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Notes from Austin, Volume 2 #28

Hollywood News

This week Carmike theaters, a very large chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They do not own any theaters in the Austin area. Check out our special feature, "Clash of the Cinema Titans" for more on the current state of exhibition in America.

Austin fave Owen Wilson will co-star with director Ben Stiller in the comedy "Zoolander," about a naive male supermodel.

Angelina Jolie is in talks to star opposite Kevin Costner in director Oliver Stone's "Beyond Borders."

Hottie Anne Heche will star as a hospital administrator in "John Q," playing opposite Denzel Washington and Robert Duvall.

Minnie Driver will star in Disney's "High Heels and Lowlifes," playing a nurse who blackmails a group of bank robbers into sharing their bounty. First, we'll see Driver in "Beauty." BTW - "Lowlife in High Heels" was the name of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn's autobiography.

Helen Hunt, has several films out this year including "Pay It Forward" and "What Women Want," will star for Woody Allen in his next project. As stated here earlier, Charlize Theron will also star.

Leonardo (is it necessary to also include Dicaprio?) is in negotiations to star in "Catch Me if You Can," playing a con man who was the only teenager ever placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. First, however, he'll be seen in Scorsese's "Gangs of New York."

Kevin Spacey has signed to star in the drama "K-Pax," about a mysterious patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from the planet K-Pax. Several other actors had been attached to the role before Spacey signed on.

Hot shot Edward Norton will reunite with "Primal Fear" director Gregory Hoblit on "Hart's War," a World War II drama set in a German prison camp. Brad Pitt will play Hogan?

John Cleese has joined Jason Alexander in the ensemble cast of "Rat Race," a remake of the 1963 comedy "It's a Mad Mad Mad World." In the words of my grandfather, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The original is a masterpiece. No reason to try.

Jimmy Smits will join horror legend Christopher Lee in the cast of "Episode II" of the "Star Wars" series. Smits will play the foster father of Princess Leia.

Delroy Lindo will join Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito in the cast of David Mamet's "The Heist."

Roberto Benigni will be co-starring with his wife Nicolett Braschi in a live action version of Pinocchio. No no no no no no!!!

Hector Elizando joins Raquel Welch in "Tortilla Soup," an English language, Latino-set remake of "Eat Drink Man Woman."

Dean Devlin, the producer of "The Patriot" makes his directing debut with "Cellular," a thriller about a man who accidentally receives a phone call from a woman who has been kidnapped.

The sequel wont be out until May 2001 and Universal has already signed screenwriter Jonathan Hales to pen a third installment of "The Mummy" franchise, "The Scorpion King."

Tom Tyker's follow up to "Run Lola Run: will be a love story and thriller called "The Princess and the Warrior."

Around The Fire also stars Tara Reid, Eric Mabius and Bill Smitrovitch and features the music of Phish, Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, String Cheese Incident, The Meters, Finley Quaye, Red House Painters and more.

"AROUND THE FIRE" on VIDEO:

You will be able to rent Around The Fire at Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, Video Update and basically everywhere else.

AROUND THE FIRE on DVD: The Around The Fire DVD features awesome behind the scenes interviews and footage of the filmmakers and actors. It is a crucial addition to any serious movie buff's catalog and even more important for those who are less serious (obviously).

AROUND THE FIRE CD: Liquid City Records is putting out this enticing collection of musical nuggets featuring NEVER BEFORE RELEASED tracks by GRATEFUL DEAD, VINYL, and LIVING DAYLIGHTS. The soundtrack also offers choice tunes by String Cheese Incident, Bob Marley, The Neville Brothers, The Meters (out of print), Bill Frisell & BC Smith, Blind Faith, Dire Straits, Finley Quaye, Freddie Hubbard, Red House Painters and more. You can buy the CD at most major stores as of August 22nd or at liquidcity.com and aroundthefire.com.

If you have any questions, check out our site at http://www.aroundthefire.com.

Things to do this Week (8/11-8/17) : Lodger's picks: "Dark Side of the Rainbow" at the Alamo Drafthouse, All Day Punk-a-Thon at the Flamingo Cantina.

Notes From Austin : I wanted to show Web how gay Aaron is, but he didn't get any dings on his "gaydar." Of course, Web is straight, but I guess straight people can have gaydar too, just not as finely tuned, perhaps. After we watched the show for a while, however, I think Web was seeing things my way.

Austin News : aGliff announces it's schedule. Austin Film Festival announces several guest speakers for Heart of Film Screenwriter's panels.

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