BOP Daily News
April 16, 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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Kill Bill Vol. 1 is already a huge DVD seller as it has sold almost 2 million copies in its first 24 hours of release. The Quentin Tarantino film, whose second and final chapter will be released this Friday, was a critical and box office success when it was released in October. This success brings Disney good news after the studio witnessed two films, Home on the Range and The Alamo, bomb at the box office. The lesson here is: less cowboy, more samurai.
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California governor, and one-time movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is hard at work at drumming up business for his home-state. Arnold has named Clint Eastwood and Danny DeVito as members of the 26-person California Film Commission, a group charged with enticing Hollywood to film in…well, Hollywood. With many productions moving overseas and up north in order to cut costs, California, while still the center of all that is film, has seen a gradual decline in the number of films produced in its studios. Of course, the porn industry continues to prosper in California and with Eastwood on the panel, this trend is not only likely to continue, but also prosper.
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Ben Affleck will re-team with producer Jerry Bruckheimer on another Disney project called Glory Days. In the past, Affleck has starred in two of Bruckheimer’s bigger films, Armageddon and Pearl Harbor. To be directed by first time director James Gartner, Glory Days will tell the story of Don Haskins, a university basketball coach who coached the first ever all-African American team to an NCAA championship. The achievements of Haskins’ team are credited with opening a giant door of opportunities for blacks all across North America. The film will share similar themes with another Bruckheimer film, Remember The Titans, except for the ending of the film which will allegedly involve a hasty race to save the world from a giant meteor by shooting a giant nuclear core into a round hole in its middle.
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"Mr. Brown? That sounds too much like Mr. Shit."
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