Chicago Sun-Times
January 31, 2000
`Beholder’ holds No. 1 spot
“Eye of the Beholder” opened atop the box office. Still, competition from the Super Bowl, icy weather, and a lack of big premieres made for a lackluster weekend, according to estimates Sunday. “Eye of the Beholder,” starring Ashley Judd, sold $6.2 million in tickets. In its first weekend, the Bette Midler film “Isn’t She Great” failed to crack the top 10. The movies that made it: 2. (tie) “Next Friday” ($6 million) and “The Hurricane” ($6 million), 4. “Stuart Little” ($4.8 million), 5. “The Green Mile” ($4.1 million), 6. “Down to You” ($4 million), 7. “Galaxy Quest” ($3.5 million), 8. “Girl, Interrupted” ($3.3 million), 9. “The Talented Mr. Ripley” ($2.8 million), 10. “Toy Story 2” ($2.4 million). Yoko worried about their sons.
Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon, is concerned about the safety of Lennon’s two sons after the attack on former Beatle George Harrison. “Knowing that our close friend and his family have been subjected to a violent incident I am, naturally, most concerned about the safety of Julian and Sean,” Ono said in the Independent on Sunday, a British newspaper. Ono still lives in the New York City apartment building where she and Lennon lived with their son, Sean, when the star was killed in 1980 by Mark David Chapman. Chapman is eligible for parole in December. Burton animates online
Tim Burton is taking his animation skills online. The filmmaker, who brought “Batman” and “Edward Scissorhands” to the big screen, is now taking his visuals to the Web in a deal with San Francisco-based shockwave.com to create a series of five-minute Stainboy animated films on Flash Player. “The interesting thing about Flash technology is how it brings computer animation down to such a personal level,” said Burton. Stainboy first appeared in Burton’s book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. The shorts will debut in the spring. Super movie deal
Sam Raimi will direct the long-anticipated “Spider-Man” for Columbia Pictures. Columbia has been targeting a summer 2001 release.
