Showtime for Military/Navy

Pete Radovich, Matt Blank, Steve Karasik and Phil Simms preem a completely new Showtime doc in Gotham. Beribboned dress uniforms and unimaginably thick necks were p rigueur within the Museum of recent Art for Monday's preem of "A Game Title Title of Recognition," Showtime's new doc in regards to the annual Military/Navy football game.Since that game happened 12 ,. 10, helmer Pete Radovich mentioned the best cut in the film was ready only several hours just before the screening. "I changed into my suit inside the editing room and came the next,In . he mentioned, his hair ungroomed.Radovich and co-producer Steve Karasik produced in the doc within the Masters golf tournament. Karasik mentioned that particular in the advantages for your CBS team was simple business, explaining, "It's our game, ultimately. We air it on CBS every year.InchFollowing the screening, CBS Sports' Sean McManus appeared awestruck. "I believed they'd get archival footage about how precisely great the Military/Navy game was," he told the MoMA crowd. "When the ended by Cinemax, with people kind of production values, it could have cost millions. Everybody didn't spend millions, perhaps you have?In . Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Uggie's Best Supporting BAFTA Hopes Dashed

The Weinstein Co., who along with Movieline have championed Uggie the dog’s gripping performance in awards season frontrunner The Artist, broke the news today via Twitter that the canine thespian, alas, has not qualified for contention in this season’s BAFTA race. “@BAFTA has stated that @Uggie_TheArtist is not qualified to run as Best Supporting Actor for the role of ‘DOG’ #Sadmomentintime,” the studio lamented. Fear not, Uggie — the Oscars may recognize your genius yet! (Go Team Uggie!) [@WeinsteinCo]

Lionsgate Vice Chair Talks Charlie Sheen Show, Netflix, Summit Deal, 'Hunger Games'

Patty Jenkins Petty Jenkins is no longer directing Thor 2. The filmmaker, best known for directing the Charlize Theron movie Monster and AMC's pilot for The Killing, was to have been the first female director of a Marvel Studios movie. Alas, "creative differences" are being blamed. "I havehada great time working at Marvel," Jenkins toldThe Hollywood Reporterin an exclusive statement."We parted on very good terms, and I look forward to working with them again." The move is sudden since as late as Monday afternoon Jenkins was actively working on the movie. The filmmaker participated in an interview and photo shoot withTHRon Dec. 2, during which she discussed her involvement in the project and praised Marvel. "I have a long love of superhero films and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one," Jenkins told THR for a magazine feature on female directors that hits newsstands on Dec. 8. "That's the real revolution."The Marvel guys are so brave in terms of who they choose overall, and I don't think they had any pause about me being a woman." Jenkins told THR she had stayed away from features from the past several years because of her young son but eagerly accepted the Thor 2 job. "I met with all the actors and to my surprise, here we are," she said. Marvel is said to want to work with Jenkins again in some capacity. According to insiders, the studio is now on the hunt for a new filmmaker and the vacancy is expected to be filled very quickly. The director's departure is the second for Thor 2; Kenneth Branagh, who directed the first movie, did not return for a second outing, also citing "creative differences." Marvel had no comment. Pamela McClintock contributed to this report. Email: Borys.Kit@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Kit PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Thor: Behind the Scenes Thor Thor 2

Time Warner Chief States Hes Available To Purchases, If Theyre Cheap: UBS Confab

Time Warner Boss Shaun Bewkes needed a much better joke author to assist him acknowledge the anniversary from the blunder he earned at this past year’s UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference when he authored off Netflix, evaluating it towards the Albanian military attempting to take around the globe. He needed to eat individuals words as Time Warner, together with nearly everybody else, started certification programming towards the online streaming service. “This may be the appropriate place to indicate the Albanian military did take around the globe. Alexander the truly amazing?It’s close.” The road only elicited a couple of chuckles from experts, however they didn’t appear in your thoughts after hearing Bewkes say several things they desired to hear. Time Warner’sad sales happen to be”up double numbers (because the upfront market)and therefore are holding.” Although4Q would be a little soft,”some of that's marketers tugging stuff toward the upfront. … We’re searching acceptable for the very first quarter,” particularly with the return of National basketball association games. Younger crowd assured traders they don’t need to be worried about Warner Bros’ prospects following a finish from the Harry Potter film series. He stated that within hrs, the Harry Potter presence which has done this much for Universal’s Islands of chance park in Orlando “will relocate a fabric means by that direction” — recommending that the organization and Comcast will confirm reviews that Universal Galleries Hollywood will receive a version from the Wizarding Realm of Harry Potter attraction.”Everybody stay updated.” Younger crowd states the studio has high wants additional franchises such as the Batman/Dark Dark night series. For Time Warner’s cable channels, Bewkes states that The best spinner's and TNT are beginning to recuperate from a time of less strong-than-expected rankings. He credited the issue to some couple of syndicated series includingWithout A Trace and Law & Order he states “wore out.”About 5 years ago the main systems “were all economizing,” producing a dearth of excellent shows. “We obtain that rat moving with the lizard,” Bewkes states.Presently there’s lots of new hit shows such as the Large Bang Theory. “It’s now beginning to operate on The best spinner's, also it’s doing great. … We’re not soothsayers here. But we’re searching in internet marketing carefully” and feel positive. He didn’t eliminate the potential of an offer for National football league games but states he’ll only get it done whether it “fits with this want to make money. … We aren’t attempting to re-create ESPN.”Bewkesalso spoken up CNN, stating that its rankings are up around 30% “admittedly from what choose to go lower.” The growing concentrate on worldwide occasions and also the election campaign will have to CNN’s advantage, he states. “It’s a really lucrative funnel and it has been growing profits going back seven years.” Bewkes adds he isn’t worried yet about pay TV cord-cutting. The internet options continue to be mostly for early adopters and therefore are “not that simple to use.” Still, Bewkes defended his drum beating for TV Everywhere, which causes it to be feasible for pay TV services to provide cable funnel programming to mobile along with other digital products. “It’ll give customers a good deal. … The advertising can migrate as to the the interactive positives are.” Indeed, he states that the organization is seeing achievement from thepay TV companies who provide the Cinemax GO digital on-demand service. “Viewing expires substantially within the neighborhood of 30% to 50%,” Bewkes states. “I believe that continues over the base.” After many years of spinning off assets and coming back cash to investors — Time Warner came back 150% of their capital this season within the form ot stock repurchases and returns — Bewkes states he’s thinking about purchases. “We never rule them out. We’ve done about 20 deals within the last 3 or 4 years, 80% seem to be overseas.” But he stated he’ll only purchase a business that enhances Time Warner’s existingoperations, at prices that wouldn’t drive the stock lower.For instance, he’ll stay awayfrom “strange conceptual diversification into areas that nobody knows” — an apparent mention of the Time Warner’s disastrous merger with America online. “If some of you're pushing deals like this on having faith in clients, you shouldn’t.”

American Horror Story Exclusive: Will Constance Come Down for your Murder of Travis?

Jessica Lange It's a bad time to be moving hidden weapons within your purse, Constance. But can it be understandable? Constance, ultimately, just lost her daughter, discovered that Tate heavy-laden his girlfriend's mother (possibly while using Antichrist!) and found that someone sawed her tasty boy toy in 2. American Horror Story's Lily Rabe on Nora's heartbreak, mind wound Wouldn't you carry something for self-defense? Or, revenge? Bad the cops are starting to swarm. Look at this exclusive sneak look of Wednesday's new episode of yank Horror Story, "Smoldering Children," to uncover what Constance is packing nowadays: American Horror Story airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on Foreign exchange. You think Constance is condemned?

Roger Ebert's At the Movies, In Need of Funding, To Go on Hiatus

In a blog entry yesterday, Roger Ebert announced that Ebert Presents At the Movies, the public television film review show hosted by the AP’s Christy Lemire and Mubi’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, will indeed be forced to go on hiatus at the end of December while he and Chaz Ebert search for funding. “We hope our hiatus will be brief. You have told us you like the show. And we now have options. A touching number of viewers offered to send us money directly. One of the avenues we may take is a Kickstarter campaign, as you suggested. We will let you know as soon as that is worked out.” [Roger Ebert’s Journal]

Bryan Singer to Direct, Executive Produce NBC's 'The Munsters'

Barbara Hall and Gary Randall Lifetime is ready to have an affair. The female-skewing cable network is developing a high-end drama exploring the anatomy of extramarital affairs, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Barbara Hall(Army Wives, Judging Amy, Joan of Arcadia) will write and executive produce the project, with Gary Randall (The Glades) also aboard as an EP through his Grand Productions shingle. Described as a sophisticated look at an anatomy of an affair, each season of the potential series from Fox TV Studios would revolve around a different couple. PHOTOS: Jennifer Aniston's Lifetime Project 'Five' Screens in Washington, D.C. The untitled project reteams Hall with Lifetime, where she served as a consulting producer on Army Wives in 2008. Repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham, Hall's credits also include Chicago Hope and Northern Exposure. Randall, who was an EP on Saving Grace and whose The Glades was renewed for a third season last month, is repped Bloom Hergott. Lifetime also is developing This American Housewife, a drama from Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas exploring a woman who hears voices; a chaplain drama from Touched by an Angel's Martha Williamson; and Cinnamon Girl, a 1960s coming-of-age drama loosely based on Renee Zellweger's life. In addition, the network is also developing a period drama revolving around The Hollywood Reporter founder William Wilkerson with Johnny Depp's shingleInfinitum Nihil attached as well as a contemporary reboot of Steel Magnolias from Hairspray duo Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, among other projects. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit Lifetime Army Wives TV Development

The Lying Game Exclusive First Look: Sutton's Car Is Discovered Without Her

Blair Redford, Alexandra Chando, Christian Alexander Has The Lying Game's Sutton Mercer disappeared? ABC Family sets return dates for Pretty Little Liars, Lying Game and more When the ABC Family series left off, Sutton (Alexandra Chando) returned to town to reclaim her life, but before she could out her imposter twin Emma, she and her car went plunging into a lake. In our exclusive first look at the season premiere, Ethan (Blair Redford), Emma and Thayer (Christian Alexander) wait as the submerged car is discovered -- but not Sutton. Will Ethan and Emma tell the truth? Can they trust Thayer to be on their side? And will Sutton turn up? Exclusive: Charisma Carpenter gets in on The Lying Game The Lying Game returns Monday, Jan. 2 at 9/8c on ABC Family.

Mary-Louise Parker on Demian Bichir in 'A Better Life'

Released: Got married., November. 23, 2011, 12:00pm PTBy Parker'A Better Life'"Demian Bichir moves through Chris Weitz's 'A Better Life' as though he were weighted underwater. He seems being fighting for nearly any levity to produce him up for air, gesturing as being a guy trying to attempt greater than simple gravity. Carlos is certainly an illegal immigrant trying to create a far better existence within the united states . States for his teenage boy, outfitted with basically an art for taking care of the yards in the upper-class and a sense of decency highlighting round the superhuman. Demian gives Carlos a depth that's excruciating to behold, your time and energy needed to start his eyes feels punishing, as though they are fully aware what's approaching next, and rather than take another blow when you're witness to new disappointment, he'd much like soon stare in the earth. Any shred of hopefulness is actually thrilling to check out, and Demian provides people moments as sweetly and passionately while he does the moments when he fights for your strength to acquire up every morning. You will discover some harrowing moments that you watch a parent or gaurdian disintegrate they are moments that impress and inspire, but also for me it's the times when Weitz leaves the digital camera on Demian, when he appears to complete nothing, that take my breath away. In people moments it's as though he were trying to will the earth to avoid, and you also almost feel it could. Demian gives sophistication with a guy who's waiting for products to visit his way somewhat, and also, since he's doing the work so wonderfully, we wait with him almost holding our breath."Return to the SAG Preview Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Pereda gears up for 'Greatest Hits'

GIJON, The country -- Mexico City-based Interior 13 Cine is creating tragic comedy "Finest Hits," helmed by Mexican Nicolas Pereda, whose "Summer time of Goliath" capped Venice Horizons this year.Inside 13 Cine, which created Yulene Olaizola's Tribeca fest player "Artificial Paradises," will co-produce with Colombia's Burning Blue, run by Diana Bustamante and Jorge Ferrero. Holland's Hubert Bals Fund co-finances and it has distribution privileges for Benelux."Hits" toplines Gabino Rodriguez, the star of Pereda's features, and the other Pereda regular, Teresa Sanchez . It activates a parent and street bootlegger boy whose harmony is shattered through the return from the lengthy absent father.Based on Pereda, he was raised inside a Mexican society where lots of males desert their own families either from need or sheer irresponsibility. The daddy figure is absent in lots of of his films. In "Hits," he pictures the father's return. Pereda's fifth feature, "Hits" comes in three days, Interior 13 co-mind Maxiliano Cruz stated at Spain's Gijon festival, where "Hits" features in Puentes, a choose Europe-Latin America co-production forum.Gijon's primary industry event, Puentes is organized through the Media Program's Eave, an exercise initiative for brand new producers, and also the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Film's Buenos Aires Lab.It boasts a stylish bevy of projects, some from title company directors, shingles or producers, a minimum of for cognoscenti of Latin American film. Chile's Forastero, producers of Golden Globe-nominated "The Maid," is really a moving lady-in-crisis drama "I Apologize Mother," to become helmed by Sebastian Lelio ("The Entire Year from the Tiger").Sara Silveira's Dezenove Som e Imagens is co-creating "Rosa F.C." helmed by Michael Wahrmann and occur the immigrant neighborhood of Sao Paulo.Ex-Wild Bunch professional Lucie Kalmar is creating Niles Atallah's "Rey" and Buenos Aires' Utopica Cine, producers of "Las Acacias," is backing Fernando Salem's "How The Majority Of Things Work," an understanding-good comedy road movie having a pop-art aesthetic. Utopica is fielding multiple European co-production offers, "Things" producer Paula Massa stated at Gijon. Puentes experts include UDI's Frederic Corvez ("The Colours from the Mountain"), Jean des Forets at Petit Film ("Cold Water from the Ocean"), The planet pandora Filmproduktion's Christoph Friedel ("Medianeras") and Michel Ruben at Colombia's Dynamo ("Blind Alley"). Puentes runs November.22-24. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Paul Motian dies at 80

American drummer-percussionist Paul Motian, who performed with probably the most influential jazz pianists from the '60s and '70s including Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley because he advanced the word what of their own instrument, died Tuesday morning in the hometown of Manhattan, where he labored continuously right until a year ago. He was 80. Reason for dying was complications from myelodisplastic syndrome, a bone-marrow disorder. Of Armenian heritage, Motian was famous for his use the legendary Evans trio, which incorporated the bassist Scott LaFaro, that led to the classic tracks "Explorations," "Sunday in the Village Vanguard" and "Waltz for Darlene." When LaFaro experienced an untimely dying inside a vehicle accident at 25, Motian ongoing recording with Evans and various bassists on such albums as "Moonbeams" and "Trio 54," with Chuck Israels and Gary Peacock rounding out individuals ensembles. Motian wound up recording 14 albums with Jarrett between 1967 and 1992 included in the pianist's trio and American quartet, rounded out by bassist Charlie Haden and saxophonist Dewey Redmon, in addition to seven albums with Bley. In keeping with his title, Motian's drumming developed into an progressively free-form style, indicated by shifting time signatures and extensive utilization of cymbals, cow alarms, chimes and the like. Together with Elvin Johnson, Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette, Motian was accountable for getting the drums towards the forefront of yankee jazz, creating their own music and leading their own groups. After Manfred Eicher released ECM in 1969, Motian headlined several albums for that forward-thinking label, joining a roster of music artists with whom he'd frequently worked with, including Jarrett, Bill Frisell, Peacock, Carla Bley and Don Cherry. Younger crowd recorded for Soul Note Records, JMT Records and Winter & Winter Records. Motian also performed with Thelonious Monk, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano. Like a bandleader, Motian recorded a lot more than 30 albums, together with his own trio frequently composed of guitarist Frisell and reedman Joe Lovano. His groups recorded tributes to Monk and Evans and a number of live Broadway albums featuring his understanding of standards. Since Motian first began out playing guitar in the youth, a lot of his designs featured the instrument conspicuously, such as the Electric Bebop Band, which featured multiple various guitars. Contact Steve Chagollan at steve.chagollan@variety.com

Distribs, theaters undertake new media

Secret Cinema held a screening of Lawrence of Arabia at Londons Alexandra Structure. Alamo Drafthouse visited unusual measures to lure auds: A caged Santa attacks at "A Christmas Tale." A menu of dishes within the films welcomed Harry Potter auds within the Alamo Drafthouse.Alamo Drafthouse interred four lucky individuals who win to check out Hidden utilizing their own private coffins. Can kung-fu fighting monks, cave tests and feral, caged Santa Clauses save the film biz? Participants sure hope so. All over the world, theaters and distribs are fighting competition from new media by turning firstrun tests to the kind of occasions you need inside a theme park or condition fair. London's Future Cinema, set striking NY and Paris next season, draws around 17,000 people due to its surprise Secret Cinema tests, getting a troupe of stars interacting while using audience in conditions staged to fit the film. Alamo Drafthouse travelled an authentic-existence "Iron Guy" getting a custom jet pack above among its theaters round the film's opening weekend. Microdistrib Variance Films enlisted local comics for 10-minute preparation sets and publish-screening Q&Because of its comic doc "American: The Total Amount Hicks Story." Though indie films could make their finest profits via one-evening or weekend event tests, one obstacle with this approach, notes filmmaker and "Think Outdoors el born area Office" author Jon Reiss, is always that news shops usually won't give crucial reviews for films booking within extended run. These men that box office of those runs usually isn't totalled by Rentrak or other monitoring services, that could handicap filmmakers trying to find ancillary deals. So far, most event tests have devoted to ingenious revivals, for instance Alamo Drafthouse's Moving Roadshow programs, plus a "Jaws" screening for audience people floating on inner- tubes in the lake. They became a member of with NY City-based Roof Films to supply "The Godfather, Part II" inside the same Little Italia neighborhood where it absolutely was set. "Art galleries are frightened about piracy, too as with an outdoors atmosphere, that's a little harder to handle,In . states Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League, who could overcome concerns for his preview in the spelunking thriller "The Descent" in the real Texas cave. "You can easily possess a cave," he describes. "There's only one entrance." You will discover other creative techniques to help keep films contained: Secret Cinema staged "One Travelled Inside the Cuckoo's Nest" inside a abandoned U.K. hospital. Firstrun distribs are starting to program event tests for a lot of new releases. Future Cinema founder Fabien Riggall, who staged everyone "people premiere" of "Watchmen" with 60 stars among London tunnel replicas in the film's sets, is at discussions getting a significant studio to screen an unreleased Oscar contender london the next month. Having its recognition, the outfit may charge around $55 dollars a ticket without naming the movies being examined in advance -- basically a request audience people to use appropriate attire specific toward the film being proven. Aside from an periodic cryptic image launched with media partner the Protector, Secret Cinema occasions aren't promoted -- just introduced having a 120,000 email e-e-newsletter clients, 100,000 Facebook fans and 18,500 Twitter fans. Riggall states his Secret Cinema occasions could cost 100,000-200,000 ($157,000-$315,000) to stage -- he expects to create the tests (which run in the evening to just about 72 hours) to La and San Francisco Bay Area soon, although he wouldn't divulge n box office revenue. Aside from showing live concerts, ballets together with other occasions via their 15,000-screen theater network, NCM Fathom teamed with Summit this month for "Twilight Saga Tuesdays," one-evening-only tests in the first three "Twilight" films with behind-the-moments content and footage unseen in theaters, all to create more fascination with the completely new "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1." For your relieve Guy Maddin's "My Winnipeg," Canadian distrib Maximum (now eOne) arranged for Maddin to provide live narration at choose tests, including an Images Festival event featuring $40 Private room seating with gift bags. Charlotte now now Mickie, eOne professional V . p ., sees an opportunity for distribs to take advantage of gift bags, live performances together with other incentives getting a larger ticket cost, stating Canada's Open Roof Festival as staging effective summer season-extended occasions using this strategy along with Canadian entrepreneurs. Its not all films need large promotion budgets, freebies or greater ticket prices to create must-see event nights. Variance Films could generate monks to exhibit kung-fu moves within the NY and L.A. opening of the doc "Shaolin" for simply free screening tickets for temple, together with a chance for that monks to feed out flyers and acquire website/e-blast promotion for school. Other low-cost Variance occasions have incorporated air-drumming contests inside a doc about the subject ("Adventures of one'sInch) and becoming the composer of experimental doc "General Orders No. 9" into cinemas to do a "3d augmented score" live. Distribs for instance Monterey Media, Cinema Purgatorio, Canada's Films We Like To as well as the U.K.'s Dogwolf, additionally to venues like L.A.'s Cinefamily, also make occasions an ordinary part of their business strategy. Some filmmakers have a hybrid approach, with event preview tests prior to the official opening. Reiss notes the being a parent comedy "The Most Effective as well as the Smartest" enlisted stars for instance Amy Sedaris and Kate Mulgrew to appear in a few in the 200 tests in 24 urban centersOrlocations before its official opening, grossing between $600 to $2,600 per screening in 50/50 or 70/30 splits (most for your filmmaker) with theaters after expenses. Such hooplah is definately not new inside the film biz. Inside the 19 thirties, Depression-era audiences were drawn to theaters for just about any "Bank Evening" cash lottery, and weekly "Dish Evening" tableware freebies. When the economy rebounded after World war ii, theaters faced another frightening threat -- television -- leading those to develop gimmicks like 3d, Cinerama, William Castle-era vibrating seats ("The Tingler"), floating glow-in-the-dark skeletons ("House on Haunted Hill") and Smell-O-Vision to lure audiences utilizing their sets. Current day participants face the double challenge from the bad economy and new media (VOD, videogames an online-based distractions) siphoning audiences away. Possibly nobody in the market is refreshing the gimmick era a lot better than Alamo. The Ten-theater Texas-based chain (with new venues searching for Colorado and Austin) serves food and booze with every firstrun film. The Lamar theater's car park situated a 40-ft-tall, fire-breathing robot for "Transformers" opening weekend, hidden four participants alive to check out "Hidden" in their own personal private coffins, staged a thrilling-day "camping" for "Freddy versus. Jason" and provided lobby photo-procedures getting a caged Santa within the opening of "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale." Round the dining front, they situated a Rocky Mountain oyster-eating contest for "Your Highness" and offered a Harry Potter-designed menu when "The Deathly Hallows Part 2" unspooled. These mainly homespun designs typically cost no more than $1,000-$2,000 cost for your frightening Santa promotion was $500. But Drafthouse labored with Paramount's marketing department to counterbalance the cost from the Robosaurus for "Transformers" (cost roughly $25,000), since it does for exhibits with lots of event films that have "superfans." The "Hidden" stunt ended up costing $8,000-$9,000, despite the fact that the distrib didn't cover the reduced-budget film's promotion, as well as the film not successful gain large box office, League is just pleased the studio's legal department didn't halt the live burials. "I don't think there's a quantitative approach to evaluate" simply how much the promotions improve their theaters' grosses, League states. "We percieve it if this involves what our identity can be as a company. It's part of our marketing and branding strategy -- you need to be known to as theater that's run by fans for fans, and frequently meaning doing stuff that don't appear sensible for that conclusion.Inch "If the key moment of year to suit your needs might be the brand new Harry Potter film opening, you need tomorrow being special," League describes. "If you're just prone to serve somebody an overpriced Coke and popcorn and turn on the projector and show people some ads and show the film, that is not special enough." n Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Hat Trick brings improv to India

Published: Get married., November. 16, 2011, 12:52pm PTHat Trick Intl., the distribution arm of Blighty's Hat Trick Prods., has joined with India's Miditech to create improvisational half-hour "Whose Lines Are It Anyway?" towards the subcontinent. The venture will expand the company across TV and live-event platforms. Headed by siblings Niret and Nikhil Alva, Miditech is well-established in India, getting introduced "Survivor" and "The Voice" towards the country. Miditech will pitch the show to Indian tv stations and aims to have it on air the coming year. Hat Trick Intl. also distributes BBC gamer "Is It Necessary News for you personallyInch and Showtime's "Episodes," with Matt LeBlanc, among other content. :- Serta Doperalski Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

PBS Uk Launches On BSkyB, Virgin Media

The U.S. Public Broadcasting Service, extended an importer of British fare, will endeavour to return the favor beginning Tuesday while using launch of PBS Uk, the Wall Street Journal reviews. The choice includes U.S. flagship shows PBS News Hour and Frontline, the science series Nova, the U.S. version of Antiques Roadshow (format imported from Britain), and documentaries from director Ken Burns, whose Prohibition (pictured) will air on Day 1. It’s PBS’ initial foreign foray since the service was founded greater than four decades ago. PBS Uk will air on Britain’s two finest pay-TV platforms, British Sky Broadcasting andVirgin Media Corporation. It'll be available to about 14 million audiences, roughly half the country’s TV audience. PBS is late for the party because it doesn’t have a lot of money. U.S. commercial systems for instance MTV, Nickelodeon, Discovery and CBS come in the U.K. for any very long time. “The primary concern is to find our content to have an audience that we know comes with an interest inside the work we produce,” mentioned PBS leader Paula Kerger. The push for PBS to combine the Atlantic originated from getting a request from David Lyons, founding father of Quadra Group. He asked for the program to produce a U.K. funnel as they will be a longtime viewer of KSPS-TV, the PBS affiliate in Spokane, Clean., and respected the programming. “It’s among the primary lights of yank culture,” mentioned Lyons, a Canadian businessman dwelling in England and interested in PBS News Hour. Quadra and PBS Distribution will be the joint entrepreneurs of PBS Uk, which unlike PBS in the usa will run ads. Quadra has invested vast amounts to create the U.K. funnel. PBS Distribution setup the rights for the programs.

Sierra Club Begins New Showbiz Initiative: Employs Hollywood Publicist To Enlist Stars

Deadline team member Anthony D’Alessandro files this report: EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has found that Melissa Sun, Vice president of Stan Rosenfield and Affiliates, is going to be getting into a brand new position in the Sierra Club where spend be connecting in the entertainment industry using the national environment group.Her new role may be the Sierra Clubs Senior Strategist for Entertainment Relations, located in La. Sun is assigned with creating significant possibilities for celebs to assist Sierra Clubprotect climate,drinking water and open spaces.The audience wants stars to helppressure the Obama Administrationto reject granting a permit for any 1,700-mile oil pipeline running from Canada towards the Gulf in addition to push the Environment Protection Agency to limit the conventional on mercury pollutants especially from coal plants.Sun was courted through the Sierra Club to produce its new entertainment branding and strategy initiative, based on Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who told Deadline: Melissa caught our eye together with her background, making her an individual we're able to not do without.She knows the way the entertainment industry works and it has an interest to locate individuals who might help the Sierra Club in developing projects, campaigns and methods. As Sun told Deadline, “I have always attempted my better to consume a eco-friendly lifestyle and that i understand this great chance with Sierra Club in an effort to hand back towards the atmosphere. And when it does not reduce my own carbon footprint, I have no idea what's going to.” Sun has labored with SRA since 2005 rising with the ranks from assistant to Vice president, handling such clients as Helen Mirren and Danny DeVito, afterexperience like a broadcast journalist at KNBC-TV and KSBW-TV in Northern California. SRA clients like DeVito have doneSierra Club PSAs, similar to this anti-Climatic Change campaign in which the actor made an appearance using the cast of their Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

Shame Officially NC-17, and Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in this edition of The Broadsheet: Carey Mulligan on her part of earning Shame’s controversial rating… Sylvester Stallone gets sued over The Expendables… The End is nigh for Warner Bros…. Shakespeare supporters protest Anonymous… and more. · You can’t really call this “news” after everything that’s been written and otherwise rumored about Shame, but as presumed, the MPAA ratings board has officially issued an NC-17 for Steve McQueen’s acclaimed new film about a sex addict (played by Michael Fassbender) in NY City. Distributor Fox Searchlight expected it all along and will attempt to make it the first NC-17 picture ever nominated for an Academy Award. Good luck! Sincerely — after 21 years, it’s time. [Deadline] · Speaking of Shame, Carey Mulligan says her full-frontal nude scene “wasn’t uncomfortable”: “It was a very small set and a very small crew, so it didn’t feel like I was doing it in front of that many people.” Ha! I saw her topless from the front row of a recent stage production in NYC. Live! Mere feet away! The Half-Mulligan! There were hundreds of us! Anyway. I’m just saying… Honestly, I don’t know what I’m saying. [LAT] · A screenwriter named Marcus Webb filed suit in NY on Tuesday, claiming that Sylvester Stallone lifted the concept and plot of his blockbuster The Expendables from Webb’s unproduced — but registered, copyrighted and circulated — screenplay The Cordoba Caper. Aha! So Webb is the responsible party! Get him, everyone. [Reuters] · Warner Bros. has picked up The End, a spec script chronicling three interweaving tales of people facing the imminent end of the world. [Deadline] · Meet the clowns protesting the London premiere of Anonymous by removing Shakespeare’s hallowed name from road signs. Sigh. Can’t they protest Hostel 3 or something genuinely offensive? Suggestions welcome. [BBC via NYT] · Regardless of your affinity for Pearl Jam, this interview with the editor of Cameron Crowe’s recent band documentary provides revealing insight to how your grunge-rock anniversary sausage is made. Or most any authorized music doc, for that matter. [The Awl]

'Paranormal Activity 3': With the Amounts

Because you can read formerly Friday, Tim Burton is developing a balloon for your Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade this year. Spoiler: it seems just like what you'd expect a balloon produced by Tim Burton to look like. But wait, how did the prolific director end up producing this exclusive -- if slightly unforeseen -- recognition? Uncover might four other fun particulars ahead. 1. This product features a fast-food friendly title... Burton named this product "B. Boy," though pals can certainly reference him (it?) as "B." 2. ...along with an intricate backstory imagined up by Burton themselves. Since the 'Alice in Wonderland' relayed to NY Occasions author Dork Itzkoff, "B. Boy" includes a significant history. According to an origin story imagined up by Mr. Burton, B. was created, Frankenstein's monster-style, within the leftover balloons found in children's parties within the Great Ormond Street Hospital london. Forbidden from getting fun along with other children because of his jagged teeth and crazy-quilt stitching, B. retreated with a basement lair, where he obsesses over Albert Lamorisse's film 'The Red-colored-colored Balloon' and dreams he, too, will have a way to fly sooner or later. 3. Parade planners wooed Burton for a long time... Burton is really a sort-of Moby Dick for parade planners, as they've been searching to make him create a balloon inside the parade since 2004. The efforts ramped up after Burton's effective exhibit within the Museum of recent Art in the year of 2010. Eventually, they are able to shown Burton illustrations from Tony Sarg, a balloon designer inside the '20s and '30s who used a visible such as the director. 4. ...after which it only had one request. "Really the only guideline we gave him is: Try to step away from something skinny and sharp," Macy's parade creative director Bill Schermerhorn told the Occasions. 5. The Actor-kaira Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter aren't involved. Yet. [via NYT/ArtsBeat] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

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Occupy Protest: Our Lady Peace Support Spurs Fan Backlash

TORONTO -- Canadian rocker Raine Maida and fellow people from the Canadian rock-band Our Lady Peace have sparked blowback using their fans for carrying on Occupy Everywhere protests in La, Toronto and Detroit.our editor recommendsCanadian TV Host Calls Chris Hedges A "Left-Wing Nutbar" For Occupy Wall Street CommentsKanye West Visits Occupy Wall Street ProtestsOccupy Wall Street Protest Propagates To CanadaRelated Subjects•Occupy Wall Street "I've had some really vicious, vicious e-mails and vicious tweets," Maida, who lives in La with wife and fellow Canadian music performer Chantal Kreviazuk as well as their three children, told the Canadian Press news wire service Monday. PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy La "LA Occupy march going to begin. Fight the great fight!," Maida authored on his Twitter account Saturday. "...getting my children.have them engaged/active as soon as possible. They will be those who redefine theWorld," he put in another tweet. But individuals fan call-outs triggered a backlash from some Our Lady Peace fans. PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy Wall Street "I'm very amazed at how polarizing it's been. Within our heads, I believe, it affects everybody -- we're speaking 99 %, we're speaking about undoubtedly nearly all everybody we connect with,Inch Maida, an open critic from the U.S. Iraq war, told the Canadian Press. Our Lady Peace bandmember Jeremy Taggart attended an Occupy Toronto event Saturday because the stateside Occupy Wall Street protest movement spread to Canada around the weekend. Along with a third band member,Steve Mazur,attended an Occupy Detroit event. Related Subjects Worldwide Occupy

Hank Williams Junior. Produces Song, Appears on Talk Shows After Hitler-Obama Uproar

Hank Williams Junior Since his Monday Evening Football opening theme song remains permanently punted within the broadcast, Hank Williams Junior. has written a sound lesson zinging Fox & Pals and ESPN which is taking for the airwaves to resolve his experts.See the relaxation in the day's news on TVGuide.comIn the song, he sings: "So Fox 'n Pals wanna put me lower/Request my estimationOrDistort everything around." He concludes: "Well two can also enjoy that gotcha game you will notice.InchHis lyrics also the U.S. is "likely to waste" which is "The united states . Socialist States of America" - and urge keeping Fox & Pals and ESPN out of your house."I've been recording for five decades, which i understood that old over-the-fence feeling on that certain," Williams told The Connected Press.Hank Williams Junior. issues apology regarding Obama-Hitler statementAfter the country singer came out round the Fox News Funnel morning show and offered a good example that Leader Obama and House Speaker John Boehner golf together was like Hitler and Netanyahu playing, the sports network suspended his "Is not it time for a lot of football?" song making the move permanent on Thursday. The song was some the show since 1989.When's the sport on? Add Monday Evening Football for the watchlist and never miss a game title title againHe planned to to research the View and Hannity Tuesday to talk about the uproar.Meantime, the completely new song could be acquired totally free for 48 several hours at Williams' website - to will also get a "Hank Junior. for Leader" T-shirt.Williams wound up with a lot of high-profile defenders the other day, including Whoopi Goldberg, Pleasure Behar, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, proclaiming that his First Amendment rights were violated by ESPN. In the last weekend,Sunday Evening Live couldn't resist undertaking a sketch lampooning Williams.

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Mortensen! Knightley! Fassbender!David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Way is screening within the BFILondonFilmFestival inside a couple of days and many types of-too-progressively approaching its February 10, 2012 release. But merely to keep you going meanwhile, this is a sneak try looking in the UKquad for your film, featuring the slicked-back hair of Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and MichaelFassbender.It's all regulated controlled the story in the relationship betweenSigmund Freud (Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Fassnbender), and the way that changes when Jung's adherence to Freud's ideas are challenged by new patients Sabina (Knightley) and Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel). Click below to enlarge.Dangerous Method QuadTogether with Shame, it may result in the 2010 LFF a stylish crisis double bill for Fassbender, and a bit of the departure for Knightley, who certainly breaks from her usual roles here.

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EXCLUSIVE: David Morse remains cast in Vital’s zombie-unwanted pests pic World War Z, the Marc Forster-directed adaptation in the Max Brooks novel which has been searching for a December 12, 2012 release. Morse, who stars on Cinemax’s Treme after which appears on movie screens in Disney’s The Odd Information On Timothy Eco-friendly, may have a prisoner dwelling within an abandoned jail in World War Z, which stars Kaira Pitt, Mireille Enos and James Badge Dale. The Two-time Emmy nominee is repped by UTA and Kipperman Management.

MTV Buys Krysten Ritter/Eric Garcia Drama, USA Buys Richard Murphy Dramedy

Krysten Ritter, star of ABC’s upcoming comedy series Apartment 23, has sold her first TV project as a producer, hourlong drama Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys based on Eric Garcia’s novel of the same name. Garcia (Matchstick Men) will write the adaptation, described as being in the tone of Heathers. It centers on a 22-year-old overachiever who gets her dream job as a lawyer for a Hollywood studio but cant’s find a guy ready for a real, mature relationship. After the latest disappointment, she locks a guy up in her basement in order to train him to become the perfect gentleman. Ritter and Garcia are executive producing. Ritter, repped by WME, the Group Entertainment and Sanders/Armstrong/Caserta, co-wrote, produced and stars in the indie Life Happens. Garcia, repped by WME and IPG, is writing Wheel of Time for Universal and The Prize of Peril for Sony. USA also has bought a project by a screenwriter/novelist. The cable network has closed a deal for Wayward Bound, an hourlong dramedy from Richard Murphy about employees at a boutique travel company struggling to navigate life while guiding their clients through the concrete jungle that is Los Angeles. Murphy will executive produce with Deborah Spera and Maria Grasso. Sony TV, where the 2 are based, is producing. Murphy, managed by Anonymous, previously wrote an adaptation of his novel Confessions Of A Contractor for CBS, with Shawn Ryan executive producing.

Social Power Rankings: Glee Makes People Cry!

Glee "Asian F," Tuesday's emotional roller coaster of an episode of Glee, certainly got people talking - and as a result, it's No. 1 in Wednesday's Social Power Rankings. The consensus? It made people literally weep. "Last night I was a crying mess. Anyone who has been in a drama club or a glee club understands the emotions Mercedes has," says TVGuide.com commenter Giovanni Moretti. "When Will sang to Emma, that was it, all over, the entire box of Puffs was gone." Fans were also glad to see Mike Chang and Brittany Pierce take center stage. "It's strange to think that back in Season 1 Brittany and Mike were just window dressing," says TVGuide.com commenter bobby-j. "Heather [Morris] and Harry [Shum] have proven that they can dance, act, and sing. It was nice seeing them getting some good screen time."Other hot topics: Wednesday's premiere of American Horror Story, the possible end of The Simpsons' 23-season run and the cancellation of The Playboy Club. User @nevrothwen tweeted: "Am I the only one who actually liked Playboy Club?" Answer: Yes. (Sorry.)Check back anytime to see the latest Social Power Rankings, which are updated in real time throughout the week.

Could Michael C. Hall Bid Farewell To Dexter?

Michael C. Hall May be the sixth season of Dexter be star Michael C. Hall's last? Contract discussions for your actor to return next season have hit a snag, Deadline reviews. In line with the site, contract talks eliminate Monday - the following day from the serial killer drama's sixth season premiere increased being Showtime's most-seen season opener in 14 years. Hall, who also may serve as an expert producer around the program, looks like it's asking for $24 million over the following two seasons the cable network offered $20 million. Have a look at our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars plus much more! Showtime remains hopeful about striking a deal due to two seasons a treadmill, according to Deadline. Reps for Showtime and Hall had no discuss the report. Hall, 40, won Golden Globe and Screen Stars Guild honours for his performance this past year. Before Dexter, he starred on HBO's Six Foot Under for five seasons. Dexter airs Sundays at 9/8c on Showtime.

25 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Hustler'

Rack 'em! This week marks the 50th anniversary of 'The Hustler,' the landmark drama that cemented Paul Newman's stardom and gave him his signature rebellious antihero role, pool shark Fast Eddie Felson. It was a movie that sparked a real-life pool craze and inspired an actual pool hustler to rise to fame by renaming himself Minnesota Fats after Jackie Gleason's on-screen pool hall king. In honor of the film's golden anniversary, here are 25 things you may not have known about the grimy classic, including how Bobby Darin got hustled out of the movie, how the film helped Piper Laurie's love life while sidelining her career, and why it took a quarter-century to make the sequel, 'The Color of Money.' 1. 'The Hustler' was based on a 1959 novel by Walter Tevis. It was the first of six novels he wrote, including 'The Man Who Fell to Earth,' which would eventually become a celebrated 1976 cult sci-fi hit starring David Bowie. 2. Director/co-screenwriter Robert Rossen had been a pool hustler himself in his youth. He'd enjoyed increasing success in Hollywood, culminating with his work on the 1949 Best Picture Oscar Winner 'All the King's Men.' But then he was blacklisted for pleading the Fifth Amendment when asked about his Communist past by the House Un-American Activities Committee. After two years without work, he relented, testified again, acknowledged having been a party member, and named 57 other alleged onetime Communists. He was taken off the blacklist, but his career had failed to reach its earlier heights. Like Fast Eddie Felson, he was in need of redemption when he discovered Tevis' novel and adapted it into a screenplay with TV writer Sidney Carroll. 3. Newman had been having a hit-and-miss career, from his disastrous debut in 'The Silver Chalice' (1954) to his Oscar-nominated turn in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (1958). He felt he had yet to find that career-defining role. The 'Hustler' filmmakers had been interested in him for the role of Fast Eddie Felson, but he was supposed to re-team with 'Cat' co-star Elizabeth Taylor in 'Two for the Seesaw.' When her 'Cleopatra' shoot ran long and forced her to drop out of the project, he became available to make 'The Hustler.' 4. When the filmmakers hired Newman, they unceremoniously dumped their already-cast leading man, Bobby Darin. Darin's agent claimed no one ever bothered to tell the star he'd been replaced; he reportedly found out from a fan while attending a charity horse race. 5. Jackie Gleason was already a successful TV comic (famous for Ralph Kramden of 'The Honeymooners' and other frequent sketch characters), but his movie career had never taken off, and he hadn't proved himself as a serious dramatic actor. The role of the confident, graceful, streetwise Minnesota Fats seemed tailor-made for Gleason, who was an accomplished pool player and is seen in the film making his own pool shots. 6. George C. Scott had earned acclaim and an Oscar nomination as the prosecutor in 1959's 'Anatomy of a Murder,' but he was still better known as a stage actor. 'The Hustler,' in which he was cast as amoral gambler Bert, was only his third movie. 7. Piper Laurie was tired of the ingenue roles she'd been playing for a decade, thanks in part to ridiculous studio publicity that claimed she maintained her luminous skin by bathing in milk and eating rose petals. She was so eager for something meatier that she jumped at the chance to be in the film after having read just 40 pages of the screenplay, before her character (the emotionally and physically crippled Sarah, who becomes Eddie's wary love interest) even shows up. Piper Laurie and Paul Newman in 'The Hustler' You're a Winner, Eddie The Hustler at MOVIECLIPS.com 8. Others reportedly considered for Fast Eddie were Cliff Robertson and Jack Lemmon (who once said he liked to play pool during down time on movie sets to keep his emotional level high). Kim Novak claims she turned down the role of Sarah. 9. The realism of the film came in large measure from technical adviser Willie Mosconi, an established pool champ who became Paul Newman's pool coach and who has a brief cameo as a stakeholder in an early scene. He had suggested Frank Sinatra for the lead. 10. Newman had never picked up a pool cue before taking the role in 'The Hustler,' but his Method approach paid off. From Willie Mosconi, he learned how not just to shoot pool but also how to walk, talk, and circle the table like a shark. He practiced for hours at a table at a NY girls' high school and at a table he installed in his own house. Still, for the trickiest pool shots Fast Eddie had to make, it's Mosconi's hands you see in close-up. 11. The film was shot almost entirely on location in NY City - even the scenes that take place in Louisville, Kentucky. For the sequence at the bus depot, the filmmakers used the real Greyhound bus depot but built their own dining area that was so realistic that Greyhound patrons would sit at tables and linger in vain, expecting to be waited on. 12. In the Kentucky Derby sequence, there's an announcement of a horse named Stroke of Luck. That was a nod to an alternate title for the movie that the studio had considered; apparently, even then, the word "hustler" already had a suggestion of prostitution. 13. Like his character, pool newbie Newman got cocky enough to challenge the more seasoned Gleason to a real game, betting $50 on the outcome. Newman broke, then Gleason took his turn and sank all 15 balls without allowing Newman another shot. Newman paid up the next day with 5,000 pennies. Excerpt from 'The Hustler' I Gotta Hunch, Fat Man The Hustler - MOVIECLIPS.com 14. Bleeding money from the ongoing debacle of the production of 'Cleopatra,' 20th Century Fox devoted few resources to marketing 'The Hustler' and dumped the film into wide release without much publicity on Sept. 25, 1961. But the film got some advance buzz from a midnight screening in NY for Broadway actors, arranged by Richard Burton (star of Rossen's 'Alexander the Great'). Critics received the film well (though some were put off by the rank pool hall settings), and audiences made it a hit. 15. 'The Hustler' pocketed nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It would win two, for its art direction (by Harry Horner and Gene Callahan) and its black-and-white cinematography (by Eugen Schüfftan). 16. The film also earned Oscar nominations for all four of its stars. None of them won. Scott became the first actor ever to decline a nomination, saying that he found the notion of competing against fellow actors in the Academy's "meat contest" beneath his dignity. Nine years later, when he won the Best Actor Oscar for 'Patton,' he became the first actor to refuse to accept the prize. 17. While promoting the film, Laurie met and fell in love with entertainment journalist Joe Morgenstern. They married in early 1962, and when new roles failed to come her way after 'The Hustler,' she went into semi-retirement, left Hollywood, and raised a family. She wouldn't make another movie for 15 years, returning memorably to the screen with her Oscar-nominated performance as Sissy Spacek's religious-fanatic mom in 'Carrie.' She and Morgenstern divorced after two decades. She remains an in-demand character actress to this day; Morgenstern is still the long-time film critic at the Wall Street Journal. 18. Fast Eddie became the career-defining role Newman had been looking for, the prototype of the cocky, morally compromised, stubborn antihero Newman would play for the next couple of decades in such films as 'Hud,' 'Cool Hand Luke,' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Sting,' and 'Slap Shot.' It's also the only role that ever won him an Oscar (he was nominated eight times), though he didn't win it until he reprised the role in the sequel, 'The Color of Money,' 25 years later. 19. Former boxing champ Jake LaMotta has a cameo in 'The Hustler' as a bartender. LaMotta, of course, would be immortalized two decades later in Robert De Niro's performance in 'Raging Bull,' directed by future 'Color of Money' director Martin Scorsese. 20. In an interview promoting 'The Hustler,' Mosconi claimed that the character Minnesota Fats was based on real-life pool hustler Rudy Wanderone, who was known as NY Fatty. Wanderone took advantage of the shout-out, renamed himself Minnesota Fats, and became famous in his own right as an exhibition player - his relentless self-promotion and flamboyance soon made him too recognizable to hustle. Tevis always denied that he had based Fats on Wanderone. Several real-life players also claimed to be the inspiration for the character of Fast Eddie Felson, though Tevis denied their claims as well. 21. Pool took off in popularity after the release of 'The Hustler.' Mosconi and Wanderone both served as traveling ambassadors for the game, with Mosconi trying to make the game more genteel and respectable and Wanderone playing up its seamier side, as portrayed in the film. The two faced off a number of times in televised matches. 22. Wanderone starred in his own pool-themed movie, 'The Player,' in 1971. The tagline: "The Love. The Hate. The Raw Emotion... Set in the dingey [sic] grime and stench of the poolroom." It was not a hit. 23. Despite the success of 'The Hustler,' Rossen made only one more film, the psychological drama 'Lilith' (1964), starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg. Many critics consider it his best, even better than 'The Hustler' or 'All the King's Men.' He died in 1966. 24. Why did it take a quarter-century for a sequel to be filmed? Because that's how much time passed before Tevis wrote one. His book 'The Color of Money,' published in 1984, centered on an older-and-wiser Fast Eddie. The film version came out in 1986, directed by Scorsese (it's the only sequel he's ever made) and starring Newman and Tom Cruise. 25. Newman had won an honorary Oscar that spring after six unsuccessful Oscar nominations. When he was nominated the following spring for 'Color of Money,' he didn't show up to the ceremony, assuming he wouldn't win after having won the career-achievement prize the year before. He was wrong. 'The Hustler' - Finale Eddie Stands Up to Bert The Hustler at MOVIECLIPS.com Follow Gary Susman on Twitter @garysusman.

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Business Insider: Low Bids Could Disaster Hulu Auction

Themuch-over-blown Hulu auction may finish up a bustbecause “the bids aren't arriving up to (the organization’s backers) wished,”Business Insider reviews. Hulu was searching for a lot more than $2B, but they have stated that Dish Networkcame in at $1.9B. Google’s thought to possess capped by using $4B, butthat’s contingent on program certification terms that Hulu’s proprietors Disney, News Corp, and Comcastapparently can’t swallow. That’s precisely the dilemma that lots of professionals anticipated in June when Hulu set up the “for purchase” sign. News Corp COO Chase Carey also indicated recently that his company could be prepared to hang onto Hulu. The internet video venture’s Boss Jason Kilar and Disney are thought to become those who are most wanting to sell.

'Iron Sky' producers make peace with pirates

MOSCOW -- The Finnish producers of the $ten million sci-fi Nazis around the moon spoof, "Iron Sky," took a counter intuitive approach once they found evidence that the Chinese games company had unlicensed their creative concept to have an iPad game. Apple quickly required the merchandise from its apple iphone stores after "Iron Sky's" makers complained that Chinese company Ziiso was making an unlicensed game concerning the film. Instead of sue the organization, "Iron Sky" designers have reached talks using the Chinese to create a legitimate iPad game. "The folks at Ziiso apologized towards the 'Iron Sky' team within an interview through the biggest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat," stated "Iron Sky" director Timo Vuorensola. The filmmakers then asked Ziiso for discusses a much better, approved licensed version. "The candid and sincere apology by Ziiso as well as their readiness to fix their error convinced me that people could co-operate together on the overall game project," Vuorensola added. "We're presently settling with Ziiso about revamping the overall game and posting it included in the official 'Iron Sky' merchandise selection." "They are saying that the attack is the greatest type of defense, but rather than a pricey legal fight we made the decision to strike an offer. If the works, everyone wins," added producer Tero Kaukomaa of Helsinki's Blind Place Pictures. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Kelly Cutrone to Replace Andr Leon Talley as Judge on America's Next Top Model

Andre Leon Talley, Kelly Cutrone America's Next Top Model judge André Leon Talley will be replaced by Kelly Cutrone next season. "We have greatly enjoyed working with André Leon Talley and he has been an amazing asset to the America's Next Top Model family," executive producer Ken Mok told People. "We wish him all the best in his future endeavors." See the America's Next Top Model All-Stars then and now Talley, the former editor-at-large for Vogue, joined the reality competition show in 2010. Cutrone is a fashion publicist who appeared on MTV's The Hills, then starred on Bravo's Kell on Earth. America's Next Top Model All-Stars airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.

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Box Office: Lion King Keeps No. 1, Moneyball Hits It In the Park

Moneyball Kaira Pitt, Rachelle Lefervre and Robert P Niro were no match for nostalgia laminator tl901 office, as Disney's re-relieve The Lion King held towards the No. 1 place, Box Office Mojo reviews. The 1994 film made an thought $22.millions of within the second week back. Coming second for your weekend, Moneyball was top among new releases. The baseball drama starring Pitt introduced in $20.6 000 0000 (the finest opening for just about any baseball movie ever). Close behind was the inspiring family film Dolphin Tale, which acquired $20.2 million. Have a look at our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars plus much more! Abduction, the knowledge movie headlined by Twilight's Lautner ranked fourth with $11.2 million. Killer Elite, starring P Niro, came $9.5 million to complete the most effective 5. Contagion clicked up no. 6 place, with $8.5 million. Rounding the very best ten: Drive (No. 7, $5.7 million), The Help (No. 8, $4.4 million, getting its total to $154.4 million), Hay Dogs (No. 9, $2.millions of) and I am Unsure How She'll It (No. 10, $2 million).

Weekend B.O. Brawl! Lion King 3d Still #1, Moneyball Edges Dolphin Tale For #2, Twilighter Taylor Lautners Abduction #4, P Niro/Statham/Owens Killer Elite #5

SATURDAY PM, 4THUPDATE: It's been ashifting-like-quicksandweekend for U . s . States box office, while using Top2 order changing again by Saturday evening. Everyone confirms that Lion King 3d is not any. 1 but Moneyball and Dolphin Tale are neck-and-neck for #2. Some art galleries are picking the baseball tale although some are choosing the maimed mammal. On Friday evening,I furthermore couldn’t get claritybecause ofRentrak hiccups throughout your entire day.Can’t most of us just access it, especially whenI’m stated to become on vacation? This order could change again Sunday morning, but for the moment: 1. Even Disney is surprised that it's Lion King 3d is infirst place tonight from 2,330 theaters after its huge first-place finish last weekend. But rival art galleries tell me it got a good start Friday while it is raining back East for just about any $6M Friday with an excellent hold. And also the other giantkiddie matinee bump on Saturday for approximately $9.5M. That’s a $22M weekend too and merely a modest -30% decline. This re-release is forecasted striking a cume close to $61.5M by Monday. Here’s my question: So why do in many the marketing hype I’ve been sent with the studio relevant for this pic, nobody at Disney says because of Jeffrey Katzenberg for micro-manipulating the initial? C’mon, Mouse House, give credit where credit arrives. Even if Jeffrey can be a large discomfort in everyone’s ass. 2. The brand new the new sony’s much-over-blown newcomerMoneyball is becoming formally the most effective baseball-designed opening ever (Not composed of inflation or greater ticket prices, it beat Benchwarmers’ $19.6M, The Rookie’s $16M, together with a League That Goes For Them‘s $13.7M.) It openedNo. 1 Friday with$6.7M after which it leaped +27% to $8.5M Saturday from 2,993 theaters. (Just like a The brand new the new sony professional described, “$6 000 0000 might be great. $7 million amazing. $8 million is a triumph.”) With this particular healthy adult bump, it’s searching inside a $21M weekend that's on target while using studio’s anticipation. That solid number helps to keep Kaira Pitt’s star wattage shining and also the honours chances climbing because ofthis well-examined male-centric sports movie that acquired 94% fresh on Rotten Tomato vegetables. (As Deadline Hollywood’s Honours author Pete Hammond opined in the Toronto Film Festival: “This can be a classic celebrity role inside the tradition of a thing that Robert Redford or Paul Newman may have carried out their prime. He's never been better, as well as the movie may be the finest sports film since Bull Durham, an authentic triumph taking into consideration the extended and winding road it needed to access the screen.”) Audiences really loved this pic: it received all A’s — male, female, youthful, old — from CinemaScore. But an foe studio professional highlights thatalmost 60% of the audience was over age 50.Sonybelieves Moneyball could play strongly using the Fall creating a multiple that will likely exceed 4X and 5Xits opening. Marketingtargeted adult moviegoers and was produced to draw in both males and girls. Call me sexist, however thought concentrating on women was hopeless for just about any picbased round the true story of Billy Beane who reconstructed theOakland Just like 2002through computer-driven record analysis extended overlooked with the baseball establishment. These products makes my eyes glaze over, even though Michael Lewis written a great book relating to this and producer Rachael Horovitz recognized the bones from the great movie relating to this.To create awareness among males, The brand new the new sony stood a strong presence in sports programming, especially baseball where the campaign started through the Mlb All-Star Game within this summer time.Trailers broadcast round the Mlb Network, while spots also went in high-profile Nfl games like the season opener. In recent days, Moneyball‘s presence reaches Mlb games across FOX, ESPN, and also the best spinner's andselect NCAA football games.The Tv campaigntook advantage of primetime premieres and high-impact special deals, like the Emmys and MTV’s VMAs. On cable, Moneyball had sneak peeks onSons of Anarchy, Tosh., Conan and ESPN’s SportsCenter. To attain women, Sonybought spots on Dwts and Glee while Pitt came out on Ellen now and was almost all pervading as both producer and star. Similar to movies nowadays,Moneyball stood a twisted and tortured history for the silver screen. Initially, baseball freak Steven Soderbergh was involved but passed because of other obligations. Eventually The brand new the new sony introduced in producer Michael P Luca to participate Horovitz and, 5 years later this past year, Soderbergh ended up being to direct. Butin a very-chrincled situation of creative versions, the Oscar-winning director was jettisoned within the film just 72 several hours before production wound up being to start when the studio changed its mind about his changes to Steven Zaillians adaptation. (Soderbergh’s primary addition incorporated Yellows-like recommendations from real-existence players.) The typical understanding been there the pic will be a goner. But Pitt continued to be aboard throughout. The project really got in line with executive producer Scott Rudinalong with film author Aaron Sorkin, who did a polish on Zaillians script (both get credit now). Pitt themselves credits director Bennett Burns (an Oscar jerk for Capote first-break), who transformed Soderbergh after which it had the vision to “crack” the film’s outsider/insider styles by considering making an unconventionalfilm regarding the subject. 3. Very close behind is Alcon Entertainment’s Dolphin Tale distributed into 3,507 theaters by Warner Bros.It opened up track of $5.1M Friday and zoomed to $8.6MSaturday vulnerable to a$20Mweekend.Alconexpectedthe heartstrings-yanking pic to leap 60% on Saturday because of your family film bump and did +70% more. Remember,it’s also playing inside the most theaters.According toCinemaScores, parents and kidsaudiences are creating a b+. “The film is very inspiring, and monitoring is terrific.We'll own your family marketplace,” an professional described.Warner Bros was searching to supply Moneyball a run for No. 1this weekend, but didn’t anticipate the continuing strength of Lion King 3d. The procedure for Dolphin Tale wound up being to attain mainly grown ups and kids using this real-lifestory andfine ensemble cast. The studiodevised an very extended trailer campaign to have the ability to get maximum exposurebeginning in April and having fun with the summer season on from Rio to Cars 2.The Tv strategy wasrobust, covering from kids cable in the finish of summer season before school started, through key season premieres for instance Dancing While Using Stars and Finest Loser,to many sponsorships with Discovery, Teen Nick, Lifetime, Nation Geographic, Disney XD, MTV, plus much more.Warner Bros created a hostile word-of-mouth screening program that involved 3 full roundsin the most effective 60 areas. Military and home schoolers were specific too asyouth groups together with other family-oriented orgs. The director and cast completed a 7-market PA tour that includeda junket to aid Winter, the particular-existence star in the film who had her ownlive Winter-cam.Online, there's afirst-time integration while using Spongebob Squarepants Facebook page given thesea theme. 4.Lionsgate’s Abduction in 3,118 theaters ended up with $3.8M Friday but elevated +20% Saturday for $4.5m andan$11M opening for your weekend. (So that it wasn’tfront-loaded like what went lower to Zac Efron in Charlie St Cloud.)Through Sunday,Hollywood eyes are actually focused onits starTaylor Lautner within the first leading guy role inside an action thrillerbecause he’s been greatly desired — most most likely because of his enormous Twi-hard number of fans and aggressive promotion of his films –but not because of any solo box office the 19-year-old is doing yet. However, I’velearned thatLautner’s $36M-budget action thriller was outspent 4-to-one out of marketing dollars by both new the new sony and Warner Bros just before a couple of days ago. (Shame on Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer for tying everyone’s hands despite powerless Alli Shearmur pleaded.)And so the jury remains on whether this Twilight kid can open an envelope,specifically in as rotten a examined movie as that certain was directed by John Singleton. (“Silly” and “convoluted” were what used most often to describe it.) Audiences didn’t think it absolutely was badly as experts, creating a B- CinemaScore.Bad Lionsgate can’t appear to produce a decent movie (Conan The Barbarian) or market one any more (Warrior). An $11Moutcome is underneath the $15M it came out being earlier Friday and not the$12M-$14M range the studio described it needed to exhibit a “nice profit” for your film.”ButTaylors a great kid. Hes labored hard for people, doing 8 national Tv shows and endless amounts of press,” one of the professionals mentioned in my opinion. “We be familiar with opening weekend box office earnings for Taylors Twilight co-stars, and this falls inside the zone from the products wound up being to become anticipated. There are plenty of movies opening a couple of days ago to numerous audiences, but ours is laser-specific to tweens which we desire to dominate that market.”Lionsgatesimultaneously streamed the premiere for the next 20 regional areas and broadcast the Red-colored-colored Carpet online as ‘The Abduction Fan Premiere Live Event’with 50M impressions.Media promotions incorporated ABC Family andChannel One, the in-school network which will achieve 2.3 million teens aged 1517.Other youth-focused exploitation includedan announcer spot for Tay-Tay within the VMAs (connected having a contest to ‘Get Kidnapped’ for the honours). It wasn’t nearly enough. 5. Open Road Film’s Killer Elite looks likeonly $9.5M for your weekend from 2,986 theaters. However, if the veteran star trio of Robert DeNiro, Jason Statham, and Clive Owencan’t knock-off Lautner solo in the lousy movie, that’s worth watching. The pic increased to simply $3.7M on Saturday after its $3.3M debut Friday. CinemaScore was aB. I hear Open Roadacquired the film free of charge, only P&A, so that it’ll be nicely lucrative. Very good for that organization’s first release.A few notes in regards to the Killer Elite marketing campaign: it had the predictablyheavy presence in sports including an ‘NFL on FOX’ TV promotion getting a “Killer” prize of trip to LA to spend some time while using Fox sports on-air males, apromotion with Spike TV’s UFC Fight Evening, in addition to Comedy Central’s Charlie Sheen Roast.P Niro developed a rare late-evening talk show appearance on Because Of Due To Jimmy Kimmel Live where he sitting lower with Kimmel’s security officer-switched celebrity interviewer Guillermo. AndMTV Systems did an instantaneous email campaign to pay attention to demos in their very largecustomer database. Here’s the comfort in the Top: 6. Contagion (Participant/Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,136 Theaters] Friday $2.6M,Saturday $4.1M, Weekend $9M, Cume $57.5M 7. Drive (FilmDistrict) Week 2 [2,904 Theaters] Friday $1.8M (-50%),Saturday $2.4M, Weekend $6M, Cume $21.6M 8. The Help (Participant/DreamWorks/Disney] Week 7 [2,695 Theaters] Friday $1.3M,Saturday $2M,Weekend $4.5M, Cume $154.5M 9. Hay Dogs (The brand new the new sony) Week 2 [2,408 Theaters] Friday $685K (-65%),Saturday $900K, Weekend $2.1M, Cume $8.5M 10. I Don’t Know How She'll It (Weinstein Co) Week 2 [2,490 Theaters] Friday $677K (-57%),Saturday $875K,Weekend $2M, Cume $8M FRIDAY 4 PM: On vacation. So box office is introduced for you personally in the sunny climate where the palms sway with time for the dancing trade winds… But home there’s a fierce fight happening. They're very early grosses, and my sources say Rentrak remains dealing with problems today — this provides Hollywood a lot more Maalox moments than usual. The brand new the new sony’s Moneyball starring Kaira Pitt will not be any. 1 with roughly $8M Friday and possibly mid-$20sM for your weekend. That solid number helps Kaira Pitt’s honours chances in this well-received male-centric sports movie. At this time around Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros’ Dolphin Tale and Lionsgate’s Abduction are fighting for No. 2 with around $6M today and what's high teens for your weekend. Interesting, because the heartstrings-yanking pic was monitoring much better. However, Rachelle Lefervre’s action thriller is playing in 389 less theaters. So anyone who mentioned this Twilight kid couldn’t open an envelope is wrong, wrong, wrong: you will discover major stars who be thrilled with this particular outcome, specifically in as rotten a examined movie as that certain. Open Road’s Killer Elite looks a notch lower – maybe $5M today, and low teens for your weekend. Frequent updates coming with full analysis.

'Moneyball' tops Friday B.O.

'Moneyball'Sony's "Moneyball" thrown for first last evening in the domestic box office with $6.8 million.Studio thinks the Kaira Pitt starrer will behave similar to last year's "The Social Networking," revealing its legs with adult auds up through honours season. That given, "Moneyball" should land somewhere within the high teens to win a few days ago. Pic obtained a b Cinemascore from every demo.Disney's "The Lion King" reissue returned for second on Friday with $6.a million. Dork Hollis, distribution prexy in the Mouse, stated there is some concern the release was too frontloaded and would hit its soph slump this frame, but midweek sales and last night's perf indicate otherwise.Fresh faces required another top spots with Warner Bros.' "Dolphin Tale" in third with $5.a million, and Lionsgate's "Abduction" in 4th with $3.8 million. "Killer Elite," the very first title from Open Road Films, opened up last evening to roughly $3.4 million."Elite" is anticipated to fall around $12 million or $13 million through Sunday, which almost always meets anticipation for Open Road. The distribbery acquired the film free of charge and just aims to recoup P&A costs. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

IFC Night time Takes Multiple Privileges to 'Penumbra'

IFC Night time has snapped up privileges todirectors Adrian and Romero Garcia Bogliano's Penumbra in The United States, Malaysia and Singapore. The offer was closed around the eve from the film's world premiere Thursday at Fantastic Fest. Cristina Brondo, Camila Bordonaba and Berta Muniz star within the Argentina-set story of the lawyer who incurs mysterious trouble when she attempts to book a condo she's inherited at the time of the photo voltaic eclipse. The Boglianos authored the script, andHoracio and Esteban Mentasti and Alberto Trigo are executive producers. "We've been large fans of Adrian and Romero Garcia Bogliano since we had Cold Sweat," stated Sundance Chooses/IFC Films presidentJonathan Sehring. "We're thrilled to stay in business together on Penumbra, which shows them only growing more powerful as filmmakers. Cristina Bondo gives an incredible performance because the Boglianos gradually and skillfully arrive the dread and tension within this thrilling film." Sundance Chooses/IFC Films execJeff Deutchman discussed the offer with Abc Films' Nate Bolotin with respect to the filmmakers. IFC Night time has lately releasedThe Human Centipede (First Sequence), Vengeance and Super. Approaching films include Snowtown and also the Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence). Worldwide Asia

Hysteria Appears to Have Worked Out OK for Maggie Gyllenhaal

”[Hysteria director Tanya] Wexler said she gave everybody on set a vibrator. But getting them there caused a bit of embarrassment for a security guard at a Heathrow airport luggage checkpoint. ‘The officer said, “You have 20 or 30 small electronic devices in your luggage,” and I said, “Yes, they’re vibrators,” and the guy just said, “Move along,”’ she recalled. [Maggie] Gyllenhaal said she was awash with gift vibrators from friends by the end of filming.” Yowza! So, uh, why isn’t there more post-Toronto buzz? [NYDN]

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11 Flowers (Wo 11)

A WXS Prods., Chinese Shadows and Full House production, in co-production with Arte France Cinema, in association with Films Distribution, with the support of Fonds Sud Cinema Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication -- CNC, Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres et Europeennes, Vision Sud Est, Open Doors Locarno, Direction du Developpement et de la Cooperation Suisse, Busan Film Festival -- PPP Award, Arte France. (International sales: Films Distribution, Paris.) Produced by Wang Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri, Lu Dong, Laurent Baudens, Gael Nouaille. Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. Screenplay, Wang, Lao Ni.With: Liu Wenqing, Wang Jingchun, Yan Ni, Zhang Kexuan, Zhong Guo Liuxing, Lou Yihao, Mo Shiyi, Wang Ziyi, Qiao Renliang, Yu Yue, Zhao Shiqi, Cao Shiping, Cao Gang. (Mandarin, Shanghainese dialogue)An absorbing coming-of-age drama set during the waning stage of China's Cultural Revolution, "11 Flowers" takes its place among Wang Xiaoshuai's finest films. In dramatizing a curious chapter from his own rural upbringing, the Sixth Generation helmer supplies a personal perspective on a restless and confusing period, balancing a momentous historical context with a stirring evocation of childhood. While Wang's international audience remains confined to the upper end of the specialty market, favorable reviews could help this understated but highly accessible Chinese-French co-production blossom offshore. Though the exact year is never specified, one can infer from a black-and-white prologue that the film is set in 1975, a year before the deaths of Mao Tsetung and premier Zhou Enlai signaled an end to the Cultural Revolution. Wang's focus here is on the countless mainlanders ordered by Mao to leave China's major port cities and work at factories in impoverished rural areas, shoring up the nation's inland defenses against possible attack by the Soviet Union. The helmer previously engaged this subject in his '80s-set drama "Shanghai Dreams" (2005), to which "11 Flowers" serves as a companion piece and prequel of sorts, centered around a family living in a tiny riverfront village in Guizhou province. Without tilting into miserablism, the early scenes are marked by an almost Dickensian sense of privation, observing the family's attempts to make ends meet and remain cheerful under the circumstances. With his father (Wang Jingchun) working at the factory, 11-year-old Wang Han (Liu Wenqing) is often left with his mother (Yan Ni) and younger sister (Zhao Shiqi). Trouble arises when the boy is chosen to lead exercise routines at school, a task for which he needs a new shirt. Though his mother refuses to spend a year's worth of fabric coupons on such a luxury, she eventually agrees. One afternoon, while playing in the river with his buddies, Wang Han suddenly passes out, only to find the shirt missing when he comes to. Driving away his friends with accusations that one of them stole it, the boy suddenly finds himself in the blood-stained path of Jueqiang (Wang Ziyi), a young man on the run from police. Wang Han's fate becomes intertwined with that of the fugitive, who is wanted for killing a man and attempting to blow up the factory. As scripted by the helmer and Lao Ni, there's an almost surreal quality to this narrative progression; everything that happens after Wang Han loses consciousness could be taking place in a suspended dream-state. China itself seems lost in a collective daze as it marches toward an unsettled and unsettling future, one where rumors of conspiracy are always on the horizon and the police maintain only tenuous control over local gang activity. D.p. Dong Jinsong continually frames images through a suggestive haze: the steam of a bathhouse where Wang Han eavesdrops on gossip, or the window frost through which he and his parents catch a glimpse of two souls immeasurably worse off than they are. Pic renders a rich sense of time, place and historical detail without abandoning its moppet's-eye perspective; if some of the events seem to rush past before one can fully grasp their import, a certain degree of childlike incomprehension feels entirely appropriate. The film's tone is by turns wistful, hopeful and at times even funny, thanks largely to the energetic clowning of Wang Han's buddies (pro tyke thesps Zhang Kexuan, Zhong Guo Liuxing and Lou Yihao), who provide not only comic relief but also a sense of the universal. Liu makes a soulful impression as a spirited, mischievous but well-raised kid, and as a pint-sized stand-in for the director. Wang Jingchun is a gruff but affable presence as the boy's father, who attempts to instill a love of art by teaching his son to paint, while Yan vigorously conveys anger and affection as a mother who works hard to do right by her children, yet is unable to contain her rage at the slightest sign of ingratitude. Jinsong's limpid images capture the bleak beauty of Wang Han's provincial town, from the treacherous riverbank to the block housing whose rough conditions nonetheless foster a strong sense of community. Chinese title translates as "I Am 11."Camera (color/B&W), Dong Jinsong; editor, Nelly Quettier; music, Marc Perrone; production designer, Lu Dong; sound, Fu Kang. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 14, 2011. (Also in San Sebastian Film Festival.) Running time: 115 MIN. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

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Dancing's Cheryl Burke: Rob Kardashian Is Better Than Kim

Dancing With The Stars, Cheryl Burke After three straight athletes for partners, Cheryl Burke is thrilled to be paired with Rob Kardashian on Dancing with the Stars. "It is a little change of pace, but I like it," she tells TVGuide.com. "Athletes are awesome, but I love working with Rob. He really wants to do well and is working so hard." But the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is not giving it his all solely to win the Mirrorball trophy.Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsWhat was your reaction when you found out Rob was your partner?Cheryl Burke: I was really happy! I've never actually danced with anyone younger than me on the show or more my age. I've only had people who were older. Drew Lachey was the youngest and he was in his 30s and I was 21. So I've never had anyone young and full of energy.You have the Viennese waltz. How's he doing so far?Burke: Great. He's never had any dance experience. He says he doesn't dance when he goes out to clubs or anything. He says he'll sit in the corner and watch everyone do it. So I think this will be really good for his confidence and just to come out and impress people. I think his image - people think he doesn't do much. But he's been working so hard. Our rehearsals have gone really, really well. He comes back every day and he's like a whole new dancer.So you're hoping people will see a new side to him?Burke: Yeah, I want him to go out there and prove everybody wrong. I feel like I'm taking care of him! I really want him to do really well. I want people to see a new side of him that I see. He's never late to rehearsals. He's always on time. I just don't want people to think he doesn't do anything. He's really hard-working.Kim didn't do that great on the show, to say the least. How does Rob compare to her?Burke: He's better than Kim, I have to say! [Laughs] I won't know for sure until I teach him a Latin dance. They're both very shy. With a competition, you need to be a little more out there. I think Rob is getting more and more open with me. We have that bickering brother-and-sister relationship. I'm having a lot of fun so far this season. I feel like I'm dancing with my little brother.Fall TV: Get the lowdown on this season's must-see new showsHe doesn't have any dance experience, but does he have any natural rhythm?Burke: He actually does! He has no problem keeping his feet to the music, which, thank God for that! I didn't think he would be able to do that. We're really working on his posture right now and holding his chin up. He knows how to stand up straight, but it's about keeping it consistent.What are your expectations for the first week?Burke: I want to stay in the middle of the pack. I mean, of course, I want to be the front-runner, but I'm not sure what the judges are expecting from Rob. He's the youngest of the group. He's not an athlete. He doesn't have a musical background. I'm just hoping he stays in the middle of the pack and we'll slowly work our way up.What do you think of the cast this season?Burke: The cast is fantastic. I've made so many friends already. I had this huge barbecue on Labor Day and so many of them came. It was cool to hang out with everyone. There's no odd person out who's not being social. Everyone is friendly and I think it's great. People are talking about the cast and that's what we need. There's some controversy [about Chaz Bono], which I don't think is necessary. We're all individuals. We all have our own rights, we have our freedoms and people need to respect that. This is something he decided to do for himself and we should respect that.Who do you think is your biggest competition?Burke: Um, his sister! [Laughs] He really wants to make it past Week 3. That's his biggest goal: He wants to beat Kim!Dancing premieres Monday at 8/7c on ABC.

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'Tinker, Tailor' opens Ghent Film Fest

"Mess Tailor Soldier Spy," directed by Sweden's Tomas Alfredson, will open the 38th Ghent Film Festival, which runs March. 11-22.The pic, based on John le Carre's best-selling spy novel, signifies Alfredson's first British-language film and stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Tom Sturdy, Mark Strong, Ciarn Hinds and Toby Manley. The story follows a outdated spy expert who's rehired to locate a Russian spy which has breached British security. The film, which opened up at Venice, is positioned for release this fall.Other films to screen at Ghent, which will focus on Scandinavian cinema, are "Beyond" by Pernilla August, "Frit Fald" by Heidi Maria Faisst and "The Mountain" by Ole Giaever. Additional occasions include "Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies" within the Caermersklooster Cultural Center, a retrospective on Bergman as well as the "Film Music Pieces of art: Maestros of Suspense" concert, which will occur at P Bijloke Music Concentrate on March. 12Fest's full program will probably be introduced on Sept. 28. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Nigel Lythgoe Launches New Production Company

Nigel Lythgoe Nigel Lythgoe has started a new production company, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Nigel Lythgoe Productions, a joint venture with American Idol's 19 Entertainment, already has reality projects in development for Alice Cooper, Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin, sex and relationship expert Dr. Laura Berman and Kim Kardashian. Some of the networks Lythgoe is working with include CBS, E! and TruTV. Check out our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars and more! "Audiences want to feel emotionally invested in what they are watching n the purest sense and NLP will cater to that desire," Lythgoe said. Besides producing Idol, Lythgoe is the creator, executive producer and a judge on So You Think You Can Dance.

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Sundance Selects nabs 'Trishna' for U.S.

"Trishna"Sundance Selects has acquired U.S. rights to Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna," starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. Deal was announced Thursday at the Toronto Film Festival, where the pic's been screening. "Trishna," produced by Winterbottom and Melissa Parmenter, is an updated version of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' set in modern-day India as societal differences doom the romance between the protagonists. Pinto portrays the eldest daughter of a poor rural family who accepts the invitation of a handsome stranger to work for a fancy tourist hotel owned by his benevolent father. Bankside Films is handling international sales. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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We Don't Know How He's Doing The Work: Harvey Weinstein Attends Three Premieres by 50 percent Nations in one Evening

Harvey Weinstein might just be the most difficult-working guy in show business. The famous large-shot producer handled to visit the premiere of 'I Have No Clue How She Does It' in NY on Monday evening, then fly around Canada to accept Toronto Worldwide Film Festival debuts of both Madonna-directed 'W.E.' as well as the Shakespeare adaptation 'Coriolanus.' Granted, it's probably simpler for those who have your individual jet, but nevertheless: quite the job, for a common multitasker like Harvey. Moviefone can keep you up-to-date on when old Harv sets his sights about the quadruple-feature/single-evening extravaganza, but for the time being, take a look at images within the trifecta. Watch a clip for 'I Have No Clue How She Does It' (out Friday) below. Harvey Weinstein Movie Premieres Harvey attended three movie premieres last evening by 50 percent nations. Nicole Kidman, Matthew BroderickThe cast of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Sarah Jessica ParkerChristina Hendricks of 'I Don't Know How She'll It.'Christina Hendricks of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Olivia Munn of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Pierce Brosnan of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Jessica Szohr of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Kevin Jonas of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Sophia Rose rose bush of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Jordin Sparks of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Emma Roberts of 'I Don't Know How She'll It'Gerard ButlerJessica ChastainBrian CoxBrian Cox, Take advantage of FiennesRalph Fiennes, Jessica ChastainAndrea Riseborough (left) and Abbie Cornish (right), with MadonnaMadonnaAbbie CornishMadonnaAndrea RiseboroughMadonna See All Moviefone Galleries » [via Deadline] Photos because of A.P., Getty Images.

10 Reasons For 'Contagion' That Hassled Us (Ding!)

Should you have had some difficulties with this weekend's box office champion 'Contagion,' you are not by yourself. At Moviefone HQ, the Steven Soderbergh-directed viral disaster thriller would be a hot subject of dialogue the science is accurate (most likely), but a few of the other particulars did not quite sit right. Ahead, the burning questions raised by 'Contagion' upon departing the theaters. (Warning: SPOILERS!) 1. If she am dang contagious, would a healthcare facility really release Gwyneth Paltrow's body to her family? You could not help but shame Matt Damon's character when he was relayed through a funeral director they wouldn't accept the physiques of his wife (Paltrow) and stepson due to the danger they posed to everyone. Yet, why did a healthcare facility even release the physiques to begin with? Especially following the autopsy doctors were so alarmed in what they found while cutting into Paltrow's brain. (Also, ewww.) 2. Why was Matt Damon's character immune? Well, the film did not explain that -- that was fine. Besides, it might simply have led to more scientific mumbo-jumbo. What did need a reason? 3. Why did not someone steal his immunity wristband? A factor like this could have been priceless. Maybe nobody else understood he'd it under that bulky parka, but ... 4. Nobody broke into his house? The neighbors nearby get gunned lower, but Damon and the daughter are able to escape? Things in Ontario did not look as harsh as with Bay Area (where Jude Law's fiery blogger character was), but nonetheless, Damon, his house and the daughter look a-OK at film's finish. 5. Would the web (and electricity, for your matter) be up? With 2.5 million deaths within the U.S. alone, mass rioting along with a general breakdown in society, it appears unlikely that individuals would have the ability to tweet, blog and text every time they wanted. 6. Exactly what does Steven Soderbergh have against writers anyway? Jude Law's anti-government blogger had some valid points: Why lead him to the villain from the piece? 7. Should you be given some advice from the top CDC official, can you publish it to Facebook? Lawrence Fishburne's character will get in serious trouble for tipping off his girlfriend to depart town since the friend she informs then posts the warning to Facebook, stating him because the source. We admire the friend's need to alert the general public, but whoa: method to betray a trust. 8. Did the village where Marion Cotillard occured hostage all of a sudden become immune? When she was initially introduced towards the village and proven its scared children, these were all putting on jewelry over their faces for anxiety about catching the deadly disease. When her ransom was prepared to be compensated, though, all of the jewelry were gone. Guess they did not need individuals vaccines in the end. 9. Whatever happened towards the guy Gwyneth Paltrow was sleeping with? 'Contagion' never even demonstrated the man playing "John Neil," but you need to assume he wasn't feeling so well either. (Update: Large because of our visitors who stated he was the very first dying in Chicago. A "Mr. Neil" had been wheeled in an appearance bag inside a quick scene.) 10. Could it be past too far to become vegetarian? OK, that isn't a nitpick, only a effective urge to prevent all pork items to any extent further. The nitpick is (aside from how one could kill such adorable piglets): Do pig maqui berry farmers in Hong Kong really sell their animals live? Not too it might make a positive change in the way the disease was spread, however it certainly made us feel terrible for individuals little piggies. Have you notice something that did not quite feel right about 'Contagion'? The number of occasions have you clean both hands following the film? Weigh in below. Photos: Warner Bros.