January 5, 2007

Rejection of the Nerds

By PETER MONAGHAN

College dweebs will be deprived of a replay of revenge on bullying football players: Filming of a remake of the 1984 teenage hit Revenge of the Nerds has ceased.

Last month Fox Atomic, a teenage-market branch of 20th Century Fox — and purveyor of the current schlock-shock flick Turistas — called off the relatively low-budget, $12.5-million project.

Producers packed up and left Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, Ga., after two weeks of work. They had begun

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