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Post by tequilaroses on Sept 27, 2004 18:27:27 GMT -5
Well, I hope the producers listen to the test audience's suggestions, and don't let Owen's part fall to the back burner. I like Vince - but Owen should not come second to him.
They can be equal, or Owen comes first - either or!
Despite all that - I still cannot wait to see TWC!! It's currently the movie I'm most looking forward to seeing!
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Post by owenrules on Sept 29, 2004 9:49:36 GMT -5
Despite all that - I still cannot wait to see TWC!! It's currently the movie I'm most looking forward to seeing! Same here! I'm SO excited for it...I want a trailer to be released NOW!
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Post by bunnypanda on Jan 4, 2005 6:30:01 GMT -5
Thank you Fergie for finding this link!!! filmforce.ign.com/articles/576/576700p1.htmlThe pics have been posted before but this site says the release date for The Wedding Crashers is July 22, 2005. Did we ever know that?...I think this is a new info...isn't it? YAAAY!!! And I just checked IMDb and guess what?! It says it opens on July 22 in the USA and the UK!!!!! OMG I am SOOOOO HAPPY we (people in the UK) don't have to wait longer than the people in the US OMG And I am thinking...another London premiere maybe?... ;D The site has the link to the movie's official site too, if anyone hasn't visited it yet
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Post by ozarka on Jan 5, 2005 0:30:50 GMT -5
Just read the part that is in 'bold'; I included the entire article only so that bolded info is read in context. (ozarka)
New Line: Post 'King' regroup 'Notebook' tops rebuilding year post "Rings" trilogy
New Line Cinema, under the leadership of co-chairmen Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, couldn't have begun 2004 on a higher note. Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," the culminating 2003 installment in his magisterial trilogy, amassed $377 million domestically -- $86.6 million of that accrued to New Line's 2004 accounts. More importantly, the movie scored a clean sweep at the Academy Awards, winning all 11 categories in which it was nominated, including best picture. But that left New Line facing a question: What to do for an encore? The studio's answer was to hunker down, release some movies and begin planning. "It was a little bit of a reset year," New Line production president Toby Emmerich says. Adds Rolf Mittweg, president and chief operating officer worldwide distribution and marketing: "We are allowed to take a breather. Everybody knows, even our parent company (Time Warner), that it's impossible to have that kind of success every year. But there are things that are cooking at the moment that will be ready for 2006 and 2007 that will bring us more hype."
On the screen: New Line entered 2004 with the supernatural thriller "The Butterfly Effect," starring Ashton Kutcher. The $10 million film grossed $58 million to become the company's most profitable movie of the year. But New Line's most surprising success was the tear-jerker "The Notebook." The romantic drama, which raised Rachel McAdams' star profile, quietly established itself as a word-of-mouth summer phenomenon, particularly among older audiences, and slowly but surely built up $81 million.
Although the studio broke even on another thriller, "Cellular," it concedes that "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," "Raise Your Voice" and "Laws of Attraction" all have to be classified as disappointments. However, since they were all negative pickups, the studio bore minimal risk. "That's part of the business plan," Emmerich says. "You don't want it to be more than one-third of your slate, but there's a place to have them."
New Line, however, bore the brunt on its production of "After the Sunset." The $60 million heist comedy, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson, failed to hit $30 million. Mittweg suggests that the movie was hurt when Universal Pictures moved up the release of "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" to the same opening date. "Universal decided to give 'Jones' a 500-print release on our date, which took our females away, which was not nice," he says. "But they ultimately paid for it because they ended up not grossing what they were supposed to, either." Emmerich puts it more succinctly: "In hindsight, I shouldn't have made the movie. ... It didn't justify that budget."
On the lot: New Line was among the most active bidders for new material during the summer and fall as it endeavored to set up new projects. It acquired "Honeymoon With Harry," an unpublished novel by Bart Baker that Paul Haggis will adapt and direct. It put "Notebook" director Nick Cassavetes together with "Iron Man," a Marvel Comics adaptation and potential franchise. It is developing the fantasy "Inkheart" as well as adapting Philip Pullman's celebrated kids' fantasy "His Dark Materials" -- though Chris Weitz opted out of directing the project after having completed a screenplay.
Emmerich believes that the epic fantasy genre, which "Rings" ignited, will play itself out "to some extent" but remains viable for the moment. "I wouldn't make a trilogy, but I think that it's too tried and true a genre (to ignore). But it's quality dependent."
And while New Line might appear to be moving away from its horror-movie roots, Emmerich says that's not so. "As long as Bob Shaye has got a heartbeat, trust me, we're going to be doing horror movies. However, because everybody else has figured out that it's a real market, it's much more competitive. So you have to be smarter about the ones that you make."
Emmerich likens the challenge New Line faces to planning a varied financial portfolio. "If you have a portfolio, you want to have American equities, European equities, bonds, some precious metals," he says. "I don't want to rely on any one thing because genres run hot and cold. So it's not like we are a horror company or we are a comedy company. We are a mini version of a major studio, and those studios are diversified in what they do."
Next: "I'm going to own next summer, you heard it here first," predicts Emmerich, enthusiastic about the prospects for the Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson comedy "The Wedding Crashers," which is said to be testing well. "I think it's the best comedy I have ever made. Hopefully, we won't get unlucky." Meanwhile, diversification will be on display with the female-oriented comedy "Monster-in-Law," which marks Jane Fonda's return to the screen; the Tony Scott action thriller "Domino," starring Keira Knightley; David Cronenberg's "A History of Violence"; and the family film "Son of the Mask." END. I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm glad to hear that it is testing well; I think it will do very, very well at the box office. .
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Post by tequilaroses on Jan 5, 2005 20:06:48 GMT -5
I think it'll be a big success too! ;D
(6 months, 17 days to go - not that I'm counting or anything)
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Post by ocw on Jan 6, 2005 2:47:42 GMT -5
From wilsonbrothers.com
Set Visit: Wedding Crashers
PASADENA, California — Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, on the balcony of a church and clad in tuxedos, are, naturally, talking about weddings.
"If you were going to get married — and be honest — would I be one of your groomsmen?" Wilson asks Vaughn. "Would I make the cut? I'd like to think we've hit it off pretty good on this movie."
"Absolutely, absolutely you would be," Vaughn answers. "In fact, you would be the only groomsman, and it would probably take place somewhere in the Eastern Bloc."
"I like the sound of that," Wilson replies. "Sounds like a hell of a bachelor party."
"Me and you and a bunch of mail-order brides," Vaughn says.
As much as that sounds like a scenario for a movie ("The Mail-Order Men"?), Wilson and Vaughn are supposed to be talking about a different wedding movie, one the actors have been shooting all day and night.
For some reason, though, they just seem to want to talk about other weddings.
"Have you ever been a best man?" Wilson asks.
"I have."
"And how did that work out?"
"They separated."
"I was the best man at my older brother's wedding and he got divorced too," Wilson says. "So, basically, if you want to jinx your wedding, ask one of us to be your best man."
Again, as much as that sounds like a scenario for a movie ("The Worst Best Man"?), Wilson and Vaughn are supposed to be talking about the wedding movie they are actually making: "The Wedding Crashers." Oh, that one.
"Vince and I play two guys who go to weddings to pick up girls, and it's the idea that girls might be sort of good to go at weddings," Wilson finally explains with the raise of an eyebrow.
Specifically, Wilson and Vaughn are partners at a Washington, D.C., divorce mediation firm who have come to realize that women are aroused in a nuptial atmosphere. That the lifelong friends are never actually invited to the weddings they attend is hardly a setback. In fact, Wilson and Vaughn's characters have been crashing weddings for so long they have it down to a science.
"You pick a location [to sit for the ceremony] where you can see the bridesmaids enter, but not so close that you have to make eye contact with the wedding party," Vaughn explains, pointing to the spot where he and Wilson sat for the scene shot a few hours earlier. "It's all about positioning for all the things you're looking for. You gotta be able to see all the girls."
To add a little more fun to the experience, their characters also make games out of wedding crashing.
"Some of these services are kind of long, so we sort of make bets throughout the services, like what they're going to read from for the wedding, if the bride is going to cry or not, things to help us get through the service part of it," Wilson reveals.
Where the wedding crashers get thrown off in the movie is when they fall for bridesmaids of the daughter of the Secretary of Treasury, played by Christopher Walken. When Wilson and Vaughn's characters get invited to a weekend's worth of post-wedding festivities, the crashers meet their biggest challenge yet.
"One of the exciting things about this wedding that we're attending is that we're going to be shooting in Washington, D.C., at the National Cathedral, and we're going to have Senator John McCain and James Carville there," Wilson reveals.
The bridesmaids are played by Rachel McAdams of "The Notebook" and Isla Fisher of "I Heart Huckabees," two relative newcomers Wilson and Vaughn have enjoyed taking under their wings.
"It reminds me of when I got a Chia Pet for a holiday occasion and at first it was just this piece of clay, and pretty soon gorgeous green things were growing out of it," Vaughn deadpanned. "I had to water it every day, I had to pet it, talk to it, and it was just a full-on Chia Pet with a lot of beautiful, beautiful, beautiful leaves growing from it. And that's just to sum up my experience working with these two girls."
David Dobkin, who directed Wilson in "Shanghai Nights" and Vaughn in "Clay Pigeons," is helming "The Wedding Crashers," although instead of him bringing Wilson and Vaughn on board it was the other way around.
Wilson and Vaughn met through their group of mutual actor friends, which includes Ben Stiller, Will Farrell and Jack Black, who have made several movies together (and some of whom have cameos in "The Wedding Crashers").
Wilson and Vaughn also co-starred in "Starsky & Hutch" together, although Vaughn insists it's only a coincidence.
"We keep hearing this [Brat Pack-type of] thing lately, but there's no real plan with it or whatever," Vaughn said. "I've always been a fan of Owen's and liked his stuff a lot, and we were both in 'Starsky,' but we didn't have a lot to do together in it. And when this idea came about, [the appeal for me] was more about the concept, and also Owen. But there was no meeting of people, like plotting stuff, although that would be fun if you got to pick places on those types of things. Like based on locations, that may be a good way to start picking scripts."
Eastern Bloc, here they come. Sounds like Andrew is single!!!!!
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Post by bunnypanda on Jan 6, 2005 3:06:04 GMT -5
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Post by ozarka on Jan 9, 2005 15:17:47 GMT -5
From the Chicago Sun Times: Gorillas and Panthers and witches, oh my!
January 9, 2005
BY CINDY PEARLMAN It's a year where Batman begins and Star Wars ends. Princess Leia will be born and King Kong has to die. Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn want peace in the U.N. while Tom Cruise will fight the War of the Worlds. Welcome to 2005 at the box office. The farce will be with you because Steve Martin is Inspector Clouseau. Then there's that Boy Wonder -- and we don't mean Robin, but Harry Potter, who is back for another year at Hogwarts. Yes, Russell Crowe is brawling again, but this time it probably won't make the tabloids because he's putting on gloves as a Depression-era fighter. As for the women, Kidman's nose gets twitchy, Jessica Simpson has scandalously short Daisy Dukes and Lindsay Lohan has even taken time off from club-hopping to rotate Herbie's tires. Though some dates are subject to change throughout the year, here's a road map for 2005: Choice pit stops"The Wedding Crashers" (July 22): Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are divorce mediators who crash weddings on the weekends looking for one-night-stands. One of the guys falls hard for the lovely Rachel McAdams, who happens to be engaged to someone her wacko politician father (Christopher Walken) has found for her. Child-friendly accommodations "Cars" (Nov. 4): It's Pixar's seventh film, starring the voices of Paul Newman, Richard Petty, Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt and John Ratzenberger, and directed by John Lasseter ("Toy Story"). It's about classic cars on Route 66 who can, yes, talk. END. I think 2005 will be a great year for Owen; both "The Wedding Crashers" and "Cars" will be choice pit stops for movie goers and Wilson fans alike; I'm definitely looking forward to both of them (although I could have sworn I had read somewhere that "Cars" had been pushed to 2006.)
I posted only those movies that were related to Owen; if you would like to read the entire article, here's the link:
www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/sho-sunday-film09.htmlEnjoy!
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Post by Remi on Jan 26, 2005 10:22:34 GMT -5
Found this on IMDb...
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Post by bunnypanda on Jan 26, 2005 11:00:01 GMT -5
Thanks Remi!!!
Everything we have heard so far about TWC is super promising, isn't it?
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Post by Siberia on Jan 26, 2005 11:12:15 GMT -5
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Post by bunnypanda on Jan 26, 2005 11:33:01 GMT -5
Hi Siberia, yes the link to that photo has been posted before, but don't worry. What you said about Owen's hands is very funny ;D
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Post by tequilaroses on Jan 26, 2005 18:37:34 GMT -5
Awesome!
I read that "The Wedding Crashers" is going to be New Line's tent-pole release for the summer of 2005.
So, apparently the studio has VERY high expectations for this movie.
I think that says a lot of Owen & Vince, for the studio heads to have that much faith in them as actors and superstars, to pull in the audiences needed for a major production studio's tent-pole release.
I think this movie will do very good. It'll be amongst all the major action pictures of the summer - so it'll be a break away from all of that.
Owen & Vince are beyond adorable in this movie - they are downright sexy! I love watching them dance in the trailer!
July 23rd will be one of my favorite days this year!
I can't wait! I can't wait! I can't wait! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by itsanowenthing on Jan 27, 2005 3:10:49 GMT -5
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Post by WilsonFreak on Jan 27, 2005 8:14:14 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;DThank you!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
I finally got to see the picture of Owen in bed big enough to make it out!! Oooooh, I'm MElting.................
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