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Movie Preview: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried in Dear John

BuzzSugar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:30:22 -0700

You were all pretty split on your feelings about Channing Tatum, but we can all agree that the actor has made a name for himself as the muscle-bound sensitive guy. He gets even deeper into that archetype in Dear John, an adaption from the Nicholas Sparks novel where he plays the love interest of Amanda Seyfried.

The two fall for each other one Summer while Seyfried's character Savannah is home from college and Tatum's John is home on leave. When they have to leave each other and return to their respective obligations, they begin writing letters to keep in touch, hence the title.

Normally I would be holding my nose for this schlockfest, but I can't deny the talent of director Lasse Hallstrom, the charisma of the two leads, or the major soft spots I have for The Notebook and A Walk to Remember - movies made from Sparks books. And there's another bonus: Six Feet Under's Richard Jenkins as John's dad. To watch the trailer and decide if it's going to be a cheesy mess or a heart-tugger, just read more.

Link Time!

BuzzSugar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:30:52 -0700

Check out the Dear John poster with Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried - Cinematical
The New Moon soundtrack is moving up its release to Oct. 16, four days early - PopSugar Rush
Supermarket tabloid Weekly World News might get a TV show - Movieline
Carrie Underwood is getting her own variety show on Fox - TV Squad
Watch the sneak peek of Neil Patrick Harris voicing the evil Music Meister on The Cartoon Network's Batman - The Ausiello Files
Cancelled show Southland might be moving to TNT - Vulture
Reno 911 and The State's Thomas Lennon has been tapped for his own NBC comedy - Coming Soon
Janet Jackson's greatest hits collection will contain a new single - Zap 2 It
Fox reassures fans that it'll show all 13 of this season's episodes of Dollhouse - The AV Club
The top five movie gunfights, with video clips - Rotten Tomatoes

More Nicholas Sparks Movies? Really?

BuzzSugar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:30:42 -0800

We all know that author Nicholas Sparks wrote The Notebook, which became a movie starring the sweet duo Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Before The Notebook Sparks's novel Message in a Bottle became a movie. Later came A Walk to Remember starring Mandy Moore, and this year his book Nights in Rodanthe arrived on the big screen towing Richard Gere and Diane Lane in its wake.

Now there are not one, but two more Sparks-induced movies in the works: Dear John and the recently announced adaptation of The Lucky One.

Sparks's writing is rather recognizable now for its combination of desperate romance and heartbreaking tragedy. Do you like these movies? Do you think they'll work if they have a good combination of actors (like Ryan and Rachel)? Or should we just stop with the Nicholas Sparks already?

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Listen Up: Loney Dear, "Airport Surroundings"

BuzzSugar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:30:20 -0800

Loney Dear's 2007 album, Loney, Noir, was one of those slow growers in my music collection, an album that took me a while to love but eventually became one of my frequent listens. Even so, the Swedish band's songs seemed to fall into one of two categories for me: the ones I couldn't get enough of ("I Am John") and the ones that were pretty enough but kind of same-y (basically the second half of Loney, Noir).

So I'm glad that "Airport Surroundings," the first track I've heard off Loney Dear's upcoming album, falls into the former category. It has a more synth-y beat than I was expecting, and a somewhat gruffer sound. The lyrics seem fairly depressing, but the rhythm and especially the horn section that pops up in the second half of the song practically guarantee that this will make it onto my workout playlist. Loney Dear's new album Dear John will be out Jan. 27, and to hear "Airport Surroundings," read more.

Airport surroundings - Loney dear

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Hallstrom, Tatum and Sparks Team Up for Dear John

BuzzSugar — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:01:24 -0700

I can confidently say that Lasse Hallstrom has become one of my most well-respected directors over time. I loved Chocolat, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and last year's indie film The Hoax, and I have a lot of respect for The Cider House Rules and The Shipping News. So whenever there's news about a Hallstrom project, I sit up and pay attention.

Now Hallstrom is signed on to direct Channing Tatum in an adaptation of Nick Sparks' bestselling novel Dear John. According to Variety, the story follows "a soldier who, while home on leave, falls for a conservative college student." Tatum will play the soldier, though there's no word yet on who will play his leading lady.

I tend to think of Sparks' books as sentimental weepies and while I liked the movie version of The Notebook, frankly I barely got through A Walk to Remember. But who knows? Maybe Channing and whoever is cast as the "conservative college student" will become the next Ryan and Rachel!

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Movie Preview: Miley Cyrus in The Last Song

BuzzSugar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:56 -0800

Are you ready for your second Nicholas Sparks movie preview in as many months? (Last month's was the romance Dear John.) Here it is: The Last Song stars Miley Cyrus (cue The Soup's "It's Miley!" sound bite) as a girl who's dropped off at the home of her estranged father to spend the Summer. Obviously she doesn't want to be there, obviously she falls for a local boy, and obviously she and her father end up bonding.

You couldn't call me a Miley fan, but I do love Greg Kinnear, who plays her well-meaning father. From the trailer, the movie looks very sweet and very schlocky - which is exactly how Sparks usually does it. Interestingly, Sparks was commissioned to write both the screenplay and novel simultaneously, with Cyrus in mind. While I don't know that I'll be rushing to the theater for this one, it's probably something you'd find me secretly Netflixing later on; I'm kind of a sucker for the addictive cheesiness of a Sparks movie.

Check out the trailer for The Last Song when you read more.

The Last Song comes out on April 2, 2010.

Rewind: This Week's Buzz

BuzzSugar — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:30:00 -0700

Clive Owen had a big week: He landed a new project, and he was promoting his current film The Boys Are Back all over the place. I snagged an interview with him - and I have the video footage to prove it!
The New Moon soundtrack just came out, so I poured over it to choose a few favorite songs.
Before you hit the theater, check out my reviews for Law Abiding Citizen, New York I Love You, and Where the Wild Things Are.
Love a good bromance? Check out my top 12 favorites!
The fourth (and final) round of my Scariest Movie Bracket just started, so vote!
Channing Tatum gave us a misty-eyed performance in the trailer for Dear John - and Buzz and Woody are back for Toy Story 3!
Hollywood was giddy over a new film in the Jack Ryan series with Chris Pine, so I rolled out a few picks for the Hollywood men I'd like to see in the famous role.
My Caption It feature moved over to our BuzzSugar Community, so check it out!
As a spinoff to last week's 10 Most Influential Male Characters on TV, I gave you my picks for the 10 Most Influential Women. Take a peek at the list.
Ironically enough, I asked you which So You Think You Can Dance judge you were going to miss - and then Mia Michaels up and left.
Speaking of SYTYCD, don't miss your chance to go the finale! Take this quiz to win.