VOD develops fast in South America

'A Harmful Method''The Tree of Life''Elena''Drive'MADRID -- Latin America's VOD landscape is quickly attaining definition.In September, Netflix released a streaming-only service through the region. Argentina's two large telcos, Telefonica p Argentina and Telecom Argentina, also provide folded out VOD services.In South america, VOD is provided by satcaster Sky and cabler Internet. Also in South america, NetMovies, Latin America's greatest local Internet VOD operator, streams 4,000 films and series, getting cut its initial U.S. studio deal, with Disney, in September.For independent films, worldwide online VOD player Mubi works throughout South America Mexico has Canana OnDemand, Argentina has website Comunidad Zoom.Finally month's Ventana Sur, Spain's Filmin, an online film/TV VOD company, inked an offer with Colombia distrib Cineplex to build up something for The spanish language-speaking South America Cineplex will lead content and technology towards the Colombia Filmin service, states Filmin Boss Juan Carlos Tous.Cineplex's large 2012 releases -- "Tree of Existence," "Drive," "A Harmful Method" and "Elena" -- is going to be among photos on the internet service, states Cineplex prexy Elba McAllister. The Colombia launch will occur within the first half 2012 with 1,000 game titles, 300 from Colombia along with other Latin American nations, the relaxation worldwide, mostly Europe-acquired.Dealing with local territory partners, Filmin aims to grow throughout The spanish language-speaking South America.The Filmin-Cineplex alliance highlights possibilities for VOD in the area. Presently, Latin American online TV/video subscription revenues are minimal: 2010 saw just $a million from Argentina, $4 million from South america and $3 million from Mexico, based on Digital TV Research.Indie VOD in South America "continues to be in a diaper stage of growth, but it's growing," states Canana partner Pablo Cruz, who adds that Canana's VOD discharge of its TV series "Soy tu fan" solicited more buys than the usual normal studio release.But Canana OnDemand is transported on Cablevision, Mexico City's dominant cabler. Online, straight-to-PC services could face a harder fight. In Mexico, for example, people don't wish to hand out charge card particulars on the internet, Cruz states.For South America generally, Filmin's challenges are quite different from individuals of Netflix: Piracy is high, broadband transmission is low -- at 36% for Argentina, 24% for South america and 35% for Mexico this year, based on Screen Digest.Yet pay TV reaches under 25% of Latin American homes versus. 90% within the U.S., so VOD is way better situated to provide pay TV a run because of its money in the area, experts say.VOD can also be crucial in a very concentrated Latin American cinema exhibition market full of multiplexes that, even much more compared to Europe, is centered by Hollywood blockbusters."VOD," McAllister states, "offers huge possibilities for that distribution of Latin American and independent films."Marcelo Cajueiro, Charles Newbery and James Youthful led for this report. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Natalie Portman Crowned Filled with IMDB, Mila Kunis is Runner-Up

Just what a year for Natalie Portman: She built with Mila Kunis, won an Oscar, stood a baby, bedded Ashton Kutcher (onscreen), tamed Thor, and managed to get co-starring with James Franco. Whew! Overall, that made her most likely probably the most-seen star this year on IMDB. Kunis (Moviefone's Hottest Lady in the Summer season) showed up second, thumping The Actor-kaira Pitt (the champion in the last six years) to 3rd. Read onto observe other stars, including people 'Twilight' kids, ranked. 1. Natalie Portman 2. Mila Kunis 3. The Actor-kaira Pitt 4. Emma Stone 5. Chris Hemsworth 6. Olivia Wilde 7. Jennifer Lawrence 8. George Clooney 9. Ryan Gosling 10. Christian Bale Strangely enough, no 'Twilight' stars made the most effective 10 this year: This Season, Billy Burke and Rachelle Lefervre nabbed the second and third slots: This year, they were in twelfth and 26th place, correspondingly. Rachelle Lefervre, ranked at #14 a year ago, tumbled 70 spots to #84. Ouch. Among the finest ranked emerging stars of 2011: Michael Fassbender, Tom Sturdy, Emily Browning, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Henry Cavill and 'Glee's Dianna Agron. [via THR, IMDB] [Photo: AFP/Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Scarlett Johansson hates her nickname

In a move that will almost certainly ensure she gets called it twice as much, Scarlett Johansson has revealed she hates the popular shortening of her name to the contrived abbreviation "Scar-Jo"."It's laziness," she told USA Today. "People can't actually say the whole name? It's just bizarre... If I hear somebody say that, I know I don't know them at all."Traditionally, it has only been younger Hollywood starlets who've had their first and second names hyphened together, and Johansson goes on to query why "serious actors" don't come in for the same treatment."So Cate Blanchett is not, like, 'Ca-Bla'?" she queried. "Why is that? Why do I have to get stuck with a mangled moniker?" She went on to suggest Da-Day for Daniel Day-Lewis, which we must confess, we rather like.Anyway, we've received the warning loud and clear, which is why poor Scarlett will now be referred to exclusively by her full name. Unless of course she stars in a film with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, in which case the temptation might be too much to resist...

Randy's rules to get the best appear

Randy ThomSound designer and Oscar champion Randy Thom has received a massive relation to the ability of film appear through both his work and also the writing. Handful of have referred to so clearly what switches into making great appear for movies.Variety spoke to Thom and asked for him to place out his core ideas, then spoke to appear pros from many of the 2011 movies about how precisely these ideas affect their pictures. We split the solutions to the two Oscar appear groups, appear mixing and appear editing.Sounds ought to be articulated clearlyEven when you're knee deep inside the sonic landscape from the action film, sounds have to be distinct. Move them forward or and also hardwearing . overall appear from getting muddy.Make room for silence between soundsMoments of silence or quiet are important inside the overall appear type of a film. Similar to breaks in musical composition, people occasions supply the audience a relaxation and additionally they create whatever uses the quiet appear more impactful and significant.Moderate using dialogue Other sounds takes a back chair whenever someone's speaking. Films designed to use dialogue properly open themselves up for greater usage of appear.If you want to choose, choose dramatic sense over technical precision Sometimes the appear from the actual explosion won't have an identical emotional impact as the second appear transformed to represent what you're seeing onscreen. When boom calculates being the noise from the cent rattling around in vacuum, expect.Attention round the Oscars: Vfx, Appear & Editing Thesps up f/x respect Longtime teams keep work fresh Randy's rules to get the best appear Appear editing: Always make dramatic sense Appear Mixing: Which causes it to be all feel real Digital tools add quality, cut back Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Eddie Lazarus to ankle FCC publish

LazarusEddie Lazarus, chief of staff to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, will resign his publish by the finish of The month of january.Lazarus stated he's no immediate plans, but had lengthy spoken concerning the publish as being a "two- to 3-year job," that they accepted happens to be an "tiring position." His tenure was marked by some highly contentious issues, because the commission required up passage of internet neutrality rules and 2 high-profile mergers, the union of Comcast with NBC Universal and also at&T's suggested takeover of T-Mobile. Genachowski arrived on the scene from the AT&T-T-Mobile deal recently.InchWhilst there's not good time (to depart), this time around is just like any," Lazarus stated within an interview. He stated he and the family are thinking about coming back to California, where he once headed Akin Gump's La office. Lazarus became a member of the FCC in June 2009. Although he wasn't a communications lawyer, he was attracted to the thought of public service and would be a longtime friend of Genachowski's.His tenure also was marked by focus on USF reform and spectrum issues, most of the policy initiatives getting related to Genachowski's efforts to grow broadband access across the nation. A large challenge, Lazarus stated, was shepherding policy plans within an atmosphere where you will find "very couple of issues where everybody will fully stand up and applaud that which you do." But he noted that on issues like internet neutrality, "the temperature originates lower" because the new open Internet rules happen to be implemented. GOP efforts to roll back the guidelines have unsuccessful to win passage within the Senate.Lazarus stated his tenure "has switched to be absolutely fascinating. I'm happy Used to do it and grateful for that chance."Genachowski stated, "Nobody has been doing a lot more than Eddie Lazarus to make sure that the FCC meets its vital pursuit to harness communications technology to profit our economy and all sorts of People in america. Eddie has labored relentlessly to refocus the FCC on internet broadband, and release its possibilities." Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com

Difficulties Promises Bigger Thrills For 'Skyfall'

After "Casino Royale" so capably re-energized the text franchise, "Quantum of Solace" was a little of the disappointment. Heavy on intended gravitas and jumbled action collages, the follow up did not quite deliver with audiences or experts, resulting in a brief hiatus for 007. But don't worry: Difficulties, still the capable British killer, promises that "Skyfall" is a lot better. Because he informs Break London, the issue with "Quantum" was the 2008 writers' strike. "On 'Quantum,' i was f---erectile dysfunction," he stated. "We'd the simplistic of the script after which there is a authors strike and there is nothing we're able to do. We couldnt use a author to complete it. I only say to myself, 'Never again', but you never know? There is me attempting to rewrite moments along with a author I'm not.Inch "I believe that one is much better,Inch he added. "I truly do. Its an entirely original story. I just read it also it just works like a story." The brand new film, helmed by Mike Mendes, is shooting at this time. Because of so many precedents set, every new Bond film is really a challenge -- a well known fact that is not lost on Craig. "If you are going to achieve that kind of stuff, youve got to have it right. You have allow it your very best shot. When you have everything talent, everybody gunning to really make it good, you have to have it,Inch he stated. "For f---s sake, its a Bond movie. You would like individuals to go, 'Whooah!' a clear, crisp consumption of breath throughout a film isn't a poor factor." Inform us that which you think about Craig's ideas on "Skyfall" within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

NYCritics Online: Artist, Shannon, Streep

NY Film Experts Online added its ranks to Sunday’s parade of honors. Within the group’s website: Film – The Artist Actor – Michael Shannon (Take Shelter) Actress – Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Director -Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Supporting Actor – Albert Brooks (Drive) Supporting Actress – Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Breakthrough Artist – Jessica Chastain (The Tree Of Existence, Your Financial Troubles, The Help, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, Texas Killing Fields) Debut Director – Joe Cornish (Attack the Block) Ensemble Cast – Bridesmaids Script – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (The Descendants) Documentary – Cave Of Forgotten Dreams Language – A Separation Animated – The Adventures of Tintin Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Existence) Usage of Music -Ludovic Bource (The Artist) Top Films Of 2011 (from the to z) The Artist (The Weinstein Company) The Descendants (Fox Searchlight) Drive (FilmDistrict) The Help (DreamWorks Pictures) Hugo (Vital) Melancholia (Magnolia Pictures) Evening amount of time in Paris (The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics) Take Shelter (The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics) The Tree Of Existence (Fox Searchlight) War Equine (DreamWorks Pictures)

5 E! Shows Sofia Coppola Should Make Right into a Movie

You do not normally see TMZ wade in to the vicious waters of Hollywood trade news -- especially trade news including an indie filmmaker -- however the gossip website is confirming that Sofia Coppola finds her next project: a film concerning the infamous Thief Bunch. Also called "The Jewelry Ring" (appealing), the Bunch includes a number of Hollywood teens who stole nearly $3 million in goods from stars like Paris Hilton, Orlando Blossom, Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox. If the sordid story heard this before, it's likely since you were keen on the E! Show 'Pretty Wild,' which featured Bunch member Alexis Neiers. Per TMZ, Neiers's sister, Tess Taylor, equally infamous, will have a little role in Coppola's film, which may likely concentrate on celebrity -- like 'Lost in Translation,' 'Marie Antoinette' and 'Somewhere.' This really is all fine and dandy, however it boosts the question: the other E! shows if the Oscar-winning Coppola become movies? Ahead, five suggestions. 1. 'The Soup' Joel McHale stars as Joel McHale, a disillusioned-with-television comedy star who stays his days driving around La wondering why he ever agreed to get familiar with the Emmy Honours singing group The Emmytones. Benicio Del Toro bakes an uncredited appearance as themself. 2. 'Kourtney & Kim Take NY' Coppola has switched her hazy lens on Tokyo, japan, France and La, but never NY. This is where the Kardashians are available in! Coppola's film concerning the siblings would permit her to concentrate on a couple of things she's proven an earlier affection for: celebs (duh) and siblings (see 'The Virgin Suicides'). Kourtney and Kim can enjoy themselves, with Khloe taking pleasure in an uncredited and line-free role like a background extra. 3. 'Bridalplasty' A youthful bride (Emma Watson), infatuated using the reality show 'Bridalplasty,' becomes enthusiastic about the concept that marriage is simply another type of character mutilation. That point of view is amplified because her husband (Zac Efron) is really a music video director with little curiosity about his wife's existence. 4. 'The Spin Crowd' A disillusioned veteran pr guy (Bill Murray) continues tour together with his new client, an indie rock-band in the cusp of ghettoized fame. Karaoke plays most within the third act. 5. 'E! News Live' Coppola demonstrated experience towards the process behind making films and advertisements ('Somewhere' and 'Lost in Translation'), so why wouldn't you focus a whole film around the behind-the-moments workings of the celebrity news show. Ryan Seacrest can be displayed as themself, 'Knocked Up'-style, however the real stars from the film would be the awkward PA (Felicity Johnson) and her future boyfriend (Jason Schwartzman), a TelePrompTer specialist. [via TMZ] [Photo: WireImage] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Alan Cumming Returns to Host the Britannia Honours: "It Keeps Me on my small Toes"

Alan Cumming Alan Cumming is an ideal option to host this year's Britannia Honours (Sunday at 8/7c on television Guide Network). I am talking about, the guy won a Tony Award for taking part in an emcee (for Cabaret in 1998)! Plus, the Scottish actor has other abilities highly relevant to the gig - just request him. "I am a tiny bit cheeky and a bit mischievous," he states. "I am quite good on my small ft." It is a positive thing too, because Cumming's packed schedule - including his ongoing gig around the Good Wife, which shoots in NY - managed to get difficult to get time for you to fly to La to host the show, not to mention prepare what he'll say. "It type of keeps me on my small toes and type of feels as though doing theater without needing to perform a play for six several weeks," he states. "I've no script yet, however i benefit from the last second-ness from it.Inch Take a look at red-colored carpet arrivals in the 2011 Britannia Honours Cumming promises he will not be as questionable as that other biting honours show host from across water-feature. "I believe it is a Scottish factor to become quite brutal and quite dark, however, you say it with love so then nobody will get hurt," he states. "I believe it certainly is good not to take yourself too seriously. But additionally, you won't want to be quickly cutting or people are likely to get upset." Besides, after hosting the ceremony two times before, it's old hat to him now. "I quite regularly host things. I like might it's fun," he states. "Now I am more enjoyable about this. I attempt to analyze those who are developing and also to see what's everybody speaking about at this time in Hollywood." Try not to expect him to visit easy on his buddies. "The more knowledge you have someone, the greater embarrassing tales you realize,Inch he jokes. "[Presenter] Jason Isaacs is definitely an old friend so he sent just a little note saying, 'This is when I wish to be introduced.' I stated, 'I will be the judge of this, thanks.AInch The British Academy of Film and tv Arts La hands the annual Britannia Honours for fulfillment in acting, producting and pointing. The 2010 honorees include Warren Beatty, Ben Stiller, Pixar's John Lasseter, David Yates and Helena Bonham Carter.

'John Carter' Official Trailer Premieres (Video)

Walt Disney Pictures Fans awaiting Disney's John Carter have gotten some nice little goodies before the holidays. Earlier this week, a new poster for the film premiered and on Wednesday, star Taylor Kitsch made an appearance on Good Morning America to tease the first official trailer for the film.our editor recommends'John Carter' at D23: Taylor Kitsch and Andrew Stanton Believe in Life on Another Planet (Video)'John Carter' at D23: Willem Dafoe Describes Filming as a Nine Foot Martian (Video)'John Carter' Star Taylor Kitsch Teases Official Trailer on 'Good Morning America' (Video) PHOTOS: Hollywood's A-List Redefined The action-epic, based on the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, follows a former Confederate captain (Kitsch) who is mysteriously transported to Mars, and must resolve a conflict between warring nations. On Wednesday night, the first full-length official trailer was released. And oh what an adventure it is! Kitsch's character will be challenged with fighting massive alien creatures to prove his worth, and helping solve the ongoing battle between warring Martian nations. "We did not cause this, but this very night, we will end it," screams Kitsch's character in the trailer as he prepares for battle. VIDEOS: Disney's D23 Expo 2011 The film is the first live-action project for director Andrew Stanton, who helmed Pixar's Wall-E and Finding Nemo. Friday Night Lights star Taylor Kitsch told THR that taking on such an epic role was a challenge for him. "It's by far the most challenging gig I've ever had in my life," said Kitsch. "It's the most rewarding as well." The film, which also stars Willem Dafoe and Lynn Collins is set for a March 9, 2012, release. Watch the full trailer below: PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 10 Top Summer Superheroes Of All Time: Battle of Box Office Brawn Taylor Kitsch John Carter Andrew Stanton

Jonah Hill's 'Serious Acting Moment' in 'The Sitter' Didn't Increase the risk for Movie

Just before the release of 'Moneyball,' press shops were dedicated to a few things: Kaira Pitt's performance as Concord A's gm Billy Beane, and Jonah Hill's turn just like a semi-serious actor. No star desires to be typecast, that will help you understand Jonah's fascination with attempting to maneuver outdoors the teenage comedy genre that made him famous. Sadly, serious acting isn't necessarily needed -- specifically when you're developing a raunchy R-rated comedy. Inside an interview while using NY Occasions, Hill recalls taking things a touch too seriously while shooting scene for his approaching movie 'The Sitter.' It absolutely was stated to become a comic exchange between Mr. Hill... and Bruce Altman, the actor playing his absentee father who'll not help his boy among a particularly wayward evening of substitute caregiving. Nevertheless the scene needed an all of a sudden poignant turn as Mr. Hill revealed upon an tough to depend on parent who hadn't already been through it for him, and who had abandoned him and also the mother to start a completely new family. As Mr. Hill later mentioned from the scene, 'It felt really tough and raw and honest and difficult to check out in an ideal way.A To ensure that because he and also the 'Sitter' director, David Gordon Eco-friendly, found agree, it did not have business getting an antic, R-rated Jonah Hill comedy. Cutting this scene within the movie (especially after watching the film's trailer) makes total sense. Hopefully, it'll finish around the DVD outtakes. For the time being, you will have to watch out for '21 Jump Street' and 'Neighborhood Watch' to find out Jonah get serious. Oh, wait, people are comedies, too. Possibly something further later on then, an activity that even Hill doesn't find out about? 'The Sitter' hits theaters 12 ,. 9. [via NYT] [Photo: WireImage] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

New York Film Critics Circle Awards Preview: 'The Descendants,' Jean Dujardin and Meryl Streep Predicted to Win

By Tom O'Neil, GoldDerby.com Don't be surprised if some crazy award winners emerge from the voting powwow of the NY Film Critics Circle on Tuesday morning. According a poll of award experts conducted by Gold Derby, these will be the winners: 'The Descendants' (Best Picture), Jean Dujardin (Best Actor in 'The Artist') and Meryl Streep (Best Actress in 'The Iron Lady'), Albert Brooks (Best Supporting Actor in 'Drive') and Jessica Chastain (Best Supporting Actress in 'The Help,' 'Tree of Life' and 'Take Shelter'). However, the critics' circle is notorious for spawning voter clashes that result in wacky honorees. It all has to do with the archaic voting procedure. Each critic ranks favorites by assigning three (top choice), two and one point to each, and the winner must appear on a majority of ballots. As a result, voting in each category often spans many ballots, rival camps form and victory can only be claimed by a compromise candidate. 'Milk' won Best Picture of 2009, for example, only when warriors for 'Rachel Getting Married,' 'Happy-Go-Lucky' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' surrendered and accepted a compromise. No critics entering the 2002 voting conclave planned to pick the quirky 'Mulholland Drive,' but it emerged as the default choice when they couldn't decide among 'In the Bedroom,' 'Gosford Park' and 'Shrek' after many frustrating ballot clashes. In addition to 'The Descendants,' the other movies with strong NYFCC support this year are 'Tree of Life' and 'The Artist,' but don't be surprised if 'Moneyball' or 'Midnight in Paris' emerges as the fallback choice. The ultimate winner matters a lot because the Gotham critics have had a strong influence on the Oscars through time. Over the past 76 years, they were the first to hail eventual Academy Award Best Pictures 28 times. It's clear that the NY Film Critics' Circle played a key role in the eventual Oscar victories of such films as 'The Lost Weekend' (1946), 'Marty' (1956), 'Tom Jones' (1964), 'In the Heat of the Night' (1968), 'The Deer Hunter' (1979), 'Ordinary People' (1981), 'Terms of Endearment' (1984) and 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1992). But the agreement rate hasn't been too impressive recently. Only five times in the past 20 years has the same film won Best Picture in NY and on Oscar night. Last year 'The Social Network' swept all of the key critics' awards, but Hollywood didn't seem to care. David Fincher's Facebook movie was usurped by 'The King's Speech' at the industry awards bestowed by the guilds and the motion picture academy. Nonetheless, the circle has played a starring role in spotlighting many actors who went on to win Oscars. Actors like Forest Whitaker ('Last King of Scotland,' 2006), Geoffrey Rush ('Shine,' 1996) and Marcia Gay Harden ('Pollock,' 2000) probably owe their Academy Award victories in large part to early wins within the circle. Check out the Gold Derby expert picks for the NYFCC winners by clicking here. [Photo: Fox Searchlight] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Former Idol Lauren Alaina Flubs National Anthem At Lions/Packers Game: I Screwed Up

First Released: November 24, 2011 3:32 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Lauren Alaina works the nation's Anthem prior to the Eco-friendly Bay Packers undertake the Detroit Lions throughout the Thanksgiving Day game at Ford Area, Detroit, November 24, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- She carried out live before a tv audience of millions week in and week on Season 10 of yankee Idol, but in the Detroit Lions/Eco-friendly Bay Packers game on Thanksgiving, Lauren Alainas nerves got the very best of her as she flubbed the nation's Anthem. Unlike Christina Aguilera, who, finally years Super Bowl really sang the incorrect lyrics towards the Star-Spangled Banner, but stored singing, on Thursday, Lauren completely went quiet for around five seconds in the center of the song. What so happily we praised, with the twi she trailed off into silence. John Baumgartner, who plays Kevin Malone on NBC comedy Work, was one of the numerous fans who caught Laurens singing snafu and Tweeted about this, rapidly moving her title right into a top ten Twitter trending subject. Oh Lauren Alaina Poor you. Poor poor you. he authored. Lauren could jump in at risk, Whose broad stripes and vibrant stars and, having a smile on her behalf face, finished towards the delight from the patrons within the offered-out stadium, who cheered noisally. FOXs Joe Buck, the television announcer for the overall game, summed up best, saying, Its about the way you finish. On Thursday mid-day, Lauren required possession on her flub in reaction to some Tweet of encouragement from fellow Idol alum, Kellie Pickler. HEY Toy! YOU HANDLED YOURSELF Just Like A Professional! SEND THE BULLIES MY WAY & ILL TELL EM What To Do, Kellie Tweeted. many thanks, Lauren responded. I am not a robot. I've No excuses. I screwed up. Guess what happens can ya do. A Minimum Of didnt fall lower again. Thanks everybody for that kind words, she added just a little later. However I screwed up. Im gonna spend the relaxation during the day being grateful for those my benefits. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Astro Ready For His X Factor Comeback

First Launched: November 22, 2011 4:18 PM EST Credit: FOX Caption Astro and Steve Manley round the X Factor on November 17, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Teenage rapper Astro returns for the X Factor stage on Tuesday, just one week after he was saved from elimination. And after an advisory session along with his mentor, L.A. Reid, and fellow judge Simon Cowell, the teen promises hes coming back strong. These provided great advice, Astro told Access Hollywood on Monday. They just described to keep my thoughts up and Im gonna use that with the relaxation in the competition. The other day around the program, Astro nearly didnt perform for your idol idol judges election, following a 15-year-old had his confidence knocked by his bottom 2 positioning. Many were wondering what show host Steve Manley whispered for the youthful guy while he was getting booed having a boisterous audience, and critiqued with the idol idol judges, but Astro mentioned he am inside the moment, the memory of Steves words escapes him. I dont really remember. I didn't mind inside the moment. I used to be just dedicated to, Am I coping with or else? he told Access. The teen phenom states hes grown within the experience plus it even accomplished good success his Twitter follower count. I'm that is better. Its strange because like following a incident happened after my Muhammad Ali moment on stage my fans elevated by 20,000. And Im getting like 1,000 fans every day and Im getting great advice in the my supporters. Im excited, he mentioned. Astro mentioned hell perform on Tuesday along with his fans in your head. This song Im undertaking now's dedicated to people people my Astronauts, Team Astro and mainly stylish-hop [fans], he mentioned. The X Factor airs at 8/7 C on FOX. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Weekend Box Office: 'Breaking Dawn' Breaks Big, While 'Happy Feet Two' Stumbles

Okay, we all knew that 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1' was going to be huge; the only real suspense was: would it be record-breaking huge? (Early answer: Apparently not.) The bigger shockers were the failure of 'Happy Feet Two' to open anywhere near the heights of its smash predecessor, and the stunning success (for a glum indie Oscar hopeful playing on a handful of screens) of George Clooney's 'The Descendants.' 'Breaking Dawn' did break the franchise's own record for its opening midnight screening, which earned $30.25 million in the wee hours of Friday morning (edging out the $30 million benchmark set by 'Eclipse'). And its total take Friday of $72 million was the third largest single-day gross ever, behind the franchise's own 'New Moon' ($72.7 million) and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($91 million). Still, numbers like that should have resulted in a weekend total of about $148 million. Instead, distributor Summit is estimating an opening at $139.5 million. That's short of the $142.8 million franchise record set two installments ago by 'New Moon.' It's possible that word-of-mouth on this one isn't as strong as expected. (At this writing, Moviefone's own informal survey finds 'Breaking Dawn' viewers either exuberantly enthusiastic or bitterly disappointed, with raves outnumbering pans about 2-to-1.) It's also possible that some parents and kids took the PG-13 rating seriously and stayed away, given that this installment is much more frank, disturbing, and gory than the first three movies when it comes to topics of sex, pregnancy, and childbirth. Now, $139.5 million is hardly a disappointment, especially when added to overseas grosses for a worldwide debut totaling $283.5 million. Nonetheless, with several big holiday movies opening in the next couple of weeks, 'Breaking Dawn' isn't positioned as well as it could be for the sharp dropoff likely to come over the Thanksgiving holiday. By the way, Taylor Lautner's thriller 'Abduction' has earned an estimated $27.6 million to date, grossing about as much over nine weeks as 'Breaking Dawn' did by the time Lautner first took his shirt off during Friday's first screening. No one expected the dancing penguins of 'Happy Feet Two' to be any kind of competition for first place, but many pundits did expect it to compete favorably with the original, which debuted at $41.5 million five years ago. After all, this one had much of the same cast, similarly striking Antarctic visuals, and 3D surcharges going for it. On the minus side, five years is a long time between sequels for a family movie; many kids who adored the flightless fowl back then have graduated to the relatively chaste vampires and werewolves of 'Twilight.' Also, the penguin craze has cooled since 'March of the Penguins' and 'Happy Feet' ruled the box office. Reviews weren't as strong this time out. Finally, the sequel faced stiff competition not just from 'Breaking Dawn,' but also from fellow family toon 'Puss in Boots,' still holding its own after four weeks in theaters. As a result, 'Happy Feet Two' had to settle for a second-place debut estimated at $22.0 million, about half the opening take that the original enjoyed. Last week's winner, 'Immortals,' faced a steep drop, as action epics tend to do on their second weekends. It lost 62 percent of last week's business and took third place with an estimated $12.3 million. (You wouldn't think the macho 'Immortals' and the estrogen-heavy 'Breaking Dawn' would be competing for the same audience, but the guys who dragged their dates to see the gruesome Greek epic last week probably returned the favor this week for the similarly bloody birth of Bella's baby.) In 10 days, 'Immortals' has grossed $53.0 million. Adam Sandler movies also typically lose half their business the second week; so it was with 'Jack and Jill,' which declined 52 percent dropped to fourth place on estimated earnings of $12.0 million. In two weeks, the comedy has taken in $41.0 million. In its fourth week, 'Puss in Boots' came in fifth with an estimated $10.7 million, down 57 percent from last weekend. In four weeks, the 'Shrek' spinoff has earned $122.3 million. Clooney's 'The Descendants' managed to crack the top 10 even though it's a heavy-themed grown-up movie playing on just 29 screens. It earned an estimated $1.2 million over the weekend, which means an enormous $42,150 per venue. Add that to its earnings since its solid early opening on Wednesday, and you have a total take of $1.3 million. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1' - Trailer No. 2 The full top 10: 1. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1,' $139.5 million (4,061 screens), new release 2. 'Happy Feet Two,' $22.0 million (3,606), new release 3. 'Immortals,' $12.3 million (3,120), $53.0 million total 4. 'Jack and Jill,' $12.0 million (3,438), $41.0 million 5. 'Puss in Boots,' $10.7 million (3,415), $122.3 million 6. 'Tower Heist,' $7.0 million (2.942), $53.4 million 7. 'J. Edgar,' $5.9 million (1,947), $20.7 million 8. 'A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas,' $2.9 million (1,808), $28.3 million 9. 'In Time,' $1.7 million (1,367), $33.4 million 10. 'The Descendants,' $1.2 million (29), $1.3 million [Photos: Summit, Warner Bros., Fox Searchlight] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman

'Game of Thrones' star to experience 'Arthur' for WB

HaringtonAfter playing the bastard Jon Snow on HBO's "Bet on Thrones," Package Harington looks prepared to display his sword-carrying abilities all over again, as Warner Bros. has drawn on him for that role of King Arthur in "Arthur and Lancelot." An agenda continues to be exercised, but when that's resolved, Harington should have the ability to jump in to the role and start shooting at the begining of 2012. Joel Kinniman has already been in position to experience Lancelot with David Dobkin aboard to create and direct. Plot particulars are vague, despite the fact that Dobkin is famous more for his comedies like "The Marriage Crashers" and "The Modification-Up," associates this pic could be more within the vein of "Braveheart"-style action. Dobkin will even produce with Charles Roven. A start date continues to be looking for early 2012. Warner Bros. and Dobkin happen to be working hard trying to find their two leads, holding chem tests going back month to locate their right duo. Kinniman and Harington were stated to become the first front-runners for roles, even though Kinniman's test was sufficiently good to have an early offer, Harington needed to re-test for that role. Harington eventually outperform the kind of Mike Claflin and the "Bet on Thrones" co-star Richard Maddon. Harington is presently filmming the 2nd season of "Bet on Thrones." Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Judge Orders Press From Hugh Grants or loans Ex & Baby

First Released: November 18, 2011 9:34 AM EST Credit: Getty Images LONDON, U.K. -- Caption Hugh Grant steps out in the United kingdom premiere of Senna in the Curzon Mayfair working in london on June 1, 2011 An English judge has purchased paparazzi to step back from Hugh Grants or loans ex, Tinglan Hong, who states she's been bothered and hounded since she'd an infant using the actor. High Court justice Michael Tugendhat stated Chinese-born Hong continues to be adopted and captured pics of outdoors her London home and feels that her existence is becoming intolerable. She's needed to cancel visits, including ones on her child. She's frightened they are driving together with her child since the distraction causes it to be unsafe, the judge stated. He stated he'd granted an injunction barring harassment of Hong and her daughter. The injunction was granted a week ago, and Tugendhat layed out his reasons for this on Friday. Grants or loans speaker confirmed earlier this year the actor had lately fathered a young child following a brief fling, and that he and 31-year-old Hong stick to good terms. The judge stated the happy couple did their finest to help keep private the truth that they'd a young child, and don't understand how the data arrived at the general public domain. Grant, who built work playing bumbling British charmers, has turned into a high-profile campaigner against media invasion in to the private lives of celebs. He suspects his mobile phone voicemail messages were intercepted through the tabloid News around the globe, and it has known as for tight regulating this news industry. The 51-year-old star of 4 Wedding ceremonies along with a Funeral and Notting Hill is because of give evidence to some British inquiry on media invasion, triggered through the phone-hacking scandal. Tugendhat stated media curiosity about Hong started prior to the infant was created, and incorporated texts and telephone calls from journalists and anonymous phone callers while she was pregnant. One, in This summer, informed her to inform Hugh Grant to seal the (expletive) up about phone hacking. The judge stated a front-page article within the now-defunct News around the globe in April was headlined Hughs Secret Girl and highlighted with pictures of Hong that she'd not agreed. The content thought on whether she was pregnant, as with fact she was, although within the very initial phases, the judge stated. Tugendhat stated Grant had faced paparazzi outdoors Hongs house earlier this year, asking if there is anything he could do or say to ensure they are leave a brand new and frightened youthful mother in peace. They stated show us the infant. He declined. He requested when they think it is appropriate for grown males to become bothering and frightening a parent and baby for commercial profit. They shrugged and required more pictures. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Ough Gervais Promises The 2010 Golden Globes Is Going To Be His Last and many Offensive

Maybe Ough Gervais wasn’t kidding when he tweeted he has stated the Holocaust and pedophilia as Golden Globe monologue material. The polarizing Globes host and comedian has had to his blog to convey his true (R-ranked) intent in hosting this season’s ceremony and also to report that he'll be making visitors much more uncomfortable compared to what they felt this past year. Yikes! Gervais describes that hosting the Globes for that “third and certainly final time” would be a difficult decision but “what really expected the total amount making me say yes, was the truth that it might shut up all individuals fucking idiots who stated which i’d not be asked back. Would be that the wrong reason to behave? ' '. It is.” Now that we understand he isn’t using the high road, allow Gervais to describe which from the lower avenues he intentions of using this The month of january 15. “Now here’s the one thing,” Hollywood’s most beloved/hated insulter starts. “The outrage I triggered was obviously, as always, totally from proportion towards the a few things i stated. I don’t think anybody had any to be upset however they were. This season I’m likely to make certain their offence is totally justified. […] Follow me on Twitter and tell me your favourite targets for that monologue. I’m taking pleasure in it already.” Here you decide to go, Movieliners. Tell me whom you’ll be recommending as monologue targets within the space below. · Week a hundred and 90-four - November 2011 [RickyGervais.com]

Puss In Boots Still Atop US Box Office

Tower Heist forms for secondLooks like the luck in the ogre is continuously in place: Shrek spin-off Puss In Boots attracted off an unpredicted second week atop the u . s . states box office according to studio estimations a couple of days ago, while using animated adventure sliding just 3% to think about $33 million. The film's US total now stands at $75.5 million after just 2 days. From the design of this, DreamWorks Animation features a brand-new franchise emerging.And despite beginning in to start with on Friday, Brett Ratner's latest action comedy Tower Heist couldn't deal with the cat, finally ending the weekend in second place with $25.millions of. Due to the star energy involved, it's not quite the impressive haul as possible. Still, the cash was enough to put it before A Very Harold & Kumar 3d Christmas, which must be pleased with third place with $13 million. That's less money than Harold & Kumar Avoid Guantanamo Bay needed within the opening weekend in 2008.Paranormal Activity 3 wound up to fourth place, adding $8.5 million, throughout Time Slid lower to fifth with $7.7 million.At sixth we uncover Footloose, which made $4.5 million, before Real Steel in seventh, which needed in $3.4 million. The Rum Diary began a quick fall lower the charts, landing at eighth with $2.9 million. The Ides Of March was ninth with $2 million, and Moneyball rounded the very best ten, producing $1.9 million.To avoid handles rotten eggs over statistics, mind to Box Office Mojo.

AFM 2011: New Regency, A Business Ink Three-Year Deal (Exclusive)

New Regency has signed a brand new three-year output cope with Berlin-based licenser/distributor A Business, that will provide a Company exclusive privileges to New Regency's slate for Russia and also the other CIS areas.our editor recommendsAFM 2011: Summit Signs Output Handles Russia, GermanyAFM 2011: Very Edge Starting Theatrical Distribution DivisionAFM 2011: Possible Moving to Downtown La Sparks Outrage Incorporated within the deal are such game titles as Andrew Niccol's sleeper sci-fi thriller Over Time featuring Justin Timberlake and action comedy Dark night and Day starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Individually, A Business has signed certification handles five separate Russian free-Television channels, including market leader Funnel One, for any package of 105 films from the library. Additionally towards the New Regency game titles, the contracts range from the hotly anticipated Cloud Atlas from company directors Tom Tywker and Andy and Lana Wachowski. A Business is really a co-producer on Atlas, which stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant and it is presently shooting at Studio Babelsberg in Germany. The Television deals were signed individually with every individual funnel but they are carefully matched permitting 5 Russia systems different runs for individual game titles. The contracts don't range from the first TV run of Cloud Atlas, that your Clients are holding back before the project will get nearer to completion. Related Subjects AFM Worldwide Cloud Atlas AFM 2011 Over Time New Regency Productions

The 'Safe House' Trailer: Denzel Washington can be a Bad House Guest

.publish-content img Quick warning: if you want to become totally spoiler-free heading to the February action film 'Safe House,' you almost certainly desire to stay away from the trailer. Much less what's spoiled is actually surprising -- think 'Man on Fire' coupled with 'Training Day' as well as the Jason Bourne movies -- nevertheless it does appear to stop a few in the film's twists. That likely won't matter, though, once the action can be as balls-out since it seems. The plot: Denzel Washington plays a dangerous rogue CIA agent transfered with a safe house that Ryan Reynolds is watching in Nigeria. Explosions, explosions, explosions. Double crosses. Triple crosses. Badass Denzel! Pretty clever trailer, that's expected since director Daniel Espinosa was responsible for the cult Swedish film 'Snabba Cash.' 'Safe House' hits theaters on Feb. 12, 2012. Watch a clip in HD at Apple. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

CTV orders more 'Saving Hope'

Canuck broadcaster CTV bought 12 one-hour cases of original hospital drama "Saving Hope" as parent Bell Media introduced an professional reshuffle of the production unit on Wednesday. Series is professional produced by Thump Corporation. founder Ilana Frank ("Rookie Blue"), Lesley Harrison and veteran TV helmer David Wellington, who's also the series director. Co-created and put together by Malcolm MacRury and Morwyn Brebner, "Hope" was inspired having a three-part quantity of articles, launched in 2005, by Globe and Mail scribe Ian Brown, who spent eight days in Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. "Hope" stars Michael Shanks ("Stargate Atlantis") as Dr. Harris, chief surgeon from the imaginary Toronto hospital, who is dependant on coma and wanders the wards in spirit form. Erica Durance ("Smallville") stars as his girlfriend and fellow surgeon, and Joel Goran ("The Vampire Journals") might be the new surgeon.An plane pilot was shot this summer season. Unsure yet on when lensing begins. Bell Media is re-striving its production unit, headed by senior V . p . Corrie Coe, to reflect development and production by genre across all Bell characteristics, a general change in the funnel-focused model. Trish Williams is just about the unit's director of drama (shows airing across CTV, Space, Muchmusic and Bravo) Sarah Fowlie is director of comedy (these together with the Comedy Network) and Susan Makela is director of Canadian programming management. Coe is constantly helm Bell's factual and reality series development and production. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Spencer: 'Help' boosts vet's profile, cultural issues

Octavia SpencerMontgomery, Ala. native Octavia Spencer knows she'll get laughs in "The Help,In . but doesn't start to see the tempestous, Jim Crow-era maid Minny to become comedically self-aware."Her existence is actually difficult. She's not easily amused," states Spencer, which has acquired raves on her behalf spirited, wealthy portrayal of Minny inside the adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel about existence for house servants inside the sixties. "I never carried out it should i be trying to become funny, never saw her getting a spontaneity. She mentioned just what she felt, and because of the context, it arrives funny."Before "The Help,In . Spencer's bailiwick since moving to La 15 years back was nailing one-scene moments in films and numerous TV series. Coping with a component-length role like Minny will be a change they clearly valued."I desired to create it, plus it actually was hard," she states. "However it might be a great lesson to know.InchMuch less enjoyable was waiting to know if she'd have a chance to see Minny, even though the level of smoothness was inspired partly by Spencer, who met Stockett eight in the past through her good friend, "The AssistanceInch director Tate Taylor.Taylor wanted her, but she figured DreamWorks might have other casting ideas, particularly an African-American actress who was simply more well-proven to auds."I believed it could undergo Mo'Nique, Jennifer Hudson and Full Latifah before it ever arrived at me," Spencer recalls. "Thx (DreamWorks Boss) Stacey Snider needed this kind of huge chance."Spencer initially thought she'd be considered a producer, and developing her own projects remains not definately not her mind."I've been writing concepts and remedies," she states. "By character I'm a detective. I really like calculating things out, which i understand that's what producers do."For the moment, though, she likes dispelling pals in Alabama in what they assume being the incessant glamour of Hollywood existence. It is not all limos, caviar and gowns."I inform them, 'Honey, there's nothing glamorous about blending into two group of Spanx.'"Lucky break: "I obtained a small sector in 'A Time to Kill,' after which it I showed up in this area to L.A. and Sandra Bullock put me in their short 'Making Sandwiches.' Because of that, one factor introduced to another.InchPreferred film: "If 'The Color Purple' is on, I'm going to be late for anything."Career Allow me to emulate: "Pour entirely Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alison Janney and Melissa McCarthy, change creating a Molotov cocktail."10 Stars To Check Out 2011:Benedict Cumberbatch Jean Dujardin Luke Evans Josh Hutcherson Felicity Manley Taylor Kitsch Brit Marling Elizabeth Olsen Octavia Spencer Shailene Woodley Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

James Cameron Previews 18 Minutes of $18 million 3D Conversion of 'Titanic'

Offering up what he called a turbocharged version ofTitantic, director James Cameron, along with his producer Jon Landau, unveiled 18 minutes of footage from the film's new, 3D conversion on Friday morning at the Paramount lot.our editor recommendsJames Cameron Wows CineEurope With First Footage of 'Titanic 3D' Eight scenes were screened, including footage of Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bukater's (Kate Winslet) encounter on the Titantic's grand stairwell, their kiss on the bow of the ship and its sinking. "There are certain films that [warrant] being brought back to the theater," Cameron said. "There is a whole generation of people who haven't seen it at all." The 1997 disaster epic is being converted into 3D at a cost of $18 million and the process, which is ongoing, is expected to take 60 weeks, Cameron said. The conversion is largely being handled by visual effects company Stereo D and is requiring 300 artists. PHOTOS: 10 Billion Dollar Babies The screening marked the first time the footage has been shown in the U.S.; scenes also were shown at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam in September. The updated film, from Paramount, Fox and Cameron's own Lightstorm Entertainment, will be released by Paramount on April 6.Titanticgrossed $1.84 billion worldwide and won 11 Oscars, including those for best picture and best director. It is the second highest grossing film of all time, trailing only Cameron'sAvatar($2.78 billion). STORY: As He Converts 'Titanic' to 3D, James Cameron Raises Bar on Film Restorations Cameron said that while he is typically "very much against" converting traditional films into 3D - adding that he would have originally shotTitanticin 3D if the technology existed - he believes that the conversion enriches the film. "I totally believe 3D is an enhancement for the dramatic scenes - not just the big action," said Cameron, adding that while he believes most 3D conversions are more like "2.4D," the care he and others are taking with the project will ensure its 3D version is more like "2.99D." A new 4K digital master of the film was created as part of the conversion process; it will be the basis for traditional 2D showings of the film when it is released in April, Landau said. He said that there would be no changes to the content of the film. "That was the director's cut," Landau joked. Cameron added: "I don't have that revisionist gene." He said that both DiCaprio and Winslet are interested in the project, though neither has yet seen the 3D footage. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Related Topics 3D James Cameron Kate Winslet Leonardo DiCaprio Titanic

The Painful Dying of Hollywood's Producers: No Top Class, No Calls Back

This short article initially made an appearance within the November. 4 problem from the Hollywood Reporter. You aren't getting me to discuss how awful the galleries are!" states one veteran producer before starting right into a tirade about them. "The galleries just don't respect what producers do. They'd rather not have access to them around. ... Galleries have so many professionals and waste a significant amount of cash on that." States another producer who ranks one of the Hollywood elite: "The higher the movies get, the greater professionals feel they're creating them. In my opinion you will find more professionals being sent to locations than in the past. ... Once the executive states 'my' movie, it drives you crazy, also it's happening increasingly more.Inch Using the movie business going through a historic adjusting as DVD revenue has shriveled and new technologies have not produced cash to consider its place, the problems facing the company are compressing the very best rank of producers, including individuals who have generous handles galleries -- in writing. It's trickle-up financial aspects, and individuals who've lengthy been accustomed to getting their voices respected have found that sometimes -- ouch -- their calls aren't even came back. Some think that existence has transformed forever within the movie business, while some -- observing that galleries are earning progressively homogeneous movies -- are wishing that eventually it is obvious that audiences crave different things which producers are the type using the experience and skill to build up and execute original, often even great, material. Proof of pressure galleries are imposing on large-title producers is everywhere. Jerry Bruckheimer just went through what he referred to to THR because the hardest settlement of his career with Disney to produce The Lone Ranger with The Actor-brad Pitt. Ron Howard and John Grazer of Imagine have experienced their wealthy deal at Universal reduce and also the studio close the lid on on the ambitious fantasy Western The Dark Tower, with different number of books by Stephen King. A-list producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy just departed from The new sony after 2 yrs with no eco-friendly light. The industry's ultimate 800-pound gorilla, Steven Spielberg, has already established struggles raising money. A few of the industry's most effective producers the galleries are earning them feel, as you puts it, progressively "irrelevant." Along with a top executive at one studio appreciates that oftentimes, there is a point. "If only I possibly could let you know they're wrong or they're being babies," he states. "But [their complaints] are legitimate. Also it doesn't seem like it's to the advantage of the film business. But galleries tend to be more involved with movies since the stakes are extremely high. You receive pressure in the bosses to be certain you're controlling the projects well- but that was previously producer's job." Which's from a professional in a studio that's considered relatively sincere. Not every one is. There appears to become broad agreement among high-level producers that Fox has lengthy been probably the most contentious with producers, before the financial aspects grew to become so challenging, largely because of a powerful-arm culture produced by studio chief Tom Rothman. Disney, with providers for example Marvel and Pixar and it is concentrate on top quality entertainment, now makes couple of movies of their own and scarcely appears to require producers. Vital and Universal also appear largely indifferent, aside from a clutch of stars like J.J. Abrams (who, particularly, is really a filmmaker themself). The new sony and Warner Bros. -- for the reason that order -- obtain the greatest marks. "Even if they're f--ing you, they're apologetic," states one prominent producer. "Fox, Vital, Universal -- it's simply: 'This is exactly what we're doing. Sorry we didn't remember to inform you.' " States producer Laurence Mark (Julie & Julia): "The new sony's the only real studio that kind of harks to that old studio days. Amy [Pascal] handles the large picture. She's pleased to make bold moves. They've great associations that repay.Inch Particularly, The new sony makes The Social Networking and Moneyball with giant producer Scott Rudin -- films that other galleries could have been unlikely to create. (Actually, one producer states he's heard professionals at other galleries make snide comments about The new sony's decision to take a risk on Moneyball.) However, many with ties towards the studio say even Pascal has needed to trim her sails in the present atmosphere. "The galleries trust a more compact and more compact quantity of producers," states Marshall Herskovitz, leader emeritus from the Producers Guild of America. But he adds he got that memo sometime ago. "I don't possess a deal any longer," states Herskovitz. "Am I upset? Yes. But there's no reason in crying about this.Inch Rather, he states, he and many more have modified: "Every producer I understand has needed to find out about independent financing. It might be these tectonic changes are finally striking individuals who thought these were invulnerable, but almost everyone has modified. Producers have moved into television and new media and sought out different ways to invest in features because that's what producers do. They're coping." (One producer states he's, like many more, searched for possibilities in television, but even that's difficult. "All of a sudden you're going from office to office, offering TV," he states. "There's some a Willy Loman aspect into it.Inch) "We are able to yell our heads off, but we with each other need to adjust to changes in the commercial,Inch states current guild co-leader Mark Gordon. "The planet is altering, and we must change by using it.Inch Possibly nothing demonstrates more strongly the main difference between then and today for producers compared to Imagine experience. Last decade, Universal was giving Howard and Grazer a hefty $17 million annually in overhead in addition to costs of $two million in advance against a minimum of 5 % of gross (more if Howard was pointing). The partners even had two "put" pictures -- meaning they might pressure projects into Universal's pipeline -- though they never worked out that option. Their deal has since been trimmed to $8 million-along with a year, based on an educated source, but when it's time for renegotiation (it runs through 2013), they are certain to face further pressure. Related Subjects 1 2 next last

Beck, private school grad, gives back

Prodigious musical talent must find its beginnings somewhere, as Christophe Beck knows. The Canadian-born composer began exploring his own penchant for music at a private high school in Toronto. "I was fortunate," Beck says. "The school hired a bunch of great teachers, a lot of them professional musicians and that kind of immersive experience was crucial to my development as a musician." But, when Beck learned that some schools in Los Angeles have no music program to speak of, he was "shocked."Beck was introduced to this disparity by Education Through Music-Los Angeles, a charity devoted to providing quality music education to disadvantaged schools in the L.A. area.Fellow composers Austin Wintory and Tim Davies invited Beck to take part in ETM-LA, and since then Beck has landed a spot on the organization's advisory board. Victoria Lanier, exec director of the nonprofit, notes that Beck's involvement with the program has been advantageous not only because of his financial support, but also "because of the visibility he brings." "It allows people who may not otherwise hear about ETM-LA to know about us," says Lanier.ETM-LA, founded in 2006, is based on the Education Through Music model in NY. During its first year, ETM-LA worked with two schools in the L.A. area, bringing music as a part of the core curriculum to more than 800 students. Since then, the charity has branched out and now serves 4,500 eighth grade students at 10 disadvantaged L.A. schools. The program's mission, says Beck, is to create equal opportunity for a well-rounded music education."It isn't really whether or not a student becomes a musician it's giving each student an equal opportunity for success in whatever field they want to pursue," Lanier says. "It's about transferable skills."Beck joins a list of other showbiz musicians who have contributed to the org, including vocalist Lisbeth Scott and composer Michael Giacchino. ETM-LA's plan is to continue its expansion into new schools every year, and, according to Lanier, continue to "connect renowned artists to the community and to spotlight the (music) programs that are going on."Beck himself is looking forward to visiting schools and discussing both his personal and professional experience with music. "I'd love to do master classes," says Beck, "and I plan to have kids sit in on recording sessions as well.""I want all students to have the opportunity I had," says Beck as he reflects on his own music education experience. "I think sometimes music takes a backseat to sports -- there's a lot of pressure to be a great athlete ... (but) a pursuit of the arts is just as important, and there are kids where sports is not what they were born to do, and it would be a shame to leave those kids out in the cold."He continues, "That's why ETM-LA is great -- it gives them the chance to do that, especially if they can't afford the instruments after all, I'm sure schools have plenty of football pads to hand out."BILLION-DOLLAR COMPOSER: CHRISTOPHE BECK Beck's green phase | Resurrecting 'Muppets' in Disney tradition | Dawn of the undead | Beck's music in his own words | Beck, private school grad, gives back Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Photo: Does Scarlett Johansson Look Like Our Sexiest Movie Alien Yet?

Over the course of her career, Scarlett Johansson has played a sexy Dutch muse, a sexy clone, a sexy journalism student, a sexy Boleyn sister and a sexy, spandex-clad Roman spy. (She is so sexy that David Fincher did not cast her in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for fear that audiences wouldn’t be able “to wait for her to take her clothes off.”) So it’s not surprising that in Jonathan Glazer’s upcoming film Under The Skin, the bombshell doesn’t just play an alien — she plays an alien who uses a voluptuous human body to ensnare male prey. Take a look at the first photo of Johansson in character to see how she stacks up against cinema’s other most titillating extraterrestrials. Here, Johannsson seems to be channeling a few different sexy alien attributes: the ultimate femme fatale quality of Natasha Henstridge’s Sil in Species with the edginess of Milla Jovovich’s Leeloo in The Fifth Element with the total disregard for PETA-approved outerwear of Alex Pettyfer’s John Smith in I Am Number Four. Do you think that makes her the sexiest movie extraterrestrial of them all. Before weighing in below, be sure to consider Jeff Bridges in Starman? Under The Skin — not to be confused with Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In — will be the first feature from Glazer since 2004’s Birth starring Nicole Kidman. Adapted from Michael Faber’s novel of the same title, Under The Skin stars Johansson as Isserley, an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by a rich corporation on her planet to pick up unwary hitchhikers. Through her terrestrial adventures though, Isserley ultimately meets a man who convinces her to change her view on hitchhikers and breaks her heart. Obviously. Under The Skin is currently shooting in Scotland. [ICYDK via Playlist]

Do Hollywood Celebs Possess a To Occupy Wall Street?

Kim Kardashian includes a reported internet price of over $35 million Tyler Perry gained $130 million from May 2010 to May 2011. Which would be to state that they are two stars who treat fame like Jesse Trump treated property qualities within the 1980s: by making it a lucrative business. As a result, their an accounting firm are most likely happy about that one: Deadline reviews that Kardashian continues to be put into the cast of Perry's new film, 'The Counselor.A According to among Perry's stage plays, the film concentrates on an Ivy League-educated counselor ('Friday Evening Lights' star Jurnee Smollett) who cheats on her behalf lengthy-time husband (let alone that Smollett is just 25 go by using it). Kardashian would play her friend Ava, who provides the lady a "large-city transformation." Kardashian made her official screen debut in 'Disaster Movie' in 2008, and it has made an appearance being an actress in three other projects: two tv shows ('CSI: NY' and 'Beyond the Break') and also the little-seen film 'Deep within the Valley.' She stars together with her siblings around the extremely popular reality show 'Keeping track of the Kardashians.' Here's speculating Kourtney and Khloe is a little jealous with this particular little bit of news. [via Deadline] [Photo: WireImage] Kim Kardashian at America online/Huffington Publish Game Changers Honours See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Jobs Appreciated at Memorial Service for Apple Employees

Coldplay and Norah Johnson carried out Wednesday in a Jobs memorial that came hundreds of 1000's of Apple employees, the Wall Street Journal reported.our editor recommendsA Studio Chief Pens Revealing First-Person Jobs RemembranceAaron Sorkin States Jobs Requested Him to create a Pixar MovieApple After Steve Jobs' Dying: Way forward for Board in FocusSteve Jobs Appreciated By Disney, Pixar ExecsApple Honors Jobs With Home page Takeover of Official SiteSteve Jobs Appreciated by Edgar Bronfman Junior., Martin Bandier along with other Professionals Related Subjects•Steve Jobs Apple Boss Tim Prepare, who over from Jobs in August, spoke in the outside service, held at the organization's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, together with board member Bill Campbell, sources told the WSJ. PHOTOS: Jobs' Dying: The way the Magazines Covered The NY Occasions reported that other loudspeakers incorporated former V . P . Al Gore, an associate of Apple's board, and Jonathan Ive, senior vice president industrial design at Apple. Coldplay and Johnson aren't any other people to Apple: The Chris Martin-fronted rock group and jazz chanteuse have carried out at Apple product launches. Based on the NY Occasions, Coldplay carried out "Fix You" and "Yellow," while Johnson covered Bob Dylan's "Forever Youthful." PHOTOS: Apple Items in TV and films The service also was streamed to Apple's employees around the world, including individuals in the stores, that have been closed throughout the memorial. Whitened curtains covered the glass outside from the stores throughout the big event. The organization's memorial comes 72 hours following a private service held around the campus of Stanford College. Among individuals rumored to possess been asked to Sunday's memorial are Gore Jay Y. Lee, the boy of Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-Hee, whose clients are presently inside a legal fight with Apple over patents associated with the technology and style of mobile phones and table computer systems and also the founders of countless top Internet companies. PHOTOS: Jobs' 10 Memorable Key events U2's Bono, Years old-Years old Ma and Joan Baez apparently carried out at Sunday's memorial. Jobs -- some type of computer genius who, with fellow college dropout Steve Wozniak, built the very first Apple computer systems in the Jobs' family garage -- died March. 5 at 56 from respiratory system arrest in California after fighting pancreatic cancer. 72 hours later, he was hidden inside a private ceremony in a non-denominational graveyard. Related Subjects Norah Johnson Obituaries Jobs Apple Coldplay Tim Prepare

A&E Renews The Glades For Third Season

A&E has restored its flagship drama seriesThe Glades for any third season, that will launch next summer time. This news comes per month following the cop series starring Matt Passmore ended its second season, which averaged 3.9 million audiences, 1.55 million of these within the 18-49 demographic and 1.74 million in grown ups 25-54. In 18-49, The Glades was up 12% from Season 1. Using the renewal, A&E may have three original series on tap for the coming year: The Glades Breakout Nobleman, that will return for any second season and also the lately acquired newcomerLongmire. The Glades is created by Fox TV Galleries and executive created by creator Clifton Campbell and Gary Randall.

Ray Flynt Punished By His Estranged Brother

Ray Flynt continues to be punished by his estranged brother, Jimmy Flynt, who accuses the Hustler magazine author of wrongly firing him from his $250,000 job with Flynt Management Group LLC.our editor recommendsLarry Flynt sues nephews for infringementAnthony Weiner Offered employment by Ray Flynt The Connected Press reviews Jimmy Flynt is seeking no less than $20 million in damages in the federal suit filed the other day in Cincinnati court. In line with the suit, "Hustler retail was Jimmy's idea, remains highly lucrative and contains allowed expansion into many other areas and business areas, including gaming. Jimmy opened up up the initial Hustler store known as the first one to take advantage from the Hustler mark in commerce, in retail. Jimmy literally built Hustler retail in the earth-up,Inch Jimmy Flynt also states he invented Hustler's marketing saying, "Relax... it's just sex!" Jimmy Flynt alleges that Ray stopped needing to pay his brother this past year to ensure that they are able to push him in the organization. In line with the Cincinnati Business Courier, Jimmy Flynt filed another suit against a Zoysia, NY lawyer supplying you with legal services to Hustler Cincinnati Corporation. as well as Jimmy Flynt. Jimmy Flynt alleges the firm Lipsitz Eco-friendly Scime Cambria LLP conspired and colluded with Ray Flynt to reduce him in the organization. Jimmy Flynt seeks $millions of in damages within the firm. Related Subjects

The way a Calligraphy Pen Rewrote Steve Jobs' Existence

I understand where Jobs' inspiration originated from, because I walked into the same location three several weeks after he'd left in 1974: the calligraphy building at Reed College in Tigard, Or. "My first impression was that the rest of the students really loved him," states Jobs' first calligraphy professor (and mine), Robert Palladino. "That surprised me, because there have been each one of these prodigies going swimming, and Steve would be a dropout. However they detected greatness even so.Inchour editor suggests Apple Boss Jobs to consider Another Medical Leave of Absence'iGenius: How Jobs Transformed the World' Airs Sunday on Discovery PHOTOS: Jobs' Dying: The way the Magazines Covered Jobs would be a genius dropout with drive, so after his one 1972 semester like a having to pay student, he hung out at Reed for 18 several weeks more, studying calligraphy as single-mindedly like a monk. Later, Jobs became a member of a Reed friend (and future Apple worker) to review just like a monk within the Himalayas, barefoot, with shaved mind and robes. But his first monastery was Reed's calligraphy room, run by Palladino, who'd been a Trappist monk for 18 years. PHOTOS: Apple Items in TV and films Plastic Valley's future most well-known screamer analyzed having a monk who spent years going for a vow of silence. "Reed College in those days offered possibly the very best calligraphy instruction in the united states,Inch Jobs stated when he gave Stanford's 2005 graduation speech. "Through the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was superbly hands calligraphed...I discovered serif and sans serif typefaces, about different the quantity of space between different letter combinations, by what makes great typography great. It had been beautiful, historic, creatively subtle in ways that science can't capture." Calligraphing just like a monk gave Jobs an esthetic sense most math-nerd tech titans (like Bill Gates) lack. STORY: Private Jobs Memorial Looking for March. 16 "About 2 yrs later Steve returned to Reed to inform me he was focusing on computer systems from his parents' garage," states Palladino, now a upon the market priest doing public in British and Latin in Or. "He desired to talk to me about my Greek letters." As Jobs told Stanford's graduates, "Whenever we were creating the very first Macs computer, everything returned in my experience. And that we designed everything in to the Mac. It had been the very first computer with beautiful typography. Basically had never dropped in on that single course attending college, the Mac would have not had multiple typefaces or proportionally spread fonts. And also, since Home windows just replicated the Mac, it's likely that no pc might have them." STORY: Apple Shares Hit New High It wasn't only a calligraphic skill Jobs acquired at Reed. It had been a mindset. At orientation, freshmen were advised, "You're here to measure the mind from the person sitting alongside you, and also the finest minds whatever person resided." Reed's dropout, suicide, and grad-school admissions rates were sky-high. Social abilities and gradepoint earnings were low. At Stanford, any grade below a C was removed from students' records. At Reed, there is no gentleman's C, and also you were likely to be too pure to even request what your grades were. Your ultimate goal was perfection. It had been about questing individualism, original thinking, callous meritocracy. The college mascot was a picture of burning ambition: a griffin blazing such as the sun. "Steve were built with a flamethrower mind," states Tim Girvin, a calligrapher who began on the Reed scene and continued to create logos for 400 films, from Apocalypse Now towards the Adventures of Tintin, and for Jobs, who asked him to operate on the mouse-triggered computer -- a "M.A.C." "Steve stated, 'You need to come lower to Apple, I've something I've got to inform you.' I had been amazed to become flown lower to operate on experiments in type design with this technology still covered with secrecy. I arrived in the outdoors to dedicate yourself him like a renegade, to consider in a different way about how to overcome that design. "A button, the cursor device, was found in some type of card board with wire being released the finish. 'Could you draw a logo design for that Mac computer manually with this particular cursor, on the pc itself?' he requested. I couldn't. The screen was small, the pixels large. So rather, manually, I made sketches for that logo design as well as the pc, all completed with a calligraphic brush tool." Jobs loved the end result. Positive thing he loved it. "Should you be on his advantages, it had been always, what's the next tier of perfection? What's the following factor you could do this that might be better? 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Requested which stars should play Jobs and themself within the potential The new sony movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson's Jobs bio (released March. 24), Palladino states, "I don't see many movies. I never saw a TV until I acquired from the cloister." Jobs hired Girvin to complete more designs many occasions through the years. "When he began NeXT [the pc company Jobs released in 1985], he stated, 'Can you brew up some type of visual expression based on how we tell the storyline of NeXT?' He stated that brand am corporate and disciplined, he required to then add magical significant energy to that particular.Inch To Jobs, calligraphy was the miracle that enlivens science. "The majority of my correspondence with him was handwritten. Which was a part of our connection, the go back to the hands." Girvin states the final time these were in touch, 7 or 8 years back, Jobs would be a transformed guy. "He grew to become a lot more calm. At first, he am youthful, so passionate, so crazy, and thus direct, it had been another type of energy. I believe he just grew to become more peaceful in the character." "Your day of Steve's dying, I required my iPad and began drawing sketches concerning the Mac, beginning wherever I had been with Steve 3 decades ago," states Girvin. This time around, he didn't require a calligraphy pen -- and also the iPad is really less than the Pelikan pen that Palladino uses. "The iPad provides you with a chance to take pictures and notes and sketches and concepts, and converge them in a single space, effortlessly." Finally, Girvin can perform what Jobs requested him to complete long ago when (see drawing above). "It is going back towards the initial computer dream," states Girvin. "You cannot connect the dots searching forward," Jobs told the Stanford grads. "You are able to only connect them searching backwards. So you've to trust the dots will in some way connect inside your future. 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New Muppets Trailer Will Be Here!

Let's travel by map...Well, it required to happen sometime. After several truly inspired trailers, it absolutely was only natural that Kermit as well as the gang would trip up and hang out an undesirable professional.... Oh, who is able to keep that trick up? The completely new Muppets trailer will be here which is bleedin' brilliant! Stop reading through through this watching it below.This really is really the 2nd full theatrical trailer for your movie, despite the fact that it doesn't boast a parody theme, it's filled with the type of Muppety goodness making us think the film will probably be truly special. From little popular culture gags to winks at cinema generally (who not need a "travel by map" button inside their vehicle now?) it's a champion through and through.The plot, for your a few still unaware, finds Walter, our planet's finest Muppet fan recruiting his brother (Jason Segel) and enormous bro's girlfriend (Could Be) on a journey to fulfill his heroes. After they identify the gang's old theatre is threatened by from an evil oil baron (Chris Cooper), they're going about rounding within the fuzzy pals to make a telethon and save the region. Signal madness, music, mockery and everything we love to in regards to the Muppets.The film involves America on November 23, which is enough to deliver us right into a pet-style craze that people must hold off until February 10 to find out it the following.

Ratings: Modern Family A Dominant Pressure X Factor Postponed by Baseball

Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, David Mix Be it facing The X Factor, Modern Family keeps winning Wednesday evening. Family sustained its strong showing, entertaining 13.42 million people and posting a 5.7 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds - both levels for your evening. A Couple-hour-plus rain delay pressed Game 4 in the American League Championship Series within the mid-day into prime time on Fox, postponing X Key to Thursday evening. The sport averaged 9.44 million fans together with a 3. demo rating, preliminary Nielsen data shows. Fall Preview: Get scoop inside your favorite returning shows Following Family, Happy Being had 7.55 million people tuning in at 9:30/8:30c. Also in prime time's middle hour: the night's second most-seen show Criminal Minds (12.68 million), NBC's Harry's Law (7.64 million) and America's Next Top Model round the CW (1.86 million). At 8/7, Survivor: South Off-shoreline come up with 10.55 million audiences on CBS, while ABC's The Middle clicked up 8.83 million and NBC's Up With The Evening 5.25 million. A repeat in the CW's Ringer got 1.17 million, which was hardly worse in comparison to time slot's previous tenant, H8R. CW gives Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer an entire season Over the following half-hour, Suburgatoryscored 8.79 million people while a rerun of Whitney handled 3.99 million - greater than the ultimate first-run episode in the quickly canceled Free Agents . Inside the final prime-time hour, CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Analysis attracted 10.78 million fans ABC's Revenge 7.94 million (its first uptick after precipitously trending downward to 7.70 million from 8.55 million and 10.15 million due to its premiere) and NBC's Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit 7.18 million. Particularly happy news for ABC: the completely new dramanotched a slot-winning 2.7 rating on the market-valued demo while CSI's 2.6 marked a collection low for just about any fall episode.

Cheers & Jeers: Jessica Lange American Psycho!

Jessica Lange Cheers to Jessica Lange on her behalf frightening good performance on American Horror Story. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! As creepy mother nearby Constance on FX's gleefully over-the-top surprise, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress (Tootsie, Blue Sky) seems being pointing Kim Stanley's acclaimed are her mother from hell inside the 1982 Hollywood biopic Frances. Lange - who won an Emmy this past year just like a different kind of spooky matriarch in HBO's Grey Gardens - usually takes home another statuette on her behalf eerie turn here. She's only a few of the standout Cinemax alum among AHS' stellar ensemble. Six Foot Under's Frances Conroy can be a scream becoming an aging chambermaid, and True Blood's Denis O'Hare continues his serial scene-stealing ways just like a mysterious burn victim. Honestly, the entire cast is terrifyingly gifted. Whoever else consider American Horror Story - and Jessica Lange? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Chris Christie Press Conference Sparks Media Frenzy of Fat Jokes (Video)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie put to rest weeks and months of speculation on Tuesday with a lengthy press conference in which he formally announced that he would not be seeking the GOP nomination for president.our editor recommends'Jersey Shore' Slammed by Gov. Chris Christie; Tax Credit RevokedGov. Chris Christie Mocked on 'The Late Show with David Letterman' (Video) The press didn't seem to want to take no for an answer and kept asking Christie question after question. Meanwhile, online, some of the same political reporters indulged in as many weight-related jokes as they could think of to laugh at the overweight Christie. It's become such a point of media obsession that CNN produced a piece last week that asked point-blank if Chris Christie was too fat to be president. Among the most notable of the jokes and comments: Nico Hines of The Times of London "People who say Chris Christie is too fat to be president: girthers" Dave Weigel, Slate reporter and MSNBC contributor "What if all the reporters going to Christie's presser run through a door at the same time and get stuck, like the Three Stooges?" Amy Walter "This week in another reminder why I LOVE That SNL is back on TV. The Christie skit is writing itself...." Mike Memoli, Washington reporter for Chicago Tribune/L.A. Times "Cmon guys, this counts as exercise for Christie so let him keep talking." Andrea Smith, ABC News news and technology producer "Reporters not taking "no" for an answer from Gov. Christie . Says he knows in his heart now is not his time." Dave Wyllie, Glasgow-based broadcast, new media and print journalist "Chris Christie will not run has been part of his rider for quite some time. Or walk quickly." VIDEO: Gov. Chris Christie Mocked on 'The Late Show With David Letterman' Amy S. Rosenberg, Philadelphia Inquirer writer "so there. Chris Christie doesn't mind the fat jokes, just wants them to be funny." Katrina Trinko, National Review reporter "Right on schedule: Christie says "no," Politico reports law firm representing Palin looking at early state deadlines" Ginger Gibson, Star-Ledger reporter "Christie's staff said two more questions a lot of a questions ago and he's still going. He loves this." Ken Bazinet, White House correspondent "Gov. Christie better not cut this off early: The head custodian, capital pastry chef and ghost of Molly Pitcher have yet to get a question." John Dickerson, political correspondent for Slate "Length of Christie press conference like the old joke about Humphry. What followed a Humphry dinner speech? Breakfast." Related Topics

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Everybody's a critic

If there's one factor film students love a lot more than watching movies, it's discussing their opinions of movies. Just Seen It, began by recent U. of Los Angeles film school graduate David Freedman, enables a team of latest USC grads and current masters and doctoral film students to complete exactly that. The Needed Seen It group creates, shoots and produces short reviews of films and Television shows a la Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper's "In the Movies." Placing a contempo spin on individuals shows, Just Seen It suits a more youthful demo with internet video reviews along with a three-part rating system: view it, stream it or skip it. Shot in the manner you'd expect film students to interrupt lower a film they have just seen -- over drinks having a couple of close buddies -- Just Seen It reviews major movies and new Television shows and champions "great finds,Inch lesser-known films and shows near and dear for their hearts. Some recent reviews include "Moneyball," which gained a "View It!Inch and "Contagion," which got a "Stream It!" In December, Freedman, who now works best for Bill Mechanic's Pandemonium shingle, and the buddies were searching to meet the increasing demand left through the now-defunct "In the Movies." There "wasn't a very intelligent and entertaining and contentions movie show," on television, he stated. They looked the concept for any Just Seen It Television show around and located a cable network which was interested. The internet eventually backed out, but Freedman and the buddies did not quit. Now JustSeenIt.com has about 40,000 hits each week, 500 registered customers, and also the team just published the 100th review towards the site. Although the Internet hosts Just Seen It for the time being, Freedman eventually hopes to determine Just Seen It on television. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Apparently, a lot of A-List Stars Are Playing Secret Games of Poker

You will find many perks to as being a superstar, and one of these is getting a chance to put money into anything. Because it works out, its not all A-lister is purchasing lime-eco-friendly Lamborghinis and vats of caviar. A number of them really gamble it away secretly high-stakes poker games! This week's story within the Hollywood Reporter examines the field of subterranean poker competitions in L.A., which feature a number of Tinseltown's greatest energy gamers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Film Clip and Matt Damon have been spotted at games locked in multi-billion dollar houses in Los Angeles. However, what began out as harmless fun eventually converted into potentially costly legal cases. As THR states, "In March, players' names began showing up in the court filings alleging that unknowingly for them, they'd been pocketing stolen money." While DiCaprio, Affleck and Damon came out untouched, actor Tobey Maguire, who's recognized to experiment the superstar poker circuits, might have to return $311,200 he won from the former hedge fund manager that has since been billed with managing a $44 million Ponzi plan (the Maguire news broke in June). The manager, Bradley Ruderman, constantly lost his profit these games, and since he was wealthy, individuals involved ongoing to allow him play. (We assume their way of thinking was: "Hey, this person sucks! Let us keep taking his money.") The relaxation of this article goes in to the suit, a brief history behind these games and also the Hollywood elite who keep going them. The entire factor is a nice fascinating read and you will take a look over on THR. Image thanks to WireImage

Wes Craven is 'The Last to Know' If You will see considered a 'Scream 5'

Wes Craven will in all probability return for just about any fifth 'Scream.' Supposing the script is great. Craven told Movieweb the fifth and sixth film will be in the entire shebang, but he never signs onto direct until he sees the finished product. Producer Bob Weinstein is gung-ho about ongoing the series, even though 'Scream 4,' which showed up in this area in April, disappointed laminator tl901-office. Still, despite having less written word together with a waning fascination with the series, Craven has ideas about where the story is certainly going next. It is something associated with the ambiguous ending of 'Scream 4.' Asked for by Movieweb in what happens for the which makes it through figures, Craven joked, "I'd have to kill you essentially stated.Inch He mentioned he loved the fact 'Scream 4' didn't finish getting a "hook" for an additional film. "We felt it absolutely was simpler to permit the crowd speculate instead of have a number of these clues put in their lap." Craven states the options meant for a fifth film because Weinstein wants it to happen. "Whether I'll be a part of it or else? I am unsure. My contract generates for me the initial look. Once they show me something that's really wonderful? Clearly I'll be a part of it." Odds are good, since Craven hasn't switched them -- or a smaller amount promising projects -- lower yet. He referred to how a 'Scream' machine works: Typically what is going to happen is always that Bob Weinstein or Kevin Williamson will build up a completely new idea, and they're going to pitch it either to. Once they both appreciate it, they'll toss it around and discover if they'd like to develop it into an overarching concept. I Rapidly have the phone call. It is said, 'We have something tell you.B ... Beginning ('Scream 4'), the initial meeting I'd with Kevin Williamson, he did sketch out a 'Scream 5' and 6. The idea was that individuals i did so the initial in the new trilogy. We required to wait to determine as we made enough money on each film to produce the following viable. When happens, people two will build up the concepts plus an idea that's worth fulfilling. 'Scream 4' involves DVD and Blu-ray on March. 4. [via Movieweb] photo because of Dimension Films

Justin Timberlake to Receive Environmental Award

Justin Timberlake will be honored with the Environmental Media Association's Futures Award, given annually to the next generation of environmental leaders in the entertainment world.our editor recommendsProducers Guild of America to Be Honored at Environmental Media AwardsThe Philanthropists: Industry's Protectors of the Environment, Arts and Education The actor-singer was singled out for developing an eco-friendly golf course outside of Memphis, using his celebrity to promote environmental issues, and his attempts to create a carbon neutral footprint while on tour. PHOTOS: Hollywood Reporter's Philanthropy Issue: The Photographs EMA President Debbie Levin said that Timberlake and fellow honoree the Producers Guild of America "demonstrate taking a green lifestyle to the next level." Past Futures Award honorees include Edward Norton, Rosario Dawson and Maroon 5. The feature films The Other Guys, Rio and Yogi Bear; documentaries Carbon Nation, African Cats, Revenge of the Electric Car and Saving Pelican 895; TV dramas Body of Proof, CSI and The Good Wife; and comedies Futurama, Hot in Cleveland and Nurse Jackie will be showcased at the event as projects that have carried a positive, environmentally friendly message in the past season. COVER STORY: The Philanthropists: Industry's Protectors of the Environment, Arts and Education The 21st EMA Awards take place Oct. 15 in Los Angeles. Related Topics Edward Norton Justin Timberlake Rosario Dawson Philanthropy Maroon 5

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SHAKEDOWN: Will Moviegoers End Up Paying For 3D Glasses If Studios Wont?

UPDATE: Sony Responds To NATOs Claim That Studios 3D Glasses Plan Is Myopic The battle lines are starting to harden around who’ll pay for those lame-looking 3D glasses. I’ve learned that other studios might line up behind Sony’s decision to stop paying the average 50-cents a pair fee beginning in May. Rival studios tell me Fox is on board. “We’re studying our options, but haven’t made any decisions yet,” denied Fox Filmed Entertainment spokesman Chris Petrikin. Remember, Foxwas first in line to try tostop paying for glasses back in 2009 when it released Ice Age. But then had to abandon that effort after theaters rebelled.Sony was technically correct today when it said in a statement that “there never has been” a formal agreement stipulating that studios would shoulder the cost of 3D glasses. But it’s easy to understand why exhibitors are stunned by Sony’s stoppage. Because it changes an understanding that’s been in place since 2005 when Disney’s Chicken Little kicked off the 3D movie phenom. “It is a radical departure from what the practice has been,” National Association of Theater Owners President John Fithian tells me. Now Regal CEO Amy Miles warns that if studiosend the practice then it could “result in fewer screens exhibiting 3D films”. That’s bad news for Hollywood, whichplans to release 39 films in 3D next year, vs. 36 in 2011. Exhibitors might encourage consumers to bring their own 3D glasses. That may be the future anyway.But BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield says if theaters require payment for 3D specs on top of the typical 3D surcharge($3.25 to $4 a ticket), then “the U.S. moviegoer will reject this as another way for exhibitorsto milk them and further decrease their interest in 3D (and perhaps going to themovies in general)”. The fight is over glasses manufactured for RealD which it, in turn, supplies them to theaters. RealD’sstock price was down -14.7% today on the Sony news.The 3D tech company won’t disclose how much it pays for the specs, but it’s said to charge anywhere from 40 cents a pair to $1 depending on the size of the order. Some exhibitors grumble about dealing with a monopoly, but RealD spokesman Rick Heineman tells me that the system”allows us to do quality control.” He adds that the company is open to other business models. For example, moviegoers in Europe and Australia frequently buy glasses for about $1 at the concession stand. RealD also wouldn’t mind if people keep and reusetheir glasses. Or shell out as much as $150 for a classy-looking pair from manufacturers including Polaroid, Gunnar Optics, Marchon, and Oakley. (What, no Pradayet?) Manufacturers say that the costly specs provide a better 3D experience, though Heineman says RealDcertifies that even the cheap modelsmeet its minimum specifications. Theater owners maintain that studios already have a good deal. Hollywood collects about 52% of the box office revenue in the U.S. vs. 40% or less in Europe and Australia.Sony is holding out an olive branch of sorts byasking exhibitors to “engage in a collegial dialogue with us about this issue, including at ShowEast next month.” But Fithian says the studio”should have started by talking to their partners”.

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Large stars, bigger sea food

Harry Connick Junior. and Morgan Freeman control whales. Producer Broderick Manley with boy Micah and David Yates. Westwood's Broxton Avenue near to the Village Theater increased being an underwater playland for your Sept. 17 preem of Warners' "Dolphin Tale." Winter, the pic's star dolphin, was absent, but with the appear from this, Winter would your look into Hollywood.Best four several days of her existence were filming," mentioned David Yates, pic's co-producer and Boss of Florida's Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where Winter lives. "She loves the eye. I call her my little dolphin diva!" Yesterday in Florida, the junket at Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Hotel presented an individuals stars, who discussed undertaking by getting an marine mammal. I have not worried about being upstaged," Harry Connick Junior. mentioned. "I really get it done each night with my band." The pleasure in doing anything will get paid out," Morgan Freeman mentioned. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

The Patron Saints

A Pigeon Projects production. (Worldwide sales: Pigeon, Brooklyn.) Created, directed, edited by John M. Cassidy, Melanie Shatzky.With: James, Florence, Ro-Ro, Robert, Julius.An finish from the road the majority of us hope will not look quite as bleak is described in "The Patron Saints," the feature debut of documentarians John M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky. Portrait of the crowded residential care facility for that seniors and firm does not flinch in the most depressing aspects of senility, abandonment and despair. Poetical instead of narrative or information-focused structure will not tempt mainstream educational tv stations. But individuals available to more abstract nonfiction may bite, additionally to fest and cinematheque developers. Narrator is James, a mobility-impaired product of promote houses and jail stints who's arrived at pic's un named U.S. elderly care somewhat sooner than most, age-smart. He isn't probably the most supportive observer -- because he appears to locate other residents' myriad worries funny -- but he's a colorful one that provides virtually the only real notes of humor here. (Particularly when remembering a lengthy-ago drunken house party's aftermath: "I awaken the following day, there is two broads [in mattress] beside me, and chicken wings everywhere.") Otherwise, individuals living listed here are mainly in pitiful spirits and physical states, though their health conditions go unspecified. There is the windowed Hungarian emigre who simply, frequently noisally, really wants to die a resident whose mantra-like repeated plea "Gimme a bit a coffee pleeeease" abruptly switches to "I really hope she chokes onto itInch when her roommate really will get some the blind more youthful one still visited (although with police escort) with a brother who molested her for a long time. Distilling the confusion felt by many is really a lady who keeps asking nobody particularly "Where's my mother? Why am I here? Somebody please let me know.Inch Another who clearly is not going home soon, or likely ever, is petitioned to do this with a hulking middle-aged boy not capable of taking care of themself -- we briefly glimpse him inside a vehicle stacked neck-high with unhealthy foods wrappers. James notes the attractive hillsides all around the facility (situated inside a rather desolate area near an airport terminal) were produced from landfill, a present-wrapped metaphor when there is one. Though in the beginning atmosphere appears almost Dickensian, helmers also make obvious that largely Hispanic and African-American staff listed here are doing the very best they are able to on likely low pay and financial assets. It isn't a location it's possible to work without considerable assets of persistence and generosity (though whenever we see James connect to some nurses, the correct answer is obvious they view him like a trouble-maker). Low-res lensing contributes to downbeat air, and can doubtless be simpler around the eyes around the small screen. Classical and avant-garde (Arvo Part, John Cage) arrangements provide somber soundtrack accompaniment whenever we hear cheerier music music (a resident's tone-hard of hearing rendition of "America the gorgeous,Inch dance music from the couple going to vocalists), it feels as though ironic counterpoint.Camera (color, HD), Cassidy, Shatzky music administrators, Brooke Wentz, Joshua Mehr seem, Nicholas Sjostrom. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Canada First!), Sept. 16, 2011. Running time: 72 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com