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2001 News In Review - May Movies

May saw a number of projects brewing, one wrapping and another stumbling momentarily.

DreamWorks' TIME MACHINE project had to temporarily shift gears when the overtaxed director, Simon Wells, was ordered by his doctor to take a break. With most of the production filmed, D'Works tapped Gore Verbinski to step in to finish principal filming of the project. After his break, Wells returned to work post-production.

Meanwhile, the steadily developing MATRIX sequel productions finally served up a title for the first of the sequels. The film will be called THE MATRIX RELOADED. Fans were mostly indifferent.

Back in New York, Sam Raimi wrapped principal photography on his SPIDER-MAN movie.

On the embryonic level came word that Steven Spielberg was already giving the thumbs up for development to start on a fourth JURASSIC PARK film, prior to the release of the third installment.

And producer Bill Todman started to explore the possibilities of a GREEN ARROW movie after the Kevin Smith scripted DC Comics series scored big sales in the comic industry.

At the theatrical box office, Universal's THE MUMMY RETURNS burned it up taking in $170,691,055 in 24 days of business. Also hitting the screen that month was D'Works' SHREK, which surprised almost everyone by taking $111,753,400 in 10 days and staying in the top ten through the whole summer.