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Which isn't to say big studios ignore the DTV market. The majors have long seen DTV as a dumping ground for films they thought might flop theatrically; recently New Line demoted Theodore Rex, an excruciatingly whimsical comedy about future cop Whoopi Goldberg and her dinosaur partner, to a video release. Increasingly, though, the majors view DTV as an attractive alternative--a place to release franchise spin-offs, avoid $50 million marketing costs, make a bundle. Sequels to such mainstream fare as Land Before Time, Darkman, Children of the Corn and the Jim Varney Ernest series have been...
Where to begin? There's Bannister, pseudo-Andie-MacDowell, and her "I'm uptight" uptight health nut husband Ray (Peter Dobson) who dies and must communicate with her by making Fox act like Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost." There are the people dying, their number inscribed on their foreheads, all at the hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler...
...Whoopi Goldberg has something to help her forget Theodore Rex, her new straight-to-video movie. She has agreed, for a rumored $6 million, to put her thoughts to paper. More musings than memoir, the unnamed work shouldn't upset those, like Ted Danson, who have made whoopee with the author in the past...
KINGPIN (July 12). One of three summer sport comedies, along with Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg as coach of the New York Knicks) and Tin Cup (Kevin Costner as a golfer). This one could be the Color of Money of bowling--former pro Woody Harrelson recruits Amish phenom Randy Quaid for a big payday. But the Farrelly brothers (Dumb & Dumber) ain't Scorsese. For a start, they have a fascination for prosthetic-hand gags; there are nine, just in the trailer. Rude and obvious. We laughed nine times...
...Whoopi and Winona, Madonna and Barbra, Chevy and Sly. Aside from having idiosyncratic first names, these stars all share something else: over the past seven months, they've walked away from the Creative Artists Agency, once the supreme force in Hollywood dealmaking. But that was then--then being the 1980s to the mid-'90s. Since last fall, more than two dozen clients have ankled, as the trade papers would put it, joined just last week by Liam Neeson and Ben Stiller...