-
Update : May 5th,1999
-
NEWS
 
|
Navy Divers : Robert De Niro is in negotiations to star in Navy Divers. Cuba Gooding Jr. is also in talks to join the cast of George Tillman (Soul Food) directed film. Gooding may take the lead in the film about Carl Brashear, who made U.S. military history when he combated racism to become the Navy's first African American deep-sea diver. The story takes place from 1940-70 and tells Brashear's real-life story. In 1966, he continued to dive after losing a leg during a salvage mission in the Atlantic and became the first black and amputee to earn Navy master diver certification.
Robert
De Niro : Mayor of Brooklyn, Rudolph Giuliani 
announced
a deal that would transform an abandoned Brooklyn Navy Yard shipbuilding
facility the size of three football fields into one of the largest movie-making
studios outside Hollywood. Robert De Niro's film production company,
TriBeCa Productions, signed a letter of intent with Vornado
Realty Trust, an equity real estate investment trust, to build the studio
at an estimated cost of about $140 million to $150 million. Personally
... being a part of this is very exciting to me De Niro said at the
news conference in the huge shipyard, which once built hulls for destroyers
and battleships. The two partners agreed that Walt
Disney Co.'s Miramax Films would join the project and eventually
make films in the studio, which could employ about 2,000 to 3,000 people.
Pic is from © Reuters. Click for large
version.
According to Variety's Michael Fleming producer Larry Gordon may helm the Robert Ferrigno bestselling novel The Horse Latitudes optioned by TriStar in 1990 for a pic to star Robert De Niro,It’s about an ex-drug dealer whose wife is missing. He becomes the prime suspect when her boyfriend is found gutted. And Jamie Babbit (But I Am a Cheerleader) is set to direct Conjugating Niki for Tribeca Prods. The film based on a 21-year-old New York society girl whose family loses its money, after which she is forced to become an au pair for the summer in the Hamptons, looking after an 8-year-old version of herself. Claire Danes want to star in the lead. Get the latest info about De Niro.
Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace : The May 16 benefit premiere for for the film has sold out, with more than $1.1 million raised for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Most of the 1,468 tickets were sold in packages of $5,000, $10,000 and $25,000. Since the premiere at Westwood's Avco theater is underwritten by Flexjet, all proceeds are a net to the foundation. And the official site has released four of the various commercials for the Prequel as well as the music video for Duel of the Fates. You have the download Quicktime 4.0 for the music video if you don't have it. The sections described as Queen Amidala (One Will), Qui-Gon Jinn (One Destiny), Anakin (One Dream), and Shmi (One Love).
''Duel of the Fates'' Music Video (Streaming, 56Kbps) | ''One Will'' Lo-Res (2.4 Mb, MOV)
''Duel of the Fates'' Music Video (Streaming, T1) | ''One Will'' Hi-Res (4.7 Mb, MOV)
''One Destiny'' Lo-Res (2.3 Mb, MOV) | ''One Dream'' Lo-Res (2.3 Mb, MOV)
''One Destiny'' Hi-Res (4.5 Mb, MOV) | ''One Dream''Hi-Res (4.6 Mb, MOV)
''One Love'' Lo-Res (4.6 Mb, MOV) | ''One
Love'' Hi-Res (9.2 Mb, MOV)
Oliver stone : Director Oliver Stone is closing his production company because of overwhelmed by incessant phone calls, a mountain of unsolicited manuscripts and occasional bad publicity. Stone said Monday he would dissolve the Illusion Entertainment shingle he formed with his producing partner Dan Halsted in 1995. ``Life has just gotten too hectic, and the price of producing was often too high,'' Stone said. ``I wasn't trying to be overtly commercial, and tried to help a lot of first-time directors, which was something I wanted to do since NYU Film School because I remembered how hard it was to get a first film off the ground. We never had a major success, but we made some pictures I'm proud of.'' ``We'll move forward the projects that are for me, but otherwise, I'm finished, I'm not producing anymore. It's overwhelming, the phone calls, the unsolicited manuscripts are never-ending, and I'd like to go back to writing.''
The Flight of the Phoenix : Michael Mann will not direct 20th Century Fox's The Flight of the Phoenix. Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman Bill Mechanic believes essential to the studio's bottom line: who pays for overages, or what a film spends beyond its set budget. Robert Zemeckis may direct the film.
Riding
In Cars With Boys : Penny Marshall (A League of Their
Own. Awakenings) is near to deal to direct Riding In Cars
With Boys. Drew Barrymore is in negotiations for the starring
role.The film centers on the lifelong relationship between a mother and
the son she gave birth to at the age of 15 in 1968.
Update
: May
3th,1999
Reindeer Games : We have got info from Sarah who gave us info about the film before. Ben Affleck will star in the leed which John Frankenheimer is directing. Reindeer Games is the story of an ex-con who becomes involved in a scheme to rob a casino.
Well I got to meet Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron, and even got a video of them and that guy from Desparado and Con Air with them shooting a scene and even got Ben smoking...who knew? Gweneth Paltrow was also in town here to visit Ben. The movie will be out next summer and I think you already know the plot. They were here for a month and turned our town into Michigan during Christmas. They shot at our jail, one small strip mall, a forested area next to the river, a small trucker diner, and The Sandman Inn(they changed the name of course).
Oliver Reed died : Oliver Reed who starred in Women in Love Tommy and The Three Musketeers died Sunday in Malta. He was there for the production of Gladiator. Reed suffered a heart attack in a bar where he was drinking with his wife and crew members. He died in an ambulance going to the hospital. An autopsy will be made but Reed's death is not considered suspicious, police said. In the movie he was playing a trainer of gladiators. He was 61.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas : Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin and Mindy Sterling have signed to star opposite Jim Carrey in Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Carrey is playing the evil Grinch and Ron Howard is directing.
Eyes Wide Shut : Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide Shut had received an R-rating from the Motion Picture Assn. of America.Warner Bros did not make a comment but told to be preparing a trailer for the movie that opens July 16 in US.
Two Thousand and None : John Turturo has signed on to play in Two Thousand and None. Turturo will play a brilliant paleontologist who's diagnosed with an unusual medical condition that causes a strange swelling of the brain and leaves him with just six weeks to live. Canadian director Arto Paragamian (Because Why) to direct the film.
The Crew : Burt Reynolds and Richard Dreyfuss are getting ready to star in The Crew.The film is about four wiseguys in retirement who get back into work to save their Miami Beach apartment.The budget is $25 million and Michael Dinner (Heaven Help Us) will direct.
This page is hosted by
Get your own Free Home Page
© BUDAK TIMURALP & AYKUT CELIKBAS
budak@oocities.com
aykutc@oocities.com