Feb. 19, 2000. I just discovered that boxofficemania.com, which says it covers "Top 10 Movies, Previews, Reviews, Rumors & 350+ Celebrity Tribute Web Sites!" has added an Eric Roberts page to their web site.
Feb. 12, 2000. Valentine's Day will be the 23rd anniversary of Eric's first words on screen. Go to Eddie Drueding's Another World Audio web page. The fifth line down under "Audio Highlights" is Intro Line: Eric Roberts as Ted Bancroft, February 14, 1977.
Jan. 28, 2000. See my new La Cucaracha page.
Jan. 25, 2000. I have a little more information about the movie The Beat Nicks but it sounds like E.R. has another small role. In this comedy two guys with the same name, Nick (Norman Reedus) and Nick (Mark Boone Junior) go to L.A. to get work. They meet a girl (Elodie Bouchez) and Eric Roberts plays her boyfriend.
I also heard that E.R. had a role in the new John Waters(!!) film called Cecil B. Demented. I have not been able to confirm this information and The Internet Movie Database does not list him in the credits for this film so if anyone has heard any more about it, please let me know.
Dec. 17, 1999. Eric worked on two new films this fall for release in 2000. One is a TNT made-for-TV movie scheduled for July 2000 called Gabriel's Run. It is set in the year 2017 when there is a black market in harvested human organs and smart/pretty children are kidnapped to be cloned.
The other film is called Quicksand in the Internet Movie Database but Eric called it Luck of the Draw in an interview. It also stars Dennis Hopper and Mickey Rourke who have worked with Eric before.
Dec. 7, 1999. I have just heard from the movie's producer, FrankyD, that the not-yet-released film Eric Roberts film The Replacement has had a name change and is now being called The Alternate. FrankyD didn't say and I didn't ask but I am guessing that this is to avoid confusion with the new Keanu Reeves film called The Replacements.
Oct. 29, 1999. I've just added a new link on the home page to The Ultimate Male Star Picture Archive Eric Roberts pages.
Davida has kindly agreed to link to the Absolutely Unofficial Eric Roberts page in return.
Oct. 21, 1999. Wildflowers made its debut on Wednesday, October 13 for the MIFED London screenings. The film stars Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Clea Duvall, and Thomas Arana. 
Oct. 12, 1999. Eric turned up for less than a minute in E! Celebrity Profile of Margaret Cho. She and Eric worked together on the movie It's My Party a couple of years ago. Thanks, Linda. Eric was also interviewed for a minute in E! Hollywood True Story: Bob Fosse and he was interviewed for another minute on E! Hollywood True Story: Dorothy Stratton.
Sept. 23, 1999. Eric's movie Hitman's Run will be released on DVD October 12, 1999. No word yet when VHS will be available. Read my review.
Also, Dead End and False Pretense and Adam & Smoke all seem to be the same movie, according to the descriptions of the plot that I have received from video fans around the world. Thanks to readers who sent me info.
Sept. 3, 1999. Eric Roberts will be playing a ghost on the Sept. 10 episode of Hunger "The Dream Sentinel" on Showtime channel.
August 26, 1999. At Peter Dietze's Julia Roberts web site there are several great pages of Roberts family photos as well as photos of Eric. Lots of work and research went into this web site. Only a few of the pages are in English but, even for the photos, it's well worth a visit.
I just got email from the webmaster of the Matthias Hues Fan Page who is also pretty excited about Eric's new film The King's Guard. James Kennedy, who plays one of Eric's bandit band in The King's Guard, reports that Eric was great to work with. James also reports that Eric had to work pretty hard because he is in lots of scenes. Yes!
Did you know that there's a mailing list for Eric Roberts fans? It's called all4eric.
July 31, 1999. Heaven's Fire will be shown on the Fox Family Channel on Saturday, August 7.
July 22, 1999. Just got word that it is true that Eric Roberts and Khrystyne Haje are starring in King's Guard. Michael J. Watson, who is working on the official King's Guard web page, was kind enough to send me this information. He hopes to have the web page finished including photos of cast for when the film is being shopped around.
July 21, 1999. Eric is filming a new movie titled Quicksand also starring Dennis Hopper and Mickey Rourke. It's a thriller but I don't know the plot yet.
July 16, 1999. For those of you who missed it, I finally wrote a review of Eric's live celebrity chat on AOL.
July 14, 1999. This from Linda: Eric was the voice of the character named "Peetey" on the episode of the animated series Spawn that aired June 23 on HBO.
June 16, 1999. I'm about 1/2 way through watching Facade which should be available at your local video store today. It seems to be a comedy. Or else maybe it's just really weird. Eric's best line so far is when he's in bed with a girl and he says "Want to do it again? I can, you know! No down time!"
June 7, 1999. The following message appeared on Anne Rice's fan phone line. After saying how much she enjoyed watching Purgagory she said: "Anything with Eric Roberts is worth it. Twenty years ago, I was blown away by his performance in King of the Gypsies The producer, at that time, was hot for Roberts playing Louis in Interview with a Vampire, which of course did not come to pass. I doubt Roberts ever knew about it. Eric Roberts is not only powerfully skilled, he is a magnificent presence. I can't get enough of Eric Roberts."
May 2, 1999. Facade will be released on video on June, 15, 1999. It's a thriller. After a man and his girlfriend are murdered, his wife (Camilla Overbye) learns that someone is trying to kill her too. Her husband's business partner (Eric Roberts), who was involved in her husband's death, is who she goes to for help.
April 19, 1999. From Susan: Just wanted to let you know that there is supposed to be a "Live Chat W/Eric Roberts" on AOL on Thursday, 4/22/99 at 8:00 p.m. EST. He's supposed to be discussing his new movie, La Cucaracha. AOL users have to type in "Live" and click on Keyword to get to the live chat.
April 4, 1999. Eric Roberts guest starred on Touched by an Angel on Sunday, April 11. Episode #521 is called "Made in the USA" and Eric plays the owner of a sweatshop who is full of hatred for the Vietnamese people who work for him.
March 15, 1999. White Rose Entertainment has acquired theatrical rights to La Cucaracha, Jack Perez's indie thriller starring Eric Roberts and Joaquim de Almeida that won best picture honors at the recent Austin Film Festival. The film will open April 23 with initial dates in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and Dallas. Yes, it's going to be in theaters!
February 7-14, 1999. A feature article by Randy Myers about movies that go straight to video appeared in many newspapers across the country this week. Eric Roberts was mentioned in the article. In a sidebar called "The Kings and Queens" that appeared with the article in many papers they printed the photo that appears at the bottom of this page and a story that said, in part, "Who are the kings and queens in the direct-to-video empire? Here's a ranking of the most familiar faces on tape: THE KINGS: Eric Roberts: Tour any new-release section and you'll run into him. A durable and talented actor." Kingly runners up were C. Thomas Howell, Jeff Fahey, Lance Henriksen, and Gary Daniels.
February 11, 1999. In the "Rant and Rave" column of the Houston Chronicle, Marie Cruse asked of the star of Thin Red Line was Eric Roberts. She thought she recognized him from his ears. They replied that it was not Eric Roberts who played Pvt. Witt. It was Jim Cavezel. [ears???]
February 1999. The audio cassette version of "Quitters, Inc." by Stephen King is read by Eric Roberts. If your job was "casting director" for books on tape, which books would you hire E. R. to read? You can reply to this question in the guest book.
January 1999. What DAILY VARIETY said about Purgatory in the Jan. 8 issue: This simplistic but enchanting TNT Original Western asks the burning question, "Do gunslingers go to heaven?"Answer: Not if they have long hair, facial stubble and a tendency to swear, ruling out pretty much everyone who ever worked with Sam Peckinpah. Indeed, the importance of good grooming and clean language is the primary lesson imparted from a good vs. evil parable that's lent moody texture by director Uli Edel and raw energy by the incomparable Sam Shepard, and by Eric Roberts, who remains up there with John Malkovich in his ability to quietly inhabit the sinister loose-cannon role.
January, 27, 1999. BYLINE: Malcolm Parry; VANCOUVER SUN. Kaj Eriksen (first name rhymes with high), the L.A. resident, Vancouver-raised teen who played for four seasons on The Commish TV series, is back in town to play Eric Roberts' son on the James Shavick movie of the week Heaven's On Fire. If shooting's over by Feb. 15, he'll have his 20th birthday at leisure.
January 26, 1999. The title of E. R.'s upcoming film has been changed to Restraining Order. The working title was Extreme Duress.
December 29, 1998. The made-for-TV movie, Purgatory, is on the TV schedule for January 10 on TNT.
January 18, 1999. From VIDEO NOTES: York Home Video proclaimed its best-seller of all time as Jan. rental release The Shadow Men starring Eric Roberts and Sherilyn Fenn. Film prebooked 50,000 copies, company said. It's the first time all of 5 largest retail accounts have bought a title from York, said Doug Schwab, pres. of York sales partner Maverick Entertainment.
January 1, 1999. From CALIFORNIA JOURNAL. Public records of campaign contributions in California reveal a list of celebrities who donated cash to support Rob Reiner's quest to get cigarette maker's money to go to pre-schools including Barbra Streisand, Helen Hunt, Jeff Bridges, Beau Bridges, Nicholas Cage, Eric Roberts and more.
December 12, 1998. I have news from a "reliable source" that Eric Roberts recently visited THE TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL ERIC ROBERTS WEB PAGE. But, the way I heard it, he liked BeckyMarie's TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL E. R. SHRINE better. The good news is he's not going to sue me!
November 1, 1998. From Paty: Eric has just wrapped up filming on TripFall which also stars John Ritter. It's an indy directed by Serge Rodnunsky. The crew were relieved to find that he's nothing like the characters he plays.
October 28, 1998. Press releases talking about a made-for-TV movie called Santuary describe the same stars and the same plot as Purgatory. Sounds like the newspapers got Purgatory and Santuary mixed up.
September 11, 1998, press release from A-Pix Entertainment announces a November 10 rental release date for the film Dead End at $69.98.
The August 4, 1998 issue of Daily Variety in a story by Andrew Hindes on page 3, it said that Eric Roberts had wrapped shooting on the film Bittersweet. The film focuses on the character played by Angie Everhart, who serves time for a murder for which she was framed by her mobster boyfriend (Brian Wimmer). To get to him, she first has to deal with a crime kingpin (Eric Roberts). James Russo and Joe Penny are also in the movie.
July 14, 1998, Monarch Home Video released its very first DVD. Their choice was the action-thriller T-N-T starring Eric Roberts. It was also released on VHS tape.
June 3, 1998, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., a Canadian company, bought International Movie Group Inc. along with distribution rights to all their movies. This includes Best of the Best l & ll and By the Sword.
May 8, 1998, the video of Saved by the Light (1995, BWE, unrated, $ 69.99) was released. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY said: Despite corny heaven imagery, this powerful conversion story lets Roberts channel his usual searing intensity into a nicely life-affirming New Age mystery. B+
April 23, 1998, NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--COMEDY CENTRAL's April 22 episode of South Park which revealed the identity of Cartman's father scored a 8.2 HH(a) rating, the highest rated entertainment series episode in basic cable history. The cartoon version of Eric Roberts appeared briefly in this episode which means that he was seen in 4 million households and by 6.2 million people.
Somebody (besides me) thinks that the people at ABC made a poor decision when they cancelled C-16. Watch and wait for a C-16 movie from Fox 2000.
Starting Thursday, May 21, ABC will show the remaining episodes of C-16. When C-16 was cancelled, several episodes had been filmed but not yet aired. Those episodes are now back on the TV schedule. Watch your local listings for time.
There are two more upcoming movies in Eric Roberts' future. One is an independant film (not another cameo role, I hope) and the other is a TNT made for TV movie called Purgatory West of the Pecos. It's a western that also stars Sam Shepard. Apparently a group of desperados ride into a town full of Bible-thumpers who are look alikes of dead killers, bank robbers, etc. The town also includes some very hot ladies of the bordello persuasion!
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