411 Movies Zone News Report 10.25.02
Posted by Lionel Bohbot on 10.25.2002
News on Will Smith, Madonna, Nicole Kidman and more, plus a big Indiana Jones IV update. Also, check out New Line's 2003 and 2004 releases.
IN TODAY'S REPORT
- The Stepford Wives
- New Line Cinema Releases
- Jersey Girl
- Madonna: The Movie
- Indiana Jones IV
NEWS, RUMORS AND OPINIONS
The Stepford Wives:
According to Variety, Nicole Kidman will join the cast of The Stepford Wives, Paramount's remake of the 1975 thriller, which revolves around a group of husbands who transform their feisty wives into robots that cater to their every whim.
New Line Cinema Releases:
Screen International has posted a list of New Line Cinema's releases for the next two years.
2003 Line-Up
"Final Destination 2"
"A Man Apart"
"Ripleys Game"
"Willard"
"Freddy vs Jason"
"Highway Man"
"Secondhand Lions"
"The Notebook"
"Elf"
"Dumb & Dumber 2"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
2004 Line-Up
"Solace"
"Cellular"
"Blade 3"
"Westward"
"Rainfalls"
"The Other Side of Simple"
"The Mask 2: Son of the Mask"
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
Jersey Girl:
Ananova reports that Will Smith will have a cameo in Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl, starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez and Liv Tyler. In the scene, which is set in 1996, Affleck's character, Ollie, is being shouted at by over 300 journalists waiting for Will Smith to show up. Affleck reportedly yells this at the journalists: "Shut up with the Fresh Prince stuff! He's a two-bit TV actor who won't be around any longer than it takes for the ink to dry on the pages of the worthless rags you jerks work for!"
Madonna: The Movie:
The Sun is reporting that Madonna has been writing a new comedy script based on her own life and experiences living under media scrutiny. "I have started writing my own thing, which I would like to direct. It's about a girl who's incredibly famous and all the insanity of her life. She lives in Hollywood and is well known but she's not well respected. It's about the absurdity of fame, the absurdity of people having preconceived notions about celebrities. It's based on a lot of characters and people that I know. I think it's hysterically funny".
Really? Where does it say the girl is also a whore?
Indiana Jones and the Prostate Exam:
Harrison Ford recently appeared on BBC1's Films 2002 and talked about some Indiana Jones IV details, as reported by DarkHorizons: "As Harrison Ford lays it out, the basic ideas have been agreed upon and both he and Steven Spielberg have formally made space in their production schedules for 2004. They are currently waiting on an outline script, which he said is being worked on by George Lucas and Frank Darabont. For those people worried about how the then-sixty year old Harrison will hold up as an action hero, he did say that this was one of the first issues they discussed and the script and film-making will take that into account. However, he did say that he very definitely wanted to be the one looking in the camera during every action scenes, so that the audience would still feel their connection to the character".
QUICK HITS
The Hot Chick: A trailer from Rob Schneider's new "film" is up here.
Blind Sided: Variety reports that David Permut and Constantin Films have teamed with Rob Schneider to develop Blind Sided, a comedy about a man who regains his sight after many years only to find out that the world is a very different place from what he had imagined. Two Rob Schneider items in one report. Damn!
The Other Side of Simple: According to Variety, Shannyn Sossamon has won the female lead role in "The Other Side of Simple". Other cast members include Hayden Christensen, Don Cheadle and Vince Vaughn. The movie will be released by New Line in 2004.
If you have any important news or scoops we haven't covered, send'em over here.
