'Forrest Gump,' 'Bambi' Put In National Film Registry

There are lots of movies in the world, many of them even excellent. It's a difficult task monitoring these, but that's what large government is ideal for -- particularly, the Library of Congress's National Film Registry, which every single year selects all of the films considered worth upkeep. For everyone nevertheless the most arduous cinephile, it's a mix between films known and movies obscure, the stuff you want to inform our kids about supposing Western civilization doesn't collapse soon. This Years list stuck for the script, as movies like "Forrest Gump" and "Bambi" were selected alongside lesser-known ones like "The Negro Soldier" and "The Cry in the Children." There are many art present in movies like John Cassavetes's melodrama, "Faces," additionally to action-packed titillation in Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi" and Jonathan Demme's "Silence in the Lamb." (Also, the film where Commander Adama shows math to inner city kids.) If you're ever in Washington D.C., you will notice a lot of the films named for the Registry inside the Library of Congress's reading through through room, available by reservation. Eventually, they'll be put online, obtaining the Library to the twenty-first century. Taking advantage of public access is probably the core concerns in the Library of Congress, since it is the closest factor we should a national patrimony in the creative arts, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington told the Washington Publish. This is often a celebration of America, really, of creative America in many its variegated richness. That sounds about suitable for this type of esteemed institution. Hopefully they'll remember "Drive Angry" for next year's list! Reveal what you consider inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Director Baz Luhrmann Suffers Head Injury on The Great Gatsby Set

Baz Luhrman Director Baz Luhrmann was forced to get three stitches to his head after bumping into a camera crane on the set of The Great Gatsby, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. The Moulin Rouge filmmaker was directing a scene at the time. ''We were on quite a cramped set and he was ducking under the crane," co-producer Anton Monsted told the newspaper. "He struck his head on the weights on the end of the camera crane. He split open his head and we had to get the doctor.'' Watch videos of Baz Luhrmann Filming was forced to wrap early following Luhrmann's injury, allowing the cast and crew to travel one day early for the holiday. Filming will resume in the new year. Aside from Luhrmann's injury and bad weather, Monsted said "filming has gone extremely well. The only obstacle we've really faced has been bad weather.'' The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel, has been shooting in Australia for almost three months. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan, the film is set to hit theaters on Christmas 2012.

Etta James Crictally Ill with Chronic Leukemia

Etta James Legendary blues singer Etta James is crictally ill with chronic leukemia, according to Riverside Press Enterprise. See the relaxation of current day news The "FinallyInch singer's live-in physician, that's been coping with James since March 2010, has asked for hopes following a sultry-voiced songstress' disease was considered incurable on friday. According to records in James' probate situation, she's also battling with dementia and kidney failure. James, 73, was make the hospital taken to deal with the blood stream infection sepsis together with a uti.

Golden Globes TV: Newcomers 'Homeland,' 'New Girl' and 'Boss' Each Score Multiple Nominations

It's no secret that providing a place for people to vent about their lives, post photos and reconnect with long-lost friends has made Mark Zuckerberg a very wealthy man.our editor recommendsFacebook Reaches 20-Year Privacy Settlement With U.S. GovernmentFacebook IPO Could Push Social Network's Value Past $100 BillionPaula Abdul Announces She's Having an Estate Sale on Facebook!Rihanna, Megan Fox, 'House,' and 'Harry Potter' Among 2011's Top Facebook PagesSpotify to Launch Facebook-Style Apps PHOTOS: 9 Highest Paid Entertainment CEOs But, a new report reveals just how much his brainchild, Facebook, is actually worth. In 2011 the social networking company more than doubled its profit, bringing its assets to $6.5 billion, according to Gawker. The company also reportedly has $3.5 billion in cash or cash equivalent, no debt and an operating cashflow of $1 billion. On Thursday, Facebook rolled out its Timeline feature, which chronicles users' site history visually, much like a digital scrapbook. The site's 800 million users will have the option of immediately switching to the new look, or wait a week to delete embarrassing photos or posts before the rollout becomes final. In Sept. at the company's F8 conference, Zuckerberg said he also hopes to add a new feature to the website that would allow music services to integrate with users, posting their musical choices and purchases to their profiles. STORY: Facebook Eyes $100 Billion Value in IPO by Mid-2012 The Facebook co-founder and CEO, owns 24 percent of the company, which Gawker reports has an operating income of $1.2 billion and a net income of $714 million. This financial news comes on the heels of reports that Facebook is targeting April to June 2012 for an initial public offering, which the company hopes will bring its worth to more than $100 billion. STORY: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Tops Fortune's 40 Under 40 List The Silicon Valley operation could raise as much as $10 billion in the IPO, making it one of the largest offerings of all time. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Top 10 Highest Paid Music Artists Related Topics Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

PILOT CASTINGS: Four In Don Fogelman Comedy, Jeff Eastin Drama Adds One

EXCLUSIVE: Jami Gertz and Simon Templeman are set to star in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot from feature writer Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love). The project, produced by ABC Studios, centers on a family that moves into a highly desirable gated community in New Jersey only to discover that the entire neighborhood is made up of aliens disguised as humans. Gertz will play Dennie Weaver, the matriarch of the human family. Video game voice actor Templeman will play Wilt Chamberlain, the leader of the aliens. Also cast in the pilot are Toks Olagundoye as Jackie Joyner Kersee, the matriarch of the lead alien family and Tim Jo (TBS’ Glory Daze) as Joe Montana, son of the alien family. Chris Koch (Modern Family) will direct the pilot, which is executive produced by Fogelman, Koch and Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment. Still Standing alumna Gertz most recently recurred on HBO’s Entourage and guest starred on Modern Family. Jo is with Innovative and David Dean Management. Manny Montana (The Chicago Code) has been cast in USA Networks untitled drama pilot from White Collar creator Jeff Eastin. The project, from Fox TV Studios, follows four agents from various federal and local agencies (DEA, FBI, LAPD) who live at a former ganglord’s mansion-turned-safe house for undercover agents in Southern California. Montana, repped by SDB Partners and Trademark Talent, will play one of them, an undercover FBI agent. In other pilot casting news, Azie Tesfai and Jonathan Del Arco have landed recurring roles in Lifetime’s drama pilot American Housewife starring Melanie Griffith as a seemingly perfect housewife. Tesfai, repped by SDB and Schachter Entertainment, will play her Somali adopted daughter; Del Arco, repped by SDB and Kyle Fritz Management, will play her gay neighbor.

The Flowers of War: Film Review

Columbia Pictures A lot of geek talk this week has been about The Dark Knight Rises footage. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows had its premiere, grabbing some spotlight and getting Robert Downey Jr. talking about The Avengers and Iron Man 3.our editor recommends'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Gets a 2014 Release DateThe Amazing Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Get Into Character (Photos)'The Amazing Spider-Man' Teaser Trailer Released (Video) So some of us have forgotten that other superhero movies are coming out. Like The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Well, Columbia is here to remind us and yesterday quietly slid out a new teaser poster for the movie, which opens July 3, 2012. The poster, which debuted on Superhero Hype, is simple but effective, but more importantly, is consistent with comics iconography of having shadows reveal the true soul or identity or whatever the artists wants of a character. It's an effect used from Batman comics to Spider-Man comics and it's used here to show that the man crawling up the stone wall is ... Spider-Man. And it also makes a point to stand apart from the Sam Raimi-directed movies, whose posters slickly had the Arach-Knight stuck or perched to a glass skyscraper. Check it out ... PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'The Amazing Spider-Man': Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone Appear in New Production Photos Andrew Garfield Emma Stone Amazing Spider-Man

Report: People of India Will Only Scream For Tom Cruise If a Free Buffet Lunch Is Involved

Grab your grain of salt! A new report states that an unidentified PR firm was so worried that fans would not turn out for Tom Cruise’s arrival in India this past Saturday for the Mumbai Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol premiere, that they paid approximately 200 people $3 each to show up and scream for the actor when he walked out of the local airport gate. The paid extras were also given a buffet lunch. “Tom kaun? I don’t know who he is or what he does,” one hired fan told First Post’s Bollywood division. “We were told to come here by 1pm today and wait for a foreign VIP to come out of the airport gate and scream and shout when he came.” [Movies.com via FirstPost.com]

'Transformers' And More: 2011's Top 5 Alien Invasion Movies

From battles in Los Angeles and Chicago to children struggling against otherworldly threats, 2011 was an unforgettable year for fighting enemies from beyond the stars. Keep reading for our top five favorite alien invasion flicks of the year! 5. "Battle Los Angeles" Though not exactly one of my favorite movies of the year, even I can't deny the awesome imagery of the initial waves of invasion in "Battle Los Angeles." The ground-level action puts you in the grimy trenches of an alien assault on what would normally be a sunny day in California. If you can forgive a thin plot, the visual assault you'll weather in "Battle LA" is worth the rental fee. 4. "Paul" Most aliens arrive on Earth with death-rays in their hands and universal domination in their hearts. Paul, on the other hand, goes about his business with a joint in his mouth and Doritos in his belly. Considering how these invasions normally go, "Paul" was refreshingly light on take-me-to-your-leader danger and heavy on toke-with-me-and-your-leader humor. 3. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Fast forward to the final hour of Michael Bay's latest "Transformers" movie, and you'll find yourself knee-deep in the most balls-out crazy action flick of the year. When Shockwave and the Decepticons descend upon downtown Chicago, absolute madness ensues. Autobots are literally dragged out onto the streets and executed. Optimus Prime shoots his enemies in the face at pointblank range. He rips heads off. He rips heads off! Yeah, it's pretty awesome. 2. "Super 8" It's not so much the arrival of a mysterious extraterrestrial that puts "Super 8" on this list; it's the kids hovering around the central mystery. Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths and Ryan Lee are fantastic in their big-screen breakout roles, and let's not overlook the moving performance delivered by future Oscar winner Elle Fanning. Combined with a powerful nostalgia kick of pure Spielbergia, J.J. Abrams' sci-fi throwback flick remains one of 2011's best pop culture efforts. 1. "Attack the Block" From phenomenal creature design to a wonderfully unique setting for a sci-fi film, Joe Cornish's directorial debut has everything you could possibly ask for from a hard R-rated action comedy. Sporting the "Goonies" elements "Super 8" tackles so well sprinkled with "Alien"-inspired action and scares for good measure, "Attack the Block" isn't just the greatest alien invasion movie of 2011 it's one of the best movies of the year, period. Believe! Tell us which 2011 alien invasion movie was your favorite in the comments section and on Twitter!

Regis Philbin's Final 'Live!' Broadcast Pulls 9.45 Million Viewers

David Russell/ABC Domestic TV Final national ratings are in for Regis Philbin's last week on Live!, and the show posted huge gains for the week, with his final episode bringing in 9.45 million viewers.our editor recommendsFirst 'Live!' Episode After Regis Philbin's Departure Draws Good RatingsRegis Philbins Final Live! Episode Set to Net Record Ratings The highly watched Nov. 18 broadcast, which brought in 23 percent of home's using televisions, pushed Philbin's last week to an average of 5.57 million viewers from Nov. 14-18. STORY: Bob Iger Says He's in 'No Rush' to Replace Regis Philbin on 'Live!' Prior to his departure, the series was averaging 3.42 million per episode. Another big daytime exit in 2011, the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, did best Live! by a bit. A season of hype led to 16.4 million total viewers for Winfrey's final broadcast. STORY: Regis Philbin's Final 'Live!' Hits Ratings High After last week's metered market ratings, national numbers for the episode give it a 6.7 rating households rating. The average household rating for the week was a 4.2. The first week of Live! With Kelly, with Kelly Ripa manning the show with guest co-hosts Jerry Seinfeld and Jerry O'Connell, didn't lose much momentum from the Thanksgiving holiday. The retitled show delivered a 3.4 households rating according to metered markets. Oprah Winfrey TV Ratings Regis Philbin Kelly Ripa Live With Regis and Kelly Live! With Kelly

Stiller's workhorse ways recognized

Ben Stiller will get the Charlie Chaplin Award for Comedy Excellence in the Britannia Honours. Ben Stiller's work ethic is contagious.Stiller, whom BAFTA/LA is praising using the Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy, has got the uncanny ability to defend myself against multiple things at the same time and do all of them well."He runs very hot when he's working, and also you certainly need to run as hot because he does," states Justin Theroux, who authored "Tropic Thunder" with Stiller. "There's certainly no being lazy. He'll call at 12:30 during the night, saying we have to (fix something) by tomorrow. But it is always for that enhancement from the overall factor."This season saw not just the discharge of his large acting project "Tower Heist," but additionally "half an hour Or Less" and "The Large Year," both created by Stiller and Stuart Cornfeld's company Red-colored Hour. And there is plenty more where that originated from: five approaching films including "Zoolander 2" (composed with Theroux) and "The Key Existence of Walter Mitty," a Red-colored Hour film that Stiller will direct and star in.Stiller also stored it in the household, creating an internet series for Funny or Die featuring his parents (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara) talking about subjects of the day.InchI have labored with many different gifted, hard-employees,Inch states Cornfield, "and he's towards the top of my list."Once they met 12 years back, their relationship was built on mutual comedy taste along with a commitment of frankness. "Even when we decided on something, we each understood we're able to be wrong about this,Inch Cornfield states.Theroux suggests there's little ego in Stiller's work."Lots of occasions, should you write for somebody who's also the star, they would like to expand operator, but he's really magnanimous in the manner he creates," Theroux states.Stiller will regularly cut things, for themself, when they don't service the film. "He's proficient at keeping things as lean as they possibly can often be,Inch Theroux adds.This is a hell of the task because of the sheer amount of projects Stiller touches, all in a variety of stages of development. Plus he wears multiple hats: In some instances he's writing, pointing and creating others he's simply acting, as with the approaching Noah Baumbach pic "While We are Youthful."Fortunately, he may run hot, but it is a precision warmth."She has a fantastic ability to pay attention to something when giving something total attention, he will get a significant quantity of stuff done," Cornfeld states.And also the more Red-colored Hour develops, the greater defined its Hollywood niche."Our films have emotional honesty, regardless of how eccentric the symbol of individuals feelings," Cornfeld states. "Like, Derek Zoolander is really a narcissistic idiot, however the feelings he's dealing with are really the. We attempt to keep onto that."Britannia Honours 2011Bard barbs inspire teensHonoreesDavid Yates Helena Bonham Carter Warren Beatty Ben Stiller John Lasseter Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Brooke Burke Set To Host 2011 Rock N Roll Vegas Stiletto Dash

First Released: November 29, 2011 2:20 PM EST Credit: WireImage Vegas, Nev. -- Caption Brooke Burke attends This Year's Smile Event at Cipriani, Wall Street in NY City on May 5, 2011Information regarding how to sign up for this year's Rock n Roll Vegas Stiletto Dash presented through the Palazzo Vegas To Become Located by Brooke Burke: WHO: Television personality, Brooke Burke, will join 100s of ladies because they strap on the high heel shoes and run for any good cause in the first Rock n Roll Vegas Stiletto Dash presented through the Palazzo Vegas. WHEN: December 3, 2011 / Race starts at 5:00 PM WHERE: The Palazzo Vegas / 3325 Vegas Blvd. South / Vegas, NV 89109 WHAT: The 50-yard Rock n Roll Vegas Stiletto Dash will start in the luxurious grand lobby from the Palazzo and finished within the casino near Laguna Champagne Bar. Hundreds of participants are required, clothed in fabulous clothes to enhance their heels, competing in multiple warms for any $5,000 first-place purse, a present certificate to Canyon Ranch SpaClub in the Palazzo, along with other exciting awards. The big event may benefit two non profit organizations: Chance Village and Operation Smile. Each participant will get a unique gift bag and asked to go to a publish-dash party. MORE: Chance Village is really a local Vegas-based not-for-profit organization that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities, and Operation Smile is really a nonprofit that goodies facial penile deformation for example cleft lips and palates worldwide. The Rock n Roll Vegas Stiletto Dash will start the biggest night time running event on the planet, the Zappos.com Rock n Roll Vegas Marathon & 1/2 Marathon to profit the Chrons & Colitis Foundation, happening on Sunday, December fourth. To join up or to learn more, click the link. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Julia Roberts Talks Tabloids: I've Found Them Quite Shallow

First Released: November 28, 2011 12:55 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Julia Roberts steps out in the premiere from the Tree of Existence in the Bing Theatre in the La County Museum of Art in La on May 24, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Angelina Jolies romances, wild past and her family have been an emphasis from the tabloids through the years, however the Oscar champion stated the tales dont reveal true understanding of who she's. I dont see individuals things and that i have no idea what they're, Angelina told Bob Simon within an interview to advertise her directorial debut for that film, Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey, every sunday an hour. But, I suppose theyre not me, theyre not who I'm, theyre not things i spend my day caring about. The actress accepted she does from time to time get word over what is being reported, and she or he views the magazines to become mostly erroneous fluff. I've found them quite shallow and frequently wrong after i do learn about what they're, she stated. Individuals tales about Angelina once wanting to become a funeral director, however, are true. It may sound such as this very strange, eccentric dark factor to complete, however, I lost my grandfather and that i was very upset together with his funeral and thus we talked about that maybe you will find ways where this complete concept of how somebody passes and just how a household handles his passing and what dying is, ought to be addressed in different ways, she stated. If the acting factor didnt exercise, that would be my support. While acting has exercised all right for Angelina, when requested if she favors it when shes working or when Kaira is (the 2 dont take projects that overlaps), she accepted to selecting family each time. When Im aware of the children, she chuckled. Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey, hits theaters on December 23. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Zynga Offered $2.25 Billion Deal to Buy 'Angry Birds' Owner (Report)

NY - Social gaming giant Zynga, which has filed for an IPO, this summer offered to acquire Angry Birds maker Rovio, but a deal never materialized, the NY Times reported. It said the deal would have valued Rovio at roughly $2.25 billion in cash and stock. In July, Zynga also failed to seal another deal to buy mobile game firm PopCap for $950 million in cash. Electronic Arts won the bidding for the firm by offering a higher potential total - $750 million in cash and stock plus the potential of an additional $550 million if certain financial targets are met. But the Times said that PopCap founders also expressed concern that Zynga was rescinding share awards and had a culture of fierce internal competition. With its IPO expected by year's end, the hard-driving Zynga may face a brain drain, the Times suggested, reporting that competitors are preparing to poach disgruntled Zynga staff, with one recruiting firm sending cookie baskets to 150 employees this month. The company, whose Facebook games include Mafia Wars and CityVille, itself has hired talent from Electronic Arts and various other gaming firms. Zynga has long emphasized it is a meritocracy, so the fact that staff works long hours and managers track performance and get rid of weaker performers may not come as a surprise. But the Times said the internal competition and hard-charging approach may make it tougher for Zynga to retain talent. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus last month acknowledged e-mails from frustrated staff complaining about long work hours and stressful deadlines, promising to address concerns, the Times said. At a meeting, Pincus read some of the toughest criticism from a regular employee survey, saying he was aware of the problems and asking for guidance to fix them, it said. Among the complaints was one from a person who said he planned to cash out and leave after the IPO, according to the Times. "Zynga should be an example of entrepreneurship at its best," Roger McNamee, a co-founder of venture capital firm Elevation Partners told the Times. "Instead it's going to be a Harvard Business School case study on founder overreach - this will be a cautionary tale." "I expect a lot of game and tech companies will begin recruiting Zynga's talent after their equity becomes liquid," said Gabrielle Toledano, head of human resources for Electronic Arts. Zynga declined to comment, citing the quiet period before its IPO. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics Zynga

John Myhre Named Oscar Production Designer

Beverly Hillsides, CA Academy Award-winning production designer John Myhre will design the 84th Oscars, telecast producers John Grazer and Don Mischer introduced today. This is the very first time Myhre has offered as production designer for that Academy awards. “John is really a prolific production designer, that has produced probably the most intriguing sets that people’ve seen,” stated Grazer and Mischer. “His motion picture perspective is a great contribution to the team dynamic and also the reveal.” Myhre won Oscars within the Art Direction category in 2002 for “Chicago” as well as in 2005 for “Memoirs of the Geisha.” He's three more Oscar nominations for his focus on “Elizabeth” (1998), “Dreamgirls” (2006) and “Nine” (2009). Myhre’s other production design credits include “Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “Wanted,” “Ali” and “X-Males.” Oscars for outstanding film accomplishments of 2011 will be provided on Sunday, Feb 26, 2012, in the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and public live and eat the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation will also be public reside in a lot more than 200 nations worldwide.

Ricky Gervais Back As Golden Globes Host!

First Published: November 16, 2011 5:16 PM EST Credit: NBC Caption Host Ricky Gervais speaks onstage during the Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Prepare yourself future Golden Globe nominees Ricky Gervais is returning as the shows host! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced on Wednesday that the British funnyman would return as host despite causing quite a bit of controversy last year. After weeks of rumours its finally official Ricky Gervais will be back to host the Golden Globes for a third year, a statement posted on the HFPAs website read. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted for the controversial British comedians return after meeting with NBC official Doug Vaughn. The HFPA acknowledged that Rickys return might be unsettling to some, one year after he repeatedly skewered some of Hollywoods elite during his first stint as Globes host. While many welcome Gervaiss return, not everyone is happy with the decision because last year his blunt one-liners targeting big-name celebrities caused anger and resentment in some quarters, the statement continued. After the show Gervais dismissed the possibility of coming back for a third time, but he gradually warmed to the idea and last month met with HFPA President Dr. Aida Takla-OReilly in Paris to discuss it. He said recently that the idea of going back behind the podium is very tempting. (Poll: Good call to bring Ricky Gervais back as Golden Globes host? VOTE HERE!) On Wednesday Ricky Tweeted, Just told Billy Crystal hed better not use any of my holocaust or pedophile material at The Oscars. He agreed (true), along with posting a photo of himself with the upcoming Oscar Host and another shot that was used for last years Globes. Following the 2011 raucous show, where the British actor took jabs at Robert Downey Jr., John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Charlie Sheen, HFPA President Philip Berk said, He definitely crossed the line. And some of the things were totally unacceptable. But thats Ricky I had absolutely no idea what Ricky was going to say so anything I heard was heard was the same time you heard it, Berk said at the time. When you hire Ricky Gervais, you expect the unexpected. The Golden Globes will air on January 15, 2012 on NBC. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Justin Timberlake Keeps His Word, Attends Marine Corps Ball

Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake made good on his promise to go to a Marine Corps ball, Richmond's CBS affiliate reviews. Timberlake was requested to go to by Cpl. Kelsey P Santis, a Quantico, Veterans administration.-based Marine, via YouTube within the summer time, and that he recognized her invitation. (Timberlake's invite came days after his Buddies with Benefits co-star Mila Kunis recognized a YouTube invitation from Sgt. Scott Moore to go to a Marine Corps ball. She's still confirmed to go to the approaching Greenville, N.C., event on Friday.) VIDEO: Justin Timberlake will get requested out by marine This photo of Timberlake was taken in the event Saturday through the wife of the marine, who stated the "SexyBack" singer posed for pictures. Not sure yet on if the Grammy champion and the date involved in a dance-off, as she'd wished.

Breaking Dawn Stars React To Fans Premiere Tent City

First Published: November 11, 2011 9:40 PM EST Credit: WireImage LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Host and Nylon November cover star Kellan Lutz arrives, in Dylan George and his own clothing line Abbot + Main, at the Nylon Guys and Dylan George, Abbot and Main party, sponsored by Luna Rosa Tequila at The Beverly, Los Angeles, Nov. 10, 2011More than 1,000 Twilight fans are anxiously awaiting Mondays premiere of Breaking Dawn Part 1, already camping out and lining up outside LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles. But what do the Breaking Dawn stars themselves think of the Twi-hard tent city? Access Hollywood caught up with Kellan Lutz and Christian Serratos on the red carpet of the Nylon Guys November issue release party on Thursday night in West Hollywood to get the scoop. I really want to go out to tent city, Kellan told Access Hollywood. My friends told me, I think you make the record for two premieres in one week at the Nokia Theater, he added, referring to the LA Live-held premiere of his other November film, Immortals, which sees him playing a young-looking Poseidon. Kellan, who plays Emmett Cullen in The Twilight Saga, isnt the only cast member jazzed by the #OccupyTwilight phenomenon. I heard about tent city like an hour ago. I had no idea that fans were out there already, Christian, who plays Bellas human friend Angela Weber, told Access. I know they do it every movie, but for them to be out there already is very cool, very supportive. Christian cant wait to see the premiere either because she admitted that Breaking Dawn is her favorite installment in Stephenie Meyers book series. Im more excited for this movie than I have been for any of the others, the actress, who was sporting a funky Forever 21 top and black and white Chanel sneakers, added. And Im in it the least! One of her favorite scenes to film was the exchanging of vows between Edward and Bella. It felt like a real wedding. It was emotionalespecially because they made the wedding the very last scene we all shot together, she said. When asked the inevitable question, Team Edward or Team Jacob, the 21 year-old actress didnt hesitate for a single second before replying. I used to play it cool and say I was neutral, but [expletive] it Im Team Edward! Christian told Access. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 premieres this coming Monday, November 14. Part 2 follows in November 2012. -- Chandler Chase Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Immortals' Director Tarsem Singh on Critiques to '300,' Screen Violence as well as the 'Dreadful' 'Clash in the Titans'

Future Guy of Steel Henry Cavill is making the press models for 'Immortals,' and also on Monday evening, the 'Man of Steel' star stopped by 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' for just about any chat. The topic? Superman's legendary red-colored-colored outer under clothes, which has apparently been cast off for your Zack Snyder-directed reimagining. "Why placed on training pants when you're able to considerably more revealing?" Cavill joked within the charming British accent. Bad he can't use his native voice to see Supes. He'd appear so charming! Anyway, no under clothes. Noted. [THR/Warmth Vision] When Lindsay Lohan isn't trading four several hours in jail, she's showing up for Playboy in the pictorial that recalls Marilyn Monroe. Because NY Magazine (link NSFW) didn't do that in 2008. Expect the Lohan problem being on newsstands in December. [The Insider] Clive Owen is positioned to star in 'Recall,' an ordinary-sounding actioner made less generic because it absolutely was put together by Paul Schrader ('Taxi Driver,' 'Raging Bull'). [Variety] Consider it 'The Da Vinci Code: The Greater youthful Years.' Universal has acquired the spec script 'Leonardo' by Jonny Kurzman, in regards to the youthful Leonardo Da Vinci trying to prevent the return in the Dark Age groups. It is really an action-adventure film, in the event you couldn't tell. [Variety] 'Skyfall' has added two new stars: Ola Rapace and Helen McCrory, the 2nd whom you realize most out of 'Harry Potter' as Narcissa Malfoy she's also in 'Hugo.' Rapace might be the estranged husband of Noomi Rapace (the first 'The Girl While using Dragon Tattoo'). [@007] 'Bridemaids' scene-stealer Wendi McLendon-Covey finds a completely new role: she'll star inside the indie comedy 'A White-colored Trash Christmas,' the parody of 'A Christmas Carol.' Girl is funny! Can't we have her better material? [Variety] [Photo: Warner Bros.] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Occupy Wall Street Heads to South Park

South Park The South Park children are going to give new meaning towards the "1 %.Inch On Wednesday's episode (10/9c, Comedy Central), the animated series will lampoon the Occupy Wall Street movement. Instead of concentrating on financial matters, the show will cope with the disparity between your boys' sports capabilities in gym class.Chubby Eric Cartman signifies the 1 % of 4th graders who fails the health and fitness exam. "I understand how this works! You are the 99 % ganging on the 1 %!Inch he screams at school prior to going home in tears. "The 99 % says things are my fault."South Park designers looked into through the Chapel of Scientology?South Park designers Trey Parker and Matt Stone are well known for implementing the show to place a comedy spin on cultural issues. Previously, South Park has parodied Scientology (and Cruise questionable sexuality), Osama bin Laden's dying, and Wow.View a preview from the episode below:1%Have More: SOUTHPARKEric Cartman,Wendy Testaburger,more...

Universal Music Handles to get rid of Bid to Dismiss Class Action Lawsuit Suit Over Digital Revenue

Jesse Jackson within the 2010 Essence Music Festival TV The very first is accusing Wager Network and MTV of hijacking its exclusive rights for the Essence Music Festival, featuring performances by Jesse Jackson, Alicia Secrets, Mary J. Blige while others. The ambush is purported to possess happened this summer season, now TV The very first is taking its rivals to federal court for airing anunauthorized "rogue" broadcast of the show. In claims made on Friday, TV One particulars the fantastic expense it allegedly made to secure rights to theEssence Music Festival, an annual event dedicated to Black music and culture that pulls in hundreds of thousands of people each year. For television rights, TV One states it spent $500,000 this season and $750,000 this season. Furthermore, the network states it spent around $1.5 million to produce the show. In the finish of June, just a week before TV One was scheduled to air the 2010 Essence Music Festival, Wager public performances from the prior year.The airing is mentioned not just to have interfered with marketing its coming telecast, but furthermore to own constituted an breach of the broadcast from the prior year. PHOTOS: The Music Activity Industry's Finest Givers Wager is mentioned to own taken TV One's 2010 show nearly verbatim except altering its competitor's logo design design having its own. Nevertheless, the Wager broadcast contained credits listing the tv One mark and several of the employees, showing its origin. TV One states under its contract, it held exclusive rights showing and broadcast this year's show until August 29, 2014. Furthermore, the agreement is mentioned to own barred Essence Productions, the licensor, from enabling others concentrating on Black audiences showing its show. No matter the contractual restrictions, co-defendant Music World Music, an entertainment company that has became a member of with Essence and signifies such artists as Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, allegedly provided this year's TV One program to another company, which provided it to Wager, MTV, and Wager's Centric Network. PHOTOS: Top Finest Paid out Artists Numerous cease-and-desist letters were posted late June, but TV One states the breach of the exclusive rights triggered permanent harm, devaluing its programs, undercutting its contracts, dangerous associations with entrepreneurs, endangering its relationship while using public, and unjustly enriching the accused. TV The very first is now asking for injunctive relief and damages for copyright breach, tortious interference, and extra violations of California business code. The network, partly possessed by Comcast, continues to be represented by Thaddeus Stauber at Nixon Peabody. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Alicia Secrets Jesse Jackson Mary J. Blige MTV Wager

Bill Murray joins Charlie Sheen on Roman Coppolas Charles Swan

After collaborating with Sofia on Lost In Translation, Billy Murray has again teamed up with the Coppola family, this time for comedy Charles Swan.Roman Coppola, son of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola, has written the screenplay and will also direct.An eclectic cast has already been announced: Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza and tiger blood himself Charlie Sheen, who is set to make a career comeback in the film, have all been announced.Now Murray has been added, as well as Final Destination 3 star Mary Elizabeth Winstead.The full title of the picture is A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III. The synopsis reads below..."Sheen stars as the title character, a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have made him irresistible to women.""When his girlfriend breaks up with him, his life swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection.""Through delirious fantasies involving his many failed romances, he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with life without her."Sounds like a testing role for Charlie Sheen, who is almost completely foreign to fame, money, women and downward spirals.The film is scheduled for an unspecified 2012 release date.

Lana Parrilla and Josh Dallas Talk 'Once Upon a Time'

When one creates a show executive created by "Lost's" Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, it seems that certain needs to attend peace with knowing only a part of their character's story. That's apparently the situation using the men's new series on ABC, the story book meets modern occasions drama, "Not so long ago.""They are being very private with everything else and i believe it's wise of these to achieve that,Inch Lana Parrilla, who plays Regina/ the Evil Full, informs "The Hollywood Reporter.""They did that on 'Lost,' too,Inch she continues. "Many of the guest stars I had been one did not obtain the whole script. You simply got that which you were shooting. Sometimes, it's challenging, however i realise why. You want to bare this show as secret as you possibly can, hesitant to spoil anything."Parrilla did tell THR a little of the items she knows to be real about her character who is among the couple of people within the show's mythic Storybrooke you never know what's happening. In the end, she's accountable for the curse that introduced the story book figures in to the modern occasions and removed their reminiscences."There's lots of secrets, there is lots to contain, there is lots to mask as Regina," she states. "She's an infinitely more complex character I've found. I believe the Evil Full, she's too, she's just fun. She puts it available. There's immaterial to cover and she or he has fun by using it. She likes wrecking individuals lives."For Prince Charming, he's certainly seen better days than his current condition because the comatose Someone In Particular. So, as the show loves to keep its story lines secret, actor Josh Dallas informs THR a little of the items they know is going to be revealed about his dashing character."You are certainly likely to discover how Snow Whitened and Prince Charming met," Dallas informs THR. "And you are likely to discover the roots of Prince Charming, where he originates from and just how he grew to become prince which whole story. You are just likely to discover much more about the guy and perhaps Someone In Particular may be getting out of bed, not, we'll need to watch and discover.""Poor Someone In Particular, it's all regulated my fault," Parrilla then amusingly interjects.Tune into ABC at 8 p.m. every sunday to discover the way the story originates on "Not so long ago." The Hollywood Reporter

New Network Concentrating on African Us citizens to create Next Season

An ambitious new TV broadcast service concentrating on African Us citizens inside the southern United states . States referred to as Soul in the South Network expects to invest no less than $ten million by early next season to create in no less than 50 areas offering entertainment, sports, news and cultural programming.Among urban centers where SSN intends to be proven at launch are Atlanta, Memphis, Monroe (Louisiana), Orlando and Augusta (Georgia). Furthermore, it expects to possess affiliate entrepreneurs in northern urban centers for instance Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit with large African-American population segments.Planners are mentioned being settling deals for studio library programming which has African Us citizens in the southern setting, additionally to rights to regional and native sports for instance football, basketball and baseball games from black schools, schools and schools inside their key areas, according to Edwin Avent, chairman in the new network's parent company, SSN Media Group.Advent recently developed a deal to promote his "Heart & Soul Magazine" posting company situated in Baltimore and contains spent several days settling purchases of stations, creating affiliate associations and joining track of technology companies. "South in the South Network will embody a person's heart of African-American culture," mentioned Advent, "and if we are as effective after i believe we'll be, audiences uses our network in record amounts because they'll finally feel in your house.InchThis Years Census states 57 percent of African Us citizens live in the South, the finest percentage in than fifty years. The black population in the South elevated within the fastest rate since 1910 as well as the South appeared to become the fastest-growing region within the u . s . states overall, seeing its population increase fourteen percent. Atlanta transformed Chicago since the city while using second finest volume of African-American people after NY."We're feeling we'll attract a grownup thinking Southern audience who not only desire to be entertained," added Advent, "but furthermore informed and saved current most abundant in recent occurrences in operation, politics and culture. We'll provide programming for numerous African-Us citizens whose voices are largely unheard. "SSN also expects to do some original programming just like a stylish hop music show, a training course featuring family family family reunions and "Drum Majors," about music at mostly black schools, they call their "Dwts.InchTheir initial few shows will probably be "Radioface," an unscripted comedy situated by regional radio personas and "Southern Soul Tales," which with different comment "explores the lives of African-American symbols in the South as well as the occasions, small , large, that created the place.InchAdditionally they promise to air five several hours every day of news, mostly coming from from agencies in southern condition capitals for instance Tallahassee, Florida Jackson, Mississippi Montgomery, Alabama and Charlotte now now, New You are able to. SSN has contracted with Motel News of Davenport, Iowa to assist what is the news methods. SSN is predicted to own or control no less than twelve stations by launch, with others developing board as affiliate entrepreneurs. People include full broadcast stations (who offer cable carriage), lower energy stations and digital spectrum stations (in which a current station offers additional digital signals). The service can also be on the web and with the finish of next season needs use a mobile phone distribution platform.Along with Avent, people creating the completely new venture are co-founders Carl McCaskill, who may serve as professional v . p . of economic development and branding and Ray Morton (who founded the Retro Network) and can typically be leader in the network.SSN will probably be located in Little Rock, Arkansas located in the studio and production facilities of KKYK-TV, a TV full energy TV station formerly part of Equity Broadcasting before it went bankrupt in 2008. SNN estimations it has no less than 100 employees when in the launch.Other SSN executive include Rob Burns Junior., formerly of Manley Posting, who heads marketing Jesse "Nick" Harwood of Princeton Media and Erection dysfunction Baruch of Allied Media, who's an consultant on distribution.The completely new venture has acquired assets from Equity, like the C.A.S.H. system, meaning Central Automated Satellite Headend. This allows those to program stations any place in the u . s . states in one hub in Little Rock. SSN will sell local advertising in each market, and possess news agencies in many of them.Nonetheless, the signal will not be distributed by satellite. Rather, it'll take advantage of the computer server "cloud based system" to supply its programming 24 several hours every day. Fusion Services of Davenport, Iowa, introduced by Rob Lyle, handles master control and signal delivery.SSN, which expects to showcase its make within the broadcast upfront next May, mentioned it has a slate of charter entrepreneurs by launch including airline carriers, automobile and healthcare companies, according to Frank Mercado, former mind in the African Heritage Network (a TV syndicator). "We'll get some good of the and regional dollars by carving out a sub-sector that has different buying and behavior designs that will permit entrepreneurs to target their product marketing better. There will not be every other network like ours."You will discover, however, others. Besides the Wager network possessed by Viacom, that's on cable tv, Bounce TV launched in September in primary U.S. urban centers with a combination of movies, belief based shows and original programming. Its founders include Martin Luthur King III and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Youthful. It airs mainly on digital channels.MGM may also be trying to produce KIN TV, to participate its digital funnel options such as this TV. MGM's partner inside the venture looks like it's Lee Gaither, a media consultant who aided launch the tv One cable network. The Hollywood Reporter

VIDEO: Shane West Teases Nikita's Daddy Issues and Michael's Last Name

Maggie Q, Shane West, David Keith Nikita is going to deal with daddy issues. Shane West sat down with TVGuide.com to tease Friday's episode of Nikita, "343 Walnut Lane" (8/7c on The CW), and confirms that the Cassandra (Helena Matsson) story line isn't over yet. [Spoilers! If you haven't seen the previous episode, "Looking Glass" yet, it's best to not read further.] VIDEO: Nikita's Shane West on trouble in "Mikita" paradise In the last episode, Michael (West) reconnects with Cassandra, a former asset he had become emotionally involved with during a mission six years ago. In present day, he and Nikita (Maggie Q) help save her life, but before parting ways, Nikita learns that Cassandra had been keeping a secret: Michael is the father of her 5-year-old son, Max. "There was a big bomb that's dropped that Nikita finds out about but no one else," West said. "And so that is carried out into this next episode." As Nikita decides whether or not to tell Michael he's a baby daddy, she tracks down her own father, Richard (guest star David Keith). In typical Nikita fashion, their reunion is less hugs and more slugs as they try to take each other out. Check out West's take on the family reunion and thoughts about finding out Michael's last name: And here's a look at Keith as Nikita's dad: Nikita airs Fridays at 8/7c on The CW. Should Nikita tell Michael about his child? What do you think is the big mystery behind concealing Michael's last name?

Inshallah, Football

An Alipur Film production while using support in the Asian Cinema Fund. (Worldwide sales: Smiley Film Sales, Auckland.) Produced by Giulia Achilli, Ashvin Kumar. Co-producer, Jaaved Jaffrey. Directed, put together by Ashvin Kumar.With: Basharat Baba, Bashir Baba, Juan Marcos Troia, Priscilla Barros Pedroso. (Hindi, British dialogue)Three story strands compete for attention inside the sincere but unpolished human-rights docu "Inshallah, Football," from Indian helmer Ashvin Kumar. Shot this past year in Srinigar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, pic concentrates on Basharat Baba, a gifted teen soccer player who was simply requested to teach getting a Brazilian club but fought to find the passport declined him because his father will be a Pakistan-trained militant. But Kumar also devotes plenty of time to Basharat's father, Bashir, also to the sports academy where the boy trains. Questionable in India due to its perceived critique in the government, "Football" is kicking around the fest circuit. Helmer Kumar, most broadly noted for his Oscar-nominated 2004 live-action short, "The Little Terrorist," uses plenty of text to stipulate how a Muslim-majority condition Kashmir wound up divided between Indian and Pakistani industries of control. Since the autonomy of Indian-occupied Kashmir eroded over time, many Kashmiris, like Bashir Baba, rebelled in the trying out pressure. Now considered a rehabilitated Hizbul Mujahideen, Bashir discusses his in time detention and -- more objectionable to Indian censors -- his torture inside the well-known interrogation center known to as Papa 2. Bashir came old at any time when teens had little other outlet for forces, but also for his son's generation, there's soccer. The backstory in the Intl. Sports Academy Depend upon Kashmir provides the most audience-friendly part of the docu, with figures worthy that goes for them film. Founded by FIFA-accredited Argentine coach Juan Marcos Troia and also the charming Brazilian wife, Priscilla Barros Pedroso, ISAT trains local youths to see soccer in addition to shows them moral values. Tech credits are fundamental, with Kumar and co-producer Giulia Achilli every once in awhile turning up oncamera.Camera (color, DV), Kumar editors, Kumar, Aman Shukla, Ewa J. Lind music, Shahzad Ismaily, Qasim Haqvi, Jil Christensen appear, Roland Heap. Examined at Chicago Film Festival (Docufest), March. 13, 2011. Running time: 80 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

New Dragon Tattoo Poster Arrives

What's hidden in snow...You will discover an array of viral online shenanigans happening inside the increase towards the relieve David Fincher's The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo. The newest reveal arises from the "unofficial" Mouth Recorded Shut website, which is the best version from the poster taunted a couple of days ago."There's a Swedish proverb: 'What is hidden in snow arrives inside the thaw'," Fincher told Empire in problem 269. "We'll probably put it on to some poster." Here you decide to go:Under just like-your-face as previous, well-known, nipple-submitting ads then. Rather than LIsbeth Salander's goth aggression, that certain raises the climate of icey chill that score-composer Trent Reznor states remains central for the production.The thick black frame as well as the flower may also be a jerk for the annual gifts Henrik Vanger receives from the mystery sender. There's presently a game title title afoot to decipher fiendish clues to find similar Fincher-signed items in American urban centers.Issues, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgard, Christopher Plummer and Joely Richardson star inside the Girl While using Dragon Tattoo. Steve Zaillian written the script, which is on December 26. Fincher is presently "settling" using the new the new sony for just about any three-hour cut.

Fall in film dramas hit Australian biz

The trading on adult TV drama nationwide reaches 10 years-extended high, but inadequacies in large-budget films has seen total trading within the u . s . states fall having a third.According to Screen Australia's annual drama survey, gold gold coin for drama inside the 2010-11 fiscal year stands in aDollar495 million ($511.5 million), off 33% from the prior year. But exceeding 40 skeins in production, TV prevented a far greater fall. Series counted for $348 million, every year that has seen local skeins click with auds.High-quality productions, including pubcaster ABC's "The Slap," the Nine Network's "Underbelly: Razor" and Network Seven's "Wild Boys," have especially brought for the steady growth and development of adult dramas, per Screen Australia's topper Ruth Harley. "Australia is making the very best television in the world at this time and our tales are rating highly with audiences," Harley added.Bigscreen adult drama introduced in just $163 million, because no high-budget studio-backed photos are actually produced Here formerly 12 several days. Of the figure, foreign production taken care of for $89 million of expenditure, lower from $188.5 million in the last year, when "The Tales of Narnia" and "You Should not Be Frightened from the Dark" shot nationwide. You will discover wants a good start in next year's figures as production on Baz Luhrmann's "The Fantastic Gatsby" and Alex Proyas' "Paradise Lost" are usually under strategies by Sydney. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Film Independent Chooses 9 Projects for Producers Lab Mentoring

Film Independent has identified nine projects and their filmmakers for the organization’s 11th annual Producers Lab. Those selected include Brent Hoff and Malcom Pullinger, who are readying for production their El Diablo Rojo and will receive a $25,000 development grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which nurtures scripts and films about science and technology in hopes of guiding them into commercial production with distribution. The budding producers come from a variety of backgrounds, educated in the Midwest as well as NY, Los Angeles, and gaining know-how by working at studios, movie and TV production shingles, agencies and the like in a variety of capacities and getting feature and shorts work under their belts. The 2011 Producers Lab projects (and their filmmakers) are: A Day With Dandekar (Megha Kadakia) After being forced into retirement, a kindly Iranian man goes on a search to find the beloved car his well-meaning daughters have traded away. Writer-director Leena Pendharkar. El Diablo Rojo (Brent Hoff and Malcom Pullinger, producers) Called down to investigate a mysterious disappearance of fish in the Sea of Cortez, a marine biologist and his team discover a super swarm of “El Diablo Rojo” squid and risk their lives to prevent an ecological catastrophe. Ethel (Anil Baral) When Julius Rosenberg and David Greenglass are picked up for being Russian spies, the drama of the communist red scare is played out, not in political machinations, but in a drama where the personal becomes political and family members turn against one another. Written by Yon Motskin and with Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) attached as the title character. Lee (Angela C. Lee) A quiet and daring Lakota boy takes on a dangerous job in order to keep his family together on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Man With Van (Shrihari Sathe) Made destitute by the recession, an honest electrician bumbles into professional arson to provide for his doting daughter and win back his suspicious ex- wife. Pit (Rikki Jarret) A boxer who murdered his manager returns to his hometown to fight for the love of his wife, but is recruited to an underground fighting circuit by his victims vengeful brother. Raw (Gil Kofman and Stacy Raskin) Raw is a poignant, authentic, and often funny story about how the introduction of a young woman throws the world of a middle-aged couple and their kids into an unexpected tailspin. Televisionaries (Jonathan Sheldon) In an epic battle of wits between two of the 20th century’s most influential figures, a genius inventor faces off against a shrewd tycoon for control over a world-changing technology. Three (Anna Kerrigan) A college professor, her older husband and her young lover struggle to create a polyamorist relationship that works. The budding producers will take part in a seven-week free program sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that is designed to help move their current projects into production. This year’s mentors are Karin Chien (Circumstance, The Exploding Girl), Ted Kroeber (Splinter, American Gun), Gina Kwon (The Future, The Good Girl) and Meg LeFauve (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, The Baby Dance). Selected filmmakers were chosen based on the strength of their submitted scripts, business plan, and creative vision. Previous grant winners Future Weather and Valley of Saints, are in post-production, said Film Independent director of artist development Josh Welsh, who said he fully expected El Diablo Rojo to follow suit.

MTV occupies Wall Street

The rumor hit a few days ago, and today it's confirmed: MTV is placed to air a real possibility series set one of the protesters at Zuccotti Park known as "True Existence: I am Taking up Wall Street."There is no time for you to waste, either: the skein is placed to air on Saturday, November. 5 at 6 p.m."True Existence" follows three youthful people dealing with the movement in Gotham, that has attracted both local and national support in addition to lots of police presence. MTV spent two days shooting in the OWS protests, following a group's day-to-day activities.Series is created in-house through the network the professional producers are Dork Sirulnick, Marshall Eisen, Betsy Forhan and Jim Fraenkel.Inside a release released today, the internet recommended stats it had produced inside a recent survey, revleaing that 93% from the 18-29-year-olds interviewed thought the current financial situation has effects on them personally, which 72% don't trust the federal government to consider proper care of them. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

The Key Line (Gojijeon)

A Showbox/Mediaplex presentation from the TPS Co. production in colaboration having a-Po Films. (Worldwide sales: Showbox/Mediaplex, Seoul.) Produced by Lee Woo-jung, Kim Hyun-cheol. Executive producer, You Jeong-hoon. Directed by Jang Hoon. Script, Park Sang-yeon.With: Shin '-kyun, Ko Soo, Lee Je-hoon, Ryu Seung-soo, Ko Chang-seok, David Lee, Ryoo Seung-yong, Kim Ok-vin, Cho Jin-woong. (Korean, British dialogue)Despite the fact that it doesn't give a new chapter for your war-is-hell playbook, "The Key Line" can be a solid if overlong chronicle from the South Korean unit plowing it near to the 38th parallel through the 1950-53 conflict. Engaging auds psychologically with strong figures and bittersweet moments of competitors fraternizing in the distance, South Korea's foreign-language Oscar submission grew to become one in the year's finest domestic hits, with 2.95 million admissions since its This summer time 20 release, and won the most effective prize within the national Golden Bell honours. Offshore theatrical exposure appears unlikely, nevertheless the pic's high-quality action footage bodes well for ancillary. Setting may be the month of the month of january 1953, couple of years after armistice discussions commenced. Designated to check out the potential murder from the officer by among their very own males and eliminate a suspected communist mole, military intelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo (Shin '-kyun) is distributed to Alligator Unit, that's now beneath the command of morphine-addicted Shin Il-yeong (Lee Je-hoon). A ragged squad that lacks discipline and contains arrived at wearing enemy uniforms to keep warm, Alligator includes burly joker Yang Hyo-mike (Ko Chang-seok), scared teen Nam Sang-sik (David Lee) and Kim Su-hyeok (Ko Soo), a vintage friend of Kang's whose open comments about military brass mark him since the potential traitor. The senselessness of war is symbolized by Alligator Unit's mission for capture Aerok Hill, just a little peak round the 38th parallel that's changed hands with monotonous regularity since hostilities commenced. Forever trying out then retreating within the same chunk of property, Alligator together with a like-minded quantity of North Koreans established a hidden mailbox on Aerok Hill where gifts are exchanged and letters from Northern soldiers to family people inside the South are collected and shipped without any sense of wrongdoing. These connections between authors and site visitors in the letters form a great emotional core, nevertheless the tension surrounding Kang's putative mission soon fizzles, as well as the pic's message in regards to the horror from this all becomes labored to another assault on Aerok Hill. Delivering partial compensation, suspense-wise, are sudden looks having a deadly North Korean sniper carried out with the film's sole female cast member, Kim Ok-vin. Credit scripter Park Sang-yeon and helmer Jang Hoon due to not including inside a saber rattling. Given not just token screen time, North Korean figures including broken commander Oh Gi-yeong (Ryu Seung-soo) appear being much like frustrated using the fighting their South Korean options. Thesping is ok, with no macho posturing nearby. Shin is charming since the officer whose sense of duty is thrown off balance with the stark reality he encounters at Aerok Hill, and Lee Je-hoon is memorable since the youthful commander which has attended hell as well as in the street of duty. Pictures by d.p. Kim Woo-hyung subtly vary from gritty in fight sequences to clean but never glossy in quieter moments. The comfort in the technical package is topnotch.Camera (color, HD), Kim Woo-hyung editors, Kim Sang-beom, Kim Jae-beom music, Jang Youthful-gyu, Dalparan production designer, Ryu Seong-hie costume designer, Cho Sang-kyung appear (Dolby Digital), Jeong Gwang-ho visual effects managers, Jeong Seong-jin, Heo Dong-hyeok visual effects, Digital Idea. Examined at Busan Film Festival (Korean Cinema Today), March. 13, 2011. (Also in Vancouver, Hawaii film festivals.) Running time: 133 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Hollywood Honours: Grit & fashion in movie mecca

Docus like 'The Realm of Z,' about artist Zbigniew Fiks, above, really are a special feature from the Hollywood Film Festival.Kaira Leong's 'Dorfman' opened up the fest March. 21. Hollywood isn't a meritocracy.But Carlos p Abreu is spending so much time to make sure that the Hollywood Film Festival is.The 4-day event, which begins the kudos season using its associated Hollywood Honours gala, has created out a distinct segment like a showcase for emerging talent and also the year's most significant efforts.Last year's Hollywood Honours readers dovetailed with Oscar those who win in many groups, including scribe Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Networking"), cinematographer Wally Pfister ("Beginning"), art director Robert Stromberg ("Alice's adventures in wonderland") and director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech"). Praising Hooper was particularly prescient considering the fact that the helmer was hardly on anyone's radar several weeks prior to the Brit monarch pic ignited about this side of water-feature."We are not within the nominee business," describes p Abreu, who co-founded the fest in 1997 with wife Janice Pennington. "We choose one worthy performance per category, and that we feel each recipient most warrants the recognition. Merit is merit."Unlike other honours shows, which cast a large internet via acting noms in order to attract probably the most star energy, p Abreu is most worried about being in front of the honours-season curve on above- and below-the-line efforts. Actually, the Hollywood Honours may be the among the couple of kudos-fetes aside from the Oscars and also the individual guilds to recognition below-the-line talent, for example Emmanuel Lubezki, granted this season for his "The Tree of Existence" cinematography.The Hollywood Honours also nominates several photos that moviegoers can election for online at Yahoo! Movies. Individuals noms are "Cowboys & Aliens," "Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," "The Assistance,Inch "Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "Rango," "Rise from the Planet from the Apes," "Super 8," "Transformers: Dark from the Moon" and "X-Males: Top Class.InchConcerning the film fest, p Abreu runs the choice process and enlists industryites like Mike Medavoy and Paula Wagner to weigh in. Among his past finds was "Footloose" helmer Craig Maker, who credits the fest with starting his career after his feature debut, "Poor People & Hungry," unspooled there in 2000."I received this low quality tape, and we are not really designed to accept tapes," recalls p Abreu of Brewer's submission. "It's late during the night, and I am exhausted. But I am riveted. This is the test."The fest can also be noted for its impressive roster of hard-striking docus. Past docus have incorporated "The Diplomat," a movie that portrayed East Timorese militant Xanana Gusmao's struggle from the Indonesian government. Gusmao has become pm of East Timor. Among the 2010 quartet of docus is "The field of Z," directed by Kaira Besser and Vince Clemente, about outdoors artist Zbigniew Fiks, a manic-depressive."I will always be inspired by a specific Frank Capra quote, 'Let others make films concerning the grand sweeps of history, I'd make mine concerning the bloke that pushes the broom,' " states Besser."We produced a romantic film experience following a existence of the little-known artist, and consequently it talks to some much greater human condition."HOLLYWOOD AWARD Grit & fashion in movie mecca Glenn Close: 3 decades of amazing transitions Hollywood Honours honorees Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Jamie Bell Seeks to Funnel Tintin

The town (AP) Tintin always is ideal, courageous and heroic up to happens to become cartoonesque.That left British actor Jamie Bell, 25, while using challenge of turning the level of smoothness in to a credible, flesh-and-bones wise reporter for Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret in the Unicorn."Granted, Bell's acting was enhanced by performance-capture technology, which layers cartoon onto stars to incorporate a veneer of recognition together with the climate in the old comics populated by villains and heroes.Still, it absolutely was daunting. "For Tintin, his palette, the shades aren't as wealthy," Bell acknowledged inside an interview while using Connected Press.Tintin can be a character imagined up 80 years back by Belgian artist Georges Remi, who written beneath the pen title of Herge. Now Tintin needs arrive at existence on the watch's screen at any given time where 10-year-kids learn about irony, sarcasm cheap vice and virtue are often much more connected than grownups let on.Spielberg and Bell are trying to consider these kids inside a period machine, to Europe deep inside the last century, when things made an appearance simple and easy , straightforward.Bell states he loved playing "a great heroic character that's straight-laced, old-fashioned and doesn't rely on not only natural instinct. I don't think we view people kind of heroes any more.InchGong reaches Tintin's home town from the city for Saturday's world premiere in the movie, which will unveil across Europe and elsewhere before striking the united states . States with the Christmas movie season."The Important Thing in the Unicorn" is rollicking ride in a single aimless event Tintin's buying a vintage model ship to dangerous fights around the rusty cargo ship to exotic desert adventures, all spiced getting a dash of humor and chase moments which are currently a Spielberg hallmark.Bell's character is not definately not Andy Serkis' Captain Haddock, a cursing alcoholic susceptible to fits of self-pity and flourishes of bravado. In cartoon terms, it absolutely was casting Jesse Duck alongside Jesse Duck.Was Bell ever jealous of Serkis' to wreak havoc?"Yes, clearly, however, you can't have one without any other. Once we were both such as this ...it could become such slapstick," he mentioned.Rather, a purchase in the world is started up its mind since the boy reporter becomes the adult in this case.InchTintin might be parents and Haddock might be the kid,Inch mentioned Bell. "It creates a pleasurable dynamic."Bell was an eight-year-old themselves when he first came face-to-face with Tintin using the books and animated cartoons. Similar to Males and ladies, he was immediately smitten.Only at that age, "he's everything you need to become. He literally goes out of your mattress room," Bell mentioned.It absolutely was employment 17 years inside the making."Once I discovered when, A, they were developing a film of Tintin, I used to be immediately excited. But, B, once i discovered they wanted me to see him, it absolutely was absurd," Bell mentioned, praising "the synergy as well as the fatefulness of this joining together.InchAll people youthful images etched on his brain showed up handy when he required to play Tintin round the nakedly austere white-colored-and-grey stage setup for your computerized performance capture."I realize people images so well throughout my thoughts,Inch Bell mentioned. "I realize the aesthetic of Herge so well that imagining eventually exactly what it would use be, exactly what it would appear like, ultimately wasn't that difficult!"Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Frank Oz and Other Muppeteers Not Happy With 'The Muppets'?

For years, Frank Oz has been the voice (and hands) of Miss Piggy, but when he got the script for the new 'Muppets' film, he turned it down. "I wasn't happy with the script. I don't think they respected the characters," he tells the British site Metro. "But I don't want to go on about it like a sourpuss and hurt the movie." Oz might remain somewhat diplomatic, but he's not the only one concerned with the 'Muppets' script by star Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller ('Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' 'Get Him to the Greek'): other longtime Muppeteers are also displeased that the beloved characters' repertoire now includes fart jokes, and the fact that Kermit seems to have become a 1-percenter. Per THR, "Muppet insiders" worry that Segel and director James Bobin (a writer on 'Da Ali G Show' and 'Flight of the Conchords') have sacrificed the characters' integrity for easy laughs. "They're looking at the script on a joke-by-joke basis, rather than as a construction of character and story," one insider said to the trade magazine. Take Fozzie's fart-shoes joke featured in the trailer: "We wouldn't do that; it's too cheap," another Muppets veteran says. "It may not seem like much in this world of [Judd] Apatow humor, but the characters don't go to that place." They're also worried that Kermit is now a fat cat who lives in a mansion and that the other Muppets now resent his wealth, leading to the "band" breaking up. Not everyone involved with the beloved felt creations feels similarly. "I'm very hopeful the characters are as warm and loving to each other as they were when Jim was directing," says Bonnie Erickson, the executive director of the Jim Henson Legacy, who designed and built the original Miss Piggy. She says she's "very excited" that Disney has brought the Muppets back to the big screen, but admits that she's nervous. "I'm hoping the standard of excellence that Jim set is maintained," she says. 'The Muppets' opens Nov. 23. [via THR] [Photo: Disney] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Mickey Rourke is out of Expendables 2

Mickey Rourke may have cut his usual fee for The Expendables as a favour to his old pal Sylvester Stallone, but it seems his goodwill isn't going to extend to the sequel.Rourke has left the project because he wasn't offered enough money to make it. We're officially crushed.It's a MASSIVE shame, Rourke was by far the best thing in Expendables - his speech about his time in Bosnia involved such great acting it felt weirdly out of place. Sure, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and possibly Nicolas Cage and John Travolta will be joining the rest of the Expendables crew for the follow-up, but it's simply not going to be the same without Mickey.Rourke is going to make something called Seven Psychopathsinstead. It's about a screenwriter who kidnaps a gangster's dog.Oh, Mickey, what a pity.

Iron Man 3 starts next round of sequels leading to Avengers 2

After the first official Avengers trailer teased us last week, Marvel stopped off at the NY Comic-Con where studio head Kevin Feige spoke about what's next for the Marvel franchise. Feige said that Iron Man 3 would be the first film "In the second phase of The Avengers initiative," which basically means the next wave of Marvel sequels that will start to the build to Avengers 2.Feige also confirmed to fans that Marvel is already working on Iron Man 3 with director Shane Black.Feige said that Iron Man 3 will be "the first of what we sort of refer to as phase two of this saga that will culminate, God willing, in Avengers 2." So, it sounds like Marvel will be pumping out Iron Man 3, Captain America 2 and Thor 2 before we get our The Avengers sequel.Unfortunately it doesn't look like Avengers 2 will be hitting the big screen until 2014 at the earliest, as Iron Man 3 is scheduled for a May 2013 release, Thor 2 for November 2013 and Captain America 2 doesn't even have a release date as of yet!Regardless of all the release date nonsense, it is still exciting for Marvel fans to hear about what the future of the franchise has to offer. Speaking of which, fans will be delighted to know that Fiege has confirmed an Iron Man 3 teaser trailer at the end of The Avengers, so make sure you stay seated or you'll be more upset than Tony Stark at last orders.

Taken 2 plot revealed

The tremendous success of Taken guaranteed a follow-up plus it seems as if Liam Neeson's character will probably be butting heads with elevated crooks in Taken 2 around this time around around next season.Although we're not able to formally reveal when very hard striking film come from our multiplex, all of us can say for certain when the Yanks will probably be configuring it which is generally a great guide: 5 October 2012.Ultimately, we're unlikely to be while watching US - after we did while using first film - now it's be considered a effective franchise.Olivier Megaton (The Transporter 3, Colombiana) will probably be sitting behind the digital camera, while Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen share scriptwriting duties again.Furthermore, you will find now a plot synopsis for your film..."Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the outdated CIA agent getting a specific number of capabilities who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. When the father of one of the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and also the wife hostage in their family members trip to Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to assist them escape, and uses the identical advanced amount of special forces tactics to acquire his family to safety and systematically take away the kidnappers one at a time.InchSeems like Neeson has much the same way of getting in danger as John McClane does in Die Hard movies. The tales people two could tell around the beer!

"Dragon Tattoo" Casting Director Laray Mayfield to speak at Actorfest LA

Casting director Laray Mayfield, most broadly known on her behalf use David Fincher on films like "Fight Club," "Zodiac," "The Social Media,Inch as well as the approaching "The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo," will play in the Feature Film Casting panel. She'll be onstage with casting director John Papsidera, who's most broadly noted for Christopher Nolan's "Beginning," "The Dark Dark evening" and approaching "The Dark Dark evening Increases." Actorfest LA, that's introduced for you personally by Back Stage, the Actor's Resource, will occur on Saturday, November fifth within the California Market Center in downtown La.To help kickstart your work, Actorfest provides a lot more than 24 exclusive Courses Casting Calls Meet & Drops with Top Casting Company company directors a Networking Caf plus an enormous Exhibit Hall, where you'll talk to acting teachers, coaches, schools, headshot photography fanatics, plus much more providers who will help you achieve your work.To link up for Actorfest LA, take a look at actorfestla2011.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit internet.ActorfestLA.com. Actorfest NY will occur on Sunday, October 23rd within the Metropolitan Pavilion. To link up for Actorfest NY, take a look at actorfestnyc2011.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit internet.ActorfestNY.com. When you register, take full advantage of our special limited-time subscription offers.Enjoy every day at Actorfest!

Hi-Years of age, Start It! 'The Lone Ranger' Will in all probability Happen at Lower Budget

After times of forward and backward, it appears 'The Lone Ranger' using the Actor-kaira Pitt will truly happen at Disney. Deadline reviews that Depp, director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer showed up in a contract round the production budget, meaning filming should start sometime later this year. Disney initially balked at the thing that was reported just like a budget of nearly $250 million. No figures are presently available nevertheless it was assumed the studio would move ahead while using film if Bruckheimer and Verbinski could easily get the cost inside the $215 million range. Initially scheduled for 12 ,. 21, 2012, 'The Lone Ranger' stars Depp as Tonto, Armie Hammer since the titular hero and newcomer Ruth Wilson since the female lead. Put together by Justin Haythe ('Revolutionary Road'), it absolutely was reported the script featured three high-listed train derailments. [via Deadline] [Photo: GF/bauergriffinonline.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Hank Williams Junior. Creates Song, Seems on Talk Shows After Hitler-Obama Uproar

Hank Williams Junior Since his Monday Evening Football opening theme song continues to be permanently punted in the broadcast, Hank Williams Junior. has written an audio lesson zinging Fox & Buddies and ESPN and it is taking towards the airwaves to reply to his experts.Browse the relaxation from the day's news on TVGuide.comIn the song, he sings: "So Fox 'n Buddies wanna put me lower/Request for my estimationOrDistort everything around." He concludes: "Well two can enjoy that gotcha game you will see.InchHis lyrics also the U.S. is "going to waste" and it is "The U . s . Socialist States of America" - and urge keeping Fox & Buddies and ESPN from your house."I have been recording for five decades, and that i understood the old over-the-fence feeling on that one," Williams told The Connected Press.Hank Williams Junior. issues apology regarding Obama-Hitler statementAfter the nation singer made an appearance around the Fox News Funnel morning show and offered an example that Leader Obama and House Speaker John Boehner golf together was like Hitler and Netanyahu playing, the sports network suspended his "Isn't it time for many football?" song making the move permanent on Thursday. The song was an element of the show since 1989.When's the overall game on? Add Monday Evening Football for your watchlist and not miss a game title againHe planned to look around the View and Hannity Tuesday to go over the uproar.Meantime, the brand new song can be obtained free of charge for 48 hrs at Williams' website - where one can also get a "Hank Junior. for Leader" T-shirt.Williams ended up with lots of high-profile defenders a week ago, including Whoopi Goldberg, Pleasure Behar, Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, stating that his First Amendment privileges were violated by ESPN. Over the past weekend,Sunday Evening Live could not resist carrying out a sketch lampooning Williams.

CBS' 48 Hrs To Air Amanda Knox: The Untold Story

Amanda Knox Since Amanda Knox has came back home from Italia, CBS' 48 Hrs Mystery will inform her Untold Story inside a special airing Saturday at 10/9c. In Amanda Knox: The Untold Story, correspondent Peter Van Sant, who covered the 24-year-old's situation from Perugia, Italia through the years, will disclose that Knox was the victim of "cruel manipulation and sexual violence" while in jail, as discovered inside a letter she'd written. Amanda Knox freed, murder conviction overturned Knox - whose situation have been dramatized within the Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italia, starring Hayden Panettiere - claims a higher-ranking prison administrator purchased her into his office and would speak with her about sex. She continued to think that his real motive ended up being to provoke her into saying something which would offer the prosecution's theory that they would be a sex-crazed killer. The special will even feature the extended video diary of Knox's friend, Madison Paxton, who gone to live in Italia to assist fight on her release. Was Lifetime's Amanda Knox movie impartial? Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito were charged last year of sexually attacking and killing Meredith Kercher, who had been stabbed to dying in her own bed room. Knox was sentenced to 26 years imprisonment, Sollecito to 25. Another person, Rudy Hermann Guede, was charged individually. Sollecito and Knox were freed Monday Guede's guilty verdict was upheld upon appeal, but his sentence was reduced from 30 to 16 years.

Disney Sets Succession: Board Re-Ups Boss Bob Iger Through 2016 And Adds Chairman Title In 2012 New Boss Being Named In 2015

BURBANK, Calif.– The Wally Disney Company (New you are able to stock market: DIS) Board of Company company directors introduced today it's made the decision to increase Robert A. Igers contract through June 2016 as part of the Companys ongoing succession planning. Beneath the new agreement, effective March. 1, Iger will assume the role of chairman furthermore to boss following Chairman John E. A myriad of all kinds of peppers retirement within the board at Disneys 2012 annual investor meeting in March. For the time being, Iger will remain leader and boss. Iger supports the positions of chairman and boss through March 31, 2015, after which it a completely new Boss might be named Iger will next work as executive chairman for 15 several days through June 30, 2016. Igers current contract was set to operate on Jan. 31, 2013. The Disney board needed action at this time around around to secure the benefit of Igers leadership through 2016, offer a powerful, seamless succession and management transition together with a continuity in the companys corporate way to create extended-term value for traders. As provided inside the companys corporate governance recommendations, the board may even choose an impartial lead director when Iger assumes the role of Chair rigtht following the meeting in March. One of the most legendary brands and prominent companies in the world, The Wally Disney Company requires a leader while using proven capacity to drive creative and financial success in the dynamic world. More than six years, Bob Iger has proven he's that ability within the finest level, mentioned Mr. Pepper. The Board is delighted the organization has had the chance to secure the greater-term continuation of Bobs unique blend of expert knowledge and leadership capabilities. His capacity to collect the many regions of Disneys business against a apparent and proven strategy, while instilling a culture of innovation, collaboration and discipline, continues for everybody the extended-term interests of traders. Pepper added: It's therefore ongoing the correct direction and growth and development of the business while making sure a level transition process to a different generation of leadership the Board has determined that Bob should assume the additional role of Chairman. Iger mentioned: No Boss might have a better counselor than John — his impeccable integrity, huge experience, and understanding and appreciation of Disney are actually invaluable. If only by way of thanking him for his many contributions, and also the support within our people and our strategy including a few the companys most important purchases lately Pixar and Marvel. Im fortunate and grateful to steer The Wally Disney Company and our gifted, devoted team as of this exciting time, Iger added. Im dedicated to growing extended-term value for traders and am confident we'll keep doing so using the effective execution of our core proper points of interest: the roll-from high quality, high quality content and encounters, using technology, and creating rise in numerous and exciting worldwide areas.” Since being named leader and leader on September 30th, 2005, Iger, 60, has introduced the business to record operating results while positioning Disney money for hard times inside the global, dynamic multi-media industry. Disneys total investor return since October 1, 2005 is five occasions greater in comparison towards the S&P 500. Throughout Igers leadership tenure, The Wally Disney Company remains recognized among Americas Respected Companies by Fortune magazine (2009, 2010, 2011) one of the Cell phone industry's Respected Companies by Barrons (2009, 2010) and one of the better Places to Launch work by BusinessWeek magazine (2006-2010). Incorporated within the agreement, Igers annual base salary will probably be $2.5 million. Iger is not receiving any ahead of time equity award in connection with completing the brand new agreement. His annual bonus award will probably be calculated good Companys performance, including its operating earnings, return on invested capital, earnings per share and after-tax free earnings. He can also be entitled to have an annual extended-term equity incentive award of options and restricted stock models, the very best value that might be entirely based on the Companys future financial performance.

Technicality claims Oscar submission

The Dominican Republic's likelihood of an overseas Oscar slot were scuttled on the technicality once the island nation joined "La hija natural" (Love Child) on Monday, the deadline. "We were not conscious that i was designed to submit what they are called in our selection committee people for that Academy's approval in advance," stated Ellis Perez, Dominican Republic Film Commissioner. Based on Academy rules, a listing from the selection committee people needed to be posted no after August. 1.The Dominican's film production output is not high, although a brand new film law should spur more activity the coming year. This season, only two local photos hit movie theaters, and one of these, "Pimp Bullies," wasn't considered right for Oscar consideration.The board from the Dominican Republic's filmmakers' association elected for helmer Leticia Tonos' family drama.The snafu is much more frustrating for Tonos, who's the very first female helmer to leave tobago. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Sam Shepard on Blackthorn, His Hollywood Years and Why He'll Never Write a Memoir

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard doesn’t take a lot of lead film roles, but when he does, he makes them count. Take this week’s Blackthorn, the sweeping epic tale of what might have happened if — as some historians believe — legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy wasn’t gunned down by Bolivian forces in 1908, and instead went on to live a quiet, reclusive existence in that country under the pseudonym James Blackthorn. Filmed on location in the dizzying terrain of Bolivia, Blackthorn is Shepard’s latest scenic route through the vicissitudes of American mythology, an exploration that has previously taken him as both a writer and actor through the U.S. space program (The Right Stuff) to the moody, modern West (Paris Texas,, Don’t Come Knocking) and even contemporary geopolitical intrigue (Fair Game). Shepard spoke with Movieline recently about his 40-year-plus journey — and his new film’s place within it. I’m not sure if I should tell you this — but the one and only experience I’ve had with acting was in one of your plays. Which one? I was in Angel City. Angel City! Oh, yeah. Where did you do that? It was at a college in Orange County. That play is obviously a pretty cynical perspective on Hollywood culture and its output, and I was curious: How would you characterize your relationship with Hollywood and the film industry in general in the 35 years since writing Angel City? When I wrote that I was in the process of trying to make some money in Hollywood collaborating on and developing scripts, which didn’t work out at all because it was constantly board meetings with, essentially, businessmen who didn’t understand anything about writing or screenwriting or even cared about movies. All they cared about was money. Which is still the case, but back then I was kind of shocked at it. I thought maybe it was possible to function as an artist in Hollywood, somehow. When you consider all the people who’ve been duped into that belief — not excluding Bertolt Brecht, Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and all these extraordinary writers — I felt like I bought the bullet, too. I drank the Kool-Aid. [Laughs] Do you still maintain any connection to it at all? I don’t do screenwriting at all for Hollywood anymore. I don’t even attempt it. In the beginning I thought it was a way I could pay the rent, and at the same time also get something done. But it was impossible. The only screenplays of mine that have been [filmed] and released that I’ve been satisfied with have been the ones with Wim Wenders, where I feel like it’s in total collaboration, and I have the confidence that it’s going to be made the way we’re conceiving it. It’s not going to be distorted into some other creature. That’s basically what I’ve enjoyed about working with Wim. But I don’t have that luxury working for any studio. And I don’t see novels as something you can adapt. Really? No. I think it’s a really bad idea. It’s as bad as trying to turn old movies into Broadway plays. I guess The Right Stuff was technically nonfiction, but it just feels so novelistic. That worked, but I think because of Phil [Kaufman] and his wife Rose. They’re kind of brilliant screenwriters themselves, and they found a way to adapt it that worked with the material. Also around the time you wrote Angel City, you were giving screen acting a go. Days of Heaven was a breakthrough, and of course that took seemingly years for Paramount to come terms with. How, if at all, did that further sour you on Hollywood? I was very lucky to start out like that. That was virtually my first movie. I’d done a couple of other, little things, but that was my first sort of feature film. And to start off with Terry Malick, that’s not a bad way to go. But you still have the onus of producers trying to influence things — the whole oppression of people from the outside sticking their two cents in. I mean, anybody who’s going to advise Terry Malick on any aspect of filmmaking should just apologize. [Laughs] Do you stay in touch with Malick? The last time I talked to him was in Austin, probably two or three years ago. I’ve kind of lost touch with him. We’ve talked on the phone a couple of times. Do you ever think about finding a way to work with him again? Oh, I’d love to work with him, but that’s entirely up to him. I’d love to work with him. He seems to be off on a tangent of his own, now, though. Moving on to Blackthorn, the director of this film, Mateo Gil, has professed his appreciation of Westerns as a “truly moral genre.” Do you agree? I think the way it’s been conceived, for the most part, is moral tales, yeah. Or immoral tales. But that’s probably the stage for this. It’s also very classic in that sense, because of the scope of it. I think it’s inexhaustible, this film. You could go on and on and on. It’s like Don Quixote. Do you remember your very first encounter with the mythology of Butch Cassidy? I don’t know if he was on my radar screen until that film [Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid] came out. I hadn’t paid much attention to him before that. But then I did some research for this film in Archer City, Texas, where Larry McMurtry has his warehouses full of books. That’s his hometown. And its amazing: You go into these warehouses, and they’re four times the length of this room, stacked with books kind of in a semblance of order. But anyway, he has a whole Western section, obviously, and I dug around in there and found some great research stuff on Butch. I didn’t realize he was raised Mormon in Utah. As a teenage kid he went off and kind of rustled some cattle and stole some horses and things like that. And he had this whole background that was… From the get-go, as a teenager? He wasn’t that interested in the work market, you know? He liked the adventure. And they guy he based his name on, Butch, was a rustler. And he learned to break horses from him. Do you know about it? Not a thing. That whole territory up there in Utah was full of outlaws from all over the country because there was this network of caves and things like that where they could hideout and easily escape pursuit. Then things eventually got so hot for them, they eventually had to go to South America.

Relativity Enters Partnership With Spotify

Relativity Media today became the first film studio to partner with the digital music service Spotify. Tarsem Singh’sImmortals will be the first Relativity movie to get promoted on Spotify. The epic adventure pic, starring Henry Cavill, Kellan Lutz and Freida Pinto, is set for release in the U.S. on Nov. 11. The long-term agreement with Spotify was negotiated by Relativitys digital ad agency, Palisades Media Group. Spotify, which has 10 million users, is among the companies offering a social app through Facebook that will integrate entertainment into the social networking site.

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The Greatest Loser's Dolvett Quince Blogs Episode 2

Dolvett Quince, Vinny Hickerson, Courtney Rainville Hey everybody! We're only within the second episode ofThe Greatest Loser's12th season which is already super intense! The show certainly does a flawless job of taking the essence and importance of that continues in the ranch using the trainers and also the participants. Personally i think as if I'm reliving my experience once again also it feels pretty incredible! It was brilliant to achieve the gym open just for a short time now. Even though participants felt otherwise, it was vital to allow them to have that "real existence" dilemma around the ranch. After they leave the ranch and return to their lives the will need to find time for you to workout.It jogs my memory from the fitness Used to do inside my studio in Atlanta and also the struggle I'd with a few clients and coping with their agendas. It really works exactly the same using the participants. They need to learn to make amount of time in their lives to workout and eat clean, regardless of what....NO EXCUSES! This is exactly what I usually said excitedly day in and day trip. I needed these phones leave the ranch in not just the very best shape possible however with completely transformed habits so that they could maintain the advantages of almost all their effort. I needed these phones continue being positive and healthy for that relaxation of the lives so that as you saw for a few of the participants with Dr. Huizenga, it had been dependent on existence and dying. It had been certainly a real possibility look for everybody involved! The difficulties is one of my personal favorite facets of the show. Now was water maze. The maze looked relatively simple in the beginning but that switched to be a challenge for the teams. Making use of your own bodyweight is definitely an excellent workout this is exactly why strength training is extremely effective. The weigh-in was a combination of feelings but overall I had been happy with my team. In a few days it's National football league week in the ranch. We now have National football league celebrities Came Brees, Eric Dickerson, Tony Gonzalez, Clay Matthews, Shawne Merriman and Tim Tebow. I can not wait to look at together with everyone so still stay updated! -Dolvett

'Dead Island' Movie, Inspired By Video Game Trailer, Lands At Lionsgate

"Dead Island," the Techland and Deep Silver survival horror video game that hit consoles earlier this month, isn't finished with its global infection campaign. The gaming world, it seems, is not big enough to contain this zombie apocalypse: now, "Dead Island" is set to devour the big screen as well. Lionsgate has optioned the "Dead Island" movie rights from Deep Silver. But by the sound of things, it seems that the main inspiration for the "Dead Island" film won't be the game itself, but the preliminary "Dead Island" trailer that went viral earlier this year. "Like the hundreds of journalists and millions of fans who were so passionate and vocal about the Dead Island trailer, we too were awestruck," said Lionsgate's Joe Drake in a press release, which notes that "the trailer will serve as [the movie's] primary creative inspiration." The trailer can be seen here in case you need a refresher. The story of the video game itself, of course, has little to nothing to do with the "Dead Island" trailer's plot, which chronicles the final few moments of a little girl's life in rewind. The idea of telling a "Dead Island" film from finish to start is kind of cool sort of the "Memento" of zombie flicks, if you will but is it a misstep to try to recapture that trailer's lightning? Is it even possible to recapture that lightning? Seems to me that the film would be better served feasting on the meat of the actual game, but admittedly, I haven't played it just yet. If you've played the game already, what do you think: is the trailer enough to sustain a full-fledged "Dead Island" movie, or should producers take a closer look at the game itself for their inspiration? If you aren't familiar with the source material, take a look at 20 minutes of "Dead Island" gameplay footage courtesy of MTV Multiplayer: [via Entertainment Weekly]

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