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Showbiz Today Reports: Fun Films for Fall

Aired September 04, 2001 - 10:50   ET

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LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Labor Day marked the unofficial end of summer movie season, so Hollywood has packed up the old blockbusters and is firing up for fall.

CNN's Sherri Sylvester sneaks a peek at what's at the picture show this season.

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SHERRI SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These are just the titles of the 130-plus pictures opening between now and Christmas. The studios are subscribing to a daily delivery of new releases. You could read the fine print, or simply classify these features as if they were sections of your newspaper. They will all be competing for headlines.

JEFF JENSON, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": We're going to see the Oscar race really starting to heat up, a series of movies come out, especially in the acting award categories.

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ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR: I can train you as an agent -- Central Intelligence. You'd be working for me, mostly undercover.

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SYLVESTER: Brad Pitt and Robert Redford team for "Spy Game."

It's Redford and James Gandolfini in "The Last Castle."

Kevin Spacey leads an all-Oscar cast in "The Shipping News."

He's an alien opposite Jeff Bridges in "K-Pax."

In "A Beautiful Mind," Russell Crowe and Ron Howard tell the story of a mathematician with schizophrenia.

RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: He succumbed to the disease and about three decades later he managed to outthink it, and in '94, he was presented with the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Nicolas Cage honors the Navajo code breakers of World War II in "Windtalkers." Hilary Swank goes back to the French Revolution for "The Affair of the Necklace."

Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz remake a Spanish hit, "Vanilla Sky," with director Cameron Crowe.

TOM CRUISE, ACTOR: I like the way he calls it. It's not a remake, but it's a cover of a great song.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're going to knock over a bank with a Magic Marker? What are you going to do, write on them?

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SYLVESTER: Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton cover the crime beat with "Bandits."

Gene Hackman is stealing gold in David Mamet's "Heist."

Denzel Washington is a corrupt cop in "Training Day."

It's back to the future in "The One" -- Jet Li is a time- traveling killer.

The underworld of the past is explored by Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York."

I did a movie with Johnny Depp called "From Hell" that the Hughes brothers directed. It's a really scary movie about Jack the Ripper.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jack the Ripper's not finished.

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SYLVESTER: New twists on classic stories include "The Musketeer" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the one ring forged by the dark lord Saruman.

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SYLVESTER: "The Lord of the Rings" leads the book review for December.

Meanwhile, bestsellers abound. Dave Barry's "Big Trouble" and Stephen King's "Hearts in Atlantis" boast big stars. "

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has built-in buzz.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The sets were incredible. And I had my two children there, and they were completely knocked out.

SYLVESTER: From the folks who brought you "Toy Story" comes "Monsters, Inc."

"Max Keeble's Big Move" is family fare as well.

On the flip side, family terror is the topic of "Don't Say a Word," "The Glass House," and "Domestic Disturbance."

On the sports page, Will Smith is "Ali" and the inner-city players of "Hardball."

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You want to see a splash? I'm going to show you a splash.

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"Shallow Hal" only sees Gwyneth Paltrow's inner beauty, not her fat suit.

Chris Kattan is "Corky Romano."

Steve Martin offers a shot of "Novocain."

And Ben Stiller's comic turns includes the male model spoof "Zoolander."

With more than one film for every day left in the year, there should be something for everybody.

Sherri Sylvester, CNN, Los Angeles.

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