Robert DeNiro Just Doesn't Learn: Variety in 60 Seconds
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Uh-oh. Disney is trying to cast Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep in Diane English's family comedy First Man, about a mogul who quits his job to mount a presidential campaign for his wife, and then finds himself hilariously emascualted when she actually wins. Worst of all, it'll push back the remake of The Women, which English is also set to direct.- Vin Diesel will star in and executive produce Hitman, a Fox feature based on the interactive video game of the same name. That'll make two major videogame-based deals for Fox this month, if they join Universal in acquiring Halo as is expected.
- Warner Brothers has bought film rights to an as-yet-un-published novel by Doug Stumpf called Confessions of a Wall Street Shoe-shine Boy, about, well, a Wall Street shoe-shine boy, and the confessions thereof.
- Sam Raimi will produce Monkey's Paw - a film I swear has already been made at least three times - about a "father who brings home an artifact rumored to make any wish come true, but misfortune begins to befall the family with every desire granted."
- A trial date has been set in Roy E. Disney's case against Disney over the promotion of Robert Iger to CEO - the case will go before a judge, but no jury, starting August 10.
- Back when he reviewed it on June 3, Todd McCarthy warned that Batman Begins was "too dark and talky to appeal to kids and won't inspire much repeat viewing, which casts sought-after blockbuster B.O in some doubt." We'll see about that - the film opened this morning at 12:01.
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6-15-2005 @ 11:55AM
mick du russel said...
Robert DeNiro is one of our greatest actors today and Meryl Streep is truly one of the greatest actresses of our time. Both of them together in a political comedy would surely be magic. I predict a box office hit here. Mark my words!
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6-15-2005 @ 12:12PM
mick du russel said...
As far as "Monkey's Paw" goes, this concept has been done more than a few times. We all know how stories like this are going to end. Perhaps a surprise ending to blow everyone's socks off would do the trick. Otherwise, we will see this in the video stores a week after it is released.
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6-15-2005 @ 6:25PM
Belgand said...
Of course the canonical source of the Monkey Paw stories (at least, I suspect in our popular culture) stem from the 1902 short story by W.W. Jacobs. So yeah... this one's been around the block quite a few times. None of the various versions tend to hold a candle to the grim effectiveness of the original story though.
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