KTF release date, Fight Club DVD

I found the first listed release date for Keeping the Faith: Web Film Release Schedule lists the date as April 14, 2000. As all release dates, this date may change in the future. Also, a few days later on April 18, Fight Club will be released on DVD. It will have a lot behind-the-scenes information including outtakes, deleted scenes, and production stills. For more information, Click here!

EN's Yale visit, AHX lawsuit

The Yale Bulletin posted an interview and picture of Edward Norton during his 10/3/99 visit to his alma mater to present Fight Club to the Yale Film Society. Click here to read the interview. Cinefex magazine with the Sleepy Hollow cover has a large article on Fight Club with many pictures. [Thanks to Joanne for the info on both!]. Please don't confuse this with Cineaste magazine which will have an interview with EN in its upcoming issue. Legal battles over American History X has shown up on the newswires. AHX director Tony Kaye sued the Director's Guild (DGA) for refusing to let him take his name off of the film. The DGA asked the judge to dismiss three of seven allegations made by Kaye. The judge dismissed two of the three, but was not persuaded to dismiss the third. So who won the battle? Well, I'm no lawyer and it seems to matter which account you read, so I've included all three.  Articles and press release. To read all about Kaye's disagreements with the DGA and New Line Cinema,  go to the list of articles on AHX editing

Forever Hollywood, Oscar ads, The Face Magazine

Edward Norton is interviewed in the documentary Forever Hollywood (Variety 12/5/99). The documentary is on the history of Hollywood filmmaking and shows daily and exclusively at American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre. More info [Thanks to Joanne for the info !] Variety December 13-19 has a picture of EN. Oscar ads (including ones for Fight Club) are starting to appear in the film industry trade magazines Hollywood Reporter and Variety. These full page ads are very attractive so you might want to keep an eye out. The Golden Globe award nominations will be announced this Monday (12/20/99). Will EN be one of the nominees? Who knows, but he did win a Golden Globe for his film debut Primal Fear. The upcoming Cineaste magazine will have an interview with EN. I don't know when it will come out, but I will let you know- take a look at Cineaste's website [Thanks to Lanbanans for the info !]. If you didn't notice it on the front pages The Face magazine has a great photo spread and interview with EN. I have been expanding the website, so there should be more up in the coming days.

Fight Club press, Focus

There is a lot to mention since last I updated- the most important is the removal of fightclub.com website (it now only consists of a page that links to Amazon.com). After providing tons of interesting info on Fight Club for several months given to them by FOX sources, they received a cease and desist order from FOX. For the full story, please click here. British censors have cut two scenes from Fight Club before it was allowed to be shown in the UK. There are numerous magazines available now with EN/Fight Club stuff including: Interview, Empire (Nov and Dec issues), Sight and Sound, Detour, W, and Los Angeles- check my TV/Magazine alert page for more info [Thanks to everyone who emailed magazine info!]. An excellent in-depth interview with Edward Norton has been published in the book Projections 10 [Thanks to heather for the info!]. For more information on the book, please click here. One of our nice listmembers transcribed the interview Click here. A casting RUMOR (that's right, RUMOR) has been posted on Dark Horizons mentions that EN is up for the lead role as a priest (that would be two priests in a row for Norton) in a upcoming Miramax movie called Focus. Here is my edited (to integrate info from two different updates) version of the Dark Horizons info [Thanks to Joanne for passing this along]

Focus: The story is set in present day New York City and is based around a set of serial killings that have been going on for years. One day, the killer tells his sins to a priest in a confessional, as well as the fact his victims are women whom he sees in church. The priest is now torn by the fact that he can't tell anyone due to his religion's rule of confessional. Twists continue when a detective suspects the priest is in fact the killer, a suspicion which only increases when a woman from the priest's congregation is found killed. UK's Empire Magazine reports that Edward Norton is up for the lead role of Priest Jefferson, while Angelina Jolie is also believed to be up for a part. Other rumored casting includes Ben Affleck for a PI named Detective Sanders and Kate Hudson for the role of a hooker who gets killed early on in the movie. Dark Horizon's also pointed out the similarity of this plot to the Alfred Hitchcock film I Confess

Fight Club opening weekend

The final box office numbers have Fight Club as number one ($11 million) on its opening weekend. It did cause some confusion because the early weekend projections based on Friday and Saturday receipts placed Fight Club as number 3 behind Double Jeopardy and The Story of Us [Thanks to everyone for the info!]. This week's Newsweek has a favorable article on Fight Club, written from a feminist perspective and calling it a quasi-feminist tale and "Thelma & Louise for guys". Click here to read the article. To find reviews of Fight Club, go to Rotten Tomatoes, but be WARNED that many reviews contain PLOT SPOILERS. Hollywood.com has posted audio clips of interviews with Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter about Fight Club [Thanks to Joanne for the info !]. I've posted transcripts of the EN's interview in Vanity Fair along with EN and BP's interview in Premiere. Rosie O'Donnell criticized Fight Club on her Monday show. Was this unexpected? Not really. Brad Pitt had the following comment in Premiere (8/99):

The week that Seven came out, Kathie Lee Gifford said on her show, 'It is your moral imperative to avoid this movie.' If we don't get that on this one, then we've done something wrong.

Fight Club articles

Articles abound- Hollywood.com just posted an article on Edward Norton- Edward Norton fights for 'Club'. CNN.com has posted an article- Brad Pitt spars with 'Fight Club' critics TNT's Rough Cut just posted a spoiler free review of Fight Club giving FC it's highest rating- Fight Club review. USA Today's website also posted an article on Fight Club and modern male malaise- Men Against the Ropes and a film review (this one does have a minor PLOT SPOILER- you may want to wait until later to read it). It give it 2 and 1/2 stars out of four - Fight Club review. Mr. Showbiz has a few things just posted that you might want to check out- there are interviews with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, the second is an article called "Fight Club's controversial cut" (which talks about the replacement of one of Helena Bonham Carter's line in Fight Club about abortion) and also Norton Heads for Motherless Brooklyn which is just another recap of the Variety story. The program Friday Night will have something on Fight Club on the program this week [Thanks to Joanne for the info !]

Motherless Brooklyn announcement

Wednesday's Daily Variety (10/13/99) reports that Edward Norton will star and produce the film adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel Motherless Brooklyn for New Line Cinema. Norton's role will be as "a detective suffering from Tourette's Syndrome who is pressed into duty to solve the murder of his mentor". Click here for more info! FOX's UK Fight Club website now has Fight Club wallpaper available. The wallpaper looks like a British quad version of the theatrical Fight Club poster with the images of BP, EN, pink soap along with "Mischief, Mayhem, and Soap" tagline. To go directly to the download page, Click here! Entertainment Tonight's website has an article on Fight Club- Click here for the article. Excite.com has posted a link to download a Fight Club commercial - Download commercial [Thanks to Joanne for passing on this info from Dark Horizons!] Dark Horizons just posted a UK version of the official poster (it looks like either an advance poster or just a magazine ad) as well a link to an exclusive trailer (called the fight Club football trailer) that you won't see anywhere else- Go to IGN movies

EN brings Fight Club to Yale

The official Fight Club website has posted a transcript from Edward Norton's 10/3/99 visit to Yale University (his alma mater). To read the transcript all on one page click here! The official site has also put up a message board for Fight Club- click here for the message board. Film.com has three clips of scenes from Fight Club that I haven't seen before. Click here for the clips [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. Tuesday's Access Hollywood (10/5/99) has a segment on Meat Loaf and features clips from Fight Club. Roger Ebert and the Movies will have a review of Fight Club on this weekend's show. [Thanks to Joanne for the info!].

Fight Club press

E! News Weekend has a segment on Fight Club. CANOE (the Canadian Online Explorer Website) posts articles from the major Canadian newspapers. There are several articles posted on CANOE on Fight Club including Cruisin' for a Bruisin' (Fight Club article), Get Ready to Rumble (BP interview), and Fiction for Real (article on FC author Chuck Palahniuk) [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. Rotten Tomatoes has consolidated a group of reviews on Fight Club Click here. [Thanks to Joanne for the info!].

Fight Club press

MTV 1515 and the weekend editions of Extra and Access Hollywood have segments on Fight Club [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. The Fight Club Section of the photo gallery has been updated.

Fight Club articles

The Hollywood Reporter (10/8/99) describes negative reaction to the violence in Fight Club. The upcoming Entertainment Weekly has Brad Pitt and Edward Norton on the cover and Rolling Stone magazine has BP on the cover of the new issue. The RS cover picture, along with pics inside show BP in a dress-- there should be a lot of coverage of Fight Club in the article. Visit Entertainment Weekly website and Rollingstone.com [Thanks to everyone who sent me this info!]

Fight Club L.A. Premiere

Fight Club premiered in L.A. on Wednesday night. Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, and E! News Daily should have coverage of the premiere TONIGHT (Thurs). Kevin Spacey was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 5. Edward Norton and Jack Lemmon both made speeches at the ceremony. Apparently a special screening of Fight Club was held at Yale (on Sunday night?) with alumnus Edward Norton talking with the audience. Unfortunately, I have no more info and can find no mention of this event in the online Yale Bulletin and Calendar. If you can verify this info, please let me know.

Fight Club in Venice

Take a look at some photos taken at the Venice Film Festival - Click here [Thanks to hiromihunt for the info!]. This week's Time Out magazine (London edition) has Brad Pitt on the cover and an article about Fight Club [Thanks to Melanie.Thomas and GBlondon for the info!]. Also the French language version of Premiere magazine (Oct 1999) has a cover story on Fight Club- NOTE: The cover features EN and Brad Pitt and is different that the cover that was on the U.S. Premiere's Fight Club cover story (August 1999) [Thanks to Cornella for the info!]

Fight Club TV spots

Access Hollywood TONIGHT (Mon 10/4/99) will have a feature on Fight Club (MTV 1515 may also cover the film on this coming weekend's show) Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. There is another Fight Club website that is extremely enjoyable- UK Fight Club website [Thanks to Joanne and bjngirl for the info!] Commercials for Fight Club are popping up on many programs (expect more in the next two weeks!). More Fight Club posters- not only are the 4 advance posters (with just the soap) and the theatrical poster (EN, BP, and the soap) available at through movie poster retailers, there are also two additional posters that are now becoming available - one with just Edward Norton and one with Brad Pitt are also coming to light. Try Class Act Posters and Movie Poster Warehouse. The Sept/Oct Issue of Film Comment with Brad Pitt on the cover has an interview with Fight Club director David Fincher and has many pictures and interesting info about the film. The article does contain major plot spoilers-- the author does provide warning ahead of time, just be aware of it [Thanks to FightClub9 and Itwusf8 for the info!]. More images from the film are surfacing through Yahoo! Movies [Thanks to Joanne for the info!]. I am working on getting a bunch of the images into the photo gallery.

Fight Club interviews

TONIGHT's Access Hollywood (9/27/99) will have interviews with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt on Fight Club [Thanks to srquinn13 for the info!]. The Fight Club soundtrack (music by the Dust Brothers) will be released on TUESDAY Click here for more info! The Fight Club poster with images of BP, EN, and the pink soap) is starting to become available through some retailers such as Class Act Posters. A full page ad for the movie is in this months Movieline magazine [Thanks to  for the info!] The Fight Club novel is being re-released with a cover similar to the movie poster (the placement of the images is different)- Click here for more info on the book! We are entering an extremely crucial time period that requires your help: it's the MEDIA WATCH. With only a few weeks left before the debut of Fight Club, there should be segments on shows like Entertainment Tonight, there may be interviews by co-stars on talk shows such as the Today Show, new commercials, magazine ads, newspaper stories--- please let me know so that I can post the info for the group.

Fight Club review

Variety (9/13/99) has given a favorable review to Fight Club. However, this review has many PLOT SPOILERS, and you might enjoy the movie more watching it all unfold in the theater. However, if it won't ruin your moviegoing experience- read the review- Norton, Pitt are "Fight Club" champs. The Hollywood Reporter has also reviewed the movie--this review is not favorable, largely due to the reviewer's discomfort with the dark subject matter. It also has PLOT SPOILERS, but if you want to read it anyway here it is Fight Club review

Fall Movie Preview

LA Times Sunday edition (9/12/99) has a giant preview section on the upcoming Fall movies called "Fall Sneaks". This includes a article by Chuck Palahniuk, the author of Fight Club called I Made Most of It Up, Honest and another discussion of the violence in a section of another article, Settling Scores. Last year's Fall Sneaks included the first ad of American History X, so it might be worth the effort to pick it up. Gear magazine (10/99) and American Screenwriting magazine both include articles on Fight Club [Thanks to FightClub9 and annicasvensson for the info!]

KTF photos, Fight Club in Venice

The first pic of EN in a clerical collar for his role in Keeping the Faith has now been posted thanks to vhaddadi for her gracious donation of Who weekly Click here to see the picture! fightclub.com (unofficial site) reports that a new trailer was a new Fight Club trailer shown during one of the commercial breaks during the MTV Video Music Awards. I managed to see the 30 second trailer during the awards replay. However, I would have to disagree with fightclub.com (which said it was just a shortened version of the other trailers) and say that while it was mainly clips we have seen in the first two trailers, there was some parts that I haven't seen before. You might try watching a replay of the awards to catch the trailer. Fight Club was shown Friday night (9/10/99) at the Venice Film Festival and EN, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter were scheduled to attend. This should be covered on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, and E! News Daily. While it probably will air on the Monday night edition of these programs, you might want to catch tonight's (Friday 9/10) to see if there is any additional coverage on the festival. The Associated Press and Reuters newswire services have already posted articles on the Fight Club screening ("'Fight Club' Packs Literal Punch" and "Comedy, Violence Mix In Latest Brad Pitt Movie", respectively). The official poster is now becoming available. I'm not clear as to how it looks- I believe it is similar to the ad with images of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, I'll tell you more when I find out. Several sellers on eBay are auctioning off four different advanced posters for Fight Club. The layout is similar to the magazine ads: foaming pink soap in a metallic holder against a black background with a written slogan above. The posters differ only in the slogans: "Works Great On Bloodstains", "Hand Soap? How about swollen and broken fist soap?", "Creates a thick rich lather. Like rabies" and "Wash your feminine side clean off" [Thanks to Joanne and FightClub9 for the info!]. Joanne also reports seeing Fight Club posters on the sides of buses in Los Angeles. I'd like to thank batman for cleaning up the Fight Club ad posted on the front page. It really is a different image and thanks for allowing us to appreciate it more.

Fight Club official website

The official Fight Club website is now online [Thanks to annicasvensson for the information!]. It seems like it will take a while to explore (hope you have Shockwave). It has the two twisted public service announcements described in the Premiere magazine article, the trailer, as well as some other video segments (with some coming soon). It has screensaver downloads (which were previously seen as shockwave presentations on tylerdurden.com and tinylife.com). You can send postcards and choose who you want to fight. I don't want to ruin the experience for you, so go see it on your own--- Official Fight Club Website. It was noted by fightclub.com (an unofficial fan site) that the previous links announced tylerdurden.com and tinylife.com no longer lead to their original shockwave presentations, they now redirect you to the official Fight Club website. Us magazine (Oct. issue) has an article on Hollywood and violence and Fight Club is briefly mentioned.

Fight Club ad

Variety magazine(8/30-9/5/99) also contains the Fight Club ad that was in Screen International magazine along with some other mentions of Fight Club in their Venice Festival coverage. [Thanks to simon_t_doc_7 for the information!].

Runaway Jury on again?

A New Jury? Variety.com (9/2/99) posted an article stating that the plans for a film adaptation to John Grisham's The Runaway Jury have been revived. In May 1997, Edward Norton was signed for the lead role in this film, however, the plans never worked out. But before you start your little happy dance, don't expect to see him in the film. The article goes on to say that EN signed a pay or play deal, has been paid off and "won't be involved in the resuscitated 'Jury' project." Read the whole article