Director Stephen Daldry to become Honored at Palm Springs Film Festival

Stephen Daldry is going to be honored as Director of the season for his focus on "Very Noisy & Incredibly Close" in the Palm Springs Worldwide Film Festival's Honours Gala on Jan. 7 in the Palm Springs Convention Center."Stephen Daldry has received worldwide acclaim like a director, getting his consummate skill to both cinema and stage," festival chairman Harold Matzner stated. "In the latest work, 'Extremely Noisy & Incredibly Close,' he directs a virtuoso cast within the story of the youthful boy who, after losing his father on 9/11, continues a mission to understand how much of an unusual key present in his father's possessions may unlock. This journey then turns into a metaphor for the necessity of a young child to keep a detailed bond with a family member who died tragically and too early.InchA 3 time Oscar nominee, Daldry also offers directed Billy Elliot, The Hrs and also the Readers.The festival itself runs Jan. 5-16. The Hollywood Reporter

iTunes 12 Times of Christmas

The iTunes 12 Times of Christmas promotion has returned, which year you will find a number of exciting tunes, music videos, applications and books available.It's a great way to seize newer and more effective content for your shiny new iPad or apple iphone you have for Christmas!So, after you have overindulged in poultry and all sorts of the trimmings on Xmas day, visit iTunes on 26 December to determine what download free can be obtained on that day.The promotion is running every single day, with a brand new download added every day until The month of january 6. Return here every single day and go here to iTunes 12 Times of Christmas to download and relish the latest item.Every gift can be obtained for twenty-four hrs only so make certain you click here every single day (between 12 , 26 - Jan 6) to actually don't miss anything.Benefit from the extended festive period!

Real Housewives Star Nene Leakes to Guest-Star on Glee

Nene Leaks On Monday's Watch What Happens Live, Glee stars Lea Michele and Chris Colfer spilled some serious Glee gossip to host Andy Cohen: Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes will guest-star on the Fox dramedy.Keck's Exclusives: More details on Glee's salute to Michael JacksonLeakes will play Roz Washington, McKinley High's new swim coach. "We were snooping on some confidential files and saw that her real name was Linnethia... which I am obsessed with now," Michele said. "She's awesome. She plays the new swim coach, Roz."And could Roz also be a threat to Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester? Shortly after Michele and Colfer spilled the beans, Leakes tweeted: "Running through the house screaming Gleeeeee! Coach Roz Washington is gonna get that Sue Sylvester! I'm so proud of myself."Get more scoop on Leakes' role in the clip below. Glee returns Jan. 17 at 8/7c on Fox.

Experts stick with 'The Artist'

Crix stick with 'The Artist.'Critical acclaim has not been most likely probably the most reliable bellwether for Oscar glory, nevertheless the flurry of finish-of-year options by experts groups offers some knowledge of the movies that have honours momentum. With nearly 20 groups getting already introduced -- and no less than twelve left later on -Body factor has become abundantly apparent: Experts like "The Artist." A good deal. The Boston, Indiana, Las vegas, NY and Hillcrest orgs are actually charmed enough with the black-and-white-colored pic take top honors. Really, getting an overall total of seven up to now, Michel Haznavicius' "The Artist" has acquired more best-picture nods from experts groups than other Oscar competitors like "The Descendants" (four: Houston, La, Florida and Southeastern), "The Tree of Existence" (four: African-American Film Experts, San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto and Chicago) and "Hugo" (one: the country's Board of Review). Inadequacies in recognition for "The Help,In . that's still considered a very viable contender for Oscar, points for the disconnect between experts and Academy voters. The film can be a virtual lock for just about any best picture Oscar nom and is constantly collect kudos for Viola Davis, yet this broad-based drama that acquired almost $170 million laminator tl901 office might be a too conventional for experts. Regardless of the concept experts come from touch while using Oscar election, the groups' ancillary groups reveal some definite consensus. For his menacing submit "Drive," Albert Brooks has acquired ten best supporting actor nods from experts groups -- greater than almost every other thesp in any category. Having less a SAG nomination remains his only weakness to be able to an Academy awards berth. Christopher Plummer has acquired five experts picks for his role in "Beginners," along with the SAG nom. The kudos for lead actor are actually much more spread around, with Michael Fassbender ("Shame"), Michael Shannon ("Take Shelter") and George Clooney ("The Descendants") producing three each and Kaira Pitt ("Moneyball," "Tree of Existence") at two. Lead actress kudos visit Michelle Williams six occasions for "My Week With Marilyn," adopted carefully by Tilda Swinton for "We must Discuss Kevin" and Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady," each at three. Viola Davis remains attracted on by two groups for "The Help.In . Supporting stars Jessica Chastain (for multiple roles) and Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants") are actually named in four experts bulletins. "Bridesmaids" supporting actress Melissa McCarthy proceeds the roll she started within the Emmys in September, producing three experts nods up to now. "The Help's" Octavia Spencer remains attracted on two occasions. Despite the fact that the cinematography category isn't usually near the top of handicappers' lists, one title has centered for experts: "Tree of Existence" d.p. Emmanuel Lubezki remains attracted on for his work 11 occasions. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com

Casting Call: Chris Meloni Signs On For True Blood

First Published: December 14, 2011 11:54 AM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Christopher Meloni attends the 2011 Radio City Christmas Spectacular opening night at Radio City Music Hall, NY City, on November 16, 2011Theres some new blood coming to True Blood. Chris Meloni of former Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fame is headed to Bon Temps for the HBO series fifth season, a rep for the network confirmed to Access Hollywood on Wednesday. After a nearly year-long break from TV, the actor will return to the small screen as an ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill [Stephen Moyer] and Eric [Alexander Skarsgard] in his hands, True Blood executive producer Alan Ball told TV Line. True Blood marks the second HBO show for the 50-year-old actor he previously enjoyed a 5-year run on Oz. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Meloni left Law & Order: SVU after 12 seasons alongside Mariska Hargitay on the NBC crime drama. He will also appear in Zach Snyders Superman reboot, Man of Steel, as Colonel Hardy. Man of Steel is slated for release in June 2013. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Steven Spielberg on 'War Horse'

Steven Spielberg on 'War Horse'Although audiences will most likely identify most while using humans undertaking in Steven Spielberg's "War Equine," the director states the heavens who surprised him most were the equines.The film is founded on a play of the title (situated in turn on Michael Morpurgo's novel) that employed elaborate puppet horses to represent the bond from the youthful guy and Joey, the equine his father sells into military intend to aid the fighting family. To get the sweeping The Very First World War epic to screen, Spielberg used live stallions for dramatic fight moments additionally to emotional moments.He credits the film's equine master, Bobby Lovgren, to create the horses at ease with sitting on set and dealing while using stars."The horses need to trust individuals they're around," Spielberg states. "They can't simply be there for work every morning, hit their mark and emote their feelings. They have to really understand who they really are in no time with."Though Spielberg is famous for managing a structured, efficient shoot, the director states he was gratified with the "happy accidents" that happened while shooting "War Equine" -- "I'm speaking about people wonderfully unpredictable moments where Joey responded beyond anything we'd ever planned for," according to him. "Each day was filled with surprises and little moments of question for individuals. With the finish from the experience, everybody stood a new respect for your intelligence as well as the sensitivity of horses."Although Joey's journey from plowing fields to fighting the enemy seems to mirror youthful Elliott's arc in "E.T.," Spielberg doesn't start to see the parallels as parallels. They're simply common touchstones that attract him to tales."Plenty of my figures in several my films are thrown into situations that they're not necessarily ready for and possess to improve above their particular self doubts," according to him. "Measuring only a recurring theme in several of my pictures."EYE Round The Oscars: THE DIRECTOR Helmers hot to globe trotWoody Allen Stephen Daldry David Fincher Michel Hazanavicius Terrence Malick Bennett Burns Alexander Payne Jason Reitman Martin Scorsese Steven SpielbergIn this mix Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com

Exclusive: Vampire Diaries Casts Klaus' Original Brothers

Caspar Zafer, Nathaniel Buzolic Get ready to meet Klaus' other Original brothers on The Vampire Diaries. British actor Caspar Zafer (La Femme Muskateer) and Australian actor Nathaniel Buzolic (Out of the Blue) have been tapped to play the recurring roles of Finn and Kol, respectively, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Both brothers have a bone to pick with Klaus (Joseph Morgan), especially since they've been locked up in those coffins Klaus has been carting around for so long. The Vampire Diaries Bite: Joseph Morgan wants a new adversary We've previously met Klaus' step-father, Mikael (Sebastian Roche), who Klaus killed in the midseason finale, and Klaus' sister, Rebekah (Claire Holt), who recently died at the hands of Elena (Nina Dobrev). Meanwhile, the group's other brother, Elijah (Daniel Gillies, is back in the coffins that Stefan (Paul Wesley) so cleverly stole from Klaus. Two other Original brothers died of the plague and a werewolf attack centuries prior. The Vampire Diaries returns Thursday, Jan. 5 at 8/7c on The CW. Zafer and Buzolic will first appear in Episode 13.

Cowboys & Aliens Sparks Texas Suit

The author from the 1995 comic story concentrating on the same title since the movie Cowboys & Aliens has punished producers in the movie together with a comics author, alleging they stole his idea. Austin-based author Steven John Busti filed the suit in federal court in Texas. The suit namedDreamWorks Art galleries, Universal Pictures and comic entrepreneur Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and the organization Platinum Art galleries as accused. Busti claims he emerged while using idea for cowboys fighting aliens in 1994 and launched an account one year afterwards titled “Cowboys & Aliens” in the comic referred to as “Bizarre Fantasy.” The suit also claims that in 1994 the publicationComic Shop News went a component on his Cowboys & Aliens idea inside the same issue that went an account on Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s LA-based Platinum Art galleries in 2006 launched the graphic novel series Cowboys & Aliens — which Busti asserted inside the suit has striking parallels to his work.Universal and DreamWorks bought movie rights from Platinum. Busti’s claim is an additional black markagainst the film that the art galleries placed high hopes together with a sizable budget. A substantial disappointment financially,Cowboys & Aliens made about $175 million worldwide, barely greater than it cost.

'People's Court' Defendant Missing After Appearing on Show

About 40 volunteers joined Orlando police Monday to help search for Michelle Parker, a mother of three who disappeared after appearing on an episode of The People's Court last week. Parker went on the syndicated show to battle Dale Smith, her ex-boyfriend and father of her three-year-old twin sons, over a $5000 engagement ring that she allegedly threw over a balcony during an argument. She was last seen in Orlando on Thursday, the same day her episode aired. Her SUV was found Friday on the west side of the city. PHOTOS: 10 TV Trials That Shook The World: Casey Anthony, Rodney King Her mother, Yvonne Stewart, is part of the search effort and told the Orlando Sentinel, "She shouldn't be where she is right now. She is somewhere scared. Somebody has her. We forgive you. Please turn her loose." Stewart has also said that Parker was unhappy that she went public with her dispute with Smith. According to an ABC News interview with Stewart, Parker told her that the show "was the most humiliating experience of my life. I don't even ever want to see it. I wish I had never gone." Though Parker and Smith reportedly had a sometimes violent relationship, police do not consider him a suspect in the case presently. Volunteers, including members of the non-profit recovery group Texas Equusearch, have distributed an estimated 20,000 fliers concerning Parker. A spokesperson for The People's Court said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, "We hope for Michelle Parker's safe return." Related Topics

SNL Ties Season High In Adults 18-49

SNL Auditions Regis Philbin Replacements Last night’s Saturday Night Live hosted by Jason Segel with musical guest Florence + The Machine, averaged a 4.6/11 in metered-market households and a 2.8/12 in adults 18-49 in Local People Meters. The late-night sketch show was up a tenth in both measures from last week’s telecast hosted by Emma Stone with Coldplay. In 18-49, SNL mached its best result this season (tied with the Oct. 12 edition hosted by Charlie Day with Maroon 5). Here is Segel’s monologue, in which he was joined by his co-stars from The Muppets movie:

Arnold Schwarzenegger Injured on Set of 'The Last Stand'

Let this photo be proof that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not invincible (physically speaking, of course; his scandal over the summer proved his lack of mental invincibility). While on the set of his new movie, 'The Last Stand,' Ah-nuld tweeted a photo of himself with a bloody gash on top of his forehead. "Got a little banged up on set today," wrote the star. "Thanks to the medical staff who got me back in action an hour later!" Along with 'The Expendables 2' and 'Black Sands,' 'The Last Stand' is part of Schwarzenegger's return to acting. In 'Stand,' the former California governor will play a sheriff hunting down a drug cartel leader on his way to Mexico. It's scheduled to hit theaters in January, 2013. Check out the injury below. [via @schwarzenegger] [Photo: Twitpic] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

2011 music sales strike upward note

Engaging in the holiday gift-buying season, total music sales were up 5.1% using the finish of October, according to figures released Thursday by Nielsen SoundScan. Throughout an online seminar presentation by NARM, SoundScan senior veep of entertainment analysis David Bakula mentioned total music sales through March. 30 rose to 353 million models, versus. 336 million this season. Overall album sales were up 3% over a year ago, with 249 million albums offered versus 242 million a year ago. Digital album sales grown 19.7% to 81 million, but physical album sales ongoing to express no, losing 3.5%, with 168 million offered this year. However, Bakula noted the drop in Compact disk sales has abated somewhat, following 2010's precipitous 20% decline. Current album sales wound up 1.7% using the finish of October, but catalog sales shown reasonable increase, with overall catalog elevated 9.1% and deep catalog up 12.5%. Vinyl sales continued to be as forecasted to improve 30% this season, even though format comprises about just 1.6% of overall sales. Bakula noted the configuration might be the middle of indie stores, which sells exclusive vinyl pieces on Record Store Day as well as the publish-Thanksgiving To Black Friday. Sales inside the traditional retail space ongoing to erode. Niche music chains were off 10% (while using closure of Edges benefiting from undeniable impact), independent stores fell 9.3%, mass merchants were lower 3.2% and non-traditional retailers for instance Local coffee shop dropped 21.8%. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Host Joy Behar Set to Exit HLN at Year's End

Joy Behar will part ways with HLN at year's end, an insider confirms to The Hollywood Reporter.our editor recommendsJoy Behar Says 'I Do' The View co-host has been a key piece of HLN's increased profile in recent years. Thanks in part to her coverage of the Casey Anthony trial -- the host famously asked one of Anthony's attornies if "you'd let Casey babysit your kids" -- theJoy Behar Showwas up 38 percent in total viewers for the third quarter, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to TV Newser. VIDEO: Joy Behar Has Another Outburst on 'The View' What's more, with the exception of Nancy Grace's populartalker,Behar's 2-year-old programis the highest-rated show on the Turner-owned cable network, which has grown its viewership on the back of entertainment news and trial coverage. The network declined to comment on Behar's departure. STORY: Joy Behar Explains Why She Walked Off 'The View' Since fall 2009, the opinionated comedian has been juggling her series on CNN's sister network withher role on ABC'sThe View. Related Topics ABC The View Joy Behar HLN

Ugly Betty's Becki Newton Suits Up for How I Met Your Mother

Becki Newton It looks like How I Met Your Mother's resident ladies' man won't be on the market for long. After Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) - spoiler alert! - dumped Nora only to be rejected by Robin (Cobie Smulders), Becki Newton has been cast as his new potential love interest, TVLine reports. Watch full episodes of How I Met Your Mother The Ugly Betty alum, 33, will make her first appearance as Quinn in January and will recur throughout Season 7. Following the end of Betty in 2009, Newton starred on the short-lived NBC anthology series Love Bites. Do you think Newton is a good match for Barney? Or are you still holding out hope for Robin to come to her senses (we sure are!)?

I'd Get the Worst News out of your Beautiful Lips (Eu receberia as piores noticias dos seus lindos labios)

A Drama Filmes production, in colaboration with Cinepro Us dot, Locall, TV Zero. Created by Bianca Villar, Renato Ciasca. Directed by Beto Brant, Renato Ciasca. Script, Marcal Aquino, Brant, Ciasca, in line with the novel by Aquino.With: Camila Pitanga, Gustavo Machado, Zecarlos Machado, Gero Camilo, Adriano Barosso, Antonio Pitanga, Magnolio p Oliveira, Simone Sou, Livea Amazonas.A sultry clime and sultrier sex steam in the preposterously entitled erotic melodrama "I'd Get the Worst News Out Of Your Beautiful Lips." Brazilian directorial duo Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca's second adaptation of the Marcal Aquino novel, after 2002 Sundance title "The Trespasser," is again more significant because of its atmosphere -- here, remarkably sticky and hot-to-trot -- compared to flashback-laden narrative, which, between energetic sexual workout routines, handles to become excessively symbolical and soapy. Beyond Lusophone areas, latenight fest and television showings (ideally viewed in seedy hotels in exotic locales) would be the pic's best bets. Within an Amazonian nowheresville, a beyond-beautiful lady, Livinia (Camila Pitanga), is married to some bookish preacher (Zecarlos Machado) for reasons only progressively revealed. Her spiritual well-being assured, it's her libido that requires taking care of enter a handsome digital photographer (Gustavo Machado) prepared to lend the proverbial hands. Very steamy extramarital nookie develops early and frequently, with Livinia too clearly torn between the requirements of body and soul. Sex scenes' roving camerawork and saturated colors -- think flamingo-pink skies -- contrast using the more static, flatly lit and milky hued flashbacks and moments of preaching. Acting's around the money.Camera (color), Lula Araujo editor, Willem Dias music, Simone Sou, Alfredo Bello production designer, Akira Goto. Examined on DVD, Rio p Janeiro, March. 18, 2011. (In Rio p Janeiro Film Festival -- competing.) Running time: 104 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com

Peter Liguori disappear as Discovery Communications COO at Year's Finish

NY - Discovery Communications COO Peter Liguori, which has dedicated to strengthening the cable network company's OWN together with other partnership channels, will leave the business after couple of years becasue it is no. 2 executive. Discovery made the departure in the former News Corp. top executive, who reported to leader and Boss David Zaslav, official in the statement on Wednesday. The business didn't give a cause of his exit, but experts have formerly suggested that Liguori could have a look at new options inside the fiction/scripted TV space. The business mentioned it'll eliminate the COO position and distribute its responsibilities one of the organization's senior management team. Liguori, who formerly went Fox and Foreign exchange, grew to become an associate of Discovery within the month of the month of january 2010 and chances are it will leave within the finish of year. Respected Discovery CFO Bradley Singer taken also introduced he could leave the business in March. At Discovery Communications, Liguori oversaw the launches of partnership systems The Hub, OWN and 3net. "Pete's leadership, enthusiasm and artistic vision have introduced a completely new and important perspective to Discovery," mentioned Zaslav. "Around the globe, our programming, marketing and marketing efforts have greatly accomplished good success from his energy, experience and artistic eye." He added: "Pete is only a terrific guy and gifted executive, and If only by way of thanking him for your many significant contributions he's made whatsoever levels of Discovery Communications." Mentioned Liguori: "Time at Discovery remains incredibly rewarding. Each day I used to be inspired to use alongside highly gifted and hard-working staff who never stopped to surprise utilizing their passion, expertise and commitment. It has been a privilege to own brought to Discovery's mission also to have aided lots of systems and kinds boost their ambition and accelerate their creative momentum." He added "aspecial word of gratitude to David Zaslav for his partnership and friendship too for giving me the opportunity to stretch new creative muscles inside the nonfiction space." Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Discovery Communications

The spanish language Distributor Penalized for 'Larry Crowne' Ad

MADRID - An advertisement of Tom Hanks and Jennifer Aniston riding a scooter without headgear for Ray Crowne has arrived the film's The spanish language distributor a traffic fine of 30,000 pounds ($41,500) for marketing reckless driving.our editor recommendsLarry Crowne: Film Review PHOTOS: Jennifer Aniston, Lily Collins Enchant in Relativity's Snow Whitened Project, 'Mirror Mirror' "Once the fine turned up within the publish we think it is a tale,Inch an insider at The spanish language distributor Tripictures told the Cinemania website. "We didn't even expect something similar to this whenever we distributed the remake from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre." It's not the very first situation of The spanish language traffic government bodies making good on the 1985 prohibit on advertising that encourages poor driving habits and fining celebs for that image they promote. In August 2010, Shakira got a 400 euro slap around the wrist for turning up within the video on her song Loca, driving through Barcelona on the Harley motorcycle with no helmet. Related Subjects Jennifer Aniston Tom Hanks Worldwide Ray Crowne

OSCARS: 18 Animated Feature Films Submit

Beverly Hills, CA Eighteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 84th Academy Awards. The 18 submitted features are: “The Adventures of Tintin” “Alois Nebel” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked” “Arthur Christmas” “Cars 2″ “A Cat in Paris” “Chico & Rita” “Gnomeo & Juliet” “Happy Feet Two” “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil” “Kung Fu Panda 2″ “Mars Needs Moms” “Puss in Boots” “Rango” “Rio” “The Smurfs” “Winnie the Pooh” “Wrinkles” Several of the films listed have not yet had their required Los Angeles qualifying runs. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and meet all of the category’s other qualifying rules before they can advance in the voting process. At least eight eligible animated features must be theatrically released in Los Angeles County within the calendar year for this category to be activated. Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category may also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories. The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Spartacus Returns Getting a Vengeance within the month of the month of january

Liam McIntyre Bloodshed and bare physiques will return to Starz within the month of the month of january. The network introduced Thursday the 2nd season of the hit sword-and-sandal series, Spartacus: Vengeance, will premiere Friday, Jan. 27 at 10/9c. Spartacus star Andy Whitfield dies of lymphoma at 39 It marks the debut of newcomer Liam McIntyre, who will get control the title role from Andy Whitfield, who initially walked lower following a first season wrapped to cope with his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He died fighting the problem in September. Spartacus: Vengeance can get a few days after home of Batiatus experienced a brutal massacre. Former slave Spartacus (McIntyre) and also the fellow freed combatants will live to create an military that will still free slaves with the country and overthrow the Roman Empire. Joining McIntyre are Lucy Lawless, Peter Mensah, Manu Bennett, Dustin Clare, Nick E. Tarabay, Katrina Law, Craig Parker and Viva Bianca. Cynthia Addai-Robinson replaces Lesley-Ann Brandt as body slave Naevia. Look at this preview: Spartacus: Vengeance will air Fridays at 10/9c on Starz beginning Jan. 27. Is not it time for Spartacus: Vengeance? That are you searching toward seeing most likely probably the most? How can McIntyre look as Spartacus?

TV Ratings: 'Allen Gregory' On Slow Start, 'Once Upon A Time' Stays Solid

FOX The Philadelphia Eagles' domination in the Dallas Cowboys throughout Sunday Evening Football gave a apparent ratings victory for NBC last evening, while using network calculating 16.8 million audiences for your evening, getting a 6.7 rating in grownups 18 to 49. ABC also exercised well, seeing slight increases on Desperate Regular folks (9.3 million, 3.1) and Pan Am (5.6 000 0000, 1.9). Not such a long time ago also had a great have a throughout its second outing. Total viewership only wound up having a million, lower to 11.6, while losing little hold in grownups 18 to 49, producing a 3.9. FOX's animated block returned carrying out a several-week hiatus, while using notable addition of Allen Gregory. The series premiere only exercised a lot better than the 9:30 broadcast in the Cleveland Show, though, debuting to 4.7 million getting a couple.4 inside the key demo. The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Problems" Halloween special was received by 8 million, with 4. in grownups 18 to 49. Overall, CBS showed up second to NBC, calculating 14.5 million throughout the time from the evening getting a 3.7 in grownups -- aided, undoubtedly, by Nfl runover. Fox (5.6 000 0000, 2.7) adopted in grownups but was assigned by ABC (7.9 million, 2.5) in general audience. NBC - 6.7 - Football Evening In The United States: 1.4 million, 4.7 - Sunday Evening Football (Philadelphia versus. Dallas from 8:30 - 11 p.m.): 20.4 million, 8.2 CBS - 3.7 - Football runover/an hour or so: 23.5 million, 6.8 - Amazing Race 19: 14.3 million, 3.5 - The Truly Amazing Wife: 10.millions of, 2.2 - CSI: Miami: 10.millions of, 2. FOX - 2.7 - The Cleveland Show (R): 4.8 million, 1.9 - The Simpsons (R): 5.4 million, 2.5 - The Simpsons: 8 million, 4. - Allen Gregory: 4.7 million, 2.4 - Family Guy: 5.96 million, 3.2 - The Cleveland Show: 4.6 000 0000, 2.3 ABC - 2.5 - Not such a long time ago (R): 5.2 million, 1.2 - Not such a long time ago: 11.6 000 0000, 3.9 - Desperate Regular folks: 9.3 million, 3.1 - Pan Am: 5.6 000 0000, 1.9 TV Ratings The Simpsons Not such a long time ago Sunday Evening Football

Relativity belittled for China shoot

BEIJING -- Relativity Media remains belittled by human rights groups for shooting laffer "21 as well as overInch in the city where among China's most prominent dissidents, the blind "barefoot lawyer" Chen Guangcheng, continues to be held under house arrest. The controversy has come about as Hollywood shingles are trying to forge closer links for the thriving Chinese film biz, and suggests that although China is opening and altering, human rights issues haven't gone away and could cause serious pr mind aches. What's particularly angered human rights activists might be the strategies by which Relativity has boasted of the close links for the local Communist Party, they blame for your abuse of Chen, that's been held along with his family under house arrest since his release from prison this season. In the statement announcing the start of shooting, Relativity reported the Communist Party secretary of Linyi Municipal Committee, Zhang Shajun, who's reported as saying: "We welcome worldwide filmmakers get to Linyi to produce beautiful worldwide films, and particularly welcome my good friend Ryan Kavanaugh, and also the great company Relativity being shooting inside our historic city." Alongside artist Ai Weiwei, Chen is probably China's finest-profile dissident. He offered incarceration for drawing concentrate on forced sterilizations and abortions in the area because of the primary one Child Policy, as well as, since his release a year ago remains saved at his home along with his family and apparently beaten by hired thugs, plenty of whom patrol the location round his house, disturbing anybody searching to go into, including foreign diplomats and journalists. His youthful daughter remains rejected an area in kindergarten and also the 80-year-old mother remains barred from departing her home, activists claim. His plight has converted into an underlying cause celebre on Weibo, a Chinese version in the banned Twitter service. Nanjing-based activist He Peirong, which has done much to pay attention to Chen's plight, highlights the region surrounding Chen's home is a no-go area. "Co-operating in this movie means they have overlooked the violence implemented to Chen with the Linyi government," He mentioned in the phone interview. Safeguarding its decision to shoot inside the city, Relativity mentioned: "In the founding, Relativity Media is really a consistent and open supporter of human rights, which we'd not knowingly do just about anything to undermine this commitment." "21 as well as overInch might be the very first co-production pic being made beneath the U.S.-China tie-in Sky Land, a shingle run by Relativity Media, SAIF Partners and IDG China Media, which recently introduced an effective alliance with Huaxia Film Distribution Company, one of the official distribution agencies in the Chinese government. Pic features Miles Teller ("Footloose"), Justin Chon (the "Twilight" franchise), Skylar Astin ("Taking Woodstock") and Sarah Wright ("The House Bunny"), and scribes were Jon Lucas and Scott Moore of "The Hangover." Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Chris Dodd urges tech teampup

At the SMPTE confab Wednesday, the MPAA's Chris Dodd spoke of Hollywood as a source of innovation just like Silicon Valley. MPAA chairman Chris Dodd spoke to Hollywood's foremost technical groups Wednesday and sought to portray showbiz as being on the cusp of innovation despite perceptions that it is clinging to outdated business models and often pitted against the interests of Silicon Valley. Seven months into his job as the leader of the studios' chief trade association, Dodd told the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers Conference, "There are those who would pit these two communities against each other in a manufactured conflict more reminiscent to the Washington D.C. Beltway chatter I learned to ignore on my last job. "To listen to some in the tech community, we in the film and TV industry are dinosaurs, they like to say, clinging desperately to a broken business model and stubbornly refusing to evolve. But this criticism, in my view, ignores a century of innovation in film and television." He said showbiz not only must adapt -- embracing technology "as our friend" -- but must "innovate in our own right." "The truth is, Hollywood and Silicon Valley have mutually benefitted from their partnership for a long time -- and one of my top priorities at the MPAA will be to grow and strengthen that partnership," he said. "We cannot survive without each other." He plans to visit Silicon Valley tech firms next month. Yet the MPAA, other industry trade associations and the guilds and unions are running up against some in the tech sector, including Google and Yahoo, in pushing for passage of legislation that would target websites, particularly those overseas, centered on infringing activities. The legislation would give the government more authority to block domain names as well as provide measures to choke off support of the sites from ad firms, payment processors and search engines. A House version of the bill was introduced Wednesday; the Senate Judiciary Committee passed its own version unanimously last spring. Google's Eric Schmidt has been a vocal opponent of the bill, citing free-speech concerns, and on Wednesday, the NetCoalition, of which the search giant is a member, said the House bill "will regulate the Internet" and lead to a "morass of legal and regulatory uncertainty." Speaking to Variety before his speech, Dodd said of Google: "I regret that they are taking that position. I think they are wrong about it. It is exaggerated hyperbole in my view. How do you justify providing a search engine for someone to go and steal something?" He said he would be willing to meet with Google leaders but said they are an "outlier" in their opposition, noting that both the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO support the legislation. He said ad firms, search engines and payment processors that provide support to infringing sites act as "accessories" to content theft. "I voted for Net Neutrality," said Dodd, who ended a 30-year career in the Senate in January. "I never voted for the idea that because it was neutral, you could go in and steal from me. Where does that right come from?" He added, "When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites." Dodd called on SMPTE to join its campaign to press for the new antipiracy legislation, part of an overall effort to try to engage the Hollywood rank-and-file in what has been up largely a policy matter inside the Beltway. He also called on industry donors to make the case for strong copyright protection when they attend fund-raisers for the flood of candidates who trek to Hollywood to seek campaign cash. "While the industry gets involved in causes that are about domestic issues, the environment, jobs, foreign policy, there has been a reluctance on the part of the industry to talk about itself, to talk about its needs," he told Variety. He added that when he was in the Senate, "I never felt offended when I spoke to some industry and they wanted to tell me what their point of view was. I respected that. They had every right to do so. I think we need to get the (entertainment) industry to step up and do more of that." When studios chiefs announced Dodd's appointment earlier this year, some expressed frustration that Hollywood had lost its image as a bastion for innovation and hoped that Dodd would help refine the message. In his speech, Dodd several times mentioned Steve Jobs as an innovator who understood the tech-showbiz symbiosis and noted that Jobs, shortly before he died, told Fox co-chairman Jim Gianopulos: "Don't let what happened in the music business happen to yours -- keep coming up with better ways to provide people with your content." Dodd said the industry was "threatened" by piracy but cited not just legislative efforts but UltraViolet, the system hatched by studios, tech and electronics firms that will allow consumers to buy a movie and watch it in multiple formats and on various devices. Dodd also spoke of better engaging young consumers to view content theft as harmful, saying that the industry's creativity could better be used to spread messaging and be as effective as campaigns against smoking and drunk driving. He even talked of "idea placement," in which shows like "Glee" could embed messages of the perils of piracy within their storylines. Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com

Pretty Little Liars Star: A Completely New "A" Suspect Arises in Halloween Prequel

Pretty Little Liars Pretty Little Liars star Sasha Pieterse has two suggestion for audiences watching the Halloween episode: Take notice. "It amplifies evidence additionally to a different suspect arises," Pieterse states. "They is someone you haven't really considered before, or individuals who've, there is not much evidence to aid it.Inch Will Pretty Little Liars' Ezra get ready for fight against Aria's parents? The arrival prequel is told within the point-of-take a look at Alison (Pieterse), whose mysterious dying might be the reason for series. The first time, audiences will dsicover Alison outdoors of flashbacks. "It shows her vulnerable side ... and her first encounters along with her competitors," she notifies TVGuide.com. Pieterse, 15, elaborates: "Take notice [to] the initial opening scene. Keep searching at their surroundings. We have seen Alison's room the first time. Have a look at her room for a lot of interesting things inside.Inch Pretty Little Liars finale: burning questions clarified! An important element is Jenna's arrival to Rosewood. An amazing scene involving the two suggests that Alison once employed Jenna (Tammin Sursok) into her group. "Alison always hated Jenna, however, you do not define why which ties my way through. She wanted her on her behalf account side because she recognized Jenna had potential," she states. Pieterse states the information uncovered in Wednesday's episode will probably be addressed when the show returns for your partner of Season 2 within the month of the month of january. "The audiences know things from Alison's perspective that [Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily] haven't determined. It will get worse next and they're going to soon get together using the audiences," she states. Watch a clip of Alison and Jenna's first meeting within the episode airing Wednesday at 8/7c on ABC Family.

Mariella Perez takes incentive program to Hollywood

When Film District's "The Rum Diary," starring The Actor-brad Pitt, opened in La on March. 14, Mariella Perez, the film commissioner of Puerto Rico was one of the visitors. And no surprise. The film shot positioned on the area.But Perez also had all business within the film capital. She spent the majority of the week ending up in executives from The new sony, Disney, Fox, Relativity yet others galleries to provide Puerto Rico's new film incentives program, that has been around the books since March. The area has lengthy attracted Hollywood, getting located projects varying from Disney's "Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," Universal's "Fast 5," Warner Bros' "The Nonwinners," ABC's "From the Map" (that Puerto Rico bending for Hawaii), USA Network's "Royal Pains," and HBO's "Eastbound and Lower." While making the studio models, Perez's intent ended up being to persuade decision-makers to increase their production around the Island much more. Throughout her whirlwind tour she spoke to Variety:Variety: How frequently would you visit L.A.?Perez: We come here more often than once annually, but this time around particularly we are marketing our new incentives program. What the law states which was in position going back ten years was refurbished on March 4, 2011, stretching not just the amount of qualified projects but getting rid of the 50% principal photography requirement, (reducing) million-dollar spend needs to $100,000, and including an above-the-line credit. Variety: How large a noticable difference may be the new law?Perez: It's more aggressive. The prior law incorporated merely a 40% incentive on obligations to citizens. This bill not just adds an infrastructure incentive, but additionally adds the above mentioned-the-line credit that people did not have before - a 20% credit on nonresident talent, including stars, stunts, extra supplies - everything that's on-screen.Variety: How lengthy will what the law states maintain place?Perez: Once we described towards the galleries, until 2019. Variety: Typically, that do you talk with in the galleries?Perez: Finance professionals - people in the budgeting and estimate departments. They would like to understand how to increase the credit and just how it'll affect their budgets. It's pretty informal. They request us questions like the number of deck hands will we have, what is the turnaround time on credits, how's it not the same as Louisiana, Hawaii along with other states. We did lots of homework to update our program making it more competitive.Variety: As to the extent does Puerto Rico also contend with other nations?Perez: A great deal. Another component that has led to Puerto Rico being more the main attraction is the fact that due to safety concerns for that cast and crew you are able to no more go shoot in Rio or Mexico City or Colombia how you could a couple of years back, therefore we double for Mexico and a lot of Latin American nations.Variety: When it comes to crew base, the number of large features can Puerto Rico accommodate concurrently?Perez: Two.Variety: How about soundstages?Perez: Regrettably we do not have soundstages yet. We now have groups thinking about building stages. But we all do have several government-possessed warehouse spaces you can use for filming. "The Rum Journals" did almost all their inside in 2 warehouses by which they built sets. Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com

HBO Developing Merritt Johnson-Penned Dark Comedy With Don Johnson Producing & Potentially Starring

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is reteaming with Temple Grandin scribe W. Merritt Johnson, this time on the series side. The pay cable network has in the hopper a dark comedy project written by Merritt, which is being developed as a starring vehicle for Don Johnson. Johnson is executive producing the project with his manager Jason Weinberg and Merritt. The dark comedy, based on an idea from Merritt and Chris Carmona, who will serve as supervising producer, centers on a suicidal game show host, the role earmarked for Johnson, who is trying to avoid the downward spiral of his life while dealing with the headache of his family and work life. The project expands Don Johnson’s relationship with HBO where he has been recurring on the off-beat comedy series Eastbound & Down. The Gersh-repped actor did 2 episodes last year and will return in the upcoming third season to reprise his role as Eduardo Sanchez. In addition to the HBO comedy, Merritt Johnson has a drama in the works at Showtime about the Ball LGBT subculture, which he is writing as well as executive producing with Lee Daniels, who is attached to direct. Merritt Johnson, repped by CAA and Leverage, previously worked on the HBO half-hour drama In Treatment.

Academy awards: Michael B. Seligman Returns As Supervisory Producer

Beverly Hillsides, CA Michael B. Seligman continues to be named supervisory producer from the 84th Oscars telecast, marking his 35th year of connection to the show, telecast producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer introduced today. “Michaels experience around the Academy awards is unmatched,” stated Ratner and Mischer. “With his understanding of other nutritional foods Oscar and the diverse associations through the industry, we needed to get him to on we.” Using more than 300 major television occasions to his credit, Seligman is an expert in creating live broadcasts around the world. He presently is becoming executive producer for NBCs two-hour live show “The American Giving Honours.” Seligman has gained an overall total of nine Emmy nominations, including nods received this season for his focus on the 83rd Oscars and “Stand As much as Cancer, a multiyear fundraiser program which has broadcast on four systems and many cable channels concurrently. He's received seven nominations for his focus on Oscar telecasts alone. Seligmans other creating credits include “America Remembers This summer fourth at Fords Theatre “Americas Millennium, a 3-hour live New Years Eve celebration the NBC special “Funny Women of Television” and “Return towards the TitanicLive!” Oscars for outstanding film accomplishments of 2011 will be provided on Sunday, Feb 26, 2012, in the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and public live and eat the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation will also be public reside in a lot more than 200 nations worldwide.

Influential Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers Dies

Sue Mengers Sue Mengers, most likely probably the most influential Hollywood agents through the sixties, '70s and eighties, died following several small strokes, Vanity Fair reviews. She mentioned being 78 years old, however, many sources mentioned she was 81. According to Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter, Mengers died Saturday at her Beverly Slopes home ornamented by close pals, Ali MacGraw, Joanna Poitier (widow of Sidney) and Boaty Boatwright. Remember other stars we lost this year Mengers was produced in Germany and gone after the united states . States along with her parents in 1938 through the Holocaust. She started inside the entertainment industry in 1955 when she labored inside a receptionist at MCA, your William Morris Agency. She left the 2nd company in 1963 being a realtor and her initial few large clients incorporated Broadway actress Julie Harris and Psycho's Anthony Perkins. Until her retirement in 1986, Mengers labored at Creative Management Affiliate marketers and Worldwide Creative Management and was one of the pioneering female agents available. Her clientele incorporated Candice Bergen, Michael Caine, Cher, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Sidney Lumet, Steve McQueen, Nick Nolte, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd and Barbra Streisand, who offered as Mengers' maid-matron of honour in their 1973 wedding to Belgian author-director Jean-Claude Tramont. (Tramont died in 1996). Mengers appeared to become the muse for your character referred to by her client, Dyan Cannon, inside the 1973 film All the Sheila. Mengers maintained a stronghold inside the film community extended after her retirement in the commercial side. "When she wound her career lower inside the eighties, Agent Sue increased being Hostess Sue-and he or she being more efficient in their new vocation," Carter written within the tribute. "Dinner at Sue's was like walking in to a Hollywood you imagined, but rarely experienced."

Much deeper Dark evening Increases footage hits the web

Starring Wally Pfister as DP and Christopher Nolan since the Guy, this Dark Dark evening Increases footage shot in downtown La may be the finest we view for a while.Bob Nolan's shoot presently consists of cop cars, Softball softball bat automobiles and moody shots in the Dark Dark evening wandering lower an alley using what seems such as the incorrect part of town (you'll be able to right part of town in Gotham?).Plus, awesome Gotham Police Department SWAT truck. Want!

Adam Lamberts Second Album Slated for First Quarter Release

RCA Records The other day will be a whirlwind at RCA Records because the organization formally confirmed it absolutely was absorbing storied labels Arista, Jive and J. Among the casualties of consolidation: The The American Idol Show Show champion Lee DeWyze, whose choice for future tracks wasn't acquired. our editor recommendsFirst Look: Adam Lambert as Mentor on 'Majors & Minors' (Exclusive)Adam Lambert 'Leading the Charge too as with Control' of latest Album, States Songwriter Nevertheless the restructuring still leaves plenty of active Idols round the roster, including season 1 victor Kelly Clarkson, whose new album More effective arrives March. 21, season 5 finalistChris Daughtry, whose latest, Break the Spell, arrives November. 21, and season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert, one of the finest non-champion success tales to depart the show. STORY:RCA Professionals Confirm Jive and Arista Labels Shut Lower Lambert's second studio album remains probably the most anticipated releases of 2012, thanks mainly towards the wealth of his debut, For That Entertainment, that's thisclose to being licensed platinum for sales greater than a million models. Nevertheless the follow-up has seen a few delays: first, when Lambert switched management in the heart of it cycle, and again, by their very own admission, because of his "perfectionist" character. "Here's the sale: there's been a couple of creative set backs round the first single," he tweeted on Sunday. "Mainly cuz I'm a perfectionist. '. Seems as though the only real will explode in November. I'm sorry for your delay- but trust me, it's useful.Inch More youthful crowd written, "right now, album will probably be released in the year. Feb/march?" RCA Records COO Tom Corson echoed that sentiment, telling The Hollywood Reporter, "We moved the album back because the creative process remains unfolding." The executive notes it's "not because we're not searching toward what we've got, we just think we could top it, but we're immediately round the cusp." For his part, Lambert remains tweeting semi-regular updates on his Twitter feed in addition to revealing clips of lyrics, for instance: "Lost inside communication breakdown / Better just read my lips / Comin' in clearer once we get lower / Iceberg / Just the tip" and "All along, Cleaning it once a to pretend it didn't matter essentially was alone." STORY:RCA Records' Peter Edge and Tom Corson on Why the Label Cut lower which is Devote The brand new the new sony's Large Picture (Q&A) It's been noted that Lambert is "while using reins" relating to this album so much more compared to his debut, and Corson concurred: "Adam is unquestionably more involved than in the past but he's really taking pleasure for the reason that. People first records if you appear of Idol, the timelines are really tight, so that it's a guy-made experience. Now he's room to breathe and time, he doesn't have to appear TV, onto an trip after which it include an album out for Christmas." However, RCA Boss Peter Edge opined that AmericanIdol was a perfect platform with an artist like Lambert. "Adam is a good example [of how] if you're suitable for your kind of format, it's a fast way of getting attention," he told THR. "I don't understand that Adam Lambert may have think it is easy to acquire a record deal, however in the show, you saw how unique he was, this type of great voice and great artist he was. That might have been tough to do through conventional ways." When will his as-yet-to-be-titled full-length possibly go to a release date? "February, March -- somewhere inside,Inch states Corson. "Certainly first quarter." Twitter: @shirleyhalperin, @idol_worship Kelly Clarkson The The American Idol Show Show RCA Records Tom Corson Peter Edge

Aaron Eckhart to star in I, Frankenstein

Lionsgate have introduced that Aaron Eckhart will lead their adaption of Kevin Grevioux's graphic novel I, Frankenstein.The Dark Dark evening and Fight: La actor Eckhart may have 'Adam', Frankenstein's monster which has managed to get to the present day.He then finds themselves taken up in the fight between two immortal clans. Most most likely the role will dsicover Eckhart encasing his intimidatingly handsome face in prosthetics.Author/director Stuart Beattie (Tomorrow, When The War Began), mentioned "Mary Shelley's story is among the development of the extremely first individual. This really is really the storyline relating to this being becoming human."Lionsgate's co-COO and Film Group Leader Joe Drake mentioned "This story is all about exactly what it method to be human, and there can be ignore achingly human performance in comparison to 1 Aaron gave inside our own Rabbit Hole. We are so excited to determine which he'll provide this role."Eckhart can be a fine actor could he capable of bring gravitas with a story that sounds more than just a little silly?I, Frankenstein is positioned to start some time next season.

Will and Jada Pinkett Cruz Sell Comedy to ABC (Exclusive)

ABC has nabbed a multicamera comedy from Will and Jada Pinkett Cruz.our editor recommendsWhite House Drama From 'Cowboys & Aliens,' 'Robot Chicken' Teams Lands at ABC The pair, along with extended-time business partner James Lassiter, have offered the Untitled Romeo Project, with singerAnthony "Romeo" Santostapped to star. PHOTOS: Fall TV Dying Pool: Which New Show Will Probably Be Axed First? The project, which arises from ABC Art galleries in addition to their Overbrook Entertainment, concentrates on a charasmatic Dominican-American (Romeo) from Washington Levels, who tries to please his very traditional, immigrant father although creating a existence that reflects his new vision in the American Dream. (Because the character differs substantially within the singer's real existence, the dad-boy relationship is comparable to Romeo's along with his father.) STORY: Mark Gordon Sells Burglar Alarm Comedy to ABC Chris Pappas and Mike Bernier (Unhitched, One Evening Stan) assists as authors and executive producers round the project, while using Smiths and Lassiter attached as non-writing executive producers. If ultimately bought to series, it could join an growing cadre of Cruz projects, including films The Karate Kid as well as the Secret Information on Bees, along with Broadway's Fela! and TNT's since-canceled Hawthorne. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects ABC Jada Pinkett Cruz Will Cruz TV Development

Nicole Kidman Talks Modern Motherhood at Women At NBCU Event (Exclusive Video)

Nicole Kidman was the keynote speaker in the Women at NBCU's "Energy from the Purse" breakfast in NY City on Tuesday. Bravo's Andy Cohen was available to conduct an active Q&A using the film star, too. The big event investigated how it is enjoy being a twenty-first century mother and just how companies can achieve them.our editor recommends'New Year's Eve' Second Trailer Showcases Star Energy (Video)New Movie Reviews: 'Drive,' 'I Have No Idea How She Does It' Striking TheatersSarah Jessica Parker Responds to CW's 'Sex and also the City' Prequel PHOTOS: Hollywood's 10 Greatest-Compensated Stars "My existence requires travel or odd public presentation, or, you realize, speculation about personal things," Parker states of her existence like a mother. "But who I'm like a mother, who I'm like a wife, is extremely, much the same I believe to millions... of ladies employed in and outdoors the house.Inch If this found marketing to present day mother, Parker recommended that "People react to truth instead of an effort to shake them lower." Parker also states she will observe how her Sex and also the City character, Barbara Bradshaw, was selected most by participants inside a Women at NBCU study to be the imaginary character they connect with most. PHOTOS: Met Gala 2011 Fashion Top Ten "Regardless of the more superficial stuff that were fun which were the kind of soufflé from the show," Parker states. "It had been her incredibly intimate associations together with her women buddies. It had been that necessity in her own existence, the reliance these women had on each other, and just how she honored it, and just how problematic she was, and just how contrite she was when she disappointed them." Amongst other things talked about throughout the live Q&A, Cohen performed a round of word connection to Parker. Watch The Hollywood Reporter's exclusive video above. Additionally, NBC News' Andrea Mitchell moderated a panel around the event's theme, "marketing towards the twenty-first century mother." Panelists incorporated Vinit Bharara, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Diapers.com Linda Sawyer, Boss, N.A Deutsch Corporation. A Minimal & Partners Company Julie Eddleman, Marketing Director, United States Media & Shopper Marketing, Proctor & Gamble Co Melissa Lavigne-Delville, Vice president of Trends and Proper Experience, Integrated Media at NBCUniversal. PHOTOS: Vivienne Westwood Fashion Exhibit Women at NBCU is definitely an ad sales, marketing and research initiative, which will help to produce custom solutions for marketers for connecting with female customers. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com Twitter:@TheRealJethro Related Subjects Nicole Kidman NBCUniversal

Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About This Weekend's Movies

comments: 0 || add yours Nope, new movies 50/50, Courageous, and Dream House didn’t take the weekend box office away from Moneyball and Dolphin Tale. Boo, I know. But that doesn’t mean your favorite Twitter celebrities didn’t have anything to say about it! In today’s Twit Wit, we see what Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, and one staggering Jeopardy! champ have to say about the cineplex. I’ll take “Moneyball Jokes” for $600, Alex. 5. Alec Baldwin had a rough weekend at the movies. 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R&B Singer Vesta Williams Found Dead in L.A. Accommodation

Vesta Williams, the R&B singer who had several hits within the eighties and early ྖs, was discovered dead inside a La accommodation on Thursday. She was 53. La County coroner's Capt. John Kades told the Connected Press the singer, who recorded under her name only, might have died from the possible drug overdose. An autopsy could be carried out to look for the reason for dying. PHOTOS: Notable Hollywood Deaths Williams was created in Coshocton, Ohio in 1957. She'd six tunes achieve Billboard's US R&B chart, including Once Bitten, Two times Shy, Sweet, Sweet Love, Special and Congratulations, that also charted around the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. Her last album, Distant Lover, was launched in 2007. She also behaved, showing up within the TV series Sister, Sister and director Mario Peebles' 1993 western, Posse. Related Subjects

Fox Orders New Gordon Ramsay Series

Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay is going to stir some misconception once more - but this time around it will not be in the kitchen area. Around the heels of Hell's Kitchen's finale which attracted almost six million audiences, Fox introduced Wednesday it has purchased another unscripted series from Ramsay's production company.Fall Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back showsThe series, tentatively entitled Hotel Hell, follows Ramsay along with a team of hospitality industry veterinarians because they travel mix-country to update battling hotels."They are tales that everybody can connect with, because virtually all people have were built with a bad hotel experience that's switched a vacation or business travel right into a total disaster," Ramsay stated. "You're ready to place the hospitality industry towards the test."Fall TV: Begin to see the 17 stars and also hardwearing . eyes about this yearThe show's format will mimic those of Kitchen Bad dreams - with Ramsay supplying business refurbishments to hotels, hotels, and mattress-and-breakfasts in serious necessity of help.Hotel Hell would be the 4th addition to Ramsay's reality TV empire. Younger crowd stars in Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Bad dreams and MasterChef.

Clint Eastwoods 'J. Edgar' Trailer Premieres (Video)

Keith Bernstein/Warner Bros. Pictures "Even great men can be corrupted," says Leonardo DiCaprio's J. Edgar Hoover in the trailer for Clint Eastwood's highly anticipated biopic. And there are plenty of great men in the Warner Bros. film: Oscar winner Clint Eastwood directs, Oscar-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio stars, and the screenplay was written by Dustin Lance Black, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2008's Milk. With such a stacked deck, the Warner Bros. film has already been generating plenty of Oscar buzz, due to its very stacked deck. ANALYSIS: Why Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt Are the Frontrunners in Oscar's Best Actor Race Although there's been months of hype, the trailer that premiered Monday is the first hint we've gotten as to what the film actually looks like. J. Edgar follows the mysterious life of the man who started and ran the Federal Bureau of Investigations. PHOTOS: Fall Movies 2011: Warner Bros. The film, which will debut at the AFI fest on November 3, also stars Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas and Ed Westwick. It is set for a November 9 release. Watch the trailer below (via CinemaBlend), or in HD on Apple, where the trailer premiered. Clint Eastwood Dustin Lance Black Leonardo DiCaprio J. Edgar

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ABC Family Cancels Nine Lives, Builds up 12 More Cases Of Lounging Game

Up-to-date: I hear that ABC Family has canceled newcomer drama The Nine Lives of Chloe King after one season, while giving back 12 order to another newcomer, The Lounging Game. Both be a consequence of Alloy books and possess been softy inside the ratings. Nine Lives opened up up reduced June with 2.2 million audiences. The Lounging Game launched lately with 1.4 million audiences. ABC Family’s breakout summer season hit, Switched at Birth, remains restored for just about any second season.

South Korean Romance Film Inspires Real-Life Break-Up Agency

If your romantic relationship is doomed to failure but you simply cannot summon the courage to end it, then boy, does China have the service for you! For the equivalent of anywhere between $15 and $30 USD, Chinese residents can hire a break-up agency to end their relationship. Is it cowardly? Yes! Painless? Yes! (Well, for you.) Inspired by a romance film? Yes again! After seeing the Korean film Sad Movie, Tu Weiming, a 25-year-old man from Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, started up a break-up service to help smooth strangers’ heartbreaks. Offered via the e-commerce website Taobao, Weiming and his agents charge clients on a case-by-case basis depending on the time, travel and consolation gifts involved. Agents deliver news of break-up through phone call, e-mail or instant message, proving that there is indeed something worse than being dumped via IM: Being dumped by a third party via IM. Several competing break-up agencies have popped up in China and while their break-up services vary slightly by company, they all reject cases that involve libel, criminal behavior, a partner under the age of 18, a partner in an ambiguous relationship or a partner that is mentally unstable. (You’re going to have to handle that one yourself.) A break-up agent who spoke with WantChinaTimes.com added that agencies “usually” reject cases of married couples. So that’s great news for the institution of marriage, or human evolution or something. Sad Movie, the 2005 South Korean ensemble film that inspired this break-up industry, follows one character who takes a job helping other couples break up. Ironically, he finds employment to woo back his ex-girlfriend, who dumped him because of his career instability. Check out an excerpt below. Break-up agencies are not just limited to China though. According to the BBC News, there is a German businessman who informs unsuspecting spouses and partners that their significant others want to end their relationships. The 52-year-old goes by the nickname “The Terminator” and charges slightly more money to deliver the news in person. · Not In Love Anymore? Hire Break-Up Agents to do the Dirty Work of Breaking Up [Neatorama]

Watercooler: Charm-Free Agents

Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn Eesh. Am i made to like these people? Last evening, NBC did itself no favors by premiering Free Agents soon after its much-more enjoyable effort, Up With The Evening. Discuss suffering in contrast. Whereas the Applegate-Arnett comedy has charm, potential and Maya Rudolph, this Hank Azaria factor had... Hank Azaria's chest. Seriously, people jarringly hairless guy-mounds should have be a mention inside the credits involving the opening mattress room scene which way-too clingy t-shirt he was sporting soon after. Oh, Agents also had the fabulous Kathryn Hahn, who is able to do greater than just hamming up just like a widow susceptible to sleeping with Azaria's desperate divorcee otherwise guzzling wine and making by helping cover their portraits of her dead fiancé. With various British fave, the u . s . states adaptation - about spin doctors inside a PR firm staffed by grotesquely annoying stereotypes like the prerequisite lothario together with a bitchy secretary who may really inspire self-harming among audiences - wants us to find out Azaria's neurotic as with a way appealing. Nevertheless the writing just reduces him with a metrosexual Woodsy Allen with no backbone in addition to less game (crying after sex?!), which sucks, because Azaria generally is a wholly likeable artist. Range from the wasted talents of Hahn and Anthony Stewart Mind, here reprising his Uk role since the oddly lascivious boss, and honestly, we're thinking they need to all fire their Agents. Perhaps you have watch Free Agents? And more importantly, are you able to again? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

'All My Children's' Alicia Minshew Is Ready to Move On (Exclusive)

ABC Alicia Minshew has played one of the most popular characters on ABC's All My Children since 2002. As Erica Kane's (Susan Lucci) daughter, Kendall Hart, fans have gone from hating her devious ways to loving the woman she has become. With the broadcast end of the daytime soap approaching next Friday, Minshew reveals to The Hollywood Reporter exclusively that she wouldn't return fulltime to Prospect Park's online continuation of the series. STORY: Susan Lucci Criticizes ABC Daytime Chief in New Epilogue "I know they are starting to approach people now," Minshew tells us. "If they were to come to me and ask me to do it [and] if I could work it out where I could maybe be recurring, I could pop in every now and then, I could work with these people that I love and still be a part of this. I would be open to that." Otherwise, the actress tells us that she's ready to do something fresh. "Something funny. Something light," she says. "I'd love to do a sitcom," she adds. "You know, but I don't really get a chance to do stuff like that when I'm on a soap, because it's a daytime drama, so everything is very dramatic. So, I'm really open to kind of whatever the universe is going to lay my way, whatever it is... but I'm leaning towards doing something funny in life, because I enjoy that and because I know I can do it. I'm craving something that's completely the opposite of what I've been doing." Meanwhile, her TV mom and close friend, Lucci, has been making recent headlines resulting from rewrites to her memoir that reveal she isn't happy at all with ABC brass for canceling the show. She writes among other critiques that the head of the network's daytime unit, Brian Frons, has "that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance." Minshew says even she's surprised by her cast mate's fury. STORY: 'Desperate Housewives' EP Bob Daily Addresses Susan Lucci Casting Rumors "I knew that she did not like it, but I did not know the level at which she was... I mean, she was really pissed," she tells us. " But, you know what? Good for her. I mean, for God's sakes the woman has been on that show for so long. It has been her life. And she should feel free to say however she feels." On the other hand, Minshew says she understands the business reasons for canceling the show. "If talk shows and reality TV is cheaper to produce," she says. "And you have to do it to save money, then you've got to do it. It is kind of changing with the times." And as for the big question of whether Lucci will be returning for the online incarnation of the series? "As far as I heard, Susan said no," Minshew tells us. Minshew is represented by Newman-Thomas Management. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter: @TheRealJethro RELATED: 'All My Children' Actress Mary Fickett Dies Carol Burnett Bids Farewell to 'All My Children' More 'All My Children' Coverage on THR ABC Susan Lucci All My Children

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Emmys Poll: Who's Your Pick to Win Drama Supporting Actor?

Peter Dinklage With reigning champ Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) out of contention this year, the Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Emmy is up for grabs.Emmys poll: Who's your pick to win drama supporting actress?The six who are in the running this year include two Good Wife men - Josh Charles and Alan Cumming - Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones), Walton Goggins (Justified), four-time nominee John Slattery (Mad Men) and Andre Braugher of the defunct Men of a Certain Age.Who's your pick to win? Vote below. Who do you think should win the Emmy for Oustanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series? Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age Alan Cumming, The Good Wife Josh Charles, The Good Wife Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Walton Goggins, Justified John Slattery, Mad Men vote view results