Boxoffice-November.2001

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HOLLYWOOD
HOT SET
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"TIMELINE" In this sci-fi thriller
based on a Michael Crichton
mentor, whose 700-year-old
message for help is found on the
directing, scripting and producing
debut on this drama, in
which he'll also star, about an
Australian battalion in World
War II whose soldiers come to
doubt their mission. (Distribution
is
to be set)
"SWEPT AWAY" This remake of
the 1975 romance in which a
haughty socialite is put in her
place when she's stranded on a
desert island with a brusque
sailor will be directed by Guy
Ritchie ("Snatch") and will star
his wife, Madonna ("Evita").
(Distribution is
to be set)
"XXX" "The Fast and the Furious'"
star Vin Diesel, director Rob
Cohen and producer Neal Moritz
reteam for this hip-hop spy thriller
in which an extreme sports athlete
(Diesel) is tapped by the government
to infiltrate a crime ring.
(Distribution is
to be set)
"CHICAGO" Catherine Zeta- in this biopic, which will detail
Jones ("America's Sweethearts") the sitcom celeb's seedy private
and Renee Zellweger ("Nurse life and unsolved murder.
Betty") will star for helmer Rob
TV
Willem Dafoe ("Spider-Man")
Marshall (the 1999 produc-
co-stars and Paul Schrader
tion of "Annie") in this adaptation
of the Bob Fosse musical
about a female vaudeville performer
and a chorus girl who
become murderers-turned-media
celebrities in the 1920s. Kevin
Spacey ("K-Pax") may play an
unscrupulous lawyer, and Kathy
Bates ("Rat Race") is attached to
play a prison matron. (Miramax)
"UMP" In this black comedy, "AGAINST THE ROPES" Meg
Arnold Schwarzenegger ("The Ryan ("Proof of Life") stars in this
6th Day") will play a hitman
who's dubbed The Ump because
of the rigid rules he imposes on
his practices. He kills two of
three mob bosses and goes into
hiding in a small town, where he
is heralded as a hero when he
uses his expertise to take on the
local criminals. (MGM)
"MAN OF WAR" A special forces
unit leader ("Unbreakable's"
Bruce Willis) and his team traverse
war-torn Africa to rescue a
doctor ("Malena's" Monica
Bellucci), but she refuses to leave
unless the local villagers can be
evacuated as well. (Distribution
is
to be set)
"THE FARM" A CIA operative
("Minority Report's" Colin
novel, a group of young scientists Farrell) learns that his mentor
must time-travel back to the 14 tn
century to rescue their missing
("Any
Pacino)
Given
has double-crossed
Sunday's" Al
him
in this James Foley ("The
Corrupter")-helmed thriller.
(Buena Vista)
site of their present-day archeological
survey. Paul Walker ("The
"THE GATHERING" An American
Fast and the Furious") and
Gerard Butler ("Dracula 2000")
star for director Richard Donner
teenager
Christina
("Prozac
Ricci) backpacking
Nation's"
("Conspiracy Theory"). (Paramount) through a small English village is
involved in a car accident, after
"THE LONG GREEN SHORE" which she has disturbing visions
Russell Crowe will make his that may be connected to the
horrifying images on a mural of a
recently unearthed 1 st -century
church. Brian Gilbert ("Wilde")
directs this supernatural thriller.
(Distribution is
to be set)
"THE TOUCH" Michelle Yeoh Fox). Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie,
("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane
Dragon") and Ben Chaplin and Steve Zahn will reprise their
("Birthday Girl") star in this
romantic action-adventure about
a crime ring of circus stunt performers.
(Miramax)
MEMBER" Mike Myers hogs
"COLD MOUNTAIN" A even more screen credits in this
wounded Confederate soldier third installment of the "Austin
("Vanilla Sky's" Tom Cruise) is
determined to return home to
the woman he loves in this Civil
War-set drama scripted and
directed by Anthony Minghella
("The Talented Mr. Ripley").
(Miramax)
"AUTOFOCUS" Greg Kinnear
("We Were Soldiers") will portray
"Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane
("Affliction") directs. (SPC)
"THE ANTWONE FISHER STORY"
Denzel Washington makes his
helming debut on this biopic
drama about a Sony studio security
guard-turned-screenwriter, to
star newcomer Derek Luke, a fellow
employee of the real-life
Antwone Fisher. (Fox Searchlight)
biopic about female boxing manager
Jackie Kallen; Charles S.
Dutton makes his directorial
debut. (Paramount)
"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE
MIDLANDS" Robert Carlyle ("The
Beach"), Rhys Ifans ("Human
Nature"), Kathy Burke ("Elizabeth")
and Shirley Henderson ("Bridget
Jones's Diary") star in tins
comedic parody of/homage to
the Spaghetti Western genre, in
which a man returns to the
English Midlands to try to win
back his ex-girlfriend. Shane
Meadows ("A Room For Romeo
Brass") scripts and helms.
(Distribution is
to be set)
"THE TRANSPORTER" Jason
Statham ("Snatch") will play a
deliveryman
privately-retained
who gets in trouble when he
starts asking questions about
exactly what he's transporting.
Hong Kong helmer and martial
arts choreographer Corey Yuen
makes his English-language
directing debut; frequent collaborators
Luc Besson and Robert
Kamen (who most recently
worked together on "Kiss of the
Dragon") co-script. (Distribution
is
to be set)
"STUART LITTLE 2" Christopher
Walken will voice a villainous
falcon in this sequel to the liveaction/animated
"Stuart Little,"
in which a human family adopts
a mouse (voiced by Michael J.
roles, and Rob Minkoff returns to
direct. (Columbia)
"AUSTIN
POWERS IN GOLD-
Powers" spy-spoof franchise,
playing not-so-secret-agent-man
Powers, world-domination-obsessed
Dr. Evil, henchman Fat Bastard
and new villain Goldmember.
Jay Roach returns to helm. (New
Line)
"THE BELLBOY" The 1960 Jerry
Lewis farce about a posh hotel's
staggeringly clumsy bellboy will
be remade with Jackie Chan
in title
("Shanghai Noon") the
role and Keenen Ivory Wayans
("Scary Movie") directing. (MGM)
"DOLEMITE" This remake of the
1975 blaxploitation actioner
will star LL Cool J ("Roller-ball")
as a club owner who, with the
help of a trio of lethal females,
wreaks revenge on a rival who
frames him for drug dealing.
(Dimension)
ET CETERA: Reese Witherspoon
("Legally Blonde") may stai in
Buena Vista's Andy Tennant ("Ever
After")-helmed romantic comedy
"Sweet Home Alabama" as a
small-town woman who leaves
her husband to move to New
York, where she poses as a
socialite. ..Ed Norton will star i
as
an FBI agent opposite Anthony
Hopkins as serial killer Hannibal
Lecter in Universal's "Silence of
the Lambs" prequel "Red Dragon"
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Kidman and Sam Rockwell are
in attached to star Miramax's
"Confessions of a Dangerous
Mind," a biopic scripted by
"Being lohn Malkovich's" Charlie
Kaufman about "Gong Show"!
host Chuck Harris and his purported
secret life as a government
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