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Movie Preview: Linney, Neeson and Banderas in The Other Man

BuzzSugar — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:30:00 -0700

The Other Man is directed by Notes on a Scandal's Richard Eyre, and it seems to feature that movie's same ominous and disturbing tone. I like that the cast includes some of my favorite actors: Laura Linney, Liam Neeson and Antonio Banderas, along with Atonement's Romola Garai. But what I like most about the trailer for this film is that I don't feel as though I've seen the entire movie in the preview. The suspenseful aspect of this movie may still be intact when I go to watch it.

Neeson plays Peter, a man who becomes obsessed with tracking down the man (Banderas) who is having an affair with his wife (Linney). It sounds basic enough and perhaps it is, but the trailer makes it seem like there might be something more to this thriller/mystery. The Other Man will apparently have a limited release in the US starting Sept. 25. To check out the preview, read more.

Buzz News Roundup, 5/11

BuzzSugar — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:30:13 -0700

Leighton Meester and Ryan Reynolds are among the latest presenters announced for the MTV Movie Awards. - Zap2it
ABC has officially picked up the Joseph Fiennes series Flash Forward. - TV Guide
Matthew Goode has been cast in Ricky Gervais's Cemetery Junction, a comedy-drama about 1970s insurance salesmen. - Reuters
Gary Unmarried's creator has left the show. - The Hollywood Reporter
Hulu is now doing so well that it's making TV networks and studios anxious. - LA Times
Antonio Banderas will star in the neo-noir detective movie The Big Bang. - Variety
Warner Brothers is teaming up with Facebook to allow users to watch Watchmen simultaneously. - The Hollywood Reporter

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Awww - Puss in Boots Spinoff in the Works!

BuzzSugar — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:30:54 -0800

"How many cats can wear boots? Honestly!" - Shrek, Shrek 2

I know many people love Donkey in the Shrek movies, but my heart belongs to Puss in Boots, "the feline assassin/swordsman" voiced hilariously by Antonio Banderas. So this news delights me: There's a Puss in Boots movie spinoff in the works, and it just got TV writer Tom Wheeler to do the script.

No plot details yet, but I don't care. I could watch Puss - and the gingerbread man! - for hours. I certainly prefer this movie to yet another Shrek installment (the fourth is set to hit theaters in May of 2010). What do you think about a Puss in Boots movie? Totally adorable? Or unoriginal? To watch some of my favorite Puss moments, read more.

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Buzz News Roundup, 11/7

BuzzSugar — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:31:04 -0800

Fox has announced its Winter schedule, and is moving "houses" with Dollhouse on Fridays and House on Mondays. - Zap2it
Antonio Banderas is in talks to portray Salvador Dali in the indie biopic, Dali. - Variety
Dylan McDermott will play the lead in a TNT pilot called The Line, about a group of undercover LAPD officers. - The Hollywood Reporter
HBO has bought the rights to a documentary about Barack Obama that's been in the works since 2006. - AP
In other Obama-related news, Bruce Springsteen's next album is expected for release around the time of Obama's January inauguration. - Billboard
Reiko Aylesworth is in talks to join the cast of Lost as "Amy, a smart and successful professional woman with a love for the outdoors who is looking for the right man." - ComingSoon
Annette Bening and Naomi Watts will star together in Mother and Child, a drama from writer and director Rodrigo Garcia. - ComingSoon
ABC won't air the Alyssa Milano comedy Single with Parents. - Variety

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Buzz News Roundup, 10/1

BuzzSugar — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:31:59 -0700

Comedy Central has renewed "Lil' Bush" and "Mind of Mencia," Zap2it reports.
Variety has the news that Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas will be starring together in the caper drama The Code.
According to Hollywood Reporter, NBC has picked up a drama series based on the Daniel Dafoe classic novel Robinson Crusoe.
Eve's next album, which was pushed from August to October, now won't be released until sometime 2008, for unexplained reasons, Billboard reports.
"Grey's Anatomy" is the most expensive show for advertisers this fall, Mediaweek reports, but it still can't touch "American Idol."
Nelson Mandela's next international AIDS awareness concert will be held in Johannesburg on Dec. 1, writes the AP.
Dakota Blue Richards, the 13-year-old actress starring soon in The Golden Compass, has been cast in The Secret of Moonacre, based on the classic children's novel The Little White Horse, Variety reports.
In TV casting news, Lourdes Benedicto has joined "Cashmere Mafia" to play the love interest for Bonnie Somerville's character, writes the Hollywood Reporter. Meanwhile, former "Invasion" star Eddie Cibrian will show up on two new shows, Zap2it reports, playing the love interest each time.

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The Results Are In: Recast "I Love Lucy"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:29:16 -0700

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

I was delighted by way too many of the recast ideas for "I Love Lucy" to name them all here, but I do want to make some shout-outs before running out of room! I was highly impressed with some of the non-Debra Messing ideas for Lucy, such as K2's Kelly Ripa, Livience's Amy Adams and most of all the popular choice of Isla Fisher. I also liked many of the Ethel casting choices, like Marcia Gay Harden selected by prbeachbum, and ddene5713's pick of Kate Winslet. Finally, I think Pinkflats is onto something with casting John Leguizamo as Ricky.
My favorite list overall, however, comes from pepperatstate! In the end, I do think Debra Messing would make a perfect Lucy, and pepperatstate's other choices are great too. So to see who she picked along with a new cast photo, read more

pepperatstate's cast:
Lucy - Debra Messing
Ethel - Jane Krakowski
Ricky - Antonio Banderas
Fred - Chris Noth

P.S. - Praise is also in order for marebare's very own self-made recast photo! Nice job, marebare!

Shrek the Third: Pretty Good... For a Sequel

BuzzSugar — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:42:51 -0700

I'd actually expected really good things from Shrek the Third, but it turns out this is a case of the funniest bits being in the trailer. Sure, the movie succeeds in the way all Shrek movies do: there's plenty of kid humor (physical gags, farts, etc.) and adult humor (cultural references, puns galore, songs we recognize) all played out with colorful animated fairy tale characters. In this sense, Shrek the Third is perfectly satisfying as a family movie everyone can enjoy. But is it as good as the first Shrek movie was? Nah.

At the movie's start, Shrek and Fiona are filling in for the ailing king of Far, Far Away with the help of Puss in Boots, Donkey and Donkey's brood of half-donkeys/half-dragons. Shrek and Fiona find the job of running a kingdom not to their liking, so when the king reveals that there is another heir to the throne, Arthur (or Artie as the bullies at his high school know him), Shrek sets off to make Artie the new king. In the meantime, Prince Charming is still determined to be king and rallies all the fairy tale villains to help him storm the kingdom. This doesn't sit well with the princesses, however, who take matters into their own hands rather than waiting for their men to rescue them. That's not all there is to this movie, though, so read more

As usual, the characters are lovably hilarious in the ways we've come to expect, with my personal favorites being Puss in Boots and the Gingerbread Man (who gets some more screen time in this one, to my delight). Yet as for the story lines, everything feels slightly forced. The element of discovery is gone, as is any interesting story development, since Shrek and his previously unlikely friendships with Donkey and Puss have been fully established, and ways to up the ante now are becoming limited.

The writers did well to push the stories forward by having the happily married Fiona and Shrek on the fast track to starting a family. In addition, there are new takes on old things, like the princesses breaking free from convention which, small thing though it may seem to be, I truly appreciate. I grew up on the old kinds of fairy tales complete with ladies waiting to be rescued, and it's nice to see new material with a message of strength and independence rather than helplessness. Also, there's a new spin on the concept of fairy tale villains, which is refreshing, even if the villains' storyline ends abruptly and without real reason. So, while most of the movie feels like a stretch they don't need to be making, it's a cute movie featuring some endearing characters, which is really all kids ask for. And for all its adultish cleverness, the Shrek movies are still kids' movies.

Photos courtesy of Paramount Pictures