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By Vives Anunciacion (unpublished) Can’t get enough of Hollywood in one year? Here are some more movies baking in the movie city’s back lots, or in their overseas counterparts. Again, there’s no assurance all of these will be distributed locally. Hopefully within the year we’ll see… Aeon Flux (Paramount Pictures) – Charlize Theron plays the sexy leather-clad secret agent in the live-action adaptation of the futuristic MTV cartoon. Bewitched (Sony Pictures/ Columbia) – when a producer decides to remake the classic fantasy TV series, he didn’t expect to cast a real witch for the role. Nicole Kidman is the witch and Will Ferrel plays the guy she marries on the show. Land of the Dead (Universal Pictures) – legendary filmmaker George Romero adds another zombie flick to his endless list of the living dead movies. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Touchstone Pictures) – promising to be the funniest space comedy since Space Balls, this is the movie adaptation of Douglas Adam’s celebrated n...

By Vives Anunciacion Inquirer Libre, April 8 2005 Before and after the summer blockbusters, Hollywood comes up with its more flavorful fare, especially towards the –Ber months when the race for the Oscars begins. Here’s some of the more noteworthy films to be released in the US within the year. However, there’s no assurance all of these films will be released here in the Philippines. Award hopefuls Eros (Warner Independent Pictures) – Eros is three short films about love and sex. The theme may not sound extraordinary, but the filmmakers are: the first short is directed by Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni, the second is directed by American cinematographer Steven Sodebergh, and the third is by Hong Kong avant-garde Wong Kar Wai. Sounds like an art film fan’s wet dream? Spaniard Pedro Almodovar created sequences that bind the films together. Multiple wet dreams. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) (Toho Company) – based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, this Japanese blockb...