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Buzz In: Who Should Take Johnny Depp's Place in the Pirates Franchise?

BuzzSugar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:45:09 -0700

Rumors have been swirling for the past week or so that Johnny Depp isn't as excited about Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides now that former head honcho Dick Cook has left Disney studios. Depp is still attached to the project for now, but supposedly Disney is already preparing to search for his replacement if necessary.

The character wouldn't be recast, but the new challenge will be finding an actor and fictional pirate worthy of Depp's Jack Sparrow. It's hard to even imagine someone else with the same mix of swagger and comedic timing, but hey - if Depp could create one memorable pirate, who's to say that another brilliant actor can't follow suit?

I could see Robert Downey Jr. as a pretty badass raider, and no doubt he'd have fun with the role. Who do you think should take Depp's place?

Link Time!

BuzzSugar — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:30:47 -0700

You must watch the How I Met Your Mother season four blooper reel! - PopWatch
The Cleveland Show is Sunday night's ratings winner; it's up 44 percent over the previous time slot occupier, King of the Hill - Movieline
Bored to Death gets the New York reality index - Vulture
Disney is getting ready to replace Johnny Depp in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie - MTV Movies Blog
Want to know much The Hills stars make? Maybe you don't - Defamer
George Clooney started shooting The American today, previously known as A Very Private Gentleman - Coming Soon
Seth Rogen uses his guest spot on The Simpsons to get back at the Entourage crew - Cinematical
Listen to another song from the New Moon soundtrack, "Satellite Heart" - MySpace
How Geek would wire Betty Draper - GeekSugar

2007 Teen Choice Awards: Announcing the Winners!

BuzzSugar — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:25:18 -0700

High School Musical, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Justin Timberlake were among the big winners Sunday at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards. More than 8.5 million votes were cast in categories ranging from the serious (Choice Movie Actor) to the silly (Choice Hottie).

One somewhat surprising favorite among the Teen Choice crowd? Steve Carell, oddly enough, who took home two surfboards: one for Choice Movie Scream for Evan Almighty and another for Choice TV Actor, Comedy for "The Office." Maybe these kids are alright after all.

To see a full list of winners, read more

Choice Movie, Action Adventure
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Choice Movie, Drama
The Pursuit of Happyness

Choice Movie, Chick Flick
The Holiday

Choice Movie, Comedy
Knocked Up

Choice Movie, Horror/Thriller
Disturbia

Choice Movie Actor, Drama
Will Smith

Choice Movie Actress, Drama
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Choice Movie Actor, Action Adventure
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)

Choice Movie Actress, Action Adventure
Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)

Choice Movie Actor, Comedy
Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Blades of Glory)

Choice Movie Actress, Comedy
Sophia Bush (John Tucker Must Die)

Choice Movie Actor, Horror/Thiller
Shia LaBeouf (Disturbia)

Choice Movie Actress, Horror/Thiller
Sophia Bush (The Hitcher)

Choice Movie Villain
Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End)

Choice Movie Hissy Fit
Ryan Seacrest (Knocked Up)

Choice Movie Lip Lock
Keira Knightley & Orlando Bloom (Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest)

Choice Movie Breakout, Male
Shia LeBeouf

Choice Movie Breakout, Female
Sophia Bush

Choice Movie Dance
Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan (Step Up)

Choice Movie Rumble
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) vs. Crew of The Flying Dutchman

Choice Movie Chemistry
Will Smith and Jayden Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness)

Choice Movie Scream
Steve Carell (Evan Almighty)

Choice TV Movie
High School Musical 2

Choice TV Show, Comedy
“Hannah Montana”

Choice TV Show, Drama
"Grey's Anatomy"

Choice TV Show, Animated
"The Simpsons"

Choice TV Show, Reality/Variety
"American Idol"

Choice TV Actor, Comedy
Steve Carell (“The Office”)

Choice TV Actor, Drama
Hugh Laurie ("House")

Choice TV Actress, Comedy
Miley Cyrus (“Hannah Montana”)

Choice TV Actress, Drama
Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes")

Choice TV Breakout
America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty”)

Choice TV Sidekick
Allison Mack ("Smallville")

Choice TV Personality
Tyra Banks ("America's Next Top Model," "The Tyra Banks Show")

Choice TV Breakout Show
"Heroes"

Choice TV Male Reality/Variety Star
Sanjaya ("American Idol")

Choice TV Female Reality/Variety Star
Lauren Conrad (“The Hills”)

Choice TV Villain
Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams), "Ugly Betty"

Choice Music Single
“Girlfriend,” Avril Lavigne

Choice Music Male Artist
Justin Timberlake

Choice Music Female Artist
Fergie

Choice Music Rap Artist
Timbaland

Choice Music R&B Artist
Rihanna

Choice Music Rock Group
Fall Out Boy

Choice Music Breakout Artist, Female
Vanessa Hudgens

Choice Music Breakout Artist, Male
Akon

Choice Music Breakout Group
Gym Class Heroes

Choice Music Love Song
“With Love,” Hilary Duff

Choice Music R&B Track
“Beautiful Girls,” Sean Kingston

Choice Music Rap/Hip Hop Track
"The Way I Are," Timbaland (Feat. Keri Hilson and D.O.E.)

Choice Music Rock Track
"Thnks Fr Th Mmrs," Fall Out Boy

Choice Music Payback Track
“What Goes Around...Comes Around,“ Justin Timberlake

Choice Male Hottie
Zac Efron

Choice Female Hottie
Jessica Alba

Choice Comedian
Dane Cook

Choice Male Athlete
Tiger Woods

Choice Female Athlete
Maria Sharapova

Choice Action Sports Male
Shaun White

Choice Action Sports Female
Lisa Andersen

Choice Summer Movie, Comedy/Musical
Hairspray

Choice Summer Movie, Drama/Action Adventure
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

Choice Summer Artist
Miley Cyrus

Choice V Cast Video
“The Hills”

Choice Song of the Summer
“Hey There Delilah,” Plain White T’s

Choice TV Show of the Summer
“Degrassi”

Photo courtesy of Fox

Link Time! 6/14

BuzzSugar — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:17:30 -0700

The Movie Blog reminds us "never to trust those pirates."
The Film Experience is having a blog-a-thon to honor film's best action heroines.
Give Me My Remote picks a cast of newcomers for "Grey's Anatomy."
Popwatch shares the ways in which they bond with Dad through entertainment, for example, one can count on Dad walking in exactly during the sex scenes.
Want to talk about last night's season 3 premiere of "Top Chef"? YumSugar's the place to go!
ScreenGrab has an interview with Eric O'Neill, the ex-FBI agent on whom Ryan Phillipe's character is based in the movie Breach (which is now out on DVD).
TV Squad thinks the petition to save "Traveler" is rather ridiculous.
BuddyTV tells us where you might have seen those "John from Cincinnati" actors before.

What's Your Favorite Summer Movie So Far?

BuzzSugar — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:30:00 -0700

This week Ocean's Thirteen comes out so we'll have even more options when it comes to summer movies. But so far, between the super-spiders, pirates, ogres and surprise pregnancies, which is your favorite summer movie so far?

If you haven't seen these movies, which are you most excited to see?

Rewind: This Week's Buzz

BuzzSugar — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:03:19 -0700

Need a playlist for your Memorial Day BBQ this weekend? I made one for you!
Have you seen Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End already? If so, do you think we need more Pirates movies after this one? And by the way, that sexy Captain Jack Sparrow totally made my Top 10 Boys of Summer list.
Who would you cast in Diff'rent Strokes if you could cast the show today?
Check out my Cannes reviews roundups for A Mighty Heart, My Blueberry Nights and Sicko.
Weigh in on the week's finales of "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "Heroes," and "Veronica Mars."
Speaking of finales, "American Idol" finally ended this week after a super long finale. The show was so long, in fact, that many people missed the climactic naming-of-the-next-American-Idol moment, so if you did, check out the video clip of the last six minutes. Do you think Jordin was the right winner?
In honor of Morissey's birthday this week, I posted Coldplay's version of The Smiths' "Stop Me if You Think You've Heard This One Before." And in honor of Bob Dylan's birthday I posted some of my favorite Dylan tunes.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End

BuzzSugar — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:56:52 -0700

There’s a beautiful scene in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End when Captain Jack Sparrow’s (Johnny Depp) ship turns upside down in the water. For one glorious moment, we see the upside down vessel suspended in the water right side up, as if the heavens were made of water and the ground were made of air. When it emerges from the sea, the ship’s contents and crew have been knocked about topsy-turvy. The narratively coherent version of the film must have been onboard, too, ending up as the beautiful and broken mess that is The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the third installment in the wildly popular film franchise.

Clocking in at a ludicrous three hours, the movie's saddled with a confusing and over-stuffed plotline, causing the viewer to feel as lost as the pirates on their searches. If you can handle it, though, it may be worth feeling seasick with confusion in order to be dazzled by the film’s cinematography and fantastic performances, so read more

The film opens with pirates being herded into the town square and hanged, upon orders of Lord Beckett (Tom Hollander). Thus, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) calls an unprecedented meeting of pirate lords to deal with the crisis, lest pirates get wiped off the face of the earth. They start off in Singapore, asking Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) for munitions and a ship. (The stereotyping of Asians as cunning and inscrutable is utterly shameless in this film, unfortunately.)

As for Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), they set off to save Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones’ Locker, where he is stuck and hallucinating. Unbeknownst to his maties, Will Turner has a secret agenda: to rescue his father “Bootstrap” Bill Turner (Stellan Skarsgård).

If you choose to see Pirates, read the above synopsis and remember it well. It will help you find your place in the stormy seas of the diabolically hard-to-follow plot that nearly ruins the film. Having seen the first two films, you’ll have a head start, but unless you have amazing powers of concentration, a few fight scenes into it you’ll be poking your pal in the ribs and whispering “Huh? Where are they? What’s happening?!”

As flawed as it is, there are bewitchingly surreal scenes and dazzling performances that keep this film afloat. One of the most amazing performances in At World’s End is Stellan Skarsgård's as "Bootstrap" Bill, who emerges from a wall covered in kelp and other marine life. Underneath all this makeup, Skarsgård manages to convey a lost soul, trapped and doomed. Johnny Depp upstages everyone as usual, including the hilarious Rush as Barbossa. Even Keith Richards’ cameo as Jack’s father doesn’t steal Depp’s thunder. Every time I see Jack Sparrow, I pick up another character influence: In addition to Keith Richards, there's a fan-waving Karl Lagerfeld, some Adam Ant, and a smidgen of silent film legend Buster Keaton. He holds it all together and you cannot take your eyes off of him. Like Captain Jack Sparrow, though, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is one hot mess.

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Sequels, Part 2

BuzzSugar — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:33:10 -0700

Sigh. I can rant all I want, it looks like sequels are still where it's at these days. There was the recent rumor about a possible Austin Powers 4, then there was news of a Wall Street 2, and now the sequel party rages on:

The Terminator series will continue with Terminator 4 for which they have a script but no director in place. Thankfully, Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be starring because, oh yeah, he has a giant state to pay attention to.
I guess Step Up was interesting enough to warrant a Step Up 2 which goes into production in July. We should be getting closer to the top of the staircase now, right?
Jerry Bruckheimer has adamantly confirmed that this third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series will be the last! Hallelujah! Wait... what? What's that? A spin-off?! I repeat: Sigh.

Source
Pirates photo courtesy of Buena Vista Entertainment

Soapbox: Enough With the Sequels Already!

BuzzSugar — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:03:25 -0700

Giddy from their record-breaking first weekend, the producers and studio execs behind Spider-Man 3 are falling over themselves with news and ideas for the next Spidey installments. Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal is claiming that "There'll be a fourth and a fifth and sixth and a seventh," and that "As many stories as Peter Parker has to tell, we'll do sequels." There are already rumors flying around about the villains that will be included in Spidey's fourth chapter: According to Cinematical, Spider-Man will have to face off with a man-sized lizard (called Lizard) along with Carnage the serial killer.

Sure, this sounds intriguing, but I'm still exhausted from this year's Spider-Man movie and the relentless onslaught of promotion that led up to its release. After this year they'll probably have to up the ante even more in that regard, which is virtually unfathomable. Also riding the sequel train is the Shrek series, the fourth of which may have just found a director. So, there's already buzz around a fourth movie when the third hasn't even hit theaters yet. Take a breather, guys!
For more of my sequels rant, read more

It gets tiring watching the same old characters year after year, regardless of what they're doing or how they're doing it. It even gets tiring for the people who play the same old characters, as Keria Knightley recently admitted. After the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie, she's just tired of doing it. Heck, I'm tired of her doing it! Enough is enough.

Sticking to something that has proven successful in the past makes sense sometimes, but there has to be a saturation point someday... right? What happened to original scripts? I want fresh faces and new characters!

Summer Movie Preview: The Big Deals

BuzzSugar — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:02:32 -0700

Finally, May is upon us, and to me this means one thing: summer movie season begins! The season kicks off right this Friday with the release of Spider-Man 3. In honor of this, I present Part I of my Summer Movie Preview series, featuring this summer's big budget dazzlers. This year many filmmakers are playing it safe with super expensive sequels, and I can't deny that these Big Deal movies provide some great mega-tainment. Check out how the studios spent the big bucks for the summer, and stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 coming later this week.

Spider-Man 3
If the endless onslaught of marketing schemes has been successful, Spider-Man 3 will draw in the masses - and hopefully the revenue since it may be the most expensive movie ever made. This third installment of the web-slinger's series promises even more computer-generated superhero stunts, romantic tangles and grapplings between good and evil. Things are looking pretty good for Peter Parker as he goes to college and plans a wedding proposal to his lady love, Mary Jane. But trouble soon finds him in the form of the Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), Harry Osborn/Goblin (James Franco), and Venom (Topher Grace). To make matters worse, Spidey is forced to deal with his own inner demons - ones that threaten to change his life for the worse.

Lots more if you read more

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
If you haven't seen the trailer for this movie, do so now. This fifth installment of Harry Potter's story brings new evildoers, including the villainous Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who turns Hogwarts into a kind of oppressed political state. Harry experiences some highs (a certain lady friend) and some lows (a great loss), all amidst the entertaining magic - and movie magic - we've come to expect of these Potter films. The sorcery continues July 13.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Having discovered that Johnny Depp dressed as a pirate and acting like a rock star is box office gold, Disney has taken the Pirates of the Caribbean idea and run with it... or should I say swabbed the deck with it? If you enjoy poor pirate puns like that then you are in for a treat come May 25 when the latest Pirates movie swaggers into a theater near you. The deliciously campy team is back in action: Captain Sparrow has been taken hostage and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) and Will (Orlando Bloom) must rescue him. Keith Richards shows up as Captain Teague - who may be Jack Sparrow's father - which should prove fun since Depp reportedly calls Richards the inspiration for his characterization of Jack Sparrow. Watch the awesome trailer if you darrrre, matey.

Ocean's Thirteen
Danny Ocean and his pals are back in the latest chapter of the casino heist series. Andy Garcia joins the cast as Ocean's thirteenth man, helping the crew take down the latest corrupt Vegas hot shot, played by Al Pacino. Apparently the cast and filmmakers took great care with this film, hoping to present it in apology for the second one, so I have sky-high hopes for this - especially since it will probably be the last of the series, at least with these actors. As George Clooney has quipped, "I think they're going to have to go to the next generation - because [pretty soon] we're going to have colostomy bags and wheelchairs." Check out the trailer and some enticing photos before catching Ocean's Thirteen in theaters June 8.

The Bourne Ultimatum
Matt Damon is back to playing Jason Bourne on August 3 in this third part of the Bourne series. As a relief from all the computer effects and super powers flying around this summer, The Bourne Ultimatum will provide some good old-fashioned action-thriller sweetness. The plot description goes like this: "Bourne races to discover the final mysteries of his past while a government agent tries to track him down after a shootout in Moscow." From the looks of the trailer we can expect more of the same: races against time, heart-pounding chases, and cute Matt Damon kicking butt.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Just in case you haven't quite gotten your fill of computer-generated treats this summer, gorge yourself on the latest Fantastic Four adventure. The Silver Surfer is entirely computer animated and his power is to transform matter so conquering him is going to take some ingenuity on the part of the Four - and some time. Like, maybe around 90 minutes or so. Surf's up June 15.

The Transformers
Opening July 4, this is the live-action version of the beloved '80s cartoon series (which was based on a line of Hasbro toys), and stars your dreamy Shia LaBeouf. I wasn't that into Transformers as a kid, but even I'm super stoked to see them in "real life." Check out the cool-looking trailer:

Spider-Man photo courtesy of Sony Pictures
Harry Potter photo courtesy of Warner Bros.
Pirates photo courtesy of Buena Vista Entertainment
Ocean's Thirteen: source
All others: source