BOP Daily News
January 27, 2004
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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Wow, here’s a surprise. Gigli, the latest film whose title has become synonymous with the phrase “huge box-office bomb” leads the list of nominees for the Razzies. The film, which many have hinted led to the break-up of former tabloid darlings Ben and Jen, picked up a dubiously impressive nine nominations, including Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Actor and Actress. Other contenders in the Worst Picture race include Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, From Justin to Kelly and The Real Cancun. The Razzies awards ceremony, which each year honors the very worst that Hollywood has produced, will take place one day before the Oscar awards. Hey, maybe Bennifer will make it a hat trick, get back together and get married at the awards. That would guarantee a win.
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In Hollywood, seems Alexander the Great is the new little black dress. Not only is there a biopic currently shooting about the leader who hasn’t been done much and a second in pre-production, reports have surfaced that yet a third film is being planned by the producers of the Christopher Reeve Superman franchise. The project, cleverly titled Macedonia's Alexander the Great, is envisioned as the first of three films on the life and times of one of the youngest man ever to rule much of the known world, and will cover Alexander’s youth in Greece up to the time he is named regent of his father’s empire. The follow-up films will cover Alexander’s formative years, romances, and legendary battles. Should the franchise really take off, filming could actually go on for more years than Alexander lived.
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Dustin Hoffman is about to become a Focker. The veteran actor has just signed to play Ben Stiller’s father in Meet the Fockers, the sequel to the 2000 smash Meet the Parents. The follow-up film will follow much the same format as the original, only this time, the mismatch is between Stiller’s folks and Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner, who will reprise their roles as the parental units of Stiller’s fiancée. Of course, the personalities and temperaments of the two sets of parents couldn’t be more opposite, and the producers and Universal are certainly hoping that hilarity will once again ensue. The role of Mrs Focker has yet to be cast. Hey, we hear J-Lo might be available...
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Paramount has just greenlighted Turn, a horror film based on a Japanese film of the same name. The story concerns a woman who wakes up from a coma to find herself in a parallel universe. She is trapped in a completely empty city, where she must live the same day over and over again. Paramount is high-concepting this one as the horror version of the Bill Murray vehicle Groundhog Day. Given the response to Bill Murray in some quarters, calling a film the horror version of Groundhog Day would be considered redundant.
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