Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Sherlock Holmes' Accent Is Flawless, Unlike Robert Downey Jr., Guy Ritchie Says (VIDEO)

Get Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie in a room and give them the freedom to talk about whatever they want, as Moviefone did for our latest edition of Unscripted, and you can expect a freewheeling discussion about 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,' whether the pair will team up for future, non-Sherlock, projects, and RDJ's British accent. Does Ritchie think Downey Jr. does the director's home country proud? Find out, as well as what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would think of 'Sherlock Holmes' and why any young actor with sights on taking over for Downey as Holmes in the future might want to think twice about challenging the A-lister. Watch Moviefone Unscripted: 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' above. For a bonus, check out which character RDJ has more fun "playing with": Tony Stark or Sherlock Holmes. 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' is in theaters on Friday. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Embed on your site:

CBS Face The Nation Expanding To An Hour In Spring For 20-Week Election Cycle

CBS’ long-running Face The Nation will expand to an hour in the spring, moderator Bob Schieffer announced to viewers on Sunday. The move will put the half-hour weekly staple on an equal time footing with its competitors.I cannot remember when Ive been happier to break a story than I am to tell you this, Schieffer told viewers. The show has been around since 1954, and news division executives have wanted to extend it program to hour for several years. The 60-minute format will remain in place for 20 weeks through the political conventions next summer. Executives then will make a decision on whether to make the change permanent.Meet the Press on NBC, This Week on ABC and Fox News Sunday on Fox are each an hour.

Legendary picks newcomer to play Jackie Robinson

BosemanRobinsonFordLegendary Pictures is swinging for the fences with its Jackie Robinson biopic "42," tapping relative newcomer Chadwick Boseman to play the Brooklyn Dodgers infielder and Harrison Ford to play baseball executive Branch Rickey. Brian Helgeland will direct from a script he penned. Pic follows the iconic story of Robinson, the first African-American to play in the major leagues. Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking MLB's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945. Two years later, at the start of the 1947 major league baseball season, Robinson was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team with the help of Rickey. While Rickey has been the role most speculated in recent weeks, the role of Robinson was sought after by several actors including "Friday Night Light"'s Michael B. Jordan and "Stomp the Yard"'s Columbus Short. Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, with Dick Cook exec producing. No distributor is set for the pic. Legendary worked early on in development with Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson, to ensure the movie adaptation of the famed player's story is authentic. Ironically, Boseman also appeared in "The Express," which was based on the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy. He repped by Greene & Associates. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

That's When George Lucas Lent Chewbacca to Glee

First, George Lucas loaned Yoda to a Japanese instant noodle company in need of a marketing face (and wisdom applicable to ramen). And now, in an even bigger burn to U.S. Star Wars fans, the franchise creator has shipped Chewbacca to the set of Glee for a one-episode arc. What is this world coming to? Before you starting writing George Lucas more tear-stained hate mail though, let’s learn a little more about Chewbacca’s big break on the Fox song and dance series. Maybe the Star Wars character will play a role so pivotal and life-changing for Glee’s impressionable youth that fans will have no choice but to support the cameo. Maybe, after the New Directions endure another brutal act of bullying by their peers, Chewbacca appears in Schue’s classroom to deliver an unintelligible, five-minute battle cry which Puck interprets as a profound statement about the power of acceptance. Afterward, Chewbacca leads the class in a stripped-down performance of “True Colors.” Okay, scratch that. Matthew Morrison explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live that the Fox series is using Chewbacca for a dream sequence during the show’s upcoming holiday episode, “Extraordinary Merry Christmas” — which will be a “Christmas special within the episode of Glee.” “We called up George Lucas and he gave us Chewbacca,” Morrison, who directed the special Star Wars-tie in episode, explained. “There is only one guy who can officially be Chewbacca, and he lives in Northern California and they flew him in. We had Chewbacca for the day, and it was just great, and we were all taking pictures with him.” Sorry, Star Wars fans. George Lucas lent out Chewbacca for a run-of-the-mill dream sequence cameo. Television producers, let it be known that Lucas would probably be willing to loan out R2-D2 and C-3PO for sweeps week appearances. Chewbacca to Guest Star on Glee’s Christmas Episode! [Us]

NOVEMBER SWEEP: CBS Late Show Tops Tonight For first In Time 17 Years, Late Late Show Posts First Victory Over Late Evening

NBC’s primetime worries are beginning to spill into late-evening. Both Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Evening With Jimmy Fallon experienced double-digit year-to-year declines lately, giving CBS’ late-evening selection historic wins. Late Show With David Letterman (.9/4 in 18-49, 3.41 million total audiences) released its first November sweep victory inside the Tonight Show (.8/3, 3.60 million) among grownups 18-49 in 17 years, since Late Show‘s second season in 1994. Late Show finding yourself in 18-49 versus. last November (lower 8% in general audiences), while Tonight Show was lower 20% (4% in general audiences). The 2nd still won in general audiences. CBS’ Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson (.6/3 in 18-49, 1.63 million) was really the only late-evening show round the broadcast systems to build up year-to-year in 18-49. It absolutely was up 20% (lower 7% in general audiences) to write the franchise’s first demo November sweep victory over NBC’s Late Evening (.5/3, 1.73 million). The 2nd show, presently situated by Jimmy Fallon, was lower 17% year-to-year and flat in general audiences, a category it won. ABC’s Because Of Due To Jimmy Kimmel Live! (.6/3, 1.97 million) tied Craig Ferguson and beat Fallon. It absolutely was in 18-49 versus. a year ago known as the only real broadcast late-evening show to write rise in total audiences, up 7%.

Tyler Perry Pens Open Letter To Alleged Penn State Scandal Abuse Victim

First Published: November 28, 2011 2:04 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Tyler Perry arrives at a screening of Tyler Perrys Madeas Big Happy Family at the Cinerama Dome Theater in Los Angeles, Calif., on April 19, 2011Tyler Perry, a survivor of sexual abuse as a child, has penned an open letter to a former 11-year-old who spoke out about their alleged abuse at the hands of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. What you have done is so courageous, Tyler wrote in an open letter to the unnamed person, who is no longer 11, in Newsweek. The strength that it must have taken for your 11-year-old voice to speak out about such a horrible act is something that I didnt have the strength or courage to do at that age. The Madea movie mogul, who, in 2009, after the release of Precious, opened up about his own sexual abuse as a child, commended the unnamed alleged victim for his courage. I knew what was happening to me, but unlike you, I couldnt speak about it because no one saw me. I was invisible and my voice was inaudible, Tyler continued. So to think that you, when you were only 11 years old, spoke up you are my hero! Im so proud of you. Tyler said if the unnamed alleged victim does have to head to court to give testimony, he will have the support of millions, including Tyler himself. You may have to go through with that trial, and you may feel all alone when youre on that witness stand, but just know that there are millions of young boys and grown men who are standing with you including me, he added. If every man who has ever been molested would speak up, you would see that were all around you. You may not know all of our faces and names, but my prayer is that you feel our strength holding you up. You will get through this; youve already endured the worst part at age 11. Now fight on, my young friend, fight on! We are all with you. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Canadian lab grows new laughs

Alliance will release 'Servitude,' developed in the first year of the lab, in the spring. TORONTO -- Everyone knows Canadians are funny -- especially Canadians, who keep homegrown standup, radio and TV comedy thriving. But bigscreen laughs tend to be a different story.A few years ago, bizzers told government film funder Telefilm that Canadian comedies weren't making the leap to Hollywood and beyond, says the Canadian Film Center's film and TV programs director Kathryn Emslie. That led to the forming of the Telefilm Canada Features Comedy Lab, which was launched to help make comedy click at the domestic box office. It kicked off its third annual session Nov. 14 at the CFC in Toronto, a key lab partner along with Montreal-headquartered Just for Laughs."Filmmakers with comedy scripts weren't looking to Telefilm, because most of that financing went to drama," says Michael Sparaga, the Toronto-based writer/co-producer of lab project "Servitude." "So the announcement of the lab marked a big shift in priorities."The lab also is a mechanism for determining if the projects are worthy of Telefilm development money. "The hope for the participants is that the relationship with Telefilm will continue," say Emslie.The lab, which focuses on fast-tracking script development and packaging of Canadian feature comedies for domestic and international auds, has already had a degree of success."Servitude," a workplace comedy helmed by Warren P. Sonoda ("Cooper's Camera") that was developed in the lab's first year, will close the Whistler Film Festival and is set for spring release by Alliance Films. "Atlantic Gold," a romantic comedy penned by John Hazlett from the lab's second year, has previous lab mentor Donald Petrie ("Miss Congeniality") attached as director.Several more alumni comedies (five are selected each year via a rigorous process) are now speeding through the pipeline, thanks to the lab's project-specific matchmaking, which pairs teams of creatives -- typically producer and writer and/or director -- with industry heavyweights.The lab began with an intense script-focused November session (this year's mentor/guest roster features Kirsten Smith, David Frankel, Mike White and Ron Yerxa, among others) and concludes with a week of meetings in Los Angeles in the spring, with script drafts and frequent tete-a-tetes among creatives and mentors.Sparaga's first lab-enabled meeting was with Ivan Reitman, who urged the writer to make his script semi-autobiographical and R-rated. A year later -- after several drafts and a writers-room style punch-up in L.A. -- cameras were rolling.Montreal-based "Atlantic Gold" producer Antonello Cozzolino found a champion in veteran producer and 2010-11 mentor Joe Medjuck. "It's tough to get your script noticed by the right people," Cozzolino says. "By the time we hit L.A. for the lab's second session, we were meeting with major agencies and high profile-directors -- the packaging started happening very fast."Three of this year's participating projects are from British Columbia: "How to Change Everything Without Doing Anything" (producer Blake Corbet, writer-director Kris Lefcoe); "Zombie Love" (producer Mark Stephenson, writer Jonathan Williams); and "How to Break Up With Your Mother" (producers Elizabeth Levine and Adrian Salpeter, writer Kellie Benz). Another, "Fit to Print" (producer Michael McNamara, writer-director Daniel Perlmutter), is from Ontario; and "Birthmarked" (producers Pierre Even and Marie-Claude Poulin, writer Marc Tulin) comes from Quebec.Let the crossover laffs begin. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

John Landis on Eddie Murphy: 'I Have No Clue If He's Considering Being Really Funny Anymore'

With credits including, 'Animal House,' 'Blues Brothers and sisters,' 'Three Amigos,' 'Trading Places' and 'Coming to America,' it's little from the stretch to call director John Landis a comedy genius. Additionally, Landis remains given -- due to people latter films available -- a unique knowledge of your mind of Eddie Murphy. This publish is especially useful now, considering Murphy has elevated the news recently, because you can have seen. (He's funny again in 'Tower Heist'! He'll host the Oscars! He is not prone to host the Oscars! He is not funny any more in 'A 1000 Words'!) Since the mid-1990's, Murphy has faced critique regarding his choice of roles. Landis recently spoke for the NY Occasions about his career just like a filmmaker and also the applying for grants Murphy. Once I made 'Trading Places,' Eddie was 19 or 20 and bouncing from the beaten track with talent and will be a happy guy. Once I made 'Coming to America,' it absolutely was a few years later, Eddie grew to become an worldwide star and wasn't as happy. It absolutely was awkward on that film as they was kind of a jerk, which we stood a real diminishing. But nevertheless we labored together perfectly... Eddie's really funny in this movie. He can be quite funny when he desires to be. I am unsure if he's considering being really funny any more, honestly. Ouch. Sadly, Landis is not alone in this. Despite the fact that a number of Murphy's recent films -- 'Norbit,' 'Daddy Day Care' -- made money, they've been panned by experts, who clamor for your return in the "old Murphy." Here is a concept: an Eddie Muprhy/John Landis reunion! Although, if history notifies us anything about Eddie, he may nothing beats that pitch, especially after reading through with the Landis comments. You can examine the whole John Landis interview, where he discusses 'An American Werewolf in London' and Jheri curl jokes, over on NYT. [via NYT] [Photo: Getty Images] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

REVIEW: Woody Harrelson's Menace Yields Diminishing Returns in Rampart

The last few weeks have provided us with some iconic imagery of police violence in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement — Lt. John Pike casually pepper spraying a group of UC Davis students like he’s Febrezing a sofa, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey being helped away from a confrontation in Seattle after being doused herself, Marine Scott Olsen getting carried out through a haze of tear gas in Oakland with a fractured skull. These recent events lend Oren Moverman’s Rampart a queasy immediacy even though it’s set in the ’90s, as the LAPD’s Rampart Division struggles through the notorious police misconduct scandal that ended up implicating dozens of officers and inspired the likes of Training Day and The Shield. Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), the bad, bad beat cop — the self-proclaimed “one cop who gets it” — at the film’s center, wields far heavier artillery than a canister of spray and regularly crosses major lines of corruption and brutality, but the psychological core stands — there’s room to hide or rationalize away almost anything in the name of maintaining authority, upholding order, us against them and any means necessary. Both enthralling and draining, Rampart is a claustrophobic account of Brown’s downward spiral, or at least an accelerating chunk of it — things haven’t been going quite right for him for a while. Brown is, as his teenager daughter tells him caustically to his face, a “dinosaur,” a would-be mix of Dirty Harry and John Wayne who’s at least half as smart as he’s convinced he is. It’s a dream of a role for Harrelson, who’s the camera’s constant quavering focus, and who keeps us torn between being drawn in and repulsed by this disastrous, magnetic character. And we’re not the only ones — Brown may not have many friends, but he gets applause when he strolls back into the station after being suspended for nearly beating a man do death on camera, and he’s able to temporarily charm the ladies against their better judgment. “Oh, well,” a one-night-stand sighs in the afterglow of their assignation, as if only then coming to terms with the type of man she just slept with. He lives with an unlikely brood of women who are growing increasingly sick of his presence — his two ex-wives (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon), who happen to be sisters, and their two daughters, caustic teen Helen (Brie Larson) and the younger Margaret (Sammy Boyarsky). The threat of his family dissolving and leaving him alone is shaking Brown’s universe, but not as much as the thought that he’ll be fired or forced to retire from the LAPD. Being a cop is his everything — the film tracks him cruising the streets in a black-and-white, chain-smoking in his mirrored aviator sunglasses, his preening self-image projecting so strong it basically becomes fact. But being a cop doesn’t mean the same thing it did when he started. “This used to be a glorious soldiers’ department,” he tells a female rookie (Stella Schnabel, daughter of Julian), “and now it’s you.” Not long after, he tells her, “This is a military occupation, kid, emergency law,” and just how much he buys into the bullshit he’s spouting becomes the film’s central question. Any sliver of serious self-awareness, any betrayal of his own one-man-against-the-world ideology could bring everything tumbling down, though an examination of his recent actions by a D.A. investigator (Ice Cube) promises to force the issue. Moverman, whose previous film, 2009’s very good home front drama The Messenger, also featured Harrelson, co-wrote Rampart with crime laureate James Ellroy, and the latter’s nihilism and feel for the grimy side of L.A. are all over this film. While it provides a watchable, nuanced portrait of man in crisis, it’s an insistently one-note affair, repeated until it induces a splitting headache. Brown is one hell of a difficult person to spend a hundred minutes with, and though his desperation grows over the course of the film, as the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi show up to try and manage the PR disasters he’s sparked, as he begins an affair with a criminal defense lawyer (Robin Wright) he seems drawn to primarily because of what a terrible idea it is, as his shady retired source on department goings-on (Ned Beatty) presents him with questionable info, he doesn’t change. He’s consumed with the concept that he’s being set up, but the trouble he’s in is all his own fault — he’s calcified into the kind of man the world would happily use as a half-deserving scapegoat. The film’s loose camerawork aims to capture Brown’s growing disorientation on his path toward oblivion, but it often draws distracting attention to itself, the seams showing — one conversation is deliberately staged so that you can only see the back of the listener’s head, and another is shot upwards from under a table so that it obscures half the screen. As Brown lurches toward self-destruction, we start to long for him to find it. He’s obviously not interested in fixing anything, and that leaves only his sad but utterly earned solitary trudge toward some form of closure that neither he, nor we, will find in the film. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

'Spider-Guy: Switch Off the Dark': Another Cast Member Hurt

"Spider-Guy: Switch Off the Dark" has experienced another cast member injuries after producers from the costly Broadway production were hit having a suit from director Julie Taymor.Matthew James Thomas, who plays the title role throughout the Wednesday and Saturday matinees, was hurt backstage throughout the November. 9 matinee performance, based on released reviews. Thomas was come to a healthcare facility and was handed stitches the development was stopped for around ten minutes.Reeve Carney, who shows Peter Parker/Spider-Guy for six performances every week and is at the Foxwoods Theatre once the injuries happened, assumed the role for that relaxation from the show."Matthew James Thomas sustained a small injuries while offstage throughout present day matinee performance," stated a representative for "Spider-Guy: Switch Off the Dark" inside a statement. "He's fine, and will also be in the show for his next scheduled performance on Saturday."Because the production opened up this past year, several stars and stunt doubles happen to be hurt, including Natalie Mendoza (who had been later changed by T.V. Carpio) and Christopher Tierney."Spider-Guy: Switch Off the Dark" features music and lyrics by Bono and also the Edge, having a book co-compiled by Taymor, Glen Berger and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The Hollywood Reporter

Contender: 'J. Edgar'

As mind from the FBI for pretty much 40 years, J. Edgar Hoover understood the strategies of a few of the country's most effective males, but very guarded their own.Now a trio of Oscar heavyweights -- star Leonardo DiCaprio (a 3-time nom), director Clint Eastwood (that has four Oscar statuettes) and writing champion Dustin Lance Black -- tries to get inside his mind within this ambitious, and sometimes speculative, biopic.Hot off a higher-profile premiere in the AFI Film Fest, the half-century-spanning lesson in history -- which co-stars Naomi W as Helen Gandy, Hoover's secretary for 54 years, and Armie Hammer ("The Social Networking") as reliable deputy Clyde Tolson -- touches on such important 20th-century occasions because the Lindbergh kidnapping, JFK's murder and also the civil-privileges movement.As you might expect from the bio-pic composed through the author of "Milk," the film also addresses the continuing speculation and gossips that Hoover, who never married or had kids, was privately gay coupled with a romantic relationship with Tolson (the 2 dined daily as well as vacationed together).Though Eastwood's history demands the film be studied seriously, reviews suggest its Oscar chances might be compromised by defects in from the script to old-age makeup.Release date: November. 11 Distrib: Warner Bros. Browse the Variety review Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Lux boards Cromosoma's 'Machine'

BARCELONA -- Lux Animation has boarded Cesc Gay's "The Triplets and also the Machine That Runs the planet,Inch among the greatest-profile animated features getting into production in The country. A Luxembourg-based studio and production house headed up by controlling director Eric Anselin, Lux will co-produce with Barcelona-based Cromosoma. Co-created with Perro Verde, Cromosoma's "Facial lines" is among the 18 distribution introduced a week ago that entitled to the animated feature Academy Award. "Machine" marks the toon feature debut of Cesc Gay, a Catalan director and animation enthusiast who created out work with prestige live-action features for example 2000's "Nico and Dani," 2003's "Within the City" and 2007's Marly del Plata fest champion "Fiction." Gay co-directs with Baltasar Pedrosa from the script by Gay, Anna Manso and Francesc Orteu. The toon pic is really a spin-removed from the Cromosoma-created "The Triplets," probably the most effective toon TV series in The spanish language history that's been broadcast in 140 nations and named into 35 languages. Transporting an easy environmental message, "Machine" focuses on a household that's been accountable for centuries with taking care of a huge assortment of machines making certain the earth's climate keeps working. A dastardly umbrella salesperson tinkers using the machine to impress rainstorms worldwide, but sparks far worse weather problems. Among Spain's greatest toon photos, allocated at six million ($8.two million), "Machine" has drawn lower $2.5 million in financing, split between Catalonia's ICIC Institute of Cultural Industries and Catalan pubcaster TV3, that also co-produces "Machine." The spanish language broadcaster TVE has pre-bought the film. "Machine" is within pre-production in the stage of graphic development, stated Dani Martinez, Cromosoma production manager. "Machine" is skedded for release early 2014. A household film, "Machine" targets 5-8s as well as their parents, stated Martinez. Lux's co-push equity in Machine may be the start of a budding production alliance. Based on Martinez, Cromosoma is studying co-creating Lux Animation's toon series "Burny the small Dragon," a buzz title at September's Cartoon Forum, in regards to a dragon looking for its place on the planet. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Schwartz: Independent thinker

Jonathan Schwartz When Jonathan Schwartz launched his creating career six in the past, his mindset couldn't be known to as indie. Rather, he setup numerous studio projects including "Mark Twain RecallsInch at DreamWorks, with James Franco installed on star. Then, he anxiously anxiously waited in development purgatory."I recognized after i keep creating films at art galleries, I would never get to produce a movie," recalls the La native who started his showbiz career about 10 years ago becoming an ICM lawyer fresh from George Washington U. law school. "Every film I've done since remains an indie."The change of career has brought to 10 films in five years for your Berkeley alum, beginning using the Sundance darling "Wristcutters: An Appreciation Story." That auspicious debut ended up being another Sundance hit, "Douchebag," they also composed.He hard his Sundance cred while using $250,000 Anton Yelchin-Felicity Manley starrer "Constantly,Inch which nabbed the grand jury prize as of this year's fest."I have two criteria to create a film,Inch states Schwartz, whose credits include Peter Weir's "The Means By Which Back" and Austrian auteur Michael Haneke's British-language remake that belongs to them film "Funny Games.""I gotta believe that it is good. I'd rather not produce a movie that won't get seen by anybody."And despite his accomplishments inside the indie world, Schwartz isn't ruling out returning for the studio sphere. He still expects to create passion project "Mark Twain."Nevertheless, his sensibilities rarely mesh while using typical offering within the majors."I don't always love huge studio movies that attract the general public just because of my taste," states Schwartz, who recently wrapped the drama "Nobody Walks," toplined by John Krasinski.Still, Schwartz wouldn't recommend indie film creating for everyone. "In the event you care a good deal about money, it's not likely the initial business I'd advise beginning,Inch he jokes.10 PRODUCERS To Check Out 2011Jason Michael Berman Borderline Films Tyler Davidson & Sophia Lin James Gay-Rees Lawrence Inglee Red-colored-colored Granite Pictures Laura Rister Jonathan Schwartz Diarmid Scrimshaw Kevin Walsh Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Rhianna to accomplish Thanksgiving Special With Katie Couric

Rhianna, Katie Couric This Thanksgiving, Rhianna might be the attention-opening antidote to a lot of chicken and wine. The pop star and Katie Couric will sit lower for just about any 90-minute holiday special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which will air Thursday, November. 24 at 9:30/8:30c on ABC, the network introduced Thursday. Lifetime apparently developing a Rhianna biopic "Everybody knows Rhianna can be a phenomenon," mentioned Couric. "This is often a chance to determine really who she's beneath the wild costumes and staged musical amounts ... Rhianna just like a secondary school student still bruised when you're excluded within the party, Rhianna just like a devoted daughter and caring sister, Rhianna just like a 25-year-old lady implementing fame and fortune that made an appearance later on overnight. She'll impress you, delight you together with surprise you." Besides the sit-lower interview, the special will feature eight Gaga performances, including "The benefit of Glory," "We,A "Marry the Evening" and "White-colored Christmas." See the relaxation of current day news It cannot be Thanksgiving without some eats, so Gaga will positioned on an apron and, by utilizing chef Art Cruz, prepare deep-fried chicken and waffles on her behalf site visitors. What, no stuffed and roasted little monsters? Will you produce a Very Gaga Thanksgiving part of your holiday routine this year?

Hilary Swank Dropped By 42West: Report

Chechnya tyrant Ramzan Kadyrovs birthday party is the gift that keeps on giving — or maybe the opposite of that. Hilary Swank’s PR firm 42West has released the actress, EW reports, amid the continuing fallout from her appearance at the October 5 event. As one of the trades might have said, the “praisery” decided to distance itself from Swank because she and they disagreed how the aftermath of her appearance should be handled. Swank already fired longtime manager Jason Weinberg and a pair of CAA agents but remains with CAA as a client. For now.

The City Dark

A Roof Films, Edgework Art galleries presentation from the Wicked Delicate Films production. Produced by Ian Cheney. Co-producers, Tamara Rosenberg, Julia Marchesi, Colin Cheney. Directed, put together by Ian Cheney.With: Irving Robbins, Roger Ekirch, Ray Birnbaum, Mike Storch, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Matty Holzhacker, Ann Druyan, Mark Van Baalen, Jack Newton, Chris Impey, Jeffrey Kuhn, JD Remedy, John Tonry, Nick Kaiser, Kirt Rusenko, Annette Prince, Jen Nevis, Susan Elbin, David Willard, Chad Moore, Steven Lockley, Richard Stevens, Suzanne Goldklang, George Brainard, David Blask, Jon Shane, Jane Brox, Howard Brandston, William Ho, Herve Descottes, Don Pettit, Peter Our god, Stephanie Clement, Anne Krieg."What can we lose once we lose the evening?" might be the question asked for by "The City Dark," a fascinating, well-rounded have a look at light pollution told getting a star-searching enthusiast's desire for his subject. Helmer Ian Cheney, best known to as co-creator of docu "King Corn," explores the social, physical and artistic effects within our not-so-dark evening skies, divvying them up into six sections that provide a sizable-different discussion from the recent phenomenon. Though a 53-minute version can be obtained, smallscreens could easily showcase the greater fest cut, an all-natural for PBS and atmosphere-friendly channels worldwide. Cheney lives in Gotham but was elevated becoming an astronomy dweeb in rural Maine. An excellent astrophotographer, he was struck with the difference inside the evening skies involving the two places, and hang up to research how light pollution is changing the earth. Like every market-savvy docu helmers, they are fully aware use a little of hope with the pic's finish, though irreversible global industrialization won't cede modernization to the benefits of a dimmer glow. Two-thirds in the planet's population lives in the "luminous fog," meaning the ceaseless aura of urban lights obscure starry skies. By having an impressive roster of scientists and amateur astronomers, Cheney addresses the problems this makes for your planet, such as the elevated impracticality of finding potentially catastrophic meteors simply because they approach Earth despite super-light-sensitive instruments. All this extra light is compromising natural world: Sea turtle hatchlings without effort mind for the protection of sunshine-reflecting ocean waters, but they're condemned when urban glow coaxes them inside the other way. For humans, studies have proven that girls that evening-change work are substantially more at risk of breast cancers, probably due to melatonin levels that need the sunshineOrdarkish cycle to properly adjust thus, a much better evening time for your population generally might suppress melatonin. However, it might have been useful had Cheney spoken with experts on such problems inside the Arctic, whose populations yearly go three several days without seeing the sun's sun rays. In the last two sections, the helmer confesses that city lights in dangerous towns offer reassurance and possess been credited getting a decrease in crime, but more youthful crowd talks with light designers for instance Herve Descottes, who done Manhattan's High Line Park, to prove that properly directed light could keep the evening sky dark and provides sufficient illumination. Impressive images of star-filled nights can help help remind auds of childhood excursions for the planetarium, and handful of will ignore the primary difference after they next research to the heavens. Clever animation helps to keep things upbeat, like the music, though some may find the tunes try too much to buoy the spirit.Camera (color, HD), Taylor Gentry, Cheney editors, Ernest Shanahan, Cheney music, the Fishermen Three, Ben Fries appear, Barbara Parks animation, Sharon Shattuck connect producers, Curt Ellis, Domenic Romano, Simon Beins. Examined at Abu Dhabi Film Festival (The Planet), March. 14, 2011 (Also in SXSW Film Festival -- competing.) Running time: 83 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Talkback: Who Has Been Bill Murray's Best Co-Star?

Yesterday it was announced that Bill Murray had signed on to star in Roman Coppola’s upcoming film, A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III alongside — drum roll please — Charlie Sheen. In honor of this out-of-left-field pairing, let’s recall some of Murray’s best onscreen partners in film and consider who has been the best. It’s hard to even ponder the best without considering his most frequent collaborator and co-star in the ’80s, Harold Ramis. Before the pair’s notorious falling out, the Chicago-raised comedic actors appeared alongside each other in Stripes, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2 and Groundhog Day. Ramis also directed the Murray vehicle Caddyshack and co-wroteMeatballs. Although no one remembers Murray and Ramis for their groundbreaking scenes shared or crackling chemistry, Ramis deserves mention as a formidable co-star who could match Murray in wit and dryness if not prickly charisma. Then there are the co-stars that played pupil to Murray’s offbeat professor like Chris Makepeace, who was taught some crucial camp social lessons by Murray’s Meatballs counselor and Jason Schwartzman, whose peculiar private school student was taken under the wing of Murray’s lonely tycoon in Rushmore. Both actors lured multiple dimensions and a caring quality from Murray, who more often than not has lapsed into the role of incorrigible grump (Groundhog Day and Scrooged) or staple smart aleck (Ghostbusters) during his career. Richard Dreyfuss turned that pupil-professor relationship on its ear though, when in 1991’s What About Bob?, he played the angry therapist and mentor to Murray’s obsessive-compulsive patient with stalker tendencies. Although the movie was only a modest box office success, Murray’s role as an upbeat optimist — even in the face of his many phobias — was a welcome change. But perhaps most audience members would credit Scarlett Johansson as Murray’s best co-star for helping to coax out his most gentle, honest performance ever in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. As an aging actor who forges an unlikely bond with an unhappily married twentysomething (Johansson), Murray allowed himself to be completely vulnerable, finally trading wisecracks for subtle emotion, thoughtfulness and his first Oscar nomination. Which co-star do you think has been Murray’s best? Maybe you consider Johnny Depp (for Ed Wood), Robert Duvall (for Get Low) or Uma Thurman (in Mad Dog and Glory) to be the finest. Either way, we’d love to hear your opinion below.

Paul Walker In Talks For Luc Bessons District B 13 Redo Brick Mansions

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walker is in talks to star in Brick Mansions, the Americanized remake of the Paris-set Banlieue 13. The film has a script by Luc Besson (who co-wrote the original) and Robert Mark Kamen, Bessons collaborator on Taken. The idea is for Walker to star with David Belle. Belle starred in the original and the sequel District 13: Ultimatum and he is also credited with creating Parkour, a sport that involves agility and leaping and climbing around obstacles. There is a lot of that in these films. The film will be set in American city, most likely Chicago. Walker will play an undercover detective chasing a weapon of mass destruction that was stolen by a drug dealer in the ghetto known as Brick Mansions. He seeks help from the incredibly agile Lino (Belle), who knows Brick Mansions better than anyone and is the only person not cowering in fear of the drug dealers. Bessons Europa Corp is producing, and while a number of Hollywood actors wanted the Lino role, Besson would not make the movie unless Belle was in it. The original Banlieue 13 was directed by Pierre Morel, who went on to direct Bessons Taken and From Paris With Love. Besson is giving this directing job to another protg, but the company would not reveal who he is. Europa Corp will soon make a domestic distribution deal, which never seems to be a problem with the modestly budgeted smart action thrillers that Besson hatches. Im sure there will be AFM action on Brick Mansions, though Besson is preoccupied with the Oscar season launch of The Lady, the film he directed with Michelle Yeoh starring as Burmese democracy reformist Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis playing her husband Michael Aris, who kept their family together while she was placed under house arrest for more than a decade. Both are expected to be in the awards season mix after the film bowed at 2011 Toronto Film Festival and was acquired for domestic distribution by Cohen Media Group. Walker will make the film before reprising his role in The Fast and the Furious 6. Hes repped by UTA and Luber Rocklin. Here is a trailer from the sequel that captures the acrobatics and action that distinguished both films:

Screen Gems launches 'B Boy' production

Screen Gems has commenced production round the dance film "Planet B Boy," which will star Josh Holloway ("Lost"), Laz Alonso, Josh Peck, Chris Brown and Caity Lotz.Benson Lee is pointing in the script by Brin Hill and Chris Parker. Love Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Amy Lo.Inspired by Lee's award-winning documentary "Planet B-Boy," the feature follows a thrilling-star American b-boy crew training to compete within the Fight of year Worldwide Game titles in France. The crew in addition to their coach must go facing the most effective b-boys in the world -- the Koreans, the Russians as well as the French, who've centered the first American dance form in the last decade.Undertaking a short shoot in La, the film continues production in Montpellier, France.Most broadly noted for playing Sawyer on ABC's "Lost," Holloway will rapidly be seen alongside Tom Cruise in Paramount's "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," which hits IMAX theaters on 12 ,. 16 and many types of other screens on 12 ,. 21.Alonso recently starred in Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna" and James Cameron's "Avatar."Peck, who next appears opposite Chris Hemsworth in MGM's remake of "Red-colored-colored Beginning," also stars in IFC's approaching thriller "ATM."A common recording artist, Brown has formerly starred in Screen Gems' "Takers" and "Stomp the Yard." He'll next be viewed in "Think As being a Guy."Lotz, which has had roles on AMC's "Mad Males" and NBC's "Law & Order: La,Inch will next be viewed in "The Pact."Holloway and Hill are represented by WME, while UTA as well as the Collective repetition Peck. ICM reps Lee and Alonso, who's handled by Thruline Entertainment. Lotz is represented by Greene & Affiliate marketers Talent Agency. Brown is repped by CAA and manager Tina Davis. Parker is repped with the Gersh Agency and manager Noah Rosen. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com

Jobs 'Saturday Evening Live' Skit Hits Web (Video)

An unaired skit in the March. 15 Anna Faris-located episode of Saturday Evening Live was launched on Tuesday, showing an appropriate tribute towards the late Apple co-founder Jobs.our editor recommendsSteve Jobs: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's CareerSteve Jobs Dying: Tech and Entertainment Industry Responds "SNL was continue doing this week but enjoy Charlie Rose speaking Jobs in #CutFromDress sketch," Seth Meyers authored on Twitter. PHOTOS: Jobs: 10 Memorable Key events from the Apple Co-Founder's Career The clip shows other leaders of tech, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Andy Samberg), Huffington Publish Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington (Nasim Pedrad), Netflix Boss Reed Hastings (Jason Sudeikis), and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch (Fred Armisen) within an interview with Charlie Rose (Bill Hader). Rose asks our prime-profile figures what Jobs trained them. "Mr. Jobs trained me you could bring beauty to everything about technology," states Zuckerberg, who "outfitted up" for that occasion. PHOTOS: Apple Items in TV and films "Facebook.com began off like a simple easy to use website, however it is simply chaos,Inch younger crowd states "I have visited the Huffington Publish office maybe 10 or five occasions," states Huffington, whose over-pronunciation by Pedrad is place-on. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths "He'd great ideas, he labored incredibly hard and that he never jeopardized. He set an irritatingly high standard of integrity," states Hastings. "We suck at this time,Inch stated Hastings. "Evaluating Apple to Netflix is much like evaluating apples to oranges. Particularly if the oranges made a lot of mistakes that individuals stopped eating oranges and returned to Blockbuster." Watch the entire clip below: Jobs Saturday Evening Live Arianna Huffington Reed Hastings

The Talk Taps Aisha Tyler as Co-Host

Aisha Tyler Aisha Tyler will join CBS' The Talk as co-host, Deadline reviews. Tyler, 41. begins her new gig on Monday and may sit alongside co-hosts Sara Gilbert, Julie Chen, Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne. She and Underwood replace Leah Remini and Carol Robinson Peete who left the show in August. Have a look at really current day news Tyler, whose credits include Pals and Ghost Whisperer, already has some hosting experience. Besides formerly guesting round the talk show, she situated E!'s Talk Soup in 2001.

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Viacom Urges Appeals Court To Order Jury Trial In YouTube Suit

Viacom and Google/YouTube were back in court Tuesday arguing over last year’s federal district court ruling that relieved YouTube and its parent Google of massive copyright infringement charges, Bloomberg reported. Viacom told a panel of three judges in the court of appeals in Manhattan that the lower court should have let a jury hear the case in which YouTube was accused of allowing users to upload videos of Viacom shows South Park and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and other shows as well as movies from Paramount Pictures. Viacom’s attorney said YouTube willfully ignored copyright violations by users posting video clips without authorization. That unauthorized content, Viacom argued, fueled the company’s rapid growth and Google eventually bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. YouTube pointed out that Viacom also had been a suitor and it was only after negotiations broke down and Google made the winning bid that Viacom sent the legally required takedown notices for infringing videos. YouTube’s lawyer told the appellate court panel it removed infringing videos as soon as it was notified by copyright owners. On that basis, U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton ruled last year that YouTube was protected from liability under the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The judges appeared skeptical of sending the case back to a jury for trial, PaidContent said, because of the difficulty of ascertaining whether many thousands of clips were infringing and how much to award in damages. YouTube’s attorney urged the appellate panel not to disturb the the lower court ruling, and the panel appeared receptive to his position that it was not YouTube’s job to monitor infringements but the responsibility of copyright holders. British soccer organization Football Association Premier League Ltd. and some music publishers who had followed Viacom in suing YouTube also appealed the lower-court ruling. The judges said they would rule later.

GSN Taps Amy Introcaso-Davis to Lead Programming Department

Amy Introcaso-Davis has been tapped as head of programming at Game Show Network.our editor recommendsOxygen Programming Chief Amy Introcaso-Davis Steps Down (Exclusive) She'll join GSN as executive vp programming beginning Nov. 1, reporting to president and CEO David Goldhill and based in Los Angeles. PHOTOS: 'Glee' Season 3: The Episodics At GSN, she'll be responsible for developing and acquiring programming designed to grow GSN's core audience of adult females. "Amy has an impressive track record of creating phenomenally successful and culturally relevant content. We're particularly pleased to have her join GSN in a year when we've substantially increased our original programming and acquired some exciting series to engage our audience," Goldhill said in a statement. "Amy's creative vision and leadership will be critical as we continue to enhance our programming choices for our viewers." STORY: Oxygen Programming Chief Amy Introcaso-Davis Steps Down (Exclusive) Added Introcaso-Davis: "As a fan, I have loved watching updates of such iconic series as The Newlywed Game on GSN. I am energized by the network's commitment to increasing original production and am excited by the prospect of leading the charge to redefine the game show for this multiplatform world." Introcaso-Davis led programming and development at Bravo and Oxygen during transformational periods at both networks. At Bravo, she developed and executive produced Queer Eye for the Straight Guy --the series that helped re-define Bravo -- as well as Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and the Real Housewives franchise. She segued from Bravo to Oxygen in 2008. Her three-year--plus tenure as head of programming at Oxygen was marked by ratings growth in the network's core demographic of young women. But Oxygen's ratings surge may have plateaued. And Introcaso-Davis left Oxygen last summer in the wake of disappointing runs for heavily hyped series The World According to Paris and Glee reality spinoff The Glee Project. Related Topics Bravo Oxygen

New Line, McCarthy in talks for 'Tammy'

New Line may be headed on the journey with Melissa McCarthy, developing "Tammy" while using "Bridesmaids" thesp as an starring vehicle from her spec script. The Warner Bros. subsidiary confirmed Monday it's at predicts acquire McCarthy's script of a lady who handles to get rid of her job at Hardee's, uncover that her husband is cheating on her behalf account and continues a trip along with her foul-mouthed grandmother. McCarthy may even professional produce "Tammy." McCarthy won an Emmy lately for CBS's "Mike & Molly" and may appear Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up spin-off for Universal. She's also installed on Uni's comedy "I.D. Robbery" opposite Jason Bateman of a guy which has identity stolen having a lady. McCarthy is represented by CAA. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Shame Trailer: Michael Fassbender Battles Sex Addiction For an Oscar

For the past few weeks, Movieline’s own S.T. VanAirsdale has been listing Michael Fassbender as one of the top five front runners for next year’s Best Actor Oscar for his work in Steve McQueen’s* upcoming erotic drama Shame. Finally, a trailer for the acclaimed film has surfaced, giving evidence again for why Fassbender — who played X-Men: First Class’s Magneto — is so worthy of your crushes, why he ran away with the Best Actor Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival and why all of those early rave reviews for Shame were warranted. *Not the Steve McQueen you’re thinking of. This Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker responsible for the 2008 film Hunger. Stephanie Zacharek, who saw the film in Venice this September, set up Shame’s premise elegantly for Movieline: Fassbender plays Brandon, a successful NY professional who suffers from sexual compulsive behavior. You might call him a sex addict if that term didn’t conjure visions of David Duchovny and Charlie Sheen acting out like spoiled schoolyard kids, and what Brandon suffers is more peculiar and more painful. He has assignations with hookers; he initiates potential encounters with luscious strangers he sees on the subway; at work, he leaves his desk for the men’s room, where he relieves his urges with joyless efficiency. His boss, David (James Badge Dale), is also something of a buddy — the two troll city bars together, looking to pick up women, though the prattling David strikes out more often than he scores, while Brandon barely needs to arch an eyebrow. Even as David tries to glom onto Brandon’s subterranean attractiveness, he also seems to be finding subtle ways to register his disgust with Brandon’s beyond-healthy sex drive: Early in the movie, Brandon finds that his computer has been whisked away temporarily by the company’s tech department. He knows — and we know — why. Brandon’s world is further shaken when his jazz singer sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) shows up, requesting a place to crash for a week or two. Her reappearance in Brandon’s life forces him to deal with his own pain and self-hatred and to wage war on his own body. The drama also stars James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie and was filmed last spring in NY City. Fassbender last worked with McQueen on Hunger, the BAFTA-winning feature about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Shame, which was acquired by Fox Searchlight for approximately $400,000, will work its way into U.S. theaters December 2. Read Zacharek’s full write-up here. [Guardian via CinemaBlend]

HBOs Enlightened On A Soft Start

Opening a brand new evening of original programming is difficult, so anticipation for Cinemax’s new Monday 9 PM comedy block — which faces CBS’ comedies, ABC’s Dwts, Fox’s House and ESPN’s Monday Evening Football — were modest. Even with that standard, the well-received new Mike Whitened/Laura Dern comedy Enlightened opened up low with 210,000 audiences at 9:30 PM. It ended up just a little from the lead-in, the 3rd season premiere of Bored To Dying, which came 240,000 audiences. Cool noir comedy Bored To Dead was lower significantly from the season premiere last fall, which averaged 1.05 million audiences, but in those days, the show broadcast every sunday following Boardwalk Empire, which came 3.33 million audiences around the evening from the Bored debut. This time around around, it's dark comedy Hung that follows Boardwalk Empire and, like Bored to Dying this past year, it opened up with 1.a million audiences earlier this year. (Boardwalk Empire drenched 2.six million that evening) Sophomore comedy Steps To Make It To America dropped further to 467,000 audiences at 10:30 PM. While soft, the amounts for Bored and Enlightened were only slightly lower in the average for an additional half-hour series that broadcast outdoors Cinemax’s signature Sunday evening, drama In Treatment.

Kelsey Grammer's Daughter Spencer Gives Birth to some Choosing

Spencer Grammer Greek alum Spencer Grammer delivered an infant boy on Monday, People reviews. The 28-year-old daughter of Kelsey Grammer has become a parent to Emmett Emmanual, who considered in at 7 pounds, 7 oz .. "Mother and boy do wonderfully," a repetition for that actress told playboy. Spencer Grammer marries This is actually the first child for Grammer and husband James Hesketh, who married in Feb only one next day of her father and stepmother Camille Grammer completed their divorce. Spencer may be the Frasier's star only daughter together with his first wife, dance instructor Doreen Alderman.

Busan: Fest maps new future

'Always'It's been a difficult year for that folks running the Busan Intl. Film Festival. Because the retirement of former director Kim Dong-ho, they have needed to fight experts from both domestic film industry and also the worldwide community the fest might seriously decline without Kim's leadership. However the 16th edition of Asia's biggest film festival is able to step forward right into a new trend, with a brand new title and new headquarters.Festival director Lee Yong-kwan, overtaking from Mr. Kim, because he is passionately known, reaches participate in the completed Busan Cinema Center -- planned since 2004, finally breaking ground in 2008. Despite worries within the $137 million construction, the conclusion was spurred through the city government this season. The festival re-top quality itself using the city's British title Busan (from Pusan) as well as re-named its project market, the Pusan Promotion Plan, the Asian Project Market.The festival geography has moved from Haeundae and Nampodong to Centum City, that is situated three subway stops from Haeundae. "You will find there's total five new screens within the center. The theaters in Nampodong are a little backward for screening venues," states Lee.The Centum City continues to be developed being an infrastructure for film industry. Shops, hotels and production clothes pepper the middle together with the Busan Cinema Center and Bexco, the city's convention center. Asian Film Market, Bifcom and Asian Film Policy will even occupy Bexco, because of the little space within the rooms in hotels in Haeundae, where these were locked in previous years.Opening with Korean helmer Song Il-gon's "Always," 307 films from 70 nations happen to be asked including 71 features making world premieres. When it comes to Asian films, the festival offers a mixture of veteran helmers and new talents."In a Window on Asian Cinema section, you'll be able to see many new names transfusing fresh bloodstream in to the world cinema, for example Philippines' Adolfo Alix Junior. and Japan's Ishii Yuya," states the executive programmer Kim Ji-seok."For Brand New Power, the Asian film competition section, we attempted to broaden our selection scope toward various areas in West Asia and South Asia, with a feeling of balance" Kim adds. However, experts observe that the choice shows the festival's preference for Japanese films over other nations, and does not include enough Chinese films, thinking about the output and economic might of this country.Nonetheless, the festival has extended itself by starting occasions and increasing the size of support programs. You will find festival honours, a cash prize for that non-Asian film competition section Expensive Forward, and also the Asian Cinema Fund. Also new may be the Busan Cinema Forum, an academic conference, and World Documentary Exchange (WDE), a documentary network between Europe, America and Asia to spread out in the options of multinational co-production.The alterations goal to construct Busan right into a heavyweight cinema center. Awaiting the moving from the Korean Film Council to Busan in 2013, the festival has began to bolster collaborations with Kofic. Their goal would be to continue the status because the representative Asian film festival on the planet, in addition to to become gateway for Korean films toward worldwide market.HIGHLIGHTSSHIFT IN FOCUSThe Busan Cinema Center will host most tests and occasions, shifting the fest's center from Haeundae and Nampodong towards the just-finished $137 million headquarters.REGIONAL SPOTLIGHTKorean film "Always" opens the fest while Japanese pic "Chronicle of My Mother," from Harada Masato, shuts the big event.Around The Red-colored CARPETLee Jeong-hyang's "Grounds to reside,Inch Luc Besson's "The Woman,Inch Peter Chan's "Wu xia," Amir Naderi's "Cut" and Johnnie To's "Existence Without Principle" are probably the gala tests.EXTRA DIMENSIONBong Joon-ho's monster classic "The Host" will get a three dimensional conversion along with a gala screening slot.TEACHABLE MOMENTSMaster classes scheduled include Isabelle Huppert, who's also the topic of a photograph exhibition, Yonfan, Luc Besson and Hirokazu Kore-eda. Huppert, Besson, Yonfan and Kim Ki-duk will even take part in the fest's hands-printing ceremony, restricted to special honorees.SCHOOL'S IN SESSIONThe BIFF Academy will host various workshops varying from piracy to three dimensional to extreme Portuguese cinema.ASIA FOCUSAs always, BIFF's programs A Window on Asian Cinema, Korean Cinema Today and New Power highlight the very best of the region's film fare.FEST TRAVELER: BUSAN INTL. FILM FESTIVAL Fest maps new future Regional leader Hark made Hong Kong a worldwide pressure Q&A: Lee Yong-kwan Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Somewhere

A Vintage Globe presentation from the play by 50 percent operates by Matthew Lopez. Directed by Giovanna Sardelli. Choreography, Greg Graham. Sets, Campbell Baird costumes, Charlotte now now Devaux lighting, Lap Chi Chu appear, Jeremy J. Lee. Opened up up Sept. 29, 2011. Examined March. 1. Runs through March. 30. Running time: 2 Several hours, 35 MIN.Inez Candelaria - Priscilla Lopez Alejandro Candelaria - Jon Rua Francisco Candelaria - Juan Javier Cardenas Rebecca Candelaria - Benita Robledo Jamie MacRae - Leo Ash EvensThere's an excellent play somewhere within "Somewhere," though not. A Puerto Rican family's embrace of Broadway tuners becoming an avoid harsh reality circa 1959 is a good premise, although one according to harsh reality's really being described. This doesn't happen much in Giovanna Sardelli's world premiere Old Globe production. Obviously, the devil's inside the particulars, and too often scribe Matthew Lopez's choices are baffling, lame or perverse inside the extreme. In outline, Lopez seems intentionally being aping "The Glass Menagerie." Like the Wingfields of St. Louis, the Candelarias of West 66th St., Manhattan are actually abandoned by father, departing overpossessive, delusional mother a too-sensitive daughter together with a inflammed boy hooked in difficult physical work. You will discover a "gentleman caller," a childhood friend now which causes it to be large inside the The The Big Apple, together with an additional sister whose dream would be the following Brando. The playing in the cast albums cheers everyone simply because they watch out for Pop to redeem their perennial shortness of cash. (He's allegedly experienced California trying to find use couple of years now, though from the way they mourn his absence you'd think he'd been sent up in Sputnik.) Yet unaccountably, Lopez has run out of his approach to imbue these figures avoid hopelessness though energy and promise. Consequently, each of their problems ring spectacularly false. Showbiz is not any mirage in this household. Mama Inez (Priscilla Lopez) can certainly sing and dance, while Rebecca (Benita Robledo) has Broadway-ready stems. Grocery clerk Alejandro (Jon Rua) will be a kid actor with Yul Brynner in "The King which i,Inch and could still go tap-for-tap with old friend Jamie (Leo Ash Evens), now being Jerome Robbins' assistant. It's not apparent whether Francisco (Juan Javier Cardenas) has any genuine gift when he re-produces "Round the Waterfront," but no less than he's attractive and spirited stars have built careers on less. The bottom line is, this is often a family full of talent and fire, whom Lopez demands on representing as calcified sufferers. Our eagerness becomes almost incalculable because they self-pitying wheezers won't begin existence. Figures say "Nothing ever changes around here" on no less than three separate occasions, however when it doesn't, whose fault is always that? No real peril ever expects the Candelarias. Even their imminent eviction to produce way of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center can be a non-problem, because they are being resettled in the better flat in Brooklyn. Yet Lopez gets the nerve to keep pushing the buttons for poignancy, feebly playing the race card in order to boost the stakes. The supreme buzz-killer is Alejandro, every word from whose mouth is "no" but whose hereditary negativity is not adequately established. "Maybe we just can't afford to dream any more,Inch he muses in the typical burst of corny bringdown. All you want to do is shake the mind at Lopez's handling from the monumental killjoy, who concocts instructions-writing plan tailor-made to ruin his mother's existence but is not referred to as about it. Getting composed a script we're introduced to consider has real possible ways to save your family, the lad tosses it of the question in the phony literary gesture much like a college freshman's first short story. Lap Chi Chu is relevant his lighting wizardry to periodic pink-well toned fantasy sequences, in which the figures dance out their secret desires. Greg Graham's choreography is top quality, and Charlotte now now Devaux's costumes show keen knowledge of the period's materials and silhouettes. However, these interludes would play much more effective once they offered really a contrast while using overdone, overacted "book moments" surrounding them, so when the dreams described weren't so clearly within the dreamers' real-existence grasp. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'Moneyball' can't catch 'Lion King'

'Moneyball' and 'Dolphin Tale' turn to have legs in the B.O. 'Dolphin Tale'While "Moneyball" starts Sony's fall control of adult-skewing photos, a set of family photos, Disney's "The Lion King" and WB's "Dolphin Tale," demonstrated to become heavy players too. The Kaira Pitt starrer first showed Stateside within the Sept. 23-25 weekend with $19.5 million, sufficient to conquer Warner Bros.' decently allocated "Dolphin Tale" (costing within the mid-$$ 30 million range), which arrived in third place with $19.two million.Nor new entry gained enough to top Disney's steady three dimensional reissue "The Lion King," which made $21.9 million, for any minimal soph-sesh drop of 27%. For "Moneyball," The new sony used exactly the same plan it had for "The Social Networking" last fall, when that film opened up to $22 million and continued to cume $97 million locally. The studio states "Moneyball" may also gross around four occasions its opening the pic's greatest problem will arise with worldwide auds, the majority of whom (except in Japan and Columbia) aren't baseball fans.So that they can lower the pic's overseas hurdle, The new sony used a worldwide online marketing strategy that centered on Pitt, and fewer on baseball. The pic's early one-sheet, for example, portrayed a virtually unrecognizable Pitt sitting on a baseball area, that was later transformed to have a close-from the actor."Moneyball" will face tough competish around the adult front, including Sony's own George Clooney-helmed "The Ides of March" bowing March. 7. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Melissa McCarthy Working on Comedy with 'The Help' Director; How 'SNL' Made Her Cry

For Melissa McCarthy, the leapfrog over better-known nominees to win an Emmy for her role in CBS' Mike & Molly marked the official Hollywood coronation of an actress so outside the realm of convention that it gave the awards broadcast one of its few genuine surprises. Indeed, it would seem McCarthy has plenty working against her -- she's a plus-size fortysomething (41 to be exact) in an industry that traditionally favors sample-size females two decades younger. But what she lacks in dewy ingenue sex appeal, she makes up for with depth, comedic timing and sheer likability. "It's truly her moment," CBS Entertainment chief Nina Tassler tells The Hollywood Reporter.our editor recommendsEmmy Nominations: Melissa McCarthy Surprised on Stage (Video) Emmys 2011: Melissa McCarthy Pulls Off Best Comedy Actress Win (Video)Melissa McCarthy Is Having Her MomentMelissa McCarthy: From Best Friend to BreakoutThe Hollywood Reporter Cover Stories VIDEO: Behind the Scenes of THR's Melissa McCarthy Cover Shoot So what's it like to suddenly be in the white-hot center of Hollywood desire, especially after nearly two decades of trying? THR senior writer Lacey Rose caught up with the star just days after her major Emmy win. Included in the news from this week's THR cover story: SHE'S WORKING ON A DARK COMEDY WITH 'THE HELP'S' TATE TAYLOR, AND A ROADTRIP COMEDY McCarthy and The Help writer-director are halfway finished with their dark comedy script. McCarthy knows Taylor from when both were in the the L.A. comedy troupe The Groundlings. But it's a project called Tammy that she says has her heart. "It's so funny, and it also kind of breaks my heart," she says of a film script of hers centering on a woman who is leading an exceptionally unfulfilled life. The character wakes up one morning as things are crumbling around her and decides she has to get out of town -- and the only way to do so is in her grandmother's car. When her heavy-drinking grandmother insists on going along, they end up on a wild road trip to Mount Rushmore. "It's these two women who are not where they thought they'd be, and they kind of band together," she says, her excitement on display. MCCARTHY HAS A SLEW OF OTHER PROJECTS ON FILM AND TV She and her actor husband Ben Falcone recently sold a multicamera TV comedy project to CBS about a woman having a midlife crisis, and she's co-writing a movie with Bridesmaids writer Annie Mumolo for Paramount, which will star McCarthy as the mastermind of a plan to hijack the Stanley Cup in order to cheer up her sick husband. She's also in negotiations to star opposite Jason Bateman in the movie Identity Thief, while Bridesmaids producer Judd Apatow cast her in his untitled Knocked Up spinoff and Bridesmaids director Paul Feig has set up his movie Dumb Jock to feature her as the star. "She's really one of my new heroes," Feig says of McCarthy. "I'll do anything to keep working with her. When you find someone like her, you don't let them go." SHE AND HER ACTOR-HUSBAND ARE LAUNCHING THEIR OWN PRODUCTION COMPANY Now, McCarthy and Falcone, a Goundlings Alum who played Air Marshal Jon in Bridesmaids, are setting up a production company. The pair is leaning toward naming it On the Day, a phrase McCarthy utters often. "Whenever someone wants to really rehearse a part, I always say, 'Oh, on the day, on the day it will be fine," says McCarthy, referencing her distaste for over-rehearsing. It's a fitting next step given how many projects McCarthy has in the works, a byproduct of her recent success. "To have the opportunity to start developing and being on the creating side of stuff, for me, is one of the most amazing and exciting things that's happened," she says. "I've been writing for 15 years, and now, suddenly, people are like, 'Oh, what's in that drawer?' It's like, 'Well, I'll show what's in the drawer.' " PHOTOS: The Hollywood Reporter Cover Story Gallery AFTER MAKING HER OWN EMMYS DRESS, SHE IS BECOMING A FASHION DESIGNER McCarthy is using her raised profile to launch a line for other plus-size women. "Trying to find stuff that's still fashion-forward in my size is damn near impossible. It's either for like a 98-year-old woman or a 14-year-old hooker, and there is nothing in the middle," she laughs, recalling her recent struggles to find a dress for the Emmys. After combing through "9 million dresses with taffeta or shiny bows," she opted to channel her teenage passion to become a fashion designer and design her own Emmy gown (with couture dressmaker Daniella Pearl.) MCCARTHY HATED HER 'BRIDESMAIDS' AUDITION McCarthy went into her audition for Bridesmaids wearing Dockers and no makeup. The character of Megan, which was initially conceived as a nervous oddball, McCarthy reimagined as an uber-confident misfit. In her mind, she was channeling past Groundlings characters with the physical appearance of the Food Network's Guy Fieri, from one of her favorite shows Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. She remembers leaving the audition horrified by her performance: "The whole ride home, I was like, 'God, you get one shot, and you go in and you act weird,'" she says. "I was like, 'You idiot, you idiot.'" Fortunately, Judd Apatow and Paul Feig, along with writers and former Groundlings members Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, appreciated her take on weird. "My jaw hit the ground," recalls Feig of McCarthy's audition. "I remember watching the first time, and we almost couldn't laugh because we were like: 'Oh my God. What is she doing? This is amazing.'" That her improv skills were similarly top-notch - Feig is fond of telling the story of a scene that didn't make the cut where McCarthy's Megan starts ad-libbing about a squirrel infestation in her house, revealing there's "a squirrel burrowing its way into her vagina and living inside her" - made her casting a no-brainer. PHOTOS: Emmys 2011: Best and Worst Moments SHE CRIED AFTER 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' ASKED HER TO HOST Earlier this summer, McCarthy was out rug shopping with Bridesmaids' Annie Mumolo when McCarthy's "team" called to see if she was up to do episode two of SNL's 37th season this Saturday. "I went into such an embarrassing, weird, inappropriately loud cry," says McCarthy of her response, laughing about a story she shares often. "Annie was running in circles. She thinks something horrible is happening because I'm bent over, literally, in the rug section of Living Spaces wailing." Mumolo cracks up at the story's retelling, adding, "I thought someone had died." She claims she'll fly to Manhattan with a trunk filled with sketches and characters from her decade-plus tenure with L.A. improv group the Groundlings. Among them: Marbles, a cross-eyed, eccentric genius she'd love to work into a skit on SNL. "If I get Marbles on SNL, you can hit me with a bus right after that and I'll be OK," jokes McCarthy. BECOMING A MOTHER MADE HER LESS INSECURE ABOUT HER LOOKS She has been less bothered by criticism of her physical appearance since becoming a mother to daughters Vivian, 4 -- who has been parading around for days with her mother's Emmy tiara -- and Georgette, 1 1/2. "The stupid stuff like what I wear or how I look I can't control, so I just try not to give too much energy to it," she continues, noting later that after having her second child, her body is a work in progress. "At 20, I would have been like: 'Don't they like me? Was it my hair?' At 41, I think the things that define me, I hope, are a lot more than those kinds of petty things." Read the full THR cover story here. Related Topics Melissa McCarthy Mike and Molly Bridesmaids

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New Melancholia Character Banners

A sneak peek at Von Trier's latestUsually, when we get our sticky hands on some interesting character banners, they're for a big franchise picture featuring wizards or mutants. Well, not this time (unless we've seriously misread the film), because this lot are for Lars VonTrier's Melancholia, which may or may not be about depression, broken families struggling to connect, and/or the end of the world.It's all held together by a brilliant performance byKirstenDunst as Justine, a woman who may (or may not) be depressed (or she may be entirely rational). Also featured here are: her flighty father (John Hurt), faithful fiance(Alexander Skarsgard), hot-tempered (but not so bad) brother-in-law John (Keifer Sutherland) and sister Claire (Charlotte Rampling), who's sort of second-lead in the film. Director vonTrier also gets a tribute, which makes an odd sort of sense since he's also almost a character in the film.{Melancholia Character Banners}Melancholia is out thisFriday, so get a front-row seat for the end of the world in your local multiplex very soon.

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Starz renews 'Boss' before bow

Starz has given another season renewal to its Kelsey Grammer starrer "Boss," per month before its first season bows around the pay cabler. Series stars Kelsey Grammer like a effective Chicago mayor who's hiding a going down hill mental condition. Drama originates from Grammer's Grammnet Prods. and Lionsgate TV. Farhad Safinia ("Apocalypto") is creator and professional producer Gus Van Sant helmed the pilot episode, marking his TV directorial debut, as well as professional produces with Grammer, Lyn Greene, Richard Levine, John Sher and Stella Bulochnikov. "Boss" is placed to bow March. 21 to have an eight episode run. The 2nd season order is 10 segs, with production specific to begin early the coming year. Series marks probably the most high-profile original scripted series in the future from Starz since Chris Albrecht required within the pay cabler in The month of january 2010. The first renewal is unusual though not unparalleled specifically for pay cable. Grammer continues to be producing strong early buzz for his perf within the series, which likely urged Starz to create a statement using the early pickup. "The very first time we read Farhad's script, we understood we needed to make 'Boss,' " stated Albrecht. "With each episode, the storyline increased more potent, and also the cast ongoing to show in breakthrough performances. Brought by Kelsey and Farhad, this creative team is giving us dramatic storytelling at its best. For the audiences, we felt it vital that you start focusing on the following season as quickly as possible." Lionsgate TV topper Kevin Beggs stated it had been "satisfying" to obtain this kind of "early election of confidence" from Starz. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

Blasts from past power int'l kids sales

'The Looney Tunes Show''ThunderCats''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'What century is it again?"Power Rangers," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "ThunderCats," "Looney Tunes" and "Beavis and Butthead" are among the big youth-oriented brands that program distributors are bringing to this year's Mipcom in Cannes.Yes, this year's Mipcom, even though all of the above brands are more readily identified with decades past."There's a buzz factor with classic brands," says Turner animation, young adults and kids media prexy/COO Stuart Snyder. "Once that gets going among the core fans, kids pick up on it and become very curious about it. And classic brands have the opportunity to attract multigenerational audiences."With a show like 'Looney Tunes,' people who were fans of these characters (and) are now parents can share these brands with their kids. 'Star Wars: Clone Wars' is a great example of this. So many kids tell us they were fans of the movies, and that comes from their parents.Still, it's a tricky thing," Snyder adds. "It's not a slam-dunk that it's going to work."Because of that, Cartoon Network took an aggressive marketing approach when it premiered "The Looney Tunes Show" in March. "The Looney Tunes Show" takes the classic characters -- Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner -- and spruces them up with modern animation.We needed to make sure that the audience knew that this was new," says Snyder. "I believe you still have to go ahead and market the brand to this new audience to make sure they get what they expect, especially when the new version is not a copycat of what the original was."Cartoon Network has several other big brands on its Mipcom slate, including an updated version of "ThunderCats," which premiered Stateside on July 29, a new take on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" coming next year and a TV version of "Green Lantern," which will air in Cartoon's new DC Nation block.In 2012, Cartoon Network also is rolling out an animated TV series based on DreamWorks' "How to Train Your Dragon," which is not a classic brand but a very well-known one."These are brands that are tried and true and tested," says Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation, which focuses its efforts on keeping its vast library of brands in the marketplace. "At Warner Bros., we are very careful about preserving what was successful for a brand the first time around."Reinvigorating classic brands -- or just expanding already well-known brands, such as "How to Train Your Dragon" or Nickelodeon's "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness" or "Penguins of Madagascar" -- also offers an economic advantage: If a company has already developed a brand, a set of characters and storylines, it can exploit the continual licensing of that intellectual property and generate a consistent stream of revenue."In the current economic climate, risktaking has been so reduced that any money you place behind a brand has to be very well-justified," says Maria Doolan, managing director of brand and business development at Spain's Zinkia Entertainment, which has created a global entertainment brand with its international kids' hit, "Pocoyo." "One of the largest barriers to creating a brand is creating awareness for it and getting into the public psyche with it. I think in the current economic climate, it's extremely difficult to start a brand from scratch."Hasbro has based its entire business model on resurrecting brands, from the worldwide success of its "Transformers" movies, which now air as TV series "Transformers Prime" on recently launched kids' channel the Hub, to new TV shows centered on "My Little Pony," "Pound Puppies" and "The Game of Life." Since the October 2010 launch of the Hub, a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery, Hasbro Studios has produced 335 original half-hours of kids' programming, much of which are based on brands that Hasbro made famous years ago.Bringing back brands is even happening in the adult space, with this fall's return of MTV's "Beavis and Butthead." The show's original creator, Mike Judge, has produced 12 episodes to add to the series' original 100."It's the same format, but today it's not just a question of commenting on musicvideos, but on everything out there. There's a lot of comedy to be mined by everything that we get on TV today," says Steve Greider, exec veep of Nickelodeon and program sales at Viacom Intl. Media Networks. "We obviously have built up quite a large library by working very closely and in a liberated fashion with a lot of creators. As I understand it, there's a lot more for 'Beavis and Butthead' to say."VARIETY JUNIOR Blasts from past power int'l kids sales | Books and toys aren't fail-safe TV fodder | Kids animation making bigger international play | Toons in transition | Pop go the platforms | Disney Junior acing frosh year | DQE seizes opportunity in Indian animation biz | Shingle dabbles in 'Baby' babble | Argentina teen fare evolves in post-Cris Morena era Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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UPDATE: Michael Imperioli & Adrian Pasdar To Star In Doug Ellins Cinemax Pilot 40

EXCLUSIVE Up-to-date: The Sopranos alum Michael Imperioli and former Heroes star Adrian Pasdar complete charge cast of Doug Ellins Cinemax pilot 40. The Two join formerly cast Erection dysfunction Burns and Michael Rapaport inside the single-camera ensemble comedy, that involves four long-term pals who help each other navigate existence at 40, which isn't all they expected it to be. Burns plays a married guy together with a parent who familiar with work at Bear Stearns producing than $2 million yearly but continues to be out of use almost yearly. Rapaport plays another friend, also married, who's known to just like a neurotic everyman. Imperioli plays only one guy, a hustler who's shameless if the involves self-promotion. Pasdar plays the fourth in the pals, a Wall Street uniform. Also cast inside the pilot is Susan Misner, who guest stars inside the premiere of CBS’ Person of curiosity tonight. She'll play Burns’ character’s wife. This marks the return to Cinemax of UTA-repped Imperioli, who won an Emmy for his turn on The Sopranos. He most recently starred inside the ABC drama Detroit 1-8-7. Although known mostly for his dramatic roles, Pasdar remains dabbling in comedy. Last season, he starred in NBC’s untitled Kari Lizer half-hour pilot. The actor, repped by ICM and manager Will Flaherty, remains recurring round the ABC Family drama The Lounging Game.

Wedding Crashers Copycat Crime Lands University of Wisconsin Student in Jail

Let this be a lesson to all Wedding Crashers fans: Just because Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn pull some hilarious pranks without legal consequence in their 2005 comedy does not mean that said hilarious pranks can be pulled without consequence in real life. Just ask 22-year-old University of Wisconsin student Luciana Reichel who has been jailed for 90 days and put on 30 months probation after playing a copycat Wedding Crashers practical joke on her roommate. Reichel was charged with a felony count of placing foreign objects in edibles after squirting Visine into the water bottle used by her 20-year-old roommate Briannia Charapata “on numerous occasions.” Consequently, according to the Daily Mail, Charapata started feeling “nauseated, suffered from diarrhoea, loss of appetite and was tired for no reason.” After two weeks of feeling unwell in October, Charapata visited a doctor who was unable to diagnose her. It wasn’t until November, when Charapata overheard another student telling people about Reichel’s eye drop stunt, that she realized what had happened and went to the police. Upon her arrest, Reichel confessed to the crime and explained that she was inspired by the Wedding Crashers scene in which Owen Wilson adds Visine to Bradley Cooper’s drink so that he can spend more alone time with Cooper’s onscreen love interest, Rachel McAdams. To determine Reichel’s sentence, Winnebago County Judge Barbara Key also took into consideration the student’s “lengthy history of lying and manipulation, in addition to her alcohol issues.” Police have stated that it is unlikely that Reichel, who was hoping to pursue a career in nursing, would be hired in the health care field. (Rule #98: Don’t intentionally cause bodily harm to your roommate when pursuing a nursing career.) David Dobkin’s Wedding Crashers, which was written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, has not inspired any other college crimes. · Student jailed for 90 days for putting eyedrops into her room-mate’s water after seeing stunt on Wedding Crashers [Daily Mail]

Tareq Salahi States Wife Kidnapped

FRONT ROYAL, Virtual assistant. -- The husband of Real Regular folks of D.C. cast member Michaele Salahi reported to police he thought his wife happen to be kidnapped, but scientists mentioned Wednesday she assured them she was getting a buddy and where she seriously considered. Warren County Sheriff Daniel T. McEathron mentioned his office was coping with the FBI to get hold of Michaele Salahi to ensure her well-being. Were alert to the issue and would make use of the Warren County Sheriffs Office, mentioned Dee Rybiski, a speaker for your agency in Richmond. The sheriffs office in Virginias equine country mentioned Tareq Salahi referred to as Tuesday mid-day to report his wife missing. Gossip website TMZ reported that Tareq mentioned he felt the sheriffs office wasnt taking his concerns seriously. This is not a publicity stunt " Tareq Salahi told WRC-TV in Washington. In my opinion shes needing to say Im OK. In my opinion shes missing. An Connected Press call with a number for Tareq motivated a recording machine the road could not accept additional calls. In the statement, McEathron mentioned Tareq Salahi was concerned because his wife was revisit northern Virginia on Wednesday and he or she had referred to as previous day in the phone by getting an Or area code. Deputy Mike Glavis spoke with Michaele Salahi and he or she made an appearance calm, was involved with conversation, and assured the deputy that they left the residence with an above average friend and was where she seriously considered, the sheriff mentioned inside the statement. Mrs. Salahi advised they did not want Mr. Salahi to comprehend where she was. The Salahis burst towards the scene this past year after they crashed a White-colored House condition dinner. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Mini Plays Dealing With Gay Marriage Head to NYC

NEW YORK (AP) A collection of nine short plays by playwrights including Neil LaBute, Doug Wright, Paul Rudnick and Moises Kaufman that all deal with gay marriage will be making its off-Broadway debut next month.Producers said Sunday that "Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" will be brought from Los Angeles and staged at the Minetta Lane Theatre starting Oct. 18. Opening night is set for Oct. 24The plays were created to raise money and awareness in support of marriage equality and a portion of each ticket will be donated to pro-gay marriage organizations.A rotating cast of actors will be announced later.In addition to LaBute, Wright, Rudnick and Kaufman, the other playwrights are Jordan Harrison, Wendy McLeod, Jeffrey Hatcher, Joe Keenan, and Jose Rivera.Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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'Don't Request Don't Tell' sets release

Coinciding while using Sept. 20 repeal in the U.S. military's "don't request, don't tell" policy, SnagFilms has acquired a film of the title which is delivering the initial of the 11 sections online today. "Don't Request Don't Tell" changes Marc Wolf's Obie-winning one-guy Off Broadway show "Another American: Asking and Telling." Inside the film, Wolf reenacts, in first-person perspective, interviews and anecdotes from 18 people on sides in the problem. Tales from soldiers, veterans, military family people and Charles Moskos, creator in the policy, are incorporated. SnagFilms expects to distribute "Don't Request Don't Tell" through several platforms. The initial of 11 sections remains released on Snagfilms.com, while using others leaving within the SnagFilms network. The film can also be released on Hulu and Hulu Plusand online through Rogers Media in Canada. The feature-length version will probably be available at that time in the repeal, Sept. 20, through Comcast Xfinity If Needed and FIOS TV If Needed. Immediately after that, "Don't Request Don't Tell" will probably be available through electronic sell-through partners. The film, directed by John C. Walsh, was produced by Vuguru and Daryl Roth. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

No, Megan Fox Has Not Seen Transformers 3

If you’ve been wondering whether Megan Fox, the Transformers bombshell who dared to compare director Michael Bay to Hitler, has seen Dark of the Moon after being replaced by pouty pin-up Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, the answer is no. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I will see it,” Fox told Moviefone. “I mean, if they hadn’t been hitting me so hard on the press tour, I would have gone to the theater. […] I love Shia to death; I love him unconditionally. And I love that crew. […] I want to see it for them. I know it looked amazing in the trailer.” [Moviefone]

388 Arletta Avenue

A Copperheart Entertainment presentation. (Worldwide sales: TF1 Intl., Boulogne-Billancourt, France.) Produced by Steve Hoban, Mark Cruz. Executive producer, Vincenzo Natali. Directed, put together by Randall Cole.With Nick Stahl, Mia Kirshner, Devon Sawa, Krista Bridges.Giving the venerable "Gaslight" concept a greater-tech spin, Randall Cole's "388 Arletta Avenue" can be a taut, frequently ingenious thriller that fails to get results only when it may be false to itself which is central conceit: the 24-7 surveillance from the not-quite-happily couple having a virtual thief, whose manipulations and mischief drive the husband for the edge. Thesps Nick Stahl, Devon Sawa and Mia Kirshner bring authenticity with a fairly audacious plotline, and helmer Cole adds a specific flair to what's as being a familiar device. Play will probably be limited, but genre fans will most likely lap up. James and Amy (Stahl, Kirshner) live easily in trendy Toronto she's a Ph.D. candidate, he's an up-and-comer within an advertising firm. That which you first see could well be through the lens from the camera, trained about the house, which watches simply because they go out, hide a kind inside a planter and drive away. The cameraman sees everything, too, and uses the key factor to plant no less than six cameras in your house. The film-within-the-movie is next seen chiefly about the bank of monitors within an mysterious location, the visible action shifting from place to place, and screen to screen, with the unseen hands in the puppet master/fiend. What begins in confusion -- by getting a mystery Compact disk established to see their vehicle stereo system system -- leads to frazzled nerves between James and Amy, neither knowing where it came from from nor, clearly, jumping for the conclusion that someone's trying to create them crazy. But matters escalate, to the level that whenever James finds a goodbye note concerning the bed mattress, and Amy gone, it's entirely plausible that she's simply hightail it. James, ultimately, remains cheating on her behalf account: Inside the film's subtler moments, a girl at work gives him a begrudging smile his sister-in law Katherine (Krista Bridges) greets his mobile call with venom -- her violent dislike of James eventually leading her to leap for the conclusion he's destroyed Amy. Meanwhile, James attempts to determine who be kidnapping his wife, killing his cat and otherwise monkeying along with his existence. A movie getting useless almost dares the viewer to find defects on the way, there appear to become handful of in "388 Arletta Avenue," even if nearly all that which you see remains faithful for the initial setup: When James seeks out a vintage classmate, Bill (Sawa), whom he suspects to become his tormentor, all the action happens before a camera the viewer knows remains grown inside the vehicle. When the police showed up at call, your home cams obtain the conversation. How you see James at his workplace isn't as apparent, unless of course obviously the devilish mastermind has treated his office computer (quite possible, given anything else that happens). However, if James chases an authentic, physical thief from his house one evening and takes for the streets within the vehicle, it is a little harder to reconcile the way you are seeing everything, unless of course obviously Mr. Evil has set up cameras like Christmas fires up minimizing Arletta Avenue. It's a curious mental game "388 Arletta" plays: Despite the fact that POV might be the criminal's, you ought to be sympathizing with James, yet we don't really he's a not particularly charming philanderer. In addition, when he seeks out Bill, it's about the face to apologize -- he while others cajolled Bill in class, as well as the shattered-searching guy seems to own experienced extended-term effects. Whilst he asks Bill's forgiveness, he suspects him to become behind his wife's abduction. It is therefore with mixed feelings that particular watches James burglary the seams, and many more as well as him. The film-through-viewfinder, probably done finest in the The the spanish language language horror film "Rec" (also to headache-inducing effect elsewhere, like "Cloverfield") can be a novelty that seems both a distraction together with a decoy from what could be just moderately interesting horror structures, "388 Arletta Avenue" incorporated. Production values are wonderful, taking into consideration the overall esthetic is positively raggedy.Camera, Gavin Cruz editor, Kathy Weinkauf production designer, Peter Cosco art director, Ian Hall set decorator, David Edgar costume designer, Patrick Antosh appear, Zenon Waschuk supervisory appear editor, David McCallum visual effects supervisor, Ryan V. Hays assistant director, Bruce Speyer line producer, Derek Rappaport casting, John Buchan, Jason Dark evening. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) Sept. 10, 2011. Running time: 86 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Millenium Media Services Bringing PBS Fare to Target Shoppers (Exclusive)

Are Target shoppers ready for proper British TV series like the upstairs/downstairs drama Downton Abbey?our editor recommendsBurns exclusive to PBS until '22Justin Bieber's 'Never Say Never Director's Cut' To Be Sold at Target Convinced there is an eager market for PBS programming at the big-box retailer, Millennium Media Services, a new content aggregation and distribution venture, is partnering with PBS to distribute some of the network's signatures series at Target. MMS has put together a slate that includes both Downton Abbey and Northanger Abbey from PBS' Masterpiece Collection, the Arthur children's series, NOVA, Frontline and American Experience. Led by CEO Bill Lee, MMS was created to streamline the physical and digital distribution of independent content to major retailers such as Target and Best Buy. Its clients includeGaiam, A&E Home Entertainment, WE TV, MPI, Bandai, Acorn Media, Carsey-Werner and NBC/ Universal, among others. Related Topics PBS

DIGGING FOR TREASURE: Third Treasure Search Project Offered In The Nets This Year

EXCLUSIVE: Using the systems’ purchasing season half-way done, trends are beginning to emerge. Together with the strong showing through the comedy genre to date and also the ongoing strength of book adaptations, taking pleasure in recognition are shows about treasure tracks. The most recent entry is definitely an untitled adventure drama from Bald eagle Eye author John Glenn, that has been bought by NBC. Referred to as “Da Vinci Code meets National Treasure,” it focuses on a youthful NYPD beat cop who, along together with his family and buddies, embarks upon the finest treasure search in history. Glenn is executive creating with Maria Grasso and Deborah Spera for The new sony Pictures TV in which the two lately inked a pod deal. NBC is also developing an up-to-date version from the 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film Romancing the Stone, whose plot began having a romance author performed by Kathleen Turner getting a treasure map. Mark Friedman is writing the variation. As well as in another book adaptation, ABC lately bought The Seven Miracles, a treasure search show within the spirit of Raiders from the Lost Arc and National Treasure in line with the Jack West Junior. number of adventure books by Australian author Matthew Reilly. Michael Seitzman is writing and Mark Gordon creating.