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