February 03, 2003 |
AT LEAST IT'S NOT SUFFERING ANYMORE
The WB has finally put Dawson's Creek out of its misery. On Sunday, the network announced that the dried-up teen drama would end its five-year run in May. (Teenage girls everywhere are asking themselves: Ohmigod! Was that still on the air?) A two-hour finale airs May 14, after which James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams and Joshua Jackson will begin weighing offers from Celebrity Mole and Surreal Life. |
AUDIENCES GET RECRUITED
Colin Farrell's got another excuse to party this morning! His spy thriller The Recruit, co-starring Al Pacino, opened in first place at the box office over the weekend with $16.5 million. Final Destination 2 debuted in second place with $16.2 million, followed by the new motorcycle flick Biker Boyz (No. 3 with $10.1 million). Rounding out the top five: Kangaroo Jack (No. 4 with $9 million) and Darkness Falls (No. 5 with $7.5 million). Sorry folks, but it's hard to get excited about any of these films. |
GANDHI GAFFE
MTV issued an apology to the people of India on Friday for offending them with its new comedy Clone High, USA, which features a "horny" character named "Gandhi." The series is set at a fictional high school populated by clones of historic figures. MTV said it has the "the utmost respect for Gandhi," adding that Clone High was intended only for an American audience "where this form of comedy is common." In a related aside, I'm still bitter that Gandhi won the Oscar for best film over E.T. in 1982. |
HOLLYWOOD REACTS
Following Saturday's tragic space shuttle disaster, Paramount Pictures quickly pulled trailers for its upcoming movie The Core from theaters. The promo for the sci-fi thriller, which stars Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart, showed a space shuttle in jeopardy. The studio, however, still plans to release the film on March 28. |
CARTOON KUDOS
The acclaimed Japanese animated film Spirited Away was the big winner at Saturday's Annie Awards, picking up trophies for best feature film, writing, music and direction. DreamWorks's similarly-titled (but far inferior) Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron also fared well, receiving awards for character design, effects animation, production design and storyboarding. |
ISN'T THIS HOW RUMORS GET STARTED?
Kevin Kline is playing gay again. The actor — who fell for Tom Selleck in 1997's In & Out — will portray composer and songwriter Cole Porter in De-Lovely, a big-screen biopic to be directed by Irwin Winkler. According to Variety, the film will focus on how a gay man found his musical inspiration from the woman he married. (Insert proverbial Liza Minnelli-David Gest joke here.) |
PEACOCK PRIDE
Buoyed by a special supersized Friends, NBC handily won the first night of February sweeps on Thursday. The Emmy-winning sitcom attracted 25.6 million viewers, making it the evening's second most-watched show behind CBS's CSI, which drew 27.5 million crime-scene addicts. |
THE ART OF WAR
Sotheby's is suing Michael Jackson for reneging on a deal to purchase two 19th-century paintings he won at auction last October. Apparently, the baby-dangler thinks the artwork — which he bid $1.3 million for — no longer fits into his collection. Here's my advice to Jacko: Pay for the art and then toss it over a fifth floor balcony. |
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