BOP Daily News
September 16, 2003
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This is So Last Week,
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Queen Latifah now has voices to speak the words of her first ever writing effort. Ja Rule, Eve, Quran Pender, Jonathan Silverman, Tim Meadows, Farrah Fawcett and Danny Glover will co-star with Latifah in The Cookout, a film about a college player drafted first overall in the NBA draft who has celebrates his new fame by throwing a big party at his new mansion. The Lion’s Gate project will be directed by Lance Rivera and will most likely be re-titled “90 Minute Rap Video”.
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Staying on the hip hop tip, Bow Wow, formerly known as Lil’ Bow Wow, will star in the President-for-a-day comedy Mr. Prez. If the title of the film is any indication, Bow Wow’s use of the English language should surpass that of the man he’s replacing for a day.
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A Confederacy of Dunces is proving to be a conspiracy of bad timing as the project has found actors, producers and a director only to see its studio back out. Based on the 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Kennedy Toole, the project will star Will Ferrel, Drew Barrymore, Lily Tomlin, Mos Def and Olympia Dukakis with David Gordon Greene set to direct. Featuring a script co-written by Stephen Soderbergh, who also serves as executive producer, the film would follow the life of Ignatius J. Reilly, a French Quarter intellectual who jumps from one job to another. One question: who the hell cast Will Ferrell in this?
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More than 20,000 New Zealanders will get a chance to be in the third and final installment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Return of the King, in a very unique way. Producers of the trilogy have asked Rugby fans to stick around after a Rugby match between Wellington and Southland to help the New Zealand based production record sound effects for the epic battles in the film. The same was done for the film’s predecessor, The Two Towers, which featured one of the biggest battle scenes in movie history. The thundering sound of heavy footsteps will not only be heard in the film, but also in the lineups outside the theatres when the film debuts.
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