BOP Daily News
November 15, 2003
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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Proof that you can’t keep a good doll down can be found in reports that evil little Chucky will be returning to the big screen. Seed of Chucky, the fifth in the Child’s Play franchise, will follow the efforts of Chucky and his loving bride, Tiffany, to raise a child of their own. It’s unclear at this point whether Chucky and Tiffany try to have a doll baby or just steal a human kid, but either way, it should put quite the new face on the whole family values thing. The producers are currently negotiating with original Chucky Brad Dourif and Bride of’s Jennifer Tilly to return and voice their characters; the script would also call for Tilly to play herself in the film, much as Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp did for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. And just to add fuel to what will certainly be the flames of righteous anger from the religious right, Chucky and Tiffany’s babe is confused as to its gender. Rumors that the film’s producers may try to cash in on hot trends by having five gay dolls give the family a make-over could not be confirmed at press time.
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You gotta love a film that pretty much contains its entire plot in the title. Underdogs, the 20th Century Fox film also known as Untitled Dodgeball Project, tells the tale of a mom-and-pop gym that is about to go under due to competition from a chain fitness center that has just opened. In order to save the gym, the owners must field a dodgeball team that can beat a team from the fitness behemoth in the World Dodgeball Championships. The comedy stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Gary Cole, and is currently slated for a summer 2004 release. If you don’t know just from reading this synopsis which team wins the pivotal game...then we feel really, really sorry for you. On the plus side, you’ll be the only person in the theatre over the age of ten who’ll be surprised by the ending.
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One might call it typecasting. Katarina Witt, former queen of the ice for the former Soviet Socialist Republic’s former satellite, East Germany, will star in an upcoming film adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen classic The Snow Queen. The fairy tale follows the adventures of a young girl who must rescue her friend, kidnapped by the wicked Snow Queen. One rejected plotline involved the young girl and her friend having an ice-skating showdown with the Snow Queen, which they clearly win, only to have the French judge inexplicably vote for the Russians.
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