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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