Jerry O'Connell News - Buying the Cow, Swordfish Premiere

RELEASE DATES FOR "THE NEW GUY" AND "DOWN AND UNDER"

11/08/01

According to Upcomingmovies.com, the release date for "The New Guy" has been pushed back to May 10th, 2002. Apparently, the previous release date of November 16th 2001 would have put the movie in competition with the highly anticipated "Harry Potter" movie. Jerry and Charlie O'Connell share a cameo in this teen comedy starring DJ Qualls from "Road Trip."

Upcomingmovies.com also lists the tentative release date for "Down and Under" as August 2nd, 2002. Premise: A would-be musician (Anderson) and his childhood friend, a New York City hairstylist (O'Connell) get caught up with the mob, and are forced to deliver $100,000 to Australia, where the money is lost when a wild kangaroo steals it... guess who's going kangaroo hunting? (Warren plays a wildlife researcher who helps the duo find the 'roo, as well as being the romantic interest of O'Connell's character)

The release date for "Buying the Cow" is TBA 2002.

UPCOMING APPEARANCE ON E! TELEVISION

10/21/01

E! will be airing a special "True Hollywood Story: Scream" on October 31st (Halloween) at 8:00 pm. It will feature exclusive interviews with cast members, including Jerry O'Connell. Go to EOnline for details. Thanks again to Lee Lee (treksector002) for passing the news along.

INTERVIEW AT THE WHO WEEKLY WEB SITE

10/11/01

There is an interview with Jerry posted at the Who Weekly web site. This is a different interview than the one published in the July 23rd edition of the Australian magazine. Thanks to Lee Lee (treksector002) for the heads up from Australia!

CO-STAR DISSES ESTELLA WARREN

10/04/01

This interview with Anthony Anderson appeared in Mr. Showbiz, and at the Movies.com web site on September 4th, 2001. Anderson co-stars with Jerry in the upcoming movie "Down and Under", and he tells us a little about the characters that he and Jerry O'Connell portray:

Anthony Anderson, the
oversized comic relief in Steven Seagal's February
comeback flick Exit Wounds, pops up in this
weekend's Two Can Play That Game as a man with
plenty of advice about love.

But Anderson has no love — and mostly unkind
words — for Estella Warren. Anderson just finished
five months' location filming in Australia for Down
and Under, a mob comedy in which he stars with
Jerry O'Connell. Warren is featured as a local game
warden, and Anderson won't be waiting for any
hugs and kisses.

"Estella can't act," Anderson declares of the
synchronized swim star-turned-athlete whose
red-hot film career to date has produced
less-than-critically-praised turns in Driven and
Planet of the Apes. "She can't act her way out of
a paper bag and I'll say that!"

A Jerry Bruckheimer production due in theaters
next spring, Down and Under also features
Christopher Walken as a mob boss. "Jerry's the
hairdresser and I'm Louis, his childhood friend who
saved him from drowning on a beach when he was
10 — and I don't let him forget that," Anderson
explains. "I do these schemes and [in one of them]
we're delivering TV sets that happen to be stolen
and we're also in a stolen van and we go to
warehouse owned by [Walken's character], who is
also Jerry's stepfather."

O'Connell and Anderson get tangled in a zanily
complicated string of events involving missing mob
money, a nearly dead kangaroo, and Anderson's
character's jacket. How does game warden Warren
figure into all of this?

Anderson's answer: "She is the eye candy in the
movie."

-Stephen Schaefer

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