Angel Eyes
Jennifer Lopez insisted that the part of Catch be played by James Caviezel even though she didn't know his name. She had recently been impressed with his performance in The Thin Red Line. Ben Affleck and Aaron Eckhart were considered for the role.
The movie was started filming on May 8, 2000 and finished in early August that same year. There were 2 filming locations, Chicago, Illinois and Toronto Ontario, Canada. Although the film is supposed to be set in Chicago, several very clear shots of Toronto skyline, including Toronto's very recognizable CN Tower appear in the film.
The scenes in and around Sharon's parents home were filmed at the Playter Farmhouse, a historic building near the Danforth in Toronto, Ontario.
Some scenes were filmed in the nearby village of Elora, at the Elora
Quarry.
The Wedding Planner
The original actors set to play Mary and Steve were Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brendan Fraser, respectively. Both eventually dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, leaving Lopez and McConaughey to be the eventual stars.
The movie debuted at number 1, making Lopez the first actress and singer to have a film (The Wedding Planner) and an album (J. Lo) at number one in the same week.
Many of the scenes were shot in Golden Gate Park, specifically at the Music Concourse (between the old De Young Museum and the old California Academy of Sciences) and the Japanese Tea Garden.
The 2004 made-for-television movie I Do (But I
Don't), starring Denise Richards and Dean Cain, has a similar plot: a complicated relationship between a wedding planner and a fireman who is engaged
to Richards' character's client.
The Cell
The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Makeup.
A scene in which a horse is split into sections was inspired by the works of British artist Damien Hirst.
U-Turn
Sean Penn's role was at one point going to be played by Bill Paxton.
El Cantante (Mainly reviews 
)
"J-Lo really delivers the goods. I haven't always been a fan, but she makes this movie a must-see." -Rex Reed, New York Observer
"Ms. Lopez brings a lot of fight to her performance, a hard, skeptical edge that makes Puchi a more interesting and plausible character than her husband..Jennifer Lopez, married to Mr. Anthony and a producer of "El Cantante," does enough acting for the two of them in her role as Puchi, Héctor's wife." -A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Ironically, Lavoe's sad story serves mostly to remind viewers that Lopez is still the dazzling force of nature that burst onto the screen a scant 10 years ago." -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
"Lopez, nothing in her previous work on screen prepares you for her role as Puchi, unsympathetic codependent of a sympathetic artist. Fearless is an overused adjective when it comes to actresses. But Lopez is fearless here. As Puchi she is unafraid to be hateful, unafraid to be greedy, unafraid to let the bitterness fly. Here is one measure of Lopez's chilling performance: The only other actress I can imagine playing it this way is Barbara Stanwyck." -Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lopez is on fine, fiery display here, all but channeling Rosie Perez as Puchi, the woman who rocked Hector's world." -Roger Moore, Orlando
Sentinel The Reporter has called Lopez a pretender for the Golden Globes for "Best Actress"
Maid in Manhattan
Good Shoes mentioned the film in their single "Never Meant to Hurt You".
Enough
Jennifer Lopez plays Slim Hiller. ( I don't think we ever knew her last name!) lol
Out of Sight
Academy Award-nominated movie directed by Steven Soderbergh and based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. It was the first of several collaborations between Soderbergh and star George Clooney. The film was released on June 26, 1998. It was nominated for two Academy Awards (adapted screenplay and editing). It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best
screenplay and the National Society of
Film Critics awards for best film, screenplay, and director. It led to a spinoff TV series, Karen Sisco.
Sandra Bullock was originally considered to play Karen Sisco opposite Clooney,
however, Soderbergh said, "What happened was I spent some time with [Clooney and Bullock] - and they actually did have a great chemistry. But it was for
the wrong movie. They really should do a movie together, but it was not Elmore Leonard energy".[2] Danny DeVito and Garry
Shandling were considered for the part of Ripley before Albert Brooks was
cast. The appeal of a character like Foley to Clooney was that growing up his heroes were bankrobbers in the movies, "the Cagneys and the Bogarts,
Steve McQueen and all those guys, the guys who were kind of bad and you still
rooted for them. And when I read this, I thought, This guy is robbing a bank but you really want him to get away with it".[3]
Soderbergh cites Nicolas Roeg's 1972 film, Don't Look Now as the primary influence on how he approached the love scene between Foley and Sisco: "What I wanted to create in our movie was the intimacy of that, the juxtaposition of these two contrasting things . . . We had to mix it up and have you feel like you were more in their heads".[2]
The source novel's origins lie in a picture Leonard saw in the Detroit News of a beautiful young female federal marshal standing in front of a Miami courthouse with a shotgun resting on her hip. Producer Danny DeVito bought the rights to the book after his success with the 1995 film adaptation of Leonard's novel Get Shorty.
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