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...aesthetic is true: "I'll do whatever it takes to pay the bills, as long as I can also keep writing and doing what I love to do." It's not that he lacks exposure to the "right people;" in fact, Ross has held the highly coveted internship at Miramax. But after a summer with the big wigs, Ross believes more than ever that the trappings of the executive track only serve to divert him from his true creative passions. "If you start thinking about your connections," says Ross, "you're already going in the wrong direction. The work...
...warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three-way sex. "[Neve] makes you care and empathize with her," says Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax, the studio behind the Scream films. Says Peter Roth, president of the Fox Entertainment Group: "She's beautiful but accessible. You feel she could be your friend...
Scream and Scream 2 may be raking in the bucks, but that doesn't mean the franchise is making BOB and HARVEY WEINSTEIN happy. First Disney executives chastised the Miramax co-chairmen for overstating Scream 2's opening grosses; now actress NEVE CAMPBELL may not star in Scream 3. Why? Just before Scream 2 opened, Campbell, 24, expressed interest in acting in another Miramax film--Rounders, by The Last Seduction director JOHN DAHL, which was scheduled to go into production before the holidays. Miramax said she could appear in Rounders only if she would commit to Scream 3, and offered...
...What You Did Last Summer (starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle Gellar) ruled the box office for three weeks running, his coronation was inevitable; just last week Williamson signed a $20 million contract to write, produce and direct movies and TV shows for Miramax into the next millennium...
...Damon is making his choices on the basis of the part, not the paycheck. He seems content with the $600,000 he will be paid to appear in Rounders, the poker movie he's getting ready to shoot for Miramax. ("They've been great to me," says Damon.) It's from a first script by two unproduced young screenwriters and will be directed by The Last Seduction's John Dahl, who after four pictures has yet to make a major commercial success. No one seems to be very worried about its prospects, though. Maybe that's because the whole project...