'Protocol' keeps top place at Friday B.O.

'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol'Hollywood requires a completely new Year's vacation, enabling America capture on vacation releases.Paramount's "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol" won again yesterday with $10.7 million. The actioner has cumed $113.6 000 0000 in your area, which causes it to be the second finest grossing entry inside the franchise by its second wide Saturday ("Mission: Impossible II" had acquired $121.7 million with this particular reason behind 2000, aided having a Wednesday summer season release)."Ghost Protocol" should land close to $40 million through Sunday.Warner Bros.' "An Online Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows" showed up second with 7.7 million, then Fox's "Alvin as well as the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" with $7.millions of. At their third weekend in wide release, photos have cumed $117.7 million and $83.5 million, correspondingly.Next, Sony's "The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo" made $5.4 million yesterday. Its current domestic cume is $46.2 million, and studio needs it to combine the $60 million mark through Monday.Other holdovers include Fox's "We Bought a Zoo" and Disney's "War Equine," which needed a Friday haul of $4.9 million and $4.7 million, correspondingly. Finally, Par's "The Adventures of Tintin" made $4.4 million yesterday.Even though domestic B.O. is seeing little love in new wide releases, Weinstein Co. bowed "The Iron Lady," Focus Features bowed "Pariah," The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics bowed "A Separation" and Magnolia bowed "Angels Crest" all in limited release yesterday. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

National Film Registry 2011: 'Bambi,' 'Forrest Gump,' 'Silence in the Lambs' Added

As being a existence preserver in throughout this purgatory week of news, the Library of Congress introduced its 2011 options for your National Film Registry, which saves works because of "their lengthy lasting significance to American Culture." Among the 25 films selected: 'Forrest Gump,' the 1994 Best Picture champion 'Silence in the Lamb,' the 1991 Best Picture champion 'Bambi,' a thrilling-time Disney classic still beloved to this day and 'El Mariachi,' Robert Rodriguez's 1992 micro-budget indie. Also among the selected: Billy Wilder's 'The Lost Weekend,' 'A Cartoon Hands,' created by future Pixar co-founder Erection dysfunction Catmull, and 'The Iron Horse' from director John Ford. Mind to Deadline to consider the entire report on selected films. [via Deadline] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

TV-newspaper marriage can be a tough match

In 2000, Tribune Co. introduced merger plans with Occasions Mirror. In those days, the business suggested natural synergies -- pairing large-city newspapers inside the NY area, La and Chicago with effective Tv producers -- while public-interest groups fretted about losing independent voices and results in of news."Tribune has introduced the strategies by media convergence," then-chairman John Madigan crowed when the deal was completed. "Today, our mix-media assets create a tremendous competitive advantage."Under twelve years later, Tribune remains digging itself from personal personal bankruptcy and employees are pondering what they'll see from the pensions, saying something in regards to the best-laid plans of rats and media professionals throughout these fast-changing occasions. So while you can appreciate residual concerns about media consolidation, it's challenging as thrilled in regards to the Federal Communications Commission's recent proposal to wind down newspaper-TV possession rules when considering Tribune's sorry example.Granted, Tribune's worries switched simply off their factors -- mismanagement, carpeting-bagging techniques for "grave dancer" Mike Zell, along with his appetite for distressed characteristics and contempt for journalism -- a number of its complaints are endemic of forces sweeping the. Possibly this is why even many people who railed against concentrated media possession formerly derive little terror or righteous indignation in the options of reducing these recommendations. Really, due to the financial strains local print and broadcasting face, it seems as being a reasonable try to make sure their stability -- and frankly might come as insufficient, too far gone.Tribune's plan certainly looked good on paper, but basically misunderstand key areas of TV and newspapers. Although options for cooperation appear apparent -- each of them produce news, right? -- Tribune while others overlooked several key obstacles. These change from disparate cultures and mutual distrust for the fact many capabilities don't translate as readily as you may assume.Yes, cable systems rely on journalists as speaking heads, nevertheless the type of tales a substantial newspaper and tv stations cover differ in selection, tone and magnificence. That's one reason print drones frequently look uncomfortable on camera or chafe within the giddiness of broadcast news. Contrary, local TV is ongoing to develop more airhead and less capable of change gears to serious news, in the identical print journalists don't mesh getting a TV "morning zoo" attitude.Aside from cultural and turf battles, anticipated complete benefits switched to become minimal at best. Getting La Occasions signs on KTLA doesn't do much to promote newspapers, any longer than Occasions house ads for CW shows like "The Vampire Journals" attain the netlet's audience. It's type of like trying to interest the cat in Christmas ornaments. They might softball softball bat them around but don't have much experience their account.Not remarkably, this didn't prevent expressions of alarm in regards to the FCC's deregulation plans. "The already dwindling volume of smaller sized and independent media entrepreneurs will probably be consumed up using it . media leaders that have crushed local journalism, destroyed local radio and left us concentrating on the same cookie-cutter content everywhere,Inch mentioned Free Press, a nonprofit group marketing for media reform.Still, it's tough to visualize a bigger dilution of voices than Tribune has accomplished through sheer attribution having its reducing, downsizing ways. Inside the interest of full disclosure, this evolves from the former La Occasions worker which has seen the paper wither to under half its peak size, with shuttered agencies and consolidated assets.If there's expect mixing TV and print since didn't come in 2000, happen to be vulnerable to the level where a meeting in the minds seems more possible. Clearly, with newspapers attempting to drive Web site traffic and publish video (Hey, cute polar bear cubs!), and tv stations trying to create additional revenue from cheap niche material on ancillary channels, that many likely means convening closer to the bottom in comparison to middle.Granted, media professionals are good at pleading poverty and pleading at a lower price governmental constraints. Yet after a period of warning paradise is falling they might finally have a very legitimate argument, with no assurance the shotgun wedding of newspapers and tv prevents a difficult landing -- a more compact amount provide a happy ending. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

Seth Rogen Forms 'B Team,' Ryan Gosling States Noe

Seth Rogen might be doing dual purpose as both producer and star of the film again, according to a different report. Meanwhile, Bret Easton Ellis stirs up some casting gossips on his Twitter account, and Christina Hendricks picks a brand new role which will return her towards the '60s. It's December 27, and you are tuning into present day Casting Call! Seth Rogen May Lead "The B Team" Funnyman Seth Rogen might be doing dual purpose around the approaching Disney spy comedy, "The B Team." Variety is confirming the "50/50" star is going to be creating and potentially searching to star within the film. The project continues to be continuing, and follows the storyline of the key agent who's kidnapped and must be saved by his tech staff. The title and plot really are a play off "The A-Team," based on Cinema Blend. This really is hardly Rogen's very first time both starring and creating a movie, because he did exactly the same for "50/50," "Superbad" and "The Eco-friendly Hornet," amongst others. Ryan Gosling To Become Listed On "The Golden Suicides"? When the casting process for Gaspar Noe's approaching film "The Golden Suicides" should be stored a secret, then author Bret Easton Ellis is not carrying out a good job keeping it. Based on the "Under Zero" author, Ryan Gosling met with Noe a week ago at Chateau Marmont to discuss the film. It isn't the very first time that Ellis has implied Gosling might want to consider the part. He tweeted earlier within the month that "Gosling will have to hold back this season out after which win the Oscar for taking part in Jeremy Blake in 'The Golden Suicides'." The film follows the double suicides of esteemed artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan in 2007. Serta Aykroyd Prepared To Join The "Dog Fight" MovieHole has found that "Ghostbusters" star Serta Aykroyd may be the latest actor to become listed on the cast of Jay Roach's political comedy "Dog Fight." Aykroyd will join Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott and John Lithgow within the film. "Dog Fight" follows the storyline of two rival political figures in Sc whose quests being leader become entangled with each other. The flick is anticpated to be launched in August. Christina Hendricks Might Be Leaving The "Explosive device" Daily Mail is confirming that Christina Hendricks may be the latest actress to stay in talks for Sally Potter's approaching '60s-set anti-nuclear film, "Explosive device." The film also stars Elle Fanning, Alice Englart and Allesandro Nivola, and Annette Bening continues to be courted for any role. Daily Mail does not specify what character Hendricks is going to be playing. The film follows two teenage rebels who become active in the Prohibit the Explosive device movement and also the sexual revolution. Inform us your ideas on present day Casting Get in touch with your comments ought to section below or on Twitter.

It's a Girl For Robert P Niro

Robert P Niro and class Hightower P Niro Robert P Niro and also the wife, Sophistication Hightower P Niro, have welcomed a baby girl, People reviews. Helen Sophistication was produced with a surrogate and considered in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces. She joins older brother Elliot, who was simply born in March 1998. Have a look at photos of Robert P Niro The Two-time Oscar champion features a boy, Raphael, plus an adopted daughter, Drena, from his first marriage to Diahnne Abbott. More youthful crowd has twin sons, Julian Henry and Aaron Kendrik, along with his ex-girlfriend, model Toukie Cruz. P Niro, 68, and class, 56, first met later and married 10 years later. The happy couple split in 1999, however divorce was not ever completed and so they restored their vows in 2004. P Niro can presently be viewed in New Year's Eve.

Edward Burns on 'Newlyweds' and the Future of Indie Filmmaking

For this tenth film as a director, Edward Burns went small. Really small. The NY-born filmmaker behind 'The Brothers McMullen,' 'She's the One' and 'Sidewalks of NY' purchased a Canon 5D camera from B&H electronics store for $3,000, used restaurants and street corners in his local Tribeca neighborhood as locations, and cast some frequent collaborators in key roles. An additional $6,000 later, 'Newlyweds' was born. Directed by Burns, in part for the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival, 'Newlyweds' focuses on a pair of NY couples: one at the start of what they hope will be wedded bliss (Burns and Caitlin Fitzgerald), and one in the death throes of marriage (Max Baker and Marsha Dietlein Bennett). Things get even more complicated when Burns's half-sister (Kerry Bishe) shows up from out-of-town, looking to wreak havoc on his new relationship. Out on VOD starting Dec. 26, 'Newlyweds' is one of Burns's strongest films in years -- a winning combination of sharp comedy and honest drama that, in its best moments, fondly recalls the type of NY-set relationship dramedies that Woody Allen used to make before heading to Europe. Burns, who will appear onscreen in 'I, Alex Cross' opposite Tyler Perry next year, sat down with Moviefone in NY to discuss his new film, why the camera equipment was so important to its success, and how the future of filmmaking could involve your couch. I've heard you talk about how shooting with the Canon 5D camera gave you these natural performances -- was that something you were expecting or was it pleasant surprise? Somewhere in between. What we were trying to do was to go for that a little bit. We couldn't afford to close the restaurants down. So we were like, "All right; a documentary film crew -- if they were going to interview the bartender or sit down with a couple having dinner, they'd work with the ambient sound and the live environment." So we thought, "Let's do that with this pseudo-doc." We did it on one scene on 'Sidewalks of NY,' in Katz's Deli. First of all, you can't recreate that kind of background action, and the ambient sound is fine. So we thought, "Let's embrace that." The thing that happened that we did not anticipate is, because the crew is so tiny -- but, in addition to that, the camera is so small -- you're not slating anything. What I've been trying to tell people is, for an actor, every time they're about to do a take, a slate comes into their face. Then they start to act opposite someone. If it's a close-up, there's a camera over my shoulder. Obviously, you are trained, you learn not to see that stuff, but there's a boom coming in, and a camera, an army behind it. The director calls cut. Then the hair person comes in. Make-up. Props. Clothes. All that stuff. Five to ten minutes later: "All right, take two." In this style, it's just this little camera. There's nothing else around. You're just wearing these lavalier mics. There's no lights. You're in a real environment. There's no action. "You guys ready? Let's go." You just roll through the scene. Then, you roll through it again. It's like, "Hey, back that up; maybe try a different line here." Eventually, you kind of forgot ... I don't want to say that you're in a movie, but it was definitely like you slipped into another space. That's why we got this realistic or conversational scenes. This certainly feels like a companion piece to 'Sidewalks of NY,' which came out 10 years ago. Why did it take you so long to return to this format? My producing partner Aaron Lubin and I have been talking about this for years: what's the next pseudo-doc? I probably have written two others. One of them was set on Long Island that was called 'Blue Suburban Skies' that we almost shot a couple of years ago. For whatever reason we just didn't think the script was there. It was something that I wanted to do. Plus, given the fact that I make these low budget -- and now micro budget -- films, those budgets lend themselves to the pseudo-doc style. Now, I've fallen in love with this 5D. So, I think, every other film, I'll probably want to go back, because there is something nice about just being able to go anywhere with that thing and get all this great production value. Is 'Sidewalks' your favorite film that you've done? I would say 'Sidewalks' and now this film, are my two favorites. This film was more fun to make. Prior to that, 'Sidewalks' was my favorite experience with actors; Stanley Tucci taught me a lot about having faith in your cast. When I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'Private Ryan,' for two weeks, we didn't get any direction at all. We're doing two, three takes tops, then moving on. Finally, two weeks into it, there's a scene where he's like, "Give me one more. Give me one more." Then he started to give us direction. After seven takes, we got it done, and we finally asked him, "Why today?" He goes, "Well, today you didn't know what the hell you were doing." He explained his process: "I'll let you guys figure it out on your own. I'm not going to tell you -- I'm not going to give you direction after the first take. I don't wanna put any of my thoughts in your head. I figure you've done you're work, you've come prepared. If you don't get it the first time, you're going to hit what you intended to do by the third one. If you don't, then I need to step in." So, coming off of 'Ryan,' I was like, "OK, that's how I'm going to direct my actors." And it was liberating. The other thing was I cast to types. So, it's like, "I'm bringing you in because I like what you do. I want you do to your thing in my movie." On that film, I didn't have to direct anybody. And then Stanley, was the first actor really -- other than Mike McGlone, who I'd worked with in early films -- who is so good at inhabiting the character and improvising within the scene. On this film, we did a lot of improvising, but we didn't show up without a scene and say, "OK, guys: talk!" It's like, "All right, the scene starts here and ends here; let's run the lines, but within that, look for the moments that aren't there. Or, when the scene looks like it's going to end, push it a couple of beats later and see what you're going to get." You have been a champion of VOD in recent years -- do you really think that's the future of independent film? Two things that I just heard. Comcast is about to release something that says in the last 12 months, indie film viewership on VOD has jumped 75 percent. So, that tells me the message we've been preaching for the last couple of the years ... people get it. That the audience is there. They are in their living room. They used to go to the art-house theater. It isn't that they're not interested in these stories anymore, they just aren't interested in shlepping out and paying the extra bucks when they have a nice system at home. I absolutely think it's the future -- especially for the smaller independents. Because you can get out there and with a very small marketing budget. Depending on how much money you're going to spend on your film, you can now create a business model where you're not losing money. I don't wanna say you're going to get rich. Some films aren't going to make money. But if your'e smart about it and tenacious, there's a chance to break even. It costs so much to release a film theatrically just by P&A costs that you're always behind the 8-ball financially. You're almost guaranteed to lose money. The other thing is, by going out on VOD and iTunes, especially, you can go out with an aggregator as opposed to a distributor. There's now a way for you to retain your copyright -- or just lease it to them for a couple of years -- and actually participate in the money that's coming in. Theatrically, I can tell you, we've had films where we should have seen some backend, and however they do their accounting, I guarantee you don't get it. What about bigger indies -- something like 'The Descendants,' let's say. Can you envision a scenario where that ever winds up on VOD first? 'Margin Call' is a very interesting case this year. Because you've got a movie filled with movie stars. Like, movie stars that traditionally would open up in a theater. That did VOD and theatrical day and date, which most of them don't do. And it worked great. So now people are saying, "All right, so the VOD is not going to cannibalize theatrical. They are two separate audiences. There are people who just don't go to the theater, and there are people who go to the theater. So don't be afraid of both of them." So, to answer the question about will the bigger indies -- I look at what the theatrical box office results for the majority of these indie films that come out. Now, granted, 'The Descendants': it's Alexander Payne. It's Clooney... Huge indie. Huge indie. The vast majority of them, if you go on The Numbers or Variety, it's very tough for these movies to make even $1 million or $2 million. And you know what they need to spend to get them out there. So, I know some filmmakers will say, "Hey, it's not a movie unless it's released theatrically. I'm a moviemaker. I want the thrill of that." I certainly get that. I think early in my career I would have been devastated to think my movie was going straight onto VOD. But, what we've done, is you can take them out to festivals. And you get the thrill of seeing it played in front of the audience on a massive screen. And usually, if you're doing festivals, you're in much better theaters than the Angelika. Have you ever wanted to make a big studio film? Years ago, they came to me with mainstream romcoms, which -- and I have to admit -- I was very tempted to do one. And then I just had to have that soul-searching moment, where I'm like, "All right, if I'm going to sellout, I'd rather sell out as an actor than a filmmaker." And I'm lucky in that I have that other career where I can sell myself. I was gonna say that. Do you view your acting career as a means to an end? Absolutely. The acting career is always -- and I love it, and sometimes you get lucky and you get to be in a great movie. But, for the most part, it's fun to work with other actors. It's fun for me to exercise those muscles. It's also great to show up on anybody's set. Like, 'Alex Cross,' I got to work with Rob Cohen, who's a great action filmmaker. And he wasn't working with the size or budget he was used to -- this was not a $100 million movie -- so I was able to go to school on an action director. For me, as a filmmaker, that was interesting. I have no interest in ever directing anything like a traditional blockbuster. Sci-fi movie. Superhero movie. Not really my thing. I have a couple of scripts that are bigger canvases, where I would need -- let's say -- $15 to $25 million, but that's where I would be most comfortable. [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

'Star Trek 2' News: Benicio Del Toro Out, Khan In?

Works out that yesterday's report of Benicio Del Toro starring in "Star Wars 2" as Khan were not totally accurate although not always around the Khan front. NY Magazine's Vulture blog reviews that Del Toro won't be showing up within the "Star WarsInch follow up in the end, showing that talks using the actor stopped working as soon as last Wednesday. The timing is a vital detail, because it was last Friday 2 days after BDT's apparent withdrawal in the film that J.J. Abrams referred to a study of Del Toro's casting as Khan as "not the case.Inch It appears that Abrams might have been mentioning to Del Toro's participation as false, not the inclusion of Khanbecause Vulture supports the initial Latino Review are convinced that, yes, Khan may be the villain of "Star Wars 2." Developing, as the saying goes. In other "Star WarsInch follow up news, we spoken with Zachary Qunito around the red-colored carpet in the Gotham Honours in NY a week ago, however the actor could not weigh in around the Khan debate themself. "I'm not sure who [the theif] is. I've not browse the script," he told MTV News. "I'm able to neither confirm nor deny individuals particulars, therefore if J.J. said some thing than I will tell you then you've more word than I actually do, but I am really excited to return to it, and we are all targeted up for this." Zachary Quinto talks "Star WarsInch follow up news! Inform us that which you think about the most recent "Trek" news within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Talkback: Will Cinemas Encourage Texting later on?

Are you currently a discreet cinema texter who hopes for each day once the cineplex won't permit you to text mid-film but really encourage you to do this by supplying condition-of-the-art technology to enhance your movie texting experience? If that's the case, i quickly provide you with what's promising via CinemaBlend: A Washington-based exhibitor intentions of supplying one safe social media theater space for you personally. Whether it’s effective, cinema texting might be a not-too-distant reality. The theater may be the Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Clean., which is designed to open doorways in 2014 having a professional-texting policy hoping the establishment will attract a more youthful demographic. Described the theater’s executive director John Haynes, “Simply forbidding [technology] and embarrassing people isn't what you want. Therefore we are wiring your building awaiting finding ways to really make it work with time.” Based on the NY Occasions, the two,000-chair concert hall — that will also boast theater, classical music, jazz and pop functions — will boast a 12 to 14-feet antenna, to permit better cell-phone signal. The theater can also get a “standing policy of permitting nondisruptive cell use throughout performances.” Potentially, the theater may also give each patron a little screen to put on the cell phones to dim the sunshine making it less annoying with other audience people. Do you consider this innovation is the clear way of the near future? Would you see chain cinemas implementing similar guidelines to appease youthful audience people — instead of shunning them the way in which the Alamo Drafthouse notoriously did last June? Or do you consider case tech-savvy campaigning for any theater that also needs almost $100 million in funding? · The Show Is Beginning, Please Switch On Your Cell phones [NYT via CinemaBlend]

Salada, Querosene set 'High Five'

BUENOS AIRES -- Mariana Secco's Montevideo-based Salado Media is joining with Brazil's Querosene Filmes to create Manuel Facal's feature debut, "High Five." The Uruguayan movie underscores two building trends in Latin America: producers' growing concern to overcome local audiences and also the emergence of the new generation of filmmakers who view their films as mainly entertainment, not social-problem photos. "Five" activates a stoner who stumbles on the stash of marijuana, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and ketamine. He assembles four buddies and every takes one drug. "High Five" recounts the things they remember as happening later on. Shooting next summer time, "Five," which won Uruguay's primary Fona subsidy award, is "a workout in screwball comedy, a format usually associated with light comedies, modified to more powerful content," Facal stated. Its cinematographer, Pedro Luque, and production designer, Federico Capra, both done Uruguayan Gustavo Hernandez's micro-budget horror hit "The Quiet House," which sparked a U.S. remake and worldwide sales. Occur a Montevideo divided by class and wealth, "Five" "charts the lengthy and confusing transition from adolescence to their adult years," stated Secco, who known as "Five" " 'Scott Pilgrim' meets 'Dazed and Confused,'" She added, "What's interesting is to possess a new-generation director who does not wish to range from festival to festival but really wants to make movies such as the U.S. buddy comedies he was raised on." Querosene topper Joao Queiroz is within talks for theatrical distribution in South america. Given "Five's" 18-30 demo, Secco stated the producers are exploring straight-to-TV for many areas and Internet VOD distribution. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

The Vampire Diaries Bite: Joseph Morgan Wants a New Adversary

Joseph Morgan If you're already missing, The Vampire Diaries, we've got a little treat to tide you over, thanks to star Joseph Morgan. The Vampire Diaries episode recap: The Homecoming In this week's Vampire Diaries Bite, Morgan shares who he'd like his character Klaus to go up against when the show returns Jan. 5. (And it's not the guy who stole his family's caskets.) Check it out: Follow @RobynRossTVG for more scoop on The Vampire Diaries.

Media Stocks Join Market Exuberance Over Effort To Stabilize Banking System

The benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 was up 4.3% today after central banks in the U.S., Europe, and Japan said that they’d help supply cash to avoid a credit crunch if the European debt crisis worsens. That buoyed media stocks: The Dow Jones U.S. Media Index was up nearly 4.4%. CBS shares rose 5.8%, giving it the biggest bump among the elite group of Big Media companies. It was followed by Disney (+5.4%), News Corp (+5.4%), Time Warner (+4.3%), Viacom (+4.3%), Comcast (+4.2%), and Sony (+2.7%). Among other media companies, Westwood One and The NY Times were up more than 10%. Companies up more than 9% include Outdoor Channel, LIN TV, and Entercom. Only a few companies lost ground.The hardest hit wasNetflix, down 4.5% after Wedbush Securities’ Michael Pachter downgraded the video rental firm to “underperform” from “neutral.” His rationale: “We think that the companys pricing structure is wrong, and its business model is broken. At current prices, we expect Netflix to continue to lose more hybrid (DVD and streaming) customers than it adds, and those who remain will not be particularly profitable.”

J.J. Abrams Certifies Benicio Del Toro 'In Talks' for 'Star Trek 2' Role

After much speculation, director J.J. Abrams has confirmed that he's in talks with chameleon actor Benicio Del Toro to appear inside the 'Star Trek' follow-up. According to MTV Movies Blog, the 'Cloverfield' director wants Del Toro to see the villain -- though we're unsure which. "Well, we're just in discussions, we're in discussions," mentioned Abrams. "It is not even discussions -- just being debated. However I must use him. I've desired to utilize him for any very long time, which felt as being a pretty good possibility. It's too early to go over just what the role is, but he's this type of amazing actor. He's so versatile. He could type of do just about anything. Except play Uhura. I wouldn't buy that." Abrams also clarified the villain character might be revealed once the actor is cast -- so fingers joined we view some Del Toro Khan! #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-111921.cke_show_edges #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-111921, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-111921 Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook [Photo: Getty Images]

'G.I. Joe' Follow-up Crew Member Dies On Set

Mike Huber, a in your town hired crew member concentrating on the audience of significant'sG.I. Joe 2: Retaliation,died November. 22 while keeping focused around the rise in New Orleans. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Vital launched the following statement for the Hollywood Reporter:"Our ideas and finest condolences are utilizing the Huber family at this time around around." PHOTOS: 12 Shocking Hollywood Deaths Vital mentioned the safety of the cast and crew can be a primary concern that is "fully cooperating wonderful considering agencies simply because they examine the circumstances surrounding this unusual accident." TMZ reported Wednesday that Huber died while keeping focused on the greater-powered scissor lift that expected over. Vital will releaseG.I. Joe 2on June 29 it followsG.I. Joe: The Increase of Cobra, popular this past year. Jon M. Chuis pointing theLorenzo di Bonaventura-produced follow-up, which will featureBruce Willis, Channing Tatum,Dwayne Manley,Adrianne Palicki,Ray StevensonandRZA, among others. The project began shooting in New Orleans in August. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Related Subjects

Bonjour! Watch the Trailer for January's Beauty and the Beast 3D Re-Release

Be Movieline’s guest and revisit everyone’s favorite tale as old as time, the second release in Disney’s quest for total world domination (AKA, The ‘See How Much Money Lion King 3D Made Us??’ business plan) which brings vintage Disney classics back to screens in limited runs in restored 3-D. Next up is 1991’s Beauty and the Beast, a singalong favorite for children of the ’90s that’s sure to make another bazillion or so dollars. Watch the trailer and decide if you’re giddy to see Belle sweep the Beast off his cloven feet with her brainy book smarts or just curious to know what Robby Benson’s up to these days… Producer Don Hahn, who also produced The Lion King and oversaw its recent 3-D conversion and re-release, is back to guide Beauty and the Beast’s 3-D run, although I’m not quite sold on the muted visual presentation in the trailer below; the final polish must look better than this if it’s going to be worth the ticket price. To be fair, Beauty and the Beast’s Blu-ray presentation was fairly gorgeous, and the Disney team managed to make Lion King’s sprawling tundras come even more alive in 3-D. So, sure: Mark your calendars for January 13, 2012! [Yahoo!]

Bazaar buzz

'Behind the Lights'From festival standouts to crowdpleasers a choose listing of tests to consider: LAS ACACIASPablo Giorgelli, ArgentinaA road movie and romantic tale. Cannes Camera d'Or champion. Among Latin America's films of the season.Product sales: UDIALICIA, GO YONDERElisa Burns, MexicoShot on the shoestringbudget, film tracks a youthful lady as she explores the icy reaches of Patagonia.Sales: Funny BalloonsAMERICANOMathieu Demy, FranceFirst-time director Demy's semi-autobiographical emotional journey having a show-preventing turn from Salma Hayek. An MPI The United States pick-up: BacBAD INTENTIONSRosario Garcia Montero, PeruA darkly comic rituals of passage dramedy that determines Garcia Montero like a talent to trace.At the rear of THE LIGHTSSandra Sanchez, SpainA team of traveling gypsy fairground employees combat the financial and emotional odds in Sanchez's Galicia-set fly-on-the-wall docu.BLACKTHORNMateo Gil, SpainA Western from Alejandro Amenabar's co-scribe where a grizzled Mike Shepard plays a maturing Butch Cassidy a remarkable territory seller.Sales: 6 SalesBONSAICristian Jimenez, ChileDramedy impressed at Cannes Not Certain Regard. Offered to major areas, including The country, U.K. and U.S. RezoCHINESE TAKEAWAYSebastian Borensztein, ArgentinaA hit in Argentina and The country -- no mean task -- a heartwarming Ricardo Darin mix-culture buddy comedy with sales to Germany, France, Italia. Pic won top prize at Rome.Sales: LatidoCOUNTRY MUSICAlberto Fuguet, ChileShot in six days, Valdivia champion from Fuquet tracks a 30-plus Chilean guitarist who finds kinship with fellow music artists in Nashville. THE Imagine LUCarlos "Hari" Sama, MexicoA grieving mother discovers to maneuver on following the dying of her boy.EXPIRATION DATEKenya Marquez, MexicoA dark comedy/mystery increased by Damian Alcazar's deep talent. Sales: LatinofusionTHE FIFTH COMMANDMENTRafael Lara, MexicoLara ("La Milagrosa") helms a mental serial killer thriller with major territory sales potential.Sales: LatidoGRABASergio Mazza, ArgentinaA couple arrived at grips with losing their kids in Paris. Marly del Plata player. Sales: Primer PlanoJUAN From The DEADAlejandro Brugues, Cuba-SpainHavana zombie comedy sparked key territory deals at Toronto.Sales: LatinofusionIN THE Title From The GIRLTania Hermida, EcuadorA 9-year-old confounds her Catholic familyby teaching her youthful cousins communism.Sales: The Match FactoryTHE Guy WHO Resided Inside A SHOEGabriella Gomez-Mont, MexicoDoc compares the group of "El Guero," an eccentric fixture on Mexico City's performance art scene.MAPA PARA CONVERSARConstanza Fernandez, ChileFeature debut brings up Polanski's "Knife within the waterInch inside a tale of the lesbian couple. Sanfic champion.MEDIANERASGustavo Taretto, ArgentinaA tightly shot debut in regards to a youthful guy and lady looking for love in busy Buenos Aires. A Berlin Panorama standout. Sales: The Match FactoryTHE MISFITSJorge Ramirez-Suarez, Sergio Tovar Velarde, Javier Colinas and Marco Polo Constandse, ArgentinaA four-comedy collage, from senior citizens to take advantage of a bank to some suicidal guy thinking about going porn.Sales: FilmSharksPENUMBRAAdrian and Ramiro Garcia Bogliano, ArgentinaA lady assumes tenants inside a well-crafted suspense. Austin player, acquired by IFC. Sales: Primer PlanoPESCADORSebastian Cordero, EcuadorCordero's tale of lives disrupted after cocaine packets clean ashore inside a fishing village preemed and pleased at San Sebastian.ROMAN'S CIRCUITSebastian Brahm, ChileCraftily edited drama provides an authentic undertake a persons brain's memory circuits. Popular at Toronto, Special Jury awardee, Valdivia. Sales: ShorelineTHE RUMBLE OF STONESAlejandro Bellame, VenezuelaVenezuela's Oscar contender follows just one mother who struggles in order to save her sons from gang violence prevalent in her own barrio.Sales: AmazoniaTHE SQUADJaime Osorio Marquez, ColombiaSam Larger meets "Rec" in Osorio's horror/war parable. Impressive sales along with a U.S. remake deal.Sales: Wild BunchSWIRLClarissa Campolina, Helvecio Marins Junior., BrazilDoc-style depiction of the recent widow's transformed existence in deep South america. Sales: UDISEE YOU, DADLucia Carreras, MexicoCamera observes like a youthful lady by having an all-consuming Electra complex produces a pocket world to handle father's dying.TOGETHER FOREVERPablo Solarz, ArgentinaA comedy in regards to a scriptwriter's lack of his wife and the grip on reality because he seeks to create popular. Sales: Primer PlanoTRIPFran Lepe, GuatemalaBased on real occasions along with a same-entitled hit musical, theatrical maestro Lepe's feature debut has attracted crowds to Guatemalan multiplexes. The Entire Year From The TIGERSebastian Lelio, ChileLelio's third pic tracks a prison escapee who seeks his family after an earthquake. Impressed at Locarno and Valdiviar.Sales: Funny BalloonsXINGUCao Hamburger, BrazilAdventure biopic of Brazilian frontier people Villas Boas Bros. from Emmy-nominated Hamburger. Berlin player.SPOTLIGHT: VENTANA SUR Ventana Sur's sales surge Bazaar buzz Moving firm and reshapers Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Michael Kenneth Williams In Talks For Django Unchained and Snitch

UPDATE: Affiliates on Django Unchained mentioned the talks with Michael Kenneth Williams just won’t exercise because of his schedule on Boardwalk Empire. They are scrapping that role completely. EXCLUSIVE: Michael Kenneth Williams, most broadly noted for his behave as drug dealer/crook Omar inside the Wire and bootlegger Chalky White-colored in Boardwalk Empire, may have a supporting role in Snitch which is searching at another shot at joining Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Inside the Ric Roman Waugh-directed Snitch, he’ll play a drugs kingpin getting a brief temper who becomes connected having a guy (Dwayne Manley) who's turning DEA snitch to acquire his boy a lesser prison stretch. The film shoots the following month. Django Unchained may also be inside the works. Williams is at mind by Tarantino to see the title role, but Jamie Foxx got that job. Now, Williams’ reps within the Collective are exercising dates while using third season of Cinemax’s Boardwalk Empire to make sure that Williams can also enjoy another role inside the film that Tarantino is working out creatively. I’m told it’s likely he’ll play muscle for ranch owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Zooey Deschanel, Emmy Rossum Share Acting Secrets

By Lesley Goldberg, Marisa Guthrie, and Philiana Ng November 15, 2011 CLAIRE DANES Barbara Mathison,"Homeland" (Showtime)This is not employment I really could intuit. Someone said a good deal round the CIA and bpd and met getting a reasonably high-ranking lady who works well with the CIA. She needed me to Langley, Virginia, which i prodded her co-employees with questions. They were incredibly responsive and generous with understanding in addition to their anecdotes. I furthermore met getting a girl named Julie Fast, who's bipolar and contains written numerous books round the condition. I labored with my friend who's a mental health specialist, who aided me identify Barbara and offered us a lesson on medications familiar with address it. The heavy research I did so for Temple Grandin prepared me with this particular role. There's nothing casual about playing Barbara Mathison.My First SAG Job: Like many NYers, it absolutely was on "Law & Order." I used to be 12 and carried out a teenage killer. When the episode broadcast, I obtained around the subway thinking, "Do people recognize me?" I discovered, Not really a chance, it doesn't work such as this.LAURA DERN Amy Jellicoe, "Enlightened" (Cinemax)Mike White-colored [the show creator] which i created Amy. It came from from my feeling -- together with a sense that numerous have probably felt -- that you will find real cultural apathy in this country but plenty of rage. I desired to educate yourself regarding this rage and what continues if this might be your finest flaw but furthermore the main one factor that drives you to definitely certainly healing and effecting change in the world. What do i mean? Because the only people taking it for the streets are individuals who can't go any more, and that we are merely since with Occupy Wall Street. I didn't may need to look far outdoors myself to consider Amy, even though I'm different than her, because of there as being a seed in many us that individuals share that Amy has. I am a meditator from the different variety, and i'm certainly considering health on all levels. I have attended spiritual courses but possibly avoid similar kind of desperation installed on it -- nothing beats, "I've fallen apart, which factor better attempt to put me back together again.InchMy First SAG Job: I used to be a teen in Adrian Lyne's 1980 film "Foxes." My grandmother's favorite memory was when my SAG card showed up the mail, which i mentioned, "It is time will be able to get my own, personal checking account.In . I Quickly received my salary for $9.75.ZOOEY DESCHANEL Jess Day, "New Girl" (Fox)Used in TV means less free time to arrange, but that's good -- meaning more hours on set to experiment and very understand the figures. Jess is very crazy, silly and excitable and finds pleasure in lots of things. I'm very excitable and emotional too, to be able to interact with that. My approach has somewhat more intellectual, which i like doing television because I am in a position to explore things every week that we wouldn't have observed the runway space to accomplish before, and studying the physical comedy part remains really fun. I've always carried out figures that are type of removed and ones you don't really achieve explore psychologically New Girl has given me an chance to actually pay a personality. It's been great."My First SAG Job: An instalment of "Veronica's Closet." I used to be in secondary school. My parents wouldn't let me do auditions until I really could drive myself.MONICA POTTER Kristina Braverman, "MotherhoodInch (NBC)Kristina is certainly crying because of what's happening in their existence. Therefore I don't overthink it -- I aim to merely whether it's. However always stay within the frame of what's right. We've amazing authors. I sometimes get taken up round the words and acquire really nervous about saying them precisely the means by that they are written because my first show was "Boston Legal" with David E. Kelley. With him, you can't ad-lib anything. Sometimes I add my own, personal little Monica-isms sometimes they stick, sometimes they don't. After they do, my family members spots them. Personally, it comes down lower to being relaxed and not trying so desperately -- rather, breathing and in the moment. I learned acting in route -- I didn't study it at school -- therefore i don't discuss acting techniques any more. I don't appear like I realize things i am doing fully.My First SAG Job: A [the 19 nineties] Peruvian kids' game show referred to as "Nubeluz." I desired to spice up as being a cloud and fly using the air.EMMY ROSSUM Fiona Gallagher, "Shameless" (Showtime)I've got a whitened board throughout my office that charts how Fiona's feelings develop from episode to episode. That enables me visualize, in the large-picture way, how her emotional existence tracks with every character. To see her, I started in the host to appear: how she spoke rhythmically, how she walked. I never tried to experience her with techniques that's sexy, which is strange in my opinion that males uncover the smoothness of Fiona sexy. She doesn't fashion herself up. There's no vanity about her the higher dark circles under my eyes, the higher it's for your show. I'm a sense of connectivity to her that it's less nearly impossible to find that devote my figure. My own, personal father left once i reaches utero, which is been a very painful factor personally that Fiona also provides a boy-of-a-bitch father but nevertheless wants his approval and love. There's this horrible feeling of digging around a thing that was completely offer bed mattress, yet there's a continuing storm brewing underneath. This has truly assisted me pry up.My First SAG Job: On "Since the World Turns." I carried out Holden and Molly's daughter Abigail. I anxiously wanted the part. I used to be 11 combined with been studying X and Y chromosomes, dominant genes and recessive genes. I seen the show yesterday my audition and recognized the two stars who carried out the oldsters both had blue eyes. I'd just learned at school that two blue-eyed parents can't have a very brown-eyed child. Therefore I went to the audition and mentioned once they wanted me, I'd go get contact contacts to own blue eyes. They cast me and mentioned, "Ensure she brings her contacts."KATEY SAGAL Gemma Teller Morrow, "Sons of Anarchy" (Foreign exchange)Wardrobe, hair and makeup -- it's all regulated controlled necessary to Gemma because I don't look anything like her throughout my regular existence. I positioned on the tats and people high biker boots, and there's another energy. Sometimes we'll execute a take, as well as the camera guy will say: "We're not able to visit your foot. You don't need to you should get some shoes." Nonetheless they bring an essential energy. TV is actually fast you must do your quest. It is not just like film, where you stand getting 25 takes. I still make use of an acting coach I've always labored getting a coach. It allows me get through to the set getting attempted something more important because once i make it, I realize I'm not getting plenty of shots advertising online.My First SAG Job: "The Failing of Raymond," a 1971 TV movie with Dean Stockwell and Jane Wyman. It absolutely was of a teacher who discovers the student she flunked would be to kill her. I used to be 17, but I'd one line. My father [Boris Sagal] was the director, which he wanted me to experience a union card. I really just seriously considered a music artist, but my dad actually was smart which he understood I preferred a union card. The Hollywood Reporter

Fox hits U.K. roads with virtual vidstores

Fox and HMV have teamed to produce outside virtual vidstores. Inside a test to determine whether or not this sell more Dvd disks and Blu-sun rays to customers on the run, twentieth century Fox Home Theatre has teamed with British store HMV to produce a virtual store on city roads. Bus stop along with other advertisements will feature QR codes that customers can scan utilizing their mobile phones to buy marketed films which will then be shipped for their doorways inside the first a few days. The codes instantly launch hmv.com and also the selected product page to accomplish the orders. Fox's "Rise from the Planet from the Apes," "X-Males Top Class,Inch "Rio," "Mr. Popper's Penguins," "The Exorcist The Entire Saga," the "Home Alone Collection," the "Alien Anthology," "Glee Season Two," "Family Guy Season 11" and "24: The Entire Series" will participate the mobile effort. Venture may be the first such deal Fox has played around with with utilizing a mobile application. Should it prove effective, the studio will probably expand it over the relaxation around the globe along with other merchants. "We are entering the most popular gifting season of the season when customers are extended for some time and on the run using their cell phone in hands," stated Robert Cost, controlling director, twentieth century Fox Home Theatre. "With this virtual store, we have produced new distribution points that formerly did not exist, permitting customers to right away look for everybody on the holiday list just using mobile." Outside media featuring Fox's virtual store code can look working in london, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh. To produce the QR code and shop, customers will require a QR readers on the cell phone or download the free application from getbeetagg.com. HMV works 250 stores through the U.K. and Ireland. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Michael Fassbender 'Open' To 'RoboCop'

When Brazilian director José Padilha was asked who he wanted to play Officer Alex J. Murphy in his upcoming reboot of the "RoboCop" franchise, he spoke openly that he hoped to cast one of Hollywood's most-wanted actors, Michael Fassbender. At the time of the interview, no one had approached Fassbender about the role, and news soon spread across the internet about the director of "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within," which just hit theaters, and his intentions for the reboot. Collider got the chance to sit down with Fassbender and discuss his two upcoming films, "A Dangerous Method" and "Shame," and during the interview they touched on Padilha's choice for RoboCop and how Fassbender would feel about the role. Fassbender still had not spoken with Padilha or seen a script but said he would be interested nonetheless. "You know, I'm always open. I'll take a look at the script and sit down with the director and have a conversation," he said. "It's not definitely like, 'Oh, Ive got to play RoboCop before I retire.'" He told Collider that that isn't how he chooses his roles, preferring to take them more on a case-by-case basis. "I dont have that about anything. I dont go, 'I have to play the Dane one day, or Hamlet.' I dont really think like that," Fassbender said. "I just wait and see what comes up, and Im always open to it. If I react to the script, then Im up for anything." He's even up for wearing a huge metal helmet for the majority of a film, which is presumably what RoboCop would entail. "It could be kind of fun," he said. "It could be kind of good to have a helmet that I could hide behind, for most of the film, too. That sounds kind of appealing." Would you like to see Michael Fassbender take on "RoboCop"? Let us know in the comments below and on Twitter!

Ask Matt: Big Bang, Grey's, Glee, Terra Nova and More!

Sandra Oh Send questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter!Question: Why do successful shows tinker with what is already working? Rules of Engagement has become "The Timmy Show," and The Big Bang Theory has become a show about Penny, Bernadette and Amy. What gives? - KellyMatt Roush: The easiest way to answer this question is to state a pretty obvious fact of TV life: If you don't tinker, you risk growing stale. In this case, tinkering means adding new characters along the way and expanding the world of a show, which is essential for most series, including sitcoms, especially when it's clear they're in it for the long run. You may be exaggerating where Rules is concerned - it's not a show I watch regularly - but it's not unusual for a breakout character to get more prominence as time goes on. Call it scene stealer-itis. But I do think you're misrepresenting the role of the girls' club within Big Bang. Penny has always been an essential element of the show, but adding Amy as a female foil for Sheldon and Bernadette as a love interest for Howard - and then having the three gals bond in a way that surprises themselves as well as the geek squad across the hall - has given the show many more comic avenues to explore. For me, this new blood enhances rather than diminishes the show. I find Amy hilarious, and the scenes where Bernadette channels Howard's mother, belying her meek demeanor, brings back fond memories for me of Georgia Engel on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The fact that the females might even get an "A" story once in a while only shows how much they've grown on the audience and on the writers. If Big Bang was only going to deal with the four science nerds, it would risk burning itself out a lot more quickly. Thankfully, that's not going to happen.Question: How amazing were Sandra Oh and Kevin McKidd in that scrub room scene on Grey's Anatomy's fall finale? I'd be surprised if there's not an Emmy nomination for one or the other. - Maya (via Twitter)Matt Roush: That was a very effective and moving scene. Watching her meltdown from the other side of the window just added to the emotion of the moment. I thought McKidd was equally strong conveying the pain as he talked Teddy through her surgery while she babbled on about her husband, not knowing he'd just died. Moments like these are welcome reminders that Grey's Anatomy, despite its flaws and excesses, hasn't run out of gas (unlike Desperate Housewives, which is limping to the finish line this year). But expecting Emmy nods is only going to set you up for disappointment, I fear. While it's possible Oh in particular could get nominated again - she has five nominations already, but not since 2009 (and she won a Golden Globe in 2006) - the show has pretty much fallen off the Emmy radar over the last few seasons. But then, Loretta Devine won a guest-acting Emmy last year, so you never know. Cable shows have tended to upstage network dramas in the awards races lately, with only CBS' The Good Wife being a major contender from the broadcast side. And once a show falls out of favor, the real surprise is for it to be welcomed back to the party. Which is a roundabout way of saying that if Oh or her co-stars were to be nominated again, I'd be surprised, but not unpleasantly.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Question: Of course the Parents Television Council has gotten upset over the sex-centric Glee episode that aired last week. I'm not so concerned about that. What I do want to talk about is another area of the episode. I long ago realized that I should not expect Glee to adhere to any sort of realistic standard, and that's fine. But I do take issue with Artie's director's note to Rachel and Blaine, essentially saying that they can't play characters who have a sexual awakening because they haven't had one.I wrote to you two years ago this month when Glee aired its "Wheels" episode, focused on Artie's challenges relative to using a wheelchair and praised the show for its sensitive depiction of the issue. "Disability advocates" were making news talking about how an actor who is not actually disabled should not play a character with a disability because (I'm paraphrasing here) the role should be offered to a chair user who has that firsthand experience. As both a wheelchair user and a theater student, I believe saying that actors have to have the same experiences as their characters cheapens the whole concept of acting. Of course actors should find some way to connect emotionally to the journey of the character, but that doesn't have to be because they've lived the same thing. Glee has never been a realistic show, but it stunned me to watch Glee use Artie to make the very argument that Kevin McHale's impressive performance on the show defeats. Do the writers really not understand that it is the same argument?I know that the show had them go through with the West Side Story performance in spite of not having sex first, which proves they could do it, but still, this was a shockingly disappointing turn for a series I have always supported for its belief in the value of telling stories about anyone and by any means available. For the record, I have weathered the storm of Glee from the beginning and it's not always easy to come back to the show, but every time I think about giving it up, they have a lovely moment like the intercutting of "One Hand, One Heart" with the sexual material at the end of the episode or "Somewhere" reconceived as a mother-daughter duet a few episodes back. I just hate times like this when they destroy their own credibility because it makes it harder for me to trust that the show is going somewhere. - JakeMatt Roush: Even in the better episodes of Glee, which I felt last week's very much was, there's bound to be something to aggravate you, and you make an excellent point that Artie of all characters was the wrong person to send that misguided and ultimately meaningless direction. (For me, one of the biggest question marks this season is why they put the school musical in the hands of non-musical supervisors in the first place, when Idina Menzel's character had just come on staff to oversee that absurd rival glee club and must have had time on her hands. Oh well.) I'm with you, though, on how the special moments of Glee tend to get me past all the inconsistencies and foolishness. There's still no other show quite like it, and for that I forgive it a lot. But as you're about to read, not everyone is so generous.Question: I've finally gone and removed Glee from my DVR. The kicker was the Nov. 8 episode. When will audiences sit up and realize this show is an empty suit? It's barely progressive - when it isn't ramming stereotypes down our throats - and it gave up on any pretense to subversion with the second season. It's preachy and shrill. Characters are nonsensical, contradicting themselves from one episode to the next, and behave at the whim of the theme assigned to the episode. The development of story on this show is recycled at best, a joke at worst. On the sex episode, Mike Chang's plot was reduced to two scenes; one overwrought, one treacly, both painfully obvious. His story would be better served not featured at all until there's adequate time to address it. As produced, those scenes were shoehorned in and lacked any impact. This is typical of any story that does not directly involve Kurt or Rachel - and even those give me whiplash. About the only thing last week's episode got right was the insulated, dimly lit and sadness-tinged qualities common to so many of the small-town gay bars I've had occasion to visit over the years. I'm disappointed, as the show had heart and a ton of promise when it first debuted. But the smattering of great moments is not enough to keep me hanging on. Where are you on this, Matt? Am I out there on this limb by myself? - ChrisMatt Roush: As I noted earlier, I'm not ready to give up on Glee yet, though I am thinking twice about watching this week's Sue-centric episode, because ... well, Sue. But you're hardly alone. And we do agree on one thing, since I used the term "whiplash" in last Tuesday's review/overview to describe the experience of watching Glee this year. The ratings have cooled considerably, indicating last season's glaring flaws tested many fans' patience. And you're right that if those few moments in last week's episode were meant to be a payoff to Mike Chang's story, which began so memorably in the "Asian F" episode (the best of the season, along with "First Time"), it's too maudlin and not enough. (Though I imagine there will be more to come.) But when you complain that the show isn't "progressive" or "subversive" enough, I can't help thinking how far TV has come in the years I've been covering the beat. Back when I was writing about a cultural milestone like thirtysomething, and the industry went into convulsions over two men being shown in bed, if you'd told me someday two gay teens were going to have their first moment of (very discreet) intimacy played out against a "West Side Story" romantic classic, I'd have scoffed. Glee has pushed plenty of boundaries to do honor to its misfits and outcasts. It's far from a perfect show, but even if it never regains its initial mojo, it's still a significant one.Question: I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the new show Person of Interest. If I recall correctly, this is a show you enjoyed because it was a different kind of CBS crime procedural. As a big fan of Lost, I checked out the show because I couldn't wait to see Michael Emerson again. However, I was disappointed after the first episode and haven't watched an episode since. Now, I am not (and probably never will be) a big fan of CBS-like procedural dramas; I'm much more into serialized dramas like Lost, Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, etc. My question for you is this: Would it be worth my time to go back and catch up on Person of Interest? For me to truly enjoy a show, I need some sort of overarching storyline going on, even if it is sometimes overshadowed by case-of-the-week plotlines. I do enjoy shows like Chuck and Glee, that although there may be a new "mission" or "lesson" for each episode, there are certain things that must be caught up on in order to fully know what's going. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. - BrandonMatt Roush: If you're expecting Person of Interest to be the next Lost, or more to the point the next Alias (given its pedigree), you're bound to be disappointed. There are some arc-like threads to the show, including the detective's pursuit of Reese and the murky back stories of Finch and Reese. I get a sense that some characters, like Paige Turco's "fixer" from a few weeks ago, could recur and become part of the show's fabric. But by and large, it is a self-contained procedural, though what sets it apart for me is the sense of urgency and mystery in each week's episode that goes beyond a standard crime drama. And I really enjoy watching Emerson and Jim Caviezel. To give you some perspective on why I would single a show like this out of the fall roster, I need to be able to appreciate the good, bad and in-between in all genres, and being this dismissive of the better procedurals wouldn't make sense. So my specific advice to you is to check out the listings and promos and wait for an episode that sounds particularly intriguing and give it another chance. It's very likely it still won't satisfy you, because of the preferences you've so clearly defined. But you could do far worse.Question: Like so many readers, I really enjoy your perspective on the ever-wacky world of television. I have a question - maybe more of a comment - about Terra Nova. I don't know that I had particularly high expectations for the show, but I did rather hope that it would make internal sense on some level. I can suspend disbelief as well as the next person, but I don't know how many more of those moments where I smack my head in frustration at the sheer stupidity I can endure. As an example: In last week's episode, Jim Shannon takes little Zoey to a super-secret private room containing all the knowledge of the universe (more or less). Okay, if these people had such an astonishing resource available to them, how come it's super secret? Wouldn't it be housed in some "museum of humanity" or "library of mankind" or something? Like little Zoey isn't going to go tell all her friends about the awesome day she spent with her dad in the secret room containing all knowledge? Also, if the super secret massive brain machine has its own separate power source such that the blackout of everything electronic in the compound wouldn't affect it, doesn't it make sense that the, I don't know, perimeter gate protecting the entire community might have a separate power source too so that everyone doesn't die from some random attack?And why would settlers in a hostile, primitive environment rely so extensively on technology in the first place, especially given that technology was the original reason for the ruination of the modern world? It seems like they might keep a few old-fashioned guns of some kind lying around in case of emergency. Anyway, I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. I don't seek perfection in a program like this, but neither am I dull-witted enough that throwing a few semi-cool special effects at me will make me forget the sheer illogic of everything taking place on screen. I'm getting really close to giving up on this show, frankly; I had expected something more from the creative minds behind this program. What say you, Matt? - AndrewMatt Roush: I say you're being a bit nitpicky, which is not the way to be watching Terra Nova, a show that pretty much demands you relax the critical part of the brain to sit back and enjoy a harmless hour of fantasy adventure. Although you make an excellent point about the colony being so tech-dependent, which is exactly the sort of observation someone should be making in this prehistoric world. (Which is why I think the Sixers may not entirely be the bad guys here.) Yes, I do wish Terra Nova were more sophisticated, less cartoonishly written and acted and way less pandering to the supposed adorability of the Shannon kids. But if I let myself dwell on things like the puzzle of that underground library for too long - and I may be wrong, but I didn't pick up on it being super-secret, just that Jim was introducing little Zoey to it for the first time - I probably would start to hate the show. Which I don't. It's fair to say that Terra Nova isn't yet living up to expectations, but it's far from a disaster, and I hope Fox gives it a second season in hopes of sharpening its act if not its brain.Question: I'm anxiously awaiting the start of The Firm since I love Josh Lucas and lawyer shows. Do you have any idea when it will begin airing? Also, is it true that 22 episodes have already been ordered for the first season? That doesn't sound right for a midseason replacement. - MaryMatt Roush: NBC originally announced The Firm would be part of the Sunday lineup (10/9c) after football season is over. But given how rocky NBC's fall has been, there's a chance (just speculating here) that we could see it airing on another night, such as Thursday, if/when they pull Prime Suspect. In any case, wherever it turns up, it won't be until January, and we won't have a specific airdate until NBC confirms its midseason plans. About the 22-episode order: That appears to be true, but wasn't really NBC's choice. From what I gather, the show was already pre-sold with a 22-episode commitment and foreign financing, designed by Sony to air on the company's international AXN service. So this brings down the cost of NBC's license fee, making it more attractive to the network regardless of how it performs. And it's hard to imagine The Firm doing any worse than what we've seen on the network so far this fall.Question: I was wondering if you have any insight into the programmers at The CW. I thought for sure they would cancel H8R early on and was hoping they might move a better show into that timeslot. But instead they have been re-airing Ringer. Would a fresh Nikita or Supernatural not be a better option in a prime-time midweek timeslot? Ringer repeats could easily fill the Friday slots. I am hoping that the ratings will improve if they move Nikita and Supernatural to a new night. I'd hate for either of those shows to be canceled because they are on a terrible night against so much similar sci-fi/action competition. - GeraldMatt Roush: This falls under the be-careful-what-you-wish-for heading. As we've often discussed in this column, expectations are mercifully low on Fridays, not that anyone expects much of anything on any night of the CW schedule. But moving Nikita to a midweek slot could prove even more damaging to the show if it were forced to face even stiffer competition on the big networks and be paired with something as incompatible as America's Next Top Model. Where Supernatural is concerned, it's one of those shows that just keeps chugging on, and at this point, I believe it will be up to the show's powers-that-be to decide when that ride is over. For The CW, the priority this fall is to get exposure for a new show like Ringer, which is why it was the most likely candidate to get a double-run in the H8R slot. I would like to see the network do more on behalf of Nikita, but I've always seen that show as meaning more to the parent company (Warner Bros.) than the network, and keeping it going so it can be sold to the international marketplace and eventually syndication/cable may be the reason it exists at all.Question: I read your latest Ask Matt column, when someone wrote in to talk about AMC and The Killing. I remember the big uproar over how Fringe and The Killing ended their seasons. Two of my favorite shows, and the latter was such a refreshing new take on a police drama. I thought The Killing ended perfectly. I guess I missed where the producers promised us at one time that the story would be resolved at the end of the season. My response: "So what?" Has the TV audience forgot what a cliffhanger is? I mean seriously. The creators of the show do this on purpose to build the buzz between seasons and to make the viewer excited for the show to start back up. Like with Fringe, when Peter suddenly did not exist anymore, people went crazy assuming that Joshua Jackson would no longer be on the show and other bizarre rationales. It is a cliffhanger, people! Let the shows' creators follow their vision so we can all go on a fun ride. Don't panic. I don't get it. I'm not sure what ruined the TV viewing audience, as they now need everything spelled out for them. I for one like shows that intrigue me every week, make for good discussion and conversations, etc.And I love the pacing of Homeland and The Walking Dead. I would love to have a conversation with someone who has thought Dead has been slow the last few episodes. Are they high? Some of the most gut-wrenching moments have happened and I'm blown away. Especially the episode with Shane and revealing how he survived. Also slowing the pace of the show gives the writers time to give us character development that I thought was badly lacking, as that was my majorgripe last season. With Homeland, I love the pacing of that show. And if the characters spin themselves around a few times, I have faith that it is a part of their planned story line and "gulp" could give us a nice cliffhanger to end the season. I guess we are dumb enough that we should only watch shows where the season finales are mundane, no questions asked and/or all questions answered. See you next season for the same old boring shows. Say Hi to CBS for me. - MarkMatt Roush: Regarding Homeland, was last night's episode a game changer or what? Even without the climactic reveal about the true identity of the sleeper agent, I can't get over how far they (meaning the writers) let Carrie and Brody carry on their beyond-inappropriate tryst. Wow. Addressing your larger issues: I don't know if the TV audience in general is more impatient and unforgiving when shows do things that throw them for a loop, but I do know they're a lot quicker about voicing their displeasure, frustration, confusion, etc., online. I agree that the weakest argument in the debate over The Killing's finale was that we were somehow promised something (but as previously noted, the producer did herself no favors by bragging about it afterward). But if shows are meant to inspire spirited debate, we need to let both sides be heard without mocking those with whom you disagree. Which is mostly why I find doing this column is such a highlight of any given week.Question: I like the writing and the premise of the CBS show A Gifted Man. How well is the show doing in its time slot, and will it last the rest of the season? - EricMatt Roush: In its time slot, it's winning, but that isn't saying much, given how poorly nearly everything performs on Fridays. Of all the networks, CBS tends to do well on the night, and if A Gifted Man isn't exactly doing gangbusters (especially in the demos), it's also handicapped by having to be a self-starter at the beginning of the night. So while the show isn't generating much buzz, it might not need to, and CBS owns and produces the show, which means the network may be more patient. But in the first rounds of renewals, when Unforgettable and Person of Interest got full-season pickups, A Gifted Man was not mentioned at all. So I'd still consider it very much "on the bubble" for making it through the season and certainly for renewal. But one piece of good news: Margo Martindale finally gets a prominent storyline this Friday, and it's about time.Question: I still think Ashton Kutcher would have been the perfect choice in replacing Charlie Sheen if the Two and a Half Men creators hadn't made his character of Walden into such a sad, pathetic lame brain. If it wasn't for Jon Cryer and the other hilarious co-stars, I doubt it would continue to be on my "must see" list any longer. Do you think Ashton will sign up for another year? The money is good, why not? Right? If so, I hope the writers give him a brain transplant, a hair cut and a clean shave. - EvaMatt Roush: Of all the things you can count on for next season, few are as dead certain as Ashton Kutcher sticking around for a second year of Two and a Half Men. The money is great, and the work clearly isn't all that taxing. I'm actually OK with the writers not making Walden a Charlie Harper clone, although he is an awfully passive vehicle for generating laughs. Couldn't agree more, though, that cleaning up his look might make him more agreeable company.That's all for now. Keep sending your comments and questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com, and in the meantime, follow me on Twitter!Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

'James Murdoch Arrested' Tweet Taken Lower by Sky News

LONDON -- After delivering shockwaves with the social networking sphere Saturday evening, Sky News has had lower a tweet on @SkyNewsBiz confirming that James Murdochhad been arrested, saying the feed had probably been compromised.our editor recommendsJames Murdoch May Face Police Questioning After New Cache of Emails Found (Report)James Murdoch Confesses News Corp. Put British MPs Under Covert SurveillanceRebekah Brooks' Computer systems Still Held Among Report of $2.7 Million News Corp. Severance The tweet, which made an appearance at 11:16 p.m. London time, was re-tweeted multiple occasions and came just hrs after press reviews that Murdoch may face police questioning on the cache of recent emails which have emerged - that are considered to contain harmful information. PHOTOS: News around the globe's Top Ten Scams Saying simply: "BREAKING: James Murdoch arrested over phone-hacking claims. Asked at Paddington Eco-friendly Station at 10pm," the publish made an appearance on @SkyNewsBiz. However the Sky News funnel wasn't transporting the storyline in all forms and within 10 mins the tweet was erased. "Sky News doesn't have information to claim that James Murdoch continues to be arrested and think that the @SkyNewsBiz account continues to be compromised," Sky producer Neal Mannposted. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Greatest Blunders A speaker from News Worldwide also stated she'd "no guidance" that any arrest had occurred. Earlier reviews within the London Daily Mail recommended that police looking into a brand new cache of emails might want to question James Murdoch and former News Worldwide leader Rebekah Brooks on new evidence. Related Subjects Worldwide News Corp. James Murdoch Phone Hacking Scandal

New Releases: 'Jack and Jill,' 'Immortals' and 'J. Edgar'

The 3 new releases in theaters a few days ago could not become more different: there's 'J. Edgar,' a little of prestige Oscar bait from Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio 'Immortals,' the violent swords and sandals three dimensional epic and 'Jack and Jill' ... the most crucial movie available. Which film will leave a few days ago as box-office victor? Towards the preview! Countrywide RELEASES 'Jack and Jill' What is the story: Adam Sandler is Jack. Adam Sandler is Jill. Al Pacino is ... Al Pacino? Yep, this really is happening. Box-office projection: Remove his dramedies ('Funny People,' 'Punch-Drunk Love' 'Reign Over,' 'Spanglish') and voice work ('Eight Crazy Nights' and 'Zookeeper'), and Adam Sandler has not were built with a film open with under $$ 30 million since 'Little Nicky' in 2000. Over that point period, ten of Sandler's films gained over $100 million in ticket sales. That is one other way of saying: dude is Telfon, and among the couple of reliable box-office stars remaining. You may think 'Jack and Jill' looks bad, but despite some stiff competition, the safe wager would be to assume Sand-guy will achieve $$ 30 million once more -- unless of course, this is actually the next 'Little Nicky.' Here's wishing. $30.7 million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'Immortals' What is the story: Leaders! Will! Murder! Each! Other! Strongly! The heavily violent 'Immortals' focuses on the gods joining having a common guy (Henry Cavill) to defeat the evil King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke). Box-office projection: If '300' and 'Clash from the Titans' demonstrated anything, it's that audiences love shirtless gladiators. As a result: hello 'Immortals'! (Not too director Tarsem Singh would really like that comparison.) Hard-R actioner should obtain a bump from finding yourself in three dimensional, in addition to being the only real option for action meatheads, try not to expect major box office. In the end, 'Conan the Barbarian' was similarly R-ranked and swords-y, also it happened badly in August. $14 million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'J. Edgar' What is the story: Leonardo DiCaprio stars as J. Edgar Hoover, the questionable director from the FBI, in Clint Eastwood's biopic. Armie Hammer plays Clyde Tolson, Hoover's lengthy-time companion. Box-office projection: Nothing states, "run to the theater!" just like a 150-minute drama about one of the most reviled figures in American history. But! Eastwood and DiCaprio are title brands, and general audiences are utilized to shelling out hard-gained money to determine their wares. 'J. Edgar' were built with a effective launch on Wednesday, but that does not mean much for that overall picture -- the film gained $53,000 from 4 theaters in NY and La still, on only 1900 screens, 'J. Edgar' could easily pull lower double-numbers, and when 'Immortals' stumbles, may be the second-greatest era from the weekend. $10.six million [Showtimes & Tickets Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] LIMITED RELEASES Out via when needed for more than per month, the Lars Von Trier drama 'Melancholia' finally comes to limited release take a look at Moviefone's interviews with stars Kirsten Dunst and Alexander Skarsgard. Also in limited theaters, the horror thriller '11-11'11' and Werner Herzog's well-examined documentary 'Into the Abyss.' [Photo: Warner Bros.] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics Lands Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'Hysteria'

The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics has closed its deal for individuals U.S. and South African rights to Hysteria, Tanya Wexler's Toronto Film Festival entry in regards to the invention in the vibrator starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy.our editor recommendsHysteria: Toronto ReviewSony Pictures Classics Compromising for Rights to 'Hysteria''Hysteria' Trailer: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal Star in Sex Drama (Video)'Hysteria': A Girl Sex Comedy Fitted in Victorian Garb The film, composed by Stephen Dyer and Lisa Dyer, also stars Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Manley. A trio of girls produced the film, Forthcoming Films' Sarah Curtis, Informant Media's Judy Cairo and Beach Films' Tracey Becker. PHOTOS: The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics 20 Year Timeline Hysteria, which made its world premiere within the Toronto Film Festival in September, can be a mischievous romantic comedy good surprising truth of techniques Mortimer Granville emerged while using world's first electro-mechanical vibrator inside the title of medical science. "Hysteria will probably be both funny and smart. It's a genuine movie that states you are responsible for your happiness," Wexler mentioned. "The brand new the new sony Classics is the greatest company release a Hysteria into American movie theaters. They understand 'smart and funny' movies a lot better than others available. They are exactly what the physician bought." FILM REVIEW: Hysteria The sale was talked about by Cassian Elwes, with Elsa Ramo representing the producers. Related Subjects Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Hugh Dancy Maggie Gyllenhaal The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics Hysteria

Glam Slam: Sorry, Christian Louboutin See You Next Time!

First Published: November 10, 2011 1:27 PM EST Credit: WireImage LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Lea Michele and Christian Louboutin attend the Christian Louboutin 20th Anniversary and Book Launch at Barneys NY in Beverly Hills on November 3, 2011 SooooooI got this really fabulous invite to a party at Barneys NY in Beverly Hills celebrating Christian Louboutins 20th anniversary. Most people would RSVP STAT, right?! I wanted to go, but can you believe I didnt? For one thing, I had nothing to wear. I dont have fancy, going out clothes anymore, but the real problem was that I didnt have any Christian Louboutin shoes to wear and I knew that everyone else there was gonna be decked out in all their red-soled glory! And they were! Lea Michele was there. So were Dita Von Teeseand Solange Knowles among other celebs. Sowhat was I doing instead of hobnobbing with Mr. Louboutin? Well, I was across town at the Grove at another store party, which also had a reserved guest list. Where? I was with my husband and two-year-old daughter at the Pottery Barn Kids Customer Appreciation shopping event where the store closed down for invited guests and we got to shop at a 10 percent discount! While Hollywood was sipping champagne and eating fancy hors doeuvres, I was drinking water and watching my two-year-old devour the cheese plate they brought in. You know what? I was ok with that. In fact, I had a blast. My daughter took over the store, playing in the toy kitchen and pushing a stroller filled with dolls. We bought a couple of very fashionable dolls, one in a black velvet party dress and the very chic and stylish Uptown Girl doll, that are perfect for tea parties. So did I make the right choice? Fashion fanatics would probably think I was crazy to pass up meeting the legendary designerwhile moms might say I made the right decision. All I know is that not only did I get some Christmas shopping out of the way (yay!), I had a fabulous time with my daughter and husband, and in the end, thats more important than being fabulous. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Kim Kardashian Unfollows Kris Humphries On Twitter

First Launched: November 3, 2011 11:21 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Kim Kardashian / Kris Humphries La, Calif. -- #itsreallyover! Just days after proclaiming divorce, Kim Kardashian needed the separation from her soon-to-be ex-husband online. The reality star, who boasts almost 11 million fans and follows 152 people on Twitter, unfollowed Kris Humphries. Kris, who mentioned he was devastated with the split, remains following Kim, with the relaxation in the Kardashian clan. The reality star has ongoing to become uncharacteristically quiet round the micro-blogging site since the split, but did Tweet, God has your back! on Wednesday evening. In Kim news, according to multiple reviews, the reality star is cutting her trip Here short. According to US Weekly, Kim and sister Khloe will fly home on either Thursday or Friday. TMZ reported that Kim states shes troubled over her impending divorce and telling pals, I must take proper proper care of me now, which i cant use a while. AH Nation Poll: Should Kris have the ring back from Kim? Election HERE! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Breaking: Naomi W and Matt Dillon to Star in many Depressing Movie Ever

Word’s just in within the Movieline transom by what sounds sure to function as the feel-good hit of 2013: Sunlight Junior., the most recent gritty indie drama from Sherrybaby director Laurie Collyer. It has everything: Naomi W like a pregnant, laid-off convenience-store worker! Matt Dillon as her paraplegic boyfriend! “A generational cycle of poverty and lack of knowledge!” Everything’s missing within the pr release is definitely an invitation towards the inevitable Sundance premiere after-party backed by Kleenex. Or Xanax. Or both. Sunlight Junior. offers to function as the film for that 99%, if individuals individuals are even still alive and/or permitted to go to movies any longer when this arrives. Continue reading for that full, destabilizing particulars. ============= PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY Has Started ON ‘SUNLIGHT Junior.’ STARRING NAOMI W AND MATT DILLON Original Media and Freight Yard Films Set to create, Empyrean Pictures to invest in NY, NY - October 31, 2011 - Principal photography has started on SUNLIGHT Junior., it had been introduced today by Original Media’s Charlie Corwin and Freight Yard Films’ Andrea Roa. Shot on location in southern Florida, the independent film stars Naomi W and Matt Dillon. SUNLIGHT Junior. is written and directed by Laurie Collyer (SHERRYBABY) and created by Charlie Corwin (HALF NELSON, THE SQUID And Also The WHALE), Andrea Roa (BOOSTER) and Ariel Elia, who'll produce with respect to Empyrean. Joshua Skurla is aboard being an Executive Producer, much like Billy Dietrich and Simon Fawcett, who arranged the financing. The film follows two have-nots who've fallen with the cracks of society. Hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi W) and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), are held in a generational cycle of poverty and lack of knowledge. They're truly excited once they learn that Melissa is pregnant. However when she manages to lose her job and they're kicked out in the motel their current address, things range from bad to worse. Dillon and W are generally symbolized by CAA and Untitled. Collyer is symbolized by Gersh and Principato-Youthful. Her previous film, SHERRYBABY, gained Maggie Gyllenhaal a Golden Globe nomination for the best actress. ### Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter. [Photo: Getty Images]

The Dark Tower cuts $45m from its budget

It's been a good week for Stephen King fans. First Warner Bros. chooses Ben Affleck to adapt and direct The Stand and now it seems the movie version of The Dark Tower is back on track.The Dark Tower producer Brian Grazer (Tower Heist) is still busy pitching the project with director Ron Howard and writer Akiva Goldsman and some big changes have added a new lease of life."We found a way to cut $45m out of the budget without changing the scope and actually giving it a good ending," Grazer told The Playlist."In the $140m draft, the ending wasn't quite as satisfying. Now, we've got $45m, $50m out of the way and a really satisfying ending. It's gonna get made."Stephen King's epic multi-book story follows Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in Mid-World, as he pursues the Man in Black on his journey to The Dark Tower.The plan is to shoot three films and follow that with twoseasons on TV. See, we told you it was epic.

Michael Bay Says He's Not In Talks to Direct 'Transformers 4' and '5'

Bad news for Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner: despite reports earlier in the week, Michael Bay says he isn't actually talking with Paramount about directing fourth and fifth installments in the 'Transformers' franchise. "I'm looking at a lot of possibilities coming my way right now weighing options," Bay wrote on the message board of his website. "Most likely going to be doing the low budget 'Pain and Gain,' a true story crime thriller. It's a very quick shoot and quite funny. Also just finishing the 3-disc set of the 'Transformer' trilogy." [Shoot for the Edit via JoBlo] [Photo: Paramount] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

'Footloose' tops Friday B.O.

'Footloose'Paramount's "Footloose" taken the domestic B.O. off its ft, grossing roughly $5.six million last evening.Though hardly record-breaking figures, Par's remake should maintain its edge over last frame's champion, "Real Steel," which gained another $4.5 million for Disney. "Footloose" is anticipated to land around $15 million through Sunday.Componen can most likely credit its smartly specific Sept. 30 free sneaks of "Footloose" because of its success last evening, though B.O. gold is not a sure factor because the film is just playing to female audiences versus "Real Steel's" across-the-board appeal.Meanwhile, Universal released prequel "The One Thing" last evening to $3.two million Stateside. Pre-weekend estimations place the film within the low teens this frame, but when it reacts like "The Stepfather" which opened up this time around this past year, it might find it difficult to break $ten million.Sony's two large adult-skewing fall dramas required 4th and fifth place last evening. "The Ides of March" made $2.3 million, while "Moneyball," revealing its legs in the 4th week at softball bat, added another $1.7 million to the tally for any domestic cume of $53.9 million.Finally, Fox's "The Large Year" bowed in eighth last evening to $1.two million. Pre-weekend forecasts called the pic for any dismal $3 million - $5 million this frame, which looks accurate. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'This Means War' Trailer: Tom Sturdy and Chris Pine Blow Some Misconception for Reese Witherspoon

.publish-content img 'This Means War' is just one of individuals projects that's been knocking around for quite a while. During the last 10 years everybody from Martin Lawrence to Bradley Cooper to Colin Farrell to Mike Worthington to Seth Rogen were talked about for that film, which concentrates on two best-friend CIA agents who discover they are dating exactly the same lady (Reese Witherspoon) after which use their ample demolition abilities to battle one another on her hands. The merry-go-round finally arrived on Chris Pine and Tom Sturdy, which -- knowing in the recently launched trailer -- was most likely a great move. Captain Fine! Tom Sturdy! Chelsea Handler? OK, no one's perfect, but nonetheless: this looks more enjoyable of computer most likely should. Directed by Micrograms ('Terminator Salvation,' 'Charlie's Angels'), 'This Means War' has gone out on February. 17, 2012. Watch a clip in HD at Apple. [Embed via indieWIRE/The Playlist] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

REVIEW: The Main One Factor Spells Every Little Factor Yet Notifies Us Nothing

As everybody knows at this time, Matthijs van Heijningen Junior.’s The simple truth is not just a remake of John Contractor’s 1982 The Main One Factor, which wasn’t a genuine remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The Main One Factor from Another World. So we've a few things that are only tangentially connected with the initial Factor, even though one factor in regards to the third Factor could it be describes the way the one factor in the second Factor destroyed the Norwegian those who have been dead when that Factor as being a factor. The Main One Factor in the third Factor basically does the identical factor we'd it do inside the second Factor, and so the third Factor probably isn’t to suit your needs once the second Factor wasn’t your factor. Or even even if it absolutely was. The Main One Factor — Heijningen’s Factor — evolves from the world where everything should be referred to in meticulous, knowing detail. If Contractor’s movie opened up up while using mystery from the Antarctic camping filled with dead Norwegians, it’s forget about sufficiently good to consider that as face value: We must know very well what happened on their behalf, and the way, and Heijningen has already established it upon themselves to explicate. The film does plenty of speaking, figuratively speaking, without really lighting — for the extent that lighting matters whatsoever in the work of horror or sci-fi. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is Kate, an exciting paleontologist-in-training who’s summoned for the Antarctic by poker-faced Norwegian investigator Dr. Sander Halvorson (carried out by Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen). Many people have found a spaceship that clearly crash-showed up in the area’s icy surface many thousands of years back. Nearby lay a frozen-solid beastie. Halvorson wants Kate to check out the creature, but he jumps the gun in getting rid of a tissue sample out of this. You'll be able to probably guess why that’s a terrible idea. Since the one factor isn’t really dead, so when a person — or sled dog — is infected due to it (though precisely how that infection happens isn’t made apparent), it begins replicating and resembling that creature’s cells. So before very lengthy, that Norwegian Antarctic explorer sitting alongside you might have a pink chicken carcass — full of small shark’s teeth and giant insect pincers — jumping from his chest. Meaning you'll be able to’t tell who’s human and who’s alien, so mistrust and paranoia breed faster than salmonella. Before extended Kate, the Norwegian people from the once august expedition, and a pair of Us citizens who've become entangled inside the mess (carried out by Joel Edgerton and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) are thinking about getting one another suspiciously and examining one another’s dental work. That's correct. Heijningen and film author Eric Heisserer — using, since the earlier Things did, John W. Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There” just like a springboard — are very looking forward to their unique appealing sci-fi gimmick they've figures searching in one another’s mouths for clues. (The Main One Factor, it appears, can’t replicate teeth teeth fillings.) Beyond that, the paranoia in The simple truth is a garden-variety kind, with people skulking about and casting accusing “Colonel Mustard inside the diner getting a candlepower unit” glances. The results are hokey and overcooked: You will discover someone-horror gross-outs in the event you’re into that type of factor, but mostly what you'll receive are lots of too-apparent leftovers within the Alien stockroom, including a range of moist innards, slimy tendons, dripping fangs and so forth. The initial half-hour roughly from the One Factor — prior to the one factor starts leading to havoc — may be the finest: Because section Heijningen, showing how a people and scientists search for a kind of slapdash camaraderie inside their snowy isolation, comes nearest to using the atmosphere of cozy claustrophobia that’s the hallmark from the One Factor from Another World, a horror film that’s more suggestive than overt. But we could’t expect this Step to become anything such as this Factor. Heijningen is clever about knitting certain more understanding about Contractor’s film into the fabric of his: The film’s final shot can be a apparent echo of the beginning of Contractor’s. But Heijningen is actually focused on spelling the solutions he doesn't keep in mind that what’s left unsaid is usually what scares us most likely probably the most. Today’s sci-fi leaves so little for the imagination, and also the One Factor is sporadic without visiting a kind of impression — it begins vaporizing as soon as the credits start moving. Virginia Woolf mentioned, “Nothing is just one factor. But an issue is not whatsoever.”

Morning Grind: Nora Ephron Installed on Write and Direct Nora Ephron-y Movie

Time for that Tuesday pop quiz: Will the newest Nora Ephron movie really cover a modern day "Gotham girl" moved into Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice'? It probably will! Variety reviews that Ephron is installed on write and direct 'Lost in Austen,' an adaptation in the BBC miniseries of the title. 'Bond 23' director Mike Mendes will produce, as the new the new sony will handle release duties. Unsure on casting yet, but possibly Kate Hudson, Hathaway As Catwoman and/or Could Be may decide to brush-up their resumes (Mindy Kaling should too, just just just in case Ephron desires to get adventurous along with her casting). [Variety] '50/50' scene-stealer Anna Kendrick, Oscar nominee Terrence Howard, Mike Elliott and Brendan Gleeson will be the latest addendums to 'The Company You Keep,A Robert Redford's political thriller co-starring Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Brit Marling, Julie Christie, Stanley Tucci and Richard Jenkins. A couple of individuals! [Variety] Can remember the story on Friday about 'Dredd' director Pete Travis being fired in the production? Large misunderstanding! "Throughout all stages in the filmmaking, 'Dredd' is really a collaboration between numerous devoted creative parties. Within the start we made a decision by having an unorthodox collaboration to produce the film. This situation remains misinterpreted," Travis and author Alex Garland mentioned in the statement. "To produce the record straight, Pete wasn't fired and stays a central part of the collaboration, and Alex is not seeking a co-director credit. We're all happy using the film we've made, and appropriately claim that it's judged on viewing when its released next season.In . [LAT/24 Frames] Universal signed Vin Diesel and also the production company One Race Films with a two-year first-look production deal. Translation: 'Fast and Furious 15'! [Variety] The thing that was once rumor is becoming closer to fact: Variety reviews 'Rock of Ages' star Diego Boneta is at predicts play Adam in 'Paradise Lost.' Camilla Belle is at predicts play Eve inside the Alex Proyas-directed adaptation of John Milton's epic poem. [Variety] Out of your sister site The Boot, "10 Country Entertainers Who Also Shine round the Giant Screen.Inch Merely a guess: No. 1 will totally surprise you. [The Boot] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Dredd Director Declines Firing

Pete Travis continues to be lawRumblings started in the LA Occasions the other day that director Pete Travis was facing some issues inside the Dredd editing room combined with been "asked for to step aside". What is the news was leaped upon with glee with the fans that are perversely looking forward to the film to fail, but Travis and film author Alex Garland have recently released some pot statement scotching the reviews of Dredd's demise. Nothing to see here, perps. Move along.Anonymous LA Occasions sources "near the production" had reported that there has been tensions and "creative arguments" involving the producers and professionals accountable for saving Joe Dredd within the ignominy in the Stallone film. In line with the story, author/producer Garland (4 days Later, Sunshine) was running publish-production alone, and searching a co-director credit for his efforts. Potential reshoots were also stated, getting an issue mark over who'd guy the cameras on the account.But, say Travis and Garland now, "Throughout all stages in the filmmaking, Dredd is really a collaboration between numerous devoted creative parties. Within the start we made a decision by having an unorthodox collaboration to produce the film. This situation remains misinterpreted. To produce the record straight, Pete wasn't fired and stays a central part of the collaboration, and Alex is not seeking a co-director credit. We're all happy using the film we've made, and appropriately claim that it's judged on viewing when it's released next season.InchThe reality, or damage limitation? Are Travis and Garland the Reynolds and Costner in the twenty-first century, or is it really the most effective of pals being misinterpreted? We'll make you stay up-to-date round the drama.Dredd, starring Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby, shot inside the Mega-Capital of scotland - Cape Town, which is out next September.