BOP Daily News
March 23, 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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Charlize Theron has signed on to produce and star in Jinx, yet another comic book to big screen project. Based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis, Jinx is the story of a female Bounty Hunter on a treasure hunt. Bendis made the announcement during the Wizard World comic book convention in Los Angeles over the weekend. Theron would have made it herself but the presence of a woman at the convention would have likely cause a stampede (ironically, the stampede would be going away from the hot girl).
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Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine are in negotiations to co-star in Columbia Pictures’ Bewitched, the big screen adaptation of the classic 1960s sitcom. The project will star Nicole Kidman as Samantha, a witch who marries a mortal man named Darren, who will be played by Will Ferrell. MacLaine is in negotiations to play Endora, Smanatha’s meddling mother, and Caine is in talks to play Samantha’s father. Columbia has not confirmed if Vince Vaughn will play Darren in the second half of the feature.
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Proving to be true to its title characters, the Aliens franchise just will not die. After two lackluster films and an under whelming re-release of the first film, the Aliens will be returning to theatres soon in an all out, out of this world battle against the alien warriors linked to the Predator franchise. In addition, Ridley Scott is now hinting that another Aliens film might be in the works but not with him at the helm. Instead, his involvement would extend to his bringing the story to the table and possibly help in early development. And for those of you hoping for an Aliens vs. Gladiator, sorry folks, it doesn’t look like it’s a go.
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