Word: prequel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your Tatooine the magazine recognized his undeniable appeal to stalwart Star Wars fans everywhere. On its new issue, due early this month, Vanity Fair features this cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz, who was granted exclusive access to the superfluously secretive Tunisian set of the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. From left, LIAM NEESON as Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn; the ugly guy (known as Jar Jar); NATALIE PORTMAN as Queen Amidala, mother of Luke and Leia; EWAN MCGREGOR as a young Obi-Wan Kenobi; R2-D2; director GEORGE LUCAS; C-3PO; and JAKE LLOYD, here as the still angelic...
MASS MOVEMENTS 999: Entire nation of Iceland converts to Christianity 1999: Entire nation of moviegoers awaits Star Wars prequel...
Last month, Jedi overlord George Lucas quietly announced, via his web site, that the release date for "Star Wars: Episode I" would be May 21, 1999. No surprise there --?for months, Hollywood has assumed that the prequel would land around Memorial Day weekend. But intriguingly, Lucas added that the heavily anticipated film would not have the "widest possible release," but would open only in "quality" theaters. "I'm not trying to break any records," said Lucas. "I'm interested in quality presentation, and a positive group experience for everyone who comes to see this film...
...That is a surprise, given the escalating release patterns for event films of late. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the prequel is a cinch to open in at least a "Godzilla"-sized 3,700 theaters. Analysts were also expecting "Episode I" to become the first film to break the magical $100 million mark its first weekend. Now, says a Twentieth Century Fox source, you can expect a more modest rollout, akin to the 2,104 theaters that ran the "Star Wars" rerelease last winter. That would allow Lucas to open the film only in houses equipped with state...
Meanwhile, October Films will bring out Orgazmo, a feature-film porn parody written, directed and starred in by Parker, and produced and acted in by Stone. They are writing the screenplay of the prequel to Dumb and Dumber for New Line Cinema, and they are acting in BASEketball, a film by David Zucker, part of the team that made the Airplane! movies, which Stone and Parker greatly admire. BASEketball is shooting now, and Zucker says of his stars, "They're up all hours. They work all day on this movie, then they go and write South Park. They have people...