BOP Daily News
April 6, 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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The weekend box office did its best at impersonating a summer weekend as 4 new films debuted to double-digit business; double digit millions of course. The big winner was Hellboy, the action film that based on a comic book published by Dark Horse comics. Hellboy muscled out another action star for the top spot as The Rock’s Walking Tall, a remake of a 1973 vigilante revenge classic, came in second place. The other two films were considerably less testosterone-laced and were aimed at younger audiences; Disney’s Home on the Range and The Prince and Me rounded off the new openers for the weekend. Now if the films had magically morphed into a movie about a son of Satan who falls in love with the a woman with a good soul only to bring her back home to find that hell had turned into a farm full of talking, singing, heehawing cattle, the film’s total box office opening would still have been half that of The Passion of the Christ.
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If Eminem can do it, why can’t Pink? If your answer is because she can’t act worth a lick, you’re probably right, but nevertheless, Pink, AKA Alecia Moore, will be starring in a biography of the life of Janis Joplin. Pink will be singing Joplin’s original songs for the film to be directed by Penelope Spheeris. The soundtrack for the film will feature Ms. Moore in her full blown vocal glory. It’s much too early to pass judgment on the casting of Pink, but we’d almost rather see Eminem cast in the lead role.
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Bruce Willis’ latest thriller, Hostage, has found a distributor. Miramax has picked up the rights to the film after its chairman, Harvey Weinstein, saw 40-minutes of already shot footage from the production. Willis stars as a hostage negotiator who retreats to a quiet rural town after a hostage negotiation ends violently. Instead of peace and quiet, Willis is once again forced into action when his wife is taken hostage. Studios were originally balking at the production when they read the line in the script that had Willis’ character saying “Ashton, I can’t give you the lead in Superman but I’ll see if they’ll cast you as The Flash. Now give me my wife back!”
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Geek alert! Geek alert! Sony has announced that the trailer for Spider-Man 2 will be debuting during NBC’s The Apprentice this Thursday. The Donald Trump-starring reality show featuring professionals vying for the position of president of one of Trump’s companies is the biggest hit of the television season, drawing in big ratings against ratings powerhouse CSI. The Apprentice draws in over 20 million viewers weekly and will serve as a fantastic launching pad for the sequel to the biggest opener in box office history. Though Spider-Man 2 is still almost 3 months away from release, the hype machine is already starting and the film will likely be the biggest film of the year. Spidey 2 is set for a June 30th debut and we here at BOP are expecting a July 2nd press release from Donald Trump in which he takes credit for the magnificent success of the sequel.
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