Drew Barrymore to Swim With the Fishes


Updated 10/03/11 2:47 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

Drew Barrymore to Star in Universal's Everybody Loves Whales Directed by Ken Kwapis

Hot off winning a Golden Globe for HBO's Grey Gardens, Drew Barrymore is going back to the big screen. The actress is eying the role of a Greenpeace activist for Everybody Loves Whales, a Universal film following real-life events in 1988 when a group of whales got trapped under ice in the Arctic Circle. But this isn't just an environmental film — the incident also took a political turn, Read more

Buzz News Roundup, 6/5


Updated 06/22/10 9:48 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 1 comment

Buzz News Roundup, 6/5

Fox will still air an episode of Mental guest-starring David Carradine despite the actor's death this week. — Washington Post Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan. and Chris Cooper are set to star alongside Robert Pattinson in Remember Me. — Variety Screen Gems has set Lisa Kudrow, Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley and several others to join Emma Stone and Amanda Bynes in the comedy Read more

NBC Might Be Getting "Outsourced"


Updated 10/09/07 12:20 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 3 comments

NBC Might Be Getting "Outsourced"

In our second movie-into-TV-series development of the week so far, NBC is developing a series based on the indie comedy Outsourced, to be directed by Ken Kwapis. The movie, which just came out in limited release in the U.S., is the story of a Seattle call center manager who learns that his entire office is being outsourced to India — and he has to move overseas to train his replacement. It's Read more

The Many(?) Facial Expressions of John Krasinski


Updated 09/03/07 2:12 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 18 comments

The Many(?) Facial Expressions of John Krasinski

John Krasinski's eye rolls, thin-mouthed smirks and baffled glances are some of the most consistently funny things about "The Office." But how many faces can our favorite everyman actually make? Well, according to Krasinski's License to Wed director, Ken Kwapis, there's a finite number of contortions: six. In a half-serious, half-jokey interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kwapis confined Read more

Drew Barrymore to Produce Self-Help Movie


Updated 08/27/07 12:49 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

Drew Barrymore to Produce Self-Help Movie

Drew Barrymore's Flower Films is set to produce He's Just Not That Into You, an adaptation of the ladies' guide to dating by "Sex and the City" writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. You may recall this concept from the show, when Miranda — usually an extremely logical character — is amazed by the possibility that if a guy isn't acting interested, it could be as simple as ... he's just not Read more