How to become a Star in one Easy Lesson: 'War Horse's' Jeremy Irvine

Jeremy Irvine, the 21-year-old star and acting newcomer within the Steven Spielberg-directed Disney film "War Equine," spoken using the Hollywood Reporter's executive editor, features Stephen Galloway about his large break.The Hollywood Reporter: How perhaps you have have the part? Jeremy Irvine: Ahead of time, I used to be inside the chorus while using Royal Shakespeare Company, quite literally playing a tree. I'd not labored for just about any year, happening audition after audition, and signed having a completely new agent after finishing while using RSC. I signed around the Friday evening and went to the "War Equine" audition Tuesday morning. I'd a couple of several days of relocating to audition two or three occasions each week, sometimes doing videotape and knowing it may be shown to Steven. I met Steven very, very late on the way. The strange factor happening tape throughout your entire day, carrying out these situations, knowing it may be shown to Steven Spielberg during the night! It absolutely was quite intense. I used to be getting referred to as back a great deal it absolutely was astonishing which i i i never thought I'd get it. I Rapidly got a telephone call at 8 p.m. or 9 p.m., saying, "Is it possible to meet Steven for tea in the hotel london tomorrow morning?" I did so what any actor would do: I freaked out. I don't think I rested nearly all your evening. I went into this meeting and within about a few minutes Steven and [producer] Kathleen Kennedy we just sitting obtaining a chat. His finest skill is his capacity to put you comfortable therefore making you very comfortable. You appear like you possibly can make mistakes which is a perfect atmosphere.THR: When perhaps you have learn you will find the task? JI: It absolutely was all very secretive. I used to be in your house developing a go-kart for my cousin and so they asked for me later on and tape and offered me a little of script and mentioned, "Steven wants this being spontaneous which he wants you to definitely certainly just start the perimeters and start reading through through them tell you are capable of doing the accent." Which I start producing the perimeters throughout my agent's office plus it was some fake script, and i'm just reading through through, "Steven Spielberg wants me to see Albert in 'War Horse'!" I have the whole factor on tape. I used to be asked for to attend and not tell anybody. I didn't tell my pals and family for just about any day or two. It's amazing, for those who have result from literally nothing to available a Steven Spielberg movie, it's amazing your skill!THR: Perhaps you have undergo boot camping? JI: Not always. We have got inside it quite quickly, but we'd two several days of intense training while using horses and several found us unskilled since they were so youthful. I'd never ridden a equine before which i been there really began into me by these equine masters. There's grounds John Wayne walks like he's doing! Many of us waddled around for just two several days before we have got inside it. I'd spend several hours inside the stable using this youthful equine until it increased being at ease with me, then with the finish we'd it experimenting the fields, getting fun beside me. They were the very best moments. I believed, "I have not been a dog person. I'm not a real sucker for the and fall deeply deeply in love with your dog.In . And in the week I used to be as bleary-eyed as everyone else.THR: The thing that was the most difficult part of the shoot? JI: The stuff we shot inside the trenches: Steven was very keen to own hardly any CGI as you can there's a maximum of three moments of CGI inside the whole film, that was for your safety in the horses. We'd be round the set and many types of these explosions that you just see were real explosions going off all the guns had ammunition. My rifle will be a real rifle found in the initial World War, and many types of the gear guns too. There's a scene using the machine guns, and so they counseled me real machine guns found in the actual existence. I truly collect old Third and 4th World War memorabilia. I obtained some nice souvenirs!THR: What did your dream moments involve? JI: Extended nights in completely drenched trenches around our knees in grime and water. I'd say for many people they were probably the most difficult if this involves just being physically and psychologically tiring. You are requiring to experience that elevated emotion for just about any super very long time. And what's incredible happens when heavy all your uniform and tackle can get. As soon as your large woolen uniform can get wet, the burden is unbelievable, and you'd be running across no-man's-land, with the grime and muck. There has been sequences where explosions would occur alongside me and three or four stuntmen would fly using the air after which it there'd be other moments where you stand just completely drenched. I obtained trench ft [a condition contracted through extended reference to dampness]. The soldiers once had it constantly. After which it there has been the rats. They released about 20 rats there's however constant shouts of "Can someone get us a coffee?" But there has been moments where I'd be running off and explosions might be alongside me and three or four stuntmen would fly using the air. I guess we spent about three or four days [inside the trenches]. It absolutely was tough but furthermore enjoyable.THR: Managed to get happen lead you to recognize real-existence soldiers? JI: I don't think anybody might even begin to say we are in a position to at all interact with how they felt. That could be insulting.THR: Did there is a favorite scene? JI: Among the most popular moments was one I'm not in, when edge in the overall game cavalry charge. It had been my first film, so whenever I wasn't filming I used to be heading lower to check out another stars to anxiously learn to make it happen which i recall watching this and so they i did so this huge cavalry charge to ensure that because they get close, they'd about eight of individuals real, genuine machine guns and so they just opened up up up also to be there at that time was humbling and moving.THR: Was there anything bad in regards to the experience? JI: They produce free food as well as the catering is amazing, to ensure that being an actress you fill for just about any week, and i'm stuffing my face and so they say, "Will there be anything special you need?In . I positioned on a stone [14 pounds] in three several days! Once the film showed up in this area, I'm thinking, "Great, my pals will probably see me in this particular movie" which i woke up combined about 15 texts, every one of these saying, "Jeremy, perhaps you have take in the bloody equine?!" The Hollywood Reporter

MTV Returns Punkd

Ashton Kutcher MTV is coming back Punk'd, the network introduced Monday. The show, which initially opened up in 2003, was co-created by and Jason Goldberg. Kutcher also offered as host and producer.Photo gallery: The breakout stars of 2011A modern-day version of candid camera, stars for instance Jessica Alba, Taye Diggs, and Halle Berry counseled me the people with elaborate practical jokes through the show's eight season run. The series will return to the network in 2012, but audiences will get a sneak look in the show throughout MTV's annual New Year's Eve party on 12 ,. 31 at 11/10c.Goldberg and Kutcher is constantly on the produce the series. There's not sure yet on whether Kutcher will still work as host. Which celebrity do you want to see get punk'd?

Giuliana Rancic Already "Cracking Jokes" After Her Double Mastectomy

Giuliana Rancic Giuliana Rancic is "succeedingInch after sinking the knife. The E! News host's double mastectomy and repairing surgery stopped without any hitch Tuesday evening, E! Online reviews. Giuliana Rancic: I have first stages of breast cancers "G does perfectly,In . husband Bill Rancic notifies the site. "Her surgery made it four several hours as well as the doctors were happy while using result. She'd some discomfort using the evening but is feeling much better today and was cracking jokes." The E! personality also sent an email to her fans: "If only by way of thanking all the audiences and fans for support and hopes. The tweets and notes haven't gone undetected. I am very grateful."

Nate Berkus Show Not Restored For Any Third Season

First Released: December 9, 2011 7:12 PM EST Credit: Getty Images La, Calif. -- Caption Nate Berkus attends GQs Best New Men's clothing Designers Party in the IAC Building, New york city, Feb 11, 2010Nate Berkus is departing the challenging realm of daytime television the coming year. On Friday, it had been says The Nate Berkus Show wasn't restored for that 2012-2013 television season. After consideration, we now have made the decision the Nate Berkus Show won't return for any third season within the fall, The new sony and Harpo stated inside a joint statement launched to gain access to Hollywood on Friday. We're grateful for that effort and heart that Nate, [executive producer] Corin Nelson as well as their entire team have put in to the show, and were very happy with what theyve shipped. Nates show, which concentrates on interior planning featuring interviews with celebrity visitors, is presently in the second season now, its last. Responding towards the news, Nate stated he was happy with the merchandise his team has placed on television. Im incredibly happy with my diligent and gifted staff, and happy with the show we could produce every single day, he stated inside a statement. Nate was one of many stars, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Phil McGraw and Rachael Ray who got their very own shows after an endorsement from The famous host oprah Winfrey. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Little People, Big World' Holiday Special: Jeremy's Homecoming and Dad's 50! (Exclusive Video)

Jani Lane, worth a reported $600,000 at the time of his death, failed to leave behind a will. Now, his daughter is requesting an estate administrator to sort out his assets.our editor recommendsWarrants Jani Lane Died of Alcohol PoisoningWarrant's Jani Lane: 5 Things to Know PHOTOS: Dollars After Death 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts This according to court documents obtained by TMZ, though it remains unclear what the late singer's estate consists of.The ex-Warrant frontman is survived by his wife and two daughters. TMZ also notes that the mother of his second daughter could be in contention for a portion of his trust. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Lane died at 47-years-old after suffering from alcohol poisoning. He was found in a Comfort Inn Hotel in Woodland Hills, Calif. on Aug. 11, 2011. Lane, whose real name was John Kennedy Oswald left the 1980s glam band in 2008. The singer had a history of alcohol-related arrests. He was taken into custody in June 2009 for reportedly crashing into a parked car. A year later, he was arrested for a similar incident that landed him in jail for 120 days. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Dollars After Death: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts Related Topics

The Scene at THR's 2011 Women In Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast

This story appears in the Dec. 2011 special issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Putting together the ranked list of entertainment's most powerful women for this annual issue, The Hollywood Reporter's 20th, is nothing short of agonizing. For the top spots, the deliberations over who goes where became topics of vigorous debate in the hallways here at 5700 Wilshire. PHOTOS: 2011 Women in Entertainment Power 100 In all the discussions, however, one undisputed trend emerged: TV, especially the world of cable, is ascendant, and women disproportionately are driving it. It's no coincidence that four of the top five women on this year's Power 100 list come from the medium (the extraordinary Amy Pascal alone represents film at No. 2). Just a few years ago, film dominated entertainment with the most prestige, the greatest revenue and the biggest impact on our national conversation. Not anymore. Programming such as The Daily Show, Mad Men and even Jersey Shore drives pop culture to a greater extent than any motion picture in recent years, extending its influence into the realms of fashion, politics, publishing and music. One major studio exec recently bemoaned to me that, outside of the Twilight franchise, film is lacking a major "event." "No one is talking about movies right now," said this exec. "It's all about cable." COMPLETE LIST: 2011 Women in Entertainment Power 100 At the same time, the earnings of some of the leading cable networks have dwarfed those of the major studios, and the valuation of Disney Media Networks -- the division overseen by the list's top-spot holder, Anne Sweeney -- is hugely more than that of its sister movie studio. Total revenue for the entire movie industry this year is estimated by PricewaterhouseCoopers at $36.8 billion; by contrast, television advertising in the U.S. brought in $71.1 billion, and you can double that number if you add subscription and license revenue. But economics aren't the only reason these women are at the top. It's also because television has provided opportunity that film simply hasn't. A newer industry, cable was welcoming to all when it was birthing multitudes of then-not-so-fashionable networks. The high-powered women at the top of TV largely got their breaks in the "Wild West" days of early cable -- as one executive describes them -- when television created openings that the established, more relationship-oriented movie world didn't. None of this is to take away from the incredible women in film and other mediums on our Power 100. The same exec who decried the lack of momentum in movies was quick to point out, "It's all cyclical." Indeed, every single person on the list reflects extraordinary drive, intelligence and ability to weather whatever is around the bend in the industry. I dare anyone to not be inspired by every person in this issue. Congratulations to all. Janice Min Editorial Director Items 1-10 Items 11-20 Items 21-30 Items 31-40 Items 41-50 Items 51-60 Items 61-70 Items 71-80 Items 81-90 Items 91-100 Items 1-10 1 Anne SweeneyCo-Chairman, Disney Media Networks President, Disney/ABC Television G...read more 2 Amy PascalCo-Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainmentread more 2 Bonnie HammerChairman, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainmentread more 4 Abbe RavenPresident and CEO, A+E Television Networksread more 5 Dana WaldenChairman, 20th Century Fox Televisionread more 6 Stacey SniderCo-Chairman and CEO, DreamWorksread more 7 Nina TasslerPresident, CBSread more 8 Donna LangleyCo-Chairman, Universal Picturesread more 9 Nancy DubucPresident, History and Lifetime Networksread more 10 Sue KrollPresident of Worldwide Marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures*read more

General Hospital Announces New Showrunner

General Hospital Longtime General Hospital showrunner Jill Farren Phelps has been replaced with One Life to Live executive producer Frank Valentini, ABC announced Thursday.The network also said One Life to Live head writer Ron Carlivati is taking the same position on Hospital.Exclusive: Jonathan Jackson quits General Hospital"Frank and Ron's creativity, passion and outstanding leadership will be a welcome addition to the cast and crew, as well as viewers and longtime fans," said Brian Frons ABC's president of daytime programming. "As creative leaders in the industry, I am very excited for their arrival to General Hospital, and their dedication to the genre will certainly invigorate the daytime drama that has been part of pop culture and the TV landscape for many years."A little background on these two: Valentini has been the executive producer of One Life to Live since 2002, but he's been with the show for more than 26 years. Carlivati has worked for 15 years on the soon-to-be-defunct soap and served as the show's head writer since 2007.Kimberly McCullough leaving General HospitalThe daytime drama has suffered two major blows of late - series regulars Kimberly McCullough and Jonathan Jackson both announced last month that they would be leaving the show.What do you think the reorganization means for General Hospital?

We Purchased a Zoo

A twentieth century Fox release presented in colaboration with Dune Entertainment of the LBI Entertainment, Vinyl Films production. Created by Julie Yorn, Cameron Crowe, Ron Yorn. Executive producer, Ilona Herzberg. Co-producers, Paul Deason, Aldric La'Auli Porter, Marc R. Gordon. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Script, Aline Brosh McKenna, Crowe, in the book by Benjamin Mee.Benjamin Mee - Matt Damon Kelly Promote - Scarlett Johansson Duncan Mee - Thomas Haden Chapel Robin Johnson - Patrick Fugit Dylan Mee - Colin Ford Lily Miska - Elle Fanning Rosie Mee - Maggie Elizabeth Johnson Walter Ferris - John Michael Higgins Peter MacCready - Angus MacFadyen Delbert McGinty - Peter Riegert Katherine Mee - Stephanie Szostak Mr. Stevens - JB Smoove"We Purchased a Zoo" is definitely an odd bird, warm-blooded but largely lifeless. Modified from Benjamin Mee's autobiographical account of his encounters because the new who owns a fixer-upper menagerie, Cameron Crowe's overlong pic works tough to deliver intermittent pleasures, many of which be a consequence of Matt Damon's affable lead turn. Animal action, in addition to comedy associated with a variety, remains strangely enough sparse as Crowe strains to create a tribe of his human figures, together with a ragtag zoo-keeping team and also the widowed Mee's two kids. Sneaked nearly per month ahead of time, Fox's holiday offering lacks the zip required to drive upbeat person to person. Though faithful to Mee's book people, Crowe's "Zoo" changes the setting in the British countryside to Los Angeles, and begins with Mee's wife, Katherine, getting already died from illness (she's performed in flashbacks by Stephanie Szostak). Such as the soul-seeking protags of Crowe photos past, Damon's grieving Mee decides at the start of the film to show his existence upside lower, abruptly giving up his job being an L.A. newspaper journo and moving themself and the kids -- teenage Dylan (Colin Ford) and 7-year-old Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Johnson) -- to some rural property whose 18 acres range from the Rosemoor Animal Park. Shuttered years back, but nonetheless the place to find people of countless dozen endangered species, Rosemoor operates through the twentysomething Kelly Promote (Scarlett Johansson), a workaholic animal lover who's skeptical of Mee's intentions until he opens his pocketbook and proves his concern for the kind of Buster, a 650-pound grizzly bear, and Spar, an aged and ailing tiger. Mee also needs to cope with their own brood, particularly Dylan, whose bereavement takes the type of persistent apathy for basically their own ornately grotesque sketches. Where Crowe's classics, "Say Anything" (1989) and "Jerry Maguire" (1996), work their miracle in no small part through indelible supporting figures, "Zoo" is definitely an altogether messier affair. Among an ensemble that never quite coheres are Kelly's teen cousin Lily (Elle Fanning), who flirts with Dylan Robin (Patrick Fugit, who performed Crowe's alter ego in "Almost Famous"), who looks after a capuchin monkey on his shoulder MacCready (Angus MacFadyen), who drinks hard and it has a poor temper and Mee's accountant brother, Duncan (Thomas Haden Chapel), who turns up every occasionally to wag a finger at his not practical brother or sister. Crowe, who co-authored the script with Aline Brosh McKenna, clearly needs to celebrate the group's tireless efforts to reopen the park, only Damon, convincing and pleasant throughout, continues to be given enough to complete. As performed sweetly by Johnson, youthful Rosie is simply another implausibly precocious pre-tween who, like Johansson's underwritten Kelly, is available largely to smile approvingly in the hero. The animals' reaction shots appear somewhat more nuanced, though, surprisingly, "Zoo" handles to shortchange its non-human entertainers too. Per conventional a Crowe film, the soundtrack comes full of treats, even though mixture of Neil Youthful, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan, among many more, lacks the moments of musical epiphany within the director's signature works. The score by Jonsi of Sigur Ros sounds a little saccharine and does not mesh well using the vintage pop. Tech credits, except for the shapeless cutting, are solid but hardly vivid enough to pay for that pic's inadequacies.Camera (Luxurious color), Rodrigo Prieto editor, Mark Livolsi music, Jonsi production designer, Clay Griffith supervisory art director, Peter Borck art director, Domenic Silvestri set decorator, Wayne Shepherd costume designer, Deborah L. Scott seem (Dolby Digital/Datasat Digital/SDDS), Shaun Wexler supervisory seem editors, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee re-recording mixers, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett visual effects supervisor, Paul Graff visual effects, Crazy Equine Effects effects supervisor, Burt Dalton stunt planners, Thomas Robinson Harper, Doug Seus connect producers, Jeffrey Harlacker, Michelle Panek assistant director, Aldric La'Auli Porter second unit director, Harper second unit camera, Kaira Shield, Patrick Murguia, Eduardo Mayen casting, Gail Levin. Examined at AMC Eden Prairie 18, Eden Prairie, Minn., November. 26, 2011. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 124 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

J.R. Martinez Wasn't really the only Champion on Dwts

Karina Smirnoff, J.R. Martinez What's lately crowned Dwts champion J.R. Martinez going associated with his mirror ball trophy? "I'm gonna put mine in bed mattress. I'm gonna tuck it in, which is gonna roll around with me at night. After which, I'm gonna glue it round the hood of my vehicle and drive around La honking my horn. It's likely to be my own, personal parade." Martinez may have waltzed offered through the large win, together with a sparkling souvenir, but he's definately not really the only champion this season. Personal and professional victories abound, incorporated within this: Karina Smirnoff, Martinez's professional partner, who acquired her first large win and completely softened her tough cookie, tough Russian image. She is an amazing dancer. When you're around an Iraqi war vet humbled her and left her in awe. "He makes me wish to be a far greater person," states Smirnoff. "When something is going on throughout my existence and I am unsure what direction to go, I now think, 'What would J.R. do?'" Make the most of Kardashian, who not only showed up second, but handled to obtain okay to become Kardashian. The self-known to "loser brother" switched to function as best, most difficult working one of the bunch. Request him if his understanding about his family's model of reality TV aided prepare him for your madness of Dancing, which according to him, "No, this is often a whole other world. That is funnel 7 [rather than a greater-designated cable funnel], ABC, 20 million audiences, live, and doing something that's completely outdoors my rut. It absolutely was certainly an uncomfortable experience which i mastered my fears." Chaz Bono. Nobody mastered more fears than Bono, who never danced a lot better than he did on Tuesday evening within the return for your finale. "Because there has been no idol idol judges!" according to him, laughing. Throughout your competitors, Bono required over as poster boy for your transgender community and was afraid round the party area. "I used to be panicked every time I used to be available," states Bono. "You just don't show it. You smile, however will be a wreck." Since it's over? "You keep pushing through obstacles, as well as the pressure, as well as the nerves, so when you're done, you appear like you could do this this anything." Carson Kressley, who was simply really never removed within the show. The form guru came back since the show's comedy reporter and cheerleader, furthermore to as being a Dancing commentator permanently Morning America. "My a quarter-hour of fame is a number of several hours, no less than,In . states Kressley. "Which show really switched the tables on me. I used to be the one which got made over. I used to be the one which arrived at learn something totally new. I learned being confident." This person which has given a great deal confidence to others needed to understand it themselves? "In dancing? Yes!" Tristan MacManus, the completely new professional who handled to deal with most widely used potato in the bunch, HLN's open and effective-willed Nancy Sophistication, with amazing deftness. Then, between his schoolboy appearance and also the Irish brogue, he charmed everyone else inside the bargain. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

New eBay App Reminds You What's Important in Movies

“Starting today, the company will offer the features as part of its iPad application, letting users browse merchandise from shows and movies. [… Steve] Yankovich, 50, was inspired to develop the technology while watching the movie Something’s Gotta Give, which featured a toaster he wanted. ‘You’ll be able to buy exactly what’s there,’ said Yankovich, who runs mobile services at the San Jose, California-based company.” [Bloomberg]

Sweden's Ostlund preps 'Tourist'

GIJON, The country -- Swedish helmer-scribe Ruben Ostlund is preparing "Tourist," his follow-as much as breakthrough hit "Play." A Swedish-French language movie, "Tourist" is to establish at Ostlund's Gothenburg-based Plattform Produktion. Plattform is within talks for Philippe Bober's Coproduction Office to co-produce and handle "Tourist's" worldwide sales, as on "Play," Ostlund stated at Spain's Gijon Festival, which began its 49th edition Friday. Plattform's Erik Hemmendorff and Marie Kjelson will produce. The Swedish Film Institute and Swedish regional fund Film I Huge, that has set up development costs, are backing "Tourist." A 3-part movie, "Tourist" highlights "behavior that individuals have observed in others -- mostly incompatible areas -- think they'll never turn to, after which need to admit they have that side for their character," Ostlund told journalists at Gijon. One part includes what Ostlund hopes to become probably the most spectacular avalanche in film history. It activates a contented Swedish family -- father, mother, two kids -- vacationing within the French Alps. An avalanche sparks a spontaneous act of cowardice in the father, who can't realise why he responded this way. Ostlund, an expert ski filmmaker, is presently focusing on the script. Plattform aims to trigger the avalanche this winter, mixing shots with bluescreen vfx. Principal photography is skedded for spring, Ostlund told Variety. A discomfiting chronicle, according to true occasions, of 5 black boys slowly destroying three whitened kids -- "the concept ended up being to open discussions about a thing that individuals have difficulties speaking about, Ostlund stated -- "Play" was one Competition standout throughout Gijon's early running. Valeria Donzelli's French B.O. breakout "Promise of War" confirmed its overseas potential, drawing applause as well as tears in a press screening. Belgian Bouli Lanners "The Titans" elicited glowing press plaudits: "A piece of genius," reported Asturias' El Comercial. Playing Monday, Gijon's initial world preem, "Iceberg," from Spaniard Gabriel Velazquez ("Sud Express"), demonstrated a contemplative three-story coming-of-age drama, set beside Salamanca's couch potatoes Rio Tormes, by which three adolescents face their first character-shaping large problems in existence. Underscoring a brand new industrial model in The country of ratcheting lower budgets to limit contact with a seriously contracting local market, Velazquez stated that, as they required a danger starting production on "Iceberg" before closing its budget, the drama was eventually fully-funded by incentives. Within the Rellumes sidebar, the near phantasmagoric docu "Hollywood Talkies," from Barcelona's Oscar Perez and Marly Ribot -- activating the development of The spanish language-language version of early seem photos -- also had its fans. "Copito," a three dimensional live-action/toon movie from Filmax, among Spain's foremost forces in feature film animation, world preems in a few days. Fest fetes eclectic Austrian helmer Michael Glawogger ("Whore's Glory," "Contact High"), Bertrand Bonello ("House of Tolerance") and festive NY-based indie cineaste Marie Losier, who presented her feature "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye." Spaniard Montxo Armendariz -- whose films have usually twinned critical and commercial success in The country -- will get the Nacho Martinez National Cinema Prize. Fest shuts Saturday with thriller "The Lady within the Fifth," from Pawel Pawlikowski, whose "The Last Measure" capped Gijon in 2000. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Ough didn't lose their number

Millions will probably be carefully watching Ough Gervais' opening remarks when he emcees his third Golden Globes on Jan. 15.Ough Gervais' scalding humor elevated eye eyebrows and hackles for his hosting of the extremely recent edition in the Golden Globes.The Brit comedian needed shots at numerous folks inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom, including Robert Downey Junior., The Actor-kaira Pitt and past HFPA leader Philip Berk. People who have been not happy with Gervais' jokes expressed their displeasure for the press as well as the story ongoing on for any couple of days following a last acceptance speech is created.Precisely how gets the HFPA responded? By using Gervais again.The The month of the month of january 2011 telecast received solid ratings, getting inside an average audience of 17 million audiences. This return engagement by Gervais could draw a lot more, with audiences waiting to find out at whom the host will hurl insults.Just before the announcement that Gervais was coming back for just about any third time, the Brit funnyman attempted a bit of the switch-flop on whether he'd return. Inside an October interview on "Accept Regis and Kelly," Gervais suggested he might likely turn lower another gig emceeing the Globes."I don't think I will really," he mentioned in those days. "I did so it two occasions as well as the reason I did so it two occasions is I desired to boost round the newbie which i do not believe I really could top it, so I'll probably allow it to relaxation there."Since the Gervais stint's storm raged, the old adage about "no such factor badly publicity" also began circulating."Clearly it absolutely was most likely probably the most crazy and irreverent Golden Globes show we view,In . recalls TV Guide critic Matt Roush. "The show features a status to become looser and funkier in a few regards, nonetheless they revere the celebs and Gervais insulted those to their face. That joined the street.InchSome don't mind a Globes host taking shots at people inside the room as extended since the material is worthy."In my opinion in the event you pursue famous and effective people you have to pursue these with material that's so excellent that it'll translate to everyone," states America online TV critic Mo Ryan. "You need to ensure it is fresh therefore it is not only 10-year-old Hugh Hefner jokes."The Golden Globes likes its status one of the honours season's most laid-back matters with wine flowing from bottles visible round the telecast. Consequently, it has been marketed lately becoming an anything-can-happen event.That aura has extended been a nightmare for Globes company company directors and producers but a boon to reality-addicted audiences trying to find something to alter the telecast.Before Gervais formally reupped for the job, the HFPA had a range of going hostless or with multiple hosts, because both versions has happened formerly. That is one might have been the safer move, it clearly wouldn't hold the ratings impact of Gervais coming back. And then the org made a decision the Gervais-situated-Globes is dangerous but makes permanently television.Considerably enhanced he's returning, it's highly unlikely he'll go soft to the through which he skewered. The comedian has ongoing to become confident his previous performance was the best way to go."I used to be surprised (with the media reaction)," Gervais mentioned on "Regis and Kelly." "I don't think I went crazy. I visited to entertain. You can't regret something you made to do which i made to do every second from this.InchGold GLOBES PREVIEWRicky didn't lose their number Peace for a while as org and prodco collaborate No-limit rule a boon for global pic parade HFPA declines being starstruck in noms process Marketing techniques can alter at Globes time No relaxation for your bleary-eyed New kids available on the market Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

'The Vow' Trailer: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum Play Do-Over (Video)

With various soul mates story,Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum play a young couple in Screen Gems' approaching drama-romance, The Vow. Inside the film, Paige (McAdams) handles to get rid of five years of her memory due to an upsetting vehicle accident. She's no recollection of her husband (Tatum), who embarks around the mission for earn her love once more. Mike Neill, Scott Speedman and Jessica Lange also star. The Vow is directed by Michael Sucsy, who also written the script alongside Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. Sucsy formerly written and directed the Cinemax miniseries Grey Gardens. Watch a clip below. The Vow is slated striking theaters on Feb. 10, 2012. Convey More: Mike Neill, Scott Speedman, Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Movie Trailers, Movies Blog Related Subjects Channing Tatum Rachel McAdams

Schwarzenegger Bruised & Battered Filming Last Stand

First Published: November 18, 2011 11:45 AM EST Credit: Arnold Schwarzenegger/TwitPic Caption Arnold Schwarzenegger posts a photo on his Twitter page of his head wound on the set of Last StandALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger has been banged around and bloodied while filming a contemporary Western movie in the U.S. The NY Post reports the former California governor posted on Twitter that he got a little banged up Thursday on the set of The Last Stand, in which he portrays a small town sheriff who takes on a drug kingpin. Schwarzenegger thanked the medical staff who returned him to action an hour later. A photo shows what appears to be a bloody cut down the middle of Schwarzeneggers forehead. Schwarzenegger did not provide details of what happened. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Access Exclusive: Whitney Houston Desires To Star In Waiting to Exhale 2

First Launched: November 14, 2011 5:27 PM EST Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Whitney Houston chats with Access Hollywood round the number of Sparkle in Detroit on November 10, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Whitney Houston will rapidly make her return to the silver screen after 15 years in Sparkle, and merely Access Hollywoods Take advantage of Robinson was round the movies occur Detroit to speak to the world celebrity about her movie comeback and the potential for her return to another beloved Whitney role. You know what happens, that Terry McMillan, she keeps calling me relating to this Waiting to Exhale 2, Whitney, who starred inside the 1995 movie, told Take advantage of, mentioning for the author whose 1992 book inspired the film. I guess its inevitable. If my three other pals, my three ladies In my opinion theyre all in, she mentioned of co-stars Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon. I must Im just settling lower, just getting this under my belt so when I finish using this, Whitney mentioned of Sparkle, which stars The The American Idol Show Show Season 6 champion Jordin Sparks. I'm not prone to refuse. In Waiting To Exhale, Whitney carried out Savannah Jackson, a girl waiting for her lover to go away his wife a personality that has more to convey in line with the star. Savannah must be, she must return, Whitney added. For further of Shauns Robinsons Whitney exclusive, Follow The Link and remain updated to get into Hollywood for your full exclusive one-on-one interview on Monday and Tuesdays shows (check local records). Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Happy Ft Two: Film Review

What made an appearance fresh and fun in 2006 now feels as though recycled goods in Happy Ft Two. To begin with, the view of multicultural penguins singing and dancing inside a gorgeous, eco threatened setting appeared disarmingly novel. But while numerous new figures happen to be introduced in to the zoologically varied cast, the format and styles possess a shopworn air that the three dimensional Antarctic vistas and intermittent brains can't surmount. In a commercial sense, however, there's pointless this splashy follow up won't perform much like the initial, which drawn in $385 million worldwide.our editor recommends'Happy Ft Two' Blue Carpet Premiere ArrivalsFrom 'Great Gatsby' to 'Happy Ft Two': 7 Hot Movies, Series Being Released of Australia'Happy Ft 2' Teaser Trailer (Video) It's now been 13 years since George Burns directed an active-action feature and also the believed that he's devoted nearly half that point for this follow up, regardless of how remunerative, naturally agitates devoted fans anxious for him to begin his Mad Max retooling as well as other project. However, tykes is going to be delighted revisit the icy places lived on by Mumble (now a father), Ramon, Lovelace and a number of new animals, who face the difficulties of existence with different levels of trepidation and grit. However the minute the film opens having a massive musical number featuring what is 1000's of penguins singing and dancing in precision symphony, a minimum of some audiences may wish to affiliate with Mumble's little misfit boy Erik because of not succumbing towards the pressure to adapt by joining within the forced jubilation. But, alas, this isn't to become a penguin The Catcher within the Rye. While little Erik does try to escape, supported by two fellow Emperor kids and the father's riffing friend Ramon, it's not necessarily in rebellion, and also the script fragments in ways that demonstrates all of the existence forms on, under and round the seventh region,the background objects which, as before, are strongly taken inside a hyper-realistic animated style. A far more engaging mission of identity than Erik's, even more appealing to be so absurd, focuses on a set of krill energetically vocalized by Matt Damon and Kaira Pitt. Resembling small red-colored shrimp, krill appear in uncountable amounts in the cheapest finish from the underwater food chain, there to become scooped up through the mouthful by numerous potential predators. No animals may well be more anonymous or less prone individualization, then when Will claims his unique identity--"I'm one out of a krillion," he demands in one of many such puns-it's tough to to not be studied in by such unlikely hubris. Not just that, however the interplay between Damon and Pitt is particularly spirited, giving their moments a power that feels natural instead of cranked up by music as well as in-your-face effects. The sensation is palpable of Burns and the co-workers trying to find new methods to present the Antarctic setting, to develop something fresh to warrant this follow up. But ultimately they select from such reliables as comic shtick in a number of accents and soul/funk/rap amounts combined with tired ྂs and ྌs anthem rock refrains. Indeed, the only real truly inspired musical touch, which hits just like a bolt in the heavens, has little Erik delivering, inside a pivotal moment, a distinctive rendition from the "'E Lucevan Le Stelle" aria from Puccini's Tosca. Because the film bounces along, a lot of the incident and action feels progressively arbitrary and unmotivated. In comparison towards the best recent animated features, the script just isn't very funny, tending towards nutty hijinks instead of wit. Even in which the disarming krill are worried, a few of their close shaves feel similar to the misadventures from the desperate squirrel within the Ice Age series. And talking about Ice Age, the climatic change theme will get another serious workout here in ways which will win nods of approval in the Al Gore faithful but provoke irritation among individuals fed up with being spoon given the politically correct line. The penguins' world sometimes appears to become melting, with puddles and wet ice in evidence, as well as an environment crisis puts the huge avian population in peril needing a desperate save effort. Scientifically true or otherwise, about this subject, in addition to creatively, Happy Ft Two is treading water. Main Point Here: Apart from in a commercial sense, more is less within this antic, not too funny follow up towards the 2006 blockbuster. OPENS: November 18 (Warner Bros.) PRODUCTION: Kennedy Burns Mitchell VOICE CAST: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (Pink), Kaira Pitt, Matt Damon, Richard Carter, Common, Sofia Vergara, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Benjamin "Lil P-Nut" Flores Junior., Ava Acres, Meibh Campbell DIRECTOR: George Burns CO-Company directors: David Peers, Gary Eck SCREENWRITERS: George Burns, Gary Eck, Warren Coleman, Paul Livingston PRODUCERS: Doug Mitchell, George Burns, Bill Burns EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Chris deFaria, Philip Hearnshaw, Graham Burke, Bruce Berman Company directors OF PHOTOGRAPHY: David Peers (camera), David Dulac (lighting) PRODUCTION DESIGNER: David Nelson EDITOR: Christian Gazal MUSIC: John Powell PG rating, 103 minutes Kaira Pitt Elijah Wood Matt Damon Happy Ft 2

Ough Gervais & NBC Appear Ready For 3rd Golden Globes Stint, WIll HFPA Sign Off?

Because the lengthy courtship and quick departure of Oscar host-to-be Eddie Murphy demonstrated, appropriate hosts for major honours shows don’t come across easily. Therefore The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. might want to keep two-time Golden Globes host Ough Gervais. The British comedian was initially signed by NBC inside a 2-year deal. His second stint this past year stirred debate together with his blunt one-inserts that didn’t spare any large-title celebs attending the big event. HFPA reps distanced themselves from him, stating that he “went too much” and “crossed the road.” That residual bitterness appears to become the roadblock to some formal offer for Gervais to come back like a Golden Globes host. Within an interview with Access Hollywood tonight, Gervais confirmed he hasn’t been “officially” offered the task yet but accepted that the thought of returning “is very tempting.” After disregarding the potential of three-peat moss soon after his second time, Gervais have been progressively starting to warm up towards the idea. NBC, which doesn’t wish to revert to Golden Globes’ longtime no-host format that found an finish when Gervais was hired, had been for him returning. In August, Gervais introduced the network had asked him to come back like a Golden Globes host. He confirmed that to gain access to Hollywood, singling out HFPA because the holdout. I believe NBC wants me to get it done, but [the] Hollywood Foreign Press have to want me too,” he stated. “Its their event. Its their party. There's the problem of potential celebrity defections if Gervais returns as host, as Hollywood star energy continues to be the Globes’ greatest draw. I hear that to date, there's just one star which has established that he/show might not attend if Gervais emcees. The edges are speaking, although informally, and Gervais lately dined with reps for NBC and HFPA in Paris. However with only 2 several weeks to visit before the Jan. 12 event, the HFPA has to make its move soon, before Gervais changes his mind again. Or will get asked through the Academy for that Oscar hosting gig that's also vacant. Gervais stated tonight he could do both for a cheap price cost.

George Clooney Talks Sex, Politics and Farts in Rolling Stone Interview

George Clooney is something of an anomaly. He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world, yet somehow manages to keep his personal life out of the limelight. That's not to say he isn't tabloid fodder -- you're guaranteed to find some tidbit about Clooney in the broadsheets on a daily basis -- but, he's one of the few celebrities (Johnny Depp is another example) who's personal life still holds some hint of mystique. This makes the cover story on Clooney in the new issue of Rolling Stone all the more surprising. In it, the Oscar winner talks about sex, politics and his relationship with Stacey Keibler. Also, farts. The issue doesn't hit stands until Friday, but some of the best quotes have been released. Let's check them out ahead. On having his first orgasm: "'I believe it was while climbing a rope when I was six or seven years old,' he says. 'I mean, nothing came out, but all the other elements were there. I remember getting to the top of the rope, hanging off the rope, and going, 'Oh, my God, this feels great!'" On his goofy sense of humor: "He's also pretty fond of farts, especially when hanging out with his pals. 'We think it's one of the funniest things in the history of mankind. Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.'" On dating Stacey Keibler, an actress, model and former WWE wrestler fond of tweeting how great her life is: "'She can do whatever she wants,' he says. 'I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.'" On his grooming and style habits: "'I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met. I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair,' Clooney says. 'On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux -- it takes me three minutes to put on a tux -- and be out the door in 15 minutes.'" You can read the full article when the new issue of Rolling Stone hits newsstands on Friday. For now, head on over to RollingStone.com for some cool images of Clooney's photo shoot for the magazine, as well as a picture of George as a kid. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Zsa Zsa Gabor In Hospital Following Health Scare

After numerous health scares, Zsa Zsa Gabor is within a health care facility.our editor recommendsZsa Zsa Gabor Recouping After Emergency OperationZsa Zsa Gabor's Husband Announces L.A. Mayoral Candidacy The 94-year-old was rushed by ambulance for the Taxation UCLA Clinic on Wednesday, November. 9 after her feeding tube came loose, in line with the AP. Her husband, Frederic von Anhalt, observed bleeding in their stomach where the tube had detached. Gabor remains interior and exterior a health care facility frequently since 2010. Within The month of the month of january, the Hollywood icon was expected to have her leg amputated. 26 years her junior, von Anhalt recently introduced his candidacy for your La mayoral race. The 68-year-old mentioned in the news release he hopes to produce Gabor the "First Lady in the Capital of scotland - Angels," and may focus on lowering taxes and DWP bills additionally to unemployment. Related Subjects Zsa Zsa Gabor

ICM Signs Willem Dafoe

EXCLUSIVE: ICM has signed Willem Dafoe, the veteran actor who just wrapped the Andrew Stanton-directed Disney film John Carter, with Taylor Kitsch playing the title character. Dafoe happen to be repped by WME. Dafoe has upset bad weather. He starred inside the Hunter, a film that opened up at Toronto and contains been acquired by Magnolia for release next season. More youthful crowd completed production on Odd Thomas, the variation in the Dean Koontz novel that stars Anton Yelchin the Abel Ferrara-directed 444 Last Day On Earth and Boot Tracks with Michelle Monaghan. Dafoe remains handled by D/F Management.

AFM: Sections And Loudspeakers Schedule Set

La, CA, March. 27, 2011 This Year's American Film Market today launched its broadened Conference schedule with loudspeakers encompassing an extensive mix-portion of key Hollywood and global gamers converging for that 32nd Market November. 2-9.Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Entertainment Partners assists because the showing sponsors from the AFM Conference Series, that will showcase sections on film financing, production, marketing, distribution and pitching. 5-day series includes prominent filmmakers, bankers and industry professionals, covering every aspect of filmmaking from treatment to screen: Friday, 4 November, 2011: 9:00am 1:00pm Finance Conference Leading CEOs, filmmakers, bankers and studio professionals converge look around the current condition of independent film financing: emerging trends, in which the cash is, new possibilities and incentives, and exactly what the future holds. Current Issues within the Production, Financing and Distribution of Independent Film Moderator: P. John Burke, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Panelists: Ashok Amritraj, Boss, Hyde Park Entertainment Doug Hansen, Leader, Endgame Entertainment Robert Hayward, Chief Operating Officer, Summit Entertainment, L.P. Patrick Russo, Principal, The Salter Group Jared Underwood, Senior V . P ., Group Manager Entertainment, Comerica Bank Entertainment Group Global Infrastructure Possibilities and New Distribution Models Moderator: Joe Chianese, Senior V . P ., Tax, Business Development and Production Planning, Entertainment Partners Panelists: Leon Clarance, Ceo, Film Capital a Reliance Entertainment Company Bill Fay, Former Leader of Production, Legendary Pictures Mary Ann Hughes, V . P ., Film & Television Production Planning, The Wally Disney Company Bill Manley, Co-Founder & Partner, Inferno Entertainment Andrew Matthews, Leader, RKO Films Bahman Naraghi, Chief Operating Officer, GK Films Saturday, 5 November, 2011: 9:00am 1:00pm Pitch Conference A great pitch could possibly get a poor film made along with a bad pitch can leave a good project languishing in stock. Pitching is a component art (its creative), part science (must consume a tight script) and part salesmanship. Conference participants will first discover the essential rules and tools of pitching in the experts. Then, within the AFMs own variation from the Voice and The American Idol Show, volunteers in the audience (you?) will pitch a panel of Hollywood decision makers. They'll give unvarnished feedback on each pitch – saying what labored, what didn’t, and why. Warning: This session isn't for that weak. Presenter/ Moderator: Stephanie Palmer, Good inside a Room Initial Panelists: Tobin Armbrust, Senior Vice-Leader and Mind of Production, Exclusive Media Cassian Elwes, Independent Producer/ Agent Sunday, 6 November, 2011: 9:00am 1:00pm Marketing Conference, backed by Mexican Film Commission In age digital media, hooking up with and interesting the crowd in authentic, creative ways is crucial. Word-of-mouth and friend recommendations can do or die this area office results. The gurus behind probably the most effective and new media marketing campaigns discuss reinventing the marketing wheel, explore the way the consumer could possibly be the best advertising tool and reveal how you can conquer the largest possible audience. Limited & Niche Releases Moderator: Mark Pogachefsky, Co-Founder and Leader, MPRM COMMUNICATIONS Initial Panelists: Wendy Cohen, Director, Digital Campaigns & Community, Participant Media / TakePart Jamie Patricof, Founder, Hunting Lane Films Dennis Grain, Founder, Visio Entertainment Wide Releases Moderator: Pamela Rodi, Executive V . P ., Marketing & Publicity, Myriad Pictures Panelists: Vincent Bruzzese, Leader, Worldwide Film Group at IPSOS OTX MediaCT Tomas Jegeus, Co-Leader, Worldwide, twentieth century Fox Karina Kogan, Chief Marketing Officer, BUZZMEDIA Jack Pan, EVP, Marketing, Summit Entertainment Monday, 7 November, 2011: 9:00am 1:00pm Production Conference backed by Multi Media Risk Corporation. Brand integration and packaging frequently play a huge role within the filmmaking process. From large budget blockbusters to art and genre films, the creative visions of company directors, authors and producers are now being supported, yet challenged, by these start up business models and possibilities. Agents, marketers and producers disclose what's going on behind the curtain and just how to effortlessly incorporate these new decision makers in to the production process. Brand Integration Moderator: TBA Initial Panelists: Eric Baum, SVP, Business & Legal Matters for Worldwide Marketing, The new sony Pictures Entertainment Xavier Kochhar, Controlling Partner, MediaLink Jordan Yospe, Counsel, Film, TV, and Brand Integration, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Agents/ Packaging Moderator: Paul Hertzberg, Leader and Boss, CineTel Films, Corporation. Panelists: Jay Cohen, Mind of Packaging and Finance, Gersh Agency Gary Randall, Co-Founder, Boardwalk Entertainment Group Rena Ronson, Co-Mind, UTA Independent Film Group, U . s . Talent Agency Hal Sadoff, Mind of Worldwide and Independent Film, ICM Eric Schotz, Leader and Boss, LMNO Productions Tuesday, 8 November, 2011: 9:00am 1:00pm Distribution Conference backed by MACCS Worldwide bv Why create a film if nobody might find it? Industry leaders separate fact and fiction about limited & specialized releases, film festivals and straight-to-VOD. They will disclose their effective methods for controlling and making money with the proliferation of worldwide platforms and altering release methods. Limited & Niche Releases Moderator: Steve Gaydos, Executive Editor, Variety Panelists: David Fenkel, Leader, Oscilloscope Labs Susan Jackson, Leader / Co-Founder, Freestyle Delivering Charlotte now Mickie, Executive V . P ., Entertainment One, Tom Quinn, Co-Leader, VOD and Digital TV, The Weinstein Company Making money with New Global Platforms Moderator: Kaira Kembel, Executive V . P ., Worldwide Distribution, Summit Entertainment LLC Initial Panelists: Serta Cohen, Executive V . P ., Pay Television and Interactive Media, Disney ABC Domestic Television Jon Ferro, SVP Program Sales, Entertainment One Erik Brannon, Analyst, IHS, Screendigest

'50K' calls to thesp quartet

GrossmanRoss Patterson, Seth Grossman, Jessie Wiseman and rapper Asher Roth are starring in roadtrip comedy "50K and a Call Girl." Grossman, who directed and produced A&E's "Intervention," is helming the faux documentary from a script co-written by Patterson. Patterson is also producing with Tristan Drew, JP McMahon and Ivan Victor through their Street Justice Films. Film follows Patterson's character being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live. Grossman's character, his newly engaged older brother, then offers to spend the $50,000 in his wedding fund on a road trip. Things get complicated when the brother's fiancee (played by Grossman's actual fiancee, Lauren Aboulafia) insists on tagging along and a call girl joins the group. Grossman's directing credits include "Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations." His most recent screenwriting credit is "A Late Quartet."Patterson is developing the series "Saint James St. James Presentes Delirium Cinema" with IFC and Aperture Entertainment producing. He also starred in Accepted" and "The New Guy." Patterson and Grossman are repped by Aperture Entertainment. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Courteney Cox, David Arquette Sell 'Skinny Girl' Comedy to ABC

Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesCourteney Cox and David Arquette Courteney Cox may be making the most out of the "big fat goalie" Friends joke. Cox and David Arquette have sold the untitled Rob Sheridan project, a single-camera comedy revolving around a former over-eater who transforms into a "skinny girl" and must navigate working with her ex in a diner that caters to people who love to eat. Cox and Arquette are attached to executive produce the ABC Studios project alongside Mad Love writer/co-executive producer Rob Sheridan. The untitled Rob Sheridan project marks the duo's second sale and first to ABC this development season; NBC gave a penalty commitment to single-camera comedy Ten Years earlier this month, with Howard Morris attached to pen the project that's loosely based on Cox and Arquette's relationship. Cox, Arquette and Morris will executive produce. The pair also have game show pilot Identity Crisis set up at CBS. ABC Cox-starrer Cougar Town is set to return midseason. Cox is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment; Arquette is with UTA and Management 360; Sheridan is at WME and Meridian Artists. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit Courteney Cox David Arquette TV Development

Stoppard's 'Love' play aims for Uk

Disney Theatrical Prods. is joining track of Sonia Friedman Prods. to create a stageplay version of "Shakespeare for one another,Inch being put together by script co-scribe Tom Stoppard.Jack O'Brien, the "Hairpsray" helmer who also provides directed Broadway activities of Stoppard plays "The Coast of Paradise" and "The Invention of love,In . will direct "Shakespeare" with "Paradise" and "Invention" designer Bob Crowley also aboard. Deals aren't set yet, but plans indicate a production that launches london.Title "Shakespeare for every otherInch can come to the stage by having an advanced audience recognition, due to the 1998 Miramax pic put together by Marc Norman and Stoppard and helmed by John Madden. Film came away by getting an Oscar haul of seven trophies that incorporated honors for top picture and script additionally to thesping laurels for Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench.The idea of a stage version of "Shakespeare" remains kicking around the legit cost years. Initially produced just like a tuner, project happen to be one of the prospects available for your theatrical arm in the Weinstein Company, introduced with the former cake cake toppers of Miramax. Disney Theatrical, in the property via Disney's prior having Miramax, had absorbed a leadership role round the project by early 2010, right after complicated types of horsetrading over underlying rights and progress-to-production payment dates.Even though Disney Theatrical is way better recognized for tuners including "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins," "Shakespeare" can be a play that's intended to offer the lush period-piece feel of 1979 Mozart bio-play "Amadeus," with different resource mixed up in project. Another non-tuner that Disney is attached, Peter Pan prequel "Peter as well as the Starcatcher," is planning for just about any spring work on the Rialto with Disney just like a co-producer. The org's new tuner version of 1992 pic "Newsies" could also potentially land round the Primary Stem inside the coming several days."Shakespeare" joins all of the developing projects at Disney Theatrical including legit incarnations of "Alice's adventures in wonderland," "Freaky Friday" and "Dumbo." Friedman's consistent transatlantic creating activities include "The Mountaintop," which opened up up March. 13 round the Rialto, additionally to recent plays "La Bete" and "Jerusalem." The Three of people shows showed up on Broadway following West Finish runs.Disney Theatrical wouldn't discuss plans for your show. No timeline has yet been set. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Cinematographer Dennis Hall, 54, Dies on Location

Veteran TV cinematographer Denny Hall died Thursday morning after getting experienced cardiovascular disease while used in New Orleans onCommon Law, an approaching scripted series for USA Network. He was 54.Related Subjects•Obituaries An origin near the production told The Hollywood Reporter that Hall had chest pains throughout his condo early Thursday and also the camera operator referred to as 911. Paramedics done him there too as with the ambulance but tend to not revive him. Hall will be in New Orleans for any couple of days. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths Producer Karim Zreik referred to as thecinematographerthe "captain in the team. We are just broken-hearted." "He could enter a place that was deathly quiet or filled with negative energy and immediately liven everything up," mentioned cinematographer John C. Flinn III, who needed Hall with him as his assistant round the eighties Tv shows Magnum, P.I. and Mike as well as the Fatman. "He will be a great first assistant, a great cameraman together with an excellent cinematographer. I'm so pleased with him." Common Law, from CBS Television Art galleries, stars Michael Ealy and Warren Kole as cop partners who don't access it, so their captain sends these to couples therapy. Jon Turteltaub directed the pilot, and USA bought 11 episodes within this summer time. An connect in the Worldwide Cinematographers Guild, Hall also done such series as Burn Notice, Franklin & Party, Eastwick, The Facial cleanser, Eli Stone, Studio 60 round the Sunset Strip, Bones and Jack and Bobby. More youthful crowd offered just like a camera operator since the late eighties round the showsNashville Beat, Diagnosis Murder, Beverly Slopes, 90210, CSI: Miami and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and also on the 1996 film Barb Wire. Hall is managed to get by his wife Julie and boy Noah. E-mail: Mike.Barnes@THR.com Related Subjects Obituaries

WATCH: Mitch Buchannon is on Patrol in the Boobalicious Teaser Trailer for Piranha 3DD

Piranha 3DD may have been pushed to 2012, but the new teaser trailer suggests that the quality and spirit of the franchise hasn’t been diluted. How could it have been, with returning fish survivor Ving Rhames dropping lines like, “Bring me my legs!” before gunning down the waters, Cherry Darling-style? Or with Baywatch’s own lifeguard-slash-private eye extraordinaire, Mitch Buchannon, policing the bouncing bloodied bosoms fleeing from their piscine predators? All this and more — “Double the terror, double the Ds” — in today’s Buzz Break! Piranha 3DD TrailerGet More: Piranha 3DD Trailer [via Spike] While we’re watching veteran actors colliding with the world of teenage otaku fantasies, watch Harrison Ford playing the video game Uncharted 3 for a Japanese television commercial. “Go, go, go!” [Topless Robot] Michael Bay took to his own blog to refute recent rumors that he’s actively working with Paramount on Transformers 4 and 5… which could mean he’s actually going to do his smaller black comedy Pain & Gain first. Yay? [Joblo] Terry Gilliam is anti-3-D… unless it helps bring in new audiences for his kid adventure Time Bandits, that is. [Digital Spy via Movie City News]

Spottiswoode adds math drama project

Helmer Roger Spottiswoode ("Tomorrow Never Dies") is putting together the last pieces of financing for pic on Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in India. Based on a script by David Freeman from his eponymous play, "A First Class Man" will follow the unlikely friendship between the self-taught Indian math prodigy and mystic Ramanujan and British mathematician and atheist G.H. Hardy. A child prodigy, Ramanujan corresponded with Hardy who was struck by the Indian's genius and invited him to work in Cambridge. Ramanujan died in England at age 32. Spottiswoode cast 32-year-old Indian thesp Siddharth Suryanarayan ("Midnight's Children") as Ramanujan after seeing him in 2006's BAFTA-nominated "Rang de basanti." "He knows a lot about Ramanujan and he's very smart and has a real perception about the character, so he seems like an ideal choice," Spottiswoode said. "And he's about the right age." The helmer was speaking from the sidelines of the ongoing Reliance Entertainment-backed Mumbai Film Festival where he's serving as a juror. Pic was set up as a co-production between U.K. shingle Picture Palace and India's Cause Entertainment and was due to begin lensing in 2010. However, Cause pulled out and the film was stalled. Picture Palace remains on board and the project has added some European coin. Spottiswoode is aiming for a fall 2012 start for principal photography with exteriors shot in Cambridge, England, and interiors in India. Ramanujan's story has attracted attention twice before. In 2006, producer Ed Pressman acquired the rights to Robert Kanigel's 1991 biography "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" and separately, the same year British multihyphenate Stephen Fry and Indian helmer Dev Benegal together announced a biopic. Both projects are yet to be produced. Spottiswoode said his film is not a biopic but "very much about a collaboration between two unusual people" and hopes that it will attract auds who flocked to "The King's Speech." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Healthy Hollywood: Get Movin Monday Henry Cavills Transformation From Chubby Kid To Hollywood Hottie!

First Launched: October 17, 2011 4:25 PM EDT Credit: Mens Health NY., N.Y. -- Caption Henry Cavill round the cover of Mens HealthEye chocolate alert! Hunky Henry Cavill is flaunting his biceps in the skintight t-shirt round the November problem of Mens Health. Hot! Its difficult to believe a guy with this particular physique was viewed as Body body fat Cavill. But, it is a fact The Immortals star unveils to Mens Health that his childhood friends in England familiar with tease him. Youngsters are cruel. Whatever. I used to be body body fat, adds Cavill. Fortunately, Cavills chubby days are formerly. In the last few years, hes made women drool since the dashing Duke of Suffolk inside the Tudors. Now, hes ripped onscreen just like a Greek warrior in Immortals which is presently filming the very best superhero role as Superman inside the reboot Guy of Steel. Yet, it wasn't prior to the 28-year-old started practicing Immortals a few years back he finally stopped thinking about themselves as chubby. Cavill spent several hours lifting weights alongside the movies other ripped gamers. There's a sense of team and camaraderie, he notifies Mens Health, adding, Most of us sweated together, most of us bled together, most of us ate the identical highly inefficient food and basically ongoing going and supported each other. Soon after wrapping Immortals, he began training being the man of steel. Cavill would suit up sculpted and sexy. So, to do this goal, he did physical fitness known to as tailpipe. Its a hundred-repetition workout that burns body body fat and stresses both exercises and recovery. When you finish a good work out, then you definitely certainly take eight controlled breathing inside and out before beginning the next exercise. To learn more about Cavills workout as well as the tailpipe routine, have a look at internet.menshealth.com. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Breaking Bad' Q&A: Star Giancarlo Esposito Talks Gus' Demise in Season Finale

GettyGiancarlo Esposito Versatile actor Giancarlo Esposito carried out restaurant chain owner/Chilean drug kingpin Gustavo Fring on Breaking Bad getting a minimal-key awesome rarely show up on this kind of high-profile TV criminal. And also the exit is amongst the memorable in television history.our editor recommends'Breaking Bad' Star Bryan Cranston on Walter White-colored: 'He's Well on His Approach to Badass' (Q&A) STORY: AMC Renews 'Breaking Bad' for 16 Final Episodes However, if Esposito grew to become an associate from the acclaimed AMC series in season two, he was hired just for a few possible guest spots. How did he vary from affable chicken chain owner for the cold blooded killer who removes an entire wing in the Mexican drug cartel in one fell swoop? The Hollywood Reporter can get the scoop. STORY: Summer season's Individuals who win and Nonwinners: What TV Audiences Were Watching [Warning: Spoilers ahead.] The Hollywood Reporter: What came you to definitely certainly Breaking Bad to start with? Giancarlo Esposito: I have a look at Breaking Bad just like a show in regards to the American family. It's an amazing analysis of where we're what just like a people. Middle-class people have become desperate. You can get a moral guy to destroy bad. It will make you request yourself the question: How does one react just in case your chips were lower? THR: It seems Vince Gilligan didn't have a very apparent path or arc for Gus when he initially hired your self on season two. Esposito: No, I don't think anybody focusing on the program did. It found me just like a guest place, two or three episodes. Gus was the manager of chicken restaurant, and possibly some factor. A Few Things I loved is always that he's affable, showing up just like a manager but has the whole chain. I decided to produce him suprisingly low key, to become great listener. They asked for me would I return for your third season. However only decided to hesitate to accomplish guest place after guest place -- I seriously considered part of the Breaking Bad family. Essentially was gonna return, I desired to come back as full-fledged character. They offered me seven episodes, which i mentioned no. They offered me nine, which i wound up doing eleven. I desired to make a character who increased being intrinsic for the show. In addition to their writing inspired me to think about, to create someone threatening, poignant, polite. Gus talks along with his eyes. I didn't take advantage from the word "villain" to describe Gus. THR: When perhaps you have get the feeling Gus would meet a glorious flamboyant demise? Esposito: I understood in the start of season four "Box Cutter," when Gus cuts a man's throat before Wally and Jesse. I understood he wouldn't be around for just about any very very long time next. Once we shot a few more shows, Vince referred to as me in and mentioned, "We're gonna kill Gus, I desired to inform you. It won't happen till 413." He offered us a full handles. I mentioned, "Well, okay, as extended since it's fantastic!" He mentioned, "It'll be! You need to to blow the face area off!" The two of us thought it may be like Gus to live an outburst for just about any handful of seconds -- he'd button his jacket, straighten his tie -- then just keel over and die. Vince emerged using this brilliant way will be able to leave -- Provided him full credit. THR: How perhaps you have all save this secret, since you shot the ending within this summer time. Esposito: My friend Samuel L. Jackson came lower for the set to visit me, despite the fact that he was there, his script for your Avengers got online. Apparently, it got stuck in the copier in Toronto. That's when Vince stopped printing anything about Gus on paper. The script never left his office. You possessed to get involved with his office to determine it. From what Let me tell, lots of people believe Gus did poison Brock while using ricin. They were clearly all wrong! THR: After Wally kills Gus, does Gus end up being the new Gus, the completely new drug kingpin in the Southwest? Esposito: I like what these authors triggered by heighten the suspense. The story is actually to think about this common guy with a meth kingpin, that was the story. Mr. Chipps becomes Scarface. It'll appear like Wally's getting closer. THR: How did they have produced the design of the face area getting blown off? Esposito: I desired to sit down and possess a cast of my thoughts made. Installed goop in my mind, throughout. I'd tubes drained of my nose to breathe. Many stars can't deal with the process, it's quite claustrophobic.They provided a mold of my whole mind. They created the cratered breathing apparatus silently I made use of makeup within the scene, and so they digitally matched up in the mind to my face on film. They marked it getting a sharpie and digital dots. It needed five several hours to create that mind -- it absolutely was a due process! THR: You don't finish up finding somebody who's had their face blown served by a great time awaken and walk. Esposito: That helps guide you tough Gus is. It's a reveal if you see him. You're shocked -- which he looks excellent -- until he turns his mind. It almost seems to go in the whole world of the supernatural. THR: Gus is really a frightening dude. Are people frightened of you after they assist you in normal places now? Esposito: Yeah! I used to be making an plane yesterday together with a young lady was walking toward me and out of the blue gasped, and mentioned, "Gus!" I mentioned, "I'm unlikely to bite you." Lots of people who love the show are deferential. Others appear and shake my hands. People are extremely very influenced with this show. In my opinion I might need to let my hair grow out now -- to be able to have a very kinder look for myself. I am in a position to feel Gus starting to depart me. I used to be walking lower the street yesterday with excellent posture -- which i'd this whiff of Gus. I mentioned, "Escape here, Gus, you're on hiatus!" THR: Well, he's additionally to that particular. He's quite dead. Esposito: With Breaking Bad, you never know! I have got a sense I'd maintain Gus' shoes. There are plenty of flashbacks relating to this show. Who knows what's readily available for next season? The plot keeps thickening. In BB, people return within the dead. I really do desire to direct an instalment of Breaking Bad next season. Vince which i've spoken about this. THR: What's inside the immediate future for Giancarlo Esposito? Esposito: I'm creating and pointing a film about reality TV, I've rewritten it having a couple of writing partners. Jeremy Piven might be charge he'll play in the No. 1 reality show host in the united states, who involves be sorry. There is a job I'd take part in the film, however need a stellar cast. I'll only wager additional amounts it essentially can't get anybody more famous! AMC Breaking Bad Vince Gilligan

Fable in the Sea food (Isda)

A Phoenix Features, Cinemalaya Foundation production. (Worldwide sales: Visit Films, NY.) Produced by Jonas Antonio Gaffud, Elizabeth Juan. Executive producer, Adolfo Borinaga Alix Junior. Directed by Adolfo Borinaga Alix Junior. Script, Jerry B. Gracio.With: Cherry Cake Picache, Bembol Roco, Anita Linda, Rosanna Roces, Angel Aquino, Alan Paule, Evelyn Vargas, Arnold Reyes. (Tagalog dialogue)Ongoing to give consideration towards the margins of Filipino society, prolific indie helmer Adolfo Borinaga Alix Junior. satirizes the rewards and burdens of belief to puzzling effect in absurdist drama "Fable in the Sea food." Carried out naturalistically having a couple of comic moments, the pic concentrates on a deeply religious slum occupant who gives birth with a sea food and finds her luck changing concurrently her once-happy marriage goes south. Despite the fact that this mind-scratcher feels as if it's missing one last punchline, further fest exposure is guaranteed. Immediately after devoted, middle-aged marrieds Lina (Cherry Cake Picache) and Miguel (Bembol Roco) transfer towards the giant landfill of Catmon, Malabon City, Lina becomes pregnant. Despite the fact that both of them say they'll be thankful for whatever God adds, Miguel ultimately won't express paternal feelings for your sea food, whilst Lina risks as being a laughingstock by setting it up baptized and turning up on national television. Picache as well as the other female thesps participate in it admirably straight, cooing within the sea food as if were a person newborn. Meanwhile, precisely presented, color-desaturated lensing captures the hellish landscape in the garbage dump since it swarms with activity.Camera (color, widescreen, DV), Albert Banzon editor, Benjamin Tolentino music, Eigen Ignacio production designer, Alix Junior. art company company directors, Roland Rubenecia, Jerome Zamora. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Visions), Sept. 9, 2011. (Also in Busan Film Festival.) Running time: 85 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Greg Malins-Greg Berlanti Comedy Lands At CBS With Put Pilot Commitment

EXCLUSIVE: With the network buying season winding down, heavyweights Greg Malins and Greg Berlanti scored a put pilot commitment at CBS for a half-hour project the two will be co-writing and executive producing together. The project hails from Warner Bros. TV where both Malins and Berlanti are based. It centers on notorious womanizer Nick who, after surviving a health scare, realizes that “The One” he had never found is actually his best friend of 15 years, Wendy. Problem is Wendy is engaged to a guy Nick likes, she and Nick own a business together and their attempt at dating back in college was a disaster. For both Malins and Berlanti this marks their second sale at CBS this season. Former Friends and How I Met Your Mother executive producer Malins is co-writing/executive producing with Bill Lawrence a multi-camera workplace comedy, which recently landed a pilot production commitment from the eye network. And Everwood creator Berlanti is executive producing a Nick Wootton-penned cop drama, which has a put pilot commitment at CBS. Malins has strong ties to CBS. In addition to his stint as an executive producer on the CBS/20th TV How I Met Your Mother, he also serves as a consulting producer on the networks hot new comedy series Two Broke Girls, from WBTV. This marks the first half-hour comedy effort for Berlanti who has made his mark on the hourlong side as showrunner on Brothers & Sisters and Dawson’s Creek and co-creator of such series as Eli Stone and No ordinary Family. The sale takes Berlanti’s 2011 batting average to 4-for-4. This is his fourth put pilot commitment this development season, his first at WBTV, out of 4 pitches taken out. The other 3 are on the drama side, all penned by close Berlanti collaborators: a high-concept crime drama project at NBC with writer Maggie Friedman, a legal drama at Fox penned by Marc Guggenheim and Wootton’s cop drama at CBS. Malins and Berlanti are with WME.

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Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper dies

Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper, whose tradition-based lower-home style created a mark on bluegrass music, died Sept. 13 of natural causes in Sweetwater, Tenn. She was 90. Born Wilma Leigh Leary in Valley Mind, West Virginia, Cooper sang together with her family's gospel group the Leary Family within the '30s and '40s. She married the unit's fiddler Dale T. "Stoney" Cooper in 1941. The Coopers broke through in 1947 once they made an appearance on radio's popular WWVA Jamboree in Wheeling, West Virginia. They cut their first records exactly the same year for that small Tennessee label Wealthy-R-Tone, that also launched the very first singles by bluegrass pioneers the Stanley Siblings. These were signed to Columbia from 1949-53, with no success. The duo recorded using their band the Clinch Mountain Clan for that Hickory label within the '50s and '60s. Their greatest hits incorporated "Large Night time Special," a rustic arrangement of Lead Belly's "Night time Special" (No. 4, 1959), a protective cover of countrypolitan singer-songwriter Don Gibson's "There is a Large Wheel" (No. 3, 1959) along with a reading through from the standard "Wreck On the roadInch (No. 8, 1961). The Coopers later briefly recorded for Decca and Starday. They became a member of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry in 1957, and carried out around the popular WSM broadcast until Stoney Cooper's dying in 1977. Wilma Lee later recorded like a soloist for that independent roots labels Rounder and Digital rebel. She upon the market after having suffered a stroke in 2001. She's made it by her daughter Carol Lee, an Opry artist. (Christopher Morris) Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Frances Bay, Adam Sandler's Grandmother in Happy Gilmore, Dies at 92

Frances Bay Frances Bay, who performed Adam Sandler's grandmother in Happy Gilmore, has died, the La Occasions reviews. She was 92. In Memoriam: See cure has died this season Bay, born in Canada, started acting within the seventies in dinner theater as well as on radio stations. She continued to look in Foul Play (1978) with Goldie Hawn and Chevrolet Chase after which on numerous tv shows like Dukes of Hazzard and Happy Days. More lately, additionally to her appearance in Sandler's 1996 film, she notoriously performed the lady who fought against with Jerry Seinfeld during the last loaf of marble rye bread on Seinfeld. Bay's husband, childhood sweetheart Charles Bay, died in 2002.

The Basics of Getting Seen for Theater, Film, and TV Projects

Unless you're a top-tier actor, auditioning is going to be a regular part of your life until you call it quits. Newcomers may have taken courses on auditioning in college. Or they may have learned by trial and errorpicking up scraps of information from calls for semiprofessional or community theater. But professional auditions in New York, Los Angeles, and across the country are a whole different game.Stage, film, and television each have slightly different audition procedures and protocols, and it's sometimes befuddling to try to sort everything out. To provide you with a few pointers, Back Stage enlisted casting directors and working actors to talk about the components of the three major casting-call categories. Theater For professional theater calls, a casting director may choose to bring you in for a "pre-read" or "pre-screen" audition. Veteran casting director Bernard Telsey (Broadway's "Spider-Man," "Catch Me If You Can") does this regularly, especially if the actor is someone whose work he may not be completely familiar with. If the actor seems like a good match for a role, he or she will then be brought in for a first audition with the show's creative team.Up to 15 people may sit behind the table during the audition. For obvious reasons, auditions for musicals tend to involve more participants such as the composer and lyricist, choreographer, and music director. As you read from sides and present your prepared songor 16 bars thereofthe director may or may not ask you to adjust your performance. You need to be able to adapt accordingly.Generally, you will have two to four days to prepare songs and sides before your audition, says Telsey, adding: "Obviously, if it's a revival, you have access to the full script. If it's a new musical, you have access to the songs that you're being asked to singthat's an Equity rule, that you have to be given the demo to the songs." Occasionally, he says, for especially secretive projects, you will only be given sides, not the whole script.Sometimes at an audition you may be handed sides from a scene you have not preparedsomething that happens in film and TV as well. The casting team may find that you seem to fit a different role better than the one you were called in for. In such cases, you should expect a few minutes to look over the material. Such a turn of events is a "beautiful exercise in making a choice," according to actor Khary Payton. "At the end of the day, that's the jobto make a clear and decisive choice."The callback process for a big play or musical may be extensive. Bryan Fenkart, understudy for the leading role of Huey Calhoun in Broadway's "Memphis," says there may be as many as five callbacks for certain shows.Being audible is of extreme importance in theater auditions, which often happen in relatively large rooms. Los Angeles casting director Amy Lieberman, who for many years was casting director for Center Theatre Group, finds that some inexperienced actors fail to project adequately during auditions for stage projects. "They're doing a TV audition, and I'm casting for a 700-seat theater. If I've never met you before, how do I know what you're capable of if all you're going to give me is a little TV audition?"Lieberman says preparation for theater auditions tends to entail more work than for film and TV calls. You may have as much as five pages of sides to work on, she says. "If you're going to audition for a play that will keep you busy for three months, read it. Don't just prepare the sides."No one wants to hear excuses if you're not adequately prepared, but actor Dan Domenech advises frankness if for some reason you fall short. Domenechnow playing the role of Drew on Broadway in "Rock of Ages"recalls going to a New York audition for an early incarnation of "Sister Act." He was in Manhattan to do a show at the Fringe Festival, and all his audition materials were back in L.A. He thought about blowing off the call, but his agent strongly urged him to attend. Domenech had to borrow sheet music from another actorand wound up singing a Lerner and Loewe ballad, even though he should have been singing a disco number. But, perhaps in part because of a "nothing to lose" fearlessness, Domenech got the role.Actors who do not have representation can attend Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs), which are open to union members. Casting personnel may see nonunion performers if there is time, but they are not required to do so. In any case, union members take precedence at these calls. Once you get an agent, your chances may improve dramatically. Domenech, who landed representation after appearing in a touring version of "Rent," says his agent helped find him work in regional companies, so that there were career-building credits on his resum. "The resum does matter," he adds.Film Often, during a film audition, you will work solely with the casting director and camera operator. Your performance will be recorded and sent to the project's director and/or other members of the creative team. But the process varies considerably, depending on the scope and content of a particular project. Says Payton, who has appeared in such features as "Latter Days" and the upcoming "Strange Frame: Love & Sax": "There are film auditions I've gone into where there is someone reading with you and someone working the camera. And there are other auditions where there are 10 people in the room."Telsey, whose film casting credits include "Dan in Real Life" and "Rachel Getting Married," explains that when there's only a casting director on hand, he or she can spend time helping you adjust your performance, so that it can be edited to best advantage and sent along to the creative team. That's not always possible when other parties are present in the room.Things normally move faster in film casting than they do in theater. After his stint in "Sister Act," Domenech worked on the "other side" of the casting table with choreographer Marguerite Derricks on film and TV projects. He was struck by the rapid pace involved. "They don't have weeks and weeks of rehearsal," he says. "They have a few days. So you go in and if you're not right, you go home and move on to the next one."Despite the rush, L.A. casting director Kelli Lerner ("Strange Frame," "Slingshot") strives to give actors as much time as possible to prepare sides, which tend to be briefer than those for theater auditions. "I have never given people only a day's notice, unless it was a very tiny role," she says. "For larger roles, at least from my office, actors usually have the sides anywhere from three days to a week in advance. [But] we do have last-minute casting. For example, if somebody drops out, all of a sudden the schedule changes, in which case you [might] only have a day's notice. All the more reason for actors to be prepared, ready to goto have their phones on, to be constantly checking their email. Because that's when those golden opportunities are around."Actors who have attended college acting programs in which they trained primarily as stage performers may benefit from taking an auditions-for-the-camera workshop. Rutgers-trained Fenkart (who has appeared in the features "You Tell Me" and "Red Hook") attended such a class at One on One in NYC. "It's important to know where you're being framed and how close the camera is getting on you, because so much is internal," he says.Lerner has witnessed inexperienced actors moving about aimlessly during film auditions. She advises themunless they have been instructed by a director to make a specific movementeither to sit or to stand, and to concentrate on connecting with the person with whom they are reading. It may be more difficult for an unrepresented actor to be seen for a film role than for a theatrical production. There is nothing in film that is the equivalent of theater's EPAs. Closest, perhaps, are the sorts of open calls for musical-film projects like the ones Domenech worked on with Derricks. There are also occasional nationwide searches to fill certain key rolesparticularly juvenile roles. Telsey assisted on such a search for Peter Hedges' upcoming "The Odd Life of Timothy Green." But these are exceptions to the rule. You can, however, submit yourself directly for film roles via Back Stage or Actors Access, a component of Breakdown Services by which casting directors choose to make an audition notice available to performers as well as to agents. Typically, these notices are for nonunion projects or if a studio film is having difficulty finding someone for a very specific, tricky-to-cast role.Television Not all TV auditions are created equal. Casting calls for dramas and single-camera comedies like "The Office" require skills considerably different from those for traditional multicamera sitcoms like "The Big Bang Theory." And the stakes for a major role on a pilot are not the same as the stakes for a small guest spot on an established show.Carol Goldwasser has been a casting director for theater, film, and various sorts of television properties on both coasts, but in recent seasons she has been entrenched in multicamera comedies for Disney and Nickelodeonseries featuring largely juvenile casts, including "I'm With the Band" and the megahit "Hannah Montana."Such shows are "really about as similar to theater as one can get, in terms of the audition process," Goldwasser says. "The performances are kind of big and sharp and tend a little bit more toward the theatrical. With film or even with single-camera comedy, a lot depends on the visual, whereas in theater and sitcoms, so much is in the language."Actors who have watched "Hannah Montana" should have a keen sense of the kind of playing style involved. But if you're auditioning for a pilot, the style of the series may be hard to grasp. The tone of the show may even be evolving while the pilot is being prepared.Goldwasser points out thatin a marked difference from feature filmsdirectors tend not to be involved in the casting process for episodic television. They are largely "hired hands," contracted to direct certain episodes. In television, the writers more than the directors are involved intimately with the shape and sensibility of a series.If you get into the audition room, don't expect rapt attention. Fenkart remembers his callback for an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (he subsequently booked the job). The director of the episode was in attendance at that call, and so were a number of producers who, he says, had apparently grown weary of the casting routine on the long-running franchise: They were on their cell phones texting while Fenkart read for the part.At the pilot level, Goldwasser explains, some networks conduct taped tests for drama but do live tests for comedyparticularly children's comedy. There may be consensus in the room among producers and directors that a certain actor is right for a role. But then network executives will need to sign off on the choice, complicating the decision.Perhaps even more than with feature films, speed is of the essence during TV casting. Goldwasser says that sides are often not posted until the day before an audition. Filming follows fast on the heels of the casting decision. Theater actors who depend on weeks of preparation to perfect a role may be frustrated by such a hurried pace. Then again, the agony of waiting to hear about callbacks and final casting is blessedly short-lived. "If you go a few days without hearing," says Fenkart, "it's probably not going to go any further."As with film, getting into the TV audition room is a difficult prospect for an actor without an agent or manager. But if you feel you are right for a specific role, there's always the tack of writing directly to the casting director and making your case. Of course, this is a long-shot approach. Not all casting directors pore over every piece of mail they receive. But Telsey, who is casting the new network shows "A Gifted Man" and "Smash," is one who is open to the approachthat is, if the letter makes a good case that you're right for a specific project and/or role."It makes you stop and think and look at the rsum and the headshot and see if there's anything specific that might be right," he says. "It's like anything: The person that writes a good letter, it makes you take notice." By Mark Dundas Wood August 19, 2011 Bryan Fenkart in "Memphis" Unless you're a top-tier actor, auditioning is going to be a regular part of your life until you call it quits. Newcomers may have taken courses on auditioning in college. Or they may have learned by trial and errorpicking up scraps of information from calls for semiprofessional or community theater. But professional auditions in New York, Los Angeles, and across the country are a whole different game.Stage, film, and television each have slightly different audition procedures and protocols, and it's sometimes befuddling to try to sort everything out. To provide you with a few pointers, Back Stage enlisted casting directors and working actors to talk about the components of the three major casting-call categories. Theater For professional theater calls, a casting director may choose to bring you in for a "pre-read" or "pre-screen" audition. Veteran casting director Bernard Telsey (Broadway's "Spider-Man," "Catch Me If You Can") does this regularly, especially if the actor is someone whose work he may not be completely familiar with. If the actor seems like a good match for a role, he or she will then be brought in for a first audition with the show's creative team.Up to 15 people may sit behind the table during the audition. For obvious reasons, auditions for musicals tend to involve more participants such as the composer and lyricist, choreographer, and music director. As you read from sides and present your prepared songor 16 bars thereofthe director may or may not ask you to adjust your performance. You need to be able to adapt accordingly.Generally, you will have two to four days to prepare songs and sides before your audition, says Telsey, adding: "Obviously, if it's a revival, you have access to the full script. If it's a new musical, you have access to the songs that you're being asked to singthat's an Equity rule, that you have to be given the demo to the songs." Occasionally, he says, for especially secretive projects, you will only be given sides, not the whole script.Sometimes at an audition you may be handed sides from a scene you have not preparedsomething that happens in film and TV as well. The casting team may find that you seem to fit a different role better than the one you were called in for. In such cases, you should expect a few minutes to look over the material. Such a turn of events is a "beautiful exercise in making a choice," according to actor Khary Payton. "At the end of the day, that's the jobto make a clear and decisive choice."The callback process for a big play or musical may be extensive. Bryan Fenkart, understudy for the leading role of Huey Calhoun in Broadway's "Memphis," says there may be as many as five callbacks for certain shows.Being audible is of extreme importance in theater auditions, which often happen in relatively large rooms. Los Angeles casting director Amy Lieberman, who for many years was casting director for Center Theatre Group, finds that some inexperienced actors fail to project adequately during auditions for stage projects. "They're doing a TV audition, and I'm casting for a 700-seat theater. If I've never met you before, how do I know what you're capable of if all you're going to give me is a little TV audition?"Lieberman says preparation for theater auditions tends to entail more work than for film and TV calls. You may have as much as five pages of sides to work on, she says. "If you're going to audition for a play that will keep you busy for three months, read it. Don't just prepare the sides."No one wants to hear excuses if you're not adequately prepared, but actor Dan Domenech advises frankness if for some reason you fall short. Domenechnow playing the role of Drew on Broadway in "Rock of Ages"recalls going to a New York audition for an early incarnation of "Sister Act." He was in Manhattan to do a show at the Fringe Festival, and all his audition materials were back in L.A. He thought about blowing off the call, but his agent strongly urged him to attend. Domenech had to borrow sheet music from another actorand wound up singing a Lerner and Loewe ballad, even though he should have been singing a disco number. But, perhaps in part because of a "nothing to lose" fearlessness, Domenech got the role.Actors who do not have representation can attend Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs), which are open to union members. Casting personnel may see nonunion performers if there is time, but they are not required to do so. In any case, union members take precedence at these calls. Once you get an agent, your chances may improve dramatically. Domenech, who landed representation after appearing in a touring version of "Rent," says his agent helped find him work in regional companies, so that there were career-building credits on his resum. "The resum does matter," he adds.Film Often, during a film audition, you will work solely with the casting director and camera operator. Your performance will be recorded and sent to the project's director and/or other members of the creative team. But the process varies considerably, depending on the scope and content of a particular project. Says Payton, who has appeared in such features as "Latter Days" and the upcoming "Strange Frame: Love & Sax": "There are film auditions I've gone into where there is someone reading with you and someone working the camera. And there are other auditions where there are 10 people in the room."Telsey, whose film casting credits include "Dan in Real Life" and "Rachel Getting Married," explains that when there's only a casting director on hand, he or she can spend time helping you adjust your performance, so that it can be edited to best advantage and sent along to the creative team. That's not always possible when other parties are present in the room.Things normally move faster in film casting than they do in theater. After his stint in "Sister Act," Domenech worked on the "other side" of the casting table with choreographer Marguerite Derricks on film and TV projects. He was struck by the rapid pace involved. "They don't have weeks and weeks of rehearsal," he says. "They have a few days. So you go in and if you're not right, you go home and move on to the next one."Despite the rush, L.A. casting director Kelli Lerner ("Strange Frame," "Slingshot") strives to give actors as much time as possible to prepare sides, which tend to be briefer than those for theater auditions. "I have never given people only a day's notice, unless it was a very tiny role," she says. "For larger roles, at least from my office, actors usually have the sides anywhere from three days to a week in advance. [But] we do have last-minute casting. For example, if somebody drops out, all of a sudden the schedule changes, in which case you [might] only have a day's notice. All the more reason for actors to be prepared, ready to goto have their phones on, to be constantly checking their email. Because that's when those golden opportunities are around."Actors who have attended college acting programs in which they trained primarily as stage performers may benefit from taking an auditions-for-the-camera workshop. Rutgers-trained Fenkart (who has appeared in the features "You Tell Me" and "Red Hook") attended such a class at One on One in NYC. "It's important to know where you're being framed and how close the camera is getting on you, because so much is internal," he says.Lerner has witnessed inexperienced actors moving about aimlessly during film auditions. She advises themunless they have been instructed by a director to make a specific movementeither to sit or to stand, and to concentrate on connecting with the person with whom they are reading. It may be more difficult for an unrepresented actor to be seen for a film role than for a theatrical production. There is nothing in film that is the equivalent of theater's EPAs. Closest, perhaps, are the sorts of open calls for musical-film projects like the ones Domenech worked on with Derricks. There are also occasional nationwide searches to fill certain key rolesparticularly juvenile roles. Telsey assisted on such a search for Peter Hedges' upcoming "The Odd Life of Timothy Green." But these are exceptions to the rule. You can, however, submit yourself directly for film roles via Back Stage or Actors Access, a component of Breakdown Services by which casting directors choose to make an audition notice available to performers as well as to agents. Typically, these notices are for nonunion projects or if a studio film is having difficulty finding someone for a very specific, tricky-to-cast role.Television Not all TV auditions are created equal. Casting calls for dramas and single-camera comedies like "The Office" require skills considerably different from those for traditional multicamera sitcoms like "The Big Bang Theory." And the stakes for a major role on a pilot are not the same as the stakes for a small guest spot on an established show.Carol Goldwasser has been a casting director for theater, film, and various sorts of television properties on both coasts, but in recent seasons she has been entrenched in multicamera comedies for Disney and Nickelodeonseries featuring largely juvenile casts, including "I'm With the Band" and the megahit "Hannah Montana."Such shows are "really about as similar to theater as one can get, in terms of the audition process," Goldwasser says. "The performances are kind of big and sharp and tend a little bit more toward the theatrical. With film or even with single-camera comedy, a lot depends on the visual, whereas in theater and sitcoms, so much is in the language."Actors who have watched "Hannah Montana" should have a keen sense of the kind of playing style involved. But if you're auditioning for a pilot, the style of the series may be hard to grasp. The tone of the show may even be evolving while the pilot is being prepared.Goldwasser points out thatin a marked difference from feature filmsdirectors tend not to be involved in the casting process for episodic television. They are largely "hired hands," contracted to direct certain episodes. In television, the writers more than the directors are involved intimately with the shape and sensibility of a series.If you get into the audition room, don't expect rapt attention. Fenkart remembers his callback for an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (he subsequently booked the job). The director of the episode was in attendance at that call, and so were a number of producers who, he says, had apparently grown weary of the casting routine on the long-running franchise: They were on their cell phones texting while Fenkart read for the part.At the pilot level, Goldwasser explains, some networks conduct taped tests for drama but do live tests for comedyparticularly children's comedy. There may be consensus in the room among producers and directors that a certain actor is right for a role. But then network executives will need to sign off on the choice, complicating the decision.Perhaps even more than with feature films, speed is of the essence during TV casting. Goldwasser says that sides are often not posted until the day before an audition. Filming follows fast on the heels of the casting decision. Theater actors who depend on weeks of preparation to perfect a role may be frustrated by such a hurried pace. Then again, the agony of waiting to hear about callbacks and final casting is blessedly short-lived. "If you go a few days without hearing," says Fenkart, "it's probably not going to go any further."As with film, getting into the TV audition room is a difficult prospect for an actor without an agent or manager. But if you feel you are right for a specific role, there's always the tack of writing directly to the casting director and making your case. Of course, this is a long-shot approach. Not all casting directors pore over every piece of mail they receive. But Telsey, who is casting the new network shows "A Gifted Man" and "Smash," is one who is open to the approachthat is, if the letter makes a good case that you're right for a specific project and/or role."It makes you stop and think and look at the rsum and the headshot and see if there's anything specific that might be right," he says. "It's like anything: The person that writes a good letter, it makes you take notice."