With Same Vim, New Animals, Cameron Crowe Returns

NY (AP) Fresh off an inspired writing session, Cameron Crowe is pulsing with enthusiasm.He spent the previous night sitting outside NY's Plaza Hotel, a spot that made him recall one of his first trips to NY as a teenage journalist for Rolling Stone in which he stayed at the Plaza while chronicling a Led Zeppelin tour."I was just thinking, 'Man, it's like no time has passed,' says Crowe. "This is the future time. That's what it was. You always wonder, 'In the future time, what will this all mean? What will it all amount to?' That was kind of the revelation of last night: Here I am. And it feels like no time."After six years of uncertainly, the present is feeling good for Crowe, the writer-director of earnest, personal films such as "Say Anything ..." and "Jerry Maguire." He's back with his first feature film since 2005's critical and box-office misfire "Elizabethtown": "We Bought a Zoo," an unabashedly warmhearted family film about a father (Matt Damon) who, after his wife dies of cancer, impulsively buys a rundown zoo to re-energize himself and his two kids."I don't look at the time post-"Elizabethtown" as the bottom of the roller coaster," says the perpetually writing Crowe. "I kind of look at it as a gathering time."In those years, Crowe plotted a film about Marvin Gaye that failed to get off the ground (he hopes to still make it), scripted an adaptation of David Sheff's "Beautiful Boy" and "Tweak" (a pair of books about an addict father and his son) and made two music documentaries (the Pearl Jam retrospective "Pearl Jam Twenty" and "The Union," about Elton John's collaboration with Leon Russell).He was also divorced from his wife of 24 years, Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, with whom he has 11-year-old twin sons. Crowe says Wilson remains a "close collaborator" with the children, and that he eagerly voted for Heart in this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.The parallels with "We Bought a Zoo" which includes moving scenes of Damon's character fondly reminiscing about his wife aren't lost on Crowe."This movie is about keeping souvenirs of a lost love," says Crowe. "Even in the broken relationships or people that have died or moved on, there's valuable luggage to be kept that guides the future."Crowe, himself, is a big collector. His largest collections might be his LPs and various music memorabilia, such as treasured set lists and ticket stubs. But he also keeps things from his movies. The boombox John Cusack raised over his head in "Say Anything ..." sits in his garage. His most cherished item is a signed Vans sneaker from Sean Penn, who played the Vans-wearing stoner Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Crowe's first script.Though no masterpiece, "We Bought a Zoo" is considerably better than its title and plot synopsis suggest. It's a rare film Crowe has directed but hasn't written (he shares screenplay credit with Aline Brosh McKenna, who adapted Benjamin Mee's autobiographical book), and it bears many hallmarks of the director. Last week on "The Daily Show," Damon, realizing the movie didn't sound like the most artistic enterprise, took to shouting at the crowd the simple justification: "Cameron Crowe directed it!"That's often all a film has needed to draw moviegoers. In person, Crowe has many of the qualities of his films: He's uncommonly upbeat, sincere and utterly engaging. Over a lunch interview, he's as likely to learn about a reporter as the reporter is to learn about him. He's one of few famous Twitter users who uses it almost exclusively to reply personally to fans.When Damon first met Crowe (he came to Austin, Texas, while Damon was making "True Grit"), he asked himself, "Is this for real?""But that is him and it's a beautiful thing," says Damon. "It's not that he looks at the world with rose-colored lenses. He's realistic, too. He just chooses to engage with the world from that place of joy instead of cynicism."Asked if Damon modeled his character on Crowe, he says that he's come to think that in Crowe's movies, "everybody's playing him a little bit.""There's a look that he gets," says Damon. "I see it a lot with Rene (Zellweger) and (Tom) Cruise in 'Jerry Maguire.' I have it in this movie. It's that thing where somebody's explaining something to you and you're not quite sure what they're saying and you're trying to figure it out. It's this very Cameron kind of thing that's in all his movies."Scarlett Johansson, who plays the zookeeper in the film, was impressed that after his down years, Crowe has been able to "maintain that enthusiasm and not be jaded or bitter.""When he's nervous about something, he tells you he's nervous about it," says Johansson. "He's got this kind of purity to him."Both actors had to adjust to one of Crowe's now-trademark methods: During the shooting of some scenes, he plays the music he expects to later soundtrack it with a Who song for Cruise in "Jerry Maguire" or a Neil Young tune for Damon in "We Bought a Zoo." Damon thought enough of the tactic that he plans to use it when he directs next year.Asked where he gets his positivity from, Crowe says, "It's innate and a goal, really, to battle back the daily hurdles or the challenges and just say, 'How can I turn this into a positive?' It's interesting how sometimes positivity is the door that opens to a greater understanding of how to deal with the darkness."Crowe's films have often proceeded similarly. "Elizabethtown" begins with a shoe designer (Orlando Bloom) preparing to kill himself. "Jerry Maguire" starts with a sports agent's humiliating loss of his job.Crowe says the idea of making "We Bought a Zoo" was ultimately "to put a little joy into the world, coming from grief." In it, Crowe sees a connection with another film about a widower, Alexander Payne's "The Descendants," which he deeply admires."Hopefully in some distant, rainy day future, the two movies live together in some strange way as, like, stage one and stage one and a half," says Crowe.Another feature hiatus is unlikely. The ever-writing Crowe is eager to work rapidly. He's currently writing a script about a city with a rich music history. He's also focused on rewriting and honing a number of scripts so that he can "deal from a deck.""My dream was always to be able to be like a guy like Spike Lee or Woody Allen or Truffaut where one day you can look at all the stuff and they all come together to give you a portrait of a human life, in different stages of it," says Crowe. "So I'm always looking for what's the next area of life to explore that will help me understand it and bring something universal to other people, too."I'll be doing that as long as I can, as long as there's a camera, or a page and a pen."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. PHOTO CREDIT AP Photo/Charles Sykes NY (AP) Fresh off an inspired writing session, Cameron Crowe is pulsing with enthusiasm.He spent the previous night sitting outside NY's Plaza Hotel, a spot that made him recall one of his first trips to NY as a teenage journalist for Rolling Stone in which he stayed at the Plaza while chronicling a Led Zeppelin tour."I was just thinking, 'Man, it's like no time has passed,' says Crowe. "This is the future time. That's what it was. You always wonder, 'In the future time, what will this all mean? What will it all amount to?' That was kind of the revelation of last night: Here I am. And it feels like no time."After six years of uncertainly, the present is feeling good for Crowe, the writer-director of earnest, personal films such as "Say Anything ..." and "Jerry Maguire." He's back with his first feature film since 2005's critical and box-office misfire "Elizabethtown": "We Bought a Zoo," an unabashedly warmhearted family film about a father (Matt Damon) who, after his wife dies of cancer, impulsively buys a rundown zoo to re-energize himself and his two kids."I don't look at the time post-"Elizabethtown" as the bottom of the roller coaster," says the perpetually writing Crowe. "I kind of look at it as a gathering time."In those years, Crowe plotted a film about Marvin Gaye that failed to get off the ground (he hopes to still make it), scripted an adaptation of David Sheff's "Beautiful Boy" and "Tweak" (a pair of books about an addict father and his son) and made two music documentaries (the Pearl Jam retrospective "Pearl Jam Twenty" and "The Union," about Elton John's collaboration with Leon Russell).He was also divorced from his wife of 24 years, Nancy Wilson of the band Heart, with whom he has 11-year-old twin sons. Crowe says Wilson remains a "close collaborator" with the children, and that he eagerly voted for Heart in this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.The parallels with "We Bought a Zoo" which includes moving scenes of Damon's character fondly reminiscing about his wife aren't lost on Crowe."This movie is about keeping souvenirs of a lost love," says Crowe. "Even in the broken relationships or people that have died or moved on, there's valuable luggage to be kept that guides the future."Crowe, himself, is a big collector. His largest collections might be his LPs and various music memorabilia, such as treasured set lists and ticket stubs. But he also keeps things from his movies. The boombox John Cusack raised over his head in "Say Anything ..." sits in his garage. His most cherished item is a signed Vans sneaker from Sean Penn, who played the Vans-wearing stoner Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Crowe's first script.Though no masterpiece, "We Bought a Zoo" is considerably better than its title and plot synopsis suggest. It's a rare film Crowe has directed but hasn't written (he shares screenplay credit with Aline Brosh McKenna, who adapted Benjamin Mee's autobiographical book), and it bears many hallmarks of the director. Last week on "The Daily Show," Damon, realizing the movie didn't sound like the most artistic enterprise, took to shouting at the crowd the simple justification: "Cameron Crowe directed it!"That's often all a film has needed to draw moviegoers. In person, Crowe has many of the qualities of his films: He's uncommonly upbeat, sincere and utterly engaging. Over a lunch interview, he's as likely to learn about a reporter as the reporter is to learn about him. He's one of few famous Twitter users who uses it almost exclusively to reply personally to fans.When Damon first met Crowe (he came to Austin, Texas, while Damon was making "True Grit"), he asked himself, "Is this for real?""But that is him and it's a beautiful thing," says Damon. "It's not that he looks at the world with rose-colored lenses. He's realistic, too. He just chooses to engage with the world from that place of joy instead of cynicism."Asked if Damon modeled his character on Crowe, he says that he's come to think that in Crowe's movies, "everybody's playing him a little bit.""There's a look that he gets," says Damon. "I see it a lot with Rene (Zellweger) and (Tom) Cruise in 'Jerry Maguire.' I have it in this movie. It's that thing where somebody's explaining something to you and you're not quite sure what they're saying and you're trying to figure it out. It's this very Cameron kind of thing that's in all his movies."Scarlett Johansson, who plays the zookeeper in the film, was impressed that after his down years, Crowe has been able to "maintain that enthusiasm and not be jaded or bitter.""When he's nervous about something, he tells you he's nervous about it," says Johansson. "He's got this kind of purity to him."Both actors had to adjust to one of Crowe's now-trademark methods: During the shooting of some scenes, he plays the music he expects to later soundtrack it with a Who song for Cruise in "Jerry Maguire" or a Neil Young tune for Damon in "We Bought a Zoo." Damon thought enough of the tactic that he plans to use it when he directs next year.Asked where he gets his positivity from, Crowe says, "It's innate and a goal, really, to battle back the daily hurdles or the challenges and just say, 'How can I turn this into a positive?' It's interesting how sometimes positivity is the door that opens to a greater understanding of how to deal with the darkness."Crowe's films have often proceeded similarly. "Elizabethtown" begins with a shoe designer (Orlando Bloom) preparing to kill himself. "Jerry Maguire" starts with a sports agent's humiliating loss of his job.Crowe says the idea of making "We Bought a Zoo" was ultimately "to put a little joy into the world, coming from grief." In it, Crowe sees a connection with another film about a widower, Alexander Payne's "The Descendants," which he deeply admires."Hopefully in some distant, rainy day future, the two movies live together in some strange way as, like, stage one and stage one and a half," says Crowe.Another feature hiatus is unlikely. The ever-writing Crowe is eager to work rapidly. He's currently writing a script about a city with a rich music history. He's also focused on rewriting and honing a number of scripts so that he can "deal from a deck.""My dream was always to be able to be like a guy like Spike Lee or Woody Allen or Truffaut where one day you can look at all the stuff and they all come together to give you a portrait of a human life, in different stages of it," says Crowe. "So I'm always looking for what's the next area of life to explore that will help me understand it and bring something universal to other people, too."I'll be doing that as long as I can, as long as there's a camera, or a page and a pen."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Dark Knight Rises Viral Blitz: Bane's Gotham Attack Plans Revealed? (PICS)

Heads up, Dark Knight Rises watchers: A cool bit of viral marketing just arrived on my doorstep detailing what appear to be the dastardly plans of Tom Hardy’s S&M baddie Bane. If you’re remaining spoiler-free, I’d advise you not to hit the jump for more… not that I can really make heads or tails of the elaborate map of Gotham City he’s marked up with his dastardly plans. Fire’s about to rise, y’all! Okay, so we’re agreed — anything beyond this point could very well be spoilers. (Having pored over the contains of said package, I can at least say that I’m still fuzzy on exactly what I’m looking at.) Also: HOW COOL IS THIS MAP OF GOTHAM CITY?? But I understand if you want to remain as virgin-pure on any details whatsoever for the Dark Knight sequel. In which case, why did you even click this far? Anyways. The package consists of a mysterious mailing tube wrapped in what appears to be a map detailing an attack on Gotham City orchestrated, ostensibly, by Tom Hardy’s S&M villain Bane. Inside, a t-shirt declaring “Fire Rises” emblazoned with Bane’s silk-screened mug. I’m sure you’ll be able to find it at a Hot Topic near you soon enough. But back to that map: Scrawled all over it in red Sharpie are plans for a 5-front attack on Gotham City noting “GPD response time,” “Rally points,” and “Check point: Bridge/tunnels.” I know maps of the fictional Gotham City are nothing new, but still. So. Cool. Take a closer look at the five “strike zones” below. If you can make sense of this, be my guest! And please share your notes with the rest of the class in the comments below. Meanwhile, tremble in fear for the wrath of… The Dark Kitty Rises! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Her kitty, his hippo

Jim Gianopulos and helmer Cameron Crowe"Zoo" novelist Benjamin Mee meets Matt Damon at the Royalton. Scarlett Johansson with Elle Fanning Richard Lovett, Julie Yorn and Tom Rothman celebrate in Gotham. Ben Seeder and Dustin Ybarra get into the "Zoo" spirit. Since the scene-stealing snakes, tigers, porcupines, monkeys and lions in Twentieth Century Fox's "We Bought a Zoo" weren't invited to either the Ziegfeld preem or the Royalton Hotel after-party, it seemed only appropriate to ask the pic's flock of human actors which critter most reflected their personality. "I always thought that if I wanted to be an animal, I'd want to be a house cat," said Scarlett Johansson, "but there's no house cats in this movie. So I guess a big cat." Like a leopard? "Not as majestic as a leopard," the actress qualified. "I don't see myself in being predatory in that way, although I guess house cats are predatory if you're a mouse." Matt Damon deferred to his co-star's opinion. "Scarlett says I'm a hippo even though there isn't one in the movie," he said. "I think she's been saying I've been eating too much." Elle Fanning picked a co-star from the film. "I love Crystal, the capuchin monkey; I love people and she loves people, too. And I like being goofy and she was pretty funny too, and so cute," she added. "The lion, but the really kind of wise, curmudgeonly lion, not the one that eats you," said Thomas Haden Church. "The one that sits around and looks a little smug; that would be me." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

The Black List 2011: Screenplay Roster

The Black List 2011: By Agencies The Black List 2011: By Managers A screenplay titledTHE IMITATION GAME by Graham Moore, about British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual, tops 2011s THE BLACK LIST. Once again, Deadline Hollywood is first to post in its entirety THE BLACK LIST, which for the uninitiated is film executive Franklin Leonards hot unproduced screenplay pecking order which he began in 2004. Compiled every year from the suggestions of hundreds of film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not be released in theaters during this calendar year. THE BLACK LIST does catapult dozens of scripts into production and screenwriters out of oblivion. Diablo Codys Juno, Nancy Olivers Lars And The Real Girl, Scott Neustaders and Michael Webers 500 Days Of Summer, are just some of the screenplays which appeared on The Black List and then were made. Ive noticed that its also a big dick measuring contest for the Hollywood agencies and their motion picture lit departments. Problem is, some screenwriters think this list isnt on the up-and-up and accuse junior studio execs and assistants along with self-interested agents and managers of getting together to push their own clients on projects even if already abandoned. Also, if you spot inaccuracies, take it up with Leonard: I do not alter his list. Anyway, climb off the ledge if youre not on THE BLACK LIST. And, if you did make the cut, then congratulations: The Black List was compiled from the suggestions of over 300 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to ten of their favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2011 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the The Black List. All reasonable effort has been made to confirm the information contained herein. The Black List apologizes for all misspellings, misattributions, incorrect representation identification, and questionable 2011 affiliations. It has been said many times, but its worth repeating: The Black List is not a best of list. It is, at best, a most liked list. Enjoy. 133 THE IMITATION GAMEby Graham Moore The story of British WWII cryptographer Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code and later poisoned himself after being criminally prosecuted for being a homosexual.. AGENCY: CAA AGENT:JP Evans,Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: The Safran Company MANAGER: Tom Drumm FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER:Ido Ostrowsky,Nora Grossman 84 WHEN THE STREET LIGHTS GO ONby Chris Hutton, Eddie OKeefe In the early 1980s, a town suffers through the aftermath of a brutal murder of a high school girl and a teacher. AGENCY:WME AGENT:Simon Faber,Sarah Self MANAGEMENT:Tariq MerhabManagement MANAGER:Tariq Merhab PRODUCER:ImagineEntertainment 59 CHEWIEby Evan Susser, Van Robichaux A satirical behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars through the eyes of Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca. AGENCY: WME AGENT:Mike Esola MANAGEMENT:IndustryEntertainment MANAGER:Jess Rosenthal 53 THE OUTSIDERby Andrew Baldwin In post World War II Japan, an American former prisoner-of-war rises in the yakuza. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jay Baker, John Garvey MANAGEMENT: Anonymous Content MANAGER: Bard Dorros, David Kanter FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Linson Entertainment 43 FATHER DAUGHTER TIME: A TALE OF ARMED ROBBERY AND ESKIMO KISSES by Matthew Aldrich A man goes on a three state crime spree with anaccomplice, his eleven year old daughter. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: John Garvey, Stuart Manashil MANAGEMENT: Silent R Management MANAGER: Jewerl Ross FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Pearl Street Productions 33 IN THE EVENT OF A MOON DISASTER by Mike Jones An alternate telling of the historic APOLLO 11 mission to land on the moon that examines what might have happened if the astronauts had crash landed there. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: David Kopple, JP Evans, Matt Rosen MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group MANAGER: Lindsay Williams PRODUCER: FilmNation 30 MAGGIE by John Scott 3 As a walking dead virus spreads across the country, a farm family helps their eldest daughter come to terms with her infection as she slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Billy Hawkins, Dan Rabinow MANAGEMENT: Sly Predator MANAGER: Trevor Kaufman FINANCIER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam PRODUCER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Trevor Kaufman, Matthew Baer 30 THE CURRENT WAR by Michael Mitnick Based on the true story of the race between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to develop a practical system of electricity and sell their respective inventions to the country and the world. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber MANAGEMENT: Fourth Floor Productions MANAGER: Jeff Silver 28 THE END by Aron Eli Coleite Four people – a veteran broadcaster in London, a sixteen year old girl and her boyfriend in Ann Arbor, and a devoted family man in Shanghai – each try to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Matt Rosen, Martin Spencer FINANCIER: Warner Brothers 27 BEYOND THE PALE by Chad Feehan Teenage siblings suspect theyve been ripped off by the town undertaker, but what they discover is much more sinister than either imagined. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Matt Rosen, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Guymon Casady, Mary Lee FINANCIER: Vendome Pictures PRODUCER: The Fort 27 EZEKIEL MOSS by Keith Bunin A mysterious stranger who possibly has the power to channel the souls of the dead changes the lives of everyone in a small Nebraska town, especially a young widow and her 11-year-old son. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rowena Arguelles MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Alex Lerner, Sean Perrone PRODUCER: A Likely Story, Mandalay Pictures 24 GRACE OF MONACO by Arash Amel Grace Kelly, age 33 and having given up her acting career to focus on being a full time princess, uses her political maneuvering behind the scenes to save Monaco while French Leader Charles de Gaulle and Monacos Prince Rainier III are at odds over the principalitys standing as a tax haven. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rich Green, Matt Rosen FINANCIER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam PRODUCER: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam 24 HES FUCKIN PERFECT by Lauryn Kahn A social media savvy girl who is pessimistic about love finds the perfect guy and decides to use her internet research skills to turn herself into his perfect match. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Cliff Roberts FINANCIER: Fox 2000 PRODUCER: Gary Sanchez 23 BETHLEHEM by Larry Brenner A group of people struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse make an alliance with a vampire, trading themselves as food in exchange for protection since zombies dont eat vampire. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Martin Spencer, Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Magnet Management MANAGER: Mitch Solomon PRODUCER: Roth Films 20 THE THREE MISFORTUNES OF GEPPETTO: by Michael Vukadinovich A prequel to the story of Pinocchio in which Geppetto endures a life of misfortune, war, and adventure, all to be with Julia Moon, his true love. AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Ava Jamshidi FINANCIER: Fox PRODUCER: 21 Laps Entertainment 20 POWELL by Ed Whitworth Based on the true story of Colin Powell questioning the Bush administration leading up to his United Nations presentation where he made the case for going to war with Iraq. AGENCY: WME AGENT: David Karp, Cliff Roberts, Dan Cohan MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Ashley Berns PRODUCER: Spirit Dance Entertainment 19 THE KNOLL: by Christopher Cantwell, Christopher Rogers A rookie cop and his potential flame witness JFK gunned down from the grassy knoll on November 22, 1963. Within hours, theyre on the run from the murderers who desperately need them silenced. AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Aaron Hart MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Jennifer Graham, Chris Huvane PRODUCER: Management 360 17 HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY: by Ed Solomon A child prodigy tries to take control of his life away from his demanding parents. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jay Baker, Todd Feldman, David OConnor FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Escape Artists 17 DESPERATE HOURS by E Nicholas Mariani A small town crippled by WWI and the Spanish flu finds itself facing major moral questions and a brutal invading force when a young girl shows up on a ranchers doorstep covered in blood. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Jenny Maryasis MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Britton Rizzio FINANCIER: GK Films PRODUCER: Infinitum Nihil 17 A MANY SPLINTERED THINGby Chris Shafer, Paul Vicknair When a charming heartbreaker finally meets a girl he cant have, he discovers the true meaning of love by living out other peoples love stories and writing his own. AGENCY:UTA AGENT:Jon Huddle,Jason Burns,Max Michael MANAGEMENT:Brillstein EntertainmentPartners MANAGER:Missy Malkin PRODUCER:Wonderland Soundand Vision 17 FLARSKYby Daniel Sterling A political journalist courts his old babysitter, who is now the United States secretary of state. AGENCY:UTA AGENT:Julien Thuan PRODUCER:Point Grey Pictures 17 BLOOD MOUNTAIN by Jonathan Stokes After his team is ambushed and killed in Pakistan, a young army ranger must escort the worlds most wanted terrorist over dangerous terrain in order to bring him to justice. While being hunted by both of their enemies, they must find a way to work together in order to survive. AGENCY:UTA AGENT:Ramses Ishak,Michael Sheresky,Geoff Morley MANAGEMENT:Energy Entertainment MANAGER:Brooklyn Weaver 17 BASTARDSby Justin Malen Two brothers, raised to believe their biological father died, find out their mother slept with many powerful and famous men in the 1970s, and the siblings hit the road to find their real father. AGENCY:Verve AGENT:Bill Weinstein,Rob Herting MANAGEMENT:H2F MANAGER:Chris Fenton FINANCIER:Paramount PRODUCER:The Montecito Picture Company 17 CRAZY FOR THE STORMby Will Fetters The true story of Norman Ollestads relationship with his father, who thrust the boy into the world of extreme surfing and competitive downhill skiing at the age of three. But it was that experience that allowed an 11-year old Norman to survive a plane crash amidst a blizzard in the San Gabriel mountains. AGENCY:WME AGENT:Elia Infascelli-Smith MANAGEMENT:3 Arts Entertainment MANAGER:Oliver Obst FINANCIER:Warner Brothers PRODUCER:Billy Gerber 16 THE SLACKFI PROJECTby Howard Overman A hapless and broken hearted barista is visited by two bad-ass soldiers from the future who tell him mankind is doomed, and he alone can save them. AGENCY:UTA AGENT:Julien Thuan FINANCIER:Sony PRODUCER:Matt TolmachProductions 14 THE MUSEUM OF BROKENRELATIONSHIPSby Natalie Krinsky Lucy, a twenty-eight year old junior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, is sleeping with her boss. When he dumps her she begins a collection of break up items and starts a blog which goes viral. AGENCY:CAA AGENT:Jessica Matthews MANAGEMENT:The Gotham Group MANAGER:Jim Garavente,Jeremy Bell 14 ST VINCENT DE VAN NUYSby Ted Melfi When a twelve year old boy in need of a babysitter moves in next door to a misanthropic aging retiree whose life mainly consists of gambling, hookers, and drinking, the elder becomes an unlikely mentor to the boy. AGENCY:UTA AGENT:Ramses Ishak,Michael Sheresky MANAGEMENT:Infinity ManagementInternational MANAGER:Jon Karas FINANCIER:Fox PRODUCER:Chernin Entertainment,Crescendo Productions 14 DJANGO UNCHAINEDby Quentin Tarantino A freed slave named Django is trained as a bounty hunter by a German dentist named Schultz, and the two men set out to find Djangos enslaved wife. AGENCY:WME AGENT:Mike Simpson FINANCIER:The Weinstein Company, Sony PRODUCER:Double Feature Films,The Weinstein Company 13 THE ACCOUNTANTby Bill Dubuque The Treasury Department pursues a brilliant, autistic accountant who doubles as an assassin and problem-solves with precision in more ways than one. AGENCY:Paradigm AGENT:Trevor Astbury MANAGEMENT:Zero GravityManagement MANAGER:Eric Williams PRODUCER:Silverwood Films 13 SAVING MR. BANKS by Kelly Marcel The story of how Walt Disney got the rights for Mary Poppins. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Raskind, David Karp PRODUCER: Ruby Films 12 BRIDGES ON THE FORT POINT CHANNEL by Chuck Maclean An Irish family in the 1970s, dealing with the loss of their father and the busing of black kids into white neighbor-hoods, decides to blow up all the bridges in Boston. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Billy Hawkins MANAGEMENT: Oasis Media Group MANAGER: Allison Doyle, Ben Rowe 12 THE BIG STONE GRID by Craig Zahler A cop is pulled into an underworld organization that brutally murders people to extort money out of others. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Julien Thuan, Emerson Davis MANAGEMENT: Caliber Media MANAGER: Dallas Sonnier FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Michael De Luca Productions 12 CITIES OF REFUGE by Brandon Willer A former FBI psychologist is called in to investigate when a young girl goes missing after the apparent murder of her father and brother by two strangers in a small Oklahoma town. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Damecourt, Jeff Gorin MANAGEMENT: Benderspink MANAGER: Jake Weiner PRODUCER: Tower Hill, Benderspink, Charlize Theron 12 GOOD KIDS by Chris McCoy Four overachieving high school students in Cape Cod reinvent themselves during the summer after graduation. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Simon Faber, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson MANAGEMENT: The Gotham Group MANAGER: Shawn Simon PRODUCER: Depth of Field 11 LEAVING PETE by Ali Waller, Morgan Murphy A recently divorced author is stunned when his ex writes a popular book about their breakup, and he has to keep that fact secret from his new girlfriend, who works for the books publisher. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti, Andy Elkin 11 HIDDEN by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer An elevated horror-thriller about a family hiding in a bomb shelter after escaping a mysterious outbreak. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: Chris Smith MANAGEMENT: MXN MANAGER: Mason Novick FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Mason Novick, Roy Lee, Lawrence Grey 11 DIRTY GRANDPA by John Phillips A young groom engaged to a demanding woman is forced to spend the week before his wedding with his half-blind, half-crazy, and wholly horny grandfather. Through this wild journey, his grandfather shows him how to take life by the balls and lead with his heart. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jon Huddle, Steven Fisher FINANCIER: Universal PRODUCER: Josephson Entertainment 11 GRIM NIGHT by Allen Bey, Brandon Bestenheider A family has to defend themselves from the Grims, strange creatures who attack Earth and kill thousands one night every year. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Bryan Besser FINANCIER: Universal PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions, Unbroken Pictures 10 WATCH ROGER DO HIS THING by Michael Starrbury A retired hitman gets roped back into his old trade in order to save his friends life and quickly finds himself caught in a struggle trying to finish the job, and get his family out of Chicago alive at the same time. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti, Dan Rabinow MANAGEMENT: Caliber Media MANAGER: Dallas Sonnier, Julian Rosenberg PRODUCER: Tripp Vinson, One Race Films 10 THE FLAMINGO THIEF by Mike Lesieur Grief stricken over his wife leaving him, a man finds solace in an odd activity swiping figurines of flamingos. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Rich Green, Adam Kanter MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Sean Perrone PRODUCER: Kaplan/Perrone, Red Hour 10 TWO NIGHT STAND by Mark Hammer After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. Theyre now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: The Safran Company MANAGER: Tom Drumm 10 SEX TAPE by Kate Angelo When a married couple make a sex tape to spice up their relationship, it disappears, and they are frantic to get it back. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns FINANCIER: Sony PRODUCER: Escape Artists 10 THE GUN EATERS by Alex Paraskevas, Jordan Goldberg Four hardened NY detectives race to apprehend a relentless spree-killer whos executing victims from Queens to Southampton in the span of a single day. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Rebecca Ewing, Keya Khayatian MANAGEMENT: Oasis Media Group MANAGER: Ben Rowe PRODUCER: Oasis Media Group 10 LITTLE WHITE CORVETTE by Michael Diliberti A down and out brother and sister go to Miami to sell a duffel bag of cocaine that they found in the trunk of a corvette left them by their dead father. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Raskind, Simon Faber MANAGEMENT: New School Media MANAGER: Brian Levy PRODUCER: Scott Aversano Productions 9 JANE GOT A GUN by Brian Duffield After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasnt seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husbands gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job. AGENCY: Gersh AGENT: Devra Lieb, Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank MANAGEMENT: Circle of Confusion MANAGER: Zach Cox, Noah Rosen 9 THE LAST WITNESS by Stefan Jaworski An FBI Agent interrogates an amnesiac, sole survivor of a Boston bombing in order to prevent future terrorist attacks. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: Trevor Astbury, Valarie Phillips, Ida Ziniti FINANCIER: Fox PRODUCER: Davis Entertainment 9 MURDERS & ACQUISITIONS by Jonathan Stokes The world of high-stakes finance collides with that of high-priced hitmen when an ousted CEO decides to hire an assassin to kill the corporate raider who stole his company. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Ramses Ishak, Michael Sheresky, Geoff Morley MANAGEMENT: Energy Entertainment MANAGER: Brooklyn Weaver FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: KatzSmith Productions 9 FLASHBACK by Will Honley A former NASA pilot with amnesia also the first person to travel the speed of light realizes he has the ability to travel back in time and along the way rediscovers his love for his wife. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Adam Levine MANAGEMENT: Nuclear Entertainment MANAGER: Nick Fariabi, Jesse Silver 9 THE LAST DROP by Brandon Murphy, Phil Murphy A fully functioning alcoholic meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers that theres a lot more at stake than love if he doesnt clean up his act. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Langley Perer FINANCIER: Mandate Pictures PRODUCER: Greg Shapiro 9 FRIEND OF BILL by Harper Dill After a humiliating episode in NY, a young woman returns to her hometown and tries to deal with her alcoholism. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Sarah Self, Jeff Gorin, Sharon Jackson MANAGER: Mike Dill PRODUCER: Marc Platt Productions, Neda Armian 8 DEAD OF WINTER by Sarah Conradt A teenage girl heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her father and new stepmother – an experience the father hopes will bond the two ladies. But when a mysterious wounded Park Ranger shows up, family bonding will be the least of their concerns. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Jacqueline Sacerio MANAGEMENT: Hopscotch Pictures MANAGER: Sukee Chew FINANCIER: Lionsgate (distrib), Wind Dancer (financing) PRODUCER: Sherryl Clark, Hopscotch Pictures 8 ON A CLEAR DAY by Ryan Engle When a powerful and mysterious force invades an American city, a young father must traverse the battle-torn city in an effort to save his wounded wife and rescue their stranded children. In the process, our hero becomes the target of an enemy who will stop at nothing to kill him. AGENCY: Original Artists AGENT: Chris Sablan, Matt Leipzig MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Michael Lasker, Langley Perer PRODUCER: Ombra Films 8 HOME BY CHRISTMAS – BOB HOPE IN KOREA by Ben Schwartz Young Larry Gelbart goes on tour with his idol Bob Hope in the middle of the Korean War and learns the true price of patriotism. AGENCY: The Nethercott Agency AGENT: Gayla Nethercott PRODUCER: Jon Shestack Productions, Pink Slip Productions 8 THE PRETTY ONE by Jenee LaMarque When a womans identical prettier twin sister dies, the woman assumes her sisters identity, moving into her apartment and the big city. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Mary Lee, Daniel Rappaport PRODUCER: RCR Pictures, Steven J Berger 8 BAD WORDS by Andrew Dodge The bastard child of the organizer of the national spelling bee gets his revenge by finding a loophole and attempting to win the bee as an adult, only to find friendship in a young Indian contestant. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Carolyn Sivitz MANAGEMENT: Fourth Floor Productions MANAGER: Jeff Silver FINANCIER: Darko PRODUCER: MXN 8 JURASSIC PARK by Imran Zaidi A high school couple and two of their friends ditch school to catch a special preview screening of JURASSIC PARK. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns, Jenny Maryasis MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Darin Friedman 8 GASLIGHT by Ian Fried Secretly imprisoned in a London insane asylum, the infamous Jack the Ripper helps Scotland Yard investigators solve a series of grisly murders whose victims all share one thing in common: dual puncture wounds to the neck. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Dan Cohan, Mike Esola MANAGEMENT: Prolific MANAGER: Will Rowbotham 7 SUBJECT ZERO by Dave Cohen A Frankenstein-like tale of a scientist who develops a powerful new drug that brings his son back to life after he dies in a terrible car accident. Unfortunately, the desperate experiment of a loving father leads to the creation of a flesh-eating zombie epidemic with horrific consequences. AGENCY: ICM AGENT: Kathleen Remington, Emile Gladstone MANAGEMENT: Generate MANAGER: Jeremy Platt 7 THE HITMANS BODYGUARD by Tom OConnor The worlds best bodyguard must protect his arch nemesis, the worlds top assassinso he can testify against a brutal dictator and save his wife. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Barbara Dreyfus, Emerson Davis MANAGEMENT: Industry Entertainment MANAGER: Andrew Deane, Jess Rosenthal PRODUCER: Skydance Productions 7 CRISTO by Ian Shorr A man is unlawfully sentenced to an infamous prison and escapes, then transforms himself into the mysterious Cristo and systematically destroys the men who manipulated and enslaved him. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Charles Ferraro, Jason Burns MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Langley Perer FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Bellevue Productions, Langley Park Pictures 7 UNTITLED HLAVIN HEIST by John Hlavin An American thief living in Paris is coerced into pulling off a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife. AGENCY: UTA AGENT: Jason Burns FINANCIER: DreamWorks PRODUCER: Film Rites 7 LINE OF SIGHT by F Scott Frazier After a military coup takes out the executive branch of government, the countrys survival depends on a Navy Seal sniper extraction team getting the Speaker of the House from Washington DC to NY. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Dan Cohan, Mike Esola MANAGEMENT: H2F MANAGER: Chris Fenton, Chris Cowles FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Silver Pictures 7 PINOCCHIO by Bryan Fuller A wooden puppet, Pinocchio, dreams of becoming a real boy. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Phil Damecourt FINANCIER: Warner Brothers PRODUCER: Dan Jinks Company 7 THE WEDDING by Andrew Goldberg A group of couples deal with their respective issues as they attend a wedding. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: Underground Films and Management MANAGER: Josh Turner Maguire FINANCIER: CBS Films 7 77 by David Matthews Two stories from 1974 are linked together – the unsolved murder of an LAPD officer and the nationally televised shootout in South Central Los Angeles between the Symbionese Liberation Army and the LAPD where 50,000 rounds of gunfire was exchanged. The events will be seen through the eyes of a pair of police partners, one black and one white. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Roger Green, Elia Infascelli-Smith MANAGEMENT: The Schiff Company MANAGER: Nicole Romano PRODUCER: Wolf Films 6 GUYS NIGHT by Christopher Baldi Sick of brunches, bosses, and light beer, four co-workers set out on the mother of all guys nights in an attempt to rediscover their manhood. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Bill Zotti MANAGEMENT: New Wave MANAGER: Mike Goldberg, Josh Adler FINANCIER: Millenium Films PRODUCER: Jim Valdez, Matt Bass 6 SELF/LESS by Alex Pastor, David Pastor An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the bodys origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets. AGENCY: CAA AGENT: Stuart Manashil, John Garvey MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone MANAGER: Alex Lerner FINANCIER: FilmDistrict (distrib), Endgame Entertainment (financing) PRODUCER: Ram Bergman 6 HYPERDRIVE by Alex Ankeles, Morgan Jurgenson When a tough cop recruits a geeky sci-fi author to help him track down a mysterious murder witness, they find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out here on Earth. AGENCY: CAA/APA AGENT: Bill Zotti (Ankeles), Ryan Saul (Jurgenson) MANAGEMENT: Kaplan/Perrone (Ankeles) MANAGER: Aaron Kaplan (Ankeles), Jonathan Hung (Jurgenson) FINANCIER: Paramount PRODUCER: Disruption Entertainment 6 BEFORE I FALL by Maria Maggenti When a popular teen girl is killed in a car crash, she relives the critical day seven times and makes changes in an attempt to affect the outcome; in the process, she herself changes as she tries to make up for previous heartless, self-absorbed behavior and gains a better understanding of herself and others. As she evolves and makes the connections necessary to save a bullied, depressed girls life, she comes to accept her own fate. AGENCY: Paradigm AGENT: David Boxerbaum MANAGEMENT: Madhouse Entertainment MANAGER: Robyn Meisinger FINANCIER: Fox 2000 PRODUCER: Jon Shestack Productions 6 BREYTON AVE by J Daniel Shaffer A group of teens living without adults and under their own social order in a small fenced-in neighborhood are forced to face what they fear is the inevitable physical danger beyond the fence. AGENCY: Verve AGENT: Bryan Besser, Rob Herting MANAGEMENT: Management 360 MANAGER: Mary Lee, Jill McElroy PRODUCER: Unbroken Films 6 EL FUEGO CALIENTE by Ben Schwartz A remake of SOAPDISH, a desperate telenovela star dreaming of Hollywood stardom has her life implode, making her real life crazier than the insane show she made famous. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: Tom Sawyer Entertainment MANAGER: Jesse Hara, Rachel Miller FINANCIER: Paramount PRODUCER: Reiner-Greisman 6 THE DUFF by Josh Cagan Adapted from Kody Keplingers novel THE DUFF, the travails of a seventeen year old girl who believes she is the designated ugly fat friend. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Rich Cook MANAGEMENT: H2F MANAGER: Chris Fenton PRODUCER: Wonderland Sound and Vision 6 UNTITLED ARIZONA PROJECT by Luke Del Tredici A satirically dark comedy about a homicidal foreclosure victim kidnapping a real estate agent and planning to kill her in the housing development where she finagled money from customers like him. AGENCY: WME AGENT: Roger Green MANAGEMENT: Mosaic MANAGER: Christie Smith PRODUCER: Rough House Pictures

Chris Hemsworth and College Hotties Get the Horror Treatment in The Cabin in the Woods Trailer

If a creepy, tobacco-spitting, rural gas station attendant tells you, “I can get you there… it’s getting back that’s your concern,” as you navigate your way to a weekend house so “off-the-grid” that it doesn’t show up on the most advanced GPS system, you might turn around and floor your RV until you’re safely ensconced in suburban civilization again. But the upcoming Joss Whedon-produced horror flick Cabin in the Woods is not about you and your sensible friends — it’s about a bunch of college hotties (Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison) who are willing to ignore a football field’s (or whatever unit of measure popular 20-somethings use) worth of red flags if it means they can have a kickass cabin weekend. Of course, since this is a horror film, these crazy carefree kids get more scares in the form of bear traps and death elevators than they bargained for. Since this is a horror film from Joss Whedon though, Cabin in the Woods is not just a 90-minute cliche-fest but a feature that attempts to turn the genre on its severed ear with a subplot involving Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford as “white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the the cabin.” Cabin was the first collaboration between Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Avengers director Joss Whedon, who co-wrote and produced this horror pic, originally slated for a 2010 release. Here, Hemsworth plays a varsity jacket-wearing jock who carries a football, a beer mug or a look of confusion at all times. After filming, Whedon cast Hemsworth for the title role in his Marvel blockbuster Thor, which was released last May. Finally, The Cabin in the Woods — directed by Drew Goddard (who penned Cloverfield) — arrives in theaters April 13. [via Yahoo!]

TLC's 'Candy Queen' First Look: The Sweetest Lion You'll Ever Meet (Exclusive Video)

NBC"Community" NBC's Community has found a digital community to call home.our editor recommends'Community's' Yvette Nicole Brown Talks Holiday Episode, the Return of Malcolm-Jamal Warner'Community' Cast Members Voice Optimism and Frustration Over Midseason Bump NBC's 'Community' Midseason Hiatus: What the Critics Are Saying Through a deal with production company Sony, episodes of the soon-to-be sidelined comedy created by Dan Harmon will stream on Hulu and Hulu Plus. Hulu Plus will be the only place where the series' entire library will be available. PHOTOS: On the 'Community' Set Beginning today, fans of the comedy starring Joel McHale can stream episodes of the series from the pilot to its most recent foosball-themed episode on the site, with Hulu Plus serving as the exclusive home to the show's complete roster of episodes. STORY: 'Prime Suspect' Future Uncertain, 'Community' Will Be Back on NBC Users of free service Hulu will be able to view Community's five most recent episodes (including current episodes available next day), while subscribers to Hulu Plus' will have next-day access to current season episodes as well as the show's entire library in HD and on Internet-connected TVs, gaming consoles, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and mobile phones and tablets. STORY: 'Community' Stars, Creator, React to Midseason Schedule Change NBC benched the critical darling in November to make room for the return of Tina Fey's 30 Rock, with sources telling THR that the comedy will return to the schedule for a later date. On Thursday, Community's penultimate fall/winter episodeposted its strongest showing among adults 18-49 since Sept. 29 with a 1.7 rating. Diehard fans of the series, meanwhile, have launched a Twitter campaign in an effort to voice support for the series. Community ranked as Hulu's "top-performing comedy" in the site's "Best in Show" competition for two years running. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery On the 'Community' Set Community Sony Pictures Television Hulu

VH1 Launches Biopic Franchise With Film About TLC

VH1 may be the latest fundamental cable network to get involved with the television movie business this season, following similar forays by TNT, CMT, Wager and, to some degree, USA Network. VH1 is planning a number of biopics about music artists and popular culture symbols. To begin with is really a movie concerning the the nineteen nineties R&B/stylish-hop/pop trio TLC. The 2 making it through people from the group, Chilli and Tionne T-Boz Watkins, assists as consultants and executive produce with Bill Diggins and Maggie Malina. Kate Lanier (What is Love Got Related To It) has signed onto write the film. VH1 embarked into scripted programming captured using the series Single Ladies, that was began with a two-hour movie.

Kate Gosselin Talks Facelift Gossips & If Shed Ever Do More TV With Jon Again

First Launched: November 29, 2011 12:55 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Kate Gosselin on Access Hollywood Survive November 29, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Kate Gosselin is constantly brush off gossips of sinking the knife recently as well as the former reality TV mother mentioned she cant know the public adoration for her appearance. I have not a clue. Slow news day? she jeered, when asked for by Billy Rose rose bush and Package Hoover why she remains tabloid fodder on Tuesdays Access Hollywood Live. Honestly, I appear enjoy it will appear reduced as well as the gossips just keep getting progressively more absurd. Im busy raising the kids and dealing which i honestly jeered within the facelift factor because I've no clue any 36 year olds who've had a facelifts or need one. Why some are suggesting her appearance has changed, Kate mentioned it might be due to her new fitness regimen. Im controlling a marathon on Sunday Im running plenty of miles. Clearly your body can change and you also lose plenty of weight. Im taking a chance thats what people are recognizing, Kate mentioned. My hair was separated in different ways? Different makeup artist tomorrow? I'm speaking about, honestly Im 36! No, I've not stood a facelift, she ongoing. People have a lot of time available. POLL: You Think Kate Had More Work Done? Follow the link to election! If the involves her time as you're watching cameras along with her family, Kate whose new gig can be as a blogger for CouponCabin.com mentioned she does miss certain aspects (and perks) from her reality TV tenure. Many of us miss the adventures as well as the excursions as well as the benefits. Theres certainly something missing inside our lives which we miss individuals that have been behind the cameras, she mentioned of herself and her kids. In the mother aspect, I miss getting a chance to show the kids the earth and do all people adventures but that we miss most likely probably the most convenient job inside the whole wide world to acquire paid out when somebody's coming recording your home videos remains an aspiration be realized plus it labored by doing this. But would Kate who recognized sherrrd like to assist my career in TV ever part of front in the cameras for just about any large payday whether or not this meant her ex-husband, Jon, would play in the offer too? You are able to offer me every last dollar on the planet. I dont use money. Jon lives their very own existence now and I have got a lot of peace throughout my existence personally as well as the kids so Id have to refuse, I'm not able to compromise my morals and standards to acquire paid out a absurd sum of money, Kate referred to. I dont appear like its healthy or beneficial for the kids to check out so there's no reason. Ill not film another frame of TV with Jon again, she found the final outcome. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Falcon flies to Telemundo Media

NBCUniversal's The spanish language-language unit Telemundo Media has drawn on former Univision professional Alina Falcon as senior professional Vice president of news and alternative programming. Falcon, who has developed in the Hispanic media biz for 28 years, will participate in early December, confirming to Telemundo Media prexy Emilio Romano, who had been employed in September. "Alina gives the Telemundo executive team an abundance of experience and proven history in news management as well as in leading large procedures within the The spanish language-language media world," Romano stated. Falcon's duties at Telemundo includes managing network and station news procedures, on-air talent development and positioning in addition to alternative and reality programming including flagship courtshow "Caso cerrado disadvantage Ana Maria Polo" and daily morning program "Levantate." Falcon held various positions at Univision, together with a stint as news prexy from March to December 2010, when she was changed by Isaac Lee. Most lately, she offered as senior agent to Univision Systems prexy Cesar Conde. Just before this role, Falcon offered from 2005-10 as professional Vice president and operating manager of Univision, managing all the network's procedures along with the development and execution of domestic inhouse production. Formerly, she was professional Vice president and operating manager of Univision sister web TeleFutura from 2002-05 and was senior Vice president and director of Univision News from 1993-2002. Falcon was among the couple of remaining top executives from Univision's previous administration under former owner-chairman Jerrold Perenchio. She adopted Ray Rodriguez, then prexy and chief operating officer, who ankled not lengthy following a consortium of equity traders, brought by media baron Haim Saban, acquired Univision for $13.7 billion in 2006. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken's 'Brainstorm': How a Actress' Dying Derailed Her Final Film (Video)

Carrying out a tense and troubled 1981 shoot, director Douglas Trumbull had almost finished shooting his sci-fi film Brainstorm, of a gadget that records people's recollections and enables others download them to their personal brains, when starNatalie Wood died included trip.our editor recommendsNatalie Wood Dying Analysis ReopenedNatalie Wood Scientists to check out Boat in Hawaii Robert Wagner Not just a Suspect Natalie Wood's Boat Captain Confesses to Lounging, States Robert Wagner 'Responsible' on her behalf Dying (Video)Natalie Wood Dying: Christopher Walken Radio Interview a HoaxRelated Subjects•Natalie Wood PHOTOS: 12 of Hollywood's Most Mysterious Deaths Also incorporated? Christopher Walken, who carried out her husband in Brainstorm and increased being psychologically near the actress throughout filming, and her real-existence husband, Robert Wagner. STORY: Christopher Walken Utilizes Lawyer to cope with Natalie Wood Analysis (Exclusive) Ironically, the film's plot started up the dying from the third character, carried out byLouise Fletcher, who records her own dying round the device. Since Wood's performance was almost completely inside the can, Trumbull eventually could tweak, reshoot just a little, and release the film in 1983. In the 2009 interview, Trumbull spoken about his understanding about searching to find the film completed after Wood's dying. PHOTOS: Best Pictures of Natalie Wood" "Lo and behold Natalie Wood died in production, completely unexpectedly,Inch he told your site Archive Seven. "I used to be saying, 'Holy shit!' It increased being most likely probably the most difficult factor I've ever required to do - have that movie finished - therefore it never really was anything it absolutely was intended as. We required to finish it with profit the insurance coverage provider and continue to get it on the watch's screen.In . VIDEO: 5 of Natalie Wood's Most Memorable Roles The problems weren't connected using the actress, he mentioned. "It had nothing associated with Natalie Wood dying, really, she'd been inside the can, nevertheless the studio was emptying your wallet which i frankly think there's some form of subterfuge going onto get yourself a large claim to keep the studio [MGM] going which i had been together as well as the claim, because it was easy to finish the film without her because she was basically done. They didn't wish to hear it, therefore i increased being persona non grata at MGM. I finally first first got it done after which it MGM management changed which i figured, 'Oh, my God, situation going the like and also on.AInch STORY: Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Dying Theory in Past Interview Unhealthy understanding about Brainstorm drove Trumbull, a VFX wizard who done 2001: A Place Journey and Edge Runner, in the film business for any very long time.InchObtaining the film done was very heartbreaking and difficult that was once i made a decision I merely have to escape here. This feature film industry isn't utilized by me - I have to spend some time my shingle doing another factor,Inch he mentioned. After making motion-based rides prefer to the long run for Universal and much more compact versions for science museums, he's this year with splashy effects deliver to Terrence Malick's The Tree of Existence together with a plan to direct the following 3d feature. Watch Brainstorm's 1983 trailer below. Related Subjects Christopher Walken Natalie Wood

Chris O'Dowd to host BIFAs

LONDON -- Irish actor and comedian Chris O'Dowd will host the 2010 British Independent Film Honours ceremony, which happens 12 ,. 4 at London's Old Billingsgate. O'Dowd, who first made his breakthrough with U.K. audiences in Funnel 4's sitcom "The IT Crowd," is becoming an worldwide star from his role in "Bridesmaids." His other film credits include "Dinner for Schmucks," "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Boat That Rocked." He'll next come in Judd Apatow's "This Really Is 40." "It is a ceremony which treasures innovation, elegance and sophistication so I am humbled that they have selected a number who so clearly lacks these things," O'Dowd said. Actor James Nesbitt, who located the prior six BIFA events, has turned into a patron from the event. Producer Andrew Eaton is proven as chairman of the year's jury, that will select the those who win across 18 groups. The key nominees include "We Have To Discuss Kevin," "Tyrannosaur," "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy," "Shame," "Senna," "The Kill List" and "Submarine." Other jury people include Gemma Arterton, David Thewlis, Ruth Wilson, Debs Gardner-Paterson, Josh Appignanesi, Lucy Bevan, Edith Bowman, Mike Goodridge, Neil Lamont, Frederick Mawle, Mary McCartney, Molly Nyman, Tracey Seaward, Charles Steel and Justine Wright. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Deborah McNulty dies at 56

Makeup artist Deborah McNulty, an Emmy winner in 2005 for her work on HBO series "Deadwood," died Sunday, Nov. 6, in Los Angeles. She was 56.Other credits include 1983 documentary "Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler," telepic "The Secretary" and features "Another Nine & a Half Weeks," "The Mighty," "Stanley's Gig," and "Whipped." Her last bigscreen credit was on 2007's "Man in the Chair," starring Christopher Plummer.McNulty is survived by her mother; a brother; and two daughters. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Billy Crystal to Host the Oscars for the Ninth Time

Billy Crystal Billy Crystal will host the Oscars for a ninth time, the comedian announced Thursday. "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions," Crystal tweeted. "Looking forward to the show." Brian Grazer to replace Brett Ratner as Oscars producer; Eddie Murphy steps down News of Crystal's involvement with the 84th annual Academy Awards comes one day after previously announced host Eddie Murphy stepped down. Murphy gave up his hosting duties after telecast producer Brett Ratner resigned. Ratner - who worked with Murphy on Tower Heist and was instrumental in bringing the comedian on - opted not to produce the ceremony after he came under fire for using a gay slur and making several other derogatory comments in the press recently. "First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party's decision with regard to a change of producers for this year's Academy Awards ceremony," Murphy said in a statement. "I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I'm sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job." Brett Ratner steps down as Oscars producer following gay slur Oscar-winning film producer Brian Grazer (Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind) has since replaced Ratner to produce the show alongside awards vet Don Mischer. Crystal last hosted in 2004. At 63, he will be the oldest solo host since Bob Hope in 1978. Are you happy to see Crystal host again?

AFM: Image Acquires Blair Witch Helmers Toronto Thriller Lovely Molly

EXCLUSIVE: Image Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution privileges to Lovely Molly, the thriller directed by Blair Witch Project co-director Eduardo Sanchez. The offer is high six figures and also the plan's release a theatrically next spring. Lovely Molly made its debut within the Night time Madness portion of the 2011 Toronto Film Festival. Newcomer Gretchen Lodge plays the title character, a newlywed who returns to her lengthy abandoned home and it is his with frightening memory joggers of her nightmarish childhood that rapidly color her new existence. She descends into an evil that's part psychosis and the other part obsession. Haxan Films’ Robin Cowie and Gregg Hale created with Amber Entertainment’s Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky. The offer may come as Content Film sells worldwide areas at AFM. Image purchases v . p . Mark Ward known as the film “a return and evolution towards the genre that [Eduardo] produced” with Blair Witch. “We anticipate joining up with Haxan and Amber to increase the truly robust transmedia advertising campaign they’ve come up with to create the film a millionaire.” It’s the 2nd significant AFM-timed deal for Image, which on Friday released a distribution relationship with Alamo Drafthouse. “Image’s business thinking and robust infrastructure provide us with an ideal platform to create our film towards the largest audience possible,” stated the producers. The offer was brokered by WME Global’s Graham Taylor and BHDRL’s Stuart Rosenthal. This is actually the trailer:

Critic's Guide to Thursday TV: Return of Bones and Burn Notice and More!

Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz "Sort of like an eclipse - it doesn't happen that often." That's Angela's wry take on the remarkable sight of "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) crying copiously at a grisly crime scene, as Fox's Bones (9/8c) finally begins its seventh season, re-establishing itself as one of TV's more enjoyable procedurals. These aren't sympathy tears, of course, or sobs of horror - have you met Bones? - merely a flood of hormones, as she is now well along in her pregnancy. But she's still only making tentative steps toward commitment with baby-daddy Booth (David Boreanaz), who gets pretty testy himself when it comes to details like where exactly they're going to set up a nursery for their bundle of joy: his place, her place, or maybe an "our" place?As usual, these emotional concerns upstage the crime-of-the-week, which involves a rotting corpse found in a paintball war zone. Upon examination - which includes an icky moment when beetles erupt from the brain, grossing everyone out but buggy Dr. Hodgins ("Come to papa, my little friends") - the victim is discovered to have suffered from retrograde amnesia, and finding out what she did during her fugue state may help solve the murder. It's good to have this show back on Thursdays.Same goes for USA Network's breezy spy caper Burn Notice (10/9c), which is back to wrap its fifth season with six new episodes. The action picks up with Michael unhappily under the blackmailing thumb of the despicable Anson (Jere Burns), who we learned in the summer cliffhanger is the last remaining member of the organization that burned Michael. With our hero (Jeffrey Donovan) in line for a security upgrade at the CIA, the timing couldn't be worse for him to be played as a pawn. As Michael notes: "For a spy, the worst thing that can happen is to become someone else's asset." This week's mission, on Anson's orders, sends Michael and Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) to Puerto Rico to steal - or, as Fiona puts it, "Think of it as sharing at gunpoint" - a computer-virus software program. Complications naturally ensue as we wait for Michael to figure out how to get the upper hand on his latest foe. When Anson brags, "There's no moves left on the chessboard," we're left wondering how long it will take before Michael can announce "checkmate."Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!On a more somber than usual outing of CBS' hit The Mentalist (10/9c), directed by Simon Baker, the trail of a serial killer leads Patrick Jane to a blogger (the excellent David Paymer) who's as obsessed by this case as Jane has long been with Red John. "This [San Joaquin Killer] is a man to be feared, not pitied," the blogger insists to Jane, whose views on who-dun-it differ significantly, and the trap he prepares to prove his theory has unintended consequences.The comedy corner: The girls have really come into their own as scene-stealers on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (8/7c), and this week they appear to be carrying the "A"-story, as Amy (the hilarious Mayim Bialik) feels left out when Bernadette takes Penny shopping for wedding dresses without her. Can they all still be "besties" after this snub? ... On NBC's cult comedies, John Goodman returns to Community (8/7c) as the calculating Vice Dean of Air Conditioning Repair, who has his sights set on young Troy. We also meet Pierce's father, which qualifies as a "who knew?" ... Pawnee is contemplating the End of Days on Parks and Recreation (8:30/7:30c), while the "Doomsday" device on The Office (9/8c) is Dwight's creation, an attempt to bolster efficiency that could end up getting everyone fired if all their mistakes are exposed.The best thing to happen to CW's The Vampire Diaries (8/7c) this season has been the addition of Rebekah (Claire Holt), that naughty vixen of an Original vamp, pouty sis to the powerful Klaus. She has really been making herself at home since arriving in Mystic Falls, and tonight she and Elena mix it up in what the network describes as a "mean-girl power struggle." I am so there.Remember when: ABC's Grey's Anatomy (9/8c) still has its moments, but it will be difficult not to pine for the show's glory days when dear departed George O'Malley's mom (the great Debra Monk) visits Seattle Grace, this time to repair a surgery she got at a lesser hospital. We still miss George.Stranger than fiction: HBO's documentary unit presents Marathon Boy (8/7c), a real-life Slumdog Millionaire (with a less happy ending), filmed over a five-year period in the young life of Budhia Singh, who became a national sensation in India when the mentor who took him off the streets nurtured him into a long-distance runner at the age of 3 and 4. What follows is a cautionary tale of fame, exploitation and legal misery. ... The latest from OWN's Documentary Club is Crime After Crime (9/8c), about the legal battle to reopen the case of Deborah Peagler, a victim of domestic abuse serving a 25-year prison sentence for her connection to her boyfriend's murder. ... More real-life women-behind-bars drama, as TLC's docu-series Cellblock 6: Female Lock Up (10/9c) begins a second season, revealing the harrowing conditions in Cincinnati's Hamilton County Justice Center.And finally, the first of the Top 12 acts gets eliminated on Fox's The X Factor (8/7c). Pray it's one of the groups. And can't we just give Melanie her record deal already?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Watercooler: Is American Horror Story's Tate a Ghost?

Evan Peters, Jessica Lange and Frances Conroy For any teen, that kid sure appears as an old soul. Maybe like he's! Last evening, American Horror Story ended its crazycakes two-part Halloween episode having a major hint concerning the mythology from the Harmons' "Murder House." Apparently, should you die around the premises, you remain on the premises. Note Ben's crazy zombie mistress, the bitchy former proprietors, the demon baby within the basement, and the most popular two-faced maid, Moira. Just the feast of Samhain enables these ghosts to wander from the grounds and obtain their errands done or do regardless of the undead often once they undertake corporeal form. So let us apply that "house is in which the horror is" logic to Violet's unstable love. Until Halloween, we'd only seen Tate indoors, within the yard or around the front pavement. Once October 31 folded around, he was off meeting Ben within the town square for coffee and taking Purple on the beach date. Coincidence? Maybe. However, things began to actually fall under place. First, he was not able to, um, do what men enjoy on late-evening beach dates and blamed it on his meds. Sure. Find us an herbal viagra that combats teen the body's hormones and AHS' usually sex-drenched atmosphere. Then your "dead Breakfast Club" (including Awkward's Ashley Rickards!) turned up to terrorize him for "tugging the trigger" throughout a years-ago school shooting, which these were clearly the sufferers. Even though he states be both innocent and not aware from the crime, individuals deeply disturbing flashbacks imply the little one is definitely in denial about doing the deed. So, did Tate open fire on his class mates after which kill themself back in the house? Was he removed through the cops? Or, since now that we know that he's also Constance's boy, was he offed by their own mother? In the end, since she's stylish towards the house's capability to keep your very much departed around, killing her kid inside the property lines would both save him from likely to jail and him near by forever. What is your opinion? Is Tate dead or simply dreadful? And how's it going liking American Horror Story to date? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Lindsay Lohans Father Appears In Florida Court

First Launched: October 26, 2011 2:14 PM EDT Credit: AP Polk, Fla. -- Caption Michael Lohan appears before an Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Walter Heinrich via close circuit T.V. in Polk, Florida on October 26, 2011The estranged father of actress Lindsay Lohan made his first appearance in the courtroom on domestic violence charges. Judge Walter Heinrich set bail at $5,000 for Michael Lohan on Wednesday. Lohan is billed with getting his on-and-off girlfriend and pushing her lower multiple occasions within a disagreement at her Polk condo Sunday. The judge told Lohan to step away from 28-year-old Kate Major. Government physiques say Lohan visited Majors condo which she made a decision to permit him stay even though she'd a short domestic violence injunction against him in California County. A telephone call to Lohans lawyer, Michael Perry, wasn't immediately returned. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

The 18 Worst Wide-Release Opening Weekends of 2011

Fans of Stephen King's sprawling epic, 'The Dark Tower,' will be careful in regards to a movie adaptation. How will you condense seven books -- filled with numerous plot points, a lot of figures together with a twisting narrative -- into numerous films? One way is always to add Cinemax for the mix, which producer John Grazer introduced throughout interviews for his film 'Tower Heist.' First, somewhat backstory: after J.J. Abrams attempted, and not successful, to evolve the 'Dark Tower' books, in came Ron Howard and Grazer. In April 2010, the effective production duo introduced plans with an adaptation, which might include three movies along with two television seasons interspersed involving the films. However, that plan ended up falling short after Universal dropped the project over necessity. Howard and Grazer mentioned the film would finish up made, although getting a $45 million production cut. Now, Grazer notifies MTV News that there are been progress, no less than round the TV front. 'The Dark Tower' television component will probably be broadcast on Cinemax, according to him, which will come nearly as good news for hardcore fans in the book. By doing this, the seedier content from King's books might be used without requiring to handle people annoying network censors. Again, there's still no studio backing the film yet, causeing this to be all still being determined. Javier Bardem remains installed on star since the primary character, Roland Deschain. [via MTV Movies] [Photo: Getty Images] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

SPT to spread out Middle East office

LONDON -- The new sony Pictures Television would be to open a nearby sales office in the centre East. The Dubai outpost will license films and TV series from SPT's distribution catalog, plus finished content created by local shingle SPT Arabia. Work will report straight to SPT's regional hq for Europe, Middle East and Africa working in london. It will likely be run by Ziad Yaghi, who as executive director, sales, for that Middle East, will result in SPT's distribution activity over the Middle East. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Murdochs' Relationship Going down hill After Phone Hacking Scandal (Report)

Who if anybody in the Murdoch family will succeed Rupert as mind of News Corp. has become progressively unclear, based on extensive interviews carried out through the NY Occasions.our editor recommendsElisabeth Murdoch Will not Join News Corp. Board Agent: News Corp. Traders Should Election Against Rupert Murdoch and Sons, Most Board People Although James Murdoch has lengthy been the favourite to achieve success his father, his participation in news reports around the globe phone hacking scandal makes this less certain. Rupert's oldest boy Lachlan has selected to pay attention to their own media holdings around australia. Daughter Elisabeth offered her Shine Ltd. production company to News Corp. captured for $675 million but didn't join News Corp.'s board and it has not indicated any curiosity about succeeding her father. "Rupert always considered News Corp. like a family company because it absolutely was provided to him," Craig Diller states within the article, adding, "It absolutely was provided to him via a small newspaper in Adelaide, but nonetheless it had been his father's company. I believe that designed to him that tradition should continue. If, as he's always stated, his children were useful." James continues to reside in London, despite an apparent order from his father to relocate: "You're returning to NY, or else you're out," Rupert apparently told his boy, who runs News Corp.'s European and Asian procedures from across water-feature. Probably the most apparent option for an instantaneous successor is chief operating officer Chase Carey, who's likely to dominate within the interim for Rupert Murdoch in the point he no more is actually able or desires to continue. However, whether Carey will be the permanent Boss, or whether that chair should be occupied with a Murdoch, remains to appear. Related Subjects Rupert Murdoch Wendi Deng Wendi Murdoch Worldwide Lachlan Murdoch James Murdoch Elisabeth Murdoch

AMPAS picks 7 scribes for Nicholl fellowships

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected seven scribes for the 26th annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, which comes along with a $30,000 prize.Listed alphabetically, they are: -- Chris Bessounian and Tianna Langham, Los Angeles, "Guns and Saris" -- Dion Cook, Altus, Okla., "Cutter" -- John MacInnes, Los Angeles, "Outside the Wire" -- Matthew Murphy, Culver City, Calif., "Unicorn" -- Abel Vang & Burlee Vang, Fresno, Calif., "The Tiger's Child"Winners, selected from a record 6,730 scripts submitted, will be presented with the first installments of the fellowship money at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on November 3. They receive the fellowships with the understanding that they'll complete a feature-length screenplay during the year.Past winners include Jason Micallef ("Butter"), Ehren Kruger ("Transformers: Dark of the Moon") and Andrew W. Marlowe, who created and executive produces ABC's "Castle." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Steven Seagal Sworn in to Texas Border Patrol, For Real

Actor-musician-martial arts expert-reality TV lawman Steven Seagal is adding a new credit to his offscreen resume: Sheriff’s deputy. Yes, this is real, even if it seems like a page taken right out of, say, Machete. The 59-year-old Seagal reportedly rang the West Texas’ Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office months ago for the position and “will be working full time to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border.” This is the world we live in. Details after the jump. Deputy Seagal reports for duty in the new year, according to the San Antonio Express (via EW), and his new bosses are taking him very seriously: “It became very clear to me that Mr. Seagal is not in this for the celebrity or the publicity,” Sheriff Arvin West said. “He’s like the rest of us that live down here; he has a sincere passion for his country and he wants to do more to help.”“He got really a taste of what we go through down here,” department spokesman Gary Fleming said. “We ran about 50 miles of the border and Deputy Seagal got a chance to meet the community and where he’s going to be working.”An advance team went out first, of course, Fleming said, to make sure things weren’t too hot for the new deputy’s inaugural day. Above, Seagal poses with what I assume to be his sheriff’s office-issued weaponry, with Sheriff Arvin West. Go ahead and caption it in the comments below, since my mind is still reeling from the insanity. [San Antonio Express, EW] [Photo credit: Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Department]

Rade Sherbedgia Cast as Villain in Liam Neeson's 'Taken 2' (Exclusive)

Getty ImagesRade Sherbedgia Serbian actorRade Sherbedgia remains cast since the villain in last century Fox and EuropaCorp'sTaken 2, which stars Liam Neeson which is set to begin filming in Chicken and France later this month. Sherbedgia may have Murad, the dad from the kidnapper slain by Bryan Mills (Neeson) inside the first film. Murad is known to love a vengeful guy who gives orders and doesn't bring them. When Murad takes Mills and also the wife hostage, their daughter is enlisted towards saving them. Taken 2, which willbe released March. 5, 2012, also starsFamke Janssen and Maggie Sophistication. Colombiana helmerOlivier Megatonis pointing the pic. Luc Besson, who co-written the script withRobert Mark Kamen, isproducing through his EuropaCorp banner. Besson and Kamen also co-written the initial Taken film, which wasreleased in 2008 and will be a surprise hit, grossing $224 million worldwide. Sherbedgia will next star inAngelina Jolie's directorial debut, Inside the Land of Blood stream and Honey, that is released in December.Sherbedgia's credits include Batman Begins,Mission: Impossible IIanda memorable turn as Boris "The AdvantageInch Yurinov in Snatch. Sherbedgia is represented by Innovative Artists as well as the U.K.'s United states . Artists. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Liam Neeson Maggie Sophistication Worldwide Famke Janssen Luc Besson

Looser than ever

Julianne Hough and Ryan SeacrestDirector Craig Brewer (L) and actor Kenny Wormald arrive at the premiere of "Footloose."Rob Moore and Gary Barber Brad Grey with Sumner RedstoneWhile there was no Kevin Bacon sighting at Monday night's premiere of Paramount's "Footloose," the event turned into one of Westwood's livelier unspoolings. From the start of pic, where the audience could be heard singing along to the classic theme by Kenny Loggins to the finale when the theater was covered in confetti, the New Regency was as rockin' as any L.A. nightclub. That spirit carried over to the after-party at the Westwood W. Hotel, where the pic's Kenny Wormald was seen showing off his dance moves while Julianne Hough and Ryan Seacrest mingled with guests. Helmer Craig Brewer said he was very happy with the final product and added that when it came to the music, even with the southern setting, he wasn't afraid to mix up the soundtrack. "With the original, Paramount was a little worried about mixing so many genres, but that turned out great so I didn't see a reason to change it up for this version," Brewer explained. "You look at most kids today and they have 3,000 songs on their iPod and you go to any club and it usually can go from a rap song at one moment to a country song in the next. I really wanted that feeling to stay in the movie." Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

CSI Cheers Track Of Ted Danson

Ted Danson, Marg Helgenberger It's difficult to assume Mike Malone from Cheers requiring a maggot wrangler. "I have never witnessed anything enjoy it,Inch Ted Danson states. Despite silver hair, the Emmy-winning actor appears like a youngster who just drawn apart his first earthworm. "You are able to tell how lengthy an individual body continues to be rotting by how big the bugs moving inside!" And also the wrangler's got every variety. "It's incredible, before you think, 'Oh, God. We are speaking about dead people.'" Everybody's favorite TV barkeep is once more serving cold ones - but now he's zipping them inside body bags. The surprising new option to mind the Vegas crime lab on CSI brings an legendary face towards the world's most venerable procedural. Danson, sometimes known for Damages and Bored to Dying, gets control for Laurence Fishburne as CSI's leading guy in Season 12, and hopes to breathe some existence into the formerly top-ranked series. Relaxing in a celebration room dotted with grisly crime photos around the L.A. set, Danson states his greatest challenge is, "Just how can a man much like me, who searches for the pleasure in each and every situation, result in the transition towards the land of triple homicides?" He shrugs. "And, hey, I am additionally a hypochondriac and run from violence - we are speaking major stretch." A minimum of everyone knows his title. As new CSI supervisor D.B. Russell, Danson, 63, seems to possess moved forward nicely right into a cast as tightly knit every on television. Three of his new work pals - Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows), George Eads (Nick Stokes) and Paul Guilfoyle (Vegas police captain Jim Brass) - happen to be a part of CSI's cast for those 250-plus episodes. That meant Danson needed to work his charm before he showed up on set. "He known as me 2 or 3 occasions simply to say, 'Hey, what's going on?AInch Eads states. "I had been like, 'Not much. Um, who's this?' He's, like, 'It's Ted.' Time passes, 'Ted? Oh, Ted Danson! Sorry, guy. The way the heck are ya?'" (To help ingratiate themself, Danson has sprung for on-set massages along with a shaved-ice truck for that crew.) Helgenberger confesses she elevated an eyebrow when she heard he was visiting CSI. "You believe Ted Danson and also you mainly think comedy," she states. "But pretty rapidly, I stated, 'OK, yeah, which makes sense.'" Word around Hollywood after Fishburne's departure last summer time was that CBS would cast another intense actor. However with rankings flagging - the show finished at No. 30 last season among audiences age range 18 to 49 - the time had come for any reboot. "We wanted to return to the thrill from the first couple of seasons and Ted fits our needs exactly," states executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. "Getting Ted around cheers every scene and adds a much deeper emotional layer than we have observed in a long time.Inch Still, even Danson was surprised. He received the sale last summer time because he was waiting to determine a film in Martha's Winery, where he and the wife, actress Mary Steenburgen, possess a vacation house. Danson have been searching for methods to avoid traveling for work since he's grandchildren in L.A. A weekly gig with an established show would be a no-brainer. "The lights within the theater were heading down and so i did not have lengthy to react," he states. "My first thought was 'Wow.' My second thought was 'Yes!'" D.B. Russell is not like other CSIs. After blustery boss Gil Grissom (William Petersen) and divisive newbie Ray Langston (Fishburne), Russell appears like Mr. Happy. His gradually unfolding backstory is the fact that he's an old lit major and child of beatnik folk performers who involves Las vegas from Dallas together with his still unseen wife and four kids. "What we should love is the fact that Russell is unconventional and also at odds with authority, getting developed likely to peace rallies and sit-inches," Mendelsohn states. "But he's additionally a devoted family guy who grows fastest around the chaos from the lab because he's raising a lot of teens." To organize for that role, Danson travelled to Las vegas to witness a genuine autopsy, a minute he calls a spiritual experience. "I held a man's skull during my hands as the second guy scooped his brain out," he states. "It had been an amazing indication of methods valuable and fragile existence is. This kind of work can make you think about every moment you are alive." Afterwards the set, Danson and Helgenberger, in requisite rubber mitts, are dealing with a box of evidence within the CSI lab. The scene is perfect for an approaching episode known as "CSI Lower," and they are searching for clues to trace a murder suspect who just hi-jacked a medevac helicopter. Helgenberger appears as awesome because the steel table below her, but Danson is keyed up. He's flubbed a couple of takes and today really wants to open the scene mid-sentence to really make it feel more conversational. His agitation is helpful since Russell is eager to save CSI Morgan Brody (Elisabeth Harnois), who's aboard the helicopter. Two more takes and Danson nails it. "In comedy, you never need to say, 'OK, making this what we are likely to do,'" he states after. "Here, the dialogue is about lounging pipe for the following scene. It requires getting accustomed to.Inch Helgenberger is quick to protect him: "Ted's a professional. He already feels as though area of the fabric from the show." For additional on CSI, get this week's problem of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, October 6! Have to catch on the experience? CSI: Crime Scene Analysis: The Eleventh Months are available these days on DVD (Parmount Home Theatre). Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! 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Lakers' Kobe Bryant to experience in Italia Throughout National basketball association Lockout

ROME (AP)-Italian club Virtus Bologna stated it's arrived at a verbal agreement with Kobe Bryant(notes) for that La Opposing team star to experience in Italia throughout the National basketball association lockout.our editor recommendsEndemol USA plans Kobe Bryant Web seriesKobe Bryant To Create His Movie Acting Debut in 'The Black Mamba' "We now have arrived at a fiscal deal," Virtus leader Claudio Sabatini told a nearby radio station. "There's still several things to set up but at this time I am very positive. I'd say it's 95 % done." You aren't understanding from the discussions told The Connected Press on Friday the sides have chosen a $3 million agreement for the outlet 40 times of an italian man , league season. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity since the deal has still not been signed. Bryant, who spent a lot of his childhood in Italia, was in the united states for sponsor looks in the last 2 days but was flying to the U.S. for labor talks using the National basketball association on Friday. Bryant is anticipated to obtain a work visa and go back to Italia in a few days. "Kobe ought to be in Bologna by Wednesday or Thursday together with his visa in hands for medical visits therefore we can deposit anything using the league," Sabatini stated. "I wish to make obvious that at this time you will find still no signatures. We have reached write anything, that will then be read again and again again." Virtus have been because of open the growing season March. 9 against Roma, but agendas now have to be reworked after Venezia was put into the league like a 17th team. The offer, which may allow Bryant revisit the Opposing team immediately when the lockout finishes, should last about 10 games. Sabatini wants to produce a special schedule that assigns Bryant's games to Italy's greatest arenas. "It is really an important investment along with a unique opportunity for the town of Bologna and every one of Italian basketball," Sabatini stated. "I am wishing everybody really wants to collaborate." The 33-year-old Bryant has 3 years and $83.5 million left on his contract using the Opposing team. Between your age range of six and 13, Bryant resided in Italia when his father Joe Bryant performed with Rieti, Reggio Calabria, Pistoia and Reggiana from 1984-91. The elder Bryant also once possessed a small sector of Olimpia Milano. Lucrative coaches the La Sparks within the WNBA. The more youthful Bryant still talks Italian fairly well, and talked about his reminiscences of his time in the united states throughout a job interview using the Gazzetta dello Sport on friday. "Italia is home. It's where my imagine playing within the National basketball association began. This is when I learned the basic principles, learned to shoot, to pass through and also to (move) with no ball," Bryant told an italian man , newspaper. "Everything that after I returned to America the gamers my maturity did not understand how to do simply because they were only considering jumping and dunking." Bryant added that playing in Italia "will be a dream for me personally.Inch Bryant continues to be bothered in recent seasons by an arthritic joint in the right knee, that has needed several minor procedures. He sitting out most the Lakers' practices last season and saw his scoring, shooting percentage and minutes reduction in his 15th National basketball association season. Former USC guard Daniel Hackett, a dual citizen who plays for Pesaro in Italia, stated he'd give Bryant a hostile reception if he faced the first kind National basketball association MVP. "The only method to stop a person so good is by using a tough foul and that he recognizes that,Inch Hackett stated. "I have got five fouls to commit and they are the toughest five fouls I have ever committed." Hackett also belittled speculation that Bologna will request opposing clubs hosting Bryant's away games to nick inside a part of ticket sales to assist pay Bryant's salary. "I am hoping Kobe does not lower themself for this level for economic and commercial motives," Hackett stated, based on the Gazzetta. "In my experience, it might be a large disappointment to determine him here under these conditions, along with a lack of respect for any player who's too large to dirty his hands within this league." Bologna leader Sabatini responded, "Fortunately not every Italian gamers think like Hackett." Turkish club Besiktas and a minimum of one team in China had also expressed curiosity about Bryant, that has won five National basketball association titles and been an exciting-Star 13 occasions. Bologna also lately contacted Spurs swingman Manu Ginobili(notes), who performed using the club before joining San Antonio in 2002. Colorado Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari(notes) rejoined his former Italian club Olimpia Milano a week ago. The National basketball association months are scheduled to spread out November. 1 but proprietors and gamers have unsuccessful to agree with a brand new labor deal. The 2 sides are in odds over how you can divide the league's revenue, an income cap structure and the size of guaranteed contracts. A week ago, National basketball association authorities introduced the postponement of coaching camping and also the cancellation of 43 preseason games. Virtus has won 15 Italian league game titles but none of them since 2001, if this also won the Euroleague for that second time. Bologna didn't be eligible for a this season's Euroleague, even though team has large ambitions after signing former Clemson point guard Terrell McIntyre, who brought Siena to four consecutive Italian game titles before moving to Malaga in The country before last season. Getting mingled with fans in Milan on Wednesday, Bryant also received a warm welcome in Rome on Thursday, where he was introduced towards the Campidoglio museum obtain a commemorative medal in the 1960 Rome Olympic games. Related Subjects Worldwide Kobe Bryant

CBS Films Chief Amy Baer Exits Publish

Kevin Winter/Getty Images CBS Films leader-CEOAmy Baerwill leave her publish within the finish of October and transition in to a creating role. Her new deal remains hammered out. We are not set to switch Baer inside the top slot an insider in the organization signifies the comfort in the current executive crew -- COOWolfgang Hammer, purchases chiefScott Shoomanand distribution headSteven Friedlander--will remain in position and run the show for your expected future. Baer prepares to exit her leadership role carrying out a string of productions that met only middling success, includingExtraordinary Measures,The Trunk-Up Plan,Faster,The Car specialist andBeastly. PHOTOS: Next Gen 2010: Hollywood's Youthful Guns Forthcoming releases are the acquisitionsThe Lady in BlackandSalmon Fishing inside the Yemen, that the organization acquired within the Toronto film festival.TheCoen Bros.-pennedGambit, starringColin Firth, andAmerican Assassin, whichEd Zwickis co-writing and pointing, may also be round the future slate. The insider states the organization still expects release a 4 to 5 films every year, split evenly between homegrown productions and purchases. "We thank Amy on her behalf normal part in building CBS Films," mentioned CBS Corporation leader and CEOLeslie Moonves, who launched the division with Baer in 2007."Continue, we remain fully dedicated to the division's focus on a particular slate of smart purchases and quality homegrown productions in many genres. CBS Films is small inside the overall size and scope within our company, but is constantly fit nicely while using Corporation's premium content strategy." Amy Baer CBS Films

Netflix nabs DreamWorks, Amazon . com . com signs Fox

After taking numerous body blows following its decision to hike costs and split its streaming and DVD methods, Netflix is rallying back, announcing a groundbreaking agreement creating exclusive first-run rights for with DreamWorks Animations' movies and tv special deals. Amazon . com . com, meanwhile, responded having a completely new partnership due to its very own streaming service, getting 2,000 Fox films and tv episodes to its Amazon . com . com Prime Instant Video program. The moves both signal the growing importance (and competitive character) in the streaming market. Netflix has extended thought streaming may be the way ahead for home video delivery and developed the cafeteria-style delivery method. Amazon . com . com will be a latecomer for the market, but by pairing free streaming having its premium membership program (which includes free two-day shipping), the business has began to produce an impact.The Netflix/DreamWorks partnership will begin in 2013. (Current partner Cinemax made the decision release a DreamWorks in the current contract couple of years early.) The move will place the organization directly rivaling pay cable channels and signifies the first time a studio has chosen for Web streaming pay an excessive amount of television. ''This arrangement allows us to obtain additional value for that content while giving us a much better flexibility in the manner we distribute it across multiple platforms in current day altering digital world,'' mentioned Jeffrey Katzenberg, Boss of DreamWorks Animation.DreamWorks Animation has three releases slated for 2013: ''The Croods,'' ''Turbo'' and ''Peabody and Sherman''. Catalog game game titles, for instance ''Kung Fu Panda'' and ''MegaMind,'' will finish up provided with time, the companies mentioned.The worth and entire partnership were not introduced. Amazon's deal with Fox might help fill some noticeable gaps, adding fare for instance ''The X-Files,'' ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' ''24'' and ''Arrested Development'' for the Amazon . com . com Prime selection. Netflix is constantly on the stream people shows, but Amazon . com . com will convince add a few exclusives, for instance ''The Question Years''. ''Since beginning taken, we've bending the quantity of game game titles accessible in Prime instant videos, and there's still more later on,'' mentioned Amazon . com . com Boss Rob Bezos. Amazon . com . com remains striking handles several new companies in recent several days, most recently adding NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution (and game game titles for instance ''Eternal Sunshine in the Spotless Mind,'' ''Elizabeth,'' and ''Gosford Park'') in the finish of the summer time.Prime Instant Video can be a streaming service the business proposes to people of the Amazon . com . com Prime service. People pay $79 every year totally free two-day shipping together with the free video. Even if they never take full advantage of that after, the monthly cost with this particular streaming service computes to $6.50 monthly, $1.50 under Netflix's least pricey service.Netflix and Amazon . com . com will be the leading companies inside the streaming space at this time around, but plenty of rivals are directly in it. Apple, Walmart-possessed Vudu and Dish Network (which the other day introduced a Blockbuster-high quality streaming service for clients to its satellite options) are directly in it. Content companies are reaping helpful benefits out of this competition and settling reasonably limited cost for partners. Netflix partner Starz, providing you with streaming rights for Disney and also the new the new sony films, walked in the table with Netflix captured when the two companies were not able to to barter their deal. The partnership is predicted to dissolve next February. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com