Take advantage of Dyrdek's 'Ridiculousness': Karate Gone Wrong (Exclusive Video)

Take advantage of Dyrdek's Ridiculousness returns on Monday, March. 3 with increased cringe-worthy videos, including one unfortunate fighting techinques problem. PHOTOS: MTV VMAs: Best and Worst Moments Karate Expert Matthew Mounce seems within this exclusive sneak look, featuring an ill-fated roundhouse kick. "That second kick, I apologize there is not a way which was any sort of accident,Inch Mounce exclaims. "He required his jaw out!" Watch above. Dyrdek spoke using the Hollywood Reporter about his latest venture using the network, that they compared to an up to date America's Funniest Home Videos, and what audiences can get to determine within the forthcoming season of Fantasy Factory. VIDEOS: MTV: 3 decades of Music Videos "It will you need to be funny," he stated of selecting Absurd clips. "It's often kind of action oriented. It's much more of a instant, that the once-in-a-lifetime moment, taken. Much less what goes viral, but a instant that the accident, a wild factor, just been caught on camera -- also it can not be too gory, cause it needs to cause you to laugh." While Dyrdek stated he'd never consider their own Jackass style program ("That's just upright and lower crazy talk"), he is doing tease one dangerous undertaking for Fantasy Factory's next broadcast. STORY: MTV's New Monday Evening Selection Leads With Take advantage of Dyrdek's 'Ridiculousness' "I am gonna perform a stunt where I am gonna switch a vehicle 360, ramp-to-ramp, to spread out in the season," he confirmed. "I [also] just convinced my sister and her boyfriend to got married." Why? "And So I could become ordained and marry them," he described. STORY: MTV Orders Two Scripted, Four Reality Series MTV has yet to schedule the official premiere date for Fantasy Factory, although it is anticipated at the begining of 2012. Meanwhile, Ridiculousness airs Mondays at 10 p.m. For an additional sneak look, take a look at MTV's lately launched clip below. Have More: Ridiculousness, MTV Shows, Full Episodes Take advantage of Dyrdek MTV

David Duchovny Joins Phantom

As a KGB agent fighting ghosts!Taking a well-earned break from his Californicating, David Duchovny will spend the hiatus trapped underwater with Ed Harris and William Fichtner, when he joins the indie thriller Phantom.Set on a Soviet submarine during the Cold War, Phantom sees a Russian captain contending both with a rogue KGB unit and a supernatural force that's trying to take over the vessel. Harris is the captain, and Duchovny will replace Andy Garcia as the leader of a Soviet special forces team on a secret mission.Hopefully Phantom will dispense with silly accents and go the Hunt For Red October route of allowing everyone to speak as they normally would, on the understanding that they're really speaking in Russian. What's good for Sean Connery is good for everyone else.Todd Robinson is the writer and director (he also wrote Ridley Scott's White Squall and directed Lonely Hearts), and the cast also includes Natasha McElhone. Shooting starts in Long Beach, California next month.

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Adios, Andy Rooney, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Summit signs up to go to Area 52… Michael Moore wants his book yanked from shelves in “murderous” Georgia… A closer look at Martin Scorsese’s epic George Harrison documentary… and more. · This is not quite movie-related, but it’s a little too easy to snark on antediluvian 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney, who on Tuesday announced that he will deliver his final segment for the TV newsmagazine on Sunday night. Sure, on the one hand, he’s most recently taken to ranting about his taste for newspapers and confusion over Lady Gaga. On the other, the 92-year-old World War II correspondent has logged 33 years, 1,097 essays, countless impersonations and untold influence on multiple generations who — admit it — can’t help but relate sometimes to his being nudged further and further to some rare rational edge of contemporary American culture. A lot of folks might say Rooney is a caricature who hasn’t been relevant in years, but I’d venture an alternative theory: Even on his own show, he’s an outsider — just like the rest of us who know and acknowledge privately or otherwise that this development itself is the end of something. Also: We’re getting old. [Deadline] · Like here, how about this: Summit Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to the 2001 comic-book series Area 52, about a group of misfits overseeing a secret government holding space where a killer alien busts loose on a bender. Seriously? This makes you want to rant, right? Go ahead! Do it for Andy. [Deadline] · He wouldn’t be Michael Moore without exploiting a bad situation for maximum gain, and so with the recent Troy Davis execution in mind, the filmmaker and author has taken to his Web site to lobby for a 100-percent boycott of Georgia — up to and including the removal of his new memoir, Here Comes Trouble, from shelves there: “I will ask my publisher to pull my book from every Georgia bookstore and if they won’t do that I will donate every dime of every royalty my book makes in Georgia to help defeat the racists and killers who run that state.” [MichaelMoore.com via The Guardian] · “George didn’t like boundaries, and time was one of those big boundaries he didn’t like — it was stretched and twisted by him.” And thus George Harrison’s widow helps tease the epic documentary Living in the Material World, directed by Martin Scorsese, premiering this weekend at the NY Film Festival and hitting HBO on Oct. 5 and 6. [Vanity Fair] · Ahem. Coincidentally! “Because It Can’t All Be Cynicism And Snark: The Most Goddamn Adorable Couples In Hollywood History” Love it. [Pajiba] · This continued delusion of Toronto as the world’s worst sports city only underscores how many ostensible sports fans have never spent any time in Atlanta. They bombed the freaking Olympics, folks. And that’s to say nothing of Braves games. The. Worst. [Grantland]

TV's youth focus creates whirl for girls

Emily VanCamp in Revenge Rachel Bilson in Hart of Dixie For years, executives have lamented a shortage of qualified young leading men for television. It's one of the reason many talented imports from the U.K. and Australia have found homes in American series, albeit carefully hiding their native tongues.This season, it appears that deficiency has spread to network-approved women, amid what the Wall Street Journal characterized -- somewhat hyperbolically -- as an explosion of "She TV."It's purely subjective, of course, but one recurring flaw in this fall's new programs involves female stars who don't quite measure up -- in some cases through no fault of their own, having simply been miscast. Part of that stems from pressure to go with younger performers, which has rendered some of these concepts silly almost on their (admittedly flawless and wrinkle-free) faces.Perhaps the CW audience can buy Rachel Bilson as a brilliant thoracic surgeon in "Hart of Dixie," but for those who have seen real doctors in their actual habitat, it's a stretch. Ditto for fresh-faced Emily VanCamp as the seductress/schemer plotting against seasoned hedge-fund managers and the Hamptons elite in "Revenge." Frankly, watching 100-pound actresses pummel oversized men (hello, "Nikita") seems more plausible, or at least more entertaining.Similarly, ABC's comedy "Suburgatory" starts with a fertile premise -- a big-city family moving to Stepford-esque suburbs -- but instead of the likable dad, features his eye-rolling teenage daughter as the narrator/guide to their environs. While that doubtless makes sense for ABC Family, the Disney Channel or MTV (which have no shortage of offerings built around teen girls), that access point feels slightly misplaced between "The Middle" and "Modern Family."Casting directors no doubt found themselves tested by a related mini-trend this season -- namely, programs built around young female ensembles. Assembling actresses for "Pan Am," "The Playboy Club" and "Charlie's Angels" clearly put a run on performers capable of filling those shoes -- not to mention the uniforms."I can't imagine this comes as a surprise to anyone who watches movies and television, but men have an easier time aging," said Martha Lauzen, a San Diego State University professor who heads the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.Lauzen annually monitors opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera. Among her findings for the 2010-11 season is women in primetime are invariably younger than male counterparts, with men accounting for nearly 70% of characters 50 and older on the major networks.This longstanding disparity becomes more conspicuous, though, when women are thrown into workplace settings or scenarios that, practically speaking, come with certain age expectations. The movie "The First Wives Club" memorably described the stages of an actress' career as "Babe, district attorney and 'Driving Miss Daisy.' " If the pattern still holds true, several of this fall's programs have conveniently skipped the years encompassed by college and law school, merging the first two categories.Think "Debbie Howser, M.D.""It's too bad for a whole lot of reasons," Lauzen said. "It compromises the fundamental integrity of these characters."There's little mystery why this is happening. Combine the imperative to reach younger demographics with the tendency of women to watch more episodic programming than men, and voila, every night is "girls" night.Lauzen also cites a notable shift in comedy from the day when strong female characters like "Roseanne" and "Murphy Brown" occupied center stage. Although shows featuring "girls" -- as in CBS' "2 Broke" and Fox's "New" -- are off to promising starts ratings-wise, Lauzen was taken aback seeing the eponymous star of NBC's "Whitney" donning a sexy nurse outfit in the premiere. The rule in sitcoms, she said, appears to be "Even if they're funny, they have to be funny and hot."To be fair, there are a number of age-appropriate women headlining series, and fretting about runway models playing cops and doctors is pretty well a lost cause -- sort of like complaining about all the gorgeous extras on "Entourage."Looks, however, aren't the problem. It's the near-absence of a time lapse between actresses playing characters who say "What do you mean I'm grounded?" and "Get him to the ER! We have to operate!" Contact Brian Lowry at brian.lowry@variety.com

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Cosi fan tutte

Two couples place their fidelity for the test in L.A. Operas presentation of Mozarts Cosi fan tutte. An L.A. Opera presentation from the opera by 50 percent operates by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte. Directed by Ashley Dean. Conductor, James Conlon.Ferrando - Saimir Pirgu Guglielmo - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Don Alfonso - Lorenzo Regazzo Fiordiligi - Aleksandra Kurzak Dorabella - Ruxandra Donose Despina - Roxana Constantinescumozart's sublime music, James Conlon great carrying out, together with a good ensemble of world-class singer-artists. May also an operagoer want? Possibly a completely new to experience a classic warhorse. Mozart may have recognized this production "Cosi fan tutte," and congratulated. For a lot of purists, that's the way needs to be. L.A. Opera is marketing this odd practice of having in productions from elsewhere that offer novel knowledge of rarities, like Rossini's "The Turk in Italia" and Britten's "The Turn in the Screw," and conventional stagings in the classics, for instance "Rigoletto" now "Cosi." Overturn approach would seem to be more suitable. Within the eighties, Peter Sellars was alternately recognized and condemned for his Trump Tower "Marriage of Figaro," his Vietnam-era "Cosi" and also the urban ghetto "Don Giovanni." Anyone who saw people productions, available nowadays on DVD, never saw or heard people operas in quite much the same way again. L.A. Opera's new "Cosi," initially staged by Nicholas Hytner at Glyndebourne, meets anticipation rather than challenges or develops inside it. Frankly, this might be referred to as Beige "Cosi" with designer Vicki Mortimer's pale marble unit set, that may also function to stage a number of other Mozart operas. It resembles the balcony portion of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Helmer Ashley Dean, overpowering for Hytner here, remains fortunate with game artists who look the various in the embattled fanatics that horrible things, but love each other likewise. Ferrando (Saimir Pirgu) and Guglielmo (Ildebrando D'Arcangelo) trick their unique female buddies, Dorabella (Ruxandra Donose) and Fiordiligi (Aleksandra Kurzak), to check on their fidelity -- as well as the women fail, hence the title "thus all ladies are." Before feminists freak, it is advisable to consider Mozart's "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni," which is a safe and secure wager the composer found the males here the bigger rats. One factor that's never uncertain -- which is a significant credit to Dean, Conlon in addition to their entertainers -- happens when much these four figures love each other despite all the chicanery. Don Alfonso (Lorenzo Regazzo) proposes the wager that starts the chicanery, which he and also the accomplice Despina (Roxana Constantinescu) may be the wise realists, nonetheless they never achieve sing the kind of music that doesn't only delights the ear but moves a person's heart. Kurzak's enormous range and skill switched her faithful-like-a-rock aria, "Come scoglio," into the showstopper it's. Pirgu spins a stylish mezza-voce, making his Ferrando a most encouraging cad. Donose is likely to be most likely probably the most stylish singer in the bunch, with D'Aracangelo undeniably getting most likely probably the most animal drive within the voice. It seems sensible pre-mattress room vocal fireworks, and my wager is Dorabella and Guglielmo produce a range from it following a curtain drops.Sets and costumes, Vicki Mortimer lighting, Andrew May. Opened up up Sept. 18, 2011. Examined Sept. 22. Running time: 3 Several hours, 30 MIN. Contact Robert Hofler at bob.hofler@variety.com

Italo pics reflect immigration issues

'Cose dell'altro mondo'Immigration-themed movies include comedies 'Mozzarella Stories' and 'Cose dell'altro mondo.'ROME -- Roughly a century after millions of Italians exited their homeland in a mass exodus considered the largest migration in modern history, hardly a day goes by without headlines in local media about the plight of thousands of immigrants now pressing on Italy's borders.Many are fleeing political turmoil in North Africa and civil war in Libya. And hundreds have drowned at sea, in part as a result of the Silvio Berlusconi government's so-called push-back policy.Italy's filmmakers have responded to the explosive issue with a wave of films with immigration the central theme.Helmer Emanuele Crialese tackles this issue in "Terraferma," which won the special jury nod in Venice. Like his "Respiro," pic is set on a tiny island off the Sicilian coast where fishermen, abiding by the "law of the sea," opt to rescue African boat people and end up in hot water with the local coast guard."For me the response of the state is totally inadequate," Crialese said in Venice. "To let people die at sea is a sign of a great lack of civilization." Crialese cast a real Ethiopian refugee, identified only as Timnit T, to play the part of an illegally rescued pregnant woman, based on her real story. She now lives in Northern Europe. Sales company Elle Driver is in talks for Englishlanguage territories on "Terraferma," which segued from Venice to Toronto, where it was well received. Cattleya and RAI Cinema produced.Another Italian prize winner on the Lido was "La Bas. A Criminal Education," a gritty drama about the conflictual co-existence of African immigrants and the Camorra mob, which rules the Neapolitan hinterland.Helmed by first-timer Guido Lombardi, shot on location mostly in French and English, and starring plenty of non-pros, naturalistic drama scooped both the Venice Lion of the Future and the Lido's Critics' Week nod.Lombardi was inspired by a 2008 incident, known as the Castel Volturno massacre, in which the Camorra gunned down six African men in a racist turf war.Helmer says the pic stems from his discovery that outside Naples "there was a piece of Africa that was suffering." Co-produced by Neapolitan shingle Figli del Bronx, Eskimo and Minerva Pictures Group, pic will be released by Cinecitta Luce in Italy.In Italo auteur Ermanno Olmi's "The Cardboard Village," Michael Lonsdale ("Of Gods and Men") stars as a passionate priest who shelters African immigrants, even as his church becomes deconsecrated. Pic drew a mixed response at its Venice out-of-competition screening, although most were impressed by the strength of Olmi's spirit of Christian charity. RAI Cinema produced.But Italy's current influx of immigration movies isn't limited to dramas.Interestingly, the local immigration pic that's pushing the most buttons is an Italian remake of Sergio Arau's "A Day Without a Mexican," which transposes that pic's central premise of panic in California when Latinos go AWOL to Northern Italy.Helmed by Francesco Patierno, caustic laffer re-titled "Cose dell'altro mondo," which unspooled in Venice's Controcampo Italiano section, sparked ire from Italy's xenophobic Northern League, which banned production company Rodeo Drive from shooting in Treviso and made rumblings about the pic in parliament.And immigration is also the key ingredient in another Italo comedy, the pulpy "Mozzarella Stories," centered around Chinese entrepreneurs who flood the Italian market with excellent mozzarella balls at half price."This cheese, which we call 'white gold,' is a quintessential symbol of my city," said first-time helmer, and Caserta native, Edoardo De Angelis, at the pic's Rome launch.Exec produced by Emir Kusturica, "Mozzarella," which includes Aida Turturro in the cast, is co-produced by Eagle Pictures and Bavaria Media. Pic was released Sept. 23. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

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Energy coin fuels production plans

ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN -- Hollywood could soon have a new partner for international co-productions if Kazakhstan's state-owned film studio gets it way.Ambitious plans by the oil-and-gas-rich central Asian nation to bankroll movies could bring the biz to Almaty, its high-tech capital.Ermek Amanshaev, head of Almaty-based Kazakhfilm, is hoping state-of-the-art studios, fabulous locations and healthy financial perks will lure major Hollywood productions."We're now working with Chuck Russell on 'Arabian Nights' (he's) location scouting about 200 km from Almaty, where there is a medieval city set that was built a few years ago for Sergey Bodrov's 'Nomad.' There are also sandy hills and gullies at Altyn Emel that could be used in the movie," Amanshaev says.Details of Kazakhfilm's involvement in the $70 million project are still under discussion, but Amanshaev anticipated that the studio's share of the budget would be between 10% and 15% and expected a deal memo to be signed soon with U.S. producer Bill Johnson of Inferno Entertainment.Once that's done, set building can begin in November or December, with principal photo-graphy slated for May.Russell told the aud at the seventh Eurasia Film Festival last week that he welcomed Central Asian participation in Hollywood projects.Armanshaev's plans for luring foreign shoots to the country is part of a strategy blessed by Kazakhstan's powerful president Nursultan Nazarbayev.The presidential backing sparked a major investment program at Kazakhfilm and has helped spawn a resurgence in the domestic film industry.Last year 30 features were produced (23 of them with state support), a threefold increase since 2007. Box office was $50 million, of which domestic movies' share was $7 million.The Kazakh Film-Project Market on Sept. 22, organized by Russian producer Anna Katchko, featured eight local filmmakers pitching projects to international film industry experts, including Berlinale selector Ralf Schenk. The selected project will get Kazakh funding and support to help find in finding a co-production partner.Amanshaev has great expectations for both the local industry and the prospects of creating a Central Asian Hollywood. He cites the area's facilities, English-speaking crews and a film-friendly environment among the attractions he hopes will lure major projects.His ambitions don't end there."We want to make a $30 million historic epic 'Tomoris' about the ancient tribes of the steppe and hope to find (U.S. investors) interested in taking part in that," Amanshaev says, adding that Kazakhfilm will be taking meetings at the upcoming American Film Market. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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IFTA taps Hertzberg as chairman

The Independent Film & Television Alliance has tapped Paul Hertzberg, President and CEO of CineTel Films, as chairman for a two-year term, replacing Troma topper Lloyd Kaufman. The election was held Thursday as part of IFTA's Annual Members Meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel and concurrently at the British Screen Advisory Council in London. Kaufman stepped down after two terms. Hertzberg ran unopposed. IFTA membership also re-elected Pierre David, chairman and CEO of Imagination Worldwide, to vice chairperson and Summit exec VP Brad Kembel to vice chairperson/secretary. Hertzberg, David and Kembel have also been named to the executive committee. Members continuing their two-year terms are Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose of Lakeshore as Chairperson of the Export Alliance; Richard Guardian of Guardian Entertainment as Vice Chairperson; Nu Image topper Avi Lerner as Vice Chairperson/Finance and Mark Lindsay as Vice Chairperson. Elected to two-year terms on the board of directors are Kaufman, Shaked Berenson of Epic Pictures Group, Carl Clifton of K5 Media Group, Roger Corman of New Horizons Picture Corp., Myriad Pictures topper Kirk D'Amico, Albert Lee of Emperor Motion Pictures, Bobby Meyers of Meyers Film Entertainment, Kathy Morgan of Kathy Morgan International, Ed Noeltner of Cinema Management Group and Lise Romanoff of Vision Films. Continuing on the board are Steve Bickel of Orpheum Communications, Nicolas Chartier of Voltage Pictures, Mark Damon of Foresight Unlimited, Clay Epstein of The Little Film Company, Tatyana Joffe of IM Global, Tony Kandah of Hollywood Wizard, Brian O'Shea of The Exchange, Wendy Reeds of Tiger Gate, Mimi Steinbauer of Hyde Park International and Lisa Wilson of GK Films. Jack Campbell of Maya Entertainment and Peter Kujawski of Focus will serve as alternates. IFTA reps more than 150 member companies from 23 countries. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Charlies Angels' New Angels Don't Feel Pressure to satisfy yesteryear

Rachael Taylor, Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh Charlie's Angels has seen numerous faces undertake the duties from the crime-fighting angel: Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Cruz, Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts, Came Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Demi Moore. Fall TV: Retrace 30 years of Charlie's Angels Now, Minka Kelly, Annie Ilonzeh and Rachael Taylor will join the ranks from the near-exclusive club Body that is included with both halos and fighting capabilities or perhaps a billionaire boss. The Three new angels certainly involve some large rearfoot footwear to fill, nonetheless they, plus a considerably fitter and much more youthful John Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez), are ready for your challenge. "I don't think there's a lot of pressure because we're not emulating or filling anyone's shoes," Kelly notifies TVGuide.com. Fall TV: Have the lowdown relating to this season's must-see new shows The Friday Evening Lights star plays Eve French, a street racer nobody joins that old angels Abby Sampson (Taylor), a classic crook, and Kate Prince (Ilonzeh), an ex-Miami cop, inside the series premiere. Each girl features a sordid past, but together they take lower the crooks per instructions from that infamous little voice box while using their boss Charlie alternatively finish in the line. TVGuide.com sitting lower while using new angels and Rodriguez to obtain the scoop round the reboot. Plus: Have a look in an initial think about the new series: Charlie's Angels premieres Thursday at 8/7c on ABC.

'Ella' finds her fella

MitchellDavid Robert Mitchell, author-director of "Myth from the American Sleepover," continues to be set to direct romance drama "Ella Uses the Beach" from their own script.Mitchell is re-joining with "Myth" producer Adele Romanski, who'll produce "Ella" with Benderspink's Chris Bender, JC Spink and Mike Weiner becoming professional producers."Ella" centers around just one lady traveling along an legendary California beach."Myth," which follows four teens around the last evening of summer time, demonstrated at SXSW and Cannes this past year.Romanski's credits include "Free gift" and "Black Rock." Benderspink's creating "The Mighty" at Vital, "Great Love" at Warners and "Burt Wonderstone" at New Line.Mitchell is handled by Benderspink. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

'Unforgettable' Producer: This is not Another 'Gimmicky Procedural' (Q&A)

Erection dysfunction Redlich had one agreement in coming back to CBS. The Without any Trace executive producer wasn't considering doing another straight-up procedural, the bread and butter of the most extremely seen network.our editor recommends'Unforgettable' Is not Your Typical Procedural, States Executive Producer'Unforgettable': Marilu Henner along with a Virtual Detective Inform Poppy Montgomery's Character When he and also the childhood friend-switched-writing partner, John Bellucci, offer Memorable on Sept. 20, audiences will uncover a personality-based procedural inside the vein of CBS' The Truly Amazing Wife. Theseries concentrates on Poppy Montgomery's Barbara Wells, a classic detective getting an uncommon condition making her memory so perfect that every moment is forever a part of her mind. Really the only factor that they'll't remember are thedetails that will assist solve her sister's murder way back when. Unable to remove from that troubling past, Barbara is all of a sudden reunited along with her ex-boyfriend and partner, NYPD Detective Al Burns (Dylan Walsh), when the pair consults around the homicide situation. PHOTOS: Fall's 12 Most Anticipated Shows The producers taken up while using Hollywood Reporter to talk about his original pitch, the tussles while using network and what this show may have made an appearance as though elsewhere. The Hollywood Reporter: These acer notebook computers couple of years inside the making. What needed this type of very long time? Erection dysfunction Redlich: Yeah, literally couple of years ago my partner, SarahTimberman, who's one of the executive producers relating to this and [CBS' new series]A Gifted Guy, found a short story, The Rememberer. John which i make out the print and were just taken with this particular perception of the items it may be would rather accept failure to forget. I'd done procedural stuff at CBS withWithout a Trace, which i wasn't really searching to come back into doing procedural TV. But thinking about the truth that CBS is becoming doing shows like the Good Wife, which are really open to more character stuff, we mentioned, "let's take this character and explore how it's want to be her and hang her in this crime-fixing situation." We felt that her ability -it's something special, burden and ability - type of given itself compared to that kind of storytelling. We written it, and CBS apparently loved it greatly but we couldn't cast it that pilot season. [CBS entertainment chief] Nina Tassler mentioned, "We're just prone to still label this bought and also the moment you find the appropriate person we'll ensure it is.In . You're never sure if you should believe the network if the states something of this character, but that's what went lower. 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CBS has guaranteed us that what they are really considering is developing this character which we hopefully hold the room now to flee a few things i call the Bruckheimer kind of twisty-turn-y procedurals and very obtain the chance to spend some time with Poppy andDylan Walsh's character. It's a really tough balance: part of me desires to increase the risk for tales a lot more twisty and turn-y as well as the other place desires to find time to just spend some time along with her and explore the means by which she sights the earth. We came back and forth with CBS on the quantity of an encumbrance versus something special or simply how much fun versus angst there'd be. THR: Which argument had you been in? Redlich: Not to be pretentious, however i was interested initially inside the drama --exactly why is existence somewhat difficult-- because we understood we are in a position to always discover the this issue. The it the truth is inside the pilot: she'll count cards, and he or she knows an array of information. However i was considering trying really involved lack of from this, and then we were attracted compared to that which is been about searching to obtain everything into the show. THR: What's most likely probably the most challenging piece about like a showrunner in today's TV's landscape? Redlich: I've been a showrunner many occasions which i've made many aircraft aircraft pilots, but this really is really the first time that we've been undertaking a demonstrate that I created. There's a sizable distinction between helping someone else achieve their vision and monitoring your individual vision, there's a great deal to obtain done that you can easily eliminate an eye on everything you're trying to simply do because of the payment dates and everything that's visiting you. 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Happy 87th Birthday to Lauren Bacall! What's Her Greatest Onscreen Moment?

Lauren Bacall: smokiest dame who ever lived? Besides Myrna Loy, who was so (literally) smoky that Nicotine dripped off the screen? Today is Bacall’s 87th birthday, and even if she lost the Best Supporting Actress Oscar to that two-bit whippersnapper Juliette Binoche, she’s still a supremely respected star of a bygone era. What’s your favorite Bacall moment of all time? I’m taking us back to the start — and to a very revered classic. In 1944’s To Have and Have Not, Bacall slinks away from Bogie and over to the piano for a devastating, husky rendition of Hoagy Carmichael’s “How Little We Know.” If you can survive the sauna of sexuality that is her voice, you still have to get over that unbelievable face. Has any other star — including Marilyn, Elizabeth, or Grace — ever embodied the term “knockout” so fiercely?

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Simon Cowell Sounds Off on X Factor and Paula Abdul

Simon Cowell Prime-time television needs another talent competition around it takes another rule-breaking cop, unconventional lawyer or crazy neighbor. Yet Fox is beginning a U.S. version in the U.K. visit the X Factor, through which unknown entertainers compete for that chance to win a $5 million recording contract. "Why different then all people other shows? Simon Cowell," states Nicole Scherzinger, one of the show's idol idol judges, as well as Cowell, Paula Abdul and Grammy Award-winning producer Antonio "L.A." Reid. "He's like the Elvis of talent reality shows. As well as finish up such as the The American Idol Show Show on steroid drugs." Cowell, who'll earn $75 million per season, is not only a judge. He's also the show's executive producer and mind cheerleader and spent a lot of history year traveling around America trying to drum up fascination with The X Factor. He describes why he likes this show greater than The The American Idol Show Show and the way he's learned to love former enemy Abdul. TV Guide Magazine: Existence was running easily to suit your needs: You're about the hit show inside the U.S. using the The American Idol Show Show, and creating and turning up concerning the U.K.'s X Factor. Why quit Idol to produce The X Key to America?Cowell: Every time I came back to accomplish the show inside the U.K., I loved it progressively more. And the truth is once we hadn't attempted it [here], In my opinion another person may have done a version. TV Guide Magazine: The thing that was Fox's reaction?Cowell: Their attitude was that lightning doesn't strike two occasions. Before we launched inside the U.K. [in 2004, people] mentioned, "You won't have another hit." I mentioned, "You haven't seen the show, just how's it going aware?" TV Guide Magazine: The British version has created debate, with complaints about rigged voting and contestants' vocals being enhanced. Was Fox scared with this?Cowell: I informed them it was always a questionable show. Much less I care. It is not like we're drowning youthful young puppies. When people are talking about this, you know you're undertaking an effective reality show. Things will probably fail and allow you to get into trouble which i kind of such as this. TV Guide Magazine: Had you been worried about the risk of beginning something totally new?Cowell: I really like the risk. That's part of the thrill. When the situation is going badly plus you've got a good deal at risk, your adrenaline builds up. TV Guide Magazine: Are you currently presently nervous the show might not work?Cowell: From the driving for the first audition, ultimately people several days of planning, thinking, "Christ, here you go! Whether it doesn't work..." There has been 5,000 people [inside the audience] plus they didn't know very well what the format was. Your first person to audition emerged as well as the audience just first first got it. They understood they were part of the process. They may lead in it. I examined their faces and thought, "Yeah, you want this show." TV Guide Magazine: What is going to increase the risk for X Factor effective within your eyes? Can it be crucial that you you to definitely certainly top The The American Idol Show Show?Cowell: No. 1 gets a star [as well as the show getting] unpredictability, debate those talking about this inside their lives. Several [competition] shows have grown to be over time and lastly, I am unsure how extended it may need, [If only to develop] enough being no. 1 show. TV Guide Magazine: How can pressure of beginning The X Factor rival the very first occasions of Idol?Cowell: It absolutely was another feeling with Idol. Nobody understood who I used to be, and with techniques that was quite comforting. No matter what went down, we'd increase the risk for show we preferred to create. But when we've got more efficient, more people turned up. A lot more everybody was inside the room that you just didn't recognize. Lots of watching you, delivering emails. It was not fun any more. TV Guide Magazine: Was that part of that are used for departing?Cowell: I used to be making a lot of money about the The American Idol Show Show, however did X Factor because I really felt it had been a far greater show. Personally, i had been more comfortable searching in a show where senior citizens could deal with youthful people who could deal with groups. I merely preferred that process. And also, since I used to be creating X Factor, it had really my character about the program. So I am certain some artists would favor Idol or perhaps the Voice, but you will notice individuals we backed sit better around. TV Guide Magazine: Concerning The X Factor, idol idol judges become mentors for the participants. Are you able to explain that crucial that you you?Cowell: There has been items that happened on Idol that may have been avoided once we [idol idol judges] had really a say using what [the artists] sang or did. Tamyra Gray and Jennifer Hudson are perfect good good examples of folks that should have been runners up but because of stupid song options, they didn't have the chance. I'm very frustrated relating to this even though it absolutely was 10 years ago. I used to be very upset about Tamyra passing on an chance to deal with Kelly Clarkson, because that might have been one heck from the final. TV Guide Magazine: What excites you in regards to the first round of auditions? Whom should audiences consider?Cowell: Auditions felt different then everything we have done before. Typically the most popular is someone we'd in Dallas and somebody who might not have became a member of this kind of show. TV Guide Magazine: You have made mind lines immediately when Cheryl Cole, the judge you introduced in the U.K. X Factor, was fired and transformed by Nicole Scherzinger. Can you regret how that went lower?Cowell: The real truth about that decision was that we were built with a dent inside the U.K. which i needed the scene - which i didn't mean it a detrimental - that we thought Cheryl was more comfortable concentrating on the U.K. show in comparison to American show. She'll disagree with this particular, but just like a producer make people options. I'm famous with this particular. I change my ideas within the very last minute because my stomach notifies me that. Not to imply I'm right constantly - because I'm not. In my opinion my regret is merely it increased to become bigger deal laptop or computer was because it went public. TV Guide Magazine: There's one or more factor Idol and X Factor share: Paula Abdul. Why would you use her again?Cowell: I've continued to be in touch with her. We met right after I understood she wasn't coming back to Idol, which i mentioned we're getting this show to America which i offer you my word you'll probably be a lot of it. When she found see me six several days before we finally made our mind up, she looked amazing. She was totally prepared. She'd done her research. I examined her and mentioned, "You don't just need employment. You have to make something by using this.In . Which describes why it absolutely was a complete no-brainer to produce her in. TV Guide Magazine: How's the chemistry between you?Cowell: We've tremendous loyalty to each other. It'll end up with passionate and you'll probably realize that. People remember her for your craziness, the fighting, but she knows what she's doing. For further with Cowell, get TV Guide Magazine's Returning Faves problem, on newsstands Thursday, September 15! Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Toronto dancing to docu beat

Ballet docu "First Position" has produced buyer buzz at Toronto. Filmmakers Morgan Spurlock and Nick Broomfield were available for Monday's Focus Forward docu initiative launch in the fest. "Gem Jam Twenty," phone band's debut album "Ten," is probably the many music-driven paperwork screening at Toronto. The current success of theatrical paperwork for example "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" and "Buck" is supplying cause of optimism for non-fiction filmmakers in Toronto.Like Sundance, which saw a proper quantity of doc sales, Toronto includes a status for world preeming docus which have legs past the fest.Bess Kargman's "First Position," about ballet school hopefuls, appears like the 2010 "Spellbound," with purchasers immediately on the telephone following its standing-ovation Sunday preem."Paul Williams: Still Alive" would be a slam dunk with auds on Sunday evening, while Jonathan Demme's "I am Carolyn Parker: The Great, the Mad and also the Beautiful," in regards to a New Orleans matriarch repairing her home after Hurricane Katrina, will preem Tuesday, as will "During My Mother's Arms," a docu in regards to a Baghdad orphanage.Toronto opened up using the world preem of Davis Guggenheim's U2 docu "In the Sky Lower." Pic, which Showtime acquired right before the fest, marked the very first time a docu opened up Toronto.Inside a city which many festgoersagree has among the best auds for appreciating documentaries, the preem went over well. Toronto, that also hosts the large spring Hotdocs fest, will even soon begin to see the opening of the new docu-focused theater.As well as on Saturday, Cameron Crowe-helmed documentary "Gem Jam Twenty," which remembers the twentieth anniversary from the band's debut album "Ten," tested in the fest. Wim Wenders dance-focused docu "Pina" also nabbed a fest berth.Oddly enough, probably the most effective photos of history couple of several weeks happen to be niche documentaries: Take IFC's discharge of "Buck," which continued to earn $3.9 million in theaters, as the distrib's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," helmed by Werner Herzog, required $5.two million.An hour or so before the beginning of Monday's day-lengthy Documentary Conference in the fest, short docu writer Cinelan and project partner General electric introduced a unique distribution pact with video-discussing site Vimeo for that innovation-designed Focus Forward project of 30 three-minute docus, to become directed by leading filmmakers from all over the world.The breakfast announcement -- attended by fest docu stars Morgan Spurlock ("Comic-Disadvantage: Episode 1V - A Fan's Hope"), Jessica Yu ("Last Call in the Oasis"), Nick Broomfield ("Sarah Palin -- You Betcha") and Joe Berlinger ("Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory") -- also added Intl. Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) towards the growing roster of fests (Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca) aboard to preem programs from the finished shorts, then day-and-date multi-platform release via Vimeo."Our mission would be to offer the artistic vision of filmmakers whose creative method of documentary notifies the design and style and substance of the work," stated IDFA director Ally Derks. "Therefore we expect excellent achievements in the high quality of filmmakers involved."Focus Forward shorts happen to be commissioned from Spurlock, Berlinger, Yu, Lixin Fan, Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney (fest-preeming "The Final Gladiators"), Steve James, Barbara Kopple and Ross Kaufman.The series' overall theme may be the energy of world-shaping inventions -- and it is already flush with great ideas.On Monday Yu revealed her short will concentrate on Jack Sim, a.k.a. Mr. Toilet, a upon the market Singapore businessman who founded the planet Toilet Organization (serious) in 2001 and established the earth's first toilet college. "He's managed to get his pursuit to bring the problem of sanitation around the world,Inch stated Yu. Her water-problem feature docu "Last Call in the Oasis," which world-preemed Friday, gets buyer buzz, based on Submarine.Cinelan topper Karol Martesko-Fenster stated he's positively focusing on developing close ties with other top film festivals, the nation's Film Board of Canada and industry partners in addition to relationship top docu filmmakers. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Rani,' 'Revenge' popular at mart

PARIS -- Eighteenth-century Indian saga "Rani," gangster miniseries "Tony's Revenge" and pop culture-themed documentary "Series Addict" topped library viewings at the TV France Intl. Rendez-Vous mart, which wrapped Friday in Biarritz. Repped by Newen Distribution, "Rani" turns on a noblewoman sold into prostitution in colonial India amid the war between the French and the British. The 14 million ($19 million) drama is penned by comicbook artist Jean Van Hamme ("XIII," "Largo Winch") and produced by Son et Lumiere, the outfit behind hit TV crime drama "Spiral." "Tony's Revenge" mixes flashbacks to the 1950s and contempo action to chronicle the rise and fall of a gangster, played by Simon Abkarian. The eight-part mini was penned by Gaul's Virginie Brac and sold by AB Intl. "Tony's Revenge" is produced by Fidelite Films' Lincoln TV and Tetra Media. Meanwhile, "Series Addict" is a one-hour docu exploring the fan frenzy surrounding some TV series. Produced by Agat Films, it features interviews with the showrunners of hit TV dramas including "Heroes," "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men." "Series Addict" is repped by Doc & Film Intl. and helmed by film journo Olivier Joyard. The market's most-watched toon was "Chaplin & Co," a 3D animated series featuring Charlie Chaplin's tramp character, sold by PGS Entertainment. Underscoring the upward trend in French exports figures, TVFI participation was up 12%, attracting 243 buyers from 157 broadcasters. While reps of European broadcasters made up the bulk of attendees, mart organizers noted a growing presence of buyers from the Middle East and Asia. Conveniently skedded in the run-up to Mipcom, the Biarritz mart attracted 64 French production and distribution companies, four more than in 2010. TVFI's managing director Mathieu Bejot pointed out that one-third of France's TV sales companies doubled their revenues in 2010. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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NBCUniversal Employs Investment Banker for CFO Slot

NBCUniversal hired since it's new CFO Stuart Epstein, who heads Morgan Stanley's Media & Communications Group and was an agent to Comcast throughout its purchase of a controlling stake in the organization. NBCU stated Wednesday that Epstein will begin in mid-October which he'll are accountable to Boss Stephen Burke. Epstein is changing Lynn Calpeter, who in This summer required a high finance job with Whirlpool, the organization that's minority partner to Comcast within the NBCU partnership. Although it required her some time, Calpeter was among a lengthy listing of NBCU professionals -- including former Boss Shaun Zucker -- who left the organization because the $37.5 billion partnership was created in The month of january. Epstein is "a wise, capable leader having a deep knowledge of the media business," Burke stated Wednesday. "Getting known Stuart for a long time, I'm also sure that he'll be an excellent cultural fit for NBCU." Related Subjects Shaun Zucker Comcast Whirlpool NBCUniversal Hirings-firings Steve Burke

London Film Festival Line-Up Introduced

Clooney! Fiennes! Cronenberg! Clooney!The BFI London Film Festival is 55 years of age, but despite bus-pass qualifications coming, it's showing no signs and symptoms of losing its vitality. The entire line-up continues to be introduced and includes 204 movies, including new choices by British company directors from the calibre of Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Michael Winterbottom, Lynne Ramsay and Terence Davies. Gleam United kingdom bow for that much buzzed-about quiet film The Artist, news that's pretty thrilling for anybody who witness the clamour that encircled it at Cannes. Star-smart, George Clooney is going to be making the festival 27% more glamorous. He's scheduled to look at gala tests of his new political thriller, The Ides Of March, in addition to Alexander Payne's The Descendants. He'd an active LFF a few years ago, with Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Males Who Stare At Goat's or more Up, and it is a lot of same for that Cloonster. There is a strong literary vibe, too. Michael Winterbottom's Tess From The D'Urbervilles, Rob Fiennes' directorial debut, Coriolanus, Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Levels and, er, Roland Emmerich's Shakespearean thriller Anonymous may have bookish types all a'quiver. Also prone to excite punters and experts alike are David Cronenberg's A Harmful Method, Ramsay's We Have To Discuss Kevin, and Steve 'No not too one' McQueen's Shame. The bald eagle-eyed among you'll have spotted Michael Fassbender getting an attractive crisis inside, not once, but two times. This is pleasing to fans of this type of factor. Other luminaries with films showing up are Roman Polanski (Carnage), Gus Van Sant (Restless), Werner Herzog (In To The Abyss), Todd Solondz (Dark Equine), and Jonathan Demme (I am Carolyn Parker). Huzzah too for that Dardenne siblings, stars of Empire's Cannes blogs, whose latest, The Little One Using The Bike, informs the moving tale of the baby goat who escapes from the feta factory to go in the Tour p France. Or something like that along individuals lines. We should look into the synopsis. The LFF will boast enough starry faces to maintain autograph predators happy. Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz is going to be there to usher the festival in on October 12 by having an opening evening screening of Fernando Meirelles' 360, while Terence Davies' The Dark Blue Ocean brings the curtain lower on proceedings on October 27. Get more information at the 411 on 360 and co, and all sorts of the LFF particulars.