from Tribeca Films.
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.
SNIPER Spring
Dir: Luis Llosa
Cast: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane
Producer: Robert Rosen
Screenplay: Crash Leyland
This negative pickup from Odyssey Entertainment 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 TBA
Cast: Chevy Chase
THUNDERHEART May 1
Dir: Michael Apted
Cast: Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Sheila Tousey
Producers: Robert DeNiro, John Fusco, Jane Rosenthal
Screenplay: John Fusco
D.P.: Roger Deakins
Start Date: 6/13/91, Rapid City, SD
Negative Cost: $15 million
DANCES WITH WOLVES' Oscar nominee Greene co-stars in this film concerning
the investigation of an FBI agent who is sent to South Dakota to uncover the
murder of an Indian tribesman. Through his efforts he discovers his own Indian
heritage. The Sioux have permitted the filmmakers to shoot in locations that
are the sacred grounds of the tribe. Kilmer last starred in THE DOORS.
Apted has a couple of documentaries under his belt most recently, INCIDENT AT
OGLALA and 35 UP, along with CLASS ACTION and GORILLAS IN THE MIST. From
Tribeca Films.
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER July 17
Dir: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry
Orbach
Producer: Craig Baumgarten, Allen Shapiro
Screenplay: Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch
D.P.: Walter Lindenlaub
Start Date: 8/12/91, Arizona
With those two headliners, you know the ground'll be a-shakin' in this one.
WILDER NAPALM September 25
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
and vie for the affections of the same woman (Winger).
WIND Summer
Dir: Carroll Ballard
Cast: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Stellan Skarsgard, Rebecca Miller, Cliff
Robertson, Jack Thompson
Exec. Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs
Producers: Mata Yamamoto, Tom Luddy
Screenplay: Rudy Wurlitzer, Larry Gross, Mac Gudgeon
D.P.: John Toll
Negative Cost: $29 million
It's all about romance against the backdrop of sailboat racing as the 1987
sailing team defends its Americas Cup trophy against Australia. Ballard
directed THE BLACK STALLION and NEVER CRY WOLF. Shot in Australia, Newport
RI, Utah and Hawaii. Delayed from an April 15th release.
WOODY ALLEN FALL PROJECT '91 Fall
Dir: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson,
Cristi Conaway, Sydney Pollack, Lysette Anthony
Producers: Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen
Screenplay: Woody Allen
D.P.: Carlo Di Palma
Start Date: 11/4/91, New York
Woody has been greenlighted on doing one film for TriStar, because Orion is
destitute. Apparently Woody wants to film it in Super 16 and blow it up to
35mm for a grainy, documentary-like effect. TriStar wants him to use 35mm all
the way. Woody isn't used to getting interference from the studio.... Film
concerns a Barnard professor who becomes romantically involved with one of his
students. Emily Lloyd was replaced by Juliette Lewis of CAPE FEAR fame as his
amour.
Triton
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ALAN AND NAOMI January 31
Dir: Sterling VanWagenen
Cast: Lukas Haas, Michael Gross, Vanessa Zaoul, Zohra Lampert
Producer: David Anderson, Mark Balsam
Screenplay: Jordan Horowitz
Story of a friendship between two teenagers in the aftermath of WWII. Opens
in 18 markets.
THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND April 17 (NY)
Dir: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena, Philippe Clevenot, Roland Bertin
Producer: Thierry De Ganay
Screenplay: Claude Klotz, Patrice Leconte
A forty-year-old man has been determined to marry a hairdresser since the
age of twelve. His dream is finally realized and his passion so great that
his new wife is always aware that she is the most beautiful woman in the world
to him. Leconte directed MONSIEUR HIRE.
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALPYSE January 10 (LA,limited)
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: Fax Bahr
Cast: Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper,
George Lucas, John Milius, Martin Sheen
Producers: George Zaloom, Les Mayfield
Screenplay: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Top-notch documentary concerning the ordeal of Francis Coppola's shoot on
APOCALYPSE NOW will be given a limited theatrical run after exposure on
Showtime. 60 hours of 16mm footage shot by Eleanor Coppola was discovered in
Zoetrope's vaults. Excerpts of this footage, along with newly shot interviews
with the filmmakers and actors (sans Brando) go into the docu. After running o
on Showtime, this opened in NY, Seattle, SF and Dallas on 11/27/91.
THE LUNATIC January 31 (NY)
Dir: Lol Creme February 14 (LA)
Cast: Paul Campbell, Julie T. Wallace
Ribald comedy with a lusty German woman who takes two Jamaican lovers while
on vacation in a small village. Director was a founding member of the rock
group 10CC.
MINDWALK Expansion Continues
Dir: Bernt Capra January 31 (Boston)
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye
Producer: Adrianna AJ Cohen
Politically correct film set against the remarkable Abbey of Mont Saint
Michel, this ecological conservation film deals with a meeting of three minds.
Ullmann is a scientist, Waterston a politician and Heard a poet. They
exchange, debate and share ideas about controversial ideas facing the world in
the 1990's. It is based on a book "The Turning Point" by director Capra's
brother Fritjof, who also wrote "The Tao of Physics". Director Bernt was
production designer on THIS IS SPINAL TAP and BAGDAD CAFE. Film has garnered
great kudos at festivals in Sundance, Denver and Cleveland. It was at the
Seattle Film Festival in May '91. Popular among those who don't mind talky
films.
TOTO THE HERO February 21 (NY)
Dir: Jaco van Dormael March 6 (wider)
Screenplay: Jaco van Dormael
Winner of the 1991 Cannes Camera d'Or award is a French-language film about
a man who looks back at his earlier life, surmising what it might have been and
what it has become. This film is the largest grossing French-language film
from Belgium in history.
Triumph
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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
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.
BRENDA STARR late April/early May
Dir: Robert Ellis Miller
Cast: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor,
Charles Durning, Eddie Albert, Nestor Serrano, Henry Gibson
Producer: Myron A. Hyman
Screenplay: Delia Ephron, Noreen Stone, James Buchanan
It's finally coming out!! This has only been completed for about five
years, caught up in litigation with Dino DeLaurentiis' defunct company. And
then it's reported quite awful, as well. It's so old, in fact, that I didn't
feel like digging that far back in the archives to get all of the production
info. Delayed twice again, latest time from Fall. Funded by some BCCI
accounts.....
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.
THE GATE II February 28
Rating: "R" for scenes of drug use.
Dir: Tibor Takacs
Cast: Louis Tripp, Pamela Segall, James Villemaire, Simon Reynolds
Producer: Andras Hamori
Sequel to the moderate hit of 1986 with the same director.
HIT MAN TBA
Dir: Roy London
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Sherilyn Fenn, Louis Anderson, Conchata Ferrell, Seymour
Cassell, Jim Belushi, Sharon Stone, Lois Chiles
Producer: Amin Q. Chaudri
Screenplay: Kenneth Pressman, based on his play "Insider's Price"
D.P.: Yuri Sokol
Start Date: 1/9/91, Pittsburgh, Sharon, PA
Suspense film starring a TWIN PEAKS luminary. Music is by Michel Colombier,
who performed the same services on NEW JACK CITY.
RUBY March 13
Dir: John Mackenzie
Cast: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard
Producers: Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Steve Golin
Screenplay: Stephen Davis, based on his play "Love Field"
This one's about Jack Ruby and his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. From
Propaganda Films.
WILD ORCHID II: TWO SHADES OF BLUE March 27
Rating: "R"
Dir: Zalman King
Cast: Nina Siemaszko, Tom Skerrit, Robert Davi, Wendy Hughes
Exec. Producer: Mark Damon
Producers: David Saunders, Rafael Eisenman
Screenplay: Zalman King, George Gary
D.P.: Mark Reshovsky
Start Date: 10/12/90, Los Angeles
A beautiful woman's romance with a handsome, wealthy man is jeopardized when
he sees her in a fake porno film. May open April 3rd. Formerly titled BLUE
MOVIE BLUE.
Turner Pictures
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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Yet another remake of this classic tale will be produced by the venerable
Lord Lew Grade. Discussions are underway with Shirley MacLaine and Shelley
Winters to play the aunts. John Cusack and Mark Harmon are under consieration
for the lead. This may go to TNT domestically.
20th Century Fox
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ALIEN3 2.35 70mm (SS) May 22
Dir: David Fincher
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Paul
McGann, Ralph Brown, Daniel Webb, Lance Henriksen
Producers: David Giler, Walter Hill, Gordon Carroll
Screenplay: John Fasano, Larry Ferguson
D.P.: Alex Thomson
Start Date: 1/14/91, London
Negative Cost: $57+ million
Third time's the charm? Ripley arrives on an orbiting prison space station
only to again be faced with battling the Alien while hindered by the lack of
technology in this new place. Fincher is a first-time feature director,
having conquered the music video world already, particularly for Madonna.
Visual Effects are provided by Boss Films. Supervisor Richard Edlund says the
EFX will be vastly more sophisticated and numerous than in the previous two
films. The title alien will be more mobile than in the past and there will
be some "digital scene creation", such as Edlund used in GHOST's end sequence.
Production design by multiple Oscar winner Norman Reynolds. The film will go
through four weeks of reshoots in LA commencing December 9th. It's apparently
a mess! Fox' exec. VP Tom Sherak says "there's no better way to launch Summer
1992 that with this latest chapter in the series, which is a stunning
continuation of the story both creatively and technologically". Film has
been twice delayed, from November/December 1991, to January/February 1992,
to Memorial Day Weekend.
February/March
BACK IN THE USSR February 7
Rating: "R", for some language and violence, and for a scene of sensuality.
Dir: Deran Serafian
Cast: Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski
Producers: Lindsey Smith, Ilmar Taska
Screenplay: Lindsey Smith
Start Date: 10/1/90, Moscow
This romantic thriller was shot in and around Moscow. It depicts an American
student caught up in art theft and murder. as he is framed for murder when a
priceless icon is stolen. Whaley was last seen in CAREER OPPORTUNITIES and
THE DOORS. Negoda starred in LITTLE VERA. Formerly titled ICONS.
From Largo Entertainment. May only receive limited theatrical exposure and/or
go straight to video.
BEFORE I WAKE (Pentamerica) March
Dir: Michael Lessac
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Esther Rolle, Park Overall, Asha Menina
Producers: Dale Pollock, Lianne Halfon, Wolfgang Glattes
Screenplay: Michael Lessac
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.
BLACK CAT BONE: THE RETURN OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN TBA
Dir: John Hughes
Cast: TBA
Producer: John Hughes
Screenplay: John Hughes
Start Date: 3/16/92
Hughes has written a script that brings the Huck Finn character into modern
times.
THE CROWDED ROOM Fall
Dir: James Cameron
Cast: John Cusack
Producers: James Cameron, Larry Kassanoff
Screenplay: Todd Graff, from Daniel Keyes' novel "The Minds of Billy Milligan"
Start Date: 4/92
Cameron's new non-EFX film (before the EFX-laden SPIDERMAN) concerns a man
with multiple personalities. Cameron plans to use different actors to play
the other personalities! Graff wrote the script for USED PEOPLE and was a
featured actor in Cameron's THE ABYSS. From Lightstorm Entertainment.
FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST (SR) April 17
Dir: Bill Kroyer
Voices: Tim Curry, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward, Robin
Williams, Grace Zabriskie, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong
Exec. Producers: Robert W. Cort, Ted Field
Producers: Peter Faiman, Wayne Young
Screenplay: Jim Cox, based on original children's stories by Australian author
Diana Young
Composer: Alan Silvestri
Start Date: 6/4/90, Los Angeles
Animated musical feature with an ecological theme uses mythical characters
to deal with the threat to the world's rain forests. Delayed from 11/22/91.
There would have been an unprecedented THREE major animated films opening the
same day! Principal animation was completed by the 120+ animators in early
October 1991. The animation has been called "visually stunning". There are
35+ merchandising tie-ins, including Pizza Hut, Target Stores, USPS and Green
Giant. This is Fox' first animated feature since 1983.
Johnny Clegg, Sheena Easton, Elton John, Raffi, Tone Loc and Robin Williams
will perform original songs written for the animated musical fantasy.
Songwriters include Jimmy Webb, Thomas Dolby, Raffi, Jimmy Buffett, Elton John,
Bruce Roberts and Alan Silvestri.
The complete list of songs to be featured in the film follows: "Life is a
Magic Thing," written by Thomas Dolby and performed by Johnny Clegg; "A Dream
Worth Keeping," written by Jimmy Webb and Alan Silvestri and performed by Sheena
Easton; "Some Other World," written by Bruce Roberts and Elton John and
performed by Elton John; "It's Raining Like Magic," written and performed by
Raffi; "If I'm Goanna Eat Somebody (It Might As Well Be You)," written by Jimmy
Buffet and Mike Utley and performed by Tone Loc, and "Batty Rap," an original
character piece written by Dolby and performed by Robin Williams as the voice of
brain- fried bat Batty Koda.
A cover version of the classic song "Land of a Thousand Dances,"
re-interpreted by producer Teddy Riley (who has four songs featured on Michael
Jackson's "Dangerous" album) and performed by Guy, and "Toxic Love," written
by Dolby and performed by Tim Curry, as the evil villain Hexxus.
FOLKS May
Dir: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole
Producers: Victor Drai, Malcolm Harding
Screenplay: Robert Klane
A Chicago commodities broker (Selleck) hasn't seen his parents in years.
They had retired to Florida and he has little contact with them. Everything
changes with a late-night call from a Florida hospital. He is suddenly wanted
by the FBI, his assets are frozen, his senile parents move in and his wife
leaves him. His parents come up with a crazy idea to solve the situation. A
black comedy from the producers of WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.
FORTRESS TBA
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
THE GOOD SON 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: Macauley Culkin
Producer: Larry Mark
Screenplay: Ian McEwan
Start Date: late 1992, New England
Production has been delayed a year as Macauley Culkin has been signed to play
the "bad seed" and he's 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 Culkin instead and delayed the
picture. Lehmann will not direct. Mary Steenburgen's participation is up
in the air, too. Culkin will get somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5-$2
million.
GRAND CANYON 2.35 (SR) January 10 (limited)
Rating: "R" for language January 17 (wide)
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan
Cast: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary Louise
Parker, Alfre Woodard
Producers: Charles Okun, Michael Grillo, Lawrence Kasdan
Screenplay: Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
Composer: James Newton Howard
D.P.: Owen Roizman
Start Date: 3/11/91, Los Angeles
A very personal serio-comic look at the ups and downs of L.A. life in the
Ninties, ala' THE BIG CHILL. Opened in exclusive New York and Los Angeles
engagements on Christmas Day to qualify for the Oscars and goes wider on
January 10th. Film runs 134 minutes.
HOFFA December
Dir: Danny DeVito
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Producer: Edward R. Pressman, Caldecott Chubb
Screenplay: David Mamet
Start Date: 1/92, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington DC
Negative Cost: $35 million
The long in the works biopic about Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. Both DeVito
and Nicholson have had to compromise on their fees to get the greenlight on the
production, even after talking the project with Disney, Warner Brothers,
TriStar and Universal. Everyone loved the script, but not the pricetag.
HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK November 20
Dir: Chris Columbus
Cast: Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara,
Brenda Fricker, Tim Curry, Eddie Bracken, Rob Schneider
Producer: John Hughes
Screenplay: John Hughes
D.P.: Julio Macat
Start Date: 12/9/91, New York, Chicago
Will lightning strike twice? The first film has passed the $500 million
worldwide boxoffice gross watermark. Culkin is reportedly getting $7 million
for this one.
HOUSE OF CARDS May
JACK THE BEAR September
Dir: Marshall Herskovitz
Cast: Danny DeVito, Gary Sinise, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert J. Steinmiller
Jr., Miko Hughes
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 12/91 release.
JUMPIN' AT THE BONEYARD TBA
Rating: "R" for language
Cast: Tim Roth, Alexis Arquette
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS 70mm July 3
Dir: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Madeline Stowe, Jodhi May, Eric Schweig, Russell Means,
Steven Waddington, Wes Studi, Maurice Roeves
Producers: Michael Mann, Hunt Lowry
Screenplay: Michael Mann, Christopther Crowe, based on James Fenimore Cooper's
novel
D.P.: Dante Spinotti
Start Date: 6/17/91, Asheville, NC
Negative Cost: $37 million
The Oscar winner toplines in another version of this classic tale from the
man who gave us MIAMI VICE. Set against the backdrop of the French-Indian
wars, Lewis plays a frontiersman who was raised by Mohican Indians. He
falls in love with the daughter of a British colonel (Stowe). Lewis has
apparently put on a lot of muscle for this role. Morgan Creek International
holds foreign distribution rights.
LOVE POTION #9 February 14
Dir: Dale Launer
Cast: Tate Donovan, Sandra Bullock, Dale Midkiff, Mary Mara
Producer: Tom Hammel
Screenplay: Dale Launer
D.P.: William Wages
Start Date: 10/7/90, Atlanta
Romantic comedy about two shy scientists who create a love potion that stirs
the desire of every member of the opposite sex they meet. Launer makes his
directorial debut. He wrote RUTHLESS PEOPLE.
MAN TROUBLE April
Dir: Bob Rafelson
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo
Producers: Bruce Gilbert, Carole Eastman
Screenplay: Carole Eastman
Barkin is a singer who is house-sitting for her sister (D'Angelo). She
discovers that the security gate is broken and feels threatened. Nicholson
enters as a con man posing as an attack dog trainer. Romantic fireworks ensue.
MY COUSIN VINNY March 13
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: Jonathan Lynn
Cast: Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Marisa Tomei, Fred Gwynne,
Lane Smith, Bruce McGill, Austin Pendleton
Producer: Dale Launer
Screenplay: Dale Launer
D.P.: Peter Deming
Start Date: 2/11/91, Georgia
Comedy with Pesci as a lawyer who uses his East Coast swagger to defend two
cousins framed for murder. Lynn directed NUNS ON THE RUN. Launer wrote LOVE
POTION #9 and RUTHLESS PEOPLE.
NAKED LUNCH January 10 (wide)
Rating: "R" for heavy drug content, bizarre eroticism, and language
Dir: David Cronenberg
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure,
Michael Zelniker, Nicholas Campbell, Joseph Scorsiani
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Screenplay: David Cronenberg, based on William Burroughs' novel
Composer: Howard Shore
D.P.: Peter Suschitzky
Start Date: 1/21/91, Toronto
Surreal, nightmarish adventure based on Burroughs' literary classic. A
writer who fears his talent finds liberation when mysterious entities send him
to Interzone....a fictitious place overrun by witches, junkies, spies and
shape-shifting monsters. Word is really good. Moved up to Christmas '91
exclusive engagements in New York and LA for Oscar qualification.
Won Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Judy Davis) Awards from the
New York Film Critics' Circle. "Exterminate all rational thought".
NIGHT AND THE CITY November
Dir: Irwin Winkler
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Jessica Lange, Alan King, Cliff Gorman, Jack Warden, Eli
Wallach
Exec Producer: Martin Scorsese
Producers: Jane Rosenthal, Irwin Winkler
Screenplay: Richard Price, based on Jules Dassin's 1950 20th-Fox film, written
in turn by Jo Eisinger from Gerald Kersh's story
D.P.: Tak Fujimoto
Start Date: 11/4/91, New York
Negative Cost: $20 million
Remake of the 1950 Jules Dassin classic about a New York hustler trying to
make his way as a boxing promoter. DeNiro replaces Tom Hanks in the lead role.
DeNiro and Lange reteamed after CAPE FEAR. A Martin Scorsese presentation.
From Tribeca Productions. Hey, that's two remakes for DeNiro in one year's
time!
ONCE UPON A FOREST August
Dir: Dave Michener
Voices: Michael Crawford, Glenn Close, Andrae Crouch, Ben Vereen
Producers: David Kirschner, Charles Grosvenor
Screenplay: Mark Young, Kelly Ward
Formerly called THE ENDANGERED, 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. Music is by James Horner.
PRELUDE TO A KISS July
Dir: Norman Rene
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Patty Duke, Ned Beatty, Kathy Bates, Stanley
Tucci, Sydney Walker
Producer: Michael Gruskoff
Screenplay: Craig Lucas, from his play
D.P.: Stefan Czapsky
Start Date: 4/8/91, Los Angeles
The hit Broadway play about a newlywed who finds that his wife's soul
has entered the body of an elderly man comes to the big (or small) screen.
THE PRETENDER 1993
Dir: George Gallo Jr.
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia
Producer: David Permut
Screenplay: George Gallo Jr.
Start Date: 3/92
RAPID FIRE August
Dir: Dwight Little
Cast: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso
Producers: Robert Lawrence, Jerry Olsen
Screenplay: Alan B. McElroy
D.P.: Ric Waite
Start Date: 5/28/91, Los Angeles, Chicago
Bruce Lee's son stars in this thriller. An art student helps a Chicago cop
break up the city's heroin biz. Another martial-arts flick.
RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT 1993
Dir: Chris Columbus
Producer: Stan Buchtal
An action-adventure.
RISING SUN late 1992 /early 1993
Dir: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Sean Connery
Screenplay: Philip Kaufman, based on Michael Crichton's novel
Start Date: 4/92, Los Angeles
Crichton's new novel about the insidious influence of Japanese interests in
an America of the very near future will be directed by the very capable Mr.
Kaufman, whose last project was HENRY AND JUNE. Kaufman also helmed THE RIGHT
STUFF and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978).
RUBY CAIRO TBA
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 plane
crash. Romantic thriller was shot in LA, Cairo, Athens, Berlin and Veracruz.
From Kadokawa Pictures. Clifford directed FRANCES. Dillion wrote THE RIVER,
Thomas wrote LADYHAWKE.
SHINING THROUGH 2.35 70mm (SS) (SR) January 31
Rating: "R" for a scene of sensuality
Dir: David Seltzer
Cast: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, Sir
John Gielgud
Producers: Howard Rosenman, Carol Baum
Screenplay: David Seltzer, based on Susan Isaacs' novel
D.P.: Jan De Bont
Start Date: 10/1/90, Berlin, England
A World War II romantic thriller involves a secretary working in the New York
office of the OSS who goes on a spy mission to Berlin. She is half-Jewish and
she infiltrates German security by posing as a housekeeper for Nazi officer
Liam Neeson. Douglas is her occasional lover and permanent boss, who was paid