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HOLLYWOOD<br />
REPORT<br />
SAMUEL L. JACKSON<br />
Believe the "Hype"<br />
Samuel L. Jackson ("Die Hard<br />
With A Vengeance") will star as<br />
a tight promoter in Fox's "THE<br />
GREAT WHITE HYPE," a comedy<br />
about the world of boxing.<br />
Jeff Coldblum ("Hideaway")<br />
will co-star as a sportswriter,<br />
and John Cusack ("Bullets Over<br />
Broadway") is considering a<br />
role as a young boxer. Ron Shelton<br />
("White Men Can't Jump")<br />
wrote the script; Reginald<br />
Hudlin ("House Party") will direct.<br />
Jackson will also star in<br />
Warner Bros.' "A TIME TO<br />
KILL," an adaptation of John<br />
Crisham's novel about a black<br />
man put on trial for murdering<br />
the rednecks who raped his<br />
daughter. Matthew McConaughey<br />
("Boys on the Side") is the<br />
lead contender forthe role of the<br />
defense attorney, and Sandra<br />
Bullock ("While You Were<br />
Sleeping"), Brenda Fricker ("My<br />
Left Foot") and Oliver Piatt<br />
("The Three Musketeers") will<br />
co-star. Joel Schumacher ("Batman<br />
Forever") will direct. We'll<br />
also see Jackson in New Line's<br />
remake of "THE ISLAND OF<br />
DR. MOREAU" as the mad<br />
doctor's friend and colleague.<br />
Moreau will be played by<br />
Marlon Brando. Marco<br />
Hofschneider ("Europa, Europa")<br />
has been cast as M'Ling,<br />
Moreau's human/canine manservant<br />
(or would that be mandog-servant?).<br />
Ron Perlman<br />
("Cronos") will also play a mutant<br />
manimal (known as Sayer<br />
of the Law), which should come<br />
easily to him given his experi-<br />
when Paul Revere rides by proclaiming<br />
that the British are<br />
coming, and all the inn's patrons<br />
rush out without paying<br />
their bills. Worse still, the British<br />
then proceed to burn the inn.<br />
Chris Farley ("Tommy Boy") is<br />
in negotiations to co-star as<br />
Stiller's brother; Danny DeVito<br />
("Junior") will play Benjamin<br />
Franklin; and Patricia Arquette<br />
("Ed Wood") is considering a<br />
role as a girl raised by wild dogs.<br />
(Universal)<br />
"BOUND" Jennifer Tilly (recently<br />
Oscar-nominated for<br />
"Bullets Over Broadway") and<br />
Gina Cershon ("Showgirls")<br />
will star in this thriller about a<br />
female ex-con (Cershon) who<br />
falls in love with a Mafia mistress<br />
(Tilly). The two team up to<br />
swindle the mob out of $2 million.<br />
(Distribution is to be set)<br />
"MULHOLLAND FALLS"<br />
Updatmgthe<br />
information provided<br />
in the February issue of<br />
<strong>Boxoffice</strong>, Nick Nolte ("Jefferson<br />
in Paris") will be joined by<br />
Chazz Palminteri ("Bullets Over<br />
Broadway"), Chris Penn ("Short<br />
Cuts") and Michael Madsen<br />
("Wyatt Earp") as "The Hat<br />
Squad," an elite crimefighting<br />
gang of detectives working for<br />
the Los Angeles Police Department<br />
in the 1950s. John<br />
Malkovich, Treat Williams,<br />
Cary Elwes, Melanie Griffith,<br />
Andrew McCarthy and Jennifer<br />
Connelly round out the all-star<br />
cast in this crime drama. (MGM)<br />
his obligations, so he has himself<br />
cloned, a solution which<br />
will no doubt result in multiple<br />
complexities. Harold Ramis<br />
("Groundhog Day") will direct<br />
this script by Chris Miller, Mary<br />
Hale, Lowell Canz and Babaloo<br />
Mandel. Principal photography<br />
begins in July. (Columbia)<br />
"A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE<br />
AND HATE" Hot off the surprise<br />
critical and boxoffice success<br />
"Bad Boys," actor/comedian<br />
Martin Lawrence ("You So<br />
Crazy") has signed to star in this<br />
comedy about nightclub party<br />
promoter Darnell Wright. Lawrence<br />
will also helm, marking<br />
his feature directorial debut.<br />
Principal photography begins<br />
this summer, while Lawrence is<br />
on hiatus from the Fox television<br />
show "Martin." (Savoy)<br />
"TWELVE MONKEYS" Monty<br />
Python alum Terry Gilliam, who<br />
directed "The Fisher King,"<br />
"Time Bandits" and "Brazil,"<br />
helms this sci-fi film in which a<br />
man from an apocalyptic 21st<br />
century (Bruce Willis) travels<br />
back in time to the year 1 996 to<br />
try to save mankind from its future<br />
fate. He meets a psychiatrist,<br />
played by Madeleine<br />
Stowe ("Blink"), who doesn't<br />
know whether to deem him insane<br />
or heed his prophetic<br />
warnings. Brad Pitt and Christopher<br />
Plummer also star. The<br />
screenplay was written by<br />
David Peoples ("Blade Runner").<br />
(Universal)<br />
BRAD PITT<br />
Making "Room"<br />
BRUCE WILLIS<br />
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