Boxoffice-November.2001

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HIGHLIGHTS
Hollywood celebrates the holidays
and "Rines" in the New Year.
NOVEMBER 2
Monsters Inc.
—
Sel in the realm of things that go
bump in the night, this computeranimated
family comedy features
the voices of |ohn Goodman
("Storytelling") as one of the monster
world's premier Scarers, a big,
blue furry beast with purple spots
and horns. His sidekick, a short,
green, one-eyed Scare Assistant,
sounds a lot ' Billy Crystal
("America's Sweethearts").
When a
human child crosses
over into their dimen-
so, by the time the good Li and
the bad Li meet, they both have
super-human speed and strength,
and an epic battle to conquer or
save the world ensues. Delroy
Lindo ("Cone in 60 Seconds"),
lason Statham ("John Carpenter's
Ghosts ni Mars") and Carla
Gugino ("Spy Kids") co-star,
lames Wong directs as well as
scripts and produces with Glen
Morgan, his partner on "Final
Destination"; Li's manager Steve
Chasman also produces.
(Columbia, 11/2)
Exploitips:
Professional
wrestlei The Rock ("The
Mummy Returns") was originally
pern iled m to stai in this
motion picture but eventually
exited and the script was
rewritten to take advantage oi
Li's martial-arts talents.
sion, chaos ensues
foi the monsters of
\m .
actually a bum h ol big
fraidy-cats. lames
Coburn
fPIU
("Affliction"),
lennifer Tilly ("The
( icw "), Steve Buscemi
("Ghost World"), newcomer Mary
Biggs, lohn Ratzenberger (TV's
"Cheers," "Toy Story 2") and
Bonnie Hunt ("Return to Me") also
voice. Pete Docter, who wrote the
oiigiu.il "Toy" story, directs; David
Silverman ("The Road to El
Dorado") co-directs; Darla
Anderson ("A Bug's Life") produces.
(Buena Vista, 11/2)
Exploitips: This pic was produced
by Pixar, the computer animation
outfit that co-produced
Toy Story,""A Bug's lite"
Disney s
Children") directs as well as
and "Toy Stow 2," which grossed scripts with Guillaume Laurant;
$191.8 million, $162.8 million Claudie Ossard ("The City of
and $245.8 million, respectively. Lost Children") produces.
Meanwhile. DreamWorks Shrek,
had earned more than $250 mil-
(Miramax,
exp, 11/16
11/2
exp,
NY/LA
11/21 exp)
11/9
lion domestically at press time,
making it i tear thai CGI is a good
business to be in. The family film's
biggest threat will be "Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone"— so
eagerl) awaited you'd never know
it was a literary adaptation— which
si ared I tisney away from its tradilit
>nal lhanksgi\ ing slot.
The One
let Li ("Kiss of the Dragon
does double