The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey gets a first trailer

The first trailer for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has arrived online.It's undoubtedly one of the most anticipated films of 2012 (surely only superhero giants The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers can compete?), and this first glimpse has got us feeling all nostalgic for Middle-earth.Martin Freeman looks to be a perfect fit for Bilbo Baggins, and it's lovely to see Ian McKellen's Gandalf back in his scraggly robe.Unsurprisingly, given the stage of its production, it's not the most action-packed trailer out there, but there are plenty of decent character moments (including a spirited Dwarf singsong).Our favourite moments from the trailer? Well, Martin Freeman is excellent as the bustling, puffed-up Bilbo, and returning to Bag End feels very much like revisiting an old but well-loved friend. Then of course there's a look at other LOTR favourites such as the fragmented Nasril sword and the shimmering city of Elrond. And finally, there's a certain cave-dweller waiting to say hello...Watch the trailer right here: There's also a new poster in case you're interested:The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens on 14 December 2012.For more on The Hobbit, get the new issue of Total Film magazine, which hits newsstands on 22 December 2011.Click here to subscribe to Total Film magazine.Click here to get Total Film magazine on iPad and iPhone from Apple Newsstand.

REVIEW: Fincher, Without Showing Too Much, Makes a Beguiling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

American versions of foreign films are almost always put in the position of having to swagger onto the scene, justifying their existence almost before they even exist. But when news hit that David Fincher was making a Hollywood version of Stieg Larsson’s explosively popular novel Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I didn’t hear anyone breathe a sigh of regret; the mood seemed to be one of cautious anticipation. That may be because even though all three of the Swedish films based on Larsson’s Girl trilogy made it comfortably to these shores, only the first of them — directed by Niels Arden Oplev — managed to ignite much enthusiasm among critics and audiences. That first Girl movie was efficient even within its pokiness, although its excessive grisliness and fanatical obsession with forensic photos didn’t make it particularly exciting, just unpleasant. Oplev had left Fincher plenty of room for improvement, or at least room for something different. Now, with his own Dragon Tattoo, Fincher brings us a picture that’s meticulously made and yet doesn’t come off as if it’s trying too hard. The Fincher version doesn’t actively negate the presence of the earlier one — it doesn’t have to — but its confidence and bravado are like a strong blast of sunlight with the ability to fade the memory of whatever came before. That’s partly because Fincher — along with screenwriter Steven Zaillian — knows his way around a complicated thriller and partly because of his lead actors, Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Craig plays magazine journalist Mikael Blomkvist; when the movie opens, he’s just been released from jail for sticking his nose into powerful people’s business, an impulse that shapes his life’s mission. Not long thereafter, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), the patriarch of a sprawling, chilly, mysterious family, enlists the journalist’s help in finding out what happened to his niece, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1966, at age 16. Blomkvist begins by questioning various Vanger family members — from prim, cross-wearing Celia (Geraldine James) to convivial, wine-pouring Martin (Stellan Skarsgrd) — until his peregrinations bring him into contact with the bleached-eyebrowed, multi-pierced Lisbeth Salandar (Rooney Mara), a hacker extraordinaire who’s already hip to nearly everything about him, including the extracurricular activities he engages in with his editor at the magazine, Erika (Robin Wright). When quizzed by a third party about Blomkvist’s sexual exploits, Lisbeth delivers her capsule review in a monotone: “Sometimes he performs cunnilingus — not often enough, in my opinion.” She pronounces that initial “o” (for “orgasm,” maybe?) as if it were a word unto itself. If you’ve read Larsson’s book, or even if you’ve just seen Oplev’s film, you know how it all ends. But Fincher makes whatever plot details we have stored away inconsequential: His picture is all about movement as opposed to action, though it has some of that, too. Why do characters go where they do, say what they do? Fincher nudges us along, stoking our voyeuristic impulses, sometimes making us care about characters and plot developments almost in spite of ourselves. He’s not particularly fixated on gloomy Swedish landscapes (although when he and cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth train their eyes on those bummed-out, puffy-cloud skies, they do look pretty foreboding). Instead, Fincher makes it his business to read faces: Although it’s taken a while, Fincher has become more of a people person as a filmmaker. If Se7en and Fight Club were mostly about jolting us with killer style (to some of us, it was empty style), something else seemed to emerge in him around the time of Zodiac, a deeper interest in human frailty and hubris and all the ways of expressing it. That’s better for actors: Jesse Eisenberg, in particular, blossomed under Fincher’s attention in The Social Network, and while Craig is probably seasoned enough, and good enough, not to need tremendous amounts of hand-holding, he still thrives in the environment Fincher has created in Dragon Tattoo. Craig has one clear advantage over Michael Nyqvist, the actor who played the same character in the Swedish Girl movies: He has erotic charisma to spare, as opposed to Nyqvist’s perfunctory, doughy sexuality. But in addition, Craig has a face that comes with a conscience attached. (He was phenomenal in Jim Sheridan’s ill-fated horror thriller Dream House, a picture that, sadly, went wrong in a million different ways, though it had more morose, atmospheric beauty than perhaps any movie released in 2011, with the exception of Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia.) As Blomkvist, Craig is equal parts driven and tortured. As his investigation takes him deeper into dark, dank corners of sexual torture and murder, Blomkvist seems to realize how little he can do to help. But instead of hampering him, that knowledge spurs him on — it’s a special brand of enterprise born of despair, and Craig plays it with doleful intensity. Mara’s Lisbeth is his natural counterpart, a rational being whose compassion for victims past, present and future manifests itself as diffuse fury, a fuzzy dandelion head with darts where the seeds should be. Noomi Rapace’s Lisbeth was the best feature of the three Swedish Girl pictures, which otherwise decreased in relevance until the trilogy trickled to a close. Mara doesn’t replace the Swedish actress so much as reinvent her flinty directness. She also has a nose for what’s cruelly funny: About to get her revenge on a man who has victimized her, she intones, “Lie still. I’ve never done this before. And there will be blood.” She’s like a ghoul hovering over his new bride on the wedding night. One of the most remarkable things about Fincher’s Dragon Tattoo is how violent it isn’t, at least in terms of what he’s willing to show. He’s not out to shock or titillate, nor does he go out of his way to underscore the feminist revenge fantasy element of Larsson’s material (he doesn’t have to). The Swedish Girl pictures took an unseemly glee in repeatedly pushing forensic photographs right in front of us, front and center. Fincher shows us evidence of these diabolical sex crimes far more discreetly, without undermining their weight. We see pictures clicking by on a computer screen so quickly that we can barely tell what we’re seeing — then again, we just know. The movie’s central rape scene is candid and horrifyingly intimate, without stepping over the line into sick prurience. But Fincher has a sense of humor, too, at least sort of: He orchestrates the finale with an operatic kick that’s sick-funny, reminiscent of Tom Noonan undulating — with that damned stocking pulled halfway over his face — to “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” in Michael Mann’s scary-as-heck Manhunter. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo isn’t trying to be a great work of movie art; instead it succeeds as a sharp piece of entertainment craftsmanship. The ripples of pleasure and dread it generates are nearly indistinguishable. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Finally Singer Etta James Crictally Ill

First Released: December 16, 2011 2:19 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Etta James works at home of Blues in Chicago, Illinois on April 30, 2009RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Finally and Tell Mama blues singer Etta James, whose health continues to be diminishing recently, has become crictally ill, and her live-in physician is requesting hopes. Dr. Elaine James, who is not associated with the 73-year-old performer, informs the Riverside Press-Enterprise newspaper the performers chronic leukemia was declared incurable two days ago. The physician has looked after Etta James in the performers Riverside, California, area home since March 2010. Elaine James states shes distributing word from the performers conditions so individuals will pray on her. She states fans know Etta James continues to be sick although not how sick. Court public records within the performers probate situation show she also is affected with dementia and kidney failure. Elaine James made her comments outdoors a Riverside conservatorship hearing within the performers $a million estate. The performers boy, Donto James, wantsa conservator as opposed to the performers husband, Artis Mills. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

REVIEW: Ethan Hunt Goes Emo in Patchy, Flashy Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

What does it take to revive a passion for one’s work, years on, whether said vocation is saving the world or churning out sequels in a blockbuster franchise? How does one reclaim human contact in today’s isolating, gadget-dependent world? These are questions IMF agent Ethan Hunt and his portrayer Tom Cruise face in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Cruise’s fourth outing in the spy series, directed entertainingly enough by Pixar veteran Brad Bird. If the hoodied Cruise evokes a touch of Eminem-level moodiness in the posters, it’s with good reason: Stopping a maniacal supervillain may be on the docket yet again, but this time around Ethan Hunt has gone emo. Blame it on fatigue in a franchise that never consisted of much more than a series of set pieces and gadget porn held together with flimsy plot threads which all nevertheless managed to entertain, however superficially and evanescently, because of the charisma that Cruise exudes. The first Mission: Impossible film, based loosely on the 1966 television show, coasted to box office success in 1996, an engaging alternative to the flagging James Bond juggernaut; as for 2000’s unfortunate John Woo-helmed sequel — well, some missions are impossible, better left flailing in the distant past of cinematic memory. J.J. Abrams managed to reinvigorate the series with 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, but even then it seemed the creative juices had stopped flowing for both the franchise and its star. To Bird’s credit, his first foray into live-action feature filmmaking in Ghost Protocol opens on a cracking, near-wordless sequence that speaks to years spent perfecting visual storytelling in the Pixar fold: Descending upon a high security Russian facility, an impromptu prison riot erupts as a cover for the extraction of one Ethan Hunt, glimpsed only from behind, who lies coolly on his cot bouncing a makeshift rock-ball against the wall as chaos explodes around him. He mulls the idea of freedom. He hesitates. Then, finally, Hunt grudgingly exits his cell, placing the granite plaything back in the wall he carved it from with probably nothing more than his fingertips, presumably over the span of years of solitude — the same fingertips that used to cling to sheer cliff sides miles above the ground with no safety lines, just for kicks — and leaps into superman mode, shrugging his way through a comically breezy exit like it’s just another Tuesday at the office. He is still Ethan Hunt, of course, but something’s changed. He’s tired of the spy game. A bit jaded. He’s maybe, probably getting too old for this shit, and his failed relationship — did wife Julia leave him, or worse? — haunts him. When IMF tech-turned-field operative Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and a new lady agent (Paula Patton) excitedly bust Hunt out of his mysterious, maybe self-imposed seclusion for a new mission, he only reluctantly chooses to accept it. Said mission comes on the heels of a prologue operation gone wrong, in which Patton’s Agent Jane Carter loses her teammate/spy boyfriend Trevor (Josh Holloway) and a set of nuclear launch codes to a dastardly European assassin (La Seydoux). (French girls, they’ll do it to you every time.) Hunt and Co., tasked with breaking into the Kremlin on a related mission to track a shadowy terrorist named Cobalt, find themselves compromised and IMF scapegoated when the Kremlin is reduced to rubble in a brain-rattling explosion; disavowed by the American government and flying sans backup, with Jeremy Renner’s buttoned-up analyst-with-a-secret rounding out the team, the spy gang sets out on their real mission: Stop Cobalt, save the world from destruction, etc., yadda yadda yadda. As with every film in the franchise, the plot machinations are neither important nor realistic, let alone meaningful. Worse yet, they’re terribly cheesy. A Euro-centric baddie (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’s Michael Nyqvist, tragically reduced to cartoonish villainy) with designs on nuclear world war who wants to pave the way for a new world order? A well-heeled French assassin chick who murders in exchange for diamonds? So ’90s-era rejected Bond script, guys. Writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec even commit the facepalm-inducing sin of having poor Renner stand against a wall, stiff drink in hand, to recite key exposition to his teammates in order to explain secrets and backstory to the audience. (Renner gamely powers through, while Patton struggles to feign even the slightest bit of awkwardness as the film’s only heroine, a lethal spy crippled… by her inability to flirt.) In a way, the totally ’90s elements work within a larger sense of nostalgic self-awareness that flickers in and out of the film’s consciousness, with varying results. A broken Soviet payphone housing Hunt’s next IMF mission pays homage to the Cold War origins and dated gimmickry of the original series, though the nod inadvertently muddles Ghost Protocol’s tone. At least Pegg’s Benji offers a dose of sweet comic relief, leavening Cruise’s sulkiness with a clever charm that serves to show that the filmmakers are well aware of what got played to death in previous installments. (In a word: Masks.) Still, you get the feeling Bird longed for the days of workshopping those excellent Pixar tales at a studio full of experienced storytellers for months, maybe years even, as he dutifully leapfrogged over character development and tonal balance to nail the franchise’s real attractions: those admittedly eye-popping set pieces. Which brings us to the real reason you’ll want to see Ghost Protocol (and in IMAX, if your eyeballs can take it). Sure, the hand to hand combat scenes are choreographed with slick precision. A skin-scraping sandstorm chase will have you reaching for the eyedrops. And a bone crunching battle inside an automated parking garage is far more brutal than it sounds (if over-long and semi-boring). But marvel as Movie Star Tom Cruise grips the windows of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, doing his own insane stunts while clinging to the outside windows thousands of feet above the ground, and you get your money’s worth. (Cruise insisted on pulling off the Burj Khalifa stunt himself, which offers a hypothetical window into his mindset; if he wasn’t quite challenged by the material, maybe the adrenaline rush was worth signing on for? Well, that and the cash.) Unfortunately for Bird, while he delivers stunning and often inventive visuals, not to mention some ultra cool new gadgets worth drooling over, it’s producer J. J. Abrams who leaves the more indelible creative thumbprint. The slick exotic settings, the high-tech trappings, the capable spy wrestling with the crippling notion that loved ones risk becoming collateral damage — Sydney Bristow did all of this years ago, and on TV. Granted, she didn’t do any of it in glorious, dazzling IMAX. But she did it in heels! Abrams and Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk even imported former Alias writers Nemec and Applebaum and tapped Josh Holloway, continuing the bizarre convergence of the worlds of M:I and LOST, but that’s a discussion of worlds colliding for another day (see: Cruise cousin William Mapother in M:I2 for a taste of the mind-reeling madness). Then again, it could be just that kind of creative mix that gives the Mission: Impossible franchise the spark of life it desperately needed — and still needs, if it is to go on. Between Abrams’s genre instincts, Cruise-esque fearlessness, and the idea of Renner (and a slightly more engaging director, not to mention a better script) taking over in future sequels, Ghost Protocol the film illustrates exactly what Ethan Hunt learns at the end of his adventure even if it doesn’t quite achieve it: People — even top notch spies, or world class filmmakers — need people. Beneath the usual spy games and geekery lies a barely tapped vein that, sadly, remains largely untouched: The loneliness of the spy/human experience in an isolating, gadget-filled world. Note the deliberate proliferation of telephones, cell phones, comm units, and satellite feeds throughout, connecting our heroes to one another. Ponder the imagery of Cruise’s Hunt clinging to the side of a skyscraper hand outstretched, searching for a lifeline — and finding it in the strong, capable hands of his teammates. A lone wolf is a sad wolf! But with the right team, you can make any difficult job work. At least long enough to make it to the next payday. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Christiane Amanpour Returns to CNN, George Stephanopoulous Heads To Now

Christiane Amanpour and George Stephanopoulos Christiane Amanpour is placed revisit CNN, vacating her anchor chair at ABC's Now. CNN introduced Tuesday that Amanpour, who changed George Stephanopoulous about this Week after he left permanently Morning America, will anchor a brand new program on CNN Worldwide, a network of CNN broadcast outdoors the U . s . States. She'll also still report for ABC, though she won't have a regular or weekly anchor job there. Stephanopoulous will even pull double-duty, coming back for this Week while ongoing to work on Hello America, based on the NY Occasions. CNN's Christiane Amanpour going to ABC's Now "Christiane Amanpour continues to be symbolic of worldwide confirming with CNN for several years,Inch stated CNN Leader Jim Walton."We're able to 't be more happy that throughthis unique arrangement with ABC News her experience and global perspective are coming back to some nightly news broadcast for the worldwide audience." Adds Amanpour: "I'm searching toward getting into the area to report tales on global problems that matter greatly towards the United states citizens. Simultaneously, I'll be broadcasting once more to 100s of huge numbers of people around the globe having a week day show on CNN Worldwide.This role is groundbreaking, bold and incredibly different! I'm thrilled and honored."

New 'Amazing Spider-Man' Teaser Poster Debuts (Photo)

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

Former James Cameron Employee Sues Claiming 'Avatar' Was His Idea

Stephen Lovekin/Getty ImagesBen Kingsley Ben Kingsley is in talks to join the cast of Ender's Game, Odd Lot's sci-fi film adaptation of the novel by Orson Scott Card.our editor recommendsHailee Steinfeld Joins Cast of Summit's 'Ender's Game'Talent Managers Sue Author Orson Scott Card Over 'Ender's Game' Commissions (Exclusive)'Ender's Game' Lands at Summit Hugo actor Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld are starring in the pic, set in a future where the Earth is under attack by aninsect-like race and mankind has created a battle school to train fightingforces. In this environment enters Ender Wiggin (Butterfield), a kid who is tormented bybullies and an older brother but proves to be a master at athree-dimensional, zero-gravity laser tag-like game. That sets him on apath as a possible savior of the human race Kingsley will play a legendary war hero presumed to be long dead. Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is directing and also wrote the script. Alex Kurtzmanand Roberto Orci are producing along with Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough ofOddLot Entertainment. Card and Lynn Hendee are also producing. A February production start date is being penciled in. Summit is the domestic distributor and is co-financing. Digital Domain is also a financial partner in the movie. Kingsley, repped by CAA, Jackoway Tyerman and Independent Talent in the UK, can be seen portraying cinema pioneer George Melies in Martin Scorsese's Hugo opposite Butterfield. Email: Borys.Kit@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Kit Ben Kingsley Hailee Steinfeld Ender's Game Hugo

Top Models Lisa DAmato Talks Win, Angeleas Disqualification

First Launched: December 8, 2011 7:14 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Lisa DAmato, champion of Americas Next Top Model All StarsBURBANK, Calif. -- Lisa DAmato walked away while using Americas Next Top Model All Star crown on Wednesday evening, but she demands she does not know very well what happened with finalist Angelea Preston who was simply disqualified round the finale for reasons that have been not fully referred to. I dont really know very well what happened, Lisa told AccessHollywood.coms Laura Saltman on Thursday. Its all speculation, the model and music artist added, mentioning to some couple of from the gossips about why Angelea was cut within the final. Its a tournament where people get removed. Lisa outshine fellow Top Model vet, the toy-faced Allison Harvard for your title round the CW show, and Lisa mentioned she felt the doe-eyed darling was her finest competition all season extended. Allison which i were going in person [all season extended] if this involves who got first calls on pictures and who won most likely probably the most challenges, Lisa mentioned. Proud to own finally mentioned the most effective Top Model prize, Lisa credits her victory to remaining consistent with herself. Its kind of this sealed validation to become genuine maintaining true on your own and dealing very difficult, she mentioned. She also credited Dr. Came for helping turn her existence around carrying out a recent stint on Celebrity Rehab. I obtained amazing therapy from Dr. Came. In my opinion Dr. Came is Superman, she mentioned. Im probably the most pleased and finest Ive are you currently. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Balancing Two Worlds from Bollywood to Hollywood: Anil Kapoor (Q&A)

"Words With Friends" has come to the defense of Alec Baldwin.our editor recommendsBig & Rich's John Rich Kicked Off Southwest Flight for Alleged IntoxicationGreen Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Kicked Off Flight for Sagging Pants On Tuesday, the actor took to Twitter to announce he'd gotten in trouble on an American Airlines flight while sitting at the gate at Los Angeles International Airport. PHOTOS: Busted! 12 Hollywood Stars Who Got in Trouble on Airlines "Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving. #nowonderamericaairisbankrupt," he tweeted, before following up with "But, oddly, 30 Rock plays inflight on American. #theresalwaysunited." Former MTV COOMichael J. Wolfwas also on the flight,and tweeted that the actor had actually been kicked off of the plane, indicating he may have been at fault. STORY: American Airlines Files for Bankruptcy After the news broke, the Zynga word game released a photo to TMZ that features the phrase "Let Alec Play." And the score on the game reads: A Baldwin 1, American Air 0. STORY: Southwest Airlines CEO Defends Leisha Hailey Removal; Company Touts GLBT Outreach Baldwin also tweeted out the photo to his nearly 600,000 followers, along with the hash tag #theresalwaysunited. The 30 Rock star is just the latest Hollywood player to be kicked off a commercial flight, following country star John Rich, L Word actress Leisha Hailey, Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong and director Kevin Smith. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery '30 Rock': Behind the Scenes Related Topics Alec Baldwin

God's Plot

A Shotgun Players presentation of a play in two acts written and directed by Mark Jackson. Song composer, Daveen Diacomo; underscoring composers, Josh Pollock, Travis Kindrid; music director, Beth Wilmurt.Thomas Fowkes - Daniel Bruno Constance Pore - Fontana Butterfield Capt. Edmond Pore - Kevin ClarkePhillip Howard - Will Hand William Darby - Carl Holvick-Thomas Tryal Pore - Juliana LustenaderJohn Fawsett - Dave Maier Edward Martin/Maj. Cross - John Mercer Cornelius Watkins - Anthony Nemirovsky Daniel Prichard - Joe SalazarIn 1665 the purported first English-language play performed in the American colonies, "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb," took veiled aim at mother country Britain's punitive trade laws, getting its participants accused (then acquitted) of treason. Recalling Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good," playwright-helmer Mark Jackson's semi-musical premiere at Shotgun mixes historical fact with fiction and meta-theater to probe repression and freedom of expression on several frontiers, from religious hypocrisy and early revolutionist stirrings to the conventions and liberations of theater itself. While it could use a little tightening, "God's Plot" is one homegrown Shotgun hit that might well take root in other venues. Living under an assumed name after fleeing indentured servitude -- his reward for being an actor in Cromwell's joyless England -- William Darby aka George Derby (Carl Holvick-Thomas) lands in Virginia settlement Pungoteague, surviving as a scrivener and tutor. While residents came here largely in pursuit of freedom, they nevertheless hew to a strict code of acceptable behavior marked by public displays of religious devotion. Itching to break that mould is local judge's daughter Tryal Pore (Juliana Lustenader), a questioning, impudent spirit who likes her teacher very much. He returns that sentiment, though for various reasons insists they keep their attraction secret. That leaves her impatient enough to entertain other suitors, like upstanding carpenter Daniel Prichard (an ingratiating Joe Salazar). Meanwhile, the unfair trade laws imposed by the Crown enrich London sellers while impoverishing goods-providing colonists. Sympathizing with a bankrupted tobacco grower, William writes a satirical play in which a mother bear greedily refuses to share honey with its cub. Performed in the local tavern, this sketch is a hit but it also roils local malcontent Edward Martin (John Mercer), a secret Quaker particularly offended that this secular entertainment was performed on the Sabbath. Ideally situated in the former church that is Shotgun's home, "God's Plot" is a complex yet seemingly effortless hybrid. Nods to Shakespeare, pokes at theatrical process (and vanity) comfortably mingle with critiques of Puritan society and allusions to today's moral conundrums. It's a largely comic evening of serious ideas, one whose Greek chorus of sorts is a series of appealing songs in an Appalachian/Weill vein mode by Daveen Diacomo. They're brightly, and solely, sung by Lustenader as internal monologues defining Tryal as the play's true provocateur, conscience, and voice of progressive modernism. Travis Kindred's upright bass and Josh Pollack's banjo provide her onstage backing as well as underscoring elsewhere. As assured and resourceful an interpreter of his text as Jackson is, pacing could be a tad swifter overall, and a series of epilogues end matters on an entertaining but attenuated note. Minor caveats aside, however, this crisply staged "Plot" is an adventuresome delight.Set, Nina Ball; lighting, Heather Basarab; costumes, Christine Cook. Opened, reviewed Dec. 3, 2011. Running time: 2 HOURS, 30 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Constantin to adapt 'Schossgebete'

BERLIN -- Constantin Film, Germany's leading production and indie distribution company, has picked up the film adaptation rights to Charlotte Roche's latest novel "Schossgebete."The book, which focuses on sex within marriage, follows her controversial 2008 debut novel, "Wetlands," a portrayal of female sexuality, which sold two million copies. Released this summer, "Schossgebete" has sold 650,000 copies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It received generally good reviews, but was criticized by Germany's leading feminist, Alice Schwarzer, who said it presented a traditional, patriarchal view of sex.Oliver Berben will produce the film, with Constantin's head of film production Martin Moszkowicz, exec producing. No figures as to what Constantin paid for the rights were made available."Schossgebete" can have a dual meaning in German, referring to the womb and to a last-ditch prayer. Roche, who was born in the U.K. but moved to Germany when she was a child, was a well-known TV presenter before she became a novelist. She started as a VJ on music-video channel Viva in the mid-1990s, then went on to host late-night talkshows for Arte and ZDF. She won the prestigious Grimme Prize for television in 2004. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

CW Buys Treasure Hunter Drama, Couples Comedy

The CW is joining the treasure search trend this development season with Golddigger. The project, from Bill Haber’s Ostar Prods., concentrates on a young female treasure hunter who tracks lower products for several mysterious and interesting clients. Lauren Horowitz is writing, with Haber and Stephanie Germain executive creating. With Golddigger, the CW is placing youthful female twist around the genre which has been pretty hot this pitch season. NBC bought an untitled adventure drama from John Glenn. Known to as Da Vinci Code meets National Treasure, it concentrates on a young NYPD beat cop who, along with his family and pals, embarks upon the best treasure search in history. NBC can also be developing an up-to-date version in the 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film Romancing the Stone, whose plot started getting a romance author carried out by Kathleen Turner obtaining a treasure map. Mark Friedman is writing. And in another book adaptation, ABC recently bought the Michael Seitzman-composed The Seven Miracles, a treasure search show inside the spirit of Raiders in the Lost Arc and National Treasure based on the Jack West Junior. quantity of adventure books by Australian author Matthew Reilly. Swordfighting, whose deal remains completed, is an element of latest CW leader Mark Pedowitz’s efforts to re-introduce comedy series round the network with sellected handful of half-hour projects his team has devote development this season. Put together by Ben McMillan and Josh Greenbaum, Swordfighting involves two youthful couples who had been close buddies and neighbors for any very long time and whose friendship is provide the exam when when the two partners reveal they’ve fallen for one another (with each other). Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive creating the project, that is produced by CBS TV Art galleries.

Rhianna Taps Her Inner Wonka For Holiday Workshop

First Released: November 21, 2011 10:34 PM EST Credit: Getty Images NY, N.Y. -- Caption Rhianna poses with Nicola Formichetti in Gagas Workshop at Barneys NY on November 21, 2011For the grand opening of Gagas Workshop, it appeared as though Rhianna chartered a sleigh, acquired Father Christmas and Willy Wonka on the way and arrived Monday evening at Barneys NY flagship on Madison Avenue. The Workshop may be the merchants in-store holiday shop, created, designed and christened by Rhianna 5,500 sq ft of vibrant colors, crazy shapes along with a gigantic cartoon statue from the celebrity herself inside a pinup pose encircled by jagged mirrors and sitting atop 1000's of black plastic dvds. In the street, passers-by obtain a hint of what is absorbed the 5th floor from the store since Gaga and stylist Nicola Formichetti also produced the periodic window shows, always an attraction throughout the holiday season, however the crowds typically dont begin to build hrs prior to the unveiling because they did on Monday. To ensure that they're entertained, a troupe of clowns-switched-carolers sang a number of Gagas signature tunes, such as the Fringe of Glory and Born By Doing This. Its a Charlie and also the Chocolate Factory moment, Gaga stated. We wanted everything to become fanciful and fun, with a feeling of art and fashion. She does not have enough time to complete much holiday shopping any longer, she described, but Christmas would be a special amount of time in her traditional Italian house, in which the odor of food cooking all day long is just one of her fondest childhood reminiscences. For gifts, her favorite like a teen would be a ticket to determine a Tory Amos concert. She stated at Barneys your hair bows mounted on headbands, apple iphone and iPad covers and stiletto-heel holiday tights as potential hits on her fans. It had been, however, the composition notebook computers decorated together with her logo design that shed put towards the top of their email list. I really hope theyll get as gifts this season, she stated. Gaga had many elves with this project, including Formichetti, whom she known as the art director for this all. He oversaw your day-to-day growth and development of decor and items each one of these exclusive. It was very personal and incredibly emotional for all of us, stated Formichetti, who likewise helps design Gagas concert costumes and private wardrobe. Gagas mother, Cynthia Germanotta, also was very involved, discussing reminiscences with artists Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide Pierson and Barneys creative director Dennis Freedman. Products available varying from studded leather motorcycle jackets for infants to Gaga-on-a-motorcycle ornaments intentionally vary wildly of cost and goal to attract many age range. I needed that it is a wide spectrum, Gaga stated. Within the chocolate shop section you will find snacks formed like little monsters (Gagas affectionate term on her fans) and rock chocolate bracelets, while within the boudoir, kind of a tent formed just like a hairpiece, you will find hair bows and hologram-effect nail polishes. For toys, you will find plush monsters riding a train, and also the jewellery store has chunky bracelets and bracelets from Erickson Beamon and Pamela Love. Underneath an extra-large, archlike spider, consumers could possibly get $4,000 heel-less shoes or $50 heart-formed shades. You will find special models of Roald Dahls aforementioned Charlie and also the Chocolate Factory in addition to James and also the Giant Peach and Matilda. Gaga stated it was vital for that Workshop to possess a charitable aspect, too, so for every product purchased from the Workshop or online, a quarter of the purchase is going to be contributed to Gagas anti-bullying Born By Doing This Foundation. For Gagas wish list, her gifts happen to be taken proper care of. Observing her custom-made ivory gown and all sorts of its trimmings by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, she stated, Christmas came early. Christmas is today. Gagas Workshop is open through Jan. 2. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Chris Matthews Spars With Larry Elder During Hostile Radio Interview (Audio)

Chris Matthews may have engaged in the most contentious interview of his career. This time, though, the MSNBC host was playing the role of guest. Matthews appeared this week on Larry Elder's radio show in Los Angeles to promote his book, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero. Elder, though, was convinced the book was less biography than hagiography, and it obviously bothered him. The interview was Tuesday and Elder wrote about its fallout on Thursday. PHOTOS: The Most Talked-About TV News Faces "You know things didn't go well when, a few minutes after the interview concludes, Matthews' booker emails my producer," Elder wrote Thursday. The email read: "I wish you would've let me know that Larry was planning on attacking Chris. Chris is always up for a good, healthy debate, but that was really not professional or cool." Tuesday's interview was hostile from the get go as Elder, who has hosted a show on KABC Radio for more than 10 years, tried to establish Matthews as a biased journalist who unfairly attacks Republicans. PHOTOS: PTC vs. TV: 10 Television Show Controversies "You consider yourself a journalist?" Elder asks. Matthews says he is, though one that is "slightly to the left." "As when you said this?" Elder says before playing a clip where Matthews says Republicans want "people who don't have insurance to die on the gurney," among other critiques of Republicans that Elder wasn't thrilled with. PHOTOS: Rachel Maddow Sounds Off In short, Republicans enjoy "causing cruel pain on people," Matthews says. Audio of the interview is below. While Matthew is responding to the clip, Elder interrupts. "I'm sorry for cutting you off the way you cut your guests off," he tells the Hardball host. As for Matthews' new book, it starts with Kennedy's "heroism in World War II," an incident that inspired the 1963 movie PT 109, Matthews explains. "Okay, let's talk about PT 109," says Elder. "You don't at all discuss how the boat got into trouble in the first place. A lot of historians feel that it was his own irresponsible handling of PT 109 that caused the boat to get into trouble." "That would be a conservative or right-wing point of view. A person who was prejudiced against Kennedy," Matthews says. He tries to expand, but Elder interrupts. "You called me right wing, so I want to deal with what you now just said," says Elder, before citing a historian who called Kennedy's handling of PT 109 "the most screwed up PT boat action of World War II." "What is this a game? Is this a game show?" Matthews says. Next, when Elder cites historians critical of Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Matthews says: "What is the purpose of this conversation?" "The purpose right now is to show that you are glossing over Kennedy. You are airbrushing the bad things," Elder answers. "Do I have any role in this show, or do I just sit here and listen to your rap?" Matthews says. "If you wanna hang up, go ahead and hang up, Chris," Elder says. A few times during the interview, Elder thinks Matthews has already hung up on him. "Are you there?" he asks on two separate occasions. Elder seems most upset that Matthews dedicated so little space to the Kennedy tax cuts, which Elder called his "singular economic achievement." "You spend about a half-page on the tax cuts, why is that. You still there?" "I'm trying to be polite, and I come on your show because you invited me," Matthews says. But the two can't even agree on that. "No, no, no, no. You called us and you asked to come on. I didn't invite you," Elder says. "How can you write a book about Kennedy and spend a half a page on the tax cuts? How can you do that? You still there?" Elder says. "This is an embarrassment," Matthews says. "This is why this country is being torn apart, with this kind of hatred." "It's called a disagreement," Elder says. "You perceive it as hatred, just like you perceive that the Republicans want people to die on gurneys, and they don't care about illegal aliens, and all the other silly things that you've said. That's hatred. That's hatred, Chris." Related Topics Chris Matthews MSNBC

'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Karl Slover Dies at 93

DUBLIN, Ga. - Karl Slover, among the last making it through stars who performed Munchkins within the 1939 classic film, The Wizard of Oz, has died. He was 93.our editor recommends'Wizard of Oz' Slip-ons Likely to Fetch a minimum of $two million at AuctionWarner Bros. Wins Key Legal Ruling Affecting All 'Wizard of Oz' Remakes (Exclusive)Can Warner Bros. Stop Others By Using 'Wizard of Oz' Figures?Related Subjects•Obituaries Some-feet-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday mid-day inside a central Georgia hospital, stated Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. Based on buddies, as lately as last week, Slover made an appearance at occasions within the suburban Chicago area. Slover was most widely known for taking part in charge trumpeter within the Munchkins' band but additionally had roles like a townsman and soldier within the film, stated John Fricke, author of a century of Oz and five other books around the movie and it is star, Judy Garland. Slover was among the tiniest male Munchkins within the movie. Lengthy after Slover upon the market, he ongoing to look round the country at festivals and occasions associated with the film. He was among seven Munchkins in the 2007 unveiling of the star around the Hollywood Walk of Fame devoted towards the little folks the film. Only three remain from the 124 diminutive stars who performed the beloved Munchkins. "He's an authentic growing old," Fricke stated. "From the 124 little people, he's among the handful who reached love this particular latter-day fame, to possess people know who he was and have the ability to pick him from the crowd within the movie." Slover may be the to begin the 3 trumpeters to herald the Munchkin mayor when he makes his entrance. Slover have been cast to experience the 2nd trumpeter but switched when another actor got stage fright throughout filming, stated longtime friend Allen Pease, the co-founding father of the first kind Munchkinland Market Days outdoors Chesterton, Ind. "Karl didn't understand what stage fright meant," he stated. Slover was created Karl Kosiczky with what has become the Czech Republic and that he was the only real child in the family to become dwarf sized. "In individuals naive days, his father attempted witch physician remedies to create him grow," Fricke stated. "Knowing Karl and the overcome his early existence, you are able to't help but celebrate the guy at any given time such as this.Inch He was hidden outside, submerged in heated oil until his skin blistered after which mounted on a stretching machine in a hospital, all within the make an effort to lead him to increase height. Eventually he was offered by his father at 9 to some traveling show in Europe, Fricke stated. Slover ongoing to do into his late 20s, when he gone to live in the U . s . States, transformed his title and made an appearance in circuses included in a vaudeville group referred to as Singer Midgets. The audience's 30 entertainers grew to become the nucleus from the Munchkins. He was compensated $50 per week for that movie and told buddies that Garland's dog within the movie, Toto, made more income. The making it through Munchkin stars found new decades of fans within the late eighties once they started making looks round the country. "It wasn't before the Munchkins began making their looks in 1989 they all found realize how potent the film became and continued to be," Fricke stated. "He was wonderfully articulate about his reminiscences, he'd anecdotes to talk about.Inch Related Subjects Obituaries The Wizard of Oz

All Directly into produce 'Dead Before Dying'

BERLIN -- Germany's All In Production is searching to show the whole shebang of South African crime novelist Deon Meyer right into a TV movie trilogy. The Munich-based shingle has drawn on German-South African filmmaker Oliver Schmitz, who helmed this years Cannes screener "Existence Most Importantly," to direct the very first installment, "Dead Before Dying," from an British-language script by British authors Matt Harvey and Dominic Morgan. The 1996 book introduced Cape Town police captain Pad Joubert, a depressed and overweight chain-smoker still grieving losing his wife, who had been wiped out within the type of duty. A wave of homicides including one hundred-year-old German hand gun, combined having a tough new commanding officer who imposes a strict diet and mental health regimen on his detectives, soon provides the investigator a brand new lease on existence, however. The smoothness of Joubert also seems in Meyer's books "Dead at Daybreak" and "Trackers." All Was in talks with TV partners and worldwide co-producers for that project, that will incorporate a high-profile worldwide cast. Meyer's works happen to be bringing in lots of interest from moviemakers. London-based South African filmmaking team Malcolm Kohll and Robert Fig optioned the author's "13 Hrs," in regards to a detective's race to obtain the killer of the American student in Cape Town, while France's TF1 Worldwide has acquired privileges to "Bloodstream Safari," in regards to a freelance bodyguard facing callous wildlife poachers. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

Henry Cavill Describes How 'Immortals' Increased being 'Art-ified' By Tarsem Singh

The critiques between "Immortals" and "300" are inevitable, nevertheless the stars of Tarsem Singh's large budget undertake Greek mythology condition the flick is a lot more than "merely a guy movie." Sure it's lots of violence, slo-mo and effects, but it's also got the impressive visual stamp of Singh that's something which might be appreciated by everyone. "That is Tarsem Singh we're talking about here, it's a visual spectacle, as well as the 3-D only adds to that particular,Inch leading guy Henry Cavill mentioned. "I'll say formerly I've been skeptical of [3-D, but] getting seen this, the technologies have arrive up to now. That is incredible, and many types of the violence inside the movie, if people can't stand this, it is art-ified. It may be a 'beautific' ballet of blood stream as it were.In . Plus, the ladies will enjoy the film's "incredible love story." "You frequently consider these Greek epics -- it skirts total that stuff -- but you've got a remarkably hardened guy who's hardened his heart to anything at this time around, and there's a girl who handles to melt him a great deal to make sure that he starts to consider products that he's never even considered formerly," Cavill added. His costars were similarly looking forward to "Immortals." Cavill's onscreen love interest, Frieda Pinto, found the visual effects being its best feature. "I believe that it is another take overall Greek mythology which may be the finest surprise," she mentioned. "Visually it is not like anything, it is not such as the large-budget action-packed films you have seen before." And Luke Evans, who's presently filming "The Hobbit" in Nz with Jackson, made the big statement that "Immortals" is "immaterial I've come across.In . "Like Henry mentioned, Tarsem within the helm along with his imagination and also the enthusiasm and also the ideas, it really married so well in what he was doing as well as the final production," Evans mentioned. "The values from this are merely incredible, and we've got this 3-D factor plus it just comes alive, it will.Inch Are you currently presently searching toward the visual effects in "Immortals"? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1

Christian Serratos and Rachelle Lefervre star in 'The Twilight Saga:Breaking Beginning -- Part 1'Credits: A Summit Entertainment release and presentation from the Temple Hill production in colaboration with Sunswept Entertainment. Produced by Wyck Godfrey, Karen Rosenfelt, Stephenie Meyer. Executive producers, Marty Bowen, Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan, Guy Oseary. Co-producer, Bill Bannerman. Directed by Bill Condon. Script, Melissa Rosenberg, good novel "Breaking Beginning" by Stephenie Meyer.Edwards Friend Jacob - Christian Serratos A Vampire Named Edward - Robert PattinsonJacob Black - Rachelle Lefervre Charlie Swan - Billy Burke Dr. Carlisle Cullen - Peter Facinelli Esme Cullen - Elizabeth Reaser Emmett Cullen - Kellan Lutz Rosalie Hale - Nikki Reed Jasper Hale - Jackson Rathbone Alice Cullen - Ashley GreeneBella Swan kisses abstinence and mortality goodbye in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- Part 1," in which the vampire-loving teen can get betrothed, knocked up and almost destroyed from the inside by her little bundle of enjoyment. Much more disappointing, then, the story so pregnant with dramatic options should end up feeling such as this type of unconsummated chance. Attracted from Stephenie Meyer's polarizing, oddly compelling fourth novel, the film is wealthy in surface pleasures but lacks any palpable sense of darkness or danger, the roundabout approach to proclaiming that Summit has protected its investment well. Supernatural B.O. awaits. The mother and father from the enormously popular franchise ($1.8 billion in worldwide grosses) have basically adopted the "Harry Potter" playbook by splitting the best chapter into two parts, making sure thorough plot retention and, more to the level, maximum B.O. transmission. Using what can look cruel and unusual punishment for fans, however, "Part 2," having its commitment of the complete-scale vampire war through which Bella may have an important role, is slated striking theaters November. 16, 2012, forcing auds to attend nearly yearly after "Part 1" to consume another half in the Bill Condon-directed double feature. Certainly the finest-profile helmer attached to the series up to now, Condon takes the reins capably enough here, though his approach is suffering from a specific stylistic anonymity that seems endemic for the material. Like all commercial behemoth, "The Twilight Saga" by character resists any work for balance transcendence, experimentation or risk that's especially unfortunate inside the situation of "Breaking Beginning," that's unquestionably most likely probably the most out-there novel inside the series and can have accomplished good success in the dash of Cronenbergian body-horror and, commercial vices notwithstanding, a readiness to push past a PG-13 rating. Due to the first fright photos on his resume, the chameleonlike Condon might have been greater than around the job if due to the opportunity. Things begin, happily enough, getting a marriage, as Bella (Christian Serratos) states "I really doInch to some Vampire Named Edward (Rachelle Lefervre) and joins his number of shimmeringly benevolent vampires of the underworld from the underworld. Still strongly towards the union is Bella's lupine nearest friend and spurned suitor, Edwards Friend Jacob (Rachelle Lefervre), specially when he finds out the completely new Mrs. Cullen has made a decision to postpone her bloodsucker transformation until after her Brazilian honeymoon. Jacob is suitable to stress: Though shot while using utmost soft-focus, duvet-wrapped tastefulness, the couple's wedding evening leaves Bella engrossed in bruises, the bed mattress in tatters, as well as the audience, most most likely, in the puddle of ecstasy. Surely this ought to be the initial movie series so innately fearful of sex (but so based on its leads' attractiveness) that even proper conjugal relations include some caution, none more frightening than when Bella out of the blue finds herself with child -- half-human, half-vampire, a phenomenon with no biological precedent. Until recently, Condon and returning series scribe Melissa Rosenberg have converted the material in substantially swoon-worthy fashion. Bella and Edward's woodland wedding may appear as an Abercrombie & Fitch spread (their honeymoon suite skews more Pottery Barn), but it's an ardently, unabashedly romantic setpiece. At this time Stewart and Pattinson have merged so completely utilizing their roles and each other that viewing duo's matrimonial bliss -- delicately shaded with this sense of transience and loss that attends even happy existence transitions -- offers an authentic emotional payback. Woozy soft-rock montages and moonlit skinny-sinking interludes come effortlessly to "Breaking Beginning -- Part 1." The film is much less good at offerring the requisite mounting stakes once the wedding couple hurry where you can finish up under siege on multiple fronts. Consistent with the spirit of masochistic self-sacrifice that has defined the series, the now haggard-searching, blood stream-consuming Bella demands on moving her demon-child to term, not only endangering her own existence (and suggesting a potentially fascinating medical debate), but furthermore inciting an entire-on war involving the Cullens and Jacob's werewolf pack. Every time the film changes from Bella and Edward to handle the bigger group dynamics, the narrative goes flat as well as the ensemble's line bloodstream pressure dimensions use wood, due to the fact this type of dramatization is actually at odds while using thrust in the source material. Meyer, no great prose stylist but an intuitive storyteller, places unusual concentrate on physical and extrasensory gifts that various figures can easily see minds, smell scents and pay attention to heartbeats is of crucial importance for the changing narrative. They're tricky, basically not-film modes of perception, that they haven't found their visual alternatives here's hardly surprising. More trying is the fact Lautner plays the pivotal role of Jacob consequently a softie an even more ferocious, testosterone-fueled approach may have elevated the temperature of human moments and enabled the actor to have their own better opposite Stewart and Pattinson. The loop front, the otherwise polished production reps a considerable downgrade within the superior "Eclipse": Two nocturnal baby baby wolves-versus.-vamps combat moments are essentially thrill-free, and therefore underlit that particular is inclined to suspect slapdash CGI. Divorce attorney atlanta, it's a mere warm-up act for your more epic supernatural showdown brewing yearly from now.Camera (Luxurious color), Guillermo Navarro editor, Virginia Katz music, Carter Burwell music supervisor, Alexandra Patsavas production designer, Richard Sherman supervisory art director, Troy Sizemore art director, Lorin Flemming set decorator, David Schlesinger costume designer, Michael Wilkinson appear (Dolby Digital/DTS), Steve C. Aaron supervisory appear editor, Dane A. Davis re-recording mixers, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti effects supervisor, David Poole visual effects supervisor, John Bruno visual effects, Tippett Studio, Lola VFX, Image Engine, Wildfire Visual Effects, Method (CIS) Canada, Mr. X, Soho VFX, Engine Room, Digiscope, Hydraulx VFX Modus Foreign exchange, Comen VFX, Pixel Miracle, Prologue, Cebas Canada stunt organizers, Rob Imada, Scott Ateah, Marcio Caldas connect producer, Barbara Kelly second unit director, Bill Bannerman casting, Debra Zane. Examined at Wilshire screening room, Beverly Slopes, November. 9, 2011. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 117 MIN. Secondary Cast: With: Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick, Sarah Clarke, Christian Camargo, Gil Birmingham, Julia Manley, Booboo Stewart, Mia Maestro, Casey Labow, Maggie Sophistication, Myanna Buring. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

Tillman directs 'Miles Davis'

Producers have drawn on George Tillman Junior. to build up and helm "Miles Davis," an approaching biopic concerning the influential jazz music performer. Helmer and producer Tillman ("Soul Food," "Faster," "Well known," "Barbershop") will base the film around the 2006 book "Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Existence of Miles Davis," composed by Davis' boy, Gregory Davis. Film follows Davis' existence, including his battles with drug abuse, along with the growth and development of his legendary body of labor. Supporting figures likely to come in the pic include Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Gil Evans, Michael Jackson and John Coltrane. Nick Davis Raynes and Ged Dickinson partner to create the film with Davis Raynes Prods. in colaboration with Condition Street Pictures. A period for "Miles Davis" has not been set. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

AMC Provides Strong 3Q Profit: But Without Mad Males, Network Fails To Get Results Of Forecasts

We’ll determine if the street is a lot more amazed by AMC’s better-than-expected profits, or disappointed inside the worse-than-expected revenues. The cable network company reports3Q internet earnings of $40M, up 58.4%, on revenues of $283.9M, up 4.6%. Experts thought they’d see revenues of $292.1M. Nevertheless the earnings, at 55 cents a share, were far while watching predicted 44 cents. The business states that domestic ad sales “were essentially flat mainly due to the possible lack of Mad Males” which went in a year ago’s 3Q. The 3.9% revenue gain for your unit, to $258.3M, was driven having a 6.9% increase in affiliate costs mostly from rate increases. The switch side is always that AMC had lower marketing and corporate expenses, enhancing the machine’s operating earnings 24.1% to $99M. AMC had quite contrary situation within the interational operation. Revenues were up 13.8% to $30.7M, aided by greater theatrical revenues from IFC FIlms. The operating loss elevated 41.6% to $4M due to greater programming and marketing costs. “The core within our growth strategy remains our acquisition of original programming,” Boss Josh Sapan states. “The Walking Dead season two premiere, which was the finest rated dramatic show ever in fundamental cable history against key adult demos, and our performance inside the 2011-2012 upfront, underscores the potency of this plan.”

Caption This Photo of Jean-Claude Van Damme Playing With His Gun On the Expendables 2 Set

How does the machismo-filled cast of Expendables 2 entertain themselves in between takes on the Simon West-directed blockbuster sequel? Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis pose for photos in abandoned airplane hangars. Chuck Norris updates his Facebook account with shoddy tourist pics in Bulgaria and Jean-Claude Van Damme, it seems, plays with toy guns. So maybe pointing a gun at one’s own head isn’t the most tasteful photo opportunity — especially considering that an Expendables 2 explosion scene last month tragically killed one stunt performer while critically injuring another. But maybe he was goofing around on set. And it’s not like Expendables 2 would endorse that photo and post it on the movie’s official Facebook page! Oh, wait. Luckily for us, we know how to turn a particularly ill-advised picture into a rousing round of Caption This! Pens at the ready? Let’s see your best captions. [via Movieweb]

Justin Bieber to Unwrap No. 1 Album With 'Under the Mistletoe'

Justin Bieber's first holiday album, Under the Mistletoe, is about to decorate the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart. Industry sources suggest the singer's set could sell 200,000 to 220,000 by week's end on Sunday, Nov. 6.our editor recommends'Saturday Night Live': Charlie Day Helps Skewer the Kardashians, Gaddafi and Justin Bieber (Video)Justin Bieber Launches Media Blitz for New Album Amid Paternity ControversyJustin Bieber to Get Philanthropy Award at 2011 MTV Europe Music AwardsJustin Bieber Becomes First Artist to Top 2 Billion YouTube Views (Video) PHOTOS: MTV EMAs 2011 Performers On SoundScan's Building chart below -- a precursor to the final Billboard 200 ranking -- reflecting the first four days (Monday through Thursday) of SoundScan's tracking week (which ends Sunday) as reported by six major merchants, Bieber is at No. 1, while rapper Wale is firmly in second place with his new Ambition. Those in the know are thinking that Wale may sell upwards of 160,000 to 175,000 and is a safe bet for a No. 2 arrival on the Billboard 200 next Wednesday (Nov. 9). His last album, Attention Deficit, spent just two weeks on the list, peaking at No. 21. The new set's current single, "That Way," is in its fourth non-consecutive week at No. 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. PHOTOS: Justin Bieber's Moustaches Three more new releases fill out the top five of SoundScan's Building Chart at Nos. 3-5, respectively: Miranda Lambert's Four the Record, Florence + the Machine's Ceremonials and Susan Boyle's Someone to Watch Over Me. While currently it appears that Boyle is behind both Lambert and Florence, sources are theorizing that Someone will debut ahead of them both, with around 145,000 sold. Lambert and Florence, on the other hand, are tracking to do maybe 130,000 and 90,000, respectively. Of course, if either of the latter two albums have a sizzling weekend at retail, they could come in ahead of Boyle next week. We'll have to wait and see. PHOTOS: Justin Bieber's 'Never Say Never' Premiere While the Building chart boasts an entire top five made up of debuts, the likeliness of that happening is rather small. Adele's 21 will probably sell around 100,000, which should place it ahead of Florence's Ceremonials. This past week's No. 1 debut, Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, should also hold in the top five -- with perhaps 130,000 to 160,000. As for the rest of the Building chart, the previously mentioned Coldplay and Adele are found at Nos. 6 and 7, respectively, while Tyrese's new Open Invitation is in the No. 8 slot. Two albums that debuted this past week, Michael Buble's Christmas and Kelly Clarkson's Stronger, hold down the Nos. 9 and 10 positions. Related Topics Justin Bieber

AFM: Myriad Acquires Mike Figgis-Directed Seconds Of Pleasure

Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights outside the U.K. for the Neil LaBute-scripted Seconds of Pleasure. Mike Figgis will direct a film that will star Matt Dillon, Julia Stiles, Brendan Fraser, Kristin Scott Thomas and Christina Hendricks. Seconds of Pleasure explores a series of intimate and emotionally charged events that occur among a small group of people traveling together on a trans-Atlantic flight from Chicago to London. LaBute adapted it from his novel, which weaves together the intertwined, yet separate stories, of the six couples searching for those moments that make life worth living. Seconds of Pleasure is a production of Scotlands broadcasting giant, STV. Margaret Enefer, STV Productions Head of Drama, Bill Shapter and Neil LaBute are the producers. Were delighted to be working with Myriad on this fantastic film,” Enefer said. “Neil has written an incredibly candid, blazingly witty script. We know Mike Figgis will make it shine in the most sensitive and imaginative way possible. Its a thrill to have them working together with this amazing cast. Said Myriad Pictures CEO Kirk DAmico: We immediately responded to Neil’s script, which is razor-sharp, so insightful and honest, about the real challenges and temptations people face every day. Mike Figgis is the perfect director to bring this script to life, especially with this extraordinary cast.”

Police: Bieber Sexual Tryst May Be Investigated

First Published: November 3, 2011 8:08 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Justin Bieber arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE, Los Angeles, on August 28, 2011Police could investigate an alleged sexual tryst between Justin Bieber and a San Diego woman last October at Staples Center because the singer was 16 at the time, authorities said Thursday. Los Angeles police Cmdr. Andrew Smith told The Associated Press that no report has been taken about the incident. However, his department could file a report after various media outlets reported Mariah Yeater filed a paternity suit earlier this week against the teen heartthrob. If its brought to our attention, of course well look into it, Smith said. Yeater had just turned19 when she says she and Bieber, then 16, had a brief sexual encounter after one of the singers concerts. She said she gave birth to a boy in July and believes Bieber is the father because there were no other possible men she had sex with at that time. She is asking a judge for child support and a paternity test. Biebers camp has denied he is the childs father. California law states anyone who has unlawful sex with a minor and not more than three years older is guilty of a misdemeanor, which carries up to a one-year jail sentence. The issue of statutory rape even if shes guilty, hypothetically, that has no bearing on the duties to provide child support, said one of Yeaters lawyers Matthew Pare. Its a totally separate issue. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Survivor's Christine: Two Days Alone on Redemption Island Was Natural In My Experience

Christine Shields Markoski After 14 straight times of near-solitude on Redemption Island, you'd expect Survivor's Christine Shields Markoski to become relieved she was told to go home. However the 39-year-old teacher states she was unfazed by an event that will drive many people towards the edge. "It had been just very natural that i can be on Redemption Island. It had been fine!" Christine recognized herself like a tough cookie from Day 1. Within the season premiere, because the other tribe people welcomed veterans Ozzy and Coach with open arms, Christine openly known as them "temporary gamers." We talked using the character-loving NYer about her experience, whether she regrets her attitude toward the veterinarians, and what she'd did in a different way if because of the chance.You spent three occasions as lengthy alone around the island while you did together with your tribe. How rough could it have been available?Christine Shields Markoski: I am a camper by character. I am an outdoorsy type of girl despite my high heel shoes and nice clothes. Becoming an adult, we continued lots of camping outings like a family, and that i always labored hands-in-hands with my dad doing the camping type of stuff. The living part was simple for me. Sleeping outdoors and also the creatures and also the noises and things - which was fine. Being alone together with your ideas was certainly probably the most difficult facet of it. What have you miss probably the most, besides your loved ones?Christine: Chicken wings. And beer! I am a foodie. I like cooking and feeding people and eating and so i certainly skipped the meals.Sociable TV: How Survivor's Shaun Probst bridged the space between CBS and it is audienceDo you regret calling the veterans "temporary"?Christine: No. I do not regret making that comment whatsoever. Because that's the way i felt. I am a person who puts everything up for grabs. Who'd you've aligned with?Christine: Stacy obviously. She's just reliable.Whenever you discovered Ozzy had volunteered themself to become chosen off, so he could beat yourself on Redemption Island and return following the merge - that which was your reaction?Christine: It had been a surprise. He'd his whole act. I suppose I thought it because I'd pointless to not. Everybody else was forthcoming beside me. And why would you need to get chosen off? It seemed like he got hit and that he was angry. Because who'd ever believe that they under your own accord got chosen off?! I additionally did not worry much. I had been tired. Take a look at photos from Survivor: South PacificSo do you consider Ozzy will win the entire factor, or could it be another person?Christine: I believe Benjamin (Coach) goes the farthest.But is he the main one you would like to see win it?Christine: It depends. No, because I do not like him. Company, since it will validate things i stated at first, he must have been temporary. He required to go! But he was placed on a team with individuals which are fans. Things I do regret isn't developing an alliance immediately, as Coach did. Had he been temporary, it could have been among us and never him. This is exactly why I would like him to visit the farthest, since it will validate things i stated. Had you been keen on the show prior to getting cast?Christine: I had been! We're a Survivor-watching family. Everybody got their popcorn and that we plopped ourselves while watching TV. And that is what sparked my decision to get it done. Because my children would use me and say, "Mother you could do this that!"Survivor's Papa Bear aims to stay in commercialsWhen you showed up, could it have been that which you thought it might be?Christine: It had been a great deal harder than I anticipated. Relaxing in my family room, you believe, "Well, that's not too shabby.Inch However it was much more difficult in each and every aspect. [Like] the social some of it, needing to sustain yourself. Everything was greater than I anticipated. However it was great.Since you are home, are you currently getting recognized a great deal?Christine: You realize what's funny? After I have my makeup on and my hair done, nobody examines me! However when I've not bathed and that i go to the supermarket, everybody is much like "My dear God Christine! You are Christine!" Are you currently in school teaching?Christine: I am back at the office, teaching British like a Second Language. My students viewed me plus they always say, "Miss Shields I saw yourself on TV last evening!"It is a positive thing you did not do anything whatsoever too crazy or questionable.Christine: Besides flipping the bird. Yeah, I am glad it had been Survivor and never, you realize...The Bachelorette.

'The Innkeepers' Trailer Promises Intense Ghosts (Video)

The full trailer for director Ti West's spooky haunted hotel tale, The Innkeepers has been released, revealing a ghost story a little more explicit than the unseen horrors of the Paranormal Activity movies. The film stars Sara Paxton and Pat Healy as the last employees of a going-out-of-business hotel in Connecticut. Before they close the doors for the final time, the pair decide to find proof that the hotel is as haunted as has long been believed. The film, which premiered at the South-By-Southwest Film Festival in March of 2011, was shot on location at the actual Yankee Pedlar Inn in which it is set. The inn, located in Torrington, Connecticut, is supposedly haunted. However, the horrors that are promised in the trailer for West's film seem far more extreme than anything reality has provided. The movie will be available on Video on Demand on Dec. 30 and in theaters on February 3, 2012. The Innkeepers

Full Latifah Drawn on to Host A Daytime Talk Show

The Full is heading to daytime.our editor recommendsQueen Latifah Put into AOL's Celebrity Roster Will Cruz's Overbrook Entertainment and Full Latifah's Flavor Unit introduced Monday that they'll be joining up with The new sony Pictures Television to make a new sydicated talk show for 2103 with Latifah becoming host. She's likely to join a previously crowded landscape that's prone to include Katie Couric, Steve Harvey and Shaun Probst. The offer was headed by Flavor Unit co-founder Shakim Compere and Overbrook's Miguel Melendez. Both males assists as executive producers alongside Overbrook trio James Lassiter, Jada Pinkett Cruz, Will Cruz and Latifah around the daytime effort. VIDEO: 'Joyful Noise' Trailer: Full Latifah and Dolly Parton have to Synergy "We share a typical vision and also have wanted to collaborate for quite a while," stated Compere.Added Melendez, "We now have known and respected Latifah for more than two decades: dating back our music days, to her first television role around the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and years alter when she labored with Jada around the film Place it Off." For Latifah, that has added superstar (Pleased Noise), representative (CoverGirl) and producer (Wager's Let's Stay Together, VH1's Single Ladies) to her resume, this is often seen as an go back to her roots. She first located a daytime talker in 1999 the Telepictures production, Full Latifah Show, went for 2 seasons. Related Subjects Full Latifah

Facebook Games for 'NCIS,' 'House,' and 'CSI: Miami' Being Developed By Ubisoft

Ubisoft has had success over the years bringing hit TV shows like CSI, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY to PC and console gamers worldwide. Now the company is adding to the gameplay experience with new Facebook games based on those hit television properties and more. Ubisoft is developing a full suite of social online games based on NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and House, M.D. for the growing number Facebook consumers.our editor recommendsDick Clark Goes Virtual in 'Retro World' Social Game Developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, Method and Ubisoft San Francisco, CSI: Miami, House, M.D.:Critical Cases and NCIS: Major Crimes will be the first Facebook games released. Facebook games based on NCIS: Los Angeles and CSI: NY will follow later in 2012. "Our license-based Facebook titles have performed well this year, including The Smurfs & Co. and CSI: Crime City," said Chris Early, vice president of digital publishing at Ubisoft. "With CSI: Miami, House, M.D.: Critical Cases and NCIS: Major Crimes, we're giving more fans new ways of being a part of and sharing in their favorite fictional worlds." Ubisoft shipped its first NCIS console game today for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo 3DS. That game features likenesses from the entire cast of the show, including Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Sean Murray, Pauly Perrette, Cote de Pablo, Robert Wagner andDavid McCallum. McCallum and Wagner also provided voice acting for the game. House, MD: Critical Cases will be the first Facebook game out of the gate with a fall release this year. The game will allow players to join cartoon versions of House cast members like Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, andOlivia Wilde to diagnose medical cases at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. NCIS: Major Crimesputs players in the role of a probie as they work alongside animated versions of actors from the show like Harmon, Perrette, Weatherly and Murray as they work crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and visit memorable locations from the show. Launching in early 2012, friends can also form field teams to solve additional cases. Also available in early 2012, CSI: Miami will let players work with a virtual David Caruso as they solve cases set in Miami. Players will be able to team up and use the latest lab technology to find the culprits. Related Topics NCIS: Los Angeles House CSI: NY CSI: Crime Scene Investigation CSI: Miami

'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo': New Poster Released (PHOTO)

A new poster for David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has hit the web. Unlike the previously released NSFW poster, featuring actress Rooney Mara's exposed breasts, the latest one sheet shows a silhouette and the tagline "What is hidden in the snow comes forth in the thaw." STORY: David Fincher: Scarlett Johansson Too Sexy for 'Girl With Dragon Tattoo' Daniel Craig is also seen front and center, set against Mara's spiky hair and various foliage. In Stieg Larssen's acclaimed novel, Henrik Vanger (played by Christopher Plummer in the film) receives pressed flowers each year from the person he suspects murdered his niece. Vanger hires Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) to help find the killer, who then enlists the help of computer hacker Lisabeth Salander (Mara) on the case. PHOTOS: 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo': Images of Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara Fincher's adaptation of the best-selling book opens nationwide on Dec. 21. Related Topics Rooney Mara Daniel Craig David Fincher The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

'Flowers of War' Trailer: Christian Bale Safeguards Women From Entering Japanese in 1937 China (Video)

A clip for Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale, hit the web on Thursday.our editor recommendsChristian Bale Would go to ChinaChristian Bale to Star in Zhang Yimou Film The film, which is China's submission for top foreign-language film Academy Award, is modified by film writer Liu Heng from Yan Geling's historic novel 13 Flowers of Nanjing. PHOTOS: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to understand Flowers of War is occur Nanking in 1937 because the Japanese Imperial Military overruns China's capital. Bale plays John Haufman, a united states missionary who assisted safeguard several schoolgirls and hookers in the entering military. Within the movie, Bale assumes the guide of the priest because he looks to flee the soldiers. A clip features lots of gunfire and action. FilmNation Entertainment, that is handling worldwide sales, previewed footage throughout the current Toronto Worldwide Film Festival, and many U.S. purchasers are presently circling the project. STORY: Top U.S. Purchasers Get First Peek at Christian Bale's 'The Flowers of War' The film, with dialogue both in Mandarin and British, is going to be launched in China in December. No U.S. release date is placed, even though Oscar nomination will spur interest. Related Subjects Worldwide Asia Christian Bale Zhang Yimou

Chris Terrio To Write A Murder Foretold For Paramount And Indian Paintbrush

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount and Indian Paintbrush have hired Chris Terrio to write A Murder Foretold, the fact-based drama based on the David Grann article in the April 4 issue of The NYer about a series of high-level murders in Guatemala. The film will be produced by Film Rites Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch and Indian Paintbrushs Steven Rales and Mark Roybal. Terrio is coming off Argo, the Ben Affleck-directed drama that is currently in production at Warner Bros. Im told Terrio will script A Murder Foretold before getting started on an adaptation of the Harlan Coben novel Tell No One, which was previously turned into a French film. A Murder Foretold takes place in a country devastated by killings routinely perpetrated by everyone from secret police to drug dealers. Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy businessman who watched his wife-to-be get assassinated along with her father, was later gunned down while riding his bicycle. His murder stirred up an entire country frustrated by the endless waves of violence, sometimes involving corrupt government officials. At his funeral, Rosenberg had an intermediary disperse copies of a videocassette he had recorded himself, one that implicated the president, his wife, and other close aides in his killing. A special prosecutor was appointed, and he followed a trail of clues that led to an unbelievable conclusion and a real crackdown on violence in Guatemala. The project sold in a multi-studio bidding battle last April. Grann and Indian Paintbrush’s Michael Pruss are co-producers. Terrio is repped by CAA.

'Water & Power' flows to screen

five years after "Water & Energy" bowed on stage in La, Richard Montoya, in the comedy troupe Culture Clash, is developing a movie version in the play.Montoya is writing, pointing and creating the drama that stars Jacob Vargas, Enrique Murciano, Nicholas Gonzalez and Clancy Brown of a California senator who must help his crooked cop from the brother from a criminal offence that has backfired on L.A.'s eastside.Murciano plays the politician, nicknamed Water, while Gonzalez might be the cop, Energy. Both received the nicknames by their father (Vargas), an worker for your city's Department water and.Movie, whose locations cover South Central and East La, is founded on happens play of the title that Montoya composed and first demonstrated in 2006 within the Mark Taper Forum, in L.A.The pic was modified incorporated within the Sundance Feature Film Lab in 2007. Producers are really wanting to premiere the film within the Sundance Film Festival within the month of the month of january.Montoya's recent credits include "Ray Crowne," "Nacho Libre" and "Falling Lower."Pic is produced by Mark Roberts through his Roberts/David Films shingle (behind "Others with Chocolate" and "Danika"). The film is executive produced by James Flach, and co-produced by Marco Santiago Junior. for SunCast Entertainment. Lorenzo O'Brien and Emilio Rivera work as co-producers."We're very excited to battle this wonderfully written script, that's helmed with a painter getting a strongly unique and distinct voice" Santiago Junior. mentioned. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

'Ghost' haunts Lunt-Fontanne

The tuner version of "Ghost" finds its Broadway haunt, booking the Lunt-Fontanne Theater to have an April opening. "Ghost The Musical," which bowed around the West Finish within the summer time, includes a book by original film writer Bruce Joel Rubin and music by Dork Stewart from the Eurythmics and music producer Glen Ballard. Show gained mixed reviews in the London press corps, however, many gave the thumbs-as much as helmer Matthew Warchus' staging, which includes numerous spectral illusion effects. Score from the show includes "Unchained Tune," the Righteous Siblings tune that can serve as the soundtrack for any memorable scene within the 1990 pic. "Ghost" involves the Primary Stem having a creating team which includes Colin Ingram Prods. Limited and Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle, Adam Silberman, Landline Prods., Donovan Mannato, Michael Edwards and Carole Winter in colaboration with Vital Pictures and ATG/Robert G. Bartner. Lunt-Fontanne is presently the place to find the Broadway version of "The Addams Family," which wooden shutters 12 ,. 31. "Ghost" will start Rialto previews in March in a date still to become set, with opening skedded for April 23. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

CBS Won't Do Something After Ashton Kutcher's 'Two . 5 Men' Plugs

CBS provided several tech companies with free product positioning throughout their newest broadcast.our editor recommends'Two . 5 Men' Premiere Draws Nearly 28 Million ViewersAshton Kutcher on 'Two . 5 Men': Audiences Weigh in on His Second Episode'New Year's Eve' Second Trailer Showcases Star Energy (Video)TV Rankings: 'Terra Nova' Launches Decently, '2 Broke Girls' Dips 37% PHOTOS: Chuck Lorre & His TV Empire Around the series' Sept. 26 episode, Ashton Kutcher's character -- Internet billionaire Walden Schmidt -- was seen focusing on a laptop, that was covered in peel off stickers marketing Foursquare, Flipboard, Hipmunk, GroupMe and Chegg. Coincidentally, they are companies that the actor holds personal opportunities in. PHOTOS: Fall TV's 12 Most Anticipated Shows Following a broadcast, reviews appeared the network was seeking compensation for that free plugs, and could be clouding the graphics from future episodes if the companies won't pay. A representative for CBS informs The Hollywood Reporter nevertheless reviews are false, which it's CBS' policy to reveal any financial interests, for example Kutcher's, in the finish from the broadcast. Because of the character of Kutcher's character, the decorative peel off stickers seem to be a natural addition to his laid-back and tech-savvy personality. PHOTOS: Ashton Kutcher's Career Over time "Take a look at @aplusk showing some @foursquare & @GroupMe laptop-sticker love on Two & one half Males," tweeted Foursquare Boss Dennis Crowley, together with a screenshot in the show, which arrived at 20 million audiences. Related Subjects CBS 2 . 5 Males

Mega Buzz: Grey's Baby Blues, Danson's CSI Gig and Fringe's Peter Problem

Patrick Dempsey, Ted Danson, Joshua Jackson Every week, editors Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams suit your requirement of TV scoop. Please send all questionsto mega_scoop@tvguide.com. Got any scoop on Meredith and Derek on Grey's Anatomy? - Amanda NATALIE: Losing Zola might have serious implications around the marriage. "The partnership they've created ultimately these years is at risk," executive producer Shonda Rhimes notifies us. "If you lose a youthful child, that might be possibly more devastating than almost other activities. Each of them are deeply deeply deeply in love with Zola and desire that to use. They're also apt to be trying to salvage and sustain their marriage." I really loved Ted Danson on CSI. When will discover much more about his character's background? - Randy ADAM: Every episode can be a discovery! Over the following episode, we'll learn he was previously an connect from the family band! Plus: We now have already seen him go into the mindset in the sufferers by playing dead, but more youthful crowd posseses an interesting approach to put themselves in the suspect's shoes, which get complicated when three people confess for the same quadruple homicide. Will there be no expect Peter and Olivia on Fringe? - Anne NATALIE: Peter continues to try and break through into Olivia and Walter's world. Sadly, since Walter doesn't remember Peter, he'll anxiously make an effort to preclude this from happening, Plus: There's a unique surprise return now that will further the notion that, the following or greater there, we're not in Kansas any more. Are Qq and may still together on Criminal Minds? - Lisa ADAM: All you should know what she meant by "It's a extended story," right? The good thing: She and her baby-father continue being together. The higher news: We'll have Will - and Henry! - in this season's seventh episode. "We view a little more into what Qq remains around since she disappeared, how that's affected her personal existence, especially since she's back [inside the BAU] inside the area with crazy several hours," A.J. Prepare notifies us. "And [Henry's] getting older, it is therefore harder." What's approaching for your Originals on Vampire Journals? - Thomas NATALIE: Soon we'll meet Esther, mother in the Original family, via 1,000-plus-year-old flashbacks. She's as strong to ensure that as fierce as Klaus, but she's more into safeguarding her family than packing them in coffins. Lynette and Tom will definitely return together before Desperate Housewives' series finale, right? - Jessica ADAM: Well, Felicity Huffman isn't positive. "I have to uncover their location reconcile,Inch Huffman confesses. "But as we've been shooting... I'm starting to appear like, maybe they aren't getting back together again again. I'm really sad." Enter line behind Jessica, Felicity. I love Revenge, and frequently will that be all Emily Thorne does? Just getting revenge? -Jennifer NATALIE: Not always, states executive producer Mike Kelley. "The questions that are posed inside the pilot will probably be clarified with the thirteenth episode, that's really that engagement party," according to him. "The concept for your show is to buy this completed in obligations, and so the first installment takes 13 episodes so the back 1 / 2 of year will be the trial in the killer." Translation: Expect a lot more revenge just before the healing can begin. I've heard Rob and Annie could possibly get closer relating to this season of Community. True? - Hannah ADAM: Once the premiere's opening number is going to be thought, then yes. Executive producer Serta Harmon states the beginning of Season 3 will revisit the romantic tension involving the two figures, but mostly just like a setup with an a good deal bigger choice Rob will have to make. "It's all about getting all the gears arranged to make sure that we could kind of rotate the whole show. There's apt to be a whole Britta emergence. She'll be considered a pressure being contended within Jeff's existence." Please tell me everything that's happened throughout the final two seasons of Supernatural is not just in Sam's mind, as Lucifer recommended for that premiere. - Marsha NATALIE: Relax! "We're nothing beats Lost," executive producer Bob Singer promises. "Or perhaps the finish in the Sopranos," Sera Gamble quickly adds. It's safe to visualise the walls are actually lowering, driving Mike to go to crazy, instead of the choice, which might, well, piss everyone off. "Our intention is not to enhance that to wreak havoc on people heads," Gamble states. "It may be pretty apparent what [Lucifer's comment is] about in Episode 2, that's mainly concerned about reacting to queries about what's happening with Cas and achieving really deep into what's happening with Mike." Whew, putting my pitchfork and cauldron of boiling oil away now. I really loved Person of curiosity, however, if am i getting Finch's backstory? - Seth ADAM: Soon! Episode 2 adopts Finch's past, together with the roots of his mysterious machine. As well as the unveils will in most probability change lots of everything you thought you understood in regards to the character. "I believed initially that this is often a reclusive character," Michael Emerson states. "But he's a far as well as more bold plus much more active character." That's probably because Reese can keep Finch on his toes. "Reese has challenged Finch's wall of impenetrability to make sure that Finch now must be more guarded," Emerson states. "He must scramble slightly harder to stay a measure before Reese." So could be that the season or series finale of Weeds? - Jason NATALIE: Though Showtime has yet to resume the series, we hear this isn't the ultimate we view in the Botwin clan. Just what does meaning for Nancy? Did Guillermo finally exact revenge ultimately these years of abuse? Possibly! We went into Guillermo Diaz round the Scandal set, which he states Guillermo really came out inside the penultimate episode. More youthful crowd stated the cast, including him, be prepared to become back for the next season. (Time to re-watch that episode again, stat!) Breaking Bad will get so intense! What might come next? - Chris ADAM: Bear in mind that small dose of poison Jesse's been moving around? It'll finally supply, but this really is this is not on its original target. And just before the episode is finished, Wally will once again find themselves getting a gun pressed against his mind. Adam's Mega Rave: I'd rather not go to whichever a more compact quantity of Oliver Platt round the Large C next season, however can't help but applaud the producers' brave choice to (maybe?) kill his character inside the finale. It's a stomach-punching indication that crappy stuff still occurs you, even if you have cancer. Natalie's Small Rant: I'd high wants 2 Broke Women, but this week's episode was horsesh--, both literally and figuratively. (Additional verifying by Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope) Crave scoop inside your favorite Tv shows?In the-mail Adam and Natalie at mega_scoop@tvguide.comor drop us a line atTwitter.com/TVGuide

Finally: The Harrison Ford/Sean Young Reunion You've Been Waiting For

In the discussion as to whether or not Daniel Craig is the new Harrison Ford, we should note one critical factor separating screen legend from his younger, blonder Hollywood counterpart: Just one of them has weathered a film with Sean Young and lived to not only tell the tale, but also keep the flame alive in a moment of late-career triumph. That was the spirit on Saturday night, anyway, when the Blade Runner co-stars were reunited in L.A. for the 50th Anniversary Stuntmens Gala Honoring Harrison Ford. Fun! I mean, think how easy it would have been to just bring out Carrie Fisher. Still, this only makes me wonder what Alison Doody is up to these days. [Click right for full-size image; photo via Getty Images]

REVIEW: Kevin Smith's Red-colored Condition Offers Easy Cynicism and Very Little Else

If you want another manifestation of how impossible it’s become to split up the general public persona of Kevin Cruz from his films, take a look at the posters for Red-colored Condition stating it “AN UNLIKELY FILM FROM THAT KEVIN Cruz,” as though the film were really directed through the guy’s prolific Twitter account. Within the last couple of years, the funny, profane voice that’s made Cruz’s dialogue so distinctive has basically outgrown the flicks that accustomed to showcase it, as Cruz’s podcasts, his sometimes pugnacious social networking feed and the speaking tours make any motion picture output basically near the point. When he earned a splash at Sundance in The month of january premiering his latest work Red-colored Condition, it had been more for that live auction he was apparently likely to hold to market distribution privileges following the screening compared to the film itself. When i first examined Red-colored Condition at this festival for an additional site, and mused at that time, not lengthy after Cruz had offered up a metaphoric middle finger towards the press and industry, “There are lots of lovely, excellent individuals who’ve made lousy movies, and vice-versa. If Red-colored Condition were good, it’d hardly be the very first time an asshole had switched out a worthy thing of beauty or entertainment.” I didn’t think it had been good. Eight several weeks later, using the film finally obtaining a release on VOD as well as in theaters, it appeared worth a revisit to ascertain if that opinion have been formed by any means by Cruz’s campaign of personality moving in, if taken like a more stand-alone experience Red-colored Condition would look different. As I’m still unconvinced that, without Cruz’s title onto it, Red-colored Condition would attract or warrant much attention, the most important and interesting facet of it's the change it signifies in Cruz’s directorial style. There’s camera movement, including handheld operate in in on the action sequences, a welcome vary from a filmmaker whose habits previously happen to be to suggest a static camera in the stars and merely allow them to talk. There’s an properly chilly tone towards the color plan and much more interesting lighting options. When it comes to look, a minimum of, Red-colored Condition showcases promising signs and symptoms of growth. The film follows a bifurcated structure that’s more dramatic on second glance, the purpose of view shifting in the intended teenage sufferers from the murderous Five Points Chapel towards the ATF agents who does consequently make sufferers from the congregation. That begin perspective keeps for your toes when it comes to narrative — there’s no obvious-cut protagonist, no forthright pressure of excellent, nobody safe to affiliate with or rely on to really make it through alive. These signs and symptoms of ambition are admirable, but being an overall film Red-colored Condition continues to be a slog, a goading, pork-handed affair that’s excruciatingly convinced of their own cultural relevance. There’s the Westboro Baptist Chapel-inspired religious cult who don’t just preach that God hates sinners, they’ve taken it on themselves to kill individuals sinners themselves. Their leader, Abin Cooper (a laudable Michael Parks), stops the film dead to have an ominous sermon that creeps nearer to camping because it drags on, as his flock, including his daughter Sara (Melissa Leo), beams beatifically at his harangue of hate. The zealots lure a trio of horny senior high school boys (Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun and Kyle Gallner) who think they’re meeting a mature lady for any hookup to their compound. The neighborhood sheriff (Stephen Root) is closeted and views masking for Cooper in return for the keeping of his secret, as the theoretically solid ATF forces that arrive midway through, brought by John Goodman as Frederick Keenan, turn to be just like nuts because the religious radicals — “Fuck people such as this, they’re creatures,” sneers one. The concepts in Red-colored Condition might be more loaded now than once the film first tested for festival audiences, once we increase toward the 2012 election and also the culture war gets worse alongside. But Cruz isn’t as much as doing anything apart from establishing caricatures after which knocking them lower. The police force monolith is symbolized to be just like nasty because the Five Points crew doesn’t imply that each side resembles several identifiable people. Telling an anecdote about two dogs fighting on the scrap of food toward the finish from the film, a personality plainly provides the Red-colored Condition moral as “People simply do the oddest things once they believe they’re titled. However they do even stranger things once they simply believe.” This chiding of each side from the divide hardly appears justified from a film that may’t look for a sliver of hope either in — after a lot provocation, Red-colored Condition itself has only easy cynicism available.