European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Hollywood heats up toward summer schedule by John Horn a entertainment writer the stateside summer film season does no to Start for another month but movie studios Are engaged in a dramatic chess game to outsmart their Hollywood competitors. The premieres of at least six films a including lethal weapon 3, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover far and away starring Tom cruise and Patriot games with Harrison Ford a have been switched. Other release dates Are Bluffs. Only a handful of movies will debut As now promised. Some planned summer releases wont come out until the fall or Winter. The Holiday film season officially opens memorial Day and lasts through labor Day. About 40 percent of the $5 billion in Domestic movie tickets sold each year Are bought during these summer months. Since there a a wealth of action adventure titles geared to adults the Walt Disney co. Has thrown two Light comedies into the mix including the teen themed Encino Man starring mtg Host Pauly Shore. Disney considered opening Encino Man on june 5 or june 12, but finally settled on May 22, where it will face the More adult oriented alien 3, starring Sigourney Weaver in another space Battle and far and away an epic about Irish immigrants. A a it a going against the tide a Little bit a said Dick Cook Disney a distribution chief. A your movie is the studio also pushed up the whoops Goldberg comedy sister act from june 12 to May 29. Warner Bros moved its lethal weapon 3 from the memorial Day weekend May 22 to May 15. The switch sent Shock Waves through other studios schedules. Paramount pictures pulled the Tom Clancy espionage thriller Patriot games from May 22 and slotted it for june 5. A that Date is wide open now a said Patriot games producer Bob Rehme. Far and away starring cruise As an Irish Farmer coming to America was immediately thrust into a bind. Rather than Square off against Harrison Ford and Patriot games the movie went from june 5 to May 22. Far and away now will have to fight off alien 3 and the second week of lethal weapon 3. A a it a very romantic where lethal weapon said far and away producer Brian Grazer. Because the film co stars Nicole Kidman cruises wife a it appeals to women. Its Seldom women can find a role Model in movies a Grazer said. With a grateful of movies aimed at adults and teen agers 20th Century Fox switched Man trouble from april to june 12. The studio believes the Jack Nicholson Ellen Barkin work appeals to a More sophisticated segment of the Market. There Are so Many High priced titles jamming the Market that several Are bound to perish. To reduce the risk of losses studios arc steering Clear of such powerhouses As Batman returns june 19 and Boomerang june 26featuring Eddie Murphy. Three Summers ago Disney defied conventional Wisdom opening Honey i shrunk the kids opposite Batman. Honey was a Surprise smash. This year Disney contemplated trying to repeat history putting the sequel Honey i blew up the kid against Batman returns. A we thought about it More out of superstition but did give it serious thought a said Disney a Cook. The studio eventually blinked. Honey will open july 17, a month after Batman returns. 30th Ca Thuiy Fox Jack Nicholson and Ellen Barkin in Man trouble. 30th Century Fox Sigourney Weaver is stranded on a Remote prison planet while the alien goes on the attack in alien 3,not the most Correct usage in the worldly Larry Mcshane the associated press he release of the film Wayne a world has spurred an unprecedented upsurge in Good grammar proper sentence Structure and accurate verb conjugation. Not instead the sudden popularity of Wayne speak has everyone from tight bodied Madonna to tight collared George will using the schwinning Slang that twists a simple sentence into a Semi goof. The Quot not construction which William Safire Calls a a a pseudo gallic negative a is the catch phrase of the moment. For anyone locked in their own basement for the past few months a a not is a Staple of any conversation Between Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar the cellar dwelling hosts of the Faux Cable show Wayne a world. The saturday night live skit is the brainchild of Michael Myers the noted linguist a not a who plays Wayne the suburban Metal head who serves As Host of the show while clutching an electric guitar. Wayne a work is everywhere it shirts produced by the Republican National committee proclaim a did no to inhale. Not a playing off Bill Clinton a claim that he once smoked marijuana without inhaling. A a Page six column in the new York Post had this to say about Garth Salter ego Dana Carvey and his visit to a trendy Manhattan restaurant a when the Wayne a world Star and several friends tried to enter in jeans and to shirts they were greeted with a resounding a a Ziggy the cartoon Nebish stares at a map that reads a you Are Here. Not a a Jane Pauley on the today show to plug her latest television show noted that her daughter suggested this title for the news Magazine real life with Jane Pauley. Not. Real life with Jane Pauley her previous Effort was shelved a George will wrote in his syndicated column that a Bush will kill that program. a Madonna so a not was delivered to Wayne and Garth themselves during an sol dream sequence plugging her truth or dare movie. A Safire the new York times columnist dedicated two thirds of a recent on language piece to the a not Quot proliferation. April 26, 1992 sunday a Page 11
