Naya Rivera Pushing For Glee Scenes With NeNe Leakes

First Published: December 21, 2011 2:00 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Glees Naya Rivera arrives at the FOX All-Star party at Gladstones in Pacific Palisades, Calif., on August 5, 2011Naya Rivera is cheering on Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes, who joins Glee next year as Coach Roz. Shes great. Shes hysterical, Naya, who plays McKinley High School Cheerio Santana on Glee, told Access Hollywood on Tuesday during a break from filming a new commercial for Proactiv. On Monday night, Chris Colfer (Kurt) and Lea Michele (Rachel) announced on Bravos Watch What Happens Live that NeNe was joining the cast for a guest spot. Chris and Lea admitted they were big Housewives fans and Naya told Access on Tuesday, she is too. I definitely do [watch Real Housewives of Atlanta] religiously, so I was stoked that she was coming. Got to meet her, Naya said of NeNes appearance, before dropping a hint that more NeNe could be in store. And, I think shes coming back! Naya is hoping if NeNe does return continuing what will be a faceoff with Jane Lynchs Sue Sylvester she wants some scenes with the reality star. No scenes with her [yet]. Ive been pushing for them, she said. Also headed to Glee in the new year, now that the guest star embargo seems to be over, is Gloria Estefan in the role of Santanas mother. Im very excited about that, Naya said of the Grammy-winners upcoming cameo. I have met her. She came to set earlier on in the year and brought her kids and I got to meet her then and I thought that was cool enough and for her to be playing my mom, its like, Yes! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Dark Knight Rises Viral Blitz: Bane's Gotham Attack Plans Revealed? (PICS)

Heads up, Dark Knight Rises watchers: A cool bit of viral marketing just arrived on my doorstep detailing what appear to be the dastardly plans of Tom Hardy’s S&M baddie Bane. If you’re remaining spoiler-free, I’d advise you not to hit the jump for more… not that I can really make heads or tails of the elaborate map of Gotham City he’s marked up with his dastardly plans. Fire’s about to rise, y’all! Okay, so we’re agreed — anything beyond this point could very well be spoilers. (Having pored over the contains of said package, I can at least say that I’m still fuzzy on exactly what I’m looking at.) Also: HOW COOL IS THIS MAP OF GOTHAM CITY?? But I understand if you want to remain as virgin-pure on any details whatsoever for the Dark Knight sequel. In which case, why did you even click this far? Anyways. The package consists of a mysterious mailing tube wrapped in what appears to be a map detailing an attack on Gotham City orchestrated, ostensibly, by Tom Hardy’s S&M villain Bane. Inside, a t-shirt declaring “Fire Rises” emblazoned with Bane’s silk-screened mug. I’m sure you’ll be able to find it at a Hot Topic near you soon enough. But back to that map: Scrawled all over it in red Sharpie are plans for a 5-front attack on Gotham City noting “GPD response time,” “Rally points,” and “Check point: Bridge/tunnels.” I know maps of the fictional Gotham City are nothing new, but still. So. Cool. Take a closer look at the five “strike zones” below. If you can make sense of this, be my guest! And please share your notes with the rest of the class in the comments below. Meanwhile, tremble in fear for the wrath of… The Dark Kitty Rises! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

'Dragon Tattoo' Star Rapace Bursts Into Hollywood

BEVERLY Slopes, Calif. (AP) Maybe it absolutely was inevitable that whoever showed up charge inside the original "Girl while using Dragon Tattoo" would become Sweden's next large export.Yet without or having a blockbuster role, Noomi Rapace always felt she'd use beyond the edges of her homeland.two and a half years following a debut of "Dragon Tattoo," the initial of her three eye-popping turns as late author Stieg Larsson's untamed heroine, Rapace has stormed into Hollywood in Robert Downey Junior.'s latest An Online Detective adventure and Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," a cousin to his sci-fi hit "Alien."Rapace felt right in your house among Downey's ensemble for "A Virtual Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows," while she was elevated on "Alien," ''Thelma & Louise" together with other films from director Scott."Ridley Scott is among my heroes since as extended after i can remember. I kind of really think that he saved me sometimes, because I usually felt being an outsider in Sweden. I didn't feel Swedish. I usually felt like something differs with me at night,In . Rapace mentioned inside an interview to market "An Online Detective,Inch which opens Friday. "The Swedish people are very repressed, and so they restrain plenty of things. It's like people are actually frightened of conflicts and feelings, and nobody really states anything to you. ..."So in the strange way, It's my job to felt that we could leave kind of a few things i came from from. However could never imagine I'd finish off using these people and doing movies while using best folks the planet.InchRapace, 31, came out in their first movie at 7 while dwelling in Iceland before her family gone to live in Sweden, and he or she remains acting continuously in the last decade.Nevertheless it was her performance as brilliant, traumatized, ferocious and feral computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in "The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo" that was her exit visa from Sweden.The Three films modified from Larsson's best-merchants increased being worldwide hits, with Hollywood quickly jumping looking for David Fincher's British-language remake of "Dragon Tattoo," opening just days after "An Online Detective.InchThe area of Lisbeth along with her tats, body piercings and anarchic spirit wasn't unknown to Rapace, who ongoing her edgy, punk-rocker tear in their early teens."There's a gap there after i wasn't into acting which i had been against everything. First, I used to be into doing judo and kung fu. I Rapidly was consuming a good deal,In . Rapace mentioned. "Therefore I kind of lost track for a while, i rapidly came back, I attracted myself together which i made a decision once i was 15 that i'm getting sober and i'm prone to become an actress."She registered for any drama secondary school in Stockholm and built a remarkable report on credits in Swedish film and tv in their 20s. When negligence Lisbeth came her way, she even used a couple of of her old punk clothes and shoes. Rapace found the film pre-perforated, reopening a vintage stud hole of her for starters of Lisbeth's piercings.To capture Lisbeth's intensity, Rapace also required to revive the wild spirit of her teen years."I desired to simply awaken that sleeping demon and say, 'It's time to return now,'" Rapace mentioned.Inside the "An Online DetectiveInch follow-up, Rapace plays a gypsy fortuneteller who teams tabs on Downey's great detective and partner Watson (Jude Law) against their archrival, Moriarty (Jared Harris).Downey met with Rapace and was offered on her behalf account for your role before he saw her in "Dragon Tattoo.""I Rapidly saw the film and thought, my God, how am i prone to take everything she's in a position to causeing this to be role worth her while and show another side of her?" Downey mentioned."She'll kick ass, that girl," mentioned "An Online DetectiveInch director Guy Ritchie. Rapace's Lisbeth was "frightening. There's a very good component of danger about her they keeps as being a wild animal, in the way."Doing interviews for your "Dragon Tattoo" films, Rapace recognized her British was weak, so set to coach herself the term what. Barely yearly later, she was fluent in British when she started up looking for "An Online DetectiveInch and Scott's "Prometheus."Due in theaters next summer season, "Prometheus" might be the filmmaker's go back to sci-fi, though Scott and also the collaborators are cagey about whether it's a prequel to 1979's "Alien," through which Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley first experienced the simple space monster.Co-starring with Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender, Rapace plays an archaeologist by having an exploratory mission that incurs trouble in deep space."It is not a clean prequel" to "Alien," Rapace mentioned. "It's certainly related. In my opinion you will observe connections" including some between her character and Weaver's Ripley."They are kind of inside the same family. Even though In my opinion that my character is kind of more feminine," Rapace mentioned. "She's more nave in the beginning together with a believer and full of hope, after which it within the middle of the film, she kind of changes into really enthusiast along with a survivor."Early next season, Rapace is positioned to shoot the crime story "Dead Guy Lower" with Colin Farrell, returning her with "Dragon Tattoo" director Niels Arden Oplev.Hollywood's version of "Dragon Tattoo" stars Difficulties and Rooney Mara, who provides her fierce undertake Lisbeth. Rapace mentioned she was not ever considering playing Lisbeth again herself, even though the film gets the possible ways to launch a blockbuster trilogy whose commercial success would far eclipse the Swedish adaptations."I used to be finished with her, which i felt like I left her once i was completed using the 3rd movie," Rapace mentioned. "I possibly could not go to whichever reason of kind of carrying it out again. I never desire to repeat myself. I usually desire to proceed and do a new challenge. So no, it had not been for me personally.InchCopyright laws 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By David Germain December 12, 2011 Noomi Rapace in "An Online Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows" PHOTO CREDIT Warner Bros. Pictures BEVERLY Slopes, Calif. (AP) Maybe it absolutely was inevitable that whoever showed up charge inside the original "Girl while using Dragon Tattoo" would become Sweden's next large export.Yet without or having a blockbuster role, Noomi Rapace always felt she'd use beyond the edges of her homeland.two and a half years following a debut of "Dragon Tattoo," the initial of her three eye-popping turns as late author Stieg Larsson's untamed heroine, Rapace has stormed into Hollywood in Robert Downey Junior.'s latest An Online Detective adventure and Ridley Scott's "Prometheus," a cousin to his sci-fi hit "Alien."Rapace felt right in your house among Downey's ensemble for "An Online Detective: A Game Title Title of Shadows," while she was elevated on "Alien," ''Thelma & Louise" together with other films from director Scott."Ridley Scott is among my heroes since as extended after i can remember. I kind of really think that he saved me sometimes, because It's my job to felt being an outsider in Sweden. I didn't feel Swedish. It's my job to felt like something differs with me at night,In . Rapace mentioned inside an interview to market "An Online Detective,Inch which opens Friday. "The Swedish people are very repressed, and so they restrain a number of things. It's like people are actually frightened of conflicts and feelings, and nobody really states anything to you. ..."So in the strange way, It's my job to felt that we could leave kind of a few things i came from from. However could never imagine I'd finish tabs on these individuals and doing movies while using best people in the world.InchRapace, 31, came out in their first movie at 7 while dwelling in Iceland before her family gone to live in Sweden, and he or she remains acting continuously in the last decade.Nevertheless it was her performance as brilliant, traumatized, ferocious and feral computer hacker Lisbeth Salander in "The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo" that was her exit visa from Sweden.The Three films modified from Larsson's best-merchants increased being worldwide hits, with Hollywood quickly jumping looking for David Fincher's British-language remake of "Dragon Tattoo," opening just days after "An Online Detective.InchThe area of Lisbeth along with her tats, body piercings and anarchic spirit wasn't unknown to Rapace, who ongoing her edgy, punk-rocker tear in their early teens."There's a gap there after i wasn't into acting which i had been against everything. First, I used to be into doing judo and kung fu. I Rapidly was consuming a good deal,In . Rapace mentioned. "Therefore I kind of lost track for a while, i rapidly came back, I attracted myself together which i made a decision once i was 15 that i'm getting sober and i'm prone to become an actress."She registered for any drama secondary school in Stockholm and built a amazing report on credits in Swedish film and tv in their 20s. When negligence Lisbeth came her way, she even used a couple of of her old punk clothes and shoes. Rapace found the film pre-perforated, reopening a vintage stud hole of her for starters of Lisbeth's piercings.To capture Lisbeth's intensity, Rapace also required to revive the wild spirit of her teen years."I desired to simply awaken that sleeping demon and say, 'It's time to return now,'" Rapace mentioned.Inside the "An Online DetectiveInch follow-up, Rapace plays a gypsy fortuneteller who teams tabs on Downey's great detective and partner Watson (Jude Law) against their archrival, Moriarty (Jared Harris).Downey met with Rapace and was offered on her behalf account for your role before he saw her in "Dragon Tattoo.""I Rapidly saw the film and thought, my God, how am i prone to take everything she's in a position to causeing this to be role worth her while and show another side of her?" Downey mentioned."She'll kick ass, that girl," mentioned "An Online DetectiveInch director Guy Ritchie. Rapace's Lisbeth was "frightening. There's a very good element of danger about her they keeps as being a wild animal, with techniques."Doing interviews for your "Dragon Tattoo" films, Rapace recognized her British was weak, so set to coach herself the term what. Barely yearly later, she was fluent in British when she started up searching for "An Online DetectiveInch and Scott's "Prometheus."Due in theaters next summer season, "Prometheus" might be the filmmaker's return to sci-fi, though Scott and also the collaborators are cagey about whether it's a prequel to 1979's "Alien," through which Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley first experienced the simple space monster.Co-starring with Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender, Rapace plays an archaeologist by having an exploratory mission that incurs trouble in deep space."It is not a clean prequel" to "Alien," Rapace mentioned. "It's certainly related. In my opinion you will observe connections" including some between her character and Weaver's Ripley."They are kind of inside the same family. Even though In my opinion that my character is kind of more feminine," Rapace mentioned. "She's more nave in the beginning together with a believer and full of hope, after which it in the heart of the film, she kind of changes into really enthusiast together with a survivor."Early next season, Rapace is positioned to shoot the crime story "Dead Guy Lower" with Colin Farrell, returning her with "Dragon Tattoo" director Niels Arden Oplev.Hollywood's version of "Dragon Tattoo" stars Difficulties and Rooney Mara, who provides her fierce undertake Lisbeth. Rapace mentioned she was not ever considering playing Lisbeth again herself, even though the film gets the possible ways to launch a blockbuster trilogy whose commercial success would far eclipse the Swedish adaptations."I used to be finished with her, which i felt like I left her once i was completed using the 3rd movie," Rapace mentioned. "I possibly could not go to whichever reason of kind of carrying it out again. I never desire to repeat myself. It's my job to desire to proceed and do a new challenge. So no, it had not been personally.InchCopyright laws and regulations 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Charlie Sheen's Ex Brooke Mueller Receiving At-Home Treatment for Addiction

Brooke Mueller Charlie Sheen's ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, is receiving at-home rehab treatment more than a week after being arrested on charges of felony cocaine possession with the intention to distribute, Us Weekly reports. "Recognizing past attempts at treatment have not been successful, Brooke has decided to take a different approach to deal with her addiction," Mueller's spokesman, Steve Honig, tells the magazine. "Brooke will be participating in a program during the day, and will be under expert supervision 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, Brooke has requested to be tested on a daily basis for cocaine and other illegal substances so there is no doubt as to her commitment." Brooke Mueller arrested for cocaine possession and assault "Brooke will retain custody of her children, both of whom will continue to remain at her home and be cared for by Brooke and their longtime nanny," Honig also told Us Weekly. "Charlie and Brooke's family are all fully supportive of this decision and recognize the importance of maintaining the children's normal routine." Mueller, 34, was previously arrested on charges of cocaine possession in March 2001, but the charges were later dropped. She has been in rehab twice within the past year and as recently as July. Mueller and Sheen married in May 2008 and Mueller gave birth to twin sons Bob and Max the following March. She filed for divorce in November 2010, almost a year after Sheen was arrested for assaulting Mueller in their Aspen, Colo. home on Christmas Day. (He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault as part of a plea deal).

Robert Downey Jr. Says Paul Thomas Anderson Collaboration Is 'Probably True'

Although Robert Downey Jr. has been all about the superhero action star spectacle films recently, we can't forget that his body of work pre-"Iron Man" involved a virtual smorgasbord of characters in a lot of quieter think pieces, TV dramedies and quirky indies. Therefore when the news broke earlier this year that Downey Jr. and director Paul Thomas Anderson might be working together on a big screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice," it seemed like a perfect fit for moviemaking magic. Anyway, when MTV News caught up with the man in question at the press day for "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows" recently, we asked him if the report about "Inherent Vice" was fact or fiction. "Anything to do with Paul Thomas Anderson and I doing a movie together is probably true," Downey Jr. said. "We tend to talk about a variety of potential projects, and Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' could be great, we'll see." We mentioned the fact that we have hope for the pairing, despite the fact that the in-demand actor seems to be constantly booked. "I feel like I'm booked but I'm not. I make space for what I want to do," he said, adding that what he enjoys most about Anderson is the fact that he's talented and just darn likeable. "I just think he's one of our great American directors, I just like hanging out with the guy." "Inherent Vice" is set in the swingin' '60s and Downey was rumored to play Larry Doc Sportello, an L.A.-based private eye who takes on a case involving an ex-girlfriend, her real estate billionaire boyfriend and a kidnapping.

'Thor 2' Director Patty Jenkins Exits

When Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning July 23, she left behind five Grammys and scores of tabloid headlines -- but little new music. While she had written an album's worth of ideas since her 2006 breakthrough, Back to Black, almost nothing had been recorded.our editor recommendsDollars After Death: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales BoostsAmy Winehouse's Posthumous Album, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures,' Debuts at Top of U.K. Charts PHOTOS: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts On Dec. 6, Universal Republic released a posthumous album from the singer. Lioness: Hidden Treasures was made available last week in her native Britain via Island Records, topping the U.K. charts with 140,000 copies sold. A collection of covers and unreleased original tracks, producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, Winehouse's frequent collaborators, compiled and completed the 12 songs, some of which existed as nothing more than a single vocal take. PHOTOS: Portraits of Amy Winehouse By Bryan Adams "My heart is sad but bursting with pride," Mitch Winehouse wrote on Twitter. Many artists experience their biggest sales after death. An example from the last decade: Ray Charles, whose 2004 album, Genius Loves Company, was released two months after he died, topped the charts and has since sold 3.2 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. In addition to Charles, Winehouse is in the company of artists including Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash and Aaliyah. For a look at some of the highest earning posthumous releases, click through THR's photo gallery. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Dollars After Death: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts Related Topics Amy Winehouse

John Lasseter Talks Pixar's Mind Movie

'It's unlike anything youve ever seen'Back in August, in the Disney D23 event, Pixar stalwart and Monsters, Corporation/Up director Pete Docter introduced he and producer Jonas Rivera were working hard on the new film for that studio, due in 2014 and presently known as The Untitled Movie That Can Take You Within The Mind. Now John Lasseter has revealed a small extra snippet concerning the plot.Speaking around the Charlie Rose show, Lasseter broached the topic of Pixar's approaching slate, including mythological adventure Brave, prequel Monsters College, The Untitled Dinosaur Movie (being directed by Docter's Up collaborator, Bob Billings) and also the Mind pic.As they did not hand out much (this really is, in the end, John Lasseter, a guy who pads his company's future film secrets exactly the same way Qq Abrams does), he did say a bit, including mentioning the setting. Yes, the brand new film "happens within a girl's mind which is about her feelings as figures, which is unlike anything you have ever seen."Which maybe it was for that discussing, however it certainly boosts some interesting points. Setting the plot inside a girl's mind means Pixar appears devoted to responding to experts who've lengthy were not impressed with the possible lack of female lead figures, and the idea of feelings and concepts being described as living, breathing creatures inside a 'toon movie is unquestionably fascinating. We can not wait to determine what all of this means, but sadly, we'll need to be patient, because the first trailer likely will not hit not less than annually...The job interview, incidentally, touches on from Pixar's history to the culture, and you will take a look here.

Angelina Jolie Accused of Pilfering Blood and Honey

A Croatian author has filed a lawsuit suit accusing Angelina Jolie of lifting parts of his 2007 novel for her writing-directing effort In the Land of Blood and Honey, basically arguing that the female protagonist in both works is subject to “being raped continuously by soldiers and officers” before becoming “a servant at the camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives.” Having seen Blood and Honey, I can tell you this isn’t even an especially accurate description of the film or the context of the woman’s servitude, but hey. No such thing as bad publicity, etc. etc. [Radar]

Beyonce Opens Up About Pregnancy in Katie Couric Interview on ABC

On Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to spend some time with Steve McQueen, one of the most exciting and eccentric young filmmakers in the world. McQueen, of course, shares a name with the great anti-hero of sixties cinema (not to mention a similar independent streak), but the similarities stop there. This Steve McQueen is black, British and alive -- and when he makes a film, he's less concerned with being cool than being provocative.our editor recommendsTHR's Directors Roundtable: How to Fire People, Who to Steal From, and Amy Pascal's Secret AdviceShame: Film ReviewNudity, Three-Ways, Hints of Incest: A Studio's Plan to Sell 'Shame' to Oscar It seems that McQueen, 42, has always been artistic, serious, and a bit counter-culture. He grew up loving art; came to the U.S. to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts; but quickly concluded that it was not for him and left to pursue more unconventional sorts of filmmaking on his own. Before long, his unusual work -- such as Bear (1993), a black-and-white silent short in which he and another man appear naked and exchange glances; Deadpan (1997), another black-and-white silent short in which he reenacts Buster Keaton's famous house collapse stunt; and Drumroll (1998), for which he mounted cameras to the side of a drum that he rolled down the streets of NY -- was being noticed, appearing in galleries, and garnering acclaim. His greatest recognition came in 1999, when London's Tate gallery awarded him the Turner Prize for best visual artist under the age of 50. PHOTOS: Films that Narrowly Avoided an NC-17 He says now that he long harbored a desire to make a feature-length film, but struggled to settle upon a fitting subject. By the mid-2000s, however, he had one: Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker whose story had captivated him decades earlier. He co-wrote and directed Hunger (2008), a gritty film that was never widely seen beyond the festival circuit, but received rave reviews (it wound up at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes); provoked a great deal of interest from the industry in McQueen (whom film critic Roger Ebert described as "an artist who employs merciless realism"); and introduced the world to Michael Fassbender, the Irishman who he chosen to play Sands, and who looked shockingly gaunt after losing nearly 40 pounds for the part. Though McQueen had his pick of opportunities after Hunger, he took three years before embarking on his next project, a film about a subject that is arguably the hardest to sell in prudish and puritanical America: sex... more specifically, sex addiction. The more McQueen learned about sex addiction, the more it reminded him of what AIDS had been like in the eighties -- a real, widespread affliction that is all around us, but that few of us are aware of and/or choose to acknowledge. And once he decided to make the film, there was no question how he was going to make it: realistically. VIDEOS: THR's Awards Season Roundtable Series 2011 -- The Directors He cowrote a script with Abi Morgan (who also penned The Iron Lady) that chronicles the lives of and relationship between Brandon, a successful 30-something NYer who is secretly a sex addict, and Sissy, his emotionally-unstable younger sister who moves in with him when she loses her apartment. Having made full disclosure in the script that full-frontal nudity would be required of the actors who played both characters and explicit sex scenes of a wide variety would need to be simulated by the male, he secured committments from Fassbender and Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan, and the ball was rolling. After 25 days of filming in NY City, the film was in the can, and on its way to the world. Shame was never going to be an easy sell. With that sort of content, it was inevitable that it would receive an NC-17 rating, which has historically scared away distributors, since few exhibitors have ever been willing to screen NC-17 films (due to their inherently limited audience) and few publications have ever been willing to feature advertisements promoting them (for fear of offending their readers with sexually-suggestive materials). But when the film began playing on the festival circuit, winning rave reviews and stirring up all sorts of provocative conversations about the world in which we live today, Fox Searchlight, arguably the most daring of the indie distributors, decided to take a flyer on it. They may have been motivated by a desire to foster a long-term relationship with McQueen; or a sense that, with the help of their famously creative marketing team, they would almost certainly make a return on their investment; or a genuine desire to bring a first-rate film to a larger audience. The truth is probably a combination of all of the above. But the bottom line is that they have lined up a significant number of theaters that are willing to show the film; are widely publicizing it; and are optimistic about its prospects in the market and with awards voters (especially for Fassbender as a best actor contender). VIDEO: 'Shame' Red Band Trailer: Michael Fassbender Brings Sex to the Subway As for McQueen, he's only mildly interested in how the film does at the box-office. Spreading awareness about the issue of sex addiction is, for whatever reasons, infinitely more important to him, and the degree to which his film does that will define, for him, whether or not it is a success. In the meantime, he and Fassbender are already getting set to work together yet again. (The actor has said that he hopes to have a Martin Scorsese/Robert De Niro-like relationship with the director, and the director seems to share that desire.) For their next film, Twelve Years a Slave, they'll be working with a considerably bigger budget and costar -- Brad Pitt -- but if what's past is prologue, I wouldn't expect a film any more mainstream or less critically-welcomed than Hunger or Shame. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The Dirty Dozen: Films that Narrowly Avoided an NC-17 Michael Fassbender Steve McQueen Shame

Kristin Davis On Going To Work After Applying Baby Gemma

First Launched: December 2, 2011 6:31 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Access Exclusive: Kristin Davis Gushes Over Her Newborn Girl La, Calif. -- Kristin Davis has came back in the office round the number of the Lifetime movie Of Two Minds, her first acting project since it was revealed she adopted a baby girl, 4-and-a-half-month old Gemma. I have to admit, its still really demanding, the completely new mother told AccessHollywood.coms Laura Saltman of mixing work and being a parent. I have amazing help or I'd never deal with it. But the other day we'd every day where I didn't see her awake. I left at night time I obtained home at night time. Which hurt? Laura asked for. I saw her when she was sleeping, nevertheless it does, and you're feeling, you understand, wrong inside, so its difficult, Kristin mentioned. Not just a struggle was applying baby Gemma. Personally, all of this wasnt that extended from the process which i hesitate to convey that because I appear like people dont really understand adoption, and you'll find plenty of misconceptions, which i understand theres kind of a cynical view that celebs in some manner buy their babies that's, you understand, very, very definately not the truth, Kristin mentioned. You will discover plenty of laws and regulations and rules associated with adoption and everybody must have the same process. Both Kristin and Laura are single moms too as with a mental moment throughout Lauras visit to the Of Two Minds set, they shared an average bond. Ive learned that when they have been their key occasions, after they smile to suit your needs the first time or they laugh the first time, you should utilize somebody and be like, That is so competent. And you also no more can perform that, a mental Laura mentioned. It is a fact. However, you find that lady holding her? Kristin mentioned, instructing the Access camera crew not to change and concentrate on the lady holding Kristins daughter. Thats who I personally use. In addition to my mother. While existence is content behind the curtain for Kristin, on-screen shes dealing with major drama, playing the sister from the schizophrenic, carried out by Tammy Blanchard, inside the 2012-due Lifetime movie, Of Two Minds. Louise Fletcher of just one Travelled Inside The Cuckoos Nest fame plays Aunt Will, mom-figure for the two women. If an individual has coronary disease or cancer, you kind of get seem advice, so when someone is psychologically ill, its a lot more unclear, Kristin mentioned. By Two Minds, Kristin plays Billie Clark, who unwillingly must take proper care of her sister. My character might be the caretaker, she doesn't wish to be the caretaker, but shes cast into that role, Kristin referred to. The project also finds the actress playing the wife of V star Joel Gretsch, whose real existence spouse, Melanie Shatner, is close pals with Kristin. I used to be there around the first date which i had been there at their wedding, Kristin mentioned. Melanie is definitely an very confident lady, she's not concerned There's no fear. I kissed [Sarah Jessica Parkers husband] Matthew Broderick, to be able to do just about anything. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

George Michael Getting 'Better by the Hour,' Says Boyfriend

Los Angeles will soon follow in NY's footsteps, disbanding its primary encampment of Occupy protesters.our editor recommendsOccupy Wall Street to Release Benefit AlbumFox News Anchor Calls Pepper Spray 'A Food Product' After Occupy Altercation (Video)Occupy Wall Street: News Organizations Complain About Police Treatment PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a press conference Friday afternoon, telling the Occupy L.A. protesters that they must leave their City Hall camp by the end of Sunday. "The movement has awakened the country's conscience, it has given voice to those who have not been heard," Villaraigosa said, praising their motivations, but he insisted it was time for them to find a new venue for their protest. PHOTOS: 'Occupy Wall Street' Entertainers On Scene of Protests Approximately 485 tents are currently set up outside City Hall, something the mayor made a point of noting was unsustainable. "It is time to close the park and repair the grounds," he continued, "so that we can restore public access to the park." Occupy L.A. leaders released a statement Thursday that they would reject orders to leave, and the AP reports this official order from Villaraigosa has yet to prompt an official response. PHOTOS: The Scene at Occupy Wall Street "I'm proud of the fact that this has been a peaceful non-violent protest," Villaraigosa said. "It is peaceful because we've decided to do things differently in Los Angeles. We've not stared each other down across barricades and barbed wire." The city's official deadline for Occupy L.A. to abandon City Hall is 12:01 a.m. on Monday. Watch Villaraigosa's press conference below: PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 'Occupy Wall Street Hollywood': Entertainers On Scene of Protests PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The Scene at Occupy Los Angeles Related Topics Antonio Villaraigosa Occupy

15 Movie Subjects to Dispute with the family This Thanksgiving

Ah, Thanksgiving. A period for gathering using the fam, eating poultry, and strongly disagreeing with Aunt Sue concerning the validity of Attacking Young Boys’s paternity suit along with a cornucopia of other assorted popular culture-related subjects while passing round the cranberry sauce. We’re here to assist make certain individuals awkward lulls in conversation don’t devolve into interrogations to your actual personal existence with 15 movie-related subjects to help keep the relatives squawking, bickering, and discussing… a minimum of ‘til the pumpkin cake. 1. Can Justin Timberlake act? (You realize, that kid in the Donald Duck Club. No, another one.) 2. Shouldn’t Clint Eastwood, y’know, retire? 3. Ryan Gosling versus. Bradley Cooper. Who’s the more sexy guy alive? 4. Who would like to watch Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving over dessert? 5. Why Cookie Rocket? 6. Why Adam Sandler? 7. Who had been last generation’s Rachelle Lefervre? 8. Fun game: “Someone would need to pay me $__ to determine Year’s Eve.” You now go! 9. Lindsay Lohan. Discuss. 10. Ough Gervais as Oscar host. Yay or nay? (Or, who??) 11. Who's the leader within the Academy awards’ Best Actress category this season? 12. Can everyone begin to see the Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo together this Christmas? Pleeeeeease? 13. Which Muppet is easily the most attractive, ultimately? (Jason Segel doesn't count.) 14. Who'll matter longer: Daniel Radcliffe or Emma Watson? 15. Could it be still awesome to love George Clooney? 16. BONUS: “Hey Grandmother, did ya hear what goes on in the finish from the new Twilight?” Happy Thanksgiving, Movieliners! Follow Julie Burns on Twitter. Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Louis Virtel on Twitter. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Skyfall Camping Release More Set Button snaps

Bond gets control the worldBarely two days into filming and Skyfall has already been setting a brand new defacto standard for 007. Inside a series milestone (inside a series which has boasted a lot more than any, let us remember) Bond's filmmakers have the very first time taken a 50 year-old icon and changed him for that digital age - with early clapperboard set discloses from days one and ten of filming. That's days One. And Ten.Exactly what does the near future hold?Well, if the intriguing line within the sand is anything to put into practice, Daniel Craig's third outing - underneath the stewardship of Mike Mendes and legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins - looks poised to boast probably the most compelling and exciting campaign from the series, Facebook feeds using the legendary spy to a different degree of digital intrigue.In the end can't profess inner understanding of exactly what's afoot within this scene, you can start taking a chance extremely from here to produce in October. Note, too, that although Mendes and co are adopting new media he's also remaining firmly within the arena of film, shooting 35mm.And, speculation aside, we all do know a factor or 23 about Skyfall. The brand new problem of Empire (on Thursday, fact fans) has got the full low-lower on Bond's 23rd outing, piecing together plot clips, Empire's insider tips, word from Mendes and, yes, several photos of some really rather pretty people indeed. Take it on.

Pay TV Industry Subscriber Counts Nearly Unchanged in Third Quarter

NY - Third-quarter earnings season saw big publicly traded cable, satellite TV and telecom companies add about 146,000 pay TV subscribers, while subscribers declined minimally industry-wide when including smaller and privately-held firms. Most on Wall Street see the trends as positive amid cord cutting fears that started about a year ago, even though they say current industry momentum is nothing to brag about. Going into the latest quarterly earnings season, Wall Street observers had a range of different expectations, but agreed that video subscriber trends would likely improve over the year-ago trends and over a second-quarter drop. According to research firm SNL Kagan, whose data is widely used, the U.S. multi-channel universe lost 32,000 subscribers in the third quarter, falling from a total of 100.113 million at the end of June to 100.081 million at the end of September. "The pay TV industry appears to have bounced back from its dismal second quarter," said Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker in a recent report. "The pay TV industry posted strong results, while Netflix lost 800,000 subscribers; which we believe should help assuage investor concerns that "cord-cutting" is an immediate secular challenge. That said, we believe the pay TV industry is likely to remain a zero-sum game among the incumbent players until the economy and housing market more fully recover." Barclays Capital analyst James Ratcliffe's conclusion from third-quarter earnings season similarly was that housing weakness is still the dominant factor in video sub performance. "U.S. pay TV subscribership was essentially flat in the third quarter," he wrote in his review. "We continue to believe that the minimal pay TV subscriber growth we are seeing in the U.S. market is primarily driven by conditions in the housing market rather than cord cutting, as penetration rates, while not rising, are essentially unchanged." Ryvicker estimated a third-quarter loss of 31,000 subscribers among all video operators - public and private. That compares to her calculation of 464,000 sub losses in the second quarter, or 458,000 according to data from SNL Kagan. The slight decline was also better than the 119,000 sub drop, according to Ryvicker, or 130,000 according to SNL Kagan, in the third quarter of 2010. "The improvement was primarily due to better satellite (+216,000, versus -109,000 in the second quarter and +145,000 in the third quarter 2010) and cable (-584,000, versus -771,000 in the second quarter and -741,000 in the third quarter of 2010) results, both of which were up on a sequential and year-over-year basis," Ryvicker said. "Telco adds (+337,000 versus +416,000 in the second quarter and +477,000 in the third quarter of 2010) were weaker." But Ryvicker argued that "this could be a one-time 'lip" as a strike at Verizon was a drag on results. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable firm, and Time Warner Cable were among those cable operators that reported narrower declines in the latest period. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/time-warner-cable-third-quarter-25... In the satellite TV space, strong gains from DirecTV due in part to its promotion of free NFL Sunday Ticket to new subscribers offset a 111,000 decline at Dish Network, which came in higher than a 29,000 year-ago loss, but was better than some observers' fear of a 150,000 subscriber decrease. DirecTV's addition of 327,000 U.S. pay TV customers in the third quarter compared with 174,000 in the year-ago period and marked the company's strongest third-quarter showing in seven years. "DirecTV was an anomaly due to their...NFL Sunday Ticket for a year promo," cautioned Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce though. Overall, "the nearly 400,000 consumers who left pay TV in the second quarter did not come back, nor has unemployment improved," he added. Pay TV industry subscriber numbers dropped for the first time ever in the second quarter of 2010, with SNL Kagan reporting a 246,000 decline, kicking off the cord cutting debate over whether U.S. consumers were looking to cheaper online options to replace their monthly pay TV bills. The drop in the third quarter of last year seemed to confirm investor fears, but then two quarters of growth calmed concerns. Analysts expect the industry to see no major moves in either direction over the near-term. "Fundamentally, we continue to view the U.S. pay TV market as stable, but in the absence of a return to a more normal level of household formation (1 million-1.5 million per year), the market remains fundamentally zero sum," Ratcliffe concluded. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics Comcast DirecTV

You Deserve It

Chris Harrison hosts Basic steps new gameshow You Deserve It. Created by Kinetic Content. Executive producers, Chris Coelen, Dick p Rijk, Matilda Zoltowski, Shaun Krask supervisory producers, John Quinn, Aaron Solomon director, Ron p Moraes mind author, SolomonWith: Chris Harrison, Brooke BurnsCredit ABC with perseverance, otherwise always originality, in the resolve for feel-good reality TV, despite middling entertainers like "Secret Uniform." A producer of this show, Chris Coelen, is area of the team behind "You Deserve It," a hodgepodge of other gameshows that culminates using the cash being handed to a desperate (company, deserving) individual, a la "Full for any Day." The cash-raising procedure is kind of a Frankenshow -- sewn together from old used parts -- but just like-gooder holiday filler goes, ABC could do worse. "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison is really as much cheerleader as host within this context, as each episode opens by presenting an individual, who are able to certainly make use of a substantial chunk of money, being privately famous by their buddies and relatives. Among individuals non-profit souls will have your money can buy, that the naive beneficiary will be provided -- Surprise! Publisher's Reference giveaway-style -- by the end. The overall game is essentially a modest twist on Twenty Questions, with every brief clue subtracting in the beginning total by luck-of-the-draw batches, a la "Deal or No Deal." The greater clues -- and they are especially cryptic, blunting the play-along element -- the greater the prize drops in each round, having a final puzzle that begins at $250,000. Despite dumb gamers, it's an excellent prescription for substantial handbags. And because of the waterworks that flow within the previewed episodes, if ABC does not possess a tissue sponsor tie-in, it's missing a genuine chance. The premiere includes a friend playing for any widowed mother of two, while another hour includes a daughter competing on her mother, that has done many good works in South Central L.A. If there's one truly off-putting note, it is a hyper-caffeinated Brooke Burns, who reaches deliver what's promising towards the naturally overcome recipient. Although there's been much speculation about whether audiences will gravitate toward beneficial material like a balm for that moribund economy, since ABC obtained with "Extreme Transformation: Home Edition," there is scant evidence to buttress such notions apart from CBS' "Undercover Boss." Nonetheless, ABC appears devoted to keep yanking in the heartstrings, eventually wishing to experience a contented tune. According to its merits "You Deserve It" most likely is not the show to get it done, but a kickstart behind "DwtsInch must provide the series a fighting chance -- a minimum of to come back like a utility player. If that's the case, it might mark a rest in the perception that not good-deed-doing show goes unpunished.camera, Don Mann production designer: John Ivo Gilles lead editor, Ryan Ely music, Vanacore Music, Nathan DeVore casting, Paul Gordon. 60 MIN. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

Work of Arts The Sucklord on How the Kids Challenge Ruined Him

The Sucklord The Sucklord entered Bravo's Work of Art a brazen supervillain, but left defeated by, among other things, his sentimental side. At the end of this week's episode, he went home after co-designing a colorless maze as street art, a project that he says was the result of having been beaten down physically and emotionally by the competition. "I didn't see it coming but once it came it made total sense to me," he says. "There's not a lot of sleeping that goes on in these things. I was practically half-asleep throughout the entire challenge so I wasn't totally cognizant of what was going on, as evidenced by the mediocrity of my art work. I failed the challenge, I failed the show, I failed the competition. It was time for me to get the hell out of there." TVGuide.com spoke to The Sucklord (nee Morgan Phillips) on Thursday about why he thinks the kids challenge crippled him and why he's working on a China Chow action figure over, say, a Jerry Saltz one. Plus, his thoughts on Lord of the Rings vs. Star Wars, Lola vs. Sarah K, Jerk of Art, penises, and more: Work of Art's Bayete: I couldn't pull it together at all Your partner in the street art challenge, Sarah K., appeared to be the brains behind that maze. Why do you think the judges spared her? Sucklord: It's obvious to me why. I hate to say it, but I think Bill Powers of all people was right: That piece was lacking my voice. That was the problem. Whether it was good or bad, that was the type of thing Sarah K. does. It was clearly more her than me. If it had been a Suckadelic piece, it would have been this gigantic 'F--- you' with all these f---ing deranged Star Wars people all over it, and a 'F--- Jerry Saltz' somewhere. But that's not where my head was at. I was morally destroyed by that point. That's the best I could come up with. At the end of the day, that tiny rat crawling around the edge of the maze was where I was at. That was my contribution and the fact that it was so tiny and diminished was really had had happened to my own voice. ...By putting myself into the competition, I was submitting to a maze if you will, a sort of psychological experiment, and that was the end result: it turned me into the opposite of what I was supposed to be. I was supposed to be this big f---ing supervillain, and I turned out to be this big softie, mushy-mush that cared about everybody and was willing to, like, go down rather than let someone else lose. (Laughs) That's what happened to me, and maybe that's a beautiful thing for a human being but as an artist it was a failure. Was the emotional Sucklord a revelation for you? Sucklord: I mean, I'm painfully aware that that person exists inside me. It does determine a lot of how I operate in the world. But, like anybody, and maybe for me it's more exaggerated, but everybody has this outer self they project, their ego ... but in a competition like this, that ego gets broken down, especially if you keep losing. They deprive you of sleep. They criticize and judge the s--- out of you and make you feel like a loser. Also, I got partnered with that kid and the kid made me start feeling all sentimental, and once that happened, I lost my edge. It's great as maybe a human experience, but you know, the ego for me is what makes the art work, not the sentimental person. That's why all my offerings after the kids challenge were utter garbage. How about before the kids challenge? Do you think the judges got what you were about? Were you putting your best stuff forward? Sucklord: Well, I think the Gandalf challenge was pretty bad. The first mistake I made was misunderstanding the kitsch challenge: I picked the piece of art work that I thought was great already, so what could I do with it except make it worse. And also, it was Lord of the Rings, and I can be sarcastic and ironic with Star Wars until the end of the universe, but with Lord of the Rings, I have too much reverence for it to do anything really transformational. It actually reverted me back to the kind of art work I did when I was 8 years old and I first started really getting into Lord of the Rings. That was a failure. But the motion challenge was more successful. That Flip the Rat, as ugly as that type of thing was, that was totally me. And the Winning Collection was also me. [The judges] didn't seem to give a s--- about those. Maybe there was other art work that was better and got the attention, but once the kids challenge came along and once Jerry Saltz told me I couldn't use Star Wars anymore and I agreed to that, that was really when I lost. When I agreed with his assessment that was when I really lost the game. You've since made a couple of Jerk of Art pieces. How soon after you were sent home did you make that? Sucklord: The idea came to me two days after I was sent home. Like, "Wow, I should have made Jerk of Art on that wall." It was something that ruminated in my mind. And then I thought what most paralleled my experience was that Charlie Brown cartoon where he goes to the spelling bee and all his friends are rooting for him and he gets everything right until he has to spell "beagle," the kind of dog Snoopy is, and he blows the most obvious word. ... I should have nailed that street art, but I failed. That made me feel like Charlie Brown, so I put him in as a parallel to my own experience. Was it therapeutic making it? Sucklord: Well, I just thought it was something that had to be said. That's what I do, I make those little toys and they say things about me. I wanted to at least go back and show what I can do with the action figure as far as making some sort of commentary about myself. You recommended that reality TV stars carry something they can sell at all times, and tweeted that you just sold something to a fan who approached you for $10? What was it? Sucklord: Just Suckadelic trading cards, a SuckPax. I have my own line of trading cards and I just happened to have something on my personage and I figured I'd sell it to them if they want a piece of it. Lola or Sarah K.? Sucklord: Neither. That was all just a bunch of smoke and mirrors. I have a girlfriend who I am really in love with. She wasn't too happy about the way I was behaving on the show and I understand why she feels bad and I feel regretful. But you know, you put me around a bunch of girls and I'm gonna talk s---. It's actually caused damage in my relationship, so I'm picking my girlfriend over everyone else in the world. Have you found a way to make it up to her yet? Sucklord: Still in the process. Having seen some of the outtakes of this episode, it's not too pretty. It was a very penis-happy episode. Michelle seems particularly obsessed. Truth or editing? Sucklord: Uh, you'll have to ask her about the penis thing. I'm a guy, so obviously I have a penis thing. Penises are powerful. They're a big part of the human existence. It seems natural that people are going to be thinking about them and putting them in their art work. The whole house looks like a randy place. Sucklord: Hey, man. Everyone there was pretty outgoing, expressive people. Everybody likes to joke about that kind of stuff. I don't know - it's like that wherever I go, so it didn't seem so unusual to me. What are you working now? Sucklord: I'm going to be mixing Transformers with Occupy Wall Street. I'm working on a China Chow action figure. I'm just sticking to the Suckadelic program, I'm pushing my trading cards, I'm working onmy next Toy Lords of Chinatown video and I'm just trying to build my business. I don't deal with the gallery system, I sell my work directly to my customers. I'm just gonna continue to strengthen that process. Make it easier for people to get it. China gets her own action figure. Safe to say Jerry won't be getting one? Sucklord: Of all the judges there, she seemed to be the only one that had any compassion for the horror and misery we were all suffering. I mean, guys like Jerry and Bill Powers, although they might have said a couple of things to me that might possibly have been relevant, it's all going on in a vacuum for them as far as I can tell. They don't seem to understand, or at least they're not letting it show, any sort of compassion for any of the people on the bottom at all. I think to them it's all just an intellectual exercise and there's very little human component. Jerry, in recapping the episode for Vulture, wrote that he really liked your idea for the ripped-from-the-headlines challenge. But you had a change of heart after Simon came in for his evaluation. Do you regret listening? Sucklord: Simon has been a champion of the Sucklord from the beginning so I was really inclined to listen to him. I don't know if he always necessarily gave me the best advice but I put a lot more value in his advice than anyone else involved in the show. He and Jerry are different people with different tastes, so Simon's telling me what he thinks, he's not necessarily telling me what he thinks Jerry is going to say. At the end of the day, it's my call to decide what to put up there. What I really should have done is say, "F--- it, I'm just going to do what I feel like doing." The fact that I was so willing to just give up on my idea really spoke to the fact that I was just falling apart and didn't know what the hell I was doing at that point.

OWN greenlights Beverly Manley skein

Manley Cabler OWN has greenlit a brand new unscripted series, "Beverly's Full House," an unscripted series that follows model Beverly Manley and three decades of her family living together in her own Palm Springs, Calif. home."House" is going to be professional created by Jason Carbone, Nick Lee and Manley for that Good Clean Fun production banner. The show's initial order is perfect for eight hourlong episodes, that will premiere in Feb around the cabler.OWN, a partnership between The famous host oprah Winfrey's Harpo and Discovery Communications, has battled to achieve traction because it was renamed from Discovery Health.Executives have accepted to a number of problems throughout the femme-centric net's launch at the outset of the entire year, but say they are on course and also have moved several more shows into production within the last couple of days. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Fox Drops Suit Over 'Glee,' 'X-Males: Deadpool' Film and TV Script Leaks

Adam Rose/FOX "Glee" last century Fox has dropped a suit against a girl billed with establishing 100 film scripts without permission. The studio began what the law states suit a year ago to ensure that they are able to crack lower on harmful leaks but has backed off.our editor recommends'Glee's' Jane Lynch Wasn't Upset by Brett Ratner's Gay Slur'Glee': 300 Musical Performances With the NumbersFox Sets Tim Burns to Direct 'Deadpool' Patricia McIlvainebecame the best target following a self-known to "fighting film author" collected scripts already released for the Web to be able to assist other authors. After she was punished, she solicited donations on her behalf legal defense fund. Fox describedMcIlvaine's activities as harmful. In line with the studio's initial complaint, her posts "interfere[d] and trade[d] in the pricey and completely designed creative processes that produce finished works ready for public consumption. They harm the fans that do not want their enjoyment from the movie or tv series being spoiled by comprehending the story before really getting a chance to watch it." Fox accused her of posting scripts for Aliens, Edward Scissorhands, Wall Streetand Gleeas well as leaking a script for your incomplete X-Males prequel Deadpool. Potential legal damages went around $15 million. In their reaction to Fox's complaint,McIlvaine declined the accusations and asserted affirmative protection including copyright misuse, fair use as well as the first purchase doctrine. The parties completed discovery, but there won't be any trial. Both sides published a agreement to dismiss the suit without prejudice captured. Fox didn't respond to a request discuss why the suit was overlooked. The dismissal was reported by TorrentFreak, which quotesMcIlvaine as showing relief within the development. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Glee last century Fox Film

Bill Nighy eyes Frankenstein's villain

Nighy"Pirates from the Caribbean" villain Bill Nighy is within discussions to experience the baddie once more in Lakeshore Entertainment and Hopscotch Features' "I, Frankenstein," while Australian thesp Socratis Otto is placed to co-star among his evil henchmen. Aaron Eckhart toplines the pic, which Lionsgate is aboard to distribute within the U.S. Stuart Beattie is pointing from their own script, with different graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux, co-creator from the "Underworld" franchise. Eckhart stars as Adam, Frankenstein's monster who's being hunted by devils that would like to learn the key of his creation to be able to build an military of reanimated corpse devils. Nighy is within foretells play a demon prince. Otto will have his compatriot who's assigned with searching for and taking Adam. Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi and Richard Wright will produce with Hopscotch's Andrew Mason, while Grievoux will professional produce with Hopscotch's Troy Lum. Lionsgate professional Michael Paseornek will oversee the work for the studio. Production is scheduled to begin in The month of january around australia, using the pic skedded for domestic release on February. 22, 2013. Nighy, who next voices Grandsanta in Sony's animated pic "Arthur Christmas," has an assorted quartet of films coming. He stars alongside Judi Dench and Maggie Cruz in John Madden's "The Very Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," and reprises his role as Hephaestus in WB/Legendary's "Wrath from the Leaders." Brit thesp also co-stars in Bryan Singer's "Jack the Giant Killer" and plays Kuato in Columbia Pictures' remake of "Total Recall." Otto, who lately wrapped Lakeshore's Amanda Seyfried-brought thriller "Gone," got his begin the Aussie TV series "Home and Away," that also released the careers of Chris Hemsworth and Isla Fisher. Nighy is repped by WME and Markham, Froggatt and Irwin, while Otto is repped by Thruline Entertainment and El Erdmane at RGM Artist Group. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

The brand new the new sony ups digital professional Spivak

Spivak With digital distribution playing a larger revenue-creating role at art galleries, The brand new the new sony Pictures Watching Movies has upped Jason Spivak with a lately created publish as senior V . p . and gm, worldwide digital distribution.Spivak, who grew to become an associate from the new the new sony in 2007, had lately been controlling the introduction of Sony's digital biz as SPHE's senior V . p ., worldwide digital distribution and senior V . p . of a good development.He'll still lead they responsible for SPHE's transactional digital methods around the globe, verifying to John Calkins, professional V . p ., global digital and commercial innovation. He'll also help develop and implement a built-in method of the home entertainment market across both digital and physical channels of distribution, such as the studio's embrace of UltraViolet.Although overall trading on watching movies inside the U.S. was off 5% for your first half of 2011 to $8.3 billion, in line with the Digital Entertainment Group, electronic sales of films rose 4% to earn $270 million, while VOD was up another 4% to $929 million."While using ongoing rollout of UltraViolet and cloud storage systems changing the means by which clients collect and access our content, digital distribution reaches an inflection point," Calkins mentioned. "Jason gets the expertise essential to keep our clients the primary factor on digital transition also to smartly manage rise in this critical part of our business."Before joining The brand new the new sony, Spivak spent eight years at MGM Watching Movies used in both La and London to steer that studio's early digital distribution efforts. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Duggars Expecting 20th Child

Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar Make that 20 Kids and Counting.Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar expect their 20th child, they introduced by themselves TLC reality show website. Michelle, 45, comes to April.The initial Duggar grand boy makes the worldInchOur whole folks are so excited that Godhas fortunate us with another child," they written. "All of our youngsters are grateful being here! Our goal is always to train & train those to love God and serve others."The Duggars are actually parents to Joshua, 23 twins Jana and John-David, 21 Jill, 20 Jessa, 19 Jinger, 17 Ernest, 16 Josiah, 15 Pleasure-Anna, 14 twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 12 Jason, 11 James, 10 Justin, 8 Jackson, 7 Johanna, 6 Jennifer, 4 and Jordyn, 3, and Josie, 11 several days.Joshua has two, non-J-named youngsters with his wife, Anna: Mackyzine, 2, and Michael, 4 several days.Watch clips from 19 Kids and CountingMichelle experienced complications throughout having a baby with Josie, including preeclampsia, forcing Josie being born # 3 . 5 several days early. The Duggarscall it "one of the most frightening things we have walked through just like a family.""Lots of people have asked for would we you will want more children after that which you familiar with Josie," they written. "We do not disregard the many advantages of existence thatGod has presented here! A very long time ago, Jim Bob & I gave the bradenton area within our lives to God, enabling Him to grant existence while he saw fit."

Andy Samberg, NBC Punished Over 'Saturday Evening Live' Sketch Featuring Beyonce (Video)

NBC Saturday Evening Live is facing accusations it stole material for just two sketches, including an Emmy Award-nominated short featuring Andy Samberg and pop star Beyonce. In the suit filed in NY federal court on Thursday, Aleric Banks (also called "Ron tha Ruler") and Monique Hines say they created the music activity that can make in the first step toward two skits on SNL, including "Shy Ronnie" and "As Being A Boss." The Two litigants certainly are a St. Louis-based production team. With different meeting presented to a close press outlet taken, Banks and Hines stood a mutual mention of the Samberg and published some tracks since the comedian prepared to release his first album just like a part of this rock band The Lonely Island. PHOTOS: 'SNL' Stars Salute Kennedy Center Honoree Will Ferrell Samberg's band recorded the tracks, allegedly while using litigants' copyrighted master tracks "verbatim," and added lyrics. Of a year later, after Lonely Island's album showed up in this area, Samberg reprised a couple of the tunes on SNL.On April 4, 2009, Samberg and actor Seth Rogen completed "As Being A Boss." On December 5, 2009, Samberg and Beyonce completed "Shy Ronnie," a sketch of a bashful music artist which has trouble speaking up if the's his time to eliminate a verse. (See video below.) Initially, Banks and Hines were thrilled within the breakthrough, especially after "Shy Ronnie" was nominated with an Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. Now, after neglecting to get mentioned credit and compensation, the two have filed a suit proclaiming that the music activity wasn't really original. VIDEO: Charlie Day-Situated 'SNL' Draws Best Ratings in More than per month The litigants condition that just before the release of Samberg's album and skits, a Universal Group subsidiary label sent them a "producer declaration" form. Banks filled it by stating that since the author and producer of "As Being A Boss," he will be a fifty percent who is the owner of the copyright. Banks states he got a solution letter proclaiming he'd became a member of right into a contract with Lonely Island that only entitled him with a 25 percent copyright interest. Nevertheless, Banks states he hasn't received any producer royalties nor any profits from SNL's exploitation of his music. NBC Universal, Samberg, The Lonely Island, and Universal Republic Records are progressively being punished for willful copyright breach and illegal enrichment. NBCU states it's really no comment. Here's SNL's "Shy Ronnie" featuring Beyonce... E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Andy Samberg Beyonce Saturday Evening Live

'Die Hard 5' Seeks 'Hunger Games,' 'Breaking Bad' Actors

It's "A Good Day to Die Hard" for a certain group of young actors. The search to find John McClane's son is officially on and down to three possible players, according to reports: Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad," Ben Foster of countless creepy roles, and "Hunger Games" leading man Liam Hemsworth. Beyond the jump, we're breaking down each of Bruce Willis' potential new co-stars. Aaron Paul Paul, the most exciting choice of the three in my humble opinion, has played troubled youth turned seasoned meth maker Jesse Pinkman to Emmy-winning perfection over the course of "Breaking Bad's" fantastic four-year run (with another year to go). It's high time for Paul to break bad on the big screen, and getting an action-oriented turn alongside Willis in a "Die Hard" movie could be just what the doctor ordered. Ben Foster Another fantastic actor, Foster's already got a Willis collaboration under his belt with his scene-stealing turn in "Hostage." His last attempt at action star status in "Mechanic" didn't quite work out, but Foster's undeniable presence would infuse the "Die Hard" franchise with a wild energy that would be more than welcome from my end. He'd be a great McClane Junior. Liam Hemsworth I have yet to be fully wowed by any of Mr. Hemsworth's performances, but perhaps that'll change when "Hunger Games" hits theaters in March. Still, he strikes me as the least exciting possibility of the three choicesPaul and Foster just bring more, deliberate energies to the table, in my opinion. That said, THR notes that the job is likely Hemsworth's to lose, so it's very possible that Thor's younger brother will be the next McClane. Tell us who you want to see in "A Good Day to Die Hard" in the comments section and on Twitter!

Clint Eastwood's Brawl Lessons, and Other Revelations from the J. Edgar Press Conference

At the press conference for J. Edgar, which premiered last night at AFI Fest to mixed, often hilarious reviews, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts joined director Clint Eastwood, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and producer Brian Grazer fielded questions about the very issues that make the biopic seem difficult to make: the ambiguity surrounding both Hoover and his confidants’ personal lives. Movieline culled the best five quotes from the panel, one of which involves 81-year-old Eastwood’s on-set brawling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood on bucking Eastwood’s reputation as a “one-take” director: DiCaprio: “At times we did eight or nine or 10 takes on a single day. Clint is very adaptable and has his process, and what he does is expect you to plant your feet and speak the truth like James Cagney says. That’s what we tried our best to do on this movie. He was very understanding about the different time periods we had to shift back and forth between.” Eastwood: “I’ve got this reputation of shooting one take, and it’s a wonderful reputation to have, but it’s hard to live up to. And if you did, it’d be kind of shoddy, I think.” Armie Hammer on Clint Eastwood directing — and demonstrating — his character’s impassioned scuffle with Hoover: Hammer: “There was a moment on set that was one of those things where you don’t smile. It was the fight scene that we had to do in the hotel room. Clint had to show us what he wanted, and that involved his buddy Buddy — Buddy Van Horn, who he’s [worked] with since Rawhide. Eastwood: “Yes. My memory’s a little short, but actually yes, I worked with him when I was a contract player at Universal in 1953.” Hammer: And they basically just had a fight right in front of us. Clint comes sauntering up and says, ‘You know, I was just thinking that this was a very important scene, so I was thinking for the fight you might want to do something LIKE THIS!’ And bam, bam, bam! These two guys just start wailing each other, rolling around the ground. Then Clint gets up at the end, dusts himself off, and says, ‘Something like that.’ Sure. Whatever you say.” Clint Eastwood on rediscovering and exploring a character he’d heard about his entire life: “I had impressions growing up of Hoover as a hero in the ’40s — actually the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s and beyond. This was all prior to the information age, so we didn’t know about Hoover except for what was usually in the papers. This was fun, because it was a chance to go into it. Lance [went off] autobiographical material and biographies from other people, and it was fun to delve into a character you’ve heard about all your life but never really knew, and try to sort that out. We never knew too much about Tolson, Gandy or any of the close confidants. But through researching this movie, that’s what was fun about making the movie. You get to learn something about the people and watch the actors — we’re all just learning history or putting our stamp on history or our interpretation of it. I’m sure a lot of things probably didn’t happen the way they did in this film, but they’re pretty close.” Dustin Lance Black on figuring out the real J. Edgar Hoover: “This was a tough one to research. if you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find they contradict each other more often than they agree oftentimes. They’re often told from kind of a political perspective; they feel like they have an agenda oftentimes. I guess first, you start identifying where they really disagree. You know there’s where you need to start poking first. For me, that means finding firsthand sources first. There aren’t a whole lot of those, but there are some. They’re mostly people who worked with Hoover in his older years. You start to get an impression of the man, which is important. Then going to Washington D.C. and walking in his footsteps […] seeing that he grew up blocks away from the Capitol building. In his childhood bedroom, you can see the dome just blocks away. That starts to inform things. “At a certain point you’ve read enough people’s biographies who might pass along firsthand accounts, and you start to come to conclusions about who the man was. And for me it was always important to answer that question of ‘Why?’ I know that this is someone who attained a lot of power. And he maintained that power for longer than he probably should have. I was so curious as to why. Most of my questions were always […] to answer that. I thought that’s how we’re going to make this into an emotional story. That’s how maybe we could learn from it — both from the good he did, and the bad he became. […] “It was a creepy feeling at times because I have hard feelings about so much of what he did. I started to empathize with him, and I started to feel for him. You start to question that and worry about that. But I would always stop myself and say, ‘If we want to stop this from happening again, we need to understand this from a human perspective; we need to understand that “why” in order to keep it from happening again.’ That really drove my research.” Naomi Watts on the unverified backstory of her character, Hoover’s secretary Helen Gandy: “Unlike Hoover’s character, there was very little information about Helen Gandy available. All we really knew is she worked with him for 50 years, she was not married, and then she devoted her life to her job. The rest sort of had to be filled in. These were questions of mine when I read the script for the first time — “Why would she do that?” This was not common for women at that time to go into a career saying, “This is all I want.” So she was ahead of her time. That’s an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently than those around her. I liked that it was set up in a way that perhaps she was going to be a love interest, but that just wasn’t who Hoover was [laughs]— wanting to please his mother. [Gandy] wanted that career and just went after it. She loved serving her country and making those sacrifices — and unbelievable loyalty.” [Photo from AFI Fest opening-night red carpet: WireImage]

Lily Tomlin on Robert Altman, David O. Russell and a Lifetime of Achievement

In a career spanning over four decades Lily Tomlin has virtually done it all — but, as she told Movieline this week at the Savannah Film Festival, in town to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, she’s not done yet. After rising to stardom on Laugh-In (where she created indelible characters like Ernestine the telephone operator and Edith Ann, the impossibly precocious 5-year-old), the funny woman won Grammys for her comedy albums, won a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, earned an Oscar nod making her dramatic debut in Robert Altman’s Nashville, and starred in ’80s comedy classics like 9 to 5 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Prior to the ceremony, the legendary comedienne sat down with Movieline to revisit her career, give props to longtime life partner (and creative collaborator) Jane Wagner, remember her work with Robert Altman and the time she and Meryl Streep ad-libbed in his honor at the Oscars, and clarify what really happens when filmmakers and actors clash behind the scenes… and just happen to be filmed doing so. Congratulations on your Lifetime Achievement Award. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much! You’ve had such a varied and fruitful career; how do you feel about all that you’ve accomplished when you look back on it for an honor like this? I forget myself sometimes that I’ve done a lot of different stuff, in different media. It’s just the way it goes! Do you feel like you’ve gotten to do everything you wanted to do? To some degree. There are always things I’d like to do, or little films or things that have happened to me in life that I think would make a great little film. A lot of childhood or teenage stuff. But I work all the time anyway, and I just see it as part of the continuum. I don’t expect to stop anytime very soon. Of course, I don’t really know… Your career took an interesting trajectory that entertainment careers don’t necessarily follow anymore — breaking out in sketch comedy, recording albums, doing comedic and dramatic acting. Did it all progress organically along the way? Yeah, I think organically. A lot of stuff, I had to create an opportunity for myself because I’m just not typical — particularly at that time. Like, I auditioned for Sybil, that thing that Sally [Field] did eventually, many years ago. And I know I had a really good audition, but they would think twice because they thought people would think I was just doing what I do. They’d laugh, maybe. Ah, yes — a woman with many characters inside her already… [Laughs] Right, and they might think I was being funny or something! I’m just thinking of something like that. Not really meaningful, but that was a detriment for me in terms of getting that part. You were very successful in the comedy world and are probably best known for your comedic roles, but you also earned acclaim for your dramatic work. Do you find achieving that level of appreciation in one discipline to be more gratifying than the other? Oh, I think it’s all part of one package, one lump. I always thought I should be able to do both, and any gradation of that. It didn’t occur to me, it took me a while to try to deny that people would want to pigeonhole you, but they do. It’s like anybody sees you, and unless they’re vastly experienced with you, they will think what they’ve seen you do most of the time. They’ll say, “Oh, she’s funny,” or, “She does characters,” and very often people would give me a part that wasn’t even on the paper hoping that I would bring a characterization to it. It doesn’t always work that way. Who, along the way, was most able to see something different in you? Altman, certainly. He never doubted anything. Altman is just that kind of freewheeling… I’ve heard actors say, “Bob, what do you want in this scene?” He’d say, “I don’t know. Why don’t you surprise me?” He was open to anything. He didn’t have any regimented idea of what was going to happen or how you should be, or not. His casting sense was brilliant, so it was half done by who he put in the part. That’s why actors loved it so much.

Box Office Preview: 'Puss in Boots,' 'Adventures of Tintin' Set to Rule the planet

Steven Spielberg and longtime compatriot Jeffrey Katzenberg are poised to dominate the world box office a few days ago using their two particular family films, The Adventures of Tintin: The Key from the Unicorn and Puss in Boots.our editor recommendsSteven Spielberg's 'Adventures of Tintin' Soaring in Overseas DebutPuss in Boots: Film ReviewThe Adventures of Tintin: The Key from the Unicorn: Film ReviewThe Rum Diary: Film ReviewIn Time: Film ReviewSUNDANCE REVIEW: Constantly From Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation, Puss in Boots is basically set towards the win the domestic box-office race as Vital opens the three dimensional toon in 3,952 theaters in The United States, including 2,827 three dimensional locations. PHOTOS: 'In Time' Premiere Red-colored Carpet Arrivals Box office experts expect the Shrek spin-on gross within the $35-$39 million range, a proper number for Halloween weekend, which is not usually prime territory for any family film. Puss in Boots, that is generating glowing reviews, includes a obvious shot at besting the very best Halloween opening ever, the $33.six million gained by Lionsgate's Saw III in 2006. Vital initially meant to open Puss in Boots, featuring Antonio Banderas within the voice role he earned very popular in Shrek, on November. 4, but increased the discharge with a week to provide the pic more space before a deluge of Thanksgiving family game titles open. PHOTOS: 'The Adventures of Tintin' U.K. Premiere Blue Carpet Arrivals While Vital and DreamWorks Animation could forfeit some business a few days ago due to Halloween, they feel the film may have a particularly strong second weekend. DWA's Kung Fu Panda 2 opened up to $47.7 million captured, while Megamind first showed to $46 million at the begining of November 2011. Tintin, directed by Spielberg, is poised to dominate the worldwide marketplace, where it might open north of $$ 30 million from the first key areas, including Tintin's home country of Belgium. The pic is Spielberg's first three dimensional film. PHOTOS: Images From Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin' Tintin may be the to begin two films that Spielberg and Jackson are working together on (Jackson will direct the 2nd title). Vital and The new sony are partners around the project and dividing up distribution responsibilities. Since the character Tintin is a lot more beloved overseas, the film is moving available first. It debuts within the U.S. within the Christmas holiday. PHOTOS: Top 15 Grossing Threequels ever Tintin started playing in previews the 2009 week in Belgium, France and also the U.K. before the official opening on Wednesday within the three areas. It's already made nearly $9 million, together with a record-breaking $4.5 million in France, where it might score the greatest opening ever after Avatar. The three dimensional motion-capture movie opens on Friday in many other foreign marketplaces. In the domestic box office, two other wide gamers debut: New Regency's Justin Timberlake-Amanda Seyfried sci-fi thriller Over Time and FilmDistrict's The Actor-brad Pitt starrer The Rum Diary, according to Hunter S. Thompson's semi-autobiographical novel about his beginning like a journalist in Puerto Rico. However, Vital's Paranormal Activity 3 will probably beat both new records for No. 2 after opening to some record-breaking $52.six million last weekend, and grossing $60.5 million through Wednesday. PHOTOS: 'Puss in Boots' Premiere Red-colored Carpet Arrivals Written by Fox, Over Time is searching in a relatively modest opening within the low teens. The film, directed by Andrew Niccol, was fully funded and created by New Regency for roughly $35 million. Over Time, occur a society where nobody lives beyond age 25 unless of course they are able to buy time, is naturally monitoring best among moviegoers younger than 25, a demo that's been largely absent in the box office. While experts have noted the film's original story, the reviews overall weren't good. Rum Diary continues to be drawing better notices, but they're still mixed. FilmDistrict needs the pic to spread out within the $9-$12 million range, and states it will attract both Depp fans in addition to fans of Thompson, who switched up in pressure at various college tests from the film, including at Columbia College and also the College of California at Berkeley. There is a flurry of activity in the niche box office, such as the debut of Roland Emmerich's period Shakespeare drama Anonymous, which opens in 260 theaters. In the eleventh hour, according to soft monitoring, The new sony made the decision to lessen the discharge from the film, which in fact had been set to spread out countrywide. Vital opens Drake Doremus' Sundance Film Festival favorite Constantly in four theaters in NY and La. Related Subjects Worldwide The Rum Diary Constantly Puss in Boots The Adventures of Tintin Over Time

Warner Bros. Taps Young Scribes for Facebook-Inspired Drama (Exclusive)

For proof that in Hollywood, youth isking, consider writing partnersIsaac Aptaker, 24, andElizabeth Berger, 26. The duo broke into the biz three years ago with the Facebook-inspired romantic comedy specLauren Pemberton Is No Longer in a Relationship. They quickly won over execs with their fresh insight into the finicky youth demo, scoring jobs on NBC's short-livedFriends With Benefitsthat made them the youngest staff writers on network TV. That gig led to writing jobs on MTV's upcoming seriesI Just Want My Pants Back. Now the scribes (Verve,Management 360,Industry) are returning to their Facebook roots, adaptingThe Future of Us, a social media-centered drama being made by Warner Bros. and Di Novi Pictures. The story of a young woman who logs onto the Internet in 1996 and discovers her Facebook profile from 15 years in the future resonated with Aptaker and Berger, whose father was a head writer onSesame Street. Says Aptaker, "There's an authenticity and an immediacy that comes from writing about people our ages and the time of life that we're in." Related Topics Facebook

Film Clip and Matt Damon Will Re-Team for Whitey Bulger Movie

In that lengthy-forgotten year of 1997, Matt Damon and Film Clip were the bestest of beffies. The adorable scamps -- and long term buddies -- co-authored 'Good Will Hunting' together, co-starred within the film and won an Oscar for the best Original Script. Since that time they have clearly continued to be close, but never really worked with again (though they did appear together in 'Dogma' and 'Jay & Quiet Bob Strike Back' for Kevin Cruz). It had been rumored that Matt and Ben would re-team for 'The Trade,' about a set of real-existence wife-changing NY Yankees in the '70s, however with that getting hit some legal snags, the pals have centered on a brand new project: the existence and arrest of Whitey Bulger. "We are carrying out a Whitey Bulger movie," Damon told GQ concerning the infamous South Boston mob boss who was simply around the lam for 16 years before his arrest in California within the summer time. "Warner's first got it for all of us.Inch That might be Warner Bros., the industry studio where Affleck has grown his flag like a director. He's already done 'Gone Baby Gone' and 'The Town' for that studio and it has 'Argo' coming next fall he being drawn on by Warner Bros. professionals his or her option to direct 'The Stand.' Affleck will handle filmmaking responsibilities around the Bulger project, with Damon starring and 'Boardwalk Empire' creator Terence Winter writing the script. "You will find a few competing movies and that i don't believe it has been introduced yet that we are doing the work,Inch Damon stated. "However the sooner it's introduced the greater, simply because everybody else will back away, hopefully. I am really looking forward to it." Damon has some knowledge of the Bulger story Jack Nicholson's character in 'The Departed' -- which co-starred the first kind Will Hunting -- was partly inspired through the gangster. Per Deadline, he'll really play Bulger, while Affleck's brother Casey will contribute within the film too. "We have learned about Whitey Bulger since i was kids, and that we are excited by the possibilities of using it screen," stated Affleck. [via GQ] [Photo: WireImage] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

UPDATE: Summit Reacts To Milla Jovovich Ripping Via Twitter Musketeers Marketing

UPDATE: Hollywood was buzzing Fridaywhen actressMilla Jovovichtook to Twitter to bitchslap Summit Entertainment over the promotion for Three Musketeers 3D. Jovovich texted that the film wasnt marketed as a fun family film and that Summit is resting on their laurels because of the Twilight franchise and making no effort for her film. (See below). So I asked Summit last night what it thought of Milla’s accusations, and an executive pointed out that the actress had been up in Canada shooting the next Resident Evil installment “and working 15-hour days and probably didn’t see the campaign. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about and we don’t know where she’s coming from.” The studio points to awareness in the 80s as a sure sign that the movie was marketed adequately even if U.S. grosses were terrible. “Wouldn’t you think she would call us first about this? It’s frustrating. it’s not the right way to behave. If she has a problem then come to the studio and talk about it.” Milla was tweeting on her flight to Japan where Three Musketeers 3D is debuting at the Tokyo International Film Festival. I wonder if Summit will cancel her car pickup and strand her at the airport for mouthing off. PREVIOUS: If you don’t know that Summit Entertainment is releasing The Three Musketeers today, the film’s star Milla Jovovich says she knows why: the distributor isn’t promoting it properly. She took to her Twitter feed early this morning on her way to Tokyo, where the Paul W.S. Anderson-directed update of the swashbuckling tale is opening the Tokyo International Film Festival. A sample: Also, “3 musketeers” opens in the US 2night! Do you think ppl know abt the movie? Ask your friends! Do they know it’s a fun family film? I think “summit” hve swept “3 Musketeers”, a grt family adventure film, under the rug in the US. Shame on them. SHAME ON YOU “SUMMIT”.

Paranormal Activity 3 Opens To Franchise-Best $8M Midnights: Ends Box Office Slump

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 21, 2011 AFI FEST presented by Audi, a showcase of the most highly anticipated films and performances of the year, today announced the remaining programs and their films that will screen in the festivals World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight and Shorts programs at the 25th edition this November. World Cinema showcases the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year, Breakthrough highlights works discovered only through the submissions process and Midnights eclectic selection presents films with provocative and unexpected ideas. Both World Cinema and Breakthrough feature a number of films making their U.S. premieres, including ALMAYERS FOLLY, CAF DU FLORE, FAUST and WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT (World Premiere). Three of the 35 shorts in competition are from AFI Conservatorys recent classes of 2010 and 2011 Julian Higgins THIEF, which won the top prize in narrative filmmaking at the 38th Annual Student Academy Awards and top honors at the 32nd College Television Awards earlier this year, Lindsay MacKays CLEAR BLUE, which placed second at the 32nd College Television Awards and Casey Cooper Johnsons UNMANNED, which was finished just in time for festival submission. Rick Rosenthals (AFI Directing Class of 1973) BLINK is also in competition. The AFI Conservatory was rated the #1 film school in the world by The Hollywood Reporter for the quality of its instructors and speakers, and its glittering parade of alumni. AFI FEST kicks off awards season with presentations that spotlight the work of film masters, moving image icons and breakthrough talents. Many of the casts are international, and the directors hail from across the globe. This years AFI FEST will screen 110 films (70 features, 40 shorts) selected from over 3,000 submissions across 36 countries, with France (11), Belgium (9) and Canada (5) topping the international selections. The breakdown by section is: Galas/Tributes (8), Special Screenings (11), Young Americans (6), New Auteurs (9), World Cinema (21), Midnight (3), Spotlight (3), Breakthrough (4) and Short Films (39), and includes eight official foreign-language Oscar submissions. The films in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, and previously announced New Auteurs and Young Americans sections are eligible for their respective sections Audience Award, while the Shorts program and New Auteurs also feature jury-selected prizes. This years Shorts jury consists of filmmakers Barry Jenkins and Gerardo Naranjo (AFI Conservatory Class of 2001) and festival programmer Kim Yutani. The New Auteurs Critics Prize jury is comprised exclusively of film critics: Justin Chang (Variety), Mike Goodridge (Screen International), Mark Olsen (LA Times, Film Comment, LA Weekly) and Jean Oppenheimer (American Cinematographer, KPCC). Companies exhibiting at the American Film Market (AFM), the market partner of AFI FEST, will represent 27 of the films presented at this years AFI FEST and 11 of them will screen at the market. For the third consecutive year, AFI FEST will continue its unprecedented offer of free tickets to all screenings. The new AFI FEST Cinepass, the Special Screenings pass and Patron Passes which ensure access to sold-out presentations and other high-demand films and events are on sale now. Pass purchases are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Additional information is available at AFI.com/AFIFEST, 1.888.AFI FEST and on-site at the AFI FEST box office at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. Individual tickets to AFI FEST will be available to AFI members on Wednesday, October 26 in a 24-hour advance window before they become available to the general public on October 27. In addition, AFI members and AFI Conservatory alumni receive a 10% discount on all passes. Information about AFI membership is available at AFI.com/membership. AFI FEST will take place November 3 through 10 in Hollywood, California, at the historic Chinese Theatre, the Chinese 6 Theatres, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. WORLD CINEMA SELECTIONS A showcase of modern masters and emerging filmmakers from across the globe, this years World Cinema program showcases some of the most anticipated and prize-winning international films of the year. ALMAYERS FOLLY: DIR/SCR Chantal Akerman. Belgium/France. U.S. Premiere. ALPS: DIR Yorgos Lanthimos. SCR Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou. Greece/France. U.S. Premiere. ARIRANG: DIR Kim Ki-duk. South Korea. U.S. Premiere. CAF DU FLORE: DIR/SCR Jean-Marc Valle. Canada. U.S. Premiere. CARR BLANC: DIR/SCR Jean-Baptiste Lonetti. France/Luxembourg/Russia/Belgium/Switzerland. U.S. Premiere. THE DAY HE ARRIVES: DIR/SCR Hong Sang-Soo. South Korea. U.S. Premiere. EXTRATERRESTRIAL: DIR/SCR Nacho Vigalondo. Spain. FAUST: DIR Alexander Sokurov. SCR Alexander Sokurov, Marina Koreneva. Russia. U.S. Premiere. FOOTNOTE: DIR/SCR Joseph Cedar. Israel. Israels official foreign-language Oscar submission. THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD: DIR Joshua Marston. SCR Joshua Marston, Andamion Murataj. USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy. THE INVADER: DIR Nicolas Provost. SCR Nicolas Provost, Giordano Gederlini, Franois Pirot. Belgium. U.S. Premiere. JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI: DIR David Gelb. USA. KINYARWANDA: DIR/SCR Alrick Brown. USA. MAMA AFRICA: DIR Mika Kaurismki. Germany/South Africa/Finland. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA: DIR Nuri Bilge Ceylan. SCR Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Turkey/Bosnia/Herzegovina. Turkeys official foreign-language Oscar submission. PLAY: DIR/SCR Ruben stlund. Sweden/France/Denmark. A SEPARATION: DIR/SCR Asghar Farhadi. Iran. Irans official foreign-language Oscar submission. THE SILVER CLIFF: DIR Karim Anouz. SCR Beatriz Brachner, Karim Anouz. Brazil. TARGET: DIR Alexander Zeldovich. SCR Vladimir Sorokin, Alexander Zeldovich. Russia. THIS IS NOT A FILM: DIR/SCR Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi. Iran. THE TURIN HORSE: DIR Bla Tarr. SCR Bla Tarr, Lszl Krasznahorkai. Hungary. Hungarys official foreign-language Oscar submission. BREAKTHROUGH SELECTIONS The Breakthrough films are true discoveries films that come straight from the submissions process. EXPECTING: DIR/SCR Francisca Fuenzalida. Chile. U.S. Premiere. LIGHT OF MINE: DIR Brett Eichenberger. SCR Jill Remensnyder. USA. THREE AND A HALF: DIR/SCR Naghi Nemati. Iran. U.S. Premiere. WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT: DIR/SCR Alexandra-Therese Keining. Sweden. World Premiere. MIDNIGHT SELECTIONS The Midnight section showcases an eclectic group of films across the globe from fearless proponents of provocative, jarring and unexpected ideas. BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW: DIR/SCR Panos Cosmatos. USA. HEADHUNTERS: DIR Morten Tyldum. DIR Morten Tyldum. SCR Lars Gudmestad, Ulf Ryberg. Norway. KILL LIST: DIR Ben Wheatley. SCR Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump. UK. SHORT FILM SELECTIONS (In Competition) The films in this section are in competition for the Grand Jury Prize for Live Action Short Film and Animated Short Film. Both award categories are recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as qualifiers for the annual Academy Awards. 30,000 DAYS: DIR Stephanie Barber. USA. ALL FLOWERS IN TIME: DIR Jonathan Caouette. USA. ALL IN ALL: DIR Charlie Reff. USA. ANOTHER BULLET DOGED: DIR Landon Zakheim. USA. BABYLAND: DIR Marc Fratello. USA. BLINK: DIR Rick Rosenthal. AFI Conservatory Directing Class of 1973. Canada. BROKEN NIGHT: DIR Yang Hyo-Joo. Korea. CLEAR BLUE: DIR Lindsay MacKay. AFI Conservatory Thesis Film/AFI Directing Class of 2010. USA. DR. BREAKFAST: DIR Stephen Neary. USA. THE EAGLEMAN STAG: DIR Michael Please. UK. EX-SEX: DIR Michael Mohan. USA. FROZEN STORIES: DIR Grzegorz Jaroszuk. Poland. INFINITE MINUTES: DIR Cecilia Felmeri. Hungary/Romania. JUAN Y LA BORREGA: DIR J. Xavier Velasco. Mexico. LIBERTAS: DIR Kan Lume. Australia/Singapore. LITTLE KITTEN: DIR Stephanie Barber. USA. MASKA: DIR Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay. USA. MEXICAN CUISINE: DIR Francisco Guijarro. USA. NEGATIVAPEG: DIR M. Rankin. Canada. NIGHT HUNTER: DIR Stacy Steers. USA. ONCE IT STARTED IT COULD NOT END OTHERWISE: DIR Kelly Sears. USA. ONE MINUTE PUBERTY: DIR Alexander Gellner. USA. PIONEER: DIR David Lowery. USA. PROTOPARTICLES: DIR Chema Garca Ibarra. Spain. RUNAWAY: DIR Victor Carrey. Spain. SATAN SINCE 2003: DIR Carlos Puga. USA. SLEEP STUDY: DIR Kerri Lenoo, John Merriman. USA. TATUMS GHOST: DIR Stephanie Barber. USA. THIEF: DIR Julian Higgins. AFI Conservatory Thesis Film/AFI Directing Class of 2010. USA. TO DIE NEXT TO YOU: Dir Simon Cahn, Spike Jonze. France. UNMANNED: DIR Casey Cooper Johnson. AFI Conservatory Thesis Film/AFI Directing Class of 2011. USA. THE VOYAGERS: DIR Penny Lane. USA. WERE LEAVING: DIR Zachary Treitz. USA. YEARBOOK: DIR Carter Smith. USA. ZERGUT: DIR Natasha Subramaniam, Alisa Lapidu. USA. SHORT FILM SELECTIONS (Out of Competition) AANTENI: DIR Todd Cole. USA. I SAW YOUR SISTER YESTERDAY: DIR Mina Park. USA. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO: DIR Juliano Dornelles. Brazil. MY BOW BREATHING: DIR Enrico Maria Artale. Italy. Film stills and director headshots are available for press use only and can be downloaded at flickr.com/photos/afifestpublicity/collections. About the American Film Institute AFI is Americas promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the next generation of storytellers. AFI provides leadership in film, television and digital media and is dedicated to initiatives that engage the past, the present and the future of the moving image arts. AFI programs include the AFI Catalog of Feature Films and Archive, the AFI Life Achievement Award, now in it’s 40th year, AFI Awards, honoring the most outstanding motion pictures and television programs of the year, AFI Fest presented by Audi, celebrating its 25th edition this fall, AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs, AFI Silver Theatre and the AFI Conservatory, which was named the # 1 film school in the world by The Hollywood Reporter. Additional information about AFI is available at AFI.com.