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...realized Castle Rock never intended to show the script to an established director but instead planned to hand it off to Castle Rock partner Andrew Scheinman, whose only previous directing credit was the forgettable 1994 movie Little Big League. The young actors returned their material to the marketplace, where Miramax bought it from Castle Rock. Commitments from director Van Sant and co-star Robin Williams made the project happen the way they always dreamed it would. This also led to an ongoing romance between Damon and his co-star Minnie Driver...
...Killers producer Don Murphy at L.A.'s eaterie Ago, he didn't send over an air kiss. Instead, fuming about being badmouthed by Murphy, and by his partner in her book, Killer Instinct, the director went over and punched him repeatedly. Tarantino was put in a cop car, while Miramax head Harvey Weinstein helped broker a truce. No charges were filed, but Murphy is considering legal action...
...Yuck!" is left unsaid. And while it is easy to imagine this actress playing television's most famous ex-virgin, Donna Martin of Beverly Hills, 90210, it is less easy to imagine her starring in an independent movie like The House of Yes, a new black comedy from Miramax in which Spelling's character, Lesly, discovers that her fiance has been re-enacting the assassination of John F. Kennedy with his twin sister by way of foreplay. For Spelling, at last, the kitsch is overt, and thus The House of Yes represents what is known in the business...
...Like Miramax, CBS has been tuning in to this mature audience. The success of such programs as Touched by an Angel and the CBS Sunday Movie recently helped the network persuade six major sponsors, including Coca-Cola, General Motors and Upjohn, to shift $100 million of fall prime-time advertising to shows that target older audiences. Among them: 60 Minutes, Cosby and the hospital drama Chicago Hope. In so doing, CBS has begun laying the groundwork for increased advertiser support for programs for aging boomers...
...awkward acting efforts, and participation in the flop 1995 anthology Four Rooms. Although the 1996 horror flick From Dusk Till Dawn (directed by pal Robert Rodriguez), which Tarantino wrote, produced and appeared in, was a moderate hit, speculation whirled in the industry about whether his directing career had stalled. Miramax provided a jump start by buying the rights to four Leonard novels...