BOP Daily News
May 11, 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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In what will surely be one of the most highly-anticipated DVD releases of the year, Twentieth Century Fox will be releasing The Passion of the Christ on VHS and DVD on August 31st. Having grossed over $375 million domestically, Passion will receive a high quality DVD translation and release with promotions for the DVD starting as early as July 1st. As of this moment, BOP could not confirm whether Mel Gibson was doing the director’s commentary in Latin, Aramaic or in the ilk of Scrooge McDuck doing the backstroke through his money vault.
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We know you’re on the edge of your seat waiting to hear news about Ewan McGregor’s trip around the world so we bring you this bit of news: McGregor and biking partner Charley Boorman were detained for 4 hours by “gun-toting militia men” in the Ukraine. The two supposedly went off on their own, leaving the camera crew behind, and hit the trails except to be stopped and detained at the border. The two were allegedly stopped for not having the proper identification papers. BOP has learned that the real reason they were stopped was because those damn Ukrainians just love them some Moulin Rouge.
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Britt Ekland has a bone to pick with Hollywood, namely the people behind the upcoming biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. The Swedish-born Eckland, who was married to Sellers, is outraged that she will be portrayed on-screen by Oscar-winning actress, and perennial hottie, Charlize Theron. The cause for Eckland’s disapproval is that Theron is six feet tall and 27 while Eckland is five foot five and was 20 when she married Sellers. In other news, the BOP News editor is filing a lawsuit against Acme Studios for hiring Brad Pitt to play him in an upcoming biopic.
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The nine-day Tribeca Film Festival concluded yesterday and it was announced that The Green Hat and it’s director, Liu Fen Dou, both won best narrative feature and best new narrative director respectively. "Arna's Children" of Israel, by Danniel Danniel and Juliano Mer Khamis, and Cathy Henkel's "The Man Who Stole My Mother's Face" from Australia and South Africa shared the award for best documentary and the prize for best new documentary filmmaker went to Brazil's Paulo Sacramento for "The Prisoner of the Iron Bars: Self-Portraits." If your response to the names on this award-winning list is “Who?” we ask you to trust us and know that you have plenty of company.
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"Did he say 'Blessed are the cheesemakers?'"
Box Office Prophets offers quality, reliable news about the entertainment industry. BOP is also entertaining. To that end, please be advised that some content in this column is intended to be humorous and should not be considered factual.
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