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Laurie MacDonald, a production boss for Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks, saw the film last year and quickly bought remake rights for $1 million?just a bit less than the original movie's budget. Her instinct proved sharp. The new Ring is the rare Hollywood horror movie that earned more money...
At last it can be told: despite the $900 million his movie made at the global box office, despite its ranking as the highest-grossing film of 2001, director Chris Columbus was not entirely happy with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "I always thought we could have gotten...
Despite the appetite for more Lecter movies, the $80 million Red Dragon almost didn't get made. "Hannibal was a big hit," says an agent, "but most people in Hollywood thought it was an awful movie that almost killed the franchise." With its baroque gore and pitch-black humor (Ray...
The question is, With all three of Harris' Lecter books having been filmed at least once, what happens to the franchise? The secretive author is not expected to write another Lecter novel anytime soon (if ever). "He takes several years to do a book," says Harris' agent, Mort Janklow. "I...
Once a musician is described as a "bad boy icon," his 15 minutes of fame tend to be up. So why is EMI betting the farm on Robbie Williams, the British crooner and former "fat dancer" from Take That who has sold a respectable but unspectacular 692,000 records in...