Glam Slam: 2011: The Year In Stars

First Published: December 27, 2011 1:23 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Sofia Vergara seen looking glam at the CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on December 11, 2011Working on our morning show Access Hollywood Live, I get to see lots of stars (and their entourages!) close up. Heres what I learned this year from the parade of stars visiting our set. EVA MENDES is even more gorgeous in person. REGIS is the man. He stayed and took photos and talked with the crew for more than 20 minutes after his interview. SARAH FERGUSON is the nicest celeb; she introduced herself and shook hands with EVERY SINGLE crew member. JENNIFER LOPEZ has IT. The entire atmosphere on our set was abuzz when she came. TORI SPELLING brought her pet chicken. SOFIA VERGARA exudes sex appeal in spades. JOHN CORBETT is the wildest celebhe did an impromptu striptease. KRIS JENNER has great shoes. J.R. MARTINEZ is a good hugger. Smells good too. LINDA EVANS brought homemade apple piedelicious! STEVE HARVEYS entourage is the best dressed. NENE LEAKES is waaayyy taller than I imagined. JENNY MCCARTHY is always a riot. DURAN DURANs Simon Le Bon and John Taylor are huge flirts. Still. LA TOYA JACKSON is beyond sweet. Yes, she really giggles like that. CHEF CURTIS STONE stayed after his segment and cooked steak tacos for the crew. Yummy! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

GWAR Horse! Watch as Heavy Metal's GWAR Reviews War Horse

I can’t believe it either, but I’ve chosen to accept GWAR — the satirical, Grammy-nominated heavy metal outfit — as real film critics. In a new clip, the costume-loving dudes both praise and rip on War Horse, unleashing a fiery badinage that Ebert and Roeper would have killed for. Just watch it, dammit. “I think they should change the name to Snore Horse!” Nice to know that heavy metal icons also enjoy pejorative puns as much everyday film critics. In fact, they should go by punnier monkiers: Might I suggest LOLnard Maltin and L.M.A.O. Scott? GWAR Reviews ‘War Horse’ [NextMovie]

Kim Jong-il's weird life as a film fanatic

BEIJING -- The death of despotic North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Saturday at age 69 marks the passing of one of the truly odd footnotes to cinema history -- a man who built up a deep, if twisted, relationship with stage and screen. Like Adolf Hitler, who supposedly loved Disney movies, Kim was fascinated by film and collected 20,000 foreign pics. "Daffy Duck" and horror movies were among his favorites, as were James Bond films, though he was said to have been furious at the way North Korea was depicted as a basket-case evil state in "Die Another Day" in 2002. He produced several films himself, mostly ideologically driven historical epics, including the propaganda classic "Sea of Blood." His movie mania drove him to kidnap South Korean actress Choi Eun-hui and her helmer boyfriend Shin Sang-ok in Hong Kong in 1978. They were held separately until 1983 and forced to produce seven films while in captivity, before they escaped on a visit to Vienna in 1986. If you believe the official propaganda, Kim wrote six operas in two years, although the same notes also say he hit 11 holes-in-one in the first round of golf he ever played. The "Dear Leader" was said to have been incandescent with rage at his depiction in 2004's "Team America," a film satire using puppets by the creators of "South Park," Trey Parker and Matt Stone, which depicted him as a solitary lunatic feeding U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix to the sharks. "I'm so lonely, so lonely, so lonely and sadly alone. There's no one, just me only, sitting on my little throne. Seems like no one takes me seriously," he sings. The fondness for Disney seems to have been passed on through the family. Kim's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, 38, fell out of favor with his father after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001 saying he wanted to visit Disney's Tokyo resort. Kim is succeeded by his younger son, Kim Jong-un, born in 1983 or 1984, to his late wife, a Japanese-born professional dancer, Ko Yong-hui. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Scodelario Discovers Truth About Fishes

Changing Rooney Mara in indie dramaRooney Mara, presently being surrounded through the Hollywood machine, apparently presently has short time for cool indie dramas, and it has needed to give up of Emanuel And The Reality Regarding Fishes. But stop worrying for Francesca Gregorini's second stint behind your camera: she's already changed Mara with Kaya Scodelario.The up-and-coming Scodelario switched heads in Funnel 4's Skins, and it has herself seen some Hollywood action in Clash From The Leaders, where she performed Peshet. She's otherwise taken the indie route however, with roles in Duncan Jones' Moon and Mo Ali's Shank, and she or he lately starred as Trina Earnshaw in Andrea Arnold's controversialWuthering Levels.Emanuel And The Reality Regarding Fishes isn't a peculiarly piscine entry within the erotic franchise (insufficient M's), but in the general synopses available at this time, rather seems like a crazy mash-from Vertigo and Lars And Also The Real Girl. It comes down to a youthful girl who's enthusiastic about her neighbour because she bears an uncanny resemblance to her dead mother, and concurs to babysit stated neighbour's child, which works out to become a realistic toy. We are speculating there will not be considered a vehicle chase or vary many explosions. We are intrigued about in which the seafood easily fit in.Gregorini (whose first film was Tanner Hall, which starred Mara) has additionally written the script, and can go prior to the cameras in an unspecified date soon. Scodelario meanwhile, just finished shooting Now's Good, with Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine, and has Brit-thriller Twenty8K within the works.

THR Women in Entertainment Attendees Answer: What Makes a Power Leader? (Video)

Fox Fox's The X Factor pulled a last-minute switch on the contestants when the planned Pepsi Challenge songs were dropped in some kind of misunderstanding. So, the producers told the contestants that they had 24 hours to make their "save me" songs full-on performance worthy. The show broke the news to the viewing audience after a round of dance club mixes.our editor recommends'X Factor': 5 Redeeming Qualities of a Shirtless Steve Jones (Video)How 'X Factor's' Simon Cowell's Right-Hand Woman Handles the Mogul's Empire and Ego Josh Krajcik, who showed some nervousness on his Michael Jackson song from last week, showed none of that with this week's take on Rihanna's "We Found Love." Rachel Crow also showed she can shed the sweet exterior once again and delivered a really anthemic version of Bruno Mars' "Beautiful Girls." PHOTOS: 'X Factor' Behind the Scenes With The Top 11 Work Out the Week's Performances Melanie Amaro kept her streak going with both her songs for the night. First, she sang a club mix version of Adele's "Someone Like You," which had judge Nicole Scherzinger proclaiming her a "rock star diva." And for her second song, she went a bit safer with something that's more in her comfort zone with "When You Believe" by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. The contestants' choice round was heavy with ballads (as one would expect from survival songs). Once again, Rachel impressed the audience with her controlled handling of Jackson's "Music & Me." Afterward, Simon Cowell also revealed that she has done some stand up comedy before. So, basically, she's even more of an overachiever in my mind. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes With Simon Cowell's Right-Hand Woman And while I'm on the subject of overachieving... Chris Rene impressed the judges with an original song titled "Where Do We Go From Here." It was definitely a departure for the artist as he refrained from his trademark "ringing" (rapping-singing) as he calls it. And earned him a round of praise from the judges. Simon felt it was a well-played risk. The other men didn't fare as well with the judges with their second song choices. L.A. Reid told Josh that while he felt he was more in his comfort zone with the Beatles song, "Something," his performance was semi-karoake. Ouch. And then Simon called Marcus Canty's version of Donny Hathaway's "Song To You" boring. Double ouch. Who was your favorite of the night? Tell us in the comments section below. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'X Factor' Behind the Scenes: The Top 11 Work Out the Week's Performances Nicole Scherzinger Simon Cowell Antonio L.A. Reid The X Factor

Latin American biz boosts global film stakes

Ricardo Darin, left, round the number of 'White Elephant' with helmer-scribe Pablo Trapero. BUENOS AIRES -- Many Latin American filmmakers are raising their game with greater budgets and bigger ambitions driving new films and film endeavors.In Argentina, Vanessa Ragone's Haddock is co-creating Viggo Mortensen starrer "Everybody Features a Plan," while Mexico's Canana is developing its finest project ever, the $ten million-$12 million Cesar Chavez biopic "Chavez," directed by Diego Luna and co-produced by John Malkovich through his L.A.-based Mr. Mudd shingle.In October, "Elite Squad" director Jose Padilha introduced that his Zazen label would invest $60 million in Brazilian pic production.Argentina's Pablo Trapero is an additional demonstration of the ambitions of Latin American filmmakers. The helmer was already a Cannes' favorite -- "Lion's Family room" carried out competing whilst not Certain Regard unspooled "Carancho." Now Trapero is helming his finest film yet, the $4 million "White-colored Elephant." Spain's Morena Films, Trapero's Matanza Cine and Disney-backed Patagonik are coming up with France's Full House co-produces."Elephant" can be a challenge, Trapero states, with "more shoot days, situations, sets, cast, character choreography and constant interplay between character and context."Bigger budgets certainly are a natural next factor for Latin American company company directors but market factors also may play a role.As worldwide areas toughen, foreign entrepreneurs continue being demanding large films -- but shipped on a lot more reasonable budgets.One option is to twin European finance with Latin American talent and low Latin American costs."Our idea wound up being to supply Trapero with bigger means to produce a more ambitious film in scale and scope," states Morena producer Juan Gordon.Your financial allowance for "Elephant" triples individuals of Trapero's previous works, but remains highly economical by U.S. or European standards."Elephant," which began production November. 21, toplines Argentina's finest marquee draw, Ricardo Darin ("The Important Thing for them,In . "Carancho") as Julian, an Argentine parish priest.It's mainly occur a Buenos Aires slum impacted by delinquency, corruption and a pair of warring drug cartels, where Julian brings an in depth friend, fellow French priest Geronimo (Jeremie Renier, "L'Enfant," "In Bruges"), which has themselves just managed to get filled with killing by Central American paramilitaries.Lensed in Ciudad Oculta, a shanty barrio centered with the 14-story, concrete hulk from the never-finished hospital (which gives the film's title), "Elephant" triggers types of behavior to chapel hierarchy and social justice.Trapero's first feature to shoot major moments outdoors Argentina, "Elephant" mixes jungle action, large crowd moments, shoot-outs inside the barrio together with an appreciation story -- Geronimo falls for just about any social worker carried out by another large title, Martina Gusman ("Leonera," "Carancho").Pic is put together by Trapero and regular co-scribes Santiago Mitre, Martin Mauregui and Alejandro Fadel.Trapero hopes to accomplish "Elephant" by May. It'll be easily one of the bigger Argentine films coming to the marketplace next season, the industry superb marketing hook."What's beautiful about cinema might be the following challenge," Trapero states. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Icarus takes '108: Cuchillo p palo'

BUENOS AIRES -- Niche distrib Icarus has clinched U.S. privileges on "108: Cuchillo p palo," Renate Costa's account of her late gay uncle's troubled existence under Paraguay's dictatorship. Created by Barcelona's Estudi Play and Catalan pubcaster TV3, the Costa-written "Cuchillo," just nommed for the best documentary at NY's second Cinema Tropical Honours, will discover a limited U.S. theatrical release. "Cuchillo's" telemarketer Urban Distribution Intl. has additionally closed a five-movie cope with Cinemax Latin America, as pan-Latin American feevee pacts hit ever greater levels in value. The offer consumes Pablo Giorgelli's "Las Acacias," which won your camera d'Or in Cannes, Paula Markovitch's Berlin Silver Bear champion "The Prize," Cannes Not Certain Regard player "Hard Labor" and "Swirl," which performed in Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian. As paybox competition has risen in Latin America, and so do prices compensated. For Latin American films, "the main market could certainly be pay TV for Latin America," stated Eric Schnedecker, UDI mind of worldwide sales. "Theatrical distribution on the planet for arthouse films is extremely difficult, particularly in Latin America where local product does not travel much." Latin American pay TV deals for Latin American films could be worth around sales to France or Germany, Schnedecker added. Created by Veronica Cura's Utopica Films, "Las Acacias," that has closed a U.S. pay TV deal, is bringing together among Latin America's sales hits of the season, getting closed 16 territory deals, including France, The country and also the U.K. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Exclusive: Haywire Poster Hits The Internet

Gina Carano: killing a bus stop near youSteven Soderbergh's new action/thriller, Haywire, may be his most ferocious, full-bore movie so far. So when he carries through his threat to retire from filmmaking, it could just stay by doing this - unless of course obviously, clearly, Liberace goes postal within the approaching Cinemax biopic.This punchy new quad supplies a flavour of what you should expect within the pic: ie bullets, plenty of broken glass, some seriously worried searching dudes, together with a few more bullets permanently measure. Someone has stitched Mallory Kane (Gina Carano) up and someone pays. In truth, we're searching for you, Mr. Banderas, along with your roguish moustache and experience on Spy Kids. Carano's character can be a black-procedures 'super soldier' who chimes the energy power grid and hits in the CIA handlers who fooled her and so are threatening her family. Soderbergh's strong-searching cast is rounded out by Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas and Bill Paxton, an even more-than-decent combination of character acting talent and action chops.The Limey author Lem Dobbs reunited with Soderbergh on scripting duties, which will guarantee a DVD commentatory worth having.Haywire is at Uk cinemas in the month of the month of january 20.

Netflix Antitrust Suit Thrown By Judge

Jin Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images A federal judge in California has ignored a category action against Netflix that alleged the internet movie store hadstruck an illegal"market allocation" agreement with Walmart. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton handed Netflix a victory on summary judgment, discovering that the litigants couldn't show any collusive agreement.our editor recommendsNetflix Ex-CFO Works best for Venture Firm Involved with Company's Debt DealNetflix's Stock Drops as Company Alerts of Loss for 2012Netflix Stock Drops Below Year Low After Company Sells $200 Million in Bonds Accusations of Illegal Netflix-Walmart Agreement Result In Both Funds And Coming TrialNetflix Makes Lionsgate U.K. Streaming Deal Official Experts: CW-Hulu Deal Will Further Strengthen Network's Main Point Here After Recent Netflix Agreement The dismissal cuts short an effort which was tentatively scheduled for The month of january. The litigants introduced their states federal court last year, pointing for an agreement made between Netflix and Walmart 4 years earlier. PHOTOS: Netflix's 10 Most Leased Movies ever At that time, Blockbuster had just joined the DVD online rental market and gossips circulated that Amazon . com would soon perform the same. Netflix contacted Walmart inside a purported effort to push away the perceived Amazon . com threat. In the beginning, the talks went nowhere, however Walmart made the decision to exit the DVD rental business. In 2005, the 2 companies arrived at an offer on the so-known as "Promotion Agreement," whereby existing Walmart DVD rental clients could be moved forward to Netflix. Amazon . com didn't jump in to the DVD business, and Blockbuster later flopped, leading eight people to guide a category action suit that alleged that antitrust behavior between Netflix and Walmart had brought to greater prices. The litigants believed that damages might be up to $654 million. However, Judge Hamilton has limited an effort which was scheduled to featureNetflix CEOReed Hastingsas well as former top media professionals from Amazon . com, Walmart and Blockbuster. She ruled the litigants simply couldn't reveal that the "Promotion Agreement" was illegal. Based on the decision: "The Promotion Agreement on its face unveils a contract by both sides to attempt mix-marketing efforts regarding one another's complementary online DVD rental and purchasers services, considering Walmart's independent decision to exit the DVD rental market. Besides the agreement specifically acknowledge the 'independent character of Walmart's decision to exit the trade, however it in addition specifically states that Walmart is free of charge to re-go into the same market. Under these conditions, a legal court cannot agree the agreement on its face reflects a blatant agreement to get rid of Walmart in the online DVD rental market as a kind of market allocation." The category litigants have the freedom to appeal your decision, but meanwhile, they won't leave empty-handed. Walmart made a completely independent decision about last year to stay rather than investing cash on lawyers. Looking back, because of the judge's decision yesterday, Walmart appears to possess designed a $27.25 million error. That's the total amount that Walmart agreed to spend to be able to avoid these kinds action fight. The retail giant can't even claim that they can have saved much in legal costs. Walmart first arrived at a really complicated settlement using the litigants in December 2010that incorporated a pay-out range (between $29 million and $40 million with respect to the quantity of claims), that incorporated a sub-class of clients who leased Dvd disks online from Blockbuster, along with a provision where Wal-Mart had the authority to "blow-out" the whole settlement if your substantial part of potential class people elected-from the deal. The judge didn't such as this deal greatly, and Netflix objected too, resulting in seven several weeks of ongoing revisions before your final settlement was arrived at.Most significantly, the pay-out grew to become fixed and Blockbuster class people were removed. In September, a judge fortunate the settlement, resulting in an e-mail from litigants' lawyers about the other day to a lot of Netflix customers, telling them from the settlement. Per the agreement,all thosewho leased Dvd disks from Netflix anytime between May 19, 2005 and September 2, 2011 possess the chance to assert a bit of the $27.25 million pot as gift certificates or cash. Initially, Walmart's settlement was belittled by clients who worried these were only getting pennies around the dollar of potential damages. The aggrieved people noted the class action lawsuit lawyers would collect a quarter of the settlement fund, or nearly $7 million, as well as be refunded as much as $1.7 million in legal costs. Now, that remaining money looks an improvement on nothing. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Netflix

GALLERY: Twi-Hards and Would-Be Brides Outdoor Camping within the Breaking Beginning Premiere

At extended, extended last, Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1 is here now. Just before last evening’s La premiere, roughly 1,500 super-fans (some entirely bridal gear!) camped out downtown near to the Nokia Theater L.A. Live, where the film’s stars came the red-colored-colored carpet. Click through to celebrate the Breaking Beginning-mania with Movieline. Launch the Twi-hard Breaking Beginning slideshow below. For further of Movieline’s Breaking Beginning coverage, follow the link. Follow Julie Burns on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Did an ESPN Professional Produce a Large Mistake Suing Around the Crude Erin Andrews Story? (Analysis)

GettyESPN's Erin Andrews. The other day, former ESPN executive Keith Clinkscalessued a buddy who allegedly shared an inaccurate story aboutClinkscales self pleasuring on the airplane while sitting alongside ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. The complaint alleging defamation is very thin -- just six pages -- and boosts an problem about whether Clinkscales developed a smart relocate acting so quickly to produce this matter in to a NY federal court. What the law states suit happened similar to the sports blog Deadspin was investigatingwhat happened on that flight. Clinkscales, who until recently will be a senior v . p . of content development and companies at ESPN, made a decision he didn't desire to wait to uncover the claims on Deadspin. So he needed action by filing what's being known as just like a "pre-emptive" suit. What intrigues us here's not what went lower on the airplane, but rather what the ESPN executive wanted to attain for this tact. By filing the suit so rashly, Clinkscales virtually assured the strange masturbation claims might be covered on television and also over the dunia ngeblog. Once the Herman Cain sexual harassment coverage has trained us anything, it's that innuendo becomes ripe for media as lengthy because you will find official charges lodged or money paid out out. The primary distinction between salacious gossip and investigative verifying has become, for better or worse, a document trail. Maybe Deadspin may have launched the Clinkscalesstory anyway. But Clinkscales' allegedly "pre-emptive" suit did not do anything whatsoever to change that. No injunction was requested. The legal claim was unlikely to scare away Deadspin within the story nor substantially change how other media shops would treat a raunchy allegation which in fact had Andrews just like a character. Really the only factor the short suit might have changed can be a calculation of damages, be it proven the defendant Joan Lynch did indeed maliciously spread lies about Clinkscales, as well as the situation against her can get that far. Clinkscales may condition that Lynch's gossip-mongering hurt his status, but tend to he provethat the story that did most likely probably the most to interrupt his image may have never been launched had he not first filed the suit? In filing his claims, Clinkscales gave Deadspin an opportune news peg towards the story, in many probability insulation the site in the separate defamation claim and raising the issue whether he brought to, rather than mitigated, the exposure in the masturbation story. The defamation claim has become a energy outlet for sensitive political figures to strike back against unsavory news tales, however these type of cases also frequently incite huge news coverage. It might happy for your complaintant, but we question if this describes an error both around the PR and legal front. Here's a replica of Clinkscales' accusations, which we'll admit to own i i never thought of talking about been there 't be a federal suit: E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner

Business matters

'Winter's Bone'The fest's Industry Days (November. 16-18) involve Work happening tests of 10 incomplete Scandinavian films. The 2010 selection includes Lasse Hallstrom's first Swedish movie in 24 years, "The Hypnotherapist" "Comrade" by helmer Petter Naess and "Fast Money 2."Every year around 15-20 game titles are acquired for distribution.With 900 accredited journalists from 52 nations, the fest also offers a substantial worldwide impact. Fest topper Git Scheynius states when Chinese TV did a study on Scandinavian cinema in the festival 2 yrs ago, it resulted in many new Sino connections for local filmmakers.The fest also functions like a launchpad for worldwide films, and particularly for U.S. indies, in Sweden. Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone" was the large prize champion this past year, obtaining best film and actress, and Sweden wound up as that pic's second-greatest territory worldwide.Scheynius states U.S indies directed by women, for example "Winter's Bone," assisted to inspire the fest's decision to produce its very own production fund devoted to new Swedish female company directors.STOCKHOLM Worldwide FILM FESTIVAL Scandis fund femme visions Business matters Swedish muscle Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Canon, Red-colored, Enthusiastic Prepare Anticipated Bulletins for Thursday

Waiting for is nearly over for professionals who've been anticipating developments from Canon, Red-colored and Enthusiastic Technology.our editor recommendsAvid Pounces within the Wake of Apple's Final Cut Professional X 'Debacle'Avid Boss Weighs in at in on Rival Apple's New Editing Software The 3 companies are slated to create separate bulletins on Thursday. Canon had sent a save the date notice in September, stating that on November. 3 it might create a "historic global announcement." More lately, Canon says Martin Scorsese can look at its event, tomorrow around the Vital lot. Additionally, it stated it might "showcase Canon's resolve for play a bigger role within the film and tv production community." There's some speculation within the cinematography community the announcement would involve a top quality new camera, but Canon is not speaking. Red-colored-maker from the Red-colored One and Epic digital camera models-will disclose details about its formerly introduced Scarlet camera system at Red-colored Galleries in Hollywood. Jim Jannard-also the founding father of Oakley-formerly published this message around the Red-colored User blog: "November 3rd may be the day that Red-colored announces all the new changes to Scarlet and shipping info. You're able to begin to see the future November. 3rd. You're able to compare Red-colored's latest directly using the latest from among the 'big dogs' in the market.Inch Enthusiastic means likely to announce a brand new version of their Media Composer editing system. The organization, however, isn't leaving comments. In the Worldwide Broadcasting Convention in September, Enthusiastic presented technical demos of future tools for Media Composer, including support for that DNxHD 4:4:4 format, new three dimensional abilities, and closer integration with Avid's audio postproduction system ProTools. Most probably a few of these features may be incorporated in the next version. Enthusiastic has additionally scheduled a Media Composer-related live webcast at 1:00 ET on November 3. Related Subjects Martin Scorsese

Pic, TV shooting declines

Last week's offlot feature filming in Los Angeles remained at near the lowest level this year for the second consecutive frame.Week's total of 90 days was nine days ahead of the previous week, which had been lower that any other frame since mid-April. Feature activity was less than half the 2011 highs for the year of 246 days and 229 days during the last two weeks of June."Hero of the Day" was the most active feature with 12 permitted days, according to figures provided Tuesday by the FilmL.A. permitting agency. Other features lensing in L.A. included Warner Bros.' "Gangster Squad" along with "I Do," "Lords of Salem," "Plan B" and "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III." Total permitted production days declined 19% to 533 last week. TV shooting declined 19% to 341 days, with "Private Practice" the most active last week with 14 days. Other TV productions currently shooting in L.A. include "American Horror Story," "Body of Proof," "Chuck," "Southland," "Pit Boss," "Got Home Alive" and "The Braxtons."Commercial shooting was up 3% to 102 days with a Lincoln Financial commercial shot racking up the most days at nine. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

U2's 'From the Sky Down': What the Critics Are Saying (Video)

Twenty years ago, U2 was at a crossroads in its career.our editor recommendsToronto 2011: U2's Bono in Spotlight on Opening NightShowtime Acquires U2 Documentary 'From the Sky Down'Billboard Music Awards: U2 Accepts Touring AwardMysterious U2 Album Cover Boy, Now 37, Gives Interview After reaching international success with their 1987 album The Joshua Tree, the rockers had a lot of pent-up tension. They could have broken up. Instead, they went on to reinvent themselves with Achtung Baby. PHOTOS: 13 Films to Know at the Toronto Film Festival In Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim's (An Inconvenient Truth) documentary From the Sky Down, the band members -- Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen -- appear in never-before-seen 20-year-old footage in Berlin's Hansa Studios as they set about to "rethink" the album. The film, which premiered in Toronto last month and debuts at 8 p.m. Saturday on Showtime, also features new interviews with the quartet as they look back on the painstaking process. [Watch the trailer below.] So what do the critics have to say about the doc? The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore wrote that the movie will likely appeal to both "lapsed" and current U2 fans. "Though less obviously cinema-worthy than director Davis Guggenheim's recent 'big issue' docs, the film ... certainly holds the interest of viewers who have cared much about any phase in the band's long life," he wrote, adding: "The film's account of the ensuing Achtung Baby sessions is interesting enough to hold non-obsessives' attention: The one scene that initially looks unforgivably navel-gazey, featuring a long DAT playback, turns out to capture the surprise birth of the hit "One" within a meandering improv for another tune." STORY: Showtime Acquires U2 Documentary 'From the Sky Down' The Los Angeles Times' Robert Lloyd, meanwhile, calls From the Sky Down a "fascinating" documentary. "It has been made by Davis Guggenheim, the director of An Inconvenient Truth and It Might Get Loud, which featured U2 guitarist the Edge, and so comes with an air of directorial independence; it is not a thing of unadulterated self-celebration," he wrote, adding: "Though it makes its way to a happy ending, with some laughs along the way, this is largely a story of institutional drag, communication breakdowns, false starts and failures; one of its points .. is that the same show that felt like the 90 best minutes of your life might leave the people who played it angry and depressed and thinking about making a change." Dan Aquilante of the NY Post gave the doc three out of four stars. "The film is filled with surprises that many fans will see as revelations, such as Mullen's steely hesitance to share percussion duties with a computer drum program, and how the Edge was literally at the edge -- distraught over his dissolving marriage (chronicled in the song 'Love Is Blindness')," he wrote, though he added that "had there been more insights on how the individual songs of Achtung Baby were created, the documentary would have benefited.But, what this film does capture nicely, is the band's camaraderie, even during difficult times." PHOTOS: 20 Best and Worst Music to Movie Crossovers The NY Times' Neil Genzlinger notes that the movie has some "nice" moments and is "at its most interesting when it touches on the remarkable historical moment that gave rise to Achtung Baby and when it examines the creation of the album's songs," he wrote. Genzlinger added: "Artists' windy chatter about their creative angst rarely makes interesting listening for anyone but hard-core fans, and there's a fair amount of it in From the Sky Down," he wrote. "But the film ... has a few segments that get beyond platitudes." Meanwhile, Hank Steuver of the Washington Post called the doc "intriguing." "From the Sky Down is packed with enough songs and performance footage to stoke a viewer's romance with U2, but it never loses sight that it is about a technical process," he wrote. "It's about how all the little compromises can still add up to a more solid creation. Related Topics Davis Guggenheim U2 Bono The Edge

Shane Meadows Making Stone Roses Film

We want him to inform us what is going on downAfter an acrimonious decade approximately, 1990's indie nobleman The Stone Roses have reserve their variations and introduced a number of comeback gigs. There is some speculation a week ago why Shane Meadows was hiding in the press conference, however we all know: Meadows continues to be commissioned to create a film concerning the Stone Roses' return. He will show us an image, an outrageous apparition, that sings towards the depths in our souls. Or something like that.For the more youthful visitors, The Stone Roses - singer Ian Brown, guitar hero John Squire, bassist Mani and drummer Reni - slouched to the top indie charts within the late 1980s, having a self-entitled debut album and infectiously groovy singles like Elephant Stone, She Bangs the Drums, and also the essential Fool's Gold. These were in the vanguard of Madchester, although a bitter dispute using their record label Silvertone (which at some point saw this guitar rock band trashing the Silvertone offices with fresh paint) meant they effectively sitting the whole scene. They eventually resurfaced in 1994 for that Second Coming LP, but half this guitar rock band quit throughout the ensuing tour.Some time and potential earnings can heal lots of rifts though, cheap ticket sales for that comeback gigs within the hour they first grew to become available were somewhere around £20m, indicates the Roses have valid reason to become nice to one another for some time. But when Meadows, making his documentary debut, is offered all-areas access and final cut, there's every chance that we'll see some interesting behind-the-moments drama. Additionally, there are the position the band were always infamously awful live... We are sure they'll keep on through everything.The Sheffield and London-based Warp Films are behind the development. Appropriate that, since besides their resume include music documentaries (The Arctic Apes the All Tomorrow's Parties festival), they also introduced us Meadows' Dead Man's Footwear which Is England. From fractious baggy bands, Meadows can also be presently focusing on further This Really Is England series' for TV: This Really Is England '88 and '90 follows last year's '86.

Latest Dragon Tattoo Poster Comes Forth in the Thaw

Another day, another goodie from the viral treasure chest also known as Mouth Taped Shut. The official Girl With the Dragon Tattoo repository has unveiled a new poster borrowing — as recently promised by director David Fincher — the Swedish adage that we’ve already seen accompany two other Dragon Tattoo properties. Anyway, let’s not belabor this… see below for the latest. [Mouth Taped Shut] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

For Hollywood creatives, existence imitates art

Large business supplies a resource of crooks in movies and tv since the medium's infancy, layed out by Frank Capra films and adaptations of Charles Dickens -- and attaining recognition in modern occasions due to the villainous void created with the Cold War's finish.The Occupy Wall Street movement, however, features restored target the look from the products Leader Obama has recognized to as "body body fat-cat bankers," whose relationship with Hollywood's creative community is increased by their uncomfortable resemblance to another distrusted elite -- namely, body body fat-cat media moguls, presiding over ever-bigger conglomerates.Corporate overlords have extended embodied ruthlessness in popular culture, a historic trend the Wall Street Journal recently looked into. Despite Hollywood's perceived liberal bent, the piece noted that such movies are motivated less by politics than screenwriters and company company directors "showing their unique perennial bitterness of bottom-line focused studio heads, who frequently goal to dilute a film's message for mass-market appeal."Nevertheless, the net gain-above-all-else plotline has risen from essentially evicting the happy people of "It's a Wonderful Life's" Bedford Falls to dazzling sci-fi extremes. The bottom line is, in movies and TV, professionals aren't above engineering a killing to produce one.Since the Berlin Wall fell, business's offenses include complicity in nuclear annihilation (CBS' "Jericho"), tampering with existence and dying (the newest "Torchwood," subtitled "Miracle Day") and perhaps the pinnacle of bigscreen evil, the media magnate as Jason Bourne villain ("Tomorrow Never Dies"). Tellingly, in remaking "The Manchurian Candidate," the string-yanking heavies moved from communists to companies.The quantity of malevolence signifies that antipathy toward greedy multinational monoliths has already established around the much much deeper hue, with Hollywood's understanding of economic colored and informed with the media's altering structure. Creative talent interacts daily with major art galleries which are currently cogs in massive up and lower integrated companies -- and involved with fractious discussions with people organizations, layed out with the 2007-08 authors strike.The particular tension or painful recollections were reflected inside the statement launched by lately selected Authors Guild of America, West leader Christopher Keyser, showing solidarity while using Occupy protestors."The businesses and individuals who gambled with this particular future, who developed a killing on that wager after which it got bailed out by us, have came back with robust profits and unconscionable salaries," Keyser pointed out. "Nobody has paid out an expense for the nevertheless the American worker."In the distance, the WGA did not have overriding reason to use the fray. But as Keyser noted, there's an operating element, too: Art galleries use their formidable assets to lobby Washington and advance their interests "with pricey megaphone the all-too-flexible rules permit. We will not be quiet responding.InchObviously, Hollywood talent identifies with downtrodden labor, even if their unique elite people command the kind of stratospheric salaries that vault them into the much-spoken about top 1% of wage earners.Through the strike, many authors evoked the political language in the sixties to define the struggle, just before the current Occupy campaign. Indeed, activist Jesse Jackson overtly used civil rights era rhetoric to describe the scribes' lot.The legal right to participate the industry's growth signifies "part of a larger struggle in the united states today," Jackson told a entertaining crowd four years ago -- evaluating writers' plight to Martin Luther King Junior. championing Memphis garbage employees and Cesar Chavez's efforts regarding farm employees, typically the most popular theme being, "Too handful of people desire to control a lot of.InchOf course, putting on lower third functions of crime dramas hardly qualifies as hard physical work. But feelings of powerlessness -- or otherwise feeling overmatched -- in dealings with modern media behemoths have coalesced in to a strong sense of injustice.People producers confused at the begining of the 19 nineties also harbor another memory: what sort of vibrant business class lost the controlling battle to preserve the financial interest and distribution rules, paving the means by which for your network-studio consolidation that adopted together with a dramatic reduction in the quantity of independent TV companies.Under a period later, the expansion community looks much different, in the world dealing with upheaval on separate but somewhat parallel digital and political tracks.Consequently, the so-referred to as "body body fat-cats" better resign themselves to being vilified, the truth is and Hollywood's more often than not much better-searching version. Because inside the eyes of screenwriters, company company directors and stars, their interplay while using industry's consolidated oligopoly remains one short on happy being. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

Community Plans Musical Episode for your Holidays

Community Community will get inside the holiday spirit once again. Last season, the NBC sitcom celebrated Christmas getting an end-motion animated episode. This year, the series will spread holiday cheer getting a musical episode, according to TVLine. The episode will uncover the Greendale study group expected to complete for your school's glee club. Saturday Evening Live's Taran Killam will guest-star as Greendale's eccentric choir director. Community Exclusive: Malcolm-Jamal Warner returns... to remarry Shirley? However, audiences shouldn't expect classic Christmas carols: The study group will probably be undertaking all original tunes, in line with the report. Community, which airs on Thursdays at 8/7c on NBC, has handled singing before. Last year's Christmas episode featured a geniune song and Season 3 opened up up by getting a more sophisticated musical number/dream sequence. Will you see the musical episode?

Social Energy Ratings: Hawaii Five- Won't Be Canceled

Alex O'Loughlin Hey, you know what, men? The earth has managed to get safe for Alex O'Loughlin to get rid of his shirt not less than another full season of Hawaii Five-. Yes, you heard right the show is not likely to be canceled in the near future.However when that fateful day comes, be careful! Whenever we basically recommended the show is not carrying out in addition to it's previously, y'all got your pitchforks and cauldrons of boiling oil and stormed the castle! "Five-? Seriously? It simply will get better every week - not a way if it is dropped," stated Facebook user Paul Grey. Twitter follower @ssigafoos was a bit more direct. "Eleven million audiences. Leading demo/timeslot all season. Most DVR'd show on CBS. The peeps @TVGuide are clearly drunk." And?! (Hic.)However, not everyone has signed onto the Cult of Aloha Abs. Commenter Barbreader likes the show, but "wouldn't miss whether it disappeared." (Duck, Barbreader!)Other subjects which have TVGuide.com customers hot and bothered now? The Beautiful Little Liars Halloween-designed prequel given credence to game-altering ideas about "A"'s identity and that we met Rossi's crictally ill first ex-wife on Criminal Minds.Return anytime to determine the most recent Social Energy Ratings, that are up-to-date instantly through the week.

Symbols are stars, too

Stacy Keibler and George Clooney Alexander Payne and Tom RothmanShailene Woodley, Nancy Utley and Judy Greer.Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" closed the 49th edition from the NY Film Fest on Sunday.Once inside Alice Tully Hall, longtime Film Society program director and mind from the fest's selection committee, Richard Pena, openly introduced his departure in 2012.Visitors did not allow the news stop them from taking pleasure in the Stone Rose Lounge after-party, where pic's Robert Forster and Fox's Tom Rothman spent part one from the evening around the party area using their particular partners.Star George Clooney made the decision against revealing his moves in support of a glass or two and hors d'oeuvres. Thesp talked with Richard Kind before departing right after the festivities commenced.Alexander Payne, however, welcomed visitors before the wee hrs. Based on the helmer, employing the dapper Clooney to experience a helpless, middle-aged father of two would be a no-brainer."I do not provide a fuck concerning the context from the actor," Payne stated. "I've an idea of the iconography, however when I am creating a film I am only concerned that they're stars playing parts. Period." Contact Addie Morfoot at news@variety.com

E! News' Giuliana Rancic Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic is battling breast cancer, she revealed Monday on the Today show.our editor recommendsBravo's Andy Cohen and E!'s Giuliana Rancic to Co-Host 2011 Miss USA Pageant Doctors discovered a tumor during a mammogram she received while undergoing in-vitro fertilization. She has been vocal about her attempts to get pregnant with husband Bill Rancic, the winner of The Apprentice. Her first attempt at IVF ended in miscarriage, and her second attempt was not successful. STORY: Bravo's Andy Cohen and E!'s Giuliana Rancic to Co-Host 2011 Miss USA Pageant Rancic will undergo surgery this week and then faces six weeks of radiation therapy, she revealed on the Today show Monday. She says the prognosis is good because the disease was detected early. Rancic, 36, said she wasn't planning on having a mammogram until she turned 40, but her IVF doctor suggested she get one earlier. STORY: E!'s Oscars Red Carpet Show Sets Record "I still want this baby ... because this baby has saved my life," she said on the Today show. "I truly feel God was looking out after me ... If I had gotten pregnant later down the line, I could have been a lot sicker." She says Rancic has been "unbelievable. The best thing about Bill is, he lets me cry when I want to cry." Rancic - who also co-hosts E!'s Style Police and has a reality show on the Style Network -- will still try to get pregnant. STORY: Style orders more 'Giuliana & Bill' This October is the 25th anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Related Topics Giuliana Rancic

From Seoul to Varanasi (Varanasi)

A Treefilm production. (International sales: Treefilm, Seoul.) Produced by Choi Mi-ae. Directed, written by Jeon Kyu-hwan.With: Yoon Dong-hwan, Choi Won-jung, Shin Ye-an, Nollaig Walsh, Nigel D'Sa, Cassandra Holmes.Korean auteur Jeon Kyu-hwan successfully harnesses the fragmented narrative style of films such as "Babel" and "21 Grams" in "From Seoul to Varanasi," a tantalizing tapestry of troubled relationships. While the pic will provoke headscratching from some auds, Jeon adroitly establishes a sense of foreboding and dispenses the requisite narrative details in this ambitious drama about a philandering publisher, his cowed wife and their eventual journey to India. Given the repthe helmer established with his "Town" trilogy, pic should ready its passport for fest travel, though its frank nudity will confine domestic biz to South Korea's indie fringe. Like the aforementioned films scripted by Guillermo Arriaga and helmed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "From Seoul to Varanasi" offers a kaleidoscopic introduction to its protagonists. In seemingly random but actually calculated and judicious fashion, Jeon quickly presents book publisher Yeong-woo (Yoon Dong-hwan) having sex in various hotels with his mistress, Su-yeon (Shin Ye-an), a writer for his publishing house. Audacious glimpses of full-frontal nudity are juxtaposed with scenes of another woman, later revealed to be Yeong-woo's wife, Ji-yeong (Choi Won-jung), seen variously walking the streets of Indian holy city Varanasi (in flash-forward) and attending what looks like a yoga class in Seoul (in the present). Other faces include Kerim (Nollaig Walsh), a Lebanese waiter in an Indian restaurant; his sibling, yoga teacher Samira (Cassandra Holmes); and a glaring, bespectacled man of unknown origin (Nigel D'Sa). Before it becomes clear who's who, the helmer gently familiarizes auds with each character's presence, like a chef stirring together subtle ingredients to create a potent brew. While exiting a car park, Ji-yeong damages a curbside sign for the Indian eatery where Kerim works, and supplies her phone number so she can be billed for repairs. Later, Kerim is rushed to the hospital after collapsing in the street; since Ji-yeong's phone number is in his pocket, the hospital staff call her. Ji-yeong is intrigued and attracted not only to Kerim, but also to the wider world he represents, and the film deftly demonstrates how, as Yeong-woo's wife withdraws, his affair with Su-yeon becomes increasingly troubled. The script falters when a subplot about Islamic terrorism comes to the fore; while Jeon deals astutely with relationship terrain, his grip on geopolitics seems less certain. As the film reaches its India-set conclusion, it undermines itself by remaining unclear about what it intends to achieve once most of the characters have made it to Varanasi. On the whole, perfs are superb. Physically towering over everyone else with his polished scalp, Yoon is an unusual male lead for a Korean film, backing up his striking appearance with a fiery screen presence as natural as it is intense. Shin nails the challenging role of a woman realizing her b.f. and boss is drifting away from her, while Choi, somewhat overshadowed, is appropriately low-key as the housewife looking for love and for herself. While the non-Korean thesps mostly communicate in English, Walsh is equally convincing in his Korean-language scenes with Choi. Burdened with the script's most cliched character, D'Sa is distinguished only by his glazed stare. Digital lensing is on the grainy side, but Jeon makes this low-budget look work for him, creating the cool impression of a scientist examining his specimens. In tandem with this detached, almost clinical approach, the foreboding score by Choi In-yang and Kim Soo-hee continually and effectively works to sharpen audience curiosity.Camera (color, HD), Choi Jung-soon; editors, Han Jong-hoon, Park Hae-oh; music, Choi In-yang, Kim Soo-hee; sound, Lee Sung-ho. Reviewed at Busan Film Festival (Korean Cinema Today), Oct. 9, 2011. Running time: 96 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Steel' edges 'Footloose' at domestic B.O.

'Real Steel''Footloose'In an aggressive dance-off for that domestic B.O.'s top place, "Real Steel" and "Footloose" came within hailing distance of each other, though Disney is calculating the first kind pic at No. 1 with $16.3 million. Paramount's dance redux first showed by having an believed $16.a million.Successful easier overseas, "Real Steel" nabbed $23.3 million from 28 areas (41% from the worldwide market). Pic has cumed worldwide $108.3 million after two days.The Stateside showdown between "Real Steel" and "Footloose" came lower to Sunday's forecasts, with Disney calculating that DreamWorks' "Real Steel" is going to do better on that day, because of the film's stronghold among family auds. "Footloose," which came a substantial over-35 femme crowd, could still visit a Sunday bump, as moms and kids go to the multiplexes.Also bowing a few days ago, twentieth century Fox's adult-skewing comedy "The Large Year" unsuccessful to consider flight, having a paltry $3.3 million through Sunday.Universal's "The One Thing" -- a prequel to John Carpenter's original 1982 film -- first showed within the U.S., generating a forecasted $8.7 million. That's substantially less than expected pre-weekend monitoring had the film called to earn within the low-double numbers. Worldwide, the film gained $1.5 million from 5 marketplaces. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Tom Savini look in Django Unchained

Effects genius Tom Savini look as you're watching camera in Quentin Tarantino's slave western Django Unchained.Savini's playing Elvis Brittle, one of the outlaw Brittle brothers and sisters who sell Django and also the wife Broomhilda in to a information on slavery, instigating the circumstances adding to Django's rampage of revenge.Savini's labored with Tarantino before clearly, acting alongside him in From Dusk 'Til Beginning, and turning up in Tarantino-related projects Planet Terror and Machete, but this really is really the first time QT will probably be calling action on his old friend.Savini joins a formerly impressive cast including Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kurt Russell and Don Manley.Django Unchained will probably be released in 2012, that's presently searching being the best year inside the good status for cinema.

Paul Wesley and Frederick Morgan Discuss Their Vampire Journals Bromance

Paul Wesley, Frederick Morgan Sure, Elena (Nina Dobrev) keeps growing nearer to Damon (Ian Somerhalder), Caroline (Candice Accola) is cozying as much as Tyler (Michael Trevino), and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is connecting with Bonnie (Kat Graham), however the couple we are really digging is sexy vampire BFFs Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Klaus (Frederick Morgan). And merely wait until the thing is the bloody damage they are doing about this week's episode. However, the stars discuss associations, redemption, being British and playing bad. TV Guide Magazine: You wreak havoc so well together. You had been pals before Frederick became a member of the show, were not you? Wesley: We met through buddies and immediately were built with a good rapport. Joseph's a very awesome guy and thus after i was speaking with [executive producer] Julie Plec about Klaus, I stated, "You need to consider this person Frederick Morgan." Morgan: I wondered why Julie told casting to call me! Wesley: And six several weeks later I heard he was cast. TV Guide Magazine: Your figures are killing their way through America, attempting to develop a hybrid werewolf-vampire military. What's it prefer to collaborate on such intense, bloodstream-drenched moments? Morgan: Klaus really just wants companionship with someone as dark, otherwise more dark, than he's, therefore the more we explore Stefan the Ripper, the greater fun we now have. Wesley: What's awesome, too, is the fact that our figures have this history. Stefan just discovered that he'd been compelled to forget that Klaus and that he were pals previously. It's totally shocking to him, however it makes him see Klaus not only because this archetypal evil guy. He's all of a sudden a man that Stefan empathizes with. Morgan: I am so excited to determine what lengths Stefan goes. I question whether he'll exceed Klaus in the evilness. Wesley: I am all for your! TV Guide Magazine: Seems like you are getting a great time playing Ripper Stefan. Wesley: It's just like a weight is off my shoulders, honestly. I had been reducing on Stefan in Season 2. He required to show more defects. You won't ever saw him taking pleasure in themself while he was always safeguarding everybody. Therefore it is nice not to have this oppressive air of him always requiring to behave the proper way. TV Guide Magazine: But exactly how bad can Stefan go before he can not be pardoned? He's said to be the show's romantic hero! Wesley: Even if he's to date gone that you simply think there is no way we are ever likely to like or trust this person again, I still believe the authors possess the capacity of redeeming him. Morgan: Damon's been pardoned. For much. However with my character killing Aunt Jenna [Sara Canning], I actually do question if there's any redemption there. Wesley: I believe it is extremely easy to redeem you. Morgan: You'll forgive me? Wesley: Yes, but I am biased. TV Guide Magazine: This seems like a genuine bromance. Morgan: It's sounding a little suspect. We have to tone it lower! TV Guide Magazine: Will this be considered a lengthy-term relationship? Morgan: I do not think someone's likely to appear and re-compel Stefan in a few days and everything dates back to normalcy and he's with Elena. As with every relationship, it'll have more complicated and make more layers. I'm excited to determine where it is going. Wesley: Can i have an Episode 13 breakup text of your stuff? Morgan: I will not get it done by text. TV Guide Magazine: Between the killings, can fans expect any romantic interludes of these men? Wesley: When there's a lot evil to complete, there's very little room for really emotional, visceral romance. What is your opinion, dude? Morgan: I question how Klaus would respond to an intimate interest. He's a complete self-involved egomaniac. But a minimum of he's protective of his sister Rebecca [Claire Holt], so which has been a pleasant change. TV Guide Magazine: Julie Plec indicates that Klaus wasn't born evil but that his parents just did not love him enough. Morgan: Yeah, he's the merchandise of the dysfunctional family. The daddy of his brothers and sisters is not his father - his mother had an affair with someone from the werewolf bloodline. So almost always there is been that sense of not loved around his brothers and sisters. He carries his entire family around in boxes. I really like that. He's wiped out them basically he wants to ensure that they're close. Now he wants Stefan which hybrid military to become his new family, to exchange the love he's missing. TV Guide Magazine: But Stefan is keeping something pretty large from Klaus, the truth that Elena didn't die throughout the sacrifice. Morgan: [That secret] needs to be released in the event that friendship occasion to progress. Wesley: Every relationship is all about trust, Klaus. Otherwise we must split up. [They laugh.] TV Guide Magazine: Has Stefan discovered about Elena and Damon's growing closeness? What's going to he do? Wesley: He suspects. However the more he gives directly into his Ripper ways, the less concerned he's. The further he's from Elena, the even further away he's from his humanity. Morgan: Stefan and Elena must be drawn apart we needed to see more turmoil. Also, there's a large Damon and Elena team available rooting to allow them to be together. TV Guide Magazine: Sooner or later, does not it appear that Stefan will need to choose from Klaus and Elena? Wesley: Basically needed to speculate, I'd think that might be a compelling and dramatic method of starting off the storyline. Or possibly something may happen to Klaus. Morgan: [Laughs] I'm not sure just how much I'd fancy Klaus' chances. There is however always likely to be that link between Elena and Stefan. So perhaps eventually, which will win. Will not it? TV Guide Magazine: Romantic! Here's your first American series, Frederick. What type of tips did he has, Paul? Wesley: I simply told him to not be so damned British! None of this "cheerio" garbage. Morgan: And So I attempt to put as numerous cheerios in when i can. The Vampire Journals airs Thursdays at 8/7c around the CW. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Taylor Quick Named Ads Lady Of Year

First Launched: October 11, 2011 12:54 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images NY, N.Y. -- Caption Taylor Quick attends the 41st annual Songwriters Hall of Fame within the NY Marriott Marquis on The Following Month, 2010 in NY CityIts another recognition for Taylor Quick. The country music celebrity remains crowned Lady of year by Billboard magazine. The 21-year-old multiplatinum singer-songwriter might be the youngest to find the award, which has attended Beyonce, Reba McEntire and Fergie. She'll be honored within the 2011 Billboard Women in Music event in NY on 12 ,. 2. Her latest album, Speak Now, has offered over 3.6 000 0000 copies since its release last fall, and shes offered most likely probably the most albums connected having a artist within the this past year. It's the latest recognition for Quick, who increased being the youngest person to win the Grammy for top album for Courageous this season. She's also won several ACM, CMA and AMA honours. Quick is presently around the national tour. (Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed) Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire: We Love Lucy

Paz de la Huerta Cheers to Paz de la Huerta for showing off a new side of herself on Boardwalk Empire. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! In Season 1 of HBO's Atlantic City gangland epic, de la Huerta's character, woozy showgirl Lucy Danziger was notable mostly for her frequent nudity. Now that she's carrying the illegitimate child of fed Nelson Van Alden (the Emmy-worthy Michael Shannon), the role is pregnant with possibilities. She's not the only Boardwalk denizen with newfound great expectations. Kelly Macdonald's Margaret Schroeder is displaying a heretofore unseen steeliness as partner - in crime, as well as otherwise - to embattled treasurer Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi). And in his quest to usurp power back from onetime protégé Nucky, Dabney Coleman's Commodore is proving that whatever didn't kill him made him stronger. Do you think Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire rules? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Brnice Marlohe, Helen McCrory and Ben Whishaw on for Bond 23?

According to the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, French actress Bérénice Marlohe is the new Bond girl, and Helen McCrory and Ben Whishaw will also be joining her in 007's latest adventure.While the reports are unconfirmed, Bamigboye does have form in this area, announcing the likes of Naomie Harris and Ralph Fiennes previously.Marlohe is hasn't really done anything yet that would have reached a wide international audience, which could benefit her when it comes to playing what's bound to be a mysterious, glamourous and unreadable figure.According to the report, she impressed Sam Mendes at a screen test at Pinewood Studios.McCrory and Whishaw's roles aren't clear yet. The former is probably best known for playing Narcissa Malfoy in a few Harry Potters, and she was Cherie Blair in The Queen.It's as easy to imagine her playing a top-level agent or someone altogether more sinister (she was originally tapped to play HP's Bellatrix Lestrange before pregnancy got in the way).Likewise, Whishaw would fit the role of a rookie agent as well as a weaselly villain.Mendes' Bond 23, rumoured to be called Skyfall, is shaping up to be one of the classiest Bond outings yet.Daniel Craig is returning as 007, Ralph Fiennes and Javier Bardem are lined up as the villains, and Naomie Harris will be Moneypenny.And we only have to wait just over a year (26 October 2012, to be precise) to see it...

American Horror Story Off To Solid Start

Ryan Murphy and Brad Falcuk’s new FX drama series American Horror Story launched with 3.2 million viewers and 2 million adults 18-49 at 10 PM last night. It matched the premiere demo rating of Murphy’s previous FX series, the hit Nip/Tuck, and was up 33% from the series debut of FX’s current flagship drama Sons of Anarchy (1.5 million). It is running behind the all-time FX champ — the series premiere of FX’s signature cop drama The Shield, which collared 3.2 million viewers in 18-49 — but that might change, according to FX president and general manager John Landgraf. Were really thrilled by the premiere ratings performance of American Horror Story, he said. We know that when the Live+7 ratings come in, that of the 13 drama series FX has premiered, AHS will rank at least No. 2 all-time in adults 18-49 behind The Shield, and there is a possibility that it could be our highest ever. Landgraf also noted the spike in social media traffic triggered by the AHS premiere. For its premiere night, including two encores, AHS averaged 5 million viewers, 3.2 million of them in the adults 18-49 demo.

About This Time Around We Awkwardly Referred to the saying 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' to Kirsten Dunst

Manic Pixie Dream Girl can be a term produced by Audio-video Club author Nathan Rabin after watching Kirsten Dunst's performance inside the 2005 Cameron Crowe film 'Elizabethtown.' Rabin describes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl just like a, "film creature that's available solely inside the fevered creativity of sensitive author-company company directors to coach broodingly soulful teens to embrace existence which is infinite mysteries and adventures." The term is continuing to grow to encompass performances as legendary as Carol Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' to more recent performances like Zooey Deschanel's turn as Summer season Finn in '(500) Occasions of Summer season.' I spoke to Dunst this mid-day about her award-winning role in 'Melancholia,' then when I asked for her to go over the phenomenon of MPDGs, I thought she understood the term. Alas, she did not. The conclusion result was myself awkwardly trying to exhibit Kirsten Dunst the saying a Manic Pixie Dream Girl -- something I did so very poorly. What's your opinion in the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl? What's that? Oh... it absolutely was produced for that character in 'Elizabethtown.' Oh? It kind of means... That's so strange. What's it referred to as? The Manic Pixie... Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I guess what this means is that you've a dream girl who's also manic. And pixie-ant... but... I don't find I'm manic whatsoever. I'm very chill. Well, yeah, personally. In my opinion they mean your character. Oh, in 'Elizabethtown'? Yes. Right. So... However believe all Cameron's women are awesome getting a sparkle. You know what happens I'm speaking about? Like, they are always kind of, you understand... talk a lot of. You know what happens I'm speaking about? Carol Golightly is a superb one. Yeah, You're right. Yeah. What can you consider that term? I don't appreciate it, in truth. That's understandable. No, I don't. In my opinion it's strange sounding. [The publicist walks straight into signify our time expires] So, with this... [Photo: Everett Collection] You'll be able to contact Mike Ryan on Twitter. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED: MANIC PIXIE DREAM Women The Evolution in the Manic Pixie Dream Girl From Audrey to Zooey A is ideal for Katherine Hepburn in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'B is ideal for 'Breathless,' with Jean SebergC is ideal for Claudette Colbert in 'The Palm Beach Story'D is ideal for Kirsten Dunst in 'Elizabethtown'E is ideal for 'Eternal Sunshine in the Spotless Mind' with Kate WinsletF is ideal for 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' with Mila KunisG is ideal for Geena Davis in 'The Accidental Tourist'H is ideal for Kate Hudson in 'Almost Famous'I is ideal for 'It's Kind of a fascinating Story' with Emma RobertsJ is ideal for Jeanne Moreau in 'Jules and Jim'K is ideal for Anna Karina in 'A Lady Can be a Lady'L is ideal for Liza Minelli in 'Arthur'M is ideal for Melanie Griffith in 'Something Wild'N is ideal for Natalie Portman in 'Garden Condition'O is ideal for 'One Crazy Summer season' with Demi MooreP is ideal for Nicole Kidman in 'LA Story'Q is ideal for Jackie Q., Rose Byrne's character in 'Get Him for the Greek'R is ideal for Jennifer Aniston in 'Pretty Lady'S is ideal for Sienna Burns in 'Factory Girl'T is ideal for Toronto (the setting of 'Scott Pilgrim versus. the earth')U is ideal for Uma Thurman in 'Pulp Fiction'V is ideal for 'Vivacious Lady' with Ginger root root RogersW is ideal for 'What's Up, Doc?' with Barbra StreisandX is ideal for X-rated Elisha Cuthbert in 'The Girl Nearby'Y is ideal for 'You Can't Accompany You' with Jean ArthurZ is ideal for Zooey Deschanel in '(500) Occasions of Summer season' See All Moviefone Galleries »

How Russian Broadcasters Are Trying to Lure Young Audiences Back to TV

It's 8 p.m., and Ilya Nikolayev, a Moscow state university student, is logging on to the Internet. Instead of watching the new Russian TV shows designed with him in mind, the 21-year-old prefers Facebook and its Russian equivalent, Vkontakte.our editor recommendsMIPCOM's Personality of the Year: Anne Sweeney Addresses TV's Digital Age, Lessons Learned (Q&A)MIPCOM 2011: 'The Firm' Showrunner Spills Secrets About NBC's New Midseason DramaMIPCOM 2011: Steven Van Zandt Goes Norwegian in Bilingual Gangster Thriller 'Lillyhammer'Will 'Transporter' Deliver?MIPCOM: Eddie Izzard on 'Treasure Island': Its More 'Goodfellas' Than 'Pirates of The Caribbean' "I can get everything I need online," he says. "Links to music tracks, videos, shows, anything. And I can get access to all that whenever I want to, so I don't really watch television much these days." Nikolayev's attitude is similar to that of millions of young Russians. It's a change that's sounding alarms within the country's TV sector, which is easily the largest and most profitable in Eastern Europe ($4.2 billion spent on TV ads in 2010). The decline in viewers is now leading Russia's biggest broadcasters to shake up programming in an effort to lure coveted younger viewers away from their laptops. It's a subject that will surely be front and center during a Focus on Russia sidebar at MIPCOM. During the past year, fewer Russians have been watching TV. According to media research group TNS Russia, from January to August 2011, 67.8 percent of the population age 4 and up watched television, down from 69 percent during the same period in 2010. (An estimated 95 percent of Americans watch TV.) Among the coveted 18-to-25 Russian demographic, the drop was an even more alarming 2.6 percent. It doesn't help matters that the Russian population is shrinking, making for fewer people to target in the most important demographic. "Younger people don't read papers and watch very little TV," says Konstantin Maksimyuk, creative director at market research company Novy Internet. "Television is for lazy and tired people, while the active and young choose the Internet as it gives them more interactive opportunities." According to TNS, an estimated 25 million Russians -- 17.5 percent of the population of 143 million -- use social network websites. Russia's handful of main national TV channels are protected from a full online onslaught as Internet penetration in far-flung regions lags behind that of main free-to-air channels. But when the Internet catches up, the decline of traditional TV might become more significant. Channels including Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 2, run by state-owned broadcaster VGTRK, say they have nothing to worry about, but the country's biggest TV network, Channel One, admits that its programming models are out of touch with contemporary Russian viewers. "You can't remain enthralled to outdated stereotypes," says Konstantin Ernst, general director of Channel One. "The television model, which effectively worked for 15 years, has deteriorated, broken down and exhausted itself. There is a need for new formats." Blue-chip dramas like CSI and Dexter are popular in Russia, but international reality formats such as Survivor, Big Brother and American Idol thrive. This helps explain why Russian programmers are targeting audiences with a mix of comedy and variety shows. Channel One is fighting to keep the viewers it has while reaching out to those it has never targeted. Beginning in 2012, the channel will switch its preferred demographic from 18-plus to 14-to-59 and offer targeted fare for age slivers within that bracket. Among the programs aiming for younger audiences are Channel One's edgy sketch-comedy shows Big Difference, Personality Cartoon and Yesterday Live, all of which feature irreverent content designed to compete with popular online fare like the website Funny or Die. Responding to the social networking buzz, by which foreign series generate more chatter than domestic fare, the station also has launched the late-night block Urban Hipsters, which will feature foreign series popular among Russian Internet audiences. Slated to run in that slot are Showtime's The Borgias and Californication, AMC's Mad Men and Fox's Terra Nova. In addition, Channel One hopes to entice younger viewers with the provocative Crash Course on Happy Life. Revolving around young, urban women, it is directed by Valeriya Gay Germanika, known for her teen-targeted show School, which shocked Russia's conservative viewers with its unflattering depiction of contemporary Moscow teenagers. Even channels with older audiences are acknowledging competition from the Internet. Ren TV, which targets viewers ages 35-to-45, has launched a website that allows viewers to watch the channel in real time and create their own programming. They only pay for shows they watch. "It's not really about opposition between television and the Internet," says Alexander Nechayev, deputy director general and programming director at NTV. "It's just another way of accessing the same content." Indeed, some Russian programmers see the growing popularity of online entertainment as more of an opportunity than a threat. "Television and the Internet will turn from competitors to partners, and work toward that end is actively in progress," says Vyacheslav Murugov, chief content officer at CTC Media and head of CTC Channel. Ultimately, it will be for Russian viewers to decide whether that model works for them. "That would be probably fun," says Nikolayev. "I mean, watching stuff and discussing it with friends in real time? But will it be considered television? I would still say it would be online stuff, and I would prefer to be doing it on my computer." MIPCOM 2011: Focus on Russia When: Oct. 3-6 RUSSIA'S TOP FIVE SHOWS: Hoping to crack the Russian market during MIPCOM? Local audiences prefer reality shows to scripted Let Them Talk: A talk show hosted by charismatic Andrey Malakhov, this Oprah-like program looks at day-to-day issues affecting average Russians, including crime, drugs, prostitution, family problems, migration and interethnic relations. Let's Get Married: A dating show on which a man or woman has dates with three potential partners and must pick one, with the benefit of advice from family and friends present in the studio. Confessions: A documentary show on which each episode focuses on a particular crime being investigated. In the past, Confessions has been criticized for exposing too many details about the private lives of its subjects. Big Races: The domestic version of the international hit Intervilles, produced by France's Mistral Productions, this game show features teams representing various countries who compete by performing increasingly absurd tasks. A Minute of Fame: Dreams Come True: A reality show on which participants compete for the opportunity to make their dreams -- which can consist of anything from meeting a celebrity to marrying an oligarch -- become reality. Related Topics International American Idol CSI: Crime Scene Investigation MIPCOM

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A WestBeth Entertainment presentation of the show in 2 functions, written and carried out by John Leguizamo. Directed by Fisher Stevens. With: John Leguizamo.John Leguizamo has anatomized his personal devils in a number of rollicking one-guy shows. In the newest one, Broadway transfer "Ghetto Klown," he recounts his adventures within the screen trade while anatomizing his personal devils once more. Which would be to say individuals who've nothing you've seen prior seen this funny, cocky whirling dervish for action are likely to locate him because a gasser as did the Ricardo Montalban Theater's first evening audience. To repeaters the spectacle may appear overfamiliar, although the star has held back his A-material with this occasion. A pressure of character using the moves of the guy half his age (47), he takes assured command from the Montalban stage in equal measures of breakdancing and wearing down. A chronological structure takes him from his first breakthroughs of his carrying out bent, through early film roles and unsuccessful TV series ("House of Buggin'") to some really cold period within the the nineteen nineties. He's intelligent how his romantic (and erotic) escapades, arrested development and paralyzing father issues both informed and intruded upon his work. Helmer Fisher Stevens coordinates some fine multimedia effects, although the show feels lengthy and repetitious, and Stevens may have done more to bar an unpleasant feeling of entitlement from sneaking through. Following a fine story of methods Method-obsessed Sean Penn smacked the garbage from him throughout repeated assumes "Casualties of War," the majority of the on-set anecdotes concern Leguizamo's ad-libbing to develop his part, thus taking on the wrath of the kind of Steven Seagal on "Executive Decision" and Al Pacino on "Carlito's Way." Oddly enough, he directs his maximum contempt at lesser luminaries like Seagal and Kurt Russell, while giving megastars Penn and Pacino much more of a pass. Getting into another, effective marriage and fatherhood, thesp appears to possess acquired perspective on individuals around him who did him wrong, and definitely is candid about their own foibles. Yet "Ghetto Klown" indicates his voyage of self-awareness has not fully arrived at port. He particulars entering subway-vehicle conductor cubicles to commandeer the microphone for impressions and commentary, though if he's troubled through the effects should folks apart from future Golden Globe nominees be gone to live in similar mass transit misdemeanors, he never allows on. Inside a closing impromptu set around the IRT, Leguizamo pays tribute to his beloved gramps - the topic of the evening's most poignant moments undoubtedly - and lastly, belatedly, to Tweety, the seniors acting coach who required him on like a raw youth but whom he's been lampooning the majority of the evening. It would have been nice to listen to a sort word for math teacher Mr. Zufas ("rhymes with doofus"), who first pointed the lad towards a carrying out career and ended up him Tweety's contact details. What rhymes with ingrate? Still, Leguizamo's indisputable (if tempered) honesty will get us with the rough spots. Like a artist, he follows their own romantic advice: "You cannot make someone adore you. You just need to start them and hope they provide in." In "Ghetto Klown" he begins us with practiced skill, coolly certain we'll eventually succumb.Sets, Happy Massee lighting, Jen Schriever seem, Peter Fitzgerald forecasts, Aaron Gonzalez. Opened up, examined March. 2, 2011. Runs through March. 16. Running time: 2 Hrs, 15 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Sundance Channel HD rises in Malaysia

CANNES -- Expanding its reach in Asia, Sundance Channel Global has closed a carriage deal for Sundance Channel HD with Astro, Malaysia's key pay TV operator, in the run up to the Mipcom TV mart in Cannes. In addition to Malaysia, Sundance Channel Global is present in Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and in various countries throughout Europe and Canada. "Astro has made remarkable strides in leading Malaysia's adoption of high-definition TV and other technologies with Astro B.yond and we are excited to work with such a high-caliber operator in bringing our channel to this new territory," said Ed Palluth, senior VP of global distribution for AMC/Sundance Channel Global. Astro CEO Henry Tan said Astro's high-definition channels would greatly benefit from "Sundance Channel's outstanding programming and growing international footprint." Created by Robert Redford, Sundance Channel features a diverse selection of indie films, docus and original shows. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Bodega Films nabs 'Policeman'

"Policeman"PARIS -- Bodega Films has nabbed French theatrical distribution rights to psychological drama ''Policeman,'' which is helmed by up-and-coming Israeli director Nadav Lapid.Paris-based sales shingle Wide Management closed the deal at the San Sebastian Film Festival.Lapid presented ''Policeman'' at the Cannes Cinefondation's Atelier in 2008. The pic went on to open at Karlovy Vary and nabbed Locarno's Jury nod. Produced by Lalila Films, ''Policeman'' turns on a man working for an Israeli anti-terrorist unit involved in a clash with a group of young radicals. It bowed in Israel on Sept. 1. Meanwhile, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's ''This Is Not a Film,'' which Wide Management is selling worldwide, has been selected to play at the Vienna Film Festival in the main section. It previously played at Cannes and Toronto. Panahi is appealing his six-year jail sentence and 20-year ban on filmmaking for his anti-government stance; while Mirtahmasb has been jailed in Iran since Sept. 18. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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A Pasadena Playhouse presentation in colaboration with Kathleen K. Manley of the musical in 2 functions with book by Craig Carlisle and music and lyrics by Richard Addrisi. Directed by Roger Castellano. Choreography, Dana Solimando Cloe - Maria Eberline Johnny - Brent Schindele Sybil - Valerie Perri Based on the old pop hit, Philadelphia's "South Street" is "the hippest street around the very best street/To possess a ball along with you.Inch Not within the tuner of the identical title in the Pasadena Playhouse. The fabled thoroughfare circa 1997 is really a generic, conflict-free fantasyland indicated by random hugs and unmotivated high spirits. It cannot happen to be simple to craft a show by which literally nothing happens for 135 minutes, but that is the singular accomplishment of librettist Craig Carlisle and songwriter Richard Addrisi. Carlisle particularly is asleep in the switch. The threat of eviction hanging over "Sammy's Place," an old firehouse, drives (for insufficient a much better word) the storyline (for insufficient a much better word). But he will not make any effort to dramatize what kind of joint it's, or why we ought to worry about its fate. Rather, we are requested to instantly accept like a adorable pseudo-family a number of stock, stick figures (jovial sexless bartenders vulgar cougar repressed nerd sassy waitress) whose pleasure in each other peoples company we lack context to talk about. Guidos and Guidettes drift out and in, dutifully shedding pointless exposition and awful jokes within their wake. Additionally they sing regarding their emotions: "We are doing all rightOrWe have ample time." "Salami and cheese/I think you will be pleased." "Perfect pair/Friggin' riches." If your theater party designed a consuming bet on going for a shot whenever Addrisi ponied up a genuine rhyme, all could leave "South Street" fit they are driving. The brand new proprietors desire to build the Boobie Bar and Deli (Hot Women and Cole Slaw) on the website. Disasters! But once we learn within an achingly lengthy act one flashback to 1980, Sammy's Place started existence like a gentlemen's club (although one with pole dancing as unerotic as Disneyland's It is a Small World). The area would certainly be coming back to its roots. This can be a crisis? Never fear, it's resolved as carelessly as it is setup. A hopelessly underbaked romance is shoehorned in, together with talk (along with a song) about "searching towards the rabbit within the moon." Also many high fives, and a lot of beaming patrons pointing at one another as though to express, "I am along with you, sister you heard right, my pal.Inch Space precludes sufficient thought on the mannequin within the easy chair, or even the number where a soubrette announces she's "class/Being released of my asspirations." "South Street" is really peculiar, its words so banal and helmer Roger Castellano's pacing so off, the experience becomes almost endearing, such as the showpiece pageant "Red-colored, Whitened and Blaine" in "Awaiting Guffman." An unusual dissonance is produced when everybody available online for is attempting so difficult with such truthfulness, as the material is lounging one aromatic egg to another. Heroine Cloe (Maria Eberline) systems some misconception having a by-the-amounts energy ballad congratulating herself for conquering all of the struggles we have neither seen nor learned about. Eberline, such as the relaxation from the cast, struggles manfully to market the 80s-pop-inflected tunes as though they possessed market price.Sets, Andy Walmsley costumes, Kate Bergh lighting, John Monahan seem, Julie Ferrin orchestrations, Don Sebesky music supervision Andrew Sotomayor musical direction, Michael Borth. Opened up Sept. 25, 2011. Examined Sept. 28. Runs through March. 16. Running time: 2 Hrs, 15 MIN.With: Anika Bobb, Ezra Buzzington, Nigel Columbus, Matthew Patrick Davis, Susann Fletcher, Benjamin Goldsmith, Sylvie Gosse, Andy Scott Harris, Jim Holdridge, Kat Liz Kramer, Scott Kruse, John Massey, Jacqueline Nguyen, Stefan Raulston, Tom Shelton, Peter Siragusa, Cassie Silva, Hannah Simmons, Ali Spuck, Lowe Taylor, Estevan Valdes, Harrison Whitened, Corey Wright, Darlene Zaltman. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Lifetime Cancels 'Roseanne's Nuts'

Joe Scarnici/FilmMagic/Getty Images Lifetime is departing Roseanne Barr's farm. In line with the actress/reality show personality, the cable network has chosen not to continue another season of Roseanne's Nuts. "Roseanne's Nuts remains canceled," Barr tweeted Wednesday. "Thanks everyone for watching!" The reality series, which adopted Barr, her partner Johnny Argent and boy Mike Pentland simply because they were living and done their macadamia nut and creatures farm in Hawaii opened up within this summer time to a single.3 million audiences, according to Nielsen. After early ratings success evaporated, Lifetime moved the series in the Wednesday time slot to Fridays through the finish of the 16-episode run, viewership had reduced to just about half its premiere amounts. The cancelation news has come about as Barr is planning her return to scripted comedy with Downwardly Mobile, a project she and Argent have setup at 20th Television. The sitcom is a starring vehicle for Barr and is built to mine similar territory to her the 19 nineties hit Roseanne, which revolved around a blue-collar family dwelling in challenging economic occasions. Steven Eco-friendly is attached as executive producer. The project might be Barr's first since Roseanne ended its nine-season run in 1997. Lifetime did not immediately respond to a request comment. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Roseanne Barr Lifetime

London's Menier revives 'Pippin'

LONDON -- "Pippin," the seventies Broadway tuner smash getting a score by Stephen Schwartz ("Wicked") and book by Roger O. Hirson will probably be elevated at London's Menier Chocolate Factory. Previews begin November. 22 before a 12 ,. 7 opening.The first 1,944 performance Broadway run will be a signature work of director/choreographer by Bob Fosse. The completely new production will incorporate his choreography, but will probably be directed by Mitch Sebastian, who launched his directorial career getting a output of the show in 1997 within the now defunct off-off West Finish venue The Bridewell.Produced by Timothy Bird (Olivier award-champion for your Menier's "Sunday neighborhood With George") and lit by U.S. designer Ken Billington (Tony-champion for "Chicago"), the expansion is skedded to use until Feb. 25, 2012. Casting has not been introduced. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com

Emmy Preview: Who'll Leave A Champion?

La, Calif. -- Emmy ruler Mad Males is facing a threat within the mobsters and crooked politicos of Boardwalk Empire. AMCs sixties Madison Avenue saga, which has acquired three consecutive Emmy Honours in addition to drama series, is competing Sunday with HBOs tale of Atlantic City, N.J., schemers benefiting from the wild occasions of Prohibition. The Sopranos, another Cinemax show about Nj hoods, was an Emmy magnet for your cable funnel that acquired 21 trophies throughout its six seasons. Cinemax and AMCs leading men're ina showdown too. Mad Males star Jon Hamm, ignore three occasions by Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad, caught a relaxation when Cranstons series didnt air within the Emmy qualifications period. But newcomer Boardwalk Empire introduced Steve Buscemi into the picture getting an initial-string nomination for your actor whos been acclaimed for supporting roles. Jane Lynch of Glee is host in the 63rd Primetime Emmys, airing live (8 p.m. EDT) on Fox within the Nokia Theatre in La. Also nominated for top drama series are Dexter, 'Friday Evening Lights, 'Game of Thrones as well as the Good Wife. Other contests to check out include best comedy series, with Modern Family trying to repeat last years win against rivals including Glee and Parks and Entertainment. Steve Carell in the Office is making his last Emmy mean his fifth and final season as not aware manager Michael Scott, after being snubbed four years back to back. A completely new category, which combines the formerly separate best miniseries making-for-TV movie nominees, includes the miniseries Mildred Pierce, with Kate Winslet nominated just as one embattled mother, as well as the movie Too Big to Fail, in regards to the U.S. fiscal crisis in 2008. Inside the reality-competition category, perennial also-went The The American Idol Show Show will need its ninth shot at winning, this time around around for just about any season that effectively sailed losing key judge Simon Cowell. Cinemax showed up towards the evening getting a number one 15 honours acquired within the Sept. 10 creative arts honours, then PBS with 10, Fox with nine, CBS with seven and NBC with five. Boardwalk Empire taken a respected seven creative arts Emmys, which recognition technical achievements and guest stars for instance Gwyneth Paltrow, who won on her behalf appearance in Glee. First-time Emmy producer Mark Burnett, whose string of reality TV hitsincludes Survivor, was accountable for the ceremony that has carried out with a dwindling audience. After striking a thrilling-time viewership low of 12.3 million in 2008, the Emmys rebounded somewhat in the last couple of years and came a 2010 audience of 13.47 million, compared to 26.7 million with this particular years Grammys and nearly 38 million for your Oscars. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fox's Fall Launch Eco-Casino Party: Red-colored-colored Carpet Interviews

The celebs of Fox's fall TV selection visit the carpet on Monday, Sept. 13 right before the network's eco-casino party. The Hollywood Reporter spoke while using stars of the couple of from the season's most lengthy looked forward to programs, including Zooey Deschanel of "New Girl," Paula Abdul of "The X Factor" and Chris Colfer of "Glee."

'Ringer's' Sarah Michelle Gellar Laughs About Playing Twins

Sarah Michelle Gellar plays twins Bridget and Siobahn in CW drama "Ringer," which premieres Tuesday concerning the CW."Playing twins -- you don't think I needed the easy route?" she quips for the "La Occasions." The first sort is certainly an ex-stripper abroad after eyeballing a murder, the second reason is her socialite twin sister who imitations her own dying because she's facing trouble."The joke is always that I'm playing five figures," Gellar states. "I play Siobahn and Bridget present day, both women in flashback, after which it 'Shivette,' that's when Bridget is pretending being Siobahn."Gellar, who's also co-executive creating her show, states occasions have changed since she starred in cult classic "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."She takes naps throughout her lunchtime because she energizes early along with her 1-year-old daughter, Charlotte now now (with husband Freddie Prinze Junior.), and Pottery Barn has designed an on-set nursery for your cast and crew."My family members comes first, and you have to be in charge to be capable of safeguard that. You have to be the one which states no or you don't have a existence, that's a few things i discovered the first time,In . Gellar -- which has also hired staffers from "Buffy" to participate her on her behalf account new show -- notifies the newspaper."I'd rather not appear like neglecting to my daughter. She's the most effective factor I've ever done. Buffy pretty great and many types of, but Charlotte's far better,In . adds Gellar."Ringer" showrunner Pam Veasey (who also produces "CSI: NY") calls Gellar "very savvy about a number of things We're of the rhythm we learn to solve problems. She's very smart in what we accomplish daily.InchInchBuffy" creator Joss Whedon states of Gellar, "She was this kind of precision instrument. The control she placed on every syllable was incredible."But, he notifies the "Occasions," "the lower-side to handle is searching to obtain energy from her. She familiar with say, 'I can cry whenever, do not request me to laugh.'" Her nickname concerning the set was "Jimmy Stewart" because "she experienced so well you are able to turn the screws as well as the audience elected on her.InchIf very little else, one factor will probably be lighter concerning the number of "Ringer." States Gellar: "We're not shooting throughout the evening. No graveyards. I'm recommending, you learn these items.In . The Hollywood Reporter

Tom Hardy in 'Warrior' and More Actors Who Keep Reminding Us We're Out of Shape

One of the reasons we love going to the movies is to escape. Escape to another world, escape from the stresses of our everyday lives, escape from the mirrors that don't make our beer bellies look smaller no matter how hard we suck it in. So now that 'Warrior' is here to guilt-trip us on the money we're wasting on the gym membership we never use, we thought we'd look back at the other actors and actresses who make us feel like the schlubs we are. It's not their fault, they're just doing their jobs, but read on to see who we secretly hate for looking so damn good. Tom Hardy Most of the world was introduced to Hardy through his scene-stealing turn in 'Inception,' but ever since catching his breakout performance in 'Bronson' two years prior, we've been head-over-heels for Tom Hardy. He's the rare actor whose muscle mass is matched by his acting chops, and considering the superhuman amount of iron he had to pump to look like Lou Ferrigno and Vinnie Jones' love child, that's saying something. Bonus points for the hardcore tattoo collection. Age: 33 Physical Highlights on Film: Growing muscles on top of his muscles and having traps the size of Everest in both 'Bronson' and 'Warrior.' Most Insane Physical Feat: Going from this to this. Gerard Butler in '300' Never before have we felt so disgusted about our bodies than when we walked out of '300' and immediately went home to start doing sit-ups. Even though Gerard Butler wasn't the only one rocking eight-pack abs on the set, playing King Leonidas and having one seriously epic beard sure didn't hurt matters. It's too bad he hasn't kept up the Adonis look over the years, but as we sit here at our desks palming our love handles and rubbing our food babies, we're in no position to talk. Age: 41 Most Insane Physical Feat: Completing the '300' workout without dying. Christian Bale We don't know how he keeps doing it, but if we had to guess how Christian Bale went from a living corpse in 'The Machinist' to a walking, talking bicep in 'Batman Begins,' we'd put our money on voodoo witchcraft. Word on the street is that director Christopher Nolan almost didn't give Bale the role of Bruce Wayne because he was too muscular to fit into the Batman suit before shooting began. It's not often we hear about someone being limited by their physical prowess, and we're pretty sure it's terribly unhealthy to lose and gain weight at such a outrageous pace, but Bale seems like he's got things under control. Age: 37 Physical Highlights on Film: Looking like a perfect male specimen in 'American Psycho,' looking like a bonafide crackhead in 'The Fighter,' and looking like Grizzly Adams' gaunt little brother in 'Rescue Dawn.' Most Insane Physical Feat: Putting on 100 pounds of muscle in six months, then having someone create a fan site in honor of his epic physical achievement. Jason Statham Little-known facts about Jason Statham: • Was a member of the British Olympic diving team for 12 years • Lists "mixed martial arts" as a personal hobby • Ran a full marathon on a dare without having done any long-distance training beforehand, completed it in 3 hours, 51 minutes • Works out six days a week with a former Navy SEAL • Has dated supermodels Kelly Brook and Rosie-Huntington Whiteley Yes, every movie he does is the same as the last, but when you're a living example of peak physical fitness and know three different types of unarmed combat, something tells us Jason Statham doesn't get a whole lot of flack over his career moves. Age: 43 Physical Highlights on Film: Primarily the 'Transporter' movies. Most Insane Physical Feat: Probably the running-a-marathon-on-a-whim thing, which also earned him a fan site. Hilary Swank in 'Million Dollar Baby' When Swank first signed on for 'Million Dollar Baby,' she couldn't even do a pull-up. From that point on, she worked out for four hours, six days a week, tacked on 19 lbs. of muscle, and powered through a blister on her foot that was so bad that it nearly hospitalized her for three weeks. It's no easy feat to look tougher than Clint Eastwood, but Swank got it done and kicked a serious amount of arse in the process. If only someone had moved that darn stool ... Age: 37 Most Insane Physical Feat: Going from this to this and winning a much-deserved second Oscar for it. You go, girl. Sylvester Stallone You know what most people do when they reach their 60s? They get an AARP membership, buy a time share in Del Boca Vista, and throw out their backs during shuffleboard. But what does Sly Stallone do? He hits the gym, puts on more muscle than he's ever had in his life, and goes back to making action movies where he gets to kill people wholesale. Retirement? Retirement's for suckers. We can't even imagine the kind of multi-vitamins Sly is taking to get so jacked these days, but we'd sure like to meet his pharmacist. Age: 65 Physical Highlights on Film: A lifetime's worth of iconic training montages and racking up a body count of 236 in 'Rambo,' Most Insane Physical Feat: Gotta go with those arm veins. Things look like they're about to pop. Taylor Lautner Just kidding! Now quit taking your shirt off. Age: 19 Physical Highlights on Film: Struttin' those abs in the 'Twilight Saga' movies. Most Insane Physical Feat: We have to give it to him, those are some pretty crazy abs for a 19-year-old. So which other actors inadvertently make you feel out of shape? 'Warrior' photo courtesy of Chuck Zlotnick.

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