'Fringe' Producers, 'Shield' Scribe Sell Western to Fox

John Hlavin Hot author John Hlavin is boarding the little screen's Western train. Fox has acquired an untitled Western script in the Shield scribe Hlavin which will explore the roots of Wyatt Earp, chronicling the well-known occurrences in the existence -- such as the Gunfight in the OK Corral -- in addition to particulars about his siblings getting order to some lawless frontier. PHOTOS:18 Familiar Faces of Fall TV Hlavin has offered the project towards the network through twentieth century Fox Television, which introduced in Fringe's Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci through their studio-based K/O Paper Items to executive produce the project. K/O Paper Items leader Louise Kadin will even executive produce alongside Hlavin, whose TV credits include Believe Me, Daybreak and E-Ring. Hlavin, that has the Western The Gunslingerin development at Warner Bros. Pictures, is presently penning Risk for The new sony Pictures and dealing with DreamWorks on his untitled heist film. His large-screen credits likewise incorporate penning the 4th installment within the Underworld franchise for Screen Gems. PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview 2011: The Coming back Shows Kurtzman and Orci inked a 3-year overall cope with 20th Television this past year coupled with drama aircraft pilots Locke & Key and Exit Strategy setup at Fox that did not obtain the series pickup in May. This really is their second project this development season CBS acquired a lady-fronted drama turning around a congresswoman who fights for that underdog. Overall, the Hlavin project continues the Western trend this development season. EXCLUSIVE Q&A: Fox's Kevin Reilly on 'X Factor' Rankings, 'Terra Nova' and the way forward for 'Glee' TNT lately gave pilot orders to Gateway, an action-adventure occur 1880s Colorado in the Pacific's Bruce C. McKenna. ABC is developing Gunslinger from Detroit 1-8-7's David Zabel and Hogtown, a procedural pitch occur the Wild West from Battlestar Galactica's Ron Moore. CBS and GoodFellas' Nicholas Pileggi are also preparing Rob Lamb in line with the sixties adventure from the cowboy-switched-Vegas sheriff while NBC has Rob Cassidy's 1840s-set The Frontier in addition to a Western project told from the female perspective from Friday Evening Lights' Peter Berg. STORY: Saddle Up! TV Westerns Hot AMC's Union Off-shore Railroad 1860s Western Hell on Wheels,meanwhile, is first from the gate, premiering November. 6. Hlavin is repped by UTA and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit The Shield Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman TV Development

Gymnast Alicia Sacramone, MLB's Jose Reyes Appearing Nude for ESPN The Magazine's Body Problem

Alicia Sacramone Gymnast Alicia Sacramone, baseball player Jose Reyes, soccer player Hope Solo, football player Steven Jackson and National basketball association player Blake Griffin are probably the sports athletes appearing nude for ESPN The Magazine's third annual Body Problem, USA Today reviews. A lot more than 20 sports athletes can look naked (using their private parts smartly covered) inside a portion of the problem entitled "Physiques We Would Like.Inch The problem, the magazine's annual "exploration and celebration from the sports form," hits newsstands on March. 7. Other sports athletes showing up within the problem include speedskater Apolo Ohno, tennis player Vera Zvonareva, IndyCar racer Helio Castroneves, WBNA player Sylvia Fowles and snowboarder Louie Vito. "It is really an problem within the small amount of time we have been doing the work that's become pretty anticipated," ESPN Playboy editor-in-chief Chad Millman told the newspaper. "When it comes to the sports athletes we have attracted, we seem like the audience is actually strong."

TOLDJA! Jack Black Pic Bernie Acquired By Millennium Entertainment

Deadline revealed within this summer time that Millennium Entertainment was buying U.S. distribution rights for the La Film Festival opening film Bernie, the Richard Linklater-directed film that stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, for just about any low seven figure minimum guarantee and $millions of P&Dedication. Millennium has finally confirmed the sale. Here’s the condition announcement: La (September 28, 2011) Millennium Entertainments Boss Bill Lee introduced today the organization has acquired U.S. rights to Richard Linklaters BERNIE, the opening evening film within the 2011 La Film Festival. Put together by Skip Hollandsworth and Linklater, BERNIE stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. Mandalay Vision and Wind Dancer Films produced and funded. Director of Purchases Vincent Scordino talked about the sale regarding Millennium Entertainment. The business thinks about the problem in regards to a March 2012 release. Black plays Bernie, the beloved mortician inside a small Texas town. MacLaine might be the metropolitan areas richest, meanest widow, in addition to she adores him. Nobody will say an undesirable word about Bernieeven after he commits an very nasty crime. Were thrilled to produce the newest within the very gifted Richard Linklater to audiences, pointed out Millennium Entertainment Boss Bill Lee. BERNIE can be a wonderfully endearing film that showcases memorable work from Jack, Shirley and Matthew and signifies the type of quality films were searching to fill our slate with. Millennium Entertainment recently released PUNCTURE, starring Chris Evans. They'll next release TRESPASS, starring Academy Award individuals who win Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, which opened up within the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival and may open October 14, 2011.

'Moneyball' tops Friday B.O.

'Moneyball'Sony's "Moneyball" tossed for first last evening within the domestic box office with $6.8 million.Studio thinks the Kaira Pitt starrer will behave much like last year's "The Social Media,Inch revealing its legs with adult auds up through honours season. That given, "Moneyball" should land somewhere inside the high teens to win a couple of days ago. Pic acquired a b Cinemascore from every demo.Disney's "The Lion King" reissue came back for second on Friday with $6.millions of. Dork Hollis, distribution prexy within the Mouse, mentioned there's some concern the discharge was too frontloaded and would hit its soph slump this frame, but midweek sales and last night's perf indicate otherwise.Fresh faces needed another top spots with Warner Bros.' "Dolphin Tale" in third with $5.millions of, and Lionsgate's "Abduction" in fourth with $3.8 million. "Killer Elite," the initial title from Open Road Films, opened up up last evening to roughly $3.4 million."Elite" is predicted to fall around $12 million or $13 million through Sunday, which more often than not meets anticipation for Open Road. The distribbery acquired the film totally free and merely aims to recoup P&A costs. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Hope Solo: Maksim Chmerkovskiy Is Extremely Sexy!

La, Calif. -- Hope Solo was Dwts ballerina Maksim Chmerkovskiys dream partner, now that the 2 are paired up and competing in Season 13, the soccer goalkeeper has recognized he would be a perfect fit. And also the self-referred to sex on the stick (a nickname he gave themself throughout rehearsals with Kirstie Alley last season), continues to be focused in rehearsals, departing your camera-stealing lines for an additional time. Maks results in a particular way, and hes very sexy, very confident, but simultaneously, he really wants to win, Hope told Access Hollywood in defense of her sometimes-open ballroom bad boy, after last nights DWTS. Thats things i respect about him, because when a sports athlete, he makes me strive, he pushes me, and hes intense. Thats all I truly worry about. Hope can also be devoted to carrying out a good project for herself and particularly for Maks, that has yet to consider home the mirrorball within the competition and also the two carried out nicely on Monday evening, arriving third for that evening and netting 21 highlights of 30. All along Maks desired to get three 7s, and also to accomplish this, Im so relieved, Hope stated. Im so happy, and that i didnt wish to allow him to lower, because hes labored so difficult, and Im certainly a sports athlete. But, their impressive debut score nearly didnt happen. I almost cried within the dressing room, Hope stated of her a reaction to putting on a pink, sequined dress. I place the outfit on, hair and makeup done, and that i didnt think I possibly could go out. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fall TV Previews: Up All Night, Free Agents

Christina Applegate In this year's mixed bag of a new fall season, I tend to find myself touting several of the comedies more frequently than almost any of the dramas, which is rarely the case. There are plenty of sitcom stinkers this fall - one of tonight's, actually, is at the very bottom of my must-flee (as opposed to must-see) list. But with New Girl, 2 Broke Girls, Suburgatory and (tonight's pick) Up All Night, there's reason to believe that network comedy's renaissance - reflected in the fact that all six of this year's best-comedy Emmy nominees are network shows - may be here to stay.Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Up All Night is clearly a work in progress (as are most pilots), and its revamped opener shows the strain of rethinking Maya Rudolph's scene-stealing character post-production, awkwardly inserting new workplace scenes that aren't an especially smooth fit. (She went from being a neurotic public-relations exec to being a manically neurotic over-the-top daytime talk queen, sort of a mini-Oprah. Traces of Rudolph's justifiably praised SNL Oprah impersonation can be seen here, and I'll be curious to see how this develops.)Rudolph is the wacky comic icing on what otherwise is a more grounded and endearingly realistic comedy about two exhausted new parents (Christina Applegate and Will Arnett) who are still adjusting to the loss of their it's-all-about-me, hard-partying lifestyle to make way for adorable baby Amy. One sign that they're not quite there yet: Their cooing over the baby is punctuated by oodles of bleeped cursing.Theirs is the human comedy of anxiety and panic familiar (perhaps too familiar) to anyone who's new to the child-rearing game. As Reagan (Applegate) heads back to work for Ava the TV diva (Rudolph), leaving husband Chris (Arnett) to be Mr. Mom at home, she hears Matt Lauer snarking at her from the Today set on TV, and what she hears coming from Chris's mouth - "Babe. Worry. I can't totally do this" - rattles her even more. It's not much easier for Chris, whose first solo trip to the mega-supermarket with baby on board is a nightmare of disorientation. Applegate is, as always, disarming, but Arnett is the real revelation here, playing an actual human being for a change instead of an ironic comment on a character. We know he's brilliant at absurdism, but it's nice to see him get real.NBC is hoping to launch a new Wednesday comedy block with this show, which may get a first-week boost by airing after the America's Got Talent finale. But considering that next week it goes up against ABC's broader and funnier The Middle, not to mention the juggernaut of Fox's The X Factor, the only real shot Up All Night has is if the network decides to move it to Thursdays, where its arch tone would be a decent fit among NBC's irony-laced cult faves. (It would definitely be more at home on Thursday than the shrill Whitney, which premieres next week.) Given that Lorne Michaels is attached to this one as an executive producer, NBC may give it another night and time to shine should it implode on Wednesdays.Whereas I can't imagine any place where the toxic workplace comedy Free Agents would be welcomed. An unpleasant show about miserable people working in an environment (corporate public relations) that's about as welcoming as Chernobyl, this is the decidedly non-romantic story of newly divorced whiner Alex (Hank Azaria), who cries after sex and any time he hears a certain Archies song, and snappish co-worker Helen (Kathryn Hahn), who drowns her sorrows over her dead-too-soon fiancé, to whom she's turned her home into a creepy shrine.Into their uninviting lives we're thrust after a post-coital opening scene and a morning-after standoff at work, where Helen informs Alex he's not ready for a relationship because he's an "absolute mess." (True enough. Still not funny.) PoorAlex, though, can't catch a break. He's hounded at work by grotesque boors, including a lascivious boss played by Buffy's Anthony Head - reprising his role from the original British series, which BBC America will begin showing next month - who keep urging the schnook to "get back on the horse." He's regularly mocked to his face by his snark-shark of an executive assistant Emma, whom he begs to "turn down the sass maybe one little notch." She doesn't. And being part of this year's trend of emasculated wusses, PoorAlex just shrugs it off.Thankfully, where TV is concerned, we are all free agents, and can walk away from a train wreck like this without even a backward glance.Finally, the CW is trying to convince people that tonight's pathetic new quasi-reality show H8R (pronounced "hater") is somehow a response to online bullying, the victims in this case being quasi-celebs (largely of the "reality" variety) like Snooki and the Kardashians, who really should develop thicker skins - if that's even possible - when it comes to taking abuse for being famous. Or infamous, as the case may be. The real victims in H8R are the everyday schmos who are ambushed, Punk'd-style, by that week's "star" and host Mario Lopez, who spend the bulk of each episode trying to convince their targets and us that these overexposed tabloid terrors aren't really so bad. Not buying it. Not watching it. Feel free to hate H8R, and should they come knocking, don't let them in. No one needs to be on TV this badly.Up All Night and Free Agents premiere Wednesday, 10/9c and 10:30/9:30c, on NBC. Next week, they move to their regular time period in the 8/7c hour.H8R premieres Wednesday at 8/7c on the CW.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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About That Time Paul Rudd Met President Obama

“He asked about my character in How Do You Know, and I told him I’m a guy who gets into some hot water, and though his intentions are good he gets indicted by the government for possible violations. And Obama says, ‘Oh, so you’re playing a congressman.’ And I was like, ‘No, actually I work for my dad in this corporation.’ I’m trying to explain, and Obama interrupts me and says, ‘It was a joke.’ I just felt so stupid. Of course it was a joke, and it’s actually a pretty good one. I’m normally pretty good at catching them. If you’re not the fucking President of the United States, I can usually identify when you’re joking.” Now you know. [Playboy]

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I Spent 29 Minutes Playing Dirty Dancing On Facebook So You Don't Have To

Not every Facebook game can be as engaging as that of our sister site Deadline. Take the Hollywood social-media fun-time application unveiled today: Dirty Dancing, a hip-swinging, watermelon-schlepping journey through all the rocking romance of the classic 1987 film. But pixelated! Because, you know, nobody puts Baby in a corner, but apparently putting her in 16-bit animation is totally fine. “By visiting http://apps.facebook.com/dirtydancinggame, everyone who has ever wanted to be a part of those magical times in the Catskills can now have the time of their lives by acting as managers and caretakers of Kellerman’s Resort,” notes a press release sent along to Movieline HQ. “Players and their Facebook friends will join the characters to build the resort, provide guests with fun activities and dances, spread romance and enjoy music from the classic Dirty Dancing soundtrack. The game is designed using Pixel Art to re-create that fun and innocence which made Dirty Dancing one of the most popular films of the ’80s.” The time of my life, eh? Let’s give it a shot! Uh, whoa. “Pick a Trainer now!” OK! Stop yelling! So wait, though: I’m a straight guy. Am I supposed to want Johnny as a trainer? I think? He’s the dancer, right? Isn’t it creepy if I go with the coltish teen virgin? Fuck it. Johnny it is. [SELECT] Swell! I don’t… see them? Is that the clubhouse over there, though? I could use a drink. There are girls in the bar, yes? Six vodka gimlets and a hotel key is perfectly good romance. Let’s get sparking! “Spread romance”? I love the euphemisms! Anyway, sure, I’ll click. Heads up, Single Guest: I am totally going to drop a romance wave on you right now. Again? So soon? OK, I think I can. But you said. Ugh. Let me get a towel.

Exclusive Start Looking: Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to any or all The Kids

Sarah Michelle Gellar My Children will quickly finish its staggering 41-year run although not before among its most well-known grads drops directly into say goodbye. Ringer star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who won a 1995 Daytime Emmy as Kendall Hart, the wicked, sexually audacious daughter of Erica Kane, will go back to the ABC cleaning soap September 21. Gellar contacted the show herself, particularly asking to not play Kendall because the role has become possessed by Alicia Minshew - so rather she is going to play a delusional patient at Pine Valley Hospital who thinks she's Erica's daughter! The very first person Gellar's character encounters - and recognizes - is Dr. Maria Santos Gray, performed by fellow AMC alum Avoi La Rue (CSI: Miami). States the soap's professional producer Julie Carruthers: "It had been an excellent pleasure to welcome Sarah to Pine Valley and particularly fun to possess her character wink towards the audience with fun lines that recommended her previous character." Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

'March' to Toronto

Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor.Viggo Mortensen, Michael Barker, David Cronenberg and Tom Bernard chat at Sony Pictures Classics cocktail party.Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara and Max Minghella juggle three "Ides" events. Cee Lo Green performs at Alliance Films Press Party at South of Temperance during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. Alliance Films Press Party - Toronto International Film Festival South of Temperance ToPaul Haggis and Jon Hamm Michel Hazanavicius and Jean Dujardin unveil "The Artist." EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE * EXCLUSIVE * (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Rhys Ifans and Jamie Campbell Bower at Columbia Pictures "Anonymous" Premiere at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival at The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Center on September 11, 2011 in TAlliance's Victor Loewy and Sony's Amy Pascal meet at Alliance bash; Cee Lo Green performs "Crazy." Sony Corporation Chairman, CEO and President Sir Howard Stringer and actor George Clooney attend "The Ides of March" party.Unsuspecting Canucks might've been double-checking their calendars as the city buzzed about "The Ides of March," George Clooney's political drama that was a centerpiece at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday.No less than three parties championed the cast, including a pre-show event at Soho House and a late-night soiree at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, but that didn't explain the near 45-minute delay of the pic's unspooling at Roy Thomson Hall."Sorry we're so late. You know, blame Brad Pitt," Clooney joked as he introduced the film, noting his friend's "Moneyball," which screened earlier and slowed auds getting to their seats.The rest of the night went off without a hitch at the Alliance Films party where cast members of "Ides," including Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood, joined the Canadian distrib to toast its 21 films at the fest.Wood downplayed the political side of "Ides.""It asks the questions of who we want to be as people, rather than what party or candidate is better," she said. "There are no heroes or villains in this film."The Alliance event featured a surprise mini-concert from Cee Lo Green, who had the crowd belting out his Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy.""Usually you expect a corporate event to be cold and coarse, but tonight was an exception," he said.Friday also saw the annual fundraiser for Artists for Peace and Justice, at Ame restaurant.Paul Haggis hosted along with Gerard Butler, with Jon Hamm in attendance. The helmer is proud of the org's community outreach work in Port-au-Prince. "APJ built a state-of-the-art cholera center that has treated over 10,000 people and just opened the first free high school in Haiti, with a permanent structure going up now," said Haggis.APJ's fundraising continued Saturday when Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder performed. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Talbot Perry Simons...Got the Part

Talbot Perry Simons...Got the Part Role: Hank in "Thursday's Speaker," a SAG Ultra Low Quality feature By Sarah Mckinley Oakes September 10, 2011 Talbot Perry Simons Many stars undertake other areas of filmmaking: pointing, creating, often even writing. However the real love of acting will 't be overlooked, so regardless of the number of hats they put on, they keep searching for chances to ply a common talent.Such was the situation for Talbot Perry Simons, who had been paging through Back Stage, searching for acting gigs despite the fact that he was keeping busy marketing a movie he'd lately written, directed, and starred in. When he saw the notice for "Thursday's Speaker," a SAG Ultra Low Quality feature, he understood he'd found something which would allow him to do what he loved. "Acting's my personal favorite factor," Simons states. "It's why I made my very own movieso I possibly could star inside it. And I'd been so busy marketing, 'Thursday's Speaker' was the very first project I'd posted for in age range."Within the film Simons plays the role of Hank, who owns a second hand-vehicle lot. Gary Hebert, the film's author and director, understood in the first audition that Simons was what he was searching for. "He'd amazing energy," Hebert takes note of. "He arrived to the area like gangbusters, totally all set. He was an enjoyable experience right right from the start, and so i thought he'd do well within the part." Hebert still thought so once they were done shooting. "It had been great," he states. "[Simons] is an extremely hands-on, physical actor. He loves getting plenty of little props, and that he will develop all of this stuff by himself. He comes along with his crossword puzzle that he will do, or he finds each one of these cool tiny problems he may bring into it. He's always adding something or getting in certain new idea, or modifying something. He's really professional and totally prepared I'd love an opportunity to use him again."Simons started acting within the seventies, when he received a scholarship to The Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute in L.A., after winning the Irene Ryan Award for the best actor inside a manufacture of "Lenny" at Orange Coast College. "I analyzed at Strasberg having a great lady named Pat Randall, and I have been acting since,Inch states Simons, who's an associate of SAG and AFTRA as well as on withdrawal from Equity, and estimations he's experienced 35 plays in L.A., too as numerous TV films and shows. "I have won an overall total of seven acting honours now, using the best acting award in the New You are able to Worldwide Independent Film and Video Festival for my movie 'Still the Drums.' " That film won four other honours in the 2009 festival: best movie, best script, best directorial debut, and best new song. Simons was the director and author as well as sang the songbut acting remains his primary focus. "I am not really a kid any longer, you realize,Inch he states, laughing. "It is a struggle, however they ain't eliminating me."Has Back Stage assisted you receive cast previously year? We'd love to inform your story. Maintain the weekly column by contacting casting@backstage.com for New You are able to or bswcasting@backstage.com for La with "I Acquired the Part" within the subject line. Talbot Perry Simons...Got the Part Role: Hank in "Thursday's Speaker," a SAG Ultra Low Quality feature By Sarah Mckinley Oakes September 10, 2011 Talbot Perry Simons Many stars undertake other areas of filmmaking: pointing, creating, often even writing. However the real love of acting won't be overlooked, so regardless of the number of hats they put on, they keep searching for chances to ply a common talent.Such was the situation for Talbot Perry Simons, who had been paging through Back Stage, searching for acting gigs despite the fact that he was keeping busy marketing a movie he'd lately written, directed, and starred in. When he saw the notice for "Thursday's Speaker," a SAG Ultra Low Quality feature, he understood he'd found something which would allow him to do what he loved. "Acting's my personal favorite factor," Simons states. "It's why I made my very own movieso I possibly could star inside it. And I'd been so busy marketing, 'Thursday's Speaker' was the very first project I'd posted for in age range."Within the film Simons plays the role of Hank, who owns a second hand-vehicle lot. Gary Hebert, the film's author and director, understood in the first audition that Simons was what he was searching for. "He'd amazing energy," Hebert takes note of. "He arrived to the area like gangbusters, totally all set. He was an enjoyable experience right right from the start, and so i thought he'd do well within the part." Hebert still thought so once they were done shooting. "It had been great," he states. "[Simons] is an extremely hands-on, physical actor. He loves getting plenty of little props, and that he will develop all of this stuff by himself. He is available in together with his crossword puzzle that he will do, or he finds each one of these cool tiny problems he may bring into it. He's always adding something or getting in certain new idea, or modifying something. He's really professional and totally prepared I'd love an opportunity to use him again."Simons started acting within the seventies, when he received a scholarship towards the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute in L.A., after winning the Irene Ryan Award for the best actor inside a manufacture of "Lenny" at Orange Coast College. "I analyzed at Strasberg having a great lady named Pat Randall, and I have been acting since,Inch states Simons, who's an associate of SAG and AFTRA as well as on withdrawal from Equity, and estimations he's experienced 35 plays in L.A., in addition to many TV films and shows. "I have won an overall total of seven acting honours now, using the best acting award in the New You are able to Worldwide Independent Film and Video Festival for my movie 'Still the Drums.' " That film won four other honours in the 2009 festival: best movie, best script, best directorial debut, and finest new song. Simons was the director and author as well as sang the songbut acting remains his primary focus. "I am not really a kid any longer, you realize,Inch he states, laughing. "It is a struggle, however they ain't eliminating me."Has Back Stage assisted you receive cast previously year? We'd like to inform your story. Maintain the weekly column by contacting casting@backstage.com for brand new You are able to or bswcasting@backstage.com for La with "I Acquired the Part" within the subject line.

When Shooting One Ad Can Stop You From Shooting Another

When Shooting One Ad Can Stop You From Shooting Another By Paul Haber September 7, 2011 "Sometimes, having a more compact, regional place to cast, it's challenging the very best talent directly into audition," states commercial casting director David Bellantoni.That statement may appear surprising, particularly in a good job market. Wouldn't most commercial stars wish to have a job, any job, that pays a union wage and potential residuals? The solution, for a lot of experienced stars, isn't any, not always. Why?Bellantoni, who works together with Janet Melsky Casting in New You are able to, states stars are not wanting to perform a regional commercial because it might prevent them from carrying out a bigger ad campaign that may air across the country. Or, within the parlance from the commercial world, it produces a conflict.Quite simply, should you book employment for that Bank of Whovillea place which will air only in a single or perhaps a couple of small marketsyou've potentially knocked yourself from the running for, say, a Bank of America campaign, which may run across the country and pay residuals far exceeding individuals from the Whoville job. If Bank of America wants you because the face of their multimillion-dollar ad campaign, it does not want additionally you marketing another lender, however small. Furthermore, Bank of America's national campaign can include print, radio, and Internet advertisements, which may result in many 1000's of dollars for that actor, far above residuals.But determining what's or is not a conflict could be tricky. Susan Bott, an actress identifiable from a large number of advertisements, together with a campaign for Swiffer as Janet, has frequently found herself facing somewhat convoluted, overlapping conflicts."I shot a Febreze place," she states, "however i got the vibe about the set that even though it is at the can, it had not been likely to run." And indeed, that is what went down. Right after, she auditioned and also got a callback for any Glade campaign, playing "the Glade lady." Prior to the callback, Bott requested her agents to check on using the Febreze people to ascertain if they'd forget about the conflict. However the ensuing conversation devolved into something which seemed enjoy it was composed by Gilbert and Sullivan."Despite the fact that Febreze affects the environment, technically it is a fabric freshener, though Glade would say it affects the environment,Inch states the commercial and voice-over veteran. "Simultaneously, I had been doing an on-camera [for] Arm & Hammer Fridge Fresh, but the organization stored me onto perform the voice-over for his or her laundry product, and in addition they create a fabric freshener." So, states Bott having a laugh, "Febreze makes fabric freshener, that also freshens the environment, which conflicts with Glade, that is an aura-only freshener, while Arm & Hammer freshens clothing." But Bott is philosophical. Sometimes, she adds, "it will get lower towards the most minute particulars."Ultimately, Febreze wouldn't allow her to gothe company held her for another 13 days, despite the fact that the commercial never airedand she did not visit the Glade callback. This is a move Bellantoni concurs with."We have had people drawn out right in the center of callbacks, someone they wanted," the Compact disc states. "We don't wish to show a director someone they cannot have." That will result in the casting director look bad while watching client, also it wouldn't endear the actor to anybody.Your agents should keep an eye on your conflicts, though some are better in internet marketing than the others. When you are getting a phone call to have an audition, if the agent does not mention exactly what the commercial's conflicts are, request, as she or he might not recall your conflicts. And there's lots of overlap. "Telecommunications" once meant the telephone companies, for example, however it might range from the Internet, cable, or mobile phone models. "Banking institutionsInch may (or might not) include banks, credit cards, or brokers. And "air fresheners"well, it isn't so simple."It's frustrating being held for just one place, knowing there will not be any residuals when you are avoided from taking another job which will pay," states Bott. Ultimately, that which you audition for ought to be a taken into consideration career decision, with track of the long-term. "You might book employment which will pay your mortgage at this time,Inch she states, "however it could stop you from making much more afterwards.Inch When Shooting One Ad Can Stop You From Shooting Another By Paul Haber September 7, 2011 "Sometimes, having a more compact, regional place to cast, it's difficult for the greatest talent directly into audition," states commercial casting director David Bellantoni.That statement may appear surprising, particularly in a good employment market. Wouldn't most commercial stars wish to have a job, any job, that pays a union wage and potential residuals? The solution, for a lot of experienced stars, isn't any, not always. Why?Bellantoni, who works together with Janet Melsky Casting in New You are able to, states stars are not wanting to perform a regional commercial since it would prevent them from carrying out a bigger ad campaign that may air across the country. Or, within the parlance from the commercial world, it produces a conflict.Quite simply, should you book employment for that Bank of Whovillea place which will air only in a single or perhaps a couple of small marketsyou've potentially knocked yourself from the running for, say, a Bank of America campaign, which may run across the country and pay residuals far exceeding individuals from the Whoville job. If Bank of America wants you because the face of their multimillion-dollar ad campaign, it does not would like you also marketing another lender, however small. Furthermore, Bank of America's national campaign can include print, radio, and Internet advertisements, which may result in many 1000's of dollars for that actor, far above residuals.But determining what's or is not a conflict could be tricky. Susan Bott, an actress identifiable from a large number of advertisements, together with a campaign for Swiffer as Janet, has frequently found herself facing somewhat convoluted, overlapping conflicts."I shot a Febreze place," she states, "however i got the vibe about the set that even though it is at the can, it had not been likely to run." And even, that is what went down. Right after, she auditioned and also got a callback for any Glade campaign, playing "the Glade lady." Prior to the callback, Bott requested her agents to check on using the Febreze people to ascertain if they'd forget about the conflict. However the ensuing conversation devolved into something which seemed enjoy it was composed by Gilbert and Sullivan."Despite the fact that Febreze affects the environment, technically it is a fabric freshener, though Glade would say it affects the environment,Inch states the commercial and voice-over veteran. "Simultaneously, I had been doing an on-camera [for] Arm & Hammer Fridge Fresh, but the organization stored me onto perform the voice-over for his or her laundry product, and in addition they create a fabric freshener." So, states Bott having a laugh, "Febreze makes fabric freshener, that also freshens the environment, which conflicts with Glade, that is an aura-only freshener, while Arm & Hammer freshens clothing." But Bott is philosophical. Sometimes, she adds, "it will get lower towards the most minute particulars."Ultimately, Febreze wouldn't allow her to gothe company held her for an additional 13 days, despite the fact that the commercial never airedand she did not visit the Glade callback. This is a move Bellantoni concurs with."We have had people drawn out right in the center of callbacks, someone they wanted," the Compact disc states. "We don't wish to show a director someone they cannot have." That will result in the casting director look bad while watching client, also it wouldn't endear the actor to anybody.Your agents should keep an eye on your conflicts, though some are better in internet marketing than the others. When you are getting a phone call to have an audition, when the agent does not mention exactly what the commercial's conflicts are, request, as she or he might not recall your conflicts. And there's lots of overlap. "Telecommunications" once meant the telephone companies, for instance, however it might range from the Internet, cable, or mobile phone models. "Banking institutionsInch may (or might not) include banks, charge cards, or brokers. And "air fresheners"well, it isn't so simple."It's frustrating being held for just one place, knowing there will not be any residuals when you are avoided from taking another job which will pay," states Bott. Ultimately, that which you audition for ought to be a taken into consideration career decision, with track of the long-term. "You might book employment which will pay your mortgage at this time,Inch she states, "however it could stop you from making much more afterwards.Inch

Hell Teacher Nube

Kumiko Ijima is a very timid girl who happens to recognize a murderer still in pursuit at a park. With the help of her friend Kyoko Inaba, she warns the police about the wanted man. After trying to escape the police by car, the murderer crashes and ends up in the hospital. Some time later, a mysterious entity starts to terrorize the neighborhood in search of a girl who has the name initials K.I. and uses a red ribbon on her hair. Kumiko Ijima who is one of Nube's students recognizes that a man in a local park is really a criminial wanted for murder when she remembers drawing his face from the wanted photos posted by the police. Kumiko warns her classmate Kyoko while at the same time the man discovers the drawing with the name initials "K.I." written on Kumiko's drawing portfolio and briefly sees that Kumiko wears a red ribbon in her hair. The cops chase the criminal who crashes his car into a seal where a demon takes control over his soul. The demon is now on a killing rampage to find any girl that wears a red ribbon whose name initials are "K.I.".

Himizu

A Gaga (in Japan)/Fandango (in Italy) release of a Gaga, Kodansha production. (International sales: Gaga, Tokyo.) Produced by Haruo Umekawa, Masashi Yamazaki. Executive producers, Tom Yoda, Satomi Odake. Co-producer, Mizue Kunizane. Directed, written by Sion Sono, based on the manga by Minoru Furuya.With: Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaidou, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Megumi Kagurazaka, Ken Mitsuishi, Denden, Yosuke Kubozuka.A Nipponese boy from a broken home tries to overcome all the violence and hardship in his life in "Himizu," the latest pic from prolific scribe-helmer Sion Sono ("Cold Fish," "Suicide Club"). Originally conceived as a straightforward adaptation of Minoru Furuya's eponymous manga, pic's script was altered to include the aftermath of last March's earthquake and tsunami, finally fusing an originally extremely bleak coming-of-age story with a more hopeful overlay -- despite the addition of more misery. Though not an entirely happy marriage, result earned a prime real-estate slot in the Venice competish, which should translate to Sono's widest exposure yet. Never a very disciplined filmmaker, whether in terms of running time or thematic coherence, Sono's films have a frayed quality to them that betrays both his earlier calling as a poet -- for whom juxtaposition, repetition and effect can take precedence over more classical narrative logic -- and the speed with which he makes films (his sexy and violent "Guilty of Romance" preemed in Cannes earlier this year). His latest, named after a mole species endemic to Japan, focuses on two junior-high kids for whom sex is uncharted territory, though physical brutality occurs throughout. Set in the aftermath of the disaster, the leads embody innocence defiled by natural, familial and societal violence. In a departure from the manga, these tainted pure souls also represent the future of the nation for whom it's important to have aspirations. Protag Sumida (Shota Sometani) is a mercurial boy whose personal credo is "normality rules." Rather than daring to dream, he'd prefer a normal, respectable life looking after the family's tiny boat-rental operation. This is easier said than done, given that his mother's run off -- her wry goodbye note reads "Have a nice life" -- and his drunkard dad (Ken Mitsuishi) comes home only occasionally to beat his kid, steal any money he might have and tell his son he wishes him dead. At school, a stalker-ish but cute classmate, Chazawa (Fumi Nikaidou), is in love with Sumida. She's a poetry nut, reciting verses from French vagabond bard Francois Villon (lit references are a recurring theme in the helmer's work), including the significant line "I know all things/but myself." The kids are obviously destined for one another, though initially Sumida aggressively rebuffs Chazawa's advances. Things grow more complicated when it emerges that Sumida's dad owes the equivalent of $80,000 to a yakuza moneylender (Denden). Since his dad is missing, Sumida is held responsible for coughing up the dough or risk being made to suffer at the hands of the moneylenders' thugs. Because Sono tries to set the manga's storyline, with its stylized violence, in the very real, post-earthquake/tsunami disaster area, "Himizu" struggles to find a coherent tone. Tracking shots of the wasteland caused by the quake and tsunami, set to Mozart's overused "Requiem," don't jive with pic's more caricatured approach to physical violence. Though Sono's no stranger to tonal shifts, the different origins of the natural disaster and the mano-a-mano knife and gun fights prohibit symbiosis. The setting never becomes more than a hyper-realist backdrop for a manga adaptation (the man-made nuclear disaster that followed is barely discussed). Typically out-there Sion flourishes, such as a subplot involving a pickpocket (Yosuke Kubozuka) who burgles a neo-Nazi killer, the random appearance of an almost naked woman with an iron chain attached to her leg, or the fact Chazawa's parents are building a custom-made gallows for her, move the tone further away from realism, while at the same time it's suggested the pic's specifically set in Japan in May 2011. As seen against the realistic backdrop, the helmer's customary pitch-black humor won't fly for some auds. Nonetheless, in the lead, Sometani ("A Liar and a Broken Girl") proves more than capable of sustaining interesting in his character's plight. He seems to be the only character able to register genuine emotions, even if most of them appear to stem from his teenage rage, frustration and confusion more than any direct cause. Other characters are more one-note. D.p. Sohei Tanikawa, using a Red camera, keeps close to his characters for the exposition scenes, augmenting the pic's immediacy. As in all Sion films, the current edit runs too long, though it's hard not be moved by the simple finale. Other tech credits are OK.Camera (color, HD), Sohei Tanikawa; editor, Junichi Ito; music, Tomohide Harada; production designer, Takashi Matsuzuka; costume designer, Rika Murakami; sound (Dolby), Akira Fukada; action director, Tak Sakaguchi; line producer, Takeshi Suzuki. Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (competing), Sept. 5, 2011. (Also in Toronto Film Festival -- Contemporary World Cinema.) Running time: 129 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com

Wardell Quezergue dies at 81

Nicknamed the "Creole Mozart" for his wide-varying arrangement work, New Orleans-based arranger, bandleader, composer and producer Wardell Quezergue died Tuesday within the Crescent City. He was 81 coupled with experienced decreasing health.As they obtained his greatest hits with Jean Dark night ("Mr. Large Stuff") and also the Dixie Cups ("Iko Iko"), he was equally well noted for his make use of a murderer's row of Large Easy music artists, including Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Dr. John and Aaron Neville.Elevated inside a musical family in New Orleans' seventh Ward, Quezergue obtained his first professional gig, like a trumpeter, when he was 12. Following a stint within the Military throughout the Korean War -- he met his wife of six decades while positioned in Tokyo, japan -- Quezergue offered as bandleader from the Royal Dukes of Rhythm after which founded Nola Records in 1964.Scoring his first hit on Nola with Robert Parker's "Barefootin'," in addition to subsequent singles from Willie Tee, Quezergue notched a couple of his most long lasting works best for Malaco Records, notoriously helming periods for Knight's "Mr. Large Stuff" and King Floyd's "Groove Me" on the day that. Quezergue's participation reinvigorated Malaco, which in fact had been facing closure, and through the '70s he worked with with the kind of Paul Simon, B.B. King, Willie Nelson and also the Staples Performers. He offered as arranger for Dr. John's Grammy-winning "Goin' To New Orleans" in 1992, and also on Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's large-band album "American Music, Texas Style" in 1999.In 2000 he composed "A Creole Mass," a number of orchestral pieces based on his encounters within the military. Quezergue was granted an honorary doctoral from Loyola U. New Orleans last year and was feted having a tribute concert organized through the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation in New You are able to that summer time. His music continues to be featured conspicuously in HBO's "Treme."Quezergue is made it by five sons, eight kids, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Anna Kendrick to lead a cappella romcom Pitch Perfect

Anna Kendrick is in talks to star in romcom Pitch Perfect, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Set 'in the world of collegiate a cappella groups,' the Universal project is based on a non-fiction book by Mickey Rapkin.Kendrick will play a rebellious goth, angry that her father is a professor at her school, until she realises she has a hitherto undiscovered singing voice and becomes the star of the a cappella group.She won't be acting 'unaccompanied' though (sorry), with Bridesmaids' Rebel Wilson (Matt Lucas' character's horrid sister) already signed up.Kendrick has been stealing scenes in supporting roles for some time now, in Up In The Air and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, and she's survived the Twilight franchise with her dignity intact.Before Pitch Perfect, we'll see her in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's cancer comedy 50/50, Breaking Dawn parts 1 & 2 and What To Expect When You're Expecting.50/50 opens on 6 January 2012.