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