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HOLLYWOOD<br />
REPORT<br />
LAURENCE FISHBURNE<br />
On "Horizon"<br />
ELLEN DEGENERES<br />
"Goodbye" Girl<br />
CHOW YUN-FAT<br />
"Killer" Diller<br />
"EVENT HORIZON" Laurence<br />
Fishbume ("Hoods") has left Francis<br />
Ford Coppola's "The Rainmaker"<br />
(replaced by Danny<br />
Clover) to star in this sci-fi thriller<br />
as the head of an exploration team<br />
whose members encounter<br />
a<br />
mysterious force on their mission<br />
to salvage a spaceship that surfaces<br />
near Neptune after having<br />
been missing for seven years. Joely<br />
Richardson ("101 Dala-matians")<br />
co-stars as the team's navigator;<br />
Kathleen Quinlan ("Apollo 13")<br />
plays the medical technician.<br />
"Mortal Kombat's" Paul Anderson<br />
directs from Phillip Eisner's<br />
script. (Paramount)<br />
"GOODBYE LOVER"<br />
This<br />
black comedy thriller will star<br />
Ellen DeCeneres ("Mr. Wrong")<br />
as a detective on the case of a<br />
murder mystery. Patricia Arquette("FlirtingWith<br />
Disaster"),<br />
Dermot Mulroney ("The Trigger<br />
Effect") and Don Johnson ("Tin<br />
Cup") also star. Roland Joffe<br />
("The Scarlet Letter") will helm.<br />
(Distribution is to be set)<br />
"STILL BREATHING" In this<br />
comedy, Brendan Fraser ("Mrs.<br />
Winterbourne") plays an eccentric<br />
street performer who has<br />
a psychic vision of his soul<br />
mate. When he encounters the<br />
woman ("Inventing the<br />
Abbotts'" Joanna Going), she<br />
turns out to be a con artist who<br />
sees him as an easy mark. Ann<br />
Magnuson, Lou Rawls and<br />
Michael McKean also star. (Distribution<br />
is to be set)<br />
"THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS"<br />
Chow Yun-Fat ("The Killer") will<br />
make his American film debut<br />
opposite Oscar winner Mira<br />
Sorvino ("Mighty Aphrodite") in<br />
this actioner about a Chinese<br />
dissident-turned -assassin<br />
(Chow) who teams with a forger<br />
(Sorvino) to prevent a murder he<br />
had originally agreed to commit.<br />
AntoineFuqua directs; John<br />
Woo executive produces.<br />
(Columbia)<br />
"AMYFOSTER" In this romance<br />
about two people whose love is<br />
thwarted by numerous obstacles,<br />
a Ukrainian emigrant (Vincent<br />
Perez, "The Crow: City of Angete")<br />
is trapped in England and<br />
falls in love with a young<br />
woman ("Chain Reaction's"<br />
Rachel Weisz) who helps him.<br />
Ian McKellen ("Richard III") will<br />
play a doctor who befriends<br />
Perez's character. Beeban<br />
Kidron ("To Wong Foo, Thanks<br />
for Everything, Julie Newmar")<br />
will direct. The screenplay was<br />
adapted by Tim Willocks from a<br />
Joseph Conrad novella. (Distribution<br />
is to be set)<br />
"MOST WANTED" This actioncomedy<br />
written by and starring<br />
Keenen Ivory Wayans ("The<br />
Glimmer Man") and Jon Voight<br />
("Mission: Impossible") is about<br />
a man who is framed for attempting<br />
to assassinate the First<br />
Lady. "Barb Wire's" David<br />
Hogan will direct. Eric Roberts<br />
("It's My Party") and Paul Sorvino<br />
("Romeo and Juliet")<br />
also star. (New Line)<br />
will<br />
"THE BLACKOUT" Matthew<br />
Modine ("Cutthroat Island"),<br />
Dennis Hopper ("Waterworld"),<br />
Beatrice Dalle ("Night<br />
on Earth") and supermodel<br />
Claudia Schiffer will star for<br />
director Abel Ferrara ("The<br />
Funeral") in this film about a<br />
man who gets drunk one evening<br />
and blacks out, only to<br />
wake the next morning to find<br />
his best friend has been murdered<br />
and he's the prime<br />
suspect. (Distribution is to be set)<br />
"DIGGING TO CHINA" Kevin<br />
Bacon ("Sleepers") plays a mentally<br />
handicapped man who<br />
forms a friendship with a 10-<br />
year-old girl (Evan Wood), in<br />
spite of objections from the<br />
girl's mother (Cathy Moriarty,<br />
"Casper") and older sister (Mary<br />
Stuart Masterson, "Bed of<br />
Roses"). Actor Timothy Hutton<br />
makes his directorial debut.<br />
(Distribution is to be set)<br />
"THE JEAN SEBERG STORY"<br />
Troubled actress Jean Seberg<br />
will be portrayed by Diane Lane<br />
("Murder at 1600") in this<br />
biopic. Seberg, a small-town<br />
girl who rose to superstardom<br />
after being cast in Otto<br />
Preminger's 1957 drama "Saint<br />
Joan," lived a tumultuous life,<br />
had ties to the Black Panther<br />
movement, and was found dead<br />
under mysterious circumstances<br />
in 1979. Mark Rydell ("On<br />
Golden Pond") will helm from a<br />
screenplay by James Hicks,<br />
based on the book "Played Out"<br />
by David Richards. (Distribution<br />
is to be set)<br />
"MOUSEHUNT" "The Birdcage's"<br />
Nathan Lane will star in<br />
this live-action comedy about<br />
two brothers who inherit an historic<br />
mansion and try to sell<br />
but find themselves repeatedly<br />
outsmarted by a mouse who already<br />
lives there. Director Gore<br />
Verbinski makes his feature<br />
debut; Adam Rifkin wrote the<br />
script. (DreamWorks)<br />
"THE GINGERBREAD MAN"<br />
This legal drama set in the South<br />
will star Kenneth Branagh<br />
("Hamlet") as a lawyer who<br />
takes the case of a beautiful<br />
it,<br />
woman who wants her wealthy<br />
father committed. The lawyer<br />
soon discovers that his client's<br />
motives are far from altruistic<br />
when she tries to manipulate him<br />
into killing her plighted pater.<br />
Robert Altman ("The Player")<br />
will direct from an original<br />
screenplay by John Grisham.<br />
(Distribution is to be set)<br />
"THE END OF VIOLENCE"<br />
Andie MacDowell ("Multiplicity"),<br />
Gabriel Byrne ("Mad<br />
Dog Time") and Bill Pullman<br />
("Independence Day") will star<br />
in this Wim Wenders<br />
("Faraway, So Close!") film<br />
about a cross-section of Los Angeleans<br />
connected in various<br />
ways by violence. (Distribution<br />
is to be set)<br />
"PROPHECY II: ASHTOWN"<br />
In this sequel to 1996's "The<br />
Prophecy," Christopher Walken<br />
("The Funeral") returns as an<br />
angel gone bad. Having failed to<br />
annihilate the human race in the<br />
last film, this time he saves a<br />
woman (Brittany Murphy,<br />
"Clueless") from committing<br />
suicide in order to enlist her in<br />
his mission to destroy the world.<br />
Jennifer Beals ("Four Rooms") is<br />
the heroine, and Russell Wong<br />
plays a good angel. (Miramax)<br />
"GLORIA" This 1 980 John Cassavetes<br />
film which starred Gena<br />
Rowlands will be remade with<br />
Sharon Stone ("Diabolique") in<br />
the title role, playing a tough<br />
ex-mob mistress who goes on<br />
the run with a young boy to<br />
protect him from the hitmen who<br />
killed his parents. (Columbia)<br />
ET CETERA: Rosie O'Donnell is<br />
in talks with Miramax to star as<br />
a modern-day Mary Poppinswith-attitude<br />
in "Double<br />
Wish". ..Kelly McGillis and<br />
Brenda Fricker will star in<br />
"Prarie Doves," a drama about<br />
five prostitues in an 1870s<br />
Western boomtown.. .Woody<br />
Harrelson is in negotiations to<br />
take the lead i n TriStar's "Day of<br />
the Rope," a suspense drama<br />
about an FBI agent who infiltrates<br />
a white supremacist organization.<br />
The film will be<br />
directed by "The Net's" Irwin<br />
Winkler. ..Bill Paxton has<br />
dropped out of Oliver Stone's<br />
"U-Turn" (formerly "Stray<br />
Dogs"), and has been replaced<br />
by Sean Penn...Jennifer Jason<br />
Leigh has joined Tom Cruise<br />
and Nicole Kidman in Stanley<br />
Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" for<br />
Warner.. .Dennis Hopper has<br />
signed onto Paramount's Jim<br />
Carrey starrer "The Truman<br />
Show," to be directed by Peter<br />
Weir ("Fearless").<br />
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