Hulk Mark Ruffalo Supports Occupy Wall Street, States Protests Are Near to 'True Direct Democracy'

Mark Ruffalo might have been present in the Javits Center in NY on Saturday evening for that NY Comic Disadvantage panel about 'The Avengers,' but it is likely his ideas were downtown using the growing quantity of protestors at Occupy Wall Street. Not just has Ruffalo verbal together with his support, but he even visited protestors at Zuccotti Park a week ago following the park proprietors, Brookfield Qualities, planned an evacuation from the site Ruffalo assisted them clean Zuccotti Park up, despite an evacuation order that never came. States the Oscar-nominated star from the movement inside a new interview using the Wall Street Journal: "It's nearer to the real direct democracy than most likely anything before it is time.Inch Within the profile of Ruffalo, the 'Avengers' star -- who'll take part in the Hulk in Joss Whedon's super hero supergroup mash-up next summer time, the 3rd star after Eric Bana and Edward Norton to do this recently -- discovered concerning the protests online. "Honestly, I believe in some manner I had been waiting for this to occur. I was expecting it to occur,Inch he stated. Ruffalo was concerned about Occupy Wall Street getting a concealed agenda, but he has not found one. "I spent considerable time comprehending the structure from it, trying to puzzle out if there is a hierarchy, if there is a particular group, whether it were built with a real political bent or maybe it had an idea which was self-serving." Based on the star, it isn't. Rather, this is an extension from the change that began using the election of Obama in 2008. "Honestly, I see hope," Ruffalo stated towards the Journal. "The main one metric that people forget is, we must request ourselves partly, who put Obama in to the Whitened House? Which was a significant coup for the country, which was the very first African-American to become make the Whitened House, and that he was make the Whitened House on the commitment of change. Lots of his campaign promises were striking greatly at the middle of things i think this movement is all about.Inch Strong political claims and moviemaking don't frequently mix -- some audiences still will not see films featuring open liberal Sean Penn, for example -- but it is doubtful Ruffalo's comments will modify the 'Avengers' main point here upon release next May. In the end, Morgan Freeman known as the Tea Party "racist" within an interview with Piers Morgan recently at the time 'Dolphin Tale' was launched, which film has still made a remarkable $58.six million up to now. For additional on Ruffalo, take a look at his profile within the Wall Street Journal. [via WSJ] [Photo: Mike Disciullo/bauergriffinonline.com] The Negative Side of 'The Avengers' Cast Robert Downey Junior, 'Less Than Zero'Chris Evans, 'Puncture'Chris Hemsworth, 'Ollie Klublershturf Versus. the Nazis'Samuel L. Jackson, 'Jungle Fever'Jeremy Renner, 'Dahmer'Mark Ruffalo, 'Reservation Road'Scarlett Johansson, 'The Last Score' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Taken 2 plot revealed

The tremendous success of Taken guaranteed a follow up also it appears as though Liam Neeson's character is going to be butting heads with increased criminals in Taken 2 around this time around the coming year.Whilst we can not formally reveal when very difficult striking film come in the local multiplex, we all do know once the Yanks is going to be setting it up and that is normally an excellent guide: 5 October 2012.In the end, we are unlikely to have it in front of the US - once we did using the first film - now it's be a effective franchise.Olivier Megaton (The Transporter 3, Colombiana) is going to be sitting behind your camera, while Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen share scriptwriting responsibilities again.Additionally, there are now a plot synopsis for that film..."Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the upon the market CIA agent having a particular group of abilities who stopped at absolutely nothing to save his daughter Kim from Albanian kidnappers. Once the father of among the kidnappers swears revenge, and takes Bryan and the wife hostage throughout their loved ones visit to Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim to assist them to escape, and uses exactly the same advanced degree of special forces tactics to obtain his family to safety and methodically remove the kidnappers 1 by 1."Appears like Neeson has exactly the same way of bringing in trouble as John McClane does in Die Hard movies. The tales individuals two could tell on the beer!

Winners and Losers of Netflix's Aborted Qwikster Plan

This story first appeared in the Oct. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. our editor recommendsNetflix's Qwikster Offshoot Unpopular on Wall Street and Main StreetNetflix Yanks Plan to Separate DVD-By-Mail From Streaming ServiceNetflix's Decision to Cancel DVD-Streaming Split: What the Industry, Consumers Are SayingNetflix Stock Rises 7% Early Monday After Company Ditches Qwikster PlanNetflix Shares Sink Again as Analysts Dig Into Qwikster and Blockbuster Sets Press Event'Gossip Girl,' 'Vampire Diaries' Go to Netflix Under Four-Year Streaming Licensing Deal with CW Customers may have grumblingly endured a 60 percent price hike, but asking them to arrange their DVD queue at some website called Qwikster was too much. So after hearing the complaints, Netflix dropped its spinoff gambit Oct. 10, less than a month after announcing it. Qwikster was to have been the name given to the Netflix DVD business, which would also begin renting video games, and it was going to operate separately from the streaming business, which would retain the Netflix moniker. But in a blog post, CEO Reed Hastings announced its quick demise. "This means no change: one website, one account, one password -- in other words, no Qwikster," he wrote. PHOTOS: Netflix's 10 Most Rented Movies of All Time Judging from comments at the blog, users rejoiced, but investors didn't know what to think, so the stock jumped higher shortly after the news, then sunk to a 52-week low, then recovered a bit before ending the day's trading down 5 percent. Not a good sign, considering the Nasdaq rose 3.5 percent the same day, with every other major entertainment stock participating in the rally. (The stock lost another 2.7 percent Oct. 11.) Analysts, too, seemed confused. Example: Tony Wible of Janney Capital Markets upgraded the stock the day Qwikster died, while Michael Pachter at Wedbush Morgan downgraded it. In the middle was Barton Crockett of Lazard Capital Markets, who kept his rating at "neutral," though he praised the dumping of Qwikster. "We saw the decision to force consumers to a new website with a new, hokey name as likely hastening the decline of DVD by mail, still used by 14 million of Netflix's 24 million subscribers," Crockett wrote. "So, clearly, abandoning the name change is positive." PHOTOS: Hollywood's Biggest Blunders One person who no doubt is disappointed that Netflix, a $6 billion company, won't be launching a newfangled product called Qwikster is one Jason Castillo, proprietor of the @Qwikster Twitter account who was allegedly fielding acquisition offers. Last THR heard, Castillo had turned down $1,000 for his Twitter handle and was angling for ongoing payments for as long as Qwikster existed. Turns out, that wasn't very long. Related Topics Netflix

The Great Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Stories You'll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Yet another possible Leonardo DiCaprio project surfaces… Aaron Sorkin declined Steve Jobs’s invitation to write a Pixar film… Hilary Duff wants to be the next Stephenie Meyer… Occupy Wall Street’s celebrity dynamic gets a closer look… and more. · Two good turns deserve another for filmmaker Steve McQueen and his muse Michael Fassbender (pictured at right), who will follow their triumphant tandem Hunger and this fall’s Shame with the drama 12 Years a Slave. Chiwetel Ejiofor is coming along for the true story of Solomon Northup, a NYer who was kidnapped and held in captivity in Louisiana in the mid-19th century. Sounds good, but… [Variety] · …Quentin Tarantino will see McQueen’s Fassbender and raise him a Don Johnson. Or something: After reportedly months of arm twisting, QT has all but set Johnson for an undisclosed role in his own slave saga Django Unchianed. Two auteurist slave films in one year! Better than Snow White, I guess. Whose will reign? [Variety] · Leonardo DiCaprio has been linked to yet another project in early development: The Imitation Game, a biopic about Alan Turing, the, um, “English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, computer scientist, criminally prosecuted homosexual, and tortured soul who committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple.” Warner Bros. paid seven figures for Graham Moore’s spec script; Ron Howard’s name has reportedly come up to direct. [Deadline] · I’m a little late to this, but still: Steve Jobs. Wanted Aaron Sorkin. To write a Pixar movie. I mean! Sorkin turned the late visionary down, alas, explaining, “The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar.” Nuts. [The Daily Beast] · I had no idea Hilary Duff is a novelist now. A two-time novelist, no less, utterly eager to have her supernatural young-adult potboiler pair Elixir and Devoted turned into movies. Just throwing that out there; the more you know, etc. [MTV via THR] · “Do protestors feel celebrity support is helping or hurting their cause?” Good question for the demonstrators at Occupy Wall Street. Seriously! Good question. [EW] · Whoops! An autopsy-room image of Michael Jackson’s nude, dead body — with his genitals blacked (ahem) out — was briefly shown on TV Tuesday during Conrad Black’s manslaughter trial. That is all. [People] [Photo: Getty Images]

'Method' acting

Moviegoers at the NY Film Festival filled Alice Tully Hall to capacity Oct. 5 for Sony Pictures Classics' "A Dangerous Method," with helmer David Cronenberg, screenwriter Christopher Hampton and star Michael Fassbender among the attendees. The afterparty was at the Empire Hotel, where guests wandered the open-air rooftop restaurant sipping a novelty cocktail, appropriately called, given the movie they'd just seen, Bitter and Twisted (grapefruit/vodka/bitters). Since the movie is all about Freud, Jung, and Jung's patient-mistress Sabina Spielrein, everyone involved with "A Dangerous Method" was more than willing to talk psychoanalysis. Fassbender, thinking back to his previous movie assignment "X-Men," thought his Magneto wouldn't say anything on the couch. "He'd just start playing with those little metal ball assemblies that everyone has." Regarding Jung, "I'd want to talk to him about his sex with Sabina," Cronenberg said. As for Hampton, he said, "I've actually never been analyzed, and I'm frightened of being analyzed -- in case they fix me." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

'Super Troopers' Duo Sell Comedy to NBC

Timothy Norris/Getty ImagesSteve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan NBC is looking for its own Men. The network has picked up a comedy project titled Kept Men from Super Troopers writer-actors Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme. The project, from 3 Arts and Universal TV, revolves around two friends who become supported by their respective wives after their business closes down. In addition to writing and starring in the project, Heffernan and Lemme would also serve as executive producers. Sources say the comedy could wind up being either a single- or multi-camera project. Beyond writing and starring in Super Troopers the duo's credits also include Beerfest and Club Dread, and have a number of features in development through their Broken Lizard single. Heffernan is repped by APA, 3 Arts and Ginsburg Daniels; Lemme is witih UTA, 3 Arts and Ginsburg Daniels. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit NBC TV Development

Oscar Predictions: Even Harvey Weinstein Is a Sucker For George Clooney

“I love George Clooney’s movie, The Ides of March,” Harvey Weinstein raved recently when asked for an Academy Award prediction. “I love politics, and this movie is the best political movie — it’s gotta be right up there with the best of the best. Seriously, it is the toughest, most incisive, no-bullshit movie I’ve seen this year. And [Ryan] Gosling hits it out of the ballpark. And the entire cast is great. Clooney just nailed it. It’s an appropriate movie for these times. So Oscar prediction? That that gets nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. And it’s not mine.” [Vulture]