February 25 2000

<Sigh>  Ok.  Kiss Tommorow Goodbye was filmed in the Summer of 1999.  It was scheduled to be shown in September of '99.  That never happened.  Then we heard from FOX that it was going to air during sweeps (This is a tv event that happens in February each year.  Each major station - ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX - runs specials, big episodes of favorite shows, etc. in order to boost their ratings.  It usually lasts about a week).  Well, that never happened either.

So, I wrote an email to askfox@fox.com regarding this movie.  Apparantly, they are going to keep pushing the date back until the dust covers the film and they can't even find it anymore.
 

2/24/00 5:51 PM From: "Ask Fox" <ASKFOX@fox.com> Subject: Kiss Tommorow Goodbye -Reply To: alissa_c@hotmail.com There is no airdate for this movie at this time - perhaps (perhaps?!) it will air this summer.  Stay tuned! Thanks for writing ASKFOX

>>> Alissa <alissa_c@hotmail.com> 2/24/00 2:48:00 pm >>> To Whom It May Concern, Re: Kiss Tommorow Goodbye Is FOX still planning to show this movie?  Please tell me it has not been shelved!  First it was going to air back in September, then during sweeps...and now it has no air date.  There are alot of people waiting to see this - please let us know the news on the movie.  Thank you!!!! -Alissa alissa_c@hotmail.com

January, 2000

**KTG is going to be on TV during sweeps in February!!**

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, the FOX TV movie directed by Jason Priestley, is an updated remake of the 1950 movie starring James Cagney. This movie is the first in a series of remakes that Fox is promoting under the "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" series. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is set to air in September. Jason will also star in the movie as Jarred.

    Spurred by the critically acclaimed L.A. Confidential, Fox is entering the realm of femmes fatales, atmospheric lighting and quirky plot twists. The network plans to remake three of 20th Century Fox's old B-movies for next season and hopes to do more if ratings warrent.

    First up this fall is a remake of 1942's Moontide, which starred Ida Lupino and Claude Rains, to be followed by 1936's Half Angel and 1953's Pickup On South Street, a Sam Fuller movie starring RIchard Widmark.

    "A lot of these films you've never heard of, which was more appealing," says Marci Pool of Fox Television Productions. "With the bigger titles, you get into the Psycho problem, where you're trying to remake something that was great. To me, if something was great, don't remake it."

    Each film will be updated with a 90's sensibility. Moontide's longshoreman (convinced that he has committed a murder) becomes a studio executive in the remake Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Production began in Los Angeles Wednesday, starring Nick Lea (The X-Files) and directed by Jason Priestly (Beverly Hills, 90210), who also appears as Lea's best friend.

    Other films also will feature FOX stars, the better to attract the networks' viewers.

- Gary Levin

    Jason Priestley (Beverly Hills, 90210) directs and co-stars with Nick Lea (The X-Files) and Holt McCallany ("Fight Club") in KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, the first film from FOX's new "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" series of Nineties Noir movies inspired by 20th Century Fox classic "B" films of the '40s and '50s. Production began this week on KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, which will air on FOX during the 1999-2000 season, it was announced today by Doug Herzog, President of Entertainment for FOX.

    "The FOX vaults are full of wonderful films from the '40s and '50s," said Marci Pool, Senior Vice President, Movies and Miniseries for FOX Television Productions. "There's a wealth of wise-cracking, drop-dead gorgeous characters hell-bent on getting in and out of trouble. We're taking those characters and stories and reworking them with a '90s perspective and a FOX attitude."

    In KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE, Dustin Yarma (Lea) is easy to envy. He has the house, the car, the studio title, the girls and his best friend Jarred (Priestley) to share his good fortune. But one moody summer night, that all changes. Blind drunk after a wedding, Dustin grabs one of the girls lap dancing in the limo and goes for a moonlight walk on the beach. The next thing he knows, he's lying on the sand in his tux being awakened by a smelly bum named Minnow (McCallany), who's talking about the dead girl sprawled nearby. It seems Minnow witnessed Dustin kill the girl in the heat of passion and now the police are on the way. But Minnow has a proposal. He'll take care of the body if Dustin takes care of him. It seems a clean and easy way for Dustin to keep the enviable life he's worked so hard to get. But things are rarely as easy as they seem and Dustin's dirty little secret is about to turn his world upside down.

    KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE is a FOX Television Studios Production. Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") is producer. Jason Priestley, whose directing credits include a documentary on the musical group Barenaked Ladies and episodes of "The Outer Limits" and Beverly Hills, 90210, directs the screenplay by Ozzie Cheek.

Emile St. Claire has a great story on her web site about being around the location sets when the movie was being filmed in June and July, and hanging out with Nicholas Lea, the main star of the movie. Check it out!