COUNTDOWN TO BOOGIE NIGHTS:
BOOGIE MINUS 1
Boogie Nights is ready to bring porn to a cable network near
you. New Line is shopping a late-night series that would bring the antics
of Dirk, Amber, Rollergirl and Buck into your house every week. HBO
was the first cable net to produce original sitcoms with "Dream On,"
the show that had almost every gorgeous up-and-coming actress in Hollywood
sleeping with a short, average-looking book editor within 10 minutes
of meeting him. In Boogie Nights: The Slut-Com, it won't take 10 minutes.
Watch Dirk as he measures his new apartment in the nude! Will Amber
ever get her hair really clean? See Rollergirl face off against Suzanne
Somers in a Thighmaster competition! Watch Buck read and use multi-syllabic
words! (Someone has to be politically correct!)
Boogie Nights burnt up the box office charts in limited release
last weekend, but from every second week, a pattern emerges. In Los
Angeles, the film was dropping quickly in the big multi-plexes, while
still growing in the smaller venues. Of course, even while dropping,
the numbers were pretty damned good. In New York, there wasn't much
change on the Westside and downtown, but there was a drop on the Eastside.
This is the first indication that Boogie Nights may have a hard
time with the mainstream in the long run. But in the short run, it still
looks solid as a... well, just solid.
Boogie Nights doesn't have the exclusive on bare bodies. The
Full Monty passed Four Weddings and a Funeral this weekend
as the most popular British film ever in the U.K. It took Monty just
eight weeks to pass the $45 million that Weddings took 22 weeks to acquire.
The Pantless Ones have taken just over $25 million here in the US. But
England's dance with flesh is far from over. The Spice Girls
movie, Spice World, is due on U.K. screens before the end of
the year. It's enough to make you drink warm beer.
Tomorrow, Boogie Nights leads the weekend preview . Meanwhile,
check out the disco dancing on Rough Cut weekly.
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