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Vol. 9
No. 24
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Hollywood Homicide
A
comedic rookie-cop movie which stars Harrison Ford as
the seasoned Joe Gavilan, a police investigator who has
just stumbled onto the most challenging case of his
career. However, with the added responsibility of
training a new partner, the naive K.C. Calden (Josh
Hartnett), Gavilan is burning the candle at both ends.
The film is sharp-witted and, on occasion, even zany, no
less than during the climactic high-speed chase through
Hollywood. At the heart of this film is the veritably
delightful and likable duo that mesh surprisingly well
with each other.
On Video
Old
School
A
21st century version of Animal House as performed by a
trio of men who want to relive their college days and
take one last stab at irresponsibility. Lawyer Mitch
(Luke Wilson) returns from a business trip to find his
live-in girl friend (Juliette Lewis) having kinky sex
with someone else and, crestfallen, he moves out and
rents a house near a college campus. Joined by pals
Beanie (Vince Vaughn) and Frank (Will Ferrell), he turns
the place into a frat house, setting off all sorts of
wild and wonderful times with lots of sexy gals and cool
parties. A surprise hit that had audiences rolling in
the aisles, with a sequel now under development.
On DVD
Charlie's Angels: The Complete
First Season (1976-77)
Just
in time to hype the release of the new Charlies Angels
Full throttle comes the original that started it all.
Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina, and Kelly were just
everyday police officers with routine desk jobs. But
when mysterious millionaire Charles Townsend takes them
away from it all to work at his own private detective
agency, their lives become infinitely more adventurous.
All twenty-two episodes from first season of the classic
1970's Aaron Spelling-produced female detective series
are included in this special 5-Disc set.
The Buzz...
Initial reports from
retailers around the country confirmed that Metallica's St. Anger will
debut at No. 1 on next week's chart, besting Jewel, who'll bow in at No.
2.
Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi may soon be shredding the silver screen. Paramount Pictures has
optioned the hit for a feature film. Writer David Zabel, whose previous
television credits include work for ER, Jag and Dark Angel, will translate the
song's lyrics into a full-length movie, and MTV Films and Alphaville will
produce the prospective flick.
The absence of Vin Diesel
from Universal's 2 Fast 2 Furious, the sequel to 2001's The Fast and the
Furious, turned out to be no deterrent to action-loving fans who spent $52.1
million at the box office to see it over the weekend, demonstrating that they
were far more fascinated by cars than stars.
Playboy has confirmed that
Survivor: Amazon winner Jenna Morasca has posed in the buff for
their August issue. Payment was not disclosed but it's estimated that the former
swimsuit model could earn up to $1 million for the pictorial. Also appearing in
the feature is Jenna's fellow Survivor contestant, Heidi Strobel.
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METALLICA
FINALLY
OPENS THEIR VAULT |
Metallica
have developed Metallicavault.com, a web site that will
contain hours of downloadable live recordings, demos and
B-sides for free. Unlike many bands that offer free
concert footage, song lyrics and music samples,
Metallicavault.com's content will only be made available
to those who purchase the band's upcoming CD St. Anger
which contains a pass code that will allow fans to gain
access to the site.
Ozzy Osbourne
and Zakk Wylde were reportedly in the studio
recently working on a new project for Ozzy's daughter,
Kelly Osbourne. Wylde is slated to play guitar on
the next Rob Zombie album, and will also write
and record the next Ozzy CD during the next few months.
Sony
is planning to sell high-quality movies online that will
employ two separate barriers to prevent them from being
copied and pirated. First, the movie will be downloaded
onto a user's PC in multiple files that will require
special software to detect their correct order and play
them back as a continuous movie. Secondly, software
embedded in the files will cause them to self-destruct
after a given time.
Star
Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has been voted the
worst movie sequel of all time in a poll by American TV
network E!. The highly anticipated 1999 prequel beat off
fierce competition from the likes of Batman & Robin,
Speed 2: Cruise Control and Jaws: The Revenge, to be
crowned king of disappointing follow-ups.
CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation creator Anthony Zuiker says that he's creating a third CSI.
"I don't have storylines, but I do have an actor in mind, a city -- it's an
American city -- and a tone in my head."
Canadian rockers Default are working on their second album, the follow-up
to 2001's The Fallout. The band has written at least 11 songs during
pre-production in Seattle, and will move up to Vancouver Island to record the
LP. The band has a half-dozen shows scheduled June 15-30 in Canada and the
northern U.S., where the group is expected to preview some new tunes.
Korn and
Nickelback will play at the Labatt Blue Hometown Bash on August 16 in
London, Ontario. Other acts include Simple Plan and Three Days Grace.
Mφtley Crόe
singer Vince
Neil has once again slammed
Crόe
bandmate Nikki Sixx over the group's perennially delayed
reunion plans, claiming that the band's return to the road has been put on hold
indefinitely while Nikki is out recording and touring with his new project
Brides of Destruction.
Keanu Reeves
is making a cameo appearance in Anthrax's upcoming video Safe Home from
their We've Come for You All album. The Matrix star is a longtime fan.
NBC is shelling out a whopping
$2.2 billion for the rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics. The Peacock outbid
ABC and Fox for the rights.
Twenty years after NBC's hit
sci-fi miniseries V invaded the small screen, the network is bringing the aliens
back with V: The Second Generation, a three-hour TV movie from the original
creator Kenneth Johnson.
Type O Negative
will release their long-awaited album, Life is Killing Me, on June 17th.
Led Zeppelin's
DVD achieved the highest-ever first-week and single-week sales for a music DVD.
Its 120,000 SoundScan figure doubled the previous sales record set by Paul
McCartney's Back In The U.S.
Ed Burns
and Christy Turlington finally made it to the altar. Originally intended
to wed in 2001, the twosome were married in San Francisco in front of family and
friends, including Sting and Vin Diesel, with Bono
reportedly filling in for the model's late father.
Adam Sandler
is in talks to join a thriller that would cast the funnyman in a non-comic role
opposite Tom Cruise.
Faith Hill
and Tim McGraw will be making separate movies this summer. Hill will play
one of the robot-wives in a remake of the 1975 thriller The Stepford Wives.
McGraw will make his acting debut in the independent film Black Cloud, written
and directed by Rick Schroder of NYPD Blue.
Office chairs used by judges on
the Fox TV series American Idol will be auctioned off to benefit cancer-related
charities. Judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson
have each autographed their respective seats.
Jennifer
Lopez, is nearing a deal for a role in the New Line Cinema comedy
Monster-in-Law. The film will tell the story of a girl who meets the man of her
dreams. But before the marriage, she meets her new and dreadful mother-in-law.
Nicolas
Cage will star in National Treasure, a film to be produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer. The story is about a hunt for buried treasure from the 1700s
that has its hidden location supposedly encoded in the United States
Constitution.
Director
McG (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) revealed that he is still talking
to Warner Bros. about directing the new Superman project, and that his decision
will be made within the next few weeks.
Veteran metallers Pantera,
who have been the subject of breakup rumors for the past couple of years, will
be issuing a "Best Of" style CD in early fall.
Hillary
Clinton's memoirs set a Barnes & Noble sales record for nonfiction books
on its first day on store shelves, selling more than 40,000 copies in the first
24 hours it was available, instantly making it an in-house best seller.
Will Ferrell,
Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn are expected to sign up to return for
an Old School sequel. The back-to-college comedy was a surprise hit, taking in
$75 million at the box office.
Apparently The Rock's
movie schedule hasn't been too intense lately, as he appeared on RAW last week
in San Diego and was spotted at Miami Dolphins training camp where he stopped
by to visit his friends Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas.
Despite rumors to the contrary,
former WCW Superstar Sting
is in no rush to sign with WWE because of how poorly Goldberg was handled
since his debut, with fear that his character would also be mis-managed.
Veteran TV writer and Twin
Peaks co-creator Mark Frost has quietly come on board to rewrite 20th
Century Fox's big-budget comic book adventure Fantastic Four for director
Peyton Reed.
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