BOP Daily News
July 14, 2004
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This is So Last Week,
our pop culture week-in-review,
presented in a pleasing quiz form.
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Steve Carell, who currently co-stars in Anchorman, will star in New Line Cinema’s Furry Vengeance. In the film, Carell will play a cutthroat real estate developer who meets his match in the animals that will be rendered homeless if he's successful in turning their forest into a housing development. Carell got his start as a cast member of Comedy Network’s The Daily Show and saw his first major exposure in last year’s Bruce Almighty. It seems his star is rising now as he is set to play the lead in the comedy. Well, we’re assuming it’s a comedy. With a title like Furry Vengeance, you just don’t know.
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Dreamworks is in talks to pick up Dreamer in turnaround from Warner Bros. Errr, “in turnaround” means that the project is being sold by one studio and picked up by another…Anyway, Kurt Russell is attached to star as a man who, with the help of his 11 year-old son, rescue a horse with a broken leg and nurse it back to health and eventually race him in the Breeder’s Cup. The project is written and will be directed by John Gatins and will begin shooting this September in Louisiana. The film will present a change of pace for Russell who is known mostly for playing tough guys on screen. The other change of pace for Russell is that he’s in a movie.
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Paramount Pictures is considering making a The Ten Commandments film for the third time, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mark Gordon is on board to produce, and screenwriter Charles Randolph is about to meet with the studio about writing the biblical epic. The first version of the film, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, was a silent, mixed black-and-white footage with early Technicolor film. DeMille redid the story as the 1956 epic that starred Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including best picture. The studio is believed to be interested in fashioning a serious, research-based treatment of the subject. In a shocking development, Michael Moore is set to play Moses.
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Speaking of Moore, his Fahrenheit 9/11 is breaking box office records all over the world now as it has opened to big box office business in the UK and France. While the numbers in France were to be expected after the film won the Palm D’or at the Cannes Film Festival, the UK number was more of an unknown. Bush’s alleged reaction to this news was “Hold on…The French ain’t gonna be voting in November, right?”
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