REEL NEWS

Rip It Up, Issue 215, 1 July 1995, Page 40

REEL NEWS

The independent ensemble director film Four Rooms wrapped . recently. The plot contains four different stories set in a Los Angeles hotel on New Year’s eve, and linked by an English bellboy played by Tim Roth. Other names in the everyone' who’s anyone cast include: Amanda de Cadenet, Bruce Willis, Antonio Banderas, Madonna, Jennifer Beals, lone Skye and Marissa Tomei. The directors are Alison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino ... Costas Mandaylor (Deputy Kenny Lacos of Picket Fences) plays the thinly disguised Henry Miller character in the upcoming film version of Anais Nin’s book Delta of Venus. With Zalman King in the director’s chair, the forecast is more steamy than.cerebral ... Linda Fiorentino is about to be reunited with The Last Seduction director John Dahl as the star of his new ..film Unforgettable. She plays:a researcher whose new invention allows people to experience other people’s memories'. Ray Liotta co-stars, ... Gwyneth Paltrow (who’s been; breaking hearts as Brad Pitt’s girlfriend in real life) has landed the title role in the big screen adaptation Jane Austen’s Emma ... Samuel L Jackson has his dance card well filled for the time being. He appears in the upcoming films Losing Isiah and Die Hard 111, and follows these with a part in the gambling parable' Sydney (co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow), the lead role in boxing comedy The Great White Hype, and a part alongside Marlon Brando, in a remake of The Island of Doctor Moreau ... The 1 Madness of King George director Nicholas Hytner's next pro-' ject will be The Crucible, based on Arthur Miller's play. Daniel Day-Lewis will star ... Kenneth Branagh is directing the low' ■budget ensemble comedy In the Bleak Midwinter. The cast playing the theatrical troupe .at the core of the tale includes Joan Collins, Richard Briers and Jennifer Saunders ... Michelle Pfeiffer will appear with her sister Deedee for the first time on the big screen, in the newsroom drama Up Close and Personal. The film also stars Robert Redford, Stockard Channing, Kate Nelligan and Joe Mantegna ... Paul Newman is to take the ■lead role in the Merchant-Ivory production Diary of a Mad Old Man, based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki ... Jim Carrey’s Ace Ventura character returns in the upcoming Ace Ventura II: When Nature Calls ... Sylvester Stallone will star alongside Antonio Banderas in Assassins, which began filming last month.