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OCTOBER 11: LA Lakers legend Magic Johnson serves as executive producer on BROWN SUGAR, in which a music critic (Sanaa Lathan) and a music executive (Taye Diggs) are bound together by their lifelong love of hip-hop. . .A studio shelf-warmer for over a year (though it's already played a few European countries), KNOCKAROUND GUYS focuses on four men (all mobsters' sons) who take it upon themselves to retrieve some stolen loot. Saving Private Ryan soldiers Vin Diesel and Barry Pepper head a cast that also includes John Malkovich and (but of course) Dennis Hopper. . .POKEMON 4EVER is here to put fear in the hearts of those of us who thought the animated film series had already run its course. The press release bills this as "the most important Pokemon adventure of all time," just in case there was any doubt. . .A remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1975 Swept Away. . .By An Unusual Destiny In The Blue Sea Of August, the more marquee-friendly SWEPT AWAY stars Madonna as a narcissistic snob who finds herself stranded on a desert isle with her hunky but lowly employee (Adriano Giannini). Madonna's hubby Guy Ritchie serves as writer and director. . .A young girl (Alexis Bledel) fed up with the demands of her overbearing mother (Amy Irving) believes she has found happiness with another family (Sissy Spacek, William Hurt and Jonathan Jackson) in the fantasy yarn TUCK EVERLASTING. . .Based on Janet Fitch's bestselling novel, WHITE OLEANDER stars newcomer Alison Lohman as a teenager who tries to find her own path after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) is thrown behind bars for murdering her boyfriend. Renee Zellweger and Robin Wright Penn co-star as two of the foster moms who try to tame the teen's wild side.
OCTOBER 18: Stephen Gaghan, who earned an Oscar for his compelling Traffic script, makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a drama about a college student (Katie Holmes) who gets involved with the disheveled detective (Benjamin Bratt) investigating her boyfriend's disappearance. . .FORMULA 51, an action comedy about an American drug dealer's misadventures in England, stars Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) and, according to the press notes, "Meatloaf as The Lizard." Don't ask, don't tell. . .Boogie Nights auteur Paul Thomas Anderson shared the Best Director prize at Cannes for PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE, about an eccentric fellow (Adam Sandler, said to stretch here) who falls for an equally oddball woman (Emily Watson). . .Naomi Watts, robbed of an Oscar nomination for Mulholland Drive, plays another put-upon heroine in THE RING, a thriller about a videotape that causes death to anyone who dares watch it (no, it's not a bootleg copy of The Anna Nicole Smith Show). Gore Verbinski (The Mexican) directs.
OCTOBER 25: The title tells all in GHOST SHIP, a supernatural chiller starring Gabriel Byrne as a tugboat captain who comes across a vessel that's been missing for over 40 years. . .Predictably delayed from a summer release, JACKASS: THE MOVIE, starring MTV's Johnny Knoxville, is now scheduled to turn up later in the fall, although presumably not for Oscar consideration. . .THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE, a remake of Stanley Donen's irresistible 1963 charmer Charade, replaces Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn with Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton in a fast-paced yarn about a widow who finds herself being harassed by various shady characters in search of some missing loot her late husband had in his possession before he died. Jonathan Demme directs.
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