BOP Daily News
January 30, 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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This could get nasty. After months of negotiations, Pixar and Disney have come to a parting of the ways. In what is being called a different kind of Hollywood divorce, Pixar has announced that after delivering the final two films under its current contract with Disney, it will be seeking a deal with another studio. Pixar's current deal has the animation giant sharing box office receipts and licensing revenue with Disney, while Disney retains rights to the films and to making any sequels. Pixar's CEO, Steve Jobs, has indicated any new deal would have to include Pixar retaining the rights to its work. And as is often the case in messy divorces, it is the offspring who are suffering: Mike and Sulley are so depressed they have refused to come out of their closet and give children nightmares, and Buzz Lightyear and Dory are both seeing therapists.
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Could be age is mellowing former Hollywood bad-boy Sean Penn. After years of shunning the Academy Awards ceremony, Penn will reportedly attend this year after being nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Mystic River. According to a friend of the mercurial actor, Penn "wants to stand up for Mystic River." Then again, perhaps Sean has finally decided that having one of those pretty statuettes on the mantelpiece isn’t such a bad thing after all, and that if he wants to get one, he has to play nice. And they say you can’t teach an old iconoclast new venerations.
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Regency Films has greenlighted the conspiracy thriller Flicker. Written by Darren Aronofsy and Jim Uhls, the film will be told from the viewpoint of an obsessed Los Angeles film student, and deals with an insidious plot to destroy all life on Earth through B movies. So that’s why Ed Wood was allowed to make films for all those years!
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Joe Eszterhas, best known as the first screenwriter to get $1 million for a script says his memoir, Hollywood Animal, depicts him as a cold, self-absorbed person. “Soulless is a good word,” Eszterhas stated in an interview. The Basic Instinct scripter blames his lack of feeling on drinking, and has reportedly begun to mend his ways after surviving a bout with throat cancer, an illness which led him to apologize for glamorizing cigarettes in his films. Given the films Eszterhas has written, and the old saw about scribes writing what they know, the writer’s description of himself explains a lot.
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