So, it's really too early for a Police Squad continuation of any kind. Gotcha.
As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux
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That, plus ZAZ haven't worked together as a trio in recent years. David recently worked with the South Park guys on BASEketball and Jerry's last solo hit was Ghost.
As it that wasn't bad enough, Jerry's recent solo film First Knight with Sean Connery (Columbia-TriStar; 1995) received some pretty lousy reviews.
Jim Abrahams' recent solo film Jane Austen's Mafia! (Touchstone; 1998) stunk worse than a fart in church. Jim's last solo hits were the Hot Shots! films (New Line Cinema; 1991 and '93).
Movie Outlook 1998-99
Fall 1998
The Waterboy (Touchstone)
A Bug's Life (Touchstone/Pixar)
What Dreams May Come (Gramercy)
A Night at the Roxbury (RKO)
Bride of Chucky (United Artists)
Life is Beautiful (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
American History X (New Line)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (TriStar)
Rushmore (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Disney)
Meet Joe Black (Universal)
Winter 1998
The Faculty (Dimension)
The Rugrats Movie (Touchstone/Nickelodeon)
Celebrity (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
Babe: Pig in the City (Universal)
Jack Frost (Warner Bros.)
Shakespeare in Love (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, New Line or Hollywood Pictures)
Prince of Egypt (DreamWorks)
Mighty Joe Young (RKO)
Star Trek: Insurrection (RKO)
Patch Adams (Universal)
Stepmom (Columbia)
Spring 1999
The Matrix (New Line)
Varsity Blues (United Artists/MTV)
She's All That (Hyperion, Gramercy or Golden Harvest)
Blast from the Past (New Line)
Jawbreaker (RKO, TriStar, New Line, Fox, Carolco, Golden Harvest, Hollywood or Touchstone)
The Mummy (Universal)
Summer 1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (20th Century-Fox; Amblin)
Treasure Planet (Disney)
Inspector Gadget (Golden Harvest)
Sailor Moon 2 (Golden Harvest)
Austin Powers 2 (New Line)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Hollywood Pictures)
American Pie (Universal)
Muppets from Space (Touchstone)
Fall 1999
Any Given Sunday (Warner Bros.)
Toy Story 2 (Touchstone/Pixar)
The Green Mile (Warner Bros.)
Winter 1999
Fantasia 2000 (Disney)
X-Men (Fox)
Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks)
The World is Not Enough (United Artists/EON)
TBD
Lost in Space (TBD; I'm not sure who owns this property IOTL, that's why the 1998 film was butterflied)
Princess Mononoke (Touchstone/Ghibli)
Nausicaa (Touchstone/Ghibli)
Office Space (TBD)
Sleepy Hollow (TBD; Tim Burton version)
The King and I (TBD; Animated version)
Wing Commander (TBD)
Ten Things I Hate About You (TBD)
There's Something About Mary (TBD)
Wild Wild West (TBD)
Eyes Wide Shut (TBD)
Fall 1998
The Waterboy (Touchstone)
A Bug's Life (Touchstone/Pixar)
What Dreams May Come (Gramercy)
A Night at the Roxbury (RKO)
Bride of Chucky (United Artists)
Life is Beautiful (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
American History X (New Line)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (TriStar)
Rushmore (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
I'll Be Home For Christmas (Disney)
Meet Joe Black (Universal)
Winter 1998
The Faculty (Dimension)
The Rugrats Movie (Touchstone/Nickelodeon)
Celebrity (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, Hyperion, MGM, New Line or Carolco)
Babe: Pig in the City (Universal)
Jack Frost (Warner Bros.)
Shakespeare in Love (Golden Harvest, Gramercy, New Line or Hollywood Pictures)
Prince of Egypt (DreamWorks)
Mighty Joe Young (RKO)
Star Trek: Insurrection (RKO)
Patch Adams (Universal)
Stepmom (Columbia)
Spring 1999
The Matrix (New Line)
Varsity Blues (United Artists/MTV)
She's All That (Hyperion, Gramercy or Golden Harvest)
Blast from the Past (New Line)
Jawbreaker (RKO, TriStar, New Line, Fox, Carolco, Golden Harvest, Hollywood or Touchstone)
The Mummy (Universal)
Summer 1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (20th Century-Fox; Amblin)
Treasure Planet (Disney)
Inspector Gadget (Golden Harvest)
Sailor Moon 2 (Golden Harvest)
Austin Powers 2 (New Line)
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Hollywood Pictures)
American Pie (Universal)
Muppets from Space (Touchstone)
Fall 1999
Any Given Sunday (Warner Bros.)
Toy Story 2 (Touchstone/Pixar)
The Green Mile (Warner Bros.)
Winter 1999
Fantasia 2000 (Disney)
X-Men (Fox)
Galaxy Quest (DreamWorks)
The World is Not Enough (United Artists/EON)
TBD
Lost in Space (TBD; I'm not sure who owns this property IOTL, that's why the 1998 film was butterflied)
Princess Mononoke (Touchstone/Ghibli)
Nausicaa (Touchstone/Ghibli)
Office Space (TBD)
Sleepy Hollow (TBD; Tim Burton version)
The King and I (TBD; Animated version)
Wing Commander (TBD)
Ten Things I Hate About You (TBD)
There's Something About Mary (TBD)
Wild Wild West (TBD)
Eyes Wide Shut (TBD)
Life is Beautiful was for Hyperion
Rushmore was for New Line
Celebrity was for MGM
Shakespeare in Love was for Gramercy Pictures
She's All That was for Golden Harvest
Jawbreaker was for Touchstone
I'll guess Lost in Space TTL belongs to Fox themselves, but Irwin Allen's estate owns the property IOTL.
Office Space might be for Hollywood Pictures.
Sleepy Hollow went to 20th Century Fox.
The King and I went to DreamWorks.
Wing Commander went to Golden Harvest
Ten Things I Hate About You went to 20th Century Fox
There's Something About Mary went to Universal Pictures
Wild Wild West was for Columbia Pictures
Eyes Wide Shut was for Turner under the MGM label, since some Kubrick films belong TTL to MGM.
Also, American Beauty TTL went to Revolution Studios and The Deep End of the Ocean went TTL to Warner Bros.
I would choose Hyperion for Life is Beautiful, while New Line gets Rushmore.
Also, I can see A Bug's Life being the biggest box office hit this season.
I can see Hollywood Pictures grabbing Shakespeare in Love, and Celebrity can go to Golden Harvest.
To add to this, I believe The Rugrats Movie and Prince of Egypt have the highest chances of scoring major money from audiences.
I nominate She's All That to go to Gramercy, and Jawbreaker should go to Carolco.
Plus, The Matrix is primed to be a hit as per OTL if I know anything about it.
Something tells me that it's going to be an even match next Summer.
WB has the advantage here, but Touchstone has the brand recognition.
I see this Christmas going to Disney/Fox right out of the gate.
Actually, Lost in Space is owned by Disney, thanks to the Fox purchase, so a delay to Winter 1998 could work in their favor.
Lost in Space - Wikipedia
With Office Space, I think MGM would actually be a good place to distribute it, thanks to Beavis and Butthead being made by Ruby-Spears's adult division.
For Sleepy Hollow and The King & I, I'll bet on Fox and Warner Bros., respectively.
Wing Commander should go with Universal.
Ten Things I Hate About You and There's Something About Mary could go to New Line.
Whoever owns CBS should get the Wild Wild West movie released through them.
Eyes Wide Shut could be a DreamWorks release.
Finally, my predictions for the movies are as follows:
1998: Lost in Space
1999: The King and I, Wild Wild West, Sleepy Hollow, Office Space, and Wing Commander
2000: Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, Ten Things I Hate About You, There's Something About Mary, and Eyes Wide Shut
Oops. I forgot about that. Change my vote to Paramount for this movie, then.
The Waterboy (1998 Film)
The Waterboy
Released by Touchstone Pictures on November 6, 1998
Cast and Crew
Same as OTL
Notes
ITTL, this is Adam Sandler's first project for his Happy Madison production company.
Released by Touchstone Pictures on November 6, 1998
Cast and Crew
Same as OTL
Notes
ITTL, this is Adam Sandler's first project for his Happy Madison production company.
A Bug's Life (1998 Film)
A Bug's Life
Released by Touchstone Pictures on November 20, 1998
Produced by
Pixar Animation Studios
Cast and Crew
Same as OTL. Yes, Kevin Spacey is still the voice of Hopper ITTL, but his problematic behavior will still come to light real soon.
Notes
- During production, Pixar found itself in a feud with DreamWorks due to supposed similarities between this film and Antz.
- One of Hopper's grasshopper minions who punches Flik in the face is patterned after Daniel Abbott, who famously clocked John Lasseter in 1979 while the two men worked together at United Artists.
Maybe add the Blackadder movie for winter 1999? (OTL's Back and Forth but extended to become a feature film for anyone wanting to know what it is about.)
Stephen Spielberg was working on an adaptation of Phillip K.Dick”s Hammer of God that became Deep Impact which came out the same year as Armageddon. I feel that movie could be more successful here and maybe more faithful plot wise due to Deep Impact being completely unrecognizable from what the film started as.
