Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Andy Rooney hospitalized

RooneyJust weeks after retiring from the regular spot on ''60 Minutes'' he'd occupied for more than 30 years, 92-year-old CBS newsman Andy Rooney has been hospitalized following complications from surgery. On Tuesday, CBS News Radio's White House correspondent Mark Knoller tweeted that ''Andy Rooney underwent minor surgery last week and suffered serious complications. He remains hospitalized.'' Knoller told followers that Rooney's condition was stable, but that CBS, ''at request of Rooney Family is making no other disclosures.'' Rooney's final ''60 Minutes'' broadcast was Oct 2. Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

AMC Renews Walking Dead For Season 3

After breaking cable rankings records using its second-season premiere, AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead continues to be rapidly compensated having a third-season pickup. “Today we're very happy to announce the dead shalllive once we proudlyrenew The Walking Dead fora third season on AMC and, globally, with this terrific partners at Fox Worldwide Channels,” AMC leader Charlie Collier stated.After starting its second season with 7.3 million total audiences and 4.8 million within the grown ups 18-49 demographic — probably the most ever for any fundamental cable premiere –The Walking Dead ended up only a little in Week 2 to six.7 million total audiences. The series is dependant on the comic series compiled by Robert Kirkman. Glen Mazzara can serve as the showrunner. Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert and Frank Darabont, who left as showrunner half way through production on Season 2, are executive producers. Greg Nicotero is really a co-executive producer. Fox Worldwide Channels folded out its global launch forThe Walking Dead a few days ago, breaking pay-TV rankings records worldwide and drawing a lot more than ten million audiences in 122 nations for that season premiere.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Desplat named top composer at Ghent

DesplatFor the next year back to back, Alexandre Desplat was honored while using film composer of year kudo on the planet Soundtrack Honours on Saturday, the culmination in the 38th Ghent Film Festival in Belgium.The award is presented for just about any body at work over the prior year, too as with Desplat's situation, that incorporated his scores for "The King's Speech," "The Tree of Existence" and a pair of "Harry Potter" movies. Desplat, an Oscar nominee four of history five years, may also be in contention this year for his music in "The Ides of March" and "Carnage."Within a evening time devoted for the late publicist Ronni Chasen, her client Hendes Zimmer, received the first score award for "Beginning." Randy Newman won for original song, "We Belong Together," from "Toy Story 3," and Alex Heffes was given the invention of year kudo for "The Initial Grader" and "The Rite." A.R. Rahman was presented with everyone Choice Award for "127 Several hours." The Sabam Award for top Youthful European Composer visited Gabriel Heinrich. Contact Steve Chagollan at steve.chagollan@variety.com

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Sony's 'Moneyball' legging out popular

Adult-oriented photos like 'Moneyball' and '50/50' often keep auds.'Moneyball'The summer time blockbuster formula of saturation releases and quick 2010 nfl playoffs has given method to the fall's crop of adult-skewing films, made to go the length.Sony's Kaira Pitt starrer "Moneyball" and cancer dramedy "50/50," from Summit, saw the weekend's best holds one of the top ten, lower 27% and 25%, correspondingly. Both photos saw decent if unimpressive openings, but B.O. commentators recommended the films' durability given playability of past adult-skewing photos throughout this time around period.Having a domestic cume of $59 million through March. 19, "Moneyball" already has made a lot more than three occasions its opening ($19 million) after just four days. In comparison, Sony's "The Social Networking," which opened up with $23 million coupled with dropped 29% in the 4th frame, had cumed $73 million by this time around this past year. "The Social Networking" wound up with almost $97 million locally.Summit's "50/50," meanwhile, arrived at $25.six million by March. 19, a 3-occasions multiple to date, though its opening bar ($8.six million) was reduced than "Moneyball's" and also the film just three days of play.This past year, the distrib's sturdy adult offering "Red-colored" opened up with $21.8 million half way through its third frame, that film had yet to cume a similar three-occasions multiple. "Red-colored" ended up grossing an outstanding $90 million, however.The present trajectory of both "Moneyball" and "50/50," put into the playability of comparable past photos, ought to keep bizzers positive. But more fall adult fare will make B.O. conditions competitive. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

'Boardwalk Empire' Star Michael Pitt Signs With WME (Exclusive)

Cinemax Michael Pitt, star of Cinemax's Boardwalk Empire, has signed with WME for representation in many areas. On Boardwalk, Pitt plays James "Jimmy" Darmody, the protege ofEnoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi). Pitt'sfilm credits are the Village (2004), Murder by Amounts (2002) andFinding Forrester(2000). His television credits add a 15-episode stint on Dawson's Creek, and triggers Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit. Pitt was formerly represented by UTA.He remains represented by managers at Untitled and Parseghian/Planco. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Boardwalk Empire

Friday, October 21, 2011

New Resistance Poster Online

Andrea Riseborough versus. NazisIn the kind of "let's sayInch likely to provide you with the wiggins, new film Resistance imagines what Britain may have been as with 1944 when the Nazis had switched back the D-Day invasion of Normandy and penetrated Blighty in exchange. And here, to ensure you get concept of what you are set for, may be the United kingdom quad for that film.The storyline concentrates on women within an isolated Welsh village in occupied GB who awaken one morning to locate their husbands gone. Dubious Nazi plan?Or possess the males all gone off and away to start fighting back? Whenever a German patrol marches directly into occupy the city and also the good deal get snowed in and also have to operate together to outlive, the problem will get a little more difficult.United kingdom QuadThe film stars up-and-come Brit star Andrea Riseborough, Enemy In The Gates' Tom Wlaschia and Michael Sheen. It's in line with the novel by OwenSheers and directed by newcomer Amit Gupta. Keep an eye out for this on November 25.

Fox Networks' Cable Channels May Go Dark on DirecTV

Fox Cable Networks, Direct TV Bad news for Sons of Anarchy fans: FX and the rest of Fox Networks' cable channels might be going dark for DirecTV subscribers, according to Entertainment Weekly. Fox said DirecTV sent the company a proposal on Thursday that said unless Fox agrees to their terms, DirecTV's 19 million subscribers will lose access to more than two dozen Fox cable channels including FX, National Geographic, and several regional sports networks beginning Nov. 1. Fox goes dark for Cablevision customers"They have given us no chance to respond before taking an unnecessarily aggressive posture and going public, a Fox spokesperson said. " It is disappointing that they have chosen bad faith tactics over meaningful negotiation. We have proposed to keep the Fox Networks on DirecTV for the same price, and on the same terms as they are currently carried while we attempt to work out a fair agreement. Unfortunately, DirecTV has decided that unless they get their way, they are going to pull the plug on their customers November 1." But according to DirecTV News Corp., which owns Fox Networks, is seeking a 40 percent increase in subscriber fees. "That's simply unfair andunwarranted," DirecTV CEO Mike White said. "We hope to resolve this situation before any action is taken, but we will do what's necessary to protect our customers from excessive and unwarranted fee increases." Fox said subscribers can get the latest on the negotiations at keepmynets.com.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Julian Barnes Wins Man Booker Prize, Major Sales Boost Expected

Author Julian Barnes took home Britain's Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, Reuters reports, after being on the shortlist three previous times. The 65-year-old writer was on the list in 1984 for Flaubert's Parrot, England, England in 1998 and in 2005 for Arthur and George. Barnes won for The Sense of an Ending, a 150-page book that was described as a novella by one reviewer. PHOTOS: 10 Biggest Book-to-Big Screen Adaptations of the Last 25 Years During Barnes' acceptance speech, he referenced Jorge Luis Borges, an author who never won the Nobel Prize for literature. "Borges, when asked, as he continually was, why he had never won the Nobel Prize, always used to reply that 'In Sweden there was a small cottage industry solely devoted to not giving Borges the Nobel Prize,' " he said, before adding later, "I wondered whether there wasn't perhaps some similar sister organization operating over here. So I am as much relieved as I am delighted to receive the 2011 Booker Prize." PHOTOS: Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn' The win is expected to boost book sales for Barnes, whose book centers on an ordinary man Tony who learns that his memories are not as reliable as he once thought. Former British spy chief Stella Rimington, who oversaw the judges' panel this year, said of Barnes' book, "We thought that it was a book which, though short, was incredibly concentrated, and crammed into this very short space a great deal of information you don't get out of a first reading." She added, "It's one of those these books, a very readable book, if I may use that word, but readable not only once but twice and even three times." While Barnes' book may have been on the shorter side, it wasn't the shortest. Offshore, a 132-page book, by Penelope Fitzgerald holds that particular honor. Barnes is also the author of Metroland and played himself in Bridget Jones's Diary. Related Topics International

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Entertainment Coalition Creative America Ramping Up Efforts to Battle Piracy (Video)

More than 60,000 people -- many of them entertainment industry professionals -- have sent messages to their Congressman in the past week to support passage of the Protect IP Act, which is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate.our editor recommends CBS Hit With Major Lawsuit For Contributing To Piracy (Exclusive)'Big Fat Hollow Victory' for DISH in Satellite TV Piracy Battle'Hurt Locker' producer files massive antipiracy lawsuitFrench Assembly, Senate OK anti-piracy law The outpouring of support for the bill to stop foreign-based websites that illegally distribute copyrighted content such as American movies and TV shows is part of a grass-roots campaign being launched this week by Creative America, a coalition formed by the major studios, networks, labor unions and others to battle piracy of intellectual property. "Since Creative America was launched, it has produced a growing community of people deeply concerned about the effects that content theft is having on American jobs and creativity," said Mike Nugent, the Washington, D.C.-based executive director of Creative America. "Once people understand the scope and enormity of this problem, they want to take action." Not everyone supports Creative America or the Protect IP Act, including big technology companies like Google, Yahoo and TiVo, but they do agree there is a problem that needs solving. How big a problem? According to Creative America, these foreign websites generate about 146 million visits per day and 53 billion visits per year involving illegal distribution of more than 500,000 movies each day worldwide. Nugent announced that in addition to the original members of the group, which was formed in July -- including AFTRA, CBS, DGA, IATSE, SAG, Fox, Viacom, Disney and Warner Bros. -- it has now added the AFL-CIO, the Association of Talent Agents, the Copyright Alliance, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., FilmL.A., the National Association of Theatre Owners, the Producers Guild of America and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. The group also has launched a redesigned website at www.creativeamerica.org to provide info and a way to lobby Congress for the Protect IP Act and other legislation. More importantly, beginning Tuesday, many of the members will send representatives to studio commissaries, TV and movie sets. For instance, AFTRA spokesman Christopher de Haan said representatives will "be going to show sets, broadcast stations and other places, handing out information and having conversations." They will also be giving away branded materials like pens, T-shirts and one-sheets supporting the effort. AFTRA has already sent communications to their members and staff and soon will be posting videos supporting the effort. SAG has also posted a video on YouTube that features actor Clark Gregg talking about the campaign. There is no cost to sign up, but Creative America hopes these people will become their ambassadors in the battle against piracy at home and abroad. "This is an intensive campaign to bring our message to the entertainment community, its workers, vendors and others," Nugent said. "It will be grass-roots organizing in the old-fashioned way as well as online. We're approaching this as a political campaign, a kind of get-out-the-vote campaign, to make our voices heard in Washington." However, Nugent balks at being called a political organization and denies that they are a lobbying group. He says it just makes a button available on its website so people can reach out to Congress, and their member companies all lobby, but it does not. Nugent said the group has hired two kinds of outside consultants -- one that specializes in causes and mobilizing people for social action and the other who are experts in how to use social media to spread the message, as he puts it, "so it can grow virally through Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and all the engines of social media." Since the effort was launched, the group, working with the Motion Picture Association of America and others, has worked to shut down websites that illegally distributed copyrighted content. What they have not been able to do is stop content that comes from web servers based in China, Europe or elsewhere outside the reach of American law. That is the point of Protect IP legislation. As Nugent explains it, once a site is identified, the group would go to the U.S. Justice Department, or to a judge, to seek a court order labeling it as an illegal site. That court order can then be used it to force payment processors like PayPal and Visa to stop processing their credit cards and payments. Next, the group will use the court order to go to advertising companies that serve ads online and stop them from advertising those sites or funneling money to them from ads. Then in the most controversial aspect of the effort, the bill would allow the copyright holders to go to companies like Time Warner and Comcast that supply Internet service to consumers and demand they block access to those illegal sites. "It's a bad thing because generally the security experts do not want anyone to tap into your Internet connection to block or manipulate your access to any site that you want to go to," said Markham Erickson, a Washington lawyer who is executive director of the Open Internet Coalition, which lists among its members Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Expedia, Bloomberg, TiVo, Facebook, HSN and even Sony Electronics -- although Sony Pictures Entertainment is a member of the Creative America coalition supporting the opposing viewpoint. "We're not opposed to legislation in addressing the problem," Erickson said. "But we have serious concerns about the bill that has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and is now to be considered by the full Senate." Erickson said the existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act already covers the same territory and can take care most instances of illegal material being distributed. Nugent said that is true, but that the DMCA acts after the fact and takes a long time to use to get satisfaction. The new bill would be more of preventive measure. At present the Protect IP act is stalled because of opposition from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who has said that while he shares the goals of the proposed act, "I am not willing to muzzle speech and stifle innovation and economic growth to achieve this objective." Creative America said a similar bill will be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in a matter of days. Nugent insisted that there is no first amendment issue and that it would not stall innovation. "There is no privacy right that allows you access to an illegal website," he said. "We won't know what any individual is doing. We're not going to view their habits. We won't know if they go to a certain site. All were doing is blocking the identifying information from this other site." Erickson said that the technology problems this bill would create could be dealt with if the backers had worked with Internet engineers and companies. He said the Internet service providers don't believe they should be forced into the role of policeman on the web, which may not even be possible with new security software being rolled out to deal with potential hacking. Nugent insisted that they are not making these private companies their police force. "They are just being asked to honor a court order to stop supporting the distribution of stolen content," Nugent said. "They already do it with porn. They stop malicious spam. They would block someone extorting money. They do it when it suits their network interests, so they should be able to do it here as well." Related Topics SAG Google Clark Gregg Yahoo Amazon.com MPAA

Alter ego of the Moving Stone

Bill Wyman exhibits his "Second Character." LONDON -- If Bill Wyman, the Moving Stones' bass player for 3 decades, had not been a rock star he will be a digital photographer.Wyman, who's almost 75, was much in evidence Thursday in the opening from the first London exhibition of his photography. Titled "Second Character" and held in the Rove Gallery, the "button snaps," as Wyman calls them, document the Stones' existence on the highway, in testing as well as in performance.You will find photographs of other stars, too. There's a powerful John Lennon, a dreamy Jerry Hall as well as an especially soulful portrait from the great bluesman John Lee Hooker."Which was drawn in just a little club in Saffron Walden, Kent, in March 1969," recalls Wyman. "I had been waiting in the wings and anxiously waited for the best moment to find the light. It's John Lee being themself, humble but happy with what he was doing." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Thursday, October 13, 2011

IM Global Pacts With Edgy Brit Producer

EXCLUSIVE: La-based telemarketer IM Global makes a multi-film resolve for take approaching in-house productions from United kingdom distributor Revolver Entertainment. The slate goes through IM Globals Octane genre label. Were searching to produce films that have the possibility to visit worldwide, Revolver Boss Justin Marciano informs me. Gunslinger, Revolvers in-house production arm, has two projects it's pushing forward on: Offender, directed by Ron Scalpello, which the organization is pitching like a Brit version of the Prophet, and Lenny The Guvnor McClean (working title), in line with the true story of the East Finish thug who grew to become Britains most well known bare-knuckle fighter. Revolver has set a summer time 2012 release for Offender, compiled by Paul Van Carter and created by Nick Taussig of Revolver, which informs the storyline of the guy who creates their own jail time to be able to avenge the rape of his girlfriend. Production begins early December. Revolver created Gunslinger in fall 2009, implementing the model Luc Besson used in the past of EuropaCorp: The Brit producer makes low-budget features targeted in an under-offered youth audience, which could get into profit just through their house market. The London Film Festival is screening Gunslingers 3rd production, retribution thriller Sket, before its October 28 United kingdom release. Spoof comedy Anuvahood sent in the craze for low-budget gangsta Brit movies, while Gunslingers first production Shank would be a gang culture thriller. Other Brit movies that IM Global continues to be selling include Madonnas W.E. and Thanks for visiting the Punch, starring James McAvoy.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Twit Wit: The 5 Best Tweets About Real Steel and Ides of March

comments: 1 || add yours You might’ve realized it by now, but Real Steel is a ridiculous premise for a movie. So ridiculous it worked, in fact. Twitter blew up this weekend with comments about Hugh Jackman’s and the sweet science of robo-jousting, and Ryan Gosling’s effectiveness in The Ides of March. We tally the best five tweets after the jump. 5. Ryan Seacrest has a very strong, near-flirtatious plug for his friend Hugh’s new movie. I’m sure Mr. Jackman appreciates the endorsement from an actual robot. #embedly_twitter_18190575{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/299130791/Twitter_Background.jpg) #131516;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p a {color:#009999;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 a {color:#009999;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_18190575 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@RyanSeacrestRyan Seacrest Go see my buddy @RealHughJackman and his boxing robots in real steel tonight! Just a note, the robots are the smaller, less muscular ones ;)Oct 08 via UberSocial for BlackBerryFavoriteRetweetReply 4. Office star Mindy Kaling ignored the towering presence of Real Steel, saw The Ides of March, and turned into a movie critic afterward. #embedly_twitter_36627469{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_36627469 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@mindykalingMindy Kaling Seriously, I saw and loved Ides of March. It was “taut”! (to use a word that reviewers use sometimes that ordinarily makes me feel weird).Oct 09 via webFavoriteRetweetReply 3. Last week’s Twit Wit champion Ken Jennings clocks in at #3 today, this time rhapsodizing the pugilistic strengths of Mr. Hugh Jackman. #embedly_twitter_64159206{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_64159206 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@KenJenningsKen Jennings My favorite boxer is Joe Louis, unless you count robot boxers trained by Hugh Jackman, in which case I think I have a new answer!Oct 09 via webFavoriteRetweetReply 2. Conan O’Brien is also a real human being and a real hero — which is downright suspicious, he suggests. #embedly_twitter_34196538{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/211522084/cob_twitterbkgd.jpg) #022330;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_34196538 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@ConanOBrienConan O’Brien Have you ever noticed that you never see me and Ryan Gosling in the same room at the same time? #gullibleladiespleasereadOct 08 via webFavoriteRetweetReply 1. Modern Family writer/producer Danny Zuker rips apart Real Steel in one incisive tweet. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley looks on robotically. #embedly_twitter_25926553{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/61586965/centralpark.jpg) #022330;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_25926553 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@DannyZukerDanny Zuker I love stories about fighting robots, Just wish they’d make one that isn’t as intellectually challenging as Transformers. What’s that?Oct 07 via webFavoriteRetweetReply Tagged: conan o'brien, danny zuker, hugh jackman, ken jennings, mindy kaling, modern family, ryan gosling, ryan seacrest, twitter

'Between Us' wins at Raindance

"Just Between Us"LONDON -- Rajko Grlic's tale of middle-aged infidelity "Just Between Us," a Croatian-Serbian-Slovenian co-production, required the worldwide prize in the Raindance Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday. "Stranger Things," a tale concerning the bond from a lady along with a destitute guy helmed by Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, clicked in the U.K. feature award in the indie fest. "Steps to start a Revolution," helmed by Ruaridh Arrow, won best docu, while Italian short "Totally reset," directed by Nicolangelo Gelormini won for film from the festival. Other those who win incorporated the U.K.'s "Monk3ys," which won for the best microbudget feature, Denmark's "Words," which nabbed best worldwide short, and "Love in the beginning Sight," which won for the best U.K. short. Those who win were introduced on Saturday evening at London's Apollo Cinema and judged with a jury that incorporated "Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels" thesp Dexter Fletcher, "Hideous Kinky" helmer Gillies Mackinnon and Brit TV presenter Alex Zane. "There have been some outstanding films over the whole selection, so choosing those who win was especially difficult this season,Inch stated fest director Elliot Grove. The fest, which went Sept. 28-March. 9, saw a 62% begin attendance year-on-year. Grove stated the surge was reflective that "hunger for independent film is thriving." Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Friday, October 7, 2011

New Regency Joins Mark Wahlberg-Russell Crowe Drama Damaged City, Fox To Distribute

EXCLUSIVE: In a single of their first moves since Kaira Weston was named Boss and Arnon Milchan reinserted themself because the active mind of the organization, New Regency has acquired distribution privileges to Damaged City, the Allen Hughes-directed drama that stars Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. The film is going to be distributed through New Regency’s cope with twentieth century Fox. It had been come up with and funded by Emmett/Furla Films. Within the John Tucker-scripted drama, Wahlberg plays a detective hired through the mayor to ascertain if his wife is disloyal. When she appears dead, the non-public eye reveals a self-dealing property scandal including the politician. Crowe plays the mayor.