'Hunger Games' Soundtrack: Arcade Fire, The Decemberists Join Taylor Quick on Companion Album

Lost inside the shuffle of wrapping presents, overeating food and teaching your mother and father by using their iPad these were given for Christmas was this bit of OMG-y music news from Lionsgate: furthermore to Taylor Quick, Win Butler and Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire as well as the Decemberists will lead for the 'Hunger Games' companion soundtrack album likely to be in March. Pause for indie rock fan mind explosions. Produced by T Bone Burnett -- the music activity supervisor round the lengthy looked forward to film -- the album will feature brand-new tunes inspired by 'The Hunger Games.' Win and Regine authored a sound lesson referred to as "Horn of Plenty," that's probably in regards to the Cornucopia and totally amazing the Decemberists track is titled "One Engine," who've associated with the train for the Capitol or something like that like this equally fantastic. Or even all of people are totally wrong! Speculate away below. The album arrives out just before the film's release on March 23. You'll be able to give consideration to Taylor Swift's contribution, "Risk-free" with Civil Wars, below. (Still must have been "Extended Live.") [via Deadline] [Photo: Lionsgate] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Jason Bourne Tops Holiday Weekend Box Office

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol assigned the Christmas weekend box office, consuming $26.5 million, Box Office Mojo reviews. The Tom Cruise thriller knocked up two spots within the second week, getting its total to $59 million. An Online Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows starring Robert Downey Junior. showed up at No. 2, grossing $17.8 million. The follow-up dropped substantially from last week's opening of $62.3 million. Alvin as well as the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked was next, consuming $13.3 million within the second week of release. The anticipated film adaption of Stieg Larsson's book The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo first demonstrated at No. 4, yanking in just $13 million. The Adventures of Tintin, which was also released now, adopted in fifth place getting a gross of $9.millions of. We Bought a Zoo, starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, first demonstrated inside the sixth place with $7.8 million. Rounding the very best ten: New Year's Eve (No. 7, $3 million), Arthur Christmas (No. 8, $2.7 million), The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1 (No. 9, $2.millions of, getting its six-week total to $270.9 million) and Hugo (No. 10, $2 million). Did help with the flicks this holiday weekend?

Year of couples therapy

'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' star Rooney Mara first impacted in a small role in director David Fincher's 'The Social Network.'Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius, here on the set of 'The Artist,' have collaborated twice on the 'OSS' laffers.Movies have always been fertile ground for double acts -- especially collaborations between directors and their stars and writers.This year's crop of award-seeking films seems particularly fruitful, with such repeat pairings of creatives as Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg ("A Dangerous Method"), Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman ("Young Adult"), Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep ("The Iron Lady"), Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen ("Shame"), Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin ("The Artist") and David Fincher and Rooney Mara ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo")."A Dangerous Method" marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Mortensen folowing "Eastern Promises" and "A History of Violence.""We hit it off right from the start, before filming on 'A History of Violence' commenced in 2004," Mortensen says. "We communicate in writing and by phone a lot before shooting starts. Not much needs to be said, aside from telling a good joke or making fun of ourselves and anything that comes to mind during the shoot. We understand what we are trying to accomplish, we are on the same page before I start working with the other actors, camera, and crew. I believe this allows us to keep things alive and moving forward on the set, to be open to the lucky accidents, the unexpected moments that happen while filming.""We're both fairly obsessive when it comes to research and detail," Cronenberg says. "We exchanged over 25 emails just about Freud's cigars -- the type, the size and so on. But we never question why that'd be important, and we're very gentle in terms of ego, so it makes for a very enjoyable working relationship."Ego -- or lack thereof -- also figures into Cody and Reitman's collaboration.According to Cody, the relationship is "effortless."The scribe says, "We seem to communicate in the same terms and we're never really at odds, the way some writer/director pairs are. We don't have a fiery relationship. It's calm and friendly. We have a creative shorthand and I don't have to explain myself and vice versa." Cody also stresses the creative freedom that this relationship allows."I can't think of a screenwriter who's been granted greater freedom than I have," she says. "Jason's such a generous collaborator and always looked for input from me -- even when I was a totally inexperienced writer working on 'Juno,' he wanted my opinion."For Rooney Mara, who first teamed with David Fincher on "The Social Network," the director's work ethic inspires "a similar dedication in the people he chooses to align himself with. He also has an incredible sense of humor, so on top of the hard work, there is a lot of inappropriate laughter. David says he likes to align himself with people that he can root for, people he wants to get behind. There isn't anyone I'd rather have in my corner."A strong sense of trust also opens up more possibilities on the set."I wouldn't trust him with a secret to save his life," she admits, "but I would trust him with just about anything else. David is incredibly collaborative and for me, he creates an environment that feels safe enough to try anything. As a result of that trust, there isn't a whole lot I wouldn't do for him."Trust and a willingness to -- literally -- expose every aspect of a character also drives Fassbender's collaboration with British director McQueen.For their 2008 prison drama "Hunger," he shed 40 pounds. For "Shame," he shed all his clothes, and "fully embraced" the full-frontal nudity and sex scenes that illuminate "the loneliness and disconnectedness" of his sex-addicted character."I just trust Steve's creative instincts," he says. "I knew the sex wasn't there for titillation or exploitation. It was there as a way for the audience to access this guy's head. I saw all the sexual encounters as being very revealing about what's actually going on inside (Fassbender's character) Brandon.""The Artist" is the third film collaboration for Hazanavicius and Dujardin, who teamed previously on the two "OSS 117" Gallic spy spoofs, and according to both director and actor, they mirror each other's approach to a project and their art."He thinks and I do instinctively what he has thought of," Dujardin says. "We don't need to speak to each other, and neither one of us likes to speak. We are both very shy."Adds Hazanavicius: "Sometimes I forget to tell (give him a direction) before the take, and he does it as if I had told him. We call it 'the Bluetooth' shorthand."And both stress the importance of having fun on the set. "Michel prepares his films a lot, and I prepare my roles a lot," Dujardin says. "As a result, when we're on the set, we can have fun and mostly work on the subtleties and nuances."As with other teams, trust also plays a big part in their relationship."I feel if I ask him to do anything, he'll do it," the director says. "That's very freeing for me, because our relationship is about working, and when I try things on set, he'll follow. I think he trusts my taste, and he knows I won't edit a take if he's not good."Adds Dujardin: "I think I represent his fantasy of an actor, which means he always treats me with the utmost care, which allows me to let myself go totally. Our teaming and the success that it has generated allows us to explore many things. I think it guarantees our creative freedom."GOLDEN GLOBES COUNTDOWN Year of couples therapyThe ContendersDrama: Best Picture | Comedy: Best Picture | Best Director | Drama Actor/Actress | Comedy Actor/Actress Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Modern Warfare 3' tops $1 bil in 16 days

Activision's "Cod: Modern Warfare 3" has grew to become an associate from the large club -- after just 16 days on store shelves, setting another entertainment industry record. James Cameron's "Avatar" was the last record holder for just about any property striking the $1 billion sales mark. It needed every day a lot more than the experienceOrpresent shooter gaming to do this, however. ("Black Procedures," the last game inside the "CodInch series, needed six days striking the total amount.) "Engagement within our 'Call of Duty' audience carries on growing around the globe,In . mentioned Bobby Kotick, Boss of Activision Blizzard. "'Call of Duty' becoming an entertainment franchise bakes an indelible mark on popular culture which is broad and continuing success is further validation that audiences progressively value interactive encounters over passive encounters." The $1 billion record might be the 2nd major sales kudo for your title. "Modern Warfare 3" formerly set the record for your finest internet affiliate marketing ever for in $400 million inside the first 24 several hours. (It had formerly set the bar for the record while using previous two "CodInch obligations.) Experts expect "Modern Warfare 3" to promote 18 million-19 million models with the finish in the twelve several weeks, creating roughly $1.2 billion in revenue. The overwhelming success of the sport can be a vindication for your author. "Modern Warfare 3" might be the very first title within the company's Infinity Ward division since the abrupt dismissal of studio heads and series designers Jason West and Vince Zampella. Activision alleged they were winding up in competitor Electronic Arts about beginning a completely new development studio. West and Zampella deny that accusation. Each side are suing another, while using cases likely to visit trial next season. West and Zampella have since launched a completely new company -- Respawn Entertainment -- and several key people in the Infinity Ward team have defected in it. Due to the drama, "Modern Warfare 3" was a game title title beneath the microscope. "Every year, new people are attracted into 'Call of Duty'," mentioned Eric Hirshberg, Boss of Activision Posting. "Despite the fact that the franchise is constantly set records, our fans still seem to wish more." That demand helps drive monthly monthly subscriptions for "Cod: Elite," a normal membership service for players that provides utilization of all downloadable content for the sport additionally to tournament, video content and social media functionality for players. So far, greater than 6 000 0000 people have registered for your service. Within six occasions of their launch, it had assigned millions of needing to pay clients. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'Little People, Big World' Holiday Special: Jeremy's Homecoming and Dad's 50! (Exclusive Video)

Jani Lane, worth a reported $600,000 at the time of his death, failed to leave behind a will. Now, his daughter is requesting an estate administrator to sort out his assets.our editor recommendsWarrants Jani Lane Died of Alcohol PoisoningWarrant's Jani Lane: 5 Things to Know PHOTOS: Dollars After Death 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts This according to court documents obtained by TMZ, though it remains unclear what the late singer's estate consists of.The ex-Warrant frontman is survived by his wife and two daughters. TMZ also notes that the mother of his second daughter could be in contention for a portion of his trust. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Lane died at 47-years-old after suffering from alcohol poisoning. He was found in a Comfort Inn Hotel in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Aug. 11, 2011. Lane, whose real name was John Kennedy Oswald left the 1980s glam band in 2008. The singer had a history of alcohol-related arrests. He was taken into custody in June 2009 for reportedly crashing into a parked car. A year later, he was arrested for a similar incident that landed him in jail for 120 days. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Dollars After Death: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts Related Topics

David E. Kelley, Dr. Sanjay Gupta Team for TNT Medical Drama

Patty Jenkins Petty Jenkins is no longer directing Thor 2. The filmmaker, best known for directing the Charlize Theron movie Monster and AMC's pilot for The Killing, was to have been the first female director of a Marvel Studios movie. Alas, "creative differences" are being blamed. "I havehada great time working at Marvel," Jenkins toldThe Hollywood Reporterin an exclusive statement."We parted on very good terms, and I look forward to working with them again." The move is sudden since as late as Monday afternoon Jenkins was actively working on the movie. The filmmaker participated in an interview and photo shoot withTHRon Dec. 2, during which she discussed her involvement in the project and praised Marvel. "I have a long love of superhero films and I'd been saying over and over again to my agents at CAA that I'd like to do one," Jenkins told THR for a magazine feature on female directors that hits newsstands on Dec. 8. "That's the real revolution."The Marvel guys are so brave in terms of who they choose overall, and I don't think they had any pause about me being a woman." Jenkins told THR she had stayed away from features from the past several years because of her young son but eagerly accepted the Thor 2 job. "I met with all the actors and to my surprise, here we are," she said. Marvel is said to want to work with Jenkins again in some capacity. According to insiders, the studio is now on the hunt for a new filmmaker and the vacancy is expected to be filled very quickly. The director's departure is the second for Thor 2; Kenneth Branagh, who directed the first movie, did not return for a second outing, also citing "creative differences." Marvel had no comment. Pamela McClintock contributed to this report. Email: Borys.Kit@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Kit PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Thor: Behind the Scenes Thor Thor 2

AXN partners on Takayama skein

Tokyo, japan -- The The new sony-backed AXN Mystery Funnel has joined with Hong Kong-based Charis Entertainment to co-create a new unscripted series for Japanese and Asian auds. Entitled "Cyril's Family Trip,Inch the six-episode show will feature Japanese illusionist Cyril Takayama travelling in Hawaii together with his family and astounding the local people. The show is really a follow-as much as this year's strand "Cyril: Simply Miracle," that also broadcast on AXN, using the target aud finding yourself in Japan and Asia. One of the executive producers are Takayama, Charis' Sophistication Chen and thesp Andy Lau, together with his Focus Group shingle. Shooting is skedded to begin the coming year with release skedded for that spring. AXN Mystery Funnel is handled by The new sony Pictures Entertainment Japan and The new sony Pictures Television's Asian branch. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Melancholia' tops European Film Honours

'Melancholia'London-- Lars von Trier's finish-of-the-world drama "Melancholia" nabbed the very best film prize in the European Film Honours, that have been passed out Saturday in Berlin.The pic, which in fact had capped the noms with eight mentions, also required home two craft awards, cinematographer for Manuel Alberto Claro, and production designer for Jette Lehmann.Tom Hooper's "The King's Speech" required three awards: Colin Firth was named best actor, Tariq Anwar snapped up the editor award, and also the film also required the Individuals Choice award, that was chosen for through the public.Susanne Bier was named best director for contempo drama "Inside a Better World," and also the film writer prize visited Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for "The Little One Having a Bike." Tilda Swinton was named best actress for troubled teen tale "We have to Discuss Kevin." Helmer-scribe Hendes Van Nuffel won the invention Award for "Oxygen," that also focuses on a teenager in crisis. The pic follows a boy struggling with cystic fibrosis.Ludovic Bource required the award for composer for "The Artist." The docu prize was acquired by three dimensional dance film "Pina," written and directed by Wim Wenders.The animated feature film kudo was acquired by "Chico and Rita," directed by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba. Stephen Frears was handed the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Mads Mikkelsen was feted using the European Achievement in World Cinema award.French thesp Michel Piccoli, who toplined "You will find there's Pope," was handed the Special Honorary Award. Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com

Sundance kids aim high and wide

'Take Shelter''Like Crazy''Martha Marcy May Marlene'The distance between the Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards isn't as vast as one might think.Last year, Sundance standouts "Winter's Bone," "The Kids Are All Right," "Blue Valentine" and "Animal Kingdom" nabbed Oscar 10 nominations among them. In 2009, Park City premieres "Precious" and "An Education" represented with nine noms between them. Great filmmakers have to start somewhere.This year, a number of Park City newbies have broken out of the indie box and received widespread recognition -- it's not any independent film that gets screened at the White House (as Sean Durkin's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" recently did).Along with Durkin, who is just 28, writer-directors Jeff Nichols, 32 ("Take Shelter"), and Drake Doremus, 28 ("Like Crazy"), are among a new breed of American filmmakers making important movies by the skin of their teeth.One of the biggest challenges for Durkin, for instance, was just trying to get investors to have the confidence in a first-time director."It was a gradual process of making people believe that I could make a film," he says.Helped by the fact that his short film, "Mary Last Seen," won a prize in Cannes, he got into the Sundance Lab, and Ted Hope came on board as an executive producer. "Martha" finally got its greenlight with an under-$1 million budget.Similarly, while Nichols had made a film before -- 2007's "Shotgun Stories" -- he admits, "It wasn't like people were lining up to make a Jeff Nichols film."Eventually, Nichols found the support of then CAA agent Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, who helped line up funds from producer Tyler Davidson and exec producer Sarah Green. While "Shelter's" budget has been reported as $5 million, Nichols says it was made for less. "A ridiculously low amount of money," he says."As an independent filmmaker," Nichols continues, "in the same way that you're creative about the style of the story, you have to be very creative about how you make your movie. You have to be constantly aware of your resources and how to maximize them."Indeed, Doremus made "Like Crazy" with a $250,000 budget, shooting the film in 22 days.According to Doremus, the crew endured several 14- to 16-hour shooting days, because they had a limited amount of time in each location. And with the camera constantly rolling ("I didn't have time to call action and cut and re-set the scene," he says), the filmmakers had to sift through almost 80 hours of footage in post. "It was not a very good shooting ratio," Doremus says.If the films' limited budgets proved daunting, these tyro directors also had to pull off tricky dramatic material.Both Durkin's "Martha Marcy" and Nichols' "Take Shelter," for example, tread a fine line between psychological thriller and arthouse drama -- a delicate balance that wasn't always so easy to achieve.As Nichols says, "I thought 'anxiety' was worth making a movie about, but how do you take this subject mater and present it in a way that is palatable?"Nichols used such films as Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," Todd Haynes' "Safe" and Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as reference points."In the way Kubrick moves that slow creeping camera, there's a supernatural force that lives outside of the frame and enters into the film," he says. "And the same thing applies in 'Take Shelter.' "For Durkin, it's harder to define the tension he was trying to convey."I think a lot of it was in the script, but when you're on set, you just feel it," he says. "And there were certain scenes where we needed it, and didn't get it, and those are not in the movie."Durkin's influences were less direct; he mentions Robert Altman's "Three Women" and Alan Pakula's "Klute." But "Martha Marcy" was more inspired by the film's central location: an abandoned farmhouse in upstate NY, with its "worn, weathered and beautiful" appearance, explains Durkin, demarcated by milky black interiors and brightly lit exteriors."Like Crazy" -- with its more traditional tale of young love -- might seem more inspired by Hollywood romances, but Doremus' influences were no less cinephilic. In his desire to capture "something truthful or magical" in the relationship between his two characters, he cites the importance of Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves" and Alfonso Cuaron's "Y tu mama tambien.""Those films were constantly in my head in pre-production," he says.All three filmmakers also acknowledge the importance of another key player in the cultivation of their work: Sundance itself. Durkin says his experience at the Sundance Labs was "life changing," giving him the confidence to conceive the film in the first place.Each of the directors points to the significance of the festival as a place that puts special focus on the filmmaker, placing them in the limelight."For an independent film, it is the best way to speak to the industry in one sitting," says Nichols. In one week in Park City, he adds, "all of L.A. saw my movie."Eye on the Oscars: The Director PreviewArt springs eternal | Adaptability key when diving into the unknown | Sundance kids aim high and wide | Genre vehicles take high road Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'X Factor's' Astro Apologizes for On-Air Outburst

Ray Mickshaw / FOXFrom left: L.A. Reid, Astro, 'X Factor' host Steve Jones On Thursday, Nov. 17's live X Factor results show, Brian "Astro" Bradley came under fire for giving attitude to judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid and Nicole Scherzinger, after falling into the botom two places alongside contestant Stacy Francis (who was ultimately sent home).our editor recommends'X Factor's' Stacy Francis on Elimination: 'Obnoxious' Astro's Save 'Is a Hard Pill to Swallow'Perez Hilton On Stacy Francis' 'X Factor' Elimination: 'Not Surprising''X Factor': The Great Rock And Roll Swindle PHOTOS: 'X Factor' Behind the Scenes: The Top 11 Work Out the Week's Performances Saturday, the 15-year-old rapper, who gave a half-hearted performance on the show after initially saying he didn't want to rap for people who didn't want to hear him, used his Facebook page to explain his actions. Writing on his "The Astronomical Kid" profile, Bradley said, "I seriously apologize to my fans, what I said and my emotions weren't directed toward you. I'm 15 and I think I know everything, but the truth is, I don't, and I handled the situation wrong! Win or lose next week, I will make you all proud!?" EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Inside Simon Cowell's 'X Factor' Trailer He also explained, "What I do, I do for the love of Hip-Hop and my fans, and I would never doing anything to hurt either." He went on to compare his actions to that of boxing great, Muhammad Ali. "I believed I was being mistreated, and in the moment I thought about Ali's moment. I want to be the new ambassador for Hip-Hop and a leader of a new young movement of positive kids, but to be that I must have Integrity and Honor first! People are saying I'm "cocky" and "arrogant", well maybe I have watched too many [sic] Muhammed Ali films or maybe I grew up having to fight my way home everyday or battle on street corners of Brooklyn for respect. My guards are always up, and maybe I took the situation too heavy." After her elimination, Francis commented on Astro's save by the judges, calling it "a hard pill to swallow." Nicole Scherzinger Paula Abdul Simon Cowell Antonio L.A. Reid The X Factor

REVIEW: Tomboy Explores Loaded Gender Issues with a Delicate, Assured Touch

Cline Sciamma’s film is titled Tomboy, but the gender issues it delves into are more complex than any supposedly unfeminine preferences for sports and pants-wearing and other associations that linger around that antiquated term. Laure (Zo Hran), the film’s young protagonist, is an androgynous sprite of a 10-year-old who, having recently moved to a new town with her family, impulsively passes herself off as male to the neighborhood children. Mikael, as she renames herself, spends the lazy end-of-summer days getting comfortable inhabiting this new identity, playing soccer with the boys and navigating a tentative prepubescent romance with the pretty Lisa (Jeanne Disson). She’s obviously thrilled at the reinvention she’s accomplished, though she hasn’t thought it through beyond the moment. The start of the school year lurks on the horizon, and with it guaranteed exposure of Laure’s secret, and the film grows increasingly tense as our happy hero(ine) continues obliviously toward disaster, the frisson of dread coming not from whether she’ll be exposed but when. Sciamma’s first feature, the 2007 Water Lilies, attracted attention for its explorations of budding female sexuality, competition and friendship among three 15-year-old girls competing in synchronized swimming. It was a Catherine Breillat film without Breillat’s uncompromisingly (and often uncomfortably) sharp edges. It offered some dead-to-rights observations about the way friendships between teenage girls can include the same depths of emotion and drama as romantic relationships, even as that distinction blurs between two of the characters. Yet it seemed to me just as interested in gawking at its central trio as offering them empathy, holding them up as potentially salacious objects in the name of presenting their story. Winding the clock back a few years to a character for whom sexuality is a faint idea — when Laure’s thin, sexless body is displayed, it’s only as a reminder that, at her age, the divide between genders isn’t so far a leap — Tomboy is gentler and wiser in its portrait of youth. It’s a step forward for Sciamma even as it pares down in scale to something intensely intimate and focused on its subject. Hran is rarely not onscreen, and when she isn’t, it’s usually because we’re seeing something from her character’s point of view. A freckled blond with a snub nose and short hair that could never be described as a pixie cut (she resembles River Phoenix, a few years shy of Stand By Me), Laure is pleasingly uncute, with a gruff demeanor that gives way to affecting glimpses of vulnerability. Dressing in loose T-shirts or tank tops and shorts, she’s completely believable as a boy, and grows more so as Laure teaches herself to move like one in order to fit in with the other kids. Beyond the deception Laure’s carrying out, Tomboy is also a movie about that time in your life when you first begin to develop multiple selves to fit the different groups of which you’re a part, acting one way with your family inside and another with your friends outside. Laure’s transformation into Mikael coincides with her mother’s giving her a key to their apartment to come and go as she pleases, and it’s this freedom that lets her formulate an alternate identity that she preserves by keeping the worlds as separate as she can. At home Laure’s more of a child, her parents loving but also caught up in their move, work and preparation for their new baby. (“You’re always hanging out with the boys,” observes her mother, pleased, when Laure tells her she’s made a new girl friend.) She spends much of her time with her six-year-old sister, Jeanne (Malonn Lvana), a dimple of a girl who adores her older sibling. The scenes of the two together, as well as Laure/Mikael’s interactions with the neighborhood kids, are the film’s strongest, capturing with unforced naturalness how children play, from the stories Jeanne invents around toys in the bath to the rule-based games and competitions amongst the boys. Jeanne seems the one most primed to uncover Laure’s double life, but instead she becomes a gleeful co-conspirator, backing up her sister’s fabrications and helping her trim her hair. Is Laure in the early stages of a transgender life? The film, as much as it echoes the beats of Boys Don’t Cry without the tragedy, rape and murder, doesn’t peer that far into the future. Certainly her commitment to becoming Mikael is undeniable — invited to go swimming, she makes a clay penis to put down the front of her trunks to maintain the illusion. Classic femininity doesn’t come naturally to her as it does to Jeanne, who has long curls and giggles and dances ballet. But Tomboy also suggests that gender and identity are things to be tested out, not set in stone — Laure, who frequently studies herself in the mirror, at different times has makeup applied and creates a mustache for herself out of hair trimmings, both masks to be tried on and discarded. Her path doesn’t seem destined to be an easy one, but she has her family at her side. A third act reaction from her mother upon discovering her daughter’s duplicity reads at first like cruel punishment, and then like the only reasonable response given the situation. It’s one she knows will hurt, but it’s done out of love, because Laure, in all her delightful complications, has to live in the outside world as well as the inside one. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Kermit & Jason Segel Beg For Amy Adams

EXCLUSIVE: I wanted to get my hands on this private little video when I heard it existed. So here are producers Jason Segel and Kermit The Frog inviting Amy Adams to join the cast of The Muppets movie, which is the first Muppets theatrical release in 12 years. Beyond cute: rtmp://streaming.deadline.com/ondemand/video/Muppets_Amy_Adams_Invite_v3_2011-11-16.flv

'Immortals' nabs $1.4 mil in midnight runs

Relativity's 'Immortals' got off to a solid start Thursday night, grossing $1.4 million in midnight bows.Relativity Media's 3D swords-and-sandals epic ''Immortals'' kick started its domestic run with $1.4 million in midnight grosses Thursday night, the majority of which came from 3D.Pic played at approximately 900 late-night runs.The midnight start reps a solid start for the Relativity pic, which is projected to gross around $25 million this weekend.Though comparable midnight grosses for films like ''The Expendables'' ($850,000) and ''Battle: Los Angeles'' ($700,000) translated to debuts in the mid-$30 millions, ''Immortals'' is faced with a tougher B.O. marketplace, especially among the pic's under-25 target demo.''Immortals,'' the first major in-house tentpole for Relativity, is a significant undertaking by the studio, whose current top title ''Limitless'' cost less than $30 million and grossed almost $80 million domestically. By comparison, Relativity is exposed for $75 million with ''Immortals.''The 3D film played to a broad mix of demographics, including Hispanic and urban audiences, according to the studio. ''Immortals'' bows to 3,112 locations today, of which 70% are in 3D. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Assassin's Creed' Movie Deal Leaves Hollywood 'Flabbergasted'

Hollywood as well as the videogame industry have a very rocky relationship. In the past, when gaming used to be within the infancy, designers may have given anything to acquire their title modified in to a film franchise. That eventually did happen, due to "Super Mario Bros." at the begining of 1990's, nevertheless the film was well, it's absolute garbage. Sadly, the tradition of poor videogame adaptations has ongoing with almost complete certainty ever since then, departing both film and game audiences careful concerning the industry's attempts to mix that digital divide. Ubisoft is trying various things with "Assassin's Creed." The sport author is retaining abnormal amounts of creative remedies for that mega-franchise's jump for the silver screen a move having a Hollywood affiliates proclaiming the image will not ever start to see the light of day. According to Vulture, the film marketplace is "flabbergasted" at the quantity of control maintained by Ubisoft inside their deal to produce "Assassin's Creed" to theaters using the new the new sony Pictures. After speculation that other art galleries like DreamWorks or Universal might land the title, The brand new the new sony has won out. Given reviews that Ubisoft has rights to casting, script, in addition to release date, you can imagine Sony's readiness to invest control likely assisted inside the agreement. Honestly, it shojuld 't be an unexpected that Ubisoft made such demands. In May, the business produced their unique film division, Ubisoft Movies, using the aim of keeping their popular game franchises' adaptations in their own personal hands. "You need to keep possession, retain remedies for that film content, and that we are available to utilize art galleries on the development of our projects, and lastly collaborate round the pre-casting, pre-budget and script," Ubisoft's Jean-Julian Baronnet mentioned taken. How come anybody in Hollywood be "flabbergasted" by the thought of a game title title author attempting to keep consistency utilizing their brand? Certainly, once the film industry stood a wonderful good reputation for changing videogames for the silver screen there'd be not a problem. Sadly, that's not the problem, then one need have a look in the bumbling portfolio of Uwe Boll ("Bloodrayne," "Lengthy Way AwayInch) to understand why Ubisoft desires to hold creative restraint by themselves products. The sport industry does less than hold the stars within the eyes appreciate it did within the occasions before "Super Mario Bros." Videogames are really a $74 billion industry, giving movies a run for profit charge in the entertainment media market, and there is the real wonder if or else game entrepreneurs really need film adaptations. A talent agent told Vulture the restrictions upon The brand new the new sony meant the film will "never get made." Clearly, if acquiring the film made means another pork-fisted Hollywood adaptation, gamers would be better without one. Reveal what you consider inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Shout! Factory to Problem Richard Pryor Compact disk/DVD Box Set (Exclusive)

Santa Monica's Shout! Factory, famous for making classy Digital video disks of classic Tv shows (like the October release Barney Burns: The Whole Series), has became a member of with Indigo Corporation. to produce and distribute a Compact disk/DVD box set devoted to comedian Richard Pryor's entire careeer: comedy records, complete concert films and tv special highlights. "From his classic programs to fresh, undiscovered material,this box set provides you with a wealthy review of his comedy vision,"Indigo CEOJennifer Lee Pryorsaid. The set will probably be released in summer season 2012. Shout! Factory also introduced a completely new kind of deal for that organization: Instead of simply certification DVD rights for the hit 1960-64 Tv program Route 66, it bought proprietary rights for the series, including all 116 original episodes, aged materials, worldwide watching movies and digital rights and U . s . States broadcast rights. "After we are strongly growing our purchasing libraries of premiere television and movies, this deal demonstrates the type of proper purchases we plan to positively pursue," mentioned Shout! co-founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos in the joint statement. Anticipate seeing the Kerouac-inspired show (with guest stars Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Walter Matthau, Martin Sheen, James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Junior., Ron Howard, Lee Marvin, Suzanne Pleshette, Erection dysfunction Asnerand Cloris Leachman) via electronic-sell-through, video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand and U . s . States broadcast, cable and distribution. Roxbury Entertainment and producer Kirk Hallam, who've maintained trademark and tv remake and film rights, are coming up with a Route 66 TV series remake with Shout! Factory. Related Subjects Richard Pryor

Time Warner eyes Endemol acquisition

Time Warner has published an unwanted bid to obtain Nederlander unscripted TV production giant Endemol.A representative for Endemol confirmed the bid and launched the following statement: "We've received a method from Time Warner which doesn't come just like a surprise - Endemol is undertaking well which is a really attractive resource." A representative for Time Warner declined comment. Bid looks like it's worth 1 billion Pounds, which will come lower to around $1.4 billion in U.S. currency. Endemol remains viewed as acquisition target trained with is saddled by getting an thought $2.8 billion with debt it's been attempting to restructure. The statement continues, "This doesn't change anything, we remain dedicated to reaching a solution with loan providers. People discussions keep good progress which we're sure that an agreement will set the company around the firm financial footing and strengthen Endemol's prospects money for hard times.In . Endemol is much better recognized for unscripted TV formats "GovernmentInch and "Fear Factor" that have offered into numerous nations like the U.S. It's possessed by Italian firm Mediaset, Goldman Sachs' Capital Partners and Cyrte Possibilities, that's introduced by Endemol founder John p Mol. Italian newspaper la Repubblica reported Friday that Mediaset, that's controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, and equity firm Clessidra may also produce a use a controlling fascination with Endemol. Acquisition could certainly put Endemol within Warner Bros. Worldwide TV arm, growing distribution options worldwide for WBTV programming. Endemol has subsidiaries in 23 nations. Endemol could extend what's experienced an overseas shopping spree Time Warner begun a year ago. Time Warner-possessed Turner bought Chilean broadcaster Chilevision for $150 million in August 2010 WB clicked on up British TV prodco Shed Media ("Supernanny") that same month. Other worldwide purchases Time Warner made that year incorporated in Sweden's Millennium Media Group, India's NDTV Imagine Limited and Bermuda's Central European Media Companies. Endemol remains under interim leadership since Boss Ynon Kreiz walked reduced June. Management got a eco-friendly light from loan providers this year's week to improve the waiver of financial loans for again until mid- November, according to reviews. News was reported by Reuters. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Mean Moment Results In CMA Nom For Taylor Quick

First Released: November 4, 2011 11:25 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Taylor Quick works the Alan Jackson song Where Had You Been in the 41st Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville on October 16, 2011 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Taylor Quick switched an adverse into an optimistic, and contains netted her a unique nomination only at that years New Bands Association Honours. Quick received her first CMA song of the season nomination for Mean, her spunky rebuttal to cynical critique. That trophy would go to the author, not the artist, and it is among Wednesday nights most coveted honours inside a town in which the songwriter is well known and revered. Professionally, its time, stated Scott Borchetta, mind of Swifts label, Large Machine Records. I dont think she will get close to the props she warrants on her songwriting. Ive been in the industry with Taylor for nearly seven years and hersongs were great after i met her at 14. Quick has become her share of affection on her songwriting. She won a Grammy for the best country song this year. Nashville Songwriters Association Worldwide has named her songwriter/artist of the season four from the last 5 years and also at 21 she continues to be youngest champion of this award. And Body mass index, the carrying out privileges organization, has granted her all-genre song of the season once and country song of the season three occasions. Shes won a trunk filled with CMA trophies, including top award performer of the season last year. But shes never damaged through for the reason that songwriting category. Mean, a retort to nit-pickers, bullies and possibly curmudgeonly commentator Bob Lefsetz, was tough to resist. It shows Quick at her best. Its both vulnerable and confident, by having an infectious chorus, an upbeat, strengthening message and among her most countrified instrumentation built around Swifts six-string banjo line. The song visited No. 1 around the country and adult contemporary charts. Obtaining a CMA nomination for Mean was certainly a jumping-up-and-lower moment for me personally as this song is actually near to my heart, Quick stated inside a statement towards the Connected Press. Im so thrilled it had been nominated for song of the season because its an audio lesson which i authored on the really, really bad day, however it has created a lot of happy days for me personally since. With increased in the future possibly. Kaira Paisley, a six-time nominee within the category, thinks Quick continues to be unfairly overlooked like a songwriter one of the industry voters who from the CMA. He highlights that the majority of the voters have been in their 30s and 40s, and older. This year's nomination might be a breakthrough. There is no 18-year-old on the planet that you simply speak with who does not connect with a few of her lyrics, Paisley stated. And for the reason that sense, though, shes laughing completely towards the bank because the voters may be saying, Well, you realize, it is not for me personally. It is not fair. Somewhat its much more groundbreaking what shes done. Im happy with what shes done. Other nominees within the category are Zac Brown, Coy Boyles, Wyatt Durette and Levi Lowry for Zac Brown Bands Cooler Weather, Kimberly Perry for that Band Perrys Basically Die Youthful, Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford for Jason Aldeans Grime Road Anthem and Deana Carter and Matraca Berg for Kenny Chesneys You and also Tequila. The area can be viewed as available with Berg the only real previous champion, in 1997, as co-author of Strawberry Wine. Quick may not win, obviously. But such as the song highlights, shes already a champion. Shes been with an amazing streak, Borchetta stated. Whatever her surroundings, wherever she been, this is exactly what she saw. And (the tunes) are extremely sophisticated. Theyre very appealing. Shes an excellent songwriter and when you request the other artists who're stylish to her, they are fully aware. So Im thrilled the CMA has acknowledged her. The CMA Honours air Wednesday on ABC (8 p.m. EST). Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'X Factor's' Dexter Haygood Claims He Gained a deal to go away Show

This could probably leave left area for X Factor fans as contestant, Dexter Haygood, made an appearance dumbfounded about his elimination on last week's show. Well, he isn't dumbfounded any more. Haygood states that his elimination throughout the most effective 12 show the other day was the consequence of deal he gained with producers.our editor recommends'The X Factor' Restored for Second Season'The X Factor': 10 Suggestions to Boost the ShowPerez Hilton Jams 'X Factor's' Stacy Francis: You're a FraudPerez Hilton Calls 'X Factor's' Stacy Francis Too Old for Pop Adam Lambert Disagrees PHOTOS: 'X Factor' Top 17 Runners up: Understand the entertainers "I desired to go away the show because I used to be unhappy which i wasn't able to become rock artist. I had been elevated on rock," according to him in line with the Connected Press. "(Producers) made an appearance to acquire their method things. I'm unsure why they wouldn't let me be me." Fans will bear in mind that Haygood sang several tunes that made an appearance being outdoors of his rut, including hits from Beyonce, Katy Perry, and Britney Warrior warrior spears. Haygood states he told judge well as over 30s group mentor Nicole Scherzinger he preferred to depart and he or she introduced his request showing producers. PHOTOS: Behind the curtain: THR's 'X Factor' Cover Shoot She then returned getting an offer, according to Haygood. They can leave the show throughout the most effective 12 elimination if he made the decision to come back for your season finale. Though according to him he never really labored with show producers, he needed the sale Scherzinger offered him. Since he was contractually bound, he mentioned he wouldn't have quit when they didn't cut him a deal. "They needed the opportunity to chop me, to permit me just fly and do things the means by which If only to complete them," according to him. PHOTOS: An 'American Idol' to 'X Factor' Timeline A Fox representative notifies THR the network does not have comment. THR also requested comment from Scherzinger via her publicist, but she didn't immediately respond to the request. Haygood, who declared he was destitute when he auditioned for your show, will be a part of the 80s funk rock group, Xavion. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com Twitter: @TheRealJethro Related Subjects Nicole Scherzinger Fox Broadcasting Corporation The X Factor

'Project X' Trailer: Teens Get Rowdy, Raunchy in Movie Produced by 'Hangover' Director Todd Phillips (Video)

Director Todd Phillips has looked into the aftermath from the evening of chilling out in The Hangover which is follow-up. Now, he's switched his concentrate on what continues through the party itself.our editor recommends'Hangover II' Director Defends Decision to fire place Mel Gibson'Hangover' Director Todd Phillips Sides with Theater Entrepreneurs Against Studios' VOD PlanSylvester Stallone, Todd Phillips Projects Scheduled for Release in 2012'Hangover II' Co-Author noisy . Talks for Third Installment The helmer has produced a small-budget teen comedy, Project X, that concentrates on three secondary school seniors who throw a sizable birthday celebration to produce a status on their own, but things quickly get beyond control as word in the party can get around. VIDEO: Todd Phillips and Aaron Sorkin Slam the WGA at THR Honours Roundtable The R-rated movie features a cast of beginners, including Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper. Warner Bros. released the initial trailer for your movie on Wednesday, plus it shows a raucous, rowdy party featuring scantily clad teens, an automobile driving in to a pool together with a home fire. VIDEO: THR's Honours Watch Roundtable: The Authors "Is big enough being awesome?" one of the seniors throwing the party asks. "Game changing," replies another. The film, which marks the directorial debut of Nima Nourizadeh, opens March 2. Related Subjects The Hangover Todd Phillips The Hangover Part II

Bale, Blanchett to star in 2 Terrence Malick photos

BaleBlanchettGoslingLONDON -- Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett are generally set to star in 2 approaching Terrence Malick films, each of which is going to be released to purchasers through Glen Basner's FilmNation in the American Film Market now. ''Lawless,'' will topline Ryan Gosling, Bale, Blanchett, Rooney Mara (''The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo'') and Haley Bennett (''Marley and Me''). Malick's second pic, ''Knight of Cups,'' will star Bale, Blanchett and Isabel Lucas (''Immortals,'' ''Transformers: Revenge from the Fallen''). Both photos are presently in pre-production and can shoot back-to-in 2012. Particulars of these two plots are now being stored under systems but both game titles is going to be separate stories. Sarah Eco-friendly and Nicolas Gonda will produce both photos. Both Gonda and Eco-friendly created a slew of Malick's recent game titles including ''The Tree of Existence,'' ''The New World'' and also the approaching as-yet-untitled love story project from Malick toplining Film Clip, Rachel Adams, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz, that FilmNation can also be handling worldwide sales. Pic is presently in publish and it has already offered to numerous areas including Studiocanal in Blighty and Germany, Roadshow Films in New zealand and australia, VVS Films in Canada, Vertigo Films in The country and Metropolitan Film in Gaul. The announcement marks a ongoing relationship between FilmNation and Malick. Basner pointed out that ''FilmNation could not be more happy to carry on to do something as Terrence's worldwide sales agency.''Malick's latest duo of photos is going to be repped locally by CAA. FilmNation can also be handling worldwide sales on Sean Penn's ''The Comedian,'' toplining Robert P Niro and Kristen Wiig and Shaun Nichols' ''Mud'' starring Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon. Furthermore, it's shopping Christian Bale starrer ''The Flowers of War,'' a $90 million Chinese epic helmed by Zhang Yimou. Footage was revealed to purchasers in Toronto in September. In Cannes captured, FilmNation introduced it was fully financing its first pic, an untitled thriller from Paranormal Activity creator Oren Peli. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

'Paranormal Activity 3' Switched Eli Roth and Marilyn Manson Into 'Teenage Girls'

If you consider Halloween, there is a high probability you consider Eli Roth. The horror maestro makes up about most likely probably the most terrifying images throughout the final ten years, and contains even changed the means by which individuals view Halloween itself. So, why strong-stomached horror fan -- and also the friend, goth rocker Marilyn Manson -- really scared? Try 'Paranormal Activity 3.' "It's fun to check out everybody make an effort to one-up one another," Roth told America online TV's Maggie Furlong in regards to the horror genre. "There's this type of bleeding contest among company company directors to find out who is able to develop the sickest factor, but also for me, that's never what impressed me. What always impressed me were when things were clever. I'm speaking about, you can be disgusting -- you need to simply choose a look and feel part and judge a dental appliance eviscerate it. It's very easy. What's very difficult is 'Paranormal Activity 3.' I'm speaking about, how will you execute a movie, the next one, where people expect something, they've seen it two occasions before, plus you've got to surprise them, but concurrently give them what they desire. It's terrifying. In my opinion that that, personally, might be the best. Hats on people males. Whether it is gory or bloodless, it's creativity and originality that i'm always amazed by.Inch Roth am amazed through the prior 'Paranormal Activity' films, he being there during the night time on opening weekend with Marilyn Manson. "I had been afraid!" he mentioned. "I had been squealing like teenage women! I have bruises in my leg as they was punching me using the whole film! "Literally I used to be searching in the chair with my legs up, kicking my foot, which he was slouched lower, slamming his elbow into my leg. [Laughs] I showed up in this area in the movie with bruises from Marilyn Manson, therefore i know he was afraid. Us were. It absolutely was so frightening!" For further on Roth, like the gory particulars about his new Discovery Funnel special 'How Evil Are You Currently Presently?A airing on March. 30 at 9 p.m. EDT, mind to America online TV. [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Reed Hastings Handles to get rid of $300 Million in Netflix Collapse

This informative article initially came out inside the November. 4 problem in the Hollywood Reporter.our editor recommendsNetflix's Reed Hastings Hasn't Considered Walking Lower, 'Not for just about any Second'Netflix Stock Falls to Early 2010 LevelsNetflix Stock Tanks U.S. Subscriber Base Handles to get rid of 800,000Netflix Could Report Insufficient 780,000 Clients in Third QuarterWinners and Nonwinners of Netflix's Aborted Qwikster PlanNetflix Yanks Plan to Separate DVD-By-Mail From Streaming Service In 15 days, shares of Netflix have sunk 74 percent, getting rid of nearly $12 billion in market cost. Nobody feels more personally than co-founder and Boss Reed Hastings, whose stake within the organization reduced from almost $400 million to $87 million because period of time. "I truly don't remember a greater-flying stock failing this quickly," analyst Henry Blodgett told The Daily Ticker. That's a amazing assessment, considering Blodgett's history just like a rainmaker from the web bubble era. Due to the carnage created by problems including the creation and destruction of Qwikster and 800,000 customer defections carrying out a sixty percent fee hike, murmurs that Hastings needs to be removed his leadership role are inevitable. PHOTOS: Netflix's 10 Most Leased Movies ever "Netflix got exactly what it deserved," states John Tschohl, author of Achieving Excellence Through Customer Care and founding father from the Service Quality Institute. "The Boss must go -- more bad days ahead," he alerts. But until lawyers begin filing law suits regarding traders, Tschohl influences minority. Possibly that's because, when all is mentioned and done, it absolutely was under Hastings that Netflix went from cent-stock status with a multibillion-dollar corporation, making riches of numerous professionals and early traders on the way. Regardless of the current swoon, the stock expires 2,300 percent in nine years. A smaller amount shabby, taking into consideration the S&P 500 expires only 38 percent within the same time frame period. And it must be noted the before Netflix elevated prices and lost clients reaches 2007. The stock quickly dropped thirty percent to $17. Not always a poor buying chance, searching back. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Finest Blunders Still, within a couple of times of March. 24, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan all yanked their "buy" advice on the stock while Janney Capital Areas hit a "sell" about it. Mostly, though, Wall Street has adopted a wait-and-see attitude. "Netflix can be a riddle ended inside an enigma," states Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter, who offers the stock a "neutral" rating. "The Netflix management team is promoting from most likely probably the most consistent and reliable connected having a company we have covered into most likely probably the most sporadic and erratic through the final 15 days." Even Blodgett is positive that Hastings will turn things around, while he is doing many occasions, including when Walmart tried to encroach on Netflix's business: "If by 50 percent years Netflix has produced a monster streaming business, everyone will say, 'Oh, that Reed Hastings, he's like [Amazon . com . com's] Rob Bezos, he focuses on the lengthy-term and so forth, which he's this kind of genius." NETFLIX STOCK This summer time 13 Peak: $298.73 Close March. 25: $77.7 Lower: 74% HASTING'S PERSONAL STAKE This summer time 13 Peak: Nearly $400 million Close March. 25: $87 million Loss: $313 million Related Subjects Netflix Reed Hastings

Theler cast in ABC Family pilot 'Baby Daddy'

Derek Theler continues to be cast within the ABC Family pilot "Baby Dad." Half-hour comedy is all about a twentysomething who turns into a surprise father to some little girl when she's left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend. He decides to boost the infant by using his mother, brother, best buddy and close female friend, who's holding a secret crush on him. Theler was lately in bigscreen photos "Get Me towards the Greek" and "Valentine's" and also the CW series "90210." Also cast is Cameron Deane Stewart, who lately were built with a role within the popular Nickelodeon skein "iCarly" and also the Lifetime telepic "Justice for Natalee Holloway." Pilot was compiled by Serta Berendsen ("The Nine Lives of Chloe King"), who also can serve as professional producer. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Analysts Size Up Third-Quarter Pay TV Subscriber Trends

NY - It has been fairly quiet in the cord cutting debate as of late, but third-quarter earnings season could change that as cable TV, satellite TV and telecom companies report their latest quarterly subscriber trends in the coming weeks starting with AT&T on Thursday. When pay TV industry subscriber figures dropped for the first time ever in the second quarter of 2010, the industry started discussing whether consumers were cutting the cord for cheaper online options. A 130,000 drop in the third quarter of last year, which followed the second-quarter decline of 246,000 subs, seemed to confirm fears before two quarters of growth alleviated some fears. In this year's second quarter, pay TV operators lost 458,000 subscribers to end the first half at 100.1 million, according to SNL Kagan, with cable losses and the first-ever satellite TV decline being only partially compensated by gains for telecom giants.Going into third-quarter earnings season, analysts have differing views, but agree that things have improved over 2010 trends. With some looking at industry-wide figures and others at publicly traded distributors' figures, some predict video subscriber gains, while others project a decrease, although in some projections that is less pronounced than in the year-ago period and definitely less pronounced than in the previous quarter. Some on Wall Street expect the recent missteps by Netflix and third-quarter data to leave investors comfortable with the pay TV industry's position. But Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang, whose team helped kick off the cord cutting debate more than a year ago, said in a report Wednesday: "We remain concerned on a secular basis about the risk of cord-cutting, given a difficult economic climate for consumers, consistent above-inflation increases in pricing to the consumer, and the growing availability of lower cost over-the-top (Internet-delivered) video services." Barclays Capital analyst James Ratcliffe predicts the big publicly traded pay TV operators to report video net adds of 105,000 on a cumulative basis, up from 11,000 in the year-ago period, "driven primarily by smaller cable losses." Satellite TV "is expected to be a mixed bag, with strong gains from DirecTV due in part to its promotion of free NFL Sunday Ticket to new subscribers, offset by declines at Dish," he wrote in a report previewing earnings season. "Coming off a soft second quarter, we expect better subscriber performance in the seasonally-strong third quarter with results expected to improve year-over-year," he summarized. "While material growth acceleration is difficult in the current context of virtually zero occupied home growth, the cable/satellite sector has fundamentally defensive characteristics, and we continue to see minimal evidence of cord cutting." Others also feel more relaxed on the cord cutting front. "Trends in cable are better versus last year, while trends in telecom and satellite are worse, which may temper the overall enthusiasm a bit," said Goldman Sachs analyst Jason Armstrong. "Nonetheless, the sequential rebound, with further improvement expected in the fourth quarter, combined with the woes at Netflix should continue to calm cord cutting fears." Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce also highlighted improving trends in the latest quarter and a limited cord cutting effect. "With continued high unemployment and technology-driven cord cutting contributing to a small degree, there were net losses in the second quarter, and we expect improved net losses in the third quarter," he told The Hollywood Reporter. He projects publicly traded cable operators to report a 295,000 subscriber loss though as he also includes smaller and privately-held companies in his projections. That would still be better than the 519,000 decrease in the year-ago period. While telecom giant AT&T and Verizon will boost subs, satellite TV trends will be weaker, and cable will hold up better. Taking all this and small cable operators together, Joyce estimates that pay TV operators lost only 49,000 video subscribers in the third quarter. While Joyce sees a slight gain at DirecTV offset by Dish declines for the second small quarterly satellite TV sub decline in a row, Armstrong expects that DirecTV will post 150,000 U.S. subscriber additions, while competitor Dish will record a loss of 75,000, which would put the satellite sector back in growth mode. Armstrong predicts total industry video net losses of 231,000, less pronounced than the 491,000 losses in the second quarter, but higher than the 153,000 losses in the third quarter of 2010. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics

'Walking' sets cable ratings record

AMC broke records while using second-season premiere of zombie drama "The Walking Dead" on Sunday evening with 4.8 million audiences in grownups 18-49 and 4.2 million inside the 25-54 demo -- greater than almost every other fundamental cable drama on record. Inside the 18-49 category, it absolutely was television's No. 1 series for your evening, according to Nielsen.The show drenched 7.3 million total audiences for your 9 p.m. airing, drawing a cume of 11 million audiences in the event you count its two quickie repeats that broadcast at 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.More later on... Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

'Moneyball' Director Bennett Burns to obtain Recognition at Hollywood Film Honours (Exclusive)

Attila Dory/The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Honours, presented by Starz Entertainment, will recognition Academy Award nominee Bennett Burns having its 2011 Hollywood Director Award. Burns continues to be famous for his target the considerably acclaimed blockbuster Moneyball, which was modified from Michael Lewis's best-selling novel and stars Kaira Pitt as Concord A's gm Billy Beane. Burns will collect his statuette within the Hollywood Honours Gala Ceremony, which will exist in the Beverly Hilton on March. 24. Right before this film, which Burns transformed Oscar champion Steven Soderbergh, the 44-year-old was most broadly noted for his direction of Capote, his feature directorial debut. That film received an Oscar jerk for top picture, acquired a best actor Oscar for Philip Seymour Hoffmanand introduced to best director nods within the Academy, Company company directors Guild of America and BAFTA for Burns. (The NY Film Experts Circle also granted him its prize for top first film.) PHOTOS: 'Moneyball' Premiere in Concord Carlos p Abreu, the founder and executive director in the event, told The Hollywood Reporter, "With Moneyball, Bennett Burns has provided us a stylish film, from what many referred to as an 'unfilmable' book, which we're thrilled to recognition him." He added, "Bennett found a person's heart in this story of baseball statistics and brought the astonishing performances of Kaira Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. 'Capote' will be a masterful debut, and Moneyball further proves that Burns features a real gift for breathing existence into complex material." Previous visitors in the Hollywood Director Award include Norman Jewison, John Schlesinger, John Frankenheimer, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Michael Mann, Mike Mendes, Oliver Stone, Marc Forster, Clint Eastwood, Kathryn Bigelowand Tom Hooper. Just several days after collecting their Hollywood Film Festival Award, Bigelow and Hooper ongoing to win that year's best director Oscar, while Scorsese received a nomination. Q&A: 'Moneyball' Author Michael Lewis on Oscar Hopes, Coping With Kaira Pitt and also the New 'Liar's Poker' Script In recent days, since the Race was the first to report, p Abreu revealed the visitors of numerous other honours, too (that derive from p Abreu together with a panel of experts): the cast in the Help for your Hollywood Ensemble Award Oscar champion George Clooney (The Descendants) for your Hollywood Actor Award Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Meek's Cutoff, Take This Waltz) for your Hollywood Actress Award Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer (Beginners) for your Hollywood Supporting Actor Award Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Shame, Drive) for your Hollywood Supporting Actress Award Oscar champion Diablo Cody (Youthful Adult) for your Hollywood Film author Award Rango for your Hollywood Animation Award Letty Aronson (Evening amount of time in Paris) for your Hollywood Producer Award Oscar nominee Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Existence) for your Hollywood Cinematographer Award Oscar champion Stephen Mirrione (The Ides of March) while using Hollywood Editor Award Oscar nominee Alberto Iglesias (The Skin Home Is, Mess Tailor Soldier Spy) for your Hollywood Film Composer Award Oscar nominee James Murakami (J. Edgar) for your Hollywood Production Designer Award Oscar champion Scott Farrar (Transformers: Dark in the Moon) for your Hollywood Visual Effects Award Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award Ernest Gordon-Levitt (50/50) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Actor Award Jessica Chastain (Coriolanus, Your Financial Troubles, The Help, Take Shelter, as well as the Tree of Existence) for your Hollywood Breakthrough Actress Award Felicity Manley (Constantly) for your New Hollywood Award Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Elle Fanning (Super 8), Amber Heard (The Rum Diary), Andrea Riseborough (W.E), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants), and Anton Yelchin (Constantly) for your Hollywood Spotlight Award and Oscar nominee Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) for your Hollywood Career Achievement Award. TORONTO REVIEW: Moneyball More youthful crowd introduced the nominees with this particular year's Hollywood Film Award, which is dependant on everyone through voting round the Yahoo! Movies website, are Captain America: The Initial Avenger, Cowboys & Aliens, Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2, The Help, Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rango, Rise in the Planet in the Apes, Super 8, Transformers: Gloomy in the Moon, and X-Males: Top Quality. RELATED: Can 'Moneyball' Overcome Baseball's Oscar Slump? FEINBERG FORECAST: 'Carnage' Divides, 'Extremely' Intrigues, 'Moneyball' Evolves Kaira Pitt Moneyball Bennett Burns

The Simpsons Studio On Cast Salary Dispute: We Cannot Produce Future Seasons Under Current Financial Model

The future of the longest-running scripted series on television, Fox’s The Simpsons, is once again in doubt over voice cast renegotiations with 20th Century Fox TV, a torturous cycle they go through every couple of years. Likelast time around,there’s an impasse over the size of the actors’ salaries. “Twenty-three seasons in, The Simpsons is as creatively vibrant as ever and beloved by millions around the world,” 20th TV said in a statement. “We believe this brilliant series can and should continue, but we cannot produce future seasons under its current financial model. We are hopeful that we can reach an agreement with the voice cast that allows The Simpsons to go on entertaining audiences with original episodes for many years to come.” While still wildly profitable, The Simpsons has seen its primetime ratings on Fox erode over the last few years. But the franchise continues to be extremely important to News Corp., with the company’s COO Chase Carey recently suggesting that a Simpsons cable channel may be in the offing. As firstreported by The Daily Beast, talks between the cast and 20th TV broke down after 20th TV turned down the cast’s proposal to take a 30% pay cut to about $4 million per season each in exchange for a piece of the back-end and issued an ultimatum yesterday for a 45% salary reduction.

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Five Reasons To See Seth Rogen And Joseph Gordon-Levitt's '50/50'

In a nutshell, "50/50" is movie about an otherwise average 27-year-old guy named Adam who gets diagnosed with cancer, and what happens to his life and the people in it when faced with 50/50 odds of survival. Unlike most of the generic, forgettable fare that Hollywood churns out each year, this film is something special. With an all-star cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick and Anjelica Huston, you will actually care about the characters, get swept up in the story and actually feel something when you walk out. "50/50" is one of the best movies I've seen this year, and here are a few reasons why it will be one of your favorites as well. It's Not A Remake, Reboot, Or YA Novel Adaptation This is an original story based on actual events, inspired by writer Will Reiser's battle with cancer and how his friends and family dealt with it. One of those friends is Seth Rogen, who has said that they all noticed that Reiser, who was just 25 at the time of his diagnosis, was losing weight and not looking well, until he finally broke the news to everyone in a very nonchalant, unbelievable way, very similar to how it plays out in the film. An A-List Cast That Delivers The actors in the film are almost perfect. Seth Rogen is still his likable goofball self, but a more relatable, subdued version. Anna Kendrick is superb as the cautious, by-the-book psychologist, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is just so good he never seems like he's acting. He just IS the character. Also Bryce Dallas Howard is excellent as pretty much the worst girlfriend ever. I would have liked to see a lot more of Anjelica Huston as Levitt's character's mom, however; she was a bit underused. Jonathan Levine If you have not seen director Jonathan Levine's previous work, "All The Boys Love Mandy Lane," and the fantastic coming-of-age Indie "The Wackness," add them to your Netflix queue asap. This man is so going places. He has such a knack for playing up the universal nuances and subtleties of our complicated emotional existence, without being heavy-handed or melodramatic. His work is pleasantly unique and just plain good. It Will Make You Feel Who doesn't love a good cry? Especially in a dark theater, among a group of strangers? I'm exaggerating, of course, but "50/50" will make you feel for and empathize with the characters in such a heartfelt, heartwarming way that it will remind you about someone in your life who has gone through a similar ordeal and that is what will move you to tears. Even if you know the outcome, you can't help but get caught up in the climactic life-or-death moments. Stand Up For Cancer Comedy It's not about making light of a devastating disease, it's about making a difficult subject easily accessible and relatable. The unfortunate reality is that almost everyone knows someone who has been diagnosed or suffered with cancer. It's not something to laugh about, but there are certain aspects about helping a loved one deal with such a heavy, depressing issue that demand a bit of lightheartedness and optimism. "50/50" could have gone the way of the tired, forced cliche, but it does the opposite, and instead surprises you with its humanity and depth. Will you be seeing "50/50"? Tell us in the comments or on Twitter!

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'Black Swan' Interns Sue Fox Searchlight We Now Have Spent totally free

Two interns who done Black Swan are suing Fox Searchlight Pictures after concentrating on the film totally free.our editor recommends'Black Swan' Breaks Studio Record as Prestige Films Make Impressive Debuts, Expansions'Black Swan' Narrowly Tops Int'l Box Office With $19.4 Million'Black Swan' PGA Nomination Lesson: 'The $25-Thirty Dollars million Film is Back''Black Swan' Takes Four Honours within the Independent Spirit Honours Alex Footman and Eric Glatt filed their suit Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the studio had violated minimum wage and overtime laws and regulations and rules by using a lot of interns to accomplish jobs totally free that ought to did by paid out employees, the NY Occasions reported. Furthermore they report that Fox Searchlight did not give them the kind of educational experience which will exempt the business from requiring to give the interns under current labor laws and regulations and rules. "Fox Searchlight's delinquent interns certainly are a crucial work pressure on its productions, functioning as production assistants and bookkeepers and undertaking secretarial and janitorial work," the suit states. "In misclassifying lots of its employees as delinquent interns, Fox Searchlight has declined them the benefits what the law states purports to employees." Footman claims his duties including making coffee, handling lunch orders, obtaining the garbage and cleansing the production office. Glatt, meanwhile, labored becoming an accounting intern, creating documents available orders and petty cash, going to the searching for signatures and making stand out excel spreadsheets to follow missing information in personnel files. "Really the only factor I discovered this internship wound up being being more picky in choosing employment options," Footman told the Occasions. "Black Swan had greater than $300 million in revenues. Once they paid out us, it wouldn't produce a large effect on them, however it'll make a massive effect on us." Added Glatt: "Once I started trying to find options on the market, I saw that lots of people accept an ugly trade-off. If you want to obtain a ft in around the studio picture, you have to suck up and do an delinquent internship." The litigants are searching for class-action status for your suit, proclaiming that Fox Searchlight has employed greater than 100 delinquent interns on various film productions. They're also seeking back pay along with an injunction in the studio for improperly using delinquent interns on future projects. Fox Searchlight representative Russell Nelson told the Occasions, "We just discovered this suit and haven't had an chance to judge choice we can't make any comment at this time around around." Related Subjects Natalie Portman Fox Searchlight Pictures Black Swan

'Hell's Kitchen' Season 9 Champion Revealed

Smallz and Raskin/FOX A completely new champion was crowned round the ninth-season finale of Hell's Kitchen on Monday evening. Gordon Ramsay introduced that Paul Niedermann was the completely new champion through the 2-hour episode of Fox's cooking competition. STORY: Fox Renews 'Hell's Kitchen' for just two More Seasons Niedermann, 26, a junior sous chef from Davie, Fla., won the "mind chef" position at NY's BLT Steak. He outshine Will Lustberg, a sous chef from Jersey City, N.J., for your title. Inside the final challenge, both participants created their unique menus and introduced categories of their past rivals through adinner service. STORY: Gordon Ramsay's New Montreal Restaurant Evacuated on Opening Evening Niedermann's menu incorporated truffle risotto with warm asparagus salad roasted N.Y. steak with saffron and celery root purée, the town sprouts and chianti jus grilled swordfish with yellow pepper romanesco, rapini and blue crab-stuffed tomato blueberry polenta cake with mascarpone, Chantilly cream, pistachio nuts and brûléed bananas and strawberry tulsi Napoleon with orange crème fraiche panna cotta and micro tulsi. "You will discover no words to describe generate an earnings am feeling at this time around,Inch Niedermann mentioned upon being named the champion. Gordon Ramsay Fox Broadcasting Corporation Hell's Kitchen

Rebecca Hall is spooked inside the Awakening trailer

A trailer for spookfest The Awakening has crept online.The '20s-set chiller stars Rebecca Hall becoming an author and part-time proto-ghostbuster, who sets about finding paranormal hoaxes in their spare time.She's approached to analyze spooky goings-on inside a boys' boarding school by history master Dominic West, and everything has a turn for your sinister.Before you decide to say "Three Males Together With An InfantInch a creepy ghost-kid is arriving in a few developing photos and frightening the bejesus from everyone.The Awakening seems heavily much like Henry James classic novella The Turn In The Screw (that's no harmful factor if the involves ghost tales) in the way it's attempting to declare that the mysterious activity may be playing inside your brain of Hall's lonely character.Getting a rock-solid cast (Hall, West, the ever-reliable Imelda Staunton just like a salt-of-the-earth schoolma'am), gloomy cinematography and nice period detail, it's all the tips from the classy number of several hours of scares, so see the trailer now: The Awakening is positioned to start on 11 November 2011.

Marisa Tomei On For All Of Us & Them

She's joining the comedy castWhile there is a little shiver of fear that runs lower our backs once we hear the saying "family comedy", we are prepared to shove the sneaking tendrils of worry aside considering the fact that Us & Them features Billy Very inside a lead role. While he's no guarantee of quality, he's a minimum of funny. Now Marisa Tomei is going to be playing his estranged daughter within the movie. Us & Them finds Very and Bette Midler like a couple who're all of a sudden forced to look after their three grandchildren (including Bailee Madison, who seems in next month's horror You Shouldn't Be Scared of the Dark). Naturally, the generation gap is sort of a yawning chasm for everybody involved and also the older folks simply do not understand the youngsters' modern ways. However they in some way struggle through as well as attempt to repair the fractured bond using their daughter Alice (Tomei). Forgive us for letting the worry in at this time, however the script's latest draft is as simple as Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel who, despite getting some solid credits for their title (including City Slickers, among Crystal's career highlights), last introduced the planet Tooth Fairy. And Andy Fickman, who dabbled in multi-generational comedy using the decidedly dodgy You Again, is behind your camera. Our fingers, however, remain entered. Everything begins shooting later this month in Atlanta.

Netflix Subs Falling Lacking Anticipation After It Split Streaming And DVD Rental fees

Netflix shares might take popular today: The organization states today inside a letter to investors that domestic monthly subscriptions aren’t supporting in addition to it anticipated in This summer after it introduced it would sell digital streaming and DVD rental fees individually — raising the cost from the combined service by 60%. Netflix states its 3Q report likely can have it has 21.8M streaming clients, below the 22M it forecast at the end of This summer. And DVD-only rental fees are way off: It now needs 2.2M subs versus 3M it anticipated. About 12M purchase both services, just like the This summer forecast. The organization states: “We become acquainted with our decision to separate our services has upset a number of our customers, which we don’t take gently, but we feel this split will let us to create our services better for customers and investors for a long time.”

CBS Chief Ces Moonves States Ad Sales Should Stay Strong Into 2012

CBS chief Ces Moonves grew to become an associate from the chorus of media professionals telling experts today they aren’t feeling any discomfort within the anemic economy. “We don’t go to a recession,” he told the lending company of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications and Entertainment Conference.Ad prices inside the TV scatter marketis strong, according to him. Also, “people who bought (ads) inside the upfront are growing their orders.”Evenradio andbillboards support. Indeed, Moonves needs the television network being “very much desired inside the first quarter. Our schedule is very strong. Another males have plenty of new shows. I realize we’re the boring network, but we’re the stable network which we simply win.” Stations will even make the most of what according to him is really a record level of trading for your 2012 elections. “It is probably not ideal for the country, nevertheless it’s prone to b ideal for CBS.” Moonves needs digital business to “grow substantially over the following five years.”Still, hesays his decision not to join another major systems backing Hulu is “one in the best things we’ve done.” Joining track of rivals can be a “bad idea.” What’s more, “they get 70 cents concerning the dollar (for ads on Hulu).I buy 100%” by running shows on CBS’ site. Moonves also likes the flexibility he must sell CBS-controlled shows to outsiders including Netflix. “Content is forever,” according to him. “We’ve made $20M yearly in revenue from I Like Lucy, a demonstrate that was last produced in 1957.Fiftyyears from now another guy using this chair will probably be selling CSI.” Moonves states he’s glad he needed his time to work through terms with Netflix — that the offer is not exclusive. Dish Network “clearly will most likely be somebody” in online streaming, according to him. “They didn’t buy Blockbuster to own stores concerning the corner.” Also, “Amazon clearly is coming in the large way.” Within the areas, Moonves states he expects to announce a substantial agreement by getting an not named who is the owner of CBS affiliate entrepreneurs to discuss the retransmission consent revenues the organization’s stations collect from satellite and cable companies. … The CBS chief states he needs to look for the cost CBS covers Nfl games rise in three years when the current contract expires — but hopes it won’t be as large since the 60%-plus increase ESPN recognized within the new deal. … Moonves states “we’re prone to go slow” in developing CBS Films, which will remain”a minor part of we.” …And posting unit Simon & Schuster is a lot more lucrative laptop or computer was this past year largely because of growing sales of e-books. Amazon . com . com Boss Rob Bezos “has single-handedly transformed the posting business,” Moonves states.

NBC may come as professional football returns

The Eye's special "9/11: ten years Later," an update in the doc, came a considerable aud Sunday. NBC's "Sunday Evening Football" featuring the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NY Jets came greater than 25 million. Nielsen chart, page 10 Football returned to large sums the other day, and NBC was the finest beneficiary. The Peacock's opening two games in the Nfl season -- like the "Sunday Evening Football" marquee game involving the Dallas Cowboys as well as the NY Jets -- towered over everything airing in primetime. Each shipped nearly an 11 rating among grownups 18-49 while drawing greater than 25 million audiences, lifting NBC with a dominant victory. Of course, a couple of days at the office Day is among transition, having a couple of shows -- as being a&E's "Storage Wars" and FX's "Save Me" -- wrapping just before the onslaught of fall broadcast premieres searching for inside a couple of days. And furthermore for the National football league, other series beginning off their fall seasons incorporated FX's hot "Sons of Anarchy" and Bravo's "Real Regular folks of Beverly Slopes." Overall for your Sept. 5-11 frame, NBC's 3.9 rating/11 participate grownups 18-49 towered inside the competition, with Univision ranking second (1.7/5), then Fox (1.6/5), CBS (1.5/4) and ABC (1.5/4). The Peacock also cruised in grownups 25-54 (4.4/11) additionally to total audiences (11.millions of). At NBC, whose weekly demo average was the finest for nearly any network since March, Thursday's Nfl kickoff opener involving the Eco-friendly Bay Packers and Saints averaged a monster 10.9 rating/30 participate grownups 18-49 and 27.17 million audiences oversall. Inside the demo, this makes the overall game pitting the individuals who win in the latter Super Bowls the most effective-rated regular-season Nfl primetime game to air on a single network in 14 years. Together with a few nights later, concerning the evening in the 10-year commemoration of 9/11, NBC's "Sunday Evening Football" opener involving the Jets and Cowboys averaged a ten.7/27 in 18-49 and 25.77 million audiences overall -- edging out a game title title from last December being most likely probably the most-seen "SNF" game since NBC started the package in 2006. NBC's large week incorporated two top-10 perfs in 18-49 by "America's Got Talent," including Tuesday's two-hour performance show (3.1/8, 11.85m). The series appeared to become most likely probably the most-seen non-football telecast every week, calculating 12.36 million audiences for Wednesday's results show. CBS acquired a considerable audience on Sunday while using two-hour special "9/11: 10 years Later" (3.6/9 in 1849, 12.34m), an up-to-date version in the acclaimed documentary that initially broadcast in March 2002. In cable the other day, FX's "Sons of Anarchy" opened up up its fourth season Tuesday with record amounts (2.5/7 in 18-49, 4.93m), standing since the frame's No. 1 scripted program among males 25-54 (2.8/7). And subsequently evening, "Save Me" wrapped its work on our prime side (1.1/3, 2.33m). Also of note: ESPN acquired large with Saturday's wild national football league and nfl and college football game between Michigan and Notre Dame (2.9/10, 7.54m) A&E's "Storage Wars" (2.1/6, 5.33m) hit a collection high and increased being the net's No. 1 series telecast on record ABC Family's "The Important Thing Existence in the American Teen" ended its summer season season strong (1.4/4 in 18-49, 2.83m), having its 2./7 in persons 12-34 the most effective for nearly any Tv program Monday evening BET's season finale of "Sunday Best" came a franchise-best 2.11 million audiences Disney Channel's Friday comedy "Phineas and Ferb" came its greatest aud yet among both kids 6-11 (2.millions of) and boys 6-11 (1.millions of) truTV's "Hardcore Pawn" came a collection-high 2.49 million audiences Tuesday, while on one evening, new Warner Bros. Animation comedy "The Looney Tunes Show" shipped series levels in key demos additionally to total audiences (2.56 million). At Bravo, the summer season preem of "Real Regular folks of Beverly Slopes" averaged 2.18 million audiences Monday -- a sizable gain inside the show's series premiere of a year ago while not a collection record. It absolutely was the initial episode in the show since the August suicide of just one of the participants. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Lifetime Builds up Fashion Reality Series '24 Hour Catwalk'

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesAlexa Chung Lifetime finds another companion series to select Project Runway. The feminine-focused cable network has bought 10 cases of round-the-clock Catwalk, possible series through which four designers will compete to create their unique collection in one day. Model/TV personality Alexa Chung remains attracted onto host the series through which idol idol judges including designer Cynthia Rowley, NY Occasions fashion editor Derek Blasberg and publicist James LaForce will whittle lower participants to find which has the most effective vision, talent and endurance being the next "it" title popular. Jane Street Entertainment will produce round-the-clock Catwalk, with Linda Jum and Donna Macletchie (Food Network's Next Food Network Star, 24-Hour Restaurant Fight), with Lifetime's Make the most of Sharenow, Gena McCarthy and Colleen Conway executive creating for Lifetime. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit Lifetime Project Runway

Introducing ENTV, the Entertainment Minute From the Movieline Mothership

The labs at Movieline’s parent company PMC are always developing cool and creative ways to improve their comprehensive entertainment-media machine, and so it should come as no surprise that the TV and streaming video realms would receive a visit sooner or later. Thus ENTV, or Entertainment News Television, a new, regularly updated initiative featuring stories from around the PMC network — sites like Deadline, TVLine, Hollywood Life and, of course, this very site as well. Coolest of all? We’re going to cable! PMC’s new partners at the ION Network will include ENTV interludes throughout its broadcast schedule, meaning that host Chelsea Cannell and all the news that’s fit to fuel our family of Web sites will now be regular viewing material for a nationwide television audience. (ION reached nearly 100 million homes in the U.S.) It will also have a permanent home in our right sidebar, where it takes up residence today. What does it look like? What can you expect? Try a sample, and ask for future episodes in the cable package/taxicab TV display/airplane seat-back screen nearest you! We’re everywhere! Your browser does not support iframes.

9/11 training: A period for restraint

Launched during the cold months of 2002, Spike Lee's overlooked drama '25th Hour,' starring Erectile dysfunction Norton, shipped a mournful elegy for publish-9/11 New You are able to.The entire year 2006 was an essential one for 9/11 cinema. April saw the discharge of Paul Greengrass' "U . s . 93," that was adopted three several weeks later by Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" -- two sincere and eminently respectable pictures that, for those their visceral terror and immediacy, brought us tentatively in direction of hope. "U . s . 93" spun a heroic narrative of yankee lives not sacrificed in vain, while "World Trade Center" consoled us that the couple of good males were drawn securely in the boulders. For apparent reasons, I count both films one of the more sobering moviegoing encounters of my lifetime -- worthy and scrupulous but (more to my disappointment than i'm happy to report) not terribly hard to shake. Which isn't something I possibly could possibly say about 9/11. Watching both films, it had been hard to not sense a particular hesitation for the filmmakers, as though they'd sublimated their pitch-dark artistic impulses to some reflexive posture of decency and restraint (specifically in the situation of Stone, whose politically incendiary streak was little in evidence). They appeared to think, intuitively, the full devastation of the items these were attempting to represent would just be an excessive amount of for moviegoers to deal with. These were right. It's telling that neither Greengrass nor Stone elected to re-produce the image that advances most readily in your thoughts whenever we think about that terrible day. To illustrate the Twin Towers burning and falling apart wouldn't have only been reductive, obscene and self-beating, it might have uncovered the fundamental lack of ability in our movies to reckon having a real-world crisis of the magnitude. Individuals who once carelessly compared the pictures of 9/11 to "something from a filmInch were wrong: The stark, undoctored horror of individuals low-grade TV images defeated any setpiece a Hollywood studio could concoct. Inside a brilliant 2009 essay for Salon, critic Matt Zoller Seitz advanced the provocative notion that 9/11 haunts us not only due to the unthinkable demise it signifies, but due to the perverse showmanship that it had been performed. It had not been a film it had been made to grip us in ways no movie could. "The reaction to 9/11 by artists, writers, poets, journalists, essayists, songwriters, composers, filmmakers and graphic artists has came for an enormous collective make an effort to answer one pending artwork with numerous more compact ones," Seitz authored, quarrelling that 9/11 isn't just an emergency for the nation to mourn but a picture for the artists to grapple with. To be certain, yesteryear ten years have experienced numerous independent efforts, in the 2003 omnibus "September 11" towards the recent nonfiction chronicle "Rebirth," that have valiantly tried to seem sensible of the senseless catastrophe. Among the decade's standout documentaries is really a 9/11 film by omission: James Marsh's "Guy on Wire" will not make any reference to the attacks, yet its account of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk erects a shrine towards the Twin Towers that's poignant beyond words. 5 years after "U . s . 93" and "World Trade Center," Hollywood has yet to confront the trauma of 9/11 directly with any comparable level of ambition or courage. The reason why are largely commercial audiences aren't exactly arranging for any depressing hit of reality. When studio filmmakers have clearly addressed the subject, they have tended to trivialize or exploit it -- a passing reference in "Love Really" and "Final Destination 3," or perhaps a ghoulish plot device in "Remember Me." It's dispiriting to recall that within the immediate wake of 9/11, the responded avoid instant artistic inspiration but a self-serving campaign of harm control. Warner Bros. postponed the October discharge of the Arnold Schwarzenegger actioner "Collateral Damage," which emerged four several weeks later having a hijacking scene duly excised. Disney pressed its Tim Allen comedy "Large Trouble" from September to March, fearing negative a reaction to its nukes-on-a-plane climax. Posters and trailers featuring the low Manhattan skyline were hastily changed to mirror our troubling new reality. And not less than 5 years after, any film that required on 9/11 was met with serious clucks of "Could it be too early?Inch -- as though an artist's reaction to a national tragedy were something to become timed and eager under carefully supervised conditions, just like a Jell-O mold. "No poetry after Auschwitz" appeared to possess been became a member of with a fresh Hollywood epitaph: No blockbusters after Ground Zero. 10 years later, everything well-meaning sensitivity has evaporated. We once thought we'd never again laugh in the crazy sight of aliens coming in the Whitened House in Roland Emmerich's pre-9/11 blockbuster "Independence Day." Yet following a decade of Emmerich disaster epics and Michael Bay's "Transformers" movies (the 2010 model featured Shia LaBoeuf dealing with a falling apart skyscraper just like a giant Slip 'n Slide), the galleries have clearly shed their qualms about problem our delicate sensibilities. That isn't intended like a knock on Emmerich and Bay, who boast an uncanny if unsubtle knack for making use of our collective disaster-laden dreams. To savor these movies is, possibly, to see some superficial catharsis, to relish the masochistic spectacle in our own destruction from the safe distance, and also to persuade ourselves that such worst-situation situations remain easily within the arena of large-budget fiction. Yet reassurance requires that certain turn a blind eye not just to history, but additionally that any contemporary film offering up a predicament of mass annihilation is, enjoy it or otherwise, a 9/11 movie.The very best of these, in my opinion, have contacted the topic obliquely, directing our reminiscences of this day in ways that does not preclude thrills, but continues to impress moral and intellectual engagement. Annually before "U . s . 93" and "World Trade Center," Steven Spielberg unleashed their own 9/11 diptych with "War from the Mobile phone industry's," an apocalyptic sci-fier as trenchant and disturbing every in modern movies, and "Munich," whose final shot around the globe Trade Center talks volumes concerning the futility of attempting to rationalize violence. Serious-minded fantasy films for example Peter Jackson's "The The almighty from the Rings" trilogy and also the later payments from the "Harry Potter" series (both franchises hit theaters in 2001) are informed by a feeling of evil palpable yet elastic enough to ask a number of allegorical blood pressure measurements. And Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Dark night" is really a movie profoundly formed by 9/11, conjuring a jagged, menacing modern metropolis where no civilian is protected. Company directors like Spielberg and Nolan have proven that popular filmmaking may also be intensely personal, however the movie that strikes me because the cinema's most wrenching, deeply felt reaction to 9/11 came and went very silently. Launched in the winter months 2002, Spike Lee's "25th Hour" was an elegy for brand new You are able to that in some way handled to wrest meaning in the ashes. While Lee never once mentions the big event that dangles within the story just like a shroud, his images -- a dent sequence from the city's Tribute see how to avoid memorial, a conversation presented from the gaping hole of Ground Zero -- speak gracefully and despairingly to the collective anguish. The film is not embalmed by grief this is an angry, bristling, exhilarating good article that demands on rage and profane humor as essential expressions of human resilience. Suffused with dying even while it pulses with existence, "25th Hour" reminds us of all things we lost on 9/11 and, improbable because it appears even ten years later, everything we still need to love. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

Jesse Jackson, Lady Antebellum Cancel Indiana Condition Fair Performances, Maroon 5 Plan Benefit Show

There won't be any Jesse Jackson or Lady Antebellum concerts in the Indiana Condition Fair now. Fair authorities introduced Monday that have been canceled within the wake from the tragedy in the Hoosier Lottery Grandstand on Saturday, whenever a hulk of stage rigging and equipment was shoved over by instant wind, killing five and hurting dozens.our editor recommendsSugarland Concert Stage Collapse: Music artists Respond to the TragedyMaroon 5 and Train in the Hollywood Bowl: Concert Review VIDEO: Sugarland Stage Collapse: Indiana Condition Fair Coordinators Thought They'd Additional Time Jackson was scheduled to do in the fair on Wednesday (August. 17) and Lady Antebellum was slotted for Friday (August. 19). Another concert, Thursday's double bill featuring Maroon 5 and Train, goes on but a brand new location is going to be introduced tomorrow, fair spokesperson Andy Klotz stated. Prior to the announcement is made in Indiana, Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine told Billboard.com on Monday he had a minimum of some bookings about playing a rock concert in the fair so right after the tragedy. "It simply doesn't appear such as the right kind of atmosphere, y'know?," he noted. "It'll most likely take a while to heal. It's this type of tragedy." STORY: Sugarland Stage Collapse: Dying Toll Reaches 5 Shocking New Video In the Scene Valentine added that Maroon 5 can also be wishing to carry out a benefit show at another locale for that groups of the Indiana sufferers, but continues to be exercising individuals particulars. A request comment is not came back from Jackson's repetition. A memorial service occured Monday to recognition the sufferers from the weekend's tragedy, whenever a stage flattened underneath the pressure of 60-70 miles per hour winds, killing five and delivering 45 towards the hospital, some with critical injuries. The incident happened half an hour after Sara Bareilles' set and merely moments before Sugarland was scheduled to do. STORY: Sugarland Stage Collapse: An Eyewitness Report Governor Mitch Daniels known as it a "freakish accident" and also the Indiana Work Safety and health Administration and also the Condition Fire Marshal's office have started performing research, the Indiana Star reported. The organization that erected happens, Mid-America Seem Corp., launched an argument too saying these were starting an interior analysis "to comprehend, to the very best of our ability, what went down.Inch Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland told the AP inside a statement that they was "so moved" through the occasions and also the result of fans within the stands. "Moved through the grief of individuals families who lost family members. Moved through the discomfort of individuals who have been hurt and also the anxiety about their own families. Moved through the great gallantry when i viewed a lot of brave Indiana fans really run toward happens to help lift and save individuals hurt. Moved through the quickness and organization from the emergency employees who setup the triage and tended towards the hurt." Additional confirming by Gary Graff. Related Subjects Jesse Jackson Adam Levine