BOP Daily News
April 1, 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 boogeyman of Internet file transfers might be keeping Supreme Court justices up at nights, but not Sony Entertainment. Their movie unit, Sony Pictures, has decided to grab a flashlight and head down into the scary basement of Research and Development. There, they will either be brutally slain with a machete or emerge into the light carrying a new technology. The idea is for the studio to create an "iTunes for movies" with Sony's top 500 movies available for download. The idea is to allow these films to be transferred to portable devices, enabling cinematic experiences on the go. While the company's new GameBoy-killer app, the PSP, was not mentioned by name, it appears likely that this is Sony's synergistic approach to making their device ubiquitous a la the iPod. BOP applauds the studio's ability to stop worrying and learn to love the digital bomb. Now, let's move on to priority #2. Sony, please sign a licensing agreement with Vivid in time for the service's launch. We have...needs.
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Crossroads star and newlywed Britney Spears has taken time out from her busy schedule of frequent Vegas weddings to lash out at the press. It seems the poster girl for trailer trash becoming nouveau riche is upset at the way the tabloids are always reporting rumors about her life. The aspiring starlet who has spent the past five years desperately seeking publicity to a degree that would make Madonna shake her head in disgust now feels that news-gathering organizations are treating her unfairly. The straw that broke the camel's back was allegedly the rumor that she is pregnant, but it's much likely that this is just a front. Instead, it's the constant stream of reports that her new trophy husband, talentless back-up dancer Kevin Federline, spends all of his time away from Spears chasing anything in a skirt (and we don't mean only women). Spears is shocked at how the media would contemplate the fact that he might be unfaithful to his blushing bride. Gee, Brit, do you think it might have anything to do with the fact that he was repeatedly pinning you to the grass at the same time his last girlfriend was staying at home six months pregnant with their child?
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Mimi Rogers, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise before Nicole Kidman took the beard title, is taking a break from celebrity poker tournaments in order to make a new movie. The project is called Penny Dreadful, a psychological horror film. The concept is that a woman uses sessions with a psychiatrist to improve her mental well-being. Over time, she is taught to face her many fears and phobias. The final lesson is a weekend retreat where the two of them take part in simulations to teach the girl how to overcome her phobias. Alas, events spiral out of control, forcing her to come face to face with the worst nightmares in her mind's eye. For BOP, this would be having to listen to Britney Spears complain that she is getting too much media coverage.
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Out with the Night and in with the Potter, that's the theme for Fox 2000's Life of Pi. The studio has replaced M. Night Shyamalan with Alfonso Cuaron. Shyamalan chose to do Lady in the Water instead of this project, opening the door for the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to sign up for the project. The movie will be an adaptation of the Yann Martel novel of the same name. The story involves the son of a zookeeper who joins many of his father's animals on a boat trip to Canada. Along the way, their freighter crashes, leaving the 16 year old trapped on a 26 foot lifeboat alongside beasties such as a 450 pound bengal tiger. Sure, it sounds horriffic, but it still beats listening to Britney Spears whine to the media about getting too much media attention.
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"Messrs. Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, offer their compliments to Professor Snape and...request that he keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business."
Previous edition's quote: Ninja III: The Domination
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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