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Kitt

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 02:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
His (Shia's) new hairstyle suits him too, it makes him blend into a crowd more, but he still has that cute face.

Ric_Munoz

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 11:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, Kitt--the BOSH hair was too out of control for me. The shorter hair draws much more attention to his adorable face. Speaking of adorable, I loved that he had no idea what "Catcher in the Rye" is and that Couric strongly advised him to read it immediately.

Gemma120in2002

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Principal: "How am I going to get through to you?"

Kelly: "Well, advertizing executives use status and sex to appeal to my demographic."

LOVE IT! Erica really knows how to write and Shia knows how to deliver it!

The trailer is good, I hope it's a good sample of what the movie has to offer, not all the best parts of the movie all presented in 3 minutes.

Wendo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm curious. They said the movie is to premire August 22nd for wide release, right? And, by the looks of tonight's scenes for next weeks last episode, we do see the movies initial premire. Yet, I haven't seen any type of promotion anywhere, either on tv or magazines? Has anyone else?

Wendo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gemma, just watched the trailer. I thought it was good too. I'm interested in seeing this movie. I think everyone was right, this movie is a comedy. Why Kyle and Efram didn't see that...who knows?! LOL!

But, yeah, liked the trailer A LOT!

Ric_Munoz

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The premiere was held early last week in Hollywood. The film will not have a wide initial release on Aug. 22--probably just a handful of the major cities, possibly just NYC and LA. If it does well early on, then Miramax will widen the distribution. If they open it in too many theatres right away and it bombs, they will have egg on their faces AND lose more dough than they need to.

Kitt

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 02:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The premiere got a bit of publicity on shows like Access Hollywood, I saw a bit of the red carpet stuff and an interview with Ben and the two directors (where they talked mostly about Ben's alledged liasons with some strippers). I didn't hear anything about what people thought about the finished film though. I think Ric's right, it was just shown in NY and LA.

You have to wonder if all the "this film's so much better now" speeches in the last episode were honest or not. On one hand the directors could have finally given in and taken some input and really improved the film, but on the other, they could hardly show everybody saying the film was terrible or no one would go to see it. I'm curious... for that reason alone I might pay to see it!

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
http://entertainment.iwon.com/celebgossip/pgsixceleb/id/08_22_2003_2.html

A MOVER FROM 'SHAKER'

THE big winner of this year's "Project Greenlight" contest wasn't screenwriter Eric Beeney, nor the directing team of Kyle Rankin and Efram Potelle, who were given $1 million of Miramax's money to shoot "The Battle of Shaker Heights."

It was the film's star, 16-year-old Shia LaBeouf, who has been deluged with acting offers, largely as the result of his exposure in the HBO series documenting the movie's making, which has its series finale Sunday night.

LaBeouf, who earlier this year starred in Disney's "Holes" and had supporting roles in "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Dumb and Dumberer," has been signed to appear opposite Will Smith in "I Robot," a mega-budget sci-fi epic due next summer.

He will also appear in one of three projects to shoot this fall for New Line Cinema.

"Shia has movie star written all over him," said Toby Emmerich, New Line's chief of production. "The hard part for us is going to be picking which production gets to have him."

Lou Lumenick

Hoosiergirl

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 09:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The New York Times Review:

Study Death, Learn to Live

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/08/22/movies/22BATT.html?8mu

Ric_Munoz

Friday, August 22, 2003 - 09:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The reviews in today's Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety were not supportive (they, fortunately, singled out Shia's performance as being the best element of the film). Both trades predicted the film will almost certainly go as quickly to video/DVD as "Stolen Summer" did. Variety also pointed out that minus the 5 minutes of credits, the film is only 73 minutes long.