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1993-94 Film Releases
(C)1993 Eric G. Carter
All Rights Reserved
February 24, 1993
Legend
70mm = 70mm prints available
(SR) = Dolby Spectral Recording
(SRD) = Dolby Stereo Digital/Dolby Spectral Recording
(SS) = Stereo Surrounds
(CDS) = Cinema Digital Sound
(DTS) = Universal Digital Sound
(SDS) = Sony Digitial Sound
(TBA) = To Be Announced
1.33, 1.66, 1.85, 2.21, 2.35 = Aspect Ratios
Most Films shot with 65mm negative and blowups from 'scope to 70mm
have aspect ratio of 2.21
Release dates are *very* subject to change.
A.I.P. Studios
DOUBLE THREAT January 8
(regional)
Angelika Films
BY A THREAD TBA
Dir: Craig Richardson
Cast: Michael O'Hare
A psychological drama.
RED RAIN TBA
Dir: Jim Kaufman
Cast: Jennifer Beals, Shane Briant, Russel Crowe
Producers: Rosa Colosimo, Will Spencer
Screenplay: Rosa Colosimo
D.P.: Dion Beere
Start Date: 1/25/93, Australia, Italy
Negative Cost: $7 million
Aries Entertainment
DR. PETIOT 1993
Dir: Christian de Chalonge
Cast: Michel Serrault, Pierre Romans, Zbignew Horoks
Producers: Alain Sarde, Philippe Chapelier Dehesdin
Screenplay: Christian de Chalonge, Dominique Garnier
This film is based on the true story of France's most notorious
criminal, who cremated dozens of people during WWII. Excellent
macabre word. Opened in London on 10/25/92.
HALFAQUINE: CHILD OF THE TERRACES March
Dir: Ferid Boughedir
Cast: Selim Boughedir, Carolyn Chelby
Producers: Ahmed Attia, Eliane Stutterheim
Screenplay: Ferid Boughedir
A twelve-year-old Tunisian boy is no longer permitted to accompany
his mother to the women's Turkish baths in this coming-of-age story.
MARTHA AND I 1993
Dir: Jiri Weiss
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Marianne Sagebrecht
Venice Festival Award winning film concerns the WWII marriage of a
Jewish doctor to his German maid. Sagebrecht last enchanted in
ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING.
WAITING Spring
Dir: Jackie McKimmie
Cast: Noni Hazelhurst, Deborra-Lee Furness, Frank Whitten, Helen
Jones, Fiona Press, Denis Moore
Producer: Ross Matthews
Screenplay: Jackie McKimmie
Australian comedy-drama about the reunion of old friends hosted by
an expectant mother.
Buena Vista (Disney)
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Walt Disney) April 2
Dir: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Elijah Wood, Laura Bundy , Jason Robards, Robbie Coltrane,
Courtney B. Vance, Ron Perlman, Mary Louise Wilson, Dana Ivey
Producers: Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi
Screenplay: Stephen Sommers, based on Mark Twain's novel
Start Date: 9/26/92, Natchez, MS
Negative Cost: $11 million
One of the entries in the Huck Finn wars. Wood scored in AVALON and
PARADISE.
THE AIR UP THERE TBA
Dir: Paul Michael Glaser
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Sean McCann, Eric Menyuk, Charles Gitonga Mainah,
Yolanda Vasquez, Dennis Patrick, Winston Ntshona, Miriam Owiti, Ilo
Mutombo, Nigel Miguel
Producer: Rosalie Swerdlin
Screenplay: Ken Kaufman, Max Apple
D.P.: Jan Kiesser
Start Date: 12/5/92, Toronto, Africa
Comedy where an assistant college- basketball coach goes on a
recruiting mission to Africa. Plot sounds quite similar to LOW
FIVES. Formerly NBA star Bob McAdoo is technical consultant.
Formerly at Universal.
ALGONQUIN (Touchstone) April 23
Dir: Mike Binderz
Cast: Elizabeth Perkins, Diane Lane, Alan Arkin, Bill Paxton, Kevin
Pollak, Kimberly Williams, Matt Craven, Sam Raimi, Vincent Spano,
Julie Warner
Producers: Bobby Newmeyer, Jeff Silver
Screenplay: Mike Binder
D.P.: Tom Sigel
Start Date: 8/27/92, Huntsville, Canada
Ensemble comedy about nine friends who reunite at their old summer
camp in Algonquin Park in Canada. Formerly titled TAMAKWA, has been
changed back to the original title.
ALIVE (Touchstone/Paramount) 1.85 (SRD) (SS) January 15
Rating: :"R" rated for crash scenes too intense for unaccompanied
children
Dir: Frank Marshall
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Illeana Douglas, Sam
Behrens, Ele Keats
Exec. Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Robert Watts
Screenplay: Monte Merrick
D.P.: Peter James
Start Date: 3/16/92, British Columbia
Co-production between two studios is another version of that Andes
plane crash cannibalism episode of several years ago. Marshall
directed ARACHNOPHOBIA. Features visual effects by ILM, crisp
Michael Kahn editing and production design by Norman Reynolds. A
total of 32 Dolby SR-D Digital prints were released.
ANGIE, I SAYS (Caravan/Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Martha Coolidge
Cast: Geena Davis
Exec Producer: Joe Roth
Producer: Larry Brezner
Screenplay: Todd Graff, based on Avra Wing's novel
Start Date: 3/93
The first project at Joe Roth's new Caravan Pictures deal at Disney
features another script from the super-hot Graff (USED PEOPLE, THE
VANISHING) after being put into turnaround at Fox. An independent
Italian-American Queens, NY girl looks for love. A ninties version of
MARTY. Madonna worked on the development of the project, but has
decided to topline in a film produced by her Maverick company, as was
originally announced. Rather than delay the shoot on this film, Roth
dismissed Madonna and director Jonathan Kaplan and signed Geena Davis.
Madonna was not pleased. Front-running director candidate Coolidge is
hot after RAMBLING ROSE and LOST IN YONKERS.
ASPEN EXTREME (Hollywood) January 22
Rating: "PG-13" for seom language, drug content and nudity.
Dir: Patrick Hasburgh
Cast: Paul Gross, Peter Berg, Teri Polo, Finola Hughes, Tony Griffin
Producer: Leonard Goldberg
Screenplay: Patrick Hasburgh
Negative Cost: $14 million
Filmed on the slopes at Aspen is this action film from Aspen
resident Hasburgh. Tony is Merv's son.
THE BAD BOYS (Hollywood) TBA
Dir: Michael Bay
Cast: Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz
Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenplay: George Gallo, Tom Pope, James Toback, Larry Ferguson
Start Date: TBA, Miami
Mega-producers Simpson and Bruckheimer finally had a project going
under their Disney deal, but it has been shelved for the time being
for script work. Both Carvey and Lovitz have play-or-pay deals ($2
million and $600K, respectively), so scheduling difficulties may
really hurt this film's chances of getting made.
BEAUTY (Hollywood) December
Dir: TBA
Cast: Bruce Willis
Producers: David Willis, Suzanne Todd, Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Gene Quintano
Start Date: 2/93
A fantasy where a medieval Sleeping Beauty wakes up in contemporary
New York. From Cinergi.
BEYOND INNOCENCE (Hollywood) Summer
Dir: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Don Johnson, Rebecca DeMornay, Jack Warden, Stephen Lang
Producer: Martin Ransohoff
Screenplay: Larry Cohen
D.P.: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Start Date: 10/7/92, Toronto
Johnson is a heavy in this murder mystery. DeMornay is the
attorney who gets involved with him.
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT (Hollywood) (SRD) (SS) February 5 (Rochester, Tucson, Las Vegas)
Rating: "R" for strong violence and language, and for sexuality and drug content Spring (wider)
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
Composer: Bill Conti
Start Date: 5/6/91, Los Angeles, San Quentin
Epic production of the genesis of the Mexican-American "mafia".
Runs 157 minutes long. Excellent advanced word. Test marketed in
three cities. Talk of a possible title change.
BORN YESTERDAY (Hollywood) March 26
Dir: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, John Goodman
Producer: Dino Constantine Conte
Screenplay: Douglas McGrath, based on Garson Kanin's play and film
D.P.: Lajos Koltai
Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
Griffith takes on the role that won an Oscar for Judy Holliday.
Johnson plays the part William Holden filled. They had been pursuing
Nick Nolte for the Broderick Crawford role in this remake of the
Garson Kanin play/film, but now John Goodman will take that role.
Mandoki directed WHITE PALACE.
BUDDY COPS TBA
Cast: George C. Scott
Producer: David Permut
CABIN BOY (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Adam Resnick
Cast: Chris Elliott
Producer: Denise DiNovi
Screenplay: Adam Resnick
Start Date: 2/17/93
Spoiled prep school grad sails from Maine to Hawaii. Resnick and
Elliott worked together on TV show GET A LIFE.
THE CEMETERY CLUB February 3 (NY, LA)
Rating: "PG-13" for sensuality and some language February 12 (wide)
Dir: Bill Duke
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Diane Ladd, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Lainie
Kazan, Christina Ricci, Wallace Shawn, Lee Richardson, Jerry Orbach,
Louis Guss
Producers: Bonnie Palef, Sophie Hurst, David Brown
Screenplay: Ivan Menchell, based on his play
D.P.: Steven Poster
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Start Date: 7/15/92, Pittsburgh
Comedy about the relationship between thtree elderly Jewish widows
who visit their late husbands' graves in Queens each month. One of
the women falls in love, which causes a rift between the friends.
Ricci scored big as Wednesday in THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Duke directed
DEEP COVER and A RAGE IN HARLEM.
THE COLOR OF KNIGHT TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Matthew Chapman
A psychiatrist must take over his recently murdered best friend's
therapy group in order to root out his killer. From Cinergi.
COOL RUNNINGS (Touchstone) 1993
Dir: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Rawle Lewis, Malik Yoba, John Candy
Producer: Dawn Steel
Screenplay: Jean Bereziuk
D.P.: Phedon Papamichael
Start Date: 2/1/93, Calgary, Jamaica
Negative Cost: $14 million
Story about the Jamaican bobsled team at the 1988 Winter Olympics
finally gets off the ground. Candy is the coach of the team.
Turteltaub helmed the surprise moneymaker 3 NINJAS. Formerly titled
BLUE MAAGA.
DOUBLE BLAST TBA
Dir: Tim Spring
Cast: Linda Blair, Dale 'Apollo' Cook, Robert Z'Dar, Chuck Williams,
Ron Hall, Joe Estevez, Lorne Berfield, Crystal Summer
Producers: David Hunt, Chuck Williams, William Burr
Screenplay: Paul Gulino
D.P.: Zalton David
Start Date: 1/11/93, Philippines
A FAR OFF PLACE 2.35 (Walt Disney) March 12
Dir: Mikael Salomon
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Maximillian Schell, Jack
Thompson, David Marshall Grant, Karen Austin, Sarel Bok, Jean Pierre
Castaldi
Exec Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producers: Eva Monley, Elaine Sperber
Screenplay: Jonathan Hensleigh, Sally Robinson, inspired by the books
of Sir Laurens can der Post
D.P.: Pal Gyulay
Start Date: 5/26/92, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Teenaged orphans must make a thousand-mile walk across the Kalahari
Desert in Africa. Directorial debut by ace D.P. Salomon explains
spectacular cinematography. First 'scope film from Buena Vista since
MEDICINE MAN. Witherspoon triumphed in THE MAN IN THE MOON. Has
hilarious new Roger Rabbit short TRAIL MIX-UP attached. From Amblin'.
FINAL TOUR TBA
Dir: Daniel Petrie Jr.
Producer: Patrick Hasburgh
Screenplay: Daniel Petrie Jr.
Start Date: 2/93, Vancouver
GONE FISHIN' TBA
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.
HOCUS POCUS (Walt Disney) 2.35 (SRD) July 23
Dir: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Thora Birch,
Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw
Producers: David Kirschner, Steven Haft
Screenplay: Kenny Ortega
D.P.: Hiro Narita
Start Date: 10/12/92, Los Angeles, Salem, MA
Negative Cost: $30+ million
Three 17th Century witches are transported to present-day Salem, Mass.
on Halloween night. The many visual effects including a talking
animatronic cat. Najimy scored in SISTER ACT, Ortega didn't, in
helming NEWSIES. EFX from Buena Vista.
HOMEWARD BOUND: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY (W. Disney) February 3 (NY, LA)
Rating: "G" February 12 (wide)
Dir: Duwayne Dunham
Cast: Robert Hays. Kim Greist, Benj Thall, Veronica Lauren, Kevin
Chevalia
Producers: Franklin R. Levy, Jeffrey Chernov
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson and Linda Woolverton, based on Sheila
Burnford's novel
Composer: Bruce Broughton
Two dogs and a cat cross the Sierra Nevada to rejoin their masters.
Remake of the oft-loved tale. Dunham is one of David Lynch's
editors...he directed a TWIN PEAKS segment. Woolverton wrote BEAUTY
AND THE BEAST. Opened in Hollywood exclusively at the El Capitan.
I LOVE TROUBLE (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Charles Shyer
Cast: Julia Roberts
Producer: Nancy Meyers
Screenplay: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
Producers are looking for Harrison Ford to come aboard as the male
lead of this romantic comedy, ala' the Tracy-Hepburn films. Meyers
and Shyer are responsible for the big hit FATHER OF THE BRIDE, as well
as BABY BOOM and IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES.
THE INKWELL TBA
Dir: Matty Rich
Cast: TBA
Exec Producer: Irving Azoff
Producer: Guy Riedel
Screenplay: Trey Ellis
Start Date: 5/93
Negative Cost: $8 million
Hot director Rich (STRAIGHT OUT OF BROOKLYN) directs this film
about an idiosyncratic African-American teenager who "finds himself"
when he finds love.
IRON WILL TBA
Dir: Charlie Haid
Cast: Mackenzie Austin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, Brian Cox,
August Schellenberg, George Gerdes, John Terry, Penelope Windust,
Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Michael Laskin
Producers: Patrick Palmer, Robert Schwartz
Screenplay: Jeff Arch
D.P.: William H. Wages
Start Date: 1/9/93, Minnesota, Montana
JEFFERSON IN PARIS 1994
Dir: James Ivory
Cast: Greta Scacchi
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Start Date: 9/93, Paris
Negative Cost: $14 million
Merchant/Ivory get their Disney deal going with a tale set in the
18th Century when Thomas Jefferson was ambassador to France.
JOEY COYLE Fall
Dir: Ramon Menendez
Cast: John Cusack
Producer: Tom Musca
Screenplay: Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca
Start Date: 2/1/93, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
An unemployed longshoreman finds $1 million in unmarked bils and
launders it through the Mafia. Menendez and Musca worked together
on STAND AND DELIVER.
THE LION KING 1st Half 1994
Dir: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Voices: Robert Guillaume
Producer: Don Hahn
Screenplay: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Tim Rice
Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
Disney's 32nd animated feature concerns the coming-of-age of a young
lion. Hahn produced BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Formerly titled KING
OF THE JUNGLE.
LIFE WITH MIKEY (Touchstone) August 13
Dir: James Lapine
Cast: Michael J. Fox
Producers: Scott Rudin, Marc Lawrence
D.P.: Laszlo Kovacs
Start Date: 9/92
A former child star becomes a talent agent because he loves children
in this comedy. Lapine directed IMPROMPTU.
THE MIGHTY DUCKS 2 (Walt Disney) TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Jordan Kerner, John Avnet
Screenplay: Steve Brill
Start Date: 6/93
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS November
Dir: Henry Selick
Producers: Tim Burton, Denise DiNovi
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
Composer: Danny Elfman
Start Date: 8/1/91, San Francisco
This stop-motion animation holiday fantasy has secretly been in
production for some time now. Elfman wrote ten songs and the score,
as well as providing the singing voice for the lead character, Jack
Skellington.
ORIGINAL SIN TBA
Dir: Mike Figgis
Cast: Sharon Stone
Producer: Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
Start Date: 3/93
Negative Cost: $35 million
Hot, hot Sharon Stone is a woman haunted by the memories of a man
she loved in a past life. A talk-show host helps her find the man,
while simultaneously falling in love with her. There is apparently
more to the past love than she recalls....... Eszterhas wrote
Stone's breakthrough film BASIC INSTINCT. From Cinergi.
POCAHONTAS November 1994
Composer: Alan Menken
Disney's 33rd feature-length animated film is a romantic "Romeo and
Juliet" with Pocahontas and John Smith.
A PORTRAIT OF A LADY TBA
Dir: James Ivory
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Start Date: 1993
First film under the Merchant-Ivory deal with Disney.
THE PROGRAM (Touchstone) Summer
Dir: David S. Ward
Cast: James Caan, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson, Halle Berry, Omar
Epps, Jon Maynard Pennell, Abe Benrubi, Andrew Bryniarski, Duane
Davis, Joey Adams
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Screenplay: Aaron Lathan, David S. Ward
D.P.: Victor Hammer
Start Date: 11/16/92, South Carolina
Negative Cost: $15-$20 million
Caan is the coach in this film which follows an incoming college
freshman and a quarterback in contention for the Heisman Trophy.
Over the course of the football season, the coach's program puts
itself above the needs of the players. "It's about love, sex, honor,
betrayal, winning, losing, drugs, booze, hard work and quitting. It's
about college." Co-produced with The Samuel Goldwyn Co.
QUIZ SHOW (Hollywood) TBA
Dir: Robert Redford
Producers: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson
Screenplay: Paul Attansio, based on Richard Goodwin's book REMEMBERING
AMERICA
The 1950's TV quiz show scandals are taken to task in this film from
Baltimore Pictures.
RAT RACE (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Amy Heckerling
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Amy Heckerling, based on Alain Renais' film MON ONCLE
D'AMERIQUE
Start Date: 3/93
Inspired by Renais' wonderful 1980 film, which depicted the
inevitability of adult human behavior based on early upbringing,
including several scenes played by rats, Ms. Heckerling's entire film
will have rats used throughout the film.
RENAISSANCE MAN December
Dir: Penny Marshall
Cast: TBA
Producers: Penny Marshall, Andy Vajna
Screenplay: Jim Burnstein
Negative Cost: $25+ million
A burned-out ad exec gets a job teaching Army personnel and falls in
love with teaching. Apparently Mel Gibson and Tom Hanks are both
considering this one. From Cinergi.
SANTA CLAUSE (Hollywood) December
Cast: Tim Allen
Producer: Robert Newmyer
Screenplay: Steve Rudnick, Leo Benvenuti
Star of TV's "Home Improvement" makes his feature film debut in this
comedy of a young child's father who becomes Santa.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER (Touchstone) December
Dir: Luis Mandoki
Cast: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan
Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Screenplay: Ron Bass, Al Franken, Susan Shilliday
Start Date: 5/93
A co-dependent relationship with a husband who discovers that his
wife is an alcoholic. This project has been jumping around since
1989, with directors Garry Marshall, Alan Pakula and Lasse Hallstrom,
actors Tom Hanks, Michelle Pfeiffer abd Debra Winger involved at
various stages. Mandoki helmed WHITE PALACE and GABY - A TRUE STORY.
SISTER ACT II (Touchstone) Summer
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg
Producers: Dawn Steel, Scott Rudin
Start Date: 3/93
Will boxoffice lightning strike twice? Goldberg becomes the highest
paid actress in history for this project.
SLEEPING BEAUTY 2.21 70mm TBA
Disney's stylized Technirama animated feature makes yet another
appearance on the big screen. Delayed from an Easter 1993 opening.
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFSSNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 1.33
Summer
Following another painstaking frame-by-frame restoration, this all-
time Disney classic will resurface in Dolby Stereo.
THE SON-IN-LAW (Hollywood) July 30
Dir: Steve Rash
Cast: Pauly Shore, Lane Smith, Cindy Pickett, Carla Gugino, Mason
Adams, Dan Gauthier, Dennis Burkley, Patrick Renna
Producers: Peter Lenkov, Michael Rotenberg
Screenplay: Patrick Clifton, Susan McMartin, Shawn Schepps, Fax Bahr,
Adam Small
D.P.: Peter Deming
Start Date: 11/15/92, Los Angeles
Wacked-out comedy about a hip urban guy who masquerades as the
fiance of a Midwest farm girl. MTV's Shore scored well in ENCINO MAN.
STAKEOUT 2 (Touchstone) Summer
Dir: John Badham
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell
Producers: Jim Kouf, Lynn Bigelow
Screenplay: Jim Kouf
D.P.: Roy Wagner
Start Date: 1/11/93, Las Vegas, Vancouver
Sequel to the successful 1987 film. This time they must pose as a
family.
STANLEY AND LIVINGSTON TBA
Producer: Nick Krantz
A new version of the tale of Darkest Africa.
STEEPLECHASE (Hollywood) 1993
Dir: Patrick Hasburgh
Cast: TBA
Producer: TBA
Screenplay: Patrick Hasburgh
Start Date: 2/92
Sexy ski instructor tries to make it in the real world in this
comedy. Also known as ASPEN.
SUPER MARIO BROTHERS (Hollywood) (SRD) May 28
Dir: Rocky Morton, Anabel Jankel
Cast: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper,
Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, Dana Kaminsky, Mojo Nixon
Producers: Roland Joffe, Jake Eberts
Screenplay: Barry Morrow, Ed Solomon
D.P.: Dean Semler
Negative Cost: $45 million
Start Date: 5/6/92, Wilmington, NC
Live-action comedy-adventure based on the video game is being co-
directed by the creators of the original MAX HEADROOM for British TV.
Tons of visual effects. From Lightmotive.
SWING KIDS (Hollywood) March 5 (limited)
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Thomas Carter
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Sean Leonard,
Christian Bale, Frank Whaley
Exec Producers: Chris Meledandri, Frank Marshall
Producers: Mark Gordon, John Bard Manulis, Jan Balzer
Screenplay: Jonathan Feldman
Start Date: 2/3/92, Prague
Story of rebellious teenagers in Nazi Germany whose love for
American swing music drives their passions against the tyranny.
Branagh was last seen in PETER'S FRIENDS, Leonard scored big in DEAD
POETS SOCIETY, Bale also toplined Disney's NEWSIES and Whaley was last
seen in HOFFA. Carter has been scheduled to direct Lucasfilm's RED
TAILS.
TERMINAL VELOCITY (Hollywood) December
Dir: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: TBA
Producers: Andy Vajna, Ted Field
Screenplay: David Twohy
Negative Cost: $50 million
A skydiving instructor investigates the death of a student and
stumbles onto an international conspiracy. Tentative helmer Reynolds
directed ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES. From Cinergi and
Interscope.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Touchstone) November
Dir: Stephen Herek
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell
Exec Producers: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner
Producers: Joe Roth, Roger Birnbaum
Screenplay: David Loughery
D.P.: Dean Semler
Composer: Michael Kamen
Start Date: 4/15/93, Vienna, Salzburg, London
Fast-tracked by Disney in the Musketeers' War, this project has
reverted to Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures. Sutherland plays Athos,
Sheen is Aramis and O'Donnell is D'Artagnan. D.P. Semler won an
Oscar for DANCES WITH WOLVES.
TINA: WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (Touchstone) July 9
Dir: Brian Gibson
Cast: Angela Bassett, Larry Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis
Producers: Barry Krost, Doug Chapin
Screenplay: Kate Lanier, Larry Fishburne
D.P.: Jamie Anderson
Start Date: 12/9/92, Los Angeles, Sacramento
The life story of Tina Turner. Whitney Houston and Halle Berry were
among those who tested for the role that went to Ms. Bassett, who can
be seen in MALCOLM X. Fishburne plays Ike Turner.
TOMBSTONE TBA
Dir: Kevin Jarre
Cast: TBA
Producers: Jim Jacks, Sean Daniel
Screenplay: Kevin Jarre
Start Date: 3/29/93, Arizona
An historial epic about Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at O.K. Corral
is one of two Earp features to be greenlighted for this year. Kevin
Costner was offered the lead in this one before taking the other. A
top-flight ensemble cast may be headed by Kurt Russell. From
Cinergi.
TOTALLY LONDON (Hollywood) TBA
Cast: Pauly Shore
Producers: Brad Weston, Bob Beitcher, Michael Rotenberg
Screenplay: Ryan Rowe
Shore goes to England to work for a Duke's family.
TRAIL MIXUP March 12
Dir: Rob Minkoff
Voices: Charles Fleischer
Exec Producer: Steven Spielberg
Start Date: Summer '92, Orlando
This time Roger Rabbit goes out west in this short to be produced at
Disney Animation's Florida studios. This one is attached to the
front of A FAR OFF PLACE (an Amblin' film) as Mr. Spielberg is tired
of helping Disney productions at the boxoffice with his shorts.
TWIST (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Frank Oz
Cast: Steve Martin
Screenplay: Steve Martin
Start Date: 1993
Drama with comedic overtones concerns families and the criminal
element.
ULTIMATUM (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: TBA
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Screenplay: Laurance Dworet, Robert Roy Poole, Jim Kouf, Ron Shelton
Thriller concerning political terrorism. Hurd produced ALIENS,
TREMORS and RAISING CAIN, among others.
UNTITLED PATRICK SWAYZE (Hollywood) June 25
Dir: Darrell James Roodt
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Halle Berry, Diane Ladd, Brian Bonsall, Sabrina
Lloyd
Producers: Anant Singh, Nick Pileggi, Gillian Gorfil
Screenplay: Scott Spencer
Start Date: 11/16/92, San Antonio, New Orleans, Los Angeles
Swayze is a wayward father who goes on the lam with his two
children. Berry is the female lead, a reporter. She was most
recently seen in BOOMERANG. Bonsall plays Lt. Worf's son Alexander in
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Roodt directed SARAFINA! Pileggi
produced GOODFELLAS. Formerly titled JACK OF HEARTS and HONOR AMONG
THIEVES.
WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT (Touchstone) TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Voice of Charles Fleischer, TBA
Exec. Producer: Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: TBA
This prequel to the 1988 smash hit WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT has been
put on hold since Disney and Amblin' cannot agree on a script after
innumerable attempts.
ZONE OF SILENCE TBA
Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer
Screnplay: John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion
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AMERICAN CYBORG April 16
Rating: "R" for strong violence and for language
AMERICAN NINJA 5 June 4
Cast: Michael Dudikoff
AMERICAN SAMURAI TBA
Rating: "R" for violence
Dir: San Firstenberg
Cast: David Bradley
Producer: Alan Greenblatt
Screenplay: Courtney Joyner
An American Ninja's brother is killed and he goes to Turkey to find
those responsible.
CHICAGO LOOP TBA
Cast: James Spader, Theresa Russell
A suspense film.
COLD TO THE TOUCH TBA
Dir: Aaron Norris
Cast: Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels, Christopher Neame, Sheree J.
Wilson, Jack Adalist, Ori Levi, Asher Tzarfati, Elky Jacobs, Jack
Messinger
Producer: Chris Pearce
Screenplay: Don Thompson
D.P.: Joao Fernandez
Start Date: 10/28/92, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Chuck's son Aaron gets to boss Dad around.
FIFTY/FIFTY February 26 (limited)
Rating: "R" for scenes of violence, and for language
Dir: Charles Martin Smith
Cast: Peter Weller, Robert Hays, Charles Martin Smith
Producers: Maurice Singer, Raymond Wagner
Screenplay: Dennis Shryack, Michael Butler
Two mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow the dictator of a
small island nation in the South China Sea in this comedy/adventure.
GOOD COP/BAD COP May 7
MIDNIGHT RIDE May 14
Dir: Bob Bralver
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Robert Mitchum
Producer: Ovidio G. Assonitis
Screenplay: Russell V. Manzatt, Bob Bralver
Thriller about a woman who gives a lift to a serial killer and her
husband who must save her.
MUMMY LIVES June 11
NIGHTMARE April 30
NO PLACE TO HIDE May 26
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
Dir: Richard Danus
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau
Producer: Alan Amiel
Screenplay: Richard Danus
A secret society threatens the life of a 14-year old orphan girl.
A detective risks his all to protect her. Formerly titled TIPPERARY.
NO RETURN TBA
Cast: Charles Bronson
Somehow I don't think they're talking about bottles...
OVER THE LINE August
Rating: "R" for strong violence, sexuality and language
PRISON HEAT August
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
RESCUE ME June 4
Dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Dee Wallace Stone, Stephen Dorff, Ami Dolenz,
Peter DeLuise
Producer: Richard Alfieri
Screenplay: Mike Snyder
A high school nerd rescues the girl of his dreams from a kidnapping
with the help of a smuggler.
STREET KNIGHT March 12
Cast: Jeff Speakman, Bernie Casey
Castle Hill
AMERICAN FRIENDS
Spring
Dir: Tristam Powell
Cast: Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado, Alfred Molina
British film based on Palin's true story about his grandfather.
FIVE GIRLS Spring
Dir: Amos Kollek
Cast: Amos Kollek, Mari Nelson, Marla Sucharetza
Producer: Julian Schlossberg
Screenplay: Amos Kollek
Israeli Kollek comes to New York to study prostitutes who walk the
streets. Cast mixes professional actresses and real prostitutes.
TRUSTING BEATRICE February 12 (NY)
Rating: "PG" for sensuality and language
Dir: Cindy Lou Johnson
Cast: Irene Jacob, Mark Evan Jacobs
Producer: Mark Evan Jacobs
Screenplay: Cindy Lou Johnson
A romantic comedy. Jacob starred in THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE.
Formerly titled CLAUDE. Excellent word.
Columbia
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE September 17
Dir: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Producers: Martin Scorsese, Barbara DeFina
Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese, based on Edith Wharton's novel
D.P.: Michael Ballhaus
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Start Date: 3/24/92, Troy NY, Philadelphia, New York City
This $30+ million project was put into turnaround at Fox and has
found a home with Sony Pictures Entertainment, as Mark Canton snapped
it up. Fox balked at the increasing cost of the film, which is an
1870's doomed romance-drama. It is based on Edith Wharton's Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel. Lewis stars in THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS for Fox
and Pfeiffer can be seen meowing in BATMAN RETURNS for Warner Brothers
and LOVE FIELD for Orion. Production Designer is Dante Ferretti (THE
NAME OF THE ROSE), editor is Thelma Schoonmaker (who else?), who
edited CAPE FEAR, GOODFELLAS, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST and RAGING
BULL, for which she was Oscared. This is one of only two pictures
that Scorsese is permitted to make outside his six-year exclusive deal
at Universal. Delayed from a Christmas, 1992 platform release.
AMOS & ANDREW March 5
Rating: "PG-13" for drug content and some language
Dir: E. Max Frye
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Dabney Coleman, Michael
Lerner, Margaret Colin, Brad Dourif
Exec Producer: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Gary Goetzman
Screenplay: E. Max Frye
Composer: Richard Gibbs
Start Date: 4/1/92, Wilmington, NC
Comedy with a black filmmaker's adventure with a Martha's Vineyard
police chief and a kidnapper. Delayed from a February 26th
opening.
ANNIE AND THE CASTLE OF TERROR TBA
Dir: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Patrick Stewart
Exec Producer: Ray Stark
Producers: William C. Nestel, Vicky Herman
Screenplay: Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming
Negative Cost: $16 million
Start Date: 4/5/93, Prague
Set on the eve of WWII in 1938, this sequel to ANNIE stars Stewart
as Daddy Warbucks alongside a yet-to-be-cast "more mature" Little
Orphan Annie. Film is an action/adventure, rather than a musical.
Production is scheduled during Stewart's hiatus from STAR TREK: THE
NEXT GENERATION. Gilbert directed several Bond films, as well as
ALFIE, EDUCATING RITA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE and STEPPING OUT.
BEFORE AND AFTER TBA
Dir: Barbet Schroeder
Cast: Meryl Streep
Parents cover up their son's heinous crime.
THE BLACK PANTHER TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Wesley Snipes
Producers: Brad Weston, Bob Beitcher
Start Date: 1/93
An African king transforms into a black panther to do heroic deeds.
BLANKMAN TBA
Cast: Damon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans
Producer: Damon Wayans, Eric Gold
Screenplay: Damon Wayans
Start Date: 2/93
A spoof of superheroes.
BODILY HARM (Castle Rock) September 24
Dir: Harold Becker
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, Peter
Gallagher, Josef Sommer, George C. Scott
Producers: Rachel Pfeffer, Charles Mulvehill, Harold Becker
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, Jonas McCord
D.P.: Gordon Willis
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Start Date: 8/3/92, Los Angeles, Boston, Northampton, MA
Love triangle thriller from the author of LITTLE MAN TATE. Formerly
titled DAMAGES.
CALENDAR GIRL May 7
Dir: John Whitesell
Cast: Jason Priestley, Jay O'Connell, Gabriel Olds, Joe Pantoliano,
Kurt Fuller, Stephen Tobolowsky
Exec Producers: Penny Marshall, Elliot Abbott
Producer: Debbie Robbins
Screenplay: Paul Shapiro
D.P.: Tom Priestley
Start Date: 3/23/92, Los Angeles, Perris CA
Three friends leave their hometown in Nevada for Hollywood in 1962.
They hope to meet Marilyn Monroe.....The heartthrob from BEVERLY HILLS
90210 gets a feature starring role. Formerly titled ME AND MONROE.
CURE TBA
Dir: Francis Coppola
Screenplay: Diane Johnson
An AIDS story.
D'ARTAGNAN TBA
Dir: Sam Raimi
Cast: TBA
Producers: Jon Peters, Brad Wyman
Screenplay: John Fasano
A prequel to the "Three Musketeers" story, loosely based on the
Alexandre Dumas story, this film tells a revisionist version how
D'Artagnan meets the other Musketeers. They are younger and hipper
than the original.
DAVY CROCKETT STORY TBA
Dir: David Zucker
Screenplay: David Pyne
DRACULA II TBA
Dir: Francis Coppola
Cast: Anthony Hopkins
Hopkins is the only participant from BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA who's
signed on for the sequel thus far.
DRUMFIRE TBA
Dir: John Singleton
The third feature from the talented helmer of BOYZ 'N THE HOOD.
ED WOOD TBA
Dir: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp
Producer: Denise DiNovi
Screenplay: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Start Date: 2/93
Biopic about the cult film director of PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE.
EL MARIACHI February 26
Rating: "R" for strong violence. (NY, LA, San Diego, San Antonio, Albuquerque)
Dir: Robert Rodriguez
Cast: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Peter Marquardt
Producers: Robert Rodriguez, Carols Gallardo
Screenplay: Robert Rodriguez, Carols Gallardo
D.P.: Robert Rodriguez
Negative Cost: $7,000!
First time director Rodriguez spins a futuristic action-adventure
gunslinger yarn set in Mexico. A lone mariachi musician enters a
small border town at the same time as a hit man. Rodriguez did not
even have sync sound. All dialogue is dubbed. Blown up to 35mm
from 16mm. In Spanish with English subtitles. Film debuted at the
Sundance Film Festival. Outstanding word.
FIRST KNIGHT TBA
Dir: Jerry Zucker
Producer: Jon Davison
Screenplay: Bo Goldman, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton
Negative Cost: $35+ million
Start Date: 5/93, United Kingdom
Another Arthurian tale for the big screen will be the first project
of Zucker since his $500+ million grosser GHOST.
FREE OF EDEN TBA
Dir: Andy Wolke
Cast: Sidney Poitier
Producer: Sidney Poitier
Screenplay: Yule Caise
Poitier is a teacher who "makes a difference" in tough educational
times.
GERONIMO TBA
Dir: Walter Hill
Producer: Neil Canton
Screenplay: John Milius
Start Date: 4/93
Biopic about the Native American chief.
GROUNDHOG DAY February 12
Rating: "PG" for some thematic elements.
Dir: Harold Ramis
Cast: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Steve Tobolowsky,
Brian Doyle-Murray
Producer: Trevor Albert
Screenplay: Danny Rubin
D.P.: John Bailey
Composer: George Fenton
Start Date: 3/16/92, Woodstock, IL
Murray is a disc jockey continually reliving one day in his life.
But will he see his shadow? It all takes place on Groundhog Day.
Trailer is hilarious. Excellent word.
HANS AND FRANZ TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Dana Carvey, Kevin Nealon
Producers: Lorne Michaels, Bernie Brillstein
Saturday Night Live spin-off follows the two body builders who
travel to Hollywood to try to meet their idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
HEXED January 22
Rating: "R" for sexuality and language
Dir: Alan Spencer
Cast: Arye Gross, Claudia Christian, Adrienne Shelly, Robin Curtis,
Norman Fell, Michael Knight, Ray Baker, R. Lee Ermey, Brandis Kemp
Producer: Marc S. Fisher
Screenplay: Alan Spencer
D.P.: James Chressanthis
Start Date: 11/4/91, Ft. Worth, Irving TX
A neurotic thriller about a bellboy (Gross) who gets mixed up with a
beautiful but deadly model during her stay at his hotel. Shot in a
vacant Hilton in Texas. Hilarious trailer. Dreadful word.
HOUDINI TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenplay: Peter Seaman, Jeffrey Price
A big screen treatment of the life of legendary illusionist Harry
Houdini comes to life after twenty years of development by mega-
producer Ray Stark. The film will approach the subject from the angle
of the relationship between Harry and his wife and how their lives
were interwoven with mysticism and spirituality. Bob Zemeckis has at
least temporarily dropped out of the project as director. Price wrote
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. The film is a Columbia-Universal co-
production, Universal holds the foreign rights.
I'LL DO ANYTHING November
Dir: James Brooks
Cast: Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Tracey Ullman, Joely
Richardson, Whittni Wright, Joely Fisher, Jeb Brown, Vicki Lewis, Anne
Heche, Robert Joy, Ian McKellan
Producers: James L. Brooks, Polly Platt
Screenplay: James L. Brooks
Songs: Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Carol King
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
D.P. Michael Ballhaus
Start Date: 8/24/92, Los Angeles
James L. Brooks' first feature since BROADCAST NEWS is a musical
movie about Hollywood where Nolte must age 20 years and has a six-year-
old daughter. A new film from Brooks is always welcome news. Albert
Brooks plays a sleazy film producer. Formerly titled IT'S ONLY A
MOVIE.
IN THE LINE OF FIRE (Castle Rock) July 23
Dir: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott
Producer: Jeff Apple
Screenplay: Jeff Maguire
D.P.: John Bailey
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Start Date: 10/92, Washington DC, Chicago, LA
Negative Cost: $30+ million
Eastwood is Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan who, haunted by
JFK's assasination, is tracking down would-be presidential assassin
Malkovich. McDermott plays Eastwood's Secret Service partner.
Petersen is best known for DAS BOOT and THE NEVERENDING STORY. Lead
female role was turned down by Sharon Stone.
INTO THE WOODS December
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Exec. Producer: Brian Henson
Producers: Craig Zadan, Neil Meron
Screenplay: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
Zadan anticipates a $30 million budget on this big-screen adaptation
of the Tony-winning musical. It will be co-produced by Jim Henson
Productions and will feature live action mixed with Henson puppets.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine will consult on the production.
JOHNNY SPAIN TBA
Dir: TBA
Producers: Oliver Stone, Suzanne De Passe
Screenplay: Anna Hamilton Phelan
True story of the Black Panther who turned his life around in spite
of having been framed for a prison murder.
JOSH AND S.A.M. (Castle Rock) August
Dir: Billy Weber
Cast: Noah Fleiss, Jacob Tierney, Martha Plimpton, Chris Penn
Producer: Martin Brest
Screenplay: Frank Deese
D.P.: Don Burgess
Start Date: 8/3/92., Billings, MT, Salt Lake City, Calgary
A 12-year-old boy convinces his 7-year old sibling that he is a
"strategically altered mutant", a killing machine. The boys set off
on the road to cure the S.A.M. spell and escape their unhappy lives.
Formerly titled KILLER S.A.M.
KARATE KID IV TBA
Dir: Chris Cain
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Start Date: 6/93
I hear this time it's a girl.
THE LAST ACTION HERO 2.35 70mm (SDS) (SS) June 18
Dir: John McTiernan
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Mercedes Ruehl, Austin
O'Brien, Charles Dance, Anthony Quinn, Robert Prosky, Tom Noonan,
Frank McRae, Art Carney, Joan Plowright
Producer: Steve Roth, John McTiernan
Screenplay: Zak Penn, Adam Leff, rewrite by Shane Black and David
Arnott, polish by William Goldman
D.P.: Dean Semler
Composer: Michael Kamen
Negative Cost: $70 million
Start Date: 11/2/92, Los Angeles, New York
Exciting, action-packed heart-warming tale of a teenager who leaves
the real world onto the movie screen and meets his hero, Jack Slater,
a fictional film character, and goes with him on butt-kicking heroic
adventures. Schwarzenegger and McTiernan last worked together on
PREDATOR. R/Greenberg & Associates will be supervising the humongous
visual effects work on this fantasy mega-project. There will be lots
of digital F/X at film resolution. Goldman was paid $750,000+ to do
a quick script polish. D.P. Semler was Oscared for DANCES WITH
WOLVES. Young Mr. O'Brien is the teenager and was in THE LAWNMOWER
MAN. Oscar-winner Ruehl plays his mother. Oscar-winner Abraham is
an FBI agent. Amusing (and expensive) teaser trailer attached to
prints of A FEW GOOD MEN. Expect to see some prints in the new Sony
Digital Sound (SDS).
LOST IN YONKERS (Rastar) May 14
Dir: Martha Coolidge
Cast: Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, Irene Worth
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenplay: Neil Simon, based on his play
Start Date: 8/92
Neil Simon's Pultizer Prize and multiple Tony-winning play is
brought to the big screen by hot director Coolidge (RAMBLING ROSE) and
hot lead actress Ruehl. Ruehl won a Tony for the role she will
reprise and pocketed a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination for
Supporting Actress for THE FISHER KING. Dreyfuss has signed on to
play Louie. Production wrapped on 10/16/92. Nine hours of film is
being edited digitally with an Avid system running on a Mac Quadra.
LOVE IN THE ATTIC TBA
Dir: Alphonso Caron
Cast: Geena Davis
Producers: Richard Donner, Lauren Schuler-Donner, Geena Davis
MACHINE GUN KELLY TBA
Dir: Marek Kanievska
Cast: William Baldwin
Producer: Sam Arkoff
Screenplay: Michael Werb, Anna Hamilton-Phelan
Will the old producing master of B-movies move up a letter in the
alphabet? Baldwin last scored big in BACKDRAFT.
MY GIRL II TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Anna Chlumsky
A sequel has already been green-lighted by Columbia and Imagine.
MY LIFE TBA
Dir: Bruce Joel Rubin
Cast: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman
Producers: Jerry Zucker, Hunt Lowry, Bruce Joel Rubin
Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin
Start Date: 2/25/93, Los Angeles, Chicago
Oscar winning-screenwriter Rubin (GHOST, JACOB'S LADDER) makes his
directorial debut with this drama concerning a terminally-ill cancer
patient whose wife is pregnant. With the assistance of a faith
healer, the man learns to prepare himself spiritually and emotionally
for death. Kidman will play the expectant wife of cancer-stricken
Keaton. Chicago locations will double for Detroit. Zucker and
Rubin teamed for GHOST at Paramount.
NEEDFUL THINGS (Castle Rock) August 13
Dir: Fraser Heston
Cast: Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, Max von Sydow, J.T. Walsh, Amanda
Plummer
Producer: Jack Cummins
Screenplay: W.D. Richter, based on Stephen King's novel
D.P.: Tony Westman
Start Date: Fall '92, Maine
The devil opens a novelty shop in town of Castle Rock and
manipulates the residents' lives. The production company Castle
Rock paid $1.75 million for the film rights. Harris is Sheriff
Pangborn, von Sydow is Gaunt, the shopowner. Bedelia is Polly
Chalmers and Walsh is Danforth Keeton III. Heston is Chuck's son.
NO FURTHER QUESTIONS TBA
Dir: TBA
Producer: Jon Peters
Screenplay: Ron Bass
A thriller concerning a rape victim who is accused of having staged
the event.
NORTH TBA
Dir: Rob Reiner
NOWHERE TO RUN 1.85 (SR) January 15
Rating: "R" for violence, language and sexuality.
Dir: Robert Harmon
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Ted Levine
Exec Producer: Joe Eszterhas
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
D.P.: David Gribble
Start Date: 6/8/92, Napa Valley, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $15 million
Hardened criminal breaks out of prison and hides in Northern
California's wine country, where he proceeds to fall in love with the
mother of two. He ultimately winds up protecting them from some bad
guys. Also known as PALS and NOWHERE TO RUN.
OUTLAWS TBA
Dir: TBA
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Screenplay: Boaz Yakin, Cassidy Heydt
Western about a group of female outlaws, from the producer of the
BATMAN films.
THE PICKLE April 30 (limited)
Rating: "R" for a scene of sexuality and some language
Dir: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Danny Aiello, Shelley Winters, Dyan Cannon, Jerry Stiller, Chris
Penn, Ally Sheedy, Barry Miller, Griffin Dunne, Little Richard, Paul
Mazursky
Producer: Paul Mazursky
Screenplay: Paul Mazursky
Composer: Michel LeGrand
Start Date: 9/23/91, New York, Los Angeles
Aiello plays a director in the midst of previewing his new film. Is
this autobiographical?
PIN CUSHION TBA
Dir: John Carpenter
Cast: Sharon Stone
Exec Producer: Scott Rudin
Producer: Joshua Donen
Screenplay: John Raffo
Start Date: 8/1/93
An action film for the sizzling Ms. Stone.
POETIC JUSTICE July 16
Dir: John Singleton
Cast: Janet Jackson, Tone Loc, Tupac Shakur, Keith Washington, Regina
King, Joe Torry, Tyra Ferrell, Roger Smith
Exec Producer: John Singleton
Producer: Steve Nicolades
Screenplay: John Singleton
D.P.: Peter Collister
Composer: Stanley Clarke
Start Date: 4/14/92, Los Angeles
Second film from the acclaimed Oscar-nominated young director of
BOYZ 'N THE HOOD is a Capra-esque street version of A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM. A nineteen-year-old hairdresser lives with death in
southwest L.A. Music superstar Janet Jackson takes the lead role
that every black actress in Hollywood was after. She is no stranger
to acting, having had featured roles in TV series GOOD TIMES and FAME
for several seasons. Rapper Tone Loc makes his feature debut.
Shakur is a rapper/postman who falls for Jackson. He starred in
JUICE.
REMAINS OF THE DAY November 5
Dir: James Ivory
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, James Fox,
Hugh Grant
Exec Producers: Mike Nichols, John Calley, Harold Pinter
Producer: Ismail Merchant
Screenplay: Harold Pinter, based on Kazuo Isigiro's novel
D.P.: Tony Pierce Roberts
Start Date: 9/14/92, England, Ireland
Negative Cost: $10 million
Mike Nichols originally planned to direct Jeremy Irons in this
tale of an English butler. Now he will produce with the venerable
team of Merchant and Ivory getting involved, reuniting with Anthony
Hopkins after their superb teaming on HOWARDS END. Sounds good to
me!
RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION TBA
Dir: Frank Darabont
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Brad Pitt
Producer: Niki Marvin
Screenplay: Frank Darabont
Start Date: 5/93
This Castle Rock production depicts a young banker (Robbins) wrongly
accused of killing his wife and her lover. Freeman is his prison
cell-mate...a lifer. Pitt is a male hustler also in the slammer who
helps Robbins formulate his defense. Darabont wrote THE FLY II.
SEA WOLF TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Tom Rickman, Andrew Chapman, based on Jack London's novel
STRIKING DISTANCE Fall
Dir: Rowdy Herrington
Cast: Bruce Willis
Producers: Arnon Milchan, Tony Thomopoulos, Hunt Lowry
Screenplay: Rowdy Herrington, Marty Kaplan
D.P.: Mac Ahlberg
Composer: Brad Fiedel
Start Date: 6/8/92, Pittsburgh
Negative Cost: $30+ million
The biggest suspense with this long-in-the-works action film had
been how much would Columbia pay Willis to star? He signed for $13
million a couple of years ago, but that was pre-BONFIRE and HUDSON.
With his fortunes again on the rise, post-BOY SCOUT, how much of a cut
would Willis take, if any? The film has reportedly been green-lighted
with Bruce getting $9 - $10 million. Film has a Pittsburgh-based
river patrol cop on the trail of a serial killer. Formerly titled
THREE RIVERS. Due to substantial scheduled reshoots, the release
date has slipped from May 21st. Word is not good.
SUNRISE IN HIS POCKET 1993
Dir: David Zucker
Cast: TBA
Exec Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber
Screenplay: TBA, based on Paul Hutton's book
The adventures of Davy Crockett are chronicled in this big-screen
adaptationof the forthcoming U. of Oklahoma Press book.
SWEENY TODD TBA
Dir: Tim Burton
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Caroline Thompson
Composer: Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim's great Broadway musical that copped eight Tony Awards
comes to the big screen. Macabre story is an interesting match for
Mr. Burton as director. Thompson co-wrote EDWARD SCISSORHANDS.
WILD KINGDOM TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Roseanne Arnold, Tom Arnold
Producers: Steve Nicolaides
Screenplay: Mitch Marcus
Start Date: Spring 1993
A family has an outlandish trip to a wild-animal park.
WOLF 1993
Dir: Mike Nichols
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mia Farrow
Exec Producers: Robert Greenhut, Neil Machlis
Producer: Doug Wick
Screenplay: Jim Harrison, Wesley Strick
Start Date: 3/93
Romantic thriller about a contemporary werewolf had a script polish
by Elaine May. Old pal Nichols bowed out of the project at one
point and is back in. Nicholson in Bill Randall, who works at a
publishing firm. He is bitten by a wolf and due to the bit, becomes
more aggressive at work, going for the jugular of the top brass.
Farrow is his wife, Charlotte.
Concorde/New Horizons
ANGELFIST TBA
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
BLACKOUT TBA
Cast: Don Wilson
Screenplay: Rob Kerchner
A karate thriller.
BLADEMASTER TBA
Dir: Hans Epstein
Cast: TBA
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Steve Lavine
Start Date: 8/3/92, Russia, Germany, Bulgaria
BLOODFIST IV: DIE TRYING TBA
Rating: "R" for violence and language
Dir: Paul Ziller
Cast: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Cat Sassoon, Amanda Wyss, Liz Torres
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Paul Ziller
A repo man nabs the wrong car and winds up tangling with the CIA.
BLOODFIST V: BLACKOUT TBA
Dir: Jeff Yonis
Cast: Don Wilson
Screenplay: Jeff Yonis
Start Date: 2/93, Los Angeles
They just keep churning them out...
BURIAL OF THE RATS TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Film is based on a Bram Stoker story and is a co-production with
Russia's Mosfilm Studios.
CARNOSAUR TBA
Dir: Adam Simon
Cast: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Henry Adam Knight, Adam Simon, based on Henry Knight's
novel
Start Date: 11/30/92, Arizona, New Mexico
Negative Cost: $7 million
A science-fiction thriller about genetic engineering, undoubtedly
timed to exploit JURASSIC PARK.
A CRY IN THE WILD 2 March
Cast: Matt McCoy
CURSE OF THE RED BARON TBA
Screenplay: Michael McDonald
DRUG BUSTER TBA
Based on the life story of drug-abuse fighter Dr. M. David Lewis.
FANTASTIC FOUR TBA
Dir: Oley Sassone
Cast: Alex Hyde-White, Michael Bailey-Smith, Rebecca Staab, Jay
Underwood, Carl Ciarfallo, Joseph Culp, Ian Trigger, Kat Green
Exec Producers: Bernd Eichinger, Roger Corman
Producer: Steve Rabiner
Screenplay: Craig Nevius
D.P.: M. Parry
Start Date: 12/28/92, Los Angeles
Don't expect much from this low budget entry about the classic
Marvel heroes. The original intent was to shoot a $50 million epic,
but financing couldn't be arranged. Rather than lose the rights to
the film is production didn't commence by the end of 1992, Eichinger
mounted a $5 million cheapie.
FIREHAWK TBA
Rating: "R" for war violence and strong language
GENTLEMAN JIM TBA
Cast: Mark Collver
Screenplay: Jonathan Winfrey
INNOCENT BLOOD Spring
Dir: Louis Morneau
Cast: Brad Dourif, Sherrie Rose
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Kirk Honeycutt
Thriller with the same title as John Landis' 1992 chiller.
INTO THE SHADOWS TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: D.J. Godfrey
THE LIAR'S CLUB TBA
Cast: Wil Wheaton
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND FIRES
Dir: George Hickenlooper
A film where a camcorder is passed from person to person during the
LA riots.
OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS TBA
Dir: Catherine Cryan
Screenplay based on Joseph Conrad's novel
The story of a drifter who is kicked out of Singapore and picked up
by a sailing captain and given another chance in commerical trading.
ROGER CORMAN'S DRACULA RISING March
Rating: "R" for vampire violence, and for sexuality
Dir: Fred Gallo
Cast: Christopher Atkins, Stacey Travis, Doug West
Producer: Roger Corman
Screenplay: Rodman Flender
Start Dte: 5/25/92, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania
THE SKATEBOARD KID TBA
Cast: Timothy Busfield, Bess Armstrong
Producer: Mike Elliott
STEPMONSTER TBA
Rating: "PG-13" for elements of horror
Dir: Jeremy Stanford
Cast: Alan Thicke
Producer: Steve Rabiner
Screenplay: Scott McGee, Christopher Wooden
Start Date: 4/8/92, Los Angeles
TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE TBA
Rating: "R" for sexuality, violence and language
Dir: Adam Friedman
Cast: Scott Valentine, Charlie Spradling
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Carolyn Gail, based on Katt Shea's 1989 film DANCE OF THE
DAMNED, written by Katt Shea and Andy Ruben
Start Date: 3/8/92, Los Angeles
TOUGH COOKIES TBA
Rating: "PG" for mild violence and language
TOWER OF TERROR TBA
Rating: "NC-17"
WATCHERS III TBA
Dir: TBA
Exec Producer: Roger Corman
Producer: Mike Elliott
Screenplay: Daryl Haney, based on Dean R. Koontz' novel
WHITE WOLVES TBA
Rating: "PG" for adventure peril and mild language
First Run Features
CHILDREN OF FATE May 26
Dir: Andrew Young/Susan Todd
EXECUTION PROTOCOL April 28
Dir: Stephen Trombley
FEMALE MISBEHAVIOR TBA
Dir: Monika Treut
GET THEE OUT! TBA
Dir: Dimitri Astrakan
TIME INDEFINITE May 12
Dir: Ross McElwee
UMINCHUL: THE OLD MAN AND THE EAST CHINA SEA TBA
Dir: John Junkerman
UTZ (Castle Hill) February 10 (NY)
Dir: George Sluizer
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul
Scofield
Screenplay: Based on Bruce Chatwin's novel
Film is about an eccentric Czech nobleman who obsessively collects
porcelain figurines. Rushed into release to capitalize on Sluizer's
THE VANISHING. Impressive cast, with two Oscar winners.
VENTS TBA
Dir: Richard Oretsky/Ralph Taragan
Gloria Productions
A CAPTIVE IN THE LAND January 15 (NY)
Dir: John Berry
Cast: Sam Waterston, Alexander Potapov
Producers: Malcolm Stuart, John Berry
Screenplay: Lee Gold
D.P.: Pierre William Glenn
Composer: Bill Conti
In Arctic Circle Siberia, an American meteorologist spots a wrecked
Soviet plane and parachutes down with first aid. After finding only
one survivor, a storm closes in and shifts the ice cap upon which they
are situated, necessitating a land journey through the wilderness for
survival.
Gramercy Pictures
A DANGEROUS WOMAN December 17
Dir: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Cast: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne
Exec Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
Producer: Naomi Foner
Screenplay: Naomi Foner
A social outcast and her aunt have their lives changed by a drifter
who answers their ad for a handyman. From Amblin'.
DAZED AND CONFUSED September 24
Dir: Richard Linklater
Producers: Richard Linklater, James Jacks, Sean Daniel
Screenplay: Richard Linklater
Comedy set in 1976 concerns twenty teenagers' last wild day of high
school. Linklater helmed SLACKER.
DREAM LOVER October 15
Dir: Nicholas Kazan
Cast: James Spader, Madchen Amick, Fredrick Lehne, Bess Armstrong,
Larry Miller, Kathleen York
Producer: Joni Sighvatsson, Lauren Lloyd, Wally Nicita
Screenplay: Nicholas Kazan
Start Date: 9/10/92, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $15 million
Nicholas Kazan makes his directorial debut with this psychological
thriller about an architect's discovery that the woman he married is
not who she had him believe. Kazan won an Oscar for writing REVERSAL
OF FORTUNE.
A HOME OF OUR OWN November 12
Dir: Tony Bill
Cast: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Amy Sakasitz, Soon-Teck Oh, Tony
Campisi, Miles Heulner, Clarissa Lassig, T.J. Lowther, Sarah Schaub
Producer: Dale Pollock, Bill Borden
Screenplay: Patrick Duncan
D.P.: Jean Lepine
Start Date: 10/26/92, Utah
The story of a family in the Fifties that loads up its car and moves
to rural Idaho From A&M Films.
KALIFORNIA July 30
Dir: Dominic Sena
Cast: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis
Producers: Steve Golin, Joni Sighvatsson, Aris McGarry
Screenplay: Tim Metcalf
Start Date: 5/11/92, Los Angeles
A cross-country road thriller in which the two principals join an
unwitting couple in a cross-country tour of historic murder sites.
KING OF THE HILL August 20
Dir: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jeroen Krabbe, Elizabeth McGovern, Karen Allen
Exec Producer: Robert Redford
Producers: Barbara Maltby, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
Screenplay: Steven Soderbergh, based on A.E. Hotchner's novel
Coming-of-age film where a 12-year-old boy lives a Huck Finn-like
existence.
LIGHTS OUT late October
Dir: Nigel Dick
Cast: Michael Madsen, Gary Stretch, Lisa Bonet
Producers: Steven Golin, Joni Sighvatsson, Gregg Fineberg
Screenplay: Larry Golin
Suspense thriller with a cop and a female reporter who hunt down a
madman.
POSSE May 7
Dir: Mario Van Peebles
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Charles Lane, Tiny Lister, Melvin Van
Peebles, Blair Underwood, Billy Zane, Stephen Baldwin, Isaac Hayes,
Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Salli Richardson
Producers: Jim Steele, Preston Holmes
Screenplay: Dario Scarpadane, Sy Richardson
D.P.: Peter Menzies
Negative Cost: $10 million
Start Date: 10/15/92, Tucson, Santa Fe
Van Peebles stays in the Western groove after starring in GUNMEN
for Fox, he directs a black western for the new Gramercy Pictures.
The title refers to a posse of cowboys, four black and one white.
ROMEO IS BLEEDING September 10
Dir: Peter Medak
Cast: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy
Scheider, Ron Perlman
Producers: Hilary Henkin, Paul Webster
Screenplay: Hilary Henkin
D.P.: Darlusz Wolski
Start Date: 8/24/92, New York
Negative Cost: $10 million
Dark, sexually charged comedy from the director of THE KRAYS.
Ellen Barkin has bowed out due to her pregnancy.
Greycat Films
THE COLOR OF LOVE TBA
Dir: Melissa Pearson
Screenplay: Melissa Pearson
Film is described as a less angry variant of JUNGLE FEVER. It is
from the point of view of a white woman.
DINGO TBA
Dir: Rolf de Heer
Cast: Miles Davis, Colin Friels
Screenplay: Marc Rosenberg
This Australian film stars the late Miles Davis as trumpeter Billy
Cross. Friels plays an aspiring Aussie Jazz musician. Film was shot
in Australia and Paris. It has already one the Australian Writers
Guild Award for Best Screenplay and the Best Music Australian Film
Award for its score by Michel LeGrand and Miles Davis.
GHOST OF THE CIVIL DEAD TBA
Australian film was written by a former prison guard and inspired by
true events at a prison. Said to be as disturbing as HENRY: PORTRAIT
OF A SERIAL KILLER.
THE HORSEPLAYER TBA
Dir: Kurt Voss
LIFE IN THE LAFF LANE TBA
Road movie about three stand-up comics.
MANIKA, MANIKA, THE GIRL WHO LIVED TWICE April
Dir: Francois Villiers
THE MONTANA RUN TBA
Dir: Randy Thompson
NO TELLING April
Dir: Larry Fessenden
SINGAPORE SLING March
Dir: Niko Nikolaidis
WHERE SLEEPING DOGS LIE TBA
Dir: Charles Finch
Cast: Dylan McDermott, Sharon Stone, Tom Sizemore
Producer: Charles Finch
Screenplay: Charles Finch
Psychological thriller from the son of the late Peter Finch.
McDermott is an idealistic writer who compromises his principles for
de big bucks. Stone can be seen all over Michael Douglas in BASIC
INSTINCT.
Hemdale
AMERICAN RANGLER TBA
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Tushka Bergena, Stephen Vidler
Negative Cost: $3.5 million
This period feature concerns an American who goes to the "Wild West"
of the outback. Formerly titled OUTBACK. Fahey scored in THE
LAWNMOWER MAN.
BREAKFAST OF ALIENS (Coyote Releasing) TBA
Dir: David Lee Miller
Cast: Vic Dunlop
Producer: Brian James Ellis
Screenplay: David Lee Miller, Vic Dunlop
A likeable perennial loser swallows an alien and becomes a
successful stand-up comic.
THE CHILDREN (Coyote Releasing) TBA
Dir: Tony Palmer
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Karen Black, Geraldine Chaplin, Britt
Ekland, Joe Don Baker
Producer: Andrew Montgomery
Screenplay: Timberlake Wertenbacker, based on Edith Wharton's novel
Story of a middle-aged bachelor who becomes the guardian of a group
of kids in 1920's Europe.
DARK WORLD TBA
Cast: Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones
GOBLINS TBA
Dir: Kenneth J. Hall
Cast: Billy DaMota
Producer: Connie Kingrey
Screenplay: Kenneth J. Hall
Start Date: 1/27/92, Miami
Creatures have a war with children in their efforts to turn humans
into pumpkins.
LOVE AND MURDER TBA
Rating: "R" Language.
LOVE YOUR MAMA March 5 (limited)
Dir: Ruby L. Oliver March 19 (wider)
MELTDOWN Spring
Dir: Yves Simoneau
Cast: Dolph Lundgren
Producers: George Braunstein, Ron Hamady
Screenplay: John Carpenter, Robert Roy Pool
Start Date: 7/92
Negative Cost: $15 million
Lundgren is am anti-terrorist strongman in this bruising action-
adventure.
MOJO FLATS May
Dir: Lisa Gottlieb
Cast: Christina Applegate, Elizabeth Pena, Burgess Meredith, James
Remar, Peter Berg
A female buddy film that has two women from quite different
backgrounds brought together for an adventure. Formerly titled
TEHACHAPI.
PRIMARY MOTIVE TBA
Dir: Daniels Adams
Cast: Judd Nelson, John Savage, Sally Kirkland, Jose Ferrer
Producer: Tom Gruenberg
Screenplay: Daniel Adams, William Snowden
D.P.: John Drake
Start Date: 4/22/91, Luxembourg, Boston
REEFER AND THE MODEL TBA
Dir: Joe Comerford
RETURN TO WOLF MOUNTAIN TBA
Dir: Craig Clyde
Cast: Vivian Schilling, Nicole Lund, Jonathan Best, Bo Hopkins, Robert
Z'Dar, David Shark, Don Shanks
Producer: Bryce Fillmore
Screenplay: Vivian Schilling, Craig Clyde
Start Date: 4/19/93, Park City, UT
SEVEN MINUTES TBA
Dir: Klaus Maria Brandauer
Cast: Brian Dennehy, Reecca Miller, Elisabeth Orth
Producers: Moritz Borman, Rainer Soehnlein
Screenplay: Stephen Sheppard, from his novel
Dennehy portrays the man who attempted to assassinate Hitler in the
early moments of WWII in Brandauer's feature directorial debut.
THE TALE OF RUBY ROSE TBA
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Roger Scholes
Imperial Entertainment
NEMESIS January 29 (regional)
Composer: Michelk Rubini
Interstar
EASTERN GUNS TBA
An Arizona western.
EYE OF THE WIDOW TBA
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross
KNIGHT MOVES January 22
Rating: "R"
Dir: Carl Schenkel
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin
Producers: Ziad El Khouri, Jean-Luc Defait
Screenplay: Brad Mirman
D.P.: Dietrich Lohmann
Composer: Anne Dudley
Lambert is a chess master and Skerritt a police chief (ala' "Picket
Fences") in this action drama about a serial killer on the rampage in
a Pacific Northwestern town. A 600-screen release with this husband
and wife team. From Repubic Pictures.
LITTLE SISTER TBA
Rating: "PG-13"
Cast: John Hurt, Karen Young
A suspense film....hope there are no bursting chests.
A NEW WORLD TBA
Cast: Kevin Kline, Isabella Rosellini
A biography of composer Anton Dvorak.
A STAR FOR TWO TBA
Cast: Lauren Bacall
IRS Media
BANK ROBBERS TBA
Dir: Nick Mead
Cast: Lisa Bonet
Another racy film for Ms. Bonet.
CIRCUITRY MAN II: PRINCE OF PLUGS Spring 1994
Dir: Steven Lovy
Screenplay: Steven Lovy, Robert Lovy
EQUINOX Spring
Dir: Alan Rudolph
Cast: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tyra Ferrell, Marisa Tomei,
Tate Donovan, Lori Singer, Kevin J. O'Connor, Fred Ward, M. Emmet
Walsh
Producer: David Blocker
Screenplay: Alan Rudolph
ME, MYSELF AND I TBA
Dir: Pablo Ferro
Cast: George Segal, JoBeth Williams, Shelley Hack, Don Calfa, Betsy
Lynn George, Sharon McKnight, Ruth Gilbert, Bill Macy, Jaid Barrymore,
Sheila Scott-Wilkenson, Cheryl Paris, Hartley Haverty
Screenplay: Julian Barry
Start Date: 9/91, Los Angeles
Womanizing screenwriter (Segal) becomes involved with his neighbor,
who has a multiple personality disorder. Screenwriter Barry won an
Oscar for LENNY.
THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN TBA
Dir: Bruce Campbell
Cast: Bruce Campbell
Screenplay: Bruce Campbell
Start Date: 3/93
Negative Cost: $3 million
EVIL DEAD series star Campbell becomes a first-time triple threat in
this modern-day Frankenstein story.
THE MUSIC OF CHANCE Spring
Dir: Philip Haas
Cast: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Joel Grey,
Samantha Mathis
Producers: Dylan Sellers, Frederick Zollo
Screenplay: Philip Haas, Belinda Haas
D.P.: Bernard Zitzermann
Start Date: 5/26/92, North Carolina
A high-stakes poker game goes bad.
RAGE AND HONOR TBA
Rating: "R" for violence and language
Dir: Terrence H. Winkless
Cast: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton
Producers: Don Penrick, Kevin Reidy
Screenplay: Terrence H. Winkless
Start Date: 10/28/91, Los Angeles
Kino
LA VIE DE BOHEME Spring (NY)
Dir: Aki Kaurismaki
Cast: Matti Pellonpaa, Evelyn Didi
This Finnish-French co-production played the Berlin and New York
Film Festivals. It will open at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
Kaurismaki directed ARIEL and the acclaimed THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL.
TITO & ME TBA
Dir: Goran Markovic
A Yugoslavian-French comedy in Croatian that played at the Sarasota
Film Festival.
VISIONS OF LIGHT February 24 (LA)
Dir: Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuelson
Cinematography documentary was shot in HDTV and presented that way
at the Sundance Film Festival. Theatrical bookings are in 35mm.
Following the exclusive LA engagement at the Nuart, will be the Castro
in San Francisco and the Film Forum in New York.
MGM
BAD DESIRE TBA
Dir: John Schlesinger
Cast: TBA
Producers: Ezra Swerdlow, Deborah Schindler
Screenplay: Matthew Chapman, based on Gary Devon's novel
Negative Cost: $20 million
Erotic political, social thriller concerns the private life of a
political candidate. He is obsessed with a teenaged girl and is led
to murder. Oscar-winner Schlesinger (MIDNIGHT COWBOY) tackles this
one after THE INNOCENT.
BASIC INSTINCT II (Carolco) TBA
BENNY & JOON April 1
Rating: "PG" for theme, a scene of mild sensuality and one use of
harsh language
Dir: Jeremiah Chechick
Cast: Johnny Depp, Aidan Quinn, Mary Stuart Masterson, JulieAnne
Moore, Oliver Platt, Liane Curtis, Dan Hedaya
Producers: Susan Arnold, Donna Roth
Screenplay: Barry Berman
D.P.: John Schwartzman
Composer: Rachel Portman
Start Date: 6/1/92, Spokane
Woody Harrelson is being sued by MGM for dropping out the the
picture, where he reportedly has a pay-or-play deal. He has been
replaced by Aidan Quinn, who most recently was so effective in THE
PLAYBOYS. Story concerns an offbeat man (Depp) who falls in love with
Benny's sister June. At one time Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon
were close to doing this one.
BESSIE December
Dir: Bruce Beresford
Cast: TBA
Producers: Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Horton Foote, based on Chris Albertson's book
Start Date: 9/92, Chicago, New York, The South
Negative Cost: $20 million
Double Oscar-winner Foote (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TENDER MERCIES)
pens a biography of blues legend Bessie Smith. This film will reteam
prime creative forces behind multiple Oscar winner DRIVING MISS DAISY.
BETTY BOOP TBA
Dir: TBA
Exec Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, Richard Fleischer
Producers: Jerry Rees, Steven Paul Leiva
Screenplay: Jerry Rees
Max Fleischer's sexy cartoon character comes to the big animated
screen in the Zanuck's initial foray into animation. The film will be
set in the Thirties, but Betty will have a decidedly modern bent. The
film will focus on the adventures of Betty Boop and her pals, Koko and
Bimbo, as they travel to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune.
BODY OF EVIDENCE 1.85 January 15
Rating: "R" for strong sexuality, and for language and violence
Dir: Uli Edel
Cast: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Jurgen
Prochnow, Julianne Moore
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Screenplay: Brad Mirman, Alison Cross
D.P.: Douglas Milsom
Start Date: 4/6/92, Oregon
Madonna is a woman standing trial for murdering her lover. Dafoe
is her defense attorney who compromises all when he falls for her.
Mantegna is the D.A. Edel helmed LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN. Originally
tagged with an "NC-17" rating, but cut in order to achieve an "R".
Has received an "18" rating in the U.K. Set to open there in the
March/April timeframe.
CLEAN SLATE TBA
Dir: Mick Jackson
Cast: Dana Carvey
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Robert King
Start Date: 3/15/93, Los Angeles
Carvey is an ex-cop turned private eye who is suffering from a case
of amnesia. Jackson is super-hot after helming the worldwide mega-hit
THE BODYGUARD.
DEADWOOD 1993
Dir: TBA
Producers: Richard Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Pete Dexter
Start Date: 1992, South Dakota
Story is about the final days of Wild Bill Hickok. Dexter wrote the
acclaimed PARIS TROUT and RUSH.
FATAL INSTINCT August 6
Dir: Carl Reiner
Cast: Armand Assante, Sherilyn Fenn, Kate Nelligan, Sean Young, James
Remar, Christopher McDonald, John Witherspoon, Clarence Clemons
Producers: Katie Jacobs, Pierce Gardner
Screenplay: David O'Malley
D.P.: Gabriel Beristain
Composer: Richard Gibbs
Start Date: 10/26/92, Los Angeles
Formerly titled TRIPLE INDEMNITY.
GETTING EVEN WITH DAD TBA
Dir: TBA
Producers: Katie Jacobs, Pierce Gardner
Screenplay: Jim Jennewein, Tom S. Parker
Start Date: 4/93, Chicago
THE METEOR MAN March 26
Dir: Robert Townsend
Cast: Robert Townsend, Bill Cosby, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones,
Marla Gibbs, Another Bad Creation, Sinbad, Frank Gorshin, Luther
Vandross, LaWanda Page
Exec Producer: Robert Townsend
Producer: Loretha C. Jones
Screenplay: Robert Townsend
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
Composer: Cliff Eidelman
Start Date: 4/13/92, Washington, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $10 million
An inner-city teacher is given extraordinary powers due to a meteor
shower, which he then uses to
clean up his drug-infested neighborhood. Cosby has a $100/day cameo
role as Marvin, the homeless man who at first chooses not to use the
special powers he has received. Features visual effects from ILM.
MRS. CALIBAN TBA
Dir: Paul M. Glaser
Cast: TBA
Exec Producers: Norman Lear, Mark E. Pollack
Producer: Kathyrn Schenker
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher, based on Rachel Ingalls' novel
THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN December
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Voices: Tim Curry, Martin Short, Jo-Anne Worley, Geoffrey Holder,
Annie Golden, Wayne Knight, June Foray, Tony Jay, Kendall Cunningham,
Stanley Jones, Phillip Clarke
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Screenplay: Rachael Koretsky, Steve Whitestone
Composer: Barry Manilow
Start Date: 11/15/91, Ireland
Musical animated adventure has a shy romantic penguin named Hubie
pitted against the stormy high seas and enemies as he attempts to
return to his sweetheart in Antarctica. Film is caught up in the
bankruptcy of Bluth Entertainment.
RAMBO IV (Carolco) TBA
Cast: Sylvester Stallone
RICH IN LOVE 1.85 March 5 (limited)
Rating: "PG-13" for thematic material
March 19 (wide)
Dir: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Albert Finney, Piper Laurie, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, Kyle
MacLachlan, Kathryn Erbe, Ethan Hawke, Alfre Woodard
Producers: Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on Josephine Humphrey's novel
Start Date: 9/8/91, Charleston SC
Composer: Georges Delerue
Negative Cost: $14 million
A young girl struggles to find her identity when her mother
(Clayburgh) runs away. Her father (Finney) is depressed, her
sister (Amis) is pregnant and there are all sorts of other problems
and distractions. Reunion of the creative team behind DRIVING MISS
DAISY. Oscar-winner Delerue collapsed while conducting the last note
of the score...he died two days later.
SHADES OF GRAY 1993
Dir: Wes Craven
Cast: TBA
Producers: Marianne Maddalena
Screenplay: Wes Craven, based on Timothy O'Neill's novel
Fact-based story of haunted West Point cadet room that has been
converted into a study alcove because no one will sleep in it.
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION Fall
Dir: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Will Smith, Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen
Producer: Fred Schepisi, Arnon Milchan
Screenplay: John Guare, Based on his play
Start Date: 3/3//93, New York
D.P.: Ian Baker
Negative Cost: $12 million
The great John Guare play is brought to the big screen by the
director of THE RUSSIA HOUSE, A CRY IN THE DARK and MR. BASEBALL.
Story finds a young black man who claims to be Sidney Poitier's son
and the effect he has on a group of affluent white Manhattanites. Ms.
Channing reprises her Broadway role. Will Smith is, of course, the
Fresh Prince.
SNAKE EYES Fall
Dir: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo
Producer: Mary Kane
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, Nick St. John
D.P.: Ken Kelsch
Start Date: 2/8/93, LA, NY
Madonna's Maverick Pictures' first feature project will topline the
Material Girl herself. Ferrara is hot after BAD LIEUTENANT, as is
Keitel.
SOMETHING LINGERS TBA
Dir: Jon Amiel
Producers: Lawrence Turman, David Foster
Screenplay: Stephen Fischer
An original thriller to be directed by the helmer of THE SINGING
DETECTIVE and QUEEN OF HEARTS.
SON OF THE PINK PANTHER 2.35 August 27
Dir: Blake Edwards
Cast: Roberto Begnini, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Robert Davi, Claudia
Cardinale
Producer: Tony Adams
Screenplay: Blake Edwards
Composer: Henry Mancini
Start Date: 6/1/92, Paris, Monte Carlo, Morocco, London, Jordan
Negative Cost: $25 million
The heretofore unknown bumbling son of Inspector Clouseau makes his
debut as the PINK PANTHER series continues/starts anew? Begnini has
nabbed the plum title role...he is the director/star of JOHNNY
STECCHINO, the smash-hit Italian comedy which is the biggest grossing
film Italian film ever. It debuted in the U.S. in September via New
Line. Lom and Kwouk reprise their long-running PINK PANTHER roles.
Delayed from a Memorial Day weekend release. This is Edwards' 50th
film.
A SUMMER STORY TBA
Dir: Bob Clark
Producer: Rene Dupont
Screenplay: Jean Shepard, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark, based upon the Jean
Shepard novels
Clark directed the hugely successful PORKY'S films.
TERMINATOR 3 (Carolco) TBA
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT PART III 70mm Fall
Dir: Bud Friegen, Michael Sheridan
Producers: Bud Friedgen, Michael Sheridan
Start Date: 3/15/93, Los Angeles
The third installment of the homage to the glory days of MGM will
feature many musical and dance numbers never publicly seen, fresh from
the MGM vaults. The producers were editors on the first two THAT'S
ENTERTAINMENT installments.
THUMBELINA June 11
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Voices: Jodi Benson, Carol Channing, Charo, John Hurt, Gino Conforti,
Barbara Cook, June Foray,l Gilbert Gottfried, Gary Imhoff, Kenneth
Mars
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
Screenplay: Carol Lynn Pearson
Composer: Bill Ross
Songs: Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman, Bruce Sussman
Start Date: 2/1/91, Ireland
Animated film based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of
the thumb-sized girl and her search for a prince had been picked up by
MGM, but is enmeshed in the Bluth Entertainment fiscal disaster.
Benson voiced THE LITTLE MERMAID.
TRIP HAMMER TBA
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
Producers: Pierce Gardner, Katie Jacobs
Screenplay: Steve Tesich, based on Dan McCall's novel
A TROLL IN CENTRAL PARK TBA
Dir: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Voices: Dom Deluise, Cloris Leachman, Hayley Mills, Charles Nelson
Reilly, Jonathan Pryce
Producers: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Screenplay: Stu Krieger
Start Date: 4/1/90, Ireland
Animated film about a gentle troll named Stanley who can create
flowers with but a touch. He is banished to Central Park and two
children help him confront the evil Queen Gnorga, whose touch turns
things to stone. Once again, Bluth Entertainment's demise threatens
this picture, which is near completion.
UNDERCOVER BLUES July 9
Dir: Herbert Ross
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci, Larry
Miller, Obba Babatunde, Tom Arnold, Park Overall
Exec Producers: Herbert Ross, Andrew Bergman
Producer: Michael Lobell
Screenplay: Ian Abrams
D.P.: Don Thorin
Negative Cost: $20 million
Start Date: 6/15/92, New Orleans, Los Angeles
A freelance spy couple have a baby and take time off from work in
this action-comedy. They go to New Orleans and find themselves
involved in a arms dealing case. Formerly titled CLOAK AND DIAPER.
UNTAMED HEART February 12
Rating: "PG-13" for some strong language and violence, and for
sensuality
Dir: Tony Bill
Cast: Christian Slater, Marissa Tomei, Rosie Perez
Producer: Tony Bill, Helen Bartlett
Screenplay: Tom Sierchio
Composer: Cliff Eidelman
Start Date: 3/23/92, Minneapolis
Negative Cost: $7.5 million
Romantic drama about a New Jersey waitress who falls in love with a
strange young man who hides the fact that he suffers with a very weak
heart. Screenwriter used to deliver liquor to the director's house.
After fighting for the female lead and winning it, Madonna has dropped
out. Formerly of NBC-TV's "A Different World", Tomei scored big in
MY COUSIN VINNY, with an Oscar nod for Supporting Actress. Formerly
titled THE BABOON HEART. Excellent word.
UNTITLED JAMES BOND TBA
Cast: Timothy Dalton
This one will reportedly be shot in China.
VIRTUE TBA
Dir: John Sacret Young
Cast: TBA
Producers: John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov
Screenplay: Elisa Bell
Miramax
BABY BLOOD TBA
Dir: Alain Robak
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT TBA
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
Dir: Jonathan Heap
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Graham Greene, Christopher
McDonald
Producers: Michael Spielberg, Brad Gilbert
Screenplay: Alison Cross, Chris Keyser, Jeffrey Polman
Start Date: 4/29/92, Arizona
CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE 1.85 January 29
Rating: "R" for horror violence and language
Dir: David Price
Cast: Terence Knox, Paul Scherrer, Christie Clary, Rosalind Allen
Producers: Scott Stone, David Stanley
A reporter and a Native American anthropologist attempt to
investigate a series of bizarre murders and run into those pesky
corncobs. From Dimension Pictures.
CLIVE BARKER'S PRIMAL (Dimension) TBA
Dir: Clive Barker
Cast: TBA
Exec. Producer: Clive Barker
Screenplay: Erik Saltzgaber, Daniel Chichester
Negative Cost: $7 million
A race of beings who feed on human fear come back from the limbo
they were banished to long ago for revenge. State-of-the-art special
effects in this initial in-house production for Dimension Films. A
series of comics from Dark Horse and other tie-ins are anticipated.
DR. OFF (Dimension Pictures) TBA
A black man is a teacher by day....a superhero by night.
DUST DEVIL (Dimension Pictures) TBA
Rating: "R" for violence and sexuality, and for language
Cast: Chelsea Field, Robert Burke
ECOPHORIA (Dimension Pictures) TBA
Dir: Rene Daalder
Cast: Balthazar Getty, Drew Barrymore, Alice Kriege
Producer: Kees Kasander
Screenplay: Rene Daalder, William Vigil, Doug Freed
D.P.: David Sperling
Start Date: 8/92, Los Angeles
Science-fiction thriller set in the future when the dissipated ozone
layer has forced mankinds indoors to escape the harsh UV rays of the
sun. A new Garden of Eden is the hope for the future. Kasander
produced THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER and PROSPERO'S
BOOKS.
ESPECIALLY ON SUNDAY TBA
Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Tullio Giordana, Francesco Barilli,
Giuseppe Bertolucci
Cast: Philippe Noiret, Bruno Ganz, Ornella Muti, Jean-Hugues Anglade,
Nicoletta Braschi, Maria Maddalena Fellini
Producer: Giovanna Romagnoli, Mario Orfini, Amedeo Pagani
Screenplay: Tonino Guerra
Four separate tales set in the different seasons. Guerra wrote
BLOWUP, AMARCORD and THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS.
ETHAN FROME March 12
Rating: "PG" for thematic elements
Dir: John Madden
Cast: Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, Tate Donovan,
Katherine Houghton, Stephen Mendillo, Debbon Ayer, Jay Goode, Rob
Campbell
Producer: Stan Wlodkowski
Screenplay: Richard Nelson, based on Edith Wharton's novel
D.P.: Bobby Bukowski
Composer: Rachel Portman
Edith Wharton's classic novel comes in a new screen version.
Excellent word for this American Playhouse production.
GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION Fall
Dir: Beeban Kidron
From the director of USED PEOPLE.
HIGH ART TBA
Rating: "R" for strong graphic violence, and for language and
sensuality.
THE HOUR OF THE PIG Fall
Dir: Leslie Megahy
HOUSE OF CARDS (Pentamerica) 1993
Rating: "PG-13" for theme
Dir: Michael Lessac
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Esther Rolle, Park Overall,
Asha Menina, Michael Horse, Shiloh Strong
Producers: Dale Pollock, Lianne Halfon, Wolfgang Glattes
Screenplay: Michael Lessac
D.P.: Victor Hammer
Composer: James Horner
A mother's young daughter suddenly becomes mute and develops unusual
abilities that medical science cannont explain. Postproduction was
done at the Skywalker Ranch. This is Lessac's feature directorial
debut. He is known for directing TV sitcoms. Previously titled
BEFORE I WAKE. Picked up by Miramax after being dropped by 20th Fox..
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS December
Dir: Bille August
Cast: Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio
Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Maria Conchita
Alonso, Jan Niklas, Sarita Choudhury, Vincent Gallo, Teri Polo,
Joaquin Martinez
Producer: Bernd Eichinger
Screenplay: Bille August, based on Isabel Allende's best seller
D.P.: Jorgen Persson
Start Date: 1/18/93, Portugal, Copenhagen
Negative Cost: $24 million
Ryder replaced Bille August's wife Pernilla due to her pregnancy in
this family saga set in Chile. She will play Streep's daughter,
Blanca, who is Banderas' lover. Film centers on the rise of an
embittered lower-class man and his tragic romance with his elusive
bride. Film follows the family from the turn of the century to the
present, blending the supernatural with this reality. Incredible
cast! August is hot off of the Cannes Palme D'Or win for BEST
INTENTIONS.
INTO THE WEST May 7
Dir: Mike Newell
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Rory Conway,
Colm Meany, Johnny Murphy
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Tim Palmer
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
Start Date: 10/91, Dublin and Galway, Ireland
A magical modern western for the 90s with two young brothers and
their magic horse. From Miramax' new Family Films division.
Excellent word.
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE IRT April 16 (NY)
Rating: "R" for language and sexuality
Dir: Leslie Harris
Cast: Ariyan Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Jerard Washington, Ebony Jerido
Exec Producer: Leslie Harris
Screenplay: Leslie Harris
African-American teenager in Brooklyn finds her friendships and
aspirations strained by an unexpected pregnancy.
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE February 17 (NY, LA)
Rating: "R" for sexuality
Dir: Alfonso Arau
Cast: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne
Screenplay: Adapted from Laura Esquivel's novel
Mexico's official Oscar entry received 10 Ariel (Mexican Academy
Awards), including Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay.
THE MAGIC RIDDLE TBA
Cast: Voices of Robyn Moore, Keith Scott
Another family film from Miramax, this time it's animated.
MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART 1993
Dir: Vincent Ward
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack, Anne Parillaud,
Clothilde Coureau
Producer: Tim Bevan
Screenplay: Vincent Ward, Louis Nowra
D.P.: Eduardo Serra
Composer: Gabriel Yared
The epic tale of a love affair torn apart by world at war. When two
young children meet at an orphanage, they forge an extraordinary
romance that spans three decades. Parrillaud was LA FEMME NIKITA,
Bergin last starred in SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY and the Fox version of
ROBIN HOOD. Ward directed THE NAVIGATOR.
MERCI LA VIE TBA
Dir: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anouk Grinberg, Jean
Carmet, Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Blanc
Producer: Bernard Merascot
Screenplay: Bertrand Blier
A coming-of-age film about two young women that has been picked up
by Miramax after playing in Paris for 8+ months, where it has grossed
$3.5 million nationwide.
MOTHER'S BOYS Fall
Dir: Yves Simoneau
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter
Gallagher, Luke Edwards, Colin Ward, Joey Zimmerman
Producers: Jack E. Freedman, Wayne S. Williams, Patricia Herskovic
Screenplay: Based on Bernard Taylor's novel
D.P.: Elliot Davis
Start Date: 12/7/92, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $8 million
A chilling suspense thriller in which a psychotic mother uses the
innocent children she abandoned to terrorize her ex-husband's
girlfriend. Reportedly, CBS is paying for 90% of the negative cost of
the film.
THE NIGHT WE NEVER MET May 14
Dir: Warren Leight
Producer: Michael Peyser
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Annabella Sciorra, Kevin Anderson, Justine
Bateman, Jeanne Tripplehorne, Mike Mantell, Louise Lasser, Doris
Roberts, Christine Baranski
Screenplay: Warren Leight
Start Date: 10/21/92, New York
D.P.: John Thomas
Negative Cost: $8 million
The difficulty of finding true romance and affordable housing.
THE OPPOSITE SEX February 26
Rating: "R" for language and sexual dialogue
Dir: Matthew Meshekoff
Cast: Courtney Cox, Arye Gross, Kevin Pollak
Producer: Bobby Newmyer
Screenplay: Noah Stern
A heartwarming and comical look at a modern couple as they learn the
rules of sex and love. Formerly titled RULES OF THE GAME.
PASSION FISH January 29 (wider)
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: John Sayles
Cast: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn
D.P.: Roger Deakins
Negative Cost: $4.8 million
Two women are uprooted from their city-based lives and wind up in
rural Louisiana. Oscar buzz for Woodard and Strathairn. The flip
side of DRIVING MISS DAISY. McDonnell and Woodard both starred in
GRAND CANYON. Opened in New York and Los Angeles in December 1992.
PRET-A-PORTER 1993
Dir: Robert Altman
Cast: TBA
Negative Cost: $15 million
Start Date: Summer 1993, Paris
Altman is hot again with two green-lighted projects. This one is
an ensemble piece that follows the comings-and-goings of thirty
models, designers,editors, photographers, buyers, etc. in the fashion
world of Paris ala' THE PLAYER slanting the film industry. Real
people will play themselves, too!
THE PIANO October
Dir: Jane Campion
Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
Producer: Jan Chapman
Love story from the superlative Ms. Campion from the superlative Ms.
Campion about a young woman who travels down to New Zealand in the
1850s with her daughter and her piano for an arranged marriage.
RUBY CAIRO April 16
Rating: "R" for a scene of strong sensuality, and for violence
Dir: Graeme Clifford
Cast: Andie MacDowell, Liam Neeson
Screenplay: Robert Dillon, Michael Thomas
Negative Cost: $24 million
MacDowell is a woman who enters a world of danger and intrigue when
she attempts to uncover the plot behind her husband's mysterious
demise in a planecrash. Romantic thriller was shot in LA, Cairo,
Athens, Berlin and Veracruz. From Kadokawa Pictures. Clifford
directed FRANCES. Dillion wrote THE RIVER, Thomas wrote LADYHAWKE.
SACRED SEX TBA
Sensational Australian documentary about ritualistic sexual
practices in the New Age Ninties has been picked up for domestic
distribution by the company that thrives on controversy. Film has
been a blockbuster Down Under.
STRICTLY BALLROOM February 12 (NY, LA)
Rating: "PG" for mild language and sensuality March 5
(wider)
Dir: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia
Carides, Peter Whitford, Barry Otto
Producer: Tristram Miall
Screenplay: Baz Luhrmann, Andrew Bovell
D.P.: Steve Mason
Composer: David Hirschfelder
Miramax has snagged a hot Cannes property from Australia. This one
is about ballroom dancing. This Aussie equivalent of DIRTY DANCING is
the biggest grossing film ever Down Under.
WHAT THE MOON SAW TBA
Dir: Pino Amenta
THE WIND TBA
Dir: Robert Dornhelm
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Jim Sheridan
Start Date: 9/91, Ireland
Dornhelm directed REQUIEM FOR DOMINIC, Sheridan directed MY LEFT
FOOT.
MK2
THE OAK January 22 (NY)
Dir: Lucian Pintilie
Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Razvan Vasilescu
Satire about a Romanian schoolteacher whose life changes
dramatically following her father's passing. Shown at the 1992 New
York Film Festival. Excellent word. Exclusive premiere engagement
at New York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
New Line Cinema
THE ADVENTURES OF FARTMAN TBA
Dir: Jonathan Lawton
Cast: Howard Stern
Producer: David Permut
Screenplay: Jonathan Lawton
Start Date: 5/93, New Yorl
Shock-jock Stern makes the leap to the silver screen in this
odiferous comedy. Lawton wrote PRETTY WOMAN.
THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO (Fine Line) October 8
Dir: Maggie Greenwald
Cast: Suzy Amis, Sir Ian McKellen, Bo Hopkins, David Chung, Carrie
Snodgrass, Sam Robards
Producers: Fred Berner, Brenda Goodman
Screenplay: Maggie Greenwald
D.P.: Declan Quinn
Start Date: 9/22/92, Montana
BARCELONA (Fine Line) TBA
Dir: Whit Stillman
Cast: Taylor Nichols, Christopher Eigeman
Producer: Whit Stillman
Screenplay: Whit Stillman
D.P.: John Thomas
Composers: Tom Judson, Mark Suozzo
Negative Cost: $5 million
Start Date: Spring '93, Spain
Oscar nominee Stillman (Original Screenplay for METROPOLITAN) helms
his second feature with this romantic comedy. Set in "the last decade
of the Cold War", this is the story of two American cousins (a Naval
Officer and a businessman) and their relationships with seversal
Spanish women.
BLINK (Fine Line) TBA
Dir: Michael Apted
Cast: Madeline Stowe, Aidan Quinn
Producer: David Blocker
Screenplay: Dana Stevens
D.P.: Dante Spinotti
Negative Cost: $10 million
Start Date: 3/93, Chicago
Stowe is a poet who was blinded due to child abuse. When a medical
procedure restores her sight, she witness a murder, but her brain does
not register what had occurred until hours later, as she has no depth
perception and is relearning "how to see". Quinn is the police
detective who doesn't know whether or not to believe her vision. An
erotic thriller from the director of COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, and most
recently, THUNDERHEART. Spinotti shot THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
BODIES, REST AND MOTION (Fine Line) April 9 (NY, LA)
Dir: Michael Steinberg
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Phoebe Cates, Eric Stolz, Tim Roth
Producers: Joel Castleberg, Allan Mindel, Denise Shaw
Screenplay: Roger Hedden
D.P.: Bernd Heinl
Start Date: 7/25/92, Tucson
A romance drama about young people suffering from personal inertia,
or "falling into ruts". Excellent word. Shown at the 1993 Sundance
Film Festival. Steinberg directed THE WATERDANCE.
BURN THISBURN THIS
TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Linda Yellen, Ray Katz
Screenplay: Don Jakoby, Linda Yellen, based on August Wilson's play
Negative Cost: $10 million
Big-screen version of the erotic play about a contemporary woman who
comes up against her fear of intimacy when a tempestuous man enters
her life.
CORRINA, CORRINA TBA
Dir: Jessie Nelson
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta
DAD'S WEEK OFF TBA
Dir: Neal Israel
Cast: TBA
Producer: Robert Harris
Screenplay: Elliot Stern, Denise Halma
Start Date: Spring '93
An accountant's job is in jeopardy, forcing him to stay home while
the wife and kids go off to a wedding. In the interim, he destroys
the house, imperils the dog, gets beaten up, nearly loses his job,
and comes close to ruining his marriage.
DAMAGE January 22 (wider)
Rating: "R" for strong sexuality and for language
Dir: Louis Malle
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert
Graves, Leslie Caron, Ian Bannen
Producer: Louis Malle
Screenplay: David Hare, based on Josephine Hart's novel
D.P.: Peter Biziou
Composer: Zbignew Preisner
Start Date: 2/24/92, U.K., France
Sordid tale of a politician obessed with his son's lover. Very
fine pedigree. Rating appeal was lost...release was delayed for a
week while film was cut to achieve an "R" rating after being slapped
with the dreaded "NC-17". Opened in New York and Los Angeles on
12/23/92.
DEADBOLT TBA
Rating: "R" for strong violence
DEAD ON TBA
Dir: Michael Schroeder
Cast: Ray Sharkey, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster, Miles O'Keefe
Producer: Lisa Hansen
Screenplay: Mark Sevi
D.P.: Jamie Thompson,
Start Date: 10/29/90, Los Angeles
DEAD SLEEP TBA
Dir: Alec Mills
Cast: Linda Blair, Tony Bonner, Sueyan Cox
Producer: Stanley O'Toole
Screenplay: Michael Rymer
Start Date: 3/12/90, Queensland
Psychological thriller about the controversy surrounding certain
shock therapies.
DEATH RING TBA
Rating: "R" for strong violence, and for sexuality and language
DELTA OF VENUS TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Sarah Kernochan
This screen adaptation of Anais Nin's sensuous novel about a young
woman's wild sexual abandon, an author's erotic writing for an
anonymous man leads to an intense rediscovery of self.
EDDIE March 5
Cast: Rick Moranis
THE ENDLESS SUMMER 2 April, 1994 (limited)
Dir: Bruce Brown
Cast: Pat O'Connell, Robert Weaver
Producers: Ron Moler, Roger Riddell
Screenplay: Bruce Brown, Dana Brown
D.P.: Mike Hoover
Start Date: 4/14/92, South Africa, Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand,
Fiji, Tahiti
Bruce Brown is finally making a sequel to his classic 1966 surfing
documentary THE ENDLESS SUMMER, which was produced for $50,000 and
grossed $30 million over the years. He will once again travel to the
great surfing spots of the world and this time will use the latest in
underwater photography and sound technologies.
EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES July 23
Dir: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves, Rain Phoenix, Victoria Williams, Faye
Dunaway, Roseanne Arnold, Pat Morita, Heather Graham, John Hurt
Producer: Laurie Parker
Screenplay: Gus Van Sant, based on Tom Robbins' novel
D.P.: John Campbell, Eric Edwards
Start Date: 9/14/92, Oregon
Negative Cost: $8.5 million
Young Virginia woman goes to New York to make a splash in the
fashion world. Ms. Phoenix is the head cowgirl of the twenty-five.
Project was formerly at TriStar.
EXCESSIVE FORCE (Fine Line) March 26 (limited)
Rating: "R" for strong violence and language and for sexuality and
drug use
Dir: Jonathan Hess
Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith, Charlotte Lewis, James Earl Jones, Lance
Henrikson, Tony Todd
Producer: Irwin Stoss
Screenplay: Thomas Ian Griffith
Start Date: 3/6/92, Chicago
Martial arts expert Griffith stars as Terry Conner in this action-
drama about a New York cop with a short fuse and fast fists. When
his partners are killed and $3 million disappears during a bust,
Conner fights to save his life and clear his name when he's suspected
by the law...and the mob. Griffith was featured in THE KARATE KID
PART III.
EYE OF THE STORM TBA
Rating: "R" for scenes of strong violence, and for language
FAST GETAWAY (Cinetel) TBA
Dir: Spiro Razatos
Cast: Corey Haim, Cynthia Rothrock, Leo Rossi, Ken Lerner, Marcia
Strassman
Producers: Paul Hertzberg, Lisa M. Hansen
Screenplay: James Dixon
D.P.: Jacques Haitkin
Start Date: 5/31/90, Coloradi, Utah
In this action adventure, a bright young man's estranged family
wants him to pursue a career in banking. Mom thinks the best route is
with an MBA while Dad opts for a more direct approach - bank robbery.
F-TROOP TBA
Dir: Bobby Logan
Cast: TBA
Producers: David Permut, Bobby Logan
Screenplay: Bobby Logan
Arrgh. Yet another bad TV show comes to the big screen. There
will likely be cameos by original cast members Ken Berry, Larry
Storch, Melody Patterson and James Hampton.
FATAL CHARM TBA
Dir: Fritz Kiersch
JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY August 13
Dir: Adam Marcus
Cast: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder
Producer: Sean S. Cunningham
Screenplay: Dean Lorey, Jay Huguely
Start Date: 5/92, Los Angeles
What have we done to deserve this?
INCREDIBLE CRASH DUMMIES 1993
Start Date: Spring 1993
A film based on those dummies who do the TV public-service spots for
seat belt usage, if you can believe that.
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS TBA
Dir: John Carpenter
Screenplay: Michael De Luca
Horror film concerns an investigator who must find a missing horror
author and his final manuscript before it is published. The story,
which is the last of a series of best-sellers, reveals the truth about
an evil race of beings dedicated to regaining control of Earth.
THE HIDDEN 2: THE SPAWNING TBA
Dir: Seth Pinsker
Cast: TBA
Producer: Michael Meltzer
Screenplay: Seth Pinsker
Start Date: 3/93
Sequel to the good and gross 1987 science fiction feature starring
Kyle Maclachlan as the alien cop hunting for the horrific villain will
be the feature directorial debut for Oscar short film nominee Pinsker.
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS (Fine Line) September 10 (NY, LA))
Dir: Nancy Savoca
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio, Sebastian Roche',
Judith Malina
Exec. Producer: Jonathan Demme
Screenplay: Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay, based on Francine Prose's
novel
Start Date: 6/24/92, New York, Wilmington NC
Newly Oscar-anointed Director Demme gets an exec producer credit on
this comedy set in Manhattan's Little Italy by third-time helmer
Savoca.
THE LANE FROST STORY TBA
Dir: John Avildsen
Cast: Luke Perry
Producer: Michael Shamberg
Screenplay: Larry Brothers
Negative Cost: $7 million
Biopic about the champion bull rider Frost who was killed in a rodeo
at the age of 23.
THE LAST DAYS OF CHEZ NOUS (Fine Line) February 26 (NY)
Rating: "R" for a moment of strong sexual language March 12 (LA)
Dir: Gillian Armstrong
Cast: Kerry Fox, Lisa Harrow, Bruno Ganz, Miranda Otto, Bill Hunter
Producer: Jan Chapman
Screenplay: Helen Garner
D.P.: Geoffrey Simpson
Composer: Paul Grabowsky
Aussie story of an inner-city Sydney household during a warm
Australian summer. Nominated for 11 Australian Film Awards.
Armstrong directed MY BRILLIANT CAREER and MRS. SOFFEL.
LEOLO (Fine Line) April 2 (NY)
Dir: Jean-Claude Lauzon April 7 (LA)
Cast: Ginette Reno, Pierre Bourgault, Maxime Collin, Giuditta Del
Vecchio, Julien Guiomar
Producers: Lyse Lafontaine, Aimee Danis
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Lauzon
Highly regarded Canadian film is the story of a young Montrealer's
who counters the banality and craziness of family life with wild
fantasies. A multiple Genie (Canadian Film) award-winner.
MAN'S BEST FRIEND September 17
Dir: John LaFia
Cast: Ally Sheedy, Lance Henriksen
Producer: Chuck Roven
Screenplay: John LaFia
Start Date: 1/25/93, S. California
This canine answer to THE TERMINATOR offers a villain created in a
college biotechnology lab and eye-popping visuals. Kevin Yagher,
creator of Chucky, is special effects supervisor. Roven produced
FINAL ANALYSIS.
THE MASK TBA
Dir: Chuck Russell
Screenplay: Mike Werb
An ambitious visual effects film based on the Dark Horse Comic
series in which an ordinary man buys an ancient mysterious mask that,
when worn, turns him into an indestructible, wise-cracking superman.
Not one to use his powers against evil, he embarks on a vendetta
against everyone who had ever "done him wrong".
MENACE II SOCIETY May 26 (limited)
Dir: Allen and Albert Hughes
Cast: KK, Tha D
Producer: Darin Scott
Screenplay: Tyger Williams
Negative Cost: $2.5 million
21-year-old twins Allen and Albert make their feature debut after
directing many rap videos. Story concerns a Watts teenager embroiled
in the criminal activity of his peers who struggles to better his
situation. Film is to be a much grittier look at the "Hood" than
other films, most notably BOYZ 'N THE HOOD. Cameos for Charles S.
Dutton, Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Plummer and Bill Duke.
MERCY TBA
Dir: Jack Sholder
Screenplay: Jack Sholder, Brad Miurman, based on David Lindsey's novel
Houston's most prominent women are being murdered unconventionally.
MIDNIGHT HEAT TBA
Rating: "R" for strong sensuality and violence, and for language
Dir: John Nicolella
Cast: Michael Pare, Adam Ant, Dennis Hopper, Daphne Ashbrook, Charlie
Schlatter, Tracy Tweed, Little Richard, Cindy Valentine, Joe Lara,
Tony Todd, Luca Bercovici
Producers: Kandice King, Lance King
Screenplay: Max Strom, John Allen Nelson
D.P.: Chuck Mahoney
Start Date: 7/1/91, Los Angeles
MINE TBA
Dir: Mary Lambert
Screenplay: Robert Resnikoff
A psychotic female terrorist who was raised in a Sixties radical
hippie family steals a baby from an innocent mother who must make a
hellish cross-country trip to retrieve her son.
MR. NANNY July 30
Rating: "PG" rated for comic action and mild language
Dir: Michael Gottlieb
Cast: Hulk Hogan, David Johansen, Sherman Hemsley
Screenplay: Michael Gottlieb
Start Date: 5/15/92, Miami
Formerly titled ROUGH STUFF.
NAKED IN NEW YORK (Fine Line) August 13 (NY)
Dir: Daniel Algrant
August 25 (LA)
Cast: Eric Stolz, Mary-Louise Parker, Timothy Dalton, Ralph Macchio,
Kathleen Turner, Tony Curtis, Jill Clayburgh, Lynne Thigpen
Exec Producer: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Fred Zollo
Screenplay: Daniel Algrant
D.P.: Joey Forsyte
Start Date: 11/9/92, New York
Negative Cost: $5 million
Hot new award-winning filmmaker from Columbia U. gets his major
theatrical debut. He caught Scorsese's eye while winning a medal at a
film competition.
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S LOADED WEAPON 1 February 5
Rating: "PG-13" for ribald humor and drug references.
Dir: Gene Quintano
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Curry, William Shatner,
Kathy Ireland
Producers: Suzanne Todd, David Willis
Screenplay: Don Holly, Gene Quintano
D.P.: Peter Deming
Composer: Robert Folk
Negative Cost: $8.2 million
Start Date: 6/22/92, Los Angeles
A new franchise for New Line resulting with the new association with
J2 Communications is the National Lampoon series of three upcoming
films over four years...the first jabs at the buddy/action genre ala'
the LETHAL WEAPON series from Warner Brothers/Silver. The original
script by Don Holly was acquired by Disney, who brought Quintano on
for a rewrite. Producer Willis is Bruce's brother. Features
cameos by Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Lewis, Erik Estrada,
Richard Moll, James Doohan and Beverly Johnson.
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 7 1993
Dir: Wes Craven
Cast: Robert Englund
Producer: Wes Craven
Screenplay: Wes Craven
OH, WHAT A NIGHT TBA
Rating: "PG-13" for elements of teen sexuality
PEACEMAKERS TBA
Producers: Suzanne de Passe, Cindy Cirlie, John Fasano
Screenplay: Cindy Cirlie, John Fasano
Start Date: 4/93
PYRATES TBA
Dir: Noah Stern
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick
Exec Producers: Andrew Meyer, Tom Taylor
Screenplay: Noah Stern
Start Date: 11/90, Los Angeles
Two lovers burn up everything in sight.
RELENTLESS III TBA
Rating: "R" for strong violence and sexuality, and for language
RIFF-RAFF (Fine Line) February 12 (NY)
Rating: None
March 17 (limited))
Dir: Ken Loach
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman, George Moss
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Screenplay: Bill Jesse
Composer: Stewart Copeland
A black comedy about a recent Glasgow prison inmate who gets a job
on a non-union construction site with a gang of workers converting a
rat-infested hospital into luxury flats. This critique of Thatcher's
Britain was shot in 16mm. The "R" rating which the film received has
been surrendered.
SHORT CUTS (Fine Line) September 24
Dir: Robert Altman
Cast: Tim Robbins, Jeff Daniels, Jack Lemmon, Fred Ward, Matthew
Modine, Andie MacDowell, Lily Tomlin, Laura Dern, Jennifer Jason
Leigh, Robert Downey Jr., Seymour Cassell, Teri Garr, Robert Townsend,
Chrisopher Penn, Anne Archer, Frances McDormand, Buck Henry, Lori
Singer, Lyle Lovett, Annie Ross
Producer: Cary Brokaw
Screenplay: Robert Altman, Frank Barhydt, based on Raymond Carver's
short stories
Start Date: 7/92, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $15 million
Ensemble comedy-drama set in contemporary working-class Los Angeles
has a NASHVILLE-like structure and huge cast. There are 27 major
parts, all which intertwine. Wound in early October. Altman's first
cut ran some six hours!
SKEETERS (Team Players) TBA
Cast: Cyril O'Reilly, Tracy Griffith
A low-budget science fiction film.
SO HELP ME GOD TBA
Dir: Tom Holland
Screenplay: Larry Cohen, Tom Holland
A contemporary courtroom drama where the ultimate evil possesses an
ordinary man who commits several gruesome murders.
SUNSET GRILL TBA
Rating: "R" for violence, sexuality and language
Dir: Kevin Connor
Cast: Peter Weller, Lori Singer, Stacy Keach, Alexandra Paul, John
Rhys-Davies, Michael Anderson Jr.
Low-budget thriller about a hard-luck detective who, while
attempting to avenge the murder of his ex-wife, uncovers a sinister
conspiracy.
SURF NINJAS July 2
Rating: "PG" for comic martial arts action and some mild language
Dir: Neal Israel
Cast: Ernie Reyes Jr., Leslie Nielsen
Producer: Evzen Kolar
Screenplay: Dan Gordon
Start Date: 5/18/92, LA, Thailand
A wacked-out surf comedy.
SURVIVING THE GAME TBA
Producer: David Permut
Screenplay: Eric Bernt
An action thriller about a homeless man who is set up as human prey
by a group of wicked hunters.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES III March 19
Rating: "PG" for swashbuckling violence and mild language March 26 (wider)
Dir: Stuart Gillard
Cast: Paige Turco, Elias Koteas, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono, Vivian
Wu, Henry Hayashi, John Aylward, Travis Moon, Mark Caso, David Fraser,
Matt Hill, Jim Raposa
Exec Producer: Raymond Chow
Producer: Thomas Gray, Kim Dawson, David Chan
Screenplay: Stuart Gillard
D.P.: David Gurfinkel
Composer: John Du Prez
Start Date: 6/15/92, Astoria, OR
Negative Cost: $20 million
The third Turtle film will take over five sound stages at Stephen
Cannell's studio (perhaps). Storyline involves time-travel, between
today and the 17th Century. The Turtle outfits will no longer be from
Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
THREE OF HEARTS May 7 (NY, LA)
Rating: "R" for strong language and sexuality
Dir: Urek Bogayevicz
Cast: William Baldwin, Sherilyn Fenn, Kelly Lynch, Joe Pantoliano,
Gail Strickland
Producers; David Permut, Joel Michaels, Matthew Irmas
Screenplay: Adam Greenman
D.P.: Andrzej Sekula
Composer: Richard Gibbs
Start Date: 4/13/92, New York
Provocative love story involves a love relationship between the Fenn
and Lynch characters which is rendered askew when Baldwin comes on the
scene. Filmed successfully sneaked at AMC Burbank in October.
UNHOLY FIRE TBA
Dir: George Romero
Producer: Peter Grunwald
Screenplay: Whitley Strieber, based on his novel
Start Date: Spring 1993
Story of a NYC priest implicated in the brutal murder of a parish
member. In unraveling this mystery of the slaying, the priest finds
he may be dealing with Satan himself.
VOLERE, VOLARE (Fine Line) February 3 (NY)
Rating: "R" for nudity
February 10 (LA)
Dirs: Maurizio Nichetti, Guido Manuli
Cast: Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro, Mariella Valentini,
Patrizio Roversi
Producers: Enesto di Sarro, Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori
Screenplay: Maurizio Nichetti, Guido Manuli
This Italian import is a comic fantasy that blends live action and
animation. Star Nichetti is the acclaimed director of THE ICICLE
THIEF.
WAVE WARRIORS TBA
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Rob Schneider
Wacky surfer film made Down Under.
WHO'S THE MAN? April 23
Rating: "R" for strong language
Dir: Ted Demme
Cast: Doctor Dre, Ed Lover
Producers: Maynell Thomas, Charles Stettler
Screenplay: Seth Greenland
Start Date: 10/26/92, New York
Rap film.
THE WIDE SARGASSO SEA (Fine Line) April 16 (NY, LA)
Rating: "NC-17"
Dir: John Duigan
Cast: Nathaniel Parker, Karina Lombard, Rachel Ward, Michael York
Producer: Jan Sharp
Screenplay: John Duigan, based on Jean Rhys' novel
Start Date: 7/91, Jamaica
Period romance set in the 19th Century Caribbean details sexual
obsession between an English aristocrat and the French island lovely
that he takes for his wife.
YO, ALICE! 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: David Permut
Screenplay: TBA
Negative Cost: <$10 million
A hip-hop musical film version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND that was
developed by Maurice Hines, who may choreograph and/or perform in the
film. In this version, Alice Huxley is a 17-year-old African-American
who ventures on a voyage of discovery when she and her friend Harvey
(who is transformed into the Rabbit) get sucked into the VCR. The
lead role will be cast with an unknown, but there will be some big
names in supporting roles.
YOJIMBO TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Arthur Sarkissian
Screenplay: Henry Bean
Start Date: 2/93
Negative Cost: $10 million
Yet another remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic 1961 Samurai
film...this time the setting will be American and urban, a place where
violence has taken over and anarchy rules.
New Yorker Films
TAIGA March 3
Dir: Ulrike Ottinger
Northern Arts
CHILDREN OF NATURE May
Dir: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
JIT April 16
Dir: Michael Raeburn
October Films
CAGE/CUNNINGHAM TBA
Dir: Elliot Caplan
Documentary traces the collaboration of choreographer Merce
Cunningham and composer John Cage.
TWO MIKES DON'T MAKE A RIGHT March 31
UN COEUR EN HIVER June (NY)
Dir: Claude Sautet
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Andre Dussollier
Producer: Jean-Louis Livi
Screenplay: Claude Sautet, Jacques Fieschi, Jerome Tonnerre
Love triangle involved lovely young violinist and two violin makers.
Exclusive New York bow will widen to Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston,
Washington, and St. Louis.
Orion
BLUE SKY 1993
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Tony Richardson
Cast: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Chris O'Donnell,
Amy Locane, Carrie Snodgress
Producers: Robert H. Solo, Lynn Arost, Jessica Lange
D.P.: Steve Yaconelli
Screenplay: Rama Blum, Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner
Start Date: 5/14/90, Selma, AL, Florida
Negative Cost: $15.6 million
Lange stars in this dramatic period piece about an unhappy wife who
moves to a military base with her family and finds herself caught in a
cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests. The late Tony Richardson's
last film.
CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU? 1993
Dir: Bill Fishman
Cast: David Johansen, John C. McGinley, Fran Drescher, Nipsey Russell,
Rosie O'Donnell, Al Lewis, Tone Loc
Producer: Robert H. Solo
D.P.: Rodney Charters
Screenplay: Erik Tarloff, Ebbe Roe Smith, Peter McCarthy
Start Date: 8/27/90, Toronto, New York
Negative Cost: $10.7 million
"There's a holdup in the Bronx..." Feature film version of the long-
running '60s TV sitcom with Officers Toody and Muldoon. Fishman
directed TAPEHEADS. Johansen stars as Gunther Toody and McGinley
portrays his sidekick, Francis Muldoon, two mismatched police
officers, partners by circumstance but not by choice. The
rollicking comedy also features cameo appearances by Penn & Teller,
Tone Loc and the Ramones with music by the Ramones, Coati Mundi, Lis
Delbello, MojoNixon and Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.
CHINA MOON 1993
Dir: John Bailey
Cast: Ed Harris, Madeline Stowe, Benicio Del Toro, Charles Dance
Producer: Barry M. Osborne
D.P.: Willy Kurant
Screenplay: Roy Carlson
Start Date: 10/8/90, Florida
Negative Cost: $14.6 million
This steamy thriller is about a veteran detective (Harris) in a small
Florida city whose backstreet romance with wealthy young widow spins a
web of deceit, betrayal and murder. His official investigation of
the crime backfires when the trail begins to point to him. "China
Moon" is the second TIG production, following Orion's "Dances With
Wolves."
CLIFFORD 1993
Dir: Paul Flaherty
Cast: Martin Short, Charles Grodin
Producers: Larry Brezner, Pieter Jan Brugge
Screenplay: Steven Kampnamm, Will Aldis
D.P.: John A. Alonzo
Start Date: 7/24/90, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $18.8 million
Martin Short stars in dual roles along with Charles Grodin, Mary
Steenburgen and Dabney Coleman in this comedy about a mischievous, 10-
year-old boy left in the care of his bachelor uncle (Grodin) while his
parents are in Hawaii. More than a few catastrophic
misadventures are in store for Clifford, a juvenile genius with a one-
track mind, as his dream of visiting Dinosaurworld becomes his
uncle's worst nightmare. Delayed from a June, 1991 release.
THE DARK HALF April 23
Dir: George A. Romero
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris,
Robert Joy, Rutanya Alda, Kent Broadhurst, Tom Mardirosian
Exec. Producer: George A. Romero
Producer: Declan Baldwin
Screenplay: George A. Romero
D.P.: Tony Pierce-Roberts
Start Date: 10/15/90, Pittsburgh
Negative Cost: $16.1 million
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, this one is about a
writer whose alter ego, the author of several vicious crime novels,
takes on a life of his own. Hutton gets to play dual roles. Opened
in London in 5/92.
THE FAVOR 1993
Dir: Donald Petrie
Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Harley Jane Kozak, Ken Wahl, Bill Pullman,
Brad Pitt
Producer: Lauren Shuler-Donner
Screenplay: Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott
Start Date: 9/19/90, Portland, OR
Negative Cost: $12.9 million
A romantic comedy about Emily and Kathy, two best friends whose long-
time bond suddenly snaps when Emily's fantasy about her high school
sweetheart she hasn't seen in 15 years, and her request of an unusual
favor, puts their friendship to the ultimate test. Petrie directed
MYSTIC PIZZA and OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.
LOVE FIELD February 12 (wide)
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Jonathan Kaplan
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Brian Kerwin, Beth Grant,
Louise Latham, Peggy Rea
Producers: Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury
Screenplay: Don Roos
D.P.: Ralf D. Bode
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Start Date: 4/2/90, Rocky Mount, NC, Virginia, Washington, DC
Negative Cost: $17.7 million
Interracial love story set against the backdrop of the Kennedy
assassination. Kaplan directed THE ACCUSED. Haysbert (MAJOR LEAGUE)
replaced Denzel Washington as the love interest. Opened in New York
and LA for one week only Oscar qualification on 12/11/92.
MARRIED TO IT 1.85 (SR) March 26
Rating: "R" Language and a scene of sensuality
Dir: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary
Stuart Masterson, Ron SIlver, Cybill Shepard
Producer: Thomas Baer
Screenplay: Janet Kovalcik
D.P.: Victor J. Kemper
Start Date: 7/30/90, Toronto, New York
Negative Cost: $14.3 million
A comedy featuring three married New York couples with radically
different lifestyles. Leonard was the suicidal thespian in DEAD POETS
SOCIETY. Music is by Henry Mancini. Film runs 110 minutes.
Advanced word is tepid.
ROBOCOP 3 July 30
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Fred Dekker
Cast: Robert Burke, Nancy Allen, John Castle, CCH Pounder, Bruce
Locke, Felton Perry, Robert DoQui
Producer: Patrick Crowley
Screenplay: Fred Dekker
D.P.: Gary Kibbe
Start Date: 2/4/91, Atlanta
Negative Cost: $23.5 million
In the film, Omni-Consumer Product Corp. (OCP), the company which
originally designed RoboCop, has scheduled Detroit's largest
neighborhood for extinction to make way for a gleaming new city in
the future. In his effort to serve public trust, RoboCop leaves the
Detroit Police Department and joins forces with a rebel group to help
them defend their homes. Among this determined band of homeless
revolutionaries is Nikko, a 10-year-old computer genius who idolizes
RoboCop. Her devotion and loyalty awakens in RoboCop the human
longings and fleeting but powerful memories of a murdered cop named
Murphy. Only a "PG-13" this time?
THERE GOES MY BABY 1993
Rating: "R" for language
Dir: Floyd Mutrux
Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Rick Schroder, Kelli Williams, Noah Wyle, Jill
Schoelen, Kristin Minter, Lucy Deakins, Kenny Ransom
Producer: Robert Shapiro
Screenplay: Floyd Mutrux
Negative Cost: $10.5 million
A bittersweet look at a time in history in the early 60s when things
are about to change for eight high school graduates, and for the rest
of the country.
Orion Classics
RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER February 5 (limited)
Rating: "PG-13" for theme
Dir: Gary Bennett
Cast: Betty Buckley, Jeff Daniels, Frederic Forrest, Graham Greene,
Linda Hunt, Robert Earl Jones, Austin Pendleton, Carolyn McCormick,
Ali Thomas
Producers: Nanette and Gary Sorenson
Screenplay: Gary Bennett
Negative Cost: $4 million
First pickup by Orion since they emerged from Chapter 11 protection
is a drama set in 2042 where a young woman and her mother are
incarcerated for breaking anti-abortion laws that are enacted due to a
constitutional amendment.
Pacific Pictures
SONS early 1993
Dir: Alexandre Rockwell
Producer: Marc Toberoff
Screenplay: Alexandre Rockwell
Rockwell gained notoriety with IN THE SOUP at the Sundance festival.
Paramount
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES November
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Raul Julia, Angelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack,
Carol Kane, Christina Ricci, Jimmy Workman, Carel Struycken,
Christopher Hart
Producers: Scott Rudin, David Nicksay
Screenplay: Paul Rudnick
Start Date: 2/8/93, Los Angeles
The gang's back again for more big bucks. This is Yale-grad
Rudnick's first credited screenplay.
THE BADGER TBA
Cast: John Cusack
Screenplay: Michael O'Donaghue
BEVERLY HILLS COP III 1994
Dir: John Landis
Cast: Eddie Murphy
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme
Screenplay: Steve de Souza
Start Date: 4/93, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $55 million
Another formula film. This time Murphy gets $15 million up front.
It's like DIE HARD at an amusement park. De Souza wrote DIE HARD.
Joel Silver left the producer's chair and Neufeld and Rehme are
stepping in. They produced PATRIOT GAMES and THE HUNT FOR RED
OCTOBER. Delayed from a July release due to the rushed schedule and
humongous $70+ million budget. Is being reworked to $55 million. May
not show up until Memorial Day, 1994, which would be 1 year later than
the original projected release date.
BITTER ROOT TBA
Dir: John McTiernan
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry
Cavalry vs. Indians. Everyone has to have a western these days...
BLUE TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme
Screenplay: Jay Wolf
An original script about a baseball umpire school in Phoenix.
BLUE CHIP TBA
Dir: William Friedkin
Cast: Nick Nolte
Producer: Michelle Rappaport
Screenplay: Ron Shelton
Start Date: Spring 1993
A college football coach must deal with a conflict of principle.
BOPHA! Fall
Dir: Morgan Freeman
Cast: Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Malcolm McDowell, Marius Weyers,
Maynard Ezlashl, Malick Bowens
Exec Producer: Arsenio Hall
Producer: Lawrence Taubman
Screenplay: John Wierick, Brian Bird
D.P.: David Watkins
Start Date: 6/15/92, Zimbabwe
Freeman makes his directorial debut in this South African-based film
about a father and son's relationship set shortly after the 1976
Soweto uprising. Will get a title change.
THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE TBA
Exec. Producer: David Kirkpatrick
Producers: Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz
Screenplay: Sherwood Schwartz, Lloyd Schwartz
Start Date: 3/93
Maybe Sherry Lansing will kill this project....please? Scheduled to
be cast with unknowns who look like the TV cast did in 1972.
THE CATCH TBA
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER 70mm 1994
Dir: Philip Noyce
Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, James Earl Jones
Producers: Bob Rehme, Mace Neufeld
Screenplay: Don Stewart, John Milius, based on Tom Clancy's novel
Negative Cost: $45 million
Start Date: 9/1/93, Los Angeles, Washington, Puerto Rico or Mexico
Clancy is royally mad at Paramount about this project. He thinks
Noyce (helmer of PATRIOT GAMES and current SLIVER) is a hack. Clancy
wouldn't mind seeing John McTiernan take over this one, even though he
complained about McT's work during the shoot of THE HUNT FOR RED
OCTOBER. In this film, Jack Ryan (Ford) helps the U.S. declare war on
the Colombia drug cartel.
THE CONEHEADS July 23
Dir: Steve Barron
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Chris Farley
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Davis
D.P.: Francis Kenny
Start Date: 2/1/93, Los Angeles
Big-screen treatment of the Saturday Night Live staple of year's
past.
THE CROW August
Dir: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brandon Lee
Producers: Edward Pressman, Jeff Most
Screenplay: David Schow, John Shirley
Start Date: 2/1/93, Wilmington, NC
D.P.: Dariusz Wolski
A man is brought back from death and he adopts the persona of a
crow in order to avenge his and his girlfriend's deaths.
EMILY BRONTE'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS TBA
Rating: "PG"
Dir: Peter Kosminsky
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
Producer: Mary Selway
Screenplay: Anne Devlin, based on Emily Bronte's novel
Start Date: 10/91, England
Remake of the classic tale WUTHERING HEIGHTS is the first product
from Paramount Europe. Producer Selway's name will be recognized as
one of the very top casting directors in the biz. Negative notices
on the continent may lead to a straight to video on this one over
here.
THE EVENING STAR TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Shirley MacLaine
Producer: David Kirkpatrick
Screenplay: Robert Harling, based on Larry McMurtry's novel
The sequel to TERMS OF ENDEARMENT follows Aurora and her three grown
and troubled grandchildren fifteen years later. Jack Nicholson is
interested in reprising his role as Garrett Breedlove, based on how
the script turns out.
FIRE IN THE SKY March 12
Rating: "PG-13" for sci-fi violence
Dir: Robert Lieberman
Cast: James Garner, Robert Patrick, D.B. Sweeney, Craig Sheffer, Henry
Thomas, Bradley Gregg, Peter Berg
Producers: Todd Black, Joe Wizan
Screenplay: Tracy Torme
D.P.: Bill Pope
Start Date: 7/92, Arizona
Big-screen treatment of the well-known UFO abduction case of Travis
Walton, who reportedly was swiped by aliens in the woods near
Snowflake, Arizona in 1975 in plain view of his friends on their way
home from work. Patrick scored as the T-1000 cyborg in TERMINATOR 2.
Lieberman directed ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS.
THE FIRM July 2
Dir: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jean Tripplehorn , Holly Hunter,
Wilford Brimley, Ed Harris, Hal Holbrook, David Strathairn, Jerry
Hardin, Gary Busey
Producers: Scott Rudin, John Davis, Sydney Pollack
Screenplay: Robert Towne, David Rayfiel, based on John Grisham's novel
D.P.: John Seale
Start Date: 11/9/92, Memphis, Boston, Washington, Cayman Islands
Cruise plays Mitch MeDeere, who is seduced into joining a Memphis
law firm. Once he's on board, he discovers that the firm is a front
for a Mafia family and he must give information to the FBI to save his
hide. Tripplehorn, who was last seen in BASIC INSTINCT, plays his
wife, Abby. Hackman is the evil Avery.
FLESH AND BONE November 5
Dir: Steve Kloves
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan, Gwyneth Paltrow
Producers: Paula Weinstein, Mark Rosenberg, Sydney Pollack
Screenplay: Steve Kloves
D.P.: Phillippe Rousselot
Start Date: 10/5/92, Austin
Texas love story where Quaid fills vending machines for his
livelihood and Ryan has just left her husband seeking a new life on
the road. Quaid and Ryan are real life marrieds. Kloves directed
THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS. Producer Rosenberg sadly passed away in
November, '92, leaving behind wide Weinstein.
FOREST GUMP TBA
Dir: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks
GEORGIA O'KEEFE TBA
GILBERT GRAPE Fall
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Leonardo DiCaprio
Producers: David Matalon, Meir Teper, Bertil Ohlssen, Lasse Hallstrom,
Alan Blomquist
Screenplay: Peter Hedges, based on his novel "What's Eating Gilbert
Grape?"
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
Start Date: 11/2/92, Austin, TX
Bittersweet tale of a young man's struggle growing up in a small
Iowa town and his relationship with his obese mother, who continues to
gain weight at an alarming pace.
INDECENT PROPOSAL April 7
Dir: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
Producer: Sherry Lansing, Michael Tadross
Screenplay: Amy Jones, William Goldman, based on Jack Engelhard's
novel
D.P.: Howard Atherton
Start Date: 6/15/92, Los Angeles
Lyne and Lansing team up one again after FATAL ATTRACTION made so
much money for Paramount (although it officially just *barely* went
into the black...love those grosse pointes!) Film involves a young
cash-hungry couple who accept a deal from a rich guy for a night of
amour with the missus for $1 million. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
were interested but he backed out and she didn't pass the screen test.
Redford plays the rich guy, Moore is the young wife of Harrelson.
Harrelson is being sued, along with producer Lansing, by MGM for his
dropping out of their BENNY & JOON for this role. Redford will work
for SAG minimum with a percentage of the gross. Paramount originally
wanted this to be their big Christmas 1992 picture, but the timing did
not work out.
INTERSECTION TBA
Dir: Mark Rydell
Cast: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich
Producers: Mark Rydell, Frederic Colchan
Screenplay: David Rayfiel, Marshall Brickman
Start Date: 3/1/93, San Francisco, Northern California
An architect is torn between the passion of a new relationship and
the responsibilities he feels toward his estranged wife and 14-year-
old daughter, all during a car accident. Stone plays the devoted wife
(surprise!), while Davidovich (last seen in LEAP OF FAITH), is the
girlfriend.
THE LADY TAKES AN ACE TBA
Dir: Glen Charles
Cast: Sharon Stone
Producer: David Kirkpatrick
Screenplay: Les Charles
Start Date: 7/93, Los Angeles, San Diego
BASIC INSTINCT sensation Stone goes the comedy route.
LONG SHOT TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Bob Rehme, Mace Neufeld
Screenplay: Bill Link, based on James Grady's novel
Assassination of a presidential candidate is the central theme to
this political thriller whose protagonist is a secret serviceman
assigned to protect the victim.
MILK MONEY TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Melanie Griffith
Screenplay: John Mattson
Three 12-year-old boys pool their milk money to see a nekkid (sic)
lady in town, and run into Griffith, who is willing to satisfy them.
THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3 2nd Half 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: Leslie Nielsen
The third (and final?) in the lucrative NAKED GUN series of gag
films from ZAZ.
PUPPET MASTER: THE MOVIE (Full Moon) 1993
Negative Cost: $4-7 million
Exploitation market specialists Full Moon Entertainment have a
feature based on their video series PUPPET MASTER that Paramount will
release theatrically, as well as on video.
RUNAWAY BRIDE TBA
Dir: Harrison Ford, Geena Davis
Screenplay: Sara Parriott, Josan McGibbon, Elaine May rewrite
This comedy is in a hunt for a director after Michael Hoffman
(SOAPDISH) dropped out over script problems.
THE SAINT TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Roger Moore
Producers: Robert Evans, Terry Macdonald
Screenplay: Terry Hayes, Michael Hirst
Start Date: 2/93
Simon Templar comes to the big screen. Noyce is fresh off of
PATRIOT GAMES. Moore probably plays a supporting role.
SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER October
Dir: Steve Zaillian
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Larry Fishburne, Joan Allen, Max
Pomeranc, William H. Macy, Shelley Winters, Robert Stephens, David
Paymer, Jared Harris, Anthony Heald, Josh Mostel, Josh Kornbluth, Dan
Hedaya, Laura Linney
Exec Producer: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Scott Rudin, William Horberg
Screenplay: Steve Zaillian, based on Fred Waitzkin's novel
D.P.: Conrad Hall
Start Date: 7/1/92, Toronto
Negative Cost: $12 million
Film about a chess prodigy.
SLIVER 2.35 May 21
Dir: Philip Noyce
Cast: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger
Producers: Robert Evans, Bill MacDonald
Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas, based on Ira Levin's novel
D.P.: Vilmos Zsigmond
Start Date: 10/13/92, New York, Los Angeles
Berenger is Jack Lansford, a writer of cop stories. Baldwin is
Zeke Hawkins, a charismatic multi-millionaire who may be a serial
killer. Stone is a New York publishing house editor who is the
object of their desires. Stone gets the big bucks for this one after
the mega-success of BASIC INSTINCT. That works out to $2.5 million
upfront, plus a percentage of the gross. A camera crew was filming
eruption footage at Kilauea in Hawaii when their helicopter crashed at
the Puu Oo vent in late November. All were rescued eventually.
Noyce directed PATRIOT GAMES and DEAD CALM.
STAR TREK VII 2.35 December 1994
Producer: Rick Berman
Screenplay: Rick Berman
STARWATCHER Spring 1994
Dir: Jean Giraud, Keith Ingham
Exec Producers: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk Soleta
Producer: Alain Guilot
Screenplay: Moebius, Jackye Fryszman
Negative Cost: $22 million
Start Date: 11/15/91, Paris
Billed as the "world's first computer animation feature", this film
is in production at producer Guilot's Paris -based Videosystem, which
is one of Europe's leading 3-D computer animation centers. The title
character is a hero in a world threatened by cyborgs who dream of
becoming human. The film uses real digitized faces, clay models and
virtual-reality techniques to enhance the realism.
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND TBA
Cast: Tom Hanks
Producer: Joe Vecchio
Robert Heinlein's science fiction classic is finally on the way to
the big screen.
THE TEMP 1.85 February 12
Rating: "R" for language and scenes of violence
Dir: Tom Holland
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway, Oliver Plkatt,
Dwight Schultz
Exec Producer: Howard W. Koch, Jr.
Producers: Tom Engelman, David Permut
Screenplay: Kevin Falls
D.P.: Steven Yaconelli
Negative Cost: $14 million
Start Date: 4/9/92, Los Angeles
A young food company marketing manager thinks his new temporary
secretary is ideal.... but his suspicions rise after a series of
mysterious mishaps. Holland directed FRIGHT NIGHT, FATAL BEAUTY and
CHILD'S PLAY. Expect an "R" rating for this erotic indie thriller.
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD TBA
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Bill Phillips
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Dabney Coleman, Rhea Perlman, Catherine O'Hara
Producer: Mort Engelberg
Screenplay: Bill Phillips
D.P.: Walt Lloyd
Daniels is criminal psychologist Willis Embry. He learns of $8.5
million buried in Cherry Hill, New Jersey from a dying convict. He
then makes a deal with one of his patients to dig up the loot in
return for half of the profits. Embry discovers that the money is
under the home of Jessica Lodge (O'Hara). Unfortunately for him, some
of the other inmates overheard the plans before escaping.... Formerly
titled PAYDIRT. Released in Phoenix to dismal boxoffice in October.
Will likely go straight to video.
THE THING CALLED LOVE July 16
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock,
K.T. Oslin, Trisha Yearwood
Producer: John Davis
Screenplay: Carol Heikkinen
D.P.: Peter James
Start Date: 11/2/92, Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles
A young country singer enters the Nashville scene. Grammy-winning
country star Oslin makes her film debut as a "earth-mother" club
owner. Delayed from an April release.
TWILIGHT TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: James Woods
Producers: Mace Neufeld, Bob Rehme, James Woods, Ross Feinman
Jimmy Woods plays a baseball player-manager in this sports drama.
WAYNE'S WORLD 2 December
Dir: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey
Exec Producer: Howard Koch Jr.
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Screenplay: Mike Myers
Start Date: 6/1/93
When in doubt, make a sequel to a success...and quickly.
Roxie Releasing
MAN BITES DOG January 15 (limited)
Rating: "NC-17"
Samuel Goldwyn
AMERICAN GLADIATORS: THE MOVIE TBA
The phenomenally popular action TV competition series is opened up
on the big screen to become a good vs. evil story.
THE BARRYMORES TBA
Dir: TBA
Screenplay: Alfred Uhry, based on "The Barrymores: The Royal Family of
Hollywood" by James Davis
FUNNY PECULIAR TBA
Dir: John Duigan
Cast: TBA
Producer: Michael Shamberg
Screenplay: June Roberts, based on Amanda Thomas' novel "Riding the
Dolphin"
Start Date: 5/92
Humorous drama about the struggles of teenage schizophrenics in a
halfway house.
GOLDEN GATE Fall
Dir: John Madden
Cast: Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Tzi Ma, Stan Egl
Producers: Lindsay Law, Michael Brandman
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang
D.P.: Bobby bukowski
Start Date: 12/7/92, Northern California
The author of M. BUTTERFLY writes a love story of a young FBI agent
and a Chinese-American woman. The story covers the Fifties throught
the Seventies. Kirby was last seen as a stand-up comic in HOFFA.
"Some loves are impossible...But they are loves just the same."
GOSPEL TBA
Dir: Michael Schultz
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Ntozake Shange
The rise, fall and rise of a young gospel singer.
HOLIDAY CITY TBA
Dir: Matty Rich
Producer: Martin Brest
Screenplay: Ruben Gonzalez
Start Date: 3/93
IL LADRO DI BAMBINI March 5 (limited)
Dir: Gianni Amelio
March 12 (wider)
Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalico, Giuseppe Ieracitano
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
A young military officer has the job of escorting two children
across Italy after their mother's arrest. Winner of the Jury Prize at
Cannes.
MAC 1.85 (SR) February 19 (limited)
Rating: "R" for strong language and some sexuality March 3 (wider)
Dir: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Capotorto, Katherine
Borowitz, Steven Randazzo, Ellen Barkin, John Amos
Producers: Brenda Goodman, Nancy Tenenbaum
Screenplay: John Turturro, Brandon Cole
D.P.: Ron Fortunato
Composers: Richard Termini, Vin Tese
Spike Lee vet actor Turturro makes his directorial debut and also
works the other side of the camera in this acclaimed film about three
Italian-American brothers in the construction business that won the
Camera D'Or at the Cannes Fest in '92.
MEMOIRS OF A CADDY TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: David Noonan, based on his novel
A coming of age story of brothers set in the Sixties.
MESMER TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Joel Gross, based on his play
Based on the life of Anton Mesmer, the father of hypnotism.
Hopefully mesmerizing.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING May 7 (limited)
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
May 14 (wider)
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean
Leonard, Denzel Washington, Kate Beckinsdale, Michael Keaton
Producers: Stephen Evans, David Parfitt
Screenplay Adaptation: Kenneth Branagh
Start Date: 8/3/92, Italy
Negative Cost: $10+ million
Supreme Shakespeare thesp Branagh now attacks another of the Bard's
works for the big screen. As usual, wife Thompson makes things a
family affair. The Branaghs play Benedick and Beatrice, Reeves is
Don John, Leonard is Claudio, Washington is Don Pedro ,Beckinsdale is
Hero and Keaton is Dogberry. "Romance. Seduction. Deception.
Revenge. Remarkable."
PETER'S FRIENDS 1.85 (SR) January 22 (wider)
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Rita Rudner, Stephen Fry, Hugh
Laurie, Phyllida Law, Tony Slattery
Producer: Kenneth Branagh
Screenplay: Rita Rudner, Martin Bregman
D.P.: Roger Lanser
Start Date: 2/24/92, England
Negative Cost: $6 million
An ensemble piece set outside London that examines the relationships
of college friends who were members of a theatrical troupe at one time
and reunite a decade hence. Terrific entertainment. Opened in London
in early November, selected cities on 12/25/92.
RETURN TO MYSTIC PIZZA TBA
Screenplay: Albert Innaurato, Jenny Tripp
Sequel to the 1988 hit that brought Julia Roberts notoriety.
SAM BASS: THE MAKING OF AN OUTLAW TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: David Picker
Screenplay: William Roberts, Al Ruggiero
A western.
THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS TBA
Dir: Norman Rene'
Cast: TBA
Producer: TBA
Screenplay: Craig Lucas, based on Jane Smiley's novel "The Age of
Grief"
Start Date: Fall '92
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY TBA
Cast: Eric Bogosian
Screenplay: Eric Bogosian, based on the story by James Thurber
THE STOLEN CHILDREN March 15 (NY)
Dir: Gianni Amelio
Cast: Enrico Lo Verso
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner is a story of the relationship
between a railroad officer and the two children he escorts to an
orphanage after their mother is arrested for selling her 11-year-old
daughter into prostitution. Film won many David di Donatello film
awards, including Best Film, Director, Producer, Editor, Music and a
special prize for the two child leads. Amelio's OPEN DOORS won a
1990 Oscar nomination. This is the official Italian entry to the
Academy Awards.
WILD WEST April 9 (limited)
Dir: David Attwood April 16 (wider)
Cast: Sarita Choudhury
Producer: Eric Fellner
Screenplay: Harwant Bains
Raucous, irreverent British comedy about three Pakistani brothers
who form and country and western band.
Savoy
A BRONX TALE Fall
Dir: Robert DeNiro
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Robert DeNiro
Producers: Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal
Screenplay: Chazz Palminteri, based on his play
Negative Cost: $14 million
Start Date: 8/92, New York
DeNiro makes his directorial debut in this slice-of-life. From
Tribeca Productions. Rescued by new distrib Savoy when Universal
backed out.
DR. STRANGE TBA
Dir: Wes Craven
Based on the Marvel comic book.
FREE OF EDEN TBA
Dir: Garry Marshall
Producer: Alexandra Rose
HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL TBA
Producers: Ray Stark, Jerry Leider
Those CBS TV properties just keep springing up in the cinema!
THE HONEYMOONERS TBA
Producer: Frank Price
A big-screen adaptation of the Jackie Gleason TV series.
THE LAST OF THE DOG MEN TBA
Dir: Tab Murphy
Exec Producer: Mario Kassar
SERIAL MOM TBA
Dir: John Waters
Cast: Kathleen Turner
Producers: John Fiedler, Mark Tarlov
Screenplay: John Waters
Start Date: Spring '93
Negative Cost: <$15 million
Upper-middle class "typical homemaker" mom is a serial killer. She
also makes obscene phone calls to the neighbors. Put into turnaround
by Columbia and quickly picked up at Savoy. Susan Sarandon *really*
wanted to do this one.
SHADOWLANDS TBA
Dir: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins
Exec Producer: Frank Price
Producers: Richard Attenborough, Brian Eastman
Screenplay: William Nicholson
Start Date: 4/93, Oxford
Love story of C.S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman, SHADOWLANDS had two
former incarnations as a BBC TV film and a stage play in London and
New York.
THE SIMPLE PLAN TBA
Dir: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Based on Scott Smith's novel
Two brothers commit murder and discover a cache of loot.
THE TEXAS RANGERS TBA
Dir: John Milius
Screenplay: John Milius
Start Date: 1993
Undoubtedly a rip-snorting Western from Mr. Milius.
SGE
SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS May 21
Dir: James Glickenhaus
TALONS OF THE EAGLE TBA
Dir: Michael Kennedy
Cast: Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi, James Hong, Priscilla Barnes, Mattias
Hues, Pan Qing Fu, Eric Lee
Producer: Jalal Merhi
Screenplay: J. Stephen Maunder
D.P.: Curtis Peterson
Start Date: 4/7/92, Toronto
Skouras
JOEY BREAKER April 16 (NY, LA)
Dir: Steven Starr
Screenplay: Steven Starr
Starr is the former head of William Morris' New York film office.
RUNNING COOL TBA
Rating: "R" for language and sexuality
THE SILVER BRUMBY TBA
Dir: John Tatoulis
Cast: TBA
Producers: Colin South, John Tatoulis
Screenplay: Jon Stephens, Elyne Mitchell, John Tatoulis
D.P.: Mark Gilfedder
Start Date: 3/2/92, Melbourne Australia
WATCH IT March 26 (NY, LA, Chicago)
Rating: "R" for language and for a scene of sexuality.
Dir: Tom Flynn
Cast: Peter Gallagher, John C. McGinley, Suzy Amis, Tom Sizemore, Lili
Taylor, Cynthia Stevenson, John Tenney
Producer: Thomas Mangan IV, Christopher Burch, John C. McGinley
D.P.: Stephen M. Katz
Composer: Stanley Clarke
Negative Cost: $3 million
Romantic relationship comedy about three practical jokers who share
a house in Chicago and the woman in their lives. The word is quite
good.
Sony Pictures Classics
THE ACCOMPANIST December
Dir: Claude Miller
Cast: Romane Bohringer, Elena Safonova, Richard Bohringer
Producer: Jean-Louis Levi
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young pianist gets involved with a famous
singer and her Nazi collaborator husband.
FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE TBA
Dir: Wim Wenders
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin,
Nastassja Kinski, Roberto Benigni, Horst Bucholz, Mikhail Gorbachev
Producer: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
Wenders spins a sequel to his masterpiece, WINGS OF DESIRE.
INDOCHINE 1.66 January (wider)
Rating: "PG-13" for some violence, sensuality and drug related scenes
Dir: Regis Wargnier
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Jean Pierre Aumont
Producer: Eric Heumann
Negative Cost: $20 million
This huge French hit is set in 1930 French Indochina. It concerns
the relationship between a mother and daughter during an era of
increased political activity between the French and Indochinese. Film
will play at Beverly Hills' Music Hall theatre and two screens at New
York's Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. It is the official French entry to the
Academy Awards. Film starts slowly and melodramatically, with several
unintentional laughs. Then about 1/3 of the way into this 160 minute
film, it turns quite compelling. Opened on 12/24/92 in New York and
Los Angeles.
JACQUOT DE NANTES May
Dir: Agnes Varda
Cast: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De
Villepoix
Producers: Agnes Varda, Perrine Baudin
Screenplay: Agnes Varda
Biography of the childhood of Ms. Varda's late husband, director
Jacques Demy. Demy helmed LOLA, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, among
others. This film was formerly on Orion Classics' release
slate.
THE LONG DAY CLOSES July
Dir: Terence Davies
Cast: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas
Lamont, Ayse Owens
Producer: Olivia Stewart
Negative Cost: $3.7 million
In competition at Cannes in 1992, this autobiographical film is the
second in Davies' series, after DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES. It is
set in Liverpool in 1955-56.
OLIVIER, OLIVIER February 24 (limited)
Rating: "R" for sexuality, and for language
Dir: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin, Marine
Golovine, Jean-Francois Stevenin
Producer: Marie-Laure Reyre
Screenplay: Agnieszka Holland, Regis DeBray
D.P.: Bernard Zitzermann
Composer: Zbignew Preisner
True story about a family's search for their son in the North of
France from the director of EUROPA, EUROPA and the forthcoming THE
SECRET GARDEN. Composer Preisner scored AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE
LORD, EUROPA EUROPA and THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE.
ORLANDO June
Dir: Sally Potter
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Lothaire Bluteau, Quentin Crisp, Billy Zane,
Charlotte Valandrez
Based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, this film concerns a
character's journey through time...first as a man, then as a
woman....from an experience as a young nobleman in Elizabeth I's court
to the Asian steppes to Victorian England. Film opens in Italy in
12/92, Germany in 1/93 and London in 3/93.
THE STORY OF QIU JU March
Rating: "PG" for some language
Dir: Zhang Yimou
Screenplay: Liu Heng, from the novel "The Wan Family's Lawsuit"
The acclaimed director of JU DOU and RAISE THE RED LANTERN delves
into contemporary social comedy with this tale of revenge set in the
Chinese countryside complicated by the infamous bureaucracy of
Communist China.
Strand Releasing
FOR A LOST SOLDIER March
Dir: Roeland Kerbosch
MASALA March 12 (NY)
Dir: Srinivas Krishna
Cast: Srinivas Krishna, Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Sakina Jaffrey
Producer: Camelia Friebreg
Screenplay: Srinivas Krishna
A black comedy that has been popular on the film festival circuit.
Krishna plays a disillusioned man who is reluctant to enter into any
relationships following the death of his family in a plane crash.
MOD EXPLOSION Fall
Dir: Jon Moritsugu
Cast: Amy Davis, Elizabeth Canning, Bonnie Steiger, Victor E.
Aquitane, Justin Bond, Jacques Boyreau, Desi del Valle
Producer: Henry S. Rosenthal
Screenplay: Jon Moritsugu
D.P.: Todd Verow
Start Date: 9/23/92, San Francisco
NITRATE KISSES April
Dir: Barbara Hammer
PINK ULYSSES April
Dir: Eric de Kuyper
SURE FIRE May
Dir: Jon Jost
WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER March 12
Dir: Matthew Irmas
Symphony Pictures
SECRET SOCIETY TBA
Dir: Diane Keaton
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Diane Keaton
Producers: Martin Sheen, William R. Greenblatt
A story of racial injustice in the South.
Trimark
AMERICAN HEART May (NY, LA)
Rating: "R" for language and sexual situations
Dir: Martin Bell
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong, Lucinda Jenney, Don Harvey, Tracey
Kapinsky, Shareen Mitchell, Christian Frizzell
Producers: Rosilyn Heller, Jeff Bridges
Screenplay: Peter Silverman
D.P.: Jim Bagdonas
Composer: James Newton Howard
Start Date: 8/13/91, Seattle
Bridges is a dispossessed man who has been released from prison on
work furlough. He is reunited with his 14-year-old son (Furlong),
with whom he wants no ties. The boy ardently pursues the
relationship. Furlong was apparently signed for this plum role of the
estranged son of Bridges in this sub-$10 million drama before the
release of T2. This film has been in distribution limbo since Avenue
Pictures folded. It has opened only in Japan, where it was named
one of the ten best films of 1992 by the Society of Japanese Film
Critics. Excellent advanced word.
DBRAINDEAD TBA
Dir: Peter Jackson
THE BUBBLEMAN TBA
Dir: Stanley Kramer
Cast: TBA
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenplay: Ron Pearlman, Bob Woodburn, Stanley Kramer
Start Date: 1/92, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $15 million
Romantic comedy is Stanley Kramer's first film since THE RUNNER
STUMBLES in 1979.
CITIZEN SANE TBA
Negative Cost: $7 million
A superhero spoof.
CYBORG II: GLASS SHADOWS TBA
Dir: Michael Schroeder
Cast: Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Billy Drago
Producer: Raju Patel
DEAD ALIVE February 12 (NY)
Dir: Peter Jackson
March 5 (LA)
Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin,
Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie
Producer: Jim Booth
Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, France Walsh
D.P.: Murray Milne
Composer: Peter Dasent
New Zealand entry had U.S. preem at the Sundance Festival, where it
has been proclaimed a bloody cult fave. Intentionally hilarious in
spots it oozes in gruesome qualities with zombies, cannibalism and
other nasties. Excellent word. No one under 17 will be admitted.
DEADFALL May 14
Dir: Christopher Coppola
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Michael Biehn, Sarah Trigger, Charlie Sheen,
James Coburn, Peter Fonda, Talia Shire, Mark Coppola
Producer: Ted Fox
Screenplay: Christopher Coppola, Nick Vallelonga
Compser: David Shire
Negative Cost: $10 million
Both Coppolas are Cage's brothers. They are both Francis Ford
Coppola's nephews. Talia Shire is Francis' sister...her ex-hubby
David is composing. Whew.
DEATH WISH V Fall
Dir: Allan Goldstein
Cast: Charles Bronson
Exec Producers: Menahem Golan, Ami Artzi
Producer: Damian Lee
Screenplay: Stephen Peters
Start Date: 2/15/93, Toronto
Die already!
A DOG OF FLANDERS TBA
Dir: Daniel Petrie
Cast: Richard Harris, Max Von Sydow
Producer: Gary Omura
Screenplay: David Keating, based on Ouida's novel, previously adapted
for 1959
20th Century Fox film.
Start Date: 9/16/91, Bokrijk Belgium
EXTREME JUSTICE April 16
Rating: "R" on appeal for strong graphic violence, language and for a
scene of sexuality
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn
The NC-17 rating was overturned on appeal.
FAITHFAITH
TBA
Rating: "R" for language and violence.
A FATHER'S REVENGE TBA
Rating: "R" for terrorist violence
GLASS SHADOW TBA
Dir: Michael Schroeder
Cast: Elias Koteas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Palance, Billy Drago, Allen
Garfield, Karen Shepard
Producers: Raju Patel, Alain Silver
Screenplay: Ron Yanover, Mark Geldman, Michael Schroeder
D.P.: Jamie Thompson
Start Date: 9/28/92, Los Angeles
INTERCEPTOR TBA
Rating: "R" for violence and language
Dir: Michael Cohn
Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Elizabeth Morehead, Andrew Divoff
Producers: Kevin M. Kallberg, Oliver G. Hess
Screenplay: Michael Ferris, John Brancato
An action thriller about a daring international plot to steal the
Stealth fighter, the pride of the U.S. Air Force. A sadistic arms
dealer (Prochnow) plans to intercept a giant C-5 cargo jet en route to
the U.S. from the Middle East to steal its secret cargo of two Stealth
fighters.
THE KING'S WHORE TBA
Rating: "R" for sexuality
LEPRECHAUN January 8
Rating: "PG-13"
Dir: Mark Jones
Cast: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt, Mark Holton, Robert
Gorman
Producer: Jeffrey B. Mallian
Screenplay: Mark Jones
D.P.: Levie Isaaks
Composer: Kevin Kiner
Start Date: 10/28/91, Los Angeles
Davis, who played WILLOW, stars as a powerful, wicked leprechaun who
embarks on a reign of terror to seek revenge against the inhabitants
of a rural town who have stolen his pot of gold. Will test in two
markets. Film was recut after successful test engagements commencing
5/8/92. Re-rated from an "R".
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT II TBA
Dir: Stephen Cornwell
Cast: Brad Johnson, Marjean Holden
Producers: Mark Levinson, Doug Curtis
Screenplay: Kevin Rock, Kim Ketelsen
Negative Cost: $5 million
Start Date: 12/14/92, Southern California
Sequel to the cool 1984 film about the alleged 1943 Naval
experiments with mega-electromagnetism and time travel. Courteney
Cox dropped out of the female lead after a week due to scheduling
conflicts and was replaced by African-American actress Holden. If
Kevin and Whitney can do it, why not? Johnson starred in Steven
Spielberg's ALWAYS. Cornwell is the son of famous British novelist
John Le Carre, whose real name is David Cornwell.
SEPARATE LIVES TBA
Dir: Rick Rosenthal
Producers: David Madden, Diane Nabatoff
Screenplay: Stephan Pressfield
Start Date: 1/93
S.I.S. TBA
Dir: Mark Lester
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Ed Lauter, Chelsea Field,
Yaphet Kotto
Producer: Frank Sacks
Screenplay: Robert Boris, Frank Sacks
D.P.: Mark Irwin
Start Date: 7/8/92, LA
SOLAR CRISIS 2.35 1993 (wide)
Dir: Alan Smithee
Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, Tim Matheson, Corky Nemec, Peter
Boyle, AnnaBel Schofield
Producers: Richard Edlund, James Nelson, Morris Morishima
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Screenplay: Joe Gannon, Crispan Bolt, based on Takeshi Kawata's novel
D.P.: Russ Carpenter
Negative Cost: $43 million
Film concerns a desperate mission to the Sun to attempt to alter a
solar flare that would destroy all life on Earth. Released and
financed in Japan several years ago, this film has gone through
reshoots and hell attempting to get a good U.S. distribution deal.
The director's credit is the dreaded Alan Smithee psuedonym since
Richard Sarafian became disenfranchised with the project. Test
bookings in Columbus, Des Moines and Austin on 11/25/92. Dreadful
word. National rollout pending in 1993. Visual effects from Boss
Films.
THE TIGRESS TBA
Rating: "R" for sexuality and language
WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON April 16
Dir: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Julian Sands, Christopher Young, Paula Marshall
Producers: Peter Abrams, Robert Levy
Screenplay: Kevin Rock, Sam Bernard
Start Date: 7/27/92, Los Angeles
Yes, it's a sequel to the stylish pic. In this one, the warlock
returns to Earth in search of runestones, which he requires in order
to "uncreate" the universe. Hickox directed HELLRAISER III. "When he
comes..all Hell breaks loose".
TriStar
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN TBA
Dir: TBA
Producers: Marsha Nasatir, Steve Haft
Screenplay: Matthew Jacobs
One of three Huck Finn films in the works.
BITTER MOON (Carolco) TBA
Dir: Roman Polanski
Cast: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott-
Thomas, Victor Banerjee
Producer: Roman Polanski
Screenplay: Roman Polanski
D.P. Tonino Delli Colli
Start Date: 8/5/91, Paris
This Carolco production is the latest effort from the talented and
notorious Mr. Polanski. This erotic thriller was filmed aboard a
cruise ship that sailed from Venice to Istanbul and Athens, as well as
Paris.
BREAKING LEGS TBA
Dir: Bud Yorkin
Cast: TBA
Screenplay: Bruce Jay Friedman
Producer: Bud Yorkin
Start Date: Spring 1992
Negative Cost: $15-$16 million
Yorkin produces and directs a cinematic version of the Off-Broadway
play that he co-produced. It concerns a young professor seeking
backing for a play he has written. He winds up getting it financed by
the mob. In the screen version he will come to Hollywood to try to
get his movie made. Yorkin is seeking Tom Hanks to topline.
CARTOONED 1994
Dir: Terry Gilliam
Producer: Laura Ziskin
Start Date: 1993
CHAPLIN (Carolco) 1.85 (SR) January 8 (wide)
Rating: "PG-13" for nudity and language
Dir: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Milla
Jovovich, Mildred Harris, Moira Kelly, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane,
Penelope Ann Miller, Paul Rhys, Marisa Tomei, Nancy Travis, David
Duchovny, Michael Goorjian
Producers: Richard Attenborough, Mario Kassar
Screenplay: William Boyd, based on "My Autobiography" by Charles
Chaplin and "Chaplin -- His Life and Art" by David Robinson
D.P.: Sven Nykvist
Composer: John Barry
Start Date: 10/14/91, England, Los Angeles
Negative Cost: $31 million
This biopic headlines Downey as Charlie Chaplin. This story of his
life begins with his impoverished youth in London, continues with his
major achievements during Hollywood's Golden Age, his fears concerning
"talkies", his conflicts with J. Edgar Hoover, his exile from America
and his brief, triumphant return to accept his special Academy Award.
Downey will age from 19 to 83 in the process. Aykroyd plays Mack
Sennett (of Keystone Kops fame), Geraldine Chaplin plays her real
grandmother, Hannah Chaplin. Jovovich (RETURN TO THE BLUE LAGOON) is
Mildred Harris, Chaplin's child actress first wife. Kelly (THE
CUTTING EDGE, THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH) is Oona Chaplin, his last and
dearest wife. Kline works with Attenborough for the second time (CRY
FREEDOM), this time as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Lane (COTTON CLUB, A
LITTLE ROMANCE) is Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's third wife and one of
the biggest stars of the 40's. Miller (AWAKENINGS, OTHER PEOPLE'S
MONEY) is Edna Purviance, the Nevada secretary who became Chaplin's
first leading lady. Rhys (Royal Shakespeare Co., VINCENT AND THEO) is
Chaplin's elder half-brother Sydney who became Charlie's business
manager after abandoning his own acting career. Tomei (OSCAR, MY
COUSIN VINNY) plays early silent screen star Mabel Normand and Travis
(AIR AMERICA, THREE MEN AND...) is would-be actress Joan Barry, who
almost destroyed Chaplin. Formerly titled CHARLIE. Film runs 144
minutes. Truly outstanding word on Downey's performance. Opened
December 17th at London's flagship Odeon Leicester Square and December
25th in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto.
CLIFFHANGER 2.35 (Carolco) (SDS) (SS) 70mm May 28
Dir: Renny Harlin
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner,
Lion, Ralph Waite, Caroline Goodall, Scott Hoxby
Exec Producer: Mario Kassar
Producers: Alan Marshall, Renny Harlin
Screenplay: Mike France
D.P.: Oliver Wood
Composer: Trevor Jones
Start Date: 4/92, Cortina, Rome
Negative Cost: $73 million
Stallone is a park ranger who must make a daring rescue of fallen
friends while mountain climbing. Screenwriter France is a former
TriStar staff reader. Goodall is Stallone's woman (the heavy!) in
this film...she last played Peter Pan's wife Moira in HOOK. Janine
Turner stars in CBS-TV's NORTHERN EXPOSURE and gets to play a love
interest for Sly. Waite is of THE WALTONS notoriety. Way over the
original $47 million budget, as was Harlin's last film: DIE HARD 2.
Expect some prints in Sony Digital Sound.
COP GIVES WAITRESS $2 MILLION TIP 1993
Dir: Andrew Bergman
Cast: TBA
Producer: Gary Adelson, Craig Baumgarten, Mike Lobell
Screenplay: Stephen Metcalf, Jane Anderson, Andrew Bergman
Start Date: 5/3/93, New York
Negative Cost: $20+ million
A transit cop and a waitress agree to share a lottery ticket. This
is Bergman's followup to HONEYMOON IN VEGAS. He also helmed THE
FRESHMAN.
COPS AND ROBBERSONS TBA
Dir: Michael Ritchie
Cast: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest
Producers: Ned Tanen, Nancy Graham Tanen, Ron Schwary
Screenplay: Bernie Somers, Mark Steven Johnson
Start Date: 3/8/93, Los Angeles
Grizzled cops (Palance is one of them) move into Chase's eccentric
household to stake out the home next door.
DRAGON TEARS TBA
Screenplay: Mark Steven Johnson, based on Dean Koontz' novel
THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY 1994
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producers: Chuck Roven, Bob Cavallo
Screenplay: David Henry Hwang, based on Isaac Asimov's novels
Issac Asimov's classic science fiction masterpieces come to the big
screen. Expect a huge film. Rights to the succeeding books in the
series have also been snared by TriStar.
FRANKENSTEIN December
Dir: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh
Exec Producer: Fred Fuchs
Producers: Francis Coppola, Jim Hart
Screenplay: Steph Lady
Start Date: 4/93, England
A faithful adaptation of the Shelley novel from a guy who can
probably do it justice! Frank Darabont is polishing the script.
GET SHORTY TBA
Dir: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Danny DeVito
Producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
Screenplay: Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's novel
GODZILLA Summer 1994
Dir: TBA
Start Date: 1993
Producers: Cary Woods, Rob Fried
Rights to the character and sequels were optioned from Toho. Expect
a storyline cautioning against nuclear proliferation and runaway
technology, in the Grand Godzilla Tradition.
GUARDING TESS December
Dir: Hugh Wilson
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicholas Cage
Producers: Ned Tanen, Nancy Graham Tanen
Screenplay: Hugh Wilson, Peter Torokvei
Start Date: 2/17/93, Baltimore
Negative Cost: $20 million
The creator of WKRP IN CINCINNATI writes and helms a big feature.
Formerly at Paramount, this was put into turnaround due to budget
haggles. Scott Rudin dropped from the project and Wilson took it to
TriStar.
HIDEAWAY 1993
Dir: TBA
Cast: TBA
Producer: Cathleen Summers
Screenplay: TBA, based on Dean Koontz' novel
Story is a battle between two men who have returned from the
dead....one good, the other evil. Dennis Quaid's production company
has the rights to this via TriStar. No word yet as to whether Quaid
will topline.
HIM TBA
Dir: Norman Jewison
Producers: Rob Fried, Cary Woods, Norman Jewison
Start Date: 5/93
THE KILLER TBA
Dir: Walter Hill
Cast: Denzel Washington, Richard Gere
Producer: Charles Roven
Screenplay: John Woo
A suspenser remake of the 1989 Hong Kong ultra-violent film of the
same title. It concerns an assassin's obsessive love for a young
singer who he has accidentally blinded in a nightclub shootout.
A former buddy tries to set him up and a cop uses his knowledge of the
obsession to trap him.
LEGENDS OF THE FALL TBA
Dir: Ed Zwick
Cast: TBA
Producers: Ed Zwick, William Wittliff
Screenplay: Susan Shilliday, based on Jim Harrison's novella
A father and his three sons all have loved the same woman at some
time in their lives in this Montana-based piece that spans 1912 to
1932. Talks have been held with Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise and Sean
Connery to star.
LES MISERABLES TBA
Dir: Richard Attenborough
Cast: TBA
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Screenplay: Alain Boublil, Calude-Michel Schonberg
Start Date: 1993, France, England
Negative Cost: $40 million
Big-screen adaptation of the musical stage hit. The trouble between
director Bruce Beresford and Mackintosh had caused Mr. Beresford to
drop out of the project and direct BESSIE at MGM. Now Dickie
Attenborough, fresh off of the mixed results of CHAPLIN, helms after
SHADOWLANDS at Savoy Pictures.
LOOK WHO'S TALKING 3 1993
Dir: Tom Ropelewski
Cast: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley
Producers: Jonathan D. Krane, Dan Berk
Screenplay: Tom Ropelewski, Leslie Dixon
Start Date: 4/22/93, Vancouver
The extremely profitable series continues as Mollie (Alley) loses
her job, while James (Travolta) is a successful airline pilot. The
kids, Mikey and Julie are older now, and it's the family dogs that
talk. Ropelewski directed MADHOUSE.
LOW FIVES TBA
Dir: TBA
Cast: Danny DeVito
Producers: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg
Screenplay: William Goldman
Start Date: 1/93, Los Angeles, Africa
Negative Cost: $20 million
DeVito will possibly also direct this pic about a college basketball
scout (DeVito) who fulfills his lifelong goal to head coach when he
recruits a basketball superstar from a Third World nation. Sounds