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i iuple ill ti 'li l fn In' 'Sleepy apra and n Ii illi w ' I I < The Majestic Jim Carrey ("Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas") stars in this romam e as a 1950s-era Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Having lost his job, he gets drunk and crashes his car, emerging from the wreckage with a case of amnesia. He stumbles into a small coastal community and is mistaken for a soldier returning from war. Under his new identity, he falls in love and catalyzes a town recovery that includes the restoration of a local theatre, the Majestic. But his returning memory and the pursuant blacklisted threaten his new, Capra-esque existence. Laurie Holden, Martin Landau ("Ready to Rumble") and Bruce Campbell ("Evil Dead") co-star. Frank Darabont ("The Green Mile") directs and produces a script by Michael Sloane. (Warner Bros., 1 2/21) JTlfTKilWJBTIC^ 3P% Exploitips: Darabont who let a ball a decide pass between his i titkalh ,i< c Limed "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green vl/Ve was skeptical when his old pal Sloane handed him the screenplay for "The Majestic," then known as "The Bijou." Soon he was so enamored, however, that he agreed to direct. Darabont has indicated that it Frank Capra's films were a genre, he would call The ' la/esf/i i a aim and ( arre) is his limmy Stewart. Given tin hi ilh . I tj afternoons during the month ol Decemberto get mo\ iegi i I \lsi >. given the \trh al setting, this ii theit h set in 19 !2 I ngland. A wealth} has in\ ited an ei lei tii mix ol guests : end '.l ting part} it thi that i ulminates w ith a murdei mi the poinl ol \ iev\ ol the ser- \ I ants ensemble i asl ini ludes Mil hael i Gambon I leremy Northam ("The Golden Bowl"), Helen Mirren ("Greenfingers"), Emily Watson ("The Luzhin Defense"), Ryan Phillippe ("AntiTrust"), Stephen Fry ("Wilde"), Maggie Smith ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"), Kristin Scott Thomas ("Life as a House") and Richard E. Grant ("The Match"). Julian Fellowes scripts; Altman, actor Bob Balaban and frequent Altman collaborator David Levy produce. (USA, 12/21 NY/LA) Exploitips: "Gosford Park" marks the first time maverick filmmaker Altman has filmed in England and, with the exception of Phillippe, is comprised of a mostly British cast. BOXOFFICE talks to Altman from the Isle on page 36. Little Otik In this Czech fairy tale, which combines live action with claymation, a childless couple turn a tree stump into a baby and then watch him evolve into a monster. Jan Svankmajer directs, scripts and produces; Keith Griffiths and Jaromir Kallista also produce. (Zeitgeist, 12/19 NY) Exploitips: Invite Svankmajer to attend a screening on opening weekend to talk about his claymation technique and the origins of this story. DECEMBER 25 The Royal Tenenbaums Gene Hackman ("Heist"), Anjelica Huston ("The Golden Bowl"), Gwyneth Paltrow ("Shallow Hal"), Ben Stiller ("Zoolander") and Luke Wilson ("Soul Survivors") star in this comedy as a family of geniuses. As youngsters, the children were an award-winning playwright, a financial wizard and a tennis star. Now they're married to an older man, paranoid and burnedout, respectively, largely due to their father's failure as a patriarch. But they have reunited under one roof upon learning that their old man is terminally ill. Bill Murray ("Osmosis lones") and Danny Glover ("Beloved") costar. Wes Anderson ("Rushmore") directs, scripts and produces; Owen Wilson ("Rushmore"), who also co-stars, co-scripts; Barry Mendel ("Unbreakable") and Scott Rudin ("Zoolander," "Wonder Boys also produce. (Buena Vista, 12/25 ^ I fying run, winter 2002 exp) Exploitips: Anderson, whosi "Rushmore" was a hit among a tin s it not the general public, wrote the two parental leads with Hackman and Huston in mind, hitting the proverbial jackpot when they agreed to star. I ista ob\ iousl) has Oscar hopes foi th positioning it with a oneweek qualifying run starting Christmas da\ before a w idei The Shipping News Kevin Space} ("K i'\\ stars in this drama .is .1 sin overweight new spaperman who. aftei the death ol Ins unfaithful wife, moves with his aunt and two daughters to the home of his ancestors, Newfoundland. There he takes a job reporting on the shipping news, falls in love with a local single mom and uncovers the secrets of his family's past. Julianne Moore ("Hannibal"), Judi Dench ("Chocolat") and Cate Blanchett ("The Lord of the Rings") costar. Lasse Hallstrom ("Chocolat") directs; Robert Nelson Jacobs ("Chocolat") scripts based on the book by E. Annie Proulx; Irwin Winkler ("Life as a House"), Linda Goldstein Knowlton ("Crazy in Alabama"! and Leslie Holleran ("Chocolat") produce. (Miramax, 12/25, 1/4 exp) Exploitips: "The Shipping News" has been in development since before its publication in 1 993, and such talent as helmer Fred Schepisi, actors John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, director/actor Billy Bob Thornton and actor Meg Ryan all have been associated with the pic at various points in time. The pic was originally set up at Columbia, which agreed to share distribution with Miramax when Hallstrom signed on, since he owed the minimajor his next film. Eventually, Columbia sold the rights to Miramax outright. Cooperate with a local bookstore to promote both the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Oscar-hopeful film. Collaborate with a local travel agency to give away a trip for four to the story's 1 hill\ setting, Newfoundland. A Beautiful Mind Russell Crowe ("Proof of Life") stars in this drama based on the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a brilliant mathematician who makes some landmark discoveries early in his career at M.I.T. in the 1950s but succumbs to schizophrenia, a disease that threatens his marriage. Ultimately he overcomes his affliction and wins the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on Game Theory. Ed Harris ("Enemy at the Gates") and lennifer Connelly ("Requiem for a Dream") co-star. Ron Howard ("How the Grinch Stole Christmas") directs; Akiva Goldsman ("Practical Magic") scripts based on the biography by Sylvia Nasar: Brian Grazer ("Dr. Seuss' Hou the Grinch Stole Christmas") produces. (Universal, 12/25) Exploitips: A number of A-listers—including director Robert Redford and actor Tom Cruise— have circled this project m/ih' 1 low aid ami Grazer's production company, bought the rights 10 the for $1 million thre ago Snooting began on the project the da) attei the 2001 \w ards when ( 'rowe heat 1 11 si. 11 Harris in the best actoi category. Nash's real-lite personal problems included an illegitimate child and affairs w ith men. but the 32 BOXOIIKI
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