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19-09-An article about Buffalo Soldiers
''Buffalo'' picks bad time to satirize military
18-09-Rory Culkin, the youngest member of the acting clan, has been set to star with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix in ``Signs,'' the M. Night Shyamalan drama which is about to go into production at Touchstone.
Here an unofficial site for Sings fro the UK http://www.signsmovie.co.uk/news.html
From that unofficial site: Apparently Mark Ruffalo's role called for intensive sports training, which he was not up to following the recent removal of a minor cyst from his inner ear. So I guess Joaquin Phoenix is down the gym as I type!
Cast and crew are now on location in Bucks County. Filming started as scheduled on Thursday 13th Sept unaffected by recent tragic events. The shoot was meant to be launched on Weds 12th with a low key local press conference in Philadelphia with Shymalan, Gibson and Phoenix in attendance but this was canceled in light of recent events.
16-09-Hollywood, Finding a New Reality
Will audiences still want to watch good guys fight terrorists? Studios tread nervously in the wake of national devastation.
Certainly movies like one just bought by Miramax at the Toronto Film Festival, "Buffalo Soldiers" -- an edgy film about a group of dope-smoking, heroin-shooting U.S. soldiers in Germany, described as "Pulp Fiction" meets "Three Kings" -- may quickly fall out of favor.
14-09-Distributor: Miramax Films (picked up at Toronto) for Buffalo Soldiers (Upcomingmovies)
Ahttp://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/arts/movies/story.html?f=/stories/20010910/694149.html
Don't trifle with Phoenix
The star of Buffalo Soldiers doesn't take well to blocked doors
Shinan Govani
National Post
Joaquin Phoenix gets mad, Miranda Richardson turns coy, and Keanu Reeves turns
into a puddle. Just another day in the neighbourhood.
Let's grab our Let's Go guides and start the tour: I spotted Joaquin in the
dark, cavernous space of the Left Bank Saturday night, where he was celebrating
his movie Buffalo Soldiers. Looking as sensational (those cheekbones are
sonnet-worthy) and as comfortable (that old sneakers-and-suit routine) as ever,
the young Hollywood star got a little testy when a doorman wouldn't let him into
the club's private VIP area.
"But we're actors," he pleaded, as his co-star, the doe-eyed Anna
Paquin, looked on. Not compelled was the bouncer by this argument, as the
Gladiator star looked more and more like he wanted to feed the chap to the
lions.
"He's not letting you in?" I asked Joaquin, astonished. (I, uh,
happened to be standing near him.)
"No," he responded, pointing to his nemesis. "That guy's an
a--hole."
Duly noted.
RICHARDSON'S SECRET LUNCH
Miranda Richardson has a beacon of a smile. I ran into her at Rain shortly
before the Joaquin kerfuffle. She liked my black Moleskin notebook, so we
discussed the ins and outs of stationery for a couple of minutes. Very, very
nice, this Brit thespian.
She's in town filming the newest Cronenberg flick, which is shrouded in secrecy.
When I asked if she could give me a little, teeny scoop, she simply replied:
"Stay tuned. It ain't no Naked Lunch, though."
I was at Rain, by the way, for the party for No Man's Land, a movie you'll be
hearing a lot about come Oscar time. It's a Slovenian flick, and a super-shoo-in
for best foreign picture.
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ANY POST: "Inqlings" section by Michael Klien on page D2 again. It says: Actor Joaquin Phoenix and sister Liberty Butterfly played baseball yesterday in Fairmount Park. Nice day, right? Shooting is scheduled to start today on Signs, the M. Night Shyamalan flick pairing Mel Gibson and Joaquin.
ANew Toronto Filmfestival Picture
12-09-The tragedies in the USA. We are praying for the victims and their families, please take a moment of silence for them
Thank you very much Fats for this image and text
AThe
following appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer today, 9/12/01:
Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, and director M. Night Shyamalan has been
cancelled because of yesterday's terrorist attacks.
Plans for
M. Night Shyamalan's new film, Signs, shooting in Philadelphia, also were
disrupted. A press conference for the movie, starring Mel Gibson and Joaquin
Phoenix, was canceled. The cast and crew already are in the city, and shooting
is expected to begin on schedule Thursday.
10-09-Some pictures from the Toronto Filmfestival HERE, put some more TFF pictures on it Thank you Marissa
Founded here http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=CHM
ASOURCE:
TouchstonePictures
Press Conference to Launch the Production of Touchstone Pictures' SIGNS
PARTICIPANTS: Stars Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, Writer and Director
M. Night Shyamalan, and the Chairman of the Walt Disney
Motion Pictures Group, Richard Cook.
WHAT: Start of production press conference for Touchstone
Pictures' SIGNS.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2001
10:00 - 10:30 AM
WHERE: RITZ EAST THEATRE
127 Sansom Walkway
Philadelphia, PA
FILM
SYNOPSIS: SIGNS is a thriller focusing on the sudden appearance of
mysterious crop circles on a family farm in Bucks County,
Pennsylvania.
08-09-Joaquin is in Toronto sarturday and sunday.
The filming of Signs will begin very soon.
Circlemakers.org claims that the approximately nine-week shoot is scheduled to begin September 13 with the bulk of filming taking place "on 100 acres of corn fields leased to the production until the end of the year by Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pennsylvania." They also report that additional filming will be done in parts of New York state and in Newton, PA.