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| 24 star Kiefer Sutherland surprised onlookers in a small New Zealand town last Thursday. The actor unexpectedly auditioned for an as-yet unannounced sequel to The Full Monty when he chose to drop trou during a male burlesque revue performance. The song he chose to use as an unwelcome striptease for the locals was You Can Leave Your Hat On. Alas, BOP has no further details about any accessorizing he may or may not have done prior to going on stage, so we don't know if he did. Really, we don’t even have a joke here. We figure the mental image of Donnie Sutherland’s kid dancing nekkid alongside a group of burly men is its own punchline. |
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Steven Spielberg and the kind folks at DreamWorks have acquired the rights to make a Transformers movie. The plan is to make the never-ending struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons into the studio’s next big franchise. The surprising nature of the announcement is that the studio will not be going the Shrek route. Instead, the Transformers movie will be live action, using intensive CGI to re-create the transformation sequences of the characters. Since the films are about a group of non-animated robots, the natural choice to play the lead is Paul Walker. |
| The It Project on the 2005 Warner Bros. schedule, The Departed, swapped out A-listers this week. The production, a re-make of the Hong Kong blockbuster, Infernal Affairs, had previously cast Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt to play the leads. Legendary director Martin Scorsese is helming the proceedings. Pitt, a producer on the project, has decided to allow his Ocean’s 11/12 cohort, Matt Damon, to take on his role instead. There were initial discussions to cast Ben Affleck in the part instead, but then everyone stopped giggling hysterically and got serious about finding an actual replacement. |
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