New Avengers images and posters arrive online

Marvel has released some new images within the Avengers, featuring their three headline stars, Iron Guy, Thor and Captain America in many their glory.The initial shows Thor and Iron Guy getting their hands dirty one of the flaming remains from the war-torn street. The second meanwhile, has Iron Guy flying at full pelt for that camera.The completely new stills are based on a number of new character posters featuring the various Avengers, additionally to S.H.I.E.L.D. bigwig Nick Fury as well as the villainous Loki.Fundamental necessities same images that have been useful for the crowd ads, however they've been nicely split up into individual one-sheets.The Avengers will assemble in Uk cinemas on 27 April 2012. Meanwhile, get in the world-saving mood by browsing the completely new posters below...

Homeland Bosses on the Season Finale: Showtime Really Wanted Damian Lewis for Another Year

Damian Lewis, Claire Danes [SPOILER WARNING: This story reveals key plot elements from Sunday's season finale. Read at your own risk.]Homeland's first season finale posed the question: Would traitorous Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) actually carry out a suicide bombing directed at the vice president of the United States? See where Homeland ranked in our countdown of the Best TV Shows of 2011The only-on-TV answer: Yes and no. Although Brody attempted to blow himself and the veep to smithereens, nothing happened when he flipped the switch on his snazzy new suicide vest, thanks to a pesky loose wire. Carrie (Claire Danes), whose instincts are apparently infallible, made a last-ditch effort to stop Brody by telling his wife (Morena Baccarin) and daughter (Morgan Saylor) of her suspicions about his terrorist ties. We know Carrie is right, of course, but from the inside, she looks a little nuts - and she knows it. In the episode's final scene, Carrie decides to undergo electroshock therapy to make sure that those good instincts (aka manic episodes) won't get her into any more trouble. But just before the anesthesia takes effect, she remembers that Brody said "Issa," the name of Abu Nazir's son, in his sleep, piecing together Brody's revenge-based motive for betraying his country.We asked Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, co-creators of Homeland and former 24 producers, to explain why they chose to keep Brody alive, what Carrie will remember after her treatment and how gullible and/or suspicious Brody's family will actually become in Season 2. (Plus: What was all that about a mole?)Were you nervous at all about how much story you resolved versus the amount you left hanging?Alex Gansa: It's a little bit like testing the soup. It has to be just right. We thought at the very least that the attack that was promised in the pilot would either succeed or fail at the end of the season. We sort of felt, at that very basic level, that had to be satisfied. And certainly, there's an attack, and the attack is stopped through a confluence of events and the direct actions of our heroes.How much of the ending did you know before the season began?Gansa: We knew that Brody was going to instigate an attack against the people that were responsible for Issa's death - that there was going to be a personal reason for his actions. We did not know, for example, that he was going to be wearing a suicide vest. We thought there may be another way that he would take out the group responsible. Once we decided on the suicide vest, it opened up a lot of great possibilities for us, the most important one being that we could put him in a room with the vice president and have the vest malfunction.See Danes and Lewis in our Best Performances of 2011 photo galleryWhich also keeps Brody alive for another season...Gansa: That was the great thing about the vest. We got to have our cake and eat it too. [Brody] flipped the switch. That means he was going to go through with what he had planned to do, but it didn't work. So that seemed to give us two great things: One, it resolved his story. ... And two, it opened up the possibility of redemption.Did you ever consider a scenario where Brody was successful and died?Gansa: Absolutely. Whether Brody was going to survive the finale was pretty much an open question up until we realized that the vest could malfunction. We could very well have ended it and introduced something else next season, much in the same way that The Wire would introduce whole new narratives each year. That was really on the table for a long time this season. Ultimately, we felt that there's just more to tell between Brody and Carrie. So we decided to keep him alive. Also, Showtime really wanted Damian Lewis around for another year.Who could blame them? So what does the next chapter of Carrie and Brody's story look like?Howard Gordon: The trick is going to be to get Carrie back into the intelligence community somehow, because she's been ostracized and excommunicated from that line of work. So that's one of our narrative hurdles. The second thing is how to chart Brody's new course of action. He's now committed to Abu Nazir that he's going to move forward in this political way, really playing the long game. So we're going to have to figure out how those two different strands of the story will intersect.I imagine you can't just flip a switch and get Carrie back in the CIA.Gordon: We have a very specific solution for that.Gansa: Jack Bauer was exiled pretty much every year [on 24] and had to be brought back in one way or another. [Laughs]Showtime orders Season 2 of HomelandLet's talk about Carrie's decision to undergo electroconvulsive therapy. Is she really trying to get a handle on her disease or is she in some way trying to erase her emotional connection to Brody?Gordon: It's really both things. I think she's at a point in her life where her illness is getting worse and worse - where it's cost her career. It's also cost her the relationship with the one other human being, that is, Brody, that she's connected to. I think she's just at the end of her rope. She's decided to do this because she really, really wants to get her life back and wants to find a way to control her emotions and to control her trajectory in the world. She can't continue to exist at these extremes.Saul (Many Patinkin) very pointedly mentioned the possibility of memory loss. Is that definitely the route you're choosing to follow next season, with Carrie forgetting her last-second realization about Brody's connection to Issa?Gordon: Absolutely. One of the side effects of ECT therapy is short-term memory loss. Obviously, it leaves Carrie in the second season with the audience waiting for the moment where she remembers this stuff - where she relearns it or starts to begin to suspect Brody again of actually being the guy she thinks he was.I think it's great that Brody's family "knows" his secret, even if they don't believe Carrie. What kind of tension will that bring about next season?Gordon: The family is going to be asked to come together around Brody's campaign. They're going to artificially be made to act as if it's all for one and one for all. But I think Dana especially has a fairly clear sense that her father isn't telling her everything. That's [the point] of the sort of ambiguous scene on the rooftop at the end. So, what is the uneasy alliance among the different members of the family? That's going to be a big, big part of the second season.Gansa: One of the fun parts from season to season is finding where characters have traveled during however much time has passed. Things are very much at play in these characters' lives, and I think we can rediscover them in very interesting moments, which we'll deliver on hopefully throughout the season. Is Showtime's Homeland TV's first post-post-9/11 show?Do you have a sense about how much time will have passed between seasons at this point? Gordon: We just don't know yet.We heard mention of a mole in the Agency this season. Is that plot still alive? Is it somehow connected to the vice president's cover-up of the drone attack?Gordon: Those are both very good questions. I think the mole is definitely alive. Chances are we will see who that person is next season. And [we'll also see] the dynamics inside the CIA, regarding the cover-up that's happened. The vice president's implicated in this drone attack. The power struggle that goes on between Estes [David Harewood] and Saul is going to be all grist for the mill for the second season.The question hanging over this season was: "Is Brody a terrorist?" Do you have a similar story engine at the center of Season 2?Gordon: "How will Carrie learn to suspect Brody again?" That's really going to be the central question of the second season, however we decide to tell the story. Carrie's going to somehow have to figure out that she was right after all and that Brody is in some sense a threat to the country, albeit in a different way. She's going to have to stop him, the man that she loves.Earlier you said that Brody has a chance for redemption. Even though he's killed Tom Walker (Chris Chalk), might he still abandon the cause?Gordon: Of course. But Brody's mission is not going to be another terrorist attack. His mission is going to be much more insidious than that. It's going to have a different dynamic than this season clearly. But the possibility of redemption is on the table.What did you think of Homeland's finale?

REVIEW: Corman's World Lovingly Sketches the Inner Life of a Movie Maverick

Director, producer and distributor Roger Corman’s world seems suspended between magnetic poles: At true north he could be described as the godfather of independently produced and independent-minded film; way down south is the Corman who looks more like the godfather to Don Simpson, a crude flipper of hot cake flicks who originated the high concept, sensation-pummeling mainstream cinema we’re stuck with today. Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, director Alex Stapleton’s annotated filmography of the filmmaker’s wildly tentacular career, is less an attempt to reconcile those poles than to show how neatly and necessarily they are bound together, by both the financial nature of filmmaking and the stubborn question of taste. “Taste,” says former protg Martin Scorsese of Corman’s workshop, “was out of the question.” By 1972, the year he financed Scorsese’s first movie (Boxcar Bertha), Corman had been in the business for over two decades, made dozens of movies (10 in 1957 alone) and — as the title of his autobiography notes — never lost a dime. Much like Woody Allen, one of the many talents he goosed on to renown, Corman realized quickly that nose-to-tail filmmaking is only tenable when one has complete control. Corman’s business savvy balanced a keen sense of audience appetite with the carnal imagination (a “boiling inferno” in his description) beneath his gentlemanly persona. Stapleton chocks the film with money clips from the Corman archives, a mix of curdled rape fantasy films like The Woman Hunter, eccentric brow-lifters like the series of Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price, and chips of campy gold like Little Shop of Horrors or The Fast and the Furious. Eye opening here and there, the footage is mostly fan candy. Though Corman mentions moving toward camp, little time is spent examining his aesthetic, as it were, or sweating at the gates of that raging inferno; the B-maestro’s personal contradictions remain pristine. More sorely missing is any sense of the enormous and fluctuating market for Corman’s work over several eras of exhibition. We know his films are gauged to be exactly as successful as they need to be, but outside of the actors and directors drawn into his stable, intimations of Corman’s core audience loom large but invisible over the story of an astonishingly robust and still active career (part of Corman’s World is spent on the set of what appears to be yet another sweded version of Jaws). Such complaints feel unavoidable and therefore relatively minor: To tell Roger Corman’s story is in some sense to tell the story of last 60 years of filmmaking; some ruthless cutting was required. Stapleton wisely homes in on the emissaries Corman has sent into the moviegoing consciousness — Jack Nicholson sits for a rare and ultimately moving interview, as do Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier and William Shatner — and elucidates their B-movie roots. And while we can all be thankful that Scorsese refused Corman’s offer to finance Mean Streets, should he reframe it as a blaxploitation epic, again and again we are shown that along with the rsum-bulking services it is Corman’s fearless (as with his 1962 segregation drama The Intruder) and agile sensibility (as with Easy Rider forerunners The Trip and The Wild Angels) that define the terms of his influence. Stapleton’s was clearly a labor of love, shot over what must amount to like 25 Corman years. In the press notes the director admits that she waited two years for Nicholson to agree to an interview; both David Carradine and George Hickenlooper have died since filming theirs. Time trudges on, within the film and without. Indeed, the arrival of Jaws and Star Wars are framed less as the beginning than the end of an era. If the summer blockbuster turned Corman’s beat into huge business, their “fully imagined worlds” are rarely noted for what little imaginative work they leave for the viewer. And where’s the fun — the risk — in that? If the first half of Corman’s World doubles as a lobbying campaign for a lifetime achievement Oscar, the second, more elegiac half offers the vindication of that award’s receipt in 2009. But then the director who uses bare breasts as props thinks it immoral to spend more than a million dollars making a movie; the distributor who showed Bergman at the drive-in was never in it for the accolades. Having preferred the game and the gamble of the movie business, as his colleagues and loved ones attest, Corman’s most fully realized work may have been quietly done in his personal life. The most poignant idea to emerge from Corman’s World is that in fact neither man nor mogul can control quite everything, perhaps nothing less than his legacy. Follow Michelle Orange on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol

'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol'A Paramount release presented with Skydance Prods. of a Tom Cruise, Bad Robot production. Produced by Cruise, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk. Executive producers, Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Paul Schwake, Dana Goldberg. Co-producers, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Tom Peitzman, Tommy Harper. Directed by Brad Bird. Screenplay, Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, based on the television series created by Bruce Geller.Ethan Hunt - Tom Cruise Brandt - Jeremy Renner Benji - Simon Pegg Jane - Paula Patton Hendricks - Michael Nyqvist Sidorov - Vladimir MashkovThe fantastic gizmos keep malfunctioning in "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," and similarly, this elaborately conceived fourth entry in the Tom Cruise action franchise delivers a tremendous early surge of excitement before running into engine trouble. Pixar wizard Brad Bird's live-action debut serves up sights and setpieces of often jaw-dropping ingenuity and visual flair, but it's a movie of dazzling individual parts that don't come together to fully satisfying effect in the final stretch. Nonetheless, a robust marketing push, Imax showings and an ample if intermittent sense of creative resurgence should spell strong, sustained B.O. for Paramount's holiday tentpole. For observers at the time, the relative disappointment of 2006's "Mission: Impossible III" (which grossed a series-low $398 million worldwide) suggested not merely franchise fatigue but a degree of mass-audience disenchantment with Cruise in the wake of his widely mocked PR woes. While the actor hasn't toplined a major hit since then, enough time has passed to suggest a general willingness to re-embrace the star-producer and this durable property. It surely won't hurt that "Ghost Protocol," though unable to sustain its virtuosity over an unusually long 132 minutes, still manages enough sheer fun to qualify as the series' strongest entry since Brian De Palma's stylish 1996 original. In that respect, it was wise of Cruise and his fellow producers (including J.J. Abrams, who directed the third pic) to place Bird at the helm. Counterintuitive though the choice of an Oscar-winning animator might have seemed, there was every reason to assume, given the helmer's string of creative triumphs with "The Iron Giant," "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille," that his storytelling verve and formidable action smarts would translate more than readily to a live-action canvas. And for an impressive stretch, they do, as Bird and his ace crew vigorously apply themselves to realizing a globe-trotting scenario (by co-producers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, vets of Abrams' spy series "Alias") that provides, for the first time in the series, a sense of narrative continuity with the prior pic. While it's not immediately clear from the outset how Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) wound up in a Moscow prison, there are enough mentions of Julia, whom Ethan married in "Mission: Impossible III," to orient the viewer and provide the intriguing possibility that this adventure might not be entirely self-contained. Mere hours after an IMF team busts him out of jail, Ethan infiltrates the Kremlin in hopes of capturing Russian nuclear extremist Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), yet only winds up unwittingly helping the fanatic escape. Clever sequence makes use of eye-popping gadgetry (one nifty device functions as a massive invisibility cloak) and culminates in a stunning single take of the Kremlin blowing up, a shot made perhaps unintentionally pointed in light of Russia's election woes, and one of several instances in which the widescreen aspect ratio opens up to accommodate the full Imax screen in all its giant glory. In warming up the ashes of the Cold War, the script delights not only in placing its characters in the most adverse possible circumstances, but in continually depriving them of their usual resources: With the U.S. and Russia on the brink of crisis and the American government disavowing all knowledge of IMF (initiating "Ghost Protocol"), the fate of the world rests on the shoulders of Ethan and his ill-equipped, down-but-not-out fellow agents: mouthy tech whiz Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), whose inexperience provides an excess of comic relief; Jane Carter (Paula Patton), a tough-and-tender type bent on avenging a fellow agent's death; and William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), an analyst reluctantly shoved into the field. Pic reaches a literally dizzying peak at the midpoint, as the team commandeers a number of hotel rooms in Dubai so as to intercept the nuclear-launch codes being traded to Hendricks by a pouty French assassin (Lea Seydoux), whose faceoff with Jane marks the film's most ferocious hand-to-hand bout. Before that point, viewers are treated to the sight of Ethan scaling the side of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, with nothing more than a pair of (malfunctioning) adhesive gloves. The timing of the cutting here is so sharp, the effect of Robert Elswit's camera placement so vertiginous, that it genuinely takes the breath away; the marvelously light-fingered scene that follows, in which Ethan & Co. must deceive two sets of crooks, is nearly as tense. After a chase on foot, remarkably, in a simulated Dubai sandstorm, the usual agent-bonding downtime sets in, occasioning a precipitous dip in momentum from which the film never quite recovers. Despite a logistically staggering sequence in a multitiered parking structure, featuring the altogether heartbreaking destruction of several perfectly good Beemers, the Mumbai-set endgame disappoints with its lower-stakes action and a pileup of wan espionage-thriller tropes. Trenchant geopolitics aren't called for here, but for a movie that invokes the not-so-crazy threats of renewed Iron Curtain conflict and nuclear apocalypse, "Ghost Protocol" winds up seeming as flip as it is undeniably cool. Just under 50 and in excellent physical form, Cruise delivers a typically smooth, professional turn that wisely requires little in the way of strenuous emoting. Pegg, Patton and Renner make appealing second-string company, though the occasional stretches of earnest, character-building dialogue feel especially leaden in comparison with the pic's consummate wit and inventiveness in other departments. Without aping De Palma's and John Woo's feverish operatics or Abrams' more workmanlike approach, Bird favors a fluid, carefully composed style that understands that stillness and silences can be as effective as kinesis; Kremlin bombing aside, there's a welcome avoidance of excess pyrotechnics here. Second unit director Dan Bradley, stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz and fight choreographer Robert Alonzo merit special mention for their top-class work, while returning composer Michael Giacchino (who collaborated with Abrams and Bird prior to his involvement with the franchise) once again supplies jazzy, propulsive riffs on Lalo Schifrin's classic theme.Camera (Deluxe color, Panavision widescreen, Imax), Robert Elswit; editor, Paul Hirsch; music, Michael Giacchino; production designer, Jim Bissell; supervising art director, Helen Jarvis; art directors, Grant Van Der Slagt, Michael Diner; set designers, Margot Ready, Bryan Sutton, John Alvarez, Nancy Brown, Dan Hermansen, Doug Higgins; set decorators, Rosemary Brandenburg, Elizabeth Wilcox; costume designer, Michael Kaplan; sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat/SDDS), Michael McGee; sound designer, Gary Rydstrom; supervising sound editor, Richard Hymns; re-recording mixers, Rydstrom, Andy Nelson; special effects supervisor, Mike Meinardus; visual effects supervisor, John Knoll; visual effects and animation, Industrial Light & Magic; stunt coordinator, Gregg Smrz; fight choreographer, Robert Alonzo; associate producer, Ben Rosenblatt; assistant directors, Geoffrey Hansen, Thomas Gormley; second unit director, Dan Bradley; second unit camera, Mitchell Amundsen; casting, April Webster, Alyssa Weisberg. Reviewed at Imax, Santa Monica, Dec. 7, 2011. (In Dubai Film Festival -- opener.) MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 132 MIN.With: Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Lea Seydoux. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

Julia Roberts Responds to 'In the Land of Bloodstream and Honey' Suit

Julia Roberts has taken care of immediately claims by Croatian journalist James Braddock that they stole the concept on her new film, ''In the Land of Bloodstream and Honey' from his book. Inside a new interview, Jolie told the LA Occasions the suit is '"componen for that course. It takes place on nearly every film." Although she states she did draw inspiration from the 3 books concerning the Bosnian war, she demands "that one book I have never witnessed,Inch mentioning to Braddock's 2007 novel, 'A Soul Breaking.' Braddock sued within an Illinois court the 2009 week. He claims he met and corresponded having a producer on Jolie's film which he led "plot and character development, and also the story's cultural significance and historic precision." He's seeking an urgent situation injunction from the movie's release, that is looking for 12 ,. 23. 'In the Land of Bloodstream and Honey' is all about a romance from a Bosnian Muslim lady along with a Serbian military officer, set from the brutal backdrop from the Bosnian War. Braddock's book can also be occur Bosnian war camps having a romance from a guy along with a lady on opposing sides from the conflict. On paper the film, that also marks her directorial debut, Jolie told the LA Occasions, "You will find many books and documentaries which i did pull from," mentioning functions by journalists Peter Maas and Tom Gielten. "It's a mix of many individuals tales," she added, but was adamant that Braddock's story wasn't one of these. She's faced her share of debate around the film already within the perception it involved a lady who falls deeply in love with her rapist. A Balkan women's group effectively lobbied to deny her a movie permit in Bosnia. (A permit was granted after she shared the script, which does contain moments of rape, although not a rape leading to romance.) The actress said around the accusations that they was romanticizing war-time atrocities: "I felt sympathy for individuals to whom these problems are extremely sensitive. However when you are coming at something since you care a lot a good area, especially women for the reason that area, when i was, and also you be aware of styles from the film are violence against women, then to become charged with the alternative affects. You are feeling just a little sickened because of it.Inch [via LA Occasions] [Photo: AP] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Martin Scorsese to Be Honored at Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Chris Jackson/Getty Images (Miller)Alan Moore, left, and Frank Miller Comics legendAlan Moore (V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke) has joined Occupy Comics, a group of comic artists and writers planning on producing Occupy Wall Street-inspired material and donating the profits to support further protests.our editor recommendsComic Book Legends Alan Moore and Frank Miller Feud Over Occupy MovementHow Music Is Playing an Integral Role in the Occupy Wall Street Protests Moore described his contribution as an illustrated prose piece that would touch on the ideals of the Occupy Movement and how those ideals compare and contrast with the both the business of comics and the ideology of different types of superheroes. PHOTOS: Entertainers On Scene of Occupy Protests Occupy Comics organizer Matt Pizzolo called Moore's decision to to join the group "really incredible," adding V for Vendetta "inspire activists today" and in turn Moore is inspired by the activists [he] helped influence." In recent weeks, Moore has spoken out in favor of the Occupy Movement, taking on fellow comics legend Frank Miller (300, Sin City, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) for criticizing the protestors. After Miller wrote on his blog that, " 'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America,"Moore responded by saying,"It's about what I'd expect from him. It's always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you'd have to say centre-right. ... So yes I think it would be fair to say that me and Frank Miller have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement." Moore went on to call Miller's work "unreconstructed misogyny," "wildly ahistoric" and "homophobic." PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy Wall Street Occupy Comics plans to produce a series of digital comics in early 2012, followed by limited edition paper comics, and finally a deluxe hardcover anthology by the end of 2012. More than 35 major comics figures have joined Occupy Comics, including Mike Allred (Madman), J.M. DeMatteis (Spider-Man), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), and Moore's V for Vendetta collaborator David Lloyd. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery '75 Years of DC Comics' Frank Miller

Fox Business States Muppets Movie Anti-Biz

How did we miss this? Fox Business news round the network’s “Follow the money” program the other day opined that Disney’s The Muppets moviestoryline featuring an evil oil baron handled to find the newest instance of Hollywood’s anti-corporate liberal agenda. “They’ve been carrying it out for several years. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry,” Gainor ongoing. “They hate corporate America. And that means you’ll see every one of these movies attacking it,” complainedDan Gainor in the conservative Media Research Center:

Charlize Theron on Playing a 'Bitch' in 'Young Adult' (Video)

The 2009 Monday, I spent a substantial chunk throughout your day and evening within the organization of Charlize Theron, the strikingly beautiful South African who won the most effective actress Oscar eight in the past which is now inside the running with this again on her behalf be employed in Jason Reitman's Youthful Adult, which opens country wide 12 ,. 9.our editor recommendsGotham Honours 2011: Honorees Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman Reveal the muse Behind Their Work'Snow White-colored As Well As The Huntsman' Trailer: Billy Burke Assumes Evil Charlize Theron (Video)Charlize Theron Horror Thriller being Directed by Scott Derrickson (Exclusive) 'Snow White-colored as well as the Huntsman' Start Searching: Billy Burke, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron (Photos)Charlize Theron Stars with Sophistication Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich in New Dior Ad (Video) Initially when i first met Theron, 36, inside a Vital-situated lunch for your film several hours later, i had been sitting together -- along with her Youthful Adult co-star Patton Oswalt between us -- within the Gotham Honours, where she received a distinctive career tribute and, between, we recorded the interview that appears near the top of this publish. Readily available interactions, three things increased being pretty apparent in my opinion about Theron: First, she's evenly as attractive as she appears on the watch's screen (she used two eye-catchingly low-cut clothes) second, she's much cheekier than promoted (she's a bawdy spontaneity which is not above whacking a journalist to consider notes instead of searching within the stage throughout an honours show) and, third, she's as pleased with Youthful Adult as she has been connected having a film which she's been an element since she won her Oscar in 2004. PHOTOS: THR's Actress Roundtable 2011 After we discuss inside the above video... Theron left Nigeria to model in Europe after which it to bop while using Joffrey Ballet in NY. By age 19, however, painful knee injuries forced her into retirement, dashing her dreams money for hard times and thrusting her in to a deep depression. She recalls that her mother found her save -- as has frequently been the problem in their existence, most infamously in 1991, when her intoxicated father threatened all of their lives, leading her mother to shoot and kill him in self-defense -- by convincing her to check her hands at acting and buying her single-way ticket to Hollywood. Theron reaches town for two main days before a fateful encounter inside a bank introduced to her link with a supervisor and the beginning of her film career. The majority of the early projects that have been decided to Theron -- including Showgirls (1995) and Species (1995) -- did not have substance and looked for mainly to make the most of her appearance. Typically, she avoided them and began to win notice on her behalf acting ability, round her exterior, along with her performance opposite Keanu Reeves in Taylor Hackford's The Demon's Advocate (1997). Subsequent significant work incorporated parts in Lasse Hallstrom's The Cider Your Laws and regulations (1999), James Gray's The Yards (1999), and F. Gary Gray's An Italian Guy , Job (2003). But it may be her performance as killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) -- a film that was written on her behalf by Patti Jenkins, who had previously been amazed by her be employed in The Demon's Advocate and noticed in Theron potential that nobody had -- which will change her career forever. Theron lost 40 pounds, shaved her eye eyebrows, donned prosthetic teeth and morphed in to a restless, unpredictable maniac using what the film critic Roger Ebert known to as "the most effective performances inside the good status for that cinema" as well as the Academy considered the most effective leading performance having a female of year. THR's Actress Roundtable: Six A-Listers Appear Off on Bad Reviews, Nudity and Playing Hitler Inside the years since, she's quietly done standout operate in many films, including Niki Caro's North Country (2005), just like a striking coal miner (producing herself another best actress Oscar jerk) Paul Haggis' Inside the Valley of Elah (2007), just like a no-nonsense police detective then-boyfriend Stuart Townsend's Fight in Dallas (2007), since the pregnant wife from the riot cop Guillermo Arriaga's The Burning Plain (2008), just like a lady getting a dark past who tries to reunite along with her parents and John Hillcoat's The Road (2009), just like a wife and mother whose will to reside in begins to slip away since the world round her begins to disintegrate. Youthful Adult presented Theron an entirely new type of challenge, the one that did not necessitate any type of physical alteration but that did require her to shed any wish to have likability -- that's asking a good deal for just about any celebrity. Theron's Mavis Gary can be a cut-and-dry "bitch," as she readily confesses, a girl who, despite her appearance and fairly effective career, can't help but live formerly, when her existence was simpler, she was popular, as well as the guy she loved (but nonetheless loves) loved her back. The selfish and cruel items that this bitterness leads her to accomplish to others have introduced the NY Occasions to describe her as "probably the most unlikable protagonists later on along inside a very long time ... in a few respects less encouraging than Wuornos." I battle to disagree. PHOTOS: 'Snow White-colored as well as the Huntsman' Start Searching: Billy Burke, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron On paper, all Reitman's previous protagonists appear somewhat unlikable -- a cigarette lobbyist (Aaron Eckhart) in Appreciate Smoking (2005) a teenage girl(Ellen Page)who treats pregnancy as being a joke in Juno (2007) together with a man(George Clooney)who makes his living by firing folks Up up (2009) -- but, whenever you watch them to use it, you'll be able to't help but root on the account. The identical can not be mentioned for Theron's character, which team you -- or otherwise I -- want to shake some sense into after which it never see again. But should be character is speaking and tricky doesn't signify the actor accountable for this didn't give a good performance -- whether or not this did, we wouldn't can remember the Oscar-nominated work of Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944), Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Paradise (1945), Anne Baxter in many About Eve (1950), Nancy Kelly inside the Bad Seed (1956), Bette Davis using what Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Bette Davis in Who's Frightened of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Faye Dunaway in Network (1976), Glenn Close to the coast Fatal Attraction (1987), Kathy Bates in Misery (1990), Sharon Stone in Casino (1995), Annette Bening in American Beauty (1999), Meryl Streep inside the Demon Wears Prada (2006) as well as the list continues. I suppose that it's going to rely on each moviegoer to find out whether Theron did a fantastic job ... being bad. 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Will a Bunch of Earnest Actors Make You Want to See War Horse?

The actors in War Horse whinny for Oscar cred in the new promotional spot for the Spielberg epic. Though the elegance of the Broadway play’s amazing horse puppetry has been shamefully replaced by real horses, we’re supposed to believe the cinematic adaptation is just as poignant. Sigh. Let’s hear them out. BRAVERY. HUMANITY. LOYALTY. HORSEYNESS. It doesn’t take a failed beat poet to tell you that the recitation of buzzwords like “LOYALTY” and “HUMANITY” is just pretentious and meaningless. So, bad job there, War Horse trailer. Otherwise, I admit there’s a smoothness to this trailer that makes the movie appealing. As of right now, I’m not rooting for any other movie to unseat it as the Best Picture frontrunner — not even The Artist, and that has a magical animal too, in Uggie. Here’s hoping War Horse is more than a live-action Lisa Frank folder with Appaloosas and rainbows on it. So far I’m seeing a nicely laminated display of cute equines. Please do some inspiring E.T. shit, horsies!

Dunder Mifflin Products Coming to a Store Near You

The Office Dunder Mifflin, the fictional company featured in The Office, is becoming a real-life brand. The Staples-owned Quill.com has signed a licensing deal with NBC's parent company Comcast, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Dunder Mifflin paper features slogans from the series such as "Get Your Scrant on" and is priced considerably above other private-label copy paper. The Office, now in its eighth season, is set in Scranton, Pa. Will you buy Dunder Mifflin paper?

First Look: Kellan Lutz Talks A Warriors Heart

First Published: November 22, 2011 1:10 PM EST Credit: Courtesy of California Pictures & Xenon Pictures Caption Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene get cozy on the set of A Warriors HeartLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Fans may recognize the chiseled Kellan Lutz and stunning Ashley Greene from their respective roles as Emmett and Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga, but before they became famous for gracing the screen as vampire brother and sister, Kellan and Ashley co-starred in a very different onscreen relationship. The duo filmed the movie A Warriors Heart in 2009, and while it boasts a modest PG rating, the movie which will finally be released on December 2 also boasts plenty of kissing scenes between Kellan and Ashley that will have Twi-Hards reeling. The film follows Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz), a hotheaded, high school lacrosse player, who is dating the coachs daughter, Brooklyn (Ashley Greene). However, Connors emotions spiral out of control when his father loses his life in Iraq, and its up to Conors family and friends to help steer him back on the right track. Kellan was attracted to the film because its not just another sports movie. Its not clich, where the kid wins the championship at the buzzer, Kellan said in an on set interview. Its a coming-of-age story about a boy and his journey to become a man. It was also a first for Kellan, who got to take on the role of the projects leading man. Ive never been number one on a call sheet, Kellan continued in the interview. Ive been 781326142[but] in this project, Im in every single scene. Im never in my trailer, which Im not used to! For more with Kellan on the set of the movie, CLICK HERE for an exclusive interview! Check out these photos from the film, HERE! A Warriors Heart will hit theaters in limited release and video on-demand on December 2. The DVD release is slated for February 7. -By Chandler Chase Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

REVIEW: When Humans Aren't On-Screen, The Muppets Accomplishes Pure, Distilled Pleasure

Can something be looked at fan fiction whether it’s also the official, canonical studio product? I’m likely to argue yes, absolutely, since with The Muppets, Jason Segel has crafted so what can simply be referred to because the most extravagant work of fan fiction ever, Mary Sue-ing themself in to the Muppet world like a character who helps reunite the gang to be able to save their old theater and also the day. Segel, who co-authored the film with Nicholas Stoller, even leaves their own tentative mark on Jim Henson’s beloved ensemble by placing an individual addition as alter ego Walter (voiced by Peter Linz), his character’s Muppet brother and also the group’s most devoted fan even if the relaxation around the globe appears to possess ignored them. Fandom could be a precarious factor — someone’s devotion towards the source material they're adjusting to screen can occasionally result in being too careful by using it, too sincere to complete what’s perfect for the film rather than just for the hardcore supporters. However the love Segel has for that Muppets is really a genuine, perceivable and positive quality that suffuses this good-hearted revitalization from the franchise, and when some wish fulfillment sneaks inside too, it rarely will get when it comes to the enjoyment available. Segel plays Gary and Can Be is Mary, his equally cheerful schoolteacher girlfriend who’s been waiting with saintly persistence for any decade on her oblivious like to propose. They reside in an idyllic small town known as, properly, Smalltown, and Gary still shares a home along with a childhood bed room with Walter. Walter’s Muppet character, beyond raising certain bigger questions — was he adopted? is Muppetism some type of genetic abnormality? — implies that adult existence leaves him through the wayside while Gary has matured physically, though out of the box true for a lot of Segel figures, less psychologically. To Mary’s gentle consternation, Gary invites Walter together with them on the visit to La to celebrate their tenth anniversary, even though on the tour from the now deserted and dilapidated Muppet Galleries, Walter overhears the wicked plan of the wealthy Texan executive named, once more properly, Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to destroy your building and employ the plot to drill for oil. (You’d think developing condos will be the much more likely wager, but who dares reason using the evil?) The Smalltown trio find Kermit the Frog at his Sunset Blvd.-esque mansion and convince him he must enhance the $ten million essential to save the studio by getting back together with his former co-workers and wearing a show. Soon, they’re traveling the nation and, in some way, the planet to retrieve Rowlf, Gonzo along with other admired figures using their scattered retirements in places like Reno (where Fozzie is a component of the knock-off act known as “The Moopets”) and Paris (where Miss Piggy went onto employment millions of women and pigs would kill for). Segel knows to get away from the clear way of his furry and fleecy costars, and following the introduction and opening number (irresistible earworm “Life’s A Contented Song”) he and director James Bobin do their finest to place the Muppets in the forefront whenever possible. The film’s degree of energy does drop considerably whenever the experience turns towards the humans within the cast or, alas, to Walter, who’s really exactly that vague yearning to end up part of one’s treasured childhood preoccupation introduced to existence (or even the nearest puppet approximation from it). The initial song and dance segments possess a dissonant, self-purposely ironic air that doesn’t complement using the relaxation from the Muppet humor — I authored during my notes that they are “so goddamn Flight from the Conchords” before heading the place to find uncover that Bobin actually co-produced the series with Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement and directed 11 episodes. Similarly, the winking meta-humor, whilst not a brand new addition towards the franchise — within the first Muppet Movie, one fortuitous save happens because figures read what would take place in the script and showed up to assist — is jarringly heavy. (“This will probably be a really short movie,” Mary observes when Kermit in the beginning will not subscribe to the plan.) And also the less stated concerning the scene by which Chris Cooper raps, the greater. However when the Muppets do gather, the film’s a marvel, so when they return to the level to use their very own last-minute show, it’s pure, distilled pleasure, from Fozzie’s wonderfully terrible stand-up routine to Jack Black, literally roped into being the celebrity host, shrieking the Muppet barber-shop quartet giving him a shave is “ruining among the finest tunes ever.” The hokey jokes (the heavenly chorus combined with a familiar someone’s first appearance is revealed to become a gospel choir driving by inside a bus), the gleeful chaos, the tumultuous but suddenly emotional getting back of Kermit and Piggy, the plentiful and strange celebrity cameos (Feist? James Carville?) are there, and carry together the welcome squishy sense of being reunited with old buddies. The film’s peppered with call-backs towards the earlier Muppet films — the studio is endangered because of a clause in “the standard wealthy-and-famous contract” Kermit signed in the 1979 feature — but should please beginners to those figures too. The Muppets positively creates nostalgia — the Muppets really are a faded act even within the field of the film — however the affection it's and belief it shows in Kermit, Gonzo, Fozzie and also the relaxation exceed any backwards-searching sentimentality. The film might not leave any lasting mark around the Muppets, however it pays them an appropriate tribute and makes every tear it’ll sneak from you once the figures launch in to the Rainbow Connection — not since it’s familiar, but since it’s this type of goddamn lovely song. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Bob Costas on Jerry Sandusky's Sex Scandal: 'There Will Probably Be More' to depart the Analysis (Video)

Bob Costas came out on NBC's Rock Center With John Williams on Monday evening to go over Jerry Sandusky's sex scandal each week after making mind lines for his interview with former Penn Condition football coach.our editor recommendsHoward Stern on Jerry Sandusky: 'They Should Cut His B---- Off' (Video)Sarah Palin Requires Hanging of Jerry Sandusky Throughout Fox News Appearance (VIDEO)Jon Stewart Jams Jerry Sandusky for Bob Costas Interview: 'You Can't Even Bring Yourself to Lie Emphatically' (Video) 'Rock Center' Air: Bob Costas' Jerry Sandusky Interview Was 'Striking'Bob Costas Describes How He Showed up 'Very Strange' Sandusky Interview (Video)Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Appears On 'Today' To Argue His Innocence (Video)Jerry Sandusky's Interview With Bob Costas: What Hollywood, Audiences Say Per week ago's phone interview, Sandusky, that's been charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse against children, was adament that he's not just a child molester. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Finest Fantasy Football Fans However, if pressed by Costas if he was "completely innocent and wrongly accused in every single aspect," Sandusky responded: "Well I really could condition that, you understand, I have done numerous people things. I have horsed around with kids. I have bathed after workout programs. I have hugged them which i've touched their leg. Without intent of sexual contact." More youthful crowd recognized that might be some actions he regrets. "I shouldn't have bathed with people kids," he mentioned. VIDEO: Ex-Penn Condition Coach Jerry Sandusky Breaks Silence on Sex Scandal On Monday evening's Rock Center, Costas told Williams he needs there being a lot more to depart the story, especially since former FBI director Louis Freeh is heading within the analysis. "In my opinion immediately, most of us assumed, we've not heard all the it while using grand jury report," Costas mentioned. "There must be and gradually and progressively, and perhaps eventually in the torrent, you will notice more, not just accusations but we'll discover much more about what college government bodies, including Joe Paterno, understood, after they understood it and whatever they did and didn't do against whatever they should have done." Costas also contended that Sandusky handled to obtain worse on themselves along with his interview. OPINION: Major Mistake for Child molester Suspect to test TV Spin on 'Rock Center' "The general outline of his behavior, even what he's acknowledged to us, is actually troubling that that alone should have been enough to make use of it to own been taken," Costas mentioned of Sandusky's comments. More youthful crowd pointed a finger at Joe Paterno, who was simply fired within the role as mind coach on friday due to not verifying an accidents he observed nine in the past including Sandusky for the government physiques. "Giving Joe Paterno the whole benefit of the doubt, he won't have known that there's a university probe of Jerry Sandusky's behavior in 1998?" Costas mentioned. "Joe Paterno by all accounts understood precisely what happening within the program." VIDEO: Even Satan Upset by Penn Condition Scandal on 'SNL' Costas' interview the other day motivated strong reactions from the 3 major high-profile people, including Sarah Palin, who mentioned Sandusky needs to be hung Jon Stewart, who suggested that Sandusky was lounging and Howard Stern, who known for him being castrated. Meanwhile, Costas was famous for his handling in the interview by experts while others, including Stewart and also the famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey. Related Subjects John Williams NBC Rock Center Joe Paterno Jerry Sandusky Bob Costas

New Line Going On A Rampage

Classic computer game gets new lifeSince monsters both big and small are still a hot property for studios to shape films around, and video games remain a source of inspiration, it was only a matter of time before Midway Games' 1980s classic monster mash Rampage was targeted for cinematification.Rampage follows three humans who are mutated into a giant ape (but not King Kong), a giant lizard (but not Godzilla) and a giant werewolf (not many giant werewolves have iconic status, so they didn't have to worry so much about that one) and set about destroying city blocks while the military naturally tries to stop them. The object of the game was to cause as much destruction as possible. Fun!While the title has been updated over the years, the classic 8-bit and arcade version is the one that likely still lingers in the minds of those of the right age to have enjoyed the destruction.New Line has set Final Destination/Horrible Bosses producer John Rickard the task of finding a creative team to bring the movie version to life, presumably finding some relatable human story among all the madness...

OWN Builds up More Episodes From 2 Series

OWN: The famous host the famous host oprah Winfrey Network has acquired 8 additional cases of docu-series Our America with Lisa Ling, obtaining the second-season order for your show to 16 episodes, and 10 additional cases of the newcomer family docu-series Thank you for going to Sweetie Cake, getting a purchase to 18 episodes. Our America with Lisa Ling was probably the most effective series to premiere inside the initial couple of several days after OWN’s launch and the first to obtain a renewal. It's calculating 405,000 total audiences together with b .36 rating in women 25-54. Thank you for going to Sweetie Pies earnings 388,000 total audiences together with b .38 W25-54 and does especially well with African Us citizens.

Matt Damon's 'We Purchased a Zoo' to Sneak on Thanksgiving Weekend

Last Century Fox will sneak Cameron Crowe's We Purchased a Zoo on November. 26 -- four days prior to the Matt Damon-Scarlett Johansson starrer opens countrywide on 12 ,. 23.our editor recommendsScarlett Johansson and Matt Damons 'We Purchased a Zoo' Specific by PETA Charge time between your sneaks and also the movie's official debut date is unparalleled, based on Fox, and reflects the studio's confidence within the PG-ranked film. The film will have on November. 26 in additional than 800 theaters countrywide, although that number could grow. Sneaks are utilized by galleries to construct word-of-mouth and, in some instances, trigger reviews. "Every now and then, we're lucky enough to get possess a picture that audiences of all types and any age respond so strongly, it demands a large and unpredicted event. We Purchased a Zoo is the fact that type of picture -- and Thanksgiving is a superb time for you to share it via this special very early preview," Fox leader and chief marketing officer Oren Aviv stated. Fox made the decision to keep the sneaks in line with the outcomes of test tests in large metropolitan areas and America's heartland. The studio is joining up with TOUT on the "TOUT Takeover," that will allow individuals attending the sneaks to publish their very own reviews from the film (one entrant will win a visit for four towards the North Park Zoo). The social networking campaign will also incorporate a live talk to Crowe following a film, and tie-inches with Facebook . "I believe I'm the main one obtaining the early holiday gift," Crowe stated. "Holding previews to date in front of our opening is really a bold movie -- but that's one of the numerous reasons I love it." We Purchased a Zoo, also starring Elle Fanning and Thomas Haden Chapel, informs the storyline of merely one father who would like to give his family a brand new start and moves to some home that's smack in the center of a lower-and-out zoo. Together, he and the two children attempt to restore the zoo to the former glory. Crowe co-authored the script with Aline Brosh McKenna, with Julie Yorn and Ron Yorn creating. Related Subjects Matt Damon Scarlett Johansson Cameron Crowe We Purchased a Zoo

Tarsem Singh Really Wants To Direct 'Samurai Jack'

Following the in a major way success of his latest project "Immortals," director Tarsem Singh has his eyes around the project he'd prefer to tackle next. Tarsem lately told The Hollywood Reporter he want to direct the live-action version of "Samurai Jack," the beloved and significantly acclaimed animated series that broadcast on Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2004. The possibility director and subject combination will certainly have fans nodding their heads in complete agreement. Tarsem is famous particularly for his otherworldly pictures and may theoretically create a great director for that unique art direction of "Samurai Jack." The animated series went for four seasons and adopted the titular character, a feudal Japanese warrior banned towards the future because he frantically searches for the way revisit their own time. During the period of its run, the show won four Emmy honours. New Line attempted an active-action adaptation of "Samurai Jack" in the first 2000s using the now-questionable Brett Ratner in the helm. Whenever a film didn't materialize throughout that attempt, the privileges towards the film reverted to Cartoon Network, who presently holds them. No official discussions in regards to a Singh-directed "Samurai Jack" film have occurred. Singh's next film, "Mirror, Mirror," a brand new undertake the storyline of Snow Whitened is scheduled hitting theaters in March of the coming year. Do you want to visit a "Samurai Jack" live-action film directed by Tarsem Singh? Let's read your comments within the comments below as well as on Twitter!

'Burn Notice': Michael and Fiona Flirt While Taking Down Anson (Exclusive Video)

Anson is having a ball blackmailing Michael and Fiona on Burn Notice, but now it's the dynamic duo's chance to pull one over the evil genius. The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive clip that shows just how they'll attempt to emerge from the darkness -- and even a hint of flirting.our editor recommends'Burn Notice': Watch the Opening Scene From the Midseason Premiere (Exclusive Video)DC and USA Launch 'Burn Notice' Digital Comic'Angel's' Charisma Carpenter on USA's 'Burn Notice' (Photo) In "Necessary Evil," airing Thursday, Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) runs point on a CIA rescue mission involving a scientist kidnapped by a warlord. He and Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) take it upon themselves to break into -- literally -- a skyscraper in order to gain an upper hand in their battle with Anson (Jere Burns), the man who burned Michael. If the two-minute scene is any indication, there is no other pair than Michael and Fiona who can pull off a task of that caliber. And there is even a hint of flirting going on while the two hang hundreds of feet above the ground pretending to be window washers. "A burlap sack would be an improvement," Fiona says in the clip as she fiddles with her drab-looking uniform. ("You really want to argue at 300 feet in the air?" is another memorable Fiona quote.) "I think that they are gung-ho," Anwar tells THR of Michael and Fiona's motivation to get out of their current situation. "This character [Anson] has been infiltrating their lives for so many years and has been so clever, so cautious and so cunning, that they manage to weave such a complicated web over the course of so many years -- using family members and having incredible intelligence regarding Michael." She added: "Now, we're trying to catch up with how deep this man has dug this grave. There's plenty of hope, but this character is probably a significant match for Michael's wiles." Burn Notice airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the USA Network. Burn Notice USA Network

CBS Strange Title Punctuation Obsession

It seems like CBS brass approach creating the overall game game titles from the shows the way they choose their checking account passwords — by trying difficult to assemble an unduplicatable sequence of letters and amounts. Consistently within the last years, the network has employed unusual (and rather annoying for authors) punctuation inside their show game game titles. First it absolutely was Numb3rs, then $#*t My Dad States and Hawaii Five-, the network was adament we spell getting a zero as opposed to the letter “O”. Now came the announcement of CBS’ latest stump-the-keyboard series title, Make the most of! This is the title in the network’s midseason comedy series starring Make the most of Schneider. A choice of punctuation pertains to the series’ plot of a long-term bachelor (Schneider) who marries in to a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Still, will we keep the quirkiness and whimsy inside the shows and off their game game titles, por favor?

Access Exclusive: Whitney Houston Wants To Star In Waiting to Exhale 2

First Published: November 14, 2011 5:27 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Whitney Houston chats with Access Hollywood on the set of Sparkle in Detroit on November 10, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Whitney Houston will soon make her return to the big screen after 15 years in Sparkle, and only Access Hollywoods Shaun Robinson was on the movies set in Detroit to talk with the global superstar about her movie comeback and the possibility of her return to another beloved Whitney role. You know what, that Terry McMillan, she keeps calling me about that Waiting to Exhale 2, Whitney, who starred in the 1995 movie, told Shaun, referring to the author whose 1992 book inspired the film. I guess its inevitable. If my three other friends, my three ladies I think theyre all in, she said of co-stars Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon. I just have to Im just settling down, just getting this under my belt and once I finish with this, Whitney said of Sparkle, which also stars American Idol Season 6 winner Jordin Sparks. Im not going to say no. In Waiting To Exhale, Whitney played Savannah Jackson, a woman waiting for her lover to leave his wife a character that has more to say according to the star. Savannah has to be, she has to come back, Whitney added. For more of Shauns Robinsons Whitney exclusive, CLICK HERE and tune in to Access Hollywood for the full exclusive one-on-one interview on Monday and Tuesdays shows (check local listings). Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

CNN Lays Off 50 Staff: Places blame Technology

First video wiped out radio stations star, and today technology is killing editing and videographer jobs — a minimum of at CNN. The cable news network today let go 50staffers within the Atlanta, NY, Washington Electricity, La, and Miami offices. The majority of the cuts are among editors, photojournalists, and librarians.CNN SVP Jack Womack described these were triggered through the ability for virtually anybody to edit and publish video on their own computer systems, or look for history online, or make viewer-produced video. “Technology opportunities within our newsrooms are now allowing more desk-top editing and posting for broadcast an internet-based,” he authored within an internal email. “This evolution enables more and more people in additional places to edit and publish than in the past. Like a consequence of these technology and workflow changes, CNN is lowering the quantity of media editors within our work pressure in Atlanta. … We checked out the impact of user-produced content and social networking, CNN iReporters not to mention our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and professional-sumer technology is simpler and much more accessible. Small cameras are actually high broadcast quality. Much more of fraxel treatments is at the disposal of more and more people. After finishing this analysis, CNN determined that some photojournalists shall be departing the organization.”

Contender: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'

'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' See the reviewThe name's Smiley, George Smiley -- and he's the choice of 007 in just about any way: A tired old bureaucrat, cuckolded by his wife and overlooked from his top-ranking intelligence job, but, on his shoulders rides all hope of identifying the Soviet mole inside MI6.Gary Oldman wonderfully underplays charge role in this particular elegant, thinking man's spy movie -- a extended-shot picture contender -- as director Tomas Alfredson ("Let the most appropriate one In") takes his signal within the John Le Carre novel: Instead of showing sexy, save-the-world shenanigans unfolding over martinis and games of baccarat, "Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" finds its intrigue happening between crusty old bureaucrats purchasing and selling secrets in stuffy parlor rooms -- a indication that espionage is government work, ultimately.What needed the 1979 BBC miniseries greater than five several hours to talk, this dense yet remarkably dialogue-light adaptation does in just over two (a credit to scribes Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan), with critical the aid of an aspiration team of Brit thesps, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Tom Sturdy, John Hurt and Mark Strong -- a number of whom could nab a supporting jerk, if Focus helps voters determine which anyone to get behind.Start date: 12 ,. 9 FocusRead the number review Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com

What's Going To James Murdoch Say Tomorrow?

Experts I've spoken to calculate that James will improve briefed than he is at This summer — and could admit to some small mea culpa — when he returns to Parliament tomorrow to fix this news Around The Globe phone hacking scandal.He’s likely to still defend his inaction concerning the lawbreaking in face of mounting evidence he should have known much more about the issue earlier along the way than he formerly claimed. In This summer he refused knowing until late 2008 that phone-hacking at NOTW went beyond one rogue reporter. That will obvious him from the charge he approved hush-money earlier around when he approved a $1.4M settlement for any hacking victim who understood that the second reporter was involved — around the condition the victim he keep quiet concerning the matter. Since Murdoch claimed, senior News Worldwide professionals go public and stated James should have known the gory particulars simply because they told him. Along with a devastating legal opinion hascome to light from the lawyer known as Michael Silverleaf who labored for News Worldwide and stated that NOTW were built with a culture of illegal information gathering. There's no smoking gun to contradict James, just vague notes explained after briefing conferences with him. What's obvious would be that the phone-hacking scandal has blown apart the happy succession plans Rupert Murdoch had for James in the second greatest media conglomerate on earth. It’s a drama of Scriptural proportions: If James fails to get results a reputable performance tomorrow, then Rupert will need to sacrifice his boy to appease angry investors in addition to government authorities who wish to know whether News Corp broke what the law states — in addition to whether it may be reliable to possess a lot media energy. James is damned if he did know and damned if he didnt. If he is made conscious that phone-hacking was common, then why didnt he generate police sooner and why did the organization not launch its very own inquiry in 2008, 2 yrs before News Corp finally got round to looking into wrongdoing? And when he wasnt made conscious of all of this legal counsel which has subsequently emerged, surely as Boss he must have known. The experience begins tomorrow at 11:00 AMLondon GMT/3:00 AM La PST.

For Its Next Reboot, CBS Develops New Take on The Rifleman

Chuck Connors Classic black-and-white western The Rifleman could be blasting its way back onto primetime, with director Chris Columbus and CSI vet Carol Mendelsohn on board. CBS is developing a new take on the 1958 series, which famously starred Chuck Connors as 1880s-era sharpshooter Lucas McCain. The updated version will center on Civil War vet McCain as he moves to New Mexico territory to raise his son, Mark, and winds up joining forces with a sheriff to protect his new hometown. The Rifleman represents a crossroads of two major trends this development season, as the networks chase after western projects and series reboots. Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar) and Patrick Lussier will write the new version and executive produce. Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), who has a deal at CBS, will direct and also executive produce. Other executive producers include Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz (who runs Mendelsohn's production company). Rights holders Robert Levy, Steven Gardner and Arthur Gardner are also executive producers. Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner and Arnold Laven were the principals behind Levy-Gardner-Laven Productions, which produced the original The Rifleman. CBS TV Studios and Carol Mendelsohn Prods. are behind the new The Rifleman. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Roger Ebert Needs Help From Viewers Like You, and 6 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Monday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: A major Hollywood player isn’t as major as it thought… Matt Dillon and Julia Stiles find Pleasure with Mike Figgis and Neil LaBute… Miley Cyrus heads off to Transylvania… A few scat-ttered thoughts (ahem)… and more. · Roger Ebert wrote Sunday that he and his wife Chaz can no longer underwrite Ebert Presents At the Movies, the syndicated public-TV revival of his classic show with Gene Siskel. If they cannot round up enough funds by the end of December to keep the lights on, then that’ll be curtains for the Eberts and co-hosts Christy Lemire and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky. The commenters are suggesting a Kickstarter campaign, which I’d agree seems the best shot, though moving it to the Web seems an imminent reality as well. Millionaires, leave your contact details in the comments, I suppose. [Roger Ebert’s Journal] · Nothing like a little Monday morning nihilism! Try this look at the Hollywood travails of Reliance Entertainment, the Indian conglomerate whose infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars into such interests as DreamWorks and talent including Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt has yielded just about nothing in the way of dividends in three years. Welcome to the neighborhood! [The Wrap] · This sounds interesting: An AFM title making the rounds called Seconds of Pleasure, adapted by Neil LaBute from his own novel, directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Matt Dillon, Julia Stiles, Brendan Fraser, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Hendricks in “a series of intimate and emotionally charged events that occur among a small group of people traveling together on a trans-Atlantic flight from Chicago to London.” [Deadline] · And not to be outdone, Miley Cyrus has signed on to the animated Hotel Transylvania. She’ll provide the voice of Mavis, the sheltered daughter of monster-resort proprietor Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler). [EW] · Before you totally write off The Human Centipede II (but maybe a while after you’ve eaten breakfast), credit it with sparking this thought-provoking, much-needed essay on big-screen scat: “Once it was sex that was covert and unspeakable. Now, that’s been stripped of its mystery: in the movies, we get it in every conceivable form, including the real thing. Yet you’re not likely to see a screen hero take an actual dump any time soon.” [The Guardian] · Mere months before Andy Rooney died this weekend at 92, Chuck Klosterman approached the 60 Minutes commentator to sit for an interview. Rebuffed, Klosterman settled instead for this remembrance, which is a fine substitute. [Grantland] · What’s shakin’ in North Korea? Oh, not much, just envisioning the security challenges and regional defense scenarios upon the eventual collapse of the country’s regime. Now that’s a growth industry — someone alert Reliance Entertainment. [38North]

VIDEO: Charlie Day Creates to Host Saturday Evening Live

Danny DeVito and Charlie Day His Television show is within its seventh season. He starred inside a hit summer time film. And the wife is getting an infant! But this really is virtually no time to unwind and relish the moment, as it is Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day learned when he located Saturday Evening Live the very first time. Throughout his monologue, Day got an unexpected visit from his Sunny co-star Danny DeVito, who stated men like him and Day need to work because they are not pretty boys. "You are a virgin, guy. You gotta released of these people," DeVito stated. It pressed Day to sing an audio lesson and play some - because he known as it - mediocre piano: Watch more videos from Saturday Evening Live Day acquired the mic again to experience comedian Dirk "Jack-Knife" Cain for that approaching Nobleman of Catchphrase Comedy special. The fake commercial also featured Seth Meyers like a Boston Forces and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine getting assaulted with a hawk (no really): Day performed Kim Kardashian's lawyer within the mocking E! special Kim's Fairytale Divorce, which not just required hits in the reality star's 72-day marriage, but additionally her parents' extensive face work and colored her soon-to-be-ex-husband like a caveman. You don't need to be worried about Kim, though. "I am single and there is a National basketball association lockout ...": Charlie Day, Emma Stone and Jason Segel to host Saturday Evening Live SNL also parodied the financial crisis in A holiday in greece. Within the sketch, the Greek gods organised to resolve the issue simply to learn that there are never been any Greek god of finance. Dionysus, the god of festivals and drunkenness, has got the investing part lower, but never discovered the idea of saving cash:

Yoyochu within the Land from the Rising Sex ((Yoyochu: sex to Yoyogi Tadashi no sekai))

A Star Sands discharge of a Gold View, Star Sands production. (Worldwide sales: Gold View, Tokyo, japan.) Created by Kiyo Joo, Mitsunobu Kawamura. Directed by Masato Ishioka.With: Tadashi Yoyogi, Koji Okumura, Hikaru Kito, Satoru Makimura, Masanori Saito, Mina Kashiwagi, Genji Nakamura, Saki Kurihara, Toru Muranishi.When the term "porn auteur" could be right for anybody, it's most likely 72-year-old Tadashi Yoyogi, the fascinating subject of "Yoyochu within the Land from the Rising Sex." Helmed by Yoyogi's former apprentice Masato Ishioka ("Scout-Guy"), the docu is definitely an engaging summary of postwar Japanese erotic cinema told with the encounters of 1 of their most distinctive and effective professionals. Launched theatrically in Japan in Feb, pic's combo of racy footage and intelligent insight should help it to penetrate offshore homevid and niche broadcast marketplaces.. Born Teruo Watanabe in 1938, Yoyogi, known openly as "Yoyochu" but still turning out twelve films annually, is certainly not such as the sleazy operator one might expect from the resume including game titles for example "Psycho Hypnotic Ecstasy" and "Horny Amateur Wife." An affable sort who takes his work seriously, Yoyogi talks about his colorful existence and extremely changing financial fortunes with intelligence, candor and a large amount of dry wit. Docu launches by having an entertaining recap of Yoyogi getting into "pink" (hardcore) movies in early sixties following a brief career like a flower arranger along with a frightening stint controlling a mob-possessed strip club. Employed by the planet Eiga and Prima Planner companies, Yoyogi established his status with "Senior High School Geisha," a significant hit that sparked an obscenity situation against Nikkatsu, a staggering major studio that saved itself from collapse by subcontracting Prima Planner to create highly lucrative pornos. The upshot would be a six-year legal brawl, throughout which Yoyogi faced the possibilities of prison before support from respected company directors Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura assisted quash the situation. Stating his legal troubles as inspiration to look at clearly Japanese sexuality, Yoyogi moved into hardcore photos around the same time frame homevideo made an appearance. Benefiting around the then-astronomical rental costs for videotapes, Yoyogi directed a number of a relevant video-to-35mm theatrical hits that shot nude model Kyoko Aizome to national fame. Although just a little gushing together with his offscreen conversation, helmer Ishioka works in removing the highly personal motives regulating Yoyogi's directions within the 500-plus movies he's made, most significantly his concentrate on female sexuality and need to interact with femme audiences. Working together with entertainers on concepts and execution, Yoyogi accomplished spectacular success using the lengthy-running "Onanie" (masturbation) series and also the written-by-women "Lewd Performance" collection. Others films, by which women were hypnotized and sent into trance-like states happen to be less well accepted. The overall feeling among female entertainers showing up within the docu is summed up by Saki Kurihara who states, "You understood something important on his set." Peppered with testimony by key adult-video industry figures acknowledging Yoyogi like a groundbreaker deserving his status as "the seeker of truth within the sex industry," docu is definitely interesting, even though pace drags just a little toward the finish. Production values are modest but effective. Clips show lots of raunch, but mask out XXX-ranked areas of the frame. Tech jobs are fine.Camera (color/B&W, widescreen, HD), Ishioka, Ken Nishikawa, Kyuhei Tsubakihara editors, Ishioka, Toshihide Fukano music, Hideo Goto seem (stereo system), Yasushi Takizawa. Examined at Busan Film Festival (Wide Position), March. 25, 2011. (Also in Rome, Hawaii film festivals.) Running time: 115 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

ROLL CALL: Hollywood Halloween Hits: Jessica Albas A Witch, Nicole Richie As J.Lo & Jum Michele Does Black Swan

First Launched: October 31, 2011 11:09 AM EDT Credit: Twitter Caption Jessica Alba and money Warren go into the Halloween spirit in La on October 29, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Your Day-to-day Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans Jessicas Witchy Ways!: Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren experienced the Halloween spirit in the last weekend, talking about their costumes with fans on Twitter. My second evening just like a witch - better costume this time around around! the actress written. The pair chosen from the couples costume with Cash sporting a football players uniform. Jessica wasnt really the only witch to haunt Hollywood a couple of days ago. Uncover cure donned the big hat (but appears to own misplaced her broomstick) a couple of days ago, HERE! Plus, what did Heidi Klum, Kim Kardashian and Snooki be? All the spooky solutions are HERE! N.Lo?: Can anybody do J.Lo a lot better than Jennifer Lopez? Nicole Richie was spotted in the last weekend rocking J.Los trademark look (pink tracksuit, large ring ear-rings and aviator shades) while likely to a celebration on Saturday. Uncover if Nicole does J.Lo a lot better than the star herself HERE! Jum Can get Goosed!: Glee star Jum Michele paid out homage to Black Swan along with her weekend Costume. The actress donned a Swan Full getup, selecting for your less evil persona within the 2010 Oscar-winning movie. Have a look at Leas feathery costume, HERE! Brooke, Perhaps You Have Forget Something?!?: Brooke Mueller hit the red-colored-colored carpet within the 18th Annual Dream Halloween on Saturday without any costume and apparently, with no essential accessory, too. Wearing a shear top without any bra created mind lines for Charlies ex see Brookes wardrobe malfunction (censored clearly), HERE! -By Jesse Spero Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Bieber wades into piracy debate

New anti-piracy legislation would've nixed Justin Bieber's early career. Opponents of new anti-piracy legislation are turning to a music sensation to make their point that the proposed law would be an overreach: Justin Bieber, who weighed in during an interview with a Washington, D.C., music station. Bieber said that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) should be "locked up" for sponsoring a bill that would make profiting from illegal streaming of copyrighted content a felony. "People need to have the freedom...people need to be able to sing songs. I just think that's ridiculous," he said. But there's some question as to how much the 17-year-old Canadian knows about the legislation. Bieber appeared to have been informed about the bill by the radio show host and had to be told that one of its chief sponsors is a woman, not a man. The advocacy group Fight for the Future has been using Bieber's name and image on a website called FreeBieber.org, claiming that even user-generated videos of fans covering songs, which helped skyrocket Bieber to fame, would risk felony charges. Although Bieber was on the radio blasting the proposed legislation, his lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Fight for the Future, claiming that they were violating his trademark, publicity and privacy rights in their campaign against the bill. Advocates of the legislation, pending in the Senate and introduced in the House, say that Bieber and Fight for the Future are mischaracterizing what the bill would do. A spokeswoman for Klobuchar told the StarTribune in Minneapolis, "Justin Bieber must have been misled about the content of this bill. It's not about people posting their personal work to the Web. The bill only covers the intentional commercial theft of things like books, commercial music and movies, including foreign piracy." Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com

Charlize Theron Dips Into Zwart Water

Scott Derrickson writing & directingLooking to spread her genre wings, Charlize Theron is spearheading the development of horror thriller remake Zwart Water at Summit, with Scott Derrickson set to co-write and direct.Zwart Water (Black Water), also known as Two Eyes Searching, originated from inside the Netherlands. Directed by Elbert Van Strien, it makes sense a young girl who helps to make the disturbing discovery that her new friend and playmate can be a) her mother's dead twin and B) really rather dangerous. Theron is searching to see mother, a girl who's not quite sane herself.The actress acquired the remake rights for the movie a year ago and contains been busy setting things moving. She approached Derrickson as well as the Exorcism Of Emily Rose co-author Paul Boardman about crafting the script and pointing now they're searching to be made next season.Derrickson is presently in the office on another Summit film, Sinister, a found footage horror starring Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio.Theron, meanwhile, will next be viewed in Jason Reitman's Youthful Adult after which it has Snow White-colored As Well As The Huntsman searching for June 1 next season the following. And, unless of course obviously one of the film art galleries blinks, she'll be competing against herself in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, that's due within 24 hrs...

Which Lostie Will Need His Revenge on ABC?

Hiroyuki Sanada Hiroyuki Sanada, who came out inside the final season of Lost, has reserved a recurring role on ABC's Revenge, Entertainment Weekly reviews. Sanada, who referred to one of the Others, Dogen, may have Kioshi Takeda, a Japanese businessman with ties to Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camping). Commonly known as for his starring role in the last Samurai opposite Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe, the actor will first are available in Episode 9. ABC orders much more comfortable Being scripts Revenge, Suburgatory get full seasons Executive-produced by Mike Kelley, the contemporary undertake The Count of Monte Cristo first demonstrated to 10.15 million audiences. Its latest outing on Wednesday came 7.9 million audiences, compelling ABC to find the newcomer series for just about any full season. Revenge airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on ABC.

Lifetime Greenlights Movie About Fake Teen Pregnancy Starring Alexa Vega

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of last year’s Pregnancy Pact, Lifetime has greenlighted another original movie based on a true story involving the issue of teen pregnancy. The Pregnancy Project stars Spy Kids alumna Alexa Vega and is based on the true story of 17-year-old Washington state high-school student Gaby Rodriguez who pretended to be pregnant in an effort to explore conventional stereotypes and the treatment of pregnant teens for a senior year school project. The Pregnancy Project was written by Teena Booth who also co-wrote The Pregnancy Pact and penned the network’s Natalee Holloway films and the upcoming Drew Peterson Story. Norman Buckley (Pretty Little Liars) will direct. Barbara Lieberman and Tom Patricia executive produce. Additionally, Buckley executive produces the ABC Family pilot Bunheads, written/executive produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino. He is repped by Paradigm, which also reps Booth, and Rain Management Group.

Hugh Jackman: What's Next for the Actor

With the robot fighting feature Real Steel in theaters this weekend, star Hugh Jackman has several movies coming down the pipeline.our editor recommendsBox Office Report: Hugh Jackman Starrer 'Real Steel' Wins Weekend with $27.3 Mil'Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway' Returning to NY StageHugh Jackman's 'Real Steel': What the Critics are Saying'Real Steel': Hugh Jackman Talks Robot Boxing, Possible Sequel (Video)'SNL': Hugh Jackman Makes a Surprise Appearance But Not Playing Himself (Video) Real Steel snagged the No. 1 spot in the domestic box office, earning more than $27 million, but the Shawn Levy-directed film has received mix reviews, most referencing the Transformers and Rocky franchises. PHOTOS: 'Real Steel' Premiere "Rocky the Robot would have been the most accurate title for this bot-boxing melodrama, which feels like a mashup of spare parts from Transformers, The Champ, Star Wars and Sylvester Stallone's series, among other cash cows of various vintages," writes The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy. Here is what Jackson has in the works: STORY: 'Real Steel': 5 Things Seen and Heard on the Red Carpet Jackman co-stars in Butter, starring Jennifer Garner, as Boyd Bolton. The indie film centers on a young girl who discovers that she has a talent in making sculptures out of butter. Butter is set to be released Oct. 21. Following Butter, Jackman can next be seen in the ensemble feature, Movie 43, in which he co-stars with Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone and Kate Winslet, just to name a few. Banks directed the film as well, which will come out next year. Jackman also provided his voice for the upcoming animated film, Rise of the Guardians, which revolves around Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Jack Frost and other childhood characters teaming up to protect children's imagination. Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin and Jude Law are among the other voice actors. In addition to the long-gestating sequel to Wolverine, the Australian actor will play Jean Valjean in the big-screen adaptation of Les Miserables, alongside Russell Crowe. It was announced last month that Jackman would be making a return to Broadway with his show, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, for a 10-week stint at the Broadhurst Theatre. Performances are slated to begin Oct. 25 and go through Jan. 1, 2012, with opening night taking place on Nov. 10. Related Topics Hugh Jackman International Asia Real Steel

Cheers & Jeers: Morena Baccarin Lands on Homeland

Morena Baccarin Cheers to Morena Baccarin for proving she's flesh and blood on Homeland.Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.The Brazilian-born actress is best known for her role as alien queen Anna on ABC's short-lived sci-fi remake V. That makes her down-to-earth work as Jessica, the morally conflicted wife of tortured ex-POW Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) on Showtime's anti-terrorism drama all the more refreshing. As Jessica deals with her husband's PTSD - and grapples with the affair she had with his best friend after she assumed he was dead - Baccarin gives an emotionally (and sometimes physically) naked performance.She's not the only Homeland costar showing off a new side: Claire Danes displays an impressive toughness as a CIA agent whose obsession with exposing Brody as a sleeper borders on insanity, and Mandy Patinkin is admirably restrained as her wary mentor. Thanks to such a stellar ensemble, Homeland is truly out-of-this-world.What do you think Homeland - and Morena Baccarin?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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TALENT SIGNINGS: Start Up Business at UTA, CAA, ICM and Paradigm

Getty ImagesClockwise from top left: Tia and Tamera Mowry, Alicia Witt, Alex Shaffer Tia and Tamera Mowry, best renowned for their the 19 nineties sitcom Sister, Sister, have signed with UTA. The twin brothers and sisters presently star round the Style Network's reality seriesTia & Tamera. Tia also stars round the Wager comedy The Sport. She's also represented by manager Adam Griffin of Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment and attorney Kaira Small at Blossom HergottDiemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman and Goodman LLP.Tamera may also be represented by manager Tracy Steinsapir at Primary Title Entertainment and attorney Kevin Garlitz at Loeb & Loeb. Author-actor Craig Rothbart, who'll show on the completely new season of MTV's Punk'd, has signed with ICM. Rothbart, furthermore a comedian, was named one of the new Faces of Comedy as of this summer season's Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. He's also represented by management company 3 Arts Entertainment. Alex Shaffer, who starred in Tom McCarthy's Sundance breakout Mutually Advantageous, has signed with CAA. Mutually Advantageous was Shaffer's debut film performance. He's also represented by management company Anonymous Content. REVIEW: Mutually Advantageous Production shingle Lizard Purchasing and selling Co., which produces Animal Planet's Whale Wars, has signed with CAA. The business's other programs include Killer Outbreaks and Jockeys, because both versions also show on Animal Planet. Author-producer Michael Angeli, most recently a author and co-executive producer on NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, has signed with Paradigm. Angeli has furthermore offered as speaking to producer on USA's In Plain Sight and co-executive producer and author on SyFy's Battlestar Galactica. He was nominated with an Emmy in 2008 for outstanding writing for just about any drama series for Battlestar. He's also represented legally firmHansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren Richman Hurry & Kaller. Actress Alicia Witt, whose film credits are the Upside of Anger, Mr. Holland's Opus and Vanilla Sky, has signed with Paradigm. Witt's television credits include recurring roles on NBC's Friday Evening Lights and NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent she also co-starred on CBS' Cybill for four seasons and came out on David Lynch's Twin Peaks. She's also represented by management company Brillstein Entertainment Partners and lawyer Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Tamera Mowry Tia Mowry CAA UTA Paradigm ICM

Ellen DeGeneres Fine After Having Chest Pains

Ellen DeGeneres Ellen DeGeneres says she's fine after having chest pains that prompted her to call paramedics to her talk show studio Monday.Check out all the familiar faces returning to TV this year"First of all, I'm fine. Let me just say, I'm fine. The paramedics were strippers that I had called," she joked in a statement. "That's how the rumors got started." DeGeneres, 53, said she started having chest pains Sunday night, which she compared to two cats standing on her chest. The pain and tightness persisted when she got to work the next day, so she called the paramedics to be safe.Wanda Sykes reveals on Ellen that she had breast cancer and a double mastectomy"Then they come in with an ax. Break the door down. It was open. I don't know why they did that," she said. "They came in, they asked me all the questions: How are you feeling? When did it start? Family history? Can I get tickets to the 12 Days [of Giveaways show]? All the questions that they would ask, but everything is fine. I don't know what it is, but it's fine. I have a baboon heart that I had put in earlier."She continued: "But I want to say thank you to all the paramedics and the nurses who showed up and everybody and TMZ for caring so much ... I appreciate it."

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Fox Makes Kiefer Sutherland's Go back to Primetime Official

Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland's back at Fox and once more searching in order to save the planet, but this time around having a twist. Fox has given a strong series order to the touch, a brand new drama starring Sutherland because the father of the 10-year-old boy by having an unusual gift.Fox had formerly introduced Touch like a contender for midseason, but professionals desired to first begin to see the show's pilot before carrying out to some full pickup. Producers shipped the show towards the network earlier this year, and Fox professionals loved the things they saw.Touch continues to be given a 13-episode order and can air a while in spring 2012 on Fox, even though network has not trained with a strong airdate. Sutherland's old 24 home, Mondays at 9 p.m., is appropriate now set to become filled through the new drama Alcatraz in midseason."Every every now and then, you encounter a bit of material that you simply cannot refuse to," Sutherland states. "That, combined with chance to operate again with Peter Chernin and also the Fox studio and network, makes me thrilled to take part in this project. I additionally anticipate dealing with an remarkable author and producer like Tim Kring."Heroes creator Tim Kring is behind Touch, which stars Sutherland as Martin Bohm, a widower and also the father to his mute, seriously autistic boy, Mike. Martin struggles to speak with Mike, but eventually finds out that Mike provides hiding for an uncanny capability to connect designs and uncover this is behind apparently unrelated occasions happening around the globe.Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as social worker Clea Hopkins, while Danny Glover plays a maturing professor who helps Sutherland's character connect the dots. Sutherland can also be a professional producer around the project, together with Kring, Carol Barbee, Francis Lawrence, Suzan Bymel, Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope. twentieth century Fox TV may be the studio.Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Heleno

A Goritzia Filmes, RT Features, OGX and Downtown Filmes presentation. Created by Jose Henrique Fonseca, Rodrigo Teixeira, Eduardo Pop, Rodrigo Santoro. Directed by Jose Henrique Fonseca. Script, Fonseca, Felipe Braganca, Fernando Castets.With: Rodrigo Santoro, Alinne Moraes, Angie Cepeda.In attempting to mount soccer's response to "Raging Bull," Brazilian biopic "Heleno" offers both a cultivated feeling of noir as well as an antihero who will do the job: Heleno p Freitas, the pre-Pele idol of Rio p Janeiro sports fans and, like Mike LaMotta, a guy as famous for his violent temper as his for prowess around the area. But all of the sincere Scorsese references -- moody, mist-shrouded cinematography, homemovie sequences, operatic accents -- are ultimately distractions inside a story that manages to lose momentum in painful, protracted fashion. Chances for limited U.S. exposure appear remote, despite Rodrigo Santoro's bravura perf within the title role. Santoro constitutes a sleekly beautiful Heleno, whom helmer Jose Henrique Fonseca selects introducing in the most ravaged condition like a prematurely old guy, destroyed by without treatment syphilis along with a years-lengthy dependence on ether (that they sometimes appears breathing via a handkerchief throughout his many moments of stress). The film's opening shot ought to be Heleno looking vacantly in to the camera appears a questionable choice knowing in the start that this is when Heleno is headed waters down the impact of his eventual ruination because he transitions from national hero and lady-killer to cadaverous asylum inmate. So the intermittent expensive-forwards from Heleno's heyday within the '40s, when he's the unquestioned star of Brazilian soccer and, most probably, the guy who does lead his country to some World Cup. The first moments, however, using their grand, operatic score, are gripping: Heleno is really a brat who disparages his teammates as incompetents ("I play alone") and leads a rococo lovelife within the coffee shops, bookstores of Rio, juggling women like soccer balls. A couple of individuals women can come to rue your day they met him: Diamantina (Angie Cepeda), a luscious nightclub singer whose entrance inevitably recalls those of Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" and Sylvia, who marries Heleno and bears him a young child, however for whom he'll never entirely forsake Diamantina. The tragedy of "Heleno" is just one of time, as World war 2 pre-empts the 2 World Cups by which Heleno might have performed, by 1950 his personal devils have started to eliminate his career. "Heleno" thus stays inordinate time using its subject within the institution that he's eventually committed, the supposed hero from the story just as one object of pity lengthy of all time known as for, significantly speaking. The film's pictures are frequently spectacular, and also the match sequences recall not just the ring moments in "Raging Bull" but the immediacy of 2006 docu "Zidane: A twenty-first century Portrait." But Fonseca comes with an on-again, off-again relationship together with his camera although some of d.p. Walter Carvalho's shots are glorious, others appear pedestrian so that as ill regarded as the dwelling from the movie. Tech credits are usually good, particularly the seem work.Camera (B&W, DCP), Walter Carvalho editor, Sergio Mekler music, Berna Ceppas production designer, Marlise Storchi costume designer, Rita Murtinho seem (Dolby Digital 5.1), Michael Semanick, Rodrigo Noronha seem designer, Waldir Xavier. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema), Sept. 14, 2011. Running time: 117 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Stars Lineup For Backstage Emmy Gift Lounge

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