Keanu Reeves' Directorial Debut 'Man of Tai Chi' Gets Greenlight

Madonna has signed with Interscope, a source close to the situation confirmed to Billboard.biz Wednesday morning (Dec. 14).our editor recommendsMadonna Performing at Super Bowl: What the Pundits are SayingIt's Official: Madonna Will Perform During Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show (Video)New Movie Reviews: 'New Year's Eve,' 'Young Adult,' Madonna's 'W.E.' Hitting Theaters Official: Van Halen Signs With Interscope Records According to a report in the NY Post, the singer will continue the 10-year multi-rights deal with Live Nation -- said to be worth as much as $100 million -- that she signed in 2007, but has inked a three-album pact with Interscope at a base of $1 million per album. Billboard.biz's source could not confirm the terms of the deal at press time but said the report sounded right. Sources indicated to Billboard early last month that Madonna was likely to ink with Interscope. Madonna left Warner Bros., her label home of 25 years, after the release of her 2008 album Hard Candy. Her subsequent Live Nation-produced "Sticky & Sweet" tour grossed $408 million worldwide, according to Billboard Boxscore, highest ever for a female artist. While she is signed with Live Nation, the company's CEO Irving Azoff reiterated to Billboard in February that it would partner with some other entity in releasing Madonna's next album. Executives at the firm have stated repeatedly that they don't intend to enter the record business full-tilt. "Live Nation, prior to the merger, entered into some of these all-rights deals, so there are certain artists, Madonna being one of them, that there is a recorded music strategy," Azoff said. "Once she gets the album recorded, we'll sit down with her and her manager Guy Oseary and figure out what's best for the record. It has to start with the music." Azoff said Madonna would begin recording the album as soon as she finished work on her directing debut, W.E, a look at the scandalous love affair between Wallis Simpson and Britain's King Edward VIII, which is out early next year. A rough version of a ballad called "Masterpiece," reportedly from the film and her forthcoming album, leaked last week. Also last week, it was confirmed that Madonna will be performing during halftime at the Super Bowl on February 5 in Indianapolis. A different song, "Give Me All Your Love," leaked last month and Madonna teased the crowd about it during a Smirnoff event in NY last month, but stopped short of playing it. Last week, M.I.A. let it slip that she, Madonna and Nicki Minaj were working on a new song together. With reporting by Billboard'sRay Wadell PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Portraits of Amy Winehouse by Bryan Adams Related Topics Interscope Madonna Live Nation Entertainment Irving Azoff

Theron Reveals Monstrously Funny Side in 'Adult'

NY (AP) Jason Reitman was under the same impression many are of Charlize Theron. He knew she was a fiercely talented actress, prone to burying her stunning beauty behind gritty, intense performances like her Academy Award-winning one as a murderous prostitute in 2003's "Monster."Then she told him a dirty joke.Theron approached Reitman at last year's Oscars to tell him how much she liked his then recent film "Up in the Air" and that she'd love to work with him."I got a tap on the shoulder and I turn around and it's all 6'6" of Charlize Theron," recalls Reitman, intentionally exaggerating Theron's height by eight inches. "I was really understandably intimated."But when Theron, already a few drinks into the night, revealed a more depraved sense of humor than her image would suggest, Reitman realized they had more in common than he expected: "I was like, 'Oh! I like you.'" (Theron, for her part, doesn't recall the joke, but, with a glimmer in her eye, acknowledged, "That sounds about correct.")The meeting was both fortuitous, in that it directly led to Theron staring in Reitman's new film "Young Adult," and an early hint to the tone of their collaboration. In "Young Adult" (which was penned by Diablo Cody of "Juno"), Theron plays Mavis Gary, a teen fiction ghost writer who returns to her hometown in rural Minnesota to lure her now-married former boyfriend. As a woman whose nostalgia has swelled to demented proportions, Theron is bitingly caustic and hilariously candid.The performance not only reveals Theron's comedic side, but shows more of her true nature than her previous work. Not that Theron is anything like Mavis' more deplorable aspects, but she shares Mavis' sharp elbows and sharper wit."Most people who know me who have seen the film are not that shocked," Theron said in a recent interview during which she was self-deprecating, unguardedly foul-mouthed and thoughtful. "The film is way more my personality and closer to anything that I've done."It's also Theron's first film in nearly three years. In between, she prepared to star in an ambitious "Mad Max" sequel, "Fury Road," which was repeatedly delayed and still hasn't been shot. She worked on developing projects with her production company, including a drama series for HBO with David Fincher. She also split with the Irish actor Stuart Townsend after nearly a decade together."I'll be very honest: I wasn't missing it," Theron says of acting. "It's hard to miss something when nothing was kind of sparking that instrument to get excited about."That period, though, appears to be over. Following "Young Adult" which is earning Theron her best reviews since "Monster" she'll be seen in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" and the fantasy "Snow White & the Huntsman," which also stars Kristen Stewart.Theron, 36, grew up on a farm outside Johannesburg, South Africa. While she was a teenager, her mother shot and killed Theron's alcoholic and abusive father. When she was 16, she became a model in Milan. She later moved to NY to train as a ballet dancer, but a knee injury pushed her out of dance and toward acting.After a number of small roles as girlfriend types in films such as "The Devil's Advocate" and "The Cider House Rules," her performance in "Monster" changed her trajectory considerably. When she won best actress at the Oscars, Nelson Mandela hailed her for putting South Africa "on the map."Since then, Theron, who lives in Los Angeles, received a second Oscar nomination for her performance as a miner in "North Country." Though the science fiction "Aeon Flux" bombed, Theron drew acclaim again for a supporting role in the somber anti-war film "In the Valley of Elah" and for the atypical superhero film "Hancock."But all the while, there were hints in her filmography of comedic leanings. In 2005, she had a memorable arc on "Arrested Development" as the love interest of Jason Bateman's character. Her character was mentally disabled, but the joke was on those around her, who didn't notice because of her British accent.The opportunity arose when "Monster" director Patty Jenkins directed an episode of the series, and Theron asked her to relay to creator Mitch Hurwitz her pleading to be on the show. She calls the experience a "great, great learning experience" in how comedy needn't be played for comedy, but rather portrayed realistically.Theron also appeared on an early episode of Zach Galifianakis' faux-interview Web series "Between Two Ferns," as revered of a comedy calling-card as there is. On it, Theron flirted with Galifianakis before pulling the rug out from him, cackling at the idea of her being attracted to a "fat garden gnome.""The bizarre thing is that I've always had kind of a sick, twisted sense of humor," says Theron. "But my work, for some reason, has always veered to the dramatic stuff. I think that's because I've never really been that driven by genre, but I find that I want to play people that feel real. I do think in comedy it's harder to find non-caricatures. I always said that I would love to do something like that kind of comedy that the Coen brothers do, that more character study stuff. And that stuff is hard to come by, and I feel like my career was setting itself up to be another thing."The comedian-actor Patton Oswalt, who plays an old high school acquaintance of Mavis' who turns into a drinking buddy in "Young Adult," said at the Gotham Awards that Theron "has the kind of humor that someone who looks like me has."The two found an unlikely chemistry in "Young Adult" right from the start. Before ever meeting, they did a table read in Reitman's dining room and immediately connected."I realized I was going to be working with a really great actor," says Oswalt. "It made me work even harder so that I could be on her playing field. She is so instinctual and already ready to go every shot."Whether it's "Monster" or "Hancock" or "Young Adult," Theron typically commits fully to a character. Asked how she manages that, she doesn't miss a beat: "Alcohol."But thinking a little more about it, she says that ballet instilled in her a relish for performance. Though she acknowledges she's not a trained actor, she says she learned from other actors as her career unfolded."It was amazing to watch Al Pacino at 3 in the morning and suck ... and then be brilliant," says Theron, recalling "The Devil's Advocate." ''It was one of the greatest teachings that I could have been given. He taught me that in order to be great, you have to be willing to fall on your face. You don't get to that place unless you go balls out."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Jake Coyle December 13, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT AP Photo/Carlo Allegri NY (AP) Jason Reitman was under the same impression many are of Charlize Theron. He knew she was a fiercely talented actress, prone to burying her stunning beauty behind gritty, intense performances like her Academy Award-winning one as a murderous prostitute in 2003's "Monster."Then she told him a dirty joke.Theron approached Reitman at last year's Oscars to tell him how much she liked his then recent film "Up in the Air" and that she'd love to work with him."I got a tap on the shoulder and I turn around and it's all 6'6" of Charlize Theron," recalls Reitman, intentionally exaggerating Theron's height by eight inches. "I was really understandably intimated."But when Theron, already a few drinks into the night, revealed a more depraved sense of humor than her image would suggest, Reitman realized they had more in common than he expected: "I was like, 'Oh! I like you.'" (Theron, for her part, doesn't recall the joke, but, with a glimmer in her eye, acknowledged, "That sounds about correct.")The meeting was both fortuitous, in that it directly led to Theron staring in Reitman's new film "Young Adult," and an early hint to the tone of their collaboration. In "Young Adult" (which was penned by Diablo Cody of "Juno"), Theron plays Mavis Gary, a teen fiction ghost writer who returns to her hometown in rural Minnesota to lure her now-married former boyfriend. As a woman whose nostalgia has swelled to demented proportions, Theron is bitingly caustic and hilariously candid.The performance not only reveals Theron's comedic side, but shows more of her true nature than her previous work. Not that Theron is anything like Mavis' more deplorable aspects, but she shares Mavis' sharp elbows and sharper wit."Most people who know me who have seen the film are not that shocked," Theron said in a recent interview during which she was self-deprecating, unguardedly foul-mouthed and thoughtful. "The film is way more my personality and closer to anything that I've done."It's also Theron's first film in nearly three years. In between, she prepared to star in an ambitious "Mad Max" sequel, "Fury Road," which was repeatedly delayed and still hasn't been shot. She worked on developing projects with her production company, including a drama series for HBO with David Fincher. She also split with the Irish actor Stuart Townsend after nearly a decade together."I'll be very honest: I wasn't missing it," Theron says of acting. "It's hard to miss something when nothing was kind of sparking that instrument to get excited about."That period, though, appears to be over. Following "Young Adult" which is earning Theron her best reviews since "Monster" she'll be seen in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" and the fantasy "Snow White & the Huntsman," which also stars Kristen Stewart.Theron, 36, grew up on a farm outside Johannesburg, South Africa. While she was a teenager, her mother shot and killed Theron's alcoholic and abusive father. When she was 16, she became a model in Milan. She later moved to NY to train as a ballet dancer, but a knee injury pushed her out of dance and toward acting.After a number of small roles as girlfriend types in films such as "The Devil's Advocate" and "The Cider House Rules," her performance in "Monster" changed her trajectory considerably. When she won best actress at the Oscars, Nelson Mandela hailed her for putting South Africa "on the map."Since then, Theron, who lives in Los Angeles, received a second Oscar nomination for her performance as a miner in "North Country." Though the science fiction "Aeon Flux" bombed, Theron drew acclaim again for a supporting role in the somber anti-war film "In the Valley of Elah" and for the atypical superhero film "Hancock."But all the while, there were hints in her filmography of comedic leanings. In 2005, she had a memorable arc on "Arrested Development" as the love interest of Jason Bateman's character. Her character was mentally disabled, but the joke was on those around her, who didn't notice because of her British accent.The opportunity arose when "Monster" director Patty Jenkins directed an episode of the series, and Theron asked her to relay to creator Mitch Hurwitz her pleading to be on the show. She calls the experience a "great, great learning experience" in how comedy needn't be played for comedy, but rather portrayed realistically.Theron also appeared on an early episode of Zach Galifianakis' faux-interview Web series "Between Two Ferns," as revered of a comedy calling-card as there is. On it, Theron flirted with Galifianakis before pulling the rug out from him, cackling at the idea of her being attracted to a "fat garden gnome.""The bizarre thing is that I've always had kind of a sick, twisted sense of humor," says Theron. "But my work, for some reason, has always veered to the dramatic stuff. I think that's because I've never really been that driven by genre, but I find that I want to play people that feel real. I do think in comedy it's harder to find non-caricatures. I always said that I would love to do something like that kind of comedy that the Coen brothers do, that more character study stuff. And that stuff is hard to come by, and I feel like my career was setting itself up to be another thing."The comedian-actor Patton Oswalt, who plays an old high school acquaintance of Mavis' who turns into a drinking buddy in "Young Adult," said at the Gotham Awards that Theron "has the kind of humor that someone who looks like me has."The two found an unlikely chemistry in "Young Adult" right from the start. Before ever meeting, they did a table read in Reitman's dining room and immediately connected."I realized I was going to be working with a really great actor," says Oswalt. "It made me work even harder so that I could be on her playing field. She is so instinctual and already ready to go every shot."Whether it's "Monster" or "Hancock" or "Young Adult," Theron typically commits fully to a character. Asked how she manages that, she doesn't miss a beat: "Alcohol."But thinking a little more about it, she says that ballet instilled in her a relish for performance. Though she acknowledges she's not a trained actor, she says she learned from other actors as her career unfolded."It was amazing to watch Al Pacino at 3 in the morning and suck ... and then be brilliant," says Theron, recalling "The Devil's Advocate." ''It was one of the greatest teachings that I could have been given. He taught me that in order to be great, you have to be willing to fall on your face. You don't get to that place unless you go balls out."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Nakashima preps 'Advancing Titans'

Tokyo, japan -- Helmer Tetsuya Nakashima, along with producers Genki Kawamura and Yuji Ishida, can make "Shingeki no Kyojin" (Evolving Leaders), an sci-fi actioner with different hit comicbook, they introduced Thursday. Nakashima, Kawamura and Ishida last teamed for "Confessions," a psycho-drama that gained $50 million this past year, while being selected as Japan's entry for any foreign-language pic Oscar. The storyline focuses on a race of leaders taking within the earth and eat a persons population, forcing the children to reside behind gigantic walled enclosures. Then your leaders attack. The comicbook by Hajime Isayama has offered 6.six million copies of six paperback models since its launch within the Bessatsu Shonen Magazine last year. Nakashima continues to be along the way of casting the pic, but intends to begin shooting early in the year of the coming year. Release is skedded for 2013, with Toho delivering. Nakashima stated the pic, that will require extensive CGI, is going to be "probably the most costly Japanese film ever," but didn't title a figure. "This really is my first experience (using this type of project), however it might be the final Nakashima film ever," the helmer added. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Kris Jenner: Kourtney Kardashian & Scott Disick Wedding Gossips Totally False

First Launched: December 1, 2011 11:56 AM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Kris Jenner, Scott Disick, Kourtney KardashianLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Kris Jenner has spoken out undertaking a study by Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday which mentioned a married relationship between her pregnant earliest daughter, Kourtney Kardashian, and longtime love Scott Disick is imminent. Inside an exclusive statement to get into Hollywoods Billy Rose rose bush on Thursday, the reality mother declared the wedding report is false! The marriage gossips began to swirl on Wednesday morning after Kourtney and Scott introduced they are expecting their second child together. Kourtney, 32, revealed to Us Weekly they needed conceiving a child test roughly 5 days ago and awoke Scott around 7 AM to discuss the exciting news. Now Im nine days along, the Kourtney & Kim Take NY star told the mag. Youre made to wait 12 days to see people, however feel confident. Kourtney and Scott are actually parents to boy Mason, who'll turn 2 on December 14. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Marty's royal nite

Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz Ben Kingsley unwinds having a clockwork date. Prince Charles welcomes Martin Scorsese. Martin Scorsese and the pic's Parisian troop walked out onto London's red-colored carpet Monday for that royal premiere of Paramount's "Hugo."The Prince of Wales and also the Duchess of Cornwall were visitors of recognition for that special annual screening, in colaboration with the Cinema and tv Benevolent Fund.Scorsese stated it was his first regal screening. "The topic few these films does not normally lend itself for this type of factor, but here you will find there's excellent family film!" he stated.Lead talent including Ben Kingsley, Chloe Sophistication Moretz and Asa Butterfield welcomed fans, together with producer Graham King and also the novel's scribe, John Selznick, before heading inside in front of meeting the royal couple.After, visitors visited toward the Thames for that Corinthia Hotel after-party, which ongoing late in to the evening. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Why Roger Ebert Sits in the Back Row

“‘I’ve noticed that the publicists have started to sit behind me,” [Gene Siskel] explained. ‘I think they’re supposed to spy on my reactions and report back to the studios.’ I doubted this was true, but now I became aware of Siskel sitting behind me, possibly to spy on my reactions. So I moved to the back row to outwit the son of a bitch. I picked the end of the row nearest the door, so I could sneak out to the men’s room without calling undue attention to myself. Most people have bladders the size of oil drums, but I usually have to pee at least once during a movie. A few of my colleagues share this need, and I am sympathetic while watching them bend over and make a Groucho Marx run in front of the screen in the futile hope that no one will notice them.” You relate, right? [Roger Ebert’s Blog]

Occupy Los Angeles: Hundreds of Protesters Planning to Defy Midnight Eviction

This story first appeared in the Dec. 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommendsFrom 'The Artist' to 'War Horse,' 23 Awards Contenders That Prominently Feature Animals (Photos)The Making of 'The Artist''The Artist' Star Berenice Bejo to Wear Her 1920s Costumes on Red CarpetsHow Rin Tin Tin Ruined Any Oscar Shot for 'The Artist's' Jack RussellMichel Hazanavicius, the Artist Behind 'The Artist,' On the Great Crowd-Pleaser (Video) Somehow, Michel Hazanavicius managed to come up with something that even the French thought was loopy. For years, the Parisian writer-director -- an analytical guy who sees filmmaking as what he calls "playing with codes" -- had been captivated by an idea. But financiers got cold feet just hearing about it; the boutique television stations that typically fund sophisticated European films walked away. Even in a nation of cineastes and revival houses -- a country in which a major film movement was once launched by a band of movie critics -- his dream looked to be dead on arrival. PHOTOS: The Making of 'The Artist' "I wanted to make one for a long time," the director says about his fascination with doing a black-and-white silent set in the 1920s. His long limbs folded over a table at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, he talks about his heroes like F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. "But it's even difficult to convince myself, or to convince anyone else, it is even possible. I found that some producers -- really all of them -- were a little bit cold." It didn't help that the 44-year-old Hazanavicius was known in France for the box-office-friendly, period-conscious OSS 117 spy parodies, in which a kind of Gallic Bond scampers through the 1950s and '60s. "What I needed was a crazy guy," he says. Enter Thomas Langmann, 40, whom Hazanavicius calls "the craziest producer in France." Langmann, the son of Oscar winner Claude Berri (who directed Manon of the Spring and produced Roman Polanski's Tess), worked a bit with Soderbergh and Coppola as a young man and produced some French smashes in his 30s. Langmann sees producing as a species of gambling. "It was always about betting on directors," he says of the philosophy his father passed down. "I knew if we made a film in black and white and we succeeded, it would be original." It took director and producer awhile to sync up -- early ideas such as a feature with an invisible protagonist didn't make the cut. "I really wanted to make an entertaining movie," Hazanavicius says, noting that many European silents were tragic romances. "I thought it was unfair to ask people to come to a black-and-white silent movie that was also dark -- it would be too much." But finally the two came up with an idea that worked: a film about a '20s matinee idol who struggles with the advent of talkies. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes of our Directors Roundtable Photo Shoot With Michel Hazanavicius The movie that resulted is being talked about as the first silent film with real best-picture Oscar chances since Wings, the 1927 Clara Bow film that arrived soon before the talkies changed the game (it won). The Artist opened in the U.S. on Nov. 25 -- just two screens each in NY and Los Angeles -- but already has banked an impressive $12 million since its release in France in October. More important, the film took the best actor award at Cannes, where it played to rapturous audiences, and it has gone on to seduce judges at festivals around the world and sweep the season's audience awards from Chicago to the Hamptons to San Sebastien. "It is as wonderful a film as it is modern," says silent-film collector and producer Serge Bromberg, who has seen the movie six times at festivals, "with jaw-dropping cinematography, good acting, wonderful knowledge of classic cinema. And it has the flavor of the old. But it is not a film of the '20s; the pace is not the same, and its constant humor gives it some distance from what a film of the '20s would be." Hazanavicius was already an admirer of the silent era, but as he wrote, he immersed himself deeply for several months, reading actors' biographies, going to screenings of Murnau and Frank Borzage and early John Ford at Paris' Cinematheque, studying photographs and playing music of the '20s and early '30s. STORY: 'The Artist' Star Berenice Bejo to Wear Her 1920s Costumes on Red Carpets He wanted Jean Dujardin -- a bankable French star known mostly for comic roles -- to play the lead, Valentin. "Of course, I said: 'You're crazy. It's impossible,' " says Dujardin. Hazanavicius also asked his girlfriend, Berenice Bejo, the Argentina-born French actress who appeared in A Knight's Tale and in his OSS films, to play a studio extra named Peppy, shot into fame by a chance encounter. "I said, 'No way -- no way,' " recalls Bejo, who has two children with the director. "Not with me." The two eventually were persuaded, and their presence caused a change in the movie itself. The original vision for the film focused on Valentin's isolation. But as Hazanavicius got deeper into the film, Peppy began to seem major, and the movie became a romance. Dujardin had only ever scratched the era's surface. "I knew only the masterpieces of Keaton and Chaplin," he says. "It was a real discovery for me to find King Vidor's The Crowd," a film about a man lost in the big city of the 1920s that the actor calls "very modern, very touching; it helped me to assemble all the different references." PHOTOS: It's a Zoo This Season: 23 Awards Contenders Featuring Animals As a model for his character, he found Douglas Fairbanks -- the actor who started making films in 1915 and whose career faded as talkies ascended. "In all his films," Dujardin says, "he doesn't ask himself any questions," never straining against the limits of the swashbuckling style required by such films as Robin Hood and The Mark of Zorro. "It's pathetic when you know the talkies are coming, but he's also very generous. He's like my character George Valentin: He can be arrogant, but he has integrity. He believes in his art. He fights for it." (Valentin needs that integrity -- as he spirals downward, it's all he has, besides liquor and an attentive, scene-stealing dog to keep him warm.) Bejo's research found inspiration in Gloria Swanson -- who, unlike Fairbanks, excelled after the silent era. She fell for Swanson's autobiography, which describes a life very different from the desiccated former star she played in Sunset Boulevard. "She started in the silent period and then went to the talkies and then to TV," Bejo says. "I got a sense of the atmosphere of the period." To make a film about Hollywood, Langmann reasoned, you had to shoot there. By now he'd drawn some funding from French station Canal+ and invested considerably from his own company, La Petite Reine. But the costs of coming to America -- and surrendering French government subsidies -- raised the stakes substantially. (The film's eventual budget came close to $20 million.) STORY: 'The Artist': The Not-So-Silent Entry Shooting at the Paramount and Warner Bros. lots -- as well as locations like the beautifully lit center court of downtown L.A.'s 1893 Bradbury Building, known to film buffs for its role in Blade Runner -- inspired the crew over the 35-day shoot. (Dujardin was put up in an old house in the Hollywood Hills -- he thinks to amplify his isolation for his slide in the movie's second act.) "Hollywood, in my opinion, is the big star of the movie," says Hazanavicius. Also crucial to re-creating the era onscreen was the work of costume designer Mark Bridges, who worked on all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films, including Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood. Some of his vision for The Artist came from the MGM documentary 1925 Studio Tour. "You could see what the carpenters, what the plasterers wore," he says. "Even those guys in their bib overalls had a necktie. And a lot of hats, either for warmth or bad hair days." Surprisingly, director of photography Guillaume Schiffman shot the film in color because today's black and white is too sharp, not grainy enough. He used unusual filters to diffuse the whites and mute the blacks slightly -- and as the film went on, with its main character losing some of his sheen, the light got grayer. Although Hazanavicius deliberately had chosen very expressive actors -- Americans John Goodman, James Cromwell and Penelope Ann Miller round out the cast -- they found the limitations were difficult at first. For Bejo, working without lines threw her off. (The actors improvised in English while onscreen, to give their mouths something to do, mixed with a few of the "lines" shown to the audience on intertitles.) But she eventually found a way to inhabit the role. "If it was a talking movie, she would have been the same -- would have moved the same way, winked the same way, danced the same way," she says. "The challenge was to try to focus on the body language, but the rest of it was finding a way of being an American actress. I think of American actors -- they take up a lot of space, they talk really loud, they talk with their hands. So I had to find that, since being a French actor, everything is more petite." STORY: How 'The Artist's' Fashions Are Impacting the Red Carpet To keep communing with the past, the director kept the music of the era -- George Gershwin, Cole Porter -- in constant rotation while they shot, and he brought cast and crew to see films at the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, and to the Nuart for its revival of Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (a morality tale about the corrupting influence of the city Murnau made for Fox in 1927) . The director applied some of what he learned: Murnau, for instance, had instructed his protagonist from Sunrise to wear heavy, weighted shoes on set after he fell on hard times; Hazanavicius did something similar when he dressed his fallen star in suits slightly too big for him. "He's not as perfect as he was in the first act," he says. Hazanavicius credits the world's fascination with Hollywood for the film's international appeal, but the enormous enthusiasm of Harvey Weinstein is the reason it has exploded out of the gates during the festival season into the awards race. Weinstein, who had enjoyed the OSS films, had heard about the movie from Langmann and in March flew to Paris, where he saw the film alone in a screening room. Weinstein was not ambiguous in his praise. The Artist, he says now, "treasures the American cinema I love. It's an inspiration, everything about the movie -- where they shot the movie, the way they used American cast and crew. It's just a love letter to American cinema." Langmann was impressed with Weinstein's urge to pull the trigger without any associates along to vet the decision. It was still months before Cannes -- it was not even assured at this point that the film would be released in France -- but by the time of the festival, the deal to distribute in the U.S., the U.K. and other regions was done. The film ends with a tap dance that required more work than anything else in the film. "I think 95 percent of the preparation was for the tap dancing," Hazanavicius says. Bejo recalls her practice with both pleasure and exasperation: "Five months, every day." The film was shot in as close to real sequence as possible -- in part to give the actors time to learn to tap dance, and partly so they would travel the same journey as George and Peppy before arriving at the climactic scene. "The dance is all about their characters," Hazanavicius says. "If it's just a performance, it's not interesting." Bejo's attitude toward the conclusion captures some of the quality that makes her character -- and the film -- so winning. "I kept telling myself: 'Just smile, look at each other, enjoy the moment. The happier you are, the less people will look at your feet. Just act, don't try to be good -- your feet will follow.' " PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery The Making of 'The Artist' Related Topics The Artist 1 2 next last

HLN Verifies 'The Pleasure Behar Show' Is Not Restored

As THR formerly reported, Pleasure Behar's HLN show will finish its 2 year run in the year's finish.our editor recommendsHost Pleasure Behar Set to Exit HLN at Year's EndVIDEO: Pleasure Behar Has Another Episode on 'The View' "The show is not restored," verifies a representative Thursday. Behar's last show tape is going to be mid-December. Among HLN's current programs will transfer to the ten p.m. timeslot, however the Turner-possessed cable news network isn't ready to make a comment around the new line-up at this time. VIDEO: Pleasure Behar Has Another Episode on 'The View' "I'm very happy with the reveal that we produced at HLN and that i owe tremendous because of the show team who managed to get possible," Behar stated inside a statement. Added HLN gm Scot Safon, "Pleasure and her team created over 500 instances of a reveal that featured news-making interviews, great conversation and lots of humor. We thank Pleasure for that many memorable moments she gave the HLN audience." STORY: Pleasure Behar Describes Why She Walked Off 'The View' While Behar's show is a critical rankings driver for CNN's sister network -Up 38 percent within the third quarter -- HLN is thought to become shifting its focus beyond entertainment news and trial coverage. Safron lately told TV Newser the network could be adding election coverage having a target the people behind the politics and military coverage. The lately married Behar continues like a co-host on ABC's The Vista. Related Subjects The Vista Pleasure Behar HLN

Rock Center Can get Large Story, Ratings Boost

Rock Center with John Williams The most recent show while using smallest audience inside the Monday-at-10/9c time slot made the finest news - but got a ratings boost. Within the third week round the air, Rock Center with John Williams acquired its first large "get" as Bob Costas asked former Penn Condition assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in regards to the child sexual abuse accusations against him, getting in 4.49 million audiences and posting single.3 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds - a thirty percent increase in the demo. Furthermore, it marked the newsmagazine's finest viewership yet, though that bar is low with audiences of three.51 million and 4.13 million within the initial few days. In Rock Center interview, Jerry Sandusky declines sex abuse charges Still, Nielsen overnight figures demonstrate that it ongoing to become a distant third with a unique of ABC's 20/20 - which itself acquired a scoop with Diane Sawyer ending up in Repetition. Gabrielle Giffords - and CBS' Hawaii Five- people shows attracted audiences of 13.35 million (2.8 demo rating) and 11.47 million (3.3), correspondingly. Read our Dwts recap Dwts averaged 18.50 million and three.34 demo rating over two several hours beginning at 8/7c on ABC. Inside the same span, NBC's The Sing-Off attracted in 4.75 million (1.5). Fox's tandem of Terra Nova and House attracted 7.06 million audiences (2.3 demo rating) and 6.66 million (2.5, correspondingly, throughout The CW, Gossip Girl came 1.24 million (.6) and Hart of Dixie 1.58 million (.6). See the relaxation in the day's news on TVGuide.com For that CBS comedy block, it aided the network to have an overall ratings victory: The Way In Which I Met Your Mother (10.38 million/4.5 demo rating) 2 Broke Women (11.68 million/4.8, finest demo since the series premiere) two and a half Males (14.59 million/5.3, the night's demo high) and Mike & Molly (12.23 million/4.4).

Katy Perry Announces Free Concert at Staples Center

By having an appearance in the Ellen DeGeneres Show set to air Friday, Katy Perry introduced they has added another show at La' Staples Center, nevertheless the show will probably be free.our editor recommendsKaty Perry's 'Teenage Dream': Capitol to produce Sixth Single Within the AlbumMTV Video Music Honours Champion Katy Perry: Firework Can be a Movement (Video) Set to happen on November. 23, one following day of her offered-out show within the same venue, the free show wound up being to provide due to the fans for support all year round. Named Katy Perry Gives Thanks, the show systems up Perry's 122-date California Dreams trek. "I am giving due to my fans," mentioned Perry around the program. "That is my large announcement on Ellen that nobody knows or understands. I carried out 121 appears towards the 23rd date, and If only to complete it by leasing out Staples myself and giving a free of charge concert to anybody on earth that wants get through to the California Dreams Tour as my last show." The singer, that's been married to British actor-comedian Russell Brand since October 2010, also spoken about the potential for beginning a family group. "Yeah, I must have children," she mentioned. "In my opinion that's one reason you have married. Especially towards the one who you marry. You think, that each will most likely be considered a great partner, an excellent parent. But, I'm unsure it's yet. We'll see, ya know." Perry came out on Ellen to debut the music activity video for "One Which Got Away," directed by Floria Sigimondi. To date this year, Perry remains nominated for four Grammy Honours, had five No. 1 singles and needed home an MTV VMA for video of year. She's nominated for 3 American Music Honours and contains seven Peoples Choice noms. Billboard brought with this report. Related Subjects Katy Perry

'Prometheus' Particulars: Ridley Scott Offers Update on 'Alien' Connections

'Alien' fans happen to be pretty excited at the possibilities of 'Prometheus,' Ridley Scott's first science-fiction film in almost 30 years. Up to this time, there's been lots of speculation all around the plot from the movie, and whether it'll tie in to the 'Alien' franchise. Within an interview using the Wall Street Journal, Scott addressed the 'Prometheus'-'Alien' connection -- together with the overall styles from the film -- as cryptically as you possibly can. Around the styles of 'Prometheus' The central metaphor of 'Prometheus' is all about a "greater being" who challenges the gods, and also the gods don't wish to provide him fire. "Fire is our first type of technology," Scott states, and thus if you take fire, the greater being is punished "in perpetuity inside a horrible fashion." Similar to the story from the mythological god, Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus as well as for his actions was certain to a rock by having an bald eagle forever consuming his liver. Around the 'Alien' connection and whether Sigourney Weaver will return for 'Prometheus' The final eight minutes from the "Prometheus" story evolve into "an excellent DNA from the 'Alien' one." ... We confirmed with twentieth century Fox that Sigourney Weaver, star from the first four 'Alien' films, does not create a cameo in 'Prometheus.' So, not a great deal of information to utilize here, but, hey: it is something. Scott also talked about his utilization of three dimensional on 'Prometheus.' Read the whole factor over on WSJ's Speakeasy blog. [via WSJ] [Photo: Getty Images] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

'Glee' Star's Father Wiped out inside the Philippines

Shop dead the estranged father of singer Charice Pempengco in the hit Tv program Glee remains stabbed to dying in their hometown of Laguna inside the Philippines.our editor recommendsCharice To 'Glee,' Sings 'All by Myself' (Video)Charice: 'Glee' Is Important for Internet Artists Police Senior Supt. Gilbert Cruz mentioned Tuesday that Ough Pempengco, 40, is at an outlet in San Pedro township when he accidentally blown against a drunk guy. Cruz states the angry suspect stabbed Pempengco by getting an ice pick inside the chest and back, killing him instantly late Monday. According to him analysis revealed no old grudges involving the two as well as the killing came out random. "I loved him which i'll still love him. He's still my dad ultimately," the singer mentioned on her behalf account Twitter account. A manhunt remains launched for your suspect. Cruz has offered a 20,000 pesos ($470) reward. Pempengco was estranged from his daughter, Charice, a 19-year-old songstress who's famous in Asia combined having a recurring role round the second season of Glee. Related Subjects Glee Worldwide Asia

Twit Wit: 5 Best Tweets About Puss in Boots, In Time and Rum Diary

comments: 1 || add yours Between Puss in Boots, In Time, and Rum Diary, I didn’t see much reason to fork over $13 at the movies this weekend. (Though I did see Like Crazy — or as I like to call it, Jennifer Lawrence Thanklessly Pouts in a Supporting Role.) Instead of paying up, let’s read up on Twitter’s feelings about these three new films. Prepare to have mixed feelings about Justin Timberlake by the time we hit #1. 5. Twitter superstar Rob Delaney might misunderstand what Puss In Boots is, but his efforts for clarification are admirable. #embedly_twitter_23440841{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/5270293/fart_god.jpg) #9f9ae6;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_23440841 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@robdelaneyrob delaney I had to stick my dick in like 20 boots before I found one that had “Puss” in it :(Oct 27 via Twitter for AndroidFavoriteRetweetReply 4. Jerry Seinfeld made a hilarious joke by sincerely endorsing Rum Diary. 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Brilliant. This is writing.Oct 30 via TwitterrificFavoriteRetweetReply 3. IFC film critic Matt Singer puts The Rum Diary in perspective. Pretty damn gonzo of him. #embedly_twitter_11659556{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/99144432/cdwall.jpg) #120405;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p a {color:#000000;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 a {color:#000000;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_11659556 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@mattsingerMatt Singer In THE RUM DIARY Johnny Depp fights Caribbeean land barons. In real life, Depp owns his own Caribbean island. Hooray for Hollywood!Oct 25 via Twitter for AndroidFavoriteRetweetReply 2. Comedian Billy Eichner cuts deep with historical comparisons. #embedly_twitter_63428517{background:url(http://a2.twimg.com/profile_background_images/232625895/Billy_with_Dog_.png) #C0DEED;padding:20px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 0px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .embedly_tweet_content{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px !important;line-height:22px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p span.metadata{display:block;width:100%;clear:both;margin-top:0px;height:40px;padding-bottom:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p span.metadata span.author{line-height:15px;color:#999;font-size:14px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p span.metadata span.author a{line-height:15px;font-size:20px;vertical-align:middle;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p span.metadata span.author img{float:left;margin:0 10px 0 0px;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 p a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .embedly_timestamp{font-size:13px;display:inline-block;margin-top:5px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .components-above span.embedly_timestamp{font-size:10px;margin-top:1px;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 a {color:#0084B4;text-decoration:none;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-screen-name {font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-full-name {padding-left:4px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions{margin-left:10px;font-size:13px;display:inline-block;width:250px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .components-above span.tweet-actions{font-size:10px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .controls{line-height:12px!important;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions a {margin-left:5px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions a b{font-weight:normal;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .components-above span.tweet-actions a b{vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .components-above .tweet-text{font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-image {float:left;width:40px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-user-block-image {float:left;width:48px;height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-row {margin-left:40px;margin-top:3px;line-height:17px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-user-block {}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .stream-item {padding-bottom:0px;margin-left:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .simple-tweet-image img {margin-top:4px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .simple-tweet-content {margin:0 0 13px 0px;font-size:14px;min-height:48px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .in-reply-to-border {border-color:#EBEBEB;border-style:solid;border-width:1px 0 0;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .in-reply-to-text {margin-left:4px;padding-left:8px;padding-right:10px;color:#999;font-size:12px;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions i {background:transparent url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1306889658/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png) no-repeat;width:15px;height:15px;margin:0 4px 3px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions a.retweet-action i {background-position:-192px 0;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions a.reply-action i {background-position:0 0;}#embedly_twitter_63428517 .tweet-actions a.favorite-action i {background-position:-32px 0;}@billyeichnerbilly eichner Bogart and Bacall. Tracy and Hepburn. Timberlake and Seyfried.Oct 28 via webFavoriteRetweetReply 1. The hilarious Alec Mapa emphasizes that many of us are already living in the mad dystopia of In Time. 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Why didn’t they just call it “Los Angeles”?Oct 28 via EchofonFavoriteRetweetReply Tagged: alec mapa, amanda seyfried, billy eichner, hunter s thompson, in time, jerry seinfeld, johnny depp, justin timberlake, matt singer, puss in boots, rob delaney, rum diary

Drugs, Matters and Secret Divorces: Within the Scandalous Good reputation for the Holmby Hillsides Estate Once Possessed by Tony Curtis, Cher and Sonny Bono

The next story first made an appearance in thecurrent issueofThe Hollywood Reportermagazine.our editor recommends'Unreal Estate' Book to Document Famous Hollywood Houses (VIDEO)'Flipping Out' Star Shaun Lewis Weighs in at in on Hollywood's Greatest Property Deals each week (Photos)Celebrity Scientologists Weigh in around the Church's Property ProgramHollywood's Greatest Property Deals each week: Kaira Pitt, Chris Tucker, Terry Semel, Beginning Ostroff (Photos)Related Subjects•Real Estate "Who'd have thought I'd finish up for the reason that house? ... Simply to say 'Carolwood' is mind-dazzling," Tony Curtis stated within an interview six several weeks before he died this year, remembering the grandest place he ever resided."At some point, we're likely to live the following,Inch Cher told husband Sonny Bono in 1967 the very first time they visited the Holmby Hillsides estate, noted for the majority of its existence by its address, 141 S. Carolwood Drive. Within the impossibly high-listed realm of L.A. property, an italian man , Renaissance mansion has rated -- in the day it had been built in the height from the Great Depression -- among the area's most coveted houses. PHOTOS: Matthew Perry's Four Large Houses Erected in 1932, the six-bed room house continues to be lived on by twentieth century Fox co-founder Frederick Schenck, Superior Oil founder William Keck, Curtis, Cher and Ghazi Aita, a shadowy businessman who encircled themself with model-actress-whatevers. It's now at the disposal of the widow of Ameriquest founder Roland Arnall, an architect from the subprime mortgage meltdown. "Covering it had been irresistible," states Michael Gross, author of Unreal Estate (Broadway, $30), phone uppermost echelons of L.A. property. (Gross composed a magazine in regards to a famous NY building, 740 Park, in 2005.) Starting with the founding from the communities define the so-known as Platinum Triangular of Holmby Hillsides, Beverly Hillsides and Bel-Air, the writer informs the storyline of fame, wealth and social striving in L.A. with the occupants of 16 from the area's great mansions. One of the amazing houses would be the Knoll in Beverly Hillsides, whose proprietors have incorporated Dino P Laurentiis and Marvin Davis, and Greenacres, built by quiet-film star Harold Lloyd and today the home of billionaire Ron Burkle. But 141 S. Carolwood Drive sticks out because of its famous proprietors as well as their tales of trysts, damaged partnerships, dissolution and predatory capitalism. Created by architect Robert Farquhar (also accountable for Beverly Hillsides Senior High School), it had been commissioned by Florence Quinn, the first kind wife of mall mogul Arthur Letts Sr., the visionary behind the roll-out of Holmby Hillsides. Named after his family's Holmby Lodge in Northamptonshire, England, the city -- created from Letts' acquisition of 3,296 acres in West La -- adopted within the actions of Beverly Hillsides and Bel-Air. As opposed to the second, Holmby Hillsides was founded without limitations on supplying Jews or showbiz types. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Greatest Property Deals each week: Matthew Perry, Val Kilmer, Jesse Trump Lots started to market there in 1925, with enormous mansions popping on nearly barren hillsides. Carolwood cost $150,000 and was recommended within the La Occasions because the biggest residence built that year. Quinn's red-colored-tile-roofed, L-formed mansion clocked in at 12,000 sq ft (large because of its time, not large by today's McMansion standards) and sitting on four acres of grass, gardens and fountains. A sweeping staircase still rules the huge wood-paneled reception hall. Crooner Rudy Vallee was Quinn's neighbor, and her boy Arthur Letts Junior. resided nearby inside a Medieval-Tudor house now referred to as Playboy Mansion. Within the mid-nineteen forties, it passed with the hands of Hotel Bel-Air founder Frederick Drown, who offered the home to probably the most effective males in Hollywood, movie mogul Schenck. "He furnished it inside a manner referred to as spare -- possibly while he considered the heavens, starlets and Hollywood gamers he filled the area with plenty of decoration," creates Gross from the first leader of U . s . Artists and, later, chairman of twentieth century Fox. Schenck's most famous decoration at Carolwood was Marilyn Monroe. "Though nobody alive know for several, it appears reasonably obvious he started an affair with [her] there," creates Gross. "Based on legend, she spotted him departing the studio in the limousine, exhibited him a sexy smile and also got his card along with a dinner invitation in exchange." She grew to become a normal at his parties, home tests and poker games, standing behind his chair as they performed. Soon, she was residing in the guesthouse. She was 21 and lately have been dropped from her contract at Fox, with merely a couple of small movie roles under her belt. The cigar-chomping Schenck, whose first and just wife was actress Norma Talmadge, was approaching 70. Anthony Summer season referred to him in the 1985 book Goddess: The Key Lives of Marilyn Monroe as "a endured bear of the guy." STORY: Sierra Towers: The Strategies of L.A.'s Strange, Sexy Celebrity Condo Building Although Monroe refused for an interviewer that they and Schenck have been intimate, her biographers describe it as being an affair that placed sex -- "It sometimes required hrs. I had been relieved when he went to sleep," Monroe is stated to possess confided to some friend -- and lengthy-lasting friendship. In 1948, Schenck got Harry Cohn to sign her at Columbia Pictures. Fox wasn't work selection for her Fox co-founder Darryl F. Zanuck dismissively known to Monroe as "Schenck's girl." (Monroe eventually came back to Fox to create About Eve). Schenck offered the home in 1956 to Superior Oil's Keck, who added an inside pool and gold bathroom-sink fittings formed like oil derricks. Curtis purchased ten years later, seven years after his now-classic submit Some Enjoy It Hot. The actor, creates Gross, "did remember Carolwood because he'd dated [Monroe] when she was bunking in [the] guesthouse." The mansion, then worth $300,000, would be a symbol for that actor of finally getting managed to get, buying and selling up through a number of ever-more-impressive houses."During my heart, I had been the Count, which houses grew to become cloaks," Curtis once stated. "After I drawn them on, they grew to become me, not the other way round." He moved along with his second wife, then 21-year-old German actress Christine Kaufmann, whom he met around the group of the 1962 film Taras Bulba, as well as their two youthful kids. At Carolwood, they entertained the kind of Gregory Peck, Roman Polanski and Jean Renoir. But as Kaufmann informs THR, Curtis, who was raised poor within the Bronx, was affected by insecurity: "John Calley once stated in my experience that Tony thought by getting married to me, he could kind of occupy European culture -- it would end up part of him. However it didn't. I don't think his childhood ever left him." Curtis frequently worried the cloak would disappear. "I'm not likely to say Tony didn't understand how to use forks and spoons, but the higher the house, the higher the fear," states Kaufmann. Related Subjects Cher Property 1 2 next last

Virgin pacts with U.K. PBS

LONDON -- A final-minute deal continues to be completed to carry the brand new U.K. version of PBS on local cable platform Virgin Media. The move implies that PBS is going to be open to customers of both primary British payboxes -- satcaster BSkyB and Virgin -- once the service bows in Blighty on November. 1. The agreement gives Virgin the privileges to supply PBS content across its on-demand services along with the funnel receiving slot number 243 around the Virgin Electronic Program Guide. The U.K. PBS funnel bow is the very first time the net has released a funnel outdoors the U.S. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Brent Hoff, Malcolm Pullinger win Film Independent grant

Film Independent has introduced the 2010 Sloan Producers Grant recipient and selected nine projects because of its eleventh annual Producers Lab, backed through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 5th annual Sloan grant of $25,000 was awared to Brent Hoff and Malcolm Pullinger for his or her film "El Diablo Rojo." Grant is devoted to developing films about science from commerical production to global distribution. In "El Diablo Rojo," a marine biologist and the team uncover an excellent swarm of El Diablo Rojo squid and risk their lives in order to save it from environmental disaster. The filmmakers connected to the nine projects, including "El Diablo Rojo," will attend the free seven-week L.A.-based producers lab, which aims to assist filmmakers increase their craft and move current projects into production. Another selected projects are Megha Kadakia's "Each Day With Dandekar," Anil Baral's "Ethel," Angela C. Lee's "Lee," Shrihari Sathe's "Guy With Van," Rikki Jarrett's "Pit," Gil Kofman and Stacy Raskin's "Raw," Jonathan Sheldon's "Televisionaries" and Anna Kerrigan's "Three." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Mattel buys Hit for $680 mil

Toymaker Mattel Monday announced plans to acquire Hit Ent. for $680 million in cash from U.K. private equity firm Apax Partners. Hit, of the U.K., with annual revenue of about $180 million, owns a premier global portfolio of preschool brands, including Thomas & Friends, Barney, Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam and Angelina Ballerina. El Segundo, Calif.-based Mattel is the company behind Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl and a wide array of entertainment-inspired toy lines. Speculation about a deal between the two emerged last week. Mattel already has a contract with Hit through 2014 to license certain plastic Thomas products, whose global sales total more than $150 million, the company said. The deal, it said, will allow it continue to expand the products and reunite two key pieces of the Thomas toy lineup, the plastic and die-cast toys with the wood-based business. "Hit Entertainment owns some of the most loved and trusted preschool brands in the world and under Mattel's leadership, I look forward to seeing them grow to even greater heights," said Hit CEO Jeffrey Dunn. "Mattel is a wonderful steward of brands, and a great home for the outstanding properties Hit has developed and grown." The acquisition does not include Hit's interest in the cable network station Sprout. The transaction is expected to be financed with a combination of cash and debt, and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2012. It is not expected to have a material impact on Mattel's 2012 earnings, but is expected to be increasingly accretive as the benefits of owning these brands are reflected in Mattel's results. "Mattel is the right home for Thomas and friends," said Mattel chief executive Robert Eckert. Hit CEO Jeffrey Dunn added: "It is fitting that the world's premier toy company should become the owner of the world's premier pre-school property." Hit, which was created by the late British media entrepreneur Peter Orton in 1989, was bought by Apax for $890 million in 2005. In the succeeding years the children's content business has been buffeted by declining DVD sales and uncertainties over future TV ad revenues. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Jersey Shore's Ronnie and Sammi Split Again!

Ronnie Ortiz-Magro and Sammi Sweetheart Giancola Plus they are off again ... Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, 1 / 2 of Jersey Shore's infamously on-and-off couple, told Us Weekly he Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola have split. "We are not together," Ortiz-Magro told playboy. Watch clips from Jersey Shoreline For people who've lost count: the happy couple first connected at the outset of Season 1, but separate with the finish of the year. They reunited in Season 2 and split again in the heart of Season 3, but quickly reconciled... before ending things again inside the season finale - when he trashed her room and stepped onto her account glasses. They again reconciled through the present fourth season, occur Florence, Italia. It's unknown if cameras caught their latest break-up for Season 5, which shot in Seaside Levels, N.J. and engrossed in August. You think Ronnie and Sammi will reconcile? At this time around, can you care?

DGA Reaches Tentative Deal On Advertisements Pact

NY The Company directors Guild of America today introduced the National Board of Company directors has approved a tentative new national commercial contract to be delivered to the membership for ratification. The agreement covers a 3-year term from December 1, 2011 through November 30, 2014 and addresses wage increases (2% each year, along with a wage increase of 15.8% for second second assistant company directors within the newbie from the contract) coverage of health (together with a 17.65% rise in the business contribution rate for those people plus additional contributions for company directors) and also the global industry for advertisements (provides producers with a lot more versatility to compete for jobs outdoors of The United States while protecting existing employment possibilities for first assistant company directors). Discussions happened throughout three separate periods in the last couple of several weeks using the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, Corporation (AICP) and were brought by Connect National Executive Director/Eastern Executive Director Russ Hollander along with a discussions committee comprised of DGA people. Discussions came to the conclusion recently and also the Memorandum of Agreement was signed earlier this year. The Board chosen all at its regularly scheduled board meeting on Saturday to transmit anything towards the membership. Because of the dedication and effort from the Commercial Discussions Committee, brought by Russ Hollander, we now have accomplished a good contract which will support our people employed in advertisements and can help to keep this sector in our business healthy and productive, stated Taylor Hackford, Leader from the DGA. Advertisements represent among the steadiest regions of work with our people, and that we are content the new agreement could keep our people working, secure their health care benefits and permit producers the versatility they have to bare this industry vibrant and competitive, stated Hollander. We joined into discussions recognizing that within this altering world you will find challenges towards the subscriptions of both AICP and DGA, stated Matt Burns, Leader and Boss of AICP who behaved as Chief Negotiator for that Associations Labor Committee. Burns ongoing, Together i was able, through frank discussions, to achieve a contract that can help us each address problems that may benefit our mutual constituencies and as a result the in general. The ratification materials will be delivered to the membership inside the future and will also be due back prior to the finish of the season.

Week in Review: Stranger Than Fiction

Whew! It’s been quite the eventful week here at Movieline, what with Netflix’s Qwikster dying on the vine, indie theater owners giving Universal and VOD what for, and the crazy real life developments you couldn’t have dreamed up. (Random Task, we’re looking at you… in fear.) Hit your Friday Week in Review and come tomorrow for the weekend stylings of Louis Virtel. The Avengers trailered all over 10 million of us. At NYFF: Curtis unveiled Marilyn, Scorsese debuted Hugo, and Cameron previewed Titanic 3D. (Never let go, Jim… never let go…) Bond villains! ’80s remakes! We had your coffee break reading material covered. Qwikster died an ignoble death; Universal caved to the Tower Heist VOD pressure. Meanwhile: Random Task frightened us, that Crabbe kid proved Slytherin House is rotten, and Steven Seagal just… well, he blew our minds. Happy LGBT History Month! And a hearty thanks to our Movieline Interviewees Joel Edgerton, Hayden Panettiere, Craig Brewer, Julia Roberts and Dennis Lee, Joel Schumacher, and Willem Dafoe.

'Daily Show' Contributor Aasif Mandvi Scores CBS Comedy

CBS gets into business using the Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. The Bombay-born actor-comedian is placed to pen a script in regards to a lately divorced counselor who dispenses relationship advice online. If acquired, Mandvi would star within the untitled project, which originates from Tagline (Guy Up, Psych) and CBS TV Galleries. STORY: Miner Not Amused By Aasif Mandvi's 'Daily Show' Asbestos Spoof Mandvi,whose past small-screen credits includeJericho, CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationandER, made his first appearance on Jon Stewart's Comedy Central show in summer time 2006. Before that, he'd dabbled in theater, together with a role within the 2002 Broadway revival of Oklahoma! VIDEO: 'Premium Hurry' Trailer: Frederick Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Jamie Chung, Dania Ramirez, Aasif Mandvi Star The may come as rival ABC acquired a comedy project fromCraig Kilborn, another former Daily Show talent. Mandviis repped by ICM. Related Subjects CBS The Daily Show with Jon Stewart TV Development

National basketball association Lockout: 10 Gamers Who Are in position to Lose as much as possible

The 2009 week, the National basketball association introduced it had been eliminating the very first two days of year after 2 days of discussions unsuccessful to yield any progress between your proprietors and gamers within their labor dispute.our editor recommendsUnion States National basketball association Lockout Coming at MidnightLakers Games: Who Sits Where (map)Kobe Bryant To Create His Movie Acting Debut in 'The Black Mamba'Endemol USA plans Kobe Bryant Web seriesKhloe Kardashian's Husband Lamar Odom Involved with Near-Fatal Vehicle AccidentRon Artest Title Switch to Metta World Peace Official'Dancing Using the Stars'' Ron Artest Responds to Elimination (Video) The adhering reason for the discussions was apparently the way the team proprietors as well as their gamers would split the $4 billion in revenue produced yearly through the league. STORY:National basketball association Cancels First Couple Of Days of Season Among Lockout National basketball association commissioner David Stern told the Connected Press that whenever two straight times of discussions, each side were "very far apart on almost all issues. ... We simply possess a gulf that separates us." So which gamers are in position to lose as much as possible because the lockout begins? John Reed of InvestingAnswers.com carried out market research for Yahoo's Publish Game blog, searching at who'll lose probably the most per salary. (His methodology comprised of dividing each player's 2011-12 salary into 13 biweekly income to discover the things they earn every two days of year.) STORY:National basketball association Lockout: Exactly what the Industry, Fans Say About Decision to Cancel First Couple Of Days of Season Based on Reed, La Opposing team star Kobe Bryant will require the greatest hit. Bryant, the greatest-compensated player within the National basketball association, signed a 3-year, $83.5 million extension in April, meaning he'll miss out on $1.9 million for that two days of canceled National basketball association games. He's only some of the Laker who made the very best 10: Pau Gasol arrived at No. 7 with $1.4 million per salary. Landing at No. 2 out there was Rashard Lewis with $1.7 million per salary. The Washington Magicians player's contract requires him to earn $22.a million this year. STORY: Opposing team' Kobe Bryant to experience in Italia Throughout National basketball association Lockout Rounding the top three was Tim Duncan from the San Antonio Spurs, that has a $21.3 million contract that provides him about $1.six million per salary. Meanwhile,when the lockout continues in to the year and intends a complete playoff schedule, the National basketball association's broadcast partners, including ABC/ESPN and TNT, could suffer substantial financial deficits too. Marketers apparently spent $807 million on National basketball association broadcasts last season, thoughmost lucrative advertising happens throughout the 2010 nfl playoffs. The entire listing of gamers who are in position to lost probably the most follows: 1. Kobe Bryant, La Opposing team, $1.9 million per salary 2. Rashard Lewis, Washington Magicians, $1.7 million 3. Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs, $1.638 million 4. Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics, $1.630 million 5. Gilbert Arenas, Orlando Miracle, $1.48 million 6. Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks, $1.47 million 7. Pau Gasol, La Opposing team, $1.44 million 8. Anthony May, NY Knicks, $1.42 million 9. Amar'e Stoudemire, NY Knicks, $1.40 million 10. Joe Manley, Atlanta Hawks, $1.39 million Related Subjects National basketball association Kobe Bryant

Exclusive: Terra Nova Roars Into New You'll be able to Comic Disadvantage

Terra Nova Fox's latest prehistoric stars will have a bite in the The The Big Apple! Terra Nova cast people Jason O'Mara and Stephen Lang will probably be grew to become an associate of by executive producer Brannon Braga on Saturday, October 15 at 11am inside the IGN Theater within the Javits Center in NY City for just about any fan Q&A moderated by TV Guide Magazine senior editor Wealthy Sands. Lucky participants can also be treated to have an advanced screening in the approaching episode "The Runaway"! Are you currently presently excited for Terra Nova at NY Comic Disadvantage? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Nikita's Lyndsy Fonseca on Alex's Predicament and Giving Fans "Olex"

Lyndsy Fonseca, Nikita In Season 2 of Nikita, Alex is working alongside Division - but that does not imply that she and Nikita will stay adversaries. Even when Nikita did break her arm and shoot her within the leg. Bygones! "I believe there is lots of worry this year about 'Oh my God, Alex is turning evil, Alex is around the bad side,' and it is not too whatsoever," Lyndsy Fonseca informs TVGuide.com. "It's type of the unfortunate situation they are in at this time. There's still lots of love, there's still lots of hate. You will find moments within the next couple of episodes where Nikita attempts to help Alex, and there is moments where Alex alerts Nikita about things." VIDEO: Nikita's Devon Sawa: Owen will not get when it comes to "Mikita" Alex also offers more urgent matters on her behalf mind besides Nikita (Maggie Q). Discovering much more about how her parents died has lit Alex's vengeance-seeking fires, as well as in Friday's episode (8/7c around the CW), she takes another calculated step toward claiming back her birthright, her father's company, Zetrov. "She tries to find the spokesperson, the general public figure of Zetrov, from the lead that Amanda has given her," states Fonseca. "She's type of playing a component, pretending to become someone else. It's certainly progress, but regrettably there is a huge consequence to become compensated when she does try to understand this guy." For the time being, Alex is tied to her current allies because she needs the assets that Division offers, even when that needs dealing with Amanda and Percy (Melinda Clarke and Xander Berkeley). Fonseca teases that within an approaching episode, "Amanda does something so terrible to Alex with someone who she really loves and likes you, which it changes the connection together. Due to that, Alex will have to trust Percy a bit more. We are going to determine what that may mean." Photos: Nikita, Hawaii Five- and much more of TV's most sexy crime martial artists Getting belief in Percy, however, is not always probably the most prudent course. Percy, obviously, remains held in a glass-enclosed prison, not too it's stopped the first kind Division boss from making demands and meting out suggestions about Black Box matters. "You won't ever wish to trust Percy. Whenever you do, you realize you are in the finish of the rope," states Fonseca. "After I play Alex, I understand to not trust him. I understand that there are effects to doing stuff that he asks, but it is tough to be five steps in front of Percy. I believe that he's type of building his secret method of breaking out." Read this look of Friday's episode "Knightfall" and Alex's critical decision: And although Nikita fans may relish the show's action and intrigue, additionally they love, well, love. Fonseca knows that fans want Alex to locate romance with Devon Sawa's recurring character, Owen. "The 'Olex' factor is simply shocking and funny in my experience,Inch she states. "I really like that fans are extremely in to the show enough to build up an appreciation interest between two those who have never even met on the program. I do not know if they'll ever meet. Hopefully the authors -- and that i have pointed out it to them also -- provide the fans what they need.Inch Meanwhile, audiences will have to get by with Sean (Dillon Casey), the man sent by Oversight to keep close track of Division. It's really no secret the show's setting him as an intimate interest for Alex, but to date, after being tricked by everybody, she's not feeling generous, a smaller amount romantic. "At first of year, she's just really inflammed with this guy, with many people breathing lower her neck and tugging her in many various ways,Inch Fonseca states. "She does not need someone else declaring that what's right and wrong. And So I think she's a little defensive about him and feels as though he's just there to question who she's in ways that isn't really helping her. There's certainly no liking happening at this time.Inch The entire Nikita Season 2 report: "Mikita" away from home along with a romance for Birkhoff? Ah, but hearts in addition to allegiances can alter, and Alex certainly has proven to become prone to outdoors influence and adjusting to extreme conditions. "I believe the large change is available in Episode 8, but it is a sluggish development," Fonseca states. "They've moments when they're place in existence and dying situations where they are instructed to get together to outlive it. I believe that you'll be able to be amazed by Sean. There's lots of Boy Scout, 'I'm an ideal guy and that i perform the right factor,' black-and-whitened attitude he has that Alex really does not understand or like. He then begins to exhibit that small gray area in the ideas toward Division." Nikita airs on Fridays at 8/7c around the CW. Will Alex ever fully reconcile with Nikita? Do you consider she needs a friend greater than a love interest at this time? Owen or Sean?

CBS Orders Full Season of two Broke Women

Kat Dennings, Jesse Behrs CBS has bought an entire-season pickup of two Broke Women, TVGuide.com has confirmed.Fall TV: Start to see the 17 stars as well as sturdy . eyes relating to this yearThe comedy about two fighting NY waitresses (Kat Dennings and Jesse Behrs) airs at 8:30/7:30c on Mondays - immediately preceding the resurgent Ashton Kutcher-introduced two and a half Males. Now, it sustained its status since the season's most broadly used new sitcom, getting in 11.37 million people together with a 4.4 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds (versus. the last week's 11.58 million/4.5).NBC orders Up With The Evening and Whitney, cancels Playboy ClubIt's been a flourishing week for executive producer Whitney Cummings - her eponymous NBC sitcom also had been acquired for just about any full season.

Andy Cohen: All Jersey Average women Are Coming back Next Season

First Released: October 4, 2011 5:51 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Teresa Giudice and Jacqueline Laurita attend the 2011 Bravo Upfront at 82 Mercer in NY City on March 30, 2011 La, Calif. -- Fuhgeddaboudit! Individuals The Actual Average women of Nj casting shakeup reviews are simply gossips Bravos Andy Cohen told Access Hollywood on Tuesday. You will find there's great finale approaching for that Average women of Nj as well as an better still reunion, Andy told Access in the Leadership Breakfast Series: Energy from the Purse event in NY City. Reviews appeared a week ago that Jacqueline Laurita, who seems to become at the time of the Twitter war with co-star Teresa Guidice, was departing the Bravo series. Andy put individuals gossips to relaxation for good, saying, The cast is solid and theyre remaining there. Exactly what youve read continues to be false Theyre all returning! Adding, Dont believe that which you read! For the lately recorded reunion special, which Jacqueline Tweeted that they didn't attend, the Bravo guru remained mother around the drama. Youll need to watch what goes on, Andy stated having a smile. The growing season finale from the Real Average women of Nj airs on October 9 at 10 PM on Bravo. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Hot Trailer: The Lady

Luc Besson’s The Lady tells the storyof Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Michelle Yeoh stars as Suu Kyi withDavid Thewlis as her husband, Michael Aris, who campaigned along with their children for her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. The Lady is being released in the U.S. for an Oscar-qualifying run late this year.

'The Playboy Club:' Chrysler to carry on Advertising Despite PTC Campaign

Chrysler states it'll still advertise around the Playboy Club, regardless of the Parents Television Council advocating sponsors to drag from the questionable NBC show.our editor recommends'The Playboy Club' Showrunner: 'There's a concept of the Show That's False''The Playboy Club': Colbie Caillat to Guest StarEddie Cibrian: 'I Could not Pass Up' 'The Playboy Club' STORY: Seven Marketers Give Up of 'The Playboy Club' After PTC Requires Boycott "Many variables are used when determining where product ads are proven. Like others and auto producers, the brands of Chrysler Group LLC advertise using a number of mediums, including broadcast, to achieve broad audiences," a representative for the organization, Dianna C. Gutierrez, informs The Hollywood Reporter. PHOTOS: Fall TV Dying Pool: Which Show Is Going To Be Axed First? "We notice that not every advertising positioning is loved by all people. We don't take this method to offend, but we're feeling that you should deliver details about our items to some different and broad audience," she adds. Seven sponsors -- Kraft, Sprint, Lenovo, UPS Store, Subway, P.F. Chang's China Bistro and Campbell's Soup -- didn't advertise within the second episode from the Playboy Club. PHOTOS: Fall's 12 Most Anticipated Shows The PTC has specific the show for objectifying and degrading women because it was acquired by NBC. Stating the show's rankings, the audience's leader Tim Winter stated Wednesday, "What's been obvious to everybody outdoors of NBC must certainly be obvious even going to individuals inside NBC: The Playboy Club is really a commercial disaster and should be taken off the airwaves. We demand the network to cancel this degrading and sexualizing program immediately." PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview: The Brand New Shows The premiere was soft with 5 million audiences and merely single.6 rating within the ad-coveted 18-49 demo. It sunk 19 percent in the second week, with only 3.8 million audiences along with a 1.3 within the key demo. The audience vows to carry on to request its people to make contact with marketers for example Capital One, Chrysler and Samsung "until they cease sponsorship of the broadcast television program that's mainstreaming the pornography industry." PHOTOS: PTC versus. TV: 10 Tv Program Controversies Reps for Capital One and Samsung haven't yet become to THR. Showrunner Chad Hodge downplayed the debate (Gloria Steinem known as for any boycott NBC's Salt Lake City affiliate declined to air it). "I believe there's a concept of the show that's false," he stated. "You will find different brands of feminism and that i don't believe it ought to be boxed into anyone version" "I believe there is a notion that people were trying to behave politically ambitious or create a statement or get this to a show about strengthening women, which sounds super boring in my experience. That seems like a documentary, which this is really not. This really is a lot more like Chicago, Moulin Rouge and all sorts of That Jazz, Desperate Average women. This can be a fun, sexy cleaning soap," he added. Lindsay.Forces@Thr.com @LKPE Related Subjects The Playboy Club

Study Sees U.S. Communications Industry Growing 4.1% in 2011

NEW YORK - Despite an economic slowdown, U.S. communications industry spending will grow 4.1 percent this year and increase at a 5.5 percent compound annual growth rate from 2010 to 2015 to $1.41 trillion, Veronis Suhler Stevenson projected on Wednesday. That means that the sector will outperform economic growth over the multi-year time frame driven by digital media growth. However, the latest growth multi-year forecast was weaker than the company's forecast last year for a 6.1 percent CAGR through 2014 to $1.42 trillion. By the end of 2015, the communications industry will now be the eighth-fastest-growing and fourth-largest U.S. economic component, according to the 25th edition of the VSS Communications Industry Forecast 2011-15. The company unveiled its annual forecast later than usual "due to the downturn in key economic indicators in the third quarter of 2011, which led VSS to recalibrate its forecasts to include the most current research and analysis through September." VSS also said it will begin publishing a mid-term forecast update in the first quarter of 2012. Growth over the 2010-2015 period will be driven primarily by "the rapid convergence of computer, Internet and wireless mobile technologies fueling the ongoing transformation of the media landscape and leading to new industries, platforms, channels, and consumer and institutional behaviors," the company said. Indeed, the VSS forecast says that digital media is having "a strong and long-term impact" on the industry. The only segments expected to register declines over the forecast period are newspaper publishing and local consumer directories. Segments that have been hurt in recent years by the migration to digital and economic factors are expected to stabilize though during the forecast period, according to the VSS report. Meanwhile, targeted media is projected to be the fastest-growing industry sector in 2011 and over the 2010-2015 time frame, expanding at a CAGR of 7.9 percent to $272.5 billion in 2015, driven by Internet and mobile services, as well as branded entertainment. The four revenue streams of advertising, marketing services, institutional and consumer end-user spending that VSS tracks will lag GDP growth in 2011, but exceed economic growth over the 2010-2015 period, according to the investment firm. Institutional end-user and advertising revenue will show a strong CAGR of 6.0 percent each over the period.In the institutional end-user segment, TV programming, cable license fees and TV station retransmission fees will grow at a CAGR of 7.5 percent. In advertising, mobile and Internet will drive growth with CAGRs of 42.9 percent and 13.7 percent, respectively. The traditional consumer ad media space, which includes broadcast TV, consumer magazines and broadcast and satellite radio, among others, will generate growth in the forecast period, even though it will trail GDP, "as brand-related digital products and delivery methods gain a stronger foothold for most traditional media outlets," VSS said. "While there are instances of declines and decelerated growth - largely in the more traditional segments of the communications industry - there is a convergence taking place, in which everything digital continues to gain greater influence, scope and relative revenue mix, neutralizing the general decline of traditional media," said John Suhler, co-founder and president of VSS. Time spent with the Internet increased 6.0 percent in 2010 to 397 hours per person, according to VSS. The growth came from consumers spending more time with social media, among other things. Time spent with mobile media in 2010 jumped 49.7 percent to 77 hours per person amid increased smartphone penetration. Given rapid adoption of tablets, VSS projected a 35.3 percent increase in time spent with wireless media in 2011, reaching 104 hours per person. The segment will post a 19.8 percent CAGR over the forecast period, with consumer purchases of more e-books, music, mobile applications and streaming video driving growth, it said. Growth in the entertainment and leisure media sector, traditionally the largest part of the total communications business, will amount to a CAGR of 5.6 percent to hit $355.74 billion in 2015 driven by subscription TV gains at a 7.6 percent CAGR to $235.76 billion. VSS predicted that subscribers would add enhanced services, such as cable modems, to their existing packages. Subscription TV will be the largest consumer media segment in 2011. The CAGR in the traditional consumer ad media sector will be 1.9 percent in the forecast period to hit $160.21 billion in 2015. Advertising revenue growth of 2.5 percent in 2011 to $188.16 billion and a 6.0 percent CAGR to $245.29 billion will also boost results. Broadcast TV will remain the largest advertising segment, while pure-play mobile advertising spending will be the fastest growing segment, according to VSS. Within the overall broadcast TV segment, VSS expects total spending will fall 0.6 percent to $47.18 billion in 2011, with the 2010-2015 CAGR hitting 3.9 percent though to reach $57.37 billion in 2015, driven by retransmission fees. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics

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