Reel News

Rip It Up, Issue 230, 1 October 1996, Page 36

Reel News

Gregor Nicholas has been, chosen to direct the film adaptation of Edward Humes’ non-fiction book Mississippi Mud, which Martin Scorsese will executive produce. This is the story of a housewife whose life is turned upsidedown when her parents are executed in their Biloxi home ... according to Barb Wire star Pamela Anderson, her co-star Temuera Morrison extracted what he hoped would be a performance-enhanc-ing promise from her during shooting of the film, which opens here next month. “He made me promise I would wait until after we wrapped Barb Wire to see Once Were Warriors,” says Pammy. Morrison’s upcoming films include The Island of Dr Moreau (which co-stars Marlon Brando, Vai Kilmer and Rob Morrow) and White Lies (which co-stars Mimi Rogers) ... Kyle MacLachlan and Elisabeth Shue play a husband and wife stuck in a cataclysmic blackout with the husband’s best friend, Dermot Mulroney, in The Trigger Effect. Jurassic Park/Mission Impossible screenwriter David Koepp writes. and directs ... Liam Neeson took ill at the Venice Film Festival, where his latest film, Michael Collins, was having its premiere. He underwent emergency surgery for an intestinal obstruction ... the invasion of alien movies continues, as Get Shorty director Barry Sonnenf eld tells Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Fiorentino what to do in the sci-fi comedy Men in Black ... Friends star Matthew Perry gets to marry the indisputably foxy Salma Hayek in Andy Tennant’s Fools Rush In ... Tony Danza makes a rare movie appearance alongside Natasha Wagner (daughter of the late Natalie Wood), William McNamara and Frank Whaley in Josh Evans’ Gangster Glam ... Wes Craven’s new movie is Scream, which co-stars Drew Barrymore, Party of Five's Neve Campbell, and Friends star Courtney Cox ... Michael Radford follows his II Postino success with B Monkey — a love story revolving around a street-wise graffiti goddess and a middle class London boy ... the familiar sounding story of a couple of Edwardian girls who are brought to the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle when they find fairies at the bottom of their garden is the basis for Charles Sturridge’s One Golden Afternoon. Harry Houdini is worked into the story, and Peter O’Toole and Harvey Keitel beef up the cast ... Paul Rudd /Clueless) and lone Skye star in the road movie making road movie (it works both ways) The Size of Watermelons ... Russell Crowe began shooting Aussie road movie Heaven’s Burning last month ... another road movie, of a very different sort, comes in the form of Ken Loach’s Carla’s Song — the tale of a Glasgow bus driver who falls for a Nicaraguan refugee and ends up very much in the line of fire ... in addition to. his adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (Jude), Michael Winterbottom will direct Robert Carlyle in Go Now — a tale of a mystery illness which is eased by a powerful love ... Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton and Ron Rifkin co-star in Daniel Sullivan’s Substance of Fire. This story of a publishing tycoon at odds with theyounger generation is based on the offBroadway play which also featured Rifkin ... Nigel Hawthorne, Julie Walters and lan Holm begin shooting Waking Ned Divine this month. Kirk Jones will direct this saga of a bungled lottery claim ... AUSA’s Canned filmmaking odyssey saw Vincent Taylor’s Blur win Best Film, Andrew Adeane win Best Director (for his work on Space Nuns), Stefan Broadley win Best Actor (for his role in Used), and Kate Bartlett win Best Actress (for her role In Space Nuns). Sommerset won a special. prize for Best Music Video, and a Special Judge’s Commendation went to A Few Good Ken ... a final farewell to legendary screen lover Rudolph Valentino and Western screen queen Joanne Dru. Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead October 10 Mulholland Falls October 17 The Arrival October 17 The Big Sleep (re-release) (Rialto, Auckland) October 17 . Cosi October 31