Natalee Holloway story coming to theatersMe & Mr. Jones, which centers on the unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005, has set a release date of early next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested several times in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores Ramírez, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested several times in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores Ramírez, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
- 7/27/2010
- MovieWeb
The unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 has been made into a film, with an expected release early next year.
In a case that sparked widespread media publicity in the United States, Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested twice in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film "Me & Mr. Jones" is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
In a case that sparked widespread media publicity in the United States, Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found.
The key suspect is Joran van der Sloot, a Dutch national. He was arrested twice in the case but never charged after giving different stories about her disappearance.
Van der Sloot has since been arrested in connection with the death of business student Stephany Flores, 21, in a Lima, Peru hotel room. Police said in June that Van der Sloot had confessed to the girl's killing.
The English-language film "Me & Mr. Jones" is about an undercover journalist who breaks into Van der Sloot's home on Aruba to force a breakthrough in the Holloway case,...
- 7/26/2010
- by By Aaron Gray-Block, Reuters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
It should come as no surprise that "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" is every bit as vulgar, sophomoric and thoroughly tasteless as 1999's "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo".
But what is most annoying is the sequel's capability of inducing laughter even as one hates oneself for so easily succumbing to the total silliness of it all.
Of course, there are many who won't give it up for the Deuce, but those who contributed to the original's $65 million-plus domestic theatrical take should find that the further adventures of Rob Schneider's naive prosti-dude with the heart of gold delivers the damaged goods.
Unlike the other R-rated summer comedies -- "Wedding Crashers" and, presumably, the upcoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- "Bigalow" will skew heavily toward young males, though many of the screams of grossed-out laughter at a recent preview screening sounded unmistakably female.
Given the film's eyebrow-raising 77-minute running time, which has got to be some kind of record for a live-action major studio release, it's clear that the new "Deuce" doesn't exhibit much in the way of staying power, but it could perform well enough to leave a smile on Columbia Pictures' face, especially after "Stealth"'s no-show.
When we last saw Schneider's Bigalow, he had closed up his little black book in exchange for wedded bliss to the one-legged Kate.
Well, it turns out she was tragically killed in a freak fish-feeding incident during their honeymoon. Mourning her loss, Deuce, with her prosthetic limb close at his side, travels to Amsterdam, where he's reunited with his former man madam, T.J. Hicks (a never funnier Eddie Griffin).
In short order, he finds himself having to revert to his old ways when there's an outbreak of murders targeting Europe's greatest gigolos and T.J.'s the No. 1 suspect.
The concept might be "Who Is Killing the Great Man-Whores of Europe?" but Schneider and co-screenwriters David Garrett & Jason Ward give it their own perverse, juvenile spin.
And though the comic potency of all those wacky, phallocentric euphemisms start to peter out -- sorry -- long before the magic 77-minute mark, first-time feature director Mike Bigelow (no joke) keeps the requisite frat house mentality intact.
Once again, the film's strongest asset is the loopy interplay between Schneider's he-babe in the woods and Griffin's nutty pimp, but there's also colorful backup provided by a supporting cast including Jeroen Krabbe, Hanna Verboom as Deuce's obsessive compulsive romantic interest and a host of cosmopolitan film and TV personalities playing the assorted egotistical members of the International Man-Whore Society.
Even though the key art would have potential viewers believing otherwise, the production never leaves the Netherlands, which might lead the geographically impaired to believe that the Leaning Tower of Pisa could one day land right smack dab in the middle of the city of legalized prostitution and wooden shoes.
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures presents a Happy Madison production
Credits:
Director: Mike Bigelow
Screenwriters: Rob Schneider and David Garrett & Jason Ward
Story by: Rob Schneider
Based on characters created by: Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider
Producers: Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler and John Schneider
Executive producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Director of photography: Marc Felperlaan
Production designer: Benedict Schillemans
Editors: Peck Prior, Sandy Solowitz
Costume designer: Linda Bogers
Music: James L. Venable. Cast: Deuce Bigalow: Rob Schneider
T.J. Hicks: Eddie Griffin
Gaspar Voorsboch: Jeroen Krabbe
Heinz Hummer: Til Schweiger
Eva Voorsboch: Hanna Verboom
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 77 minutes...
But what is most annoying is the sequel's capability of inducing laughter even as one hates oneself for so easily succumbing to the total silliness of it all.
Of course, there are many who won't give it up for the Deuce, but those who contributed to the original's $65 million-plus domestic theatrical take should find that the further adventures of Rob Schneider's naive prosti-dude with the heart of gold delivers the damaged goods.
Unlike the other R-rated summer comedies -- "Wedding Crashers" and, presumably, the upcoming "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- "Bigalow" will skew heavily toward young males, though many of the screams of grossed-out laughter at a recent preview screening sounded unmistakably female.
Given the film's eyebrow-raising 77-minute running time, which has got to be some kind of record for a live-action major studio release, it's clear that the new "Deuce" doesn't exhibit much in the way of staying power, but it could perform well enough to leave a smile on Columbia Pictures' face, especially after "Stealth"'s no-show.
When we last saw Schneider's Bigalow, he had closed up his little black book in exchange for wedded bliss to the one-legged Kate.
Well, it turns out she was tragically killed in a freak fish-feeding incident during their honeymoon. Mourning her loss, Deuce, with her prosthetic limb close at his side, travels to Amsterdam, where he's reunited with his former man madam, T.J. Hicks (a never funnier Eddie Griffin).
In short order, he finds himself having to revert to his old ways when there's an outbreak of murders targeting Europe's greatest gigolos and T.J.'s the No. 1 suspect.
The concept might be "Who Is Killing the Great Man-Whores of Europe?" but Schneider and co-screenwriters David Garrett & Jason Ward give it their own perverse, juvenile spin.
And though the comic potency of all those wacky, phallocentric euphemisms start to peter out -- sorry -- long before the magic 77-minute mark, first-time feature director Mike Bigelow (no joke) keeps the requisite frat house mentality intact.
Once again, the film's strongest asset is the loopy interplay between Schneider's he-babe in the woods and Griffin's nutty pimp, but there's also colorful backup provided by a supporting cast including Jeroen Krabbe, Hanna Verboom as Deuce's obsessive compulsive romantic interest and a host of cosmopolitan film and TV personalities playing the assorted egotistical members of the International Man-Whore Society.
Even though the key art would have potential viewers believing otherwise, the production never leaves the Netherlands, which might lead the geographically impaired to believe that the Leaning Tower of Pisa could one day land right smack dab in the middle of the city of legalized prostitution and wooden shoes.
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures presents a Happy Madison production
Credits:
Director: Mike Bigelow
Screenwriters: Rob Schneider and David Garrett & Jason Ward
Story by: Rob Schneider
Based on characters created by: Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider
Producers: Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler and John Schneider
Executive producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Director of photography: Marc Felperlaan
Production designer: Benedict Schillemans
Editors: Peck Prior, Sandy Solowitz
Costume designer: Linda Bogers
Music: James L. Venable. Cast: Deuce Bigalow: Rob Schneider
T.J. Hicks: Eddie Griffin
Gaspar Voorsboch: Jeroen Krabbe
Heinz Hummer: Til Schweiger
Eva Voorsboch: Hanna Verboom
MPAA rating: R
Running time -- 77 minutes...
- 8/31/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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