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PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS Sydney, Australia was host this morning to the first press conference for the
upcoming "Spider-Man" movie. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe and
friends have been in Australia since last week and spent the Easter gambling at
the races, absailing, etc along with attending a top secret function last night.
Meanwhile Director Sam Raimi, and Producers Laura Ziskin & Avi Arad flew in
this morning and all six were in attendance at a major press conference this
morning along with numerous reps from Australian, Asian and European media.
Here's my notes from the session:
- Interesting news for "Evil Dead" fans. Raimi said he liked to do a fourth
ED flick, and is keen to work with Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert again. Also
if he were to do it, he would do it again on a shoestring budget.
- Tobey Maguire trained six days a week for five months to prepare for the
film. His exercies were a combination of yoga, gymnastics, martial arts, weight
training and a lot of bike riding. He hasn't continued with it, opting for a
doughnut diet these days.
- Suit wise Tobey was in the uniform during the closeups and non-action
scenes, stuntment were used for jumping scenes up to a height of about 2-3
stories, higher or more elaborate stunts than that were done in CG
- Despite the first trailer being pulled due to September 11th, the Twin
Towers will be in the picture in tribute - however they won't be used for any of
the 'wow' action sequences, merely part of the background
- Willem Dafoe did practically all of his own stunts on the glider so when
you see the Goblin moving around on it, when its not CG its Willem pretty much
the whole time
- Why did Tobey, normally known for playing angst-ridden teens, take on an
action hero who wins the girl and defeats the bad guy style role? He wanted to
do something more like himself in real life (the gag got a laugh from the
crowd).
- A group of paparazzi photographers staged a walkout during the start of the
conference over not being allowed to photo the previous night's secret
screening/function, causing a lot of confusion at first.
- They've pretty much used all the scenes they shot in the final cut so don't
expect much in the way of deleted scenes.
- The DVD will contain an "unprecedented" number of extras including a TON of
making of material shot by
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a seperate film crew during the production, and a
gag reel.
VARIOUS BITS Assembled with thanks to 'jey', 'Fred', 'Dust Bunny', 'Clint', 'Brian',
'Jon', 'Žorgeir':
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TRAILERS A very flash quicktime version of the second MR trailer is online, as is our
first look at the Oscar Wilde classic turned Reese Witherspoon/Rupert Everett
comedy, all thanks to Apple.Com. Finally comes a video capture of the interview Tobey
Maguire and Kirsten Dunst did on Aussie talkshow "Rove Live" tonight. Thanks to
'Aleks', 'Chien-Wei', 'Scott', 'aktivist':
REVIEWS To cap off what's been a busy day behind-the-scenes here comes reviews of
several new films and scripts:
Tuesday, April 2nd 2002
"Minority Report"
Full Trailer (Various, MOV)
"The Importance of Being Earnest" Full Trailer (7.4Mb, MOV)
"Rove Live" Maguire/Dunst Interview (9.2Mb, AVI)
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(
, Very
Minor Spoilers) (Negative, Major Spoilers)
Script Review:
"Invisible Girl" Review: "Van Wilder"
Review: "High Crimes" Review:
"Big Trouble"
Review: "Behind Enemy Lines" (DVD) Script
Review: "Abandon"
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| Monday, April 1st
2002 Stills from "Slap Her, She's French", update on the current status of "Rendezvous with Rama", "Chasing the Dragon" to change its ending, NYC filming news, Jodie Foster dumps Russell Crowe from "Flora Plum", Guillermo Del Toro speaks "Hellboy", "Rush Hour 3 & 4" in simultaneous development, Christina Ricci joins "Borgia", "Bulletproof Monk" on-set reports, Christophe Gans to helm "Diabolik", "Die Another Day" TV segments airing, Jennifer Connelly & Ben Kingsley join "House of Sand & Fog", George Carlin talks "Jersey Girl", "Jimmy Neutron" extras details, "Minority Report" game details, "New York City Independent Horror Film Festival" details, various release date changes, cast talks "Star Trek: Nemesis", "The Shape of Things" set report, "Try Seventeen" releases December, "Watching Ellie" airing details, Will Smith produced remakes on the way, Sandra Bullock wants more re-writes on "Wonder Woman", Weekend Box-Office, Aprils Fools: "Daredevil" & "Astro Boy". Poster: "Hollywood Ending" Trailer: "Signs", "Conan" (DVD) Interview: Tara Reid - "Van Wilder" DVD Reviews: "Texas Rangers", "Maybe Baby" Interview: Cameron Diaz - "The Sweetest Thing" Reviews: "Halloween: Resurrection", "The Sweetest Thing", "The Chateau" Thursday, March 28th
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