John Malkovich
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
12/08/1953
Benton, IL |
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'Wedding Planner' Tops Box Office
May 08, 2001 4:19am EST"The Wedding Planner" marched down theater aisles this weekend, celebrating in first place with $14 million.The PG-13-rated romantic comedy from Columbia Pictures and Intermedia Films easily captured the top spot on Super Bowl Weekend with a sexy ESTIMATED $14.0 million at 2,785 theaters ($5,027 per theater)."Planner" had the highest per-theater average for any film playing in over 1,000 theaters last weekend."Great news for us this weekend," Sony Pictures Entertainment worldwide marketing & dis
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Denzel Washington joins the ranks of actors-turned-directors
April 26, 2001 4:03pm ESTActor Denzel Washington has finally received the greenlight to direct his first feature film for Fox Searchlight studios, keeping up with the trend of actors wanting to take a stab behind the camera.
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ROLE CALL: Monsieur Malkovich
March 19, 2001 11:51am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16, 2001 -- John Malkovich is going transnational. The "Shadow of the Vampire" star has signed on for the title role in the French film "And Now Ladies and Gentleman," a love story about a gangster and barroom singer, Daily Variety says. And if there's any doubt whatsoever to his linguistic skills, the thespian will take on the role of the gangster while the barroom singer part will go to French actress Patricia Kaas. Jada Pinkett Smith THE SMITH FAMILY: The "Ali" biopic is t
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ROLE CALL: Clooney Gets Caged
March 19, 2001 11:51am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10, 2001 -- George Clooney and Nicolas Cage are getting serious about issues of life and death these days. Clooney, whose "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is currently in theaters, is in final talks to play the lead in "The Life of David Gale," Daily Variety says. And joining him might be Cage, who is producing the film but also is considering a small but pivotal role. Directed by "Angela's Ashes'" Alan Parker, the story concerns a professor and capital-punishment opponent who's conv
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Julia Goes Spinning
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Nov. 10, 2000 -- Pretty woman Julia Roberts is certainly no stranger to revolution -- or shall we say Joe Roth's Revolution Studios. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the $20 million per pic starlet will lend her star power to the preliminarily titled "Project 3" for the titular studio. The project will reteam Roberts with "The Mexican" helmer Gore Verbinski, who became available after Leonardo DiCaprio dropped out of DreamWorks' "Catch Me If You Can," which he was set to direct. R
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ROLE CALL: 'Mr. Ripley' Grows Up
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 31, 2000 -- Tom Ripley is about to strike again, albeit under a completely different guise. How so? Think John Malkovich and "M:1-2's" Dougray Scott instead of Matt Damon, for instance. Daily Variety reports that Malkovich and Scott are in talks to star in "Ripley's Game," a sort of a follow-up to last year's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (with Damon as the titled character). The new project, which is based on the third novel in author Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series, follows an
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Michael Clarke Duncan Goes Ape
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16, 2000 -- Who'd have guessed that so many people would want to play an ape? But it's true. After Tim Roth and Helena Bonham Carter, the latest actor to join the remake of "The Planet of the Apes" as a simian is "The Green Mile" man, Michael Clarke Duncan, The Associated Press says. Specifically, Duncan is going to play a silverback gorilla. Helmed by Tim Burton, the much-anticipated remake also stars Mark Wahlberg, who's got the role of the rare humanoid crashing the planet. B
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ROLE CALL: Being the Green Goblin
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Sept. 12, 2000 -- A lot of other actors in Hollywood will be green with envy. John Malkovich will just be green -- the Green Goblin, that is. It's been rumored for weeks, but Daily Variety confirms today that Malkovich is in negotiations to star opposite Tobey Maguire in the biggest film of 2001, "Spider-Man." For the unfamiliar, the Green Goblin is a madman who dresses up in green stockings and flies through the air on a skateboard-sized glider, hurling exploding pumpkins. In oth
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Pitt, Malkovich: Heroes and Villains?
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1, 2000 -- Holy Fight Club, Batman! Can you imagine Brad Pitt as the Caped Crusader? Warner Bros. latest effort to revive its comatose Batman franchise might involve the "Meet Joe Black" star assuming the role formerly filled by Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney. EW Online is reporting today that Darren Aronofsky, who has been rumored to inherit the Batman franchise's directorial duties, recently met with Pitt. However, it's unclear whether Aronofsky wants Pitt to pl
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ROLE CALL: Cruz-ing with Tom Cruise
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Aug. 23, 2000 - Get ready for a meeting of, er, the Cruz and the Cruise. The Hollywood Reporter says that Paramount Pictures is looking to cast Penelope Cruz ("All About My Mother") opposite Tom Cruise in the love story "Vanilla Sky." Neither the studio nor the director of the film, Cameron Crowe, has revealed anything about the film saved for the fact that it will likely go in front of the cameras in the fall. CAGED IN: Daily Variety says that Nicolas Cage is in "serious discussions"
