Brian De Palma
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
09/10/1940
Newark, NJ |
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Box Office Analysis: Nov. 10
November 10, 2002 10:36am ESTBox office analysis, Nov. 10
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Femme Fatale Review
November 06, 2002 3:11pm ESTFemme Fatale is so derivative that even its numerous sex scenes and stripteases fail to make its climax meaningful.
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On the Scene at Cannes: The Awards
May 28, 2002 9:57am ESTAndie MacDowell Antonio Banderas Rebecca Romijn Stamos Melanie Griffith Roman Polanski Paul Thomas Anderson Adam Sandler Jeremy Irons David Lynch Martin Scorsese Naomi Watts Tilda Swinton Michael Moore
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News Roundup: April 17
April 17, 2002 10:58am ESTNews Roundup for April 17: David Fincher will possible direct the next Mission: Impossible installment with Tom Cruise to star Ben Stiller and wife Christina Taylor have their first child Josie Bissett and husband Rob Estes welcome second child Madonna's demands on her new play in London Clint Eastwood will join the park and recreation panel in Calif. James Gandolfini wants to play Ralph Kamden in Honeymooners film Destiny's Child singer Beyonce Knowles will star with Cuba Gooding Jr. in new mov
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CANNES: Need Tickets? Good luck
August 16, 2001 10:13am ESTCANNES, May 14, 2000 -- How can the festivities get any hotter than they already are? The weekend has arrived which means there are even more parties and more outfits. And oh, yes, there are now even more hordes of Cannes fans. They start camping out (some of them fully equipped with collapsible benches and gourmet picnics) in front of the red carpeted Palais as the sun comes up and wait more than 12 hours to catch a glimpse of the stars and the auteurs and their muses (if they can get them in.
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BUZZ/SAW: How to Make 'Mars'
August 15, 2001 11:35am ESTNEW YORK, March 14, 2000 -- The critics so hated last weekend's box-office smash "Mission to Mars" -- in fact, some were downright mean to director Brian De Palma's new-agey sci-fi pic -- they forgot to mention that the film's visuals, including the amazing special effects, are, ahem, out of this world. Two special-effects houses -- Dream Quest Images and George Lucas' renowned Industrial Light and Magic -- were needed for the more than 400 special-effects shots that invoke the scary Mars surfa
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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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Terrorists Threaten Banderas
March 24, 2001 3:01am ESTAntonio Banderas needs to grow eyes in the back of his head. According to reports by England's Daily Express, the Spanish actor has received death threats from the militant group Basque Homeland and Liberty, forcing Banderas and wife Melanie Griffith to hire personal bodyguards while staying in France.
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EXTRA: Don't Go See 'Mission: Impossible 2'
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTHOLLYWOOD, May 24, 2000 – If you're planning on seeing "Mission: Impossible 2" today, you can forget it. There's no such movie. Say what? After all, aren't there billboards all over North America officially proclaiming today -- May 24 -- as opening day for the new Tom Cruise movie? Right, but those billboards are for "M:I-2," or as it's more properly identified, The Movie Formerly Known As "Mission: Impossible 2." Confused? Well, we were too. So, we called the folks at Paramount, who started th
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B.O. ANALYSIS: Dinosaur Rules Weekend
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., May 21, 2000 -- Dinosaurs snapped back to life this weekend as Buena Vista/Disney's "Dinosaur" kicked off to nearly $39 million. The PG-rated, computer-animated feature, which cut short the chart-topping reign of DreamWorks' "Gladiator," set a record as the year's biggest opening with an estimated $38.6 million at 3,257 theaters ($11,860 per theater). "Dinosaur's" per-theater average was the highest for any film playing in wide or limited release this weekend. "I think it's
