'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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