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May 2002
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Here's a new horror film to tell you about : SUSPENDED ANIMATION is a low-budget psychological thriller about an animator named Tom who works on Hollywood movies. While on a snowmobile trip in the backwoods of snowy Michigan, Tom gets separated from his party of friends. He is discovered by two sisters and held captive by them, slowly realizing the ladies are also cannibals. Guess who's next for dinner?
Tom eventually escapes and survives to talk of his brush with death. Back in Hollywood he starts to use his encounter with the women, who remain at large, as material for a screenplay. He also becomes obsessed with finding the long-lost daughter of one of the cannibal sisters. Guess who decides to come for her lost dinner?
First Run Features has now picked up the theatrical distribution rights to SUSPENDED ANIMATION and will release the film this coming October 31. Alex McArthur plays Tom and the picture was directed by John D. Hancock (PRANCER).
Fallon hails a TAXI
So now we know that it will be Jimmy Fallon who will play the cop sidekick to Queen Latifah's cabbie in the American remake of TAXI, scheduled to start its filming in two months. Fallon, one of the anchors on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" skit, will help Latifah's character stop a string of bank robberies.
First made as a French action/comedy produced by THE FIFTH ELEMENT helmer Luc Besson, Tim Story (BARBERSHOP) has been hired to direct this 20th Century Fox update.
Two more blast zombies in RESIDENT EVIL 2
THE MUMMY RETURNS's Oded Fehr and THE TIME MACHINE's Sienna Guillory have been added to the cast of RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE.
Guillory's character is Jill Valentine, familiar to fans of Capcom's RESIDENT EVIL video game series; however, unlike the game history the Valentine character will be a cop and not a member of th Special Tactics and Rescue Squad.
Fehr will play the commander of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, the elite special ops soldiers called in to clean up the Umbrella Corportaion's biological nightmare.
The first day of filming is scheduled for August 11. And yup, Milla Jovovich is coming back to play Alice in the sequel.
See 28 DAYS' Real Ending
Fox Searchlight will release the original ending to the horror film 28 DAYS LATER beginning July 25th. The ending, said to be much darker, will appear at the end of the credits.
Shrek, Meet Fiona's Parents
Sci Fi Wire had the word:
Kelly Asbury, co-director of the upcoming computer-animated sequel film Shrek 2, told SCI FI Wire that the movie will delve deeper into the characters and their relationships, while aiming its satire squarely at Hollywood. "Like with any sequel, what I like to go to a sequel for is to see the further adventures of these characters that I've fallen in love with," Asbury said in an interview after previewing the movie at DreamWorks in Glendale, Calif. "And that's what we're trying to do with this. We're not just trying to recreate the first one. We're trying to take it to the next level emotionally."
With tongue in cheek, Asbury calls the second movie Shrek Meets the Parents, because it turns on the first meeting between Shrek (voiced by Michael Myers) with the parents of his new bride, Fiona (Cameron Diaz). The parents are the King (John Cleese) and Queen (Julie Andrews) of Far Far Away, which Asbury says is the "Beverly Hills of the fairy tale world." "We like to think it's bigger, better, funnier, everything," he said. "That's always the goal when you make a sequel, especially, is to give the audience more."
While the first Shrek lampooned the conventions of typical fairy-tale movies, such as those produced by rival studio Walt Disney Co., the sequel aims a little broader, Asbury said. "I think if we're parodying anything here, we're more making fun of the Hollywood, Beverly Hills aspect of things," he said.
Conrad Vernon, who is also a co-director of the sequel, added in an interview, "Again, we're dealing with beauty and, you know, it's only skin deep and everything. And we figured where her parents live in Far Far Away is a perfect place to do that."
Shrek 2 brings back Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and adds the new characters Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas), Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) and Fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders). The movie, which is currently in production, is slated for release June 18, 2004.
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