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'Matrix' Sequels Ignored For Special FX Oscars
23 December 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Already buffeted by poor critical reviews and a nosedive at the box office, Matrix directors Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski were slighted again on Monday when the seven contenders for Best Visual Effects Oscar were announced. Both The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions were conspicuously absent, shunted aside by the likes of the poorly reviewed Hulk as well as The Return of the King, X-Men 2, Master and Commander, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Peter Pan and Terminator 3.

Actor Chong Sues Over 'Matrix' Role
21 May 2003 (WENN)
Actor Marcus Chong has sued the makers of The Matrix for allegedly reneging on a promise to recast him as a freedom fighter in the 1999 sci-fi thriller's two sequels, including recent blockbuster The Matrix Reloaded. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Warner Bros, parent company AOL Time Warner and the film's producers of breaching their 1998 oral agreement and a 2000 contract to revive his character Tank in the two sequels, and of slandering him. Chong, 35, also accused the filmmakers of "intentionally publishing numerous false statements that he was a terrorist," and of conspiring to blackball him in Hollywood. Film industry sources say the actor made repeated phone calls of a harassing nature to the filmmakers after his salary demands were not met. Tank was subsequently written out of the sequels and replaced with a character named Link. A Warner Bros spokesman and a spokeswoman for writer-directors Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski declined to comment on the pending litigation.

'Matrix' Director's Dominatrix Lover?
19 May 2003 (WENN)
Publicity-shy The Matrix Reloaded director Larry Wachowski left his wife of 15 years following an affair with a dominatrix. Larry, 37, appeared at the Cannes Festival premiere of Matrix Reloaded with 36-year-old blonde Karin Winslow last week. Wachowski - who writes and directs the hit movies with brother Andy Wachowski - is reported to have left his wife Thea after hiring Winslow's services, leaving her transsexual husband fuming. Jake Miller, estranged husband of Winslow, is now alleging in British newspaper The Mail On Sunday that Larry is a cross-dresser who ran off with his wife. He says, "He stole my wife from me and he crossed over the boundaries. I'm not saying I'm a saint, but I am telling the truth. Larry Wachowski is living a lie. He has been cross-dressing for years and everybody knows it. But in Hollywood, money talks. And if you are the director of a hit like The Matrix, you can get away with anything. I hope Larry is man enough to hear what I am saying and to come out and admit who - or what - he is. I want people to know the truth. When Larry walked down the red carpet with my wife, he was probably wearing a bra and panties under his suit."

Matrix Boys And Milius Hunt For Son Of Conan
8 November 2000 (WENN)
The hunt is on for an actor to play Conan the Barbarian for director John Milius' new version of the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Sources say Schwarzenegger, who starred in the original movie in 1982, will play the new star's father in the sequel. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski, the duo responsible for Matrix, The (1999), will be serving as "creative partners" on the $90 million adventure, says industry publication, The Hollywood Reporter. It is understood Warner Brothers, who have bought the rights to make the futuristic third film in the Conan series, see the feature as the link to a series of Conan tales with a possible TV spin-off. Casting directors have already thrown out a wide net in their search for what a character being described as "aged about 25, with muscles, attitude and a haircut".

Matrix Set For Bigger And Better Fight Scenes
8 September 2000 (WENN)
The fight scenes in the next two Matrix movies are set to be more explosive and breathtaking than the sequences featured in the first. Directors Larry and Andy Wachowski have called on the stunt team to choreograph even more high kicking action, which proved a highlight in the flick with Keanu Reeves. Fight co-ordinator Wu Ping is already at the drawing board stage for the fight scenes, even though he's filming another movie in Hong Kong - Black Mask 2. And Ping is already auditioning potential fight doubles and actors for the martial art scenes. British martial art stunt agent Anthony Jones, of Zeon Management, says, "Wu Ping is looking for a really crack team of fighters. He's out to make the most compulsive fight scenes at the movies - and that's before the special effects. He said he's looking for people, as he's not found the right faces yet... I suppose it's not easy finding 100 kilogram, martial arts trained actors. Black Mask 2 will be a rehearsal place for the scenes."

Movie Reviews: The Matrix Los Angeles Times Critic
31 March 1999 (StudioBriefing)
Kenneth Duran calls the Matrix, which stars Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne "dazzling and disorienting." The sci-fi film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski is, he says, "a wildly cinematic futuristic thriller that is determined to overpower the imagination." Many reviewers seem struck by the film's visual effects. "For those who have been waiting for movies to catch up with the graphic possibilities of comic books, wait no longer: The Matrix is among us, " writes Ray Conlogue in the Toronto Globe & Mail. "The Matrix is so wild and crazed it requires adult supervision, " Stephen Hunter comments in today's Washington Post, adding, "Thank God, it never got it. It rocks." Rod Dreher in the New York Post musters an equal amount of hip hurrahs, calling the film "a bug-eyed blast, a slick sci-fi thriller with spectacular special effects and hellzapoppin' action sequences among the most memorable ever put to film." He predicts that The Matrix "will do enormous business among genre fans alone." But Dreher is among many critics who fault what they suggest is a convoluted script. Dreher sums up his reaction to the script with the single exclamation, "Oy!" Jay Carr in the Boston Globe comments that the script "manages to be both silly and dense, and it's perfectly understandable that Keanu Reeves's hacker should spend a lot of the film looking puzzled about what's going on." But Mike Clark in USA Today predicts: "Look for computer-savvy teenagers to guarantee this sometimes original but too