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Fall Preview of Movies
Aired September 04, 2001 - 08:50 ET
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VINCE CELLINI, CNN ANCHOR: Lights out, camera's on, action!
Moviegoers can expect a whole new slate of films to hit the big screen this fall.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: You read your lines very well.
CELLINI: Thank you. It's right in there.
LIN: We're going to get a preview of what's coming up this fall from Leah Rozen, "People" magazine's movie critic. Good morning, Leah.
LEAH ROZEN, MOVIE CRITIC, "PEOPLE": Good morning.
CELLINI: Good morning.
LIN: It was just an awful summer of movies. Don't you agreement? Let's hope this new crop is going to do a lot better. Coming out in -- no, let's go to September, we've got "Rock Star" with Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, and this hopefully will be a nice star turn for her?
ROZEN: It opens this Friday. This is a film that was actually supposed to open during the summer and got moved. It's a lot of fun. It's about a guy, a regular Joe who's in a heavy metal tribute band, played by Mark Wahlberg, who actually gets invited to join the real band, and discovers what the rock star life is all about.
In some ways it's a cautionary tale about the excesses of rock'n'roll. It's a fun film. This one is not going to be mentioned during Oscar time, but it's just kind of fun.
CELLINI: And "Training Day" with Denzel Washington. Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't he take a turn as kind of a bad guy in this movie?
ROZEN: Yes, exactly. Denzel plays the villain. He's a bad, bad cop, and Ethan Hawke is the sort of new, younger straight arrow cop, and how they work together. That happens in about three weeks, I think.
LIN: "K-Pax," I saw the trailer for it yesterday, and it looked really, really good. Sort of like "E.T.," but in a mental ward. ROZEN: Yes, the word has been good on this one for a while. This is opening in, I think, late October. It stars Kevin Spacey as a guy who says he's an alien, he says he's from another planet, and Jeff Bridges is the psychiatrist who begins to suspect he may be telling the truth.
This is when -- in late October is when the good movies start opening. From sort of late October through the end of the year is when Hollywood opens what it considers its Oscar contenders. So, essentially we have to wade through garbage movies almost all of the year, except those 10 little weeks from mid-October through Christmas.
CELLINI: Leah, another October release ,"From Hell" with, really, I think one of the great young actors, Johnny Depp, he always does unusual roles, and Heather Graham. What you can tell us about this movie?
ROZEN: Well what's fascinating is Johnny Depp's no longer so young, he's now in his late 30s. Makes all of us feel a little old. This is actually a movie from the Hughes brothers who did "Dead Presidents." They are going back to Victorian England and doing Jack the Ripper, the first serial killer, as they're calling him, at least that we all know about. And Johnny Depp plays the detective who is trying to catch Jack the Ripper and figure out who he is.
And Heather Graham plays one of the prostitutes who is on Jack the Ripper's to-do list.
LIN: All right, on a lighter note, much lighter note, "Harry Potter." Boy, we've been watching the glimpses of the trailers all throughout the summer. What do you think of this one?
ROZEN: Haven't seen it, but boy, every single child I know is completely ready for it. And I've had more parents coming up to me and going, now, I know you are probably already getting requests, but could we go with you to the screening? Could we go with you? This is of course based on the huge best-selling series of books. It's based on the first book. They have great hopes that this will turn into a blockbuster franchise.
They have cast an unknown child from England as the little Harry Potter, and we'll just see. This opens in early November, and there is a lot of anticipation about this one. Everyone pretty much assumes it has blockbuster written all over it.
CELLINI: I think one of the nice things about some of the movies we've mentioned, no computer-animated dinosaurs and not a lot of things blowing up. So, it looks like we might actually have some good storylines and chances for actors to take?
ROZEN: From your lips to the studio's ears, let's hope.
LIN: Let's hope, indeed. All right. Thanks, Leah, so much. Leah Rozen, "People" magazine.
ROZEN: You're welcome. CELLINI: Bye, Leah.
ROZEN: Bye.
LIN: Now we know where to spend our bucks, if you're under 40 and not a millionaire.
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