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...screens a film will play on. From looking at previews of this summer's biggies, many theater owners are enthusiastic. Wall Street is also excited. The Walt Disney Co.'s stock rose this winter after analysts got a peek, in preview form, at the studio's likely hits Crimson Tide and Pocahontas. The rest of the industry would welcome any good news. It has limped through a virtually hit-free first four months of '95; of the year's releases, only Outbreak and Bad Boys have earned more than $50 million at the domestic box office. With receipts down...
...just before the summer rush, and could earn $60 million to $80 million. But Hollywood counts on big stars, muscular action, high concept-and Disney cartoons-to bring in the really serious money. So here's what Americans will get in six successive weekends after Crimson Tide opens: Die Hard with a Vengeance; Casper (the friendly ghost, now a live-action apparition); Madison County; the killer-ape thriller Congo; Batman Forever; and Pocahontas. Then no fewer than three big-adventure films will go head to head: Judge Dredd; Ron Howard's astronaut drama Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks...
...Fluke trailer is also typical of the new previews in that it seems to tell the film's entire story. So does the Crimson Tide preview, plot point by plot point, up to and including the climax. Get your granulated motion picture right here, in three hectic minutes! Anything longer is considered the director...
...screen, must have whooped for joy when Vladimir Zhirinovsky began spouting his virulent nationalism. What if this character got his finger on the nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have the power to trigger the apocalypse or, just maybe, prevent...
Prevent war? Forget that! This is an action movie, isn't it? And as Clausewitz might have said, action movies are a continuation of war by other means. The genre demands that stuff blow up real good. But the most physical Crimson Tide gets is when the villain punches the hero in the face, twice-without getting punched back. And in a bizarre climax, the good guy and the bad guy sit down and talk for three minutes while waiting for somebody else to tell them what...