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From the "Biz" Archives:
Compiled by Kevin Dreyfuss
>> Fishburn To Begin Shooting Debut Laurence Fishburne (the upcoming "Matrix") is gearing up production in New York on his writing/directing debut, "Riff Raff," based on his own stage play of the same name. Fishburne stars along with his costar from the stage version Titus Welliver ("Mullholand Falls"). The Shooting Gallery production details the aftermath of a botched heist, when a group of friends take out their anger, fear and frustrations on each other. >> Toback Begins Shooting On New Pic James Toback ("Two Girls and a Guy") has begun production on his latest effort in New York, "Black and White." Toback writes and directs, with producer Edward R. Pressman ("Two Girls and a Guy," "Wall Street") along for the ride again. The story involves a group of teens from wealthy, white New York families who hang out at uptown hip-hop clubs and get mixed up in the murder of a teenage black boy. The diverse cast includes Elijah Wood ("Deep Impact"), Ben Stiller ("Permanent Midnight"), Gaby Hoffman ("200 Cigarettes"), Claudia Schiffer ("The Edge"), Brooke Shields ("The Misadventures of Margaret"), Robert Downey, Jr. ("Two Girls and a Guy") and Joe Pantoliano ("Bound"). >> Pantoliano Joins "Life Before" The busy Joe Pantoliano also joins a cast of Sara Polley ("The Sweet Hereafter"), Stephen Rea ("The Butcher Boy") and Catherine O'Hara ("Waiting for Guffman") in "The Life Before This," an Alliance Production from writer/director Gerard Ciccoritti ("Graveyard Shift"). The film tells the story of a casino heist gone awry, and its impact on a group of innocent bystanders. >> Hyler And Niven Working On Saint Doc Variety is reporting on an intriguing project forthcoming from manager Joan Hyler and documentarian Andrea Blaugrand Niven ("Still Kicking"). An idle Yom Kippur chat between the two led to Niven beginning production on a feature- length documentary on Edith Stein, who was recently canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Theresia Benedicta of the Cross. Stein was a German Jew converted to Catholicism who died in Auschwitz, and her sainthood has caused considerable controversy. Niven has already shot footage of the canonization ceremony in Rome, including interviews with the ambivalent Stein family and a little girl who claims she was pulled out of a deadly coma due to miraculous intervention by the Saint. Production is ongoing, and Niven and Hyler will co-produce.
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