MGM BRINGS MOVIES
BACK TO SPEED
Copyright 2001 www.tombraiderchronicles.com Source:
variety.com
[ October 8th 2001 ]
While
most recent premieres have been either low-key
affairs or canceled outright, MGM brought the
business of launching movies back up to speed
by giving Bandits a major send-off. Billy Bob
Thornton coupled with Tomb Raider star Angelina
Jolie joined a host of celebrities including Bruce
Will and Demi Moore at the Las Angeles gala, Variety
reports today.
Despite
a bright yellow security barricade blocking the
street outside the Village Theater, Bandits got
the classic Hollywood treatment, beginning with
a packed press line and ending with a spare-no-expense
Spago after-party that included tenting the adjacent
street. MGM chief operations officer Chris McGurk
said the studio went all out with the film because
"when you have a quality director, quality screenplay,
quality actors, you don't sit and cut corners.
You invest behind the quality elements."
Director
Barry Levinson said his film "takes a lot of genres
and tweaks them and plays around with them. It's
a romantic comedy slash behavioral comedy slash
road pic slash relationship comedy - there's a
lot of slashes, but there's an overall spirit
that holds it together."
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