" Crammer, Angela Lansbury, John Cusack and Christopher Lloyd provide other voices. Don Bluth and Cary Coldman, the team for "An American Tail" and "All Dogs Co to Heaven," direct and produce; Eric Tuchman, Susan Cauthier and Bruce Craham script. See our Sneak Preview in this issue. (Fox, 1 1/21 wide) Exploitips: Like DreamWorks, Fox is going heavy into animation— even as recent Disney animated fare has been struggling to reach the once-easy $ 1 00 million mark. This $50+ million effort is the studio's first out of its new Arizona facility, and although it's likely to pull the family demo in general it trends toward the littlegirl side in particular— the same group that Disney satisfied just "The Little last weekend with its Mermaid" reissue. Yet the advantage seems "Anastasia's," given that it's a new entry opening for the Thanksgiving school break. The Rainmaker Adapted from John Crisham's 1995 best-seller, this David and Coliath tale follows the struggles of a recent law-school graduate ("Courage Under Fire's" Matt Damon) pitted against an unscrupulous insurance industry giant and a big-name law firm. Claire Danes ("William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet"), Danny DeVito, Jon Voight ("Most Wanted"), Danny Glover (also in "Switchback"), Virginia Madsen ("Chosts of Mississippi") and Mickey Rourke co-star. Francis Ford Coppola directs and scripts; Michael Douglas and Steven Reuther produce for Douglas/ Reuther Prods, with American Zoetrope. SeeourOctober issue's Cover Story. (Paramount, 11/21) Exploitips: This is the seventh Grisham-based film in just five years, and the last ("The Chamber") was received coolly. Given "A Time to Kill's" response, though, that might have been an aberration, not a sign ofaudience overdose. Some expect Damon to be the next McConaughey (who leaped to fame with "A Time to Kill"), and the supporting cast here is solid. And, of course, there's that Coppola name. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation A group of courageous warriors must survive newchallenges when they do battle with an evil warlord who wants to rule Earth. Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou and Talisa Soto return for the sequel; supermodel Irina Pantaeva co-stars. John Leonetti ("Child's Play 3") directs; Brent V. Friedman ("Hellhound") scripts with Bryce Zable; Larry Kasanoff produces. (New Line, 11/21 wide) Exploitips: "Mortal Kombat," directed by Paul Anderson, generated $70.4 million in summer '95. This second iteration, originally skedded for August (when New Line successfully birthed "Spawn"), should draw the same arcade/videogame aficionados at the malls on Thanksgiving break. Oscar & Lucinda Sharing love, guilt and a passion for gambling, a British priest ("The English Patient's" l^alph Fiennes) and an Australian glassworks heiress (Cate Blanchett) decide to toil together to transport a glass church by river to a remote Down Under parish. Gillian Armstrong ("Little Women") directs; Laura Jones ("High Tide") adapts Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel; "Cosi's" Timothy White produces with Robin Dalton. (Fox Searchlight, 11/21) Exploitips: The artho use crowd was to have two key choices this weekend, but Gramercy's move of "The Matchmaker" to 1 0/3 leaves this R-rater (for sexuality and brief violence) with the arthouse weekend virtually to itself (Unless this goes 1 1/14, vs. considerable competition.) The Armstrong and Aussie pedigrees will pull the "My Brilliant Career"/"Shine" types (at $13 mil. in production coinage, this is very expensive Down Under fare), but the best bet for broadening the audience is to highlight Fiennes' presence, last onscreen exactly a year ago with the hit "The English Patient. Liar In this psychological thriller, a Charleston blueblood ("Hoodlum's" Tim Roth) who might have ki I led a hooker ("Jerry Magu i re's" Renee Zellweger) uses his brilliance to play mental games with two detectives ("Muiholland Falls'" Chris Penn and "Trigger Effect's" Michael Rooker). Ellen Burstyn and Rosanna Arquette co-star. Jonas and Josh Pate direct and script; Peter Glatzer produces for MDP.(MGM, 1 1/21 ltd) Exploitips: An acquisition to fill out the Lion's slate, "Liar" (a tentative title) faces no new genre competition on its limited rollout, though it will have to battle holdover business for the higher-wattage "The Jackal." 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