From: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: the year ahead
Date: 6 Jan 93 07:17:38 EST
Reply-To: "eric walker" <eric.walker@channel1.com>
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UNIVERSAL.  First and foremost from Universal, we have the other major
summer release: Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park."  This one looks to
be the "Event" picture of the year, with only Ah-nold giving it any kind
of competition at all.  That is, if it's a good movie.  Universal's 1993
releases include:
     Mad Dog And Glory, starring Robert De Niro and Bill Murray [?!?]
     Splitting Heirs, starring John Cleese, Eric Idle and Rick Moranis
     Cop and a Half, starring Burt Reynolds
     For Love or Money, starring Michael J. Fox
     Hard Target, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
     Carlito's Way, directed by Brian De Palma & starring Al Pacino
     And another Spielberg movie: "Schindler's List."

PARAMOUNT.  Paramount suffered from poor leadership in 1992, with only
WAYNE'S WORLD as the year's good memory.  The studio is still trying to
claw its way to the top of the heap, and it means to do so with movies
like:
     Beverly Hills Cop 3
     The Addams Family 2
     Wayne's World 2  [Do I see a pattern here?]
     Indecent Proposal
     Sliver, starring Sharon Stone
     The Firm, starring Tom Cruise

20TH CENTURY-FOX.  Although Fox saw a good year with HOME ALONE 2 and
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, the departure of Joe Roth has been cause for a
shake-up at the studio.  Things like this tend to put almost every
project in jeopardy, byt Fox can still be expected to release a number
of movies this year:
     The Vanishing, starring Jeff Bridges and Keifer Sutherland
     Jack the Bear, starring Danny DeVito
     Danger Sign
     Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes
     The Sandlot - April
     Hot Shots 2
     Rookie of the Year
     Enchanted Forest
     Robin Hood: Men In Tights, directed by Mel Brooks
     Skeezers
     The Ghost and the Machine
     The Good Son, starring Macaulay Culkin - Oct.
     The Beverly Hillbillies
     Mrs. Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams

MGM.  MGM is still struggling to regain the position of honor it once
had.  The studio just closed a deal, forced upon it by Credit Lyonnaism,
to purchase 20% of Carolco Pictures, and that gives MGM access to some
of Carolco's more promosing stars and moviemakers.  Plus, there are a
couple of projects that might score big this year - and if so, then Alan
Ladd Jr. will find himself at the center of attention in Hollywood once
again.  MGM's films for 1993 include:
     Body of Evidence, starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe - Jan.
     Untamed Heart, starring Christian Slater - Feb. 12
     Rich in Love
     Benny & Joon - April
     Thumbelina - June
     Undercover Blues, starring Kathleen Turner - July
     Triple Indemnity, directed by Carl Reiner - August
     Son of the Pink Panther - summer 1993
     Snake Eyes, starring Madonna
     Six Degrees of Separation, also starring Madonna

Back in the 1930s, a woman with a questionable reputation - Mae West -
brought Paramount back from the brink of bankruptcy.  Will this
sleight-of-hand be repeated in the 1990s at MGM?
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