NBC to Air Betty White 90th Birthday Tribute

Betty White NBC is celebrating Betty White's big 9-0 with a tribute and a sneak peek of her upcoming hidden camera series Betty White's Off Their Rockers, the network announced. Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl will tape live in Los Angeles and include special music performances, surprise appearances and birthday wishes from White's past and present co-stars. Check out more photos, news and videos of Betty White Following the tribute, NBC will show a preview of White's new series where she sends senior citizens to pull pranks on younger generations. The Betty White birthday block will air on Monday, Jan 16 at 8/7c on NBC.

'Winn-Dixie' aims for Broadway

A tuner version from the novel "Due to Winn Dixie" is incorporated in the works. Story also inspired a 2005 film. BenjaminSheikTartagliaA musical version of dog-centric tale "Due to Winn Dixie," with tunes by Duncan Sheik, has started mapping out Broadway plans which include a developmental reading through this spring.Nell Benjamin ("Legally Blonde") creates it and lyrics for that show, which is helmed by John Tartaglia, whose Rialto thesping credits include "Avenue Q" and "Shrek the Musical."The only real actor to sign onto the project to date is definitely an Irish Wolfhound named Taran, triggered board underneath the proper care of veteran Rialto animal trainer Bill Berloni, who'll function as animal director on the program.Dog assists because the lead character from the musical, in line with the 2000 Kate DiCamillo novel which inspired a 2005 pic. Story focuses on a stray dog who helps a youthful girl embrace existence and reunite together with her father.Producers estimate the show is going to be allocated between $six million and $7 million, having a cast around 15 stars. Team is shooting for any mid-size Rialto house around 1200 seats.Sheik, who acquired a Tony for his score to "Spring Awakening," can also be at the office on other stage projects which include the brewing legit version of "American Psycho."Gerald Goehring, Michael F. Mitri and Dorothy Berloni lead the creating team of "Winn-Dixie." Goehring and Mitri also make the tuner version of "A Christmas Story," presently playing a national tour throughout the holidays.Exact dates for that "Winn-Dixie" reading through haven't been set, having a production timeline, including an out-of-town tryout, still to become hammered out. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

'New Girl's' Zooey Deschanel on her Globe Noms: 'There was a lot of Nerdy Love'

Madonna'snew album is finished and will be released in March 2012 on Interscope Records,the label and Live Nation Entertainment announced on Thursday morning.our editor recommendsMadonna Signs With Interscope, Source ConfirmsMadonna Performing at Super Bowl: What the Pundits are SayingNew Movie Reviews: 'New Year's Eve,' 'Young Adult,' Madonna's 'W.E.' Hitting Theaters Official: Van Halen Signs With Interscope Records In 2007, Live Nation signed the superstar to a 10-year deal reportedly worth $100 million -- this portion of the commitment is being valued at $40 million, sources tellThe Hollywood Reporter. PHOTOS: 20 Best and Worst Music to Movie Crossovers The Universal Music Group-owned label will release three albums by the Material Girl. Her first single, called "Gimme All Your Luvin," is due out the last week in January (a demo of the song leaked in early November) just ahead of Madonna's halftime performance at the Super Bowl on Feb. 5. Two days earlier, the film W.E., which Madonna directed and co-wrote, is scheduled to hit theaters. The as-yet-untitled album is her first in five years. Madonna had been signed to Warner Bros. since 1982. Van Halen, another Warners act, also recently signed with Interscope, adding to an increasingly healthy stable of rock and pop artists who launched their careers in the 80s, which includes U2.Lady Gaga, who is often compared to Madonna, is also on the Interscope roster. PHOTOS: 7 Music to Movie Directors The multi-faceted "360" deal includes studio albums, touring, merchandising, fan club/website, DVD's, music-related television and film projects and associated sponsorship agreements. "We anticipate a very bright future at our new home," says Madonna's longtime manager Guy Oseary in a statement issued Dec. 15. Adds Jimmy Iovine, Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M: "Very rarely does an opportunity like this come around. We would like to thank Madonna, Guy and Live Nation for their belief in us." Twitter: @shirleyhalperin PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Top 10 Highest Paid Music Artists Related Topics Interscope Madonna Jimmy Iovine W.E. Live Nation Entertainment Lucian Grainge Van Halen

Judge: Beyonc Video Game Lawsuit Can Move Forward

This article appeared in the Dec. 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommends10 TV Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club'Viacom CEO Talks Nickelodeon Ratings Issues, Ads, 'Paranormal Activity,' Shareholder ReturnsWall Street Weighs Viacom's Outlook Amid Ad, Nickelodeon Ratings Challenges A schoolyard brawl has broken out between kids TV powerhouse Nickelodeon and Nielsen, the company whose ratings determine advertising rates. Nick, long the leader in the space, has disputed what Nielsen says are double-digit ratings declines since September. Nielsen adjusted its audience sample in August, but it says it has conducted an internal review of the Nick data and found no errors. Still, Nick insiders hardly are satisfied with these assurances. During a November call with analysts, Philippe Dauman, CEO of parent Viacom, called the drop an "anomaly." PHOTOS: Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Red Carpet At stake for Nickelodeon are millions of dollars from such popular shows as SpongeBob SquarePants and iCarly. Nick accounted for about 25 percent of Viacom's $1.39 billion in ad revenue in fourth-quarter 2010. Already the ratings shortfall has caused Nick to dole out so-called make-goods to advertisers. And the network is on track to surrender its ratings crown to rival Disney Channel for the year among the coveted demo of kids ages 6 to 11 for the first time since Disney Channel launched in 1983. "We're going to work with [Nielsen's] sample and program aggressively," says Nick spokesman Dan Martinsen. "We've had tough quarters before, and we always respond strongly." But network insiders hope an independent review by auditing agency the Media Rating Council, due in December, will correct the record. Nielsen didn't help its credibility when it admitted Dec. 5 that an earlier report claiming overall kids viewership was up -- which made the Nick decline seem even more ominous -- was wrong. STORY: Viacom CEO Talks Nickelodeon Ratings Issues, Ads, 'Paranormal Activity,' Shareholder Returns Still, no one is disputing Disney Channel's ascendant ratings. The Nick nemesis is up 8 percent in total day and 11 percent in primetime viewers among kids 6 to 11, though Nick still will win the year in kids 2 to 11. In addition, Disney Channel, home of Kim Possible and Wizards of Waverly Place, is now the leading network among girls, 40 percent of whom cite it as the "first channel I go to," according to Disney research. "The days of Nickelodeon being the only kids network are over," says Paul DeBenedittis, senior vp programming strategy at Disney Channels Worldwide, citing its diverse roster of series. "It's not one hit show, it's eight shows." WHAT THE KIDS ARE WATCHING: According to Nielsen's latest data, Disney has edged Nick for the first time in decades, with the other kids networks farther back. Disney Channel Target Demo: 6-14 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: A.N.T. Farm (2.4 million) Nickelodeon Target Demo: 2-11 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: SpongeBob, iCarly (2.3 million each) STORY: Viacom, Nielsen Investigating 'Inexplicable' Nickelodeon Ratings Drop Cartoon Network Target Demo: 6-11 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: Regular Show (631,000) Disney XD Target Demo: 6-14 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: Kickin'It (583,000) PHOTOS: 10 TV Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' Sprout Target Demo: 2-11 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: Caillou (171,000) The Hub Target Demo: 2-11 Top-Rated Show/Viewers: Goosebumps (88,000) Top-rated show is in the channel's target demo. Source: Nielsen; season to date through Nov. 27 PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 10 TV Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' Related Topics TV Ratings Viacom Nickelodeon

Is 'Shame' the 'Black Swan' of 2011?

Short response to that scintillating headline: Not a way! However, both of these films convey more in keeping than you may initially think -- and not simply simply because they both range from same studio (Fox Searchlight). Ahead, five reasons the Steve McQueen-directed sex-addiction drama 'Shame' may be the 'Black Swan' from the 2011 gaggle. 1. Outstanding lead performances in not-so-outstanding movies As honours season pulled on in the finish of 2010 and into this season, the excitement on 'Black Swan' went from instant classic to camping classic. The Darren Aronofsky-directed film -- particularly the cuckoo bananas third act -- was more arch and hysterical than most honours-bait, this despite a committed performance from Natalie Portman, who appeared to increase concerning the fray whilst wallowing in 'Black Swan's' ridiculousness. 'Shame' is not as silly as 'Black Swan' -- just the opposite, it is so ... damn ... serious -- but it is similarly problematic. As Brandon, the sex addicted NYer at 'Shame's' center, Michael Fassbender is absolutely brilliant, however the film somewhat allows him lower with a little an excessive amount of repetition along with a not-as-shocking-as-it-wants-to-be third act. There's a great deal to as with 'Shame,' but it is a difficult movie to like. 2. Same-sex make-out periods A minimum of area of the reason 'Black Swan' made $329 million worldwide? That hug between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis! 'Shame' includes a similarly bracing same-sex liplock (it is a spoiler, so you will get a maximum of that), though thinking about the participants and also the film's NC-17 rating, it's doubtful that can help tha harsh truth. 3. NY City subways fresh from 'Warriors' Pet peeve time: NY City subways no more seem like they did in 'The Players,' plastered with graffiti. Which is the reason why movies like 'Shame' and 'Black Swan' (and tv shows like '2 Broke Girls') so infuriating. When Brandon is riding the subway, your window behind him is included with scribble (see above). As somebody who takes that train line nearly every day (it is the N and R line), I'm able to attest it is not as untidy. This is not 1981, 'Shame'! Seriously now. 4. Rising ingenues playing second-fiddle In 'Black Swan,' Mila Kunis never really will get an opportunity to shine with Portman consuming the spotlight in 'Shame,' Carey Mulligan is worked an identical hands, though she comes with one show-preventing moment: a downcast version of "NY, NY" that breaks Brandon's heart, and most likely yours too. 5. Addiction Clearly and all sorts of, but nonetheless: 'Shame' is about sex addiction and just how it may eat away in a person's soul. 'Black Swan' is all about a dependancy perfectly, one compounded because Portman's Nina is certifiably crazy. (Still, nobody cuts their finger nails like Nina unless of course they've a-rooted perfectionist issues.) Possibly she and Brandon will make an excellent couple -- whether it wasn't for your annoying mortal wound in the finish of 'Black Swan.' [Photo: Fox Searchlight] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Genre vehicles take high road

'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''Drive''Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''Rampart''Moneyball'After adapting Stephen King's "The Shining," a defiant Stanley Kubrick told interviewers that he would not apologize for making a genre film.Nowadays, auteurs need to offer little justification for delving into the kind genre territory once dismissed as not exactly awards-worthy. If "The Godfather" films paved the way for another gangster film, "The Departed," to reap the most coveted Oscar gold, then couldn't serial killer movies, in the wake of "The Silence of the Lambs," reap similar dividends?In fact, a number of helmers in the hunt for this year's director honors tackled genres that once held negligible appeal for serious filmmakers. From David Fincher taking on the murder mystery ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo") to Bennett Miller breaking new ground with the sports pic ("Moneyball") to Tomas Alfredson breathing fresh life into the espionage thriller ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"), genre films are being reconfigured and redefined by helmers who refuse to be pigeonholed."My biggest challenge with this film was how do we justify our existence," says Oren Moverman, whose corrupt cop ode "Rampart" took shape from a first draft penned by genre master James Ellroy. "It's not exactly a fresh new genre that has not been explored. There are plenty of brilliant people who have attacked (it)."For the Israeli helmer, whose directorial debut "The Messenger" nabbed a pair of Oscar nominations two years ago, the most attractive aspect of the bad cop motif was the prospect of taking the genre and breaking it down. The result hearkens to Robert Altman, whose "The Long Goodbye" updated Raymond Chandler's jaded private dick, Philip Marlow, into a shaggy, disheveled Elliot Gould living amidst the hippy-dippy Hollywood Hills of the mid-'70s."Instead of going for what was expected, which is basically a heavily plotted story with twists and turns and conspiracies and duplicitous characters and all those wonderful things we love from the early days of moviemaking," Moverman says, "we wanted to see if there was another approach where we could actually go deeper and have our plot and narrative as an excuse to explore and really make it a character study. We kept thinking about genre all the time, but within that, we were thinking how can we mix it up and how do we avoid it at the same time."Likewise, "Bridesmaids'" Paul Feig managed to reinvent a subgenre -- the wedding comedy -- so thoroughly traversed that he avoided talking about it during pre-production. "When you say it's a movie about a wedding, people's eyes just glaze over because of that feeling, 'Oh it's another one of those movies,' " says Feig, whose romp featured the kind of gross-out humor associated with buddy comedies and turned it on its ear with an all-female cast."For us, the wedding was just the driver to tell a much more relatable story, which is a women at a terrible place in her life, having a bit of a breakdown because she's afraid she'll lose her best friend," he says.Similarly Miller saw "Moneyball" as a character journey first and foremost, rather than an inspirational sports movie. Though "Moneyball" weaves in such common sports themes as overcoming adversity and the triumph of the underdog, the director purposely avoided the trappings that are characteristic of the genre."It's not that it's not a baseball film, it's just that the film is more than what one would conventionally expect from a baseball movie or a sports film," says Miller, who received a director nomination for 2005's "Capote." "The movie climaxes and resolves itself in an unconventional way. You might think this is adding up to a baseball climax in a way that's obedient to the genre, but what does happen is the movie resolves on one final judgment call, one final value judgment, which is a decision about how (the protagonist) wants to live his life."Though the Academy has a long history of embracing certain genres, such as the Western and the musical, some filmmakers such as Alfredson bristle at the idea of genre altogether."I wasn't thinking about the genre at all," insists Alfredson, who is revered in his native Sweden for his work in comedy but is best known to American audiences for another genre film, the vampire/horror hit "Let the Right One In." "When I choose material, it's not a very intellectual thing. I choose material that I react physically to, like I laugh or cry."With 'Let the Right One In,' I never considered that a horror film or a vampire story. For me, it was just a touching story about a young kid. With 'Tinker Tailor,' as well, I saw it as a story of friendship and loyalty. The Cold War espionage theme was something of an interesting backdrop."Critics seem to agree. Time called "Tinker Tailor" "a film so determined to act as an antidote to spy capers that it fairly shrieks its subtlety."Meanwhile, other directors argue that their so-called genre films actually fall into another category altogether. Though Nicolas Winding Refn took home top directing honors at Cannes for the gasoline-fueled adrenaline rush "Drive," he says the film is, in fact, a love story told in the heightened reality of a fairy tale rather than a heist pic."I wasn't making a movie about cars because I don't have interest in cars," says the Copenhagen-born, NY-reared director. "There are a lot of great car movies out there that had much bigger budgets. I had an interest in making a movie about a man who owned a car, and the car was an extension of who he was."Ultimately, Alfredson says the whole genre concept is merely a salesman's construct."I don't think about how the marketing people will label it or what shelf it will end up in the video store," he says. "That's not my job."Eye on the Oscars: The Director PreviewArt springs eternal | Adaptability key when diving into the unknown | Sundance kids aim high and wide | Genre vehicles take high road Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Lachlan Murdoch Investigated for Alleged Presence During News Corp. Bribery Offer

This article appeared in the Dec. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommendsJimmy Fallon Apologizes to Michele Bachmann for 'Late Night' Song IntroGOP Presidential Debate on CNN: What Hollywood Is SayingMitt Romney Is First GOP Presidential Hopeful to Book Hollywood Fundraiser (Exclusive)Related Topics•Politics As Sarah Palin demonstrated after the 2008 election, failure on the campaign trail doesn't mean you have to disappear from the public eye. In fact, she proved the opposite, parlaying her unsuccessful run on the Republican ticket into a high profile -- and very lucrative -- career as a pundit, with earnings estimated at more than $1 million a year just from her gig on Fox News. So which of the current crop of Republican candidates -- some of whom could rake in $500,000 to $700,000 a year on the high end as a pundit -- is the most likely to pull a Palin? PHOTOS: 10 Entertainers Democrats and Republicans Love to Hate THR surveyed agents and cable news insiders, many of whom believe Texas Gov. Rick Perry has the makings of a great TV pundit once his term in office is over. "The look, the Southern base, the religion -- he's perfect for Fox News," says Nick Kahn, a broadcasting agent at ICM. But CNN analyst Paul Begala, who made the leap from Bill Clinton advisor to pundit almost 20 years ago, disagrees. Perry is "definitely in the top 10 dumbest people I've met in my life," he says, noting that TV personalities must think quickly and remember their cues, a sore spot for Perry in the wake of his recent debate fumble. "There's just no hope for him as a pundit." PHOTOS: Actors Who've Played Politicians Begala thinks Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann has the goods to be the next Palin. The traits that hurt Bachmann as a candidate -- a speaking style that doesn't bother to "clear the holster before you pull the trigger," he says -- might help her on TV. "The ability to offer something interesting and provocative on a moment's notice is definitely a talent," argues Begala. Most observers dismiss the chances of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman ("more at home on PBS" says Begala) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to find TV success. One insider suggests Romney is "too mainstream" for Fox News, but might make a nice fit for CNN or even MSNBC if the network is looking to add a conservative to its liberal-leaning lineup. PHOTOS: Best Movie and TV Presidents The wild card seems to be Herman Cain. The sexual harassment allegations against the former pizza executive might be "a real problem," says one executive, though CNN hired Eliot Spitzer in the wake of his call-girl scandal. Still one agent thinks Cain's folksy humor might play well on Fox, saying, "He's unpredictable, and in TV that's a good thing." PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Michele Bachmann: The Politics of Fashion Related Topics Politics Michele Bachmann Rick Perry Herman Cain

TV Rankings: Lady Gaga's Thanksgiving Special Boosts ABC, CBS Wins Evening

Cameron Crowe has returned with We Purchased a Zoo, his first movie since 2005's Elizabethtown, with its release comes new understanding of the journalist-switched-author-switched-director's musical taste, which happens to be an essential component of his filmmaking.our editor recommendsCameron Crowe Discloses How He Lured Matt Damon for 'We Purchased a Zoo' Names His 5 Favorite MoviesVIDEO: Behind the curtain from the Cameron Crowe Cover ShootCameron Crowe's PBS Gem Jam Documentary Was Like 'Group Therapy' for that Band Within this week's Hollywood Reporter cover story, author Kim Masters discloses that, if this involves a Crowe picture, music starts to may play a role lengthy prior to the first frame is shot. For example, to woo Matt Damon to sign up for We Purchased a Zoo, Crowe burned a Compact disc of tunes that illustrate the essence from the story and it is emotional arch. It incorporated tunes by Wilco, Ryan Adams, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder and Janet Orton (see full track listing below). "Even when it isn't music that eventually ends up within the movie, it is the feeling that counts," Damon informs THR. STORY: Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon's 'We Purchased a Zoo' Specific by PETA Music seemed to be a continuing on set, with Crowe sometimes playing clips of tunes before a scene was shot. "It had been a method I have never witnessed before," states Damon, who adds it assisted prepare him for psychologically billed moments. "Music changes your mood and may provide you with places that many analysis and speaking can't." For the film's soundtrack and score, Crowe employed the reclusive Jonsi of Sigur Ros to produce a 52- minute soundscape the director describes as "an entire musical journey, intended to be took in to from starting to finish." Crowe also led lyrics towards the movie's finish-title track, known as "Gathering Tales." REVIEW: Gem Jam Twenty And that he has another somewhat unpredicted writing project arranged: a job interview with Neil Youthful for Moving Stone, playboy that gave him his first break at 15 (notoriously fictionalized within the 2000 film Almost Famous), that is slated to operate the coming year. He's also gathering interviews he carried out with lots of of rock's finest -- "from Zeppelin to [David] Bowie to Joni Mitchell" -- for any compilation known as Burgers for that Apocalypse. As well as decades after Crowe assisted invent rock journalism, he remains a fervent fan of bands around the fringe, calling now "among the finest occasions for music in decades." In heavy rotation on his playlist: Civil Wars, Frightened Rabbit, the Belle Brigade, Dawes, Avey Tare, Sigur Ros, Radiohead and frontmanThom Yorke's solo work. Crowe lately directed the documentaryPearl Jam Twenty, which opened on PBS on March. 21. Cameron Crowe's Mix for Matt Damon 1. "Save it for Later" - Pete Townshend 2. "I'm Open" (Live) - Eddie Vedder 3. "War of Guy" (Live) - Neil Youthful 4. "Soul Boy" - Nowhere Earth 5. "Mohammed's Radio" - Jackson Browne 6. "Sanganichi" - Shugo Tokumaru 7. "Air travel to Paradise" - Wilco 8. "Containers of Rain" - Bob Dylan 9. "One's Heart from the Matter" (Live) - Don Henley 10. "I'll Be There Whenever You Die" - My Morning Jacket 11. "Ain't No Sunshine" - Tom Petty and also the Heartbreakers 12. "Child from the Moon" - Moving Gemstones 13. "Should I Be a Stranger" - Ryan Adams 14. "Concrete Sky" - Janet Orton 15. "Helpess" (Live) - Neil Youthful 16. "Don't Be Shy" (no piano) - Cat Stevens 17. "Nerstrand Forest" - Mark Olson and also the the Creekdippers PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery It is a Zoo This Year: 23 Honours Challengers Featuring Creatures Related Subjects Matt Damon Eddie Vedder Cameron Crowe We Purchased a Zoo Radiohead

Whistler to spotlight Shannon

Michael Shannon will be honored at the 11th annual Whistler Film Festival's Spotlight Tribute and Gala on Dec. 3. Tribute and gala will take place at the Whistler Conference Center and the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Center, respectively. The program will include an informal conversation about Shannon's work and a screening of clips from the actor's work. Past recipients of the tribute include Monte Hellman, Bruce McDonald, Ivan Reitman and Donald Sutherland. Set for Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, the Whistler fest is anticipated to draw as many as 10,000 attendees and more than 500 industry vets. The Whistler Presents program is managed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler and funded by British Columbia's initiative to increase tourism in the province. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Julia Roberts: My Bad Girl Side Goes To Kaira Pitt

First Released: November 23, 2011 11:56 AM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Kaira Pitt and Julia Roberts come out in the Moneyball Japan premiere at Tokyo, japan Worldwide Forum in Tokyo, japan on November 9, 2011 Julia Roberts is talking about her dark past, something she states shes lucky to possess made it. I experienced heavier, more dark occasions and that i made it them. I did not die youthful, the 36-year-old actress and mother of six stated within an interview on an hour, airing on Sunday. And So I am very lucky. You will find other artists the ones that didnt survive some things, she described, but stopped lacking starting the specifics. People would ever guess which i did probably the most harmful, and that i did the worst for a lot of reasons, I shouldnt be around. Adding, You justtoo many occasions in which you came near to a lot of harmful things, a lot of chances taken too, too much. Angelina has advanced significantly since her wild marriage to Billy Bob Thornton shes now inside a long-term relationship with Kaira Pitt, an UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and going to release her directorial debut, Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey, but theres still a little from the her old self hiding about. I have that side of meits just instead now, she stated. It goes to Kaira. Or our adventures. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Watercoooler: You Deserve It Earns Our Love

Chris Harrison Maybe it's Thanksgiving week sappiness getting to us, but we're totally grateful for ABC's You Deserve It. Last night, the well-intentioned game show kicked off with all the emotional fixings: Chris Harrison for our most-dramatic-ever hosting needs, folks in need for the tears, selfless friends for the "it's better to give" message, and of course, mild-to-tricky trivia questions for the fun stuff. The game itself is a lot to explain, with its multiple rounds and clues that each cost a certain amount, which then comes out of a banked pile of cash. It's like Millionaire meets Pyramid meets like 40 other sets of rules. But that's not important. The thing that matters here is that the contestants are actually trying to win cash for an unsuspecting friend who could really use it. And not just like "their car broke down" sort of situations. We're talking Extreme Makeover: Home Edition-caliber dire straits, like the opener's combo of a super-generous Maura Tierney look-alike and her recently widowed bestie who can barely cover the health-care costs for her two daughters. Honestly, just typing that line made a lump form in my throat. Is it the "riveting new breed of game show," as the announcer declared? Not really. We'll save that blurb for the one that magically grants players the power to make the Kardashians vanish from our TV screens forever. But it is a feel-good buffet that's as winning as it is heartwarming. And how can you not love something that is dedicated to paying - and playing - it forward? What did you think of You Deserve It? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Steve Coogan Requires Greater Privileges of Privacy, Informs Leveson Inquiry: 'I haven't thought about being famous.'

LONDON - Steve Coogantold the Leveson Inquiry Tuesday he was titled to privacy about his private existence while he had "not searched for fame" coupled with never presented themself as "a paragon of virtue."our editor recommendsFormer 'News from the World' Investigator Defends Role in Phone Hacking ScandalDaily Mail Charged with 'Intimidating' Hugh Grant Following the Actor's Leveson TestimonyHugh Grant, Steve Coogan, JK Rowling and Sienna Burns to Testify Now at Phone Hacking Inquiry Speaking under oath towards the inquiry on press standards, ethics and practices, Coogan stated he'd been the topic of various press harassment including getting his rubbish bins been through, being the topic of surveillance and getting his children captured pics of without his permission. PHOTOS: News around the globe's Top Ten Scams Speaking a next day of Hugh Grantgave evidence towards the Inquiry -- that was setup following the phone-hacking facts this summer time -- Coogan stated he and Grant have there been simply to talk up for other celebs who have been frightened of challenging the press. "This isn't the Steve and Hugh show -- we're here -- avoid great enthusiasm -- to represent all individuals individuals who don't possess the stomach for this ... It's not nearly us, it's about others. STORY: New Shocking Particulars of 'News around the globe' Hacking Operation Revealed at Leveson Inquiry Consequently of tales detailing numerous sexual indiscretions that were offered to newspapers, he stated, "The irony is my closet is empty of skeletons." Coogan stated he'd been particularly hurt and broken by a few encounters, stating a regular Mailstory which had "repeated the lie" he was in some way accountable for Owen Wilson's alleged suicide attempt. "I was not within the same region as him within the nine several weeks before" he stated, adding he had not taken drugs with Wilson. STORY: Princes William, Harry, Daniel Radcliffe Emerge as News Corp. Surveillance Sufferers Coogan stated he was not in a position to challenge the publication legally due to the impact it could dress in uncle. "I didn't wish to provide the story legs. I didn't wish to shine the spotlight on my small friend when he was for the reason that vulnerable condition," he stated. "This time the possibility cleaning soap opera that will ensue exceeds any benefit." The actor, that has introduced numerous law suits against British newspapers, stated he hadn't searched for fame because of its own sake and didn't take into account that he was "within the fame game." He'd been advised that if you take law suit he'd make an opponent of newspapers. "Should you ... criticise the papers they can come once you. Insofar as my law suit, I had been advised by my publicists after i was thinking about following through against News Worldwide, 'Do you want to create opponents of those people?' Once they stated 'these people' the inference was obvious -- if one makes existence a hardship on them they'll make existence a hardship on you." Coogan required a much less combative stance in the Leveson Inquiry than Hugh Grant had adopted the day before, but echoed Grant by saying he only did publicity interviews to aid a movie project he was involved with. "I'd rather not discuss this stuff -- however when you do a job interview you need to offer the film, you don't want to encounter like a curmudgeon, you don't desire to be precious." Coogan declined the suggestion that when you are onscreen he'd made "a Faustian pact" with newspapers and stated his identity was like a creative individual who produced figures and behaved. "It's my vocation, its things i do and that i like it ...Creativeness is exactly what defines me. I've never searched for to become famous, I don't sell myself like a personality. I have not thought about being famous as a result -- fame is really a by-product of the items I actually do ... I actually do things i do which is exactly what I love to be judged by." Related Subjects Worldwide Steve Coogan News Corp. Hugh Grant News around the globe Phone Hacking Scandal

'Hugo' Star Asa Butterfield Talks 'Ender's Game'

Numerous last week's finest news came on Friday (November 18), when Deadline reported that "Hugo" star Asa Butterfield was offered charge role in Gavin Hood's "Ender's Game" adaptation. When MTV News sitting lower with Butterfield because they was marketing "Hugo," the youthful actor was tight-lipped on where his status while using project was, simply stating he could "possibly" star inside the extended-anticipated sci-fi film. Butterfield would admit to reading through through both book as well as the script by Hood and "Star Trek" collaborators Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. "I have see the book. I like it. It's just a great book. I've see the script too,Inch Butterfield mentioned. According to Butterfield, Orson Scott Card's legendary novel of a boy genius cast in to a galactic war is suitable up his alley. "The book's incredible. It's late 1900s. It's sci-fi. I like everything retro stuff," he mentioned. There's been several attempts created by a number of company company directors to obtain the book towards the screen, as well as the potential casting of Butterfield signifies new ground being broken if this involves progress round the film. And even though the novel's fervid fanbase holds high wants an adaptation, whether or not this ever happens, Butterfield mentioned he feels around the task. "Everything might be awesome about playing employment such as this,In . he mentioned. "I reckon I really could hack it." Butterfield ongoing to become mostly quiet in regards to the project with the interview, but mentioned hypothetically, if he'd star inside the film, it may be his next project. You think Asa Butterfield can make an excellent Ender? Inform us inside the comments below and also on Twitter!

Natalie Wood Death: 10 Other Famous Unsolved Hollywood Mysteries

The mysterious circumstances surrounding Natalie Wood's death are still mysterious nearly thirty years after she drowned off the coast of California. Thanks, in part, to a new book co-authored by the captain of the boat Wood was on before her death, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has reopened the case, though no suspects have yet to be named. Wood, 43 at the time of her death, drowned on Nov. 29, 1981, while on a boat with her husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken. According to various reports, Wood, Wagner and Walken had been drinking, and when Wood went to the deck of the ship to secure a loose dinghy at around midnight, she fell into the water. A poor swimmer wearing a heavy coat, the coroner ruled that Wood died by accidental drowning. Wood and Wagner reportedly had a big fight before the incident, and -- in the new book 'Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour' -- Dennis Davern, the ship's captain, alleges that he heard the fight and then "silence." He also says that Wagner wouldn't let him call the Coast Guard when Wood went missing. That detail could become major for the police; in tests run by the book's co-author Marti Rulli, Wood's jacket would have actually kept her afloat for hours and not sucked her down to the ocean floor, as the initial coroner's report suggested. "I made some terrible decisions and mistakes," Davern told the Today show on Friday. "I did lie on a report years ago. I made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report." When asked if he felt Wagner was "responsible" for Wood's death, Davern said, "Yes I would say so." In light of the Wood case being reopened, here are ten other unsolved Hollywood mysteries. Famous Hollywood Unsolved Mysteries Roscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleThomas InceThelma ToddElizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia)George ReevesMarilyn MonroeBruce LeeBob CraneO.J. SimpsonTupac Shakur See All Moviefone Galleries » [Photo: AP] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Todd Holland To Direct NBCs Comedy Pilot Isabel

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy champion Todd Holland continues to be drawn on to direct NBCs single-camera comedy Isabel. The project, a household comedy having a magical twist, was written on spec by Howard Busgang and Tom Nursall. Inspired through the French-Canadian series Le Monde P Charlotte now, it focuses on a normally normal angry middle-class family that wrestles using the challenges every day existence while raising a daughter that has magical characteristics. Additionally to pointing, Holland, who's based at Universal TV with creating partner Karey Burke, will even function as a professional producer around the pilot alongside Aaron Kaplan, French-Canadian TV producer Jocelyn Deschenes, Busgang and Nursall. Hollands pointing focus on another single-camera family comedy, Foxs Malcolm In the centre, gained him among his 3 Emmy honours (another 2 were for instances of Malcolm and also the Ray Sanders Show). He most lately directed the pilot for NBC’s comedy series Free Agents.

Dodgers to Re-Sign Matt Kemp for $160 Million (Report)

The Los Angeles Dodgers are on the verge of re-signing their superstar center fielder Matt Kemp to the largest contract in team history, with reports putting the deal at $160 million for eight years.our editor recommendsWhy Hollywood Should Buy the Dodgers (Analysis) The team has filed for bankruptcy protection, but the contract does not have to be approved by the court, according to the Los Angeles Times, though a creditor could raise an objection. With the Dodgers up for sale and seeking a price in the neighborhood of $1 billion, the deal with one of the game's best young players could provide a measure of stability to anyone looking to buy the club from beleaguered owner Frank McCourt. Kemp, 27, led the National League with 39 home runs and 126 RBI last season while stealing 40 bases and batting .324. A strong favorite to win the NL's Most Valuable Player award, he was eligible to become a free agent after the 2012 season. The contract is said to be the seventh-largest in baseball history (Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter of the Yankees are among those who earn more). The Dodgers' previous contract record was the seven-year, $105 million deal with pitcher Kevin Brown in 1998. Kemp's agent is former big-league pitcher Dave Stewart. Related Topics

'Payne' yields pleasure for Perry, The very best spinner's

'House of Payne'In its seventh season, it's rather apparent that Tyler Perry's "House of Payne" isn't a home of discomfort for top spinner's.Since it approaches its 200th episode, this family sitcom can boast numerous loyal fans along with an alluring credit history, based on a monetary model that produces savings through mass production."House of Payne" is really among the top-five comedies seen by African-Us citizens. Its premiere around the best spinner's set accurate documentation for first-run comedies on fundamental cable, with a complete order of 264 episodes, it'll pass "The Jeffersons," for a lot of episodes with an African-American laffer.Though a gap remains involving the show's blazing success and several critical inspections of the sociopolitical values, "House of Payne" still can boast armfuls of honors, like the NAACP Image Honours in March for comedy series, comedy lead actor (LaVan Davis) and comedy supporting actor in the comedy series (Lance Gross).The bottom line is self-discipline, states creator, director, author and periodic actor Perry."I used to be absolutely 100% determined to make it happen,In . Perry states. "That kind of tenacity is contagious. Individuals around me are really inspired due to it. Even my audience is very inspired by my tenacity."An roughed up child who had been elevated in New Orleans, Perry came inspiration from his belief together with the gospel of self-confidence espoused through the famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey, because both versions assured him he could overcome adversity. He started with stage plays completed in chapels and graduated to movies and, in 2006, for the premiere of "House of Payne."The initial 10 episodes came out in distribution through the summer season, airing on WTBS and nine other broadcast shops. Watching the strong response, The very best spinner's bought 100 more episodes, relaunching the series on fundamental cable. To this day, orders still can be found in large clumps. The very best spinner's introduced in April it could finish output of "House of Payne" after 222 episodes. It made a decision to order 42 more, reasoning that fresh episodes may help launch Perry's next series, "For Better or Worse."Right from the start, Perry was certain this multigenerational tale of basically one father and also the two children who relocate along with his aunt and uncle would strike a chord with audiences, particularly people outdoors the media centers of NY and La. The show is produced at Perry's studio in Atlanta, a facility that was once the headquarters for Delta Airline carriers."Hollywood knows almost no about my audience," according to him. "It provides turnkey kids, single parents, individuals who've a number of things happening.InchThese folks stay updated to find out Perry's TV family discuss belief and God and forgiveness."People are desiring these items,In . according to him. "I get plenty of positivity to television."Perry states he'd have loved to tape the show before a studio audience, nevertheless it might have been tough to schedule. Regarding economy and efficiency, around three episodes are available in only one week. Adding live performances might have been tiring for your stars, according to him.Perry with full confidence places his show around the componen together with your classics as "The Cosby Show" and "Sanford and Boy." To win this years NAACP Image award, "House of Payne" assigned NBC's "30 Rock," Fox's "Glee" and ABC's "Modern Family."Still, not everyone confirms "House of Payne" can be a show for your age groups. Entertainment Weekly referred to as it a "bleak premise." Mentioned the NY Occasions: "Whenever a show could potentially cause bodily discomfort, TBS' 'House of Payne' might be the main one. Glaringly, shamefully, insultingly inept "In the letter to fans in April, Perry mentioned he recently looked in the critical reviews, including "a headline that read, 'This Show Will not Ever Ensure It Is.A Isn't it interesting the number of people is only able to speak negatively? In my opinion they'd have a very stroke before they'd admit they were wrong."Professionals never dismayed him, he ongoing to produce.InchWe understood we'd ensure it is and therefore perhaps you have! Allowed this to be described as a lesson on your own dreams. Don't get worried about people recommending everything you can't do. If God has mentioned it is possible, only use belief."Tyler Perry's 'House of Payne' 200th Episode:'Payne' yields pleasure for Perry, The very best spinner's Perry's wager on themselves takes proper care of handsomely Charitable organization no rarity Pipeline full for Mr. 'Deeds' Areu is suitable-hands guy inside Perry's empire 'Payne' cast reflects on top recollections Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Thesps make for 'Django Unchained'

Quentin Tarantino is adding four more veteran thesps for the cast of his epic spaghetti Western "Django Unchained," as James Remar ("Dexter") Tom Wopat ("The Dukes of Hazzard"), James Russo ("Miss Bala") and Presidio Pictures founder Todd Allen have grew to become an associate from the star-studded ensemble.Remar and Russo may have slave purchasing and selling brothers and sisters Ace and Dicky Speck, who purchase Django (Jamie Foxx) within the Greenville Slave Auction. Remar's "48 Several hrs." co-star Allen may have plantation representative Dollar Bill, while Wopat remains cast as Marshall Gill Tatum.Most broadly known nowadays for playing Michael C. Hall's father on Showtime's "Dexter," Remar can be a longtime favorite of director Walter Hill, who cast him in classic films for instance "48 Several hrs." and "The Gamers," additionally to Westerns "Wild Bill" and "The Extended Riders." Thesp remains keeping a hollywood in studio films, with recent roles as military generals in Matthew Vaughn's superhero pic "X-Males: Top ClassInch and David Gordon Green's stoner comedy "Pineapple Express."Most broadly noted for playing Luke Duke round the extended-running CBS series "The Dukes of Hazzard," Wopat recently came out in "Jonah Hex" and basically wrapped a recurring role as Margo Martindale's husband on CBS' "A Gifted Guy."Russo has co-starred alongside The Actor-kaira Pitt in "Public Competitors," "Donnie Brasco" and "The Ninth Gate." Thesp also came out inside the Western "Open Range" and "The Mail company," because both versions were directed by Kevin Costner, who dropped from "Django" and was transformed by Kurt Russell.While Allen hasn't labored with Tarantino before, the two return almost two-and-a-half decades to have an acting class each of them attended. Allen formerly starred opposite Robert Duvall in "The Apostle" and AMC's "Broken Trail," which featured Russo. Thesp presently may serve as prexy of Austin-based film and tv production company Presidio Pictures, that's developing the inspiring football pic "12 Mighty Orphans."Remar is repped by Gersh and Lighthouse Entertainment, while Innovative Artists reps Wopat. Allen is repped by Linda McAlister Talent and Variety. Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com

About That Time Clint Eastwood Pulled a Fast One on Armie Hammer

Leonardo DiCaprio tried his best to buck Clint Eastwood’s reputation as a one-take director but it turns out that his J. Edgar co-star Armie Hammer had a totally difference experience than the leisurely ten-take routine described at last week’s press conference. “There would be takes that we did where I was under the impression we were shooting a rehearsal,” Hammer told Moviefone. “Or that the cameras weren’t even on … and that’s what we used. […] At one point he was like, “OK, cut, print.” And I was like, “Whoa, whoa, Clint, I had my sides in my hands, I thought we were just rehearsing that.” [Moviefone]

More Gladiators, Please! Starz Gives Spartacus A Season 3

First Published: November 7, 2011 11:56 PM EST Credit: Starz Entertainment Caption A scene from Spartacus: VengeanceLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- He hasnt even made his debut as the new star of Starzs Spartacus franchise, but Liam McIntyre clearly has won over the network, because the series has already been renewed for a third season. On Monday, Starz revealed that Sparatcus, which premieres its second season Spartacus: Vengeance, on January 27, 2012, will definitely be coming back. There is no denying the impact Spartacus has had in the marketplace with fans across the globe thirsting for the continuation of the epic tale, Starz Media Managing Director, Carmi Zlotnik, said in a statement. Vengeance brings unparalleled action and drama to STARZ viewers in January. We are thrilled to come to an early agreement that allows the writers and talent to get right back to work in preparing for Season 3. Production on the third season of the franchise, is expected to begin early next year in New Zealand. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Liam took over the role of Spartacus, with the blessing of original series star Andy Whitfield, who passed away in September after a battle with cancer. Liam and the cast Lucy Lawless, Dustin Clare and Manu Bennett recently wrapped up Season 2 and the actor recently told Access he left the series, which now follows the ex-gladiators after they begin to form an army, in pain. I certainly beat my body into submission Its like a tenderizing thing. Its good it means theres cool things in the show, which is a good thing, he noted. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Lindsay Lohan Inspections In and it is Launched From Jail within 5 Hrs

Lindsay Lohan Lindsay Lohan spent under five hrs in jail prior to being launched, TMZ reviews. On Sunday evening, the 25-year-old actress checked out a lifetime Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., at 8:48 p.m. and was out by 1:30 a.m. due to overcrowding - a routine, government mandated move for nonviolent culprits at packed prisons. Sources tell TMZ that Lohan known as the jail "cold" and "frightening" - among the worst places she'd have you been in her own existence. Lindsay Lohan headed to jail - however for how lengthy? A week ago, Lohan was sentenced to thirty days in jail for breaking her probation stemming from the Drunk driving. Aside from the incarceration, Judge Stephanie Saunter purchased that they serve 12 times of community service and attend four psychiatric therapy periods before coming back to the court on 12 ,. 14. Following the court date she must attend four more periods and serve another 12 times of community service before Jan. 17. If she does not complete the mandated hrs, she faces a 270-day jail sentence. Since her 2007 Drunk driving, Lohan continues to be sentenced to jail five occasions.

Though crix carp, kudos trolling evolves

RatnerMurphy The other day marked the unofficial launch of Hollywood's honours season. Coincidentally, furthermore, it marked the publication of two books about Pauline Kael, the legendary (and lethal) film critic -- a perverse irony.The primary concentrate on Kael motivated a fusillade of essays in regards to the decline of film and film critique. "We forget about live in age movies," asserted Frank Wealthy inside the NY Occasions The Review, whilst that paper's film experts asserted the Oscars were irrelevant and honours mania harmful.Clearly, it absolutely was Kael herself who once written, "I don't trust anyone who doesn't admit bothering a whilst in the existence loved trashy American movies" -- a sentiment which will resonate while using numerous Russians, Chinese while others around the globe that are now feasting on Hollywood product. Their growing appetite for 3 dimensional tentpoles reminds us the "ages of movies" hasn't ended it has been transmogrified and industrialized.No matter the noise, the show continues -- the Oscar show, that's. Do i think the the comfort in the honours ritual -- the receptions, the Q&As, the red-colored-colored-carpet interviews.Now, Martin Scorsese, who isn't keen on Q&As and doesn't would rather travel, are available in Santa Monica undertaking a Q&A for "Hugo," but without his star, Sacha Baron Cohen, who truly hates Q&As. One time i did a show with Sacha, who asked for me, "Who everyone else need to visit -- Borat? Bruno?" Once I mentioned "Sacha," he made an appearance absolutely confounded.The Academy this season is once again trying to impose constraints on campaigning, thus "letting the task speak alone.In . The problem is the fact that many money and prestige rides on "the task.In . In addition, the celebs and filmmakers responsible for "the jobInch would rather speak on its account since they're pleased with it (and worried about their entrepreneurs).Academy constraints may even weigh heavily on Brett Ratner, which has fearlessly adopted the job for energizing the Oscar show. His primary obstacle, clearly, is dealing considering the variety of honours. Ratner's key objective is always to increase the risk for show more entertaining. Compared to that finish he's introduced in new authors (they from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" plus script physician Rob Nathanson). Other new faces are increasingly being put in they -- Melissa Watkins Trueblood within the Golden Globes might be the brand new talent producer. (Don Mischer is co-creating the show with Ratner.) Clearly, a choice of Eddie Murphy as host signifies Ratner's most marketed innovation. "The most effective hosts -- Hope and Carson and incredibly -- were comics," Ratner highlights. "They were funny. Eddie is funny, which he interacts fantastically along with his audience." Murphy, who co-stars in Ratner's film "Tower Heist," did the talkshow circuit the other day with Ratner and made an appearance being experiencing themselves. "Our show will probably be fun," Ratner promises. "We'll involve some large surprises." At this time around, however, he's careful about speaking regarding the subject. There can be efforts to enhance suspense by searching at yesteryear record of early individuals who win -- and for that reason predicting the election. A doggedly persuasive filmmaker, Ratner already is organizing some stellar "presenters," which he desires to raise the celebrity presence inside the audience.The Academy will doubtless break the guidelines on some recommended changes for instance moving the show to Monday evening, improving the date and beginning the show half-hour earlier. "The Academy loves to say, 'Let's take action next season, or even year after next,'?" states one Oscar insider.Still, the Academy itself now includes many new faces becasue it is staff is constantly undergo a fundamental evolution. Careful analysis energize the show by approaching Ratner was introduced by Tom Sherak and Beginning Hudson, the completely new executive director. For any very long time, Hudson presided inside the lively Independent Spirit Honours -- a demonstrate that featured both good acceptances and good weed.While demanding greater decorum, the Oscar audience still wants a smart and entertaining show -Body that undermines the thesis that "we forget about live in age movies." And Ratner expects to provide it. The BacklotPeterBart Contact Peter Bart at peter.bart@variety.com

Michelle Yeoh Met With Standing Ovation at AFI Fest Premiere in the Lady

Friday evening within the 2011 AFI Fest, the seats inside the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre weren’t quite filled to ease of the gala screening of Luc Besson’s The Lady, which received mildly lukewarm reviews round the festival circuit. But, since it did at its premiere in Toronto, the biopic of Burmese democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a standing ovation at AFI Fest — one clearly directed mainly at star and Oscar hopeful Michelle Yeoh. The film itself, a extended, somewhat pedestrian retelling in the encounters of Suu Kyi just like a British housewife and mother-switched-opposition leader, is slightly less concerned about the politics of the heroine in comparison towards the sacrifices she and her family made as, throughout the time of two decades, she was placed directly under house arrest by Burma’s military junta and progressively separated from her family people. The entire final third in the film is centered by her marriage to Dr. Michael Aris (David Thewlis, who’s given a lot of rope — and plays opposite themselves as Aris’s twin in one fancy scene), highlighting Suu Kyi’s emotional anguish and Sophie’s choice. See Michelle Yeoh, Leonardo diCaprio, plus much more stars in Movieline’s 2011 AFI Fest gallery. But whilst Suu Kyi’s political motivations are opaque, and her villainous Burmese military competitors cartoonish, Yeoh’s stoic, elegant performance, as well as the film’s noble intentions, ensure it is all helpful. (For just about any much much deeper film account of Burma’s modern troubling political and human rights conditions, start with the 2008 doc Burma VJ and vary from there.) Joining Luc Besson and co-star Thewlis within the AFI Fest premiere, Yeoh briefly walked onstage through the film’s review of wave for the audience. When the lights elevated, with Sade’s “Soldier of love” — a distinctive choice, but hey, it’s Luc Besson — playing inside the finish credits, it progressively dawned round the audience that Yeoh used to be sitting incorporated within this. All eyes switched towards her, and section by section everybody else hopped towards the foot in rapt appreciation — having a measure adoring Suu Kyi vicariously, at the same time. Stay up-to-date for further Movieline coverage in the 2011 AFI Fest. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Scripps Networks Hit In 3Q By High Costs For New Shows And Marketing

Shares are down 2.6% in pre-market trading following the 3Q earnings report from the owner of lifestyle channels including HGTV and the Food Network. The company said it had nearly $130Min net income, down 4.5% vs last year’s 3Q, on revenues of $503.7M, up 7.9%. Analysts expected to see $509.7M. Earningsat 65 cents a sharematched the Street’s expectation — but included several one-time gains and losses.Factoring those out, the company saysits continuing operations delivered 66 cents. Scripps says that its decision to produce new shows at all its networks contributed to a 25% increase in programming costs and a 33% increase in marketing and promotion expenses. Those outweighed an 8.6% gain in ad revenues, to $344M, and 6.1% improvement in affiliate fees, to $148M. As for revenues at the major channels: Food Network was +12% to $180M,HGTV was +4.1% to $181M, Travel Channel was +0.4% to $62.6M, DIY Network was +3.7% to $23.7M, Cooking Channel was +36% to $16.6M, and Great American Country was -21% to $6.1M. “Our strategy to stay focused on these attractive content categories has resulted in consistent growth for the company and the creation of significant value for our shareholders,” says CEO Kenneth Lowe.

Exclusive nabs rights to 'Outrun'

Exclusive Media Group has acquired worldwide rights to Dax Shepard's romantic comedy ''Outrun,'' presently in publish-production. Exclusive introduced the sale Friday and you'll be selling the film within the American Film Market. Pic is written and directed by Shepard, who co-directs with David Palmer, and stars with Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold. The ensemble cast includes Kristin Chenoweth, Love Bridges, David Koechner, Michael Rosenbaum, Pleasure Bryant and Ryan Hansen. Producers are Andrew Panay, Nate Tuck and Kim Waltrip and Jim Casey. Shepard plays an ex-getaway driver living under an assumed identity in central California. He confirms to destroy the recommendations of his Witness Protection and drive his girlfriend (carried out by Bell) to La to make sure that she'll land her dream job. When the government physiques and also the former gang (introduced by Cooper's character) learn he's back driving, they hit the technique to chase him lower. Exclusive Films Worldwide will handle worldwide distribution. Mind of Production Tobin Armbrust acquired the film regarding Exclusive. Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler and Feldman, Corporation. socialized regarding the filmmakers. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Fox buys 'Manny' script

FoxThe Fox network has bought the comedy script "Ben Fox Is My Manny," from creator Dana Fox. Internet bought the only-cam pilot from the affiliated studio, twentieth century Fox, and should pay a considerably penalty when the show does not reach series. Script centers on one mother's aimless brother who moves directly into help her raise her baby. Just before "Manny," Fox authored bigscreen efforts "The Marriage Date," "What Goes On in Las vegas" and "Couples Retreat." She'll professional produce with Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope. The happy couple are busy with three rookie series on Fox ("Terra Nova," "New Girl" and "Allen Gregory") in addition to a number of projects in development. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Keck's Exclusives: Molly Shannon Can get Up With The Evening

Molly Shannon NBC's Up With The Evening is improving the funny by using another Saturday Evening Live veteran. Molly Shannon, an SNL cast member from 1995-2001, whose 2008 sitcom Kath & Kim not successful to click with audiences, is going to the newcomer sitcom on November 23.In the role that's potentially recurring, Molly may have Nancy, just one mother who produces Ava's (Maya Rudolph) talk show becoming an incompetent connect producer.Though only one episode remains written for Molly up to now, sources tell me anticipation is always that Molly will ignite the identical laughs she did on SNL as clumsy Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher and return for further fun with Maya, Christina Applegate and may Arnett.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Warner Bros. Employs Scribe for A Virtual Detective Threequel

Warner Siblings our editor recommends'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Title of Shadows' Trailer: Robert Downey Junior. Does Drag'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Title of Shadows' Second Trailer Debuts (Video)A 'Sherlock Holmes' follow up? For Warners, it's elementary A Virtual Detective: A Game Title of Shadows does not open until December 16, but Warner Bros. has already been planning the following installment from the period detective adventure movies. The studio has hired Came Pearce, the creator from the British super hero TV satire No Heroics, to pen a script for which will be the third Robert Downey Junior.-Jude Law movie starring the A Virtual Detective creation. The employing of the author this early (as well as in anticipating the movie is a hit) mirrors the employing of Michele and Kieran Mulroney to operate on Holmes 2 around three several weeks prior to the first Holmes arrived on the scene in December 2009. Pearce is really a scribe increasing. He's writing Iron Guy 3 for Marvel Galleries (therefore the new Holmes project would reteam him with Downey) and Paramount's adaptation of Electricity Comics' The Mighty. Pearce is repped by WME. A Virtual Detective Robert Downey Junior. A Virtual Detective: A Game Title of Shadows

'Grimm,' 'Once Upon a Time': TV Review

If there might be five -- or perhaps is it seven or even more? -- comedies about how exactly modern men're too weak to become known as males, then what lengths-fetched will it be that two new series concentrate on favorite anecdotes?our editor recommendsThe Hollywood Reporter's 10 Showrunners to Watch'Once Upon A Time' Executive Producers Would like to Have Rhianna on the ShowNBC Previews First twenty minutes of 'Grimm,' Extended Look of 'Chuck' (Video) PHOTOS: Fall TV's 12 Most Anticipated Shows ABC's Not so long ago feels confident making use of a slew of well-known favorite anecdotes, while NBC's Grimm mines the more dark tales from the Siblings Grimm. It's a higher-concept hootenanny with varied results. Possibly greater sell is Not so long ago, which opens like a period piece in which the Seven Dwarfs are huddled around an entombed Snow Whitened -- and before you let out what's going to happen, you may finish up laughing rather. Why? Since it feels and looks hokey. Hokey is a concern. Snow Whitened is performed by Ginnifer Goodwin and Prince Charming by Josh Dallas. There's an Evil Full, obviously, performed by Lana Parrilla, whose make an effort to play evil falls well lacking convincing. She's not by yourself because even Robert Carlyle, who is capable of doing tugging off both evil and costumed, is eyebrow-raisingly cheesy as Rumpelstiltskin. Place them altogether within an excessively lengthy summary of the series, and a loved one will require the forces of Merlin to pry the remote from your hands while you lunge to alter the funnel. PHOTOS: ABC's Year Television Shows After which something interesting happens -- certainly more interesting these days tugging off a period of time piece in primetime. The experience switches to the current, and that we meet Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), a bail bondswoman, loner and all sorts of-around tough girl. Into her existence jumps Henry (Jared Gilmore), a precocious 10-year-old boy from Storybrooke (wink, wink), Maine. He tracks lower Emma and claims he's her boy, the main one she threw in the towel for adoption at birth. He has a book of favorite anecdotes and states that Emma must return to Storybrooke to place things right. What things? Well, Henry thinks the Evil Witch has cast a spell, and today all of the fairy-tale figures from lore are held in Storybrooke, being unsure of who they really are or what continued previously. His adoptive mother is Regina (also performed by Parrilla), the only-mother mayor of Storybrooke and, states Henry, possibly the Evil Witch. Henry also thinks Emma may be the daughter of Prince Charming and Snow Whitened which only she will unlock the mysteries of Storybrooke and provide everybody a contented ending by clearing them. Got that? Company, in Storybrooke, virtually every fairy-tale character you are able to develop -- you realize, like Geppetto -- is chilling out his or her modern self. This area of the series holds a minimum of minimal fascination as Henry attempts to unveil the reality. However when Not so long ago flashes to fairy-tale days, Uncle Hokey complements them. With him, you will find no happy being. PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview 2011: 10 Fresh Faces To Understand In individuals moments -- particularly when modern vocabulary sneaks in and Goodwin appears embarrassed to see her lines -- Not so long ago completely stops time. You are able to't know if this should be farce it's the opt-out moment. The show is really a bold idea, there's expect the current-world portions, however it doesn't quite know what it's (or possibly it will, however the audience won't). ABC made episode three open to experts too, and -- tragic ending alert! -- the series seems to become getting worse, not better. The producers behind NBC's Grimm obtain the formula better in lots of ways. For just one, the idea now is easier and simpler to follow along with (and execute) than Not so long ago since it's linear (a minimum of within the pilot, the only real episode the network could submit time for review). Tigard homicide detective Nick Burckhardt (David Giuntoli) is leading an ordinary existence together with his girlfriend, Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch), and the partner, Hank (Russell Hornsby). Eventually, he begins seeing bizarre things -- just like a businesswoman look into him and expensive momentarily right into a zombie, a perp expensive into some type of serpent along with a guy out getting his mail expensive right into a werewolf. Normally, you'd think his meds were way, way off. But Nick just type of comes by using it -- a momentary fault within the series until his cancer-stricken aunt turns up by having an Airstream filled with medieval weapons, ancient storybooks along with a wary killer's try looking in her eye. He's getting these crazy visions while he's next in line -- the following Grimm, "billed with keeping balance between humanity and also the mythological animals around the globe,Inch based on NBC. PHOTOS: NBC's New Shows Also around the plus side for Grimm is always that the effects are great. Even better, it provides extensive scares and thrills. It's not the type of demonstrate'll wish to watch while drinking wine in mattress -- a minimum of, not dark wine. For the reason that way, Grimm appears more grown-up in the approach than Not so long ago since it's more violent and fewer hokey. Plus, hey, it's a procedural. The Grimm pilot is creative and scores points for getting a reluctant, cool werewolf (or "Grimm creature," as NBC loves to say, most likely since the network features a spook and can take further protections in the future) named Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) who decides to assist Nick navigate the bizarre world he's going to encounter. Mitchell nails the comic elements, which leaven the strain, while convincing us he's a "Grimm creature" attempting to be great. One episode isn't enough to declare whether Grimm may have the next. However it's a genre show on the Friday evening -- where on their behalf, although it's getting mighty crowded with Fringe and Supernatural within the mix. It's chills and humor and a chance to have a procedural story and twist it. (If there's an opt-out moment here, it's this is the realization that something similar to Kolchak: The Evening Stalker and definitely The X-Files were more enjoyable.) Airdates Not so long ago 8 p.m. Sundays (ABC) Grimm 9 p.m. Fridays (NBC) Email:Tim.Goodman@THR.com Twitter: @BastardMachine Related Subjects ABC NBC TV Reviews Not so long ago Grimm Fall TV Preview

Lake Bell Test Drives the 2012 Bentley Continental GT

Now I know what it's like to have a trophy wife. I had a torrid affair with a candy apple red Bentley Continental GT coupe. Do I care what people think? No! She makes me feel alive.our editor recommendsHow Bentley Customizes Its Cars for HollywoodActress Lake Bell Reviews the Maserati GranTurismoLake Bell Test Drives the Jaguar XKR CoupeLake Bell Critiques Porsche Panamera 4 My conspicuous eight-day Bentley test drive commenced with the one and only occasion on which I've been adjacent to an open-top Hollywood Tours van and had a tourist excitedly point at me. (Though I have a feeling said tourist subsequently whispered to her partner, "Oh my God, that's the girl from Something's Gotta Give!") Did I mind? Of course not. Firstly, Amanda Peet is hot. Secondly, when you have a 6.0-liter W-12 looker on your hands, you want everyone to gaze at her -- and you -- for that matter. This car has the power to make you a showoff. Maybe that's why every time I pass someone driving in a Bentley, I check them out because, likely, they kind of deserve it. Despite my more recent impressions of the brand's "bling" luxury personality, Bentley's heritage is rooted in high performance sportiness, which isn't absent from this all-wheel-drive super machine. My automotive guru (and father) Harvey Siegel reminds me that the brand was known for tourers with thicker springs, harder shock absorbers and tighter suspensions. The GT harkens back to those roots with a growling, twin-turbocharged engine that pumps out 567 horsepower while maintaining the voluptuous curves for which Bentley is also known. On the last day of my affair, I nearly fainted to find part of the front lower plastic grill missing. Once I was done having a heart attack envisioning all the ways the Bentley folks would have me assassinated, I investigated. Without any sign of theft -- nor a nick to indicate it'd been hit while parked -- I realized the piece had just, well, fallen off. I couldn't decide if I should be disappointed that a car with an as-tested price of $205,890 couldn't handle a couple of city potholes or if I should brag to my dad that I drove a Bentley so hard that it broke. Did my trophy wife lose some of her allure once she lost one of her plastic parts? Maybe a smidge. But I'm digging for dirt on this car. It's virtually flawless. So what if there are a couple of screws loose on the lower grill? This beast is so tight, you'd think it did Pilates. Related Topics Lake Bell

Margaret Ruth Draper dies

Margaret Ruth Draper, an actress onstage and also on radio after which a DJ, died of natural causes on March. 14. She was 94. After undertaking becoming an adult in Utah, she graduated within the U. of Utah, where she majored in dramatics, in 1934 and headed to NY, likely to enter theater. She showed up her first job while using Provincetown Theater and subsequently increased being part of the Chekhov Theater Players beneath the direction of Michael Chekhov. Throughout World war ii, Draper labored for just two years for your Red-colored-colored Add Europe as well as the Middle East just like a leisure director, then returned to NY to find be employed in radio and also on Broadway. She came out onstage in "Peer Gynt" too as with supporting roles by 50 percent Broadway shows. Her first radio role, in 1947, reaches the CBS program "Joe Forces of Oakville." She carried out Liz Dennis in radio cleaning cleaning soap "Better Day" from 1949 until 1954, when she won the role of Linda Pepper in another radio drama, "Pepper Young's Family," starring Burgess Meredith. Through the first '60s, she made her living doing Radio and tv ads in NY. In 1966 Draper increased to become disc jockey for individuals-lady radio station WNEW-FM NY, too as with 1969, she grew to become an associate of the united states . Seamen's Service. Her first assignment was since the assistant director in the club in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. In 1970, the Vietnam club was closed because of the war, and he or she was moved for the club in Naples, Italia as director, where she offered until 1972. Draper was married four occasions, the first to actor Joe DeSantis from 1949-57. She's managed to get having a boy and a pair of brothers and sisters. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Zazen, Lereby raising $60 mil for 10 films

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Jose Padilha, director of "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" is teaming via his Zazen Prods. label with Daniel Filho's Lereby Prods. to raise $60 million to finance 10 Brazilian movies over the next four years. A private equity fund, to which the partners are putting the finishing touches, will account for about $30 million, Padilha said during the Rio Festival. The fund is backed by Brazilian investors. Brazil's battery of film tax shelters will supply the other $30 million, Padilha added. Movies will target Brazil as their primary market. All will be released in Brazil via Nossa Distribuidora, the groundbreaking new distrib op announced Tuesday at the Rio Fest whose founding partners include Zazen and Lereby, plus Fernando Meirelles' 02 Filmes, Conspiracao Films, Morena Films, FL & MAM Participacoes and Vinny Films. The production drive, Padilha said, "will help Nossa to work. We need to create a volume of films so that Nossa has leverage to book movies with exhibitors." Slate's first titles will be announced in the next few weeks, Padilha said. One early production will, however, be a biopic on Rickson Gracie, the undefeated Mixed Martial Arts champ. Most movies will be in Portuguese. Brazilian directors will helm all of them. Zazen and Lereby will produce around three movies each. The rest will be co-productions with third-party companies. Receiving an average $6 million investment per pic, part of which will also cover P & A costs for Brazil, the productions look to be higher-end but not astronomical for Brazil, where blockbuster "Elite Squad: the Enemy Within" -- the highest-grossing pic in Brazil ever -- cost $10 million. "Part financed by an equity fund, the slate has to be diversified - mixing romantic comedies, action movies, dramas -- making investment safe but offering good upside possibility," Padilha said. Padilha argued Zazen and Lereby would not have been able to mount the equity fund without Nossa. As a distribution service company, Nossa allows B.O. revenues to go straight to producers who pay Nossa a distribution fee and retain distribution rights to their productions. "Via Nossa the revenues for producers are five-to-ten-times higher," Padilha said. Nossa is modelled on Padilha's direct distribution for "Elite Squad: the Enemy Within." "I've tried ten times to raise private equity money to make productions in a traditional way. Nobody wanted to look at it," said Padilha. "As soon as we did direct distribution on 'Elite Squad 2' and announced Nossa, everybody wants to do it." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Monster' Director Jenkins Assumes 'Thor 2'

La (AP) Hollywood has registered its first female director for just about any major superhero movie.Marvel Art galleries introduced Thursday that Patty Jenkins will direct "Thor 2," the follow-up to last summer's hit that's due in theaters November. 15, 2013.Jenkins is much better-recognized for writing and pointing 2003's "Monster," which acquired Charlize Theron the most effective-actress Academy Award. Her credits have cases of "Entourage" and "Arrested Development."Chris Hemsworth will reprise his title role in "Thor 2" since the Norse god of thunder, with co-stars Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston also returning.The initial "Thor," directed by Kenneth Branagh, needed in $448 million worldwide.Another female filmmaker, Lexi Alexander, made the reduced-allotted Marvel movie "The Punisher: Combat ZoneInch in 2008. But Jenkins might be the very first lady to direct a blockbuster superhero franchise.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

'Avatar' Is The Most Pirated Movie Of All Time

Avatar, the 20th Century Fox blockbuster directed by James Cameron, is the most pirated film in Hollywood history, according to a study released by TorrentFreak. The film has been downloaded some 21 million times since it was released in 2009. Famously, Cameron once touted 3D filmmaking as the entertainment industry's best hope for combating piracy. Unfortunately, the 3D spectacle doesn't seem to have helped his film escape the wrath of torrent sites, but the film has raked in nearly $2.8 billion in wordwide theatrical gross nonetheless. Avatar's 21 million downloads beat out 19 million downloads apiece for The Dark Knight and Transformers. All of the films on the TorrentFreak's all-time list of "most pirated movies"did quite well at the box office. Only Kick-Ass failed to crack the $100 million mark, although it came close at $96 million. Of course, theatrical gross is merely part of the story. Some studio executives believe that online piracy does its most damage on ancillary income like DVDs and TV sales. Here's the full list of the top 10 most all-time pirated movies: Avatar (21 million downloads) The Dark Knight (19 million) Transformers (19 million) Inception (18 million) The Hangover (17 million) Star Trek (16 million) Kick-Ass (15 million) The Departed (14 million) The Incredible Hulk (14 million) Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End (14 million) Avatar James Cameron The Dark Knight Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Rim Service Glitches Hit The United States

NY - Rim service glitches that affected email along with other services spread to The United States on Wednesday following 2 days of technology problems in Asia and europe, based on device maker Industry stated.our editor recommends'Glee' Star Chris Colfer Talks Politics on 'Piers Morgan Tonight' (Video)Actor Josh Duhamel Began Plane because of not Turning Off Rim "Rim customers within the Americas might be going through intermittent service delays today," the organization stated. Using the spread of apple iphones and Android phones, the Rim problems may prove less troublesome to entertainment industry people compared to what they might have been a couple of years back, experts stated. But Piers Morgan, host of CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, said around the tech issues via Twitter. "I really like you #Rim - but when you still stop me BBM interacting with my sons, we're so, like, OVER," he tweeted. Some Twitter customers also recommended the Rim black outs could be great for Apple's apple iphone 4S pre-orders, which began off strong now. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Piers Morgan Apple

2011 American Music Honours: Adele Leads With 4 Nominations (Video)

Nominations for your 2011 American Music Honours were introduced Tuesday morning. Leading individuals: British chanteuse Adele, with four nominations including artist of year and favorite album on her behalf latest, 21.our editor recommendsRihanna Named Esquire Magazine's 'Sexiest Lady Alive' The Black Secrets Announce New Album 'El Camino'American Music Honours: Red-colored-colored Carpet Katy Perry, Rhianna, Lil Wayne, Beyonce, This Rock Band Perry and Taylor Quick each saw three nods while Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Chris Brown, Jason Aldean, Kanye, LMFAO, Nicki Minaj and Pitbull collected two nominations. PHOTOS: AMA Hot Performances Individuals who win depends upon online voting. Fans can election within the Coca-Cola AMA website, amavote.com, additionally to AMA.abc.com. The 39th annual AMAs will probably be broadcast reside in the Nokia Theatre L.A. Survive Sunday, November. 20 on ABC. Perry and Pitbull were also introduced as artists around the program, that's executive produced by Dick Clark Productions' Orly Adelson and Ray Klein, AMA producer. PHOTOS: Top Finest Paid out Artists Start to see the full report on nominees below: POP or ROCK MUSIC Favorite Male Artist Attacking Youthful Boys Bruno Mars Pitbull Favorite Female Artist Adele Rhianna Katy Perry Favorite Band, Duo or Group LMFAO Maroon 5 OneRepublic Favorite Album Adele/21 RhiannaOrCreated Using This Method Beyonce/Noisy New Bands Favorite Male Artist Jason Aldean Kaira Paisley Blake Shelton Favorite Female Artist Sara Evans Miranda Lambert Taylor Quick Favorite Band, Duo or Group This Rock Band Perry Zac Brown Band Lady Antebellum Favorite Album Jason Aldean/My Kinda Party This Rock Band Perry/This Rock Band Perry Taylor Quick/Speak Now RAP/Stylish-HOP MUSIC Favorite Artist Lil Wayne Nicki Minaj Kanye Favorite Album Jay-Z & KanyeOrView The Throne Lil Wayne/Tha Carter IV Nicki Minaj/Pink Friday SOUL/RHYTHM & BLUES MUSIC Favorite Male Artist Chris Brown Trey Songz Usher Favorite Female Artist Beyonce Beyonce Kelly Rowland Favorite Album Beyonce/4 Chris Brown/F.A.M.E. Beyonce/Noisy ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC Favorite Artist The Black Secrets Foo Mma fighters Mumford & Sons ADULT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Favorite Artist Adele Bruno Mars Katy Perry LATIN MUSIC Favorite Artist Enrique Iglesias Jennifer Lopez Pitbull CONTEMPORARY Inspiring Favorite Artist Casting Crowns Tobymac Third Day ARTIST Of Year Adele Rhianna Lil Wayne Katy Perry Taylor Quick Sprint New Artist Of Year POP/ROCK Promote Individuals Hot Chelle Rae COUNTRY This Rock Band Perry Thompson Square SOUL/R&B Marsha Ambrosius Miguel RAP/Stylish-HOP LMFAO Wiz Khalifa Related Subjects Chris Brown Katy Perry Rhianna Beyonce Taylor Quick Lil Wayne Bruno Mars Adele

New You'll be able to honors Sondheim, TDF

Stephen Sondheim as well as the Gotham-based Theater Development Fund are most likely the visitors in the 2011 Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture. Six kudos will probably be given out this year, to arts types including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Lin, music artist-educator Jimmy Heath, arts advocate Alice Gem and public school principal Ronnie Schuster. Sondheim, whose tuner "Follies" is presently round the Primary Stem in the strong-selling revival, can get the brand new you are able to city Handel Medallion, the finest award written by the city for contributions to Gotham's artistic and intellectual existence. TDF, the nonprofit org that actually works the discount-ducat TKTS working areas in Manhattan, also runs numerous education, access and outreach programs to market theater and aud development. The Mayor's Award aims to underscore the value of the humanities for the city's quality of just living which is economy, recognizing people, orgs, companies while others for achievements inside the area. The 2011 award ceremony is positioned for November. 1, with kudos being given out by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Alec Baldwin. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Michelle Williams Red-colored Carpet Evolution: From 'Dawson's Creek' towards the Academy awards (Photos)

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Former Dawson's Creek bad girl Michelle Williams' film options have adopted exactly the same careful thoughtful trajectory as her modest, gamine and very independent red-colored carpet styles. Oscar-nominated for Brokeback Mountain and Blue Valentine, she's also gained raves on her disparate roles in Wendy and Lucy, Synecdoche, NY and Shutter Island. She next plays the legendary sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (yeah, much less daunting) during my Week with Marilyn which premieres in the NY Film Festival on March 9. And she's already switched gears for Disney's Oz: The Truly Amazing and Effective by which she plays Glinda, the great you-know-what. PHOTOS: Michelle Williams: Fashion Over time For her fashion claims, she's had several Peak Red-colored Carpet moments previously couple of years. Who are able to forget her then shocking, now legendary bold marigold Vera Wang gown in the 2006 Academy awards? Or even the pixie hair trend she inspired having a boyishly snipped platinum do in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Experts talked concerning the whitened handmade Chanel couture short-sleeve handmade gown about this year's Oscar carpet. And she or he walked from the fashion pack having a sweet daisy-designed chiffon Valentino in the 2011 Globes. Surely you've learned about the red-colored lace Erdem dress she used in the 2010 London premiere of Blue Valentine, accessorized with mismatched animal print pumps (one tiger print, another leopard) Given her impressive slate of latest films, we fully be prepared to see lots of Michelle -- and her styles -- throughout the approaching Honours Season. And she or he begins the growing season when she accepts the Hollywood Film Festival's 2011 Best Actress Award on March 14. She gained the first recognition on her combined operate in Meek's Cutoff, Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, (no release date yet) and Marilyn, that also stars some serious A-list stars including Kenneth Branagh, Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, together with gifted new face Eddie Redmayne and Harry Potter alum Emma Watson. In the end wait breathlessly on her first red-colored carpet stroll in the NY Film Feston March. 9 and also at the Hollywood Honours on March 14. The excitement is the fact that Harvey Weinstein is mounting a significant Oscar campaign for Michelle and also the Marilyn film. And you are aware how Harvey will get. Photo credits: Getty Images Harry Potter Fashion Golden Globes Dominic Cooper Eddie Redmayne Michelle Williams Ryan Gosling Academy awards Blue Valentine Red-colored Carpet Marilyn Monroe Venice Worldwide Film Festival

The Vampire Journals Bite: Will Jeremy Come Clean to Bonnie?

Steven R. McQueen, Kat Graham Bonnie's absence around the Vampire Journals continues to be quite convenient on her boyfriend Jeremy, who will not have the ability to hide the key he sees dead people (i.e. ghosts, not only undead vampires of the underworld) from her considerably longer. The Vampire Journals Bite: Will Klaus' caskets be opened up? "A few several weeks have passed by and that he has not 'fessed as much as it," executive producer Julie Plec states. "When made it happen become hesitant to allow her to in on something so when will it change for an out-and-out lie?" Stefan and Elena's struggles, the Originals and much more Vampire Journals spoilers Watch this week's Vampire Journals Bite for additional understanding of the effects of Jeremy's supernatural dilemma. The Vampire Journals airs Thursdays at 8/7c around the CW. Follow @RobynRossTVG for additional scoop around the Vampire Journals.

Zach Gilford Takes 'Last Stand' With Arnold Schwarzenegger

Clear eyes, full hearts, bad one-liners? Apparently! Deadline reports that 'Friday Night Lights' star Matt Saracen Zach Gilford will appear opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in 'The Last Stand,' the former Governator's first starring vehicle since leaving office. Directed by Kim Jee-woon, 'The Last Stand' focuses on a small-town sheriff (Schwarzenegger) who must stop a recently escaped drug cartel leader from crossing the border. Gilford will play a young cop tasked to helping Schwarzenegger in this variation on 'High Noon.' Arnold will next be seen co-starring in 'The Expendables 2' in 2012; 'The Last Stand' is scheduled for 2013. [Deadline] Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty

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M.C. Gainey in talks for 'Django'

M.C. Gainey may have played Mr. Friendly on ABC's "Lost" but the character he'll play in "Django Unchained" is anything but, as the veteran thesp is in negotiations to play Big John Brittle in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western.One of the overseers of the Carrucan Plantation, the nefarious character serves as a catalyst for the pic's plot, as herapes Django's wife, Broomhilda, before branding Django's cheek with the letter 'R,' which stands for 'runaway.'Jamie Foxx stars as Django and Christoph Waltz plays Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter tracking Big John and his two brothers in order to collect a large reward. Schultz frees and teams up with Django, who helps him find and identify them.Leonardo DiCaprio is set to co-star as villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie, while Kurt Russell is in negotiations to replace Kevin Costner as Ace Woody, a sadistic trainer who readies Candie's male slaves to fight one another to the death.Samuel L. Jackson, Gerald McRaney, Dennis Christopher and Laura Cayouette co-star in the pic, which is pushing back a bit in the wake of a pelvic injury Waltz suffered during training for his physically-demanding role.Production is still expected to start this November, with the Weinstein Co. slating the pic for a Christmas Day release in the U.S. next year.Gainey, who played Mr. Friendly on ABC's "Lost" recently appeared on FX's "Justified," will soon be seen alongside Nicolas Cage in Simon West's thriller "Medallion" and in Jay Chandrasekhar's comedy "The Babymakers." He's repped by Domain Talent and Miriam Milgrom Management. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

We're Not Able To Return Home Again: Film Review

NEW You'll be able to - An anti-mainstream final work from Hollywood renegade Nicholas Ray, the excavated feature We Could't Return Home Again is certainly an artifact that will interest students in the '70s avant-garde and hardcore Ray fans but puzzle almost everyone else. Sincere notice round the fest circuit and airings on Turner Classic Movies must provide a modest PR boost for eventual DVD/digital release.our editor recommendsNicholas Ray: Digital digital rebel Getting a CameraThe Venice Film Festival to Recognition Nicholas RayNicholas Ray retrospective begins This summer time 24Oscilloscope to produce Nicholas Ray's Last Film 'We Can't Return Home Again' Even though it is promoted just like a film with the director of Digital digital rebel Without Any Cause and Johnny Guitar, onscreen credits the film is "by us" -- as well as the claim of collective authorship fits an item whose narrative, such since it is, is thin and scattered enough to own been stitched together from bull periods and publish-'60s political positions. The film emerges from interplay involving the wizened, fight-broken Ray and also the 1971 class at NY's Binghamton College. Early moments create a confrontational meeting involving the two, and subsequent material, zigzagging between scripted dialogues and self-conscious behind-the-moments footage, focuses largely round the curiosity each feels for your other. The majority of the youthful filmmakers are, not remarkably, pretty poor stars, and several recruits (as being a journalist roped into becoming a shoot's soundman) display similarly low aptitude for your technical finish of things. Audiences wanting to suss out an overarching story will probably be disappointed, finding rather a kind of fictionalized self-portrait of figures searching for meaning throughout among America's most confused eras. More interesting, though equally time-capule-ant, will be the movie's stylistic affectations, many of which endure a lot better than others. Individual moments frequently alternate between conventional shots although some that have been heavily changed using primitive video effects at other moments, sloppy noodling on keyboards produces a proto-electronica soundtrack. Most critical might be the image's multi-screen format, through which static photographs be the cryptic frame around a black central area where moments overlap each other aimlessly, frequently pairing staged footage with documentary or stock images of political protest. This kitchen-sink experimentation may befuddle most audiences, nevertheless it will most likely make them sustain fascination with a tale which will otherwise lose them in the half-hour. Venue: NY Film Festival (Oscilloscope) Production Company: Nicholas Ray Foundation Cast: Nicholas Ray, Richie Bock, Tom Farrell, Jill Ganon, Jane Heymann, Leslie Wynne Levinson Director-producer: Nichola Ray Screenwriters: Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray Principal Crew: Steve Anker, Richard Bock, Peer Bode, Charlie Bornstein, Doug Cohen, Danny Fisher, Stanley Liu, Luke Oberle, Helene Kaplan Wright No rating, 95 minutes Nicholas Ray

Second Time No Charm For Playboy Club Charlies Angels & Prime Suspect: What Went Wrong?

NBC’s The Playboy Club and Prime Suspect and ABC’s Charlie’s Angels had a few things to keep beginning this fall. Highly identifiable game game titles, a minimum of, simply because they all were based on well-known brands. And so they all got round the air after 2 consecutive types of development. This is their explanation share another factor: these launched to disappointingly low ratings and so are searching lower the cancellation barrel. How did which happen? Just recently, things were trying to find for your 3 series. Besides pre-offered game game titles, all were backed by extensive marketing campaigns and many types of stood a strong marketing hook. For Playboy Club, it absolutely was the Playboy empire which put its support by hosting pre-launch parties within the Playboy mansion and undertaking a unique cover of Playboy magazine marketing the show’s launch. For Charlie’s Angels, it absolutely was Came Barrymore’s participation becoming an executive producer. (She even came out just like a presenter within the Emmys alongside the series’ stars.) Prime Suspect stood a well-known film actress, Maria Bello, since the lead. In addition, inside their path to the screen, all 3 drams made an appearance to follow along with together with the effective formula of CBS’s Hawaii Five-. CBS initially put the reboot in the classic procedural in development through the 2008-09 development season with Erection dysfunction Bernero since the author. The project didnt visit pilot, as well as the following season, CBS attempted again with new authors: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Peter Lenkov. The script sailed using the pilot stage as well as the show showed up on CBS 2010 fall schedule. Similarly, Playboy Club, Charlie’s Angels and Prime Suspect were initially developed throughout the 2010-10 season with assorted authors: Charlies Angels was put together by Josh Friedman, Prime Suspect by Hank Steinberg and Playboy (then Bunny Tales) by Becky Mode. Undertake and don't visited pilot but, similar to CBS did with Hawaii Five- the last year, ABC and NBC needed another stab within the 3 concepts the following season with new authors. Al Gough and Miles Millar were attracted onto produce a completely new Charlies Angels script, Alexandra Cunningham to pen Prime Suspect and Chad Hodge to produce Playboy. And like Hawaii Five-, Charlie’s Angels, Playboy Club and Prime Suspect sailed even though pilot stage inside their second try, landing round the fall agendas. Nevertheless the 3 new shows’ path needed another turn. If the launched last fall, Hawaii Five- did solid business together with a few several days later, the series sealed a lucrative off-network distribution purchase. Meanwhile, Playboy Club, Charlie’s Angeles and Prime Suspect came an underwhelming 1.3, 1.5 and 1.5 18-49 rating, correspondingly, inside their second week and so are teetering near cancellation. Only 2 series did worse Monday-Thursday round the Large 4 systems now, both on NBC: DOA new comedy Free Agents (1.) and sophomore drama Harry’s Law (1.2). Why didn’t Playboy Club, Charlie’s Angeles and Prime Suspect work? The bottom line is, these weren't so compelling television shows. But there has been individual reasons too. To describe Leo Tolstoy’s famous opening line from Anna Karenina, effective shows are alike, every not effective show increased to become flop its way. For Playboy, there's inadequacies in clearness who the show is ideal for. Getting a well known males’s magazine inside the title as well as the commitment of scantly-clad bunnies, the series made an appearance being concentrating on males. Nevertheless it was at its core a girl cleaning cleaning soap. The confusion having its mixed identity was clearly visible inside the pilot, which made an appearance as though a cleaning cleaning soap, felt as being a cleaning cleaning soap and socialized like one until it out of the blue veered into dark territory getting a wiped out mafia boss’ body being left inside the river. Getting low-rated reality series The Sing-Off just like a lead-in didn’t help Playboy Club‘s fortunes, either. And much as watchdog the oldsters Television Council really wants to accept credit for your show’s demise, its campaign was virtually no factor. Entrepreneurs abandoned Playboy Club since it might be a very low-rated show therefore it wasn't worth the aggravation to become berated with the PTC for ads that didn’t get much bang for your buck anyway. Had Playboy been popular, it absolutely was doubtful that any entrepreneurs would’ve left the show which hardly features any nudity or particularly racy content. Playboy Club also experienced from critiques for the other new drama series occur the sixties, ABC’s Pan AmThat looked more eye-catching and glossy, stood a feature star since the lead, Christina Ricci, combined with ABC’s marketing machine at full-throttle. That’s not to imply that NBC didn’t support Playboy Club, it really seems that ABC attracted all the stops in marketing Pan Am, beginning by getting a more sophisticated stint at Comic-Disadvantage. Charlie’s Angels too was at Comic-Disadvantage where it held a screening, a thing that may have really hurt the show since the Charlie’s Angels reboot experienced mostly from bad individual to individual and pretty abysmal reviews that trashed the show’s writing, pointing and acting. The main gripe in regards to the remake could it have been needed itself too seriously who've labored for your original thirty years ago these days it came through as stiff and comical for your wrong reasons. The cheesy route the 2000 movie remake starring Barrymore needed may have labored better. For Prime Suspect, the consensus could it be looks a smaller amount like the original British series together with a a great deal a lot more like another Law & Order show. Indeed, Bello’s Jane Timoney character is not dissimilar to Law & Order: SVU‘s Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson. Within the defense, the remake was limited to sitting on an U.S. broadcast network. An entire-blown version of Helen Mirren’s deeply problematic character wonderful her daemons and destructive destructive addictions probably belonged on Showtime, this really is this is not on NBC. In addition, it made an appearance like we’ve seen the premise on U.S. television before — with Kyra Sedgwick’s character within the center, TNT’s The Closer remains broadly recognized to since the unofficial American version of Prime Suspect, especially at the beginning of its run. Still, word is always that NBC’s chief Bob Greenblatt want to supply the fighting show, which got mostly reviews which are positive, just a little more hours. It's too soon to judge any extended-term effect within the demise of three high-profile series with pre-offered game game titles in a single fall season. But for the moment, it seems like the broadcast systems are scaling back on high-profile series remakes and brand exploitations for next season, with only numerous such shows inside the works, including CBS’ Bewitched reboot and two Beauty as well as the Animal projects: a remake in the eighties series within the CW together with a retelling in the classic fairytale at ABC.