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BuzzSugar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:45:07 -0700

It's Jim and Pam's wedding website! - Halpert Beesly
Get a load of new Edward, Bella, and Jacob stills from New Moon - PopSugar
Glee has been picked up for a full season! - Fox
Sacha Baron Cohen will lend his voice to an episode of The Simpsons - Entertainment Weekly
The NPH Effect: Emmy ratings were way up this year, improving on 2008's low viewership - The Wrap
Listen to new tracks from Built to Spill's upcoming album, There Is No Enemy - Stereogum
Can Michael Cera break out of his hipster-nerd pigeonhole? - PopWatch
The dreamy Nathan Fillion talks Castle, Dr. Horrible, and Joss Whedon - Pop Candy
Johnny Depp may be losing interest in doing Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - Vulture
There might be a Big Lebowski spinoff about John Turturro's the Jesus character - MTV Movies Blog
Patrick Swayze was supposed to have a cameo in upcoming horror comedy Zombieland - Coming Soon

Youth in Revolt - See It or Skip It?

PopSugarUK — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:00 -0700

The trailer for Youth in Revolt has got me intrigued, as it doesn't look like your average boy-meets-girl tale. Michael Cera plays awkward Nick Twisp, who meets the girl of his dreams Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family holiday. Determined to win her over, he goes to extreme lengths, and turns his life upside down in his pursuit of his love. It's due out on 30 October in the States, and doesn't have a release date for us yet, but check out the trailer below and let me know: do you plan to see it or skip it?

Movie Preview: Michael Cera in Youth in Revolt

BuzzSugar — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:30:48 -0700

I haven't read the book on which Youth in Revolt is based, so there are more than a few parts of this trailer that are lost on me. Still, it keeps my attention and the questions I have are ones that I think will actually propel me to see the movie, rather than make me want to avoid it. It's a bizarre-looking story about Nick Twisp (Michael Cera), a cynical teenager who decides that Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) is the girl of his dreams, and he'll do anything to win her heart.

Though Cera is once again playing an awkward young man, this role (or, roles, maybe?) is far more complex, interesting and demanding than anything we've seen him do before. I think it's safe to say George Michael Bluth is nowhere to be seen here.

The movie is scheduled to open Oct. 30. To watch the trailer, read more.

Are You Interested in the Facebook Movie?

GeekSugar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:36 -0700

Yesterday Buzz got the scoop on the new Facebook movie, which is apparently a legitimate project being pursued. Honestly, when Aaron Sorkin joined Facebook last year, I definitely thought The West Wing creator's profile and rumors of the film were a hoax, but it appears everything is on the up and up. I was only mildly interested in the movie, rumored to be called The Social Network, before Buzz found out that David Fincher, of Zodiac and Fight Club, may be directing. However, that news, as well as the rumor that Michael Cera is being considered for the role of Mark Zuckerberg (!!!), has me totally excited about the film. The movie would be based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook and would follow Zuckerberg's early days in college developing the network to its crazy popularity today. Would you go see this movie?

Year One: Primitive Humor

BuzzSugar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:30:45 -0700

The trailer for the new movie from director Harold Ramis, Year One, kind of confused me. How were two cavemen types (Michael Cera and Jack Black) bumping into Romans? What? Well, it turns out nothing regarding an accurate historic timeline in this movie makes sense, but that's OK. It's the least of its problems.

If I had to describe this comedy in one sentence I would say it's as if a Mel Brooks comedy and a so-so Saturday Night Live sketch had a baby. It's a gross-out buddy comedy set in the Old Testament that generates a few good laughs. As a comedy duo, Black and Cera are surprisingly good together - although each relies heavily on his respective well-worn shtick. I'm also genuinely surprised at how much mileage the script is able to get out of riffing on what is essentially one big joke about ancient humans and the Bible.

So that's the good news. There is some bad news, though, which you can learn about if you read more.

Black and Cera play two men from a tribe that is apparently separated from the rest of civilization. They are both really bad at the things humans in their tribe need to master (hunting and gathering) and they get themselves banished. Before long they're rubbing elbows with Biblical celebrities like Cain (David Cross) and Abel (Paul Rudd) and they find themselves in and out of slavery. In the end, they're mostly concerned with boobs and hitting on ladies.

This movie is packed full of gross-out humor, and I use the word "humor" lightly. There are fart, poop, pee, sex, and armpit hair jokes galore. And they are rarely funny. OK, fine. The scene where Cera pees on his own face is a little funny but the rest of it is just really . . . tiresome, not to mention disgusting. It just never ends. There's another scene with Cera in which his character is forced to sleep in a bed with a country boy who farts a lot. It's about five full minutes of screen time devoted to farting. I laughed a little at the beginning but there comes a point when one just wants the farting to end.

The saving grace here is the supporting cast. Cera's mumbly shtick only goes so far, as does Black's exuberance. It's a blessing when someone like Hank Azaria shows up on screen to give the audience a little break from those two. Azaria plays Abraham, a man obsessed with circumcision. There is a decent amount of brain power and wit behind Azaria's performance that elevates what is basically a silly fourth grader joke about male genitalia to a slightly higher level. This movie could have used more of that.

Mostly, though, there isn't anything particularly new or inventive about the gags in this movie. The broad humor feels borrowed from other, funnier movies like History of the World, Part I. It's not that Year One is terrible; it's just that you've seen it all before and you've probably seen it done better. And you know, I bet in year one, early humans gathered around to watch someone fart and then they laughed hysterically. Maybe that even counted as an entire standup routine. But this is 2009. A little wit with that fart would be nice.

Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures

Michael Cera and Jack Black Start Off at Year One

PopSugar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:24:26 -0700

Michael Cera and Jack Black coordinated in purple accents for the premiere of Year One in NYC last night. Their costar Christopher Mintz-Plasse was lucky enough to have gorgeous Zoe Kravitz on his arm, who stood out in her glittery dress among all the funny men on the red carpet. Ed Helms also came out to show his support, and even though The Hangover will be getting some competition at the box office this weekend, he and the boys already have a sequel in the works.

More photos including David Cross and Amber Tamblyn, so just read more.

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Images include: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Zoe Kravitz, David Cross, Ed Helms, Horatio Sanz, Oliver Platt, Amber Tamblyn, Anthony LaPaglia

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Superbad Sequel or a Superbad/Pineapple Express Hybrid?

BuzzSugar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:30:26 -0700

It looks like Michael Cera (or maybe someone pretending to be Michael Cera) has been thinking "aloud" (or via Twitter) about future Superbad projects. He first twittered that he wants to do a movie with Jonah Hill and Jason Bateman (ending with the words: "Good idea?!"), and then he followed up with this one:

Decided I'm gonna contact Jonah and Jason tomorrow. See what they think about doing a movie. Maybe, just an idea, but maybe Superbad 2.

But that's not the only Superbad-related idea to be tossed out there - apparently James Franco has mentioned a Superbad/Pineapple Express combo film, with the movies' directors each taking on half of the movie. Franco mused about the plot, "Somehow the kids get in trouble and we have to get them out of it. And Seth plays characters in both movies, so somehow we'd have to kill one of them off."

I have to say, it's a funny image to consider: Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Cera) - and of course Fogell/McLovin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse)! - on a hilariously ill-fated adventure alongside the bromantic stoners Dale (Seth Rogen) and Saul (Franco) - and Red (Danny McBride)! But just a straight sequel with the Superbad kids would also be pretty funny. Which idea do you like better?

Photos courtesy of Sony Pictures

Paper Heart: See It or Skip It?

PopSugarUK — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:08:23 -0700

From the trailer, Paper Heart looks like a sweet movie about a girl taking a road trip to film a documentary investigating love, as she's pretty pessimistic about the possibility of it. Charlene Yi stars and has support from a great cast including Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Demetri Martin and Martin Starr. It will be out in the UK later this year and I'm looking forward to seeing it, but I'd love to know what you think. Will you see it or skip it?

Movie Preview: Paper Heart

BuzzSugar — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:30:07 -0700

Funny, adorable duo Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi are sweet enough for a whole movie about love, but as an added bonus to the cute-looking Paper Heart, several other great, hilarious people (like Seth Rogen and Demetri Martin) make cameos. In this new trailer, it looks like the movie starts out as a documentary (er, "documentary") about love, with Charlyne Yi interviewing folks around the country - from older couples to little kids on a playground - about their takes on the subject. But everything changes when Charlyne herself finds love with Michael Cera.

Paper Heart was well-received at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where Yi accepted the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Now that I've seen the endearing trailer, I am more anxious than ever to check out the film. Paper Heart opens in limited release Aug. 7, with a wider release to follow. To watch the trailer, read more.

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First Glance: Year One - See It or Skip It?

PopSugarUK — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:58:25 -0700

Funnymen Jack Black and Michael Cera have teamed up for new movie Year One, in which they star as a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers who get banished from their primitive village, and then end up going on an epic journey through the ancient world.

Olivia Wilde, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Oliver Platt and David Cross are just a few of the actors that show up along the way in this movie, directed by Harold Ramis. It looks like a traditional road trip buddy film, with the twist of the time period, and the trailer did make me laugh which definitely makes me want to see it.

But what do you think - will you go and see Jack and Michael when Year One comes out in June? Let me know!

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