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Link Time! Rumer Willis to Romance a Major 90210 Character
- Guess who Rumer Willis's character on 90210 is going to have a girl-on-girl relationship with? — Ausiello Files
- Hulu will not start charging for content after all — PopWatch
- Zooey Deschanel will make a guest appearance on Bones — The Futon Critic
- Natalie Portman was the guest judge on Top Chef last night — test your knowledge! — YumSugar
- Dave Eggers's novel Zeitoun is going to be made into an animated film — Vulture
- The new Avatar trailer is a bit more exciting than the first — Cinematical
- Keanu Reeves will star in romantic comedy Henry's Crime with Vera Farmiga — Coming Soon
- Abigal Breslin will star as Helen Keller on Broadway, along with Alison Pill — Hollywood Crush
- Will Twilight's Anna Kendrick get a supporting actress nomination for Up in the Air?
Zombieland: The Feel-Good Zombie Flick of the Year
A Note From Buzz: With so many new movies this week, my friend Très was nice enough to apply her scary-movie expertise to review the box office's newest zombie flick.
In the United States of Zombieland, zombies outnumber people. A mad-cow tainted burger tipped the population in favor of the drooling, limping, and grunting set, and now zombies roam a crashed-car littered, empty-minimall-blighted zombiescape.
Buzz News Roundup, 9/11
- Jeff Bridges is in talks to star in a Coen Brothers remake of True Grit. — Variety
- Abigail Breslin will star in Janie Jones, as a girl abandoned by her mother at a rock concert. — The Hollywood Reporter
- Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman will reunite for a Hancock sequel.
Movie Preview: Zombieland
As I mentioned when I came back from Comic-Con, I'm not really big on zombie movies, generally speaking, but after attending the panel there for Zombieland, I'm pretty much sold on this particular zombie movie. They screened the trailer, of course, as well as some funny clips from the movie, including a great scene with Abigail Breslin and Emma Stone as sisters that actually made me kind of sad — before it turned funny. It's really the cast that makes me want to see the film: Jesse Eisenberg is the dorky little guy who gets paired up with the crazy, Southern-drawlin' Woody Harrelson, and the two make for a very fun zombie-fighting team as Eisenberg's character uses the movie to run through the rules for surviving "zombieland."
My Sister's Keeper: Climb Aboard the Weepy Express
In My Sister's Keeper, young Anna knows that she was genetically engineered and brought into this world in order to serve as a donor for her ailing sister, Kate. Well, My Sister's Keeper was engineered to make people cry — over and over and over again, for two hours. Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation, and by the end of this movie I wanted to file for emotional emancipation.
Movie Preview: My Sister's Keeper
Well, after a bit of casting drama and some commotion over the fact that the film's ending will differ from the book's, we're finally getting a real glimpse of My Sister's Keeper. The story follows a family in which one teenage daughter is very ill while the other one, learning a difficult truth about her birth, tries to become emancipated from her parents. There is, of course, much more going on in this layered, heavy family drama, and from this new trailer it looks like the film captures the intensity of the story quite well.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the the titles below, you can get to know the presidential candidates a little better with election-edition A&E Biography docs on Obama and McCain.
Young Stars Who Grew Up to Be — Gasp! — Relatively Normal
Seeing all the publicity around Kit Kittredge: An American Girl has me thinking about how normal the film's young star, Abigail Breslin, seems. She's already got an Oscar nomination and some headlining roles under her belt, and so far it's hard to imagine her winding up like so many other young actors these days, getting attention for their downward spirals rather than their stellar performances. So, as a plea to keep Breslin on the up-and-up, I thought it would be fun to check out some young stars who made good.
Did You Ever Get Into the American Girl Series?
I've already declared my love of the American Girl books, which I enjoyed mostly because they incorporated interesting historical stuff into stories about girls who — aside from the differences in time periods — were just girls like me and my friends. Now, even though I'm an adult with no kids, I'm excited to see the adorable Abigail Breslin play Kit Kittredge in the movie adaptation heading to theaters just in time for the 4th of July.
Not only did I love the books, but I was the ecstatic recipient of a Kirsten doll at one point.
Box Office: Jumper Leaps Ahead
Despite mediocre reviews (including my own) audiences were still game for director Doug Liman's sci-fi movie Jumper which earned the top spot at the box office its first weekend out. Whether it was the combined star power of Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen or the craving for an action flick this Presidents Day weekend, audiences put Jumper ahead of the rest by a long shot, grossing nearly $33.8 million, according to Variety.
The other big surprise over the weekend was the No.
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