Monday, December 19, 2011

Judy Greer Will got married

Judy Greer and Dean Manley Actress Judy Greer has tied the knot, People reviews. Greer, 36, got married Real-time with Bill Maher producer Dean Manley on Saturday evening within the La Sports Club. About 200 site visitors attended the ceremony, including Bill Maher, Rashida Manley, Jason Biggs, Sarah Chalke and Tyler Labine. See other stars who've become engaged this year Manley and Greer, who presently is seen on the watch's screen inside the Descendants, got involved with June after dating for approximately yearly.

Friday, December 9, 2011

USA has high wants 'Moment'

USA Network, striving to produce an impact the simple truth is programming next season, has high anticipation for "The Moment.InchSequence, from producers Charlie Ebersol and Justin Hochberg, will probably be situated by former Nfl quarterback Kurt Warner and may focus on personal reinvention and existence transformation. Warner, who ended up winning a great Bowl while using St. Louis Rams and playing in another, thought his career is at the mid-1990's when he was stocking shelves in the supermarket in Iowa before given an chance to experience football again.Format for "Just AsInch will probably be similar to CBS' "Undercover Boss," focusing on a single person for each episode.Pilot was shot in La and USA Network is pegging to debut "Just AsInch inside the 2012 second quarter.Cabler, which has continuously relied on hourlong blue sky-designed dramedies to stay atop its entertainment competition in general audiences as well as the 18-49 demo lately, thinks it has to branch to various genres to help keep adding.Furthermore to "The Moment,Inch internet has plans for other reality series, including Shed Media's "The Choir" -- where a town transforms itself through music -- too projects from Magical Elves ("Top Chef") and "The Slopes" creator Adam DiVello. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The CW Teams With J.J. Abrams & OTH Creator Mark Schwahn For Hotel Drama

EXCLUSIVE: J.J. Abrams is headed for the CW. Within the first stint within the 5-year-old network, the most effective author-producer-director has joined with Mark Schwahn, creator/executive producer/showrunner in the CW’s extended-running drama One Tree Hill. The power pair has offered costly hotels drama for the CW, which will instantly become one of the the network’s finest-profile projects this development season. Schwahn will write the show, tentatively titled Maine, that's occur an motel in Maine and involves employees as well as the motel’s site visitors. Abrams and Schwahn will executive produce with Bryan Burk for Warner Bros. TV, Abrams’ studio-based Bad Robot and Schwahn’s Mastermind Labs. In scope, the level of smoothness-based drama, which has received a script commitment, harks to Schwahn’s OTH, which will finish its nine-year run early next season, and Abrams’ Felicity. This marks a homecoming of sorts for Abrams who started his TV career round the CW predecessor the WB with Felicity. For Schwahn, the project develops from a script deal with WBTV. The sale reunites Abrams while using CW leader Mark Pedowitz and EVP development Thom Sherman who labored with Abrams at ABC and ABC Art galleries. Most recently, Pedowitz was leader of ABC Art galleries where Abrams was within general deal before moving to WBTV in 2006, and Sherman went Abrams’ production company Bad Robot for two main years before joining the CW, also in 2006. Once the project visits series, every time they visit for just about any seamless transition for WME-repped Schwahn, who's wrapping the ninth and final season of just one Tree Hill. He's the second creator from the extended-running, hit CW series being writing a greater-profile new work with the network, along with Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, who's adapting Electricity Comic Deadman. Coincidentally, both Schwahn and Kripke have projects with Abrams this year. Close to the CW hotel drama, Bad Robot’s other project in contention for next fall is Revolution, popular adventure thriller at NBC composed by Kripke, having a pilot production commitment.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Orphan Author Targets Last Guy Standing

Heavy Metal And Rock comic heads screenwardsDavid Fincher, Robert Rodriguez and privileges-holder Kevin Eastman have battled recently to obtain a new portmanteau Heavy Metal And Rock movie ready to go. But a rest-out, stand-alone title in the famous sci-fi-and-violence-and-breasts anthology comic looks to become at risk of a movie adaptation, as Last Guy Standing.The excitement began finally year's Comic-Disadvantage, where Daniel LuVisi's Last Guy Standing graphic novel, 2 yrs within the making, offered out its entire print run inside a little over two hrs. Vital were quick to seize themselves a choice, and it is now fallen to David Leslie Manley (Orphan, Wrath From The Leaders, The Walking Dead) to hammer the fabric into script shape. LuVisi reaches remain on-hands like a producer.Nothing related to Bruce Willis ducking and weaving throughout Prohibition, Last Guy Standing: Killbook Of The Fugitive Hunter is placed 600 years later on, and involves a kick-ass covert operative named Gabriel, running missions for any paramilitary group known as Armtech. He turns into a celebrity hero after playing a vital part inside a war against Mars that Earth wins, but he's then presented to have an act of terrorism and stays nine years in clink, before getting away and starting around the obligatory Mission For Revenge.When the story sounds generic, the planet it's occur is definitely an intricate one: the graphic novel is presented being an enormous scrapbook of literature and data detailing the universe's politics, primary gamers and technology. A huge sandpit for Manley to experience in, quite simply, and something that Vital hopes will run and run: Variety reviews plans for "a multi-platform franchise property"...

Sunday, December 4, 2011

2011s Second Worst Weekend: Breaking Dawn Threepeats For #1, Muppets #2, Oscar-Buzzed Hugo, Shame, The Artist, The Descendants, Marilyn All Strong

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM: No major studio movies opened. Interesting that6 of the Top 10 highest grossing films are PG. But this weekend is looking like $82M which is neck-and-neck for the lowest weekend of 2011 (September 9th’s $81M). Deadline begins its closer look at the specialty market. Fox Searchlight’s Shame played in 10 theatres in 6 cities and grossed $361K with a theatre average of $36,118.In a dismal down weekend, the film delivered thehighest per screen average this post-holiday period even with an NC-17 rating.The studio is hoping this Steve McQueen-directed film is receiving enough buzz foralong run through the awards season. Fox Searchlight’s The Descendants sticks the Top 10 despite a low theater count and became the first limited platform film ever to hit $10M in the first 12 days of release.This Oscar-touted Alexander Payne/George Clooney dramedyexpands next Friday into850 theaters to keep up with continuing demand. The Weinstein Co’s My Week With Marilyn didn’t add theaters but held up well,down only 43% on Friday and 26% on Saturday.Already TWC’s badmouthing of the Oscar competition has begun: “This compares to Descendants which, while down 47% and 24% overall, added 33% more locations (141) theaters, and their actual drop in the existing theaters was down 56% and 37%. Paramount’sHugo added 44% more theaters (563) and, while their overall drop was down 57% and 24%, their actual drop in the existing theaters was down 62% and 34% for Friday and Saturday. What all this says is that Marilyn is holding in better than the competition and that we have good word of mouth.” The Weinstein Co’s Academy Award Best Picture-heraldedThe Artist had its best day yet on Saturday in both NY houses. “And while LA took a hit on Friday, it was only down slightly from last week on Saturday with drops of 21% in Hollywood and 11% at the Landmark,” the indie said. “Obviously, we have fantastic WOM on this.”The European Film Awards just wrapped in Berlin where Magnolia’s Melancholia from the looney Lars von Trier won top prize. Top 10 highest grossing films: 1. Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (Summit) Week 3 [4,046 Theaters] Friday $5.5M, Saturday $7.2M,Weekend $16.9M (-60%),Cume $247.3M 2. The Muppets (Disney) Week 2 [3,440 Theaters] Friday $2.7M, Saturday $5.2M,Weekend $11.2M (-63%),Cume $56.1M 3. Hugo 3D(Paramount) Week 2 [1,840 Theaters] Friday $2M, Saturday $3.4M,Weekend $7.5M (-36%),Cume $25.1M 4. Arthur Christmas 3D (Sony) Week 2 [3,376 Theaters] Friday $1.6M (-64%), Saturday $3.5M,Weekend $7.3M (-39%),Cume $25.1M 5. Happy Feet 3D (Warner Bros) Week 4 [3,536 Theaters] Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.8M, Weekend $5.8M, Cume $51.6M 6. Jack And Jill (Sony) Week 3 [3,049 Theaters] Friday $1.5M, Saturday $2.5M,Weekend $5.5M,Cume $64.3M 7. The Descendants (Fox Searchlight) Week 3 [574 Theaters] Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.2M,Weekend $5.2M, Cume $18M 8. Immortals 3D (Relativity) Week 4 [2,627 Theaters] Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M,Weekend $4.3M, Cume $75.5M 9. Tower Heist (Universal) Week5 [2,404 Theaters] Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.8M,Weekend $4M,Cume $70.6M 10. Puss In Boots (DreamWorks Anim/Paramount)Week6 [2,750 Theaters] Friday $700K, Saturday $1.4M, Weekend $3M,Cume $139.5M Specialty Shame (Fox Searchlight) NEW [10 Theaters] Friday $110K, Saturday $139K, Weekend $361K,Per Screen $36,118 The Dirty Picture (FLM) NEW [48 Theaters] Friday $76K, Saturday $120K, Weekend $268K, Per Screen $5,583, Cume $268K Pastorela (Lionsgate) NEW [55 Theaters] Friday $23K, Saturday $24K, Weekend$65K, Per Screen$1,191, Cume $65K I Am Singh (Reliance Big Pictures) NEW [54 Theaters] Friday $7K, Saturday $13K, Weekend $29K, Per Screen$539, Cume $29K Kinyarwanda (Ind) NEW [9 Theaters] Friday $8K, Saturday $7K, Weekend $21K, Per Screen $2,344 Answers To Nothing (Roadside Attractions) NEW [21 Theaters] Friday $5K,Saturday $5K, Weekend $14K,Per Screen$712, Cume $15K Sleeping Beauty (IFC) NEW [2 Theaters] Friday $2K, Saturday $3K, Weekend $9K,Per Screen $4,770 Outrage (Magnolia) NEW [2 Theaters] Friday $2K, Saturday $2K, Weekend $6K,Per Screen $3,080 My Week With Marilyn (The Weinstein Co) Week 2 [244 Theaters] Friday $344K, Saturday $506K, Weekend $1.1M (-33%), Per Screen $4,836, Cume $3.8M The Artist (The Weinstein Co) Week 2 (6 Theaters) Friday $56K, Saturday $88K, Weekend $205K, Per Screen $34,263, Cume $495K A Dangerous Method (Sony Classics) Week 2 [4 Theaters) Friday $32K, Saturday $48K,Weekend $122K, Per Screen $30,629, Cume $415K, Desi Boyz (ERO) Week 2 [103 Theaters] Friday $55K, Saturday $82K, Weekend $182K, Per Screen $1,768, Cume $996K Melancholia (Magnolia) Week 4 [110 Theaters] Friday $72K, Saturday $101K, Weekend $238K, Per Screen $2,170, Cume $1.6M Like Crazy (Paramount Vantage) Week 6 [152 Theaters] Friday $84K, Saturday $108K, Weekend $251K, Per Screen $1,654, Cume $2.9M Margin Call (Roadside Attractions) Week 7 [150 Theaters] Friday $58K, Saturday $103K, Weekend $217K, Per Screen $1,451, Cume $4.7M Martha Marcy May Marlene (Fox Searchlight) Week 7 [84 Theaters] Friday $27K, Saturday $42K, Weekend $95K, Per Screen $1,095, Cume $2.7M The Skin I Live In (Sony Classics) Week 8 [116 Theaters] Weekend $165K, Per Screen $1,424, Cume $2.6M, Take Shelter (Sony Classics) Week 10 [47 Theaters] Weekend $45K, Per Screen $840, Cume $1.5M, Midnight In Paris (Sony Classics) Week 29) [305 Theaters] Friday $78K, Saturday $105K, Weekend$274K,Per Screen $900, Cume $55.9K

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Community Stars Celebrate Their TV Guide Magazine Fan Faves Victory

Community It's scarcely been the very best week on Community's set. On November 14, NBC introduced its The month of january schedule, and also the acclaimed cult comedy concerning the eccentric people of the community-college study group whose outsize, genre-bending adventures frequently boggle your brain didn't have for action. It's likely to return and finished out its season later in 2012, but gallows humor has occur: Once the cast shot a scene within the show's study room, a note around the blackboard read, "The Television thingy did not exercise.Inch The following Friday, however, midway through their third season, the cast collected for any photo shoot, where they found that their Little Reveal That Could but still Might have been named, via online voting, TV Guide Magazine's second annual Fan Faves champion, generating the magazine's cover. Fists were pumped. Yelps were yelped. Alison Brie, who plays the semi-innocent Annie, improvised a rap ("We've got a trophy, years old!"). Chevrolet Chase (also known as the unaware, wealthy reprobate Pierce) was impressed the trophy really were built with a nice inscription onto it. "Because we do not get nominated for honours, this will be our fans' outlet," states Gillian Jacobs, who plays digital rebel-with-too-many-causes Britta. "They might avoid seeing us win Emmys or SAG Honours, however they will have the energy within this, and also you see many people care. It's satisfying to possess a devoted military." Some cast people, like Joel McHale (who stars because the snarkily charming Shaun) and Yvette Nicole Brown (passive-strongly religious Shirley), implored fans to election for that show on the Twitter feeds. "We simply got benched, which isn't liberating, and also to discover exactly the same week we are the fans' favorite? That's amazing," Brown exults. "I'd say it's bittersweet, but it is not - it is simply sweet." It had been news to Chase this competition even been around. "I am impressed there's this kind of award which we first got it, and when I am this is not on the coverage, I'm going to be deeply upset," he deadpans. (Never fear, Chevrolet - you are on our three collectible covers.) Jim Rash, who plays the school's überquirky Dean Pelton, jokes, "I believe we won because all of us privately chosen." Adds Danny Pudi (pop-culture conduit Abed), "That's the way we all broke our laptops, the multiple voting." Possibly no cast member was more touched through the victory than Ken Jeong, who plays the deeply strange Chang. "This really is something we do not ignore,Inch Jeong states. "I had been your physician, and also the only reason I gave that up happens because I needed to follow along with what I enjoy do. This proves in my experience that should you choose the very best you are able to, good stuff sometimes happens.Inch McHale - who taken care of immediately the win having a hearty "Holy garbage!" - thinks the show's group of followers does not follow the usual notions of TV audiences. "Our fans don't watch television the way in which others do," he states. "Used to do a stand-up show in the College of Arizona and there have been 30 kids who went the big event. I stated, 'How a lot of you watch Community?' plus they all elevated their hands, that was great. I requested, 'How many watch it Thursdays at 8pm?' Zero hands. I requested, 'How a lot of you've Televisions?' Four hands. I requested, 'How a lot of you watch on computer systems?' All hands increased. That might be a reason, but our audience skews youthful. However with something similar to this, they election. That's how rabid they're, so that's great." For additional using the cast of Community, get this week's problem of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, December 1! Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Steven Soderbergh's New Project Is Thriller 'The Bitter Pill' (Exclusive)

NY -- Beginners and The Tree of Lifetied for best feature at the 21st annual Gotham Independent Awards on Monday night in NY.our editor recommends24 Hours of Awards Season MadnessGotham Awards 2011: Honorees Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman Reveal the Inspiration Behind Their WorkGotham Independent Film Awards Tap Edie Falco and Oliver Platt as Co-HostsGotham Award Noms Go to 'The Descendants' and 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'Do Gotham Awards Nominations Actually Impact Oscar Race? (Analysis)Tom Rothman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honor at Gotham AwardsGary Oldman, Charlize Theron and David Cronenberg to Be Feted at the Gotham AwardsTHR's Actress Roundtable: Six A-Listers Sound Off on Bad Reviews, Nudity and Playing Hitler Beginners starsChristopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor in a comedy/drama about a young man rocked by news that his elderly father has terminal cancer and a young male lover. Mike Mills directed, with Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen serving as producers of the Focus Features movie. PHOTOS: Gotham Awards 2011 Red Carpet Arrivals Beginners,whose cast also includesMelanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, KaiLennox, Mary Page KellerandKeegan Boos,also won the best ensemble performance award. Tree of Life isa Terrence Malick-directed family drama set in the 1950s and starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. The film from Fox Searchlight Pictures had Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Pitt, DedeGardner and Grant Hill as producers. Of the joint win, Mills told The Hollywood Reporter: "I'm really glad it's a tie. That is so nice. I wish it could be a five-way tie. You know, the competition thing is weird." Pohlad and Green echoed that sentiment after the ceremony. "It's stunning," Pohlad told THR of the joint win. "I know it sounds kind of disingenuous, but you don't come into something like this thinking we're going to get it or we're not going to get it.And the way they announced it was really special." PHOTOS: THR's Actress Roundtable 2011 The two films were vying with The Descendants, Meek's Cutoff and Take Shelter in the best feature category. Meanwhile,Felicity Jones won breakthrough actorfor her role in Paramount Vantage's Like Crazy, a film about a British college student who falls for an American student (Anton Yelchin) only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa. She beat out the likes of Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Harmony Santana (Gun Hill Road), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) and Jacob Wysocki (Terri) to take home the award. Also competing in the ensemble category were the casts ofThe Descendants, Margin Call, Martha Marcy May MarleneandTake Shelter. Also during the ceremony, Pariah helmer Dee Rees was named breakthrough director for the Focus Features drama, which centers on a gay African-American teenager living in Brooklyn who struggles with coming out. Rees faced competition fromAnother Earth's Mike Cahill, Martha Marcy May Marlene's Sean Durkin, Higher Ground's Vera Farmiga and Bellflower's Evan Glodell in the category. Complete List of Gotham Awards Winners The best documentary award went to Better This World, about a pair of childhood friends from Texas who set out to prove themselves in the post-9/11 world. Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega are the directors of the film, which was up against Bill Cunningham NY, Hell and Back Again, The Interrupters and The Woodmans. Meanwhile, Girlfriend won thefirst prize of the evening, the second annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award. The movie, about a young man with Down's syndrome who romantically pursues a small-town single mom,beat outBuck, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, The First Grader and Wild Horse, Wild Ride to win the award, which is voted upon online by moviegoers. THR's Directors Roundtable: How to Fire People, Who to Steal From, and Amy Pascal's Secret Advice Girlfriend is from director-producer Justin Lerner and producers Jerad Anderson, Kristina Lauren Anderson and Shaun O'Banion. Following a special tribute to Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman and co-CEOTom Rothman, the honor for best film not playing at a theater near you went to Scenes of a Crime, a true-crime documentary about a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminated in a disputed confession. Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock accepted as the movie's directors and producers. New this year, the Independent Filmmaker Project also presented the inaugural Euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers "Live the Dream" grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumnus of IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs. The grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film. THR's Writer Roundtable: 6 Top Scribes Talk Standing Up to Clint Eastwood, Dealing with Rewrites and Being Fired by Your Wife The award went to Lucy Mulloy, director of Una Noche. Presented by the IFP, the Gothams shine a spotlight on indie filmmakers and their work. Awards are to be given out in six competitive categories at the ceremony, held at Cipriani Wall Street. In addition to Rothman, career tributes also were presented toactors Charlize Theron and Gary Oldmanand director David Cronenberg. STORY:Gotham Awards Honorees Charlize Theron, Gary Oldman Reveal the Inspiration Behind Their Work Oliver Platt and Edie Falco hosted the ceremony. A complete list of winners can be found on the next page. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Gotham Awards 2011: The Red Carpet Arrivals Related Topics Gotham Awards Charlize Theron David Cronenberg Gary Oldman The Tree of Life Terrence Malick Take Shelter Meek's Cutoff Alexander Payne Young Adult The Descendants Tom Rothman 1 2 next last