'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