Here is all I can find on upcoming potential panic inducing movies. Sounds like a buddy movie where two loveable curmudgeons team up against those zany homicidal looters. Yikes.

Welcome to the Century Genre: Drama/Action. Studio: Universal Pictures. Production Company: Imagine Entertainment.

Project Phase: Greenlighted.

Who's In It: Morgan Freeman (Chief Sebastien White); Harvey Keitel (Franco Galorini). Who's Making It: Glenn Gordon Caron (Director); David Self (Screenwriter); Brian Grazer (Producer); Morgan Freeman, Ron Howard (Executive Producers).

Premise: During the early hours of January 1st 2000, a mafia capo and a grumpy police station chief partner together to protect their neighborhood when rioters and looters threaten to destroy the hood.

Release Date: December 3, 1999.

Comments: Unknown.

Rumors: Unknown.

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fallback -

Good catch! I hadn't read all the way through the alphabetical "Greenlighted" entries at Corona, so I missed Welcome to the Century.

Not a comedy - it's listed under Action/Drama. More along the lines of Lethal Weapon, The Negotiator, and other "buddy actioners", except here we have not only the underlying racial dynamic between Keitel and Freeman, but the whole "cop and bad-guy have to work together" tension as well.

It's got Universal and Imagine Entertainment (Spielberg) backing, so it should be good to go, unless someone gets cold feet about possible "panic".

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), May 20, 1999.

"Release Date: December 3, 1999"

it's likly to have a short run at the boxoffice. . .

-- Mr. ShowbiZ (jjbeck@recycler.com), May 20, 1999.

>Release Date: December 3, 1999

A rule-of-thumb at the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com) is that the first wide release (> 650 screens) of a film will pull in 5/6 of its eventual gross revenue during the first 24 days (December 3-26, in this case).

-- No Spam Please (No_Spam_Please@anon_ymous.com), May 21, 1999.