BOP Daily News
May 4, 2004
The spirit of BOP News lives on in
This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Fox averted a disaster on the weekend and signed the cast of The Simpsons to a 4-year contract extension. A month after the cast had stopped working, Fox reached an agreement with the actors who were initially asking for $350,000 per episode, a considerable raise from their previous salary of $125,000 per episode. For some of us mathematically challenged folks, that works out to about $8 million per year. That’s a lot of scratch for the cast of the longest running sitcom around. This also flies in the face of a lot of criticism lobbed at the show as being past its prime. At the same time, this bit news offered no further hints as to when, indeed if at all, we should expect a feature length film of Homer et al. If you thought Patti and Selma were sexy before, imagine them swimming around $16 million in cash.
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Jodie Foster has signed on to star in Flight Plan, the Disney and Imagine Entertainment thriller to be directed by Robert Schwentke. Based on an idea by Peter Dowling, the film will focus on a woman who decides to return to the U.S. with her daughter after her husband passes away. During the flight, her daughter disappears and the woman begins a frantic search for her. And you thought a bad flight was sitting next to a fat guy who eats your peanuts.
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If you haven’t seen Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show, you have been missing one of the funniest shows on television. Featuring skits and vignettes that take jabs at race and pop culture (and how race and pop culture mix) the edgy program has proven popular enough now that New Line has inked a deal with its star, David Chappelle, on a feature-length project called Dave Chappelle’s Family History of the World. The film will feature Chappelle playing varying members of his family throughout history. The film is tentatively set for release in 2005 and you should buy the Chappelle’s Show first season DVD to get a hint of what’s to come. Or, alternately, you can throw in your copy of The Nutty Professor, the Eddie Murphy version, and just watch the only funny ten minutes of that movie over and over.
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Speaking of funny, some of you will notice that a film that was set to for an August re-release will be hitting theatres a few months early when it is released this month. Monty Python’s Life of Brian was to celebrate its 25-year anniversary with an August release but the film will instead be released in May to take advantage of all the hype surrounding Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. When asked about the move of the re-release director Terry Jones put it bluntly when he said “It’s shameless, commercial opportunism on our part.” And were expecting him to say that they were looking on the brighter side of life.
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