BOP Daily News
April 8, 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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If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That seems to be the inspiration behind the new romantic comedy Sports Widow, a film set to go into production with Reese Witherspoon in the lead. The project will be directed by David Mirkin and will be released by Universal Pictures. Witherspoon, who will also be listed as a producer, will play a woman who decides to become a football expert in order to show up her football-obsessed husband. What’s unique about this particular attempt, and what makes it different from every attempt made by almost every woman in North America, is that she actually succeeds. Kidding, ladies, kidding.
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The film about a massive fire that killed 5 firefighters in Worcester on December 3rd 1999 has been scrapped. Based on a book by Sean Flynn, the movie would have told the tragic story of how a blaze at Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. building took the lives of five heroic firemen. The project was scrapped due to the lack of support from the victims families. 3 of the surviving families opposed the making of the film and Warner Bros. and Imagine Entertainment, after putting up a struggle, finally gave in and scrapped the project which would have starred Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson.
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John “Who?” Woo has acquired the feature film rights to the Nintendo video game franchise Metroid. Featuring a woman adorned in a hyper-tech super powered suit, the franchise is one of the best and longest lasting video game licenses in history. Woo will produce with only an option to direct. This lucrative license should prove successful for Woo whose last film….er….ummm…hmmm…whatever it was called, was critically and financially disappointing.
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