Father Geek here just in from the regional premiere of FULL FRONTAL at Austin's grand old dame of cinemas, The Paramount. I really liked some parts of this Altman-esque art film, annnnnd other parts, well they just fell flat for me. There's some great, well acted character pieces throughout, but the trendy switching back and forth of the film stock just got in the way and didn't really serve to advance the film, there was no real purpose to it other than to appear cool, which I felt it didn't.
Well, enough on that, Here's Elston with another rehash of all the film news you may have missed during this past work-week...
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CASTING
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CASTING
* Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Orlando Jones, Brendan Fehr and Meagan Good will star BIKER BOYZ for DreamWorks, who picked it up from turnaround from Fox 2000. Production begins July 31 with Reggie Rock Bythewood directing.
* Jim Carrey and Garry Shandling will lend their vocal talents to the DreamWorks CGI-animated project OVER THE HEDGE, based on the comic strip by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. Carrey will voice the mischievous con artist raccoon R.J., while Shandling will be the voice of a sensitive turtle named Verne. The plot follows what happens to R.J., Verne and their wilderness friends when a suburban housing development encroaches on their home in the forest.
* Jeremy Sumpter (FRAILTY) will play the title role in PETER PAN for Revolution Studios, Red Wagon Prods. and director P.J. Hogan. Shooting begins this fall in Queensland, Australia. Jason Isaacs will play Hook.
* Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are in talks to star in 21 GRAMS for Focus Features and director Alejandro Gonzalez (AMORES PERROS).
* Popular British teen pop group S Club will star in SEEING DOUBLE for video director Nigel Dick. The project begins production in the fall and centers on the adventures of six young adults in their early 20s.
* Jack Black will star in SCHOOL OF ROCK, written by Mike White, for producer Scott Rudin and Paramount. It's about a musician who becomes a substitute teacher in an uptight private school. The musician influences the young students with his antics and music.
* Martin Lawrence and director Dennis Dugan (upcoming NATIONAL SECURITY) will reunite on GHETTO BUCK, a comedy based on the pizza delivery guy Lawrence played in BLUE STREAK. Lawrence will play at least three characters including the title role.
* Christopher Walken will star opposite The Rock in Universal Pictures' untitled action-adventure project (aka HELLDORADO) for director Peter Berg. Seann William Scott is also in talks to join. It's a modern tale about a bounty hunter who travels to a town named Helldorado in the Amazon jungle to settle a debt. He finds out his target isn't the bad guy he thought he was and the two join forces to search for hidden riches in the area.
* Jake Gyllenhaal is in final talks to play Dennis Quaid's son in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW for 20th Century Fox and director Roland Emmerich. The project is a high-concept film about the disastrous effects of global warming.
* Tommy Lee Jones will develop and star in Bel-Air Entertainment's action comedy CHEER UP about a group of dysfunctional cheerleaders from Eastern Connecticut College who witness a murder following one of their competitions. An aging, hardened veteran FBI agent is assigned to the case and must learn to coexist with therambunctious girls while avoiding the gunmen determined to knock them off before the group can testify.
* Gabrielle Union has nabbed the female lead in BAD BOYS 2 for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay. Shooting begins next month in Florida.
* Owen Wilson is in negotiations to star in the thriller THE BIG BOUNCE for director George Armitage. It's based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name about a young grifter who meets the glamorous mistress of the wealthiest, most powerful man in town. The two team to try and steal a fortune out from under her lover's nose. Sebastian Gutierrez (JUDAS KISS) penned the adaptation.
* Julia Stiles and Kirsten Dunst are in talks to join Julia Roberts in Revolution Studios' MONA LISA'S SMILE for Shoelace Prods. Mike Newell directs the pic about a free-spirited UC Berkeley graduate who goes to Wellesley in 1953 to teach a group of young women. The teacher and students end up influencing and learning from one another.
* Natasha Richardson will star in ASYLUM, based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, about a beautiful chief psychiatrist at a maximum-security mental hospital who falls under the spell of a charismatic artist/patient. Production is set for early 2003 in Ireland. David Mackenzie (YOUNG ADAM) will direct from Patrick Marber's screenplay.
* Stephen Dorff (DEUCES WILD) joins Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone in Disney's COLD CREEK MANOR for director Mike Figgis. It's about a city family who move to the country, only to see their dream turn into a nightmare when the previous owner returns from prison to demand his house back.
* Eileen Atkins (GOSFORD PARK) and Lucas Black (ALL THE PRETTY HORSES) have joined the cast of COLD MOUNTAIN, based on Charles Frazier's bestselling Civil War novel. Anthony Minghella directs.
* Taryn Manning (CROSSROADS) will star opposite Vincent Kartheiser in INTO THE SUN and is in final talks to join COLD MOUNTAIN.
* Alec Baldwin and Peri Gilpin are in talks to join THE CAT IN THE HAT for Universal and Imagine. Baldwin will play nosy neighbor Alex Kulchak, while Gilpin will play the mother of the kids.
* Taye Diggs and Blair Underwood will star in Warner Bros. Pictures' untitled Jamie Kennedy project for director John Whitesell. Shooting begins in early August. It centers on Gluckman , a white would-be rap star from Malibu whose wealthy father is running for governor and is not pleased about having a son who walks and talks like he is from the 'hood. The father and his campaign manager hire two Juilliard-trained actors to portray actual "gangstaz," take the boy to the 'hood and scare the urban attitude out of him. Nick Swardson will play Gluckman's sidekick Mocha.
* Ray Romano will star in New Line's action-comedy ACTION ABRAMOWITZ about an accountant who -- after getting hit on the head -- begins to believe he is his favorite action star. Aaron Mendelsohn scripted.
* Justin Theroux (MULHOLLAND DRIVE) is in final talks to star opposite Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) in the romantic comedy NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP for FRP and Forensic Films. It's about a young screenwriter whose first script gave him fame and awards, but has since been able to follow up on that success due to writer's block. Theroux will also star in the sequel to CHARLIE'S ANGELS, playing the ex-boyfriend of Drew Barrymore's character.
* Rhona Mitra ("Party of Five") will star opposite Jim Caviezel in New Line's thriller HIGHWAYMEN. It's about a dehumanized villain who uses a car as an expression of his rage against the world and the obsessed hero who is tracking him. Robert Harmon will direct from a screenplay by Hans Bauer and Craig Mitchell.
* Alyssa Milano will play David Spade's love interest in DICKIE ROBERTS: FORMER CHILD STAR about a former kid star, washed up in his 30s, who hires a foster family to re-create the childhood he never had. Sam Weisman (WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?) is directing from a script by Spade and Fred Wolf.
* Lacey Chabert will star alongside Eddie Murphy and Anjelica Huston in Revolution Studios' comedy DADDY DAY CARE for director Steve Carr.
* Tim Robbins will join Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon in MYSTIC RIVER for director Clint Eastwood. It's about three childhood friends whose lives again become intertwined because of a murder in their neighborhood. Brian Helgeland wrote the adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel for Warner Bros.
* Andy Garcia is in final talks to star opposite Ashley Judd and Samuel L. Jackson in Paramount Pictures and Intertainment AG's BLACKOUT for Kopelson Entertainment and director Philip Kaufman.
* Scott Speedman ("Felicity") will star opposite Kate Beckinsale in Lakeshore Entertainment's action pic UNDERWORLD for director Len Wiseman. It's a Romeo and Juliet-esque story set in the world of vampires and werewolves, in which one lover is a vampire and the other a werewolf.
* Rapper Ja Rule is in talks to reprise his role in Universal Pictures' THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS 2 for director John Singleton. Michael Brandt and Derek Haas wrote the script.
* Christina Applegate is in negotiations to star opposite Ben Affleck in SURVIVING CHRISTMAS for DreamWorks Pictures, Tall Trees Prods. and director Mike Mitchell. It's about a rich record exec who is faced with spending the Christmas holiday by himself. To avoid a lonely holiday, he heads back to his childhood home and persuades the family that now lives there to take him in by paying them to pretend they are his family.
* Wesley Snipes and Rupert Wainwright are in talks to star and direct, respectively, the feature film GODFORSAKEN for Intermedia Films and Mad Chance Prods. Rand Ravich wrote the script about a hit man who discovers he has leukemia. He then severs all his relationships and puts a contract out on himself.
* Carrie-Anne Moss will star as the female lead in Paramount's SUSPECT ZERO for C/W Prods., Intermedia Films and director E. Elias Merhige. Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley also star. Zak Penn wrote the script about an FBI agent investigating the case of a murdered serial killer. This leads him to a hunt for an avenging former agent who has dedicated himself to hunting down serial killers.
* Angelina Jolie is in talks to star in the action thriller TAKING LIVES for director Tony Scott. It's about a female FBI profiler who must bring in a serial killer who has spent 20 years assuming the identities of the people he has killed.
* Laura Linney and Liam Neeson have joined Hugh Grant in Richard Curtis' LOVE ACTUALLY. Shooting begins in and around London on Sept. 2.
* Peter Sarsgaard will star opposite Hayden Christensen in Lions Gate's SHATTERED GLASS, replaceing Greg Kinnear who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. Steve Zahn, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Chloe Sevigny also star.
* Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") and Steve Zahn join DADDY CARE.
* Tara Reid and Kip Pardue will star in HEAVEN'S POND about a young couple whose honeymoon on a secluded island devolves into a battle for survival. The thriller was written by Joel Viertel, Mora Stephens and Alek Friedman and will be directed by Viertel.
* Wendell Pierce (HBO's "The Wire") is in talks to join Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyonce Knowles and Mike Epps in the Paramount/MTV Films comedy FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS.
* Melora Walters (MAGNOLIA) has been added to the cast of MATCHSTICK MEN, starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell and Alison Lohman, for director Ridley Scott.
* James Carpinello joins Miramax's WWII epic THE GREAT RAID, starring Benjamin Bratt and James Franco, for director John Dahl.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Robert Towne will direct CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL, based on the novel by Glen David Gold, for C/W Prods. Michael Arndt will adapt. It's about a stage magician who runs into major problems when he puts on his most outrageous stunt of all, using President Harding.
* Disney will remake its THE SHAGGY DOG franchise in a big-screen feature for Robert Simonds Co. to produce. Jack Amiel and Michael Begler will write the script, which will tell the story of a family man who, through a spell, keeps changing into a sheepdog and back again at the most inopportune times.
* Revolution Studios picked up LEGEND HAS IT from scribes Bryan Sipe and Lorene Scafaria (BIG HELIUM DOG actress). The project is described as similar to THE GOONIES, NEVERENDING STORY, HARRY POTTER and Warner Bros.' upcoming NIGHTCRAWLERS. It's about a group of kids who must band together to save imagination from sinister forces.
* Paul Anderson (RESIDENT EVIL) will write and direct ALIEN VS. PREDATOR, based on the popular video game, for 20th Century Fox. It will follow a scientist who foolishly hatches alien eggs to create an environment attractive to predators.
* Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley (HIGH CRIMES) will script the remake of the 1968 spy thriller A DANDY IN ASPIC for Columbia Pictures and producer Mace Newfeld. The original centered on a double agent in Berlin who is given orders to kill himself.
* Producers David Brown and Kit Golden have optioned Clint McCown's golf novel THE MEMBER GUEST with a script by Tom Mangan and McCown. The novel is described as GOSFORD PARK set at a country club during its annual member/guest golf tournament, with the main characters covering players to concession stand workers.
* Universal Pictures picked up Rob Pearlstein's untitled Tuscany project about a guy who tries to plan the perfect proposal vacation with his girlfriend only to see disaster ensue.
* Indonesian directors Jose Purnomo and Rizal Mantovani will direct the horror pic THE WELL for Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes banner. It's about American backpackers on holiday in Bali.
* Artisan bought the Vincent Ngo spec script TONIGHT, HE COMES, a drama about a disaffected superhero, for Weed Road Pictures to produce. It's a dark drama about the relationship between a troubled 12-year-old and a fallen superhero.
* Writer/director David Von Ancken will adapt and direct the Barry Longyear short story "House of If" into a psychological thriller pic for Camelot Pictures.
* Craig Bolotin (BLACK RAIN) will write DESCENT for American Zoetrope. It's an adventure film with a supernatural twist.
* Jonathan Frakes will direct THUNDERBIRDS, a live-action feature version of the cult British TV series that used puppets and models in a process dubbed "supermarionation." The series revolved around a top-secret international rescue team comprised of retired astronaut Jeff Tracy and his five sons. Assisting the family was their London agent, Lady Penelope, her Cockney ex-convict driver, Parker, and the Tracys' houseguest, Brains. Production is aiming for an early 2003 start.
* Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman are developing two different storylines for a pitch to Sony's feature animation division. The studio is keeping both storylines under wraps.
* Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi will adapt George Selden's THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE, the classic kids story about a menagerie of New York animals, for Miramax. The book centers on Chester, a cricket from Connecticut who rides into Gotham in a picnic basket and becomes an overnight musical star. He befriends Harry, a good-natured alley cat, and Tucker, a fast-talking mouse, and together they set out to save a local newsstand from bankruptcy.
* Nick Giannopoulos (THE WOG BOY) will direct THE WANNABES, a comedy about a wannabe actor who teams up with a small-time thief who wants to pull off the world's biggest heist. Giannopoulos co-wrote the script with Chris Anastassiades.
* Alfonso Cuaron (A LITTLE PRINCESS, Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN) will direct HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN for Warner Bros. Production is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2003 with a scheduled release in summer 2004.
* Revolution Studios picked up the script SHRINKING VIOLET from writers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky for Shoelace Prods. to produce. It's a romantic comedy about a twentysomething girl who lies to her family and pretends she actually has a fulfilling relationship with a great boyfriend -- when the man in question is actually just her shrink. Things get complicated when she can't decide what would be worse news for her straitlaced family: to learn she's in therapy or that her relationship is a fraud.
* DreamWorks Pictures grabbed the sci-fi thriller project THE DESCENT for Red Hour Films and Phantom Four Films to produce. David Goyer is adapting from the novel by Jeffrey Long about a group of scientists who must map and research a network of tunnels running six miles beneath the surface of the Earth. Initially sent to learn the habitat and language of the frightening new species dwelling there, they find themselves in a battle between humanity and these terrifying creatures.
* Kevin Pollak will direct an indie feature based on a script he wrote to be financed by StudioCanal. The project is described as a "psychological mystery" along the lines of THE USUAL SUSPECTS, but the plot is being kept under wraps.
* Deep River Prods. has snapped up Nina Colman's comedy pitch A SEMESTER ABROAD to develop for Sarah Michelle Gellar. It's about a tough girl from Queens on scholarship to a elite London university, where her no-nonsense attitude puts her at odds with the stuffed-shirts.
* Joel and Ethan Coen will produce ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES, a musical written by John Turturro. James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Julia Stiles, Christopher Walken, Steve Buscemi and Aida Turturro are being courted for roles. John Turturro is talking to Adam Sandler about making a cameo. It's a Bensonhurst-set story described as PENNIES FROM HEAVEN meets THE HONEYMOONERS.
* Baz Luhrmann will direct ALEXANDER, based on a trio of novels about Alexander the Great by Valerio Manfredi, for producer Dino De Laurentiis. Ted Tally has written a screenplay. Production is expected to begin in Janurary in Morocco. The project will chart Alexander's epic journey, externally and internally, not unlike LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. They have a greenlight from Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, along with Mohammed VI, the 39-year-old king of Morocco and who will contribute some 1,500 members of his army to the production. Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese had announced their own Alexander projects with Colin Farrell and Leonard DiCaprio starring, respectively.
* Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom are in final talks to direct the New Line comedy THE BALLAD OF PAUL FINLEY, ACCOUNTANT. The project is about a mild-mannered accountant who, while serving time for a botched crime, falls in love with his pen pal -- a rebellious teenager with an outlaw obsession.
* Adam "Tex" Davis will adapt ZITS as a Universal Pictures feature to be based on the King Features comic strip by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman with Shawn Levy (BIG FAT LIAR) attached to direct. The popular comic strip follows the life of Jeremy Duncan, a 15-year-old aspiring rock musician, riddled with angst, boredom and resentment of his perfect brother Chad, a painfully good-looking college man. With his best friend Hector, Jeremy flounders around through his awkward high school love affair with Sara, who considers him more of a science project than a boyfriend.
* Columbia Pictures has optioned Mark Costello's new novel, BIG IF, for Magnet Entertainment to produce. Scott Burns will write the script about a secret agent assigned to protect the vice president, and the agent's dysfunctional New Hampshire family, which includes a brother who writes code for a sinister computer conglom called Big If.
* Tony Scott will direct MAN OF FIRE, based on the novel by A.J. Quinnell, about an embittered former marine who moves to Italy and becomes a bodyguard for an Italian family. After the couple's 10-year old daughter is kidnapped and killed, he devotes himself to avenging her death. Brian Helgeland wrote the script.
* Ron Shelton will direct HACKSAW, a biographical drama about Ed "Hacksaw" Jones, a man renowned for his ability to break out of any prison. Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Jones escaped from 14 prisons, jails and chain gangs over 20 years and earned a spot on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. * MGM and Trilogy will produce BOYS FROM THE HILL, written by Mark Friedman, based on the lives of four first-generation Italian-American WWII servicemen. Set against the backdrop of the 1950 World Cup, the group defeated a heavily favored English soccer team.
* Peter Kosminsky (WHITE OLEANDER) will direct IF NOT FOR YOU from a script by Garry Williams (BROWN EYED GIRL) for Paramoutn. It's an epic romance that moves from the Vietnam War to the beginning of the AIDS crisis.
* Luke Greenfield (THE ANIMAL) is in talks with Fox Searchlight to direct FAKE LIAR CHEAT, a dramedy based on a William Blake Herron adaptation of Tod Goldberg's book. It revolves around a temp whose life is changed when he falls for a dangerous woman, launching a roller-coaster tale of blackmail, romance and the high life in Los Angeles.
* Andrew Bergman will direct Intermedia Films' JOE'S LAST CHANCE for Outlaw Prods. It's about a dedicated hit man who travels to a tropical paradise to terminate his "mark." However, when the "mark" inadvertently saves the hit man's life, the hit man gives him a stay of execution and uses the opportunity to take a long overdue vacation, sparking an unexpected friendship with the man he is supposed to kill.
* Michael Mann is in talks to direct FORTUNE'S FOOLS, a black-comedy drama about a group of five L.A. cops who steal a winning lottery ticket worth $36 million from a drug informant.
* Ben Affleck is in negotiations to write, and possibly direct, GONE, BABY, GONE, based on a novel by Dennis Lehane. The book is part of a series of five mysteries involving a pair of Boston private eyes named Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
* Paramount Pictures has purchased the script WRECKED from Steven Gilder for Mutual Film Co. to produce. The sexy thriller is likened to THE DEEP set against the backdrop of treasure hunting in Bermuda. It follows a husband and wife, who accidentally discover a sunken treasure that leads to betrayal, deception and jeopardy. .
* David Franzoni (GLADIATOR) will adapt Revolution Studios' HANNIBAL, based on Ross Leckie's novel that Vin Diesel is attached to star in and produce. It's about the third century B.C. Carthaginian general who rode across the Alps on an elephant to attack Rome.
* Ann Peacock (A LESSON BEFORE DYING) will write Walden Media's feature adaptation of C.S. Lewis' THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. .
* Hill & Brand Entertainment grabbed the comedy script A COLLEGE SEX COMEDY by Patrick Casey and Worm Miller. One student hires a prostitute for his unwitting and virginal brother, while another student awaits the arrival of a foreign exchange student just before Christmas break. Hysteria ensues.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Miramax Films grabbed the book and film rights to the BARTIMAUES TRILOGY, a series of novels by Jonathan Stroud. The first book, THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND, follows an ancient djinni named Bartimaeus who is summoned by a disobedient young wizard to steal a magical amulet from a powerful magician.
* DreamWorks, MGM and German producer Senator Intl. are bidding to acquire the comic book series 30 DAYS OF NIGHT with Sam Raimi expressing interest in the Steve Niles (HELLSPAWN) thriller. It's about a flock of vampires in Alaska who feed on a small town during the month when the sun doesn't rise.
* Artisan Pictures will remake the 1981 David Cronenberg pic SCANNERS about a scientist trying to infiltrate an underground movement of "scanners," people with extraordinary telepathic abilities who are using them to take over the world.
* Columbia Pictures will develop a project based on the video game RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN. It centers on a highly decorated Army Ranger recruited into the Office of Secret Actions. He escapes and returns to Castle Wolfenstein where occult and genetic experiments are raising an unstoppable army to level the Allies.
* DreamWorks Pictures will distribute the Japanese anime film MILLENIUM ACTRESS, a romantic adventure story that explores the life and career of Chiyoko Fujiwara, who left her booming acting career and retreated to an isolated house.
* 20th Century Fox will produce three Hindi films, becoming the first foreign production company to enter the Indian market. Ram Gopal Varma (COMPANY) will direct the low-budget thriller EK HASINA THI (ONCE THERE WAS AN ATTRACTIVE WOMAN), which will start production in August.
* Universal Pictures will develop a feature based on the Midway video game franchise SPY HUNTER with Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson attached to star as Alec Sects, a former F-15 pilot employed by International Espionage Services as a member of the Spy Hunter team.
* Warner Bros. and producer Denise Di Novi bought the rights to the Nicholas Sparks novel NIGHTS IN RODANTHE about a doctor who, on the way to reconcile with his estranged son, stops at an inn along the way. There, the doc has a life-changing romance.
* Warner Bros. Pictures has greenlighted the sci-fi epic, THE FOUNTAIN, which director Darren Aronofsky will begin filming in late October in Australia. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Ellen Burstyn will star in the project, written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel.
* 20th Century Fox has picked up the feature rights to Michael Crichton's upcoming novel PREY. The story is being kept a secret but combines specific themes from Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN and JURASSIC PARK in a plot that relates to biotechnology and genetic engineering.
* Peter Newman and Greg Johnson (SMOKE) have teamed with producer Will Schwarz to acquire the feature rights to David Czuchlewski's debut novel THE MUSE ASYLUM, a psychological thriller that centers on a love triangle between a group of Princeton grads and a reclusive author.
GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* Check out This Site for Part 5 of UP YOURS: THE SERIES.
* Jonesing Pictures has their website up for their flick LOREN CASS. Visit Go Here
* In Germany they have been working on a digital restoration of Metropolis. Now it is being distributed here by Kino International. The link below is for the scheduled showing at Film Forum in New York City. Check out http://www.filmforum.com/metropolis.html, or visit Kino International at http://www.kino.com/. For more info on the German restoration, visit http://www.filmrestauration.de/Homepage/english/metropolis.html
* The Florida Film Festival announces a change of dates for the 2003 event. After eleven years in June, the 12th Annual Florida Film Festival will take place in Orlando on March 7-16, 2003.
* Jonathan and Matthew Friedman have written, produced, and directed MOVING about an ordinary guy who comes home from a trip only to find that his whole house has been stolen. The project has received glowing reviews, for more info visit Click.
* The Long Beach Film Festival is now accepting screenplays and films (short, documentary & feature) in all formats. The festival is being held onboard the renowned Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. The dates of the festival are September 13 - 22, 2002. Just Click
* There will be a special panel discussion on the making of the Frazetta Documentary at this year's San Diego Comic Con. It will be on Saturday, August 3 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
* Travesty Productions want you to check out the trailer to DEADEND.COM, an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival 2002, at Its Here.
* DON'T ASK DON'T TELL -- think ROCKY HORROR meets WHAT' UP TIGER LILY directed by Peckinpah -- will premiere in New York tomorrow night, Friday, July 26th at 10PM at Collective: Unconscious. (145 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side between Stanton & Rivington - F to 2nd Ave. stop.) Check It Out Right Here.
* The brazilian company CINEMAGIA/WTF will release, in September, a box set with six Coffin Joe DVDs, in full-fledge Special Editions: AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL, THIS NIGHT I WILL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE, AWAKENING OF THE BEAST, THE STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE, THE END OF MAN and HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND.
* MPS Digital Studios nex effort, PUSH/PULL, a short, is opening February 12, 2003 (tentative). They're also developing four to five short horror films, to be released hopefully in time for Halloween 2004. They'll be shot digitally. Info on PUSH/PULL is at http://www.mpsdigital.com and http://www.pushpullmovie.com.
