Entertainment & Arts
Movie review: ‘Project X’
March 2, 2012
Movies
“Project X” director Jonathan Kaplan and the movie’s trainer Hubert Wells were among a large group of industry professionals holding a press conference Tuesday to dispute charges by game show host Bob Barker that chimpanzees were abused on the set of “Project X.”
July 15, 1987
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March 1, 2012
Yellow Dogs, ‘Project X’ and the movie-violence equation
Nov. 12, 2013
Most animal trainers believe that physical abuse is the only way to train chimps to act, according to a recently completed Humane Society of America investigation into allegations of chimpanzee abuse on the set of “Project X.”
June 26, 1987
This report is based on projections of total U.S. box-office gross from a consensus of industry sources and studio financial models.
July 18, 2000
California
The Los Angeles City Dept. of Animal Regulation late Friday filed a formal request with the District Attorney’s office asking that criminal complaints on 18 felony counts of cruelty to animals be brought against six animal trainers for allegedly abusing chimpanzees during the filming of “Project X.”
Nov. 2, 1987
Lee’s New Deal: Filmmaker Spike Lee has signed a multi-year agreement with Universal Pictures, a relationship that began with 1989’s critically acclaimed hit “Do the Right Thing” and continued through “Mo’ Better Blues” and “Jungle Fever.”
Sept. 24, 1992
A completion bond company that assumed control of “Malcolm X” after director Spike Lee’s film climbed $5 million over budget is refusing to pay to finish the film and has complained that Lee’s production office may have deliberately withheld notification that the film’s editors were being laid off as of last Friday.
April 3, 1992