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Until now, that is. Jackman, 35, has spent the past three years assembling a sturdy little pre-movie-star career, adding a few heroes in turmoil (notably Wolverine in the X-Men movies) to a clutch of swoony romantic interests (in Kate & Leopold and Someone Like You). His next project, Van Helsing, in which he plays a 19th century monster hunter, will be the first movie in which he's the main attraction. So what does Jackman do while waiting for its release? He takes on Broadway in an unknown show called The Boy from...
...records were our only means of connection with this world that we couldn't experience live. The advantage in those days was that the records we had were conducted by Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Leopold Stokowski and Sir Thomas Beecham. So although the sound was quite primitive, the tempos were right. These were interpretations that I have carried with me ever since. And I must tell you, in those days I thought it was a good sound--until I went to Vienna...
Romantic comedies tend to have much smaller profit margins. Last year's Meg Ryan vehicle, Kate & Leopold, cost about $50 million and made just about that domestically. Sweet Home Alabama is a fairly safe bet, but the comparably priced baseball drama The Rookie was a much safer one for the same studio, since it appealed to a broader demographic. Box-office results show that boys resolutely avoid chick flicks. "If you have a female lead in a movie," says Oren Aviv, marketing president for Buena Vista Pictures, "only females are going to go. And you better have a star that...
...paucity of awards, the firings, the closing of glitzy Talk magazine (which Miramax co-funded), the bouncing release date and swollen budget of Martin Scorsese's $95 million Gangs of New York, as well as dismal showings by its TV division and two recent box-office duds, Kate & Leopold and The Shipping News, all indicate that Miramax may have finally come to the end of an unparalleled winning streak...
...indie Clerks in 1994. "They overextended and overreached, and now it seems like they're reining it all back in... This is the company that made Pulp Fiction, that put out The Piano and The Crying Game--why on earth would they make something like Kate & Leopold or She's All That...