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What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday

BuzzSugar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:30:00 -0800

There's a silver lining to TV shows going into reruns, and it's more time to watch movies! Happily, today there are a few highly-anticipated flicks, and I've gone through them to tell you What to Netflix. In addition to the three movies mentioned below, you can also catch Robert Pattinson's pre-Twilight dramedy How to Be.

Star Trek

This year's updated version of Star Trek turned the franchise on its head. With hot young things Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the beloved roles of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, the film completely changed the series' history so they could start over with a fresh new story.

It worked like gangbusters: the space-set action movie is clever, entertaining, and tons of fun. It manages to make a sex symbol out of a pointy-eared geek, whom I personally drooled over. The movie manages to pay respect to the original, so those fans are still happy, while pleasing folks who weren't fans of the first (like myself).

The DVD's got lots of extras, including deleted scenes, a special feature on casting and a gag reel.
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See two more movies releasing today when you read more.

Bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary follow up to 2006's wildly successful Borat, Bruno is more of the same: cringe-worthy setups that make for laughs. This time, though, the envelope that was pushed in the former is torn to pieces in the latter. It's not for the faint of heart or easily offended, but if you like Baron Cohen's humor, you'll appreciate the awkward-beyond-words situations.

I was torn - I wanted to laugh as hard as I did at Borat, but most of the time I was just wincing.

DVD extras include alternate and deleted scenes, as well as enhanced commentary.

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My Sister's Keeper

Need a good cry? Rent the tearjerker My Sister's Keeper. The drama stars Cameron Diaz as a mother presiding over her Leukemia-stricken daughter Kate, and the child they had in order to provide a kidney donor for Kate, Anna - who's played wonderfully by Abigail Breslin. When Anna sues her own parents for the rights to decide what to do with her own body, Diaz and her husband Jason Patric try to figure out what's really going with her.

I was definitely moved by the film, but you'd have to be made of stone not to, considering the subject matter. If you read the book, take heed: the ending in the film isn't exactly the same.

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Hollywood Halloween: 10 Costumes Inspired by This Year's Movies

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:59 -0700

Still hunting for that perfect Halloween costume? Never fear, for I am willing to share some of my ideas with you, culled from this year's flicks. Everyone loves a good pop culture reference, and the best part is that these are super easy to put together last minute. From spooky to hilarious, there's a little something for everyone, so take a look.

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Harry Potter Works Its Magic on the Box Office

BuzzSugar — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:30:25 -0700

It may be darker than ever, but Harry Potter still brings the magic at the box office. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince worked its wizardry on audiences to the tune of nearly $160 million for its first five days in the theater, with $79.5 million of that coming over the weekend.

That's not quite as strong as the five-day opening for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last month (that movie pulled in $201.2 million in its first five days), but it's the best tally yet for a Harry Potter movie.

The other big story of this weekend's box office is the fall of Bruno. Last weekend's box office winner pulled in just $8.4 million this week, finishing in fourth place. That put it behind second-place Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which brought in $17.7 million. Transformers kept up the pace with a third-place tally of $13.8 million.

In indie news, 500 Days of Summer had a solid debut with almost $840,000 from just 27 theaters. It'll be interesting to see how that movie holds up when it expands into many more theaters this weekend.

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros.

Box Office: Bruno Has the Last Laugh

BuzzSugar — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:15:28 -0700

It was an odd little lineup of possibilities at the box office over the weekend: a racy and squirm-inducing adult comedy, an animated prehistoric adventure for kids', some robot cars, slick gangsters, teens with crushes, some family drama, a proposal, a hangover and more. The racy comedy, Bruno, took in the most in box office sales for the weekend with $30.4 million, though Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (in its second weekend) was close behind with $28.5 million. Bruno also experienced a 39% drop from Friday to Saturday, "indicating that most fans turned out on opening day."

Still, co-chair/co-CEO of Media Rights Capitol (which financed and produced the film) Modi Wiczyk is pleased with the opening weekend results: "Not bad for a movie that doesn't have talking robots."

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen continues to transform everything in its path into dollar signs, coming in third place not far behind Ice Age with $24 million. Public Enemies and The Proposal took the fourth and fifth spots respectively.

Photo courtesy of Universal Studios

Bruno: Makes You Squirm More Than Think

BuzzSugar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:30:44 -0700

There are cringe-inducing comedies, and there are grossout shockfests, and then there is Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie brazenly mates both genres while thrusting in a touch of documentary and hardcore porn.

Bruno made me squirm, but not in the way that Borat did. Whereas Borat succeeded in smartly skewering the stupidity of some Americans by putting them in uncomfortable situations, Bruno doesn't live up to its working subtitle: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt. I wanted this movie to be a nervous-laughter-inducing lampoon of homophobia and Hollywood, to tip my cringe-to-pleasure scale by putting bigoted people in embarrassing situations. Unfortunately, it let me down.

Link Time! 7/9

BuzzSugar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:30:45 -0700

Are Alec Baldwin's huge "Prelude to a Kiss" glasses making a comeback? - Popwatch
Who are the best TV characters of the decade? - From Inside the Box
Awww, cute: A flipbook of pictures of Emma Watson and Hermione Granger through the years. - MTV Movies Blog
Read or heard an interview with Bruno? You probably heard one of these jokes. - Vulture
Sufjan Stevens gets back to the Chinese zodiac. - Pitchfork
Match the famous house with the movie it starred in! - CasaSugar
Who could replace Jane Lynch on Party Down? - Watch With Kristin
Presenting the top 10 princesses of sci-fi and fantasy, including Xena, Princess Buttercup and, of course, Princess Leia. - SciFi Squad

Where Does Bruno Fall on Your Cringe-to-Pleasure Scale?

BuzzSugar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:47:04 -0700

Over the weekend I got to talking with some friends about Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming movie, Bruno, and I learned that a couple of them probably won't see the movie because they find it too uncomfortable. The cringe-worthy situations that Cohen puts himself in, as Bruno and previously as Borat, are what many folks find hysterically funny, but at the same time, they can make some people squirm in a most unpleasant way.

Where does Bruno fall for you? Is it more cringe-worthy in a bad way than it is funny? Or is all the cringing just part of the fun? Or maybe you don't cringe at all!

Photo courtesy of Universal Studios

Get Ready to Cringe: Bruno Trailer Now Online

BuzzSugar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:00:44 -0700

As the new trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's next mockumentary Bruno points out, Borat is "so 2006," and we haven't had Cohen's particular brand of outrageous discomfort-inducing shenanigans since then. Well, Bruno looks like it more than makes up for lost time.

Cohen's flamboyant Austrian character Bruno travels around doing and saying crazy things to provoke people - and getting it all on film. The trailer for Bruno (which recently got an NC-17 rating) is by turns silly, uncomfortable, ridiculous and downright horrifying - you gotta see it (as long as you don't get offended easily and have headphones if watching near other people as this trailer is NSFW). For better or worse, Bruno hits theaters July 10. To check out the trailer, read more.

This is a red-band, restricted trailer, so you're required to enter in your birthday.

Buzz News Roundup, 3/30

BuzzSugar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:30:31 -0700

Jackie Chan's Karate Kid remake will be titled Kung Fu Kid. - The Huffington Post
Columbia Pictures is acquiring screen rights to The Limit, with Tobey Maguire attached to star in the story of rival Grand Prix drivers. - ComingSoon
Kathleen Turner will join Californication as Charlie's boss. - Entertainment Weekly
No, ER will not be getting a spin-off. - TV.com
Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming movie Bruno has reportedly received an NC-17 rating after its first review by the MPAA panel. - E! Online
ABC will only air six episodes of new comedy In the Motherhood this season. - Variety
Gemma Arterton will star opposite Sam Worthington in the Clash of the Titans movie. - ComingSoon
Israel is joining France, Russia, and Chile by making its own version of The Office. - The Guardian

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Buzz News Roundup, 3/11

BuzzSugar — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:30:47 -0700

Universal Pictures is headed to Austin this weekend to give South by Southwest attendees a sneak peek at Sasha Baron Cohen's movie, Bruno, at the event's Fantastic Fest. - ComingSoon
Ridley Scott has cast Scott Grimes, Kevin Durand, and Alan Doyle as the Merry Men in his Robin Hood movie. - The Hollywood Reporter
Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, and Jesse Williams will join the cast of The Cabin in the Woods, a movie written and produced by Joss Whedon. - ComingSoon
CBS is reportedly considering canceling Cold Case and Without a Trace. - TV.com
Police said Monday they confiscated about $1.2 million in illegal drugs and more than $68,000 in cash, and arrested 194 Phish fans during last weekend's three-night celebration of the band's return to the stage. - Billboard
Sean Penn is in talks to star in the gritty drama Cartel. - Variety
Fox will air an internationally produced medical series called Mental this Summer. - The Hollywood Reporter
Disney has moved up the nationwide release of The Princess and the Frog from Christmas Day to Dec. 11. - Variety
Danny Devito is planning to direct Crazy Eddie, the biography of electronics salesman Eddie Antar. - Zap2It

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