Well once again we are dealing with the constant reincarnation of Peter Proud, a spy that’s been with us for a loooooooong time. This go at life, he’s been floating around like a butterfly, and picked up the following bits on THE BREAKERS, BICENTENNIAL MAN and DINOSAURS, so keep reading and he’ll enlighten your spirits with a few bits here and there....
Your long absent spy Peter Proud reporting here (it's been 2 years since you christened me with that name, thanks). Last I read (from the Exhibitors Relaitons monthly report), "The Breakers" has been listed by MGM for a summer 1999 release and not Cher, but Angelica Huston and Alicia Silverstone are slated to star. the plot written in the document is a bit sketchy but it involves some kind of a mother-and-daughter con women tandem, could it be a rehash of Huston's "The Grifters" for the Clueless-set?
In "talk back" one of your readers spoke about "Bicentennial Man" being bogged down by budget meltdowns, well it's a "go" again and you've correctly pointed out the shoot date as Feb '99, Disney is high on making this their holiday release for 1999 so they will do all they can to make Williams the king of X'mas this year as he was last year with "Patch Adams." For those who do not know about this one, it's a filmization of the Isaac Asimov novel of the same title, about a robot who wants to become a human...sometime ago, they contemplated changing the title into "Andrew Martin," the name of the robot who goes through a 200 year quest to become mortal (did I just give the ending away with that? hmmmm).
"Dinosaurs" had some interesting footage to show Disney Home Video brasses last year, and the concensus was that it is EVEN MORE interesting than "Toy Story 2," Also read somewhere that D.B. Sweeney is one of the featured voices in this one.
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