Thursday, December 29, 2011

Nobleman Of Leon's Caleb Followill Expecting First Child

Lily Aldridge and Caleb Followill Nobleman of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill and the wife, model Lily Aldrige, expect their first child together, E! Online reviews. The Victoria's Secret beauty, 26, is roughly three several weeks pregnant, based on the site. Watch music videos of Nobleman of Leon The pair married in Santa Barbara last May after dating in excess of 2 yrs. Nobleman of Leon is presently on hiatus after finishing its world tour in November.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Exclusive Rizzoli & Isles Sneak Peek: Jane Gets a Surprise Visit

Billy Burke and Angie Harmon Look who's back!On next week's season finale of Rizzoli & Isles, Jane (Angie Harmon) gets an unexpected visit from none other than Gabriel Dean (Billy Burke).Check out TV's sexiest crime-fightersLast we saw the FBI agent in Season 1, he told Jane he would wait for her after she said she's not ready for a relationship. Guess he's done waiting.The Season 2 finale of Rizzoli & Isles airs Monday at 10/9c on TNT.Watch the clip below:

Thursday, December 15, 2011

'Guvnors' to transfer to Theater Royal Haymarket

Nicholas Hytner's National Theater production of the SRO comedy "One Man, Two Guvnors" will transfer with a new cast to its second West End home, the Theater Royal Haymarket, from March 2. Owain Arthur, currently understudying the leading role created by James Corden, will take over when Corden leaves with the original company for the Gotham transfer opening at the Music Box on April 18. Further casting for the Theater Royal Haymarket transfer has yet to be announced. "One Man, Two Guvnors" is leaving its current home of the Adelphi theater to make way for the transfer of Jonathan Kent's Chichester Festival Theater production of Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" from March 10. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com

A Night Time With'Pariah'

A Night Time With'Pariah' By Jessica Gardner December 14, 2011 Photo by Focus Features At ArcLight Movie theaters in Hollywood on 12 ,. 7, carrying out a screening of "Pariah," stars Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, and Aasha Davis, producer Nekisa Cooper, and author-director Dee Rees participated inside a Q&A for Back Stage visitors and SAG people."Pariah" is really a coming-of-age film in regards to a 17-year-old African-American girl having a knack for poetry who struggles with tension in her own family as she gradually holds her identity like a lesbian. About newcomer Oduye's audition for that lead role of Alike, Rees stated, "It had been extremely important the character had an outsider perspective, an outdoors experience, and Adepero managed to make use of that sense of isolation and extremely take it towards the character. As soon as she walked within the room, she is at the zone. She did not say an excessive amount of. She just entered it, and she or he just been with them.InchAround the positive response the film has gotten since its premiere in the Sundance Film Festival, Rees stated, "This can be a universal film. It comes down to identity, and everybody can connect with that. You are able to remove the sexuality, you are able to remove the raceit's about how you can be genuine and never check a box." A Night Time With'Pariah' By Jessica Gardner December 14, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT Focus Features At ArcLight Movie theaters in Hollywood on 12 ,. 7, carrying out a screening of "Pariah," stars Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, and Aasha Davis, producer Nekisa Cooper, and author-director Dee Rees took part in a Q&A for Back Stage visitors and SAG people."Pariah" is really a coming-of-age film in regards to a 17-year-old African-American girl having a knack for poetry who struggles with tension in her own family as she gradually holds her identity like a lesbian. About newcomer Oduye's audition for that lead role of Alike, Rees stated, "It had been extremely important the character had an outsider perspective, an outdoors experience, and Adepero could make use of that sense of isolation and extremely take it towards the character. As soon as she walked within the room, she is at the zone. She did not say an excessive amount of. She just entered it, and she or he just been with them.InchAround the positive response the film has gotten since its premiere in the Sundance Film Festival, Rees stated, "This can be a universal film. It comes down to identity, and everybody can connect with that. You are able to remove the sexuality, you are able to remove the raceit's on how to be genuine and never check a box."

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Covert Matters Bosses around the "Bittersweet" Finale and What's Next for Annie and Auggie

Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham [WARNING: The next story consists of major spoilers in the Season 2 finale of Covert Matters. Read at the own risk.]It finally happened. Annie (Piper Perabo) designed a move for Auggie (Christopher Gorham) around the Season 2 Covert Matters finale - simply to get her heart damaged. Not too Auggie was conscious of it, obviously, after giving Annie his Corvettes as they jetted off and away to Eritrea to pursue his relationship with Parker (Devin Kelley). But that wasn't the only real large development: Auggie got unhealthy news that he isn't a appropriate candidate for eye surgery to restore his sight, and Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy) outed his father Henry (Gregory Itzin) because the CIA leak and the large, bad intend to seize Joan's job.What's available for Annie and Auggie? It is possible to love triangular within the works? And just how will Jai start dethroning Joan (Kari Matchett)? Co-designers/co-executive producers Chris Ord and Matt Corman answer our burning questions regarding the finale and inform us what don't be surprised in Season 3.VIDEO: Covert Affairs' Sendhil Ramamurthy: What Jai does is "pretty severe"How did you choose to start the Annie-Auggie narrative now?Matt: I believe it is the proper time to produce a complication on their behalf. Fans happen to be wanting this for some time also it was too soon then, however was the best time for either to type of be considered a little brave and express their truer feelings, and that is what Annie did. A part of falling for each other and finding yourself in love takes chances and making yourself vulnerable. It is extremely human and incredibly admirable. I believe the ending's sad, but it is satisfying on some levels. I was wishing for bittersweet.Parker continues to be within the picture. Are she and Auggie still likely to be together?Chris: He's serious about Parker. We never mislead, so he's going to go [to Eritrea], but he can't stay there, clearly, so that will be a challenge. Your way he will continue is excellent next season with Parker and merely with themself. He earned lots of large options within the finale and that will continue.Is he going to realize his feelings for Annie or will Annie make hers known?Matt: He's going after this relationship with Parker at this time and Annie respects that. She's not really a willful home wrecker so there will not be considered a torrid affair or anything. ... Within our mind,Annie and Auggie arestar-entered within the strict sense for the reason that either might be in contact with their feelings at anyone point, but to date they haven't synced up. I believe what individuals do sometimes is that they go to town to determine what it really feels as though for the reason that moment. She just stated, "You are the individual I wish to speak with,Inch however he remind her where his mind was at.Chris: Their relationship will probably be examined. Annie shot somebody within the finale which will impact her psyche, and Auggie's coping with their own issues. She's a psychological person, but she's calculating. I do not think she is going to break lower, but that is always the fight together with her. What's great about her is the fact that she does not always wish to hide her feelings. ... Also while she knows there is a lady available, she does not fully realize much about his relationship with Parker since it is not really a subject they enter into greatly. As evidenced when Auggie discovered about Dr. Scott through Danielle (Anne Dudek), they do not discuss their associations with one another. And that is telling. If you have a friendship where you are holding that element back, I believe both of you are clearly feeling something for each other, although not functioning on it.Auggie's usually very intuitive about Annie, but he was completely off here. Is an indication of more obstacles within their way?Chris: It was supposed to have been the very first moment where he's not really being intuitive. We wanted their relationship to alter. ... He's in the own headspace - he's one feet out of the door to Africa - and he'll continue being in Season 3. Matt: I'd say it is simply from what he's been through within the episode. As they feels safe together with his blindness, he'd still want to see. By doing the MRI, you cannot help but get a hopes up. To possess individuals hopes dashed is painful. He's been swept up for the reason that. He isn't dense, but she has their own issues and it is fair for him to possess their own issues.Covert Affairs' Kari Matchett: Joan will not attempt to eliminate Jai againYou men and Chris have always stated you wouldn't want Auggie to restore his sight. Is the fact that still the program?Shiny: Yes. He's wrestling with one of these issues, however for us, it's more interesting to determine someone be prepared for a disability or perhaps a existence-altering accident. I believe you could question it. I believe to blithely accept something similar to this really is disingenuous. Those who are in cases like this attempt to enjoy it and revel in their lives, but some of it is railing against it every so often. But to really reinvent the smoothness could be distasteful. For all of us, it is the journey he's dealing with is much more magical than any surgery that may lead him to sighted.Chris: You want to explore along side it of Auggie when he is able to see, he'd want to see. I believe why he [visited the physician] was part Parker and part Annie. He's multiple good reasons to see. He's never really seen Annie, should you realize. As they has a feeling of who she's, I believe there's a component of Annie that led to that particular.How about Annie's sex life? Will she have love interests? We've not seen Ben shortly.Bob: Maybe Ben (Eion Bailey) is going to be back! We are able to say she'll have love interests - old and new. Let everybody speculate!Let us reach Jai. Has his plan gone perfectly to date? Is Joan's job his actual goal?Chris: It's virtually gone based on plan, however the further along you use an agenda such as this, the greater complicated it is going to get. We have only started to begin to see the true Jai story. In Season 3, it is going to evolve in ways people will not expect. ... Joan's job is exactly what he thinks he wants. I believe ultimately whenever you think you would like something large, it is a cautionary tale. Should you go lower the road of looking to get it, may possibly not be whatsoever what you believe it's and you'll 't be up for this. How could he pursue Joan? Auggie even told him he's alienated everybody there.Matt: It is also your dog-eat-dog world within the CIA. If he gains enough momentum, he makes it happen. He's become themself here and i believe he's an idea ways to get further. He will undergo everything to get at Joan - missions, inquests. He's managed to get obvious he's doing the work. He's told Arthur (Peter Gallagher). It's as with basketball whenever you tell someone what you are likely to do and you get it done. This is a mind game.Can we see Henry again - in or from jail?Chris: Henry is going to be back. I can not say how, but he's certainly not gone. And Jai thinks the "stink of nepotism" is finished, but it is not. His legacy is not going to disappear which could be more apparent because he goes forward [together with his plan]. It comes down to controlling and coping with that.Covert Affairs' Chris Gorham on Auggie's new girlfriend: It is a very complicated relationshipArthur's inside a precarious position. Is he going to tell Joan what are you doing?Bob: You will see him weighing these options. His relationship with Joan is sufficiently strong where he could let her know, but Arthur is really more worried about Jai. There is a side of Arthur that's a parent figure to Jai. I am talking about, he's concerned about Jai taking Joan's job without a doubt, but he's concerned about Jai like a person and what he is able to caused by help him.What's available for Joan besides Jai pursuing her job?Matt: We are likely to explore a number of Joan's backstory. We've not put up it together yet ... but she'll be in the area again. We are wishing it will likely be on location. We have loved the place shooting. If it seems sensible for tales, we'll continue disappear.Perhaps you have considered getting a lengthy-term villain rather than stand alone villains?Matt: Yes. That's really what we are determining now. We are likely to be dovetailing into more lengthy-arc storytelling in Season 3. I believe it is something our audience invested in. We are in the point now where we are able to begin to do more in-depth weaving of narrative. Sendhil's about getting an ab-served by Chris and Peter. Are you going to write that in?Chris: [Laughs] That could be its very own spin-off. Where would they be shirtless? During a workout session?Shiny: Yeah, that's much more of a spin-off aerobic exercise show. So you realize, Chris and that i have our t shirts off at this time.Bob: I'd temper your enthusiasm for your though!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

'The Artist' and Quiet Stars Who Moved forward to Talkies

It is a historical Hollywood myth the coming of seem pictures in 1927 destroyed the careers on most quiet stars and forced the galleries to locate a new generation of Broadway-trained stars with full-throated speaking and singing voices. That myth finds its latest retelling in 'The Artist,' the brand new homage towards the lost talent that's itself a quiet movie, recounting the storyplot of the without words star, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), who stumbles when Hollywood changes to talkies, even while his youthful protégé (Berenice Bejo) prospers. While it's certainly correct that a few of the quiet era's finest stars, from Buster Keaton to John Gilbert, unsuccessful to locate similar success in talkies, there have been still lots of quiet stars who did equally well as well as in seem films. Ahead, a glance at some stories who made the transition easily, and whose quiet achievements and talkie triumphs should be appreciated on a single page. Quiet Stars Who Moved forward to Talkies Joan CrawfordGreta GarboMarlene DietrichPaul MuniRonald ColmanMary AstorJohn BarrymoreLaurel & HardyGloria SwansonLon Chaney, Sr.Charlie ChaplinMyrna LoyWilliam Powell See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman

Monday, December 5, 2011

Cheers & Jeers: SNL Will get Some Nucky

The Black Secrets, Steve Buscemi, Andy Samberg Cheers to Steve Buscemi for any double shot having a twist.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine.In the second stint as guest host of Saturday Evening Live, the Emmy-nominated actor displayed his sillier side, hilariously playing everyone from the burnout friend of Miley Cyrus (Vanessa Bayer) to some killer who glued with Dateline's creepy Keith Morrison (Bill Hader). Within the standout episode's most daring sketch, Buscemi carried a creepy mustache like a college basketball coach everybody incorrectly assumed would be a child molester.Talking about creepy: Over on Buscemi's regular job at Boardwalk Empire, we finally discovered precisely how close Jimmy (Michael Pitt) would be to his mother (Gretchen Mol) inside a subplot that culminated by having an Oedipal surprise. Meanwhile, Buscemi's mob boss Nucky Thompson was busy threatening his conscience-stricken paramour Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) just in case she decides to testify against him for getting her husband whacked. That's Buscemi for you personally: Whether or not he's doing comedy or drama, he always kills.What have you think about Steve Buscemi on SNL - and Boardwalk Empire?Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Jersey Shoreline Star Pauly D Teams Tabs On 50 Cent

First Launched: December 1, 2011 2:10 PM EST Credit: Getty Images NY, N.Y. -- Caption Paul Pauly D Delvecchio is smiles within the LA Sunset Tan in Clifton, Nj on November 1, 2011 Hes discussed this, however Pauly D is formally a part of 50 Cents group. The Jersey Shoreline star formally signed for the emcees G-Note label Thursday. The label focuses on dance and pop music an excellent fit for Pauly D, since hes known to like a DJ additionally to some reality star. Hes been used in music since he was 16 and parlayed his success round the MTV hit series into as an in-demand DJ. Pauly D even grew to become part of Britney Warrior warrior spears for just about any handful of dates on her behalf account recent Femme Fatal tour becoming an opening act. A few several days ago Pauly D confirmed he as well as the rapper were cooperating. 50 Cent mentioned Pauly D will be a great addition to G-Note and G-Unit family and referred to as him smart and artistic. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

NBCs The Voice Wins Music Competition Series Grammy Showdown

NBC’s The Voice gained boasting privileges tonight as all 4 of their music performer coaches received Grammy nominations: 4 for Cee Lo Eco-friendly, 2 each for Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera and something for Adam Levine’s band Maroon 5 (it's for that group’s collaboration with Aguilera Moves Like Jagger). In comparison, no idol judges from the other signing competition series, such as the Voice‘s primary rivals The American Idol Show and also the X Factor, arrived just one nomination. The current crop of yankee Idol participants also unsuccessful to earn recognition although the series’ 2 best-selling alums, Barbara Underwood and Kelly Clarkson gained a nom each, as did another star of the reality competition, Susan Boyle of Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent.

Tim McGraw Wins Ruling Over Recording Career

First Released: November 30, 2011 3:41 PM EST Credit: Getty Images NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Caption Tim McGraw attends the 45th annual CMA Honours in the Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, on November 9, 2011Country music star Tim McGraw has won a court ruling in Nashville permitting him to help keep recording while a suit against him by Curb Records continues. Chancellor Russell Perkins ruled Wednesday following a four-hour hearing that McGraw can sign with another record label. Curb Records searched for to avoid McGraw from recording or signing with another label until he satisfied what Curb thought was his obligation for any fifth album. McGraw is charged with breach of contract, which trial is scheduled for This summer. The artist and the wife, singer Belief Hill, were in the court Wednesday. McGraw didn't testify. His lawyers contended that Curb is attempting to place his career on hold. Hes been under contract with Curb since 1997. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

We Bought a Zoo: Film Review

This story first appeared in the Dec. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommendsFrom 'The Artist' to 'War Horse,' 23 Awards Contenders That Prominently Feature Animals (Photos)The Making of 'The Artist''The Artist' Star Berenice Bejo to Wear Her 1920s Costumes on Red CarpetsHow Rin Tin Tin Ruined Any Oscar Shot for 'The Artist's' Jack RussellMichel Hazanavicius, the Artist Behind 'The Artist,' On the Great Crowd-Pleaser (Video) Somehow, Michel Hazanavicius managed to come up with something that even the French thought was loopy. For years, the Parisian writer-director -- an analytical guy who sees filmmaking as what he calls "playing with codes" -- had been captivated by an idea. But financiers got cold feet just hearing about it; the boutique television stations that typically fund sophisticated European films walked away. Even in a nation of cineastes and revival houses -- a country in which a major film movement was once launched by a band of movie critics -- his dream looked to be dead on arrival. PHOTOS: The Making of 'The Artist' "I wanted to make one for a long time," the director says about his fascination with doing a black-and-white silent set in the 1920s. His long limbs folded over a table at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, he talks about his heroes like F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. "But it's even difficult to convince myself, or to convince anyone else, it is even possible. I found that some producers -- really all of them -- were a little bit cold." It didn't help that the 44-year-old Hazanavicius was known in France for the box-office-friendly, period-conscious OSS 117 spy parodies, in which a kind of Gallic Bond scampers through the 1950s and '60s. "What I needed was a crazy guy," he says. Enter Thomas Langmann, 40, whom Hazanavicius calls "the craziest producer in France." Langmann, the son of Oscar winner Claude Berri (who directed Manon of the Spring and produced Roman Polanski's Tess), worked a bit with Soderbergh and Coppola as a young man and produced some French smashes in his 30s. Langmann sees producing as a species of gambling. "It was always about betting on directors," he says of the philosophy his father passed down. "I knew if we made a film in black and white and we succeeded, it would be original." It took director and producer awhile to sync up -- early ideas such as a feature with an invisible protagonist didn't make the cut. "I really wanted to make an entertaining movie," Hazanavicius says, noting that many European silents were tragic romances. "I thought it was unfair to ask people to come to a black-and-white silent movie that was also dark -- it would be too much." But finally the two came up with an idea that worked: a film about a '20s matinee idol who struggles with the advent of talkies. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of our Directors Roundtable Photo Shoot With Michel Hazanavicius The movie that resulted is being talked about as the first silent film with real best-picture Oscar chances since Wings, the 1927 Clara Bow film that arrived soon before the talkies changed the game (it won). The Artist opened in the U.S. on Nov. 25 -- just two screens each in NY and Los Angeles -- but already has banked an impressive $12 million since its release in France in October. More important, the film took the best actor award at Cannes, where it played to rapturous audiences, and it has gone on to seduce judges at festivals around the world and sweep the season's audience awards from Chicago to the Hamptons to San Sebastien. "It is as wonderful a film as it is modern," says silent-film collector and producer Serge Bromberg, who has seen the movie six times at festivals, "with jaw-dropping cinematography, good acting, wonderful knowledge of classic cinema. And it has the flavor of the old. But it is not a film of the '20s; the pace is not the same, and its constant humor gives it some distance from what a film of the '20s would be." Hazanavicius was already an admirer of the silent era, but as he wrote, he immersed himself deeply for several months, reading actors' biographies, going to screenings of Murnau and Frank Borzage and early John Ford at Paris' Cinematheque, studying photographs and playing music of the '20s and early '30s. STORY: 'The Artist' Star Berenice Bejo to Wear Her 1920s Costumes on Red Carpets He wanted Jean Dujardin -- a bankable French star known mostly for comic roles -- to play the lead, Valentin. "Of course, I said: 'You're crazy. It's impossible,' " says Dujardin. Hazanavicius also asked his girlfriend, Berenice Bejo, the Argentina-born French actress who appeared in A Knight's Tale and in his OSS films, to play a studio extra named Peppy, shot into fame by a chance encounter. "I said, 'No way -- no way,' " recalls Bejo, who has two children with the director. "Not with me." The two eventually were persuaded, and their presence caused a change in the movie itself. The original vision for the film focused on Valentin's isolation. But as Hazanavicius got deeper into the film, Peppy began to seem major, and the movie became a romance. Dujardin had only ever scratched the era's surface. "I knew only the masterpieces of Keaton and Chaplin," he says. "It was a real discovery for me to find King Vidor's The Crowd," a film about a man lost in the big city of the 1920s that the actor calls "very modern, very touching; it helped me to assemble all the different references." PHOTOS: It's a Zoo This Season: 23 Awards Contenders Featuring Animals As a model for his character, he found Douglas Fairbanks -- the actor who started making films in 1915 and whose career faded as talkies ascended. "In all his films," Dujardin says, "he doesn't ask himself any questions," never straining against the limits of the swashbuckling style required by such films as Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro. "It's pathetic when you know the talkies are coming, but he's also very generous. He's like my character George Valentin: He can be arrogant, but he has integrity. He believes in his art. He fights for it." (Valentin needs that integrity -- as he spirals downward, it's all he has, besides liquor and an attentive, scene-stealing dog to keep him warm.) Bejo's research found inspiration in Gloria Swanson -- who, unlike Fairbanks, excelled after the silent era. She fell for Swanson's autobiography, which describes a life very different from the desiccated former star she played in Sunset Boulevard. "She started in the silent period and then went to the talkies and then to TV," Bejo says. "I got a sense of the atmosphere of the period." To make a film about Hollywood, Langmann reasoned, you had to shoot there. By now he'd drawn some funding from French station Canal+ and invested considerably from his own company, La Petite Reine. But the costs of coming to America -- and surrendering French government subsidies -- raised the stakes substantially. (The film's eventual budget came close to $20 million.) STORY: 'The Artist': The Not-So-Silent Entry Shooting at the Paramount and Warner Bros. lots -- as well as locations like the beautifully lit center court of downtown L.A.'s 1893 Bradbury Building, known to film buffs for its role in Blade Runner -- inspired the crew over the 35-day shoot. (Dujardin was put up in an old house in the Hollywood Hills -- he thinks to amplify his isolation for his slide in the movie's second act.) "Hollywood, in my opinion, is the big star of the movie," says Hazanavicius. Also crucial to re-creating the era onscreen was the work of costume designer Mark Bridges, who worked on all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films, including Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood. Some of his vision for The Artist came from the MGM documentary 1925 Studio Tour. "You could see what the carpenters, what the plasterers wore," he says. "Even those guys in their bib overalls had a necktie. And a lot of hats, either for warmth or bad hair days." Surprisingly, director of photography Guillaume Schiffman shot the film in color because today's black and white is too sharp, not grainy enough. He used unusual filters to diffuse the whites and mute the blacks slightly -- and as the film went on, with its main character losing some of his sheen, the light got grayer. Although Hazanavicius deliberately had chosen very expressive actors -- Americans John Goodman, James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller round out the cast -- they found the limitations were difficult at first. For Bejo, working without lines threw her off. (The actors improvised in English while onscreen, to give their mouths something to do, mixed with a few of the "lines" shown to the audience on intertitles.) But she eventually found a way to inhabit the role. "If it was a talking movie, she would have been the same -- would have moved the same way, winked the same way, danced the same way," she says. "The challenge was to try to focus on the body language, but the rest of it was finding a way of being an American actress. I think of American actors -- they take up a lot of space, they talk really loud, they talk with their hands. So I had to find that, since being a French actor, everything is more petite." STORY: How 'The Artist's' Fashions Are Impacting the Red Carpet To keep communing with the past, the director kept the music of the era -- George Gershwin, Cole Porter -- in constant rotation while they shot, and he brought cast and crew to see films at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, and to the Nuart for its revival of Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (a morality tale about the corrupting influence of the city Murnau made for Fox in 1927) . The director applied some of what he learned: Murnau, for instance, had instructed his protagonist from Sunrise to wear heavy, weighted shoes on set after he fell on hard times; Hazanavicius did something similar when he dressed his fallen star in suits slightly too big for him. "He's not as perfect as he was in the first act," he says. Hazanavicius credits the world's fascination with Hollywood for the film's international appeal, but the enormous enthusiasm of Harvey Weinstein is the reason it has exploded out of the gates during the festival season into the awards race. Weinstein, who had enjoyed the OSS films, had heard about the movie from Langmann and in March flew to Paris, where he saw the film alone in a screening room. Weinstein was not ambiguous in his praise. The Artist, he says now, "treasures the American cinema I love. It's an inspiration, everything about the movie -- where they shot the movie, the way they used American cast and crew. It's just a love letter to American cinema." Langmann was impressed with Weinstein's urge to pull the trigger without any associates along to vet the decision. It was still months before Cannes -- it was not even assured at this point that the film would be released in France -- but by the time of the festival, the deal to distribute in the U.S., the U.K. and other regions was done. The film ends with a tap dance that required more work than anything else in the film. "I think 95 percent of the preparation was for the tap dancing," Hazanavicius says. Bejo recalls her practice with both pleasure and exasperation: "Five months, every day." The film was shot in as close to real sequence as possible -- in part to give the actors time to learn to tap dance, and partly so they would travel the same journey as George and Peppy before arriving at the climactic scene. "The dance is all about their characters," Hazanavicius says. "If it's just a performance, it's not interesting." Bejo's attitude toward the conclusion captures some of the quality that makes her character -- and the film -- so winning. "I kept telling myself: 'Just smile, look at each other, enjoy the moment. The happier you are, the less people will look at your feet. Just act, don't try to be good -- your feet will follow.' " PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The Making of 'The Artist' Related Topics The Artist 1 2 next last

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

'The Muppets' Cast Does the Manha Mahna Song (VIDEO)

From America online TV: It's reliable advice we are pretty flipping excited for 'The Muppets' movie. Besides the brand new film star Jason Segel, Can Be, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, but a lot of our favorite TV stars like Rashida Johnson and Neil Patrick Harris complete the cast. Just like us, they are not safe from the Mahna Mahna song. Within the video below, Johnson, Harris, Ken Jeong and much more in our favorite scene-stealers join the Mahna Mahna phenomenon. Based on the Hollywood Reporter, the recording is marketing MuppetsMahnaMahna.com, a website where fans can upload clips of themselves singing the classic song. Family Film Guide: Holiday Movies 2011 'Jack and Jill''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1''Happy Ft Two''Arthur Christmas''Hugo''The Muppets''Alvin and also the Chimpunks: Chipwrecked''The Adventures of Tintin''War Equine' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-486274.cke_show_edges #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-486274, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-486274

'Twilight: Breaking Dawn's' Rachelle Lefervre on His Hardest Scene and Jacob's Massive Transformation (Video)

Moviegoers seen Rachelle Lefervre put his impressive fighting styles and stunt capabilities to use in Lionsgate's action thriller Abduction. And Twihards are actually wooed by his ripped physique as uberpopular werewolf Edwards Friend Jacob throughout his forest fight moments inside the Twilight Saga series. Nevertheless it was Breaking Beginning -- Part I's pivotal "imprinting scene" the actor recognized was most likely probably the most challenging moments he's handled.our editor recommends'Breaking Dawn' Premiere: Rachelle Lefervre, Billy Burke Hit the Black Carpet (Photos)Rachelle Lefervre to Star in Gus Van Sant Indie Film (Exclusive)From 'Abduction' to Art House: Inside Taylor Lautner's Movie Transformation (Analysis)'Breaking Dawn's' Rachelle Lefervre Draws Affection From Overzealous Male Fan at Film's PremiereTaylor Lautner Interview Question Leads to Apology from GQTaylor Lautner versus. Rachelle Lefervre Box Office: How Twilight's Leading Males Stack UpVIDEO: 'Twilight: Breaking Beginning- Part I' Rachelle Lefervre Talks with THRVIDEO: 'Twilight: Breaking Beginning Part I's Billy Burke Talks with THR Related Subjects•Twilight "It absolutely was tough, it absolutely was probably most likely probably the most challenging personally because first, you need your hands on what imprinting is and exactly what it means," Lautner told The Hollywood Reporter while watching film's massive $283.5 million worldwide opening in the last weekend. "And fortunately, we'd [Twilight book series author] Stephenie Meyer round the set constantly, so trust me, we'd plenty of conversations along with her relating to this.In . PHOTOS:'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1' Black Carpet Premiere Arrivals Inside the popular book series, Lautner's character Jacob is angry inside the near dying of his nearest friend, Bella (Billy Burke), through the birth of her along with a Vampire Named Edward's (Rachelle Lefervre) child. Jacob then sets to eliminate the newborn but upon acquiring eyes while using baby discovers they might be the woman he'll spend the comfort of his existence loving and imprints round the girl. The best cut in the scene is extremely visual, using CGI together with a costly-forward montage in the infant just like a teenage girl, which made what potentially sounds questionable or creepy quite stylish round the silver screen but just a little difficult at first for your actor. PHOTOS: 'Twilight: Breaking Beginning': New Images "Once I understood that, it increased being, 'What does it appear like?' which i am talking about, I used to be giving a X round the wall which i desired just to walk inside the room and look for this X, make eye-to-eye-to-eye contact from it and imprint, whatever meaning, whatever that seems like," he mentioned. "So at that time it absolutely was tough and needed plenty of imagination however am really happy with the finish result and I must thank [director]Bill Condon for the one." Lautner added that Jacob encounters a massive transformation inBreaking Beginning -- Part 1. "The whole factor with Jacob in this movie might be your way he continues immediately for the finish," he mentioned. "He starts the film since the same Jacob we always known, but with the journey, I'm speaking about, he's instructed to become guy and deal with maturity issues making options which he's torn between their very own family, the wolf pack and also the new family, the Cullen which he must perform right factor." PHOTOS: Hollywood's A-List Transformed Lautner's interview within the Four Seasons in Beverly Slopes came round the heels of THR's exclusive think that he'd be starring inside an independent movie directed by Gus Van Sant. Though he and also the team carried out coy on anymore particulars for the press throughout models that week -- saying "it absolutely was still in very, very initial phasesInch -- the actor will be a good sport when THR elevated its report about plans for your project. The actor's first effort just like a solo leading guy, Abduction, deflated within the domestic box office inside the summer season. The completely new project would most likely take Lautner's career in the new direction. He's mentioned being likely to work simply with top company company directors and authors any further while he aims to define themselves becoming an actor. Meanwhile, the best film in Summit Entertainment's five-movie Twilight Saga franchise, Breaking Beginning -- Part 2, opens November. 16, 2012. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn': New Images Within the Pentultimate Film inside the Saga Related Subjects Rachelle Lefervre Rachelle Lefervre Twilight Saga Billy Burke Bill Condon

Monday, November 21, 2011

Britain Wins 5 Worldwide Emmys

First Released: November 21, 2011 10:38 PM EST Credit: Getty Premium Caption Rhianna stands with Nigel Lythgoe of Britain, The American Idol Show Executive Producer, after showing him using the Founders Award in the 39th Worldwide Emmy Honours November 21, 2011NY, N.Y. -- Christopher Eccleston and Julie Walters received the primary acting honours as British TV productions won five Worldwide Emmys on Monday, including two for that BBC crime anthology Accused. Accused, written and produced by Jimmy McGovern, received the Emmy for the best drama series in the 39th Annual Worldwide Emmy Honours ceremony in the Hilton NY Hotel. The anthology informs the tales of individuals charged with crimes because they sit in holding cells underneath the court docket waiting for the verdict within their tests. The ceremony began having a surprise appearance by Rhianna, outfitted inside a demur black dress, who presented the Worldwide Emmy Founders Award to Britains Nigel Lythgoe, the executive producer of yankee Idol which means you Think You Are Able To Dance? Lythgoe was famous for his act as a significant reality show innovator too for his deep resolve for dance all over the world. Accused initially wasnt even one of the nominees within the drama category. However it wound up changing another British crime show Sherlock after it had been determined the up-to-date version from the A Virtual Detective mysteries had been nominated for any Primetime Emmy Award within the U.S. The guidelines bar a course from being joined in to the two Emmy competitions within the same year. Eccleston, the first kind Physician Who star, won the very best actor award for his role within an episode of Accused, by which he performed a financially stressed, lapsed Catholic plumber whos battling by having an adulterous relationship and approaching using the money to cover his kids wedding. After praying to God, he finds a packet of 20,000 pounds at the back of taxis, doubles his cash on the roulette wheel, but eventually ends up on trial following the windfall works out to become forged notes. Walters, who earlier won an english BAFTA TV award for the similar role, was selected best actress for that TV film Mo. She described the late Mo Mowlam, the unorthodox British politician who fought a brain tumor which she hidden from Pm Tony Blair while trying to forge the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord. Another British those who win both focused on teens in unusual conditions. Gareth Malone Would go to Glyndebourne won within the arts programming category because of its account from the staging of the new opera featuring inexperienced teens in the famous British opera house. The Emmy for non-scripted entertainment visited The Mobile phone industry's Most stringent Parents, that takes unmanageable British teens and transmits them abroad to invest ten days coping with a strict host family. Forty nominees from the record 20 nations were competing in 10 groups for Worldwide Emmys, praising excellence in television programming outdoors the U.S., in the ceremony located for that second straight year by former Beverly Hillsides 90210 star Jason Priestley. The award within the TV Movie/Small-Series category visited Swedens Millennium, in line with the late Stieg Larssons best-selling trilogy that follows investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and also the anti-social computer hacker Lisbeth Salander because they solve various crimes. Within the telenovela category, Portugal won for that second straight year this time around for Lacos p Sangue (Bloodstream Ties),in regards to a lady lengthy thought dead after her father drowned attempting to save her from being taken away inside a river current who suddenly returns to consider revenge on her behalf older sister. A genuine-existence family drama, Canadas Existence with Murder, about parents battling to determine how you can connect with their boy after hes charged with killing his more youthful sister, was selected the very best documentary. The Belgian hidden camera show, Benidorm Bastards, by which seven seniors set to trick as numerous youthful people as they possibly can, received the award for the best comedy. Chiles Disadvantage Que Suenas? (What's The Ideal?) was the champion within the children&youthful people category. Actress Archie Panjabi (The Great Wife) and Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons presented the honorary Worldwide Emmy Directorate Award to Indian media mogul Subhash Chandra, who broke a government monopoly by starting Indias first independently possessed television funnel nearly two decades ago. His Zee TV network now reaches a lot more than 600 million audiences worldwide. The honours are sponsoredby the Worldwide Academy of Television Arts&Sciences, including media and entertainment figures from a lot more than 50 nations and 500 companies. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Dwayne Manley Tracks Monsters

For just about any new comic adaptationDespite getting an energetic schedule plus an already sticking out bag full of likely future projects, Dwayne Manley just keeps piling inside the options. He's now installed on a film based on comic miniseries The Monster Hunter's Survival Guide. Paul Russ created the title for Zenescope Entertainment this year. You'll be less-than-shocked to hear it aims to be the comprehensive The Best Way To for people searching to battle undead creeps, supernatural monsters as well as other dangerous monstoids.At this time around, the film version reaches a very initial phase, with no authors or director attached, though This Means War author/producer Simon Kinberg is controlling development.Manley, who well and truly Introduced It to Fast Five this year, will next come in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation in 2012. He's also busy filming Snitch, which finds him just like a father expected to help take lower a drug dealer to keep his boy from prison. So when that wasn't enough, he's also walked within the wrestling ring recently for any couple of large shows...

Friday, November 18, 2011

Jeffrey Wright moves to 'Broken City'

Jeffrey Wright has joined cast of Allen Hughes' "Broken City," joining Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in the NY City crime thriller. Wahlberg stars as a Brooklyn detective hired by a powerful politician (Crowe) to identify his wife's lover, who is subsequently found and killed. Wright will play the police commissioner who has a complicated history with the Crowe's character. Justin Chambers, James Ransone and Griffin Dunne recently joined the cast, which includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper and Alona Tal. Pic was packaged by Emmett/Furla, scripted by Brian Tucker and is skedded for release on Jan. 18, 2013 by 20th Century Fox. Wright, repped by CAA, was last seen in "Ides of March." He'll also appear in Stephen Daldry's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," which Warner Bros. opens in limited release on Christmas. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Attacking Youthful Boys Paternity Suit Dropped (Report)

Pop's sweetest couple can relaxation easy. Single mother Mariah Yeater has dropped her paternity suit against Attacking Youthful Boys, TMZ mentioned Wednesday.our editor recommendsJustin Bieber Declines Ever Meeting Lady Suing Him For Paternity (Video)Justin Bieber's Paternity Suit Spoofed By Jimmy Fallon (Video)Attacking Youthful Boys Accuser Makes Appearance on 'The Insider' PHOTOS: MTV EMAs 2011 Artists TMZ reported that Yeater had separated company along with her legal team Lance Rogers and Matt Pare that the costs happen to be withdrawn. Yeater had mentioned her four-month old boy Trystyn was the consequence of backstage concert tryst with Bieber last October. She'd told The Insider that they met Bieber after his show within the Staples Center in La. VIDEO: Attacking Youthful Boys Declines Ever Meeting Lady Suing Him For Paternity "He immediately needed a liking in my opinion. We just arrived at speaking," Yeater recounted round the Insider. "Eventually he asked for me, he mentioned, 'Would you mind once we might have to go somewhere and be alone?" Yeater mentioned they has "provided evidence" to her lawyers which will prove her accusations true in the courtroom. PHOTOS: Attacking Youthful Boys's Moustaches Bieber, who's presently dating Selena Gomez, had declined the claims and apparently made the decision to consider dna test disproving the claims. "I'd similar to to convey basically that none of people accusations are true," he mentioned round the Today Show. "I realize that we'm apt to be a target however'm not really considered a victim." "It's crazy because each night following a show I'm gone, from transpires with my vehicle so that it's crazy that lots of people desire to make up such false accusations but to produce the record straight, none of it's true. I've never met the woman,Inch Bieber added. Related Subjects Attacking Youthful Boys

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Ough Gervais Golden Globes Watch: Hollywood Foreign Press Association Divided Over Comic's Return as Host

Since you can't go several week without reading through about Ough Gervais and also the Golden Globes, Deadline reviews the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is "divided" over whether or not to bring the questionable comic to host for any third year consecutively, a result NBC, the Globes's television network, really wants to see happen. "NBC has place the HFPA inside a lose-lose situation," stated a resource to Deadline. "When the Hollywood Foreign Press states 'Yes' to Ough, it risks turning the Globes into 'The Ough Gervais Show' and departing the sense that they are yearly tossing an excellent party while inviting somebody that humiliates all the visitors. Whether it states 'No,' the HFPA appears like it's no spontaneity about itself. The issue is, for those who have Ough, the show has a tendency to find yourself being about him and just how mean he is able to be. He effectively dwarfs the significance of the ceremony itself." Lolz to that particular last part: "the key from the ceremony itself." This is actually the Golden Globes, where alcohol flows freely one of the star-studded visitors, and those who win sometimes (although not always) have been in the restroom when their names are introduced. (Hey, Christine Lahti!) For his part, Gervais would clearly be lower to host again. "They haven't requested me formally yet, and I'm not sure if I'd say yes. It is extremely tempting," he lately told Access Hollywood, while adding that NBC wants him to come back however the HFPA was the best decider. Per Deadline, a choice on Gervais needs to be produced sometime now. [via Deadline] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Monday, November 14, 2011

'Twilight's' Nikki Reed Records Single With Husband Paul McDonald (Audio)

Twilight actress Nikki Reed and her husband, former American Idol contestant Paul McDonald, have recorded a song together.our editor recommends'Twilight's' Nikki Reed Weds 'American Idol' Finalist Paul McDonald'Breaking Dawn' Finale Wasn't 'Super Dramatic,' Says Nikki ReedNikki Reed Wedding Dress Featured 100 Diamond Buttons "Now That I Found You" features music by McDonald and lyrics by Reed, and debuted on Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show Monday. PHOTOS: 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn': New Images The actress described the unplanned collaboration during a phone interview on the show: "I've experiment with writing lyrics for other people in the past. He recorded the music, on the way back from Europe, a week and a half ago. I just sat and wrote lyrics to his music." The song was recorded this weekend in Los Angeles with producer Andre Harris of Dre & Vidal. PHOTOS: Top 15 Grossing Threequels of All Time Reed, who frequently blogs on her official website and got her start in Hollywood as the writer of Thirteen, told Seacrest that McDonald is encouraging her to pursue her musical side, "He wants to be a super team. I'm a little more shy. We've done some open mics together." Reed and McDonald were married in Oct. at a private ranch in Malibu in front of 100 guests. They met at the March premiere of Red Riding Hood and became engaged in June. Reed plays Cullen clan member Rosalie Hale in the Twilight movies. Related Topics Nikki Reed Twilight Saga American Idol Paul McDonald

Friday, November 11, 2011

Justin Timberlakes Marine Corps Ball Date Challenges Star To Bop-Off

First Released: November 11, 2011 2:26 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Justin Timberlake attends the Buddies with Benefits premiere at Ziegfeld Theater in NY City on This summer 18, 2011 / inset: Corporal Kelsey P SantisLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Corporal Kelsey P Santis and Justin Timberlake are headed towards the Marine Corps Ball on Saturday in Washington D.C., and also the star better have his dance moves ready! My buddies continue to say, Dance-off! They are fully aware about my abilities, Cpl. P Santis told Billy Rose bush and Package Hoover and Fridays Access Hollywood Live. Based on Kelsey, Justin who's no slouch around the party area may be set for a little of the surprise if this involves her talents. I honestly dont think hell have the ability to maintain my group I dont think hell have the ability to maintain us, she stated, explaining that they has multiple signature moves, such as the Dougie. And when the evening goes well with JT beside her, Kelsey stated shes available to a hug in the celebrity. Obviously, Im single! I have no idea [if your hug may happen. I suppose thats all as much as JT and what his plans are, she described. Adding having a laugh, I'd never pressure anything upon him or anything like this! The Marine, who's positioned in the Marine Corps base at Quantico, asked Justin towards the Marine Corps Ball in This summer online, saying, And when you cannot go, all I'm able to have to say is, Cry us a river! Kelsey requested the star to become her date after Sergeant Scott Moore published a clip online asking Justins Buddies with Benefits co-star, Mila Kunis to go to the big event. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Critic's Self-help guide to Thursday TV: A Gripping Grey's Anatomy, Bones' New Intern plus much more!

Scott Foley The essential theme of tonight's eventful Grey's Anatomy fall finale (ABC, 9/8c) is: "You think you'd an undesirable day?" The doctors of Dallas Sophistication obtain hands and hearts full of trauma, with many different the chaos spinning across the emergency surgery including Teddy's persistantly ill but forever chipper husband Henry (Scott Foley). While Teddy's around her bloody scrubs fixing another doctor's mistake, employees must decide who draws the short hay to make use of round the beloved of just one that goes for them. Meanwhile, Meredith barely has time to process the newest news in their custody of the children from the children struggle before she and Alex are sent in the storm to do a delicate neo-natal transfer from the newborn that more often than not hits a speed bump. The hour is classic Grey's, a multiple-hanky indication that whenever it tries, this extended-running medical drama could placed you round the side of your chair by leaving you squashed out when it's over.There's a brand new intern improving the Jeffersonian team solve its grisly puzzles on Fox's Bones (9/8c), and he's a "simple country boy" charmer named Finn Abernathy (the enjoyable Luke Kleintank) who disarms nearly everyone - except curmudgeonly AUSA Caroline, who objects for the kid's juvie past, and Hodgins, who can't help patronizing the brand new You are able to boy's twangy lingo. Being fair, Finn is provided to saying corny such things as, "I'm as honest since the sunshine around the rear of the honeybee." That Hodgins retorts: "Are you able to explain that honest?" - later adding, "This really is really the Jeffersonian, not just a fishing hole." This "Opie" is a factor from the savant, though, and will come in handy relating to this week's situation, such as the dying from the champion inside the stomach-churning arena of competitive eating. (Be cautious for your hiding python, incidentally.) Inside the ongoing Bones-Booth-baby story, it's pretty apparent Bones still offers a great deal to discover concerning the niceties of when also to whom she should share such momentous news since the baby's gender.Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!With CBS' The Mentalist uncharacteristically airing a mid-sweeps repeat, this can be your last best chance to sample NBC's fighting but much enhanced new crime drama Prime Suspect (10/9c). It provides to become another strong showcase for Maria Bello since the scrappy Jane Timoney, who reaches into occasions from her own past to help her solve the problem from the boy found dead inside a classy preschool.Waiting for Veterans Day on Friday, you will discover a number of options, like the final evening of History's Vietnam in HD (9/8c), because the turbulent last years of the conflict from 1969-75 more first-person testimony from veterans in PBS' Vietnam War Tales (check local agendas) together with a unique presentation of PBS' POV, the psychologically charged Where Soldiers Result From (check local agendas), a film monitoring four years inside the lives of three high-school pals from northern Michigan who sign up for National Guard duty after graduation and finished up serving in combat in Afghanistan, coping upon their return with distressing brain injuries and publish-distressing stress disorder.The Lighter Side: Among tonight's comedy highlights, ex-couple Leonard and Cent try going out alone again on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (8/7c), which appears like getting fun with geek fire. ... On NBC, three's company when Annie moves together with Troy and Abed on Community (8/7c). ... Leslie rallies her loyal team (though with no the assistance of Ron, we're taking a chance) to host one Not at Pawnee Central Towards the top of Parks and Entertainment (8:30/7:30c). ... And also on Work (9/8c), a very pregnant Pam feels threatened with the pretty new temp. ... There's a double dose of Beavis and Butt-mind on MTV, beginning at 10/9c while using return of Beavis' a lot more deranged alter-ego, Cornholio. In the second episode at 11/10c, the vidiots possess a area trip to a military base and supply new meaning to the thought of a thief risk.Just what else is on? ... It's curtains after tonight for ABC's woeful reboot of Charlie's Angels (8/7c), which audiences quickly gave the boot, but as our Michael Schneider reviews, the systems are definately not giving up on remakes. Better luck next time. ... The CW's The Vampire Journals (8/7c) systems a significant thrilling fall run as My Morning Jacket works within the Homecoming dance - more often than not there's some reason to party in Mystic Falls - while everyone can get busy trying to thwart wicked Klaus' latest ghoulish plans. ... Using what appears just like a genuine-existence Glee, the Showtime special Thespians (7:30/6:30c) follows four amateur troupes enroute for the world's greatest high-school theater competition. Just like a curtain-raiser, stay updated earlier for your entertaining 2003 movie Camping, occur a camping for youthful musical-theater hopefuls. ... Is it possible to imagine being told to visit home by Kelly Osbourne? She's the guest judge on Lifetime's Project Accessory (10/9c), while using challenge during the day together with a "bodysuit" transformation.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Brothers and sisters set 'Spy' script at shingle

Film writer brothers and sisters Chris and Charlie Frazier have set their spy thriller script "In the organization of Lies" with recently created Sentinel Pictures and production/distribution company Pipeline MPG. Sentinel's Adam Brawer and David Beitchman will produce alongside Pipeline's Gary Ousdahl and Affirmative Entertainment's Nicolas Bogner. Pipeline MPG handles worldwide sales and distribution. Principal photography is slated to start within the summer time. "Lies" focuses on a lady who suspects her husband of getting an affair, simply to uncover he's holding a significantly more dark secret that intends her very own existence. The Fraziers are repped by APA, Affirmative Entertainment's Nicholas Bogner, and attorney Eric Suddleson. Roger Haber discussed the offer with respect to Sentinel Pictures. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Monday, October 31, 2011

Virtual Newsstand: Movieline.com, October 2011

Every month at Movieline, we collect the best interviews, smartest features, and most compelling reviews we’ve produced, and curate them in one easy-to-use table of contents called the Virtual Newsstand, which pays tribute to our print magazine history. Here’s the Virtual Newsstand for October 2011. ENTERTAINMENT AS A WAY OF LIFEMOVIELINEOctober 2011 INTERVIEWS The Breakout From Sundance to awards season, it’s one of those magical years for Martha Marcy May Marlene star Elizabeth Olsen Quinto Power The star/producer of Margin Call talks over Occupy Wall Street and the business of coming out Garden State It only took four years, but we finally got a look at (and a chat about) Willem Dafoe’s troubled drama Fireflies in the Garden Rhys’s Pieces Welsh dynamo Rhys Ifans talks about second-guessing Shakespeare for Anonymous Girl Rock Abigail Breslin has grown up into her own band and a new lead role in the indie flick Janie Jones Let the Good Times Roland What made Anonymous the “single greatest filmmaking experience” of Roland Emmerich’s life? Grier Factor Jackie Brown’s revival made for a fine occasion to talk to ’70s icon Pam Grier The Thing About Joel Joel Edgerton makes his first bid for mainstream stardom in The Thing Hayden Seek Hayden Panettiere on the long journey of Fireflies in the Garden and the dangers of typecasting The Schu Fits Trespass director Joel Schumacher has a word for his critics — or maybe he doesn’t The Maverick Sam Shepard on Blackthorn, his Hollywood years and why he’ll never write a memoir Savage Beauty Emily Browning on the tough, transcendent Sleeping Beauty Strange Brew Craig Brewer on his Footloose remake — and how it’s like Purple Rain Young Elizabeth Joely Richardson on the royal mother-daughter combo that made Anonymous a treat ‘Beyond Thrilled’ My Week With Marilyn director Simon Curtis has plenty of reason to be excited about his movie’s NY Film Festival premiere Sick, Sick Six Is the Human Centipede mastermind the most depraved filmmaker working? Read our chat and decide for yourself Sugar and Steel Ex-champ Sugar Ray Leonard talks Real Steel and the problem with boxing today Mr. Trouble Meet Laurence R. Harvey, the face of The Human Centipede II Fast Woman Jordana Brewster has the Fast and the Furious franchise in the blood THE VERGE JC Chandor Sean Durkin Juno Temple FEATURES Oscar Index The most scientific awards survey known to man enters its second month, only at Movieline Rum-mage Sale How do Rum Diary principals Johnny Depp, Bruce Robinson and Co. love Hunter Thompson? Let them count the ways ‘The Ship Still Sinks’ …and other revelations from James Cameron’s candid Titanic 3-D preview VFX 101 9 pro tips for breaking into visual effects from Jurassic Park’s VFX pioneers Breaking Moves About that time the Breaking Dawn cast broke into a flash-mob dance battle Marty Time Martin Scorsese gives a hometown NYFF crowd a taste of 3-D Hugo Blond Ambition The dazzling Michelle Williams talks up her NYFF premiere My Week With Marilyn Bridesmaid Secrets Kristen Wiig, Judd Apatow & Co. offer 9 things you didn’t know about Bridesmaids Matthew and Alec Old pals Broderick and Baldwin captivated the Hamptons International Film Festival Coming Out Strong 5 LGBT documentaries to watch after (or before!) you come out True Artist-ry Oscar-chasing The Artist debuts strong in East Coast festival swing Halloween How-To Last minute movie-inspired Halloween costumes from your friendly Movieline editors To remake or not to remake? Assessing the Hollywood remake potential of five Fantastic Fest films Celebs in costume Need a Halloween costume? Let 22 pictures of dressed-up celebrities provide the inspiration Demi Development 9 milestones in the evolution of Demi Moore Hallmark Moments Which of your favorites are starring in cable Christmas movies this year? An S.O.S. for SJP 3 genres better suited to Sarah Jessica Parker’s talents REVIEWS 13 1911 Anonymous The Big Year Bombay Beach Dirty Girl The Double The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) The Ides of March In Time Johnny English Reborn Le Havre Margin Call Martha Marcy May Marlene Miss Bala Real Steel The Rum Diary Paranormal Activity 3 Puss in Boots The Skin I Live In The Swell Season Texas Killing Fields The Thing The Three Musketeers 3-D Trespass BAD MOVIES WE LOVE Australia Father of the Bride Part II Mamma Mia! NY Minute [Cover photo: Getty Images]

Monday, October 24, 2011

Jesse Jackson Reschedules Shows To Get Along With Family

First Released: October 24, 2011 9:46 AM EDT Credit: WireImage Caption Jesse Jackson works on stage in the Burswood Theatre in Perth, Australia on October 18, 2011 NY, N.Y. -- Jesse Jackson is deleting a part of her Australian tour so she will support her family throughout the trial from the physician charged with involuntary wrongful death in her own brother Michaels dying. Dr. Conrad Murray is on trial in La. He's charged with being negligent in the proper care of the celebrity, who died last year of the overdose from the anesthetic propofol at 50. The prosecution is overall its situation now, and also the defense is going to present its situation. The Jacksons happen to be a normal presence in the trial Jesse Jackson was there atthe beginning. After I planned these shows, the schedule in California was different, she stated inside a Sunday statement towards the Connected Press. After speaking with my loved ones last evening, I made the decision we should be together at this time. . This saddens me in a lot of ways. The shows on her Number Ones tour were scheduled in Melbourne on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to ensure they are up, spend perform one evening, on November. 3, in Fishing rod Laver Arena. She thanked her fans for his or her support and understanding. Jackson also offers the support of her promoter. It is essential that Jesse is by using her family only at that critical reason for the hearing. While Jesse and we apologize for just about any inconvenience for that reschedule from the Melbourne shows, we thank Jesse for that great and effective concerts in Perth and Adelaide and eagerly await her return. Our ideas and hopes are with Jesse and also the entire Jackson family, promoter Paul Dainty stated. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

NBC Finds Love within the Wild Again

Love Within The Wild NBC will look for Love within the Wild ... again. The experience-dating series continues to be restored for any second season, the network introduced Thursday. Love, featuring single participants in a variety of rigorous challenges on the journey to locate love, averaged 5.5 million audiences this summer time. The show also arrived first, or tied for first, within the coveted 18-49 demographic on seven from the eight airings. Browse the relaxation of present day news "The prosperity of the associations created around the first season of these acer notebooks proof of the initial format of the show," stated Paul Telegdy, leader of alternative and late evening programming for NBC. "We anticipate a much more compelling season because the series will return with new format twists along with a new group of participants who'll conquer the wild -- or otherwise -- to locate love." Are you currently searching toward more Love within the Wild?

Friday, October 14, 2011

Hilary Swank to give Payment From Chechen Birthday Celebration

Hilary Swank still does some major clean-up after being belittled on her appearance in the birthday celebration of the alleged human privileges violator. On March. 5, Swank, together with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, attended Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's party in return for a mystery fee (Van Damme's was allegedly $a million). Now, after apologizing on Thursday, the Oscar-winning actress has made the decision to give the cash she received from her appearance to numerous non profit organizations. Swank stated she was initially not aware of Kadyrov's alleged participation in execution and torture, claims the Human Privileges Foundation known as "laughable." Based on TheWrap, the organization's COO stated Swank's apology was "weak, especially because the Human Privileges Foundation sent an alert straight to Swank through her manager on Sept. 26." Not sure how the building blocks feels about Swank's donation. [via TheWrap] [Photo: Getty] Hilary Swank in serious trouble over Birthday Celebration for Chechen Leader See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

'The Hunger Games' Capitol Seal Debuts [Moviefone Exclusive]

Attention 'Hunger Games' fans: the options certainly in your favor at this time around. In the last 2 days, people of Panem are actually treated to first looks whatsoever 12 district shuts -- many of which incorporated industry projects particularly written for your film by 'Hunger Games' author Suzanne Collins. Now comes the best puzzle piece: a preliminary think about the seal for your Capitol itself. Have a look in a unique observe that, together with another district shuts, ahead. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Woodsy Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Jesse Sutherland and Lenny Kravitz, 'The Hunger Games' involves theaters on March 23, 2012. Go back to Moviefone for further in regards to the lengthy looked forward to adaptation inside the lead-around release. For further on 'The Hunger Games,' mind towards the condition capitol website. [Top Photo: Lionsgate] 'Hunger Games' Photos See All Moviefone Galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Tilda Swinton Says She Tried to Murder Her Brother When She Was Young

File this one under shocking confessions of the day. According to Us Weekly, actress Tilda Swinton tried to kill her brother when she was a child. She was inspired by the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, which made headlines in the early '90s. "Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother," recalled Swinton to the Telegraph Magazine (not online). "He was newly born and I was disappointed, because he was the third boy. That was enough as far as I was concerned." Luckily, the 'Burn After Reading' star never went through with it. Instead, she actually ended up saving her brother. When she walked into the room to kill him, she saw ribbons from a bonnet going into his mouth and she pulled them out. "I was discovered saving his life," said Switon. "So I had this strange reputation -- my brother's savior -- and no one knew I wanted to kill him." [via Us] [Photo: GF/bauergriffinonline.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Friday, October 7, 2011

Exclusive Clip: Action Will get Warmer on Strike Back

Philip Winchester Since the first season of Cinemax's testosterone-filled original series Strike Back winds lower, the knowledge is just starting to warm up. Yesterday, the premium cable funnel introduced the show will return in 2012 for just about any second season, now we supply you with a unique clip from tonight's explosive episode. Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) and Stonebridge (Philip Winchester) receive unforeseen help really unconventional way simply because they try to flee Hasani's compound with several hostages.See the full episode Friday at 10/9c on Cinemax. Are you currently presently interested in Strike Back? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Batman, 'Twilight' Cast Reimagined As 'South Park' Characters

FROM NEXTMOVIE: Comedy Central's "South Park" returns for its 15th season this week ... with, naturally, an episode making fun of Asperger's Syndrome. (It's entitled "Ass Burgers.") The show's cutout animation may be simple, but Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny have become some of the most indelible characters in cartoon history. So, naturally, we've always wondered how "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker would have applied their signature style to some of our favorite movie icons. Our old mate Old Red Jalopy was up to the task. See the full list at NextMovie!

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Chet Dowling dies at 82

TV author-producer Chet Dowling, who authored comedy for shows including "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," "Donny and Marie" and "Three's Company," died Sept. 6 in Studio City, Calif. He was 82 coupled with lately been put in the hospital because of complications from diabetes and heart problems. The Woonsocket, R.I., native Dowling started his show business career playing among the clowns on WJAR-TV 10's "Great Circus" with Ted Dark night (who later performed Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show") and Walter Covell. When Dark night left "Uncle Ted's Backyard" to emcee another local kids show, Dowling required within the series, that was retitled "Uncle Charlie's Backyard." In early sixties Dowling gone to live in NY City. There he authored and created a lot of WPIX TV 11 kids shows including "Let us Have Some FunInch (the Chuck McCann/Paul Ashley version), "The Popeye Show With Captain Jack McCarthy," "The 3 Stooges Firehouse With Fireman Todd Russell," "The Dick Tracy Show With Police Chief Joe Bolton" and "The Chuck McCann Show." Younger crowd authored and created "The Eddie Lawrence Show" and, for some time, "The Clay Cole Show." He continued to create for Alan Funt's "Candid Camera" and then grew to become mind author for "The Joan Rivers Show."After moving to La, he authored 52 instances of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"from 1969-71. Younger crowd done "The American Music Honours" and TV special offers for Cass Elliot, Tony Randall and Paul Lynde. Joining with Sandy Krinski, he grew to become mind author for that "Donny and Marie" show. He authored and created the very first David Copperfield special and would be a staff author on sitcoms "Alice," "Three's Company" and "Gimme a rest.Inch Younger crowd ongoing to create and convey children's shows for example "The Lost Saucer" (with Jim Nabors, Alice Playten and Ruth Buzzi), "Whitney and also the Robot" and "The Brand New Soupy Sales Show."Dowling is made it with a sister and 2 nephews. Donations might be designed to Stars yet others for Creatures, 11523 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Monday, October 3, 2011

Amanda Knox Freed, Murder Conviction Overturned

Amanda Knox An Italian appeals court overturned Amanda Knox's murder conviction Monday, exonerating her inside the slaying of her British roommate. Knox - whose situation happen to be dramatized inside the Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italia, starring Hayden Panettiere - flattened in tears through the reading through through in the decision and must be aided in the courtroom. She was, however, imprisonment for defamation and bought to cover a great, as pandemonium ruled outdoors the courthouse after. Was Lifetime's Amanda Knox movie impartial? Earlier inside the day, Knox made her situation -- in Italian -- for the six people in the jury and a pair of idol idol judges, speaking for 10 mins. "I've lost a pal inside the worst, most brutal, most inexplicable way possible,In . she mentioned in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British lady who shared an apartment with Knox after they were both students in Perugia. "I'm needing to pay with my existence for items that I didn't do."The verdict was moved live and eat various broadcast and cable news channels. Amanda Knox felt sick getting seen herself referred to in approaching Lifetime movie Knox, 24, and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito were billed this past year of sexually attacking and killing Kercher, who was simply stabbed to dying in their mattress room. Knox was sentenced to 26 years jail time, Sollecito to 25. Someone else, Rudy Hermann Guede, was billed individually. "I did not kill. I did not rape. I did not steal. I wasn't there. I wasn't there within the crime," Knox mentioned in pleading her situation Monday. The Dallas Publish-Intelligencer reported that her family, who's from Dallas, stood a plane browsing Italia to fly her home.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

In Honor of Zach Galifianakis's 42nd Birthday, Let's Rediscover His Short-Lived VH1 Series

Zach Galifianakis is a riot on the big screen today (even in last year’s rather staid It’s Kind of a Funny Story), but I’m willing to bet that the 42-year-old comedian’s strongest fans were just as fervent nine years ago, when he was but a piano-playing standup with a failed VH1 talk show. For those of us who watched that damn show every night for its two-month run in 2002 and remember when he interviewed Bradley Cooper in studio and singer Natalie Imbruglia on a crane, Galifianakis is a prized treasure. Let’s revisit the old gem in honor of his 42nd birthday. Here’s an average episode of Late World with Zach. The shout-out to his “twins” is particularly great, and the genius of the Sorority Boys roundtable speaks for itself. Here, Galifianakis conducts what I will gauchely call a “meta-interview” with his future Hangover costar Bradley Cooper. And finally, here’s his stress-releasing interpretive performance to “Under Pressure.” The line, “I have a show on a channel that thinks Creed is cool” should take you right back to ‘02.

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Michael Shannon Sticks out in 'Take Shelter'

Michael Shannon Sticks out in 'Take Shelter' By Jenelle Riley September 30, 2011 Remember when September will be a drop zone for mediocre movies that art galleries needed to cleanse before moving the Oscar competitors? Well, it's the the other day in the month and several terrific films are opening today. Not only that, but we've got some good movies like "Moneyball" and "Warrior" in theaters. Really, "Warrior" warrants to complete better--in the event you haven't seen it yet, get available and search for one of the better films in the year. Then trip to one of the other great films opening a few days ago--"50/50" might be near the top of my list, however when you would really like some gory fun, you can't fail with "Tucker and Dale versus. Evil." Both films have came back Stage Critic's Picks.Also opening a couple of days ago, then one I am hoping doesn't explore the Oscar shuffle, is "Take Shelter," a stylish and terrifying parable from author-director Rob Nichols getting a ferocious performance from Michael Shannon. I've been interested in Shannon's since his riveting submit the play "Bug" just like a paranoid Gulf War veteran, employment he reprised for your 2006 film version. He then impressed audiences just like a psychologically unstable guy in "Revolutionary Road," which acquired him an Oscar jerk. Well, nobody does paranoia and mental instability a lot better than Shannon, who's absolutely amazing in "Take Shelter" as Curtis, a husband and father who begins to see visions and wants an oncoming apocalyptic event. Then he sets to build up a blast shelter around, much for the confusion of his loving wife, referred to with the always wonderful Jessica Chastain. Shannon is among the most popular stars to speak with there's something about his appearance (he looks about 7 foot tall and contains wide, significant eyes) coupled with that unique vocal pedal rotation (slightly Christopher Walken-ant) that, for reasons uknown, forever amuses me. He's also very intelligent and knows a little more about the craft of acting than lots of people could desire to forget. I'd the pleasure of moderating a Q&A with Shannon and Shea Whigham, who plays Curtis' nearest friend, last Saturday evening, where a offered-out crowd could not stop adoring the actor. CONTINUE Reading through through ON Behind The Curtain Michael Shannon Sticks out in 'Take Shelter' By Jenelle Riley September 30, 2011 Remember when September will be a drop zone for mediocre movies that art galleries needed to cleanse before moving the Oscar competitors? Well, it's the the other day in the month and several terrific films are opening today. Not only that, but we've got some good movies like "Moneyball" and "Warrior" in theaters. Really, "Warrior" warrants to complete better--in the event you haven't seen it yet, get available and search for one of the better films of year. Then trip to one of the other great films opening a couple of days ago--"50/50" might be near the top of my list, however when you would really like some gory fun, you can't fail with "Tucker and Dale versus. Evil." Both films have came back Stage Critic's Picks.Also opening a couple of days ago, then one I am hoping doesn't explore the Oscar shuffle, is "Take Shelter," a stylish and terrifying parable from author-director Rob Nichols getting a ferocious performance from Michael Shannon. I've been interested in Shannon's since his riveting submit the play "Bug" just like a paranoid Gulf War veteran, employment he reprised for your 2006 film version. He then impressed audiences just like a psychologically unstable guy in "Revolutionary Road," which acquired him an Oscar jerk. Well, nobody does paranoia and mental instability a lot better than Shannon, who's absolutely amazing in "Take Shelter" as Curtis, a husband and father who begins to determine visions and wants an oncoming apocalyptic event. He then sets to build up a blast shelter around, much for the confusion of his loving wife, referred to with the always wonderful Jessica Chastain. Shannon is among the most popular stars to speak with there's something about his appearance (he looks about 7 foot tall and contains wide, significant eyes) coupled with that unique vocal pedal rotation (slightly Christopher Walken-ant) that, for reasons uknown, forever amuses me. He's also very intelligent and knows a little more about the craft of acting than lots of people could desire to forget. I'd the pleasure of moderating a Q&A with Shannon and Shea Whigham, who plays Curtis' nearest friend, last Saturday evening, where a offered-out crowd could not stop adoring the actor.CONTINUE Reading through through ON Behind The Curtain

Thursday, September 29, 2011

South Street

A Pasadena Playhouse presentation in colaboration with Kathleen K. Manley from the musical by 50 percent functions with book by Craig Carlisle and music and lyrics by Richard Addrisi. Directed by Roger Castellano. Choreography, Dana Solimando Cloe - Maria Eberline Johnny - Brent Schindele Sybil - Valerie Perri In line with the old pop hit, Philadelphia's "South Street" is "the hippest street around the most effective street/To experience a ball together with you.Inch Not inside the tuner of the title within the Pasadena Playhouse. The fabled thoroughfare circa 1997 can be a generic, conflict-free fantasyland shown by random hugs and unmotivated high spirits. It can't are actually easy to craft a show through which literally nothing happens for 135 minutes, but that's the singular accomplishment of librettist Craig Carlisle and songwriter Richard Addrisi. Carlisle particularly is asleep within the switch. The threat of eviction hanging over "Sammy's Place," a classic firehouse, drives (for inadequate a far greater word) the story (for inadequate a far greater word). But he could not make any effort to dramatize what type of joint it's, or why we have to be worried about its fate. Rather, we're asked for to instantly accept just like a adorable pseudo-family numerous stock, stick figures (jovial sexless bartenders vulgar cougar repressed nerd sassy waitress) whose pleasure in one another peoples company we lack context to discuss. Guidos and Guidettes drift inside and out, dutifully losing pointless exposition and awful jokes inside their wake. Furthermore they sing regarding feelings: "We're doing all rightOrWe have sufficient time." "Salami and cheese/I believe you'll be pleased." "Perfect pair/Friggin' riches." In case your theater party developed a consuming wager on taking a shot whenever Addrisi ponied up an authentic rhyme, all could leave "South Street" fit to operate a vehicle. The completely new entrepreneurs need to build the Boobie Bar and Deli (Hot Ladies and Cole Slaw) online. Problems! But when we learn inside an achingly extended act one flashback to 1980, Sammy's Place began existence just like a gentlemen's club (although one with pole dancing as unerotic as Disneyland's It's a Small World). The region would likely be returning to its roots. This is often a crisis? Don't worry, it's resolved as carelessly because it is setup. A hopelessly underbaked romance is shoehorned in, as well as talk (together with an audio lesson) about "searching for the rabbit inside the moon." Also many high fives, and lots of beaming patrons pointing at each other as if to convey, "I'm together with you, sister yes it's true, my friend.Inch Space precludes sufficient deliberation over the mannequin inside the easy chair, or perhaps the number in which a soubrette announces she's "class/Being launched of my asspirations." "South Street" is actually peculiar, its words so banal and helmer Roger Castellano's pacing so off, the knowledge becomes almost endearing, like the showpiece pageant "Red-colored-colored, White-colored and Blaine" in "Waiting for Guffman." A unique dissonance is created when everyone on the internet for is trying so desperately with your reliability, because the material is relaxing one aromatic egg to a different. Heroine Cloe (Maria Eberline) systems some misunderstanding getting a by-the-amounts energy ballad congratulating herself for overcoming all the struggles we now have neither seen nor discovered. Eberline, like the relaxation in the cast, struggles manfully to promote the 80s-pop-inflected tunes as if they possessed market cost.Sets, Andy Walmsley costumes, Kate Bergh lighting, John Monahan appear, Julie Ferrin orchestrations, Don Sebesky music supervision Andrew Sotomayor musical direction, Michael Borth. Opened up up Sept. 25, 2011. Examined Sept. 28. Runs through March. 16. Running time: 2 Several hours, 15 MIN.With: Anika Bobb, Ezra Buzzington, Nigel Columbus, Matthew Patrick Davis, Susann Fletcher, Benjamin Goldsmith, Sylvie Gosse, Andy Scott Harris, Jim Holdridge, Kat Liz Kramer, Scott Kruse, John Massey, Jacqueline Nguyen, Stefan Raulston, Tom Shelton, Peter Siragusa, Cassie Silva, Hannah Simmons, Ali Spuck, Lowe Taylor, Estevan Valdes, Harrison White-colored, Corey Wright, Darlene Zaltman. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Universal Pictures Re-Ups Donna Langley As Co-Chairman

BREAKING: Universal Pictures co-chairman Donna Langley continues her term through 2014. The studio extended the choice on her behalf deal, a move which was broadly expected when Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson re-upped a week ago and can keep having full day-to-day operating responsibility for that Film Group, confirming to Universal Galleries Leader and Chief Operating Officer Ron Meyer (whose contract was lately re-upped through 2015) and NBCUniversal Ceo Steve Burke. Which was an indication the studio’s production team would remain intact after NBCUniversal was acquired by Comcast. Langley continues to function as a key proper business partner managing the companys production department, Focus Features and also the galleries worldwide purchases efforts. She reviews to Fogelson and it has been co-chairman since October, 2009. This provides Fogelson and Langley the opportunity to look out of their 2012 and 2013 slates. The 2012 slate includes the studio’s major wager, the Peter Berg-directed Battleship, that can bring an extraterrestrial story towards the Hasbro game the Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner the Rupert Sanders-directed Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman with Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Billy Burke the Carl Rinsch-directed Keanu Reeves-starrer 47 Ronin the Daniel Espinosa-directed Safe House with Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, the American Cake follow up American Reunion the Seth MacFarlane-directed Ted with Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis the Wahlberg-starrer Contraband, and also the Oliver Stone-directed Savages with Aaron Manley, Kitsch, Blake Lively and Benicio Del Toro. Judd Apatow has a set of projects and 2012 will close using the Tom Hooper-directed L'ensemble des Miserables, which stars Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. For 2013 slate, there's a sixth installment from the Fast and also the Furious franchise, the Robert Schwentke-directed R.I.P.D. with Shaun Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, the Illumination Films follow up to Wretched Me, and also the untitled sci-fi film that Tron: Legacy helmer Frederick Kosinski will direct with Tom Cruise and Jessica Chastain starring.

L Word's Leisha Hailey Escorted off Southwest Flight After Kissing Girlfriend

Leisha Hailey L Word alum Leisha Hailey claims she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after passengers complained that she and her girlfriend were kissing excessively. Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows "I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir," Hailey tweeted. "Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok." After the discussion escalated, Hailey and her girlfriend were escorted off the plane. "This is an outrage. I demand a public apology by Southwest... and a refund. Hate is not a family value. I will never fly this airline." Check out all the familiar faces returning to TV this year Southwest released a statement shortly after, saying that the passenger complaints characterized the couple's behavior as "excessive." "Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender. The conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground, as opposed to in flight." Southwest is the official airline for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and other gay-friendly groups. "GLAAD contacted Southwest to call for additional actions beyond tonight's statement that ensure all customers feel comfortable and welcomed while traveling," GLAAD's Senior Director of Programs Herndon Graddick said in a statement. They are still waiting to hear back from the airline.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Philippines sets Oscar entry

The Film Academy from the Philippines has posted Marlon Rivera's film-within-a-film "The Lady inside a Septic Tank" ("Ang babae sa septic tank") to represent the archipelago nation for foreign-language Oscar consideration. A satire around the local indie industry, pic tracks three filmmakers because they create the things they hope is going to be their award-winning opus, starring thesp Eugene Domingo, who plays herself."Lady" taken the Cinemalaya Filipino Independent Film Festival in This summer, taking home the honors for film, director, actress (Domingo), script (Chris Martinez) and also the audience choice award within the New Breed category."Lady" may be the directorial debut of Rivera, who's also prexy-Boss of ad firm Publicis Manila, who owns fashion clothing line MNR and inventive director of store Folded & Hung.Pic first showed August. 3 within the Philippines, where Box Office Mojo Philippines rated it third having a gross of $333,368 its first week, beating Tom Hanks-Jennifer Aniston starrer "Ray Crowne," which bowed at No. 5. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Within the Emmy Arms Race

Stars can hide their bellies and upper thighs under well-fitting gowns, as well as Spanx. But arms which are pale, skinny or, God forbid, loose, have nowhere to cover, especially since Hollywood translates sexy without any masturbator sleeves nowadays. Now as part of your, your skin most abundant in red-colored-carpet exposure is about shoulders, upper arms, the underarm area, even "bra body fat" -- all displayed under glaring High definition tv.our editor recommendsEmmy Roundtable: Why Julianna Margulies Declines Movie Roles (Video)Ashton Kutcher, Julianna Marguiles Drawn on as Emmy PresentersRelated Subjects•Emmys 2011 The Angela Bassett muscly-arm model doesn't look in evening gowns. Fortunately, that moment has transpired -- as have stick-thin braches a la Lindsay Lohan. Yet stringy Madonna-like yoga arms don't look right, either, since Michelle Obama's ripples are burned into our awareness. Yes, you will find really trends in arms. Happily, it's now somewhere in the centre: Ladies with sculpted-but-feminine shape like Julianna Margulies, Tina Fey and Mariska Hargitay are good examples of healthy arm chocolate. PHOTOS: 2011 Emmy Nominees To find the look, even individuals who've been shooting day and night can pull it together fast. Trainers insist even two days of labor really make a difference. First, overlook the myth that weights build muscle arms. "Weights build your arms firmer and slimmer as lengthy while you be careful about your diet," states celebrity trainer Ashley Borden. "Two days before a red-colored carpet, make use of a heavier free weight. Triceps at the base of arms collect probably the most body body fat, so for each push-up exercise, do two pulldowns." However for women genetically predisposed to wearing muscle, trainer David Kirsch favors workout bands. "I'd have most clients elongate instead of build muscle.Inch Trainer Ramona Braganza also likes shoulder accentuation. "Square shoulders are sexy and sports simultaneously,Inch she states. "I labored with Hathaway As Catwoman a couple of in the past, days prior to the Academy awards. We did super sets, one exercise to another on a single muscle." And designers will explain so good shoulders help an outfit hang well and may result in the waist and sides appear slimmer. Adds Borden: "Almost everyone has 'forward pull' from leaning shoulders forward, which in turn causes bra body fat near your breasts. Working shoulders helps." PHOTOS: Behind the curtain of THR's Emmy Icon Shoots It's tough to believe diet affects arm appearance, however it does. "Get rid of the Diet Coke and alcohol two days before," Borden alerts. "Sodium bloats your arms." If there's virtually no time for workout routines, you will find other activities to turn to, like lasers. "The Titan laser will decrease arm circumference in 2 remedies," states Beverly Hillsides skin doctor Peter Kopelson. "It can be done day-of for fast tightening. Women ought to be using product with glycolic acidity to enhance elasticity and texture." To render a supernova glow to arms, skin doctor David Colbert works full-body remedies featuring microdermabrasion, milk acidity, glucosamine and laser pulse. PHOTOS: David Strick's Emmy Nominee Portraits After some more notice, to combat loose skin, Beverly Hillsides cosmetic surgeon Randal Haworth is in support of a brachioplasty, an arm lift. "Having a small cut within the armpit, you are able to eat the skin completely towards the elbow," he states. An alternative choice is place liposuction. "Aggressive exercise can help, although not in 2 days. Lipo is going to do it in 2 hrs," adds Haworth. There's a quicker, less-costly remedy: masturbator sleeves. Stylist Simone Harouche loves gowns with masturbator sleeves. "When done correctly,Inch she states, "it may be chic, modern. Nicole Richie used a gown with kimono masturbator sleeves towards the 2010 Academy awards." "Stars think only bustier is sexy," states designer Nicole Burns. "An off-the-shoulder style works very well. It's true it's hard to create a lengthy-sleeved gown sexy. But when you've dramatic masturbator sleeves, it's very stylish. In the end, the higher the sleeve, the more compact the arm." Related Subjects Emmy Honours Julianna Margulies Mariska Hargitay Tina Fey Angela Bassett Emmys 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Ratings: Ringer Scores 2.7 Million Viewers; Parenthood Debut Down 15 Percent

Sarah Michelle Gellar Ringer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in her much ballyhooed return to TV, drew 2.7 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen data, boosting The CW to its most-watched Tuesday night in two years. The series, which has gotten decidedly mixed reviews, also scored a 1.2 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds - one-third of the 3.6 rating snagged by America's Got Talent's penultimate episode (which lured 13.20 million in viewership) at the same hour (9/8c). Fall TV Popularity Contest: What did you think of Ringer? Ringer, in which Gellar plays estranged twins, won in The CW's pet 18-to-34 (especially female) demo in major markets, and posted a 66 percent increase in total viewership and 50 percent in the overall adult demo compared with Life Unexpected in the same time slot last year - that's the good news. The bad news? Ringer's 18-to-49 demo rating only equaled last year's Hellcats, which garnered a solid-if-not-stellar 3 million viewers - and then sis-boom-bahed down to oblivion. A two-hour ABC News Special Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words averaged 8.43 million people (1.5 demo rating), while an NCIS: Los Angeles repeat and back-to-back reruns of Raising Hope raised 8.48 million and 1.91 million, respectively. Check out our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars and more! In prime time's first hour Tuesday night, the return of The CW's 90210 scored 1.63 million fans (0.8 demo rating - down 11 percent)against an NCIS rerun (10.12 million), Wipeout (6.09 million), It's Worth What? (4.70 million) and a Glee repeat (2.73 million). And in prime time's final hour, the season premiere of Parenthood grabbed 6.78 million -- a time slot-winning 2.3 demo rating, but down 15 percent from 2010's fall opener - vs. the second hour of the news special (8.73 million/1.5) and a second NCIS: LA repeat (8.04 million/1.7).

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Trojan Women (after Euripides)

A Getty Villa presentation of the SITI Company production of a play in one act by Euripides, adapted by Jocelyn Clarke. Directed by Anne Bogart. Original music composed and performed by Christian Frederickson. Lighting, Brian H. Scott; costumes, Melissa Trn; sound consultant, Darren L. West; associate scenic designer, Sibyl Wickersheimer. Opened Sept. 7, 2011. Reviewed Sept. 8. Runs through Oct. 1. Running time: 100 MIN.Hecuba Ellen Lauren Andromache Makela Spielman Kassandra Akiko Aizawa Helen Katherine Crockett Odysseus Gian-Murray Gianino With: J. Ed Araiza, Leon Ingulsrud, Barney O'Hanlon, Brent Werzner.Euripides' "The Trojan Women" is commonly accepted as the world's single most eloquent antiwar statement. It's also widely regarded as eventless and plotless, and usually played as one long cry of woe. For this year's Getty Villa Greek showcase, helmer Anne Bogart and her acclaimed SITI Company have unearthed the vital, immediate drama within this classic. The result is essential viewing for anyone interested in the conversation between timeless texts and modern theatrical practice. The masterstroke - so simple, yet so difficult to pull off - was to invest traditionally static figures with purpose and drive. On a virtually bare stage, Bogart keeps the characters in constant motion and in constant view as they challenge the gods and resist their predetermined fates. SITI's celebrated precision of physicality dovetails with character in the once-mighty Queen Hecuba (Ellen Lauren), lying prostrate before her defeated city. Each new catastrophe - the loss of kingdom, daughters, grandson and freedom in succession - lays her low, but she keeps rising from the canvas to fight again, a testament to the indomitability of the human spirit. Characters so often portrayed in unvarying grief are rendered active and engaged. The maddened seeress Kassandra (Akiko Aizawa) dashes ecstatically about to celebrate the horrors she knows are coming for the victorious Greeks. Andromache (Makela Spielman) becomes a living Pieta as she invests her entire being in cloaking her doomed infant son. And the infamous Helen (Katherine Crockett) glides along for all the world like a Real Housewife of Sparta, devilishly trying to persuade the cuckolded Menelaus (J. Ed Araiza) to forgive her her trespasses. (Her clash with an infuriated, vengeful Hecuba takes on all the ambiguity and suspense of a classic courtroom confrontation.) Even the usual chorus of weeping women is replaced by a single court factotum, a eunuch-priest (Barney O'Hanlon) tireless in Hecuba's service. His snatches of Oriental dance, accompanied by Christian Frederickson's seductive sampling of world music on violin and synthesizer, carry a perfumed reminder of the exotic Troy that was. Jocelyn Clarke's adaptation "After Euripides" makes up in clarity and passion what it lacks in lyricism, so much the better in these dynamic circumstances. In her most audacious tactic, she brings the wily politician Odysseus (Gian-Murray Gianino) onto the scene. No particular poetry is added, but there's something satisfying about a first-hand encounter with the dapper Donald Rumsfeld figure who masterminded the Greek "surge" and its triumphant outcome. The follies of war are inescapable over the course of a painful 100 minutes, but to the very end Bogart rejects despair. As Hecuba and her eunuch raise their feet to walk to the Greek ships, a blackout cuts them off in mid-stride. Despite everything, they will keep moving forward. The moment makes you gasp, as the principals in one of the world's greatest myths join with the tramps of "Waiting for Godot" to affirm: "We can't go on. Let's go on." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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