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BuzzSugar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:30:01 -0700

Jessica Lucas talks Melrose Place and good girls gone bad - Hit Fix
Wes Craven may direct Scream IV? - Cinematical
The best-reviewed Coen Brothers movies (and No Country For Old Men isn't number one!) - Rotten Tomatoes
Will you watch Oprah's interview with Sarah Palin? - TresSugar
The Biggest Loser's Jillian Michaels is getting her own show on NBC - Zap2it
Is Guns N' Roses touring Canada next year? - Stereogum
10 things you never knew about The Simpsons - Flavorwire
ABC is close to picking up a new pilot called Little Liars starring Privileged's Lucy Hale - Hollywood Reporter

Buzz News Roundup, 2/13

BuzzSugar — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:32:50 -0800

Tina Fey will host the first post-strike episode of Saturday Night Live

The New York Times

John Legend and Isaac Hayes have joined the cast of the comedy Soul Men, which includes Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac, writes Billboard.
ComingSoon has news that Wes Craven's first horror project since 1994 will be 25/8, based on the 1972 George Romero film.
Benjamin Bratt will star in a new series for A&E about an interventionist, while Timothy Hutton will portray a modern-day Robin Hood in the TNT series Leverage; details on both are at The Futon Critic.
Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Jason Leigh will star together in the indie sex comedy titled Spread, reports Variety.
Aretha Franklin is not pleased with Beyonce after Beyonce's Grammy intro referred to Tina Turner, not Franklin, as "the queen," the Associated Press reports.
Zap2It writes that Joel Surnow, co-creator of 24, is leaving the show to pursue other projects.
According to Billboard, this summer's tour will be the last for The Police.
Fox is remaking a Japanese TV show in which people must fit into shapes like human Tetris pieces, according to Variety.

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Which '80s Horror Remake Is More Annoying?

BuzzSugar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:30:38 -0800

I would guess that most of you don't approve of the news today that Michael Bay will be directing a new franchise of horror movies based on Wes Craven’s 1984 film A Nightmare on Elm Street. Coupled with the November news that Friday the 13th is being remade, it's all starting to get a little annoying.

So which of these '80s horror remakes bugs you the most?

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"On the Lot": A Night of Weird Movies

BuzzSugar — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:29:10 -0700

Well, "On the Lot" just keeps those changes comin': This week, instead of making us wait till the end of the evening to see which of last week's directors would be kicked off, Adriana cut the suspense and just told us Marty was going home. Which means Kenny's still in, of course, but given that two of my least-favorite directors were in the same group, losing one was the best that could happen.

On to this week's films. The guest judge was Wes Craven (shouldn't they have saved him for horror film week?), who mainly served to make Adriana squeak and squeal at the mere thought of Scream. He wasn't my favorite guest judge of the season (that honor still goes to Michael Bay), but he seemed to take his task seriously and provided some good notes for the contestants. As for the films themselves:

Will started things off with Glass Eye, about a guy who loses his glass eye but figures out he can still see through it, which becomes interesting when his dog eats it. Will is so sweet, totally my sentimental favorite to win, and this movie made me smile, despite some slow pacing and a poo joke. Carrie said it was sweet, but Will should make a movie with dialogue next time. Wes thought it was good overall, though he would have changed a few specific things about the direction. Garry said he couldn't be sympathetic to the main character because if a guy wears a wifebeater, clearly he's a wife-beater. Thanks, Garry.
Jason went next, leading into his film by saying he's a Christian guy who just wants to make positive films. Like the ones making fun of the mentally challenged? Anyway, his movie this time around was Blood Born, about a troubled kid who finds out his blood can heal the terminally ill. It was full of saturated colors, tricksy visual effects, and heavy moralizing - and did anyone else hear the audience start laughing when the main character got a gun pulled on him? Ouch. Carrie and Wes said they both were unclear on what the lesson was supposed to be, and Garry said an uplifting ending might have worked better.

To see how the other three fared, read more

Zach said he wanted to do something without so many special effects this time, so he came out with Sunshine Girl, about a little girl who's afraid of the dark and decides to capture the sun, inadvertently plunging the rest of the world into darkness. It was technically beautiful and restrained, though I thought it was a little too Hallmark-card saccharine. Carrie said it wasn't as good as his other stuff, but she still liked it; Wes called Zach a true filmmaker; Garry rambled something about England.
Mateen made a film called Lost, and I'd love to tell you more about it, but I honestly stopped paying attention about halfway through, because I was about to fall asleep. Basically, it was one long dialogue scene between ex-lovers, where the woman revealed she'd gotten married just before the guy could propose. Carrie said the dialogue was good but Mateen should have given it a third act; Wes didn't understand the woman's motivations; Garry said it looked a little too much like a soap opera.
Jessica finished off the night with The Orchard, "a horror film from a tree's perspective." If that sounds like some wacky, experimental student-film nonsense to you, well, you're exactly right. Carrie said, and I quote: "That was my least favorite thing next to adolescence and being left by a man for a man." Wes said it would be great for an audience of trees, but it totally wouldn't fly with people. Garry said he wanted the tree to fight back.

All three judges picked Sunshine Girl as their favorite. For me, it was a close call between that one and Glass Eye. As for who I'd send home: Jessica, in a heartbeat. What about you? Are you backing Zach? Did you think Marty deserved to go? Anyone else think Carrie said some surprisingly awesome things this week? Care to speculate on where Adriana Costa's microphone went after the opening shot? Fire away!

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Scream IV Is On - Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette to Star

BuzzSugar — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:30:16 -0700

Scream it from the rooftops: Scream IV is happening, and original stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette are attached to reprise their roles.

Scheduled to start shooting next Spring, the new movie will be the first in a new trilogy (a little Star Wars-style prequel perhaps?), and Bob Weinstein is trying to get Wes Craven to direct again. Honestly, I wouldn't be as excited about this announcement if Neve Campbell weren't starring; and sure, I'm also excited to see Ms. Cougar Town Courteney Cox and her husband back on the screen together. Though I'm usually not a horror lover, I make an exception for the Scream movies, which get their cleverness from scribe Kevin Williamson, who like Cox is also working on one of Fall's hottest new shows.

More of you guys voted to kill the franchise when news of a fourth Scream was announced months ago, but does Neve Campbell being involved change your mind at all?