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John Frankenheimer ("Ronin")
directs this thriller about an ex-con
who gets roped into a casino heist
against his will. Ben Affleck ("Forces
of Nature"), Gary Sinise ("Snake
Eyes") and Charlize Theron ("The
Cider House Rules") star. Ehren
Kruger ("Scream 3") scripts;
Miramax co-head Bob Weinstein,
Marty Katz and Chris Moore
("American Pie") produce.
(Miramax, 2/25)
Exploitips: Miramax genre arm Dimension jumped at the chance to shoot this script,
previously called "Reindeer Games," when slated for a Christmas release, paying Kruger
£
skills.
David ("Breakfast of I
(Warner Bros., 2/18)
lpions") produce.
Exploitips: The first of a three-pic pact
between Franchise Pictures and the Willis
brothers' Flying Heart Prods.,
the $40 million
"Whole Nine Yards" represents Willis'
goal of building a library of his films for his
company. He took the first step in that
direction last year, producing and starring
in Alan Rudolph's "Breakfast of
Champions, " which Disney distributed.
Drowning Mona
Danny DeVito ("Man on the Moon"),
Bette Midler ("Isn't She Great"), Neve
Campbell ("Scream 3") and Jamie Lee
Curtis ("Virus") star in this funny who-didn't-do-it.
When a small town's grand dame
drives her car into the river, everybody
becomes a suspect in her not-so-accidental
death. "Illtown's" Nick Gomez directs a
script by Peter Steinfeld; Al Corley, Bart
Rosenblatt and Eugene Musso (all executive
producers on "Palmetto") produce.
(Destination, 2/18)
Exploitips: Its third release (behind
"Bats" and "Eye of the Beholder"), tyro distrib
Destination purchased the North
American rights to Neverland Films/Jersey
Shore Productions' "Drowning Mona's"
last spring for roughly $7 million.
Kadosh
Amos Gitai writes and directs this drama
set in Jerusalem about a pair of sisters who
find that life with their respective true loves
is not to be. The first must give up her husband
to another woman when their relationship
doesn't produce children, and the
second finds a marriage has been arranged
for her when her boyfriend decides to leave
the community. Yael Abecassis, Meital
Bardea and Yoram Hattab star. (Kino, 2/16)
Exploitips: "Kadosh" screened at the
1999 Cannes Film Festival, where it was
mated for the Golden Palm.
Hamlet
"Great Expectations'" Ethan Hawke stars
in another modern-day remake of a literary
classic, here portraying Hamlet as a brooding
filmmaker who's an heir to the
Denmark Corp. Kyle MacLachlan ("One
Night Stand"), Sam Shepard ("Snow Falling
a high six-figure sum and demanding two more blind scripts from the scribe. Weinstein,
perhaps a little green at his brother Harvey's "Shakespeare in Love" Oscar, decided to
more hands-on with this proje
his usual executive proon
Cedars"), Diane Venora ("The Insider"),
Bill Murray ("Rushmore"), Casey Affleck
("Drowning Mona"), Karl Geary, Liev
Schreiber ("Jakob the Liar"), Julia Stiles ("10
Things I About You"), Dechen
Thurman, Jeffrey Wright ("Ride with the
Devil") and Steve Zahn ("Happy, Texas")
co-star. Michael Almereyda ("Nadja")
directs his own adaptation from the Bard's
original play; "Nadja's" Amy Hobby and
Andrew Fierberg produce. (Miramax, 2/25
NY/LA)
Exploitips: A double A films production,
this $2 million pic made a deal with
Miramax when the minimajor purchased it
in December 1 998 that includes back-end
participation for the producer, star Hawke
and other key actors.
Third World Cop
This actioner from Jamaica reunites a star
crime fighter with his boyhood friend, who's
turned to a life of crime and now heads a violent
gunrunning scheme. "Dancehall
Queen's" Paul Campbell and Carl Bradshaw
star. Chris Browne directs as well as scripts
with Suzanne Fenn ("Dancehall Queen")
and Chris Salewicz; Carolyn Pfeiffer
("Dancehall Queen") produces. (Palm, 2/25)
Exploitips: "Dancehall Queen," which
claims much of the same talent noted here,
was the highest grossing film in Jamaican
history. Palm Pictures' Chris Blackwell also
founded Island Records, a personal history
that permeates his filmmaking as well:
Music lovers have the added bonus of a
reggae and dance hall "Third World Cop"
soundtrack featuring new Jamaican music
talents. Held from September. BOXOFFICE
reviewed the pic in Toronto, giving it two
stars in the November 1999 issue: "Other
than the still cinematically underused
Jamaican setting, there's little that is fresh
about 'Third World Cop.' There's a good
performance by IMarkJ Danvers as a man
who can't see his way onto the straight and
narrow and a hint of complexity in the
ambivalent response of the locals to the
police, but 'Third World Cop' rarely surmounts
its cliches.
Judy Berlin
Edie Falco (TV's "The Sopranos") stars as
the title character in this drama about
failed filmmaker who returns to his small
East Coast home town from Hollywood and
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