411 Movies Zone News Report 10.29.02
Posted by Lionel Bohbot on 10.29.2002
A talking car, a Terminator, a bag of bones and some nice Lord of the Rings items...only a few of the cool things you'll find in today's report.
IN TODAY'S REPORT
- X-Men 2
- Wheels of Fury
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Bag of Bones
- Need
- Hellraiser
- Shopgirl
- Quick Hits
NEWS, RUMORS AND OPINIONS
X-Men 2:
Captain Picard opened up to Jam Movies about what to expect in terms of bad guys in X-Men 2: "The peril is a good deal higher in this movie. Stryker is a really really bad guy. He makes Magneto look like one of us. You'll see the four cyborgs, three characters from the comic book, and another character who only has a number, who has an impact on Xavier's story because he's an ex-pupil."
In other news, Chud.com has posted a couple of new X-Men 2 pics. Check out Professor X and Cyclops.
Wheels of Fury:
Variety reports that MGM has picked up Ron Anderson's comedy spec, Wheels of Fury. Wheels of Fury is apparently a cross between Austin Powers and Knight Rider. The story revolves around an '80s cop whose partner is a talking car. Yes, a talking car. The cop falls into a coma, wakes up 16 years later. Comedy ensues.
...moving right along
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines:
TheArnoldFans have posted a brand spankin' new set report done by Empire Magazine. Arnold feels that T3 will live up to the hype. "That's what it's all about", he says, "You try to outdo the last thing. It's like in sports - records are there to be broken."
We'll get to see three Terminators in T3: Arnold's T-800, Kirstanna Loken's T-X and the T-100, a heavy duty war machine. Hey, the T-100 might be able to explain how this movie is even possible, considering everything that happened at the end of Judgment Day. Hell, even Judgment Day's plot was a reach. In any case, you just know that Arnold's gonna kick some ass, no sell everything in sight and try to get some catchphrases over.
Bag of Bones:
Stephen King's Bag of Bones is coming to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Peter Care (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) will develop and direct the project based on the 1998 Stephen King novel.
Here's a synopsis from Allbookstores.com:
Still devastated by the loss of his wife four years ago, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to Sara Laughs, the beloved summer home he and his wife shared. Plagued by nightmares and visitations, he finds himself falling in love with a young widow and her daughter--and confronting the grief that has haunted Sara Laughs for nearly a century.
See, I do the research for you.
Need:
MovieHole.net reports that Halle Berry will star in MGM's Need. Berry would play a successful New York therapist who discovers that one of her patients, a neurotic, suicidal woman named Beth, is having an affair with her husband.
Hellraiser:
Fangoria talked to Doug Bradley, otherwise known as Pinhead, about the next two Hellraiser movies, Hellraiser: Deader and Hellraiser: Deadworld. "I haven't seen the script for DEADWORLD yet, and I'm just now looking at DEADER and making notes," says Bradley. "The script looks interesting. Rick is very creative and took a lot of ideas on board while we were shooting HELLSEEKER in Vancouver. He has been happy to let me take a pass on Pinhead's dialogue. I am very happy with our working relationship."
Shopgirl:
Saturday Night Live's Jimmy Fallon will star opposite Steve Martin and Claire Danes in a romantic comedy entitled Shopgirl. Shopgirl centers on Mirabelle (Danes), a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who's torn between two men. The two men in her life are a wealthy divorcé (Martin) and a struggling musician (Fallon). Danes has to make a choice, doesn't know which guy to pick, yada, yada, yada, you just wasted 2 hours of your life.
At least Fallon hasn't gone into full-blown teen movies just yet. Say, does he still break kayfabe during every freaking SNL segment he's on?
QUICK HITS
Lord of the Rings: Allposters.com has a new Two Towers poster that you can check out here. Just scroll down a bit. Meanwhile, DVDTown has started posting clips from the upcoming extended Fellowship of the Rings DVD.
Harry Potter 3: The London Sunday Mirror reports that Harry Robinson, Richard Harris' double in the first two Harry Potters, will take over the role for the third film.
BEFORE YOU GO
NEWTON, N.H. (AP) A father whose son was badly burned in a teenage stunt is calling for a boycott of "Jackass: The Movie." The movie is based on an MTV show that features young men performing crude and painful stunts.
Albert Lynn knows something about that pain. His 12-year-old son Nick received third-degree burns in March when an older boy doused his shirt with lamp oil and set him on fire.
Lynn, who has had MTV blocked from his cable television service, said he hopes parents will join him in boycotting the movie and the show's sponsors to "hit them where it hurts."
Nick, now 13, was at a friend's house when a 14-year-old boy doused him with the oil. When he ran outside, engulfed in flames and screaming in pain, two other boys tackled him, rolled him a snow bank and turned a house on him.
I would've left a fire extinguisher outside the house and recreated a scene from Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.
Nick spent more than three weeks in the hospital, where skin from the front of his leg was grafted onto his abdomen, chest and arms. He still wears pressure garments to minimize scarring.
The eighth-grader said his life has returned to normal, however. He said he remembers little about the stunt and doesn't appear to hold much ill will against the show that apparently inspired it.
"It was funny," he said.
Jackass took the top spot at the box-office this weekend and grossed $22.7 million. That, my friends, is one hell of a boycott.
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