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Announcing the, Um, "Winners": The 2009 Razzies

BuzzSugar — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:50:38 -0800

On the day when we celebrate Hollywood's finest, let's also take a moment to celebrate its worst. The 2009 Razzies were presented on Saturday, dinging The Love Guru with the title of Worst Picture and putting three separate awards in Paris Hilton's hands.

Hilton was named both Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress, plus she nabbed a share of Worst Screen Couple for The Hottie and the Nottie. Meanwhile, The Love Guru ended up with three total awards as well, adding Worst Actor and Worst Screenplay to its haul. Amazingly, The Happening emerged unscathed, despite its four nominations.

To check out a full list of (dubious) honorees, just read more.

WORST PICTURE
The Love Guru

WORST ACTOR
Mike Myers, The Love Guru

WORST ACTRESS
Paris Hilton, The Hottie and the Nottie

WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia!

WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Paris Hilton, Repo: The Genetic Opera

WORST SCREEN COUPLE
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, The Hottie and the Nottie

WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIPOFF, OR SEQUEL
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

WORST DIRECTOR
Uwe Boll, 1968: Tunnel Rats, In the Name of the King, and Postal

WORST SCREENPLAY
The Love Guru, written by Mike Myers & Graham Gordy

WORST CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Uwe Boll

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Buzz News Roundup, 8/15

BuzzSugar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:30:38 -0700

Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black are filming a pilot for Comedy Central. - Zap2it
Mike Myers is joining the peculiar cast (Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak) for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. - ComingSoon
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame annex will open in downtown Manhattan. - Billboard
Sigourney Weaver will play a therapist on Eli Stone, while Audrina Patridge will guest-star on Do Not Disturb. - TV Guide
Liam Neeson and possibly Javier Bardem will join Orlando Bloom in the untitled dramatic film about Sarajevo. - Variety
David Duchovny and Tea Leoni will star together in the comedy Born to Rock. - Hollywood Reporter
Director Matthew Vaughn will direct an adaptation of the comic book Kick-Ass, with Christopher Mintz-Plasse in negotiations to star. - ComingSoon
Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne is suing John McCain and the Republican party for using his song "Running on Empty" in a TV commercial. - Billboard
Claire Danes will play Temple Grandin in an HBO biopic. - Hollywood Reporter

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Buzz News Roundup, 8/1

BuzzSugar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:29:57 -0700

Lisa Bonet has joined the cast of Life on Mars as the main character's girlfriend, Entertainment Weekly reports.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Colin Firth is joining the next film version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
ComingSoon reports that Mike Myers is writing the fourth Austin Powers movie.
Billboard has details about the first album from The Verve in more than a decade.
Law & Order creator Dick Wolf is working on another project about lawyers for NBC, Zap2it reports.
The action-fantasy film Prince of Persia, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, has been pushed back a year and will now open Memorial Day weekend 2010, Variety writes.
The Hollywood Reporter has the news that Nicolas Cage and director John Carpenter will team up for prison thriller Scared Straight.
According to ComingSoon, the script for the dramedy Ivy Chronicles, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, is being written by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.

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BuzzSugar — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:30:51 -0700

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The Love Guru: Oh, Hell No

BuzzSugar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:32:19 -0700

I'm having a hard time with the old axiom "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all" while figuring out how to share my thoughts on the new Mike Myers comedy (and by the way, that categorization is a stretch) The Love Guru. I have to be honest, I've been sitting on this for a few days now, and I'm hard-pressed to find a single decent thing to say about it. There is juvenile, there is crude, there is downright not funny. . . and then there is this movie.

In addition to the general unfunniness, watching The Love Guru is practically unbearable due to the desperation that permeates the entire film. It's hard to tell if Myers realized most of the shticks were lame, or if he felt that because he's Mike Meyers people will laugh, so he has carte blanche to go as low as he's ever felt like going. The camera is so close to his face for so much of the film, we see every bit of manic energy going into each line, and he uses this intense stare to practically will (or beg?) us to find it all hilarious. It's sad. And uncomfortable. Not even Justin Timberlake in speedos with a funny Canadian accent can salvage this attempt at humor.

If you're curious about what I found specifically mind boggling about this movie, read more.

Here's what's baffling to me: it's not like the world of self-actualization and New Age philosophies (not to mention the rabid celebrity followings these things can sometimes attract) aren't easy targets for comedians. I'm curious why Myers didn't create a ridiculous hybrid of these "gurus" as a way of perhaps poking fun at the self-help industry. Instead he goes way over the top into Indian culture and Hinduism, and if I wasn't reeling from the idiocy of the jokes I probably would have noticed that I was also offended. We're talking about Indians fighting each other with urine and eating "weird" foods that look like a man's scrotum, not to mention lame attempts at Bollywood-style musical numbers.

In the end, the worst crime committed by Myers is a strange, self-obsessed unwillingness to edit himself at all. In fact, he laughs at his own jokes three out of four times throughout the movie. And in an eerie twist, it's as if he knows we're not laughing because he drills many of the gags into the ground, I guess using some nutty rationale that the 90th time's the charm. For example, his greeting to all his subjects is the name of Law & Order actress, Mariska Hargitay. Everyone says "Mariska Hargitay" each time they greet each other and it's not funny. And then to prove to us that it is funny - Hello! Don't you get it? It's not a real greeting, it's the actress! Mariska Hargitay! - Mariska Hargitay herself shows up to greet Myer's character with a "Mariska Hargitay" and. . . nope, still not funny. Just annoying, now.

Whatever fine line Myers has walked in the past between base humor and staying true to the memorable (if absurd) character he's playing, he took a flying leap over it with this film and it's heartbreaking to see.

Photos courtesy of Paramount Pictures

How Did You Like Mike Myers' MTV Movie Awards Hosting?

BuzzSugar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:30:11 -0700

More than a decade after his first turn presiding over the golden popcorn, Mike Myers took his second turn as host of the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday. Much like the last time, in 1997, he delivered a dance number (a dance-off between himself and Chris Brown, vs. 1997's Lord of the Dance parody), and he and Dana Carvey also resurrected their Wayne's World characters. Now that the winners have been chosen and we're rehashing our favorite moments, I'm wondering: Did Myers make you laugh out loud - or was his hosting just a big groan?

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Superbad, Transformers Lead the 2008 MTV Movie Award Nominations

BuzzSugar — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:31:20 -0700

This year's MTV Movie Awards, airing live June 1, will mark the second time hosting for Mike Myers who said in a statement, "Hosting the MTV Movie Awards is like a party, but without having to do beer runs in your mom's minivan." He then added, "We do beer runs in Will Smith's four-story motor home."

Today we have a full list of the nominated movies vying for the Golden Popcorn statues at this year's "party." Awesomely, Michael Cera is all over this list, for both Superbad and Juno. Shia LaBeouf is also well-represented, as is Amy Adams. Superbad leads several nominations, with a bunch of Juno, Enchanted and Transformers rounding out the rest.

I was slightly surprised to see some titles included in the list, like No Country for Old Men, American Gangster and Sex and the City: The Movie. Maybe I'm not too clear on who the audience is for MTV. . .Can they even get into these movies?

Anyway, now that the nominations have been announced, you can cast your votes for which movies should win over on the MTV Movie Awards site. To check out a full list of nominees, read more.

Best Comedic Performance
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Jonah Hill, Superbad
Seth Rogen, Knocked Up
Adam Sandler, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry

Best Female Performance
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Jessica Biel, I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up
Keira Knightley, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ellen Page, Juno

Best Fight
Alien vs. Predator, Alien vs. Predator: Survival of the Fittest
Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell, Jumper
Matt Damon vs. Joey Ansah, The Bourne Ultimatum
Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet, Never Back Down
Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco, Spider-Man 3
Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan vs. Sun Ming Ming, Rush Hour 3

Best Kiss
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey, Enchanted
Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman, Step Up 2 the Streets
Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer, Disturbia
Ellen Page and Michael Cera, Juno
Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Best Male Performance
Michael Cera, Juno
Matt Damon, The Bourne Ultimatum
Shia LaBeouf, Transformers
Will Smith, I Am Legend
Denzel Washington, American Gangster

Best Movie
I Am Legend
Juno
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Superbad
Transformers

Best Summer Movie So Far
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Sex And The City: The Movie
Speed Racer

Best Villain
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Topher Grace, Spider-Man 3
Angelina Jolie, Beowulf
Denzel Washington, American Gangster

Breakthrough Performance
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Chris Brown, This Christmas
Michael Cera, Superbad
Zac Efron, Hairspray
Megan Fox, Transformers
Jonah Hill, Superbad
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad
Seth Rogen, Knocked Up

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TV Tonight: Shrek the Halls

BuzzSugar — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:30:00 -0800

It's not even a week since Thanksgiving, but Christmas special season is well underway on ABC. The network aired the classic Charlie Brown Christmas on Tuesday, and tonight brings our first look at the newest animated holiday special, Shrek the Halls.

The whole original Shrek gang - including Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz - is around for this half-hour special, which finds Shrek struggling to get into the holiday spirit. Who would have known Shrek wasn't much for decked halls and mistletoe? Of course, Donkey, Puss in Boots and the rest of the clan will rally the silly ogre into yuletide shape before the end of the half-hour. Maybe this will turn out to be a holiday classic - but even if it's not, we can recover by watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas immediately after. (Pushing Daisies follows at 9 p.m., while Private Practice takes the night off.)

Will you be tuning in for Shrek's take on the Christmas season? You can check out a preview of the special on ABC's site.

Photo courtesy of ABC

"The Daily Show"'s John Oliver Joins Love Guru Cast

BuzzSugar — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:26:52 -0700

I just love this guy.
John Oliver is one of the greatest, funniest, dead-panniest parts of "The Daily Show" so I am thrilled to see that he's been cast in a real movie!

However...
Said movie is The Love Guru, in which Oliver will star alongside Mike Myers, Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake. In addition to Oliver, Meagan Goode and Ben Kingsley have joined the cast.

What are they all doing in this movie?
Good question! Oliver has been cast as a gentleman named Dick Pants, a "manager whose goal is to get the Love Guru on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' to settle a rivalry between his client and Deepak Chopra."

Kingsley, who's been making odd choices lately, is playing "Guru Tugginmypudha, the ashram leader who teaches the title character (Myers) how to love himself and how to wear a chastity belt."

Meanwhile, Goode is playing a woman named Prudence who trades one hockey boyfriend (Romany Falco) for another (Timberlake).

So...
There's no shortage of cheeky names and silly premises, but I'm probably still going to see this - especially now that Oliver's climbed on board.

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Justin Timberlake Joins Myers & Alba in "Love Guru"

Molly — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:36:23 -0700

Justin Timberlake in a movie that might not be totally laughable? He has signed on to costar in Love Guru alongside Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Romany Malco (from "Weeds") and Verne Troyer.

Will it be better than Alpha Dog and Black Snake Moan? We can only hope.

But will he be dreamy? Well, here's the plot. Myers plays a Love Guru raised in India who is hired to provide marriage counseling to a hockey player on a losing streak. The wife of the hockey player gets back at her husband by going after a rival player, played by Timberlake. Uhh, hopefully it translate better on screen.

The upside? Myers hasn't been in a live action movie since The Cat In The Hat (which barely counts). It might be awesome to have him back, right? I'll withhold judgment until I see a preview.

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