Reel News

Rip It Up, Issue 218, 1 October 1995, Page 41

Reel News

Juliette Lewis is set to star in Quentin Tarantino’s next film ...

Deborah Harry and. Adam Ant appear in the upcoming pop industry parody Drop Dead Rock. Harry also co-stars in Heavy, alongside Liv Tyler, Shelley Winters and EvanDando ... Uma Thurman stars alongside Matt Dillon and Timothy Hutton in the contemporary romantic comedy Beautiful Girls ... Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender have joined forces again to form two new companies. The first, A Band Apart Commercials, will produce (strangely enough) commercials, some directed by the big QT himself. The second, Rolling Thunder, is an independent feature division of Miramax, which will acquire and distribute up to four films of QT’s choice each year. Hong Kong action film Chung King Express will be

Rolling Thunder’s first film ... Mike Newell is working on the big Hollywood transition with Donnie Brasco. This true story stars Johnny Depp in the title role, as an FBI agent infiltrating the mafia. Depp is juggling his schedules to accomodate another lead role, in Speed Racer ... Brad Pitt will play the adopted son of an IrishAmerican cop involved with terrorists in Devil’s Own, a 1940 s climber kidnapped by the British, in the true story Seven Days in Tibet, and he and real-life co-star Gwyneth Paltrow team up with Morgan Freeman on the big screen in Seven, a suspense thriller about a serial killer who kills his victims in line with the seven deadly sins. Paltrow has also been working non-stop of late, having just completed The Pallbearers and Moonlight and Valentino ... Emma Thompson and

Jonathan Pryce co-star in the Cannes winner Carrington, which is directed by Christopher Hampton and based on the book Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd ... Charlie Sheen will star in The Shadow of Conspiracy, alongside Linda Hamilton, and the sci-fi thriller Shockwave ... Eddie Murphy will star in Joel Silver’s Sandblast, and the (surprise, surprise) police comedy Metro ... Will Smith and Bill Pullman are set to co-star in the sci-fi thriller Independence Day. The story tells of an extra terrestrial plot to destroy Earth on July 4 ... Glory partners Denzel Washington and director Ed Zwick reunite for Courage Under Fire ... Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh and Irene Jacob star in a new film version of Othello

... Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro and Kevin Spacey co-star as the perpetrators of a bungled drug heist mess that needs sorting (sound familiar?) in The Usual Suspects. Chaz Paliminteri plays the lawman ... Antonio Banderas, Sylvester

Stallone and Julianne Moore do the action thing in Assassins ... Julia Roberts, Kyra Sedgwick and Gena Rowlands play women from three generations of a Southern horse raising family in Something to Talk About, the story of their relationships with the men in their lives. Dennis Quaid and Robert Duvall costar ... the first ever fully computer generated feature film is on the way. Featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, Toy Story tells the story of the battles of an old-fashioned, pull-string doll, and the latest action figure toy ... Father of the Bride 2 stars Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short and Kimberley Williams ... Wim Wenders is due to begin filming Bono’s movie idea, The Million Dollar Hotel, in November ... the creators of Delicatessen have got the critics gushing all over again with The City of Lost Children. Screen International says it ‘surpasses its predecessor for pure visual excitement and surreal abandon’. Now that would be something to see.