Boxoffice-March.2000

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"Knight" In Shining Armor
"33 LIBERTY STREET" A mobster
who dreams of pulling a big heist
seduces a bank employee (Julia
Roberts) as part of a plan that
the original, Dudley Moore played
a short-order cook offered seven
wishes by the devil (Peter Cook) in
exchange for his soul. Brendan
Fraser "The Mummy" will play
Moore's role, whose profession
has been updated to that of a lowlevel
employee at a computer software
company. Also starring are
Elizabeth Hurley ("EDtv") as a
seductress and Frances O'Connor
("Mansfield Park") as Fraser's
character's love interest. (Fox)
"ANGEL EYES" A female cop
who had an abusive childhood
("Out of Sight's" Jennifer Lopez)
befriends a man who endured
the trauma of witnessing his wife
and son die in a car crash. Luis
Mandoki ("Message in a Bottle")
helms this romance/thriller.
(Warner Bros.)
UNTITLED LENI RIEFENSTAHL
PROJECT Jodie Foster ("Anna
and the King") will star in this
biopic about the controversial
1930s German filmmaker Leni "FADE TO BLACK" Kenneth
Riefenstahl, to be scripted by Branagh ("Wild Wild West") is in
"Philadelphia's" Ron Nyswaner.
(Distribution is
to be set)
"ONE FOR THE AGES" This
drama will star Richard Gere
("Runaway Bride") as a football
coach who loses his team in a
plane crash and must assemble a
new team in order to restore
hope to the community and win
the championship. (New Line)
"LAST WORD ON PARADISE"
Ethan
Hawke ("Snow Falling on
Cedars") makes his directorial
debut with this ensemble film,
inspired by Dylan Thomas'
"Under Milk Wood," which will
star his wife Uma Thurman
("Sweet and Lowdown"), Kevin
Corrigan ("Slums of Beverly Hills"),
Kris Kristofferson ("Payback"),
Robert Sean Leonard ("Last Days
of Disco"), Natasha Richardson
("The Parent Trap"), Tuesday
Weld ("Feeling Minnesota"),
Frank Whaley ("Broken Arrow")
and Steve Zahn ("Happy, Texas").
(Distribution is
to be set)
"ENIGMA" This World War ll-set
film will star Dougray Scott
("Ever After") as a man who
works to crack German military
codes when he discovers his girl-
"THE NOTEBOOK" Jim Sheridan
"BEDAZZLED" Harold Ramis
"CRIMINAL CONVERSATION"
("The Boxer") will direct Ashley
Judd ("Double Jeopardy") in this
("Analyze This") will direct, cowrite
lain Softley ("Wings of the
and co-produce this remake romance in which an elderly man
reads a diary to his Alzheimer's-
Dove") will direct Nicole
of the 1967 Faustian comedy. In
Kidman ("Eyes Wide Shut") in
afflicted wife, who enjoys the stories
without realizing that they're
about her life in 1940s North
Carolina, when she was the
object of affection of two young
men. The film is based on the
best-seller by Nicholas Sparks
("Message in a Bottle"). (New
Line)
"SAY IT
ISN'T SO" A bachelor
("Election's" Chris Klein) falls in
love with a woman ("Bowfinger's"
Heather Graham) but mistakenly
believes she's his sister in this
comedy. (Fox)
"SHALLOW HAL" A man who,
as a boy, was told by his dying
father to only pursue young, pretty
girls eventually falls for an
unattractive woman's inner
beauty. Peter and Bobby Farrelly
("Me, Myself and Irene") script;
Gwyneth Paltrow ("The Talented
Mr. Ripley") stars. (Distribution is
to be set)
talks to play Orson Welles in this
drama, in which Welles becomes
involved in a murder investigation
when a series of deaths
occur on the set of the movie
he's shooting. Oliver Parker ("An
Ideal Husband"), who directed
Branagh in 1 995's "Othello,"
will helm from a script by John
Sayles ("Limbo"). (Distribution
to be set)
"A KNIGHT'S TALE" This
medieval drama, scripted and
directed by Brian Helgeland
("Payback"), will star "The
Patriot's" Heath Ledger as a peasant
who assumes the identity of a
knight who has been killed. His
newfound status enables him to
win fame and respect on the
jousting circuit. (Columbia)
"WILDEST DREAMS" A firefighter
and a young widow ("Practical
Magic's" Sandra Bullock) find
each other after sharing each
other's dreams in this parapsychological
romance. (MGM)
is
"SILK" "Shakespeare in Love's"
John Madden will direct this
adaptation of Alessandro
Baricco's 19th century-set novel
goes awry when he falls
about the love triangle between a
for her.
(Warner Bros.)
traveling silkworm merchant, his
friend might be a Nazi spy.
(Distribution to be set)
wife and a Japanese baron's concubine.
(Miramax)
is
"BILLY TWO SUGARS" A drug
"FINDING FORRESTER" A
lord's driver ("Play It to the
Bone's" Antonio Banderas) who's
author ("Entrapment's" "TRUST ME" An FBI trainee
reclusive
Sean Connery) forms a bond with ("The Suburbans'" Jennifer Love
tired of the abuse he receives
from his boss decides to get back
at him and gain some self-respect
an underprivileged young black
writer in this drama, to be
Hewitt) botches an undercover
assignment and is kidnapped by
with the help of a rag-tag gang of helmed by Gus Van Sant a mobster who ends up falling for
("Psycho"). (Columbia)
her in this romantic comedy.
losers. "Rush Hour's" Brett
Ratner directs. (New Line)
(Warner Bros.)
this drama about an English
teacher who has an affair with a
man who, unbeknownst to her, is
the mob boss her D.A. husband
is trying to put in jail. The husband
plants surveillance cameras
in the mobster's apartment and
becomes intrigued by the fleetingly
photographed mistress,
unaware that she's his wife.
(Paramount)
"KINGDOM COME" A wealthy
landowner is confronted by the
wife and daughter he gave up for
a land claim 20 years earlier in
this Michael Winterbottom
("Wonderland")-helmed, Old
West-set romance, to star Wes
Bentley ("American Beauty"),
Nastassja Kinski ("Town and
Country"), Sarah Polley
("Guinevere"), Milla Jovovich
("The Messenger") and Peter
Mullan ("Miss Julie"). (MGM)
"UNBREAKABLE" It's deja vu all
over again. "The Sixth Sense's"
Bruce Willis and scripter M.
Night Shyamalan reteam for a
Mouse House-distributed supernatural
thriller. Willis will star as
a man who discovers something
uncanny about himself after an
accident. Samuel L. Jackson
("Shaft") and Julianne Moore
("The End of the Affair")
(Buena Vista)
co-star.
ET CETERA: Two boxers get
involved in money laundering in
Artisan's fish-out-of-water comedy
"Made," which re-teams
"Swingers" stars Jon Favreau (who
also scripts and directs) and Vince
Vaughn. ..Matthew McConaughey
is in talks to replace Brendan
Fraser in Destination's Jennifer
Lopez starrer "The Wedding
Jeff Planner," while Goldblum
takes the lead in "Auggie Rose,"
following William H. Macy's exit
from the project. ..Two children
must save their secret agent parents
from the enemy in
Dimension's comedy "Spy Kids,"
in which Alan Cumming ("Titus")
will star for writer/director Robert
Rodriguez ("The Faculty").
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