Word: filming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. And since every town with an economic-development plan sees the movies as some kind of retail miracle, the number may reach 40,000 before the building spree ends. Yet no matter how many geeks go to see a Star Wars film 17 times, it's doubtful they can fill all the seats. This could be a tearjerker for the accountants...
Rock is making the most of his moment. He could have stuck to the Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence path to fame and fortune: 1) sign up for a buddy-cop film; 2) ad-lib your way through the criminally formulaic script; 3) get paid; 4) repeat. But Rock is playing it smart and working with Hollywood's edgiest comic directors. He has a co-starring role in Dogma, a film by Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy); a lead opposite Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty, a film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men); and a star turn in I Was Made...
Part of the answer, paradoxically, may lie in the way the film shamelessly, even joyously, keeps piling on that familiar material. At some point the sheer mass of it simply overwhelms dubiety. The fact that everything that happens in the movie comes as a surprise to its participants helps too. They apparently have not seen all the movies or read all the books about adolescent angst. So their responses are fresh. And felt...
...they have been our gross-out geniuses (Dumb & Dumber, There's Something About Mary), and Miramax wouldn't mind if you thought Outside Providence was more of the same. But adapting a novel by Peter and working with director Michael Corrente, the siblings, who also produced this film, maintain their best quality, which is a kind of unblinking frankness about our basic humanity, while skipping the bathroom jokes. You won't miss them...
...road to riches? The Definite Maybe is unique in that it is fully owned by Sokolow and Robl, who will split the sales proceeds with Amazon. The movie was shot over 20 days in New York using mostly borrowed equipment. Sokolow and Lobl, who paid for the film to be recorded onto vhs cassettes, need to make $100,000 just to pay back investors. "I cannot impress upon you," says Sokolow, "how poor...