Mark Wahlberg..............Leo Davidson
Director............Tim Burton |
 
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When he finally comes to, his vessel is scraping against the tree tops of jungle-like woods before it crashes into the mud. The second he's finally found ground under his feet, Leo is almost run over by a herd [they're like animals, right?] of scared, primitive humans. He only manages to notice the tattoos on their faces, before he gets captured along with the humans by barbaric, speaking apes, who rule over the human race on this planet. After a daring escape, Leo gathers a group of rebellious humans and willing apes to look for the Oberon, in the hope to be saved. He makes a great impression on both the apes and humans in his group and wins their trust. Strengthened by the knowledge that humans and apes can live together as equals [aaaaaaaw!], Leo & Co. fight against an establishment of systematic misinformation and against a merciless group of war-hungry apes who're on their pursuit. Confronted with this upside-down world, Leo's heart, conscience and military training lead him to organize a great human rebellion, demanding full freedom for the human race. While Leo's organizing his strategies for the impending war, he makes a very important and shocking discovery that changes his insight into this world completely, and immediately increases his personal importance in the battle even further.
RELEASE DATES:
USA - July 27th 2001, USA - August 17th 2001
Australia - August 9th 2001, Belgium - August 29th 2001
Denmark - August 24th 2001, Egypt - September 5th 2001
France - August 29th 2001, Germany - August 30th 2001
Hong Kong - July 26th 2001, Japan - July 28th 2001
Malaysia - August 9th 2001, Netherlands - August 30th 2001
Spain - August 31st 2001, Sweden - August 1st 2001
TRAILERS:
NEWS & NOTES:
15th August 2001 - Those who haven't seen the film turn away....RIGHT NOW. Anyway the usually reliable 'Joe S' has news on one of the potential other endings that was considered a while back: "Seems like long before the Lincoln Monument ending was devised on PLANET OF THE APES, Tim Burton had another idea of how to throw a monkey-wrench into the "twist" ending of his disappointing film. Rather than land in Washington D.C. at the Mall, Mark Wahlberg's spacecraft was to land in Pasedena, California! Pasedena happens to be home to Rose Bowl stadium and the spaceship was to provide quite the spectacle as it landed on the field in the middle of a simian football game played before a packed house of 100,000 apes! That would have given the CGI techs quite the challenge!".
8th August 2001 - There's a bit of a war of words between Kevin Smith & Tim Burton right now at Suntimes.com, the fight? Over a certain similarity to an ending. See Smith's version here (NOTE: MAJOR SPOILER for POTA)
2nd August 2001 -The most clearly explained (and short) solution to the ending is now up at MSN, whilst the longest an most detailled one (30 pages) is up at Ape-City.Com
1st August 2001 - Still confused over the events? There's a timeline explaining it online (MAJOR SPOILERS)
30th July 2001 - **** ENDING SPOILERS AHEAD ****. FOX exec Bruce Snyder goes on the record to Zap2It.Com about the ending saying: "You're not supposed to be able to (explain it). If the truth be known, it wasn't really supposed to make sense. It was just supposed to go 'whoa,' make you think. Now is he in another world, did he go back in time, did he get forward in time? The reality is there's no firm answer to that. It's whatever you want it to be". Thanks to 'Brandon'.
25th July 2001 - I've just seen this movie and my review will be up in Friday's headlines. I can't say what I thought just yet, but tune in as it'll be interesting. I'm on my last week of vacation for the year right now, which is why there's no big update today (that and its the post-SDCC lull) but in the meantime 'Paul Fischer' took a quick trip to NYC to cover the junket for it and here's the results. Regular headlines return tomorrow:
24th July 2001 - Controversy is brewing right now over an act by Matt Drudge. The latest issue of The Drudge Report includes a bold and highlighted description of a key twist in the movie without any kind of spoiler warning - a blatant NO NO. Drudge however has since fired back saying he's not spoiling the ending at all (seems the twist mentioned takes place a little earlier) but in any case be careful about visiting his site until after seeing the film. Danny Elfman also talked with KROQ about the rumour they mentioned last week that he had to do some serious last minute re-scoring to which he said the report (which also landed on the AP) was false. Thanks to 'FusionAddict' & 'TK863'
18th July 2001 - Los Angeles Radio Station KROQ reported yesterday morning that Danny Elfman "has been asked to revisit his score to make it sound more heroic". This reworking of the score, plus the recent reshoots and still ongoing FX work has made the film's schedule "one of the tightest 20th Century Fox has ever seen". The release date however is still sticking. Thanks to 'TK863'.
17th July 2001 - Inside.Com reports that an exhibitor screening for the film originally set for tonight has been delayed by two days whilst the junket will shift to Friday. Seems the production is 3-4 days behind schedule with post-production special-effects work still underway whilst live-action reshoots of the opening 'rocket crash' scene took place just two weeks ago - "We were in the lab all weekend long. We've never done a film on this tight a schedule" says FOX Vice Chairman Bob Harper. The July 27th release will be met but it will be extremely close (execs at the studio apparently haven't seen the film yet either). Thanks to 'Dust Bunny'
11th July 2001 - Helena Bonham Carter will be doing a live chat on foxmovies.com.au at 10am Australian EST this Friday, which is 5pm US-PST on Thursday.
26th June 2001 - You've probably heard lots of talk about the very last minute "Planet of the Apes" reshoots underway. How serious are they? 'Dick Cashmere' weighs in on the rumours with one of his own: "last Friday I was in SF riding the train and I met a guy who had a POTA backpack. Really cool looking bag. I asked him if he worked on the film. He said he did and they just finished it on Thursday in England where Mark Wahlberg was shooting another film. Turns out the execs at fox wanted to reshoot a scene involving the pod ship Mark lands in. They had to ship the set to England for Mark Wahlberg to redo a scene to finish the film. Sounds like they are cutting it close to the line! He also mentioned that he hears that Sony are reshooting the end of America's SweetHearts".
22nd June 2001 - Pics of the merchandise tie-ins for the film are up over at EMerchandise
19th June 2001 - A clear publicity still of Charlton Heston in his Apes makeup is up at the official site
13th June 2001 - 'Turambar' has an update from the Universal lot (yes it seems 'Apes' is doing some post production stuff over there). Here's the explanation:
16th May 2001 - Collectible Concepts have won the merchandising contract, click here to read the press release.
15th May 2001 - A couple of promotions are underway for the 'Apes' remake including on very elaborate 'Geocaching' game for those lucky enough to have a GPS system. "Project A.P.E." is a new promotion that began this past Friday - FOX has hidden 13 props from the movie in various places around the world and each Friday at ProjectApe.Com they give away the co-ordinates for one - first to reach it gets to keep it. Also IF Magazine has an interview with Helena Bonham Carter which includes some new shots from the sci-fi epic.
25th April 2001 - The second poster has now been spotted online over at eBay
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17th August 2001 - Tim Burton confirmed to Reuters that he's not interested in doing a sequel to this Summer's remake of the hairy epic and lashed out at the studio system - "The idea of doing a sequel -- I'd rather jump out of the window, I swear to God...They give you a script, and you do a budget based on that, and say 'This movie would cost $300 million to make', and then they treat you like a crazy, overspending, crazy-person. It's like, 'Well, you gave me the script'. I'm fascinated by the studio technique that sort of leaves you bloodied, beaten and left for dead right before you're supposed to go out and make a great movie for them". Thanks to 'Miqque'.
Interview: Helena Bonham Carter- "Planet of the Apes"
Image (C) Fox13th July 2001 - A new poster came through overnight - the third and final one-sheet for Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes". Thanks to 'Omega Red'
Image (C) EW20th April 2001 - Next week's issue of Entertainment Weekly has a big Summer Movie Preview with lots of Apes stuff including interviews with Mark Wahlberg and Director Tim Burton, interviews in which Burton also finally comments on the human/ape love scene "it's not like you see any actual animal penetration. There's no beastiality. Nothing like that". Also, check out EW.Com later today for a series of on-set photos. Thanks to 'Jazza' 
18th April 2001 - Entertainment Earth has posted up shots of the 12-inch action figures made in promotion for the upcoming "Planet of the Apes" remake and here's some shots. Thanks to 'Mr. Steele'
17th April 2001 - The Denver Starfest Convention takes place from April 20-22nd with FOX set to do a special 'Apes' display booth that includes over 400 lbs. of props such as 5 Ape masks, spears, flags, clubs, swords, pendants, new posters, collectors cards, and expect both the old and new trailer to air. The big thing though is Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa will be on-stage to discuss playing 'Krull' whilst a behind-the-scenes documentary on it and various other films will also air. Meantime FOX has made exhibitors aware the third 'Apes' trailer will be attached to "Dr. Dolittle 2" on June 22nd. Finally a strange new image is out, one of several collector's cards up on ebay that were handed out at the Fangoria Con the other week and here's a glimpse. Thanks to 'Steve' & 'Captain Roz'.
9th April 2001 - FOX has confirmed that much like "X-Men", there will be three trailers altogether for the Apes remake with the second one coming out within the next few weeks and the final just before the film's release. There's also three posters but NOT the seperate ape ones sadly. The first we broke a few months back, the second should be up right about now and is basically an army shot with 3-4 armed apes on horseback, the third will be the full and final poster. Finally a new shot has been posted up on the official site. Thanks to 'WFD'
4th April 2001 - The R2 Project landed some new "Planet of the Apes" stills which look like some that have already been released, but on closer inspection feature much better quality lighting and detail
20th March 2001 - The folks in Hawaii are going...don't make me say it cause you know exactly what word I was about to use. 'JD' has this great story from the Pacific Isles: "The main cast of POTA have been seen all over the Big Island Of Hawaii. Mark Wahlberg was seen Friday in the Price Kuhio Plaza (Mall Shopping) in Hilo. People have seen Tim Roth & Tim Burton in the plaza over the past few days. Plus it is a FACT that Mr. Heston was/is here. He was in the Hawaii Naniloa Hotel also in Hilo". Meantiime the first pics of the four Topps cards are online over at ICv2. Thanks to 'Kevin'.
16th March 2001 - It takes a while to load, but there's some detailled location information at Oscar Movies, whilst filming is also going on in Hawaii with shooting set to take place in the town of Kalapana on Saturday.
15th March 2001 - 'Xanderhart' has more on that rumoured Lincoln Memorial shooting and comes up with an explanation that sounds quite plausible (and is potentially spoiler filled):
"I work for a hotel chain and get to talk to a lot of people coming from all over the US...Cleveland is a major legal center for federal cases being tried in the Midwest. One of the attorneys staying with us lives in DC. He and I started talking about the rumored filming around the Lincoln Memorial and he said that (1) it did happen and (2) they did not put a hat or a mask over Lincoln, but instead put a blue-screen cloth over it. Actually, the cloth was bright green supposedly. The attorney got this from a source within the US Park Service, which has lots of red tape wrapped around the protection of all US monuments.
His friend told him that Lincoln's face will be digitally removed and the face of the chimp Proteus will be placed over it. Proteus is the chimp that lands on the ape world after passing through a time rift. When Leo gets to the planet, it is already a millenia after Proteus lands. The chimp's arrival upset the natural balance of the planet long ago, with the humans of that time believing this to be some kind of God. Fast forward a thousand years and you find the Lincoln Memorial, but with Proteus the chimp in the place of the Great Emancipator. It's not Earth, but along the lines of convergent evolution the design for this monument and the famous American one are strikingly similar (like the Pyramids of Egypt and the Pyramids of the Mayans are similar)."
15th March 2001 - So why in the hell were the film crews not at the Memorial on Tuesday as thought? 'Spacemonkey' heard the following news and got it confirmed by a local radio station who ran mention of the filming and a number for people who wanted to be extras. Here's what the source had to say: "The casting agency was so inundated with calls that they started to deny the press release to people when they called them. I assure you that what the station reported is what they were originally sent. I did find out that the original tape date was changed b/c they didn't want a lot of people to show up. They never told me the new date". The official site of the film has also just been updated with a shot of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa in his 'Krull' costume, a quite different look to any of the shots we've seen before. Thanks to 'Nick'.
14th March 2001 - Charlton Heston confirmed his cameo in the upcoming "Planet of the Apes" to Access Hollywood, saying that "I play a very ancient and wise ape". No further details given, though its suspected he'll play the role of the father of villainous General Thade (Tim Roth). Meantime in that Michael Clarke Duncan interview linked above, the actor confirmed they've shot 4-5 different endings and Burton has made his pick which he agrees with. Finally 'Nick' has this report about the rumoured Washington filming yesterday:
13th March 2001 -'jes69' hears that all the cable work done on the actors in the movie was not all utillized for jumping scenes. Mostly all of it was being used to keep their ass ends up like monkeys while walking around.
1st March 2001 - I try not to include stills related to the same movie twice in one week at the top of the headlines, though these exclusive shots were worth it. On the left is a pic of a cave entrance and if you look carefully in the upper portions you can make out ape nostrils and eye sockets in the rock. The image on the right is in the home of Ari (Helena Bonham Carter), both shots snapped by 'The Ape Man' with the 'photo posers' digitally blurred to protect their identity. There's also other photos worth looking at today over at Collectible Concepts Group which shows a range of items its producing for the film - Page 1 & Page 2. The big news today however is the official site has posted up high quality versions of the teaser trailer and here's the links below (personally I haven't enjoyed a trailer this much since the "Hannibal" full trailer late last year). For those wanting to see it in the flesh, its being shipped to theatres playing "Hannibal", "Traffic" & "Crouching Tiger...". It will also be shipped with, but NOT attached to "15 Minutes" and "Exit Wounds". Thanks 'Capt. Roz', 'Dwight', sinemafanatik, 'James', 'David', 'Kiran' & 'O.J.'.
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