The silent invaders
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Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Invasion,” the much maligned Nicole Kidman-Daniel Craig thriller, has suffered another indignity: no premiere. Word is that no party will be thrown to celebrate the movie, the latest adaptation of Jack Finney’s novel “The Body Snatchers,” which has had three previous screen incarnations. Nothing in L.A., nothing in N.Y. Some will say it’s because Kidman is shooting Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia” in, you guessed it, Australia, and that Craig is about to shoot “Defiance” in Lithuania, but nothing at all? How bad can the movie be? I guess it doesn’t help that the original director was sent packing. The thriller was supposed to have been the high-falutin English language debut of German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, but after it wrapped principal photography in early ‘06, the Wachowskis were brought it to straighten things out. They in turn brought in their “V for Vendetta” director James McTeigue to direct new scenes. Warner isn’t doing that much to promote “Invasion.” TV spots have been sporadic and where are the billboards? The movie is set to open August 17 for Pete’s sake! (Borys Kit)













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