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Link Time - Pierce Brosnan Teams Up With Stephen King

BuzzSugar — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:43:47 PDT

Pierce Brosnan will star in Stephen King's new miniseries - The Hollywood Reporter
Catch the first look at Beavis and Butthead's return to TV -/Film
Ricky Gervais is set to play God in his new TV show -Aol TV
Check out new artwork featuring Robert Downey Jr. and others from the Avengers - Moviefone
Just how far did Comic-Con's attendees go to watch the Captain America screening? - Rotten Tomatoes
Get in the mood for Summer loving with these films about romances that bloomed during the season - TrèsSugar
Man of Steel's release date is pushed back -MTV
Will Steve Carell team up with Nicolas Cage and Jack Black for a movie project? - Deadline

Link Time! New Moon Breaks Midnight Sales Records

BuzzSugar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:38 PST

New Moon tops Harry Potter and The Dark Knight for its midnight showing ticket sales - PopSugar
Is Taylor Kitsch taking an early departure from Friday Night Lights? - Ausiello Files
Top 10 star-crossed lovers in film - Rotten Tomatoes
30 Rock's Judah Friedlander talks about his hat collection and his plans to save NBC - TV.com
Steven Spielberg and Stephen King team up to frighten the bejesus out of us with Under the Dome - MTV Movies Blog
Vampire Weekend debut their new video for "Cousins" - Stereogum
Jason Segel sings about how he wants to give you his phone number - and bed you - TresSugar
Imogen Heap writes songs for Zach Braff - Spinner

Buzz's Favorite Stephen King Adaptations

BuzzSugar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:15:00 PDT

Just in time for Halloween (aka scary movie) season, Stephen King is taking his work to the small screen again. His novella, The Colorado Kid will be adapted into a series called Haven. The prolific writer has seen tons of his short stories and novels turned into movies and miniseries over the years. Though he's largely known as a horror writer, some of my favorite King-written material isn't horror at all - see what I've picked as my favorite movies adapted from Stephen King's work.

Celeb Geeks: Stars Who Love the Kindle

GeekSugar — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:02:16 PDT

Welcome to the world, new Kindle DX! In celebration of the third-generation of the eBook reader, I thought I'd also highlight who else loves it: celebs! Check out the famous folks who have been spotted with the Kindle or sung its praises.

Say What?

TresSugar — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:00:00 PDT

"I love my life and my wife and kids, but I've always been somewhat quasi-suicidal, constantly wanting to push things past the edge."

-Stephen King in Haunted Heart: The Biography of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak, to be published by JR Books on May 16. Among the revelations from the "King of Horror": many of his books were written in cocaine-fueled, alcohol-soaked, cigarette-fumed (two packs a day!) jags in which he would type while sitting in pools of blood.

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IT Is Back, This Time on the Big Screen

BuzzSugar — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:30:42 PDT

Coulrophobics (those with a clown phobia), beware: That freaky clown from Stephen King's IT is back - and this time on the big screen instead of in an ABC mini-series. Warner Bros. plans to adapt King's novel for film and has hired Dave Kajganich to make his directorial debut with the scary movie.

The story "centers on seven children in a small Maine town who confront the source of a series of murders in 1958 and again in 1985, when the cycle begins again."

Yikes - I'm not sure I can go through this again! Did you see the IT miniseries back in the day? Do you have that bright orange hair and terrifying clowny face of Pennywise seared into your brain, too?

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Buzz In: What Is the Scariest Movie You've Ever Seen?

BuzzSugar — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:14 PDT

'Tis the season (and now the day!) to be scared out of your mind! While some people might be headed out to party the night away, many folks will get together to watch terrifying movies tonight. Of course, what scares people in movies varies from person to person. The suspense of a movie like Psycho turns some into a ball of nerves. For others, the idea of being possessed by a demonic spirit, as in the classic scary movie The Exorcist, will do the trick.

Personally, I still feel a chill down my spine when I think of the creepy, snowed-in hotel in Stephen King's The Shining and I'd prefer to not even talk about 28 Days Later because it was too traumatizing. Now it's your turn: What is hands-down the scariest movie you've ever seen?

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Movie News Roundup: Stephen King, Kevin Spacey, Sam Raimi Get Busy

BuzzSugar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:36:49 PDT

Lots of intriguing movie news coming out of Hollywood today:

Kevin Spacey will star in the indie film Shrink as a depressed therapist who likes to ah, partake of the ganja. (A pot-smoking therapist? That sounds familiar.) His clients in the movie will include "Hollywood characters" like Robin Williams, Keke Palmer, Laura Ramsey and Gore Vidal, among others.
Columbia and Sam Raimi will team up together again after their Spider-Man ventures for yet another adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel. Lehane's books make excellent screenplays, apparently, as Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and the upcoming DiCaprio-Scorsese project Shutter Island have all been adapted. Next up, Raimi will direct a film version of The Given Day, which follows Boston cops in 1919.
Speaking of adaptations, the rights to an as-yet-unpublished Stephen King novella Throttle - which he wrote with his son Joe Hill - have already been optioned. The story is about "father-son members of a motorcycle gang that's chased through the desert by an 18-wheel tanker truck." The novella will be a part of a 2009 anthology dedicated to I Am Legend author Richard Matheson.

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Broadway Musical News: The Couger Meets Cujo

BuzzSugar — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:29:36 PST

Who knew Stephen King and John Mellencamp had anything in common, much less a desire to write a Broadway musical together? Not I, but apparently it's true, and the two men are collaborating on a musical theater project, scheduled to debut in April 2009, titled Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.

The story follows the legend that grows out of the tragic death of two brothers and a girl in the fictional town of Lake Belle Reve, Miss. The basic musical idea was originally Mellencamp's. He knew he needed a writer to help bring it to the stage and quickly thought of King.

While audiences have seen ghosts and gore on stage before (think Sweeney Todd) spokespeople for the production say this is a touching tale - more Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, less Carrie.

What do you guys think? Discuss.

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BuzzSugar's Must-Haves for January

BuzzSugar — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:28:27 PST

Happy 2008 and welcome to BuzzSugar's monthly must-haves, where I show off a handful of the things I'm most looking forward to watching, buying, renting and reading. I'm hoping to start the new year off right with the following goodies.

To see why these six things are at the top of my list, just

2008 Sundance Film Festival - Not so much a "must-have" as a "must-go," the lineup for the Sundance Film Festival this year has me drooling. I can't wait to be in Park City, Utah in a few weeks, getting a first look at the industry's best independent films.
The Magnetic Fields: Distortion - This album, out Jan. 15, is the band's first since 2004's i. While this album doesn't have an obvious theme, the two songs I've heard so far, "Three-Way" and "California Girls," hint at a new musical direction - with Stephin Merritt's acerbic lyrics blissfully intact.
3:10 to Yuma - Though it didn't make the cut as one of my top 10 favorite movies of 2007, I pretty much loved every minute of the remake of the old Western film 3:10 to Yuma starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. You can read what I loved about the movie, but you may as well just rent it when it comes out on DVD January 8 and see for yourself.
Cat Power: Jukebox - I can't wait to hear Chan Marshall's sultry voice take on a new set of cover songs on this album, out Jan. 22. Jukebox, Cat Power's second covers record, includes songs originally recorded by artists including Janis Joplin and Frank Sinatra, along with two originals. A deluxe edition includes a second disc with five bonus tracks.
Duma Key: A Novel by Stephen King - I don't totally love everything Stephen King does but that won't prevent me from checking out his next novel, Duma Key, which will hit bookstore shelves January 22. The supernatural story follows a disturbed man whose paintings take on a terrifying life of their own.
Cashmere Mafia - The buzz has been building since ABC picked up the show last May; now, Cashmere Mafia is finally getting its premiere. The show's first episode airs Jan. 6 at 10 p.m., then moves into its regular Wednesdays-at-10 time slot. In addition to giving us some relief from the writers' strike, it also sets up the battle (with NBC's forthcoming Lipstick Jungle) for the rights to be the heir to Sex and the City.