Complete casting has been announced for the May Concert For America Stand Up, Sing Out. Ben Vereen Roots, Juan Pablo Espinosa La Fan, Mary Birdsong Reno 911, Stacey Oristano Friday Night Lights, Anthony Federov American Idol, Quinn Cummings The Goodbye Girl and Mary Bond Davis Hairspray join the previously announced Chita Rivera The Visit, Rachel Bloom Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Wayne Brady Whose Line Is It Anyway, recording artist Helen Reddy, Megan Hilty Smash, Barrett Foa NCIS Los Angeles, Marissa Jaret Winokur Hairspray Live and more.
- 5/16/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Olsen twins, Ashley and Mary-Kate, are growing up. In their new movie, New York Minute, they have turned 17, are kissing boys and are even playing scenes wearing no more than a robe and a towel. For all the peekaboo provided by their constant wardrobe changes, males of any age will only come to this chick flick kicking and screaming. Nevertheless, the Olsens' core female following, adolescent and teenage girls, will enjoy the innocuous tale of estranged sisters pulling together against comical adversity during one wild day in Manhattan. Prospects are even brighter in ancillary markets.
This tailor-made project, which the twins co-produced with Denise Di Novi and Robert Thorne, the head of their own company, is cheerfully disconnected from the real world, bearing a great resemblance to screwball comedies of old. With Eugene Levy and Andy Richter contributing inspired clowning and TV veteran Dennie Gordon moving the story along at a merry pace, this harmless concoction should help the Olsens plug into a new generation of viewers.
The script by Emily Fox, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage is designed to maximize comic predicaments for the twins. The Ryan sisters, as they are know here, live on Long Island with their widowed physician dad (radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky). They may be twins, but they are not identical: Overachiever Jane Ashley Olsen) is due to deliver a speech at Columbia University in a competition to win a scholarship to Oxford University. Rock rebel Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) plans to ditch school for the umpteenth time to sneak into a rock video shoot in Manhattan to slip her band's demo into the hands of the A&R guys. (Amusing side note: Jack Osbourne of The Osbournes makes his feature debut as Roxy's band manager.)
Things go awry immediately. Both get booted off a commuter train. Then a sinister guy slips a microchip into Roxy's purse. Bennie Bang (Richter), the hapless gangster who is desperate to get his hands on that chip, offers the two a ride into the city. Before he can retrieve his precious chip, they escape his clutches. Unfortunately, Jane leaves her all-important dayplanner in the back seat of his limo.
So the chase is on. The girls are pursued not only by the woefully inept Benny -- who as No. 1 adopted son of his Chinese gangster mom must effect a bad Chinese accent -- but by Max Lomax (Levy), an obsessed truancy officer determined to nab Roxy, his No. 1 violator.
(It's interesting to track what constitutes villainy in Hollywood movies today. Whereas once villains were bank robbers, drug dealers, white-slave traders, psychotic losers and abusive husbands, this movie's villains are intellectual property thieves as the microchip contains pirated music and movies.)
The girls acquire love interests in Jared Padalecki, playing a senator's son who is drawn to Roxy, and Riley Smith, a bicycle messenger who runs into Jane at opportune moments during the day. Neither romance gives off any sparks as the guys are barely onscreen long enough to register. The senator's lap dog, a Chinese Crested, has more screen time.
At one point, the girls stumble into a Harlem beauty parlor for an interlude in which Mary Bond Davis (star of Broadway's Hairspray) gives them a huge makeover. This has little to do with the story, but does allow the twins to perform a fashion show.
The movie flows nicely from one wacky episode to the next, and the Olsen girls make pleasant company. Cinematographer Greg Gardiner's high-key lighting and George S. Clinton's bright music keep things perky. Costume designer Christopher Hargadon has fun by emphasizing the extremes between the sisters and, of course, goes wild during their beauty parlor makeover.
NEW YORK MINUTE
Warner Bros. Pictures
A Dualstar Prods./Di Novi Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriters: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Story by: Emily Fox
Producers: Denise Di Novi, Robert Thorne, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen
Executive producer: Alison Greenspan
Director of photography: Greg Gardiner
Production designer: Michael Carlin
Music: George S. Clinton
Co-producers: Christine Sacani, Jill Zimmerman
Costume designer: Christopher Hargadon
Editors: Michael Jablow, Roderick Davis
Cast:
Jane Ryan: Ashley Olsen
Roxy Ryan: Mary-Kate Olsen
Max Lomax: Eugene Levy
Bennie Bang: Andy Richter
Jim: Riley Smith
Trey: Jared Padalecki
Sen. Lipton: Andrea Martin
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
This tailor-made project, which the twins co-produced with Denise Di Novi and Robert Thorne, the head of their own company, is cheerfully disconnected from the real world, bearing a great resemblance to screwball comedies of old. With Eugene Levy and Andy Richter contributing inspired clowning and TV veteran Dennie Gordon moving the story along at a merry pace, this harmless concoction should help the Olsens plug into a new generation of viewers.
The script by Emily Fox, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage is designed to maximize comic predicaments for the twins. The Ryan sisters, as they are know here, live on Long Island with their widowed physician dad (radio personality Dr. Drew Pinsky). They may be twins, but they are not identical: Overachiever Jane Ashley Olsen) is due to deliver a speech at Columbia University in a competition to win a scholarship to Oxford University. Rock rebel Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) plans to ditch school for the umpteenth time to sneak into a rock video shoot in Manhattan to slip her band's demo into the hands of the A&R guys. (Amusing side note: Jack Osbourne of The Osbournes makes his feature debut as Roxy's band manager.)
Things go awry immediately. Both get booted off a commuter train. Then a sinister guy slips a microchip into Roxy's purse. Bennie Bang (Richter), the hapless gangster who is desperate to get his hands on that chip, offers the two a ride into the city. Before he can retrieve his precious chip, they escape his clutches. Unfortunately, Jane leaves her all-important dayplanner in the back seat of his limo.
So the chase is on. The girls are pursued not only by the woefully inept Benny -- who as No. 1 adopted son of his Chinese gangster mom must effect a bad Chinese accent -- but by Max Lomax (Levy), an obsessed truancy officer determined to nab Roxy, his No. 1 violator.
(It's interesting to track what constitutes villainy in Hollywood movies today. Whereas once villains were bank robbers, drug dealers, white-slave traders, psychotic losers and abusive husbands, this movie's villains are intellectual property thieves as the microchip contains pirated music and movies.)
The girls acquire love interests in Jared Padalecki, playing a senator's son who is drawn to Roxy, and Riley Smith, a bicycle messenger who runs into Jane at opportune moments during the day. Neither romance gives off any sparks as the guys are barely onscreen long enough to register. The senator's lap dog, a Chinese Crested, has more screen time.
At one point, the girls stumble into a Harlem beauty parlor for an interlude in which Mary Bond Davis (star of Broadway's Hairspray) gives them a huge makeover. This has little to do with the story, but does allow the twins to perform a fashion show.
The movie flows nicely from one wacky episode to the next, and the Olsen girls make pleasant company. Cinematographer Greg Gardiner's high-key lighting and George S. Clinton's bright music keep things perky. Costume designer Christopher Hargadon has fun by emphasizing the extremes between the sisters and, of course, goes wild during their beauty parlor makeover.
NEW YORK MINUTE
Warner Bros. Pictures
A Dualstar Prods./Di Novi Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriters: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Story by: Emily Fox
Producers: Denise Di Novi, Robert Thorne, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen
Executive producer: Alison Greenspan
Director of photography: Greg Gardiner
Production designer: Michael Carlin
Music: George S. Clinton
Co-producers: Christine Sacani, Jill Zimmerman
Costume designer: Christopher Hargadon
Editors: Michael Jablow, Roderick Davis
Cast:
Jane Ryan: Ashley Olsen
Roxy Ryan: Mary-Kate Olsen
Max Lomax: Eugene Levy
Bennie Bang: Andy Richter
Jim: Riley Smith
Trey: Jared Padalecki
Sen. Lipton: Andrea Martin
Running time -- 91 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 6/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Comedian Andrea Martin, Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond and Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinsky have been added to the cast of Warner Bros. Pictures' action comedy New York Minute, starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, who are also producing through their Dualstar Prods. along with Di Novi Pictures. Additionally, Mary Bond Davis of Broadway's Hairspray and Lava Records/Atlantic recording artists Simple Plan will also star in the film, which Dennie Gordon is shooting on location in New York and Toronto.
- 8/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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