Early Buzz: Simon Pegg, 'Better Off Dead,' more

Hey, how's your week going? If you haven't mailed that Mother's Day card already, you better hop to it!

Last night I watched Side Effects, the Steven Soderbergh drama starring several actors I enjoy: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum. If you missed it in theaters, catch it when it comes out on DVD May 21. It's really surprising (sometimes shocking) and well-written.

Headlines:

- We have an interview with Benedict Cumberbatch.

- Game of Thrones' Sean Bean has a new series on tap.

- See the new trailer for the Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright movie The World's End.

- Fox has ordered four new comedies, including one starring Andy Samberg and another featuring The State alum Kerri Kenney.

- This story looks at the cast of Better Off Dead, then and now.

- Watch a "red band trailer" for the new Coen brothers movie.

- Fandango has posted the first four minutes of the new Jesse Eisenberg movie Now You See Me.

- Here are some "amazing, shocking, unscripted" moments from MTV in the '90s.

- Seth MacFarlane will lend his voice to the May 19 season finale of The Simpsons.

- NBC canceled Deception.

- Madonna sold a painting for $7.2 million and will give the proceeds to charity.

- Plans have been scrapped for a $25 million Tonight Show studio for Jimmy Fallon.

- Congrats to our pal Judd Winick on his book deal for a series of all-ages graphic novels.

- Send an Arrested Development Mother's Day card to your fave Bluth-lovin' mom.

- I need to do a tour of the best donut shops in the country.

- Watch a bunch of pilots for classic TV shows.

- Here's "what the Avengers poster would be if designers could only use clip art and Comic Sans."

- Fans are going crazy over the way Jonathan Frakes sat in chairs on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

- And finally, these animated GIFs show the deterioration of Star Wars figures.