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...apparently not alone. Thanks in part to a raucous trailer that has been showing since last spring, Wayans' $19 million comedy has been generating rapid-fire word of mouth. The film's strong "tracking" (surveys that indicate audiences' desire to see an upcoming flick) has inspired the distributor, Miramax's Dimension division, to step up its marketing blitz and increase its opening-day screens from 1,900 to about...
...Miramax's co-chairman, Bob Weinstein, should be commended for his sense of humor; he's releasing a movie that savages his own Scream franchise. On the other hand, the movie he's releasing features star Carmen Electra breaking wind. He should be ashamed of himself too. "I appreciate that," says Weinstein. "I'd do penance if I was that religion. Since I'm Jewish, I'll just feel guilty about...
...assure you. But if, for some reason, even Clooney's indisputable charms fail to rouse the attentions of the American moviegoing public, here's a suggestion for next summer: Think "reality" features. Keep a small video camera running in the conference rooms at Fox, Warner Brothers, Paramount and Miramax as the summer wears on. If profits improve, that's great. If not, you've got a whole series of "reality" movies to show next year, complete with images of frantic executives hurling themselves out the first-floor windows of movie-lot bungalows. Hey, if it works...
...Pointing fingers is risky--there's always the danger you'll poke yourself in the eye. That's what happened last week to Talk Miramax Books and its celebrity editor, Tina Brown, when pesky Internet muckraker Matt Drudge got his hands on a draft of one of the company's titles. Written by investigative reporter John Connolly and tentatively called The Insane Clown Posse, the book proposed to turn the tables on President Clinton's impeachment accusers, from Ken Starr and his staff to several anti-Clinton journalists, by exposing their secrets. The results, though, appear to exemplify the politics...
...Talk Miramax had First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams warn Drudge that he, not Miramax, would bear responsibility for airing the manuscript. But on Friday an embarrassed Brown issued a terse press release canceling the book. Connolly, a true believer in the right wing-conspiracy theory of Clinton's impeachment, called Brown "a coward" for abandoning it. Brown insisted it would have been axed anyway. The controversy is over for now, but while books on the Clinton scandal continue to pop up on the best-seller lists, the finger pointing will continue, and all involved would be wise to watch their...