> Has anyone else seen this flick?? The special effects were
> unbelievable! The storyline wasn't too bad either. But watching some
> of the fights scenes I was just sitting there laughing, because it was
> so cool! I would definitly recommend this movie!
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:44:28 -0800
From: "Roman G" <romang@mailcity.com>
Subject: [MV] T3 news
- --
The long delayed T3 news are finally
posted! Sorry for the month's delay.
From 'The Sci-Fi guys':
He'll be Back
Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the "Terminator." In a widely
disseminated report that appears to have originated at Variety, the muscled
one is said to be returning to the role as a killing machine, and James
Cameron (Titanic) will write and produce the film and may direct. With
Cameron at the helm, you have to wonder whether this will be the most
expensive movie ever made.
Speaking of Arnold, it looks like he will return to star in "Total Recall II."
According to Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek), the likely director, a script is
drafted and they are just waiting for the big guy. Arnold is currently
filming "The End of Days," and it appears he has a few options when he's done.
Wouldn't I like to be his agent!
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NEW YORK (Variety) - A third installment of the ``Terminator'' franchise
is quickly taking shape at Fox with Arnold
Schwarzenegger in talks to reprise his role as the indestructible cyborg
with James Cameron planning to write and
produce. At present he's not planning to direct, but sources said that
could change.
None of the deals are completed, but enthusiasm is high enough among the
participants that the film will move forward.
The film will be a Lightstorm production with Cameron and Rae Sanchini
producing.
The film, which had been sworn off by Fox and Cameron, became a reality
when the studio bought out Andy Vajna and
Mario Kassar, who had purchased the rights for $8 million in the Carolco
liquidation sale. They in turn had bought out
Gale Anne Hurd's stake in the franchise.
When it became clear that neither Cameron nor Schwarzenegger would be
involved outside Cameron's home base at
Fox, Vajna and Kassar sold the rights to Fox, contingent on
Schwarzenegger's participation.
If the deals come together, the project would return Schwarzenegger --
currently starring in the Peter Hyams-directed
``End of Days'' for Beacon and Universal -- to his most famous franchise
with Cameron.
Cameron insisted that the film be made at Fox, where Peter Chernin and
Bill Mechanic sweated out his budget overruns
that made ``Titanic'' the costliest film ever at about $200 million.
Cameron hasn't chosen a ``Titanic'' followup, though he
has flirted with a ``True Lies'' sequel with Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee
Curtis and Tom Arnold. Also, he's still got the
70-page outline he wrote for a ``Spider-Man'' movie, with such stars as
Jim Carrey and Leonardo DiCaprio mentioned
as possible wall crawlers if the picture could ever be untangled from the
web of rights complications.
Cameron has committed to co-create with Charles Eglee a TV series for Fox
and possibly direct the pilot. But if the
Terminator returns again, it's possible Cameron won't entrust it to anyone
else. None of the parties would comment.
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:46:06 -0800
From: "Roman G" <romang@mailcity.com>
Subject: [MV] T3 news
- --
The long delayed T3 news are finally
posted! Sorry for the month's delay.
From 'The Sci-Fi guys':
He'll be Back
Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to the "Terminator." In a widely
disseminated report that appears to have originated at Variety, the muscled
one is said to be returning to the role as a killing machine, and James
Cameron (Titanic) will write and produce the film and may direct. With
Cameron at the helm, you have to wonder whether this will be the most
expensive movie ever made.
Speaking of Arnold, it looks like he will return to star in "Total Recall II."
According to Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek), the likely director, a script is
drafted and they are just waiting for the big guy. Arnold is currently
filming "The End of Days," and it appears he has a few options when he's done.
Wouldn't I like to be his agent!
- -----------------
NEW YORK (Variety) - A third installment of the ``Terminator'' franchise
is quickly taking shape at Fox with Arnold
Schwarzenegger in talks to reprise his role as the indestructible cyborg
with James Cameron planning to write and
produce. At present he's not planning to direct, but sources said that
could change.
None of the deals are completed, but enthusiasm is high enough among the
participants that the film will move forward.
The film will be a Lightstorm production with Cameron and Rae Sanchini
producing.
The film, which had been sworn off by Fox and Cameron, became a reality
when the studio bought out Andy Vajna and
Mario Kassar, who had purchased the rights for $8 million in the Carolco
liquidation sale. They in turn had bought out
Gale Anne Hurd's stake in the franchise.
When it became clear that neither Cameron nor Schwarzenegger would be
involved outside Cameron's home base at
Fox, Vajna and Kassar sold the rights to Fox, contingent on
Schwarzenegger's participation.
If the deals come together, the project would return Schwarzenegger --
currently starring in the Peter Hyams-directed
``End of Days'' for Beacon and Universal -- to his most famous franchise
with Cameron.
Cameron insisted that the film be made at Fox, where Peter Chernin and
Bill Mechanic sweated out his budget overruns
that made ``Titanic'' the costliest film ever at about $200 million.
Cameron hasn't chosen a ``Titanic'' followup, though he
has flirted with a ``True Lies'' sequel with Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee
Curtis and Tom Arnold. Also, he's still got the
70-page outline he wrote for a ``Spider-Man'' movie, with such stars as
Jim Carrey and Leonardo DiCaprio mentioned
as possible wall crawlers if the picture could ever be untangled from the
web of rights complications.
Cameron has committed to co-create with Charles Eglee a TV series for Fox
and possibly direct the pilot. But if the
Terminator returns again, it's possible Cameron won't entrust it to anyone
else. None of the parties would comment.
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Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:39:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: maillist@moviejuice.com
Subject: [MV] MovieJuice - ADVANCE - GO - Sinny City Bang Bang
GO - SINNY CITY BANG BANG
by Mark Ramsey
http://www.moviejuice.com
April 4, 1999
What's all this fuss about the Melissa Virus? And how'd my TV get it! It must have been that E! Academy Awards pre-show!
Most likely, it was accompanied by the Todd Newton virus (a superficial, but annoying, affliction), distant cousin to the Bob Goen virus, which contains a macro that secretes enough hairspray to be certified both water-proof and earthquake-resistant. Bob's hair color is locked in with so much data encryption, you couldn't break it with a hammer and chisel.
The Goen virus is identified by an impossibly handsome face molded like a hollow white chocolate Easter Bunny. Originated by Wayne Newton, that face is a Trojan Horse for dozens of viral-white attack teeth, spewing forth infectious celebrity tidbits in all directions. Watch your back! Here comes a Goen attack tooth! Don't look into the light!
Now, it turns out, the Goen virus has truncated into the Go virus. And, earnestly plaintive though the title may be, Go is a sickness worth catching!
Ronna's a supermarket checkout chick, and she knows how to score. How to score X, that is. And here all these years I've been going to the supermarket just to score milk! Hey Ronna, is the salad bar priced by-the-hit? So a "line" is a good thing?
Ronna's an exception to the rule that says "paper or plastic" are needed not only for groceries but also to cover the checker's head. For a minimum wage service worker, she's the max!
In stroll Jay "Bob Sugar" Mohr and Scott "Party of Five" Wolf. It's unnerving to see Scott on the big screen. He's one hair extension away from the Miss America pageant; one eyeliner away from La Cage Aux Folles; one operation and up to two testicles away from Playmate of the Year; one good outfit away from RuPaul. Any more brow-plucking and Scott's a dead ringer for Marlene Dietrich.
Jay and Scott enjoy an awkward Christmas dinner with a cop who sputters great lines like "Feel the abs on this one. Wow, you could scrub laundry on these." Is he gay or just really weird? Answer: Even weirder than you think.
Meanwhile, Ronna's pals are off to Vegas for an adventure in free buffets, gambling, strippers, and risky sex because that's what Vegas is for, circuses and pharaohs aside.
This flick's directed by the guy who did Swingers which, of course, is a modern classic destined to join the other "modern classics" on TNT (in between showings of Jaws, that is). This guy must have a thing for Vegas road-trips, but I'm not complaining.
Go was scripted by the rockin' John August, who's not gonna be mentioned anywhere else even though he wrote the damned thing. Way to Go, John.
Go is a wild yarn where the straight kids get even with guns, and the gay ones get even with scissors - after all, there's no superficial wound like a bad hair day.
Evidently, "Go" is also a euphemism for "orgasm," so beware when someone says to you: "Thanks to Charlize Theron in the new Playboy, I have to Go now" or, more ominously, "that new co-host with Roger Ebert really makes me want to Go."
If you've ever fantasized about playing the supermarket scanner like a piano or grooving to the seafood aisle Macarena, then you have to Go. Little did we know that behind the shelves at the supermarket is a hidden world with its own rules and culture - kinda like Lost Horizon, but with express lines and a deli.
If you've ever suspected that a cat can read your thoughts (with subtitles, yet), then by all means Go. If you appreciate any movie that reveals the fundamental ridiculousness of a rave scene where the cool kids are suckers who trip on chewable aspirin, then Go baby Go.
If you're suffering cinematic malnourishment and teen-iocrity overkill and have a hankering for clever dialogue, suspenseful twistings and turnings, and a sparklin' good story with surprises galore, then Go with all due haste.
Long story short: Go is a quick-witted rocket-ride of zip-zappy zing.
Okay, between you and me, I don't know what that means. In fact, it's totally ridiculous. But I'm hoping Sony plugs it into their Go ads because the idea of confused Mr. Couch-Potato Heads exploding in front of TV's all over America really makes me wanna Go.
Copyright 1999 Mark Ramsey. All rights reserved. NO PORTION MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.
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THE NEW CAA WEB PAGE - MUST SEE
Okay, this is the last time I'm gonna tell you. Check out the CAA web page and see how far things have come since the Ovitz days. And don't miss the "Agent-Cam."
At least I think it's the CAA page!
http://www.moviejuice.com/1999/caa.htm
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Hey, kids, don't forget to visit the MovieJuice! Site at http://www.moviejuice.com. The pictures are half the fun (and sometimes more than half the laughs)!
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:42:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: Scott Renshaw <renshaw@inconnect.com>
Subject: [MV] REVIEW: NEVER BEEN KISSED
NEVER BEEN KISSED
(20th Century Fox)
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Leelee
Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly.
Screenplay: Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein.
Producers: Sandy Isaac and Nancy Juvonen.
Director: Raja Gosnell.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (adult themes, profanity, drug use)
Running Time: 104 minutes.
Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
I'm willing to forgive NEVER BEEN KISSED many of its failings
because, for all practical purposes, it's a fantasy. I can over look the
irony of a film about an adult returning to interact with teenagers which
portray teens the same inane way adults usually think of them. I can let
it slide that the tone is terminally bubbly when a touch of venom might
have helped. I can even shrug my shoulders at the notion that Drew
Barrymore was ever a spat-upon teen wretch. Sometimes a romantic comedy
can get away with being ridiculous as it strives to pull us into its wish
fulfillment. What it can't get away with is being lazy or being miscast,
the two blunders that insure NEVER BEEN KISSED never had a chance.
Our high-concept premise finds 25-year-old Chicago Sun-Times copy
editor Josie Geller (Barrymore) offered her first real reporting
assignment: going undercover as a high school student. The assignment
brings mixed emotions for Josie, a brainy high school outcast still
smarting from her adolescent ostracism. As she begins her quest for a
story, Josie finds herself drawn back into the world of the "smart kids"
at South Glen South High School, including her new friend Aldys (Leelee
Sobieski). That's before her editor (John C. Reilly) demands that Josie
get in with the in crowd, and before Josie's arrested adolescent
23-year-old brother Rob (David Arquette) also re-enrolls and helps turn
the one-time "Josie Grossie" into a potential prom queen.
NEVER BEEN KISSED does a serviceable job of telling Josie's story,
exploring how a woman comes to terms with the person she was and is. If
only the script had shown as much dilligence with the other elements.
Arquette's character is potentially even more interesting than Barrymore's
- -- a jock who peaked at 18 trying to re-live his glory days -- but it's
generally watered-down and ignored. The romantic angle between Josie and
her English teacher (Michael Vartan) is half-heartedly developed, muddles
the entire point of the story -- are we supposed to believe that Josie was
incapable of finding true love before re-creating her traumatic youth? --
and builds to a spectacularly clumsy conclusion. Most depressing of all
is a ghastly device which finds Josie wearing a miniature camera,
contributing nothing more to the story than pointless cutaways to Josie's
co-workers gaping or cringing in embarrassment.
There's plenty to gape and cringe at as Barrymore plays Josie.
You've got to admire how gamely Barrymore subjects herself to humiliating
situations, but she's all wrong for the lead role in her first feature as
executive producer. Even the marketing people at Fox realize that she's
most appealing as a sweet object of desire, making the central image in
the film's publicity a photo of Barrymore smiling coquettishly with knee
drawn up to her chest. As a star carrying this film, she looks out of her
depth. It's slightly embarrassing watching her play the professional
Josie as a tightly-coiffed fussbudget correcting everyone's grammar and
usage; as implausible as she may be as a high school senior, she proves
even more implausible as a grown-up.
You always want to like a film as good-natured as NEVER BEEN KISSED,
even though it wants so much to be liked. There simply isn't a nuance to
the material that director Raja Gosnell manages to capture, not a moment
of sincere emotion, nothing that doesn't look like it wouldn't exist if
not for other movies about kids in high school. When the script manages
to work in a wise observation -- like the idea that one popular person in
high school can dictate who's cool and who's not -- it feels like someone
tripped over it accidentally. NEVER BEEN KISSED is most certainly a
fantasy for anyone who ever felt like the quintessential high school
outsider, but the film-makers are living in a fantasy world if they think
that's all they need to deliver.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 kissed opportunities: 4.
