BOP Daily News
March 3, 2005
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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The impact of World of Warcraft continues to spread across Hollywood. Another Elf production has been added to the slate. The Will Ferrell frontlined original grossed a festive $220 million worldwide, making a sequel as inevitable as Billy Crystal's return as Oscars host. The surprise aspect of the announcement is that New Line will only make the movie if Ferrell agrees to return. On a similar note, the studio continues to say that Dumb and Dumber and The Mask will only get sequels if Jim Carrey signs onboard. It's a trap, Will! Don't fall for it!
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Online filesharers and movie execs continue to wage a verbal war in the press over their upcoming Supreme Court faceoff. The intellectual property police continue to argue that Internet technologies such as Bit Torrent and eMule are nothing more than binary thievery techniques. Their existence has been described as nothing more than a method "to reward and promote theft". Conversely, some of the notables arguing the benefits of P2P are using an unexpected dinosaur to make their case. The 1984 decision in favor of Sony Betamax is viewed as thematically similar to the current situation two decades later. Despite the fact that Betamax lost the videotape era war, the idea being championed is simple. The movie studios were wrong then and they remain wrong now about emerging technologies that allow media users to better control their catalogues. BOP will offer further insights into the argument in coming days, but for now, we hold the same general position we have always held. Both groups are acting out and need to be placed in timeout until such a time as they have earned the right to watch The Wiggles again. And that Wiggles tape better not be pirated on Betamax video either.
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God has made a decision about Mel Gibson, and the choice is rather surprising. That's the situation if you believe a homeless man from Idaho, anyway. The 34-year-old man has sent the director of The Passion of the Christ a dozen letters in the past year indicating that God has told him that the men must pray together. Gibson apparently disagreed, as he never made any attempt to get in contact with his religious counterpart. That led one Zack Sinclair to break and enter into Gibson's secured Malibu compound in hopes of convincing Gibson otherwise. The only way this story could have been better would have been if the guy's first name were Eric or if his last name had been Cartman.
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With the dust settling from this year's humdrum Oscars ceremonies, the largest point of discussion left to debate is box office impact for the winners. Insiders speculate that Jamie Foxx's victory coupled with his heartfelt acceptance speech make him the biggest winner this year. He could reasonably be expected to ask for an eight figure salary on his next production, perhaps even $15 million. BOP also suspects that if we were to hack Foxx's Sidekick right now, we would discover a picture of the actor holding up his trophy and smiling along with a message that says, "Suck it, Jim Carrey!"
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