Silence From The Lamb Is Going To Be Maintained

National Film Registry list announcedHannibal Lecter is going to be opening a celebratory bottle of Chianti and finding a partner to possess for lunch in the news that Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller The Silence From The Lamb is area of the National Film Registry's typically eclectic listing of films to become Maintained Forever.-Introduced through the Library of Congress across water-feature, their email list is definitely published around this time around of the year and films result in the cut because, based on Librarian of Congress James H Billington, they're "selected due to their long lasting significance to American culture. Our film heritage should be protected because they motion picture treasures document our culture and history and reflect our hopes and dreams."What exactly other "treasures" take presctiption there aside from the psychopathic slitherings of Physician Lecter? Robert Zemeckis' still-divisive, Oscar-gathering Forrest Gump for just one, and Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Little One for an additional.Also out there? Disney's Bambi (1942), Billy Wilder's consuming drama The Lost Weekend (1945), George Pal's 1953 undertake HG Wells' The War From The Mobile phone industry's and John Ford's Western epic The Iron Equine (1924).And it's not only large, well-known game titles, either: more obscure work for example 1971 documentary Becoming An Adult Female and child work drama The Cry Of Kids from 1912 can also be on the website. We are especially pleased to observe that Erectile dysfunction Catmull's ground-breaking work, Some Type Of Computer Animated Hands can also be present, which, while it may be merely a minute lengthy, showcases a method that's among the roots of present day effects technology and area of the DNA for Pixar.To look into the full list, have a look in the LA Times' set of the announcement.*Mayan apocalypse not enduring, obviously.

Nick Frost on Tintin, Spielberg Love, The World's End, and Snow White and the Huntsman

comments: 0 || add yours In the decade or so since Nick Frost first made a name for himself on the BBC comedy series Spaced, much has happened. For starters, he’s not waiting tables at that Mexican restaurant. He’s moved with ease from television to film, most famously in genre riffs Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (with Spaced comrades Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg), and in the alien geek ode Paul (which he co-wrote and stars in with Pegg). Also notably, Frost has ventured out from the fold in films like Pirate Radio and the forthcoming Snow White and the Huntsman. And, with this week’s The Adventures of Tintin, he notches another milestone: Working with his hero, Steven. Steven Spielberg. Frost, Wright, and Pegg may be stretching their wings a bit after coming to prominence as “The Guys Who Made Spaced/Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/Etc.” but they all come together, with buddy Joe Cornish (whose directing debut, this year’s Attack the Block, features Frost as a dope dealer), in Spielberg’s motion-capture adventure adaptation Tintin — Wright and Cornish scripting, with Pegg and Frost as the comically bumbling Scotland Yard detectives Thomson and Thompson. Movieline spoke with Pegg in NY about his ten years since Spaced, maintaining the Wright-Pegg “unit” while establishing himself as his own entity, his directorial aspirations, working on the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman, completing the “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy, how he really feels about Indiana Jones 4, and why he missed his first phone call from Spielberg for a very, very good reason. You, along with Simon, got to do a riff on Star Wars, he’s in Star Trek, and now you’re working with Spielberg… What was the riff on Star Wars — the College Humor thing we did? Yes, in which you betrayed a deep, deep knowledge of the Star Wars universe. I was quite impressed with my sad droid noise. Do you want me to do it for you? Please! [Makes mewling R2-D2 noise] It’s so evocative. Yeah, it is! It’s just one little noise and you think, he’s crying! He’s sad. That’s what that noise says. So what remains to cross off of your geek bucket list? I don’t know, what have we had — zombies… have there been any ghosts? Aliens, we’ve had a space ship. I don’t know, I think I’d like to do lots and lots of things but I’m not necessarily going to glue myself to the genre side of it. I think it’d be quite daft to do that. I think it’s possible to have your cake and eat it, and we’ve been very lucky that we have been allowed to do what we want. And now, because of that, we are able to branch out — Simon doing Mission: Impossible, Edgar doing Scott Pilgrim, and this… We’re pretty lucky. Looking back, it has been about 10 years since the end of Spaced, and the three of you have come so far since then. Yeah, right? I was just saying, it was like 10 years ago I was serving shitty food to fucking horrible businessmen in a Mexican restaurant… Wait — during Spaced? Yeah, after the first series I went back to work there. That was quite odd. Sometimes people would ask for the bill and then say, “Are you Mike from Spaced?” [Hangs head] “Yes… yes, I am.” Ten years is the kind of milestone that makes you look back and reflect, isn’t it? Yes — I read something in the Times a few months ago that 10 years, or 10,000 hours, is what you need to master anything. An instrument, a language, to become a good dentist… Anything you want to do, you can learn to be great at it in 10 years, or 10,000 hours. What would you say you’ve learned in the last decade? You know what, I watch a lot. I watch what everyone does, and I’m interested in what everyone does on a set. I didn’t train as an actor so I think it would be quite stupid of me to just act, you know? I want to direct a film, films, I want to produce. Me and Simon have always said this is about the long game. This is it now, forever — this is my job. This is what I love doing. So I think it’s silly just to sit around and wait for the phone to ring, for someone to offer you a part. I might as well write it myself and shoot it myself. And you have all thrived in the arena of creating opportunities for yourself, it seems. Yeah, but that can be a double-edged sword actually, because people can also look at that and the unit that we are a part of and say, “Well, that’s all they do.” So people will not offer you things because they think you wouldn’t do it because you just hang out in this kind of unit. You think this happens to you because of the Spaced gang? Absolutely, I do. You do have this very close partnership, which people know you for, but you must also need to define yourselves separately. And that’s what it seems like you, Simon, and Edgar are all doing right now. Absolutely. And there’s no time limit on it. As long as we’re happy and working, you can go on forever in this job. Edgar and Joe [Cornish] wrote this, but how exactly did you and Simon come to be cast in Tintin? Simon met with Steven — Spielberg… Ah, yes. That Steven. [Smiles] I’ve been doing that a lot in the past few weeks, just in case people didn’t know that I’ve been working with Steven Spielberg… [Laughs] I think Simon had a meeting with Steven, potentially to see if he would come onboard with Edgar and Joe, after Steven did his draft, to see if maybe he wanted to have a little go at the script. But that just didn’t work out, and then I think Steven said to Simon, “Do you want to be in it?” Simon did a little fanboy squeal, and shut his legs as if he was going to do a wee, and then I think Steven said to him, “Well, do you know anyone that you work with, well, that you’d want?” That guy wasn’t available, so he came to me. That was that! No hesitation, I assume, in taking the job? For me? No! Not at all! Well, his office rang me up one night, one evening. It was like 9 o’clock at night. They said, “Steven’s going to ring you in 10 minutes if you could be available,” but I was cooking my wife’s dinner. She wasn’t in, I was cooking her a meal. And it got to a really crucial point in the preparation which meant I could not answer that phone call without ruining my wife’s dinner. So I dropped it — I dropped the call! How romantic! [Laughs] It was a really confused message from Steven saying, “Um… hey, Nick. Did my office phone you? Anyway, give me a call back.” I phoned the office back and he’d gone to a meeting and I was thinking, “I’ve really fucked this up.” But eventually we got to talk to one another and, you know, we did it. I was so pleased! He’s a hero, he’s an icon of mine in terms of filmmaking, and a lot of my cinematic touchstones are films that he’s made. That said, you can’t bring that with you on set. I think me and Simon allowed ourselves like two hours of fanboy dancing, and then… Then you put on your professional hat. Yeah, absolutely. That said, sometimes we’d be sitting around the monitor and Steven would be telling a story about how they shot something in Close Encounters and I’d kind of nudge Simon under the table, and we knew that both of us were thinking, “This is fucking amazing” When I spoke with a few of the Super 8 kids earlier this year they had pretty much the same story. Oh, cool! I watched that this morning, again. I think it’s great, I love it. It does evoke that magical something in Spielberg’s films, doesn’t it? Yeah! Well, you know, we tried to do it on Paul and J.J. did it — it’s just a big, lovely love letter to Steven. I think it says a lot about Steven’s legacy to people of J.J.’s and my age and Simon’s age that it stayed with us, it affected us through our lives. As a self-avowed Spielberg fan, let me ask you this: How do you feel about Indiana Jones 4? [Takes a sip of tea] Well, you know. It’s tricky, obviously… but it’s still an Indiana Jones film. It’s still Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones! I still got that feeling when I heard the music. It’s an Indiana Jones film, you know? It’s a Steven Spielberg film. [Pauses] Yes, it’s different. It’s the same kind of things about the original Star Wars films and Phantom Menace. But that said, I am a fan of the originals. Clearly. There are generations of teenagers who prefer the new ones, and that doesn’t make them any less valid. They’re just different. If I’m trying to be democratic about things… and it’s the same with Indiana Jones 4. I liked it. It was weird, and it was different, but it was unmistakably a Steven Spielberg film, and that’s fine with me. You just finished filming another movie. Tell me about your experience on Snow White and the Huntsman — or, as the fans call it, SWATH. SWATH! It was great. I saw a picture of you and your fellow dwarfs in your dwarf gear and your dwarf hair. Yeah, they shaved me bald every day just to put hair on me, which was weird. It was like, well, I had hair anyway, and you shaved it all off… to then put a wig on. You’re in great company with the other seven dwarfs. What was that cast like? It was fantastic! I got to hang out with Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Harris, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, for God’s sake. I got to just sit around and listen to those guys tell stories. I like the idea of Kristen Stewart, of all people, sitting in the middle of that group of men — and also the colliding of worlds, your universe and fan base overlapping with Twilight. Exactly! I was sitting next to Bob Hoskins and Bella Swan! Please tell me you and Bob Hoskins and Kristen Stewart talked Twilight on set. Not really. I think she’d be pretty sick to the bloody back teeth of listening about Twilight. On set she’s another actress, and a lot of the time actors just talk about nothing. Talk about shit, they just chew the fat. That’s what you do! And did you sign on for multiple SWATH films as well? Three, yeah. We’ll see where it goes. We were talking about it on set the other day, where it would start and what it would be. We’ll have to see how well it does, I guess. But I think we’d all love to do another one. We had a real laugh every day. Lastly, you’ve been talking about finishing the trilogy that begun with Shaun of the Dead and continued with Hot Fuzz. What’s the latest development — do you know when you might do it? We’d rather do it sooner than later. There is a script in place, and it’s just a question of finding the time when we can all fit it in, and when it works. But we are all really keen to just crack on. Next year has been bandied around, maybe, but I couldn’t tell you. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. Tagged: blood and ice cream trilogy, bob hoskins, edgar wright, joe cornish, kristen stewart, nick frost, paul, secret of the unicorn, simon pegg, snow white and the huntsman, spaced, steven spielberg, the adventures of tintin, the world's end, twilight

Empire's Spider-Man Cover Unveiled

Spidey unmasks for our epic 2012 previewIf you're one of those people who gets the heebie-jeebies at the first glimpse of an arachnid, Empire's new cover may not be for you. Everyone else, prepare to marvel at the cover star leading off the latest issue's improbably awesome 2012 preview. Who better to blaze a trail into the new year than The Amazing Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield's young Spidey? No-one, that's who.{Amazing Spider-Man Cover}Marc Webb's superhero reboot is just the tip of the issue's ginormous preview-shaped iceberg. We've also run the rule on The Avengers, The Hunger Games, Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, The Hobbit and Battleship. That last one is more Peter Berg than iceberg. Yes, 2012 could be the biggest year for movies ever. Basically, if you've got Olympics tickets, sell 'em now: it's cinema for the gold. Get hold of the February issue of Empire, onsale from December 20, for more. The Amazing Spider-Man, meanwhile, swings into cinemas on July 4.

NATPE attendance on the rise

The sea air in Miami Beach has been good for NATPE. The TV sales confab is reporting growing attendance numbers (5,000-plus), with more than 600 buyers signed on, and upwards of 250 exhibitors for the January expo, which is entering its second year in Miami after diminishing returns at its Las Vegas edition two years ago prompted it to make a change. "All the numbers will be significantly better than they were last year," said Rick Feldman, prexy and CEO of the National Assn. of Television Program Executives. In a conference call with journos on Tuesday, Feldman said that there had been concerns early on about the turmoil in the global economy affecting the conference, which has a much more international flavor since its move to Miami. "In 2008, 2009, a lot of the jobs weren't looking so great, but as we go into 2012 -- while it's hard to be optimistic about the world from an econoimc standpoint -- it doesn't seem to have affected the ad spend or the creation of original video content," Feldman said, noting that plenty of biz got done at Mipcom earlier this year. On a nuts-and-bolts note, the exec swore to address the interminable waits for the elevators serving most of the exhibitors' suites. The group booked half the space in the high-rise that it had last year and has added meeting rooms across the street; it's also booked a lounge and roped off a section of the bar at the Fontainebleau, where most industryites will be staying. The NATPE honcho said the confab, which runs Jan. 23-25, is locked in to Miami for 2013, with an option to extend to 2014. Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

Exclusive: The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Talks about OWN 2.

The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Oprah's Next Chapter, The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey's extended-anticipated weekly interview show, may ultimately debut on OWN around the month of the month of january 1, the initial anniversary in the fledgling network. Winfrey shares her plans for your cable funnel and what she'd "do over."TV Guide Magazine: How can Oprah's Next Chapter change from the fabulously effective The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Show?The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey: I am in the chair. I've been longing not to link for the studio and restricted to who'd showed up at see me but being moving using the world exploring new ideas and meeting new people. I like that we are not marketing a completely new Compact disk, a movie or possibly a magazine, just obtaining a conversation hopefully will elevate viewer awareness.TV Guide Magazine: Who're the folks you visit and why them?Winfrey: I'm picking people who interest me but will interest others, like Steven Tyler, George Lucas and [pastor] Joel Osteen. I'm prone to Haiti with Sean Penn also to India with Deepak Chopra.TV Guide Magazine: Furthermore you consult with a Hasidic Jewish family. Spirituality seems for hooking up plenty of your choices. Why Steven Tyler because the first guest? Winfrey: I used to be drawn to him as they introduced an unforeseen quality towards the The American Idol Show Show after Simon Cowell left. Personally, being spiritual is dealing with an empty heart. What's fascinating in my opinion about Steven Tyler is he spoke the truth. We'd a conversation about how precisely hard it's as a rock star not to exist in just your ego.TV Guide Magazine: How hard yearly has this been to suit your needs, trying to produce a 24/7 cable network? It needs to are actually harder than you realized, no? Winfrey: It's been challenging and eye opening. I walked in thinking, 'Oh, it'll be about programming.' There's however a lot more layers to building e-commerce, including searching to obtain affiliate entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs. I am focusing on my small strength, that's my link to everyone else. This show is my approach to building outreach because way, as was Existence Class, which I am likely to be taking to schools across the country. If anybody needs direction inside their existence, it's a college kid!TV Guide Magazine: Clearly, many individuals respond to your self on an in-depth level. Isn't the task to acquire audiences to retort by doing this to suggests that you're this really is this is not on?Winfrey: Don't assume all show should really do that. Some shows must lead you to smile. We are building one show at any time. I realize you'll probably request, a few things i would do over essentially could. From the very first day, I mentioned, let's not blow our horns too noisy. If I'd it to accomplish over, I'd do is exactly what I am attempting to complete now: build one evening, one show at any time. I'd have mentioned, 'Give us a couple of years to make a whole network, but at this time around things i am doing is Saturday evening or Sunday evening. After I am ready, watch me Tuesday and Wednesday nights.' That's part of the learning curve.TV Guide Magazine: What can you miss most about forget about doing The The famous host the famous host oprah Show? Winfrey: Interaction while using audience. I didn't realize how connected I used to be compared to that relationship. Taking Existence Class on the road will restore numerous that.TV Guide Magazine: Are you currently presently concentrating on any projects besides OWN?Winfrey: I'm also thinking seriously about movies again and looking out at scripts. I have some approaching projects at Cinemax that i'm really searching toward acting in.TV Guide Magazine: Are you able to say you're tolerant of not able to OWN? Winfrey: I will not be frustrated. That is the main one factor about being well-known and looking to accomplish anything. Once I did The Color Crimson, Steven Spielberg trained me you can't believe the truly amazing [press] unless of course obviously you're also ready to believe unhealthy. This can be a effective lesson due to not receiving distracted by praise - or critique. You can't allow either of those to affect your eyesight from the products you understand is true to suit your needs. That's the way in which personally i think at this time around. My factor is remain on the right course that will help you stay the course.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Five Reasons To See 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'

Spies have had it bad as of late. If they aren't the hollow centers of this week's generic action movie, they're one half of an on-screen couple in a shallow quadrant-hitting action comedy. James Bond may be the only redeeming representative left from the shadowy profession, and even he can err on the side of dumb on a bad day. Just when it seems like the glory days of shadowy figures in trench coats, listening in on tapped phone conversations are long gone, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" comes along. It's a slow, nuanced and complicated film that most people wouldn't classify as a thriller, but don't let that fool you. Gary Oldman and his legion of brilliant supporting British actors, along with the Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, have crafted a brilliant, suspense-filled tale worthy of your money and attention. Here are five reasons to check out "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy." The Story Based on the classic book by spymaster John le Carré, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" weaves a complex hunt for a Soviet mole in British Intelligence, or "The Circus," as it's called in the film. Gary Oldman plays le Carré's most iconic character, George Smiley, who is tasked with discovering which of the Circus' top four men has been leaking intel to the Communists and sabotaging British operations. It may sound like standard espionage fare, but le Carré fills out the boilerplate spy plot with textured and sad characters that put the legend of James Bond super-spy to bed. "Pay Attention!" When was the last time you felt genuinely confused during a movie? Usually when some uncertainty about the story, its characters and their motivations arises, people will scream "bad film making." It's a mistake too regularly made, but in the right hands, in this case those of Alfredson and the screenwriters Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O'Connor, confusion is a storytelling element. They use it purposely to paint a more vivid, lifelike landscape. There is a rather clear, straightforward story here, but just like Smiley, it takes concentration and time to sort the red herrings from the answers. The Setting All of this unravels in a time that's been mostly left behind by the genre. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" takes place at the height of the Cold War, and the locale becomes so much more than just another detail of the film. Production designer Maria Djurkovic deserves an Academy Award for the beautiful, detailed and cold world she built for the spies of British Intelligence. It may seem like a minor contribution to praise, but the look of this film is a character unto itself, adding to the suspense and overall effect of the film. Gary Oldman Known for his over-the-top villains and more recently, kindly wizards and police commissioners, Gary Oldman turns in a staggeringly understated performance as George Smiley. He is as effective as ever, but uses an entirely different set of tools to get his character across. This is the kind of performance that should earn an Oscar, but won't because its successes so seamlessly blend with the quiet of the role and the character. Everyone Else There is not a weak link in the bunch: Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Ciarán Hinds. This is British acting royalty, and each one of them turns in a controlled, menacing performance that will keep the audience on edge and questioning throughout the entire film. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" features one of the best performances by an ensemble of this and any year. The acting meets the general quality of the filmmaking here, and the result is one of the year's best films. Are you planning to see "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" this weekend? Let us know in the comments section and on Twitter!

AFM to stay in Santa Monica thru 2017

The American Film Market will stay in Santa Monica through 2017, spurning attempts to move the beachside film market to downtown Los Angeles. The Independent Film & Television Alliance made the announcement Thursday. It said new agreements will keep the AFM at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, its home since 1991, with additional exhibition space continuing at JW Marriott's Le Merigot Beach Hotel and with conferences continuing at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows. "We tirelessly explored every option to ensure the AFM would have the best long-term home," said IFTA Chairman Paul Hertzberg in a statement. "We look forward to many more successful Markets with the beach as our backdrop." IFTA had confirmed in September that it was negotiating to relocate the 2013 AFM to L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. The association pointed out in September that relocating to downtown Los Angeles would mean lower hotel and exhibition costs for both buyers and sellers and better screening venues at the Regal Cinemas and Nokia Theater -- and that by 2014, there will be more hotel rooms surrounding L.A. Live than in the Loews Santa Monica area. But the prospect of a move from Santa Monica provoked resistance at last month's AFM, including an online petition that included reps of IFDC, Artists View, Constantin, UFO, W2 and Imagem with signers asserting that going downtown would restrict partricipants ability to meet easily. "This will divide participants who will have to run all day long in order to attend to their meetings," the petition said. "This will simply be exhausting, not to mention creating a more stressful environment generally. And, as a consequence, participants may choose to shorten their stay which will deeply affect the business of the market. A less competitive market will lead to less attendance and, ultimately, to the extinction of the market." The petition also noted that the Independent Spirit Awards tried in 2010 to move from Santa Monica to downtown L.A., but then moved back to the beach last year. "We do not want to be parked in soulless spaces in the middle of a crowded downtown L.A.," it said. "We want to meet and do our business serenely if possible. Comfort and prestige are the keys to a successful market." IFTA President-CEO Jean Prewitt said Thursday in statement, "Our stated goal from the start of this process has been to provide the best environment, resources and value for the world's buyers and sellers and, after long and careful deliberations, we believe remaining in Santa Monica will achieve all of those goals." IFTA noted in the announcement that Santa Monica will be "transformed" by a variety of public improvements and development projects that will significantly enhance AFM including: -- AMC Entertainment's cinema complex with 12 screens, including an Imax theater, anticipated to open in late 2014 or early 2015. -- The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium will be rehabilitated and expanded, providing a venue for red-carpet premieres and expected to be completed in late 2014. -- at least 700 hotel rooms will be added to the downtown area, including mid-priced hotels from Marriott and Hampton Inn. -- a light Metro Rail terminal at Fourth Street and Colorado Avenue, a five-minute walk from the Loews, expected to be operational in 2015. -- a seven-acre park on Ocean Avenue directly across from the Loews is scheduled for completion in late 2013 along with an adjoining new mixed-use urban village with restaurants and shops for 2014. Dates for the upcoming AFMs are October 31 Nov. 2012; Nov. 6 - 13, 2013; Nov. 5 - 12, 2014; Nov. 4 - 11, 2015; Nov. 2 - 9, 2016; and Nov. 1 - 8, 2017. IFTA said that research from the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates that the AFM will contribute more than $100 million to the local economy over the next six years. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Norways Morten Tyldum To Helm What Went Down To Monday? As First British-Language Pic

Morten Tyldum, whose Norwegian thriller Headhunters grew to become probably the most effective title in Norwegian box office history this season, has signed onto helm Vendome Pictures’ advanced thriller What Went Down To Monday?, which is the director’s first British-language project. Headhunters, according to Jo Nesbo’s best-selling crime novel, received lots of buzz if this performed in Cannes this season, and WME signed Tyldum throughout the festival younger crowd is repped by Anonymous Content. (Magnolia Pictures already has United States privileges to Headhunters and it has set a spring release date within the U.S.) What Went Down To Monday?, having a Black List script by Max Botkin, involves identical septuplet siblings who find it difficult to stay hidden within an overpopulated world in which a one-child policy dictates that brothers and sisters are illegal. Raffaella P Laurentiis via Raffaella Productions developed the project it'll produce alongside Vendome Boss Philippe Rousselet. Vendome devoted to finance the project in December.

Jonah Hill on '21 Jump Street': 'If It Wasn't Me, I'd Probably Be Talking S**t'

One of the best surprises of 2011: that hilarious red-band trailer for '21 Jump Street,' which made the halls of Moviefone HQ echo with guttural laughter. Who knew what seemed like such a cynical nostalgia grab could be so funny? Well, probably Jonah Hill since he wrote the script. In a new interview with Moviefone sister site AOL TV, Hill admits that he understands the trepidation some might feel toward the new film, because he'd feel the same way. "[I]t was never my intention to remake anything," Hill told AOL TV. "If it wasn't me, I'd probably be talking sh-t about me for remaking 'Jump Street.' But I loved the idea that it's totally different -- it's not '80s, it's not spoof, it's just the idea of two young-looking cops going back to high school. I'm willing to do anything if it's good, but I'm not looking to re-make more stuff." Hill, who can be seen in animated form this Sunday during the season finale of 'Allen Gregory,' also discussed how Channing Tatum came to be his co-star in '21 Jump Street.' "I completely chose Channing and I called him up myself and offered him the part." Check out the full interview over at AOL TV. [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Judy Lewis dies at 76

Judy Lewis, the identity of whose biological parents -- Clark Gable and Loretta Young -- was one of the best-kept secrets in Hollywood for decades and became an actress and producer in her own right, died Friday in the Philadelphia suburb of Gladwyne. She was 76. Not until Lewis acknowledged her story in the 1994 autobiography "Uncommon Knowledge" did the general public know the truth: Lewis was not the adopted daughter of Hollywood starlet Loretta Young but had been conceived out of wedlock by Young and Gable while the two were shooting 1935 film "The Call of the Wild." Lewis was an adult when she learned that Young, a devout Roman Catholic, conceived her during an affair with the married Gable in the 1930s. "At the time, what Loretta Young did was completely successful," said Leonard Maltin, a film critic and Hollywood historian. "The general public never had any inkling that she had done this. It protected her stardom and her image as a wholesome young woman." Lewis was born in Venice, Calif., and went on to perform on Broadway and television in her own career. She also produced the soap opera "Texas," a spinoff of "Another World." In the 1980s, she earned psychology degrees, advocating for children's rights and counseling teenagers. She later became a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, a career she pursued until her illness. In her book "Uncommon Knowledge," Lewis wrote that Young kept her sequestered with a nurse for months after her birth, and that she was then turned over to an orphanage. When she was 2, Young brought her home as her adopted daughter. Before her memoir was published, the identity of her parents had long been rumored. Maltin said the truth was never truly public, however, until the memoir, in which Lewis describes her mother telling her the truth in 1966. Lewis' survivors include her daughter, three half-brothers and her partner, Steve Rowland. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Herman Cain Hits Cable News Rounds as Woman Alleges 13-Year Affair (Video)

The year is almost over, but it's not too late for a late contender for the most ridiculous lawsuit of 2011. This one comes at the cross section of Michael Jackson fandom and the sometimes conspiracy-breeding domain of law known as copyright. A man is suing MSNBC for airing an interview with Dr. Conrad Murray on the theory that it infringed his work-in-progress animation film.our editor recommendsHollywood's Notable DeathsMichael Jackson's Bed Pulled From Auction Everett Watson filed the lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court in Texas, saying that he spent two years working on a film script that was to be titled, Murder of Michael Jackson: The Perfect Murder. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Sony wouldn't look at his script, citing a policy of not examining unsolicited submissions, but Watson allegedly found a law firm to take a look at it after handing over a $550 retainer fee and agreeing to pay $275 an hour. Unfortunately, paying the firm has convinced Watson that he has a "partial agreement with the firm to produce and market the film." Earlier this month, MSNBC aired its interview with Murray after the physician was found guilty by a jury of involuntary manslaughter. The interview touched off a debate about "checkbook journalism" and led to a lawsuit from Murray's creditors attempting to gain money from Murray's participation. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Riches to Rags: 18 Stars Who Have Lost It All Now comes Watson's error-prone, punctuation-happy complaint, which pretty much sums up all the most unfortunate reasons why Hollywood needs lawyers in this day and age: "My script involves the death of Michael Jackson. The c.p.r. attempt. The transporting of Michael Jackson to the hospital! The discovery of the propofol! The quest to find out who gives Michael the propofol! It covers other suspects. It reveals Conrad Murray as a potential suspect without a clear motive then goes on to present a possible motive for the murder...Conrad Murray had no right to sell any story under the guise of A documentary to anyone. That story is copyrighted. There are so many elements in [the MSNBC special that are protected from reproduction by anyone without my consent it has to prevented from further broadcast or I will not be able to profit from my work." E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's Notable Deaths Michael Jackson MSNBC

Gotham Honours 2011: 'Tree of Existence,' 'Beginners' Tie for the best Feature

This story made an appearance within the 12 ,. 2 problem from the Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommendsVictoria's Secret Model Adriana Lima Survives Lingerie Show Without Food or WaterVictoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011: Within the Star-Studded Celebration (Photos) Will we possess the gun?" Todd Thomas, the gathering designer for that 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, set to air November. 29 on CBS, inspects a lavender tulle tutu worn by supermodel Lily Aldridge, wife of Nobleman of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill. "The gun," is really a glue gun. And Thomas, that has seen his share of runway incidents throughout nearly ten years with Victoria's Secret, needs it to tack up under-layers of tulle which have come loose within the back, slightly covering Aldridge's g-stringed derriere. PHOTOS: Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011 It's 5 days prior to the November. 9 runway show, contributing to 30 individuals are jammed right into a small room around the twelfth floor from the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Victoria's Secret. Thomas, Sophia Neophitou, the British fashion editor who came aboard as mind stylist this past year, and Monica Mitro, executive vice president brand communications and occasions along with a 17-year veteran of Victoria's Secret, are furiously trying to place the final touches on 69 looks to become worn by 36 models, as part of your have walked the runway in the annual under garments spectacle. Today's fitting is its very own media event installers, night stands and assistants jockey for space within the stuffy room with photography enthusiasts, reporters and video deck hands. "You will find many people here today, darling," states Neophitou, lifting her mane of gray-flecked black curls from her neck. The home windows are tossed open inside a futile make an effort to lower the temperature within the room. STORY: Victoria's Secret Model Adriana Lima Survives Lingerie Show Without Food or Water Aldridge's lavender tutu is combined with a black velvet corset, diaphanous lavender push-up bra and red-colored satin heels with ballet straps. "Are you able to walk for me personally pretty girl?" asks Neophitou. Aldridge flounces toward Thomas, Neophitou and Mitro. Neophitou increases from her Eames swivel chair and lightly pats Aldridge's breasts. "They appear good," she purrs, "amazing." &diams&diams&diams&diams&diams Despite looks, the Victoria's Secret fashion show isn't about fashion. Yes, the fundamentals from the runway getups are brazier and panties that are offered at the local Victoria's Secret store. However, you can't buy Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio's gold-plated wings festooned with 105,000 Swarovski deposits. Broadcast in additional than 180 nations, the $12 million made-for-TV-event draws in the planet's top models featuring A-list musical visitors. Also it's all made to burnish a brandname that peddles dreams to everybody from teens to suburban average women of America. "It's be a performance-slash-lifestyle-slash-variety show and, obviously, with models putting on underwear,Inch states Francois Lee of ad purchasing firm MediaVest. The special has moved from "just extra time of the catalog to actually featuring the life-style part of the brand." "It is a marketing marvel," adds Bob Horowitz, leader of reality production house JUMA Entertainment, who because the former mind of IMG's U.S. television division has packed his share of TV special offers. The runway show began in 1995 like a modest proceeding in the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan and it has been public regularly since 2001, when ABC first use it. CBS has already established the show since 2002 but didn't air it in 2004 -- an answer towards the national outrage over Jesse Jackson's Super Bowl nipple expensive around the network. The Television special is made to send customers towards the web or the organization's 1,000-plus retail shops -- before the holidays. And delay pills work: Victoria's Secret, founded in 1977, this past year raked in internet sales of $5.5 billion. "It's the only person-hour network show devoted to some single brand," states Mitro. "It puts our brand before huge numbers of people all over the world throughout the important holiday period." CBS licenses the show from Victoria's Secret for a little more than $a million, well beneath the $20 million its smart for that Grammys. The show isn't exactly a rankings blockbuster -- 9 million audiences updated in this past year, in comparison with nearly 27 million who viewed the Grammys this season -- however it does bring more youthful audiences to CBS over fifty percent from the 2010 audience is at the 18-49 demo. "We're a large-tent broadcaster. We would like everyone," states Jack Sussman, executive vice president special offers, music and live occasions at CBS, who runs manufacture of the show. "This diversifies our portfolio of special offers." Even though it hasn't attracted an FCC indecency fine, the show has occasionally elevated the ire of watchdog groups such as the Parents Television Council. But regardless of the copious quantity of taut flesh displayed, the television special features no pixilated nudity. "You will find the periodic problems that show up suddenly," states Sussman. "But that's the good thing about postproduction." And Sussman, who states the show's viewership is 60 % women, exactly the same for the majority of broadcast TV, has their own decency filter: "Do my two teenage kids need to see it? Will my spouse watch it? And can my mother not power it down? Which show will get using that filter." The special is really a mashup of runway spectacle, musical functions, behind-the-moments fodder and vignettes about a few of the models. And contains progressively attracted top-tier musical visitors, crucial for creating buzz. The Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake, Usher and Katy Perry have been compensated to look. This season's show, held in the Lexington Armory in NY, featured performances from Nicki Minaj and Maroon 5 -- whose frontman, Adam Levine, dates Victoria's Secret model Anne Vyalitsina -- and headliner Kanye. He was became a member of onstage unexpectedly guest Jay-Z they carried out "Niggas in Paris," an F-explosive device-laced paean to fame and materialism, as Jay-Z's pregnant wife Beyonce sitting right in front row. (It had not yet been determined when the song can make it in to the broadcast.) Leslie Wexner, the septuagenarian billionaire Boss of Victoria's Secret parent Limited Brands, is really a staple in the show, also is known, and judged by, the hodgepodge of celebs it draws in. Russell Simmons, Michael Bay (that has directed Victoria's Secret advertisements), Darlene Harry, Donna Karan, Alexander Wang and former French Style editor Carine Roitfeld attended this season. Orlando Blossom, husband of Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr, might be seen entertaining demonstrably when his wife, who delivered their boy in The month of january, sauntered lower the runway putting on the gathering's now legendary $2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra -- created by London Jewelry retailers and adorned with nearly 3,400 gemstones including 142 carats of diamonds. Haute couture it's not. Maryna Linchuk used a bubble skirt that appeared as if a frosted pink donut and Shannan Click carried a bra festooned having a blinking heart on each breast. None of those outré products can be obtained at Victoria's Secret stores. Still, the show will get more national media attention than anything around the fashion runways at NY Fashion Week. "It's one giant PR stunt," states Linda Ong, leader of branding firm Truth Talking to. "It's about getting individuals to bare this very mass-market brand top-of-mind. The celebs, the million-dollar bra. They also have some model who just were built with a baby, so it's about just how much weight she lost. It's a pseudo-event. But due to the PR machine, people pay for it wants it's news." That exposure could be a career maker for models. Former Victoria's Secret spokesmodels Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks have parlayed that fame into media mogul status. "It puts huge amount of money of advertising behind you," states Ivan Bart, senior vice president of IMG Models. Victoria's Secret spokesmodels can earn $5 million annually, while individuals who don't have contracts with the organization pocket $10,000 or even more for that runway show alone, say sources. IMG Models has nine women within the runway show including Kerr, Lily Aldridge and Candace Swanepoel, all whom have lucrative contracts as Victoria's Secret spokesmodels. "By marketing the company you're getting good experience doing publicity, occasions, speaking on camera, talk shows -- everything that it requires to become a brand ambassador," states Bart. "That provides you tremendous visibility and possibilities." &diams&diams&diams&diams&diams The acrid odor of hairspray and burnt hair spreads throughout a lengthy, cavernous room around the fifth floor from the Armory. It's November. 9, your day from the runway show, and also the explosive device-sniffing at dogs from Spartan Security Services have removed reporters and photography enthusiasts who've made their distance to your hair and makeup rotation, a five-hour media op having a buffet. The models -- putting on matching short green satin robes -- mingle using the media mob while they're alternately attacked by an military yanking at their tresses and dabbing lipsticks on pillow lips. (You will find 21 makeup artists, 19 hairstylists and 50 night stands.) A paper sign clipped to some heavy blue curtain signifies the "bronzing" corner. Along with a look via a crack within the drapes discloses night stands slathering spray tan on the topless model. "Make certain the women don't have any shimmer whatsoever on our bodies,Inch admonishes mind makeup artist Tom Pecheux. In another corner, the $2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra is shown on an application while security specialist Darren Pittman stands sentinel. ("I must stick with the bra," he states.) It'll come in the Victoria's Secret holiday catalog, although it isn't likely to locate a buyer. Actually, no multimillion-dollar Fantasy Brazier continues to be bought. They finish up getting taken apart, say sources. But all that jewelry is just sewn to the Victoria's Secret Gorgeous Push-up Bra. Which particular fantasy could be yours for around $50. Through The Amounts 142: Gemstone carats in Fantasy Bra 100: CBS production staffers 50: Night stands 36: Models 9 million: Audiences this year 3: Explosive device-sniffing at dogs PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2011 Related Subjects Beyonce Jay-Z Nicki Minaj Adam Levine Adriana Lima

Berlusconis Mediaset Co-Bids For Endemol

Just days after Silvio Berlusconi left Italian politics, he’s already around the search for Large Media. Berlusconi’s Mediaset and Italian private equity finance firm Clessidra have joined some pot bid for Nederlander reality TV giant Endemol. “We have presented our offer with Clessidra,” Mediaset vice chairman (and also the former pm’s boy) Pier confirmed Thursday, based on reviews from Milan. No terms were revealed. But earlier this year Mediaset’s CFO stated the organization would invest more income in Endemol if there have been a “clear strategy” for the organization. When queried concerning the Mediaset/Clessidra bid, Endemol spokesperson Charlie Gardner told Deadline, “Our focus is around the restructuring in our debt. Individuals discussions are advancing well and that we’re confident of an optimistic outcome soon.” Mediaset presently is the owner of around another of Endemol, whose other proprietors are Goldman Sachs’ Capital Partners and John p Mol’s investment vehicle Cyrte. Time Warner lately designed a $1.4 billion unrequested offer for Endemol that the target placed on hold because it proceeds having a debt restructuring.

Miramax Announces Deal With NetMovies To Stream Films In Brazil

SAO PAULO and SANTA MONICA, November 21, 2011 NetMovies Entertainment, Inc. and Miramax today announced a multi-year licensing agreement under which NetMovies customers will have instant streaming access to numerous titles from Miramaxs prestigious film library. Countless iconic hit films and award-winning titles from Miramax, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, City of God, Amelie, There Will Be Blood and Kill Bill, will be available to NetMovies customers, beginning December 1, 2011. NetMovies customers will have instant access to these great Miramax titles, and many others, across PC, Macs, Smart TVs, connected Blu-Ray players, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones and very soon on videogame consoles. As a devoted fan of independent cinema, I could not be more excited to bring our loyal customers such classic titles as the films included in the Miramax canon. I am so happy to enter into a partnership with this company and help bring their titles to Brazilian homes. I look forward to growing this relationship even further in the future, said Daniel Topel, NetMovies founder and CEO. We are very pleased that Miramax movies will now be available to the large network of customers from Brazil devoted to NetMovies strong platform and great service, said Mike Lang, CEO of Miramax. This is another key step as we take advantage of digital channels to maximize our library around the world and bring Miramax movies to new and growing audiences, especially to such an exciting and emerging market as Brazil.

Disney Shares Surge 6% as Wall Street Brags About Earnings

Disney saw its stock rise 6 % on Friday as Wall Street experts cheered its fiscal 4th-quarter earnings which were revealed each day earlier.our editor recommendsDisney Posts 30 % Increase in Quarterly Net Gain as Amusement Parks SoarHarlem Nun Sues Disney, The new sony Declaring They Stole 'Sister Act'Euro Disney Posts Greater Fiscal Year Loss Among Opportunities The organization stated Thursday that it is quarterly revenue rose 7 percent to $10.43 billion and net gain jumped 30 % to $1.25 billion. "A resounding beat," crowed Michael Nathanson of Nomura Equity Research on Friday. "After two unimpressive quarters, Disney compensated investors who stored the belief." Nathanson upped his cost target on Disney stock by a remarkable $5 a share on Friday to $43. Disney shares rose $2.06 on Friday to $36.70. "Disney will get in the anticipation game after two disappointing quarters," echoed Michael Morris of Davenport & Co. The analyst elevated his target on Disney by $1 on Friday to $39 a share. "The operating outcome was solid where it mattered, as cable systems, parks and resorts and broadcast results arrived above anticipation," stated Anthony DiClemente of Barclays Capital. The analyst left his $44 cost target unchanged. The majority of the experts appeared impressed with Disney's amusement park and ESPN assets. "Given ESPN's greatest-ever share of the market of sports content, ESPN has generated a powerful competitive moat around its business," stated DiClemente. Even an National basketball association lockout will not harm ESPN, Disney Boss Bob Iger told the experts on Thursday, as fans and marketers will seek college basketball along with other sports to meet the increasing demand. Related Subjects Bob Iger The Wally Disney Company National basketball association ESPN

Taryn Manning Set To Star Inside A Whitened Trash Christmas

EXCLUSIVE: Taryn Manning continues to be drawn on for that lead role within the indie A Whitened Trash Christmas, a undertake the Christmas Carol story that focuses on the hardships of of the trashy, whiskey-drenched, unemployed hairstylist and mother (Manning) who's visited by three ghosts who attempt to demonstrate to her a road to a better future. Ron Carlson is pointing from the script he co-authored with Terri Kauffman. Carlson and Rachel North are creating. Manning, noted for such films as Hustle & Flow and 8 Mile, is repped by APA and MPE.

Starz Orders Another Season of Spartacus

Liam McIntyre Spartacus will probably be back for just about any third season, Starz introduced Monday. "There is no denying the impact Spartacus has received in the marketplace with fans all over the world thirsting for your continuation in the epic tale," mentioned Carmi Zlotnick, an expert while using premium cable outlet. Spartacus returns getting a Vengeance within the month of the month of january The other day, the network introduced that Season 2 in the series, titled Spartacus: Vengeance, would debut Jan. 27. It marks Liam McIntyre's debut inside the title role, altering Andy Whitfield who died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. "We are thrilled get to an early on agreement that allows the authors and talent to acquire to be employed in planning season three," Zlotnick added. A prequel, Spartacus: Gods in the Arena, went early this year. Are you currently presently excited for further Spartacus?

'MTV First: Breaking Dawn' Countdown: Bella And Edward's First Hug, Your Chosen 'Twilight' Moment!

A Vampire Named Edward and Edwards Friend Jacob have gone through quite the right path throughout the time from the "Twilight" films, but no matter what lengths their relationship went, it definitely is best at first. That's why our countdown from the 5 best favorite "Twilight" momentsall just before tonight's MTV First special with "Breaking Beginning" stars Billy Burke, Rachelle Lefervre and Taylor Lautnercomes lower to at least one special fan-favorite encounter Bella and Edward's initial hug! The romance from this all aside, there's undoubtedly the fan-favorite "Twilight" moment owes lots of its success for the clumsiness of Bella and Edward's first hug. The heavens behind the curtain, Kristen and Make the most of, were working out the kinks with one another peoples dynamic round the number of that first movie, just like a flashback to MTV News' first visit to the 2008 production will definitely help help remind you. "After we hug I merely make an effort to kill her constantly,Inch a clearly uneasy Pattinson remarked about kissing Stewart, who added: "Which I really like that. She's a complete sadomasochist if you contemplate it.Inch Our MTV First praising "Breaking Beginning - Part 1" starts on MTV tonight (November 3) at 7:56 PM EST. We'll be grew to become an associate of by Make the most of, Taylor and Kristen simply because they debut a distinctive "Breaking Beginning" clip, and after, make certain in your thoughts to MTV.com with an exclusive 30 minutes interview while using trio, where they'll respond to your questions published by you. What can you consider Bella and Edward's initial hug? Inform us inside the comments and also on Twitter!

Bravo Renews 'Million Dollar Decorators' for Season 2 (Exclusive)

Joe Pugliese/Bravo Bravo just restored Big Designers, its reality series featuring high budget interior designers in addition to their clients, for Season 2.our editor recommendsJudge: Bravo's 'Million Dollar Decorators' Won't Cause Permanent Injuries to PhotographerA Look Inside Stars' Houses With Hollywood's Top Designers Bravo's 'Million Dollar Decorators': 5 Things You Don't Know (Video) The Hollywood Reporter has learned all five in the La-based designers from Season 1 will return for your second season. They are Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Kathryn Ireland, Jeffrey Alan Marks, Mary McDonald, and Nathan Turner. Production is planning for next season, though a premiere date has not been set. The 2009 summer season on Season 1, the show's designers gave audiences a glance inside the houses, holiday houses, and firms from the high placed and moneyed clients. They incorporated Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Francis (creator in the Women Gone Wild video series), Shannon Factor (heir for the Max Factor cosmetics fortune), and former MTV VJ,Daisy Fuentes. A Bravo representative declined THR's request official discuss the renewal. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com Twitter:@TheRealJethro Bravo Big Designers

PIC: Steely-Faced Cop Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the Set of The Dark Knight Rises

It’s been a while since we brought you the latest set shenanigans from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises; we’ve seen so much spoilery action spy footage, why ruin the mystique? Oh, that’s right. Because we are obsessed. Good, good. Carry on. Here’s a picture of Joseph Gordon-Levitt on set in NYC (but not at Occupy Wall Street) as Gotham copper John Blake, in uniform. You’re welcome. Stick around for more Halloween Monday Buzz Break! [THR; photo credit: Wenn.com] There have been many remembrances of Steve Jobs since his passing, but this eulogy written by his sister, Mona Simpson, will get you all choked up and inspired at the same time. [NYT] Johnny Depp’s latest film, The Rum Diary, made just $5 million last weekend. Not exactly stupid money. Were audience members too old, or not gonzo enough, to appreciate the Hunter S. Thompson stylings? [THR] Now Anthony LaPaglia is joining the cast of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained! He’ll play a greedy Australian. [Deadline] Universal’s new would-be Wolfman reboot has begun filming, but will be going straight to DVD/Blu-ray just in time for Halloween 2012. Here’s the synopsis: A monstrous creature terrorizes a 19th C European village by moonlight and a young man struggles to protect his loved ones from an unspeakable scourge in Untitled Werewolf Thriller, Universal Studios’ all-new addition to its time-honored legacy of supernatural thrillers. During his studies with the local doctor (Stephen Rea), Daniel (Guy Wilson) witnesses the horrific consequences of werewolf attacks. Watching as the beast’s fearsome reputation draws bounty hunters, thrill seekers and charlatans to the tiny town, Daniel dreams of destroying the ruthless predator. So when a mysterious stranger (Ed Quinn) and his team of skilled werewolf hunters (Stephen Bauer, Adam Croasdell) arrive to pursue the monster, he offers to join them, despite his mother’s (Nia Peeples) protests. But it soon becomes clear that this creature is stronger, smarter and more dangerous than anything they have faced before. As casualties mount and villagers see their neighbors transformed into ravening monsters, the townsfolk take up arms against each other to find the true identity of the werewolf. Amid the hysteria, Daniel begins to suspect he’s closer to his target than he ever dreamed. [Press release]

Hilary Swank Fires Manager Jason Weinberg

I’ve confirmed the actress has axed her manager of 8 years Jason Weinberg, the founding partner of Untitled Entertainment whom she thanked in their 2005 speech for winning the most effective Actress Oscar for Big Baby. Thefiring was reported today by theUK’s The Independent On Sunday newspaper. It produces that Swank can also be removingCAA agents Amie Yavor and Josh Lieberman from her team which is upset while using tenpercentery’s Lauren Hale too. Nevertheless the paper states Swank is not exiting CAA where her partner of five years, John Campisi, is certainly a real estate agent. Just what’s the primary reason?Thehorrible publicity which Swankreceived after human rights organizations outed they’d recognized an appearance body fat fee simply to walk the Red-colored-colored Carpet creating a speech and givegreetings to Chechnya’s tyrannical leader Ramzan Kadyrov at his special birthday captured even though he’s been connected with brutal abuses.”There’s a whole lot of s–t heading lower at CAA regarding this…,” an informed source emails me. It sureseems that lots of people exercised terrible judgment, to begin with incorporated within this Swank herself. See the entire backstory within the Independent‘s Los Angelescorespondent Guy Adams here.

Terrence Howard offered 'Crew Six' lead

HowardTerrence Howard remains offered charge role in ABC's Hallmark Hall of Fame telepic "Crew Six." Darnell Martin will direct the film, that's scheduled to begin shooting in Atlanta the next month. Her previous helming efforts include numerous episodic TV work, including "The Mentalist," "Detroit 1-8-7" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." For your bigscreen, she directed 2008's "Cadillac Records." Hallmark stood a 16-year affiliation with CBS that ended in the year when the Eye made a decision not to renew a deal that known for commiting to three movies yearly. The initial "Hall of Fame" production being broadcast with the Alphabet will probably be "Have a very Little Belief," from best-selling author and sportswriter Mitch Albom. Pic, which airs November. 27, stars Laurence Fishburne, Bradley Whitford and Anika Noni Rose. Jon Avnet is pointing. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

MTV's Killer Halloween: Split Personality

Thank you for going to MTV's Killer Halloween! All week extended, we're searching at ten in the finest horror movie villains ever, together with your help, we'll determine permanently exactly how effective these killing psychopaths and evil masterminds really are. Our participants: Freddy Krueger ("A Nightmare on Elm Street"), Jason Voorhees ("Friday the Thirteenth"), Michael Myers ("Halloween"), Ghostface ("Scream"), Leatherface ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), Chucky ("Child's Play"), Norman Bates ("Psycho"), Pinhead ("Hellraiser"), Hannibal Lecter ("Silence in the Lamb") and Jigsaw ("Saw"). We now have already covered style and weaponry, and you need to show to another crucial element making the horror killer: his personality. Sure you'll be able to slash, you really can stab, but tend to you pull these moves offered with a fantastic one-lining plus an memorable cackle? Following a jump, election around the scale of just one to five -Body being worst, five being best -- to put the personas within our Killer Halloween rivals! Freddy Krueger The main one factor about Freddy is always that he isn't just prone to kill you. He'll cut into you along with his razor fingers and poker fun to you because they does it. No killer's wit is extremely as deadly since the nightmare from Elm Street. Jason Voorhees More the strong, quiet type, Jason can be a mama's boy through and through and pleased with it. He loves his mother a great deal that in "Freddy versus. Jason," his devotion was enough to produce him return within the dead. That's dedication! Michael Myers Less than recognized for his spontaneity, the embodiment of pure evil features a pension for slow walks, investing time together with his sister, Laurie, and using a place searching inside a wall, not seeing the wall, searching past the wall, searching as of this evening. Ghostface The killer from "Scream" might be the horror movie version of the friend who thinks they are fully aware everything about movies. Ghostface won't only annoy you by stalking you on the phone and lastly killing you, he'll have you feeling totally uncultured on the way. Leatherface The victim of horrible in-breeding, Leatherface is essentially a man-child who his family's investing in an offer. His hobbies include chainsaw repair, cannibalism and butchery. Chucky When Charles Lee Ray moved his soul to some great Guy toy, he introduced every ounce of psychosis with him. Chucky may look sweet, but he's evenly the pissed-off killer he was just like a human. Norman Bates Norman can happen as being a mild-mannered motelier who wouldn't hurt a fly, nevertheless the other, more maternal half of his personality certainly would. Norman's the kind of guy who'll produce a sandwich to suit your needs, but Mother's rude enough to eliminate a enjoyable, soothing shower. Pinhead The soul stealer from "Hellraiser" certainly takes the dessert for your kinkiest of movie killings. Pinhead doesn't you need to you to definitely certainly Hell. He would go to Hell after which it tortures you in sadomasochistic functions for individuals eternity. Hannibal Lecter Dr. Lecter is excellent enough to speak with as extended as there's a thick pane of Plexiglas between the two of you. He's a specialist of psychology, whose brain energy is sufficiently strong enough he is able to convince the inmate one cell to shallow their very own tongue. Jigsaw Jigsaw is passionate about testing the moral fiber of his unlucky test subjects. If he finds you worth existence, you'll live, only after studying the worst of Jigsaw's imagination. See the is because of Killer Halloween's weaponry poll! Leatherface saws his in place in this round, with Jigsaw and also the bear-trap masks close behind! Freddy remains most consistent killer in the bunch, but wait, how will that change once personality is taken into account? We'll uncover tomorrow as MTV's Killer Halloween week continues! Justify your votes inside the comments section or hit us on Twitter!

Showtime renews 'Homeland'

'Homeland'Showtime decision to pick up a second season of its newest drama, "Homeland," came as a no-brainer, and clearly the pay cabler believes the skein has a long future ahead of it. Entertainment president David Nevins reiterated that, although the show is based on the Israeli series "Prisoners of War," the net made some major adjustments bringing it to its air, including adding the CIA offer played by Claire Danes. Because of the different storylines, Showtime doesn't have to simulate "Prisoners" going forward. Keeping audiences and critics in the show's favor going forward is a high priority for Nevins, who clearly realizes the mistakes made by a handful of serialized shows, including AMC's "The Killing," which failed to properly wrap up a storyline that was marketed as being finalized. "There's extreme excitement around this show," Nevins told Variety. "Clearly it has caught some piece of the zeitgeist, and that is resonating with people. Our only anxiety is can they (producers and writers) keep it up and not fall into the serialized traps of other shows?" Ratings have been strong since the Oct. 2 premiere. Starring Danes, Damian Lewis and Mandy Patinkin, "Homeland" reached 4.4 million viewers (across multiple platforms) its debut and has increased its aud since, with its fourth episode Sunday drawing series-best ratings. Exec produced by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, who adapted Gideon Raff's "Prisoners of War" (from Keshet Broadcasting), "Homeland" will begin production on season two in the spring. Avi Nir, Ran Telem and Michael Cuesta also exec produce. Pay cable rivals HBO and Starz have been quick to renew their own series of late, often without much, or even no, ratings data. Starz recently gave a second-season order to "Boss" before the show even began and HBO has occasionally renewed a series after only one episode. "Homeland" was the first drama greenlit by Nevins -- "Shameless" was given its series order just before he arrived and replaced Bob Greenblatt -- and the terrorism-focused skein has showed a shift in the net's programming taste. "I was always very interested in the material and it seemed a waste to have 'Dexter' alone in the fall," Nevins explains. I was aware this fall would be 10th anniversary of 9/11 and felt 'Homeland' would be perfectly spotted." Nevins reiterated that the core cast would be back for the second season but wouldn't guarantee anything beyond that, nor the length of their deals. Net is currently undergoing contract negotiations with "Dexter" star Michael C. Hall. Nevins is counting on the dispute to be settled long before the new season, if there is one, begins shooting early next summer. Next big challenge for Showtime is to launch dark comedy "House of Lies" with Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell. Skein, from creator Matthew Carnahan, is a scathing look at a self-loathing management consultant from a top-tier firm. Series will debut Jan. 8, along with season premieres of "Shameless" and "Californication." "It's a big glossy show that looks at how American business has been messed up," Nevins said. "It feels very relevant." Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Magnolia Acquires '360,' Starring Rachel Weisz and Jude Law

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Fernando Meirelles駀, a sexual roundelay starring Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Ben Promote.our editor recommendsToronto Film Fest's Top Fashion Claims Magnolia will release the film theatrically in 2012 in primary US areas in addition to will distribute it through its Ultra VOD program. Andrew Eaton, David Linde, Chris Hanley, Danny Krausz and Emanuel Michael produced the film, put together by Peter Morgan. It recentlyserved since the opening evening feature within the London Film Festival. STORY: BFI London Film Festival Opens With Fernando Meirelles' 駀,' Jude Law Shot on location in Vienna, Paris, London, Bratislava and Rio p Janeiro, 360 follows Law just like a travelling businessman who's thinking about a liaison getting a prostitute Weisz, turning up as married lady who's breaking off rapport getting a far more youthful guy Hopkins, just like a guy looking for his missing daughter and Promote just like a sex offender recently released from prison. The sale was talked about for Magnolia by SVP of purchases Dori Begley and mind of legal and business matters Chris Matsonwith UTA, which repped the filmmakers. Related Subjects Jude Law Rachel Weisz Fernando Meirelles Magnolia Pictures

'Paranormal' screams to come to light of B.O.

'Paranormal Activity 3'With an thought $54 million domestic open, Paramount's third installment inside the "Paranormal Activity" franchise increased being the most effective-ever October debut, together with the finest opening for just about any horror film, placing some much-needed existence into exactly what is a blah domestic B.O. lately."Paranormal 3" wasn't prone to land much more than $40 million in your area, showing the micro-allotted series is loaded with lots of scares left within it.Overseas, the horror prequel nabbed a forecasted $26 million from 42 areas, introduced with the U.K., which brought $5.8 million since beginning the film on Friday. Australia showed up second for "Paranormal," with $3.2 million, then Russia and France, grossing thought debut takes of $2.9 million and $2.8 million, correspondingly."Everybody was completely skeptical from the franchise," Componen vice chairman Make the most of Moore told Variety. "But this film is evidence of people inside our creative team, keeping it fresh."Unlike "Paranormal 3," the weekend's other wide releases -- Summit's "The Three Musketeers," from Constantin Films, and Universal's "Johnny British Reborn" -- both first demonstrated below anticipation. "Musketeers" bowed to have an thought $8.8 million "Johnny British" totalled $3.8 million through Sunday.Neither in the photos are very only a couple of Stateside perfs: The "Johnny British" follow-up, grossing yet another $13.5 million, passed the $100 million mark in overseas grosses, while "Musketeers" has cumed just north of $64 million worldwide, using this weekend's reported take at $13.millions of.Despite the fact that "Paranormal 3's" opening outstripped its predecessor's by greater than $ten million inside the U.S., this years overall domestic frame still was lower roughly 3%-5% within the comparable 2010 weekend, when "Paranormal 2" first demonstrated alongside a crop of high-flying holdovers like "Jackass 3dInch and "Red-colored-colored." ("Paranormal 2" and "Jackass 3dInch held the last industry records to find the best horror and October debuts, correspondingly.)But overall totals were up a notable 41% versus. last weekend.Fox Searchlight's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" first demonstrated getting an outstanding $34,385 per-screen average from four locations in NY and L.A.Meanwhile, The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics saw a great second-week development of Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin Home Is,Inch which averaged $12,436 from 21 engagements, up from six last weekend. Pic has cumed $569,335 in your area, a lot better than SPC's "Take Shelter," which in four days makes $522,798.Also succeeding in limited release, Kerbside Attractions' Wall Street-designed thriller "Margin Call" acquired an thought weekend take of $582,400 at 56 locations, thanks mainly to publicity all over the Occupy Wall Street movement. "Margin Call," which acquired a per-screen average of $10,400, broke the house record at NY's Elinor Bunin Film Center where it made $32,750 after 72 hrs. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Hacking Update: News Corp To Cover $4.8M To Number Of Wiped out Girl Accusations Tip In The Iceberg

NY Authors Guild of America East protested outdoors the NY offices of ITV Art galleries Friday demanding the organization, which produces impressive scripted reality television programming, give its American employees the identical rights their unionized British options. WGAE was grew to become an associate of inside the action by people in the Authors Guild from the United kingdom, Irish Authors Guild, Scriptwriters Guild of Israel, Societe des auteurs p radio, television et cinema (SARTEC) the Quebec guild Authors Guild of America, West, La Guilde (French Authors Guild), Australian Authors Guild and Nz Authors Guild. In December 2010 the country's Labor Relations Board completed an election, through which ITV employees selected for your WGAE their representative. ITV won't recognition this election. Yesterday the world Affiliation of Authors Guilds passed a solution calling upon ITV Art galleries which is U.S. subsidiary to recognition the final results in the election also to and recognize the WGAE also to negotiate in good belief. We are here today for just about any simple reason, mentioned Lowell Billings, Executive Director of WGAE. Which is always to demand that ITV give its employees in NY the identical rights loved by its employees in the uk. ITV has attempted legal maneuver after legal maneuver to avoid settling while using WGAE all people maneuvers have not successful. Time for legal games is finished. Showed up at table and start settling.” Robert Taylor, Chair of Authors Guild from the United kingdom mentioned, “We bargain with one another with ITV Art galleries in the uk, which we're shocked the organization is using investor money to fight the Authors Guild in the usa. We're feeling the employees in the usa should have the identical rights as our people.” ITV Art galleries features a fast growing operation inside the U.S. that produces non-fiction (also called scripted reality shows) programs for fundamental cable television, including hit shows The Initial 48 and Four Wedding events. For many several weeks, ITV has rejected to recognize a election by their U.S. employees allowing the WGAE to represent them in contract discussions, despite certification in the election with the National Labor Relations Board. The WGAE Non-Fiction Authors and Producers United states . campaign is certainly an attempt by hundreds of creative professionals in non-fiction TV to win the benefits, pay and respect they deserve. Inside the a year ago, the WGAE has won union elections at four major production companies to begin the collective settling process. The campaign may also be positively attempting to realize that labor law is adopted, and overtime is paid out. The Authors Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO (WGAE) can be a labor union representing authors in movies, television, cable, digital media, and broadcast news. The Guild calculates an offer and supervises contracts that safeguard the creative and economic rights of those conduct programs, training courses, and occasions on issues of curiosity to authors and provide authors sights to several physiques of government. To learn more about the Authors Guild of America, East, visit internet.wgaeast.org.

TV Ratings: ABCs 'Modern Family,' 'Happy Endings' Dip Slightly With World Series

Peter Hopper Stone/ABC According to preliminary numbers, ABC's Modern Family beat out game one of the MLB World Series game between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demo. It's the second year in a row the ABC comedy topped the World Series in the demo.our editor recommends'Glee,' 'Modern Family' win Peabodys'Happy Endings' scores ratings high, retains more 'Modern Family' lead-in Still, Fox, which aired the game live during primetime, won the night overall -- and may have caused Modern Family to dip slightly. ABC and CBS tied in second with a 3.3 rating. PHOTOS: On the Set of 'Modern Family' On ABC, The Middle (2.9, 9 million) and Suburgatory (3.1, 8.8 million) were flat. Modern Family (5.6, 12.8 million) was down 5 percent, Happy Endings down 6 percent (3.0, 6.9 million) and Revenge down 7 percent (2.5, 7.9 million). CBS' Survivor: South Pacific was up 3 percent (3.3, 11.1 million), as was Criminal Minds (3.9, 13.1 million). CSI was flat with a 2.6 (10.6 million). PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview 2011: The Returning Shows NBC came in third place with a 1.7 rating. Up All Night (2.1, 5.6 million), Harry's Law (1.2, 8.1 million) and Law & Order (2.1, 7.5 million) were all flat. Univision rated a 1.5 The CW was in fifth with a 0.6 A repeat of Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer was up 13 percent in total viewers from last week with 1.2 million (and a 0.4 rating). America's Next Top Model (0.8, 1.9 million) out-rated NBC in the 18 to 34 demo in the 9 to 10 p.m. hour. VIDEO: Emmy Roundtable: Comedy Actresses Telemundo came in last with a 0.5. TV Ratings Modern Family

'The Social Network' Tops Key Art Honours

A clip for David Fincher's The Social Media, created by Mark Woollen & Affiliate marketers, won the Grand Key Art award inside the audio-video category within the 40th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Honours on Wednesday evening within the Cinerama Dome. It absolutely was really the only project to win the most effective prize.our editor recommendsKey Art Honours Individuals who win 2011Finalists Introduced For Your Hollywood Reporter's Key Art AwardsTHR's Key Art Honours 2011 A clip also acquired gold honours for editing and music as well as the Social Media website by Imageworks Interactive, acquired a bronze inside the interactive category. "We restarted the honours this year,In . The Hollywood Reporter Author and Senior V . P . Lynne Segall mentioned throughout her opening remarks. "We even reinvented the trophy." The completely new Key Art award resembles a gold klieg light. The Key Factor Art Honours are Hollywood's best honours competition to advertise and communications. This year, THR teamed while using Clio Honours to change the knowing techniques. 5 knowing sections, composed senior level creatives in each medium, ranked the records on three levels: gold, silver and bronze. However, each jury wasn't obligated to award a silver or gold towards the work once they felt nothing was well worth the ranking. PHOTOS: THR's Key Art Honours 2011 The qualifications period appeared to become extended to twenty several days, including anything seen with the public in the month of the month of january 2010 to August 2011. Segall also acknowledged the momentary leak in the evening's individuals who win online with numerous spoof one-sheets within the Social Media ("You don't achieve 2500 records without creating a few competitors."), 127 Several hours (127 Leaks) as well as the Fighter (The Leaker). Other projects producing gold honours were the start trailer by BLT & Affiliate marketers inside the audio/visual category for motion graphics and original music. The Jason Bourne: Ghost Protocol trailer by Audio-video Squad inside the audio-video number of editing as well as the Last Exorcism's Chatroulette Reactions online with the Visionaire Group inside the audio-video number of viral marketing. The movies that needed home most likely probably the most honours were Beginning, which needed seven total honours inside the audio/visual and at home campaign groups Kick-Ass, which received seven honours inside the audio/visual, at home and interactive campaign groups as well as the Fighter, which won six honours inside the audio/visual category. STORY: Key Art Honours 2011: Complete Report on Individuals who win Lionsgate, which handled its own advertisements, was the only real finest champion, taking 13 honours for Hidden, For Colored Women, Kick-Ass as well as the Expendables. The Wally Disney Art galleries was the finest studio, also with 13 wins, while Audio-video Squad was the finest vendor with 10 wins. In TV, Fox Broadcasting won a bronze inside the print category for House's clown-face one-sheet Menagerie Creative won a silver for your It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia DVD box set 6-pack set Wally Disney Art galleries Home Theatre won a bronze due to its Lost: The Whole Collection packaging and Miami Ad School won a silver for your Real Regular folks of NY at home campaign titled "Reality Unlike Your Individual.In . For game game titles, The Ant Farm acquired a silver award inside the audio/visual category due to its Cod: Black Procedures launch trailer, together with a bronze due to its game packaging for Disney's Epic Mickey. Gas won a bronze due to its God of War III unique packaging. Accurate documentation-breaking 2,558 records were judged with this particular year's Key Art judge sections, chaired by Michael Kahane of Mojo LLC for audio/visual, Bemis Balkind owner Peter Bemis for print, AvatarLabs founder Rex Get ready for interactive, Beck Media & Marketing leader Todd Beck for PR, and Cheryl Savala, executive creative director of Menagerie Creative for display ads. For complete report on individuals who win follow the link. Related Subjects Key Art Honours The Social Media

First poster released for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D

Although the latest instalment in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise isn't released in theatres until October 2012, the eager beavers in Hollywood have already unveiled the new poster for the film.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D ignores all the other films in the series and picks up where Tobe Hooper left off in 1973.Directed by John Leussenhop, Chainsaw 3D stars Alexandra Daddario as a young girl who heads to Texas to collect her inheritance money.Little does she know that part of her inheritance is our dear chainsaw-wielding, human skin wearing pal Leatherface.Other details haven't been released, but apparently the new film serves as a 'love letter to fans,' this may be due to the list of our old favourites who are reuniting for the film.We'll see the likes of Gunnar Hansen and John Dugan, and cameos from Marilyn Burns and Bill Moseley.So, against our better judgement, we're actually pretty excited to see the return of Sally, Leatherface and Choptop to the franchise. This is one family reunion we're actually looking forward to.Newbies to the project include Tania Raymonde, Trey Songz, Karem Malicki-Sanchez, Thom Barry and Dan Yeager as Leatherface.So everybody's favourite inbred cannibalistic family is back! And they're welcoming us home with open arms (gripping a blood-dripping chainsaw), see the new poster below.

REVIEW: Elizabeth Olsen Beguiles in Martha Marcy May Marlene

The opening scene of Sean Durkin’s debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene suggests we’re in for a big rusty bread pan’s worth of rural miserablism, and even though we’re not, the yeasty grayness of those early moments is clearly intentional: A group of women in drab dresses and droopy T-shirts go about preparing dinner in a house whose unfinished interior looks either new and hastily erected or ancient and about to fall apart — it’s hard to tell which. A young boy stomps about in a dusty, scrubby yard; a woman sits on the porch working on a crocheted afghan. When dinner’s ready, a bunch of men sit down to eat; then they leave the table — the man who appears to be the leader murmurs something appreciative about the meal — and the women take their places. Then there’s one lone shot of a ton of dirty dishes jumbled into and around the kitchen sink — there’s no question who’s going to be scouring them clean. It’s as if Amishtown had been taken over by a nicer version of the Manson family. Or maybe they’re not so nice. But what makes Martha Marcy May Marlene so beguiling — aside from the performance given by its lead actress, Elizabeth Olsen — is that the pall of creepy groupthink that hovers over that first scene works as a perverse kind of seduction: You want to know more about this place, and about these people, even though you suspect that knowing more may not be a good idea. Even if you think your brain is soap-proof, Durkin succeeds in washing it just a little bit. The heart, soul and eyes of Martha Marcy May Marlene belong to Olsen’s Martha, a young woman who leaves this strange, crazy-cozy household very early in the movie: We see her heading into the woods with just a small pack on her shoulder, though we also hear the squeak of a screen door and a man’s voice calling after her. Wherever it is she’s running from, she ends up at the Connecticut summer home of her sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson). The two are clearly estranged, and not just because Martha’s been in a cult for a couple of years; from their exchanges, both the early and the late ones, we can see that the two sisters have never been close. Lucy is now married — a development Martha knew nothing about — to a vaguely uptight architect or developer (all we really know, or need to know, is that he’s some kind of property guy) played by Hugh Dancy. The two welcome her into their luxurious split-level house on the lake, obviously wishing they could unwelcome her. From that point, Martha’s present, in oh-so-safe Connecticut, is intercut with scenes of her past, in that commune somewhere in the Catskills. The place she’s left is presided over by a bookish self-proclaimed prophet named Patrick (John Hawkes, looking like Charles Manson as shot by Walker Evans), who has built a pastoral Utopia where the inhabitants live off the land and allegedly love one another unselfishly. The setup works out fabulously for him — he gets to ritualistically sleep with all the women. But Martha, he claims, is his favorite, and if she stupidly believes it, somehow we do too: She has a solemn, knowing face, with eyes that can melt one minute and pierce the next. She takes to the welcoming pseudowarmth of this new family, even as we can see she’s holding herself apart from it just a little bit. When she’s first introduced to Patrick, by the savvy-dippy young cult member (played by Louisa Krause) who’s taken her under her wing, she compliments him on what he’s done with the land, planting vegetable crops and whatnot. “It’s as much yours as it is mine,” he says with a twinkle of phony generosity in his eyes; she smiles at him a little too demurely, as if to say that she’s listening but not buying, at least not yet. Olsen’s performance is restrained but not tentative; you could say the same for the movie around it. Durkin, who also wrote the script, doesn’t indulge in lots of shaky camera business to convey, you know, the character’s inner turmoil. (The DP here is Jody Lee Lipes.) Even though there’s at least some handheld camera work, you have to really look for it: Some camera dude out there is working really hard at keeping the frame steady, and it’s almost a subliminal effect — if Martha is looking for something to hang onto, maybe we are too, though we barely know it. Durkin is perhaps too obvious in the way he heightens the contrast between Martha’s lumpy-oatmeal commune existence and the overpolished gloss of her sister’s lifestyle. At one point Martha jumps up from sunbathing with her sister on a classy lakeside dock and leaps into the water completely nude, as she would have done back at the old communal swimmin’ hole. Lucy, aghast, hauls her out. “You can’t do that here!” she hisses, and I kept wishing the next line would be, “It’s Connecticut!” But of course it wasn’t — Durkin isn’t going for laughs here, though it’s all too easy to fill in the blanks for ourselves. Still, Paulson and Olsen capture the uneasy electricity of siblings who just can’t get along but who nonetheless remain connected. Paulson plays Lucy as uptight but not unwatchably severe: Sometimes she looks at Martha as if she’d just landed from another planet — or, equally weird, just stepped off a lilypad — and given the unnerving nature of Olsen’s performance, you can see why. One minute she’s bracingly direct; the next she seems to be blinking her way through amniotic fluid, like a newborn lamb fighting for life. You don’t watch her and think, What a dope she is, having fallen for all that hippie-dippie cult stuff. Instead, you see how the perceived security of that makeshift family would make sense to her, up to a point. In other words, Durkin doesn’t condescend to the character he’s written, and in return, Olsen rises to the challenge of that character. At one point, Patrick tries to punish Martha with twisted praise, asserting that she’s a lot like him. Minus the cruelty and the craziness, maybe she is: As Martha, Olsen throws off a muted self-assurance that reads as a kind of charisma. We fear for her every minute, and yet for better or worse, we’d follow her anywhere.

Toronto: Magnolia Acquires Sarah Polleys Take This Waltz

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Take This Waltz, the film written and directed by Sarah Polley that stars Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby and Sarah Silverman. The film made its debut as an acquisitions title at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Williams plays a young woman struggling to choose between her husband and another man she has fallen in love with. The deal was made with TF1 International. Magnolia plans an early summer 2012 theatrical release, and the film will be part of its Ultra VOD program.

Fresnadillo Exit Within The Crow Confirmed

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has departed Relativity Media’s reboot in the Crow, Deadline has confirmed, following lately’s news within the Toronto Film Festival the The the spanish language language director features a holding deal to helm Summit Entertainments reboot of Highlander, put together by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway. Twitchfilm today known towards the “revolving door” round the Crow, which has seen multiple company company directors, authors and stars appear and vanish. In Fresnadillo’s situation, in a single “reboot” to another. Production on Highlander is scheduled to begin in the year.

WB Looks to Rome, Sweet Rome Pitch

Purchasing Des Moines-based author James Erwin’s first script pitch was accomplished by having an unusual route: social news aggregator website Reddit.com. Warner Bros. bought Erwin’s pitch Rome, Sweet Rome after Reddit clients selected to boost his idea up in the site’s web page. The idea? Contemporary U.S. marine corps by some quirk of fate are gone to live in An Italian Man , Capital where they suffer from Roman scores. Because the Marine corps’ presence interferes with history’s timeline, they need to set things back around the right course to return home. Adam Kolbrenner from Madhouse Entertainment spotted the publish and contacted Erwin, a couple-time Risk! champion, to develop his concept for just about any quick purchase. Kolbrenner will produce as well as Hollywood Gangs Gianni Nunnari (300, Immortals). John Ridley will oversee for Hollywood Gang. Chris Gary will shepherd the job for Warner Bros. Erwin’s next book, meanwhile, is past U.S. military actions apt to be launched next season.

At NYFF: Michelle Williams Talks Up Wry, Romantic My Week With Marilyn

It almost wouldn’t be the NY Film Festival these days without Michelle Williams, whose My Week With Marilyn marks the actress’s fourth effort in five years to grace Manhattan’s venerated fall-movie showcase. It’s inarguably her highest-profile work to splash down here — a world premiere debuting in the festival’s prestigious Centerpiece slot, glowing with awards-season ambition and hinging almost entirely on Williams’s risky interpretation of Marilyn Monroe. But come on: We’re talking about Michelle Williams here. Of course she pulled it off. Based on a pair of memoirs by Colin Clark, My Week With Marilyn breezes around the pitfalls of the modern biopic, instead bringing to life a notorious cultural moment — the making of The Prince and the Showgirl, the troubled Monroe/Laurence Olivier collaboration from 1956 — through Clark’s disarming coming-of-age perspective. An art historian’s son with designs on a filmmaking career, Clark (played here by Eddie Redmayne) persists and finagles his way into Olivier’s inner circle ahead of Showgirl’s production. Finally (almost punitively) assigned the deceptively titled job of third assistant director, the 23-year-old finds himself fetching tea, booking accommodations and, before he knows it, retrieving the tardy, insecure American sexpot from her dressing room at Pinewood Studios. Thus begins a simmering courtship between the two, chaste at face value but unswervingly romantic in its coalescence of privilege and damage. The whole film, directed with aplomb by Simon Curtis, inhabits and traverses the space between those dynamics: Monroe exhausts the vexed Olivier (Kenneth Branagh), alienates her new husband Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott), captivates her great British co-star Dame Sybil Thorndike (Judi Dench), and is the perfumed gust that sends Olivier’s wife Vivien Leigh (a beautifully vulnerable Julia Ormond) tumbling over the precipice of middle age. (In real life, Leigh originated Monroe’s Showgirl role on the London stage in Terrence Rattigan’s source play, The Sleeping Prince.) Fully aware of and thoroughly destabilized by her effect on this pedigreed class, Monroe’s confidence in Clark comes as a threat to some and a surprise to all. Yet the duo’s connection enables Monroe to pursue crucial moments away from her doomed screen persona. Williams thrives in both modes, to say nothing of her performance of Monroe as Showgirl’s titular Elsie Marina. Combining the three — often in the same scene, directed by Olivier within direction by Curtis — proves a nimble feat of craft that eschews convention, mythology and everything we think we know about Marilyn Monroe. In a press conference following this morning’s screening, Williams emphasized the subtleties separating Marilyn onscreen and off — nuances lost in the unfortunate tradition of, as NYFF programmer Scott Foundas put it, “bad impersonators” who’ve reincarnated Monroe for the camera. “Because the previous representations of her were more of that ilk, it felt like that was kind of the first thing that made me think, ‘Well, maybe I can explore this,’” Williams said. “It was a decision made kind of in the safety of my own home; I didn’t really consider the larger implications of it. And it was a very, very slow process. It all started at home. It all started with watching movies, listening to interviews, poring over books. It was just something that I put on in my living room — mimic a walk, or figure out how exactly it is she’s holding her mouth. “The first sort of big discovery that I stumbled on was that [for] Marilyn Monroe herself, ‘Marilyn Monroe’ was a character that she played,” Williams continued. “The image that you’re most familiar with? There’s a person underneath there. That was the first big discovery: That it was carefully honed, but it was artifice. It was honed to where you couldn’t tell that it was artifice. It felt so real, but it was something that she’d studied and perfected and crafted. So once I discovered that that was a layer, I was finding out what that layer was and getting underneath it. It was a long and ungainly process.” But it pays off. I enjoyed the hell out of My Week With Marilyn, from its intermittent song-and-dance interludes (“It still comes up on my iPod all the time — all the Marilyn Monroe,” Williams said of the songs she sang for the film) to its wry period infatuations to its clipped classical austerity laid waste by Monroe’s woozy compulsions. Mostly, though, Marilyn succeeds as a loving movie about movie love — the lightness of its bliss, the heartache of its illusions. None of the film’s personal infatuations (particularly that of an extraneous wardrobe girl played by Emma Watson) yield quite the charge of the lush moving pictures they serve. It’s almost ghostly in a way — and to hear Redmayne tell it today, maybe not by accident. “I think one of the great things of the whole production was the sense that we shot in the same studio that The Prince and the Showgirl was shot in.” turned to Williams. “And… your dressing room?” “My dressing room was Marilyn’s actual dressing room when she was making Prince and the Showgirl,” Williams said. “And Parkside House is playing Parkside House,” Curtis said of the star’s rented English residence. “So when Marilyn is sitting on those stairs having looked at Miller’s journal, Michelle sat on the very stairs that Marilyn would have sat at. One of the great moments for me was when we shot that wonderful dance from The Prince and the Showgirl. We were actually seeing that on the same stage — on the very spot — where I think it was in 1956 that Marilyn actually danced. In that very spot! It was incredibly moving and incredibly special.” Indeed. Keep an eye on Movieline for more about My Week With Marilyn as its Nov. 4 release date approaches. PREVIOUSLY: David Cronenberg, Michael Fassbender Bring Their Dangerous Method to NYFF