What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday


Updated 12/23/08 2:43 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 7 comments

New on DVD December 23: The Women, Burn After Reading, Hamlet 2

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. Burn After Reading The Coen brothers do criminals well and in this film they got an impressive group of actors to play "accidental" criminals in a very funny way. Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand play Chad Read more

Nicolas Cage Tops a Slow Weekend Box Office


Updated 09/08/08 4:45 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Box Office News 2008-09-08 09:45:46

Well, the Fall movie season came in with a whimper. According to Variety, "The first weekend after Labor Day is always sluggish, but this year the frame was affected by the start of the NFL football season and was particularly dreary." Bangkok Dangerous came in at No. 1, but it only earned an estimated $7.8 million and narrowly beat Tropic Thunder, which earned an estimated $7.5 million. The Read more

Tropic Thunder Is No. 1 For the Second Week in a Row


Updated 08/25/08 4:20 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Box Office News 2008-08-25 08:15:55

Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder won the top spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, earning an estimated $16.1 million. This makes Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight the only movies to have stayed at No. 1 for two consecutive weeks this Summer (so that's two major box office winners for Robert Downey Jr.!). Following closely behind in the No. 2 spot was The House Bunny, Read more

What to Download: New Music on iTunes


Updated 07/30/08 8:16 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

New Music on iTunes 2008-07-29 14:30:27

Tuesdays are big in entertainment-ville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here are today's selections: Rock me: The buzzed-about upcoming comedy Hamlet 2, about a high school musical sequel to Shakespeare's Read more

Link Time! 4/17


Updated 04/18/08 7:17 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 4 comments

Link Time! 4/17

Maura Tierney apparently wants her character to be killed off ER, so TV Squad wonders: How should Abby die? FilmExperience has the lowdown on Baz Luhrmann's challenge for young filmmakers. According to Cinematical, there's now an R-rated trailer up for one of this year's most well-received Sundance movies, Hamlet 2. Vulture has video of Jason Segel's five best moments on the short-lived series Read more

Hamlet 2, American Teen Among First Big Deals at Sundance


Updated 01/24/08 4:43 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Hamlet 2, American Teen Among First Big Deals at Sundance

Buying started slow at Sundance this year, but things started picking up on Tuesday. Check out a rundown of some recent acquisitions: Hamlet 2, which stars Steve Coogan as a high school drama teacher, sold to Focus Features for $10 million — making it one of the biggest deals ever in the history of Sundance and putting it in the same league as Little Miss Sunshine. I didn't get to see this Read more

Hamlet 2: The Teen Comedy


Updated 09/11/07 4:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Hamlet 2: The Teen Comedy

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. Variety brings us news of a little something called Hamlet 2 (yes, as in a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet), a film starring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. The project will be the first produced by Eric Eisner's (son of former Disney chief Michael Eisner) production company L+E. What's the deal? The movie is a high school comedy focusing on "a Read more

Announcing the 2012 Grammy Award Nominations


Updated 02/09/12 3:41 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

2012 Grammy Nominees Full List

For the second year in a row, the Recording Academy has given a hip-hop artist the most Grammy nominations. Last year, it was rapper Eminem with eight, and this year, Kanye West leads the nominees with seven chances at the golden gramophone, including a song of the year nod for "All of the Lights." West is also nominated twice in the rap album of the year category for his collaboration with Jay-Z Read more