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The Bonfire of the Vanities tackled heavy themes like social class and race in its gritty and dark narrative. That's how the story was depicted in the novel, but the 1990 movie adaptation, starring Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis, went on a completely different trajectory.

Per Variety, director Brian De Palma's The Bonfire of the Vanities is now streaming for free on YouTube. The 1990 comedy joined Warner Bros. Entertainment's YouTube playlist of 31 movies, which includes classic and contemporary films like The Wind and the Lion, Death Trap, Mr. Nice Guy, Michael Collins, The Science of Sleep, and The Big Tease.

RelatedThis 2-Year-Old Zoë Kravitz Film Is a Secret Sequel to 1 of Brian De Palma's Most Underrated Thrillers

Zoë Kravitz's career has had her working with many amazing directors that include one who made a secret sequel to another thriller.

The playlist features selections unavailable on Max, Warner Bros., and Discovery's streaming platforms.

In a bold and time-relevant move that is sure to delight movie fans, Warner Bros. Entertainment has made 31 of its full-length movies available for free on its YouTube channels, including 2000's Dungeons & Dragons, and the Jackie Chan movie Mr. Nice Guy. The refreshing approach to content distribution, however, is a strategy that aims to boost visibility and generate digital ad revenue, with the additional benefit of making a diverse range of cinematic gems accessible to a wider audience.

According to Variety, ever since 2025 began, the entertainment giant has quietly been dropping movies on its Warner Bros.-owned YouTube channels, all available to stream for free. Of course, the movies still include ads for those who do not own a YouTube Premium subscription. These movies include a mix of genres and eras, with titles like the 1935 adventure Mutiny on the Bounty, the 2002 sci-fi comedy starring Eddie Murphy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash,...

Warner Bros. Discovery may not be ready to launch a free ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) service of its own just yet, but the company is on the lookout for ways to boost its digital ad revenue. Its latest tactic is to add free movies to YouTube. Wbd has put more than 30 full-length films on the social video platform to stream at no cost, as long as you don’t mind putting up with a few commercials.

Key Details: Movies featuring Kevin Bacon, Chevy Chase, Robert De Niro, and other stars are streaming free on YouTube. None of the films are currently available to stream on the company’s platform Max. Wbd licenses plenty of content to Fast platforms, but has made no public progress on its own Fast platform. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video

The list of movies from Wbd that are now available to stream free on YouTube can be seen here.

Movie lovers, rejoice! Warner Bros. has quietly made 31 full-length movies available to stream for free on YouTube. This move allows viewers to enjoy classic and lesser-known films without a subscription, though they do come with ads unless you have YouTube Premium.

Over the years, Warner Bros. has experimented with different ways to make money from its vast catalog of films. It launched FilmStruck, a subscription streaming service, in 2018, but shut it down less than a year later. Since then, the company has focused on licensing movies to free, ad-supported platforms like Roku and Tubi.

Now, Warner Bros. is trying a new approach—releasing movies directly on YouTube. This move allows the studio to generate revenue through digital ads while making films more accessible to a wider audience.

The selection of movies is quite diverse, covering different genres and decades. Some of the highlights include:

Classic films: Mutiny on the Bounty...

Over the years, Warner Bros. has tried to monetize its catalog of older movies through different subscription streaming services, including FilmStruck — which it shut down less than a year after it launched in 2018.

Now, Warner Bros. Entertainment has quietly taken a new approach to bringing its content to YouTube to farm its film catalog for digital ad revenue.

Since the start of 2025, the company has released 31 movies on Warner Bros.-owned YouTube channels, all available for free. The movies include ads, unless you are a YouTube Premium subscriber. Warner Bros. has published a YouTube playlist with the free movies, available at this link.

The titles are varied and cut across genres, with some films on the list dating back decades. The movies include “Mutiny on the Bounty” starring Marlon Brando, “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” starring Eddie Murphy, “Oh, God!” featuring George Burns in the titular role, “The Mission” starring Robert De Niro,...

In a very uncharacteristic move by Warner Bros., the studio has uploaded 31 movies to stream on YouTube for free. There is a perception that those who are watching a movie via a streaming service over going to the theater, is that it's free to do, despite paying a monthly subscription. Those streaming platforms are more costly than ever, and people are starting to make cuts to what could be a must-have service. Yet, a movie on YouTube that can be watched for free with no rental fee or any commercials, is something Warner Bros. is looking to offer movie fans with titles like the first Dungeons & Dragons, Mutiny on the Bounty, and the Jackie Chan-led Mr. Nice Guy.

Warner Bros. Entertainment's YouTube page made a playlist of movies that can be watched for free, some of which are critically acclaimed hits. These include Palme d'Or winner The Mission starring Robert DeNiro,...

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After spinning its wheels for a couple of episodes, Supergirl gets right back on track with this anger-themed instalment...

This review contains spoilers.

1.6 Red-Faced

We're back in the correct timeline on Supergirl after a couple of weeks of muddled chronology, and thankfully this episode is more like some of the show's stronger efforts than last week's pretty underwhelming How Does She Do It? It's finally building up enough momentum for its thematic elements to evolve beyond the basic, kid-friendly messaging that's been present since the pilot, and that's more apparent than ever in Red-Faced.

The issue of the week that Kara must overcome is anger, and how she expresses that anger at work, in her personal life and out in the field as Supergirl. After scaring some kids while saving them from a dangerous driver and exploding at Cat after a particularly harsh slew of criticisms, Kara decides (or,...

In light of The Flash’s game-changing finale Fast Enough, it’s probably time to learn about DC’s parallel universes...

This article contains big spoilers for The Flash’s season 1 finale, Fast Enough.

The Flash's first season has now drawn to a close with Fast Enough, a finale that wreaked havoc both on fans' emotions and assumptions about the programme's future. More so than any superhero season finale in recent memory, Fast Enough appeared to shatter its show’s status quo to smithereens.

Eddie is dead, and as a result, Eobard Thawne should have been wiped from the timeline. Eobard, the main villain of the series – the character that gave Barry and so many others their powers – now no longer exists. Given that Eddie is his ancestor, Eobard should have never existed at all, now that Eddie has died prematurely and put an abrupt stop to the growth of his family tree.

We begin with a still photo in the pages of a magazine, an image whose recollection time has has eroded but not erased; a large dinosaur footprint in the mud, alongside a further image of Sam Neill, Joseph Mazzello, and Ariana Richards sat in a treetop, face to face with a dinosaur…

Back in 1993 that’s all it took for Jurassic Park to become the most eagerly anticipated film of the decade. Hop forward what seems an evolutionary blink to April 2014 and we’ve just had the millionth trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 threaten to pummel us into vast apathy for a film which looks to be good old blockbuster fare. So why have studios taken this dumbed down, multi-format saturation approach to marketing their films? One which may have an adverse effect on audience appreciation and enjoyment of the final film?

Here’s why….

Iconic imagery more powerful...

Just because Peter Jackson is holed in his native New Zealand filming pick-ups for the final two films of his Hobbit trilogy, doesn't mean he's forgotten about the fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the second film, The Desolation of Smaug. To kick off the countdown to the movie's release on December 13, Jackson posted a first teaser poster on his official Facebook page.

Focusing once again on Martin Freeman's titular character, the poster sees Bilbo standing just outside the incredibly imposing but ruined entrance to the Lonely Mountain, aka the final destination of the first film's Unexpected Journey. The big tease here comes not in the location of our hero but in the glimpse of fire and billowing smoke at the heart of the image. That tell-tale glow seems to be the only sign Jackson's prepared to give us of the cunningly dangerous creature within.

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Our NCIS review broke down "Damned If You Do," this week's season finale, in detail.

Now, TV Fanatic staff members Steve Marsi, Douglas Wolfe and Christine Orlando have assembled for our weekly Round Table Q&A discussion of various events and topics from this installment.

Join in as we analyze this season-ending, entertaining hour of TV's #1 show!

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1. How would you describe this week in one word (or two, or three, or four)?

Doug: Together in separation.

Christine: Walk away.

Steve: Unconventional.

2. What was your favorite quote or scene from "Damned If You Do?"

Doug: I actually laughed out loud when Franks started shooting the fish. The grin on Gibbs' face was pretty cool to see too. 

Christine: Admiral Aj Chegwidden! As a fan of Jag, the show NCIS spun off from, I was positively giddy when he walked in as Gibbs attorney. These two are kindred spirits. Heck, "Aj" even stands for Albert Jethro!

“Written by Craig Ferguson.” There’s a credit you don’t see so often these days, though he has crafted scripts before, working on the likes of The Big Tease and Saving Grace. But while he’s largely penned comedy in the past, Ferguson has switched tracks into thriller territory for Last Man Out, which has Pierce Brosnan attached to star.Adapted by Ferguson and Ted Mulkerin from Stuart Neville’s revenge-thriller tome The Twelve, Last Man Out follows a former Ira hit man who is released from prison after 20 years.Haunted by his crime and the memory of the people he killed, he decides he can find no peace until he brings down vengeance on the people who ordered those murders on behalf of the victims. What is it with assassins growing consciences these days?Terry Loan is cranking the cameras, although while the project is being sold at Berlin’s film market,...

Bethesda Softworks has teased the next piece of downloadable content for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, with the promise to reveal all on November 5th.

The big tease came today via the publisher’s Twitter account with the message “Full Trailer on 11/5″, the above picture, and… nothing else.

Presumably this will be Skyrim‘s unannounced Dragonborn Dlc that was leaked out of the 1.8 beta last month, but that is just speculation at this point.

We will let you know as soon as the trailer drops next Monday. For now, the only thing we can say with certainty about this mystery Skyrim Dlc is that it will never be released for the PlayStation 3 in our lifetimes. Why? Because, much like Team Ico, Bethesda has not yet figured out how to properly develop games for Sony’s console.

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“Good evening” Oscar race. Prime for an Awards Season run, Fox Searchlight Pictures has set the release date for the upcoming drama Hitchcock - November 23, 2012. The latest poster is fantastic. The first trailer for the film will be here soon, so stay tuned. Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock.s seminal movie Psycho.

The film stars Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has released this first look of Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in the upcoming drama Hitchcock (via People.com). Last week principal photography for Hitchcock started on April 13th in Los Angeles. I have to admit, with all the prosthetics on, the resemblance is remarkable.

The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello.

Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes...

We all love The Karate Kid. No, not the ridiculously long remake that featured Kung-Fu instead of Karate despite its name, we're talking the original, man! Why are we talking about that? Because some interesting Hitchcock casting news has just broken.

According to Deadline, Daniel-san himself, Ralph Macchio, has signed on to Hitchcock. Macchio will play Psycho screenwriter Joe Stefano. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, Helen Mirren plays Alma Reville, Scarlett Johansson plays Janet Leigh, and Jessica Biehl plays Vera Miles.

From a Previous Press Release

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock began on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will...

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures (Up In The Air) will produce along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Ali Bell and Richard Middleton will be executive producers. The film will be co-financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cold Spring Pictures. Hitchcock will be released worldwide by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! the Story of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John J. McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures (Up in the Air) will produce along with Tom Thayer and Alan Barnette. Ali Bell and Richard Middleton will be executive producers. The film will be co-financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Cold Spring Pictures. Hitchcock will be released worldwide by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Good news for fans anticipating Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho and for journalists tired of writing out that insanely long title ... the flick is officially starting production under the sleeker moniker, Hitchcock. Read on for the details.

From the Press Release

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock will start on April 13th in Los Angeles. The film will star Academy Award® winners Sir Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock and Dame Helen Mirren as his wife, Alma. Sacha Gervasi, whose big screen debut, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil won the 2010 Best Documentary Feature prize at the Independent Spirit Awards, will direct from a screenplay by John McLaughlin, revisions by Ryan Murphy, Stephen Rebello and Sacha Gervasi, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock and Joe Medjuck of Montecito Pictures...

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of ‘Psycho’, the story of how Hollywood’s legendary master of suspense made one of the seminal horror films of all time, has begun production, according to a new announcement from Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures.

The film — starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren — also has a new, one word title. It will simply be called Hitchcock. If you hadn’t noticed already, Hollywood has a current preference for one-word titles. This one happens to work for us.

The film will be directed by first-time helmer, Sacha Gervasi. Production will begin in Los Angeles on Friday.

Gervasi co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal and also won the Best Documentary award at the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards for Anvil! The Story of Anvil.

Below is the full announcement:

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures announced today that principal photography for the drama Hitchcock...

HollywoodNews.com: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, and Frances Fisher star in the poignant period drama Any Day Now, written, produced and directed by filmmaker Travis Fine (The Space Between). The film recently completed principal photography in Los Angeles and is currently in post-production. Produced by Kristine Hostetter Fine (The Space Between) and Chip Hourihan (Frozen River), the film is executive produced by Anne O’Shea (The Kids Are Alright) and Maxine Makover (The Space Between.

Set in the 1970s and inspired by a true story, the film chronicles a gay couple who take in a teenage boy with Down Syndrome who has been abandoned by his drug addicted mother. As the teen discovers the strong bonds of family for the first time in his life, disapproving authorities step in to tear the boy from the only stable environment he has ever known. As the gay men fight to adopt this extraordinary special needs child,...

We reported just two days ago that the troubled Men in Black III script is now in the hands of Will Smith's persoanl writer, and this morning it's being reporting that after Alec Baldwin walked away from the thrid entry for greener pastures on rock of Ages, he's now been repaced by David Rasche (Sledge Hammer.The Big Tease, Flags of our Fathers, Burn After Reading, Ugly Betty).

Rasche takes over as Agent X who is the head of the Mib program Smith's character J time travels back to the 60's and meets up with. Maybe now Tommy Lee Jones will get un-confused about the film and things will start coming together. 

As I reported, Sony jumped the gun with this film beginning production before a script was even finished. This is another stupid move by studio suits trying to make a buck! You wait this long in between movies to make a sequel,...

A new poster is out for Henry’s Crime. The film is directed by Malcolm Venville who previously directed 44 Inch Chest, one of the writers Sacha Gervasi (The Big Tease, The Terminal) and it stars Keanu Reeves, Vera Farminga, James Caan, Peter Stormare, Judy Greer, Fisher Stevens, and Bill Duke.

Henry’s Crime tells the story of Henry Reeves) who finds himself dragged unwillingly into a bank robbery. The robbery goes wrong, Henry takes the fall, goes to jail, and then works out his own heist after he gets out in order to rob the bank. “I’ve done the time,” he says, “I might as well do the crime.”

Someone has not quite explained the concept of Double Jeopardy to Henry. Going to prison for trying to do a crime does not give you free rein to do the crime properly once you get out. It actually just means...

The big question coming out of last season’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’s finale: Which of Seattle Grace’s finest was left most shell-shocked by crazed gunman Gary Clark’s storming of the hallways, during which he left several staffers dead and intensely traumatized others? The Big Tease: Scoop On ‘Grey’s’ and More Obviously, Meredith (played by Ellen Pompeo) has big-time healing [...]...

Yo, Mallory! Former ‘Family Ties‘ member Justine Bateman will visit the impossibly attractive doctors of Oceanside Wellness when ‘Private Practice‘ returns this fall, Fancast has learned. The Big Tease: Scoop On ‘Grey’s’ and More In the second episode of the ABC drama’s fourth season, Bateman will guest-star as the single mother of a child diagnosed with autism. Mom has [...]...

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The entertainment site Ugo has managed to nab the Superbowl trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender before its television debut. Based on the popular animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the movie tells the story of Aang (played by Noah Ringer), the last of the peaceful Air Nomads, and his quest to defeat the Fire Nation and bring balance to the world. "Avatar" was dropped from the title for obvious legal reasons related to a certain little James Cameron movie that's popular right now.

Next Showing: The Last Airbender opens July 2

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M. Night Shyamalan directs The Last Airbender

Link | Posted 2/5/2010 by BrentJS

M. Night Shyamalan | Noah Ringer | The Last Airbender...

Keanu Reeves will star in "Henry's Crime," a romantic comedy directed by Malcolm Venville. He plays a man with a big heart who is suddenly falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo. Filming will take place in Buffalo and Reeves is producing alongside Stephen Hamel via their Company Films banner. There is no distributor set as yet for the film. Sacha Gervasi ("The Terminal," "The Big Tease") writes the screenplay. Reeves was last seen in the sterile "The Day The Earth Stood Still" sci-fi remake. He can be seen next in "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" which opens in limited areas on October 13th. That film stars Robin Wright Penn, Mike Binder, Alan Arkin and Winona Ryder.

Back in April, District 9 was already gaining buzz as the surprise sci-fi hit of the summer. In the movie, a field operative (Sharlto Copley) for an organization that oversees alien refugees contracts a mysterious virus that begins to change his DNA.

District 9 is based on the short film Alive in Joburg. You can see it below.

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The Big Tease | Sharlto Copley | District 9...

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It doesn’t matter how many times Jack Tretton says that 2008 was a banner year, full of momentum and good times, for the Playstation family. There’s no escaping the truth: times are tough for Sony. The PSP continues to sell while its software continues to stagnate. The Playstation 2 enjoyed an Indian summer when its priced dropped, but the system has undeniably entered its twilight. And the Playstation3? Well, growing your audience by forty percent is all well and good but that audience is still very small compared to those of your competitors. Sony needed a big show at E3 2009 and, while the actual show dragged here and there, they had a giant one. Here’s the breakdown.

The Big Demos

Sony’s conference was bookended by spectacular single-player demos of “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” and “God of War III”. Naughty Dog’s made themselves a looker...

This week, the world of late night television experiences its biggest shakeup in years, as Jimmy Fallon takes the reigns of NBC's "Late Night" from Conan O'Brien, who, at the start of June, will take over "The Tonight Show" from Jay Leno, who moves on to start his own talk show at 10pm. With talk show hosts on our minds these days, it seemed like a good time to look back and see how they've fared on the silver screen.

Qualifications for inclusion were simple: the talk show host in question has to be best known -- and most successful -- in their show business career as a talk show host. Craig Ferguson, current host of CBS' "Late Late Show," carved out a long and successful career as an actor and director of such films as "The Big Tease" before accepting the slot after David Letterman, so he was out.

Entertainment Tonight will premiere a new trailer for Terminator Salvation next Tuesday December 9th. But right now you can watch a preview of some of that footage below. I have to admit, the shot of the giant Terminator at the end of the video (screenshot above) is pretty damn awesome. Click Here to Watch the Video Discuss: Leave your thoughts in the comments below. Related Stories Terminator Salvation Running Time Revealed? Josh Brolin was Almost a Terminator! McG Reveals Terminator: Salvation Secrets James Cameron Clarifies His Thoughts on Terminator Salvation McG To Direct Spy Film Adaptation; Potential New Franchise McG Updates Terminator Salvation: Post Production Time James Cameron Says He Never Blessed Terminator Salvation. McG Says He Did.

Steve Zallian and Sacha Gervasi have teamed up for My Dinner With Herve, a biopic of Herve Villechaize. Gervasi, whose previous writing credits include The Big Tease and The Terminal, will write and direct the film, with Oscar winner Zallian producing. Gervasi conducted the last interview with the 3' 11" French actor just days before he committed suicide. "Steve read the script as a short ten years ago and always believed it would make a compelling feature," Gervasi (more)...

Sundance will bring a reliable cast of characters when it opens Thursday. Sam Rockwell will hobnob at the Riverhorse. Robert Redford will endorse indie film at the Eccles. John Sloss will manage wee-hour buyer visits to the Cinetic condo.

But this year's festival will bring a few sights that might make seasoned attendees drop their badges. A number of unlikely Sundance types -- from big studio producers to a television production banner to the son of a former Disney CEO -- are making their way to Park City.

Sundance, the specialty world's blend of trade show and high school reunion, always brings together an unlikely mix. Partying college students, European directors, swag culture and specialty execs all bump up against one another. You might be at a Miramax party and Tara Reid might happen in, grind on the dance floor for five minutes and leave. And you might watch her for a few minutes, then turn back to Daniel Battsek and continue your conversation about the auteur theory.

But even by the eclectic standards of Park City, this year will see some unusual players in the fray.

Producer Mark Johnson, best known for such big studio productions as The Chronicles of Narnia and Rain Man, is involved with two films at the festival: the Southern melodrama Ballast and the Maria Bello missing-wife saga Downloading Nancy.

Sacha Gervasi's only film credits are screenwriting the Warner Bros. hairdressing comedy The Big Tease and Steven Spielberg's Tom Hanks/Catherine Zeta-Jones vehicle The Terminal. But he is rolling the dice with no distributor on his directorial debut, the low-budget docu Anvil! -- billed as a nonfiction version of This Is Spinal Tap.

Barry Levinson and Art Linson, both veteran studio talents, will be at the festival with 2929's Hollywood spoof What Just Happened? starring Robert De Niro. And Rawson Marshall Thurber, who directed the hit comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and is attached to Imagine's big-screen version of Magnum, P.I., will unveil The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Groundswell Prods.' literary adaptation of the Michael Chabon novel.

As the result of a budgetary impasse, MGM has found another director for its sequel to Agent Cody Banks. Kevin Allen, who directed Warner Bros. Pictures' 1999 hairdressing comedy The Big Tease, is in final negotiations to come aboard to helm Agent Cody Banks 2. He is replacing Harald Zwart, who filmed the original and was on tap to handle the sequel. But Zwart stepped down during the weekend because of budgetary concerns. Banks 2 begins shooting next month in London, with Dylan Sellers and David Nicksay producing with Splendid Pictures and Maverick Films.

As the result of a budgetary impasse, MGM has found another director for its sequel to Agent Cody Banks. Kevin Allen, who directed Warner Bros. Pictures' 1999 hairdressing comedy The Big Tease, is in final negotiations to come aboard to helm Agent Cody Banks 2. He is replacing Harald Zwart, who filmed the original and was on tap to handle the sequel. But Zwart stepped down during the weekend because of budgetary concerns. Banks 2 begins shooting next month in London, with Dylan Sellers and David Nicksay producing with Splendid Pictures and Maverick Films.