'Bambi,' 'Forrest Gump' join Film Registry

"Bambi" and "Forrest Gump" are among the 25 pics joining the National Film Registry. Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" "Forrest Gump," Disney's "Bambi," "Norma Rae," "The Silence of the Lambs," Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi" and Charlie Chaplin's first full-length pic, "The Kid," are among the 25 movies selected by the Library of Congress to join the National Film Registry this year.The six pics are part of a typically eclectic mixture of titles added to the registry, created in 1989 by the National Film Preservation Act to ensure the survival of works considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." They were selected from more than 2,200 titles nominated by the public during 2011, according to the library. Films were chosen because of their "enduring significance to American culture," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.Among the oddities on the list are "A Computer Animated Hand" (1972), a one-minute film by Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull of a digitally animated human hand that is an early example of 3D computer animation. Underground filmmaker George Kuchar, who died in September at age 69 and was an influence on John Waters and other indie mavericks, is repped by the 1977 short "I, an Actress," a comedic look at an acting class.The 2011 crop brings the total number of pics in the registry to 575. Once films are inducted into the registry, the Library of Congress' Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conversation works with the owners of the titles, film archives and other orgs to ensure that the pics will be preserved.The new additions span a period between 1912 and 1994 ("Gump"). Two 1912 silents were selected -- "The Cry of the Children," considered a key work that influenced the pre-WWI child labor reform movement, and "A Cure for Pokeritis," featuring early comic star John Bunny. Other early films on the list include John Ford's epic 1924 Western "The Iron Horse," a silent that included more than 5,000 extras and established Ford's reputation as a prominent director, and Howard Hawks' 1934 screwball satire "Twentieth Century."This year's list includes two notable pics from 1953: producer George Pal's lavish production of "The War of the Worlds," and "The Big Heat," director Fritz Lang's noir film featuring Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame. Other selections include "Faces" (1968), director John Cassavetes' disturbing look at a crumbling marriage, and Billy Wilder's "The Lost Weekend (1945), a frank look at alcoholism that won Oscars for best picture, director, screenplay and actor for star Ray Milland."Porgy and Bess," Samuel Goldwyn's controversial 1959 production of the George Gershwin opera, joins the registry this year. So does "Stand and Deliver," the 1988 film about crusading teacher Jaime Escalante that featured and was co-produced by Edward James Olmos.Docus getting the library card are Frank Capra's 1944 Army film "The Negro Soldier," considered a watershed in the use of film to promote racial tolerance; and Robert Drew's "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment" (1963), a study of the battle to allow black students to attend the U. of Alabama.Among the obscure gems is a collection of 1930s-40s era family home movies by the dance team of Fayard and Harold Nicholas. The pics include footage of Broadway, Harlem and Hollywood, including the only material shot inside the Cotton Club, as well as Broadway shows such as "Babes in Arms."The general public will get a glimpse of the registry's work through a film, "These Amazing Shadows," set to air Thursday as part of PBS' "Independent Lens" docu series.Complete List of Films: Allures (1961) Called the master of "cosmic cinema," Jordan Belson excelled in creating abstract imagery with a spiritual dimension that featured dazzling displays of color, light, and ever-moving patterns and objects. Trained as a painter and profoundly influenced by the artist and theorist Wassily Kandinsky, Belson collaborated in the late 1950s with electronic music composer Henry Jacobs to create elaborate sound and light shows in the San Francisco Morrison Planetarium, an experience that informed his subsequent films. "Allures," Belson has stated, "was probably the space-iest film that had been done until then. It creates a feeling of moving into the void." Inspired by Eastern spiritual thought, the five-minute film (which took a year and a half to make), is, Belson suggests, a "mathematically precise" work intended to express the process of becoming that the philosopher Teilhard de Chardin has named "cosmogenesis."Bambi (1942)One of Walt Disney's timeless classics (and his own personal favorite), this animated coming-of-age tale of a wide-eyed doe's life in the forest has enchanted generations since its debut nearly 70 years ago. Filled with iconic characters and moments, the film's beautiful images, the result of extensive nature studies by Disney's animators, and its realistic characters that merged human and animal qualities in the time-honored tradition of folklore and fable have enhanced the movie's resonating, emotional power. Treasured as one of film's most heart-rending stories of parental love, "Bambi" also has come to be recognized for its eloquent message of nature conservation. The Big Heat (1953)One of the great post-war noir films, "The Big Heat" stars Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame. Set in a fictional American town, "The Big Heat" tells the story of a tough cop (Ford) who takes on a local crime syndicate, exposing tensions within his own corrupt police department as well as insecurities and hypocrisies of domestic life in the 1950s. Filled with atmosphere, fascinating female characters, and a jolting-yet not gratuitous-degree of violence, "The Big Heat," through its subtly expressive technique and resistance to formulaic denouement, manages to be both stylized and brutally realistic, a signature of its director Fritz Lang. A Computer Animated Hand (1972) Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, renowned for its CGI (computer generated image) animated films, created a program for digitally animating a human hand in 1972 as a graduate student project, one of the earliest examples of 3D computer animation. The one-minute film displays the hand turning, opening and closing, pointing at the viewer, and flexing its fingers, ending with a shot that seemingly travels up inside the hand. In creating the film, which was incorporated into the 1976 film "Futureworld," Catmull worked out concepts that have become foundational for computer graphics that followed. Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) Robert Drew was a pioneer of American cinema-verite (a style of documentary filmmaking that strives to record unfolding events non-intrusively). In 1963, he gathered together a stellar group of filmmakers, including D. A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock, Gregory Shuker, James Lipscomb, and Patricia Powell, to capture on film the dramatic unfolding of an ideological crisis, one that revealed political decision-making at the highest levels. The result, "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment," focuses on Gov. George Wallace's attempt to prevent two African-American students from enrolling in the University of Alabama-his infamous "stand in the schoolhouse door" confrontation-and the response of President John F. Kennedy. The filmmakers observe the crisis evolve by following a number of participants, including Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, his deputy in Alabama, Nicholas Katzenbach, Gov. Wallace, and the two students, Vivian Malone and James Hood. The film also shows deliberations between the president and his staff that led to a peaceful resolution, a decision by the president to deliver a major address on civil rights, and a commitment by Wallace to continue his battle in subsequent national election campaigns. The film premiered at the first NY Film Festival and was subsequently shown nationally on ABC-TV. It has proven to be a uniquely revealing complement to written histories of the period, providing viewers the rare opportunity to witness historical events from an insider's perspective.The Cry of the Children (1912) Recognized as a key work that both reflected and contributed to the pre-World War I child labor reform movement, the two-reel silent melodrama "The Cry of the Children" takes its title and fatalistic, uncompromising tone of hopelessness from the 1842 poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. "The Cry of the Children" was part of a wave of "social problem" films released during the 1910s on such subjects as drugs and alcohol, white slavery, immigrants and women's suffrage. Some were sensationalist attempts to exploit lurid topics, while others, like "The Cry of the Children," were realistic exposs that championed social reform and demanded change. Shot partially in a working textile factory, "The Cry of the Children" was recognized by an influential critic of the time as "The boldest, most timely and most effective appeal for the stamping out of the cruelest of all social abuses."A Cure for Pokeritis (1912) Largely forgotten today, actor John Bunny merits significant historical importance as the American film industry's earliest comic superstar. A stage actor prior to the start of his film career in 1910, Bunny starred in over 150 Vitagraph Company productions from 1910 until his death in 1915. Many of his films (affectionately known as "Bunnygraphs") were gentle "domestic" comedies, in which he portrayed a henpecked husband alongside co-star Flora Finch. "A Cure for Pokeritis" exemplifies the genre, as Finch conspires with similarly displeased wives to break up their husbands' weekly poker game. When Bunny died in 1915, a NY Times editorial noted that "Thousands who had never heard him speakrecognized him as the living symbol of wholesome merriment." The paper presciently commented on the importance of preserving motion pictures and sound recordings for future generations: "His loss will be felt all over the country, and the films which preserve his humorous personality in action may in time have a new value. It is a subject worthy of reflection, the value of a perfect record of a departed singer's voice, of the photographic films perpetuating the drolleries of a comedian who developed such extraordinary capacity for acting before the camera."El Mariachi (1992) Directed, edited, co-produced, and written in two weeks by Robert Rodriguez for $7,000 while a film student at the University of Texas, "El Mariachi" proved a favorite on the film festival circuit. After Columbia Pictures picked it up for distribution, the film helped usher in the independent movie boom of the early 1990s. "El Mariachi" is an energetic, highly entertaining tale of an itinerant musician, portrayed by co-producer and Rodriguez crony Carlos Gallardo, who arrives at a Mexican border town during a drug war and is mistaken for a hit man who recently escaped from prison. The story, as film historian Charles Ramirez Berg has suggested, plays with expectations common to two popular exploitation genres-the narcotraficante film, a Mexican police genre, and the transnational warrior-action film, itself rooted in Hollywood Westerns. Rodriguez's success derived from invigorating these genres with creative variants despite the constraints of a shoestring budget. Rodriguez has gone on to direct films for major studios, becoming, in Berg's estimation, "arguably the most successful Latino director ever to work in Hollywood."Faces (1968)Writer-director John Cassavetes described "Faces," considered by many to be his first mature work, as "a barrage of attack on contemporary middle-class America." The film depicts a married couple, "safe in their suburban home, narrow in their thinking," he wrote, who experience a break up that "releases them from the conformity of their existence, forces them into a different context, when all barriers are down." An example of cinematic excess, "Faces" places its viewers inside intense lengthy scenes to allow them to discover within its relentless confrontations emotions and relations of power between men and women that rarely emerge in more conventionally structured films. In provoking remarkable performances by Lynn Carlin, John Marley, and Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes has created a style of independent filmmaking that has inspired filmmakers around the world. Fake Fruit Factory (1986)An expressive, sympathetic look at the everyday lives of young Mexican women who create ornamental papier mach fruits and vegetables, "Fake Fruit Factory" exemplifies filmmaker Chick Strand's unique style that deftly blends documentary, avant-garde and ethnographic techniques. After studying anthropology and ethnographic film at the University of California, Strand, who helped noted independent filmmaker Bruce Baillie create the independent film distribution cooperative Canyon Cinema, taught filmmaking for 24 years at Occidental College. She developed a collagist process to create her films, shooting footage of people she encountered over several decades of annual summer stays in Mexico and then editing together individual films. In "Fake Fruit Factory," Strand employs a moving camera at close range to create colorfully vivid images often verging on abstraction, while her soundtrack picks up snatches of conversation to evoke, in her words, "the spirit of the people." "I want to know," Strand wrote, "really what it is like to be a breathing, talking, moving, emotional, relating individual in the society."Forrest Gump (1994) As "Forrest Gump," Tom Hanks portrays an earnest, guileless "everyman" whose open-heartedness and sense of the unexpected unwittingly draws him into some of the most iconic events of the 1960s and 1970s. A smash hit, "Forrest Gump" has been honored for its technological innovations (the digital insertion of Gump seamlessly into vintage archival footage), its resonance within the culture that has elevated Gump (and what he represents in terms of American innocence) to the status of folk hero, and its attempt to engage both playfully and seriously with contentious aspects of the era's traumatic history. The film received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.Growing Up Female (1971)Among the first films to emerge from the women's liberation movement, "Growing Up Female" is a documentary portrait of America on the brink of profound change in its attitudes toward women. Filmed in spring 1970 by Ohio college students Julia Reichert and Jim Klein, "Growing Up Female" focuses on six girls and women aged 4 to 34 and the home, school, work, and advertising environments that have impacted their identities. Through open-ended interviews and lyrical documentation of their surroundings, the film strived, in Reichert's words, to "give women a new lens through which to see their own lives." Widely distributed to libraries, universities, churches and youth groups, the film launched a cooperative of female filmmakers that bypassed traditional distribution mechanisms to get its message communicated.Hester Street (1975)Joan Micklin Silver's first feature-length film, "Hester Street," was an adaption of preeminent Yiddish author Abraham Cahan's 1896 well-received first novel "Yekl: A Tale of the NY Ghetto." In the 1975 film, the writer-director brought to the screen a portrait of Eastern European Jewish life in America that historians have praised for its accuracy of detail and sensitivity to the challenges immigrants faced during their acculturation process. Shot in black-and-white and partly in Yiddish with English subtitles, the independent production, financed with money raised by the filmmaker's husband, was shunned by Hollywood until it established a reputation at the Cannes Film Festival and in European markets. "Hester Street" focuses on stresses that occur when a "greenhorn" wife, played by Carol Kane (nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal), and her young son arrive in NY to join her Americanized husband. Silver, one of the first women directors of American features to emerge during the women's liberation movement, shifted the story's emphasis from the husband, as in the novel, to the wife. Historian Joyce Antler has written admiringly, "In indicating the hardships experienced by women and their resiliency, as well as the deep strains assimilation posed to masculinity, 'Hester Street' touches on a fundamental cultural challenge confronting immigrants."I, an Actress (1977) Underground filmmaker George Kuchar and his twin brother Mike began making 8mm films as 12-year-old kids in the Bronx, often on their family's apartment rooftop. Before his death in 2011, George created over 200 outlandish low-budget films filled with absurdist melodrama, crazed dialogue and plots, and affection for Hollywood film conventions and genres. A professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, Kuchar documented his directing techniques in the hilarious "I, an Actress" as he encourages an acting student to embellish a melodramatic monologue with increasingly excessive gestures and emotions. Like most of Kuchar's films, "I, an Actress" embodies a "camp" sensibility, defined by the cultural critic Susan Sontag as deriving from an aesthetics that valorizes not beauty but "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." John Waters has cited the Kuchars as "my first inspiration" and credited them with giving him "the self-confidence to believe in my own tawdry vision."The Iron Horse (1924) John Ford's epic Western "The Iron Horse" established his reputation as one of Hollywood's most accomplished directors. Intended by Fox studios to rival Paramount's 1923 epic "The Covered Wagon," Ford's film employed more than 5,000 extras, advertised authenticity in its attention to realistic detail, and provided him with the opportunity to create iconic visual images of the Old West, inspired by such master painters as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. A tale of national unity achieved after the Civil War through the construction of the transcontinental railroad, "The Iron Horse" celebrated the contributions of Irish, Italian and Chinese immigrants although the number of immigrants allowed to enter the country legally was severely restricted at the time of its production. A classic silent film, "The Iron Horse" introduced to American and world audiences a reverential, elegiac mythology that has influenced many subsequent Westerns.The Kid (1921) Charles Chaplin's first full-length feature, the silent classic "The Kid," is an artful melding of touching drama, social commentary and inventive comedy. The tale of a foundling (Jackie Coogan, soon to be a major child star) taken in by the Little Tramp, "The Kid" represents a high point in Chaplin's evolving cinematic style, proving he could sustain his artistry beyond the length of his usual short subjects and could deftly elicit a variety of emotions from his audiences by skillfully blending slapstick and pathos.The Lost Weekend (1945)A landmark social-problem film, "The Lost Weekend" provided audiences of 1945 with an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. Directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film melded an expressionistic film-noir style with documentary realism to immerse viewers in the harrowing experiences of an aspiring NY writer willing to do almost anything for a drink. Despite opposition from his studio, the Hays Office and the liquor industry, Wilder created a film ranked as one of the best of the decade that won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Direction, Screenplay, and Actor (Ray Milland), and established him as one of America's leading filmmakers.The Negro Soldier (1944) Produced by Frank Capra's renowned World War II U.S. Army filming unit, "The Negro Soldier" showcased the contributions of blacks to American society and their heroism in the nation's wars, portraying them in a dignified, realistic, and far less stereotypical manner than they had been depicted in previous Hollywood films. Considered by film historian Thomas Cripps as "a watershed in the use of film to promote racial tolerance," "The Negro Soldier" was produced in reaction to instances of discrimination against African-Americans stationed in the South. Written by Carlton Moss, a young black writer for radio and the Federal Theatre Project, directed by Stuart Heisler, and scored by Dmitri Tiomkin, the film highlights the role of the church in the black community and charts the progress of a black soldier through basic training and officer's candidate school before he enters into combat. It became mandatory viewing for all soldiers in American replacement centers from spring 1944 until the war's end.Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-1940s)Fayard and Harold Nicholas, renowned for their innovative and exuberant dance routines, began in vaudeville in the late 1920s before headlining at the Cotton Club in Harlem, starring on Broadway, and performing in Hollywood films. Fred Astaire is reported to have called their dance sequence in "Stormy Weather" (1943) the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen. Their home movies capture a golden age of show business-with extraordinary footage of Broadway, Harlem and Hollywood-and also document the middle-class African-American life of that era, images made rare by the considerable cost of home-movie equipment during the Great Depression. Highlights include the only footage shot inside the Cotton Club, the only footage of famous Broadway shows like "Babes in Arms," home movies of an all African-American regiment during World War II, films of street life in Harlem in the 1930s, and the family's cross-country tour in 1934.Norma Rae (1979) Highlighted by Sally Field's Oscar-winning performance, "Norma Rae" is the tale of an unlikely activist. A poorly-educated single mother, Norma Rae Webster works at a Southern textile mill where her attempt to better working conditions through unionization, though undermined by her factory bosses, ultimately succeeds after her courageous stand on the factory floor wins the support of her co-workers. The film is less a polemical pro-union statement than a treatise about maturation, personal willpower, fairness and the empowerment of women. Directed by Martin Ritt, "Norma Rae" was based on the real-life efforts of Crystal Lee Sutton to unionize the J. P. Stevens Mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., which finally agreed to allow union representation one year after the film's release.Porgy and Bess (1959) Composer George Gershwin considered his masterpiece "Porgy and Bess" to be a "folk opera." Gershwin's score reflected traditional songs he encountered in visits to Charleston, S.C. and in Gullah revival meetings he attended on nearby James Island. Controversy has stalked the production history of the opera that Gershwin created with DuBose Heyward, who had written the original novel and play (with his wife Dorothy) and penned lyrics with Gershwin's brother Ira. The lavish film version was produced in the late 1950s as the civil rights movement gained momentum and a number of African-American actors turned down roles they considered demeaning. Harry Belafonte, who refused the part of Porgy, explained, "in this period of our social development, I doubt that it is healthy to expose certain images of the Negro. In a period of calm, perhaps this picture could be viewed historically." Dissension also resulted when producer Samuel Goldwyn dismissed Rouben Mamoulian, who had directed the play and musical on Broadway, and replaced him with Otto Preminger. Produced in Todd-AO, a state-of-the-art widescreen and stereophonic sound recording process, with an all-star cast that included Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Pearl Bailey, and Diahann Carroll, "Porgy and Bess," now considered an "overlooked masterpiece" by one contemporary scholar, rarely has been screened in the ensuing years.The Silence of the Lambs (1991)Jodie Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, and director Jonathan Demme won accolades for this chilling thriller based upon a book by Thomas Harris. Foster plays rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling who must tap into the disturbed mind of imprisoned cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in order to aid her search for a murderer and torturer still at large. A film whose violence is as much psychological as graphic, "Silence of the Lambs"-winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay-has been celebrated for its superb lead performances, its blending of crime and horror genres, and its taut direction that brought to the screen one of film's greatest villains and some of its most memorable imagery. Stand and Deliver (1988) Based on a true story, "Stand and Deliver" stars Edward James Olmos in an Oscar-nominated performance as crusading educator Jaime Escalante. A math teacher in East Los Angeles, Ca., Escalante inspired his underprivileged students to undertake an intensive program in calculus, achieve high test scores, and improve their sense of self-worth. Co-produced by Olmos and directed by Cuban-born Ramn Menndez, "Stand and Deliver" became one of the most popular of a new wave of narrative feature films produced in the 1980s by Latino filmmakers. The film celebrates in a direct, approachable, and impactful way, values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge.Twentieth Century (1934)A satire on the theatrical milieu and its oversized egos, "Twentieth Century" marked the first of director Howard Hawks's frenetic comedies that had leading actors of the day "make damn fools of themselves," in Hawks' words, in a genre that became affectionately known as "screwball comedy." Hawks had writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who penned the original play, craft dialogue scenes in which lines overlapped as in ordinary conversations, but still remained understandable, a style he continued in later films. This sophisticated farce about the tempestuous romance of an egocentric impresario and the star he creates did not fare well on its release, but has come to be recognized as one of the era's finest film comedies, one that gave John Barrymore his last great film role and Carole Lombard her first. War of the Worlds (1953)Released at the height of cold-war hysteria, producer George Pal's lavishly-designed take on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel of alien invasion was provocatively transplanted from Victorian England to a mid-twentieth century Southern California small town in this 1953 film version. Capitalizing on the apocalyptic paranoia of the atomic age, Barr Lyndon's screenplay wryly replaces Wells' original commentary on the British class system with religious metaphor. Directed by Byron Haskin, formerly a special effects cameraman, the critically and commercially successful film chronicles an apparent meteor crash discovered by a local scientist (Gene Barry) that turns out to be a Martian spacecraft. Gordon Jennings, who died shortly before the film's release, avoided stereotypical flying saucer-style creations in his Academy Award-winning special effects described by reviewers as soul-chilling, hackle-raising and not for the faint of heart. 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Nomination reaction: Kenneth Branagh, actor, 'My Week With Marilyn'

Kenneth Branagh in 'My Week with Marilyn'"I've been part of a lot of indie films that haven't damaged through, it's nice to determine that one break though. On playing Mister Laurence (Olivier), there is pressure while he is really a motivation. Despite the fact that this film would show him a lot of lights and there is a genuine responsibility to provide that role to ensure that provided pause for thought, however it was an chance to exhibit that passion and industry from the guy and help remind people of methods hands on he was. Now people will go back and become reminded of methods great of the performer he was for individuals people that could of ignored him."

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Lowe's is facing backlash after pulling advertisements from TLC's reality series All-American Muslim.our editor recommendsLowe's Pulls Ads from TLC Show 'All-American Muslim'All-American Muslim: TV Review'All-American Muslim' Opens Solid for TLC'All-American Muslim': The Football Team Finds a Way Around Ramadan (Exclusive Video) California state senator Ted Lieu has demanded that the company reinstate its support for the show or else face a boycott, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a letter to Lowe's CEO Robert A. Niblock Saturday, Lieu called the decision to pull ads "bigoted, shameful, and un-American." PHOTOS: 10 of TV's Biggest Television Show Controversies "Lowe's religious discrimination is the equivalent of a company asserting that it is pulling advertising from the Christian Broadcast Network's 700 Club because the program somehow 'riskily hides' the agenda of Christian radicalized groups such as Aryan Nation. That assertion would, of course, be utter nonsense and religious bigotry." The home improvement retailer was pressured to stop its support of the show by the conservative Florida Family Association, which claimed that the program was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values." Lowe's denied that it caved to the group, but rather said it made the decision to drop the ads to address "concerns, complaints or issues from multiple sides of the viewer spectrum." Sen. Lieu told the Associated Press, "The show is about what it's like to be a Muslim in America, and it touches on the discrimination they sometimes face. And that kind of discrimination is exactly what's happening here with Lowe's." All-American Muslim premiered last month, and follows the lives of five Muslim families in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn. Related Topics All American Muslim

Showtime Subscribes for additional Web Therapy

Lisa Kudrow, Web Therapy Showtime will sign in for an additional season of Web Therapy, the network introduced Monday. Produced and starring Lisa Kudrow, the series focuses on Fiona Wallice (Kudrow), a self-professed counselor who goodies patients just for three minutes via webcam. One of the visitors planned for Season 2: Meryl Streep, Rosie O'Donnell, Conan O'Brien, Molly Shannon, Minnie Driver and Selma Blair. Lily Tomlin will return as Fiona's mother and Victor Garber has returned as Fiona's husband. Lisa Kudrow on her behalf cable-TV comeback, Web Therapy "We are honestly giddy within the people we now have with this season," Kudrow stated. The Ten half-hour episodes will air in 2012. Are you currently excited for additional Web Therapy?

Weekend Box Office: 'Breaking Dawn' Bests 'Muppets' for Threepeat Victory

Don't underestimate vampires of the underworld and werewolves once they go facing various frogs, pigs, and bears. That's this weekend's box office lesson. Without any new wide-release movies in theaters, this area office competition was said to be a carefully fought against fight between holdovers ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning Part 1' and ''The Muppets,' however it did not finish close up whatsoever. 'Breaking Dawn' easily defended its crown for any third straight week at the very top, while 'The Muppets' dropped faster than likely to a distant second place. After last weekend's repeat victory, 'Breaking Dawn' was likely to stick to the path of past years' Thanksgiving blockbusters (including previous 'Twilight' installment 'New Moon' 2 yrs ago) and drop about 65 % a few days ago, which may have place it around $14.5 million. However it ended up just 59 percent, to have an believed weekend take of $16.9 million. In 17 days, the supernatural romance follow up has gained $247.3 million in The United States and much more overseas, for any worldwide total of $532.3 million. For 'The Muppets,' a 50 % drop from last weekend's debut might have meant about $14.5 million along with a neck-and-neck fight using the 'Twilight' neck-biters. Some commentators were even predicting a Muppet victory a few days ago, because of the film's passionate reviews and word-of-mouth. The movie fell a complete 62 percent, for an believed $11.two million, nearly $six million below 'Breaking Beginning.' Why the steeper than expected drop? Maybe more kids than expected visited see 'Hugo,' which broadened its release by about 50 % a few days ago, in order to 'Arthur Christmas,' the only periodic-designed holiday film presently in wide release. Still, 'Muppets' continued to be the very best option for family viewing, and it is take to date involves $56.5 million over 12 days. 'Hugo's second-week decline would be a modest 33 percent, because it added 563 more screens, for any total of just one,840. Its believed take of $7.six million was great for another-place finish. It were built with a per-screen average of $4,144, the biggest of the current family films. ('The Muppets' gained $3,256 per venue.) That indicates strong word-of-mouth, which, together with rapturous reviews, ought to keep the Martin Scorsese three dimensional adventure afloat with the relaxation from the holidays. In 12 days, 'Hugo' has gained $25.two million. 'Arthur Christmas' also organized well, sliding just 39 percent for an believed $7.4 million. That arrived the cartoon in 4th place, though its take is close enough to 'Hugo's that they're going to find their ranks corrected when final amounts are launched on Monday. Its two-week total is slightly in front of 'Hugo' at $25.3 million. 'Happy Ft Two' has got the most tepid reviews and word-of-mouth among current family releases, however it held onto a place within the 5 best having a take believed at $6. million. That's lower 55 percent from a week ago, quite normal for any cartoon in the third week of release, especially because of the heavy competition in the household marketplace. In three days, the penguin pic has danced served by $51.8 million. Elsewhere around the chart, 'The Descendants,' like fellow honours-season hopeful 'Hugo,' broadened its run by about 50 % (to 574 screens) and was compensated having a box office boost. It rose from tenth spot to seventh and gained another believed $5.two million, for any three-week total of $18.a million. And also the much-buzzed-about 'Shame' opened up on 10 screens and did perfectly, generating $36,100 per screen for any total of $361,000, great for a 16th-place debut. That per-screen average indicates more powerful-than-usual commercial appeal with this NC-17 movie if the weekend's amounts can persuade enough additional theater proprietors to book the film, it features a pretty good possibility of smashing the $5 million ceiling that no NC-17-ranked film has cracked since 2004. Honours interest for Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan's performances within the sex-addiction drama will not hurt. Because the year winds lower, box office continues to be about 3.2 percent behind where it had been at this time this year. The 2011 believed grosses up to now are $9.4 billion, in comparison to $9.7 billion last year. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning Part 1' - Trailer No. 2 The entire top ten: 1. 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning Part 1,' $16.9 million (4,046 screens), $247.3 million total 2. 'The Muppets,' $11.two million (3,440), $56.a million 3. 'Hugo,' $7.six million (1,840) $25.two million 4. 'Arthur Christmas,' $7.4 million (3,376), $25.3million 5. 'Happy Ft Two,' $6. million (3,536), $51.8 million 6. 'Jack and Jill,' $5.5 million (3,049), $64.3 million 7. 'The Descendants,' $5.two million (574), $18.a million 8. 'Immortals,' $4,4 million (2,627), $75.six million 9. 'Tower Heist,' $4.a million (2.404), $70.8 million 10. 'Puss in Boots,' $3.a million (2,750), $139.5 million [Photos: Summit ('Breaking Dawn'), Disney ('The Muppets'), Fox Searchlight ('Shame')] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman

Billy Graham Make the hospital with Pneumonia

Billy Graham Billy Graham was make the hospital Wednesday with pneumonia, but is "responding well" to treatment, according to his repetition. "Based on test results, doctors for Billy Graham confirm diagnosing pneumonia, but they're advised he's responding well to anti-biotics," Graham's repetition, A. Ray Ross, tweeted on Thursday. Graham's pulmonologist, Dr. Mark Hellreich, also released a disagreement that was released on Graham's website Thursday proclaiming that the 93-year-old evangelical is "in stable condition." Have a look at videos of Billy Graham On Wednesday, Ross tweeted that Graham happen to be recognized to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., for technique to his bronchi. According to Ross, Graham was "alert" and smiling and waving within the hospital staff upon his entrance. No date remains searching for his discharge, but according to his website, "Mr. Graham is searching toward returning where you can spend the arrival Christmas holiday along with his family." Graham, who rose to fame inside the '40s when his sermons were broadcast round the radio and tv, has remained with 12 sitting U.S. Presidents going dating back Harry S. Truman.

Michelle Trachtenberg how She May Have Been Bella in 'Twilight'

Michelle Trachtenberg as Jacob Black? Unthinkable to many 'Twilight' fans, however the 'Gossip Girl' actress revealed Wednesday evening to Us Weekly that they nearly arrived the role that visited Billy Burke. "There is certainly interest in some places due to there being only so couple of pale women in Hollywood," she stated. (What, Taylor Momsen wasn't available?) But Trachtenberg stated she's "already done the vampire factor," mentioning to her years on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' as tag-along little sister Beginning. In the LOLA opening in NY, Trachtenberg stated she'd an along with Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the very first 'Twilighr' film: "I have known Catherine Hardwicke because the movie 'Thirteen." And incidentally, "I had been really designed to star for the reason that, however i was on 'Buffy' at that time.Inch Trachtenberg, who now plays Georgina on 'Gossip Girl,' stated that 'Twilight' passed her by because, "I suppose agendas never exercised." She claims not have any regrets. " [Hypothetical solutions mean] you are not residing in as soon as and you are searching adversely at what you are doing now," she stated when requested to take a position on which her existence could have been like if she'd become Jacob Black. And 'Thirteen' switched to be rather the vampire breeding ground: The 2003 film starred Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood: Reed continued to experience vampire Rosalie within the 'Twilight' series, while Wood became a member of her very own vamp franchise as vampire full Sophie Anne on 'True Bloodstream.' On 'Buffy,' Beginning reached be BFFs with bad boy vamp Spike (James Marsters) and slay a couple of bloodsuckers alongside large sis Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar). [via Us Weekly] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Tim McGraw Wins Ruling Over Recording Career

First Launched: November 30, 2011 3:41 PM EST Credit: Getty Images NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Caption Tim McGraw attends the 45th annual CMA Honours within the Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, on November 9, 2011Country music star Tim McGraw has won a court ruling in Nashville enabling him to keep recording while a suit against him by Curb Records continues. Chancellor Russell Perkins ruled Wednesday carrying out a four-hour hearing that McGraw can sign with another record label. Curb Records looked for to prevent McGraw from recording or signing with another label until he satisfied what Curb thought was his obligation for just about any fifth album. McGraw is billed with breach of contract, which trial is scheduled with this summer time. The artist and also the wife, singer Belief Hill, were in the courtroom Wednesday. McGraw did not testify. His lawyers contended that Curb is trying to put his career on hold. Hes been under contract with Curb since 1997. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Casting Standout: 'Warrior'

Casting Standout: 'Warrior' By Pete Keeley November 30, 2011 Photo by Opulence Galleries From King Vidor's Depression-era talkie "The Champion" to last year's David O. Russell film "The Fighter," the field of boxing has become a huge hit to filmmakers like a natural setting for character-driven drama. Then one about representing martial artists appears to create out the very best in stars. "The Champion" gained its lead, Wallace Beery, an Oscar in 1932. In 1955, Marlon Brando netted his first Oscar for his portrayal of lower-and-out former boxer Terry Malloy in "Around the Waterfront." Almost 30 Years Ago, Robert P Niro won his second for his performance as "Raging Bull" 's Mike La Motta. As well as in 2005, Hilary Swank required home her second Oscar on her role in "Billion Dollar Baby." Lately, because the recognition of boxing has rejected and also the recognition of mma competitions for example Pride and also the Ufc has jumped, filmmakers took notice."Warrior" informs the storyline of Marine Tommy Conlon (Tom Sturdy), who goes AWOL following a firefight that claims the existence of his closest friend, and returns to his home town of Pittsburgh to put low. When he rejoins his old boxing gym, now transformed into an MMA training center, he discovers of Sparta, an approaching champion-take-all competition. Tommy enlists his estranged father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), to assist him train expecting winning the $5 million purse, that they offers to the widow of his fallen comrade. Meanwhile, 300 miles towards the east, Tommy's brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), an old amateur fighter and today a higher school physics teacher and family guy, starts fighting again after he discovers he's at risk of losing his house to foreclosures. Following the premier fighter at his gym suffers a knee injuries, Brendan convinces his trainer to go in him in Sparta.For casting director Randi Hiller, the task was finding two males for that leads who could supply the requisite physicality and maleness while well inhabiting the roles of siblings who were, in her own words, "in a position to put on in which the separate streets of the existence required them."For Tommya character who wears his rage and bitterness on his shirtsleeve, a fighter who, as they say, "fights angry," and overcomes his opponent with brute strengththe key was an actress who could embody that menace while revealing glimpses from the decent, moral person he's in mind: the war hero, the guy estranged from their own family but devoted to helping those of his friend. "You think that Tom could kick somebody's ass," states Hiller, there is however also "some as being a very broken little boy, in addition to a hard-fighting guy. And when he only agreed to be a straight-up hard-ass without some type of vulnerability, you wouldn't sense of him whatsoever. And that is what Tom has: He's a vulnerability along with a maleness, in addition feeling of danger."For Brendan, the dichotomy of outward aggression and inward virtue is corrected. He's an instructor, globally loved by his students, along with a loyal family guy who appears to possess largely put his troubled past behind him. Like a fighter, he's much more of a tactician, waiting with patience to make the most of his opponents' mistakes. You do not need to think that he is able to fight a lot as you've to think he can win. "There is something incredibly heroic about Joel and also the way he reads onscreen," states Hiller. "There is something about him that reads like he's got a core of decency."What made these men so right," she continues, "there's a component of [each character] that's who these men are as people, and the truth that they are both such phenomenal stars is definitely an added bonus."For Paddy, O'Connor had Nolte in your mind from the beginning. Indeed, he ended up being to have performed the role eventually assumed by Jon Voight in O'Connor's 2008 film "Pride and Glory," a drama which focuses around the relationship from a father and the two sons. In "Warrior," Nolte's performance because the former alcoholic father attempting to make amends within the last is gritty and heartbreaking. "He's a national treasure," states O'Connor. "And That I desired to use him how he's best and wished the role would help remind everybody what he's able to.InchThe only real prominent female rolethat of Brendan's encouraging wife, Tesswas filled by Jennifer Morrison. Inside a prior draft from the script, the origin of Brendan and Tess's pecuniary problems was medical bills associated with Tess's chronic illness. Within the final draft, among the couple's kids was sickso Morrison's audition known as to have an interpretation which was quite different from the one which ended up within the film. Based on Hiller, Morrison was as much as the job: "She auditioned like a very sick lady. She did a beautiful job it had been sincere and real and winning and every one of individuals things. And they transformed the smoothness, and she or he required that turn and made it happen superbly."Numerous recent films happen to be occur the field of MMA, and more have been in the pipeline, but Gavin O'Connor's "Warrior" is perhaps the very first great one. Taken together, the performances in it put it on componen with anything within the fight-film canon.Casting Director: Randi HillerDirector: Gavin O'ConnorWriters: Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, High cliff DorfmanStarring: Joel Edgerton, Tom Sturdy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick NolteThe Pitch: Two estranged siblings, an AWOL Marine (Sturdy) along with a senior high school teacher and family guy (Edgerton), meet for that very first time in 14 years as rivals inside a champion-take-all mixed fighting techinques tournament. To see Back Stage's complete coverage of Honours Season, please get our FREE SAG Nomination Committee Guide. Or follow all of our daily coverage with Back Stage's new online Honours Season section. Casting Standout: 'Warrior' By Pete Keeley November 30, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT Opulence Galleries From King Vidor's Depression-era talkie "The Champion" to last year's David O. Russell film "The Fighter," the field of boxing has become a huge hit to filmmakers like a natural setting for character-driven drama. Then one about representing martial artists appears to create the very best in stars. "The Champion" gained its lead, Wallace Beery, an Oscar in 1932. In 1955, Marlon Brando netted his first Oscar for his portrayal of lower-and-out former boxer Terry Malloy in "Around the Waterfront." Almost 30 Years Ago, Robert P Niro won his second for his performance as "Raging Bull" 's Mike La Motta. As well as in 2005, Hilary Swank required home her second Oscar on her role in "Billion Dollar Baby." Lately, because the recognition of boxing has rejected and also the recognition of mma competitions for example Pride and also the Ufc has jumped, filmmakers took notice."Warrior" informs the storyline of Marine Tommy Conlon (Tom Sturdy), who goes AWOL following a firefight that claims the existence of his closest friend, and returns to his home town of Pittsburgh to put low. When he rejoins his old boxing gym, now transformed into an MMA training center, he discovers of Sparta, an approaching champion-take-all competition. Tommy enlists his estranged father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), to assist him train expecting winning the $5 million purse, that they offers to the widow of his fallen comrade. Meanwhile, 300 miles towards the east, Tommy's brother, Brendan (Joel Edgerton), an old amateur fighter and today a higher school physics teacher and family guy, starts fighting again after he discovers he's at risk of losing his house to foreclosures. Following the premier fighter at his gym suffers a knee injuries, Brendan convinces his trainer to go in him in Sparta.For casting director Randi Hiller, the task was finding two males for that leads who could supply the requisite physicality and maleness while well inhabiting the roles of siblings who have been, in her own words, "in a position to put on in which the separate streets of the existence required them."For Tommya character who wears his rage and bitterness on his shirtsleeve, a fighter who, as they say, "fights angry," and overcomes his opponent with brute strengththe key was an actress who could embody that menace while revealing glimpses from the decent, moral person he's in mind: the war hero, the guy estranged from their own family but devoted to helping those of uncle. "You think that Tom could kick somebody's ass," states Hiller, there is however also "some as being a very broken son, in addition to a hard-fighting guy. And when he only agreed to be a straight-up hard-ass without some type of vulnerability, you would not sense of him whatsoever. And that is what Tom has: He's a vulnerability along with a maleness, in addition feeling of danger."For Brendan, the dichotomy of outward aggression and inward virtue is corrected. He's an instructor, globally loved by his students, along with a loyal family guy who appears to possess largely put his troubled past behind him. Like a fighter, he's much more of a tactician, waiting with patience to make the most of his opponents' mistakes. It's not necessary to think that he is able to fight a lot as you've to think he is able to win. "There is something incredibly heroic about Joel and exactly how he reads onscreen," states Hiller. "There is something about him that reads like he's got a core of decency."What made these men so right," she continues, "there's some [each character] that's who these men are as people, cheap they are both such phenomenal stars is an additional benefit.InchFor Paddy, O'Connor had Nolte in your mind from the beginning. Indeed, he ended up being to have performed the role eventually assumed by Jon Voight in O'Connor's 2008 film "Pride and Glory," a drama which concentrates on the connection from a father and the two sons. In "Warrior," Nolte's performance because the former alcoholic father attempting to make amends within the last is gritty and heartbreaking. "He's a national treasure," states O'Connor. "And That I desired to use him how he's best and wished the role would help remind everybody what he's able to.InchThe only real prominent female rolethat of Brendan's encouraging wife, Tesswas filled by Jennifer Morrison. Inside a prior draft from the script, the origin of Brendan and Tess's pecuniary problems was medical bills associated with Tess's chronic illness. Within the final draft, among the couple's kids was sickso Morrison's audition known as to have an interpretation which was quite different from the one which ended up within the film. Based on Hiller, Morrison was as much as the job: "She auditioned like a very sick lady. She did an attractive job it had been sincere and real and winning and every one of individuals things. And they transformed the smoothness, and she or he required that turn and made it happen superbly."Numerous recent films happen to be occur the field of MMA, and much more have been in the pipeline, but Gavin O'Connor's "Warrior" is perhaps the very first great one. Taken together, the performances inside it put it on componen with anything within the fight-film canon.Casting Director: Randi HillerDirector: Gavin O'ConnorWriters: Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, High cliff Dorfman Starring: Joel Edgerton, Tom Sturdy, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Nick NolteThe Pitch: Two estranged siblings, an AWOL Marine (Sturdy) along with a senior high school teacher and family guy (Edgerton), meet the very first time in 14 years as rivals inside a champion-take-all mma tournament. To see Back Stage's complete coverage of Honours Season, please get our FREE SAG Nomination Committee Guide. Or follow all of our daily coverage with Back Stage's new online Honours Season section.

White House Teams With Media Companies To Warn Against Pirated Merchandise

Obama administration officials unveiled today a series of TV, radio, print, andInternetpublic-service ads thatlink bogus goods including pirated movies and music with higher crime, lostjobs, and child labor.Intellectual property crimes “are anything but victimless,” Attorney General Eric Holder said, callingthem “a significant and growing threat” to economic and national security. “With holiday shopping season now upon us, this information could hardly be hitting the airwaves at a more appropriate time.” One TV ad, produced with help from MTV Networks, shows a woman envisioning the misery she might create from buying an illegal DVD. The tag line: “It’s not only a few dollars. … Know the real cost. Don’t buy counterfeits.” Another TV spot creates an analogy between illegal music downloads and NY subway riders stealing tips from the guitar case of singer-songwriter Addie Brownlee. Radio and print ads reinforce the theme that “you have the power” to stop IP theft. Most also direct people to the website for the National Crime Prevention Council’s “Get Real” campaign. Other agencies supporting the campaign include the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Controversial Director Ken Russell Dead at 84

Ken Russell, the controversial and iconoclastic British filmmaker who brought The Who’s Tommy to the screen, helped win Glenda Jackson her first Oscar, made nude male wrestling safe for the moviegoing multitudes, famously clobbered a critic with his own review and faded into an obscurity almost as uncompromising as his cinematic visions, has died following a series of strokes. He was 84. Best regarded for the decade-long run that commenced with Women in Love (1969, for which Jackson won an Oscar and co-stars Oliver Reed and Alan Bates tussled clotheless) and concluded with Altered States (1980, which featured William Hurt hallucinating his way through his film debut), but perhaps most notorious for the oversexed, highly stylized instinct that found him exiled to the creative fringe since the early ’90s, Russell’s legacy remains as unsettled and tormented as the characters who populated his work. No film likely characterizes that struggle more evocatively than The Devils, Russell’s 1971 madhouse glimpse at a 17th-century French town torn asunder by religious zealotry, sexual obsession, demonic possession and political turmoil. The Devils was banned, censored and/or cut haphazardly to within an inch of its life, causing the flummoxed filmmaker to thwack one of his critics on live TV with a rolled-up newspaper (coincidentally, no footage of that moment exists today either) and only recently making its way to the culture in anything resembling Russell’s original vision. Here’s what appears to be the fullest version available online, which is decidely NSFW even without the infamous bone-masturbation scene at the end: Or just sample a bit of the climactic madness here: The NY Times has a very good obituary of Russell here. RIP. [Photo: Getty Images] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Exclusive: Kellan Lutz Talks A Gamers Heart

First Launched: November 21, 2011 8:14 PM EST Credit: Because of California Pictures & Xenon Pictures Caption Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene get cozy round the number of A Gamers HeartLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Fans may recognize the chiseled Kellan Lutz and stunning Ashley Greene utilizing their particular roles as Emmett and Alice Cullen inside the Twilight Saga, before they increased being famous for taking up the screen as vampire brother and sister, Kellan and Ashley co-starred in a really different onscreen relationship. The duo shot the film A Gamers Heart this past year, despite the fact that it features a modest PG rating, the film which will finally be released on December 2 also boasts plenty of kissing moments between Kellan and Ashley that will have Twi-Hards spinning. The film follows Conor Sullivan (Kellan Lutz), a hotheaded, secondary school lacrosse player, who's dating the coachs daughter, Brooklyn (Ashley Greene). However, Connors feelings get beyond control when his father handles to get rid of his existence in Iraq, which is around Conors family and pals to help steer him back on the right course. Kellan was attracted towards the film since it is not another sports movie. It's not clich, where the kid wins the championship within the buzzer, Kellan mentioned inside an on set interview. Its a coming-of-age story of a boy and also the journey being guy. It absolutely was furthermore an initial for Kellan, who got to battle the role in the projects leading guy. Ive never been # 1 around the call sheet, Kellan ongoing inside the interview. Ive been 781326142[but] in this project, Im in nearly every scene. Im never throughout my trailer, which I'm not familiar with! For further with Kellan round the number of the film, Check out a distinctive interview! Have a look at these photos within the film, HERE! A Gamers Heart will hit theaters in limited release and video on-demand on December 2. The DVD release is slated for February 7. -By Chandler Chase Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Schwarzenegger 'Banged Up' On 'Last Stand' Set

Arnold Schwarzenegger is definitely back. The first kind Governor of California has taken close-to-center stage within the first "Expendables 2" poster, and today he's revealing simply how much he's prepared to endure throughout his lengthy looked forward to go back to the experience movie arena. "Got just a little bumped on set today," Schwarzenegger tweeted in the group of "The Final Stand," his modern Western presently shooting in New Mexico. He published a photograph revealing his bumped up temple, together with a smirk that practically shouts "no problemo." "Because of the medical staff who got me in action an hour or so later!" he added. Take a look at your everyday Twitpic following the jump. Inform us that which you think about Schwarzenegger's action movie return within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

ROLL CALL: Who's Worth More? Demi Moore Or ?

First Released: November 18, 2011 2:41 PM EST Credit: Caption and Demi Moore La, Calif. -- Your Everyday Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans Who Leaves Having A Bigger Bankroll?: Since Demi Moore and have introduced their split, it is time to divvy up their lives and assets but who's worth more? Based on E! Online, Ashton may be the bigger bread champion. As painful because this is to express, Ashton has great generating potential from now on, and Demi Moore doesn't, Forbes Dorothy Pomerantz told E!. Due to 2 . 5 Males, he's generating near to $700,000 a chapter, and when his show adopts distribution he'll earn more from that. Getting popular show provides you with amazing generating potential. To date this season, he apparently drawn in another $two million from his movies, $a million from his restaurants and $a million from That 70s Show residuals. For Demi, shes believed to possess made roughly $5 million from endorsement deals and residuals. The Job Dont Stop!: And within 24 hours the split was introduced, Ashton was captured pics of at the office on 2 . 5 Males, browse the star, HERE! Bradley Cooper Incites Protesters!: Most sexy Guy Alive 2011 drama continues! Team Ryan Gosling still unhappy about Bradley Cooper nabbing the coveted title collected in NY City outdoors the offices of individuals magazine. Everyone else close to 15 protested the Bradley injustice putting on Ryan masks and enduring the rain. #PleaseGoOccupySomethingMoreImportant! Gagas Junk: Talking about important matters, just just in case you skipped it, Diddy authored a coffee table book about booty, entitled Culo and Rhianna is dealing with fans to a great deal of her culo! Browse the junk in Gagas trunk, HERE! -By Jesse Spero Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Zooey Deschanel, Emmy Rossum Share Acting Secrets

By Lesley Goldberg, Marisa Guthrie, and Philiana Ng November 15, 2011 CLAIRE DANES Carrie Mathison,"Homeland" (Showtime)This is not a role I could intuit. I read a lot on the CIA and bipolar disorder and met with a fairly high-ranking woman who works for the CIA. She took me to Langley, Virginia, and I prodded her colleagues with questions. They were incredibly responsive and generous with knowledge and their anecdotes. I also met with a woman named Julie Fast, who is bipolar and has written a number of books on the condition. I worked with my friend who is a psychologist, who helped me diagnose Carrie and gave me a lesson on medications used to treat it. The heavy research I did for Temple Grandin prepared me for this role. There's nothing casual about playing Carrie Mathison.My First SAG Job: Like many NYers, it was on "Law & Order." I was 12 and played a teenage murderer. When the episode aired, I got on a subway thinking, "Do people recognize me?" I discovered, Nope, it doesn't work like that.LAURA DERN Amy Jellicoe, "Enlightened" (HBO)Mike White [the show creator] and I created Amy. It came from my feeling -- and a feeling that many have probably felt -- that there's real cultural apathy in this country and yet a lot of rage. I wanted to explore this rage and what happens when it could be your greatest flaw but also the thing that drives you to healing and effecting change in the world. What does that mean? Because the only people taking it to the streets are the people who can't take it anymore, and we're seeing that with Occupy Wall Street. I didn't have to look far outside myself to consider Amy, even though I'm very different than her, because there's a seed in so many of us that we share that Amy has. I am a meditator of a different variety, and I'm certainly interested in health on all levels. I have attended spiritual workshops but perhaps not with the same kind of desperation attached to it -- not like, "I've fallen apart, and this thing better work to put me back together."My First SAG Job: I was a teen in Adrian Lyne's 1980 film "Foxes." My grandmother's favorite memory was when my SAG card came in the mail, and I said, "It's time for me to get my own bank account." Then I got my paycheck for $9.75.ZOOEY DESCHANEL Jess Day, "New Girl" (Fox)Working in TV means less free time to prepare, but that's good -- that means more time on set to experiment and really get to know the characters. Jess is very goofy, silly and excitable and finds joy in a lot of things. I'm very excitable and emotional too, so I can relate to that. My approach has tended to be more intellectual, and I enjoy doing television because I can explore things every week that I wouldn't have had the runway space to do before, and exploring the physical comedy part has been really fun. I've always played characters that are sort of removed and ones you don't really get to explore emotionally; New Girl has given me a chance to really live with a character. It's been great."My First SAG Job: An episode of "Veronica's Closet." I was in high school. My parents wouldn't let me do auditions until I could drive myself.MONICA POTTER Kristina Braverman, "Parenthood" (NBC)Kristina is always crying because of what's happening in her life. So I try not to overthink it -- I try to just be it. But I always stay within the frame of what's right. We have amazing writers. I sometimes get caught up on the words and get really nervous about saying them exactly the way that they're written because my first show was "Boston Legal" with David E. Kelley. With him, you can't ad-lib anything. Sometimes I add my own little Monica-isms; sometimes they stick, sometimes they don't. When they do, my family spots them. For me, it's about being relaxed and not trying so hard -- rather, breathing and being in the moment. I learned acting along the way -- I didn't study it in school -- so I try not to discuss acting methods anymore. I don't feel like I know what I'm doing fully.My First SAG Job: A [1990s] Peruvian kids' game show called "Nubeluz." I had to dress up like a cloud and fly through the air.EMMY ROSSUM Fiona Gallagher, "Shameless" (Showtime)I keep a whiteboard in my office that charts how Fiona's feelings develop from episode to episode. That lets me visualize, in a big-picture way, how her emotional life tracks with each character. To play her, I started from a place of sound: how she spoke rhythmically, how she walked. I never tried to play her in a way that's sexy, and it's strange to me that men find the character of Fiona sexy. She doesn't glam herself up. There's no vanity about her; the more dark circles under my eyes, the better it is for the show. I feel a sense of connectivity to her that it's not as difficult to find that place in my body. My own father left when I was in utero, and it's been a very painful thing for me that Fiona also has a son-of-a-bitch father but still wants his approval and love. There's this horrible feeling of digging around something that was completely put to bed, yet there's a constant storm brewing underneath. This job has really made me pry it up.My First SAG Job: On "As the World Turns." I played Holden and Molly's daughter Abigail. I desperately wanted the part. I was 11 and had been studying X and Y chromosomes, dominant genes and recessive genes. I watched the show the day before my audition and realized the two actors who played the parents both had blue eyes. I had just learned in school that two blue-eyed parents can't have a brown-eyed child. So I went into the audition and said if they wanted me, I would go get contact lenses to have blue eyes. They cast me and said, "Make sure she brings her contacts."KATEY SAGAL Gemma Teller Morrow, "Sons of Anarchy" (FX)Wardrobe, hair and makeup -- it's all crucial to Gemma because I don't look anything like her in my regular life. I put on the tattoos and those high biker boots, and there's a different energy. Sometimes we'll do a take, and the camera guy will say: "We can't see your feet. You don't have to wear your shoes." But they bring a crucial energy. TV is so fast; you have to do your homework. It's not like in film, where you're going to get 25 takes. I still work with an acting coach; I've always worked with a coach. It allows me to come to the set having tried different things because when I get there, I know I'm not going to get a lot of shots at it.My First SAG Job: "The Failing of Raymond," a 1971 TV movie with Dean Stockwell and Jane Wyman. It was about a teacher who discovers that a student she flunked is out to kill her. I was 17, and I think I had one line. My father [Boris Sagal] was the director, and he wanted me to have a union card. I really just wanted to be a musician, but my dad was really smart and he knew I needed a union card. The Hollywood Reporter

CBS Orders Three More Cases of A Gifted Guy

Patrick Wilson CBS has bought three more cases of A Gifted Guy, Deadline reviews. 10 bubble shows - Which will survive? Monday's order brings the medical drama's newcomer season to 16 episodes, under the conventional 22-episode order that CBS provides towards the network's other first-year series 2 Broke Women, Person of curiosity and Memorable. (The network's fifth new series, How to be a Gentleman, was canceled after just two episodes). Starring Patrick Wilson just like a physician who begins to look for the spirit of his dead ex-wife, A Gifted Guy remains calculating 8.33 million audiences together with single.2 rating inside the grownups 18-49 demo on FridayS at 8/7c. It's unclear what show CBS will air because timeslot whenever a Gifted Guy systems Season 1, nevertheless it has yet to schedule the midseason crime drama The 2-2. Are you currently presently glad A Gifted Guy remains extended?

Ratings Pit Of Debt: Greys Anatomy Finishes Fall Run Immediately, Large Bang Tops Evening

ABC’s veteran medical drama Grey’s Anatomy (4./10 in grownups 18-49) had its fall finale last evening. The series ended around the high note – Grey‘s was up 14% in the fast national rating the other day. Private Practice (2.9/8), that's heading into its two-hour fall finale inside a couple of days, was up 12%. Around the low note, ABC’s canceled drama Charlie’s Angels (1.1/3) at 8 PM was lower a tenth with a series reduced its final airing. It drawn lower ABC’s nightly average, and so the network (2.7/7, 8 million) finished third in 18-49 and total audiences. CBS broadcast a completely new The Big Bang Theory (5.2/15, 15.7 million) and Rules Of Engagement (3.6/9), then drama reruns of human Of Curiosity (2./5) as well as the Mentalist (1.9/5). For just about any third straight week, Large Bang elevated inside the fast excellent versus. the last Thursday. The ultimate two occasions, the comedy released a completely new Thursday filled with 18-49 and may again tie or exceed its current Thursday best (5.4) when the Live+round-the-clock ratings are released this mid-day. Large Bang once again assigned the evening in 18-49 and total audiences. Rules was lower a tenth from the other day. CBS (2.8/7, 10.9 million) assigned the evening in audiences and handle second in 18-49 to Fox. The second results edition of Fox’s The X Factor (3.3/9) was lower 8% from the other day. Bones (2.7/7) was lower 18% in the season premiere the other day. Fox (3./8, 9.5 million) still won the evening inside the demo. NBC’s returning Thursday series — Community (1.5/4), Parks And Entertainment (1.8/5) as well as the Office (3./7) — all fell from the other day Community and Parks And Rec were off by two tenths, Make use of a tenth utilizing their Thursday fast excellent. Newcomers Whitney (2.1/5) and Prime Suspect (1.2/3) saved steady at their levels previously number of days. The CW’s The Vampire Journals (1.4) was lower two tenths but released its second-most-seen episode of the year. The Important Thing Circle (.8) was lower a tenth.

Viacom, Nielsen Considering 'Inexplicable' Nickelodeon Ratings Drop

NY - Viacom is considering, together with TV ratings firm Nielsen, a rapid mid-September ratings drop at kids network Nickelodeon, Boss Philippe Dauman told experts Thursday. On his company's quarterly earnings call, he known towards the double-digit percentage decline as "inexplicable" given what have typically been "very expected" ratings at Nickelodeon. Dauman mentioned the two firms are "considering this aberration," they also called an "anomaly," to "understand and rectify" the issue. Both companies also provide introduced on television Rating Council to probe the issue, with Dauman adding that independent set-top-box data shows "meaningfully different viewership trends." One analyst stated a ratings decline inside the fifteen percent-twenty percent range. The timing in the declines was "unfortunate," Dauman mentioned, highlighting it came at any time when toy companies together with other entrepreneurs type in the holidays. But he stressed he needs this being basically a brief problem. The whole company impact in the Nickelodeon ratings problem "might be a blip inside the quarter," even though it hurt ad growth in the organization and saved it underneath the double digit growth goal, he added. Concurrently, Nickelodeon, which Dauman stressed may be the primary cable network for 66 quarters running, is showing a slew of fresh animated and live-action content to the network's pipeline. Over the following 12 several days, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles together with other shows can provide Nickelodeon 500 original episodes, its most ever, Dauman mentioned. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Viacom, Nickelodeon

'Puss' purrs at surface of weekend B.O.

'Puss in Boots'Paramount-DreamWorks Animation three dimensional holdover "Puss in Boots" sunk its claws in to the domestic B.O.'s top place, having a amazing soph-sesh drop of just 3% that produced an believed $33 million through Sunday, while "The Adventures of Tintin: The Key from the Unicorn," also in the second weekend, totalled a fantastic $40.8 million overseas."Puss" has made Stateside $75.5 million up to now "Tintin" arrived at $125.3 million worldwide.The weekend's top domestic entry, Universal's "Tower Heist," arrived in the low-finish of anticipation by having an believed $25.a million, while Warner Bros.' "A Really Harold & Kumar three dimensional Christmas" underperformed, grossing an believed $13.a million.By mid-day on Friday, most B.O. commentators expected a significantly closer race for that weekend crown between "Puss" and "Tower Heist" -- it had been thought "Puss" would drop around 30%, showing the unpredictability of family auds, put into a unpredictable B.O. market recently.Based on Componen, "Puss'" 3% drop in the second frame is really a record. (In comparison, "The Blind Side" saw an 18% rise in its second outing, but which was throughout Thanksgiving weekend. The final time a film were built with a comparable non-holiday drop in the second weekend was "Twister," having a 10% dip in May 1996.)"Puss," which collected an overall total $15 million overseas, also handled to keep well in marketplaces like Russia, in which the toon fell just 10% with $13.six million, easily beating "Tintin," which bowed there with $5.9 million.Despite the fact that "Puss" certainly assisted buoy Stateside conditions, the general weekend B.O. was still being lower substantially from this past year, a higher-water November kickoff, by roughly 23%."I was looking to be closer," stated Warner distribution professional Shaun Goldstein, mentioning towards the total box office versus. 2010.The benchmark hold for "Puss" demonstrated Wall Street wrong, when last weekend's $34 million opening was considered a troubling start and triggered DWA's stock to decrease. But as Variety stated (Daily Variety, March 31), DWA characters possess a strong tradition of legging out better-than-expected, using the studio's marketing chief Anne Globe saying, "I believe 'Puss' is poised to possess a greater multiple than is common.Inch Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Hermain Cain's Wife Cancels Interview With Fox News' Greta Van Susteren

Herman Cain's wife has backed from a job interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren among sexual harassment accusations targeted in the Republican presidential candidate.our editor recommendsDonald Trump Accuses Jon Stewart of 'Racist Rant' about Herman Cain (Video)Herman Cain Responds to Jon Stewart's Stereotyped Black Dialect: 'Words Will not Hurt Me' (Video)Condoleezza Grain on CBS 'Early Show': Herman Cain Shouldn't Play 'Race Card'Jon Huntsman's Kids Parody Herman Cain Advertisements in YouTube Campaign (Video)GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain's Campaign Bio Hits Amazon . com Top Ten The NY Occasions reported Thursday that Gloria Cain had indicated the 2009 week that they seems on Friday evening's edition of Around the Record. But an anonymous source told the Occasions that they presently has transformed her mind. PHOTO: Best Presidents in Film and tv However, this individual added that they left the doorway open to have an interview later on. A minimum of three for women who live come forward declaring these were bothered by Cain while employed by them. Politico reported the 2009 week that two women alleged harassment against Cain as they was leader from the National Restaurant Assn. within the the nineteen nineties. Individuals women apparently signed contracts using the group that gave them financial affiliate payouts to depart their jobs as well as prevents them from speaking concerning the situation. PHOTOS: Stars Who've Performed Political figures Another former worker came forward Wednesday, saying she considered filing a place of work complaint over what she considered aggressive and undesirable behavior by Cain within the the nineteen nineties. She stated the behaviour incorporated a personal invitation to his corporate apartment. Cain's camping has refused all accusations. "Mr. Cain hasn't sexually bothered anybody. Period. Finish of story," stated his campaign manager, Mark Block. PHOTOS: Dems and Republicans' Favorite Movies Gloria Cain has deliberately stored a minimal profile while her husband continues to be campaigning, therefore the Fox News interview might have marked her initial media interview. "You won't see my loved ones on the campaign trail on the day-to-day basis," Cain stated the 2009 week. "My spouse signifies that calm and peace which i anticipate seeing after i go back home. She'll be introduced when it comes to some limited exposure, however it's not her style on her to get along with me on every campaign stop because, No. 1, it's difficult, and that i want her to continue being the nucleus for your calm and peace that you would like for the family." Related Subjects Fox News Funnel Greta Van Susteren Politics Herman Cain

This Halloween, Make sure to Remember Harry Potter's Parents' Dying

Curb people Halloween spirits -- today can be a day's mourning. No less than if you're a 'Harry Potter' fan. Yes, right below the trending subject of "Happy Halloween Everyone" on Twitter is "RIP James and Lily Potter." Around the imaginary March. 31 30 years ago, the happy couple sacrificed their lives for boy, Harry. Little did they already know that the boy would develop being the chosen one and save the entire wizarding world within the evil Our god Voldemort. The Hollywood Reporter highlights that some 'Potter' fan sites will probably be arranging a moment of silence today at 3 p.m. GMT (a.k.a. 11 p.m. EDT). Really the only guy who won't be crying? Clearly, Our god Voldemort. However, probably the Dark Our god is at a cheerier mood today. According to his Twitter account (yes, Voldemort features a Twitter account), the evil Wizard tweeted "Happy Halloween. Your treat is always that I permit you to live." So, when you are dressing within your little costumes so on to get your free chocolate, bear in mind that James and Lily Potter died for that to trick-or-treat. [via THR] [Photo: Warner Bros.] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Big Brother's Cassi Colvin Gets Sudsy on The Bold and the Beautiful

Cassi Colvin Big Brother 13 contestant Cassi Colvin - a real-life model and Olivia Wilde lookalike - makes her acting debut on The Bold and the Beautiful October 20 in a role that won't require heavy lifting. She plays a model, conveniently named Cassi, who's working with up-and-coming designer Hope Logan (Kim Matula) on the new "Hope for the Future" fashion line. "Thank God I was answering to my own name so I didn't miss a cue!" says Colvin, a 15-year vet in the modeling biz who started posing professionally at age 11 and went on to lucrative contracts in NY, Milan, Sydney and Hong Kong. "I had a great time on The Bold and the Beautiful but the job came right out of the blue - I'd never even seen the show," Colvin says. "I'm not looking for an acting career at all. My big dream is to get my wings!" While waiting for that call from Victoria's Secret, the twangy Texan went on Big Brother last summer and tried to hide her profession to avoid jealousy. It didn't work. The eventual champ, Rachel Reilly, took an instant dislike to Colvin and made sure she was quickly bounced. "I'm comfortable in my own skin and I like who I am on the inside and Rachel couldn't handle it because of her own insecurities," Colvin says. "I wasn't affected by what she thought of me and that was a big threat to her." Damn! In a near collision we would have relished, Reilly will also be a guest on B&B - but just a few days after Colvin. Details on that next week! Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Shall We Be Really To Date In the Madhouse? (Women li fengrenyuan jiujing you duo yuan?)

Directed, edited by Li Hongqi.With: Yang Haisong, Xu Bo, Shi Xudong, Jonathan Leijonhufvud. (Mandarin dialogue)The epic journey of gifted Chinese publish-punk band P.K. 14 is offered radical motion picture treatment in "Shall We Be Really To Date In the Madhouse?" Among China's most inventive rising filmmakers, Li Hongqi ("Winter Vacation"), flexes his filmmaking muscles by rethinking the background music doc in the ground-up. Li's typically deadpan wit results in within unpredicted ways, that will strike guitar chords with progressive and music-niche fests worldwide. A Redflag Films/Egosum production. Created by Alex Chung. At first glance, nothing appears particularly unusual concerning the first moments of the film in regards to a band that fans in the western world have noted for only a few years, climax been a fixture of landmass China's alt scene for over a decade. The bandmates (singer Yang Haisong, guitarist Xu Bo, bassist Shi Xudong and drummer Jonathan Leijonhufvud, on crutches having a damaged leg) spend time in hotels, talking away. However it soon becomes obvious the scene lacks any seem sync rather, various animal noises replace what dialogue there might be. This opening sequence may take getting accustomed to, just like possibly with any opening inside a Li film, which always begins by tossing the viewer off-kilter. Once the bandmates hit the18 wheeler-clogged highway within their cozy, humble van, their music gets control, and Li edits the sequences in ways that enables the tunes (in subtitled Mandarin) to experience from beginning to end. The hypnotic flow from the journey meshes perfectly using the growling, semi-abstract washes of seem and words that characterize P.K. 14's style (the band's title is short for "Public Kingdom for Teens"). The pictures never function as mere backdrop, but form an image of the progressively hyper-industrialized China moving. The film initially follows a pattern of images from the group on the highway (colored), and off course (in black-and-whitened), but changes emphasis and tone when the focus is around the gigs, which Li shoots and constructs in characteristically unconventional modes. To begin with, your pet soundtrack continues just when music could be anticipated, so when the background music is heard, it's deliberately from sync using the picture. Even this disconnect is not entirely obvious before the finish of the extended, ultra-lengthy shot from the hard-working group brought by Yang's impassioned vocals. This fascinating separation of image and seem makes "Shall We Be Really To Date In the Madhouse?" (the title of among the group's most widely used tracks) one of the most striking and distinctive films about music artists associated with a stripe recently. When the group's music is publish-punk, then Li's filmmaking here's publish-Godard, meaning of the way the auteur reframed and rejiggered the Moving Gemstones in the "One Plus One (Sympathy for that Demon)." Li's lensing is resolutely rough and unrefined, offering up a significant different look in the fixed, neutral perspectives in the narrative features. Pic will definitely open a brand new audience for that band, in addition to its offshoot, the greater lyrical two-person unit Dear Eloise, heard here on some lovely tracks that bring fine sonic variety towards the overall soundtrack.Camera (color/B&W, widescreen, DV), Li music, P.K. 14, Dear Eloise production designer, Qin Yurui seem (stereo system), Guo En'ru. Examined at Vancouver Film Festival (Dragons and Tigers), March. 3, 2011. (Also in Hong Kong Film Festival.) Running time: 85 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Albanian Oscar entry disqualified

'The Forgiveness of Blood'Albania's option for foreign-language Oscar race, American director Joshua Marston's "The Forgiveness of Bloodstream," continues to be disqualified following the Academy made the decision this didn't have sufficient local input.Marston's film, shot on location within the Balkans country having a largely local crew and inventive team, is one of the modern impact from the country's tradition of bloodstream feuds.Having a Berlinale Silver Bear-top rated script which was co-compiled by an Albanian and dialogue that's all Albanian, the film was nominated late September following the Albanian Oscar committee checked it met Academy Award criteria.But following the director of "Amnesty," 1 of 3 other local films that unsuccessful to create the cut, complained, the Academy revisited the problem a week ago and made the decision to disqualify "Bloodstream."Bujar Alimani wrote a proper letter of complaint towards the Albanian National Center of Cinematography demanding that Marston's film be disqualified on that grounds it would be a mainly American production.That seems to possess found a target in La, where an Oscars committee is understood to possess examined your decision and disqualified Marston's film a week ago for the reason it unsuccessful to satisfy local crew composition criteria.In a meeting Friday in Tirana, Albanian Oscar selectors that incorporated basically among the committee which had initially selected Marston's film, required another election and "Amnesty" was formally selected because the country's nomination for foreign-lingo film.The committee comprised of film industry professionals, Esat Musliu, Bujar Lako, Durim Neziri, and Agron Tufa although not author Teodor Laco."The main one board people who had been most open for 'The Forgiveness of Bloodstream,' author Teodor Laco, did not attend the meeting for private reasons," a movie industry source in Tirana told Variety on Sunday.Your decision in L.A. to overrule the sooner nomination wasn't well accepted by some in Tirana.Artan Minarolli, mind from the ANCC, told Variety: "The board in Albania chosen for 'Forgiveness of Blood' for many [particular] reasons. The most crucial are: The film is 100% in Albanian Language. The storyline and also the support of Albania, too, is strong within this film. Producer is Albanian and one of the leading producers here. He and also the director spent a very long time in Albania prior to the shooting and developed the script and also the project in close relationship with Albanian and technical people."Minarolli added he had attempted to describe towards the Academy committee in La that because Albania includes a small film industry it's inevitably carefully associated with foreign professionals and all sorts of local films involve the participation of foreign creative talent and crew."It's a cosmopolitan cinema that attempts to survives through cultural exchange. Previously Albania was totally isolated today we try to look for reality in cinema and also to replace with time we lost in the last half a century. The Academy must understand this."However, Alimani, director of "Amnesty" welcomed your decision.He told Variety the original decision have been in "breach from the rules from the Academy itself my protest wasn't for private reasons, but because Personally i think that Albania has cinematographers who are able to be symbolized in a world level choosing my film 'Amnesty' because the official Albanian nomination gives aspire to youthful moviemakers in Albania and honors the job of my staff."Marston, who learned Albanian throughout the building of his film, "The Forgiveness of Bloodstream," stated: "It's disappointing, to be certain. There is a lot Albanian creative participation in the building of the film. For that Academy to concentrate only on six key crew positions because the barometer of their Albanian-ness, in my experience, is sad."He added: "The film ['The Forgiveness of Blood'] is created by Albanians, in Albania, about Albania as well as in the Albanian language. But an excellent film like Kaurismaki's 'Le Havre,' that was shot in France having a French cast along with a French story, qualifies as Finnish? And 'As Should I Be Not There,' that was shot within the Balkans and it is in Serbo-Croat having a cast from that region, qualifies as Irish? It's absurd."I believe there's an issue with the machine when Hollywood states know much better than the posting country whether a movie goes for them. It's incredibly disempowering and disenchanting for any country having a youthful film industry." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

New Regency moves into 'Broken City'

WahlbergCroweNew Regency has come on board to co-produce the Allen Hughes-helmed drama "Broken City" with Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe attached to star. Project, written by Brian Tucker, hails from Emmett/Furla Films. New Regency is co-financing the pic, which will be distribbed by Twentieth Century Fox, per its deal with New Regency. "Broken City," set against the backdrop of contemporary NY, centers around a former cop-turned-P.I., who, while attempting to turn his life around, finds himself thrust in the middle of the seedy backroom politics of a corrupt mayoral election. Wahlberg is producing alongside Hughes, Randall Emmett, Stephen Levinson and George Furla. Wahlberg and Crowe are repped by WME. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

REVIEW: Gosling and Clooney Bring Movie-Star Chops, and Movie-Star Stubble, to The Ides of March

George Clooney’s The Ides of March is an actors’ movie, a picture that gives performers some provocative things to do without necessarily providing a great story for them to hang onto. It’s also a movie made for grown-ups, and Lord knows there are few enough of those around today. But this story of an idealistic young press secretary who finds his principles eroded at the hands of a corrupt Democratic presidential candidate keeps getting in the way of its own chin-stroking: It’s carefully designed to make us think it’s making us think, but in the end, what’s it really telling us? That politics — and politicians — can be dishonest and ugly? Please don’t stop the presses for that one. But at least The Ides of March — which was written by Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon, adapted from Willimon’s play Farragut North — is neatly constructed, made with a respectful bow in the direction of classic Hollywood filmmaking. Clooney is sometimes a middling director (Leatherheads) and sometimes a terrific one (Good Night, and Good Luck), but at the least he’s motivated by a desire to tell stories in a straightforward way without excess clutter or showiness. He also knows that even pictures that feature a lot of guys talking (and The Ides of March is definitely one of those) don’t have to be visually dull: Cinematographer Phedon Papamichael sometimes lights and shoots the actors as if they were sitting for Hurrell portraits. At one point I found myself momentarily distracted by a small, artistically lit triangle of stubble below Ryan Gosling’s lip, but my God, what stubble! There’s a time and a place for movie-star whiskers, and this is one of them. Gosling plays Stephen Myers, a canny young go-getter whose eyes glow like greenish-brown coals as he explains what he loves about the candidate he’s working for, Clooney’s Governor Mike Morris. Morris is one of those understated but charismatic figures who can make a rousing speech in a way that makes him sound both progressive and nonthreatening — he’s slippery that way (and, it turns out, in other ways too), but his principles do seem believable and sound. Stephen and Morris’ campaign manager, Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing the kind of guy who balances shrewd efficiency with the appearance that he just rolled out of bed), are trying to steer their boss through a tricky Ohio primary. Meanwhile, a rival campaign manager, Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), steps in to stir up trouble — with his darting eyes and lizardy smile, he’s a Beltway Beelzebub. And a NY Times reporter — played with hungry-mutt persistence by Marisa Tomei — pumps everyone relentlessly for information they don’t want, or are unable, to give. Stephen works hard, but he plays hard, too, and Lord knows there are plenty of adorable young interns around to help out with that. One of the sauciest, Molly (Evan Rachel Wood, who does a fine job balancing brittleness and vulnerability), flirts with him brazenly, and he can’t resist the bait. They end up sleeping together, and though Stephen hopes to keep things casual, he finds himself drawn in by the desperate secret she’s been keeping. As a director, Clooney orchestrates the action nimbly and with a degree of caginess — he seems to enjoy the process of letting the cat out of the bag only bit by bit. And as an actor, he’s admirably low-key here: He’s a muted presence, ceding everything to Gosling. In return, Gosling doesn’t take the proverbial money and run; he just sort of saunters out the door with it. This is a restrained, simmering performance: When Stephen starts flirting with Molly, he’s so suave he almost makes you forget he’s using every trick in the book — with his slightly downcast eyes and inquisitive smile, he’s like the idea of flirting, personified. The routine is charming as hell, until later in the movie, when Gosling lets us see that Stephen’s ability to get what he wants is hardwired into him — his aggressive ambition is the fraternal twin of his idealism, and it’s far less cuddly. Gosling’s performance is a whispered echo of everything that The Ides of March otherwise spells out. The chief idea here seems to be that even the most promising candidate can disappoint you. That might be a not-so-veiled criticism of our own beleaguered commander-in-chief, but I suspect Clooney intends it as more a rueful observation of the reality of human behavior. The Ides of March doesn’t cut as deeply or as sharply as Clooney might like, but at least he found the right actor to navigate its dark emotional twists and turns. Gosling’s Stephen, whether he’s operating out of deep-rooted integrity or ruthless self-interest, doesn’t seem to know what he’s capable of until he goes and does it. Maybe that’s how most people find their way into politics in the first place.

TV Ratings: 'The X Factor' Steady; 'Survivor,' 'Harry's Law' Hit Lows

Monty Brinton/CBS"Survivor: South Pacific" The X Factor is paying off. The 90-minute effort of Simon Cowell's competition series (11.5 million to total viewers, 3.9 rating in adults 18-49 demographic), which retained 100 percent of the audience among adults 18-49 from last week's comparable telecast, boosted Fox for the nightly win in the demo with a 3.5 rating in primetime. PHOTOS: Fall TV Death Pool: Which New Show Will Be Axed? A special episode of Raising Hope (6.2 million, 2.3) at 9:30 p.m., however, didn't improve following X Factor. Compared to Tuesday's original -- following New Girl -- Hope sank substantially in 18-49 (2.3 vs. 2.9). CBS' Survivor: South Pacific (10.5 million, 3.1), meanwhile, posted its lowest-rated regular telecast to date against the first hour of X Factor. Criminal Minds (13.3 million, 3.8) rose 6 percent while CSI (11.8 million, 2.9) went the other way, seeing a 6 percent dip -- though the latter won its 10 p.m. time slot against Revenge and Harry's Law. CBS topped the night in viewers, averaging 11.9 million and placed a close second behind Fox in 18-49, posting a 3.3. PHOTOS: Fall's 12 Most Anticipated Shows ABC's comedies had slight dips, though The Middle (9 million, 2.7) -- in the lead-off spot -- remained steady from its previuos outing. Rookie sitcom Suburgatory (9.1 million, 3.0) improved open its lead-in, though it was down 9 percent from its debut. The highest-rated program of the night, Modern Family (13.1 million, 5.6), saw just a 2 percent decrease, while Happy Endings (6.9 million, 2.9) slipped 6 percent. Notably, ABC won the 9 p.m. hour in the demo, posting a 4.2 rating. At 10 p.m., Revenge (7.7 million, 2.5) dipped 7 percent. PHOTOS: 10 Shows Canceled Faster Than 'The Playboy Club' NBC's Up All Night (5.7 million, 2.2) improved against stiff competition, but struggling workplace comedy Free Agents (3.3 million, 1.0) didn't. With Up All Night, the network is up 57 percent in the 8 p.m. slot compared to the same night last year. Sophomore law drama Harry's Law (8.2 million, 1.2) tied its series low and Law & Order: SVU (7.9 million, 2.1) remained steady. Over on the CW, H8R (1.1 million, 0.4) and America's Next Top Model (1.7 million, 0.8) aired. TV Ratings

Clint Eastwood Stars In Danger Using The Curve Malpasos Robert Lorenz Pointing

BREAKING: While Clint Eastwood was likely to follow pointing J Edgar by pointing A Star Comes Into The World with Beyonce, being pregnant has put that project off. Rather, I hear he’s seriously searching at starring in danger Using The Curve, a project at Warner Bros which will mark the feature directorial debut of his Malpaso partner Robert Lorenz. The Randy Brown-scripted film is all about a maturing baseball scout, who’s losing his sight, and heads on the last journey to Atlanta together with his daughter to scout a hotshot prospect. They'll lock Eastwood and Lorenz’s deals before setting an actress to experience the daughter. Malpaso will produce. Apart from being Eastwood’s longtime business partner, Lorenz continues to be assistant director on a lot of Eastwood’s films, including Billion Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Bloodstream Work.

'Pan Am' flies to Germany

BERLIN -- ProSiebenSat.1 has boarded "Pan Am" for Germany. The Munich-based broadcasting group, which introduced the acquisition within the Mipcom TV mart in Cannes, is nearly the most recent taker for ABC's sixties-jet-set drama, which stars Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley and Mike Vogel. ProSiebenSat.1 has yet to announce which in the group's channels will carry the series or maybe this can air in Germany. The series has offered in lots of major areas, like the U.K. (BBC), France (TF1), The nation (Canal Plus), Canada (CTV), Japan (Imagica Baloney) and Australia (Nine Network). "Pan Am" got on the effective start, bowing having a 11 million audiences together with a 3.1 share, but lost altitude having its second episode, climbing lower 19% in the premiere score but nevertheless delivering OK amounts. "Pan Am" is produced by Jack Orman Productions, Unexpectedly Entertainment and Shoe Money Productions, in colaboration using the new the new sony Pictures Television. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com