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Link Time: Hugh Jackman Not Hosting the 2010 Oscars

BuzzSugar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:30:24 -0700

Hugh Jackman has declined to host next year's Oscars - Moviefone
Spoon has announced their next album, Transference, due in January - Pitchfork
Fox has renewed American Dad for a sixth season - Coming Soon
This Is It has been certified fresh by critics - Rotten Tomatoes
Need a last-minute Halloween costume? Check out these ideas inspired by TV characters! - TV.com
Cop the '70s style from upcoming movie The Box - CasaSugar
John Rhys-Davies isn't going to be in The Hobbit prequel as a dwarf - MTV Movies Blog
Glee's Matthew Morrison, AKA Mr. Schuester, has plans to release a solo album - Access Hollywood
The first Lost promo for season six is not terribly exciting - Vulture
Get a load of the Today show hosts as the cast of Star Wars! - Best Week Ever

Link Time! 10/9

BuzzSugar — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:32:33 -0700

Is now the right time for Oliver Stone's movie W.? - Popwatch
Speaking of W., here's a list of 10 hilarious political impressions. - Vulture
Ridley Scott has confirmed that his next project will be a film adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. - Cinematical
In these tough economic times, can you stomach watching the fabulously wealthy on TV? - TV Filter
Guillermo del Toro isn't too keen on the idea of Peter Jackson helping him film The Hobbit. - MTV Movies Blog
Siiiiiiigh: More people are watching Knight Rider than Pushing Daisies. - Tuned In
Girl crush of the day: Japanese all-girl rockabilly band The 5678's. - GiggleSugar
An interview with John Francis Daley, who will always be Sam Wier to me. - The TV Addict

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Three Remakes Get Space on Guillermo del Toro's 10-Year Plan

BuzzSugar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:30:40 -0700

You want to get a meeting with Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro? Good luck. According to a story in Variety today, he's booked . . . for about the next decade.

Del Toro, who's already committed five years - five years - to directing and co-writing The Hobbit, has now lined up his next four projects for Universal after that. And they're doozies:

Del Toro will remake Frankenstein, which is apparently a personal fascination for him to the point where he "has made his home a memorabilia shrine to the Karloff monster" from the 1931 film.
He'll also remake Slaughterhouse-Five, saying it will be a more literal interpretation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel than the 1972 film was.
The third remake is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where del Toro also plans to more closely translate Robert Louis Stevenson's original work to film and "explore the addictive high the repressed Jekyll experienced as his murderous alter ego."
The fourth project - which Universal executives think will be the first one he tackles after The Hobbit - is an adaptation of the forthcoming novel Drood, in which the author speculates about what happened to Charles Dickens after he survived a major train crash.

Oh, and that's not all: He's also producing a couple of films and has some personal pet projects in the pipeline, too. There's also the possibility of another Hellboy sequel - though del Toro joked to Variety (probably accurately) that Ron Perlman will be almost 60 by the time he gets around to it. Hey, the more of del Toro's unique visual storytelling that comes to movie theaters, the happier I am; you?

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Buzz News Roundup, 1/28

BuzzSugar — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:30:45 -0800

Hollywood Reporter has news that Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy) is in talks to direct the Hobbit films that Peter Jackson will produce.
The FCC is fining ABC $1.4 million for nudity in an NYPD Blue episode that aired more than four years ago, Zap2it reports.
According to ComingSoon, five more actors (Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff and Jason Clarke) have joined Christian Bale and Johnny Depp in Public Enemies.
Starz is planning a TV series based on the Oscar-winning film Crash, with its writer/director, Paul Haggis, on board, TV Week reports.
Billboard reports that R.E.M. has recruited Modest Mouse and the National as opening acts for its upcoming tour.
Joel and Ethan Coen took top honors at the Directors Guild of America awards, and Mad Men and Pushing Daisies nabbed television awards, the Associated Press reports.
Julia Roberts will produce and star in Hothouse Flowers, a film adaptation of the upcoming novel by Margot Berwin, writes Hollywood Reporter.
There's another dancing reality show coming: Lifetime will air Your Mama Don't Dance, a series pairing professional dancers with their two-left-footed parents, Variety reports.

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Peter Jackson to Produce - But Not Direct - The Hobbit

BuzzSugar — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:29:13 -0800

The long-held disagreements between Peter Jackson and his Lord of the Rings studio New Line are being put aside as the two parties discuss their future collaboration on The Hobbit prequels to the Lord of the Rings. Jackson has agreed to serve as executive producer on the Hobbit films - but he will not direct.

There will be not one, but two prequel films shot simultaneously - similar to how the Lord of the Rings films were done. One will release in 2010 with the second one following up in 2011.

Jackson seems quite content with this arrangement, stating "I'm very pleased that we've been able to put our differences behind us, so that we may begin a new chapter with our old friends at New Line. We are delighted to continue our journey through Middle Earth." No word on possible directors, though Peter Weir and Sam Raimi have been oft-rumored names in connection with the project.

What do you think about this news? Could this continued "journey through Middle Earth" be as good without Peter Jackson?

Spider-Man's Sam Raimi Taking The Hobbit Reins?

BuzzSugar — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:46:49 -0700

As Spider-Man 3 begins its march toward box-office domination, Sam Raimi might be heading in another direction. According to Entertainment Weekly, Raimi is very interested in helming The Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings prequel, now that Peter Jackson's feud with New Line has left the project without a director.

That could mean an uncertain fate for Spider-Man 4. Tobey Maguire has already said that he might not return for another sequel. Now Kirsten Dunst says she's unlikely to rejoin the cast if Raimi leaves, and she suggests that Sony would be foolish to continue the franchise in that case:

''It's disrespectful to the whole team, I think, to do that. And audiences aren't stupid. It'd be a big flop without me, Tobey, or Sam. That would really not be the smartest move."

Personally, I think I'd rather see The Hobbit than another Spider-Man movie. While I think it's tragic that Jackson isn't involved in the LOTR prequel, Raimi would be a good alternative. But that's not the end of the Spider-Man news, so read more

According to E! Online, there's also a Spider-Man Broadway musical in the works with plenty of big-name involvement: U2's Bono and the Edge have been hired to write the score, and Tony Award-winning Julie Taymor will direct. But if you think this version will resemble the Marvel movie interpretation, think again. According to E!:

... the character of Arachne, née Spider-Woman, doesn't get her powers from a botched science experiment as in the comic books, but rather will be depicted in the musical as "a beautiful, boastful young woman turned into a spider for her hubris and lack of respect for the gods."

The character, whom the casting directors envision as "a Sinéad O'Connor type" will appear before Peter Parker in, among many incarnations, "a powerful spider-woman who comes from another time," "a bride," "a dark goddess of vengeance," "a fragile woman" and "a dance partner in...a violent spider's dance of death."

Maybe if Kirsten Dunst passes on Spidey 4 she can try her hand at playing the dark goddess of vengeance.

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