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ABC's 'The Chew' On Decent Start

ABC ABC launched its The Kids alternative, lifestyle series The Chew, on Monday to 2.5 million total audiences. Even though programs don't air within the same time period periods, use a little of comparison, The Chew released a larger opener in comparison to two.2 million who up-to-date in to the first episode of CBS' The Talk a year ago. The Chew, co-situated by Clinton Kelly, Mario Batali, Michael Symon, Carla Hall and Daphne Oz, outrated The Talk's premiere in three key demos: women 18-34 (167,000 versus. 158,000), women 18-49 (590,000 versus. 568,000) and girls 25-54 (732,000 versus. 672,000). PHOTOS: Famous Alums of 'All The Children' The Chew, largely focusing on food, lifestyle, outperformed The Kids's season average from 2010-11 in general audiences (2.5 million versus. 2.4) as well as the women 18-49 demographic (.9 rating versus. .8). Final amounts for your The Kids series finale will not be accessible until inside a couple of days. Through the summer season Television Experts Assoc. press tour noisy . August, the hosts and producer in the Chew defended their show with a roomful of reporters. "Hopefully that [cleaning cleaning soap fans] enjoy our show," mentioned executive producer Gordon Elliot. "I had been asked for later on adn join the daytime selection because the daytime tastes have changed. Really we're just [filling] essential that was already there. We'd love the cleaning cleaning soap fans to discuss some us." Kelly, who also co-hosts TLC's More to use, mentioned, "People stay updated to soaps since they possess the casts are their pals. ... We could't be cleaning cleaning soap operas but we could be somebody you'll be able to spend some time with." The Kids ended its work on ABC on Friday, Sept. 23 and Prospect Park introduced Tuesday that it's going to launch online within the month of the month of january. One Existence to reside in is slated to convey farewell early next season. TV Ratings The Kids

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Comedy troupe Upright Citizen’s Brigade take their sketch and improv hijinks to the feature film format in Freak Dance, a movie that purports to spoof “every dance movie ever made.” Featuring cheesy ’80s fashion and bad ’80s movie attitudes to match, it certainly covers a lot of ground in the dance movie genre. But every dance movie there is? We’ll see about that. Upside: It does have Amy Poehler spitting lines like, ‘That music sounds like murder!’ Check it out after the jump. The official synopsis: FREAK DANCE is a dance musical parody in the vein of Electric Boogaloo, Step Up, Dirty Dancing, You Got Served and every other dance movie ever made. The sexy and wealthy Cocolonia must escape her roots and learn to street dance with the help of Funky Bunch, who dreams of being the best dancer ever. They must save the Fantaseez community center from the Building Department and the evil gang banger dancers before it’s too late. Will the duo be able to save their home? Only love can save them now. Here’s the thing: Freak Dance, co-directed by Matt Besser and Neil Mahoney, seems neither original enough or comprehensive enough in its movie references, and besides, it looks like a mainstream knock-off of the indie flick The F.P. (which had a much more deadpan approach and better faux-period accoutrements) mixed with a touch of Children’s Hospital. I’m not completely sold, and time will tell if Freak Dance is solid enough to make it to audiences; it plays the Austin Film Festival next month and currently has no release date set.

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GOP Candidates Seeking Hollywood Help

UPDATE: Radio and tv political pundit Dennis Burns on Mondayannounced he’s endorsingRepublican presidential candidate Herman Cain and may headline a political fundraiser event in La. Burns can also be making donations for the campaign and offering towrite for Cain, the present champion ofthe GOP hay poll in Florida andnowtheleader ofthe entire GOP area in the new Zogby poll of Republican primary voters. Meanwhile, the AP is verifying that DonaldTrump has converted into a “must-stop for GOP candidateshoping to take advantage of the celebrity property mogul’s star energy”. All of the Republican presidential hopefuls have looked for any crowd while using host of Celebrity Apprentice, trying to find an endorsement or advice.Mitt Romney is scheduled to fulfill met with TrumpMonday in NY. Herman Cains date while using Jesse is mentioned being approaching. Ron Perry already dined with Trump captured at fancy New you are able to city eatery Jean Georges.Bachmann Wanted visited Trump’s penthouse atop the Trump Tower within this summer time.Sarah Palin (who’s not declared)shared pizza with Trumpin Occasions Square last spring.Trump considered throwing their very own hat into the ring, butwould have required to exit Celebrity Apprentice so declined. However, another Hollywood endorsement is most likely less thank you for going to one Republican presidential candidate: individuals of liberal filmmaker Michael Moore. Moore just told CNN’s Piers Morganthat, in the entire GOP area, “There’s only one which has sanity operating within him. Which’s John Huntsman… He’s smart.”

Bravo Expresses Regret Over Patti Stanger's Anti-Jewish and Anti-Gay Comments

Valerie Macon/Getty Images Bravo has issued a statement on comments made by the star of its reality series, Millionaire Matchmaker, Patti Stanger, which offended viewers on Sunday's Watch What Happens: Live. STORY: Patti Stanger Limits Gay Comments on Gay Men and Monogamy to Los Angeles, Issues Apology "Bravo regrets the comments expressed by Patti Stanger on Watch What Happens Live last night," a network spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Her comments are not representative of the network's beliefs and opinions. We apologize for the offense it caused." As THR reported previously, Stanger has apologized for the comments on Twitter. But, the reality star has also released an official statement. "I am so sorry," Stanger's statement reads. "I did not mean to offend anyone with my comments last night on Watch What Happens Live." STORY: Patti Stanger Sparks Controversy With Anti-Jewish, Gay Comments on Bravo It all started when Stanger said that gay men have problems with monogamy on Sunday night's live episode of Andy Cohen's talk show. She also asserted that Jewish men lie. On Monday, the reality star limited her statements about gay men to those residing in Los Angeles, then tweeted an apology a couple hours later. She has yet to respond to the comments about Jewish men specifically. Email: Jethro.Nededog@thr.com; Twitter:@TheRealJethro RELATED: VIDEO: Bravo Launches New Facebook Game for Fans, 'Turtle Time': Meet Its Star Bravo's 'Millionaire Matchmaker' Moving to Thursday Nights More Bravo Coverage on THR Bravo

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Sheen, Studio Settle Suit Over Males Firing

FIRST Launched: September 26, 2011 7:46 PM EDT La, Calif. -- Charlie Sheens legal fight along with his former two and a half Males bosses is finished. Warner Bros. Television released a disagreement Monday proclaiming that Sheens suit in the studio and series executive producer Chuck Lorre happen to be settled for the parties satisfaction. Although Sheen has lobbed verbal attacks against both Warner Bros. and Lorre, the actor has struck an even more conciliatory tone lately. Within the Emmy Honours, he freely wanted former cast mates well around the year, featuring Ashton Kutcher playing a completely new character that replaces Sheens role as philandering Charlie Harper. More youthful crowd won't be speaking in regards to the settlement Warner Bros. statement states the terms are private. Calls to lawyers for Sheen and Lorre were not immediately returned. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Ratings Rat Race: Modest Start For Gifted Man; Fringe, CSI: NY, Supernatural Down

Maybe Ghost Whisperer was the only scripted series able to get a demo number at 8 PM on Fridays. CBS is trying a second consecutive drama with ghosts in the slot following the cancellation of Ghost Whisperer, to similar modest results. In its premiere last night, A Gifted Man (1.4/5) matched the season debut in the hour of Medium last year. (Medium was canceled a couple of months later.) That was down 39% from the season opener of Ghost Whisperer the year before. In total viewers, Gifted Man represented a vast improvement vs. last fall with 9.3 million viewers vs. 6.1 million for Medium. That was CBS’ largest audience in the hour since May 2009 when the network had Ghost Whisperer on. At 9 PM, veteran CSI: NY (1.8/6, 10.7 million) was down 10% in the demo from last season’s debut in the slot but finished No. 1 in the hour. 10 PM anchor Blue Bloods (2.0/6, 11.8 million) was down 9% in the demo from its series premiere last fall. It tied NBC’s Dateline as the highest-rated program of the night in 18-49 and was tops in viewers. CBS (1.7/5, 10.6 million) edged the competition to finish No. 1 for the night in 18-49 and total viewers. Fox’s Fringe (1.5/5) and its lead-in, Kitchen Nightmares (1.6/6) were both down from January when the network first paired them together on Friday and the two series debuted Friday with a 1.9/6 each. Still, a 1.5 and 1.6 was good enough for Fox to post its highest-rated premiere Friday in six years and finish second for the night in 18-49, tied with NBC. (Comparisons to last fall’s premiere Friday are largely irrelevant as Fox aired a Human Target rerun followed by the soon-to-be-gone The Good Guys, none of which cracked the 1 demo rating mark.) Looking at Dateline (2.0/6 in 18-49, 7.1 million viewers from 8-10 PM) performing way better than many of NBC’s scripted series this week (Playboy Club, Prime Suspect, Harry’s Law, Free Agents) despite airing on a low-rated night like Friday has got to give NBC brass pause. Will we see another Dateline pop up somewhere else on the schedule soon to replace any of the underachievers, or could Brian Williams’ new newsmagazine be summoned sooner than midseason? With repeats of promising new comedies Up All Night and Whitney and Dateline, NBC (1.6/5, 5.8 million) finished tied for second in the demo with Fox. ABC aired reruns of Modern Family and its most promising new series so far, Revenge, leading in to 20/20 (1.0/3, 3.3 million) as the network stayed out of contention (1.0/3, 3.7 million) CW’s new schedule-mates, Nikita and Supernatural, were down dramatically from last fall, when both had strong lead-ins. Supernatural (0.8/2, 2 million) was down 33% in the demo from last September when it followed Smallville on Friday. Nikita (0.6/2, 1.9 million) was down 47% in viewers from its premiere behind The Vampire Diaries on Thursday.

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VIDEO: Andy Samberg Impersonates Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook Conference

Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Samberg Andy Samberg put on a hoodie and sandals and busted out his best Mark Zuckerberg impersonation Thursday at Facebook's f8 conference.Fall Preview: Get scoop on all your favorite returning shows"I'm going to start by focusing on key issues," Samberg opened. "First: authentic identity. And under this sweatshirt are rock solid, cut and greased abs!"The Saturday Night Live star then bragged about Facebook's growth ("We've got ... more people than in the cast of Glee"), how he chloroformed MySpace and put a "bullet in the back of its skull," and unveiled two new Facebook features, "I'm Not Really Friends with These People" and "The Slow-Poke," which takes 24 hours to reach the person.VIDEO: Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Zuckerberg finally meet on Saturday Night LiveThe real Zuckerberg eventually crashed the party, which only prompted Samberg to impersonate some other "Bergs": Zuckerberg's Social Network portrayer Jesse Eisenberg and Mark "Say 'hi' to your mother for me, OK?" Wahlberg. Watch the video below:

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New Movie Reviews: 'Moneyball,' 'Abduction,' 'Machine Gun Preacher' Hitting Theaters

Moviegoers have many options this weekend.our editor recommends'Moneyball's' Brad Pitt Becomes One of the Few Non-Athletes to Cover Sports Illustrated'Moneyball': Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill in New Trailer'Abduction's' Taylor Lautner is 'Like a Young Tom Cruise' Says Studio Exec (Video)'Abduction': Taylor Lautner Gets Chased Down, Shot at in New Trailer (Video)'Abduction's' Taylor Lautner on Performing the Movie's 'Crazy Stunts' (Video)'Moneyball': What the Critics Are Saying The first of the big movies that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month are now coming to theaters this weekend. Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill star in the comedy-drama Moneyball, which is about baseball and baseball statistics and an unlikely collaboration between a major league general manager and a Yale economics graduate. PHOTOS: 'Moneyball' Premiere in Oakland Taylor Lautner stars in Abduction, a thriller about a teenager forced on the run to uncover his past. Lily Collins, Alfred Molina and Maria Bello co-star in director John Singleton's movie. Meanwhile, Gerard Butler plays the real-life and highly flawed hero Sam Childers for Marc Forster'sMachine Gun Preacher. Childers went from a small-time criminal to a preacher and then savior to countless orphans in the war-torn African country of Sudan. PHOTOS: 'Abduction' Red Carpet Premiere Charles Martin Smith's Dolphin Tale also tells a true story, only this one concerns a creature of the sea, a dolphin that whose damaged tail is replaced by a prosthetic one. Also opening Friday is Killer Elite, a male thriller with a cast headed by Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson, which delves into former British special forces operatives. See what The Hollywood Reporter's critics have to say about those films -- and others opening this weekend -- and find out how well they are expected to perform at the box office. Moneyball Bottom Line: A baseball movie for people who dislike the sport as a desperate general manager and an economics grad turn baseball on its head. Click here to read The Hollywood Reporter's review. PHOTOS: 'Abduction' Photos: Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins on the Run Abduction Bottom Line: Taylor Lautner tries to hold his own in an action thriller too silly to give him much of a chance. Click here to read THR's review. Machine Gun Preacher Bottom Line: An impressively heroic true-life story that unfortunately doesn't go far enough in examining its unusual hero. Click here to read THR's review. PHOTO: 'Machine Gun Preacher' Poster: Gerard Butler, a Big Gun and a Small Child Dolphin Tale Bottom Line: Drenchingly inspirational aquatic tale should play well with general audiences and kids. Click here to read THR's review. Killer Elite Bottom Line: Efficient, overly formulaic action piece could have been more distinctive but delivers the goods for solid international returns. Click here to read THR's review. Thunder Soul Bottom Line: A genuinely moving and powerful doc about one of the great funk bands ever, that just happened to be a high school band. Click here to read THR's review. PHOTOS: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to Know Puncture Bottom Line: It's a true story that involves both an infuriating protagonist and an exposé of corrupt U.S. healthcare practices. Click here to read THR's review. Weekend Bottom Line: Two men fall convincingly in love over a weekend of sex and drugs. Click here to read THR's review. Pearl Jam Twenty Bottom Line: A reverential retrospective of a band that inspires deep love. Click here to read THR's review. Also opening are A Bird of the Air, Incendiary: The Willingham Case and The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby. The 1964 movieMarriage, Italian Stylealso gets a re-release Friday. Related Topics Brad Pitt Gerard Butler Robert De Niro Taylor Lautner Moneyball Lily Collins Owen Wilson Machine Gun Preacher Abduction Dolphin Tale Weekend

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Lauren ZalaznickIf you were watching the flow of news out of NBCUniversal as it switched corporate hands last year, you will have noticed Lauren Zalaznick rapidly ascending to a top spot in the company's corporate hierarchy without seeming at all flustered or unprepared."It's a challenge to maintain sharpness and effectiveness in each area of business and each area of life, but at the same time, it's kind of heightened my focus and my sharpness," she says matter-of-factly. "There's a reason adrenaline is fun."Zalaznick has gone from retooling lifestyle cabler Bravo for major profitability to running a full division at NBCU -- Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media.It's a mouthful, but it does something both very simple and very difficult: it organizes NBCU's panoply of brands whenever there's a job to be done. Zalaznick has opened a whole new sector in advertising over the last couple of years -- companies can now buy a specifically tailored package designed to appeal to a specific demo, including, most recently, ads that play simultaneously on all the relevant channels, making literal reality of the old "Simpsons" gag in which Homer hears a different word of the same sentence on every channel.That kind of synergy is, unsurprisingly, a bear to organize. "There's no time during the day when folks are kicking back and throwing pencils in the ceiling and wondering what'll happen in five minutes," Zalaznick says. "That said, the goal that (exec VP, Comcast and CEO/prexy, NBCUniversal ) Steve Burke set for us is that it's got to be of value for the entirety of the company, and so each individual area reaps real benefit."And with all the new responsibility -- Zalaznick now oversees Telemundo and Mun2, as well as the Women at NBCU suite of cablers, among other duties -- the division chair is learning the necessity of plain old enjoyment. "I've learned that the happier I am, the better I am at having fun at work and delivering results," she admits. "There's more of a correlation between fun and results at work than I maybe once thought."SNAPSHOTTitle: Chairman, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated MediaRole model: "I have sort of a composite role model that adds up to a person who doesn't really exist in the world."Career mantra: "Don't be a drag."Leisure pursuits: "We're a family of five, so if we're not at work or school, there's some form of cooking or eating."Philanthropic passion: "My dad passed away this summer, which was really tough, and we've kind of refocused my immediate family's attention around Alzheimer's and dementia research." Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

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An enormous consumer backlash to recent changes at Netflix has the organization rethinking its options -- even the potential of lowering unspecified prices. Speaking in a Goldman Sachs conference Wednesday, Netflix chief financial officer David Wells established that this type of reduction does not jibe with Netflix's corporate goals but wasn't entirely unthinkable, either. At this time, we are going to step away and check out numerous things,Inch stated Wells. "But lowering prices, or offering a price reduction for 3 or six several weeks, is some kicking the can in the future. It's certainly within the arena of possibility however i don't believe its likely to regain the clients that people lost." Netflix is looking to get back to consumers' good graces earlier after announcing the 2009 week the rebranding the DVD part of its business. Boss Reed Hastings revealed in August could be split off included in a 60% cost increase for so-known as "hybrid" customers who desired to still both rent Dvd disks by mail and streaming video online. After going through double-digit declines in the stock cost dads and moms following the development of Qwikster, Netflix is going through a far more moderate decrease Wednesday, closing lower 1.18%, to $128.50. An alternative choice Wells indicated has been investigated is the choice to separate the queues for Netflix and Qwikster, which may disadvantage hybrid customers who make use of the company's highly recommended recommendation engine. Wells also signaled another potential departure from Netflix's formerly mentioned philosophy: adding a b la carte component on the top from the business' one-size-fits-all subscription business. What we should stated typically about VOD could it have been would be a low-margin business that reduces (our) simplicity," stated Wells. "In present day changing and altering world, we'll discuss a variety of options." But Wells also made obvious that creating this type of move wasn't important for the organization. Nevertheless, the potential of Netflix getting into a la carte VOD in the future might be of great interest to everybody who sells more current movies, from cable operators to Wal-Mart's Vudu service. If the galleries will license that tier of movies to Netflix is really a whole other matter too. Wells stressed that Netflix does not wish to overestimate the backlash via social networking, that they indicates could represent a vocal minority that is not truly associated with the business's users list. We don't wish to compound things when you are reactionary, and become thoughtful by what we are likely to do moving forward,Inch he stated. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Three Legendary Production Designers to Be Inducted Into ADG Hall of Fame

Legendary production designersRobert Boyle,William DarlingandAlfred Jungewill be inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame at the Guild's 16th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards ceremony, February 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. "Their creative legacy continues to inspire and challenge all of those who have chosen the art of production design as their profession and it is appropriate that we honor their memory through their induction into the ADG Hall of Fame," saidADG president Thomas A. Walsh. Boyle collaborated several times with Alfred Hitchcock, first as an assistant art director forSaboteur(1942) and later as a full-fledged production designer forNorth by Northwest(1959),The Birds(1963), andMarnie(1964). During the course of his career, Boyle received four Oscar nominations.In 1997 he received the ADG's Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was presented an Honorary Academy Awardin 2007. Darling began his career in early Hollywood designing silent films as William Fox's supervising art director and continued in that role when Fox reorganized his company as Twentieth Century Fox Studios in 1933. He won Academy AwardsforCavalcade (1933), The Song of Bernadette (1943),andAnna and the King of Siam (1946). He received four additional nominations. Junge has been credited with originating the role of supervising art director within the British film industry of the 1930s. In 1939, he worked with Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger onContraband(1940), the first of eight pictures Junge made with them. The last of these wasBlack Narcissus(1947), which earned Junge an Academy Award. He received a second nomination in 1953 forKnights of the Round Table.

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Free Agents, Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn Free Agents starts where most romantic comedies end - in bed.In the opening moments of the new NBC sitcom - based on the British series of the same name - co-workers Alex (Hank Azaria), recently divorced, and Helen (Kathryn Hahn), whose fiancé died, are struggling with postcoital etiquette after their one-night stand, which, to hear the stars tell it, lets you know right off the bat that this is not your average love story.Fall Preview: Get the lowdown on this season's must-see new showsIn fact, they call it an "anti-romantic comedy." Oh, don't worry, there'll be flirting, dates and hook-ups, but at its core, Free Agents will not have you swooning over "aww"-worthy moments. Here's why:1. The question changes. While the typical rom-com rests on the "'Will they or won't they?" sexual tension of the leads, Free Agents has already answered that query. "They did it! There's no mystery there," Hahn tells TVGuide.com. "After you've seen it all, now it's: 'What's next?' Where do they go from here?" Alex and Helen are not friends with benefits, but they are friends with a "profound connection." "Neither of them are ready for a relationship yet - they're both reeling from [their past relationships] - but I think it's something neither of them anticipated. I think what they have is real and unexpected," she says. "It's obviously going to mutate through the course of the series and that's what we're tackling."2. More work, less play. You could call the show more of a workplace comedy, as a lot of the action takes place at Alex and Helen's PR firm with supporting players Natasha Leggero, Mo Mandel, Al Madrigal, Joe Lo Truglio and Anthony Head, who reprises his role from the original as the duo's boss. "The most successful episodes we've done have integrated both," Azaria says, pointing out a future episode in which Helen and the office "rebrand" Alex like they would a damaged corporation. The metaphor runs deeper when you consider that their whole business is about spin - and yet, Alex's and Helen's personal lives are spinning out of control. "[The setting's] such a fertile place for story lines," Hahn says. "They're hiding themselves for the clients, so they take whatever's going on inside and subvert it. You're constantly navigating your moral compass. The woman- or man-on-the-verge is always a great thing to explore."Familiar TV faces: See which stars are back on the small screen3. You don't need Kleenex. There's nothing sappy or saccharine about two broken, emotional disasters who are still recovering from the respective hands they've each been dealt. "They've lived their romantic comedy story with others," Azaria says. "It didn't work out for either of them, so they're left in the real world fighting cynicism in their own ways, bitter and trying to move forward. It's very stumbling and real and stark, and as a result, funny, in a non-sentimental way." The British series employed black humor, but NBC's version won't be that dark. "We obviously can't be as raunchy or go as far as they did, but we're getting close, which is exciting. It doesn't feel like a network show to me," Hahn says. "Anthony's coming up with hilarious phrases that for some reason sound even worse or dirtier than they are. It's very, very funny."4. They ultimately don't have to get together. While Alex and Helen seem like they should be together in the end - and Hahn wants them to be - it's also believable if they're not. "The truth is, in real life, people could definitely do that [an office hook-up] and stay apart," Azaria says. "So if it can happen in real life, it can happen on NBC." Regardless of whether Alex and Helen wind up together, Azaria thinks they could be at arm's length for a long time, thanks not only to their own personal issues, but to executive producer John Enbom, who created another workplace comedy, the gone-too-soon Party Down. "He was really good at keeping Adam Scott and Lizzy Caplan sort of apart together," Azaria says. "I've never asked him, but he must've done this! I'm really curious now - this ongoing approach-avoidance thing that remains interesting yet the ball moves about three inches each time. He captures it so well. He must've done it."Free Agents premieres Wednesday at 10:30/9:30c on NBC. It moves to its regular timeslot next Wednesday at 8:30/7:30c.

Toronto: Madonna, Parties, And Harvey Weinsteins New Premiere World Record

Harvey Weinstein just set a newair, land and sea worldrecord for attending movie premieres. The Weinstein Company mogul managed to show up at three, count ‘em, three different premiere events in two different countries all on Monday night. “Yeah, this was some fun wasn’t it?” he deadpanned when I asked him about hislandmark photo-op achievement. Although he has been in Toronto this week, Weinsteinhad to go back to New York City Monday night to attend the premiere of his company’sromantic comedy I Don’t Know How She Does It, which starsSarah Jessica Parker and opens nationwide on Friday. Then it was rightback to Canada and two more North American premieres: Madonna’s directorial outing W.E. and the Ralph Fiennes-directed Coriolanus – and he made ito toboth post-parties at Soho House. On one floor he was dining with Madonna and her exclusive guest list, then he did a walk-throughone floor down at the Coriolanus preem. Then it was back up to the third floor where he huddled with Jennifer Garner and Olivia Wilde, the stars of yet another Weinstein Company movie, Butter, which premieres here on Tuesday (I saw it in Telluride). I am told they will open the film for a one-weekOscar qualifying run on October 28 andreopen it sometime inearly 2012. As for the Madonna film, which was criticallylambasted in Venice, the spin I got from one of its international reps was that it’s really not all that bad. It’s just that it’s not all that good either. There are some nice visual touches but the material about the romance between King Edward and Wallis Simpson (written by the Material Girlherself) just isn’t all that compelling. My overall impression is that she is to be commended for trying something different with this British period piece, but for someone normally so edgy,this film very much lacks edge. It is undoubtedly an older person’s movieand facing a daunting commercial climb. Before the film started (a half hour late) Madonna told the hometown crowd, “As you know I grew up in Detroit Michigan so I almost feel Canadian. Even when I have been arrested here I had a heck of a time,” she said. At the earlierMonday morning press screening apaltry crowd ofless than100 reportedly showed up for their first opportunity to see her directing and writing efforts. By the time it was finished, less than halfremained in the massive 555-seat ScotiabankTheatre.But following the evening screening at the Roy ThomsonHall,the crowd gave Madonnaa brief standing ovation before heading for the exits. But it wasn’t the kind of enthusiastic standing applause heard at the Machine Gun Preacher screening just one night earlier. Speaking of that film, I caught up with its star Gerard Butler after the premiere of his second film at this festival, Coriolanus. The response was far more subdued for that one. “You could hear a pin drop in those final scenes,”he said. He said he was awestruck by Vanessa Redgrave who should emerge as the front runner for Best Supporting Actress when this contemporary treatment of one of Shakespeare’s most obscure playsopens later this year. I asked if he was enjoying his festival experience with two different films in play and he said it would be a lot more fun if he wasn’t stuck in a hotel room all day doing interviews. He does give the city of Toronto high marks though. He reeled off a list of cities he’ll be takinghis films to next, beginning with San Francisco, so he’s a busy guy. His next film will be Oscar-winnerCurtis Hanson’s surfing drama Mavericks, in which he plays asurfing mentor to a 15-year-old kid. He’s just getting into the surfing training now. I suggested he check out the new Greg McGillivray documentary Hollywood Don’t Surf, which screened at the end of Telluride this year. It’s an enormously entertaining lookat thecheckered history of Hollywood actors and surfing and could be veryinstructive for Gerry. Michael Fassbender is anotherhot actor with two films at the festival –Shame andADangerous Method– and he also showed up at the Weinsteinparty. He wasin their Inglorious Basterds although the boyslost the biddingfor Shame to Searchlight. We both hit the fourth-floor ping-pong room at the same time along with his Shame director Steve McQueenand he told me he was pretty much speechless about getting the Best Actor award for Shame at the Venice Film Festival last weekend. I told him I saw the controversial film on sex addiction at Telluride last week and he said he was really sorry about having to miss that fest, he heard it was great. Fassbenderemphasized that he hopes people will appreciate the challenging film the way filmgoers did regularly in the 1970s, before Hollywood lost its creativemojo. He’svery proud of Shame and appreciative that Fox Searchlight had the courage to pick it up. Another actor with two films to push at TIFF is Jessica Chastain who gets my award for nicest new star in the business. She waited years for her long list of finished films to actually be seen and now she is doing nothing but travelling around promoting them as they either hit festivals or come out one after another. She was also at the Weinstein party.Consider The Help and The Debt, which wereNo. 1 and 2 at thebox officea week ago. Then there wasWilde Salome with Al Pacino and Texas Killing Fields at Venice and now Coriolanus and Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter at TIFF. And don’t forget about The Tree Of Life which finally got the ball rolling in Cannes earlier this year. Although it has to be a bit of a painto do all this promotion at once, she’s got a good attitude and sense of humor about it. “I told Jeff Nichols before he hired me on ‘Take Shelter’ that there is a Chastain curse and if you hire me your movie will never get released, but he said he wanted to take the risk anyway,” she laughed (Take Shelter opens September 30). Chastain is worried that Wilde Salome still doesn’t have a distributor but it should get one eventually. It is Al Pacino after all. Among other movies premiering here I caught the charming Lasse Hallstrom comedySalmon Fishing in the Yemen with two terrific performances from Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. As Deadline broke on Sunday, the film was picked up by CBS Films which in its young history has been known more for far less charming films including The Back Up Plan, Beastly and The Mechanic. This will class up the joint and give newly installed academy memberLes Moonvessomethingdecent to push to hisfellow members. I have heard that they want to turn this film around quickly and get it qualified for awards considerationin 2011, another case of a film taking the Toronto ball and running with it. It may be too whimsical for Oscar but could certainly make a strong Golden Globe run, and maybe even win there. The Lady was the premiere that followed Madonna’s film tonight at Roy Thomson Hall. It’s director Luc Besson’s true story of the Nobel Peace Prize-winningAung Saan Su Kyi, who became a Burmese resistance leader only to be held under house arrest for 15 years.Shewas released last yearbutisstill prevented from bringing her people’s struggles against a tyrannical governmentto the outside world. Perhaps that’s why starsMichelle Yeoh and David Thewlisand director Luc Besson feel such a senseof urgency to get this film out this year (when Yeoh and Thewlis would be strong Oscar nomination contenders).I talked with all three earlier today and will post the best of that discussionsoon, but their hope is that this film’s releasewill make a real difference in her situation just as winning the Nobel Peace Prize did, albeitbriefly. It’s a real departure for the more action-oriented Besson and played extremely well in its screenings hereon Monday.I am told there are a couple of likely distributors circling this one already. Finally,Summit held a post-premiere dinner and party for their 50/50 cancer comedy starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogen, and Focus threw a sit-downdinner at the Roosevelt Roomfor their Pariah, a film the distrib will bepushing for Oscars. In light of thesuccess of the Oscar-winningPrecious, they could have a real shot although Focus exec Adriene Bowles likens the movie more to Winter’s Bone, a Best Picture nominee last year.Star Adepero Oduye is a real discovery and in person is nothing like the character she plays in the film. Writer and director Dee Reessaid the ride since Sundance has been wild but well worth it. The ride at TIFF has been wild too, but everything good has to come to an end. I’m headingback to L.A. for Emmy week but I will continue to keep my eye on Toronto.A wrapof all the fall fests will come after TIFF winds down this weekend.

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Hellraiser Remake Back-Burnered Again

Lussier & Farmer are off the projectThe long-gestating remake of Clive Barker's demonic Hellraiser continues to suffer at the hands of the Dimension cenobites. Seemingly full steam ahead with creative team Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer at the helm (Drive Angry, My Bloody Valentine), the pair have just revealed that their Hellraiser vision is now unlikely to see the light of day after all. The tortured project dates back to at least 2007, when Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury were attached to direct a screenplay by Saw sequel writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton. Then Bustillo and Maury were out, and Martyrs mentalist Pascal Laugier was in. And when Laugier too left through the revolving door, there was a brief dalliance with The Roommate's Christian E Christiansen. The film seemed to gain some traction with the arrival of Lussier and Farmer, who brought their own script and some firm assurances that rumours of teen-friendly PG-13ness were unfounded. That's apparently now changed again, with their violent vision seemingly increasingly creatively at odds with what Dimension think they want. We developed several versions for Dimension, but in the end we never saw eye to eye, says Lussier. The current story is extremely different from the story we pitched. It's changed dramatically since we started, and it will probably change a lot more before it's all over. Originally what they wanted was epic and dark, rated R. It was in our contract. So.... if we do Hellraiser, it's rated R; if they want to do PG-13 then they have to get rid of us. The studio have consitently scratched their heads about what actually makes Hellraiser tick, but the lamentable recent DTV (more or less) sequel Hellraiser: Revelations has at least staved off the lapsing of the rights, and clearly bought time for further rethinking. Whether that musing will bring Hellraiser to rebooted fruition with a new team, and whether it'll be along Barker's demented supernatural S&M lines, remains to be seen. Shock have scored some cenobite designs for the abandoned project, so head over there to check out what we definitely won't now be getting. We'll also be interested to learn whether Hellraiser's stalling will send Lussier and Farmer back to Halloween 3D, which was shunted aside in favour of Drive Angry. The next instalment of Haddonfield slashings currently has a release date of October 26 next year, but no creative team that anyone yet knows about....

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Fire Damages Jack Nicholsons Former LA Home

FIRST Released: September 10, 2011 10:56 AM EDT La, Calif. -- A blaze badly broken a house within the Hollywood Hillsides that when was occupied by actor Jack Nicholson, hurting two firefighters. Fire authorities the blaze started shortly before 8 p.m. Friday in a house perched on the slope within the Hollywood Hillsides. Matt Spence, a spokesperson for that La Fire Department, states nearly 90 firefighters were on scene with two being come to a hospital for unknown injuries. The fireplace was knocked lower within 1 ½ hrs. The reason for the blaze is under analysis. Based on the Nexis service, Nicholson had resided in the home previously. Afterhours phone messages left for 2 of Nicholsons reps weren't immediately came back. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Human Centipede 2 trailer hits Australia

Say what you like about Human Centipede director Tom Six, but when life hands him lemons, he sure knows how to make lemonade.Not that we'd drink it, mind you. It'd probably have wee in it. And maybe a bit of poo. But we're straying from the point.A new Human Centipede 2 theatrical teaser has hit the internet and it positively revels in the harsh words handed out to it by the sound and reasonable minds at the BBFC.Using their po-faced criticisms in the same way mainstream flicks use quotes from magazines (such as your friendly neighbourhood Total Film), Six proves he knows his audience.They won't be put off by warnings such as "obscene" and "tasteless and disgusting."In fact, they're precisely the kind of terms that'd get fans of the first film back into cinemas.We're not sure how the BBFC feel about being used in this way, but we imagine there's a few sexual swearwords flying around the office today.Watch the sound-effect heavy teaser below (targeted at the lucky Australian folk who get to see it uncut) and tell us what you think.

Mark Bomback to rewrite The Wolverine

Mark Bomback (Jack The Giant Killer, the entire Recall reboot) continues to be handed scripting responsibilities for that Wolverine in front of next year's shoot.Christopher McQuarrie authored the present version ofthe script, with director James Mangold aboard to direct.The plot sees Hugh Jackman's X-Guy trying to find clues to his past among japan criminal underworld, finding love but suffering tragedy on the way.The shoot continues to be likely to come from Tokyo, japan and Vancouver the coming year, the moment Jackman finishes shooting L'ensemble des Miserables. Filming had initially been planned for November 2011 in Vancouver.Bomback's previous work includes scripts for Live Free Or Die Hard, Easy and also the Jackman film Deceptiveness.

Graham Keen...Got the Part

The actor's traditional good-luck phrase, "Break a leg," may have been taken too literally by 23-year-old dancer Graham Keen in March. He was who audition to participate the dance ensemble for NETworks' national touring manufacture of "Youthful Frankenstein" having seen the casting notice on BackStage.com."These were searching for tall ballroom dancers, and I am 6-feet-2," he states, "therefore it would be a good match for me personally.Inch Keen, an Actors' Equity membership candidate that has been dancing since age 7 and started his professional career attending college, confesses this particular audition "was a constant fight completely." Throughout the very first tap combination, his shoe began to break apart. Once this problem was solved, a level bigger one presented itself: In the finish of the ballet combination, Keen arrived the wrong manner, fracturing the 5th metatarsal in the left feet."I'm not sure just how it happened," he states, "but I've got a good reputation for falling at really inopportune moments. My primary response ended up being to wake up and try it again. I simply felt like this can be a show along with a job which i understood I possibly could get, and that i did not want anything to go into my way."Keen did not know the seriousness of his injuries at that time and proceeded using the vocal a part of the audition, guaranteeing everybody he was fine. "They requested me basically was okay after which explained to return on Thursday with my tap footwear," he states. "And That I considered to myself, 'Oh, my God,' because I possibly could barely walk on my small feet. Everybody would remember me because the kid that fell the very first day.InchNevertheless, casting director Bob Cline were built with a different impression after Keen's audition. "I do not even keep in mind that, to tell the truth,Inch Cline states. "I believe he was doing a fantastic job no matter that, and the like a great job that you simply notice immediately within the room. When you are watching 300 people each day, you do not remember that certain person. However I remember Graham, and that he did great." From about 450 ballroom dancers who auditioned, Keen arrived a place within the 12-person ensemble. Rehearsals for that tour come from September.Keen had made the decision to audition for "Youthful Frankenstein" during hiatus from NETworks' national tour of "The Background Music Guy," by which he was an ensemble dancer as well as an understudy for that barbershop quartet. He'd merely a extended break from that demonstrate, which together with the nation from The month of january to May."It had been my only opportunity to really audition for anything," Keen states. Fortunately for him, he made a decision to audition for any touring musical which was created and cast through the same personnel who had hired him for "The Background Music Guy." Cline saw Keen within the audition room before coupled with belief he would prosper on tour again."I cast him for 'The Music Guy,' and that i know the organization that did that sure loved him," the casting director states. "I'm able to continually be in the corner and speak highly of him, that is great within this business." Has Back Stage assisted you receive cast previously year? We'd like to inform your story. Maintain the weekly column by contacting casting@backstage.com for brand new You are able to or bswcasting@backstage.com for La with "I Acquired the Part" within the subject line.