`SCREAM' SCRIBE WILLIAMSON KEEPS ON GETTING HOTTER.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Kevin Williamson
Williamson isn't worried about the tumble. ``I'll work my way back. I'll reinvent myself - just like Madonna has done.'' Right now he has more work than two - or more - men could handle. With his big-screen ``Killing Mrs. Tingle'' just wrapped and ``Halloween H20'' opening Wednesday, Kevin's heading to Wilmington, N.C., to oversee shooting of ``Dawson's Creek'' - after a summer hiatus that saw leads Katie Holmes Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes [1] [2] (born December 18 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. , James Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams Michelle Williams may refer to an actress or a singer born in 1980:
In October, Williamson shoots the pilot for his ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. series, ``WasteLAnd,'' a drama about 20-somethings talked up as infinitely smarter and hipper than the ``Melrose Place'' characters. December will mark the release of Williamson's ``The Faculty,'' a teen thriller with Elijah Wood described as `` `Breakfast Club' meets `Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' '' December or early '99 will see the start of Chicago production on ``Her Leading Man,'' in which Williamson will break stride and use no actor under age 30 as he aims to ``take a story of love and present it to a very cynical '90s audience and breathe air into the genre.'' And if all that weren't enough, there's ``Scream 3.'' He has no idea when it will start, or what form it will take, or whether Neve Campbell will reprise re·prise n. 1. Music a. A repetition of a phrase or verse. b. A return to an original theme. 2. A recurrence or resumption of an action. tr.v. her role from the first two installments of the horror hit. But he does know `` `Scream 3' will be released in December 1999, so we can't wait too long to get going. I'll begin to write it right after the first of the year.'' The fact of the matter is Contrary to a report in Daily Variety, William Friedkin will not be directing the TV drama based on the exploits of N.Y. undercover cop Jimmy Mullan Jr. Friedkin insists that his noninvolvement non·in·volve·ment n. 1. Lack of emotional involvement. 2. Failure or refusal to become involved, especially in the affairs of another nation; nonintervention. isn't due to pressure applied by the N.Y. district attorney's office but because ``I was never interested in the project.'' He says he was asked to helm the drama Gary Smith Gary Smith may refer to:
In a conversation with this column, Mullan, who has locked horns with the Manhattan DA's office for years, seemed shocked and surprised that Friedkin wouldn't be directing ``Hung Out to Dry.'' Smith did confirm that ``Friedkin is not attached to the project.'' He also said, ``No one has ever contacted me about stopping the project. I can't even tell you yet to what extent - if any - it will involve the N.Y. DA's office. The film will deal with Mullan's life and exploits - but the story has yet to be written.'' Casting corner Here's a tall order. They're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. '90s look-alikes of '60s public figures, including Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. , Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, promoter Bill Graham, and Father Daniel Berrigan for NBC's forthcoming ``The Sixties'' four-hour miniseries from producer Linda Obst. The drama, involving four families in different parts of the country, begins shooting in September. And then we have Halle Berry's upcoming HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy ``Introducing Dorothy Dandridge'' movie we told you about the other day, for which secondary casting is now in full swing. Among the notable names they're trying to cast are Harry Belafonte, Otto Preminger, the Nicholas Brothers (``tap dancing and acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking skills required''), Ava Gardner and Norma Jean Baker. Crash course Tobe Hooper (``Poltergeist poltergeist (pōl`tərgīst) [Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism, certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation. ,'' ``The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'') puts his chill skills to work on the TV side with ``The Apartment Complex,'' a two-hour Showtime movie and pilot to begin shooting next week. The cable flick centers on a psychology student who gets a job at a place called Wonder View Apartments and finds himself learning more than he bargained for from the tenants about all sorts of psychology - criminal, sexual and abnormal. With reports by Stephanie DuBois. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos Photo: (1) Elijah Wood ``The Faculty'' (2) William Friedkin Denies Variety report (3) Tobe Hooper Showtime project |
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