'Whale Wars' back for additional

Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" continues to be restored for any fifth season after several weeks of back-and-forth over if the show's protags, a militant animal-privileges group known as the Ocean Shepherds, would have the ability to find any whalers to chase away after apparently frightening away Japanese whaling concern the Institute of Cetacean Research in the finish of season four. The Ocean Shepherd campaign chronicled in season five will go back to the waters around Antarctica, where whaling through the ICR continues. Even just in a clip for that coming season, Animal Planet prexy and g.m. Marjorie Kaplan teases this might be the final season for that show the Ocean Shepherds have produced lots of worldwide tension using the ICR, that is backed through the Japanese government. Japanese whalers contend the ICR's activities are legal and above board the Ocean Shepherds the company's mentioned agenda is really a smokescreen which its harpooning and processing of whales violates the moratorium on whaling in worldwide waters. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Stars Respond To Screen Stars Guild Honours Nominations

First Released: December 14, 2011 4:22 PM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Betty Whitened attends her 89th birthday celebration at Le Cirque in NY City on The month of january 18, 2011 The 18th annual Screen Stars Guild Honours nominations were introduced on Wednesday morning, which years nominees are gone the moon readily! This really is incredible to become identified by my fellow people from the Screen Stars Guild for 2 of my personal favorite projects. I couldnt perform the work I actually do on television Lands Hot in Cleveland with no support and passion for my fellow cast mates Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, the astonishing authors, not to mention the shows creator, Suzanne Martin. Also, I've always aspired to perform a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie and also the Lost Valentine was an incredible experience due mostly to Jennifer Love Hewitt, Darnell Martin(the director), the producers and also the wonderful folks at Hallmark Hall of Fame. Thanks from the foot of my heart. - Betty Whitened, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Female Actor inside a Television Movie or Miniseries for Hallmark Hall of Fame: The Lost Valentine, and Outstanding Performance with a Female Actor inside a Comedy Series for warm In Cleveland ** I'm incredibly moved and thus grateful to my fellow stars for realizing my role in Moneyball with this particular nomination. Personally i think so lucky to become an actress today when i do everyday. I owe an enormous thanks and far credit to the entire cast and crew, our authors, and particularly to the courageous leader and director Bennett Burns and also to Kaira Pitt, probably the most generous onscreen partner anybody could expect. Getting my work honored today by my peers pushes me to operate even harder. - Jonah Hill, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Male Actor inside a Supporting Role, Moneyball ** Its an recognition to become identified by your peers and that i thank my fellow SAG people with this nomination and am proud to possess been part of this kind of incredible ensemble, in addition to Woodsy Allens vision. - Owen Wilson, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Cast inside a Film, Night time in Paris ** I'm enormously touched with this nomination in the SAG membership. Ive been only at that for any very long time, which is always satisfying to become famous for a performance. Warrior would be a little film but it features a large heart, also it would be a real labor of affection for Gavin OConnor who directed the film. Above all else Hopefully this nomination produces some restored curiosity about the image. - Nick Nolte, Outstanding Performance with a Male Actor inside a Supporting Role, Warrior ** Were so grateful for that nominations in the Screen Stars Guild. Our cast would be a close-knit group lead by George Clooney and Alexander Payne. Apart from work best performance, George would be a generous actor who permitted everybody an chance to shine. We're so happy and happy with this sensational ensemble. - Jim Burke, Producer from the Descendants, nominated for Outstanding Performance with a Cast inside a Film Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Keck's Exclusives: Lucy and Desi's Children Celebrate Their Parents' Long lasting Musical Legacy

Desi Arnaz Junior. Lucie Arnaz Closing the centennial celebration of Lucille Ball's birthday and also the 60th Anniversary of I Really Like Lucy, Lucie and Desi Arnaz Junior. - the only real kids of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Sr., made among their rare public looks together Friday evening in the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hillsides. The big event, Tropicana Nights: A Salute towards the Music of I Really Like Lucy, featured a panel discussion focused mainly around the siblings' father, then musical performance with Desi, 58, on bongos and Lucie, 60, singing two amounts her father carried out around the 50's sitcom. Just before the big event, I sitting lower using the pair to go over the way they both recognition and safeguard their parents' legacy.Desi, we do not help you at many Lucy-related occasions. Why was this something you thought about being a part of?Desi: Well, My home is Boulder City, Nevada. But this can be a large deal. It is the 60th anniversary from the show and it is Mother's 100 birthday if she remained as around. And also the music is actually why I am here. Lucie and I've been focusing on a reveal that tributes Dad's music. We made it happen like a benefit after which carried out it as being a concert show known as Babalu. We are moved very deeply through the music, therefore we enjoy speaking to individuals about this side of I Really Like Lucy. Dad's contribution and also the music.What were the roots from the music of I Really Like Lucy?Desi: I Really Like Lucy was really produced from Dad's orchestral show. Mother and Father wanted to ascertain if people would accept them live, because CBS wasn't too sure it might work or otherwise. In individuals days they were not sure a redhead American should be also married to some Cuban. It had been very questionable. But the pair of them went along with dad's band and also the people loved it.Lucie: After Father died I discovered each one of these plans and tapes. Stuff we'd never heard before that inspired me to operate more about Latin music.What's the way forward for your Babalu show?Lucie: He does not wish to travel, so there's no future.Desi: [Laughs] Maybe we'll perform a run in Las vegas.Have you got a favorite song from I Really Like Lucy?Lucie: I actually do. It's in the Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour once they visited Havana for that flashback showing how Lucy and Ough met. The song is "Which Means I Really Like You" where he plays the Conga and she or he plays the table before her formed just like a Conga.Desi: That's a high quality one. I love the main one about me being born. "We are Getting an infant My Baby and Me."I imagine lots of marketing people want to turn your folks into Mickey and Minnie Mouse - with every imaginable type of retailing. How can you safeguard their legacy?Desi: You will find there's company known as Desilu Too where Lucie and that i police any merchandise. We have been doing the work given that they died. We make use of a company from Chicago known as Memorable Corporation. We required to have assistance to police and license the item. [Desi Sr. died in 1986 at 69 while Lucy died in 1989 at 77.]Lucie: Once someone famous dies, someone needs to run that estate forever.Any strange marketing pitches you heard that you simply declined?Desi: No images of Mother on toilet tissue.Lucie: Nobody would request for your!Desi: Somebody really did, and that we needed to say "no!"Lucie: It did not mean to become our life's work. We have got separate careers and families, but this factor has overtaken us such as the giant Godzilla monster. But you will find some perks into it to. We made the decision as we would spend X quantity of 100s of 1000's of dollars each year regulating what we should were not permitting, we may as well hire people to get it done right and transform it into a real business. Make real estate worth of Lucy and Desi stay as valuable because it was once they left us.Desi: It comes down to quality, not quantity. Let's say you sell everything out immediately then you do not have anything remaining. You do not sell the farm you let.Do both of you approve the I Really Like Lucy: Survive Stage show which has been playing to offered out audiences in La?Lucie: The I Really Like Lucy express is possessed by CBS. Anything that's in line with the scripts is controlled by CBS. The things they don't totally own may be the picture of Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo or Desi Aranz as Ough Ricardo. In some cases, as with the situation of dolls, you need to get permission from CBS as well as the estate of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.Desi: Like father was future thinking and stored their image and likeness privileges. Younger crowd set up half money for that pilot, so CBS wheeled and dealed with him within the discussions when it comes to who possessed what.What's next for you personally?Lucie: I come up with a hybrid version from the Babalu show having a 12-piece band in line with the Latin Roots Compact disc I launched. I discovered a method to do Babalu so that as a lot of Dad's plans that the lady can perform. It is extremely fun. And you will find there's wonderful one-lady show out I directed that people own a bit of known as A Night Time With Lucille Ball. Suzanne LaRusch may be the wonderful impressionist. There's nobody that can compare with her.Desi: I built the sets and that we released it inside my theater. It's Mother in her own late 50's, early 60's speaking to a lot of college kids about her existence.You've without doubt heard that William Frawley and Vivian Vance are now being awarded with a TV Academy Hall of Fame in a March 1 ceremony in Beverly Hillsides.Desi: I did not realize that!Lucie: Yes, finally! I recorded just a little video on their behalf today where I stated, "With respect to my mom and dad and also the I Really Like Lucy show, I wish to congratulate Vivian Vance and William Frawley for finally be awarded with a Hall of Fame like everybody else. Buddies and neighbors ought to be together. Now it's time."They didn't have children that belongs to them?Lucie: No, Vivian and Bill never did.Other things you want to tell TV Guide Magazine visitors?Desi: It is simply fun to become here with Lucie in La. I am feeling very nostalgic about our childhood. I passed mother's old house today and stated Lucy's room to my daughter.Lucie: And what's excellent is the fact that we are together honoring this music.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Station Buy Give CBS Duopoly In NY Market

CBS Television Stations said today that it has inked a deal to acquire independent NY station WLNY-TV, giving CBS two stations in the nation’s largest media market. When the deal is approved, it will mark the 10th duopoly in 10 U.S. cities for CBS, joining Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Miami, Sacramento and Pittsburgh. The combined strengths of CBS 2 and WLNY-TV will give us a terrific platform for serving the entire NY area,” CBS TV Stations president Peter Dunn said in the release announcing the deal. “Our plans for the station include adding people and resources to fuel a significant expansion of local news programming well beyond the nightly half-hour that currently airs.” WLNY is distributed in the NY-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area and on Long Island, where an expanded news bureau is expected. The station generated $3.8M in revenue last year, a tiny amount in the huge market, according to research firm BIA/Kelsey. But Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker calls the agreement “a smart, tuck-in acquisition that should provide some significant upside opportunities” for CBS.Duopolies typically generate more profit than stand-alone stations, she says, and WLNY has a lot of room to grow — especially if CBS makes it a player in local news.

WATCH: George Takei Brokers Star Peace By Naming Twilight the Enemy

Using the nasty backwards and forwards between William Shatner and Barbara Fisher quarrelling the eternal question — The Exorcist or Star Wars? — it appeared peace was basically an illusion on the planet of sci-fi. Enter George Takei, the erstwhile Mr. Sulu and also the voice of reason within this universe-splitting debate, to unite both fandoms within the hate of the “ominous, mutual enemy” — Twilight. “And it really is, really bad.” “Gone is sense at all of gallantry, camaraderie or epic fight,” Takei laments. “In its place, we've vampires of the underworld that sparkle, and moan, and… visit senior high school.” Watch his video plea now, brainiacs! Shirtless fencing Sulu FTW! [via E! Online]

Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sofia Vegara: 'New Year's Eve' Stars Before These Were Famous (PHOTOS)

Should you haven't heard (virtually impossible because the marketing is pervasive), there is a film out now known as 'New Year's Eve,' featuring every superstar ever. (Well, not necessarily -- however it certainly feels this way the heavens not present here apparently registered for 'What to anticipate When You are Expecting' rather.) Before getting in to the 2012 spirit, the great folks at Snakkle have come up with an incredible before-they-were famous gallery for that sprawling cast of 'New Year's Eve,' from Halle Berry to Nicole Kidman to to Sofia Vegara, Hilary Swank, Zac Efron, Jessica Biel, Robert P Niro and -- deep inhale -- a lot more. A couple of Moviefone faves are below make certain to mind to Snakkle to determine all of the stars' before-they-were-famous photos. Sofia Vegara from an earlier Pepsi commercial Michelle Pfeiffer like a senior high school newcomer like a senior high school junior [Tickets and Showtimes for 'New Year's Eve'] [via Snakkle] [Photos: Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Andrew Schwartz/Warner Bros.] A Lot Of Stars: Hits and Misses Just how much is simply too much if this involves jamming large names into one movie? It seems to become a delicate formula that may go in either case... Miss: 'New Year's Eve'Hit: 'Love, Really'Miss: 'He's Simply Not That Into You'Hit: 'Crash'Miss: 'Nine'Hit: 'Ocean's Eleven'Miss: 'Ocean's Twelve'Hit: 'Contagion'Miss: 'Valentine's Day' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Sienna Miller to Star as Tippi Hedren in BBC2 Movie About The Birds

This is far too intriguing not to think about for hours: The BBC2 just announced a project called The Girl, starring Sienna Miller as model-turned-actress Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock, who obsessed over Hedren as they filmed the The Birds in northern California’s Bodega Bay. The extreme relationship between Hitch and Hedren, which included some violent bird-throwing sessions during one climactic scene, is well-documented and ready for re-inspection (as is any film starring the dashing Rod Taylor). But is this the most fascinating Hitchcock story to examine? We offer one other possible Hitchcock era that might be intriguing to revisit. But first, good news about The Girl: Looooongtime Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto is signed on as a consultant, and Tippi Hedren has agreed to do interviews with screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes for the project. It appears this project has the potential to be — at the very least — accurate. And yet, The Birds would’ve been my second choice for a BBC chronicle. I’m partial to the endless disagreements behind Rebecca, Hitch’s 1940 Best Picture winner that marked his debut in America and a stormy partnership with David O. Selznick. Plus, maybe Judith Anderson can linger in the backdrop and cast frightening glances upon everything. Anyway, here’s Tippi Hedren’s amazing screen test for The Birds. Strut, turn, and pose, Melanie Daniels. Sienna Miller Is Tippi Hedren, Toby Jones Is Hitchcock In BBC2 Drama About ‘The Birds’ [Deadline]

London Game For Shoots Throughout Olympics

As London prepares to welcome the 2012 Summer season Olympics, the citys film and media agency wants filmmakers to knowmovie customers are welcome. FilmLondon is creating a single online gateway the first time andstreamlining the using process for productions striving to shoot inside the capital.Film London’s Microsite (internet.filmlondon.org.uk/filmingin2012) provides you with advice forovercominglogistical challenges through the Games which come from late This summer time. The Olympic improvements are meant to send an email for the global industry that London can be obtained to filmmakers with the whole of 2012, Adrian Wootton, Leader of Film London as well as the British Film Commission, mentioned in the news release. London Mayor Boris Manley added: Film production produces over 860 million for London each year and you need to attract major stars in the movie making firmament throughout next season, through which causes it to be really quite simple to film here.

Bad News, Julia Roberts: Mirror, Mirror's Online Praise Might Be Studio-Generated

Last week, you and I watched the first trailer for Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror in slack-jawed horror. (After all, aren’t Snow White adaptations supposed to be about the titular princess and not Julia Roberts’s aging concerns, Bollywood dance numbers and Armie Hammer’s impression of a dog?) Surprisingly though, not all of the Internet’s feedback was negative. A few brave souls commented on the Relativity trailer enthusiastically — and now MovieMavericks.com is claiming that some of those suspicious thumbs-up reviews came from the same source. MovieMavericks.com points out that several “strangely optimistic comments” posted to their own Mirror, Mirror trailer write-up originated from the same IP address. Upon Google-searching those comments, MovieMavericks discovered that the same IP address user had posted the same positive reviews on other movie websites — leading them to believe that either A) There is just a very dedicated Brooklyn-based Tarsem Singh fan who is hellbent on raising the bar for Mirror, Mirror buzz. Or B) The studio (or a party involved with the film) is having someone do some web damage control on the atrocious-looking trailer. Among the copied and pasted positive remarks that MovieMavericks.com cites: · “Julia Roberts is going to be awesome as the Evil Queen. She’s such a good actress!” · “Definitely seeing this with my boyfriend! Can’t wait to see Lily Collins in action!!” · “Tareem [sic] Singh makes awesome movies. Immortals was amazing and this will be too.” For the record, the only positive comments that the trailer received when Movieline posted it last week were from user Laurietimes2 (“Count me in!!!”) and Rom Issy (“Beautiful scenery and costumes, fairytale story and a comedy? That rocks. In.”). Most commenters only had negative feedback though, exclaiming “AHAHAHAHAHA…oh wait, you mean it’s not a comedy?” or comparing it to a “90s ABC Disney TV-Movie musical” and calling Lily Collins’s Snow White “a plain looking woman with Dan Hedaya eyebrows!” Do you think that the strangely positive remarks about a trailer that looks exceptionally bad is studio-related? Please let me know in the comments section below after watching Julia Roberts, Lily Collins and Armie Hammer in the Mirror, Mirror trailer. Maybe you’ll discover that the film is “definitely worth seeing” upon second viewing. · Mirror, Mirror Astroturfing — Who’s Behind It? [MovieMavericks.com] via Who’s Faking ‘Mirror Mirror’ Praise? Hmm [Deadline]

Astro Ready For His X Factor Comeback

First Published: November 22, 2011 4:18 PM EST Credit: FOX Caption Astro and Steve Jones on The X Factor on November 17, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Teenage rapper Astro returns to The X Factor stage on Tuesday, just one week after he was saved from elimination. And after an advisory session with his mentor, L.A. Reid, and fellow judge Simon Cowell, the teen promises hes coming back strong. They all gave me great advice, Astro told Access Hollywood on Monday. They just told me to keep my head up and Im gonna work with that throughout the rest of the competition. Last week on the show, Astro nearly didnt perform for the judges vote, after the 15-year-old had his confidence knocked by his bottom 2 placement. Many were wondering what show host Steve Jones whispered to the young man as he was getting booed by a boisterous audience, and critiqued by the judges, but Astro said he was so in the moment, the memory of Steves words escapes him. I dont really remember. I didnt really care in the moment. I was just focused on, Am I going through or not? he told Access. The teen phenom says hes grown from the experience and it even benefited his Twitter follower count. I feel this is better. Its weird because like after the incident happened after my Muhammad Ali moment on stage my followers went up by 20,000. And Im getting like 1,000 followers a day and Im getting great advice from my all my supporters. Im excited, he said. Astro said hell perform on Tuesday with his followers in mind. This song Im performing this week is dedicated to those people my Astronauts, Team Astro and mainly hip-hop [fans], he said. The X Factor airs at 8/7 C on FOX. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Michael Fassbender's Naked 'Shame' Is Ideal For 'Members Only'

Whenever an actress near A-list status appears fully naked in the movie, some weirdness is for certain to follow along with. Such might be the problem for Michael Fassbender, the short-rising star of those films as "X-Males: Top ClassInch and "Prometheus." Beyond people large-budget spectacles, he's lately been turning up in quieter indie fare, including "Shame," an NC-17 drama where Fassbender stars just like a sex addict and stays an effective volume of screen time bearing much not just his soul. Following his nude appearance in "Shame," Fassbender has apparently become quite the expert on on-screen nudity. That's what we should discovered inside the latest edition of After Several hours -- correctly titled "People Only" -- where Fassbender was designated with identifying numerous his actor contemporaries based on their... well, you understand. Observe Fassbender completed pressurized inside our latest After Several hours!

Top Gaming Agent Leaves CAA for UTA

Ophir Lupu, the first kind co-mind of CAA's gaming department as well as an agent there, has became a member of UTA.He'll mind UTA's game titles practice. At CAA, Lupu symbolized gaming designers and designers such asKen Levine (BioShock), Patrice Desilets (Assassin's Creed) and High cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War). Younger crowd symbolized gaming companiesValhalla Galleries (Devil's Third),Crytek (Homefront 2) and Klei Entertainment (Shank). In The month of january, Lupu orchestrated buying of indie gaming studio Area/Code by Zynga, the creator of hits FarmVille and CityVille. "Ophir's achievements are tremendous, and the vision of in which the games clients are going makes mtss is a thrilling chance for UTA," stated Jeremy Zimmer, UTA co-founder and controlling director inside a statement. "We feel he and the clients will thrive within our collaborative culture." UTA's gaming department signifies game designers, marketers for example Ea, and technology companies including Nyko and Playcast. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller CAA UTA Game Titles

Beaufoy Writing Hunger Games Sequel?

Lionsgate is after his servicesClearly confident that The Hunger Games will tap its built-in, book-fed audience to deliver solid box office returns, Lionsgate is making sure the machine is up and running to keep on pumping out cinematic adaptations. A key part of that is getting a script ready for the second instalment, Catching Fire, and the studio is now trying to hire 127 Hours scriptwriter Simon Beaufoy to make that happen.According to Deadline, the original plan was for Hunger Games co-writer/director Gary Ross to take on the task, but he's understandably a little busy putting the finishing touches to the film in advance of its March 23 release date.While Games author Suzanne Collins also collaborated on the first movie's screenplay (which then got some polishing from Billy Ray), it would appear that Lionsgate is looking outside the original team to at least get the early drafts written. Though it's likely that Collins will once more get plenty of input.Mild spoiler alert here for anyone who has yet to read either of the first two books: Catching Fire finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) punished for their defiance by being forced to compete in a special 75th staging of the games where they must compete against past winners.As of right now, Beaufoy's involvement is still closer to rumour status, since no official talks have taken place. And if you've yet to see the trailer for the first film, you can see it right here.

Shawn Stockmans Sing-Off Blog: The Companies & Destroyers In Hollywood

First Launched: November 16, 2011 2:47 PM EST Credit: Getty Premium La, Calif. -- Caption Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Males undertaking through the Rachael Ray Show at Pats King of Meat in Philadelphia, PA., August 30, 2011Wow, this type of questionable week! Im in Japan at this time around therefore i required to watch the show from this level. Incidentally, I obtained an chance to visit the city of Sendai, where epicenter in the large quake was as well as the tsunami that adopted on March 11. To witness the communal feeling and the way resilient individuals listed below are is actually inspiring which i had been honored to own been welcomed here together with your memorable warmth! Now, since the competition can get closer to the best 3, it'll get progressively more intense, as well as the margin of error is extremely slim! The critiques become a bit more meticulous, for which is at risk can be a existence changing recording contract while using giant record company The brand new the new sony. Because of the choices my co-idol idol judges which i made on who was simply removed within the show, these past handful of episodes were checked out by lots of, which for your record, we appear to understand is simply work hazard and they come in the territory. Plenty of you asked for me in my Twitter page, some with pronounced irateness I'd add, lol, Exactly how should we showed up at our options? Ill try to describe it fireproof as you can: Inside the initial few episodes, as in comparison towards the ladder ones, its pretty apparent. Though every group is amazing, its apparent to us which has more depth of area to experience a long-term inside the competition. Since the days continue, and Ill speak only for myself, I aim to find the crowd who although sing a cappella, since with a particular reason for year everyone around the program is damn good, but who is able to translate adequate the general public will buy their record. I look for an appeal overall, together with an organization which i've the people will communicate with instantly, not just musically, but personally! Now music generally is subjective, and nowadays it's very difficult to sell records of any type so That does not mean our options will be perfect. Reason for fact, once you are in a position to the ultimate five, normally such groups surely could have a prosperous career inside the music biz! Nonetheless its a few things i see in those days. Here's an example, Vocal Point is certainly an incredible quantity of males from Provo, Utah that nailed mainly EVERY performance! They were creative, fun to check out as well as the women loved them. My only problem in the event you even desire to think of it as that's their front guy place. You really didnt have a very stand out a few males who might have been the facial skin in the group. Their cohesiveness was their gift in addition to their curse, because in my opinion there wasnt someone who totally different from the machine! Wonderful that being mentioned, I still feel there's a go at being amazing recording artists and artists. However when you perform a comparison for the other groups inside the competition, In my opinion you'll learn how it is I'm speaking about. Thats a trade secret I merely gave you, and this blog will self-destruct in a few seconds. Before it'll, I felt the need to take advantage from the space Access Hollywood has given me to philosophize on the couple of a few things i consider throughout my travels (refuse to, I appear as being a lonely hunter or something like that like this). Anyway Ever witness a kid enjoy LEGOS? To witness a youthful child put a great deal thought and time to creating something is actually awe-inspiring! You will see the pleasure they get of the numerous single piece they stack inside their visionary formation the chunky yellow ones, the small petite red-colored-colored ones, the half-moon created blue ones, all in perfect symmetry to create what this child is creating within the ideas within the beautiful mind. When its finally complete, when the LEGO masterpiece features its own last and final component carefully complied, ever see another child come and kick over that creation! The youthful architect instantly evolves tears within the eyes, angry, yet also hurt that a person would do this kind of mean and evil factor! The simple truth is instantly brought to emerged within the interaction between two children. That the simple truth is, around, you will discover Companies and DESTROYERS! I have been lucky enough to get be around both finishes in the yin as well as the yang! One can learn from both, basically the best way to be and the way Not to be!! Personally, i'm inspired by companies because of their concentrate on detail in addition to their capacity to produce something from nothing! To witness several males and girls around the tv series construct harmony from absolutely nothing to create a appear that can bring the on looker of millions to numerous feelings is amazing and never tiring to find out! To check out my partner in some manner possess a household together and also have time to ensure Im cared for, to seeing my mother raise FIVE kids practically manually, to my father never flailing within the values in succeeding as positive in whatever result in choose to get familiar with, to seeing my own, personal group people to use it after we develop most likely the most amazing music Ive heard, Ive been fortunate to get along with greatness nearly all my existence! Companies! The primary one factor everybody has to keep is that they have that which you call, TALENT, SKILL, the capacity to actually take action that benefits others naturally! To gold gold coin my own, personal phrase, lol, people who destroy are often TALENTLESS, and MAD relating to this! Take a look around, and you'll see based on that definition which team you should devote your precious attention and time for you to, in many areas of existence! Build or destroy, are you going to! -SHAWN Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

South Park Restored for 3 More Seasons

South Park That crazy grade-school quartet of South Park will probably be stirring up trouble not under three more seasons. MMM-kay? Trey Parker and Matt Stone have showed up in a completely new deal to continue cable's longest-running animated series, Comedy Central introduced Wednesday. Occupy Wall Street heads to South Park Meaning the Peabody- and Emmy-winning series will probably be round the air through 2016 and get its 20th season. Parker and Stone - who tackle topical humor while using best on television - is constantly on the create, direct and edit each episode, much like they have since the series started in 1997. South Park designers investigated with the Chapel of Scientology? "The collective genius of Matt and Trey knows no bounds," Comedy Central Leader Michele Ganeless mentioned. "Each week and season after season they still surprise and delight South Park fans ... We're thrilled the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman continues through 2016." For part, Parker and Stone mentioned: "South Park can be a blast which we can not wait to produce more." Just taken, the show was restored through 2013. Which latest news puts the kibosh on any gossips the duo gives within the show - especially thinking about their Broadway hit It of Mormon, which won nine Tonys including Best Musical in June.

Breaking Dawns Taylor Lautner & Rachelle Lefervre On Which Theyd Camping Per Week To Determine

First Released: November 15, 2011 1:04 AM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Taylor Lautner gets to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1 at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, La, on November 14, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- For five lengthy days (and five cold nights), fans from the Twilight Saga camped in downtown La for that premiere of Breaking Beginning Part 1, but can there be something that might get stars Taylor Lautner or Rachelle Lefervre hitting the roads for any week? Honestly, no, Taylor told Access Hollywoods Rob Robinson when she requested in the films premiere on Monday evening if there is anything hed camping out for any week to determine. The nearest factor I'd get it done for is perfect for my winning super bowl team or my personal favorite athlete. I'd not camping out per week, Taylor added. Tom Brady you aren't worthwhile. Im sorry! I really like you, though. For Robert, he stated it would need to be considered a very large prize to obtain him over sleeping the cold. No unless of course you receive something free from it, he chuckled. Maybe for your, but thats about this. Mondays lengthy-looked forward to premiere offered the heavens and Hollywood Twi-Hards like Ashley Tisdale and Jennifer Love Hewitt their first chance to determine Breaking Beginning Part 1, but when the time comes for individuals steamy love moments between Bella and Edward, Robert stated hes unsure he is able to handle watching all of them with an audience. Ill most likely have remaining, the Brit told Rob, when she requested him how he likely to respond to his steamy moments with Billy Burke in the film premiere. For Kristen, she hadnt even developed an agenda. Its funny, I havent considered that, she stated. You will find a few little moments like this within this [movie]. Well observe how I fare. I'll be hot and afraid, but thats OK. And spend be also in discomfort. Kristen revealed around the red-colored carpet she hurt herself again while filming Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman. I hurt my feet on Snow Whitened, obviously, because I actually do that to myself constantly, she shrugged. I had been playing around on Snow Whitened, and I am inclined to hurt myself after i get really into stuff and that i made it happen again, she further described. Its not too shabby. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning Part 1 hits theaters on November 18. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Contender: 'Super 8'

'Super 8'If this year's newly elastic best-picture race allows a summer blockbuster to slip in, Paramount's alien-invasion thriller "Super 8" could well be the prime beneficiary. Greeted in June with largely admiring notices and a better-than-expected $127 million domestic gross, this unusual passion project found writer-director J.J. Abrams embarking on a unique professional and spiritual collaboration with producer Steven Spielberg, paying affectionate tribute to classics like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T." (That both films were up for multiple Oscars has to be considered a good omen.)A reliable Par hitmaker socking over his first non-franchise outing, Abrams imbues the film with a deeply personal touch that never gets lost amid the impressive visual effects, the often seat-rattling sound design and the enchantingly retro art direction, re-creating a classically Spielbergian small town circa 1979.In a fairly slim year for kudo-worthy scripts not based on published material, Abrams' inventive synthesis of innumerable sci-fi and coming-of-age touchstones could well bend the Academy's definition of "original screenplay." And while "Super 8" isn't the sort of picture that draws attention for its acting, many critics singled out the remarkably poised and poignant supporting turn of Elle Fanning, ably demonstrating that for the part of a talented young actress, it helps to cast one.Release date: June 10ParamountRead the Variety review Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

The 20 Worst Movie Mistakes in History: Family Edition

Because you so enjoyed reading about the 15 Worst Movie Mistakes in History, Moviefone is happy to bring you the 20 Worst Movie Mistakes in History: Family Edition. Check out the list ahead for some of the most egregious errors in your favorite family films. (Once again, a big thanks to MovieMistakes.com, who in addition to helping us with this post, have a database full of, well, mistakes made in movies.) The 20 Worst Movie Mistakes in History: Family Edition 'Aladdin''Toy Story 2''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''Beauty and the Beast''The Wizard of Oz''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory''Matilda''High School Musical 2''Ghostbusters''It's a Wonderful Life''Home Alone 2''Miracle on 34th Street''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid''The Karate Kid''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe''The Little Mermaid''Cheaper By the Dozen''Back to the Future''Back to the Future''Spy Kids' See All Moviefone Galleries » [All photos courtesy of MovieMistakes.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Brett Ratner's Apologies: The Ultimate Stand

By John Mitchell Brett Ratner is presently on some type of apology tour after having an anti-gay slur throughout an problem-and-answer session while marketing "Tower Heist." His latest atonement, undertaking a proper apology and also the resignation as producer of next year's Oscars, is, like Tracy Morgan before him, to synergy with GLAAD to "convene public discussions featuring leaders inside the entertainment industry about marketing fair and accurate inclusions of LGBT people and tales." "Once we sitting lower with Brett today, he made an appearance very sincere within the desire to make use of this experience in order to begin speaking against anti-gay language in popular culture, Herndon Graddick, GLAAD's senior director of Programs and Communications, mentioned in the statement. That's all good and, clearly, it's admirable that he's just a little responsibility for saying something as foolish as "Testing is ideal for f**s." But seriously. How come nobody calling this individual around the relaxation of the things that he's been proclaiming that he needs to be apologizing for? Namely the misogynistic and racist remarks he gained about Olivia Munn and Lindsay Lohan. Let's start with the grossest of all the frat-guy trash this dude has offered up recently. Within a telephone call to Howard Stern's radio show, Ratner joined rather graphic detail about his relationship getting a "very youthful" Lindsay Lohan. He boasted about undertaking dental sex on Lohan, saying, "I'm possibly the best on earth,In . adding they know he's the most effective "since they cry." More youthful crowd recognized he'd Lohan examined for STDs just before the 2 rested together in 2006 you understand, when she was 20 which he was 37. "Before I've intercourse getting a woman, I really do do one strange factor, Ratner told Stern. I really do take em for the physician and search em out. Im as being a cootie freak. Im a germaphobe. Im a hypochondriac. Before The year progresses completely, I send the woman for the physician and search them for everything. My physician features a test to see if you'll probably catch something afterwards even. For your record, Lohan came back clean. Should not you be very glad you will be aware? He ongoing to recount how Lohan later found him in bed mattress getting a Victoria's Secret model as well as the two experienced a fight over him. In the separate but equally stylish and appropriate conversation on G4's "Attack in the Show," Ratner copped to being the not named director stated in Olivia Munn's book "Suck It, Question Lady: The Misadventures from the Hollywood Geek," acknowledging he "knocked her a few occasions" but did not remember who she was when she later showed up to audition for him. He did, however, deny Munn's account he masturbated before her while eating a shrimp cocktail, but really didn't undertake her charge he was, er, packing a shrimp that belongs to them. While all the sex discuss Munn and Lohan is patently tasteless, it's another quote about Munn which get under my skin more. "We used so far Olivia Munn when she was Lisa. That was the problem,Inch he told "AOTS" host Kevin Pereira. "She wasn't Asian in individuals days.Inch What? His point, I suppose, is always that Munn now allegedly plays up her race like it's some type of Hollywood wild card. That possibly it's some type of joke when she does research on "The Daily Show" becasue it is "Senior Asian Correspondent" because it wasn't listed just like a talent on her behalf account resume when he first met "Lisa." This can be a pretty crazy step to toss available so offhandedly, yes? At first, I figured the Academy made the wrong choice in giving Ratner the reins round the finest evening in Hollywood. He's a financially effective director, yes, but more youthful crowd features a well-deserved status for frat boy antics and lowbrow humor, neither that have devote the Academy awards. Say what you need to in regards to the Oscars namely that they may be boring but they're not lowbrow and given Ratner's recent string of public misfires, specifically those he's not apologized for, "lowbrow" is almost really the only word we could consider to describe the almost-Oscar producer. Reveal what you consider inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Herman Cain Denies Sexual Harassment Allegations on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live': 'We're Taking This Head On'

Ethan Miller/Getty Images Herman Cain kept his promise to appear on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night, only hours after a fourth woman came forward to accuse make sexual harassment allegations against the Republican presidential candidate.our editor recommendsHerman Cain Blames Journalists for Sexual Harassment DramaDonald Trump Accuses Jon Stewart of 'Racist Rant' about Herman Cain (Video)Condoleezza Rice on CBS 'Early Show': Herman Cain Should Not Play 'Race Card'Jon Huntsman's Daughters Parody Herman Cain Ads in YouTube Campaign (Video)GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain's Campaign Bio Hits Amazon Top 10Lawrence O'Donnell Under Fire for Herman Cain Interview (Video)Herman Cain Responds to Jon Stewart's Stereotyped Black Dialect: 'Words Are Not Going to Hurt Me' (Video) In the interview -- which alternated between humorous and serious -- Cain continued to deny the accusations in the wake of Sharon Bialek's press conference with attorney Gloria Allred during which Bialek urged Cain to "just admit what you did, admit that you were inappropriate to people." PHOTOS: Best Presidents in Film and Television She accused him of putting "his hand on my leg, under my skirt and reached for my genitals. He also grabbed my head and brought it toward his crotch." Cain said he watched the press conference. "We watched it because we didn't even know that this whole thing about Woman No. 4 was going to even come out, so that was a surprise," he said, as reported by Politico. "At least it wasn't one of the many that have the first name anonymous so now this one actually had a name and a face so we watched to see what it was and who it was and we are dealing with it and tomorrow we're going to have a press conference. Oh, yeah, we are going to have a press conference. We're taking this head on." PHOTOS: Actors Who've Played Politicians Cain added that his wife, Gloria, also watched the press conference, and he called her immediately afterward with "steam coming out of my ears" and called Bialek's account "totally fabricated." "I was listening very closely and then when it was all over with, I said, well I know what we got to do because there's not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations and my team is putting this stuff together," he said. "That is why I'm willing to do a press conference tomorrow to set the record straight." Cain, who recently said he was through talking about the allegations, explained that he will continue to address any new "firestorms" that pop up. "I will talk about any and all future firestorms because here's one thing people know about Herman Cain: I'm in it to win it and I'm not going to be discouraged," he said. PHOTOS: Democrats and Republicans' Favorite Movies Bialek is the fourth woman in a week to come forward alleging inappropriate behavior on Cain's part. Politico reported last week that two women alleged harassment against Cain while he was president of the National Restaurant Assn. in the 1990s. Those women reportedly signed agreements with the group that gave them financial payouts to leave their jobs and also prevents them from talking about the situation. A third former employee came forward Wednesday, saying she considered filing a workplace complaint over what she considered aggressive and unwanted behavior by Cain in the 1990s. She said the behavior included a private invitation to his corporate apartment. Meanwhile, Cain's wife was scheduled to appear on Fox News' On the Record With Greta Van Susteren on Friday night, but canceled the night before. She has intentionally kept a low profile throughout the campaign. Jimmy Kimmel Politics Herman Cain

5 Feasible Storylines for the Where's Waldo Movie

In an age of Battleship movies and Carmen Sandiego features, it’s no surprise that another kid-friendly nostalgia icon, the bespectacled title traveler of Where’s Waldo, is purportedly getting his own movie. MGM bought the rights to Waldo, and that could mean a feature adaptation of the smiley boulevardier’s exploits is in our near future. I don’t know how a man in a striped shirt who gets lost in crowds can sustain an audience’s attention for a full movie, but here are five possible storylines I’d tolerate. 1. Waldo must track down his brother Odlaw, a tacky schemer whose black-and-yellow ensemble is aesthetically inferior to Waldo’s classic red-and-whites. Odlaw has run off to Europe with Waldo’s life savings, and Waldo must find him in unbelievably crowded cityscapes before he spends it all on black-and-yellow real estate. 2. Waldo ditches his soulmate Wilma for a flashy adventurer named Carmen Sandiego. They have a lot in common: They both love globetrotting, being hard to find, and well-fitted red garments. The only problem? She’s a notorious con artist and thief, and he’s just a sexless cipher in straight-cut blue jeans. Can Waldo, who just wants to blend in at the Louvre, sustain a relationship with a woman who wants to steal the whole Louvre? 3. It’s a sad Christmas for Waldo as his family loses sight of him inside the local candy cane factory. Is that him behind some red and white storage bins? Are those his glasses peeking out from under an American flag? In the end, the holiday is saved as Waldo and his family fly to North Pole, discover the real meaning of Christmas, and get lost in a Santa hat factory. 4. Waldo, an underpaid lackey at an accounting firm (of endlessly repetitive cubicles and characters), is greeted in a dreamy haze by Wizard Whitebeard, who promises to show Waldo the world and save him from his humdrum existence. He takes the young troubadour to the Great Wall of China, crowded beaches, and the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. So many people to meet! So much adventure! But Waldo realizes that he’s just too feeble for glamorous travel, so he clutches his walking stick and asks to be taken home to his sweatered dog Woof. 5. No plot. Just moviegoers staring at a grim red and white-striped screen, searching for an original idea somewhere in each frame. MGM finds rights to ‘Where’s Waldo’ [Variety]

Screen Media Acquires Greta Gerwig's 'The Dish and also the Spoon' (Exclusive)

Screen Media Films, recognized for little movies with large talents (like Maggie Gyllenhaal in Laurie Collyer's Sherrybaby), has acquired Alison Bagnall's The Dish and also the Spoon, which star Greta Gerwig shot soon after her Spirit Award-nominated breakout performance in Greenberg.our editor recommendsThe Dish & the Spoon: Movie ReviewGreta Gerwig, Adam Brody to star in 'Damsels in Distress'Greta Gerwig, Alison Pill Join Woodsy Allen Movie Olly Alexander (Vibrant Star) also stars within the movie, which focuses on a lady who, after her husband confesses for an affair, embarks with an unconventional romance having a stranded British teenage she finds out stranded around the beach. "A fragile brief-encounter indie occur the aftermath of unfaithfulness," authored The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore from the Dish and also the Spoon's March SXSW premiere. "The film has art-house potential and may enhance the profile of costar Olly Alexander." Bagnall, an AFI alum who started because the author of Zoysia ཾ, will screen the film in AFI's 2011 Youthful People in america section. After NY Occasions critic Manohla Dargis'Greenberg review stated Gerwig "may be the definitive screen actress of her generation," Gerwig started landing roles such high-profile films as Nero Fiddled by Woodsy Allen, also on the career upswing. The Dish and also the Spoon can come on VOD and DVD at the begining of 2012. The offer was brokered with Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment and Suzanne Blech, leader of Screen Media Films. Related Subjects Greta Gerwig

Apocalyptic thriller 'The Day' sells to U.K., France

Released: Got married., November. 2, 2011, 1:20pm PTBy DIANA LODDERHOSE LONDON Entertainment You've clicked on up rights to Doug Aarniokoski's publish-apocalyptic thriller "Your DayInch for Blighty, France, Scandinavia and Nigeria. Pic, that's being looked worldwide by Content Film Intl. which is getting its market preem within the American Film Market, appeared to become acquired by Nettai Museum for Japan. Luke Passmore composed the story through which an empty war against humanity rages and five youngsters are lost and abroad. Pic stars Shawn Ashmore, Ashley Bell, Michael Eklund, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Monaghan and Shannyn Sossamon. Guy A. Danella produces while Aarniokoski, Michael Finley, Tim James, Antonina Armato and Ross M. Dinerstein professional produce. Splendid has bought the pic for German-speaking areas in Europe and Benelux. Distribution are repping worldwide rights while Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Distribution are handling U . s . States rights. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Stuntman Dies round the Number of 'The Expendables 2'

A tough week for Sylvester Stallone got much worse: Deadline reviews the stuntman round the Bulgaria number of 'The Expendables 2' has died after an action scene gone awry another stuntman is at critical condition. The accident apparently happened after 7 p.m. local time on Thursday evening and involved the second unit team Stallone and director Simon West were shooting two-and-a-half several hours away inside the Bulgarian village Bansko. The stunt happened within the Bulgarian reservoir Ognyanovo. Local information considering the incident. "It's with great regret that individuals confirm this unfortunate accident," 'Expendables 2' production company Nu Image/Millennium Films mentioned in the statement. "Our hearts visit the families and people round the production influenced with this tragedy. The filmmakers works carefully while using government physiques in responding to and considering this accident." Stallone received fire this year's week each time a suit was filed in NY proclaiming he stole the idea for your first 'Expendables' from another film author. The knowledge star appeared to become recently cast in 'The Tomb.' 'The Expendables 2,' with Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Jet Li and Liam Hemsworth, remains set to achieve in theaters next summer season. [via Deadline] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Shane Meadows Making Stone Roses Film

We need him to tell us what's going downAfter an acrimonious decade or so, '90s indie kings The Stone Roses have put aside their differences and announced a series of comeback gigs. There was a certain amount of speculation last week as to why Shane Meadows was lurking at the press conference, but now we know: Meadows has been commissioned to make a film about the Stone Roses' return. He's going to show us a vision, a wild apparition, that sings to the depths of our souls. Or something.For our younger readers, The Stone Roses - singer Ian Brown, guitar hero John Squire, bassist Mani and drummer Reni - slouched to the top of the indie charts in the late '80s, with a self-titled debut album and infectiously groovy singles like Elephant Stone, She Bangs the Drums, and the quintessential Fool's Gold. They were at the vanguard of Madchester, although a bitter dispute with their record label Silvertone (which at one point saw the band trashing the Silvertone offices with paint) meant they effectively sat out the whole scene. They eventually resurfaced in 1994 for the Second Coming LP, but half the band quit during the ensuing tour.Time and potential earnings can heal a lot of rifts though, and the fact that ticket sales for the comeback gigs in the hour they first became available were somewhere in the region of £20m, suggests that the Roses have good reason to be nice to each other for a while. But if Meadows, making his documentary debut, is given all-areas access and final cut, there's every chance that we'll see some interesting behind-the-scenes drama. There's also the angle that the band were always notoriously awful live... We're sure they'll carry on through it all.The Sheffield and London-based Warp Films are behind the production. Appropriate that, since not only does their resume include music documentaries (The Arctic Monkeys; the All Tomorrow's Parties festival), but they also brought us Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England. Away from fractious baggy bands, Meadows is also currently working on further This Is England series' for TV: This Is England '88 and '90 will follow last year's '86.

Componen, Lovefilm ink German pact

BERLIN -- Vital Pictures has inked a multi-year content deal for Germany with Lovefilm, Europe's leading online entertainment subscription service.The agreement provides Lovefilm clients in Germany exclusive streaming utilization of Vital game game titles throughout the initial subscription TV window beginning this fall.The sale means Lovefilm people in Germany will obtain access to Paramount's approaching game game titles before almost every other pay TV provider inside the territory, including such films since the Coen Brothers' "True Grit," J.J. Abrams' sci-fi thriller "Super 8" and Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark in the Moon." Clients will have a way to right away stream all Paramount's new and future releases with the Lovefilm Player, either on PC, via in-home connected living room items or on PlayStation3.Later this year, German individuals will even be capable of watch films instantly using the Xbox 360 360 360.It the newest content agreement to boost Lovefilm's European offering and follows other recent deals, including first subscription pacts inside the U.K. with eOne and Studiocanal. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

Zynga Eyes November IPO (Report)

NY - Social gaming giant Zynga, the organization behind such Facebook games as CityVille, FarmVille and Social City, is likely to cost its initial public offering and also have its shares buying and selling a few days before Thanksgiving on November 24, Reuters reported, stating sources briefed around the plans. It stated though the IPO plan is not completed and may change based on such factors as market trends. Fellow dotcom company Groupon, for instance, hopes to cost its shares at the begining of November. That will result in the online coupon firm the very first major IPO since an industry slump that began this summer time, meaning it might be a test situation for future choices, including Zynga's. Reuters stated Zynga is searching to begin its IPO marketing efforts, referred to as road show, right after Groupon's stock exchange debut. Zynga this summer time declared an IPO searching to boost around $1 billion. However, among the summer time's market turmoil, a slew of IPOs happen to be postponed, while some were scrapped. Earlier this year, Zynga revealed inside a regulating filing that it'll trade on Nasdaq under ticker symbol "ZNGA." Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Zynga

E! Utilizes ABC Professional Kevin Plunkett to supervise Scripted Programming

E! finds itself a scripted chief in Kevin Plunkett.our editor recommendsE! Network to pass through 'Brand Audit' Under NBCU's Bonnie Hammer (Exclusive) The first sort SVP of comedy development at ABC Art galleries remains named senior v . p . of scripted programming within the network most broadly known for your Kardashians' reality fare. "It is extremely exciting for individuals at E! to use this new programming genre, which we understand that Kevin might be the best person to steer the charge," mentioned the cable network's entertainment programming leader Lisa Berger from the executive whose credits include Scrubs, Cougar Town, Samantha Who and Happy Being. "He's both experience as well as the creative vision that will help us establish making a great scripted programming initiative that's exclusively personalized to draw in the E! audience." The move utilizes a several days-extended search, which E!'s lately installed leader Suzanne Kolb remains set on filling since she was hired within this summer time. Several days earlier, NBCU cable entertainment and cable art galleries' Bonnie Hammer confirmed for the Hollywood Reporter they will probably be pushing the network into the scripted drama space over the following two to three years. "Clearly we execute a ton at USA and Syfy, and E! happens,Inch she mentioned, watching that "E! will not become Syfy or USA." As THR first reported, the network remains dealing with what Hammer dubs a "brand audit," much the means by which her USA did seven years earlier. "I'd condition that E! is definitely an empty book at this time around if this involves where we go," she told THR of her intend to determine just what the female-leaning network is -- and perhaps more poignantly, may be last spring. "E! is very good at this time around it is not broken at all, shape or form. Nevertheless the goal is always to triggered by E! that which you did to USA within the last seven years: children a effective funnel and possess it really completely use.In . Related Subjects E! Entertainment

Tough battle for SAG-AFTRA merger plan

Plans to merge Hollywood's two biggest performer unions appear likely to face some significant opposition --based on a pair of advisory motions approved Sunday at the Screen Actors Guild's national membership meeting. Leaders of SAG and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have continued targeting January for completing a final proposal. SAG and AFTRA issued a joint statement Wednesday, a day after a five-day meeting concluded, asserting that the confab had been ''remarkably productive.'' But most of the 180 attending SAG's member meeting Sunday indicated opposition to a merger, sources said. The event, held at SAG headquarters in the mid-Wilshire area, was open only to guild members. One advisory motion to the national board specified that a minority report be included in the merger referendum regardless of the vote of the board. Another advisory motion required that the board adhere to the three-decade-old Phase 1 agreement, which requires both unions to perform a feasibility study regarding the SAG pension and health plans prior to a merger vote. The SAG plans -- which recently announced tightened eligibility requirements -- are operated independently of SAG with oversight from reps of the guild and the congloms Merger advocates have asserted that the combined unions will have more clout. Sources also said that SAG Treasurer Amy Aquino told that audience that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers -- which serves as the congloms' bargaining arm and hasn't taken an official position -- does not want SAG and AFTRA to merge. ''They are afraid of a merger,'' Aquino said. SAG president Ken Howard -- who has been a strong advocate of merger -- presided over the meeting. Along with Aquino, national VPs Ned Vaughn, Mike Hodge and David Hartley-Margolin were on the dais along with SAG national exec director David White and general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. SAG and AFTRA have disclosed only general details about the substance of discussions to hammer out a merger plan. Proponents have argued that a combined union would be more powerful and remove jurisdictional overlaps. Opponents have contended that the new union should be for actors only but SAG voters have been backing pro-merger candidates overwhelmingly in recent elections. Should the proposal be approved in January by the national boards, members could be asked to vote by next spring in a contest that would require 60% of those voting in each union to approve. SAG currently has about 120,000 members while AFTRA has about 70,000 with about 45,000 performers belonging to both unions. SAG members voted down merger proposals in 1999 and 2003. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Producers Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall Near Deal to Move From Sony to DreamWorks (Exclusive)

In a move that is both logical and somewhat surprising, the Kennedy/Marshall production company has left Sony Pictures and is negotiating a first-look deal with DreamWorks. The company headed by prolific producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall departs Sony after two years without a greenlight from the studio. The move to DreamWorks reunites the husband-and-wife team with their longtime associates, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider. "It's nice to be home again," Marshall tells The Hollywood Reporter. What's unexpected is that DreamWorks, which has been operating under tight financial constraints, is making a production deal. In a recent interview, Snider told THR that the company's chief financial backer, India's Reliance, is giving DreamWorks "real" and "absolute" support. But she acknowledged that the company has cut back on buying scripts, describing that as "prudent management." Given Kennedy/Marshall's track record, the move also is a sign of the difficult times facing film producers. Though many projects were offered, Marshall acknowledges, "We didn't bring them a movie they wanted to make." Kennedy is the producer on Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse, which will be released on Dec. 25. She is also producing his next film, Lincoln, set for a December 2012 release, and she is likely to take on the director's Robopocalypse. Marshall is working on The Bourne Legacy for Universal, which is set to hit theaters in August 2012. Kennedy and Marshall have worked with Spielberg for decades on such signature films as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Email: Kim.Masters@thr.com Twitter: @KimMasters Related Topics Steven Spielberg Kathleen Kennedy Dreamworks Studios

NBCs Marc Graboff Joins TV Academy Foundations Board Of Directors

Veteran NBC executive Marc Graboff, president of West Coast TV Business Operations at NBCUniversal, has been elected to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s board of directors. The foundation’s board oversees such initiatives as the Archive of American Television and educational programs such as the annual College TV Awards, Faculty Seminar and the Student Internship Program.

The new sony to maneuver Bin Laden pic after election

The new sony likely will not be delivering Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's untitled project concerning the search for Osama Bin Laden prior to the 2012 Presidential election as planned. Initially skedded to produce March. 12, the studio stated it'll certainly move the film -- but is thinking about a couple of different choices regarding when. Why? The new sony moved its Kevin James-comedy "Here Comes the Boom" from the summer time berth to March. 12, meaning the studio might have two films on that date. Regarding political reasons, it isn't known just how much (if whatsoever) the film's story is really a motivation. In August, Repetition. Peter King (R-N.Y.) known as to have an analysis in to the Obama administration's cooperation with Bigelow and Boal's project, stating NY Occasions writer Maureen Dowd's column saying Bigelow received "top-level use of probably the most classified mission ever.Inch Dowd also noted the pic, detailing among the administration's large achievements, could be launched just days prior to the election. The Whitened House, together with Bigelow and Boal, refused the project was getting preferred treatment, calling the operation "a united states triumph, both heroic and non-partisan ... (with) no basis to claim that our film will represent this enormous victory otherwise." Bigelow and Boal happen to be developing the work for nearly annually, beginning before a team of Navy Closes shot and wiped out Bin Laden in May, forcing Boal to rewrite the 3rd act of his script. The new sony stated it needs to come to a decision concerning the date over the following couple of days. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Kinyarwanda' wins Skip's top prize

Tokyo -- U.S. helmer Alrick Brown's debut feature "Kinyarwanda" won Japan's Skip City D-Cinema Festival Grand Prize on Sunday. Set in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, the pic focuses on Hutu Muslims who resisted joining the massacre of Tutsis. Belgian helmer Vanja d'Alcantara took the director prize for "Beyond the Steppes," about a Polish mother sent with her baby to the Russian steppes in 1940. Panamanian helmer Abner Benaim picked up the screenplay prize for family comedy "Chance." Swedish comedy "Simple Simon," helmed by Andreas Ohman, won the Special Jury Prize. Helmer Kenji Kohashi's road docu "Don't Stop," about a disabled Japanese man who dreams of crossing the U.S. on a Harley despite having lost the use of his legs, won the Skip City Award and was selected by the Skip City D-Cinema Project, which supports the theatrical release of competition pics. Unspooling in the Tokyo satellite city of Kawaguchi, the fest's eighth edition presents digital pics by young helmers worldwide. Skip City is a multipurpose media center for professionals and the public. It includes a video archive and museum as well as screening and post-production facilities. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

News Corp. Sets Up Employee Hotline to Report 'Illegal Activity' (Report)

News Corp. has set up a hotline for employees to report suspicious activity by their colleagues as it continues to be the focus of a bribery investigation, the U.K.'s Independent reported.our editor recommendsJames Murdoch Recalled to Parliament for More Phone-Hacking QuestionsPhone-Hacking Inquiry: Evidence 'as Clear as Mud'Confessions of a 'News of the World' Reporter (Exclusive) Rupert Murdoch 'Very Humbled' as He Apologizes Personally to the Family of Murdered Schoolgirl Milly DowlerRelated Topics•Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch's company -- which is being investigated by both U.S. and U.K. authorities over alleged payments made by its U.K. tabloids to British policemen for news tips -- circulated instructions to its employees that emphasized they are under an obligation to report suspicious activities. The dedicated line is available around the clock. PHOTOS: News of the World's Top 10 Scandals "Employees who suspect ... violations of this policy must report them to the legal department of the business unit or of News Corporation or to the News Corporation alertline," the document states. News Corp. also assured would-be whistleblowers that it would protect those who incorrectly accuse one of their colleagues. "If you make an honest complaint in good faith, even if you are mistaken as to what you are complaining about, the company will protect you from retaliation," the policy says. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Memorable Mea Culpas The company also warned employees about giving gifts to government officials or even entertaining them. "Gifts and hospitality that may be perfectly acceptable among private parties can be completely forbidden when the other party is a government official," it reads. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter requesting information from News Corp. as part of an investigation into whether it violated America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law that prohibits companies from bribing foreign officials. STORY: Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. Target of Fresh Attacks From Shareholders and Lawmakers The company also is under investigation in the U.K. for violating its bribery laws. Meanwhile, News Corp. is in the midst of trying to settle several lawsuits in the wake of its News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the paper's employees had hacked into the voicemails of murdered teen Milly Dowler as well as some actors and other stars. VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch 'Is Going to Have to Step Down,' Says Ted Turner The news led to the paper's closure and also sparked the investigation into whether the paper's employees had paid police officers for confidential information. Late last month, the company made a $4.7 million offer to Dowler's family, which would be the largest sum ever paid out by a newspaper owner. Related Topics Rupert Murdoch News Corp.

NBC Cancels Free Agents

Free Agents NBC has canceled its newcomer comedy Free Agents, TVGuide.com has confirmed.Fall Preview: Have the lowdown relating to this season's must-see new showsThe show, which starred Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn as co-employees who develop feelings for each other after you have a drunken one-evening stand, broadcast its final episode on Wednesday, an origin mentioned. There isn't sure yet which the network will air inside the show's Wednesdays at 8:30/7:30c timeslot.The sitcom came an underwhelming 3.3 million audiences due to its latest airing. The show's cancellation follows individuals from the Playboy Club, which NBC also axed on Tuesday.

Lizzy Caplan to Party Lower on New Girl

Lizzy Caplan Jess may be heartbroken, just one of her pals has the capacity to jump in to the dating scene. Party Lower alum Lizzy Caplan will romance one of the New Girl's roommates in the multi-episode arc, TVLine reviews. Caplan, 29, look in three episodes as Julia, an appreciation interest for Nick (Mike Manley). He meets the art history graduate within an memorial and invites her to Schmidt's special birthday. However, he soon worries that his eccentric roommates will scare her away. Did we explain that marijuana, Jess' vice principal together with a feisty stripper can also be present as of this shindig? Have a look whatsoever from the familiar faces returning to TV this year Aside from her role round the cult favorite Starz comedy, Caplan may also be most broadly noted for True Blood stream and Mean Women. Are you currently presently excited to find out Caplan on New Girl?

Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Modern Motherhood at Women At NBCU Event (Exclusive Video)

Sarah Jessica Parker was the keynote speaker at the Women at NBCU's "Power of The Purse" breakfast in NY City on Tuesday. Bravo's Andy Cohen was on hand to conduct a live Q&A with the film star, as well. The event explored what it's like to be a 21st century mother and how companies can reach them.our editor recommends'New Year's Eve' Second Trailer Shows Off Star Power (Video)New Movie Reviews: 'Drive,' 'I Don't Know How She Does It' Hitting TheatersSarah Jessica Parker Reacts to CW's 'Sex and the City' Prequel PHOTOS: Hollywood's 10 Highest-Paid Actresses "My life requires travel or odd public presentation, or, you know, speculation about personal things," Parker says of her life as a mother. "But who I am as a mother, who I am as a wife, is very, very similar I think to millions... of women working in and outside the home." When it came to marketing to today's mom, Parker suggested that "People respond to truth rather than an attempt to shake them down." Parker also says she can see how her Sex and the City character, Carrie Bradshaw, was chosen most by participants in a Women at NBCU study for being the fictional character they relate to most. PHOTOS: Met Gala 2011 Fashion Top 10 "Despite the more superficial things that were fun and that were the sort of soufflé of the show," Parker says. "It was her incredibly intimate relationships with her women friends. It was that necessity in her life, the reliance that these women had on one another, and how she honored it, and how flawed she was, and how contrite she was when she disappointed them." Among other things discussed during the live Q&A, Cohen played a round of word association with Parker. Watch The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive video above. In addition, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell moderated a panel on the event's theme, "marketing to the 21st century mom." Panelists included Vinit Bharara, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Diapers.com; Linda Sawyer, CEO, N.A Deutsch Inc. A Low & Partners Company; Julie Eddleman, Marketing Director, North American Media & Shopper Marketing, Proctor & Gamble Co; Melissa Lavigne-Delville, VP of Trends and Strategic Insights, Integrated Media at NBCUniversal. PHOTOS: Vivienne Westwood Fashion Exhibit Women at NBCU is an ad sales, marketing and research initiative, which helps to create custom solutions for advertisers to connect with female consumers. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro Related Topics Sarah Jessica Parker NBCUniversal

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24 Movie Almost Has a Script, and 5 Other Stories You'll be talking About Today

Happy Tuesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Warner Bros. wants a Leonardo DiCaprio franchise… David Cronenberg has The Fly and Eastern Promises sequels on the brain… Fox fires back at those litigious Black Swan interns… Are you ready for some football nonsensical racist celebrity spewage?… and more. · Good-ish news for Jack Bauer fans hungrily awaiting the rumored big-screen adaptation of 24 to the big screen: Kiefer Sutherland says there’s a script! Almost! Sort of? “We are coming very close to having a finished script. That’s been the most difficult thing. You have to remember that we have 24 hours to explain the stories in 24 and so trying to condense that into a two-hour film version has been a real shift in gear for us. We were originally trying to make it too big and put too much into it - but once we relaxed, we found out how to tell that story. So yes, we definitely do plan on making the film.” Believe it when you see it, but hey. FYI. [The Telegraph] · Speaking of Hollywood glaciers, let’s see how quickly — if at all — Warner Bros. can turn around Satori, the Don Winslow best-seller it has acquired as a possible franchise for Leonardo DiCaprio. The actor, whose production company is involved with development (the initial project has a script forthcoming from Winslow and Shane Salerno), would play “a Westerner, raised in Japan and taught an assassin’s skills, who gets caught up in the chaos of post-WWII as the U.S., Soviet Union, France and China maneuver for power in Southeast Asia in the early 1950s.” And apparently he’s good at… board games. Seriously. [Deadline] · How about a run through David Cronenberg’s pending IMDB profile, including ayes on those rumored The Fly and Eastern Promises follow-ups and a nay on Timecrimes? And Cosmopolis, about which Cronenberg declaimed: “Most of the movie takes place inside a limo, so some people would say that’s not cinematic, but I say it is!” Allllll I needed to hear. [Shock Till Ya Drop] · Fox is officially passing the buck to Darren Aronofsky and Co. in the Case of the Sue-Happy Black Swan Interns: “These interns were not even retained by Fox Searchlight and, in fact, were working for the production company that made Black Swan well before Fox Searchlight even acquired its rights in the film.” [Deadline] · Simon Cowell and his high-stakes talent-search gamble The X Factor are not failures, says Simon Cowell. [AP] · It took an unfortunate, utterly irrational comparison between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler to make it happen, but we finally, finally got a Monday Night Football broadcast minus the hoary old Hank Williams Jr. theme song. ESPN pulled it after the country star’s ridiculous comments on Fox and Friends, which you’ll find below. Also: OMG that Eric Foster injury. If that was a dislocated right ankle, then I have totally misunderstood the way bones work all these years. [NFL.com]

Hank Williams Jr Song Pulled From Monday Night Football After Singers Obama Remark

Tonight’s Monday Night Football game will not be preceded by Hank Williams Jr’s famous opening song. ESPN pulled the opening after Williams compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler this morning on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends.”While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football,” ESPN said in a statement. “We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.””All My Rowdy Friends” has been the MNF theme song on both ESPN and ABC for the past 20 years. Williams says his comment about Obama was misunderstood. On Fox & Friends he saidhe thinks House Speaker John Boehner playing golf with President Obama “would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu. … In the shape this country is in?” (Boehner and Obama played golf together this summer during the debate over the budget crisis.) Williams released the following statement through his publicist: “My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.”

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Broadway 'Billy' to seal

The ultimate dance is originating for your Broadway outpost of "Billy Elliot," which has set a closing date of Jan. 8. Production taken the 2010 Tonys, retrieved its $18 million capital within 14 several days and until this year consistently drenched weekly sales of $millions of or maybe more. Still, the tuner couldn't manage the sturdiness of hit U.K. imports such as the 10-year-old "Mamma Mia!" Weekly tallies from recent frames were not spectacular, nonetheless they were definately not dire, aside from the clobberings "Billy" needed from Hurricane Irene as well as in the standard publish-Labor Day drop. Past couple of seshes saw the show pull in around $720,000 every week. Maintaining "Billy," however, is certainly an usually pricey endeavor due to the ceaseless requirement of triple-threat youthful thesps who rapidly outgrow the role in the protag, a coal miner's boy from northern England who just desires to dance. The creating model therefore features a kind of wunderkind factory that constantly scouts, trains and rehearses youthful artists. It is really an unusual cost for just about any Broadway show to cope with. Some on the market also speculate the specificity in the show's social and political backdrop (set within a period of time at work unrest in eighties England), with the plentiful cursing from everyone onstage, has saved the tuner from achieving historic success with American family and tourist auds. Still, Broadway's "Billy" has created plenty of gold gold coin within the time round the Rialto, while using tuner ringing greater than $170 million since it began perfs March. 1, 2008. "Billy," with book and lyrics by film author Lee Hall and music by Elton John, had its world preem london in 2005, where the Stephen Daldry-helmed staging remains playing. Gleam U . s . States touring production out on the road. The Broadway version is produced by Universal Pictures Stage Prods., Working Title Films and Old Vic Prods. in colaboration with Weinstein Live Entertainment. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

New Line to reboot 'Mortal Kombat'

New Lines are restarting "Mortal Kombat," according to Kevin Tancharoen's video clip and web series "Mortal Kombat: Rebirth."New Line stated Thursday that Tancharoen's been mounted on direct from the script that he'll write with Oren Uziel. The duo worked with around the film and 10-episode series, which first showed this spring through Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment like a promotion for any latest version from the "Mortal Kombat" vidgame. No producers or stars happen to be connected to the new feature version of "Mortal Kombat." Privileges towards the property were area of the Half way Games assets that New Line parent Warner Bros. acquired in personal bankruptcy court last year for that fire-purchase cost of $33 million together with "Spy Hunter," "Joust" and many other game franchises.Half way first showed the recording game in 1992 having a story concentrating on the monk Liu Kang in order to save Earth from an evil wizard. New Line's "Mortal Kombat" movie made over $120 million worldwide in 1995 and it is follow up "Mortal Kombat: Annihiilation" cumed $50 million 2 yrs later.Warner Bros. was prosecuted this past year by Threshold Entertainment for alleged breach of contract over growth and development of another "Mortal Kombat" movie.Tancharoen directed MGM's reboot of "Fame" last year and also the "Glee" concert movie. Uziel's composed "DrainInch and "Shimmer Lake."Dork Neustadter and Walter Hamada are managing for brand new Line.Tancharoen is repped by ICM, Anonymous Content and attorney David Fox. Uziel is repped by ICM, Circle of Confusion and David Fox. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Leonard Dillion dies at 68

Leonard Dillon, the leader of pioneering reggae group the Ethiopians, died in Jamaica on Wednesday of lung and prostate cancer. He was 68.Daughter Patrice Dillon says Dillon had been diagnosed with cancer in June and underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor earlier this year.Leonard Dillon began his career using the stage name Jack Sparrow in the early 1960s. He recorded a series of ska songs, including "Bull Whip," which featured a young Bob Marley on backing vocals.Dillon later formed the Ethiopians, a trio whose best known hits were "Train to Skaville" and "Everything Crash."He is survived by seven children. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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REVIEW: Take Shelter Raises the Question, How Much Michael Shannon Is Too Much?

Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter, Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes, to go ballistic on the neighbors, warning them that a big storm is coming and it’s going to wipe them out if they don’t get ready. Shannon has certainly cornered the cuckoo-bird market, and how you feel about Take Shelter will depend largely on how you respond to his patented nutcase technique. But in terms of overall filmmaking, writer-director Nichols — who previously made the 2007 Shotgun Stories — knows what he’s doing. He’s so adept at layering eerie semi-naturalistic details — skies that seem to be glowering at the whole human race, rain beating down with the fury of millions of tiny, punishing fists — that I wanted to stick with him to see where he was going with it all. His idea — that nature is both inside and outside of us, and in neither case is it something to trifle with — is unsettling at its core. Shannon is precisely the actor you’d first think to cast in this material — which may be the problem. Shannon’s character, a hardworking Midwestern family man named Curtis, has been having apocalyptic dreams and visions: Birds arrange themselves strange formations in the sky; yellow rain falls from above, as if God were expressing his dissatisfaction with mankind by taking one giant whiz all over the heartland. Is all of this really happening? Or is Curtis suffering the early stages of paranoid schizophrenia? His wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), is baffled by his behavior: First he turns the gentle, loyal family dog outside after dreaming that the dog attacks him; then he takes out a massive loan to spiff up the family’s tornado shelter in preparation for the big biblical showdown he knows is coming. Samantha is none too happy about either of those things, particularly the latter, considering the couple’s young daughter (Tova Stewart), who is deaf, has some upcoming heavy-duty medical expenses. The first third of Take Shelter is suitably unnerving. Nichols knows how to use the landscape (and CGI-enhanced weather) to build a sense of dread: The family’s modest house, somewhere out in rural Ohio, ought to be cozy and safe, but it seems isolated and exposed, a sitting target in an expanse of brownish grass and grayish sky. Even the more peaceful sequences — like the one in which Samantha and her young daughter gaze out the window while a rainstorm rages outside — are draped with ominous portent. But I can’t help wondering how Take Shelter would play with a different star, one who hasn’t already done the pop-eyed nutter routine to death. With Shannon, I feel I’ve seen it too many times before, and once — even just his turn in William Friedkin’s Bug — would have been more than enough. The economics of star casting aside, what would Take Shelter have been like with James McAvoy or Mark Wahlberg or Jake Gyllenhaal at its center? Even though the picture ends with a question mark, Shannon still manages to give the whole game away in the first frame — his very presence shows you where the movie is headed. On the other hand, Jessica Chastain, in one of her 1,001 movie roles this year, is far more restrained and more moving. She plays a character whose common sense is commingled with fear — and that, as it turns out, is probably the combination she needs to survive. Chastain is this year’s “it” girl for sure, but one of her gifts is her ability to portray regular people without playing down to them: In Take Shelter you never get the sense that she’s uglied herself up to play real folk, to get down with the people. She’s always effortlessly believable, whether her character is hustling in the kitchen to get breakfast together for her daughter or gazing into her husband’s eyes, trying to fathom the weird secrets he has locked in his cranium. Chastain’s face, whether she’s expressing wonder or anxiety, is the movie’s most reliable weather report and its most sensitive lightning rod: Looking at that face, you’d have no reason to believe that either God or his good pal Mother Nature could be angry with her. The suggestion that not even she can escape their wrath is what makes Take Shelter so disquieting. [Portions of this review appeared earlier, in a different form, during Movieline’s coverage of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival.]

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Breakfast of Champions: Watch Theatrical Trailer for 'Human Centipede 2'

Believe to start your Tuesday compared to a clip for 'Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'? Not. Knowing from reviews from Fantastic Fest -- where 'Centipede 2' opened a week ago -- the Tom Six-directed film is really as disgusting, vile, foul, degrading and altogether disheartening as the imagination leads you to definitely believe. Authored Variety reporter Shaun Sneider on Twitter: "If you are an actress in 'Human Centipede 2,' how can you reveal that movie for your parents, or use it your reel?" Thinking about he later known as it "fecal porn," you most likely don't? With this, here's a clip. Enjoy! (Just don't watch if you have eaten within the last half an hour.) 'Human Centipede 2' has gone out on March. 7. [via Yahoo!]

Allocine unveils TV channel plans

PARIS -- Paris-based film and TV news website Allocine unveiled its game plan for its new TV channel Tuesday. The channel, also called Allocine, bowed on Sept. 5. on seven digital satellite, cable and DSL nets in Gaul. It has inked library deals with Gaumont, Warner Bros., Pathe, Wild Side and Bac to acquire classic films. Allocine's programming slate includes Stanley Donen's "Singin' in the Rain," Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita," Rene Clair's "Le Dernier Milliardaire" and William Keighley's "The Master of Ballantrae." In the vein of a film club, Allocine will program classic films four times a week in primetime, as well as talkshows centering on film news and analysis. Films will be presented by Allocine journos or a public figure, and each evening will begin with a Tex Avery short. Our idea is not to compete with other channels by acquiring recent films; what we want is to showcase the French and international film heritage," explained Allocine's head of video services Alain Le Diberder, who said half of the films will be shown in their original version. Allocine's prexy Gregoire Lassalle added: "Only 10% of library films circulate in France. What's the point of spending so much money to digitize films if no one ever gets a chance to see them?" With an annual budget of up to Euros 8 million ($11 million), Allocine's TV channel can reach up to 35 million viewers, and should become financially viable within the next three years thanks to ad revenues, said Lassalle. As Allocine's TV channel is labeled as a generalist TV network by the CSA, France's media authority, it must invest a small percentage of its annual revenue in the acquisition and co-production of films as well as TV shows focusing on films. Lassalle said he would consider launching Allocine on DTT as well, although there was no immediate plan to do so. The exec said the company was also studying opportunities to set up TV operations in Russia, Turkey and China. Created by Lassalle in 1993, Allocine operates local versions of the website in Canada, Brazil, the U.K., Germany, Turkey, China, Spain and Russia, and will expand into Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Australia and the Middle East by December 2012. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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The Wood

John Viscardi can be a reporter who exposes police brutality against immigrant Vladimir Versailles. Melanie Charles might be the sufferers wife. A Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presentation from the play by 50 percent operates by Serta Klores. Directed by David Bar Katz. Justin Volpe - Michael Carlsen Micheline Louima - Melanie Charles Tommy - David Deblinger Alice McAlary - Kim Director Abner Louima - Vladimir Versailles Mike McAlary - John ViscardiDocumentary filmmaker Serta Klores brings a film eye to "The Wood," his reverential bio-dram about Mike McAlary, the muckraking New you are able to city newspaper author who won a Pulitzer in 1998 for his sensational expose of police brutality against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. Episodic and unfocused within the overlong first act, show pulls itself together in act two for a lot of tough moments between Louima and McAlary, who die of cancer at 41, twelve months later on he won his Pulitzer. The material has energy, nevertheless the whole structure in the piece needs overhauling to produce a real impact. Two solid perfs from John Viscardi (as McAlary) and Vladimir Versailles (as Louima) and nice backup from Kim Director and Melanie Charles (their particular partners) give ballast for the jumpy production helmed by David Bar Katz. Viscardi nails both newspaper hunger that made McAlary this kind of tenacious news hound which attitude of empathy and knowing that made people trust him utilizing their finest secrets. He's also winning when McAlary addresses everyone else right to reveal a real love for cutthroat journalism, a sense of justice that made him a "superhero for your working class," plus an ego how large a house. Versailles is most encouraging inside the hospital moments in which a badly beaten Louima bares his humiliation and discomfort for the reporter who splash his story round the most visited page in the Daily News. More youthful crowd determines great rapport with Charles, so touching as Louima's troubled wife. Nevertheless it takes an unendurable time period before Louima arrives in the shadows to target McAlary's attention and point the play in the dramatic direction. For the time being, Klores uses quantity of sketchy moments -- developed in no consistent style and completed much the same way -- to accomplish McAlary's backstory and flesh the smoothness from the driven guy, so competitive he'd skip chemotherapy to chase lower a news tip. There can be an excellent play in here somewhere, but at this time around it's a jumble of bits and pieces waiting for the rewrite desk.Sets, John McDermott costumes, Kalere A. Payton lighting, Joel Moritz appear, Janie Bullard predictions, Steve Channon production stage manager, Jamie Wolfe. Opened up up Sept. 15, 2011. Examined Sept. 14. Running time: 2 Several hours, 10 MIN.With: Thomas Kopache and Sidney Williams Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Netflix's Plans For Brand New Headquarters Prompts Suit

Already coping with backlash from the cost increase, Netflix now may need to focus on placating some angry neighbors.our editor suggests CBS, Netflix Sign Two-Year Content Agreement The famous host oprah, Media Moguls and Netflix Talk on Tap for Cable Show STORY: Netflix Shares Tumble on Modified Customer Growth Some citizens of Los Gatos, where Netflix is creating a brand new headquarters, have prosecuted to avoid or decelerate the development since the structures could be excessive, trees will have to be removed and traffic might get worse. STORY: Netfilx Stock Drops 8% After Starz Renewal Talks Finish The group suing calls itself Los Gatos People for Responsible Development, based on the San Jose Mercury News, also it filed its suit from the town. STORY: Netflix Responds: Starz Submissions Are 'Down to around 8% of Domestic Netfilx Customers' Viewing' This news outlet stated the city council approved the making of five- and four-story structures seven days ago, despite the fact that the town's height limit is three tales. "The problem continues to be known to a lawyer for review," town manager Greg Larson told the Mercury News. "We'll then evaluate the lawsuit's merits and impacts, if any, prior to making a recommendation towards the town council." The move might be a boon to Los Gatos, reviews CBSSanFrancisco.com, getting in around $a million in tax revenue. "The citizens' group doesn't desire to stop the project. We are just seeking environment review," attorney Rachel-Mansfield-Howlett told the Mercury News. Related Subjects Property Netflix