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BOP Daily NewsApril 4, 2005The spirit of BOP News lives on in
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| BOP's mood is best described as conflicted as we report the following news. Blue Collar Films, the production company of Paul Walker (yikes!), has cast Paris Hilton (egads!) and Jason Mewes (woohoo!) as the leads in the upcoming bartender comedy, Bottoms Up. Our beloved Mewes is best known as Kevin Smith AKA Silent Bob's sidekick, Jay, from the Clerks movies. Fans of these movies are so passionate that they pulled a Veronica Mars the other day when the folks at News Askew hinted that they could ballot stuff our front page poll. And it worked. Take that, Schindler's List! Anyway, Mewes, just promise us you'll wear condoms, dude. That not-so-forbidden fruit of hers has long since turned sour. |
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Speaking of fanboys, there is good news for all the remaining diehard Lucas-obsessives out there. The ones who aren't at Toys R Us right now getting all the Episode III merchandise released today, anyway. That news is that aging legend Lucas has confirmed he intends to re-release all six films in the Star Wars series starting in 2007. The plan is for an annual release of each project in digital 3-D. There are, however, concerns about whether there will be enough digital cinema systems by then to allow for exhibition of the Star Wars Six. If it happens, that means there will be new Star Wars releases of old product from now until 2012. You know, Lucas has used and abused this cash cow so much that we expect PETA to get involved any day now. |
| Alpha Dogs continues to be a disastrous project for director Nick Cassavetes. The story of a very real drug dealer with the marvelous name of Jesse James Hollywood is coming apart at the seams. There are twin problems making completion of the project difficult if not unlikely. The first is the ever-important money trail. The second is the recent arrest and upcoming trial of the main character in the film. Effectively, funding has fallen through and even if the production were to move forward, the events relayed in the script would incriminate Hollywood. BOP is of opinion that the whole thing should be called off and we should instead give Hollywood his own reality show. It would be a little bit Oz, a little bit Real World and a lot The Osbournes. |
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Finally, the elephant in the living room that BOP has been ignoring the past couple of weeks has finally grown too large to ignore. Harvey and Bob Weinstein's long-rumored split from Disney has become official. All that remained when we last reported the story was the divvying up of the various movie properties involved. Now that this has occurred, the second most contentious relationship Michael Eisner had after Pixar has been resolved. The indie house experts have finally gone out on their own, taking with them the Dimension arm as well as an A-list of directing talent that should leave their next enterprise, currently known as Weinstein Co., solid for years to come. But the only news that matters in any of this is that the Weinsteins will be largely broke for the next couple of years, thereby preventing them from acquiring, then shelving, any key Hong Kong productions they might have otherwise ruined. Thank God. |
"You know, those kids from Good Will Hunting?"
"You mean that fuckin' movie with Mork from Ork in it?"
"Yeah, I wasn't a big fan either... but Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms."
"Word, bitch, Phantoms like a mallf***er."
Previous edition's quote: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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