Posted by PrinceRules at acada937.ipt.aol.com on May 15, 2001 at 06:31:33:
August 24th... hmm... isn't the end of August reserved for films that were supossed to be good but after bad test screenings are moved to the dog days of August? I can't imagine this picture making more than 8 million dollars it's first week. They should move the film into the fall, say mid September unless they're going to have a kickass marketing campaign. I'm not much of a fan of Miramax anyway -- they ruined the Hellraiser franchise, making the original director of Hellraiser: Bloodlines cut out seems and let some dumbass (who butchered Halloween 6) reshoot scenes. You can cry all day that "Weinstein made Scream a huge hit!" but the truth is that those movies are terrible, especially Scream 2 and Scream 3. It's also true that those films had a built in audience and word of mouth helped Scream making 100 million. Kevin Smith would be wise to stay true to himself and film the movie he wants to (like he always has) but sell-out and send Ben Asslick to MTV's Total Request Live. We all know that MTV sucks and that Viacom is attempting to rule the world but what the hell. When is the last time you saw any good music on MTV? They don't even play Prince music. They don't show any old videos from The Time. They tried to jump on the David Gray bandwagon but that's about it. I don't see any real artists making music and getting play on MTV. For you wacky canadians, I don't see anything better from MUCHMUSIC, either. Is Ben Asslick from Canada? :)
peace, Lou (writer for "Superman Lives")