Monday, October 31, 2011
Spider-Guy Musical Bids Adieu to 2 Original Stars
NY (AP) Broadway's "Spider-Guy" musical will lose a few its original cast people.Producers mentioned Friday that original stars Jennifer Damiano and T.V. Carpio will finish their run in "Spider-Guy: Turn Off the Dark" the next month when their contracts expire.Damiano, which has carried out Mary Jane Watson since performances began last November, will probably be transformed by Rebecca Faulkenberry, who made her Broadway debut in "Rock old range." Carpio, that's been playing the spider-lady named Arachne, will probably be transformed by Christina Sajous, who starred in "Baby, It's You!" and "American Idiot."Reeve Carney, who plays Peter Parker as well as the webslinger, and Patrick Page, who's the Eco-friendly Goblin, are sticking while using $75 million show, which carrying out a difficult birth, has converted into a high Broadway earner.The musical, Broadway's most pricey, was impacted by accidents and postponed premieres before finally formally opening in June.With this time, the first director and co-book author Julie Taymor happen to be ousted, as well as the musical's tunes by U2's Bono as well as the Edge as well as the narrative were reworked.Carpio initially showed up an element inside the so-referred to as Geek Chorus four comic fans who presented the plot and represented Taymor, Bono, The Benefit and co-book author Glen Berger. But Carpio happen to be the understudy for a lot of roles since joining the show in 2007 and will be a natural choice when the original Arachne Natalie Mendoza attracted out after getting experienced a concussion in December.Through the show's rocky spring, the role of Arachne was reworked and Carpio experienced whiplash when one of the artists playing Spider-Guy toppled onto her in March.Damiano's last performance will probably be November. 6. Carpio's will probably be November. 13.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Start Looking: Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie on NBC's Fashion Star
Nicole Richie, Jessica Simpson NBC will get in to the fashion business this midseason with Fashion Star, located and executive created by Elle Macpherson (yes, playing the role here of Heidi Klum). Your competition show includes "celebrity mentors" Jessica Simpson (pre-alleged baby bump?), Nicole Richie and John Varvatos. The series follows 14 designers because they placed on a significant fashion show every week and compete for an opportunity to produce their lines at Macy's, H&M and Saks Fifth Avenue. Purchasers all three stores will purchase a few of the work every week (that will immediately be accessible within their stores), but designers who to neglect to sell their wares are removed. Here is a start looking at Jessica Simpson and Nicole Richie around the group of Fashion Star. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Eames: The Architect and also the Painter
An Initial Run Features discharge of a Mission Prods. and Bread and Butter Films production in colaboration with Thirteen's American Masters for WNET.org. Created by Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey. Executive producer, Shirley Kessler. Co-producer, Camille Servan-Schreiber. Directed by Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey. Compiled by Cohn.With: Richard Saul Wurman, Kevin Roche, Tina Beebe, Eames Demetrios, Deborah Sussman, Pat Kirkham, Jesse Albrecht, Gordon Ashby, Jeannine Oppewall, Bill Tondreau, Jed Perl, Marilyn Neuhart, Rob Capian, Richard Wright, Paul Schrader, Joe Giovannini, Judith Wechsler, Zeke Seligsohn, Ford Peatross, Meg McAleer, Lucia Eames, Thomas S. Hines, Mike Grawe, Bob Blaich, John Neuhart.Two midcentury modernists having a rare populist touch are profiled in "Eames: The Architect and also the Painter." A designer who rarely colored as well as an architecture-school dropout, correspondingly, Charles and Ray Eames made ultramodern design appear fun, mostly through the famous, still-manufactured "Eames chair." Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey's sprightly documentary weighs in at its subjects' unique achievements and common influence while probing rapport more complicated than its sunny public face indicated. First Run pickup must do well in limited theatrical release beginning November. 18, having a 12 ,. 19 broadcast debut on PBS' "American Masters." Though Charles had been a husband and father at that time, he and Ray (nee Bernice Kaiser) immediately clicked on upon meeting at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art within the late nineteen thirties Ray even given a hands around the chair's unsuccessful original prototype. Following his 1941 divorce, they quickly married, gone to live in La and commenced making "the very best which are more for that least," as Charles place it. Initially this incorporated enhanced leg splints mass-created for World war 2 military personnel. That assignment assisted them solve the problem of molding plywood for body-sculpted domestic furniture, permitting eventually for that output of the easy, elegant, playful Eames chair. It demonstrated a determining object for that postwar generation and it is middle-class suburban lifestyle. Charles' problem-fixing gifts and Ray's aesthetic ones likewise married affordable materials to abstract yet practical, inviting designs in myriad other media beyond interior decor. Their very own Off-shore Palisades house, graphic designs for companies (particularly IBM), experimental films illustrating complex ideas basically, along with other projects all caught the public's fancy. Former co-employees the Eames' offices felt a lot more like a design playground than the usual workspace. They also observe that highly collaborative team endeavors usually ended up credited solely towards the couple, in order to Charles alone. It's surmised that Ray should have chafed somewhat in the perception that they could not be her husband's creative equal. (One amusing/appalling sequence shows Arlene Francis on TV's "What's My Line?" stubbornly setting Ray a far more subservient role despite Charles' insistence on his wife as being a full working partner.) The wedding itself would be a mystery to everyone, another friend states, particularly since Charles (despite their own difficulties with mingling and obfuscation) was undoubtedly the greater charming figure. Yet their collaborative bond was perceived by others to become so inviolate that certain lady with whom Charles were built with a lengthy-term affair attests that after Charles agreed to divorce and marry her, she just "could not get it done to Ray." Between your range of interviewees and surplus of colorful archival materials, the deftly put together pic has nary a dull moment.Camera (color, HD), Ulli Bonnekamp, John Dowley, Vicente Franco, Edward Marritz Petr Stepanek, Brett Wiley, Edgar Boyles, Andrew Dryer, Tom Hurwitz, Jon Shenk, Thaddeus Wadleigh, John Wingert editor, Don Bernier music, Michael Sausage animation/graphics designer, John Oakes seem, John Buckley, Douglas Dunderdale, Mark Mandler, Bob Schuck, Mario Cardenas, Steve Haskin, Gabriel Monts, Jayme Roy, John Zecca seem mixers, James LeBrecht, Serta Olmsted. Examined on DVD, Bay Area, March. 17, 2011. (In Mill Valley Film Festival -- Valley from the Paperwork Doc New york city.) Running time: 84 MIN.
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Tops Fortune's 40 Under 40 List
NY - Facebook Boss Mark Zuckerberg, 27, needed the most effective devote Fortune's second annual 40 Under 40 listing of the very popular youthful stars in operation before Google Boss Ray Page, time Warner publication mentioned Thursday.our editor indicates Rupert Murdoch 'Very Humbled' while he Apologizes Personally for the Number of Wiped out Schoolgirl Milly Dowler Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch To Handle Questioning Under Oath In Phone-Hacking Judicial Inquiry Other tech stars available include Jack Dorsey, co-founder and executive chairman of Twitter, who made the eighth place, Google co-founder Sergey Brin inside the eleventh place. Large entertainment industry names available include thirteenth-ranked Ryan Seacrest, 36, who's immediately then Univision Systems mind Cesar Conde, 37, and 16th-ranked Kevin Feige, mind of Marvel Art galleries. CBS News leader David Rhodes (ranked 17th), Spotify founder Daniel Ek (18), Relativity Media boss Ryan Kavanaugh (22) and CNN's Erin Burnett (33) also made this list. However, News Corp. deputy COO James Murdoch, who showed up eighth a year ago when tech pioneer and investor Marc Andreessen assigned this list before Zuckerberg, shipped this list. Asked for by Fortune in regards to the business term he hates most likely probably the most, Rhodes mentioned: "Worst overused business term: facilitate. Who had been elevated saying, 'Mom, once i develop If only to facilitate.' How about rather 'I'd would rather report, disclose, reveal'?" Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Google Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Ryan Kavanaugh James Murdoch Erin Burnett
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Monster In-Laws and regulations and rules: TV Review
Moving rapport while using parents of the person's spouse has extended been a vexing relationship challenge. To wit, in-law jokes - most of them keen on inherited moms - are becoming standard fare in comedy clubs, literature, films and tv. Cribbing its title from Monster-in-Law, the 2005 Jane Fonda/Jennifer Lopez comedy concerning just this kind of conflict, A&E's new series Monster In-Laws and regulations and rules explores the disorder of people extended families who, as you would expect, can't locate eye-to-eye. PHOTOS: 10 Tv Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' Inside the premiere episode, we meet Kim, her husband Anthony in addition to their youthful daughter Nina Marie, a middle-class family in western NY whose existence is centered by the presence of Kim's parents, Richie and Pam. "Obtaining a daughter might be the finest factor in the world,In . Pam states, justifying the insane time period she and her husband spend at their daughter's home doting on Nina Marie. "It's a lot better than sex. It's a lot better than anything." The particular monster here, however, is not Pam, but Richie, a bald, Italian, my-way-or-the-highway father. PHOTOS: Fall TV Dying Pool: Which New Show Could Possibly Get Canceled? "Anthony's and Kim's rules aren't my rules when my daughter is to apply us," Richie states unapologetically. "She lives by my rules, so when everybody can't understand that then you definitely certainly got an problem.Inch Clearly, no sits too well with Anthony or Kim, even though couple have introduced lots of their predicament on themselves given that they go into business with Kim's parents inside an Italian restaurant named ... watch for this ... Nina Marie's. "Participating in business with my in-laws and regulations and rules was certainly one of the worst options I've available,Inch Anthony states, explaining why he and Kim abruptly left around the duties within the restaurant, departing Richie to deal with it. To make certain, there's an abundance of problems on Monster In-Laws and regulations and rules, as well as the explosive promotions for your show will make you think that it's going to use be simply a Basketball Partners scream-fest in family form. Rather, producers Brent Montgomery (Pawn Stars) and Courtney Montgomery (Just what the Sell?!) have fortunately chosen for your therapy kind of reality television (see also: Hoarders and Intervention) in which a specialist is introduced directly into fix all that's so clearly broken with this particular protagonists. Within moments of her arrival in your home, "family expert" Mel Robbins are able to see what's what. "It's Ritchie's rules. He doesn't care just what the parents want. So, yes, clearly he's undermining your family, which is pissing Kim and Anthony off," Robbins states in the cut away interview. Diagnosis might be the simple part, however, and Robbins is not any Cesar Millan if the involves whispering problems away. Her means to fix get Richie and Pam to start enhancing their daughter and stepson? She rips off large items of duct tape in the roll and notifies her to affix them over her parents' mouths. The truth is this suggestion pushes the half-hour episode towards the emotional climax. Exactly why is the proceedings stand out off their shouting match television, is always that Richie and Anthony show genuine discomfort and vulnerability among their fits. The stress throughout this family feels all-too-real, and not entirely manufactured for ratings. For just about any genre that seems to require bigger blowouts, plus much more spectacular existence changes with each passing season, that's no small task.
Works U.K. takes 'Shelter'
"Take Shelter"LONDON -- The Whole Shebang U.K. Distribution has clicked up all Brit privileges to Shaun Nichols' thriller "Take Shelter." Pic, which preemed in Sundance captured and won the Cannes 2011 Critics' Week grand prize and Fipresci award, may have its U.K. preem on Friday in the BFI London Film Festival. Pic, starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain, centers around a parent who's affected by apocalyptic visions. Nichols composed and helmed the script while Tyler Davidson and Sophia Lin produce. The Whole Shebang is planning for a countrywide release for that pic on November. 25. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com
NY Film Critics Circle Moves Up Voting Date, Jumps to Front of Awards Line
This is interesting: The NY Film Critics Circle announced today that it has moved up its 2011 awards-voting conference to Nov. 28 — two full weeks prior to its usual mid-December vote and right to the front of the line in terms of awards-season tone-setting and influence. The vote will take place the same day as the Gotham Awards, which themselves are less a mainstream kudos barometer than an indie/specialty confab where the likes of Moneyball, J. Edgar, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, War Horse, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and other studio fare would not likely find any quarter. Those latter three titles in particular raise the question of how and when the NYFCC (of which our own Stephanie Zacharek is an illustrious member) will actually get to see these films; historically only the secretive National Board of Review — who last year voted on Dec. 2 — have enjoyed such early access from the studios in particular. The NBR may yet move its own date back ahead of the critics, which would then, of course, require even earlier screenings of carefully withheld films, and thus — in concert with the NYFCC — anoint a handful of legitimate Oscar frontrunners before December even starts. Pretty nuts. Developing…
Scarlett Johansson was too sexy for Fincher's Dragon Tattoo
Director David Fincher states Scarlett Johansson was too sexy to experience Lisbeth Salander in the remake from the Girl Using The Dragon Tattoo."The one thing with Scarlett is, you cannot watch for her to consider her clothes off," Fincher stated.To place that into context (and to really make it seem a little less strange), we believe Fincher was saying the character needs to be boyish and vulnerable before she shows various other side.Let us try that again..."Look, we had some amazing people. Scarlett Johansson was great. It had been an excellent audition, I am suggesting. But the one thing with Scarlett is, you cannot watch for her to consider her clothes off," Fincher told Style."Salander ought to be like E.T.," he added. "Should you put E.T. dolls out before anybody saw the film, they'd say, 'What is little squishy factor?' Well, guess what happens? When he hides underneath the table and that he grabs the Reese's Pieces, you like him! It needs to end up like that."OK, he managed to get strange again.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Latest Contender Gets The Boot On Dancing
First Published: October 18, 2011 10:26 PM EDT Credit: ABC Caption Kym Johnson and David Arquette, Anna Trebunskaya and Carson Kressley, Hope Solo and Maksim ChmerkovskiyLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- One week shy of Broadway week, Dancing with the Stars lost one of its most colorful contenders. (SPOILER: This story contains the results of Tuesdays elimination show) He may have jumped for joy, performing a Wham of an 80s-themed cheerleader styled jive to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go on Monday night with professional partner Anna Trebunskaya, but another low score for Carson Kressley meant the end of his stay in the DWTS ballroom. On Tuesday, the former Queer Eye For The Straight Guy guru became the fifth celebrity eliminated from the show. Ever the positive spirit, Carson had plenty of praise for his time on the program. This has been pure joy for me and I hope I could make people smile and laugh and have a great time, Carson said after learning the news. It was great being here, he added. Carsons exit came following his second week at the bottom of the leaderboard. While never a top talent in the competition, the Carson-Nation host brought a positive attitude, style and some real comedy to the dance floor, whipping out routines that always made the judges smile. Original American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson performed on Tuesdays elimination show, and was impressed by the moves of pros Tristan MacManus and Kym Johnson, to her new song, Mr. Know It All, even expressring an interest in Dancing. If I could dance like that, I would be on this show, but I cant, the singer said. We could teach you, show co-host Tom Bergeron suggested. It would be a comedy, Kelly replied, shooting down his hopes of bringing her to the ballroom. Dancing with the Stars returns on Monday night at 8/7 C on ABC. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The Dark Dark night Increases New york city Location Shoots May Occupy Wall Street
The Dark Dark night Increases, that has been shooting in La along with other configurations all over the world, is going to mind for NY City locales that could range from the vicinity of Occupy Wall Street protests, the La Occasions reviews. Producers from the third movie in Christopher Nolan’s vision from the Batman saga lately released a casting call underneath the code title “Magnus Rex,” and cast people happen to be told the shoot could include moments shot in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Individuals demos will probably be happening throughout the 2-week period the Warner Bros.-Legendary Pictures production is scheduled to become shooting within the city that unexpectedly happens to be nicknamed Gotham, beginning October 29. That doesn’t mean more knowledge about the protests will estimate the story, however they could add authenticity to styles from the franchise. The shoot was planned several weeks ago, and director Christopher Nolan probably would make use of the protests like a backdrop for something which’s already in the script. Exact locations remain secret, however the casting call specified that interested stars must have “military and/or police force training/experience, weapons training, and/or fighting techinques training.” Maybe they’re also prospecting for location security.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The Great Physician: Film Review
Orlando Blossom, playing an initial year medical resident by having an important device missing from his package, craves worship and would go to remarkable, psychopathic measures to have it within the Good Physician, a tense, psychosexual film that may get people to think hard before considering a hospital. Blossom includes a following in the The almighty from the Rings trilogy, so that as a number one guy see how to avoid romantic comedy, but he's a lengthy way from either of individuals personas within this outing, and without other large-title stars, the doctor's box office prognosis is just fair.our editor recommendsOrlando Blossom Movie 'The Good Doctor' Will get PG-13 Rating on AppealOrlando Blossom to star in 'Good Doctor' Directed having a way of measuring ironic detachment by Irishman Lance Daly (Kisses), working from the competent script with aspects of black comedy by John Enbom, the film, occur the problematic paradise of Los Angeles, is less about medicine compared to banality of evil and also the narcissism of Dr. Martin Blake (Blossom), an outwardly respectful youthful physician whose ambition and homicidal habits are masked by his politeness and pallid affectless exterior. In early stages, carrying out a serious mistake having a patient, you will find hints he might be a calculating impostor but, inside a deftly handled change, it works out he's an even more sinister breed. Blake blows a gasket when he becomes enthusiastic about the teenage Diane, an angelic-searching, blue-eyed blond patient (well performed by Riley Keough), whose vulnerability and flirty teasing trigger his famished ego. Asked to dinner at her grateful parents' home, he spikes her meds to make sure her go back to a healthcare facility. Then and again under his "care," he takes steps contributing to her becoming mortally ill. He's remarkably cunning and skilled at covering his tracks but, when an orderly (Michael Pena) blackmails him with incriminating evidence, his criminality gets worse. Together with his cheap sport jackets and antisocial habits, Blake does not appear just like a candidate for advancement but ruthlessness as well as an lack of conscience get their advantages along with as being a blank slate others project onto him what they need to determine. He handles to allay the accusations of the vigilant, in-your-face nurse (a feisty Taraji P. Henson), whom he feels better than, and snookers his supervisory physician (Take advantage of Morrow within an odd, underwritten part). The film is most enjoyable when Blake careens unmanageable, sailing lower stairwells inside a full-on stress, furtively stealing hospital supplies, poisoning pharmaceutical drugs or climbing from his bathroom window to flee a baffled, not terribly tenacious police detective (the always reliable J.K. Simmons.) But Enbom's excessively careful script and Bloom's recessive portrayal offer too couple of clues towards the roots from the doctor's behavior to create him understandable and, by not heightening the horror facets of the storyline, Daly does not go far enough to provide the crowd a satisfying jolt of danger and dramatic kick. Yaron Orbach's cinematography conveys Blake's isolation-he's frequently presented alone in shots on deserted roads, in empty hallways or looking to ocean with an expansive stretch of beach, and it is rarely buffeted through the traffic of the busy hospital. Some moments appear cleaned out, a metaphor for that unreality from the outdoors world and those who inhabit it for any guy trapped inside his mind. John Byrne's subtle score ranges from romantic to unsettling and production designer Eve Cauley Turner's bland institutional configurations are just right, particularly the rendition from the doctor's impersonal, all-whitened, beachside apartment, that is as sterile like a laboratory primed for pathology. Venue: Mill Valley Film Festival (Magnolia Pictures). Tha harsh truth: A risk-averse film a good out-of-bounds, not too good physician with pernicious hidden talents. Production companies: A Code Red-colored Presentation of the King/Etheridge production in colaboration with Viddywell Prods. Fastnet Films. Cast: Orlando Blossom, Riley Keough, Taraji P. Henson, Take advantage of Morrow, Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Molly Cost, Wade Williams, J.K. Simmons. Director: Lance Daly Film writer: John Enbom Producer: Orlando Blossom, Serta Etheridge, Jonathan King Executive producer: Orlando Blossom, Leonid Lebedev, Sharon Burns Director of photography: Yaron Orbach Production designer: Eve Cauley Turner Music: John Byrne Costume designer: Jill Newell Editor: Emer Reynolds Telemarketer: Current Pictures, La PG-13 Rating, 91 minutes Orlando Blossom The Great Physician
Thursday, October 13, 2011
ABC Orders More Happy Endings Scripts; Revenge, Suburgatory Get Full Seasons
Emily VanCamp, Revenge, Jane Levy, Suburgatory For Emily VanCamp, Revenge is sweet. ABC has given a full-season order to the contemporary take on The Count of Monte Cristo, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Suburgatory, starring Jane Levy and Jeremy Sisto, has also been picked up for a full season. Emily VanCamp: Emily Thorne isn't the only one getting Revenge Executive-produced by Mike Kelley, Revenge debuted to 10.15 million viewers. Its latest outing on Wednesday drew 7.9 million viewers. Suburgatory, which follows a single dad who uproots his daughter from NY proper to the suburbs, debuted to 9.8 million viewers, marking a 27 percent improvement over last year's tenant of the time slot, Better With You. The latest episode drew 8.7 million viewers. CW gives Sarah Michelle Gellar's Ringer a full season In addition, ABC has ordered six more scripts of Happy Endings, the breakout midseason comedy that debuted to 7.4 million viewers in Season 2. The news comes on the heels of CW picking up all three of its new dramas, Ringer, The Secret Circle and Hart of Dixie. Previously, Fox ordered a full season of New Girl, while NBC picked up Up All Night and Whitney, and CBS put its faith in Whitney Cummings' other comedy, 2 Broke Girls.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Escandalo boards Garaje's 'Chronicle'
SITGES, The nation -- New Barcelona-based production company Cine p Garaje has inked with Escandalo Films to co-produce Garaje's first feature, "Chronicle Beyond the Border." Garaje was founded by Luis p la Madrid and South usa-born Andre Cruz Shirawa. "Chronicle" marks the directorial debut of Shirawa, a plentiful music-vid helmer. Put in co-production equity from Catalan pubcaster TV3, and subsidies within the Icaa Film Institute and Icic Catalan film board, Escandalo's boarding "Chronicle" reps a powerful greenlight for your movie. Put together by Shirawa and Aurora Sulli, "Chronicle" follows a girl, Hannah, as she flees along with her 9-year-old boy in the disaster that has devastated their country. They are eventually interned in the refugee camping guarded by soldiers and video cameras that holds a sinister surprise. "Chronicle" will probably be professional-produced by Antonia Nava, the longtime V . p . of sales and co-productions at Filmax before she ankled to find out her own company. The director of sales hit "The Nun," a Filmax production, and editor on greater than 20 features, including Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone," P la Madrid edited and edited or oversaw publish-production on many Filmax features including Kaira Anderson's "The Machinist," and Jaume Balaguero's "The Nameless" and "Darkness." "Garaje aims to produce sci-fi and fantasy contents: 'Chronicle' is our flagship," P la Madrid mentioned at Sitges. Escandalo produced Sitges opener "Avoi" and approaching Martin Freeman starrer "Animals." The co-production equity on "Chronicle" marks further growth at Escandalo which, in the first feature, 2007's "Me," has seen large success focussing on lead or solo creating first features by former students of Barcelona's Escac film school. On "Chronicle," in the departure, Escandalo puts up minority equity. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com
Thursday, October 6, 2011
'Man of Steel' Actress, Cesar Nominee Ink With New Agencies
German actressAntje Traue, the lead female villain in Warner Bros.' forthcoming"Man of Steel," has signed with UTA. Traue's credits include films"5 Days of War"and"Pandorum." She is also represented by the U.K.'s Troika and attorneyFred Toczek of Felker Toczek Gellman and Suddleson LLP.Jon Amiel, who directed"Creation," which opened the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, has signed with Gersh. Amiel recently directed two episodes of Showtime's"The Borgias." His feature directing credits include"The Man Who Knew Too Little"(1997),"Entrapment"(1999) and"The Core"(2003). Amiel is also represented by manager Dave Brownof Artist International Management.French actressLouise Bourgoin, who starred in"A Happy Event," which debuted at Toronto, has signed with WME. She was nominated for the Cesar award for most promising actress for her performance in"The Girl From Monaco"(2008).Bourgoinis represented by Isabelle de La Patelliere and Olivier Kahan of France's VMA.Bill Pruitt, a showrunner on Discovery's"Deadliest Catch," has signed with ICM. Pruitt has previously produced episodes of"The Apprentice"and"The Amazing Race," for which he has won four Primetime Emmys. The Hollywood Reporter
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Meet Laurence R. Harvey, the Face of The Human Centipede II
Laurence R. Harvey (not to be confused with Laurence Harvey, the late Oscar-nominated Lithuanian-British actor) made an unusual debut on the world’s stage when a close-up of his face, sweaty and bug-eyed, was released as the first image from Tom Six’s depraved sequel The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence). Meeting the British stage veteran — and, yes, one-time children’s television performer — on the red carpet at Fantastic Fest, Movieline was pleasantly relieved to find that Harvey is far from his disturbing alter ego, the put-upon Human Centipede-worshipping drudge Martin, who commits unspeakable acts upon fresh victims in the new film. But does his mother know what he’s been up to? I hardly recognized you, since the only glimpse I’ve seen of you is from… Harvey: The photo…! Yes, the photo. How do you feel about the idea of the world at large getting to know you through this particular character? Harvey: [Laughs] Well, I guess it’s kind of strange. In the U.K. some people kind of remember me from doing kids’ television ten years ago, so this is quite a difference from that. That’s hilariously perverse. Harvey: Yeah! Exactly. How does The Human Centipede II compare to the kinds of projects you’ve done before, children’s programming notwithstanding? Harvey: Most of the stuff I’ve done before has been kind of small audiences, experimental theater, and then this… It’s a huge explosion of madness. Considering your past work in children’s programming, were you looking for something this shocking and depraved to make a break of sorts? Harvey: Well, it’s not that I was looking for something specifically. I like working with different styles and different… methods… of working. Tom Six has recounted your audition for the role of Martin, in which he says he instructed you to rape a chair. What other crazy things did you have to do to get this role? Harvey: [Laughs] Was it the chair raping? I’m not sure. The most embarrassing thing was, because the character lives at home with his mum I just wore clothes that had been chosen by my mum. But I didn’t realize my jumper had a hole in it. I thought it was a little hole, but by the time I’d finished doing all the running around in the casting I came out and there was this big slit all the way down [runs finger down the side of his torso]. I just went, ‘Aaaah.’ That sounds pretty appropriate, actually. Harvey: Yeah! It works for the character, I think. How does your mother feel about The Human Centipede II and her son becoming famous for starring in it? Harvey: Well, I’m just glad that she can’t see it. I’m glad that it’s banned in the U.K.!
Jennifer Aniston: There's No Desperation To Experience A Baby
First Launched: October 5, 2011 6:14 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Jennifer Aniston poses for photos through the Breast Care Center within the Inova Alexandria Hospital at Mark Center, Alexandria, Virtual assistant., on October 3, 2011Jennifer Aniston can be obtained to allow character take its course if the involves getting children. It's not everything you read. There's no desperation, the actress told ELLE magazine throughout the interview due to its Women in Hollywood 2011 problem. Whether it will probably be, its supposed to have been. Im peaceful with no matter the plan's. And frequently are you going to hate me if I believe that I should not discuss my relationship? she added, mentioning to her romance with new love, fellow actor Justin Theroux. Jennifer also revealed she once got very, very angry around the film set so mad, she thrown furniture at someone. I put a chair inside a director, Jennifer mentioned in excerpts within the interview released with the magazine now. It wasnt my proudest moment. He was handling a script supervisor horribly When the director walked in, I put a chair at him. I missed, clearly. I used to be like, You can't speak with people such as this. I cant tolerate it. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Lifetime Will Update Its Amanda Knox Movie, Which Airs Tuesday
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italia Since Amanda Knox's Italian murder conviction continues to be overturned, Lifetime is racing to update its TV movie, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italia. Like a stroke of luck for Lifetime, the cable network had already scheduled a re-airing from the film on Tuesday, October 4. Now Lifetime is likely to rapidly give a new brief opening towards the movie, an "epilogue" of sorts detailing Monday's news, in addition to a new coda how the brand new trial finishes. Amanda Knox Freed, Murder Conviction Overturned Lifetime initially opened the questionable movie, which stars Hayden Panettiere as Knox (a united states who had been initially charged of killing her roommate in Italia), on Feb 21. The funnel and also the movie's producers were belittled by both Knox's lawyers and also the group of victim Meredith Kercher after promotions incorporated moments of Kercher being attacked. Amanda Knox didn't air in Italia because of legal reasons, as Knox's situation was ongoing at that time. Most probably, since the situation is closed, the film might finally be proven there. (Associates say there is no intends to screen the film in Italia at this time, however, as some legal loose finishes remain.) Last winter Amanda Knox executive producer Craig Piligian told TV Guide Magazine the producers ensured to not take sides within the debate over Knox's guilt or innocence. "Everyone's divided, and also the viewing public will probably be divided too,Inch Piligian stated at that time. "That is what makes this this type of great story." Audiences may have several chances to trap Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italia within the next couple of days. Besides Tuesday's airing on Lifetime, sister funnel Lifetime Movie Network will screen it on Thursday. Next, speculation has begun which news organization might land the exclusive first interview with Knox. ABC and NBC are seen as the early management, as both news divisions happen to be on the top from the Knox story for a while. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!
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