Warner Bros. is looking like a major Oscar player with all the critics awards for L.A. Confidential. If you go to their site, they’ll start you off with a trivia question and some ads before you jump into the main site. You can visit L.A. Confidential or The Postman. Or you can check out the last film from Turner Pictures, Fallen, starring Denzel Washington.
My nephew Charles, age 8, loves the WB kids site and the animation site. And he can’t get enough Batman, either the movie or the comic book).
Mel Gibson is a long-term Warner Bros. player. The site for Conspiracy Theory is still there. But if you want the hottest news on Mel, check out the wonderful page by Superfan, Lisa Hightower.
The story of Hanukkah, L.A. style. It’s the Whole Picture.
E-mail works though the holidays. Try it. You’ll like it.
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A Hot Button Holiday – Day 4
Tuesday, December 23rd, 1997Tags: Conspiracy Theory, Denzel Washington, Fallen, L.A. Confidential, Mel Gibson, The Postman, Warner Bros., Whole Picture
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The Dark Knight: The Musical
Wednesday, December 17th, 1997Variety reports that Warner Bros. is making plans to follow in Disney’s footsteps by bringing the Batman franchise to Broadway. That’s right, “The Dark Knight: The Musical” (It could be less painful than another Schumacher Batman sequel). I bet you want to sing already, huh? Songs include “My Dead Parents,” “Sorry ’bout the Acid, Joker,” the comedy number, “My Tights Are Too Darned Tight,” and the grand romantic ballad, “My Suit Is Happy To See You.”
The Arizona Republic talked to Tom Arnold, who spilled the beans about what’s next for James Cameron. According to Tom, it’s True Lies 2. Cameron is apparently ready to pay Fox back for their $200 million worth of faith in him and his vision for Titanic. Arnold starts his WB hiatus in February and he was just put on indefinite hold on Ridley Scott’s over-budget-before-pre-production, I Am Legend. And Cameron? He’d only have to take a break from the awards banquets at which he’ll soon be a regular. Look for the film in Christmas, 1998, assuming Tom is on target.
Whining was the art form of choice over the weekend. Kevin Costner was unhappy with press junket critics’ reaction to The Postman, his new writer/director/star turn. The reaction? Laughter. “That’s horrible!” squealed Kevin, “You guys (the media) keep spinning that way, and it’s wrong. You were wrong about Dances (With Wolves), you were wrong about Waterworld, and you’re wrong about this movie! It’s too bad that’s how it keeps going; that really pisses me off.” On the other hand, Christian Slater knows that he was wrong and that he needs help. He told reporters, “It doesn’t matter how famous you are … If your head is telling you you suck, all you ever want to do is try to escape from that. I’m just dealing with that now, and it’s tough.” Good luck, gentlemen. I’ll put a dime in your tin cups when I see you.
Any money for me? Throw something in my tin cup. Or just drop me a line to say hi.
Tags: Batman, I Am Legend, Kevin Costner, Ridley Scott, Titanic, Tom Arnold, True Lies 2, Warner Bros., Waterworld
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Are You a Man-Hater or a Misogynist?
Tuesday, October 14th, 1997You have your choice with these two hot, hot, hot spec script purchases! You say it’s too good to be true? Well, bite into Dog Eat Dog, a romantic comedy about a woman who hires a trainer for her dog and (get this!) her boyfriend. Wacky! And it cost Disney only $250,000 against $500,000. (Do you know what they call a great development exec? A Golden Retriever! Wacka-wacka!) But what about the misogyny, you ask? It’s Sony, paying big bucks to Ben Ramsey and Michael McCant for their script, Waiting For That Bitch To Leave. I wonder why they changed the title to Natural Men. Must be the oppression of political correctness. Couldn’t be that the guys who wrote it would be seen as flaming a-holes just for plastering that title on the front page of a script, could it?
Looks like Tom and Nicole are finally set to make I Married A Witch at Sony. My personal experience, albeit limited, with the big, red Nicole, tells me that this shouldn’t be seen as a “rhymes with” title. But on titles alone, Tom’s second movie as producer, partnered with Paula Wagner, may fuel rumors that their marriage is a Mission: Impossible. Meow.
Renny Harlin is almost set for Deep Blue Sea, which Warner Bros has coined “Jurassic-shark.” Bio-medical engineers manipulate genetics to create a faster, smarter, more vicious shark so dumb rich guys can hunt them. And of course, it goes wrong. So wrong! (Look for the scene where the shark grows legs and walks past a video store with posters for Cutthroat Island in the window!) The film is racing with Disney’s Megalodon about prehistoric sharks. Is prehistory anything before 1977? That’s when Jaws came out. The more things change …
Email me. Talk to Uncle Dave and tell him how you feel.
Tags: Disney, Dog Eat Dog, Nicole Kidman, Paula Wagner, Renny Harlin, Tom Cruise, Warner Bros.
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