'Bully' Disturbs Some at Festival
VENICE, Italy (AP) - The director of perhaps the most provocative movie at this year's Venice Film Festival said he was looking for an alternative to ``Hollywood fairy tales.'' ``Bully,'' directed by Larry Clark, is based on events that happened in Florida in 1993. A group of teens murder the school ...
| Venice set for Film Festival
VENICE (Top40 Charts) - The 58th Venice Film Festival is set to open on Wednesday with 41 films in competition for the top Golden Lion Award. Among the stars expected for the festival - which is older than Berlin or Cannes - are Nicole Kidman, Danny DeVito, Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman. Nicole ...
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'American Pie 2' Tops U.S. Box Office
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teen comedy "American Pie 2" showed it had the recipe for success as it topped the box office for a third consecutive week, only the third film all year to do so, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. The R-rated film, released by Universal Pictures, a unit of French ...
| Weekend Movies: Winding down the summer, typically
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a typical end-of-summer move, Hollywood's studios have loaded theaters with five new movies this week, ranging from romantic comedy ``Summer Catch'' to the very unromantic ``Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.'' Those movies join controversial coming-of-age comedy ''Bubble Boy'' ...
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Third Eye Blind's Jenkins, Everclear, Members Of Korn To Hit 'Rock Star' Premiere
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins, Everclear, and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst are among the rock stars who will be out in force to celebrate the premiere of their namesake movie, Rock Star, in Westwood, California September 4. Others set to attend include the various musicians ...
| Mick, Uma, Denzel, Caine to go to Toronto fest
TORONTO, Ontario (Reuters) - For 10 days in September, "Toronto the Good" becomes "Toronto the Chic" when those Hollywood celebrities and others light up the 26th International Film Festival, which is often used as a launching pad for Academy Award-winning films. Organizers unveiled a dazzling list ...
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No Mercy, No Shame, No Sequel
TV Guide OnLine--Frustrations with studio politics have led filmmaker Tim Burton to declare that he won't be making a sequel to his summer blockbuster Planet of the Apes. "The idea of doing a sequel - I'd rather jump out of the window, I swear to God," the offbeat director told Britain's Independent ...
| 'American Pie 2' flies high at box office
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Teen comedy "American Pie 2" became the first movie since June to hold onto the No. 1 at the North American box office in its second weekend, completely untroubled by three newcomers. According to studio estimates issued Sunday, the occasionally raunchy Universal Pictures sequel ...
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Mixed Box Office Bag Eyes 'Pie'
HOLLYWOOD (Top40 Charts) - The summer box office has been famously dominated by pictures soaring to No. 1 and then ceding the top spot in their second weekend, but that could change this weekend as reigning champ "American Pie 2" faces little competition among the new releases. Of Friday's three wide ...
| Wyclef Goes to Hollywood
LA (Top40 Charts) - The newest hardest working man in show business just started working a lot harder. Wyclef Jean can add actor, movie producer, screenwriter and composer to his credits with both the upcoming release of Shottas and the work in progress biopic Passport. Jean's friend Cess Silvera was ...
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'Pearl' Hits $200 Mil Overseas After Cracking China!
Sydney, Australia (Top40 Charts) - "Pearl Harbor's" record-busting premiere in China helped propel the foreign total for the WWII epic past $200 million last weekend, while "Planet of the Apes," "Jurassic Park III" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" saw strapping, but not dazzling, debuts in other territories. ...
| Edinburgh film festival opens
Edinburgh (BBC) - Film stars gathered in Edinburgh on Sunday night for the launch of the city's Film and International festivals. The festival openings follow a successful first week of the Fringe and Book festivals which saw record advance tickets sales. The Film Festival opened with the international ...
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'Pie' takes box office cake...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - "American Pie 2" grabbed the biggest slice of the box office, debuting as the top weekend film with $45.1 million, the best opening ever for an R-rated comedy. Last weekend's top film, "Rush Hour 2," slipped to No. 2 with $31.5 million, pushing its 10-day total to $131.9 million, ...
| Matrix Reloaded Delayed Until 2003
NY (Top40 Charts) - Fans of The Matrix will have to wait even longer than expected for the film's first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded. The sci-fi sequel is now unofficially set for May 2003, more than four years after the original debuted. Despite expectations that the next installment of the franchise ...
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Spielberg considering playing with Gorillaz
Hollywood (Top40 Charts) - Steven Spielberg, fresh from the robots of AI, is apparently negotiating with British band Gorillaz about the possibility of making a full-length animated feature film. Top40 Charts reports that the animated group, which includes Blur frontman Damon Albarn, are currently garnering ...
| Hollywood production in UK down by 65%
London (Guardian) - Investment by Hollywood productions filming in the UK has dropped dramatically this year and an upturn is not expected until the beginning of 2002. According to figures from the British Film Commission, the total value of overseas productions shooting in the UK from January to June ...
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Upcoming Film Releases: Weeks of August 6 & August 13
HOLLYWOOD (Reuters) - An update of the U.S. film calendar for this week and next. Dates are subject to change, and films initially may open only in select cities, mentioned wherever possible. AUGUST 8 Wide Spy Kids (special edition) (Dir: Robert Rodriguez. Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino) Limited The ...
| Some Teen Movies Smarter and Edgier!
LOS ANGELES (AP) - While Hollywood serves up a second helping of gross-out humor this weekend with "American Pie 2,'' the industry also has been offering a broad mix of smarter, sweeter, more true-to-life or provocative films about teen-agers. Although they have played in far fewer theaters than "American ...
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Pierson Voted to Head Academy
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank R. Pierson has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Pierson succeeds "Clear and Present Danger'' producer Robert Rehme, who had served the maximum four consecutive one-year terms in the office, the organization ...
| Matrix Reloaded Delayed To 2003!!!
NY (Top40 Charts) - Joel Silver, producer of the two upcoming Matrix sequels, told SCI FI Wire that the release of the first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, likely won't happen until 2003. "It's going to be summer now, summer 2003," Silver said in an interview at the premiere for Osmosis Jones, in which ...
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