Ex-Mobster: John Travolta Isn't Man Enough To Play John Gotti

“For John Gotti Sr, you need a man’s man to play that role,” critiqued former mobster Lewis Kasman about John Travolta’s casting in the upcoming crime-boss biopic from Barry Levinson. “He’s a thug, so you need someone who’s a thug… a guy who grew up in that life.” Apparently, Travolta’s Oscar-nominated Saturday Night Fever performance doesn’t hold much weight among the mob set either: “John Gotti Sr. never danced a dance in his life.” [Daily Mail]

Smurfs 3D Passes $500 Million Worldwide

Hollywood never expected The Smurfs 3D to become such a box office phenom. Even though the studioalways had confidence in the franchise.Sony Pictures just announced that The Smurfs has grossed an estimated $12.9M for the weekend overseas, bringingthe international cume to $364.4M and pushing the worldwide cume over thehalf-billion mark to an estimated $502.8 million.Sure, its easy to look down your nose at The Smurfs, butit was brought in out of turnaround from Paramount by no less than Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman/CEO Michael Lynton. Animation was overseen by Bob Osher and Hannah Minghella (who is now president of production for Sonys Columbia Pictures) while live action was shepherded by Doug Belgrad. Marketing was taken in hand by Jeff Blake and Marc Weinstock.The cartoon first launched in Europe in 1958 so the pic was tracking well overseas after Global Smurfs Day was organized by Sony and McDonalds planned the years largest global campaign in over 30,000 restaurants.In Spain, a village volunteered to paint their entire town Smurf blue. And Smurf fans set a new Guinness world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as the little blue guys within a 24-hour period in multiple venues. Look, I dont get the appeal of garden gnomes or troll dolls or Smurfs for that matter. They creep me out. But the little blue guys were first drawn by Belgian artist Pierre Peyo Culliford for a comic book. The Schtroumpfs, as they were initially called, have lasted 50 years and generated comics, books, television series, films, videogames, live shows, and figurines. The Smurfs movie also took a long time to come to the Big Screen. In 1980, the late (and great) Brandon Tartikoff developed the Hanna-Barbera show on NBC for Saturday mornings. It ran 8 years. In 1997, producer Jordan Kerner sent the first of a series of letters to Lafig, the licensing agent for the Smurfs brand, as a first step to making a movie. And in 2002, after seeing Kerners adaptation of E.B. Whites Charlottes Web, Peyos heirs gave the OK.

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Haley Ramm synchs with 'Disconnect'

Haley Ramm, the youthful star of MTV's "Worst. Promenade. Ever.," remains cast as Jason Bateman's daughter inside the indie drama "Disconnect," that's being produced by Liddell Entertainment and Wonderful Films. Henry-Alex Rubin ("Murderball") is pointing from Andrew Stern's script, which follows a substantial ensemble of figures that are affected -- and possibly destroyed -- online together with other kinds of modern communication. Ramm may have a common but self-absorbed secondary school student whose youthful brother falls victim to have an online hoax perpetrated by a few his childhood friends. Furthermore to Bateman, pic stars Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, Frank Grillo, Andrea Riseborough, Colin Ford and Michael Nyqvist. Mickey Liddell and Marc Forster are coming up with "Disconnect" along with William Horberg and Jennifer Hilton. Ramm, repped by Wendi Niad of Niad Management, recently starred in Anthony Burns' "Skateland" and came out in Kevin Smith's "Red-colored-colored Condition." She formerly carried out youthful Jean Grey in Brett Ratner's "X-Males: The Ultimate Stand." Contact Rob Sneider at rob.sneider@variety.com

Cheers & Jeers: Why Does not Everyone Love The Center?

Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton Cheers towards the Middle for showing it goes towards the top of the sitcom pack. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! The ABC comedy's Wednesday stablemate Modern Family won Emmys in each and every qualified category over the past weekend, while Patricia Heaton's Indiana clan did not earn just one nomination. What is? Maybe since the show happens in the center of the nation (hence the title) and focuses on a classic-fashioned nuclear family, it isn't considered edgy enough for Emmy. However The Middle is evenly as funny, well-behaved - and modern - as Family. The 3rd-season opener wittily reunited Heaton together with her Everyone Loves Raymond husband Ray Romano, who guested inside a flashback as Mike's nudnik ex-high-school classmate who nearly destroyed his honeymoon with Heaton's Frankie. In one of many clever in-jokes, Romano told Heaton, "You realize, within an alternate world, we could've been happy together." As well as in another alternate world, the Emmys could've gone mad for that Middle and Romano's Males of the Certain Age, and that i would have been happy. Would you love The Center?

'Charlie's Angels' Finds Home in Miami

MIAMI (AP) Miami might be the brand new capital of scotland - angels no less than the city of "Charlie's Angels."ABC is jumping into the reboot game this fall by getting an up-to-date version in the classic series that starts the network's Thursday evening prime-time selection. Moving its setting and production from La to Florida, the completely new show will receive a new beginning in the new city.The remake tries to distance itself within the camping in the seventies version, striving to become more grounded action series. The initial episode begins with two Angels a classic crook carried out by Rachael Taylor together with a disgraced officer carried out by Annie Ilonzeh seeing the next part of their team destroyed within a mission. Their boss Charlie Townsend and also the assistant Bosley carried out by Ramon Rodriguez persuade the kids to recruit a completely new Angel, a street racer carried out by Minka Kelly.With Came Barrymore an Angel inside the 2000 and 2003 films being a professional producer, the show was produced by Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind the hit WB show "Smallville," which adopted the exploits from the youthful, pre-Superman Clark Kent. ABC happen to be prone to restore "Charlie's Angels" for quite a while when Gough and Millar got involved last spring.They acknowledge that fans have certain anticipation and may scream once they aren't met. The first "Charlie's Angels" will be a cultural phenomenon if the first demonstrated in 1976, making stars of Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Cruz. Fawcett shown particularly popular, with boys posting her legendary poster inside their rooms and ladies copying her feathered hair. The initial episode in the new "Charlie's Angels" is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, the 35th anniversary in the original's premiere."If you say you'll probably reboot Charlie's Angels, you're simply hanging a sizable target laying lying on your back,In . Gough mentioned. "What to do ideally is reunite by getting a crowd that loved the show after they were youthful in addition to bring new fans in it.InchHowever the brand new show starts fresh: These Angels aren't saints. Inside the original, the women had all taught to become L.A. cops but sexism inside the department had left them banished to menial positions, so Charlie employed them really was detectives. Inside the new series, the Angels all have sketchy pasts. Charlie recruits these to give them another chance, while using the capabilities they developed as crooks to accomplish good."They're type of Angels with dirty faces," Gough mentioned.Taylor mentioned she and her co-stars want toward placing modern twist round the mythology."Even though they were very awesome and effective, we wish to do our personal version," Taylor mentioned.According to Ilonzeh, the chemistry among the different figures is what drove the old series as well as the movies."The knowledge as well as the cases as well as the crooks as well as the explosions and many types of the sparks as well as the glamour as well as the fashion as well as the makeup, people are merely the additional supplies," Ilonzeh mentioned. "But it's the bond that's really prone to grab everyone."The completely new show promises plenty of action, but producers are trying to obtain a more realistic feel, departing the gravity repel "Wire Fu" acrobatics featured inside the films."We perform a little of all things,Inch stunt coordinator Artie Malesci mentioned. "We're round the water. We're under water. We've watercraft. We've helis. All of us perform some vehicle work. We perform a lot of fighting. We perform a lot of gun play. We perform a lot of scaling structures."The heavens do the majority of the stunts themselves, Malesci mentioned."They train a good deal,In . he mentioned. "I realize them adequate to understand what they could do and whatever they can't do. There's a particular point where I believe that no, and so they hate that."Kelly mentioned doing the stunts is among her favorite causes of the show."I like my job. I like just as one actor," Kelly mentioned. "But if you are dealing with visit and be physical and learn how to drift cars and scuba dive and horseback ride and learn to fight Krav Maga (an Israeli fighting styles technique). People are things I'll have with me at night for your relaxation of my existence."Filming extensively in Florida through the summer time season doesn't come without its problems. On one recent shoot a daytime fashion show scene inside a downtown park the heavens hid within an aura-conditioned van between takes to obtain their makeup from melting. Meanwhile, a lot of accessories looked for shade and fans, attempting to not sweat through their formal placed on.Nevertheless included in the completely new show is Charlie's speakerphone, where the unseen maestro notifies his Angels regarding new missions. Gough mentioned one challenge was creating reasonable to take advantage from it inside the reboot."Charlie's around the box, around the speakerphone, which in 1976 was possibly the peak of technology," Gough mentioned. "This Season, less. You've Skype. You've video chat. Why guy still around the box?"While Charlie ongoing to become a mysterious inside the original series too as with the two films, Gough mentioned audiences will discover much more about him inside the new series and possibly why he's so secretive.Bosley may also be acquiring a larger role."Inside the old series, Bosley felt like the girls' valet, which we didn't might like to do that," Gough mentioned.The completely new Bosley is closer to the Angels in age and even more mixed up in missions."He's basically the fourth Angel," Gough mentioned.Rodriguez mentioned he was surprised when he was approached to fill the role, formerly held by David Doyle, Bill Murray and Bernie Mack.Not just comedy relief, Bosley now hacks personal computers and beats up crooks, while hiding their very own shady past."He's certainly got a good deal happening,Inch Rodriguez mentioned."Charlie's Angels" is ABC's first large work for balance remaking a substantial series. The practice may appear a guaranteed recipe for fulfillment, but also for every "Battlestar Galactica" or "Hawaii Five-," there's a "Bionic Lady" or "Dark evening Driver" that died throughout its first season. Gough mentioned CBS's "Hawaii Five-" is a good instance of mixing fun figures, exciting action moments and wonderful locations one for his "Charlie's Angels."Part of achieving people beautiful locations for "Charlie's Angels" was filming the show in Miami instead of La the initial network scripted show to film full-amount of time in Florida since "Miami Vice" left in 1989. Florida gets the designer and cultural diversity of NY, the nice cozy weather and wonderful beaches of los angeles, which is a gateway to Latin America as well as the Caribbean."If you come lower here, you're feeling it," executive producer and director Marcos Siega mentioned. "You will discover plenty of South Us citizens, plenty of Males and ladies. 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Rupert Murdoch 'Is Going to Have to Step Down,' Says Ted Turner (Video)

Billionaire Ted Turner shared his thoughts on News Corp.'s ongoing phone hacking scandal in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Turner said that he feels News Corp.'s Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch may be seeing the end of this reign due to the scandal.our editor recommendsNews of the World's Top 10 Scandals Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch To Face Questioning Under Oath In Phone-Hacking Judicial Inquiry "I'm past retirement age now. So, I'm 72. That's a little late to be running a corporation," said Turner in an interview with Betty Liu. "Murdoch's still doing it at 80, but for not for much longer, I'm afraid. I think he's going to have to step down." PHOTOS: News of the World's Top 10 Scandals News Corp. has come under fire from allegations that its News of the World publication gained access to private citizens' mobile phones, and paid for police information. The parent company folded the tabloid back in July due to the public outcry and ongoing investigation. "This is serious...It's going against the law," Turner said of the phone hacking scandal. "You know, not even Rupert Murdoch should be allowed to break the law. " In July, the UK parliament called both Murdoch and his son, James, deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., to speak about their knowledge of the phone hacking activities of News of the World. Rupert Murdoch said he was not aware of the phone hacking or police payoffs. STORY: Rupert Murdoch Says He and News Corp. Board Believe He Should Continue as Chairman and CEO Turner, who sold Turner Broadcasting , owner of CNN, Cartoon Network and TBS, to Time Warner Inc. in 1996, said that Murdoch's answer wasn't good enough. "He should have known," said Turner. "He was chairman of the board. He's responsible. I took responsibility when I ran my company. You never heard me say, 'Well, I didn't know.' You never saw me get in that kind of trouble, did you?" STORY: Rupert Murdoch Backed by News Corp. Board Member Amid Phone Hacking Scandal Turner and Murdoch had an infamous rivalry over the years with their competing media empires. News Corp.'s Fox News has been a fierce competitor to CNN, and the two moguls did not get along, until, Turner says, they made amends in 2010. "I'm just, quite frankly, I'm very disappointed that this has occurred. A major media company should definitely be following the law, that's all," said Turner. Related Topics Rupert Murdoch News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal

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'Colors' is Colombia Oscar entry

Colombia's fledgling 2-year-old Academy of Cinematographic Arts & Sciences has selected Carlos Cesar Arbelaez's helming debut, "Los colores de la montana" (The Colors of the Mountain), to represent the country in the foreign-language film Oscar race. Colors" trounced 13 contenders from more seasoned helmers including Sebastian Cordero's "Rabia" (Rage), Carlos Moreno's "Todos tus muertos" (All Your Dead Ones) and Juan Felipe Orozco's "Saluda al diablo de mi parte" (Greetings to the Devil), starring Edgar Ramirez ("Carlos"). Set against the armed conflict between guerilla fighters and the military in Colombia, "Colors of the Mountain" tracks a 9-year-old who enlists his best friends to help him retrieve his soccer ball from a minefield. Pic won the New Directors award in San Sebastian last year and the screenplay at the 2011 LA Latino Film Festival. It debuted in Colombia this past spring. NY-based Film Movement released "Colors" on DVD in the U.S. earlier this month. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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In March, The Hollywood Reporter responded to an allegation by Deadline.com of so-called "stolen" stories by asking Deadline.com to provide specifics. We got no response, and today we know why. Deadline.com's parent company PMC has just sued The Hollywood Reporter for copyright infringement based on allegations of "stolen" stories. An initial review of the complaint shows that it is replete with examples of stories that originated from widely-released press releases from publicists, or widespread confirmations from publicists to numerous outlets, including both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.com. It is not copyright infringement to report these stories, even if on occasion Deadline.com posts them first. This lawsuit is yet another attempt to steer attention away from the ongoing growth of The Hollywood Reporter, including its 4.4 million visitors per month as measured by comScore in comparison to Deadline.com's 1.5 million. The Hollywood Reporter is proud of its original journalism that has driven our growth, and we look forward to responding to this lawsuit in court at the appropriate time. PMC's complaint also alleges that The Hollywood Reporter has open job offers to PMC employees, even though this has nothing to do with any allegations of copyright infringement. It also is untrue. Lastly, today was the first we heard about any allegation regarding the code for the "carousel" feature on our website, which was coded for us by a third-party vendor. We take the allegation seriously and have, as of today, removed the carousel feature while we look into the matter. Unlike with its meritless allegations of stolen stories, Deadline.com did not give us the standard courtesy of advance notice or opportunity to investigate the coding issue before it sued and sought publicity. We look forward to defending ourselves in court.

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I Love Lucy Goes Live!

I Love Lucy After decades in rerun heaven, I Love Lucy has been renewed. "I Love Lucy Live on Stage," a performance of two episodes of the classic sitcom, opens October 1 for a three-month run at the Greenway Court Theatre in L.A. There are also plans for a national tour, and if the show takes off, it could be Babalu-ing its way into casinos, theaters, state fairs and cruise ships around the country. Executive producers Stephen Kahn and David George developed the show after seeing fans line up for their traveling exhibit of the re-created I Love Lucy set that criss-crossed the country during the show's 50th anniversary celebration in 2001. "We knew the audience was out there for a stage show," says Kahn. Other sitcoms such as The Brady Bunch have been performed in theaters, but largely as campy spoofs. "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" aims to be a pure slice of Americana that re-creates the filming of the show in front of a studio audience. The production has 11 actors and a seven-piece orchestra to provide backing for some Ricky Ricardo musical numbers, and several 1950s-vintage commercials are performed during scene changes. Kahn licensed the episodes from CBS, which owns the rights to the series still seen on TV by 40 million Americans each year. He emphasizes that the staging is intended as a tribute to I Love Lucy, and the actors won't try to mimic the original cast members. "There was and will only be one Lucille Ball," he says. "We're simply doing the show." For tickets and a video teaser, go to ilovelucylive.com. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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John Calley, studio lion, dies at 81

CalleyJohn Calley, the studio professional and producer whose 50-year career incorporated stints atop three major art galleries with a lot of influential striking films from "Catch-22" and "All the President's Males" to "AlienInch and "The Da Vinci Code," died Tuesday carrying out a extended illness. He was 81. Calley had most recently been chairman and Boss in the new the new sony Pictures Entertainment, they grew to become an associate of in 1996 after effective turning around MGM/United states . Artists inside the the 19 nineties and running Warner Bros. inside the seventies. "Just like a studio mind he was unfailingly encouraging and didn't make an effort to perform the filmmaker's job," mentioned Mike Nichols, director of Calley-produced films "Catch-22," "Postcards within the Edge," and "Closer." "When he supported someone he reliable and supported him then when seldom he'd an indication it absolutely was frequently a existence short-cut. Really, that's what he was: a existence short-cut.Inch Though Calley was known to like a cerebral and erudite executive, the movies he championed spanned all genres and budgets. Because The new the new sony topper, he became a member of with increased youthful professionals like Amy Pascal to discover a completely new audience, using his instincts and business acumen to tug off more costly projects like "Males in Black," "Charlie's Angels" and "Spider-Guy." "John Calley was more than a mentor and boss -- he was most likely probably the most amazing and generous friend," mentioned Pascal, now co-chair from the new the new sony Pictures Entertainment. "He'd a steely business mind as well as the soul from the artist. His spontaneity in regards to the business never made him cynical or got if this involves the fascination with movies and company company directors. ... He never pandered for the audience, he never recognized conventional studio understanding which he never lost his enthusiasm. John was my guiding light. He trained me everything." The key to greenlighting large studio movies, Calley referred to a year ago, is always to know the process which is terrors. "It's a guy lounging in the bed mattress in the leased apartment in Century City at four every morning in the fetal position trying to determine should you agree a $175 million arrange for 'Spider-Guy,'" he mentioned in the companion interview for "You Should Know This," a docu about Warners. "It comes down lower lower to at least one guy who must use his stomach." Well loved, getting an idea for well-crafted films, Calley didn't search for the spotlight despite his various high-profile positions. Apart from his marketing acumen and craftsmanship, Calley was recognized for obtaining a bigger air of peace of mind in dress to Hollywood executive suites -- knitted garments, sportswear, etc. Work known for any "suit" but Calley frequently rejected to use one. A Nj native, Calley cut his teeth in TV before creating movies like "The Americanization of Emily" and "Catch-22" with Martin Ransohoff at the begining of sixties. But he gained his mark within a extended and fruitful run heading production at Warner Bros., where he gained a conscious decision to avoid imposing his will on filmmakers the means by which earlier studio bosses had. Filmmakers loved and reliable him consequently, and over time he developed close associations using the type of Nichols, Stanley Kubrick and Clint Eastwood he bought Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets" and advised him to produce "Alice Doesn't Live Here Any more,Inch a whole change of pace. Calley dropped from Hollywood three decades ago and continued to be away for just about any dozen years, with notable exception: He produced two movies throughout that time, including 1993's "The Remains throughout your day,In . which acquired Calley his sole Oscar nomination. The Academy of motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Calley having its Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award this past year, calling him "most likely probably the most reliable and respected figures in Hollywood." He was among four honorees at AMPAS' first Governors Honours that November, though he was too ill to just accept personally. He was produced about this summer time 8, 1930, in Jersey City, N.J., and attended Columbia U. before serving inside the Military. From 1951-57 he labored his method to an advaced status at NBC, with positions in sales, production and programming. He eventually increased being director of evening time programming before departing to participate Henry Jaffe Companies, where he developed and produced musical programming. But he soon left being v . p . accountable for radio and tv programming within the Ted Bates Advertising Agency, where he ongoing to become until 1960. Calley returned to filmmaking becoming an professional V . p . and producer at Filmways, where he developed and produced a number of pictures including "Ice Station Zebra," "Topkapi," "The Cincinnati Kid," "The Americanization of Emily," "The Household MemberInch and Nichols' "Catch-22." Numerous people films were released by United states . Artists. When Filmways was distributed around Warner Bros., inside the late sixties, Calley grew to become an associate from the studio becoming an professional V . p . of worldwide production. When chairman Ted Ashley departed, Calley and Frank Wells elevated to leader and chairman, correspondingly. Calley would later add the vice chairman title. The Ashley-Calley-Wells years at WB were fruitful ones, with standout game game titles including "Deliverance," "What Are You Doing, Doc?," "Superman," "All the President's Males," "Chariots of Fire" and "Woodstock." Then, in 1980, proclaiming being burnt through the process, he needed a very-paid out speaking to role at WB that ongoing until 1987. He gone to live in Connecticut and spent his time reading through through and experiencing themselves. He'd been offered various studio positions with the eighties but always demurred. In 1993, Frank Mancuso asked for him to restart the defunct United states . Artists within their overall way to rebirth MGM/UA. Calley needed the job, secure inside the understanding it had been only a brief one since the studio have been prettied up and eager available by its default owner, Credit Lyonnais. Beginning at ground zero, Calley created most likely the very best Bond franchise film in those days, "GoldenEye," having a completely new Bond, Pierce Brosnan. More youthful crowd acquired the lower-budget "Departing Las vegas," which increased to become significant critical and financial hit and Oscar champion. But his finest coup was 1996's "The Birdcage," directed by uncle Nichols and starring Robin Williams. This remake in the company's French release "La Cage aux Folles" ongoing to gross well a lot more than $100 million at any time when the studio was up available. Though Mancuso would become partial who is the owner of the studio and also the position was secure, Calley made a decision to move for the troubled The brand new the new sony Pictures Entertainment, that have been continuously unraveling. In the finish of 1996, when his predecessor Alan Levine was fired, Calley signed a five-year contract using the new the new sony as leader and COO to supervise both its Columbia and TriStar film and video divisions. Calley developed a b -.To. turnaround in the new the new sony, and increased being chairman and leader from the new the new sony Pictures in 1998. He walked reduced 2003 and produced films including Patrick Marber adaptation "Closer" (directed by Nichols), "The Da Vinci Code" which is follow-up, "Angels and Demons." But controlling a studio will get boring before lengthy, Calley recognized a few years to fellow travelers Peter Bart and Peter Guber on "Sunday Morning Shootout." "What ought to be mentioned is," Calley mentioned, "the money's good." Calley is managed to get by his daughter Sabrina Calley and step-children Emily Zinnemann, David Zinnemann (Amy) and may Firth from his marriage to Meg Tilly. A memorial will probably be held in the new the new sony Pictures Art galleries with further particulars being introduced. Rather than flowers, your family demands that donations be created for the individual's favorite charitable groups.(Timothy M. Gray and Josh L. Dickey brought with this report.) Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Sarah Polley Talks 'Take This Waltz,' Human Love and Why Her Movie Might Make You Uncomfortable

Canadian actor/director Sarah Polley's latest directorial venture, 'Take This Waltz,' strays into uncomfortable territory: we follow a young woman (Margot, played by Michelle Williams) who contemplates leaving her doting husband (a subdued Seth Rogen) for the new titillating neighbor (Luke Kirby). The movie floats through a colorful Toronto landscape as Margot bounces between commitment to her husband and curiosity about the new guy. Moviefone caught up with Polley at the Toronto Film Festival to discuss love, non-salacious nudity and why this movie is making some people feel unsettled. I felt like this movie was a commentary on human relationships. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I do. I think, more to the point, it's about the idea that generally in life we feel there's something missing and we try to figure out a way of covering that space and going after things to fill it. We assume that we'll then feel fundamentally different about being alive when we've fulfilled that thing. So the most obvious thing to explore that concept was desire and falling in love. I think that's the way we think we'll be able to reinvent ourselves, reinvent our lives and take away the gap within us. So I wanted to explore that and how difficult it is to actually feel like something isn't missing. Why the oversaturation, the heightened color of the film? Well, I thought if I make a film about desire, I really want to embrace and go into how it feels when you first fall in love or fall in lust. The world does come alive, it's in Technicolor, things pop and you notice color where you didn't notice color and you notice sound where you didn't notice sound. It's like all of your senses are heightened into this hyper-real state. So I wanted the audience to have the experience that Margot has, of just falling into that sweltering desire at the beginning of a relationship. I also wanted to capture Toronto in the somewhat-romanticized way I experience Toronto, which is through rose-colored glasses. I do feel in the summer, when it's humid, hot and sticky that it's kind of a sexy, hot, humid, popping colorful place. I think you have to live here to discover that side of it -- Toronto's not necessarily a city that jumps out at you if you're here for five nights. But if you actually live in the downtown areas where there's amazing residential areas in the middle of this urban environment, it's pretty amazing. You told me that this movie is your love song to Toronto. Were the locations that you used in the movie areas that you were familiar with, or did you discover any new places? Some of them I certainly knew, like Kensington Market, more iconic places like that. But we discovered a lot as well. The location scouting was awesome, because a lot of it was just walking down streets with the production designer and seeing the city anew and finding corners and pockets that we didn't know about, but were very close to us. Very cool. I really liked the fact you used the Centre Island Scrambler in the movie. That is actually one of my favorite things to do in Toronto -- that's autobiographical. Do they actually play the song there ['Video Killed the Radio Star']? When I've been on it a couple times, they've played that song and the ride is infinitely better when they do. To the point where I sometimes try to make my way to the booth in the dark to ask them if they can play that song instead. They're generally kind of grumpy with the request, but it's awesome. I will go on it 11 times, sometimes alone as a grown woman, and it's kind of scary. Were you trying to differentiate between sexual love and friendship love? With Seth Rogen, Williams has the jokey, friendship-y type of love, and there isn't so much of a sexual connection there. I wouldn't say trying to differentiate, but I do feel like I wanted to explore what happens to a sexual relationship when you become very familiar with each other. Like, does it end the passion or can those two things exist? I've seen passion and familiarity co-exist, but it's rare and it's difficult. Because, in a strange way, a lot of romantic love and a lot of that passionate, honeymoon period is a lot about the mystery of the other, so what happens when that mystery goes away? There's this great line that Bette Davis says: "50 percent of a woman's charm is mystery." I think that's not just women, I think it's men too, and I think that we lose our charm to each other somewhat when we lose our mystery. So then what? And I think that's the question that it's hard for us to ask generally, "So then what?" It's not a question we're prepared for. We're just supposed to find the person we're in love with and settle down, and everything's gonna be great, but it takes a lot of work, I think. It also involved being satisfied that things aren't always going to be perfect. And that doesn't necessarily mean the end of the world. The nudity was refreshing because it wasn't so salacious; it was more respectful in a way. Was that your intention? I just didn't want to shy away from nudity in the film because I've had so many conversations with older women, with friends in the shower at the YWCA ... I've always just wondered, it's so weird that I wouldn't be able to put this in a movie without everybody making a really big deal out of it. So I just thought, "Screw it, I'm gonna do it. I don't care if people make a big deal out of it." I wanted to show women's bodies honestly, the way they look and not oversexualized or over-lit all the time. There's a lot of incidental nudity in the film, and there's sexual nudity as well, but if I'm going to have sexual nudity, I also want to have incidental nudity because somehow otherwise it's dishonest. Tell me more about the pool aerobics scene with that Aquafit instructor, because honestly, I was crying with laughter. Oh, I'm so glad! That's definitely a function of finding a really awesome actor and letting him go. And it was really funny because I said, "Maybe we can go to a couple classes just to get a sense of what the classes are like." And I'd written a little bit for the instructor, based on the instructors I've had. But I'm a very non-athletic person, so that was a huge challenge for me. Damien really took the role and ran with it... literally! What's it like working with traditionally funny people like Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman and then putting them into more dramatic roles? It was amazing. It was intimidating, but it was great. I always felt like both Sarah and Seth had great dramatic performances in them. And as a fan of both of theirs, I've always hungered to see them do dramatic stuff. It was kind of a selfish move on my part, just wanting to see them in a movie doing that. The weird thing about Seth Rogen is, as much as he's a great comedian, he might be an even better dramatic actor. Michelle Williams is fantastic. Is there any particular element that you try to infuse in your female characters? Yeah, we had lots of talks. Michelle's quite a bit like Julie Christie in that she's one of the best actresses in the world, who could do anything on their own, but actually wants and likes a lot of direction. So we had long, very intensive conversations about the character. And it's a complicated character. She's not always necessarily sympathetic to every audience member and she's not always completely understanding. I think it's a very, very tricky tightrope walk to play that character and not go extremely one way or the other. What I find fascinating about this film is that people really project their own relationship history onto it. So there are people who are like, "I loved Margot! Finally somebody made a film that I can relate to" and other people are like, "I just wanted to kill her, she's so selfish." I'm so thrilled by that because I feel like people are projecting their own lives onto the film and feeling passionate and somehow supporting their point of view. Even what she does at the end -- there are some people who have judged it so intensely. It makes me so happy to know that people are that invested in the film.

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Wendie Malick, Laura San Giacomo After you have back Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Betty White-colored utilizing their former sitcom co-stars, TV Land's Hot in Cleveland is finally giving some reunion prefer to Wendie Malick. Within the third season, the series brings Wendie back together with her Just Shoot Me! co-star Laura San Giacomo. The ladies labored alongside concerning the NBC sitcom from 1997-2003, with Laura's Maya frequently butting heads with Wendie's Nina Van Horn.Laura will share nearly all her Cleveland moments with Valerie's Melanie Moretti. "Laura is playing Melanie's lesbian sister, Caroline," unveils executive producer Todd Milliner. "We now have preferred to possess Laura on for just about any very very long time but wanted making it employment distant from her character on Just Shoot Me!"It seems there is far involving the brothers and sisters. "Melanie and Caroline haven't spoken shortly,Inch adds Milliner. "We're wanting they could increase their sister relationship."Frasier alum John Mahoney can also be back not under three episodes as Elka's friend. And Milliner is positively trying to lure both David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer later on enjoy Jane.Season Three of Hot in Cleveland premieres November 30 at 10/9c Laura's episode airdate remains TBD.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Participant Media Can Boast Contagion #1 & The Assistance #2 Warrior #3 In Less Runs Bucky Larson Tanks Kevin Hart Still #10?

SATURDAY PM: This really is shaping as 2011′slousiest box office weekend in The United States with only $70M total grosses. Yes, a whole lot worse thanHurricane Irene’s. Lots of surprises within this weekend’s amounts along with a larger analysis is originating. But no real surprise which new United States movie isn't any. 1: 1.With $8M Friday and +20% for $9.7M Saturday, it’sa $24M weekend for Warner Bros’ Contagion playing in 42% more theaters — 3,222 — than its nearest newcomer.This Participant Media-backed disease movie appeared as if yet anotheryikes-you’re-all-going-to-die formula pic. However I’m surprised it didn’t generate more appeal what withOscar-winning Steven Soderbergh pointing 6Academy Awardwinners or nominees: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow,Jude Law, and Laurence Fishburne.(Visitors areurging me to incorporate Oscar-honored John Hawke and Elliott Gould too…) That added oomph tocredited script author Scott Burns’ material. “Yes, it was vital to beprovocative and also to scare people,” a Warner Bros professional informs me concerning the $60M-budget pic. “But both print and trailer and TV campaignpresent a far more well-rounded look at themystery. We did sell the visceral experience — a wise and thrilling take a look at a killer virus, the science behind it, and also the aftermath.” Warner Brostook the film to Venice to solid reviews and carried out anaggressive consumer campaign. Besides, adult movies will work in the box office. 2. Entering its fifth weekend in release, DreamWorks/Disney’s hit dramedy The Assistance also is backed by Participant Media made $2.7M Friday and $4M Saturday likely to $9.4M from 2,935 locations for that weekend.It’s estimatednew cume of $137.8M by Monday. 3.Thisseemingly anticipated mma drama Warrior starring Tom Sturdy (Bane within the next Batman) and Joel Edgerton was just launched for 1,869 runs. It openedwith $1.8M Friday and $2.1M Saturday for whatwasjust a dismal $4.8M weekend. Another very disappointing opening for Lionsgate that was high about this actioner. Did last weekend’s sneaks letsome wannasee steam escape? Will this hurt Sturdy whom Hollywood executives think about a hot soon-to-be-star? 4.Focus Features’ adult holdover Your Debt gained $1.4M Friday (-45% from the other day) from 1,874 theaters along with a forecasted $4.5M weekend to have an believed $21.6M cume by Monday. 5. The new sony Pictures’ holdover Colombiana made $1.1M Friday and $1.9M Saturday from 2,354 runs for any $4M weekend and $29.8M cume. However I get it on good authority that The new sony executives were hiding out in the Toronto Film Festival (where better-than-expected Moneyball formally opened Friday evening) instead of get labeled by its Columbia Pictures’ R-ratedBucky Larson: Born To Become A Star which in fact had probably the most annoying TV ad campaigns I’ve have you been attacked by. Thankfully, its box office take was tiny: $540K Friday and $570K Saturday for just a $1.2Mweekend. That wasn’t even enough to really make it in to the Top Ten a smaller amount The new sony’s wished-for $4M. Fortunately your budget is purportedlyjust $10M.Usually Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison production banner gives The new sony box office gold: stupid photos well-liked by audiences. But it was fool’s gold. Before I provide you with the relaxation from the Top Ten, you need to know thatKevin Hart’sLaugh Inside My Discomfort wasn't any. 10 Friday despite Hartbeat Productions and Codeblack Entertainment delivering it into only99 theaters. It opened up to$758K Friday and anestimated weekend of $2M.However it could eventually be beaten through the Weinstein Co’s Spy Kids 4D. (I’ll know Sunday AM.) Harts fans switched out with this profanity-filled film version of his recent stand-up tour. It provides under an hour or so of Hart onstage but additionally includes such bonus footage as Hart touring his old neighborhood in Philadelphia and faking a bank heist. Directed by Leslie Small, this 1-hour, 28-minute pic and it is entry in to the Top Ten now determines Hart like a bonafide star beyond just his YouTube videos that have attracted hundreds of an incredible number of sights. Search for the main galleries to take serious notice. 6. Rise From the Planet From The Apes (Fox) Week 6 [2,887 Theaters] Friday $1.1M,Saturday $1.8M,Weekend $4M, Believed Cume $168M 7. Shark Evening three dimensional (Relativity) Week 2 [2,848 Theaters] Friday $1M,Saturday $1.6M, Weekend $3.6M, Believed Cume $14.9M 8. Apollo 18 (Dimension/The Weinstein Co) Week 2 [3,330 Theaters] Friday $875K,Saturday $1.4M, Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $15.1M 9. Our Idiot Brother (The Weinstein Co) Week 3 [2,396 Theaters] Friday $835K,Saturday $1.1M,Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $21.7M 10. Laugh Inside My Discomfort (Hartbeat Prods/Codeblack Ing) NEW [99 Theaters] Friday $758K, Believed Weekend $2M

Reba McEntire Plots Go back to TV on ABC Comedy

Reba McEntire Reba McEntire might be coming back to television! ABC just purchased a comedy pilot starring and executive-created through the country singer-switched-actress, Deadline.com reviews. Browse the relaxation of present day news In Malibu Country, the Reba star's leading character finds herself divorced and poor after her rock star husband cheats on her behalf and stays almost all their money. Reba, naturally the character's name, moves her family to Malibu where she tries to revive her music career and keep her children from being corrupted through the city. McEntire will reunite with Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott, who'll write and executive-produce the pilot, together with Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel. ABC has decided to result in the pilot, in order lengthy as Malibu provides, we're able to be seeing McEntire back on television soon.

Spotlight on Advertisements

Back Stage has collected the very best experts and stars to talk about their advice on acting for advertisements, for example how to produce a demo real and just how to use improvisation to your benefit.Methods For Beginning Off Your Commercial Audition Right Whenever you slate (speak) your title in auditions today, it's the initial time the director and ad agency reach help you and choose whether they'll really watch the relaxation of the audition.When Shooting One Ad Can Stop You From Shooting Another "Sometimes, having a more compact, regional place to cast, it's challenging greatest talent directly into audition," states commercial casting director David Bellantoni.What you ought to Learn About Commercial Reels Commercial reels are most helpful for trying to have a commercial agent. An actress having a reel is a lot more likely to obtain a meeting than one without.David Theune Goes Wacky-Creepy for Stanley Steemer The actor states he'd an excellent time performing these spots. To date, 13 happen to be shot, five this season and eight this past year, with each number of advertisements taking 72 hours to accomplish.Jonathan Goldsmith Does A Lot More Than Sell Dos Equis Beer Goldsmith never even meant to become an actress, but he states, "It had been a romance in the beginningInchin additional ways than a single.Farris Patton is Living Her Dream because the Orbit Girl Farris Patton is living a "commercial actor's dream" because the speaker for Orbit gum in the 10-years-and-running "Dirty mouth?" campaign.Jerry Lambert Can't Escape His Role as The new sony Vice president Kevin Butler Kevin Butler isn't your normal representative. The task titletoting The new sony executive leads departments from Increase The Awesome to Family Showdowns. Just don't tell players he is not real.Rachael Drummond and John Huskey Obtain Swagger On The heavens from the Toyota Sienna "Dad Like"/"Mother Like" campaign discuss why improvisation is a vital commercial acting skill.

Ask Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anna Kendrick of '50/50' a Question

Ever wanted to ask Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Anna Kendrick a question? Well, here's your chance. On September 13, Moviefone is hosting an Unscripted session for the upcoming '50/50,' in which Gordon-Levitt plays a 27-year-old coming to terms with his recent cancer diagnosis. Gordon-Levitt, along with '50/50' stars Rogen and Kendrick, will choose from questions that readers like you submit in the comments section below. Be sure to include your name and location by 6PM, September 11. Once your question pops up on the screen, other users can vote on it. Simple, right? You can also vote on questions submitted by others. Come back and watch the interview HERE on Sept. 26 to see if your question was answered.

Thunder Soul: Film Review

The term "crowd pleaser" gets overused in the film reviewing profession and often as not, even when a critic uses the term approvingly, it forewarns of more than a little manipulation of an audience's emotions. Mark Landsman'sdocumentary Thunder Soulearns that designation honestly. Hell, throw in "heart warming" and "tear jerker" as well. The film does all this simply by recording what happened when in February 2008 when 30-some former members of the stage band of Kashmere High School in Houston, gathered for a reunion concert to honor their former teacher, 92-year-old musician and composer Conrad O. Johnson. As they say, you couldn't write a story any better even if you made it up. It's that good. Whatever happens with the theatrical release by Roadside Attractions, this film is ready-made for television, educational venues, music festivals, home video, downloads and perhaps even an adaptation into a dramatic feature. No wonder Jamie Foxxagreed to "present" the film. A greater argument for music education in our secondary school curriculum can't be made. Johnson, universally known to everyone as "Prof," was a talented enough musician and composer to have made a significant splash in the profession. But he fell in love with a local girl, chose instead to stay in Kashmere to raise a large family and enjoyed 52 years of wedded bliss until his wife passed. Funnily enough, he wound up making that splash anyway. He took a job as music director at the predominantly black Kashmere High in the late 1960s. There he transformed a mediocre jazz band into a powerhouse by introducing funk, much of it with his own compositions, and slick choreographed movements by band members with their bodies and instruments. From 1968 to 1977, the Kashmere Stage Band won just about every contest it entered. The high-school band traveled to Europe and Japan where the youngsters wowed audiences. Kashmere even won the All-American High School Stage Band Festival in Mobile, Alabama, in 1972, this at a time when that state's governor was segregationist George Wallace. KSB recorded eight albums during its life. While this music was lost for a while, since 2003 it has returned on LPs, prized by dj's, and sold as CDs. The movie doesn't overemphasis this point, but obviously KSB broke the color barrier - smashed it to bits is more like it - while inspiring African-American students, in and outside the band, and transforming the lives of those who studied and played under Prof. The movie tells its story through a mixture of heart-felt interviews with former band members, archival footage down through the years, scenes of Prof in his prime and still highly lucid and articulate in retirement and finally excellent camerawork by Sandra Chandler, all editing by Claire Didier, so as to capture the drama and joy of the reunion. Many ex-band members haven't touched their instruments in over 30 years. Their first rehearsal is ... well, let's use the word of one band member- "terrible." But too much is at stake to quit. Everyone needs to get the job done for Prof. It's too important to these middle-age people to give back to the old man. The man leading the charge and organizing the reunion is Craig Baldwin(band member 1974-76), who probably deserves his own movie. He's a tough, burly guy, who could have been a gang member but is a sweetheart, no doubt due to Prof's influence. He commands instant respect and pushes, always gently, but nonetheless pushes. His smile is a mile wide and his frowns contain a hint of mirth as well. He virtually wills the reunion band back into glorious shape. Then, as the day approaches, Prof suffers a heart attack and his attendance is in genuine doubt. He hangs onto life for this final concert and there he is near the front, seated next to his middle-aged son, his jaw dropping in astonishment to hear for one final time the powerful sights and sounds he and he alone created. Yes, it's a crowd pleaser, all right. Opens: September 23, New York (Roadside Attractions) Production companies: Snoot Entertaiment Director: Mark Landsman Producers: Keith Calder, Mark Landsman, Jessica Wu Executive producers: Jamie Foxx, Jaime Rucker King Director of photography: Sandra Chandler Music supervisors: Jim Black, Gabe Hilfer Editor: Claire Didier PG rating, 82 minutes Jamie Foxx Thunder Soul Keith Calder Mark Landsman Jessica Wu

The Help Wins the Preliminary Holiday Weekend Box Office

Viola Davis The Help continued to dominate the box office over Labor Day weekend, taking in another $19 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Staying at No. 1 for the third week in a row, the film starring Emma Stone and Viola Davis has earned a total of $123.3 million in its four-week run. The Debt, an espionage thriller starring Helen Mirren and Sam Worthington, brought in $12.5 million in its opening weekend. Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D, which also opened this weekend, followed with $10.7 and $10.3 million, respectively. The Help takes top box office spot during slow Hurricane Irene weekend In the No. 5 spot was Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film starring James Franco and Freida Pinto made $10.2 million and has grossed $162.4 million overall. Rounding out the top 10: Colombiana (No. 6, $9.4 million); Our Idiot Brother (No. 7, $7 million); Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (No. 8, $6.6 million); Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (No. 9, $6.1 million); The Smurfs (No. 10, $5.6 million).

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