Kevin Bacon
When he became an '80s heartthrob playing a music-loving, dancing high-schooler in Footloose, no one could have predicted that this cute actor with the ski-jump nose would grow into a reliable and ver...
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
07/07/1958
Philadelphia, PA |
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Driver is "Owning"; Stiles Turns Producer
August 28, 2001 11:01am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Mar. 8, 2001 -- Minnie Driver ("Return to Me") has signed on to star with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Canadian Alliance Atlantis Motion Pictures' "Owning Molony," a film based on the nonfiction book "Stung" by Gary Ross. Richard Kwietniowski ("Love and Death on Long Island") will direct.Driver will play the girlfriend of Brian Moloney (Hoffman), a mild-mannered Toronto bank manager who has a serious gambling problem. Miraculously, he is given access to an unsupervised account of $20 mil
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COMING SOON: "Supernova" Blasts Off
August 15, 2001 11:35am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2000 -- The year's first space disaster flick, "Supernova," will blast into the stratosphere this week. Along with the sci-fi thriller, this week's openers include the family drama "My Dog Skip," Ice Cube's "Next Friday" and the baseball documentary "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg." Here's a look at the new films hitting theaters - and the films already around going into new release patterns: WEDNESDAY: "The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg" (Cowboy Booking) -
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'Whole Nine Yards' Defeats 'Next Best Thing'
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Despite all the hype, Madonna came in second best at the weekend box office.Studio tracking studies predicting a first-place opening for Paramount's "The Next Best Thing," the romantic comedy/drama teaming the Material Girl with Rupert Everett, were wrong. Instead, top honors went for the third consecutive weekend to Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards."Bruce Willis "Yards," the R-rated hit comedy from Warners, Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures, held str
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'Mission' Accomplished
July 31, 2001 7:53am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2000 -- Hollywood found lots of life on "Mars" this weekend as Buena Vista/Touchstone's "Mission to Mars" blasted off to about $23 million. "Mars" landed in 3,054 theaters with an out-of-this-world estimated $23.10 million ($7,559 per theater). Its per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide release this weekend. It was a victory as well for studio tracking studies, which had predicted a first-place finish in the mid $20 millions. For the pre
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2001 MTV Movie Awards nominations
May 22, 2001 1:40pm ESTA list of nominations for the 2001 MTV Movie Awards
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Broadway's newest source
May 08, 2001 3:00pm ESTWith the huge Broadway success of Mel Brooks' The Producers, it looks like you can bring the movies to the stage. On Monday, Brooks' musical stage adaptation of his classic movie received 15 Tony nominations, including nods for best musical, for stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and for Brooks for best book and score.
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MTV Movie Awards nominees
May 08, 2001 4:20am EST"Good evening, my dress is see-through," 2000 MTV Movie Awards host Sarah Jessica Parker said during her introduction to the ceremony. Snappy one-liners like those are what make the MTV movie awards - or any MTV awards show for that matter - unique.
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Weaver's "Alien" Adventure, Banderas Getting "Femme"
May 08, 2001 4:19am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Feb. 5, 2001 -- Sigourney Weaver is in negotiations to do the fifth installment of the "Alien" series -- for a mere $15 million, as reported by London's Sunday Express. This time around the story will finally be set on Earth. Weaver's character, Ripley, was last seen heading to Earth as a cloned version of herself in the 1997 "Alien Resurrection." The film is planned to be released 2004, to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the original "Alien." Weaver will also executive produce
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B.O. ANALYSIS: This Weekend's a Tough Call
May 08, 2001 4:19am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., August 2, 2000 -- Predicting this weekend's box office is enough to drive anyone a little "Nutty." If Eddie Murphy's "Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps" has big legs, it stands to hold on to the top spot. The PG-13-rated comedy sequel from Universal and Imagine Entertainment could drop 50 percent from last weekend's $42.5 million opening and still place first with around $21 million. Directed by Peter Segal, it stars Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson and Larry Miller. Columbia's open
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Kevin Bacon Review
April 26, 2001 7:19am ESTIt's incredible: The more you watch "Hollow Man," the more obvious it is that there's nothing there.
