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Stop the Presses: A Showgirls Sequel, for Real?

Oct 07, 2009 Comments (0)

No-Girls In news currently rocking the world of gay men everywhere comes word of a Showgirls sequel to be made in Germany, involving a stripper who dies from contaminated cocaine and starring Rena Riffel, who reprises her small role as pole dancer Hope. We hear Lindsay Lohan could use a job.
Alien Activity Writer-director Oren Peli, whose Paranormal Activity has been shaking up audiences nationwide amid Blair Witch comparisons, announced his next project is starting production next week: Area 51, about three curious teenagers exploring the New Mexico Air Force base told in similar “found footage” style. Just when you thought Hollywood had no original ideas anymore!
It’s the End of the World as We Know It Disaster got new meaning last week when Sony ~~hijacked the airwaves~~ hit all the major stations with a five-minute clip of the new disaster flick 2012. Apparently Roland Emmerich really, really hates California. And its governator.
You’re Fired! Hollywood is starring in its own disaster movie of late, as big-studio bigwigs are getting the shown da door right and left. The L.A. Times ran a good piece on the shakeups, sadly noting we’re in for yet more dumbing-down at the multiplex.
Is There a Doctor in the House? The long-awaited and pretty darn bitchin’ trailer for Heath Ledger’s last film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is finally out. Terry Gilliam, you’ve been gone for too long.