Asian TV forum tunes in China

Companies only at that year's Asian Television Forum in Singapore were searching for new formats, peering at technology and advocating closer cooperation across edges inside the Asian market.And, out of the box frequently the situation in areas outdoors the television biz, the topic of China centered many discussions.China's sheer size makes that inevitable. For instance, the earth's most viewed annual tv program remains the Chinese Spring Festival Gala on condition broadcaster Closed-circuit television, that is proven at Lunar Year and viewed by 700 million people. Also, Internet transmission in China is high, and 100s of countless Chinese watch content on their own cell phones.Simultaneously, Chinese media are heavily controlled and censored. This season alone the federal government features stringent limits on reality TV skeins along with other light entertainment shows. And people from other countries have always found Chinese TV a difficult nut to hack (Rupert Murdoch attempted for a long time with Star TV before switching his focus to India).Some U.S. orgs have been successful to get into China, however. L.A.-based Metan Development Group has signed various deals to create content to China, together with a pact with Fusion TV to supply action sports and adventure travel content, along with a cope with the Connected Press to furnish fashion TV coverage in Mandarin on China's digital and broadcast marketplaces.Zhu Danhong, project manager at Shanghai Wings Media, one of Shanghai Media Group, stated Chinese companies want to purchase foreign product but should also sell Chinese content to neighboring nations in Asia, for example Korea and Japan, along with other nations with strong Chinese cultural links, including most nations in Southeast Asia."We are attempting to encourage more companies to consider Chinese films, animation and television shows to Asia, Europe and Africa," Zhu stated in the company's ATF stand, that was heavily attended by reps from a lot of China's condition-possessed TV companies."Our interests are three dimensional (and) formats," stated Zhu, adding that Shanghai Media Group comprises 13 local channels one satellite funnel, Dragon TV, that shows "China's Got Talent" as well as an Internet TV service. The satellite funnel alone reaches between 700 million and something billion people. Zhu stated she needs more cooperation along with other Asian nations, especially Singapore. That sentiment was echoed by Mohd Naguib Razak, director general of Malaysia's National Film Development Corp., by Myleeta Aga, GM and inventive mind of content and production at BBC Worldwide in Mumbai,.Aga, who had been an professional producer on "Anthony Bourdain: No Bookings," stated that what she loved about ATF is the actual way it is all about Asians speaking to Asians. Like many Indians in the show, she was looking for brand new formats."There is no one large format that everybody is buzzing about," she stated. "Everybody is wanting to see what's next." Discussions centered how certain formats works in places for example Thailand, Vietnam or Singapore. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Young Adult': Diablo Cody and Patton Oswalt Talk Bullying, Beauty and Charlize Theron (VIDEO)

Expanding to almost 1000 screens this weekend is one of the year's best films: 'Young Adult,' a caustic black comedy from screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman ('Juno') about a former high school queen bee (Charlize Theron) who returns to her hometown to win back the married former boyfriend she used to date. Awkward! Also, a great opportunity for Cody and Reitman to comment on beauty, high-school bullying and how nostalgia sometimes isn't the best thing for people to use as a crutch. Last month, Cody and co-star Patton Oswalt joined Huffington Post founding editor Roy Sekoff for a conversation at the Los Angeles home of Arianna Huffington. The lively chat touched on Cody's inspiration for writing the script, Patton's preparation for the role, the film's provocative structure and themes, and the harsh truth that people like Mavis, both male and female, do indeed "walk among us." Check out the video below. [via Huffington Post] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Cablevision COO Tom Rutledge Resigns

CBSJohnny Galecki in "The Big Bang Theory" Johnny Galecki was up early catching up on correspondence on his second day off from production on CBS hit comedy The Big Bang Theory when he started getting text messages with news of his first Golden Globe nomination from the publicity folks at the show's studio, Warner Bros. Television.our editor recommends'The Artist' Tops Golden Globe Nominations Golden Globe Awards Nominations: The Complete ListGolden Globe Awards Nominations: The Nominees' ReactionsGolden Globe Awards Nominations: Key Stats, Inclusions and Snubs (Analysis)'Homeland' EPs Lowered Expections After SAG Shutout, Rewarded With 3 Golden Globe Noms "They started texting me at 5:20 in the morning and I accused them of being misinformed and drunk," Galecki said with a laugh. "I replied with, 'You're misfiring texts to [The Mentalist star] Simon Baker or someone else, this can not be true." PHOTOS: Golden Globe Awards Nominees In true form to his on-screen alter ego, lovable nerd Leonard Hofstadter, Galecki needed further convincing of the accolade. "They told me, 'No, it's you, go to HollywoodReporter.com and they sent me the link because I couldn't believe it," he said of his nom for actor in a comedy series. With The Big Bang Theory shut out of the comedy series category after having picked up nominations in the field last year, Galecki said he considers his individual recognition representative for the show as a whole -- and for co-star Jim Parsons, who took home the trophy in the category last January. COMPLETE LIST: 2012 Golden Globe Awards Nominees "It's like a drum and bass circle -- my character doesn't work without his character and vice versa," he said. "I wish the show had been nominated, certainly. I don't feel the nomination singles me out by any means; so much goes into this character that happens without my being aware. I think all of these accolades will shift between all of us. Sometimes they'll be funneled through Jim, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar and Kaley Cuoco. I'm touched, proud and stunned to be chosen as that representative." Noting that he has leaned on two-time Emmy winner Parsons for tips on how to navigate awards season after picking up his first Emmy nom last year, Galecki said his co-star was one of the first to congratulate him on the kudos, suggesting he get back on the treadmill in a nod to how he handled his nervous energy on Emmy day. "I've been in the biz quite a bit longer than Jim but the last few years as these accolades have been spread out, I find myself going to him for days like today," he noted. The former Roseanne star already had plans to attend The Big Bang Theory's 100th episode party Thursday night and joked he'd celebrate the nomination there. "Maybe now I'll throw on a tie," he laughed. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Golden Globe Awards: The Nominees Golden Globes Johnny Galecki The Big Bang Theory Golden Globes 2012

Weekend Receipts: New Years Eve Rings In a Light Box Office

Nationwide audiences had New Years Eve and The Sitter to choose from this weekend, and so, they didn’t. This weekend’s box office tally is weak, and Breaking Dawn, Part I is still lingering in the top 3 like an undead slime. Time for some Dragon Tattoo upheaval, STAT. Bring on Christmas! Let’s discuss the breakdown after the jump. 1. New Year’s Eve Gross: $13,705,000 Screens: 3,505 (PSA $3,910) Weeks: 1 Apparently if you throw enough A-listers together for a holiday-themed cash grab, at least 29 people will be mesmerized into purchasing tickets. I wonder if the same works for C-listers. Let’s try it: “ERIK VON DETTEN. SYLVIA MILES. TAMERA MOWRY. COLLEEN CAMP. BUNSEN HONEYDEW. JIM J. BULLOCK. ME’SHELL NDEGEOCELLO. THE RUGRATS.” OK, I accidentally bought 30 tickets just now. Also: Me’Shell NdegeOcello rocks, so don’t let this gag dissuade you. 2. The Sitter Gross: $10,000,000 Screens: 2,750 Weeks: 1 Sort of sounds like The Sitter doesn’t need to exist, and for an 81-minute foray into the throes of babysitting, it performed just as you expected: meekly. Though the film may win back its $25 million budget, The Sitter’s poor reviews and cliched premise seem to spell out its destiny. Maybe your 7-year-old will watch it on DVD while his babysitter smokes out back. 3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Gross: $7,900,000 ($259,500,000) Screens: 3,505 (PSA $2,192) Weeks: 4 (Change: -52.2%) Every generation deserves an odious blockbuster romance, and the jarringly amateurish Breaking Dawn, Part I is pretty much the Gen Y remake of Love Story. Unlike Love Story, I don’t see Best Picture or Best Actress nods in its future (WTF), but I do see a sequel called Renesmee’s Story hitting in 2018. In fact, let’s sheohorn Ryan O’Neal in here somewhere. 4. The Muppets Gross: $7,073,000 ($65,837,000) Screens: 3,328 (PSA $2,125) Weeks: 4 (Change: -36.2%) So much for the extreme PR blitz of The Muppets: Though the film has generally garnered fine reviews, it just hasn’t stuck at the box office. I can only imagine that Frank Oz is cackling to himself in glee using a hundred different character voices. 5. Arthur Christmas Gross: $6,600,000 ($33,490,000) Screens: 3,272 (PSA $2,017) Weeks: 3 (Change: -10.8%) I’m going to suggest that Arthur Christmas still has a chance at a holiday miracle: Its percentage drop from last week is pretty low, and the movie itself has garnered great reviews. If parents and kids are looking for yuletide cheer and think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close looks, uh, cloying as hell, they may turn to Arthur. Here’s hoping. 6. Hugo Gross: $6,125,000 ($33,489,000) Screens: 2,608 (PSA $2,349) Weeks: 3 (Change: -19.0%) I’m sure we can agree that Hugo is one of the choicest offerings of the past couple months — particularly in wide release. I just wish it earned that extra box office push to secure it Oscar nods. Oh well. Onward! To the Dragon Tattoo lair, moviegoers! Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Sherlock Holmes Premieres In London

Join A Game Of ShadowsThe weather wasn't what you'd call clement last night for the London premiere of Sherlock Holmes:AGame Of Shadows in Leicester Square. But despite the cold and the wind and rain that felt like snow, the stars of the film were on fine form to talk about a film they're clearly very proud of.{Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Premiere}The sequel sees Robert Downey Jr once again stepping into the rather rumpled clothing of super-detective Sherlock Holmes, with Jude Law as his faithful sidekick Doctor Watson. Kelly Reilly returns as Watson's fiancee Mary, and Noomi Rapace joins the cast this time as gypsy Sim. Jared Harris was there, and despite playing Professor Moriarty he didn't throw Downey over a single waterfall, and StephenFry took a break from twitter to talk about his role as Mycroft Holmes, the detective's possibly-brighter-but-definitely-lazier brother. Sherlock Holmes:A Game Of Shadows is out onFriday December 16.You can check out Empire's review here.

The 9 Most Scathing Critical Responses to New Year's Eve

We may consider this since the week David Fincher and Scott Rudin visited combat movie experts, but consider it using this method: If experts couldn’t come with an early have a look at Garry Marshall’s Year’s Eve, then wouldso would anybody ever know very well what a soul-rending atrocity it's? I'm speaking about, even Pete Hammond hated this movie! He's at some fine company, too: 9. · “Lately Garry Marshall has proven a specific genius for turning miserable holidays into terrible movies. With Valentine’s Day he shown how that celebration of masochism might be a vehicle for smarmy sentiments, moldy jokes, and rickety contrivances. Here the eponymous feast of forced fun takes a beating, in addition to some Oscar individuals who win who might add firing their agents for his or her report on resolutions.” — Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix 8. · “Put together [with Valentine’s Day], these movies represent most likely probably the most pricey and possibly worst-written Love Boat sweeps month ever created.” — Alonso Duralde, The Wrap 7. · “Other filmmakers might have a lot of respect for Michelle Pfeiffer […] to request her use a line like ‘I’m pathetic, dude’ to rocking teen heartthrob Zac Efron. Not Marshall. It’s pretty sure that not a clue was nixed round the number of Year’s Eve to become too cheesy or sentimental contrary, ideas were nixed due to not sentimental or cheesy enough.” — Nathan Rabin, Audio-video Club 6. · “These figures are very nominal that whenever, say, Jum Michele will find yourself in trouble inside an elevator with Ashton Kutcher, that’s precisely how you consider the set-up, then when the entrance doors finally open you half expect those to scurry away and off to the groups of Glee and two and a half Males, where they could be contractually punished for tardiness.” — Alison Willmore, Movieline 5. · “If I believe that I don’t much take proper care of Year’s Eve, I risk sounding as being a curmudgeon. However have zero reservations about recommending simply how much I loathed Year’s Eve, a soul-drawing monument to Hollywood avarice and saccharine holiday culture.” — Sara Stewart, NY Publish 4. · “I’m not stretching its like to begin to summarize the paltry quantity of subplots the all-star cast is locked in. I really like additionally you much.” — Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com 3. · “Like the stroke of evening time, Year’s Eve vanishes very rapidly, departing little behind but limp streamers as well as the sense that, surely, there's a far greater party happening elsewhere.” — Moira Macdonald, Dallas Occasions 2. · “Offering around twelve barely there, strongly agreeable small-tales spliced together and complements lawnmower-style eloquence, the film is pressed to punishing measures with the engorged cast list, which prevents anybody plot from deepening beyond single-sentence character explanations and problems. The overall effect is similar to being crushed under an avalanche of throw pillows.” — Andrew Barker, Variety 1. · “It is battling when Chechnya Leader Ramzan Kadyrov ever sees it, he'll produce a statement that begins ‘Had I known relevant for this film in those days…’” — Peter Sobczynski, eFilmCritic [Reviews via Rotten Tomato vegetables]

Casting candidates for reality TV close-up

CainTrumpCredit Republican strategist Steve Schmidt with the idea. Discussing Herman Cain's faltering candidacy on MSNBC -- before the "Cain train" officially screeched to a halt -- he suggested the presidential hopeful's next logical destination was "Dancing With the Stars."Only one current GOP contender can ultimately land the party's nomination, and many will no doubt retreat to the customary holding pen for conservative politicians, segueing directly into paid talking-head gigs on Fox News Channel.But why aim so low? As two disgraced former pols, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, demonstrated with their respective stints on "Dancing" and "Celebrity Apprentice," and Sarah Palin proved with her TLC show, unscripted TV's appetite for the famous and notorious has become nearly inexhaustible.Given that, it's just a matter of hooking up "talent" with the series or network that suits them.However unseemly this might appear -- especially to political veterans -- most of these candidates aren't really campaigning to lead the free world. They're auditioning for a range of media options that have exploded since Bill Clinton played the saxophone on Arsenio Hall's show.Plus, the spectacle of Donald Trump flirting with a presidential run before choosing to continue with his NBC show, "The Apprentice" -- but only after insisting he could win the nomination had he sought it -- has further blurred the lines. Throw in plans for Trump to moderate an upcoming debate, and the GOP primaries have officially moved into "The Onion must be writing this" phase. (To their credit, candidates Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman said enough's enough -- and now Mitt Romney has announced he also won't attend -- but those deriding the Trump publicity stunt sound shocked, shocked to discover entertainment has permeated the race.)Based on Newt Gingrich's recent criticism of child-labor laws, CBS (or if not them, Cartoon Network) ought to bring back the controversial series "Kid Nation" with Gingrich as host, trying to teach children the value of doing jobs normally associated with adults.As for the rest of the field, Huntsman and Rick Santorum -- who have barely registered in the polls -- seem perfect for a revival of "What's My Line?" or CBS' celebrity look-alike specials "I Get That A Lot."Finally, oddsmakers still think Romney remains most likely to secure the nomination, but if for some reason he doesn't, here's a guy who's by now well-known, with solid business credentials and a frequently-referenced head of hair.So watch your back, Donald. Because if you persist in mouthing off about NBC, the network just might have an alternative candidate to host "The Apprentice" -- one accustomed to being cast as the second choice.In terms of political-TV matchmaking, programs like "Dancing With the Stars" and "Celebrity Apprentice" -- which their strong preference for attention-getting casting -- are almost too easy. The real creativity comes in placing the GOP hopefuls in appropriate venues beyond reality TV's usual suspects. (Mike Huckabee and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn't run, for example, but given their struggles with weight, would be naturals for "The Biggest Loser.")Texas Gov. Rick Perry, with his poor debate performances, would certainly turn heads as a contestant on "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?," playing for the charity -- or wealthy political donors -- of his choice.Cain has no shortage of options, and his reputed business acumen would lead him toward Trump's showcase. Still, based on his recent travails and questions about his truthfulness, an encore version of Fox's lie-detector show "The Moment of Truth" sounds even more promising.Ron Paul, meanwhile, could be the latest cranky old guy to enliven "Survivor," where his faith in libertarian values and rugged individualism could readily be put to the test.Although she'll remain in Congress even after a failed presidential bid, Michele Bachmann and husband Marcus would be ideal candidates for "Celebrity Wife Swap" -- pair them up with a liberal couple, or a gay one -- as well as their own series. Having raised 23 foster children in addition to five of their own, one can see TLC bringing everyone together for "Michele & Marcus Plus 28" -- an everyone-under-one-roof exercise, or even a fun-loving elimination game. Contact Brian Lowry at brian.lowry@variety.com

Glee Would go to Sectionals: Ranking the Tales and Tunes of "Hold onto 16"

Glee Credit where credit arrives: For any competition episode, it was quite a darn good hour of Glee, almost obliterating last year's NY Excellent from your minds. Some tips about what went lower in Tuesday's large Sectionals showdown, "Hold onto 16": Mike came back to McKinley to assist New Directions beat the Troubletones and obtain Mercedes back (together with his stripper-honed body comes). Tina made the decision the time had come to obtain Mike's father aboard together with his son's future within the arts. Sebastian told Kurt to ready while he wants themself some Blaine. Finn confessed he was jealous of Blaine and apologized for tossing a lot 'tude his way. Mike, Shelby and Rachel forced Quinn from her funk. The Brand New Directions triumphed at Sectionals, and also the Troubletones decided to re-join the audience. So, let us rate the tales and tunes: Sam's ab-tastic comeback. Departing the washboard out, it had been nice to determine him back, nice to determine him possess a grown-up conversation together with his parents about being hit by hard occasions, and never so nice to listen to him sing "Red-colored Solo Cup" (see below). Fortunately, because we did not view it last season, there also seems to become some real chemistry between Mike and Mercedes. By our estimate, he's already drenched the equivalent screentime together with her as Shane. (Where was super encouraging boyfriend Shane throughout Sectionals anyway? Did he have a game title?) The only real factor that will have capped them back would be a Sean Connery impression. Grade: B "Red-colored Solo Cup" A novelty song about consuming beer which makes even Toby Keith pause. Really, Glee? It isn't a good performance! It's especially disappointing this is Sam's large comeback song after he shown his excellent aptitude for R&B and pop tunes like "Billionaire" and "Baby" all last season. (Does nobody else miss the Attacking Young Boys Experience?) When Mike later quotes John Mellancamp's "Jack and Diane" to Quinn, we must question why that wasn't his large solo. Grade: F- Sebastian is... still here. Shut up, Sebastian! Sorry, knee-jerk reaction. Why not-sexy Warbler guy still around? Must he talk in forced, gross come-ons? Can't Kurt and Blaine drink coffee elsewhere? Can't Kurt tell Blaine: "This person is really annoying, are we able to 't be buddies with him? All he is doing is flirt very poorly! Kthxbai!" Grade: ) Finn and Blaine call a truce. It requires a large guy to forgive Blaine to be so darn peppy it's cloying. Nobody could blame Finn to be annoyed. He's juggling an uncertain publish-grad future and perhaps-most likely losing Rachel, who can't go one episode without having to say NYADA. The show could give Blaine an issue or two, but we love to seeing Finn rally. It's what he is doing best. (A minimum of we've got to determine Blaine have a punch from someone. Thanks, Mike!) Grade: B Mike's father gives Tina a real possibility check (that they does not take). The good thing of Tina's visit with Mike's father? His attempting to offer her a real possibility check: Work within the arts is difficult. Failure is routine. Ultimately, Glee is all about several kids in Ohio going after their dreams, however when they get individuals awaken calls, it's heartbreaking stuff. No hard feelings that Tina and Mike are likely to go for this anyway - and ultimately with support from Mr. Chang. Because sometimes, you have to go for this. Grade: A- "Buenos Aires" Will it strike other people as odd this entire glee club is alright with letting only one artist hog the spotlight a lot? This performance is virtually a solo by having an extra-large number of very well-choreographed back-up ballroom dancers, but it is kind of logical if you have someone like Harmony (also known as Rachel and Kurt's NYADA rival and real-existence Glee Project finalist Lindsay Pearce), make use of her for those she's worth - especially on the large Broadway number. Grade: B "I'll Survive/ Survivor" This needs to be among the best mash-ups of year (and - dare I only say - Glee history) when it comes to both song match-up and other alike styles. Santana's and Mercedes kill it again. The only real factor that throws? The arm-flying choreography. A minimum of there is a too-sweet shot of Santana and Brittany tangoing. Grade: B+ "ABC" Tina, among the only remaining women in New Directions, will get her due here, and it is welcome because we remember her undertake "Dog Days Are Gone,Inch also it was awesome but wasted in last season's overcrowded Sectionals (which used "I have Had time of My Existence," "Valerie" and also the Warbler's "Hey Soul Sister" competing rather.) "ABC" is upbeat enough, and also, since Mike has become our favorite performers, we are happy about this. However it all felt a wee bit safe and sound, despite the boys busting out individuals body comes Mike introduced with him from Kentucky. (Kurt originates to date from his awkward dancing throughout "Animal" last season.) Grade: B "Control" OK, frightening, sadistic Quinn, let us calm it lower using the crazy eyes. Are you currently attempting to intimidate the idol judges into voting for brand new Directions? Because that isn't how it operates. Though Artie finally will get his time for you to shine, the song is simply Suitable for the audience. The power is strange also it does not seem like "Control" is especially well-suited to anyone's voice or dance moves. Surely they might have thought about Jesse Jackson's other tunes? Grade: C "Guy within the Mirror" Dear Glee bosses, please be aware of methods carefully Puck's voice and dance moves resemble Michael Jackson's for that tribute episode later this year. Ditto Artie, who we understood would kill it. Beyond Pucky Puck's (we now have good "Good Oscillations" reminiscences) capability to moonwalk like its 1988, this song is certainly the most powerful from the three for brand new Directions. Undeniably effective, wonderful harmonies, and great showcase for that boys. Grade: A- New Directions wins Sectionals. They deserved it for "Guy within the Mirror" alone. Our only want spring semester? To determine the job that adopts Regionals. This way Mr. Schuester might have something to complete (and never plan set-lists for major competitions in the last second. Or volunteer to operate city council campaigns. Or let somebody that is not him direct the college musicals. It already appears like he may not really be teaching The spanish language the coming year.) Grade: A Quinn's psychotic break finishes. The moment the switch was turned, and Quinn came back to as being a normal individual, we recognized just how much we really love Diana Agron. And Quinn. All of the authors required to do was treat her just like a teen and never a psycho. Quinn had hopes for escaping . of Ohio, too. She'd self-esteem issues. There have been different ways on her to feel below par about herself, to overlook her daughter, to become lost... but we digress. All is pardoned for the time being. Grade: B+ Shelby, out? Hope not, due to there being still more related to her and Rachel when the show wanted. But we are unsure how she will continue at McKinley (despite the fact that sleeping with Puck, we maintain, wasn't as ridiculous as Terri's fake pregnancy or Quinn's intend to steal her daughter back). Still, the Troubletones have re-became a member of New Directions, so this can be her curtain call. Grade: C "We're Youthful." Does Rachel sing a great deal about this show? Yes, but her pipes remained as greatly skipped throughout Sectionals. Fortunately, she was to lead this episode-ending tune, that was pretty perfect, had something for everybody and, frankly, reminded us of Season 1 group amounts that will provide us with tingles, like "Somebody to likeInch and "Keep Waiting On Hold.Inch Grade: A What were your preferred amounts? Is crazy Quinn really gone? Would you like Shelby to return? Can they ever find something for Mr. Schuester to complete? Inform us understand what you thought within the comments below.

Keck's Exclusives: Glee to Celebrate Tunes of Michael Jackson in Tribute Episode

Glee Michael Jackson's scores of fans have major induce to celebrate today.Much like Season 1's Madonna tribute, the The month of january 24 episode of Fox's Glee will feature 10-12 tunes from Jackson's library. The episode has been fast-monitored within the writers' room now and it is likely to begin shooting this Friday. 1 / 2 of the episode will shoot prior to the cast breaks for that holidays, using the remaining amounts to become carried out The month of january.While creator Ryan Murphy continues to be tease because the summer time that the special spring tribute episode is at the offing, it required some convincing to make sure the Jackson family their late boy/brother/father could be honored properly. Now, they've given their passionate support.You can aquire a taste of what's in the future in tonight's "Sectionals" episode, featuring several classic Jackson family amounts. Finn, Puck, Blaine and Mike sing "Guy within the Mirror" Tina, Kurt and Mike move forward around the Jackson 5's "ABC" and Artie, Blaine and Mike do their rendition of Jesse Jackson's "Control." Based on Ryan, the "kids" had this type of fun time carrying out these MJ amounts, in addition to "Thriller" in last year's Super Bowl episode, he made an additional effort to seal the Jackson tribute deal prior to the finish of 2011. Now he states the cast is flooding him with demands to sing their fave Jackson amounts.Glee has intentionally prevented such splashy episodes this year included in a restored commitment to pay attention to story over spectacle. But when there is ever grounds to interrupt that moratorium, the songbook of Michael Jackson is most likely the finest.For more particulars about this special tribute, make sure to keep reading through TV Guide Magazine.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

The Cabin In The Woods Trailer Stalks In

Discover the secret behind the cabin...Last week brought the first look at the new teaser poster for Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's horror pic The Cabin In The Woods, but now they are truly offering up the goods, shoving the trailer online for all to see. Take a look below.A brief caution here, which given how the movie's creators plan to tweak horror conventions, should probably be delivered in the style of a redneck gas station attendant: "If y'all are wantin' to see this he-ah trailah, be warned! Fur it'll like as not contain some stuff you don't wanna be seein' before you clamp those pretty, pretty eyes on tha movie itself. You wanna go in fresh, and virginal like, right?" (Filthy leer) Yes, there are spoilers in the footage.And we'll do our best not to give away too much beyond the basic plot synopsis: a group of friends, including Chris Hemsworth's Curt, Jesse Williams' Holden, Fran Kranz' Marty, Kristen Connolly's Dana and Anna Hutchinson's Jules, head out to a remote cabin to enjoy some sexy party times. And, of course, discover something horrific. But not necessarily what they might expect...From the looks of this, Whedon and Goddard are having fun taking on the audience's expectations just as much as the characters.' We'll keep our fingers crossed it works.The Cabin In The Woods will be out on April 13.

E! Ink Talent Deal With David Burtka

Stage and tv actor David Burtka has signed a talent deal with E! Entertainment that will start to see the stage and tv actor (and Neil Patrick Harris’ longtime companion) join E! News just like a correspondent additionally to sign up round the network’s Live At A Negative Balance-colored Carpet and E! special deals. He begins his new role within the month of the month of january. Burtka made his Broadway debut in Edward Albee’s The Goat, and carried out Tulsa opposite Bernadette Peters in Mike Mendes’ Gypsy. More youthful crowd has TV credits including CSI: NY, The Way In Which I Met Your Mother, Steven Spielberg’s Round The Lot and Crossing Jordan.

Cahiers du Cinema Top 10 List Honors Terrence Malick, Lars Von Trier and... J.J. Abrams?

The annual Cahiers du Cinema Top 10 of 2011 list has been revealed, naming works by the likes of Terrence Malick, Lars von Trier, Jerzy Skolimowsky, and Manoel de Oliveira. Also in the winners’ circle? J.J. Abrams! See the full eclectic list after the jump, not to mention the crazy ties in votes that make this early Top 10 a doozy to wrap your mind around… The good folks at Mubi got a look at the December issue of Cahiers du Cinema, which lists the Top 10 selections in a swirling vortex design on its cover. A copy-holding reader wrote in to share the actual rankings listed inside. Are you ready for three two-way ties and a fourth split between three films? 1. We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti) 2. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Olveira) & Tree of Life (Terrence Malick) 4. Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont) & Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski) 6. Melancholia (Lars von Trier) & A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel) 8. Super 8 (J.J. Abrams) & House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello) & Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt) Of course, the annual Cahiers list has a reputation for wide-ranging, sometimes random seeming eclecticism mixing foreign festival faves with surprise mainstream picks. Why not Super 8? Fun facts: Last year’s Top 10 placed Toy Story 3 over The Social Network, with both eclipsed by number one pick Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. 2009’s list honored Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and Kathryn Bigelow’s Hurt Locker (both Oscar pics, admittedly). And back in 2008, Matt Reeves beat mentor Abrams to the punch when Cloverfield hit the Top 10 (at the number 3 spot) alongside the likes of the Coen brothers and Steve McQueen. The number one pick that year? Brian de Palma’s Redacted. Speaking of McQueen… where’s Shame on your list, Cahiers? Sigh. No love for the Fassboner? Daily Briefing. Cahiers du Cinma’s Top Ten of 2011 [Mubi]

Emily Browning on Sleeping Beauty, Surviving Sucker Punch and the Pleasures of Torching Money

Emily Browning, the Australian actress best known for Hollywood efforts Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and this year’s Sucker Punch, hits the art house this week for something completely different: Sleeping Beauty, writer-director Julia Leigh’s disturbing dive into the realm of somnambulistic sex work. Browning stars as Lucy, a disaffected college student scraping by on odd jobs before happening upon a madam (Rachael Blake) who supplies young women for a group of high-class patrons. In the most extreme of their scenarios, Lucy is essentially anesthetized and placed nude in bed, resulting in a succession of outre encounters that have left viewers shocked, appalled, enthralled, breathless, fleeing the theater and/or any number of combinations of each. I sat down with Browning at the recent Hamptons International Film Festival for a freewheeling chat about about the film, her role, her routine, her festival experiences, and the odd conceptual link between Sleeping Beauty and the much less admirably received Sucker Punch. [Advisory: Spoilers follow] This is a polarizing film, to say the least. What kinds of conversations have you encountered or personally had with people about this since Cannes? I think in terms of people speaking to me personally about it, their reactions have been positive. A guy who was just interviewing me said a reaction that I’ve gotten a lot, which I quite like, which is, “When I first saw it, I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know how I felt about it; it made me uncomfortable. But then it stuck with me, and now I really like it.” And I love that reaction. I think that’s great, and that’s what we want. It’s so weird when I do a Q&A, and somebody asks a question and they begin it with, “I loved the film!” I’m like, “You loved it?” That’s kind of a weird response. I know. “Already?” Yeah! I mean , when I first saw it, I was proud of it, and it worked exactly as I wanted it to. But the automatic response “I love it”? I kind of like that people have to think about it. And apparently it’s stuck with people, which is great. It’s all I could ask for. What was your own reaction the first time you saw the film? Well, I was meant to see it for the first time at Cannes. I said to my publicist and others, “I can’t do it. I need to see it before them, because I might pass out.” It was the most nerve-wracking experience. So they gave me a copy, and I watched it in bed with a bottle of vodka by myself because I was so nervous. But I was really happy with it, and it’s so rare for me to feel that about a film. I think so often the things that I’ve done have been muddled with, and I was just really happy — so happy that I watched again the next day, sober. Which was good. But yeah. It made me feel the way I think it’s meant to make people feel, which is uncomfortable and a bit squeamish. It was what I wanted it to be. Then watching it at Cannes was a different experience — with the huge screen, thinking, “Wow, I’m this giant naked person, and there are thousands of people looking at me.” It changes it a bit. So at Cannes I was sweating profusely and gripping onto Julia’s hand and kind of shaking a little bit. I picture Julia propositioning you much the way Clara propositions Lucy: “This will be challenge, but it will be lucrative. Be smart with your reward.” How did you two come to terms on this role and where it would go? I read the script, and it’s one of m favorite scripts that I’ve ever read. Julia is an unbelievable writer. It also made me feel really uncomfortable, but that was sort of the draw for me. I like the idea of doing something challenging. I was in Canada at the time filming something else, and I put myself on tape. I mean, as soon as I read it, I was like, “I have to do it.” A few people warned me off, saying, “Are you sure? It’s really intense. Are you sure?” But I knew that I wanted to be a part of it, so I put a really long audition on tape and sent it in. And I was actually offered the part before I met Julia, and I took. I just felt that it was going to be something right for me. But then when I met her, she said, “If there’s anything you’re uncomfortable with, we can change it a bit. We can fix things, we can change this or we can change this…” It wasn’t so much of a “proposition.” And we had two solid weeks to rehearse, and Julia gave me films to watch. We spoke about Lucy’s physicality and her back story. We worked out every scene in depth and spoke about it a lot, so we had a lot of time to prepare and get the character together. Acting in your sleep— That’s a great way to put it, actually! “I can act in my sleep.” [Laughs] Ha! Sorry: Acting like you’re asleep is still acting. What’s the technical underpinning of those scenes? It’s interesting, particularly the Man 2 scene, where I’m being messed around with. It’s tough to not wince and pull away and that kind of thing. Early on, Julia suggested that I learn to meditate. So that’s what I did — just kind of focusing on my breathing, and I had words I was saying in my head. It was just about being as still as possible. And I think in a way, doing those kinds of nude scenes that are really intense, it was actually kind of easier that I was asleep. I was a blank canvas in those scenes; I was able to shut everything else out and not actually be present. It was kind of nice in a way. It’s a deceptively physical role. I mean, something like Sucker Punch is physical, but this is physical — requiring a next level of control over your body’s natural instincts. Did you perceive it that way? Before I started filming, I did something called the Alexander Technique. Do you know the Alexander Technique? I’m afraid not. I think a lot of people do it at drama school — a particular way of learning how to hold your body in certain ways. Learning to walk with a good posture. It’s really hard to explain, actually — this movement-therapy kind of thing. I think that really helped; it really got me into being able to possess my body and have full control, because generally I’m pretty clumsy. So it was important for me to do that. And also, when I was rehearsing with Julia, we worked a lot on the physicality. I have a tendency to hunch and go into myself a bit because I’m nervous a lot of the time, and I had to learn to just get rid of that and move like a different person. It also had a lot to do with… See, I’m from Melbourne, and we filmed the movie in Sydney, and for the eight weeks that I was there, I was living alone right at the ocean at Bondi Beach. I would get up every morning and swim in the ocean by myself — at 5 in the morning, before the sun came up because I wasn’t able to get a tan. So I got into this weird, very quiet headspace that maybe gave me a better understanding of that character — of being very still.

Christopher p Haan ankles AFTRA

Released: Mon., November. 28, 2011, 10:42pm PTBy AFTRA's public voice Christopher p Haan is ankling within the artists union to participate PR firm 42West.P Haan remains the country's Director of Communications in the last three years within the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.He revealed his departure Monday and mentioned his last day will probably be 12 ,. 16.He indicxated that AFTRA will tap his successor soon. AFTRA remains concentrating on mergign while using Screen Stars Guild throughout his tenure getting an associate election expected next spring.P Haan grew to become part of AFTRA staff in 2001. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

George Michael Treated For Pneumonia, Cancels Tour

First Published: November 25, 2011 1:11 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LONDON, U.K. -- Caption George Michael performs in London, August 25, 2008George Michael has postponed all his remaining 2011 tour dates as he recovers from pneumonia, the singers publicist said Friday. Michael was hospitalized in Vienna, Austria earlier this week. A statement from publicist Connie Filippello said the 48-year-old former Wham! singer is responding to treatment and slowly improving. Michael is ill with pneumonia and any other speculation regarding his illness is unfounded and untrue, the statement said. Two Austrian doctors treating Michael said he had severe community acquired pneumonia, but his condition has stabilized and he is responding to treatment. They said he needed time to regain his strength. From the current point of view, the time until recovery cannot be estimated, but he will not be able to perform the rest of the tour, Dr. Christoph Zielinski and Dr. Thomas Staudinger said in a statement. Besides medical treatment, complete rest, and peace and quiet are mandatory. The singer has postponed dates in Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester and London. The statement said the concerts would be rescheduled. Michael gained mega-stardom in his early 20s as half of Wham! and went on to a successful solo career. His first solo album, 1987s Faith, sold 20 million copies. Michael had played 45 dates on his Symphonica European tour before falling ill. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Dancing With the Stars: Will Rob Win the Trophy?

Rob Kardashian Here's what happened to the Dancing With the Stars finalists on Monday night: Ricki Lake did her best not to screw up the lifts in her freestyle dance - "I was really afraid of falling down," she said. J.R. Martinez put on a good face after screwing up his cha cha when his injured ankle started to give out. "I did panic," he said, "because I rolled my ankle in my shoe and I went into a step too quickly." And Rob Kardashian somehow snuck by the two long-time frontrunners and got a perfect score on his freestyle, cruising into first place. "We've already put in all the work, so it's just about having fun," he said. "I try to look at the whole competition as having fun. I've done that since day one, and it's got me this far."Season 10's runner-up, figure skater Evan Lysacek, said for him the finale was all about Kardashian: "I've been following the show all season, but I really came tonight to see him. His improvement has been just amazing."Chaz Bono voiced similar sentiments. "I remember Rob, the first dance, and us backstage rehearsing, and showing each other our dances," said Bono. "And Rob wouldn't smile, he'd look at the floor. It's like he's a different person."Does Bono think Kardashian could take the whole thing? "Yes," he says. "He's come so far. J.R. was the first person I met, and when Lacy [Schwimmer] and I saw one of his first rehearsals, we both said, 'finals.' And then Ricki, too, you saw pretty quickly that she was really good and had a great partner in Derek [Hough]. So for a long time, we all knew it would be Ricki and J.R. But that third spot, who was going to take it? And Rob took it. It wasn't given to him."Cinderella, a.k.a. Rob Kardashian, has arrived at the ball. And the shoes fit.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Exclusive Clip from West Side Story's 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray: Remembering Natalie Wood

We’ve long admired Natalie Wood’s ability to freak the hell out in a bathtub, but she’s most known for her roles in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story — the latter of which is celebrating its golden anniversary this fall. In this exclusive clip from the new 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray, we learn that Mrs. Robert Wagner and her costar Richard Beymer did not get along. Also: Beymer is holding up very well 50 years later! Watch Movieline’s exclusive clip from the “West Side Memories” bonus feature on the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray release, in stores today: It breaks my heart a little to learn that Beymer and Wood didn’t get along. Surely he was not invited to hang out at Roddy McDowall’s pad with Judy Garland and Paul Newman.

'Harry Potter' Stars Change The Wizarding World

FROM MTV MOVIES: The books are long finished, the movies are now over, but all it takes is one step inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida, to know that "Potter" is forever. Still, despite the ever-flowing butterbeer and copious amounts of "Potter"-based roller-coaster rides, there's always room for improvement, even at the Wizarding World. After all, the "Potter" universe is just too grand to fit every single element into one theme park. With that in mind, when MTV News traveled down to Orlando to cover the red-carpet celebration of the "Deathly Hallows Part 2" DVD release, we asked the cast and crew to weigh in on which features of J.K. Rowling's imaginative world they'd like to see included in future park updates. Read the full story at MTV Movies!

JWoww Says TSA Singled Her Out

First Published: November 14, 2011 2:33 PM EST Credit: Getty Images FARGO, N.D. -- Caption Jenni JWOWW Farley arrives for an appearance at the Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas early on August 27, 2011 Reality television star JWoww says on her official Twitter account that she was treated like a criminal when airport security officers singled her out for a pat down in North Dakota. Jenni Farley of MTVs Jersey Shore says in multiple tweets that her selection while boarding seemed odd and deliberate. She says she earlier noticed a Transportation Security Administration officer pointing at her while she was getting coffee at Fargos Hector International Airport. Farley says she travels twice a week and never went through that before. A message left with a TSA spokeswoman was not immediately returned. Messages seeking comment from Farley through her publicist were not immediately returned. Farley was leaving the North Dakota city after a Saturday night appearance at The Hub, a Fargo night club. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Delois Blakely, Harlem Nun, Claims Disney Scammed 'Sister Act'

Remember 'Sister Act'? That Whoopi Goldberg comedy from 1992 that created a not-so-decent follow up together with a Broadway production? Well, a nun in Harlem certainly does, particularly because -- based on her -- Disney stole the concept for that movie from her existence. The lady under consideration is Delois Blakley, whose 1987 autobiography, 'The Harlem Street Nun,' centered on her existence like a "youthful, Black, singing nun serving the road people and youths of Harlem." She's now suing the galleries behind 'Sister Act,' with accusations of breach of contract, misappropriation of likeness and illegal enrichment. Based on the complaint (which you'll read entirely over around the Hollywood Reporter), Blakely contacted Hollywood studio professionals about possibly making the film, with TriStar Pictures indicating interest. The galleries rejected to discuss the legal matter. [via THR] 5 Movie Legal cases 'Natural Born Murders''The Hangover, Part II''Borat''Passion from the Christ''Coming to America' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

'Sitter' Exclusive Clips: Jonah Hill Smells Pretty

"Do you want to smell pretty?" No time before have such innocent words held such horrible meaning, as Jonah Hill discovered firsthand through the filming of "The Sitter." Inside an exclusive clip that first demonstrated throughout "MTV First: 'The Sitter'" earlier today, Hill's "Sitter" character Noah Jaybird finds themselves fostering from the cute little angel who's independently not. Her first strategy towards her new babysitter: spray a straight stream of perfume directly into his mouth, not once, but two occasions. Clearly, the prank does not review well. "I will enable you to in around the little secret: I'm not a real real babysitter," he notifies the little girl in hushed tone. "I'm really a sit back around the couch, have a burrito, do whatever I only say for you to accomplish or I'll kill you type of babysitter. That's my style, blood stream!" We have a firsthand have a look at exactly how little Noah understands babysitting in the second exclusive clip that unveils precisely how Hill's character can get to the child-watching business to begin with. His mother has large plans for your evening, plans that are almost derailed when she's approached to check out a friend's children. But she's plans of her own: convince Noah to babysit in their stead. "Are you currently presently crazy? No!" he declares. "I'm not a real babysitter, I'm a grownup guy! Babysitting sucks! Males don't babysit things!" He's quickly proven wrong since the next scene brings Noah for the Pedulla residencebut he's out of the blue whizzing another tune when they know that might be, ah, "perks" to babysitting for top parents. Take a look: Reveal what you consider inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Violeta Visited Paradise (Violeta se fue a los cielos)

A BF release (in Chile) of the Minera Escondida presentation of the Wood Producciones, Maiz Producciones, Bossa Nova Films production in colaboration with BG TV. (Worldwide sales: Wood Producciones, Santiago.) Executive producers, Patricio Pereira , Pablo Rovito, Fernando Sokolowicz, Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza, Billy Garlick. Directed by Andres Wood. Script, Eliseo Altunaga, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderon, Wood, in line with the book by Angel Parra.With: Francisca Gavilan, Thomas Durand, Christian Quevedo, Patricio Ossa, Luis Machin, Stephania Barbagelata, Roberto Faras, Gabriela Aguilera. (The spanish language, French dialogue)The intense, amazing existence from the Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra is investigated with sensitivity and exquisite lightness of touch in Andres Wood's "Violeta Visited Paradise." Having a searching central perf from Francisca Gavilan, this superbly lensed portrait moves stylishly backwards and forwards over time to limn the existence of the lady who constantly battled to locate her place. Chile's Oscar submission reps a formidable addition to Wood's already solid oeuvre, as well as its particularly Chilean subject is not likely to avoid it from following Wood's "Machuca" into offshore arthouses. Even though some poetic license is inevitably taken, the pic is carefully in line with the occasions of Parra's own existence, structured around a TV interview the singer gave in 1962. Elevated in poverty in southern Chile because the daughter of the alcoholic schoolteacher named Nicanor (Christian Quevedo), Parra would be a spirited child immediately. Being an adult, she was deeply romantic and deeply political, writing tunes that may be achingly lyrical or stridently defend the oppressed. Key occasions proven include Parra's travels with the Andes mountain tops giving shows like a duet together with her sister Hilda her trip to a classic guy within the countryside from whom she would like to understand tunes, but who will not sing following a dying of his grandchild her visit to the Intl. Youth Festival in Belgium, that she returns to locate her year-old daughter has died of pneumonia her amount of time in Paris, where she exhibits her work on the Louvre her tempestuous, on-off relationship with anthropologist Gilbert Favre (Thomas Durand) and her installment of the arts center inside a remote tent in the Andes. These occasions are proven significantly from sequence, though Andrea Chignoli's precision editing guarantees that moments set years apart are made lighting instead of confusing by their juxtaposition. Some welcome comic relief comes throughout the 1962 interview, by which Parra deals with patience using the snide questions of the right-wing Argentinean interviewer (Luis Machin). Gavilan provides a profoundly committed, rangy perf that handles to become intense, gutsy and nuanced all at one time, and bespeaks a comprehension of the significance of getting Parra right with regard to Chilean auds. The script enables for any hpv warts-and-all portrait that's not even close to simple hagiography. Parra's multiple contradictions are there: She's headstrong but insecure, interpersonal but lonely, adventurous but home-loving, and most importantly, never quite capable of being a great mother to her children. (Pic is dependant on the memoirs of one of these, Angel.) Typically of Wood's films, production values are topnotch. Using locations is particularly strong, and lenser Miguel Joan Littin, Wood's longtime collaborator, renders the peculiar light and textures of the Andean mountain village as capably because he does individuals from the banks from the Seine by evening. Aesthetically, the pic isn't dull and sometimes demonstrates a daring feeling of framework, just like a lovemaking scene shot with the gaps between floormats. Pic features about 20 mostly guitar-based tunes that repetition a great choice of Parra's work, although her most widely used tune, "Gracias a la vida," is missing. The highlight is really a searing, soul-baring performance of "El gavilan" (The Sparrowhawk), featuring the road which the pic may have been built: "I've nowhere to become.InchDigital camera (color/ B&W), Miguel Joan Littin editor, Andrea Chignoli music, Violeta Parra art director, Rodrigo Bazaes seem (Dolby Digital SR), Miguel Hormazabal. Examined on DVD, Madrid, March. 29, 2011. Running time: 110 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Leonardo DiCaprio Talks Packing Around The Pounds For J. Edgar

First Released: November 4, 2011 3:05 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Leonardo DiCaprio attends the AFI FEST 2011 Presented By Audi - J. Edgar Opening Evening Gala at Graumans Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on November 3, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Leonardo DiCaprio packed on some pounds to experience J. Edgar Hoover within the November 9-due J. Edgar, although not as much as he'd have loved. Around I really could, he told Access Hollywood around the red-colored carpet in the J. Edgar gala in the AFI Fest in La on Thursday evening, of his efforts to change in to the movie version from the historic figure. I truly desired to take a rest and perform the whole real physical transformation. Obviously, the film wouldnt take, Leo added of walking in to the footwear of legendary historic figure and FBI boss, J. Edgar Hoover. It had been an enormous quantity of weight to use in an exceedingly almost no time. So fortunately I'd many people around that helped me to for the reason that transformation and i believe it switched out pretty much. Leo felt playing the questionable guy would be a true recognition. It had been an recognition to have the ability to play a personality which had a wide variety of eccentricities, somebody who is at energy within our country for more than half a century, through eight different presidents, who had been within the subterranean of shaping the nation that we understand today, the actor told Access. I did not agree with many different his politics, especially afterwards in the career. And surely the planet he arrived to, he changed our country. He produced a Fbi, along with a police that weve never witnessed before, Leo ongoing. He would be a true patriot for the reason that sense. But, like I stated, I dont believe what he did later in the existence was very good. Allows place it this way. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Tech notes of note

Visual effects software developer The Foundry released Katana 1., a peek development and lighting tool designed to replace the standard CG pipeline getting an adaptable recipe-based resource workflow. Together using this release, Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Miracle purchased a website license of Katana to boost its production pipeline across its ILM and Lucasfilm companies. ILM joins other visual effects the likes of a Katana site license holder. Katana allows improving of assets once shots are actually happening the talking about of lighting set-ups, for instance edits and overrides, between shots and sequences permits using multiple renderers and allows shot-specific modification of assets to finish up area of the lighting recipe for shots."We anticipate further integrating Katana into our rigorous pipeline," mentioned ILM vfx supervisor John Knoll. "Within the this past year we now have labored with while using Foundry delivering feedback which we wish Katana being for people. They've required in therefore we hold the production-proven technology we would like without any large internal engineering effort." * * * The Meduza Titan, suggested since the first fully controlled, lightweight, 3d precision single HD camera with 1080p dual sensors, launched on March. 31. It absolutely was created by Meduza systems for stereoscopic TV production. The announcement is created by Chris Cary, Boss of 3d Visual Companies, the U.K. parent company of Meduza Systems. Featuring two 1080p CMOS sensors, Titan is able to do frame rates from 24 to 120 fps in 10 bit and boasts fully motorized inter-axial (the space involving the contacts) and convergence. It's listed at $55,000 and might be bought with either C mount or perhaps the new Meduza mount for your Meduza matched up up pair prime lens series. It opened up now within the Creatasphere exposition in La * * * Red-colored-colored Giant has placed a few its color design programs - Colorista and LUT Buddy - inside the color production pipeline of production house Stargate Art galleries, which gives film and TV production and publish services employed by such shows as ABC's "Pan Am" and "Revenge," and AMC's "The Walking Dead." "Television production in Hollywood is rapidly shifting into really a component film workflow, by which images are taken and shipped in the logarithmic color space," mentioned Stargate vfx supervisor Chris Martin. "What this implies for Stargate Art galleries is, we must have effective tools outfitted to deal with numerous color workflows. Red-colored-colored Giant fits that bill for people perfectly." * * * Toronto effects boutique Soho VFX licensed 100 seats of Southpaw Technology's resource management system Tactic to streamline production workflow, communications and task management around the current, undisclosed project. Founded in 2002, Soho has continuously grown, contributing to greater than 50 feature film and tv productions, including "The Truly Amazing Four," "X-Males Roots: Wolverine" and "Rise in the Planet in the Apes." Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com

'The Voice' Going To Blind Auditions in Premiere Episode

NBC The Voice isn't any more the completely new kid by having an progressively crowded block of talent competitions. STORY: 'The Voice' Names Christina Milian Season 2's Social Media Correspondent X Factor has title talent. Its idol idol judges become mentors -- furthermore, it attracted large guest mentors. And consists of solid ratings. So, The Voice appears like it's focusing for the show it knows nobody has: The blind auditions. Inside a press junket for Season 2 on Friday, executive producer Mark Burnett introduced the show's Feb. 5 premiere following a Super Bowl goes into the blind auditions. According to him that's really what fans taken proper care of immediately on Season 1 plus it needs to supply them really it. Instead of eight participants on all the coaches' (not "idol idol judges," Burnett stresses) teams, you will notice 12 with elevated times of blind audition models. STORY: Adam Levine Calls Out 'Evil' Fox News, Limitations Music From Funnel: What People Say A Warner Bros. representative notifies THR an exact episode order by NBC isn't completed. Also, Christina Aguilera taunted they and her fellow coaches will once again open the summer season getting a "kickass" group performance. She then declined, or was virtually asked for not to, elaborate round the performance. What else differs in regards to the second season? Host Carson Daly is becoming credited just like a producer around the program. His publicist highlights it's less than a completely new role for him. In the past, he will be a producer on MTV's TRL. Christina Aguilera The Voice Carson Daly

Stuntman Dies Through The Filming In The Expendables 2

Up-to-date: A stuntman has died round the number of The Expendables 2, that's filming in Bulgaria. The accident happened somewhat after 7 PM local time on Thursday because the movie’s second Unit Stunt Team was filming a scene on reservoir Ognyanovo 15 miles outdoors the primary city Sofia. Two stuntmen required part within the stunt, which involved an outburst. One of these simple died, because the other was hurt which is presently in the hospital in critical condition. The area police has launched an analysis into the incident which happened because the film’s primary unit, introduced by director Simon West and star/producer Sylvester Stallone was filming inside the attractive mountain resort village Bansko 2.5 several hours away. “It is to apply great regret that we confirm this unfortunate accident,” Nu Image/Millennium Films, the expansion company behind The Expendables 2, mentioned in the statement. “Our hearts visit the families and people round the production affected with this particular tragedy. The filmmakers works carefully while using government physiques in responding to and considering this accident.” In consideration in the categories of the sufferers, names together with other particulars aren't being released at this time around around, a representative for your production mentioned. The Expendables 2, the follow-up to Sylvester Stallone’s 2010 sleeper hit action-hero actioner, includes a star-studded ensemble cast including Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Liam Hemsworth, Terry Deckie's, Jet Li, Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Jackson Doctors Defense Situation Drawing With A Close

First Launched: October 27, 2011 4:40 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images Caption Dr. Conrad Murray In The Courtroom: Day 7 - The Jury Learns Really Michael Jackson At His Worst La, Calif. -- The defense in the physician charged in Michael Jacksons dying can change away Thursday from personality for the science that his lawyers hope prevents the physician from being billed. The best witnesses testifying for Dr. Conrad Murray will probably be fellow doctors, each expert in addiction as well as the other inside the effective anesthetic the Houston-based cardiologist was giving Jackson just like a sleep aid. Their testimony will make the primary difference in whether Murray is billed or found innocent of involuntary wrongful dying concerning the Jacksons June 2009 dying. Government physiques contend Murray gave Jackson a fatal dose of propofol and botched resuscitation efforts. Murrays lawyers contend Jackson gave themselves the fatal dose of propofol when his physician left the region, but have not yet proven evidence about how precisely that theory is even possible. Several prosecution experts have mentioned the self-administration defense was improbable together with a vital expert mentioned he ruled it entirely, fighting a lot more likely scenario is always that Murray gave Jackson a considerably greater dose than he's recognized. The scientific testimony of Dr. Robert Waldman and Dr. Paul White-colored comes a following day of jurors learned by five of Murrays one-time patients, who known towards the cardiologist just like a caring physician who completed techniques totally free and spent several hours coping with know them. When Ruby Mosley known to Murrays focus on a clinic he founded in the poor neighborhood in Houston in memory of his father, tears welled up inside the eyes in the normally stoic physician-switched-defendant. Waldman is certainly a dependancy expert who may make an effort to bolster the defense theory that Jackson grew to become based on propofol to relaxation and was driven to self-administer it when Murray left his bed room. It'll be around White-colored to explain whether that was possible. He relaxing in a legal court with the testimony of prosecution propofol expert Dr. Steven Shafer, sometimes shaking his mind and furiously passing notes to defense lawyers. Inside the courthouse, he's been seen conferring with Murray inside the hallway outdoors a legal court docket where the situation continues to be heard. White-colored and Waldman don't always have to convince jurors that Jackson gave themselves the fatal dose, but essentially provide them with enough doubt in regards to the prosecution situation against Murray. While prosecutors have referred to Murray, 58, just like a reckless physician who frequently broke the recommendations by supplying Jackson propofol just like a sleep aid, jurors heard another portrait in the physician on Wednesday. A few of the character witnesses referred to as known to Murray since the best physician they'd seen and layed out his capabilities at repairing their hearts with stents together with other techniques. Im alive today because of that guy, mentioned Andrew Guest of Las vegas, who looked Murray. That guy sitting there's the most effective physician Ive seen. Another former patient, Gerry Causey, stopped to shake Murrays submit a legal court docket and mentioned the physician was his nearest friend. An area attorney noted that undertake and don't were undergoing treatment for insufficient, although Causey while others mentioned they didnt believe the accusations against Murray. Defense lawyers have told Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor they expect their situation in summary on Thursday. Pastor has mentioned when happens, closing arguments would exist in a couple of days. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fox Buys 'Manny' Comedy From 'Couples Retreat' Scribe

Fox is bulking up its comedy stable with a "manny" comedy. The top rated network has ordered a script with a significant penalty for a single camera comedy from feature writer Dana Fox. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, takes a look at what happens when a single mom's aimless brother moves in to help her raise her baby. Fox (Couples Retreat, What Happens in Vegas) will write and executive the project, with Chernin Co.'s Peter Chernin andKatherine Pope attached as non-writing executive producers. The news comes as Fox Entertainment presidentKevin Reilly has been public about hisdesire toexpand the network's live-action comedies, a high priority this development season. "Since I came back to Fox, the network has kind of lost its pulse on the comedy side," he told THR last month. "It's debatable how much brand association you have with a network, but historically, there has been higher brand association with Fox: "Oh, that's a Fox unscripted show," or, "that's a Fox drama." Fox comedy had been clear at one point, from Married ... With Children to The Bernie Mac Show to Malcolm in the Middle. It really kind of lost its way, and now I finally feel like we've got the makings of getting that built again." He added, "We're going to try four comedies in March [likely to include Christian Slater's Breaking In], and it's something we want to see more of on the schedule next year." Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com; Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Topics Peter Chernin TV Development

PalmStar adds Bassick, Jahns

PalmStar Media Capital has hired Michael Bassick as Co-Boss and Serta Jahns as COO to grow its film finance business. PalmStar, which supplies fund management and film related investment activities, introduced the employs Friday. The organization stated it lately signed handles two worldwide film funds to supply project sourcing and investment recommendations and it is in talks with several others to supply similar services.Kevin Frakes, Co-Boss and founding father of PalmStar, stated ''Michael gives the firm a significant understanding of film financing and outstanding fund raising abilities and Serta provides an abundance of experience of corporate finance and purchasers having a proven capability to execute on businessstrategies.''Bassick, who became a member of the firm earlier this spring, was formerly Founder/Boss of MarkediaWorldwide and controlling partner of MJB Endeavors, a boutique film investment company. He's over fifteen years in film finance, media and marketing.Jahns was formerly COO of Fierce Entertainment, a movie development, production and finance company in West Hollywood. He's over two decades of expertise in sales and financial services with companies including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Research and Management and Reuters. PalmStar most lately worked with with K5 Worldwide to co-finance Paul Master starrer ''Vehicle 19,'' which completed production in Nigeria in September and Bille August's ''Night Train to Lisbon,'' looking Jeremy Irons and created by Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion. ''Night Train'' is placed to start production later this season. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

'Terraferma' to spread out Italo showcase in L.A.

"Terraferma"ROME -- The U.S. bow of Emanuele Crialese's "Terraferma," that is Italy's foreign-language Oscar contender, will open the eighth Cinema Italian Style showcase, that will run November. 10-15 at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater. Besides tubthumping twelve recent Italo photos, the cinema marathon, organized by Cinecitta Luce and also the American Cinematheque, will even pay tribute to late great producer Dino P Laurentiis. A four-minute clip from Mario Camerini's freshly restored 1939 "Batticuore," by which P Laurentiis were built with a cameo like a flower delivery boy, will unspool November. 10 throughout an inaugural in the P Laurentiis residence in Beverly Hillsides. The Italo showcase comprises Nanni Moretti's "Habemus Papam," Mario Martone's "We Thought" and Alice Rohrwacher's "Corpo Celeste," among other game titles. Tests is going to be attended by talent and created by La Repubblica's La-based journo Silvia Bixio. Italy's culture minister Giancarlo Galan can also be likely to result in the trek. An Italian Man , delegation, headed by Cinecitta Luce topper Roberto Cicutto, may also be marketing Italy's lately introduced tax credits for worldwide productions. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

VIDEO: Nikita's Shane West on Trouble in "Mikita" Paradise

Shane West, Helena Mattsson Cassandra is blonde, beautiful... and on Nikita fans' most-hated list. In Friday's episode, "Looking Glass" (8/7c, The CW), Michael (Shane West) looks up Cassandra (Helena Mattsson), a woman he had "romanced" as part of a mission for Division back in the day. Wait, what does he want with her now that he's with Nikita (Maggie Q)? VIDEO: Nikita's Devon Sawa: Owen won't get in the way of "Mikita" At this point, fans are aware that the Cassandra story arc will lead to an eventual rift between Michael and Nikita this season. West sat down with TVGuide.com Wednesday in Los Angeles to allay their fears... temporarily at least. "In the promos, it's hard to tell if it's a flashback or if it's not," said West. "Everything that seems like it's freaking out the fans with the Michael and Nikita stuff in this episode, it's a flashback. So people can be relaxed with that for now. They might not like it, but it's in the past." But fans will be wise to heed that sense of foreboding. Down the line there will be friction, disagreements and some form of "Mikita" separation, which is why West isn't currently needed on the Toronto-based set of Nikita and can chat about the show in sunny LA. Check out what else he has to say about Cassandra's background, how Michael couldn't disengage his feelings during the mission and what West would like to see Michael wear next now that he's rid himself of those Division suits: Nikita airs Fridays at 8/7c on The CW. Do you think Michael has residual feelings for Cassandra? Should Nikita be worried or rise above it? Can those two crazy kids work it out?

Forest Whitaker Making The Final Stand

Out of the box Johnny KnoxvilleThe cameras began turning yesterday on Western-well developed crime thriller The Final Stand, but that does not mean Arnold Schwarzenegger's large go back to films is completed delivering casting info. Rounding the ensemble? Jonny Knoxville, Forest Whitaker and Luiz Guzman.Kim Jee-Woon is busy pointing the film, which finds Schwarzenegger as Sheriff Owens, an old person in the LAPD who retreats to small-town lawman existence following a bungled operation that left his partner crippled. But though he's resigned to cleaning petty crime within the quiet Summerton, he's all of a sudden offered a brand new challenge: he and the rag-tag, unskilled team would be the only ones who are able to stop a fugitive cartel leader running to freedom from Justice in Mexico. Oh, and there is the little few the heavily armed gang searching to make certain he will get there...There is no word which roles Whitaker, Knoxville and Guzman take, but they are joining a cast that already includes Zach Gilford, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stomare and Harry Dean Stanton.Jee-Woon is working from the script by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Andrew Knauer. It'll arrive right here sometime the coming year. Real question is, does anybody want the Austrian Oak in front from the camera (apart from Sly Stallone, that's)? We'll discover...

The Veil

Conor McPhersons The Veil centers on the misfortunes of a formerly grand English family in rural Ireland in 1822. A National Theater presentation of a play in two acts written and directed by Conor McPherson.Lady Madeleine Lambrook - Fenella Woolgar Reverend Berkeley - Jim Norton Hannah Lambroke - Emily Taafe Mr. Fingal - Peter McDonald Charles Audelle - Adrian Schiller Mrs. Goulding - Brid Brennan Maria Lambroke - Ursula Jones Clare Wallace - Caoilfhionn DunneThe plain housekeeper is in love with the estate manager who is in love with the lady of the house who has let the estate go to rack and ruin. Add the spirits of the dead expected of playwright Conor McPherson and you've got "The Cherry Orchard" with ghosts. Unfortunately, it has neither the tension of the former or, as manifested in his finest works "The Weir" and "Shining City," the literal and metaphorical shiver of the latter. McPherson's story of a formerly grand English family and its (mis)fortunes in rural Ireland in 1822 opens with the estate manager Mr. Fingal (Peter McDonald) and elderly Mrs. Goulding (Brid Brennan) awkwardly rehearsing to one another the troubles of the Lambroke family. Lady Madeleine (Fenella Woolgar) hasn't paid wages for 13 months but she is poised to soothe everyone's woes with the marriage of daughter Hannah (Emily Taafe) to a wealthy (unseen) Englishman. But the alliance may be jeopardized by Hannah's worries over the voices she hears. Exposition is the necessary bugbear of plays that rely upon backstory but, after initial set-up, that usually gives way to developing action. Not here, alas. There are a couple of scenes of present activity, notably an ill-advised seance, but almost everything else that occurs does so off-stage. That's a risky endeavour since it's hard to engage with events and characters that remain unwitnessed and undramatised. In place of building tension through the depiction of events, McPherson relies on lengthy passages of reported speech in which characters unburden themselves. Chief among these is meddlesome Reverend Barkeley (Jim Norton) who smugly announces his every self-satisfied belief about spiritualism at great length and encourages a late-night sance for his own ends. Although the characters that attend the seance are all part of the family or temporarily woven into it, for most of the play the familial and spiritual elements rarely mesh dramatically. Secrets are revealed and character details filled in, but they don't create momentum. Instead, we are shown how each member of the Lambroke family individually carries the gift for spiritual sightings. Finally, in a scene late in the second act, everything boils over with resentment and a gun is raised. That would suggest that everything has been simmering, but McPherson has rarely lifted the dramatic temperature. Everyone is given a differing viewpoint but collectively the play winds up presenting little more than an inert group portrait. To compensate, the actors resort to making more of an effort than should be necessary. Peter McDonald in particular bravely goes for broke in a fantasia of drunken bravado, but even he struggles with the fact that the writing has so litle in the way of metaphor. From a writer as gifted as McPherson, the evening is a particular disappointment. As a director he encourages beautiful, period design work but Neil Austin's moody lighting on the dwindling grandeur of Rae Smith's detailed house is more atmospheric than the writing. What McPherson fails to do is energize his own script.Sets and costumes, Rae Smith; lighting, Neil Austin; sound, Paul Arditti; music, Stephen Warbeck; production stage manager, Simon Dodson. Opened, reviewed Oct. 4, 2011. Running time: 2 HOURS, 30 MIN. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com

Williams Apologizes For Hitler-Obama Example

First Launched: October 5, 2011 9:14 AM EDT Credit: -- Caption Singer Hank Williams Junior. appears round the area before a Nfl game involving the Gambling as well as the Miami Whales at Sun Existence Stadium on September 12, 2011 Hank Williams Junior. is apologizing for applying a good example to Adolf Hitler in speaking about Leader Obama that motivated ESPN to tug his classic intro song to Monday Evening Football. Williams mentioned in the statement released on Facebook and also the website Tuesday the fascination with politics and sports got the most effective or worst of me. Inside an interview Monday on Fox News Fox&Pals, Williams, unprompted, mentioned of Obamas outing round the links with House Speaker John Boehner: Itd finish up like Hitler the overall game of golf with (Israeli Pm Benjamin) Netanyahu. Asked for to clarify, Williams mentioned, Theyre the enemy, adding that by they he meant Obama and V . P . Joe Biden. Williams backed off Tuesday. The thought of the leaders of each side jukin and fiven around the course, while many people are fighting to handle simply assisted me boil over creating a dumb statement, Williams mentioned. I am very sorry whether or not this upset anybody. ESPN had no further comment. It isn't known once the intro, synonymous with Monday Evening Football since 1989, might be recycled. (Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

No Rest for the Wicked (No habra paz para los malvados)

A Warner Bros. release of a LaZona Films, Telecinco Cinema, Manto Films production in association with AXN, Canal Plus. (International sales: Filmax Intl., Barcelona.) Produced by Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson, Alvaro Augustin. Executive producer, Javier Ugarte. Directed by Enrique Urbizu. Screenplay, Urbizu, Michel Gaztambide.With: Jose Coronado, Helena Miquel, Rodolfo Sancho, Juanjo Artero, Pedro Maria Sanchez, Karim El-Kerem, Nasser Saleh, Nadia Casado, Younes Bachir.Film noir and contempo Spain make a near-perfect match in the explosive "No Rest for the Wicked," the kind of movie that gives dramas about bad cops a good name. Featuring a grippingly visceral central perf by Jose Coronado as a policeman who makes a big mistake at the outset and spends the remainder of the film paying for it, pic is credible, fast-moving, hard-nosed fare, confirming helmer Enrique Urbizu's reputation as one of Spain's sharper genre helmers. Spanish crix and auds have warmed to "Wicked," with offshore play a possibility for fans of upscale thrillers. Santos Trinidad (Coronado) is a grizzled cop who, with his cowboy boots and gunslinger swagger, is living out a desperado fantasy. An alcoholic with a troubled past, he wanders into a bar and, after a brief argument, shoots three people dead. A fourth (Karim El-Kerem), however, escapes. In a few beautifully compact scenes, Trinidad expertly covers his tracks and goes in search of the witness. Inspector Chacon (Helena Miquel), aided by Leiva (Juanjo Artero), is assigned to the case, and thereafter the pic shuttles between their pursuit of Trinidad and Trinidad's pursuit of the Colombian witness. Trinidad realizes the escapee is involved in drug trafficking and, with the help of nightclub dancer Celia (Nadia Casado), he succeeds in tracking down police informant Rachid (Younes Bachir) at about the same time Chacon does. It becomes clear the game doesn't stop with trafficking: The Colombian mafia and North African terrorists are in cahoots. Urbizu's work has always had a subversive edge, but this time he pulls out all the stops, as "No Rest for the Wicked" doubles as an excoriating examination of police incompetence in the lead-up to the Madrid 2004 bombings. The satisfyingly tricky plot does become a bit turgid in the second act, overloaded by a surfeit of minor characters; everything surplus to the action has been whittled away, meaning that most of the supporting roles remain on the wrong side of stereotype, including Santos' young sidekick Rodolfo (Rodolfo Sancho) and the incorruptible cops played by Chacon and Leiva. Only Urbizu stalwart Coronado is permitted a full character, but what a remarkable character he is -- psychopathic and obnoxious to the core, a man nobody loves, by his own admission, but who doesn't seem to care. Consuming rum and smoking to the extent that one fears for the thesp's own health, Coronado nonetheless manages to evoke some real sympathy for Trinidad's plight as he desperately sets about wiping away the traces of a murder whose reasons he himself doesn't entirely understand. (The character's moniker, a pun on "Holy Trinity," reps one of the pic's less subtle ironies.) Whether excruciatingly sewing up a knife wound in his stomach or oddly muttering "rock 'n' roll" in English, Coronado is gripping. Pic loves its noir iconography, never passing up the chance to exploit a shadow or shoot a scene through a half-empty glass. Locations are recognizably Madrid in the aughts, with shopping malls, wasteland outskirts and dingy nightclubs all reinvented by lenser Unax Mendia as noir locations. Amid all the tumult, pic finds time for moments of bleak humor and even lyricism; following a bloody knife fight, a disturbed butterfly is seen fluttering away.Camera (color, widescreen), Unax Mendia; editor, Pablo Blanco; music, Mario de Benito; art director, Anton Laguna; costume designer, Patricia Monne; sound (Dolby Digital), Licio Marcos de Oliveira, Nacho Royo-Villanova; casting, Tonucha Vidal, Andres Cuenca. Reviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival (competing), Sept. 19, 2011. Running time: 118 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

TV Land sets 'Dick Van Dyke' tribute

'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'At one minute when primetime comedy is developing a comeback, it's fitting that TV Land is mounting a 50th anniversary salute now to most likely probably the most lengthy lasting sitcoms ever: ''The Dick Van Dyke Show.'' From Monday through Friday, the cabler will run prime segs of ''Dick Van Dyke'' from 6-9 p.m., to commemorate the show's March. 3, 1961, bow on CBS (inside the Tuesday 8:30 p.m. slot sandwiched by ''Gunsmoke'' reruns and ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis''). You will see considered a noon-9 p.m. marathon on Saturday or sunday just before the show forms into its regular 7 p.m. weeknight slot. The story of techniques Carl Reiner found his experience utilized by Sid Caesar to create ''Dick Van Dyke's'' central character, TV author Make the most of Petrie, known. But what's not broadly known is the fact every one of these years later, the show remains possessed by its four original partners: Reiner, Dick Van Dyke as well as the estates of Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard. They've had a good amount of choices to promote over time -- ''Dick Van Dyke's'' 158 episodes is a jewel inside a major studio library -- however they haven't been tempted. ''I was always afraid terrible things happens in it,'' Reiner told Variety. ''We always aspired to function as show's parents.'' Consequently, the demonstrate that has not been in the distribution for nearly any time period has proven to become a enjoyable allowance for your partners, too for WME. William Morris Agency infamously developed a fortune inside the sixties round the prosperous partnership of Thomas and Leonard, and people packaging costs continue being needing to pay returns. It absolutely was WMA's late biz matters maven Ruth Englehardt who emerged while using ''Dick Van Dyke'' holding company moniker of Calvada Prods., with different mash-from Carl, Leonard, Van Dyke and Danny. As the quantity of program-hungry platforms is ongoing to develop lately, the partners maintained vintage TV specialist Paul Brownstein to cope with distribution rights. ''Dick Van Dyke'' would be a standard feature of Nick at Nite and TV Land inside the eighties and 1990's, but happen to be in the Viacom cablers for quite some time. The completely new pact was completed within days the other day allowing TV Land to mark the show's golden anni. Incorporated within the deal, ''Dick Van Dyke'' segs is going to be getting a aficionado and polish and transfer with a high-def format. ''I'm very proud these incredible talents entrusted their family members jewels in my opinion,'' Brownstein mentioned. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

Take Shelter: Film Review

Editors note: This review was launched on Jan. 25, 2010.Related Subjects•Cannes Film Festival Revi... PARK CITY -- Along with his sad-eyed intensity together with a towering physicality much like individuals of Frankenstein's monster, there's possibly ignore enchanting American actor used in any medium today than Michael Shannon. His talents are offer exceptional used in author-director Rob Nichols' devastating Take Shelter. Clicked on up pre-Sundance through the new the new sony Pictures Classics, this knockout prestige picture can be a truly controlled good article on every level -- in the precise modulation of mood to its piercing emotional precision, its impeccable craftsmanship and breathtaking imagery. Rarely have electrical storms, cloud formations and glowering skies had this type of unnerving impact or expressed such dark visual poetry. While it sometimes conjures suggestions of vintage Polanski-style paranoia in rural America, this haunting mental thriller is yet another quasi-horror movie firmly rooted in slice-of-existence reality. An allegory for your troubles around the world bearing lower on anyone else at any given time of natural, industrial and economic cataclysms, it taps into pervasive anxiety more really than any film since Todd Haynes' Safe. Within the second collaboration with Shannon following Shotgun Tales, Nichols has written employment personalized for the actor's particular gifts in Curtis LaForche. From cinematographer Adam Stone's first arresting widescreen take a look at Curtis standing outdoors his small-town Ohio home, searching for within an ominous sky as clouds burst and oily rain falls, it's apparent this person has disturbing applying for grants his mind. He's a loving home existence with wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain) and 6-year-old daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart), which has lost her hearing but is scheduled for corrective surgery. More youthful crowd has employment as crew manager for just about any drilling company, working alongside his buddy Dewart (Shea Whigham). Without belaboring the reason, however, Nichols reminds us that stability nowadays dangles around the tenuous thread. Dreams and hallucinations portending violence progressively plague Curtis, many of them potentially real. From flocks of untamed wild birds like moving ink stains overhead, to walls of thundering clouds closing in on him, to levitating furniture which comes crashes lower, these frightening visions are carried out with stunning effectiveness by an ace visual effects team introduced by Chris Wells. Keeping his inner turmoil to themselves but departing his wife and friend to interpret his progressively irrational and obsessive behavior, Curtis tries sedative drugs and counseling. Throughout vacation to his mother (Kathy Baker) we uncover her good status for paranoid schizophrenia, which then causes Curtis to suspect that could be where he's headed too. Unable to vanquish his fears, he takes a harmful loan and unlawfully borrows equipment from work to develop the house's tornado shelter when planning for your apocalypse. While Nichols doesn't stint on effective dramatic moments, he shows equal command of intimate findings -- the tenderness between mother and daughter the frazzled affections of marriage the relaxed camaraderie between co-employees the stiffness between siblings and siblings when Curtis' concerned brother (Ray McKinnon) assessments in on him. In Shannon's single scene with Baker, their careful channels of communication provide a window into years of painful distance. Chastain is heartbreaking just like a lady wondering once the person she loves has become someone else, her face dissolving into remains as Curtis finally describes his fears. But every performance is from the piece getting a movie that never wavers within the certainty of tone, its moments of dread and jolts of terror all enhanced by David Wingo's brooding score with a muscular soundscape. It's difficult to imagine another actor getting such unblinking conviction for the demanding lead role. One of many gifted stage stars to depart Chicago, Shannon's profile has elevated recently by getting an Oscar nomination for Revolutionary Road together with a prominent role on Boardwalk Empire. His portrayal grips as being a vice while he changes from soft qualities to menace, stillness to worry, incomprehension to crazed, purposeful illumination. When Curtis explodes and starts prophesying disaster with a community hall full of residents, it's among the film's most heated moments but furthermore its saddest, carried out within the scared, bewildered faces of individuals present. The unsettling final scene can be obtained to interpretation. Nevertheless it's apparent that Nichols is less interested in the last word on Curtis' sanity than he's in offerring how fear has become an inevitable a world, and the way family can endure, even if faced with disaster. Venue: Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Dramatic Competition (The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics) Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker, Tova Stewart, Ray McKinnon, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Robert Longstreet Director-film author: Rob NicholsProduction: Grove Hill Productions, Strange Matter Films for Hydraulx Entertainment, REI Capital Producers: Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin Executive producers: Sarah Eco-friendly, John Kavanaugh-Manley, Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Richard Rothfeld, Chris Perot, Christos Konstantakopoulos Director of photography: Adam Stone Production designer: Chad Keith Music: David Wingo Costume designer: Karen Malecki Editor: Parke Gregg Visual effects supervisor: Chris Wells No rating, 2 hrs Festival p Cannes Sundance Film Festival Jessica Chastain Michael Shannon Sundance 2011 Cannes 2011 Take Shelter Sundance Film Festival Reviews Cannes Film Festival Reviews

'The Onion's' Tweets Under Analysis By U.S Capitol Police

Tweets sent through the Onion are now being looked into by U.S. Capitol Police following the satirical news site reported there was a shooting within the Capital and Reps had to have hostages.our editor recommendsGayle King, Arianna Huffington Lobby for that Onion to Win a Pulitzer Beginning Thursday morning, the Onion's Twitter feed reported, "BREAKING: Capitol building being evacuated. 12 children held hostage by number of armed congressmen. #CongressHostage." The website accompanied with follow-up reviews, "Congress Takes Number of Schoolchildren Hostage" and "Police helicopter just purchased to drag back after Repetition. Trent Hot dogs attempted to consider it lower having a shotgun. #CongressHostage." PHOTOS: Hollywood's Twitter Feuds The reviews ongoing, "BREAKING: Congress demanding $12 trillion ransom or "all of the kids die" #CongressHostage." Fans from the Twitter feed responded by telling the authors the tweets were "unfunny" and "a lame gag." But Politico reviews the Capitol Police aren't laughing. A spokesperson for that police told the website, "It's arrived at our attention that recents twitter feeds are confirming false information concerning current conditions in the U.S. Capitol. Conditions in the U.S. Capitol are presently normal. There's no credibility to those tales or even the twitter feeds. The U.S. Capitol Police remain presently looking into the confirming." Related Subjects

T.I. Released From Atlanta Half way House

FIRST Launched: September 29, 2011 10:29 AM EDTLAST Up-to-date: September 29, 2011 11:04 AM EDT ATLANTA, Ga. -- Federal government bodies the rapper T.I. was released Thursday from an Atlanta half way house after trading about 10 several days in federal prison around the probation breach. Federal Bureau of Prisons representative Chris Burke mentioned the background music artist was released very early every morning. T.I., whose real title is CliffordHarris, was arrested in September 2010 in La on drug charges. He was sentenced to 11 several days jail time for smashing the the probation he received after he was billed of federal guns charges. He was released from an Arkansas prison and shipped towards the half way house on August. 31. He was place in federal lock-on the dispute with prison government bodies, after which it returned for the half way house Sept. 15. A representative for T.I. mentioned the rapper will probably celebrate his recent birthday and host an individual brunch to a family event and pals in Atlanta on Sunday. More youthful crowd will attend the Wager Stylish-Hop Honours on Saturday. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

John Travolta Time Traveler Photo for Sale on eBay

John Travolta is the latest celebrity to have his likeness show up in a photo dating from the 19th century.our editor recommendsNicolas Cage 'Vampire' Photo For Sale on eBayNicolas Cage 'Vampire' Photo Vanishes From eBay An eBay seller in Ontario, Canada has put a ruby glass ambrotype photograph from 1860 up for auction and the man in the photo looks startlingly like Travolta. Just two weeks ago, a seller on eBay posted a photo from the 1870s that looked like Nicolas Cage and speculated that the Oscar-winning actor was, in fact, a vampire. The seller of the Travolta photo doesn't look to the supernatural to explain the likeness, however. He's leaning toward science fiction. He writes, "For those of you who don't know, John Travolta is a Scientologist and many Scientologists believe in a type of reincarnation. Of course Time travel can't be ruled out as well." Unlike the seller of the Cage photo, who was asking for a million dollars before the photo vanished from eBay, this seller, who is a self-proclaimed collector of old photographs, is asking for a relatively modest $50,000. The seller gives no other information about the man in the photo, but as of Thursday morning, four offers were already pending for the picture. Related Topics John Travolta

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