The Dwight Schrute-led series could premiere this time next year.
The Sundance favorite is available for purchase on March 6.
The 'Shrek' spinoff has been moved up by a week.
They lead, we follow.
It's the closest most girls will get to actually having the Biebs at their fingertips. (There's your new slogan, OPI. You're welcome.)
James Cameron talks about production timeline and hints at sequels release date
Apparently, a settlement has been reached in the legal fight over seven nude and semi-nude photographs taken during Marilyn Monroe's "Last Sitting" in 1962, according to HuffingtonPost.com.
HOLLYWOOD, July 3, 2000 - Get ready for some movie déjà vu when titles like "The Exorcist" reappear on neighborhood marquees in the coming months. And we're not talking about revival house screenings, either. You see, on top of all the hits (and none-hits), there'll be some pretty familiar titles that'll be competing for your eight (or more) bucks - and Linda Blair's barf-o-rific horror classic is just the tip of the re-release iceberg. For the uninitiated, "The Exorcist" was the blockbuster of 1973, nabbing a total of 10 Oscar noms; winning two (for best original screenplay and best sound) and making Linda Blair forever a target of easy satire. The re-release -- bowing nationwide this September - will feature a 12-minute deleted scene from the original film wherein Blair's character does the so-called "Spider Walk" down some stairs. It's just one of the goodies in store for cin
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 16, 2000 -- Tired of Oscar-worthy dramas? In the mood for (hey!) a teen flick? Your time is here (again). "Down to You," a Generation Y romance starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles, leads the pack of new releases this week, presumably to the delight of the nation's mall rats. Elsewhere, a host of critically acclaimed (or in teenspeak: boring and long) films previously in limited engagements will add screens. That list includes: "Angela's Ashes," "A Map of the World" and "Titus". Here's a complete list of films opening this week: FRIDAY: "Angela's Ashes" (Paramount) -- Adapted from Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, this film documents the author's childhood in Ireland during the 1930s and '40s. Emily Watson ("Hilary & Jackie") and Robert Carlyle ("Trainspotting") co-star as Frank's working-class parent
SANTA MONICA, CALIF., March 19, 2000 -- For those baffled critics wondering where the innocence of youth has gone -- look no further than the movies. "Here on Earth" Yes, we're talking about those teen romances in which the universe (inhabited by the 15-to-17-something characters as portrayed by 20-to-25-something actors) is so compulsively single-purposed that its impervious to tedium, doubt and the everyday stuff of reality that comprise teen lives. This week brings two such new offerings to theaters. Even though plot isn't necessarily a crucial element to the enjoyment of such flicks, we'll go into them anyway. First up: "Whatever It Takes", (opening wide, Friday). A teen reworking of "Cyrano de Bergerac" with the hero sans the big nose since, in the high school hierarchy, being unpopular is a fate worse than being physically unattractive. As the story goes, Shan
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Acting ability aside, you have to admire Madonna's tenacity when it comes to putting herself time and again in front of the lens, raw and intrepid -- as if she's never heard of seriously bad flicks such as "Body of Evidence," "Who's That Girl" and "Shanghai Express." The list goes on and on. "Next Best Thing" So this Friday finds the M One going at it all over again with "The Next Best Thing" (opening nationwide). In her continual quest to prove that she's a legit screen actress, Madonna tackles the role of a straight woman who forms an alternative household with her gay pal (played by her real-life gay pal Rupert Everett) and their son, whom they conceived on a night of drunken stupor. The idea of a gay man living with a straight woman living with their kid may have been intriguing (or even provocative) a couple years back. But
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 2, 2000 -- Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and the guy who did "The French Connection" (that's William Friedkin, by the way). With that lineup, what could possibly go wrong with "Rules of Engagement" (opening Friday, wide)? Besides having all the trappings of a trite military courtroom drama, probably not much. Based on a short story by James Webb (a former U.S. secretary of the Navy), the film follows the lives of two Vietnam vets (Jackson and Jones) whose paths cross many years later when one asks the other to defend him in court. Expect a lot of high-decibel screaming back and forth. In other new movie releases this week: Is there life after "The X-Files"? David Duchovny finds out this week by venturing into romantic-comedy territory with "Return to Me" (opening Friday, wide). The flick pairs Duchovny with a seemingly incongruous Minnie
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 26, 1999 -- The biggest millennium party is definitely not going to take place at your local cineplex this week. Taking into account the pre-millennial craze suffered by shifty audiences coast to coast, Hollywood is taking a low-key, market-testing approach to the week's more recognizable releases. The Denzel Washington vehicle "The Hurricane" will make its limited-release debut Wednesday. A favorite of critics, the well-reviewed film based on the true story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter features an award buzz turn by Denzel Washington as the titular boxer who is wrongly accused of the murders of three white men in 1966. Also hitting the theater mid-week is Sony Pictures Classics' "The Third Miracle." Starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche, it is a story of lost faith and renewed hope set in present-day Chicago. For those wanting to journey to
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 2, 2000 -- With a limited number of new films hitting the theater, this weekend will be the perfect time for filmgoers to catch up on the movies they missed during the holiday frenzy.Opening in New York on Friday is the award-winning "Life is to Whistle" from Cuba . Expanded releases include the adaptation of John Irving's "The Cider House Rules" and Universal's romantic drama "Snow Falling on Cedars" with Ethan Hawke.Also in theaters Friday is the re-issue of Miramax's "Music of the Heart" starring Meryl Streep, Gloria Estefan and Angela Bassett.The following is a complete list of the films opening this week.Limited ReleaseFriday"Life is to Whistle" (New York) -- The award-winning film from Fernando Perez follows the intersecting lives of three Cubans on the Day of Santa Barbara: a ballerina who ponders breaking
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 30, 2000 -- The "Scream" franchise continues its reign this week with the release of "Scream 3." Also new this week are Liam Neeson and Sandra Bullock's dramedy "Gun Shy" and the expanded release of the ensemble "Simpatico" with Nick Nolte, Sharon Stone and Jeff Bridges. The following is a list of all the films coming out this week: Opening Friday, Feb. 4 "Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities" (First Run) -- Documentarian Monika Treut takes viewers on a gender-bending trip to San Francisco to explore the "cyborg" subculture -- people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry in "gender elimination phenomena." (Limited release) "Gun Shy" (Buena Vista) -- Liam Neeson plays a DEA agent whose retirement is delayed interminably by one final case. Sandra Bullock co-stars. (Limited releas
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2000 -- The Jacqueline Susann biopic "Isn't She Great" comes to life this week with Bette Midler as the famed author. Also opening wide this week is the Ewan McGregor-Ashley Judd psychological suspense thriller, "Eye of the Beholder." Here's a list of all the films opening this week. Opening Wednesday "Kestrel's Eye" (First Run) -- Directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Kristersson, this documentary chronicles the lives of a family of kestrels nesting in the tower of an old church. (Limited release) Opening Friday "The Big Tease" (Warner Bros.) -- Scotsman Craig Ferguson plans to make his country proud when he is invited to the international hairdressing contest. He flies to Los Angeles only to discover that he is attending the event as an observer. (Limited release) "The Cup" (Fine Line) -- The Bhutanes
SANTA 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) -- Portrait of the legendary Bronx-born Jewish baseball player who came close to breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record. Tall, handsome, and uncommonly good-natured, Greenberg was a secular Jew from Bronx who became "the baseball Moses," an icon for everyone from Walter Matthau to Alan Dershowitz. (Limited release) "My Dog Skip" (Warners) -- Based on the autobi
SANTA MONICA, CALIF., Feb. 13, 2000 -- A week after Leo's second coming, other big Hollywood names -- in the form of Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton -- are also coming out to play. Making their nationwide debuts in the coming week are the Wall Street flick "Boiler Room," the mobster-gone-straight comedy "The Whole Nine Yards" and the sibling-rivalry antics of "Hanging Up." Here's a rundown of what's up: FRIDAY "Boiler Room" (New Line) -- Giovanni Ribisi plays an upstart stockbroker freshly recruited for a job in a firm nicknamed the "boiler room." Ben Affleck, Vin Diesel and Nia Long co-star. (Wide release) "Hanging Up" (Sony) -- Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton and Lisa Kudrow co-star as sisters who come together to care for their dying father played by Walter Matthau. (Wide) "Pitch Black" (USA) -- In the sci-
SANTA MONICA, CALIF., Feb. 6, 2000 -- A call to teen-age girls and middle-age men -- Leonardo DiCaprio and Annabel Chong are coming to theaters this week. That's right. After weeks and weeks of deferred opening, the long-awaited "The Beach" and the equally long-awaited "Sex: The Annabel Chong Story" (a crowd shocker at last year's Sundance Film Festival) are finally making their way to multiplexes. For viewers whose tastes run more toward family fare, there are the releases of Disney's "The Tigger Movie" and Paramount's "Snow Day." Here's a list of films opening this coming week: FRIDAY "The Beach" (Fox) -- The aforementioned Leo plays a backpacker in search of a mythical island after he secures a map of its whereabouts in Bangkok, Thailand. (Wide release) "The Big Tease" (Warners) -- Craig Ferguson plays a Scotsman who travels to Los Ange
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 20, 2000 -- Didn't get enough of Ben Affleck in "Boiler Room"? Well, not to worry, for said heartthrob actor pretty much achieves multiplex ubiquity this Friday with the much-delayed bowing of "Reindeer Games." In the John Frankenheimer-directed flick, Affleck plays an ex-con, fresh out of the slammer, who's coerced by his ex-cellmate (Gary Sinise) to pull one last heist on the night before Christmas -- which explains the scene in the trailer where a bunch of Santa Clauseses are walking in, or out, of, well, somewhere. But what the Xmas angle doesn't explain is why the studio (Miramax's Dimension Films in this case) kicked the film's original release date of December 1999 all the way back to mid-February. (Saving the best for last? Or, well, mid-winter?) Here's a look at the other films opening this week: -- Going up against Affleck and
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Unidentified life forms, uncharted planets and even a galaxy far, far, away. ... Let's face it, astronomy geeks, it's Hollywood -- not NASA -- that has been winning the space race all along.Given that proverbial truth, it makes sense that the first images of Mars to really enter the popular imagination will not be crappy photos taken from some nameless satellite but from "Mission to Mars" (opening wide Friday), a big-budget flick directed by the spectacle-oriented Brian DePalma, whose testosterone-laden resume ranges from "Scarface" to "The Untouchables" to "Mission: Impossible."This ersatz Mars flick -- from the folks at Disney -- has not only beaten the real space cowboys to the planet but Warner Bros.' "Red Planet" as well. The two studios had battled, from pre-production on, to launch their respective Mars flicks before the other
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 26, 2000 -- Every few years or so, there comes a film that seeks to capture the spirit of a lost generation. John Cusack And every few years or so, John Cusack seems to come out of relative seclusion to star in it. So the tradition continues this week with "High Fidelity" (opening wide, Friday), yet another serving of offbeat meandering through the mindset of the thirtysomething. Based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, the flick revolves around the existential crisis of a record store manager (Cusack) who's struggling with the thinning appeal of slackerdom and the loss of his girlfriend (played by Joelle Hjejle). Co-scripted by Cusack and the "Grosse Pointe Blank" writing team of D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink, the film features one awesome supporting cast, including Lili Taylor, Sara Gilbert, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tim
SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2000 -- What can money and power get you in Hollywood? Apparently, more money, more power and a choice of any role you desire. Just ask Julia Roberts. The actress, recently anointed by Forbes magazine as the most powerful person in Hollywood, next will be seen playing against type in the legal drama "Erin Brockovich" (opening wide Friday). By "against type," we're not referring to the cool $20 mil Roberts reportedly banked for playing a secretary name of Erin. What we mean is simply that this particular film is outside of the actress' area of specialty (or marketability) -- the romantic comedy. Based on a true story and directed by seasoned stylist Steven Soderbergh ("Out of Sight"), Roberts plays a small-town paralegal who spearheads a lawsuit against a utility company she says is polluting the water. (But not to worry. Just becau
The mayor of Wellington in New Zealand - hoping to capitalize on the success of the Lord of the Rings movie, which won't be released until December - has announced plans for a new theme park revolving around J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, the BBC reports. The trilogy was filmed all at once in New Zealand, and reportedly cost $270 million to film. The film's trailer caused a huge buzz when released at the recently completed Cannes Film Festival.