Terminator Salvation
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Acceptable round the marquee
Robert P Niro and Paul DanoJames Schamus, Paul Weitz, Nick Flynn at preem.If the involves film game game titles, there's no staying away from with Baloney. Just request author-director Paul Weitz, whose adaptation of Nick Flynn's memoir "Another Bullshit Evening in Suck City" morphed to the MPAA-friendly "Being Flynn." "I wasn't whatsoever surprised the MPAA was getting none of (the first title), however was mildly surprised that particular cannot use asterisks to switch words," Weitz mentioned at "Being Flynn's" Gotham premiere Thursday within the Tribeca Grand Hotel screening room. "You can't even imply cursing if you want to possess your title around the marquee or possibly within an advertisement. Still, I used to be quite freaked out about changing the title since i have thought it might indicate that we was watering the variation lower in some manner.Inch Title notwithstanding, the primary focus Features pic of a youthful guy who reunites along with his estranged father inside a destitute shelter lost no autobiographical book's grit and received a ringing endorsement from Flynn. Really, the author had only one problem while using film: the completely new title. "The fact i am in it is a horror," he quipped within the after-party at Chinatown hotspot Pulqueria.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Backstreet Boy Nick Carter to Guest-star on 90210
Tony Lucca This is one way confident i had been that Tony Lucca would advance through this week's fight models round the Voice: We have got their hands on him Monday morning - much like he'd completed a weekend undertaking around the rock cruise - to request him if his missing undesired facial hair can make a comeback in subsequent episodes, what really happened after Christina Aguilera not successful to recognize her former fellow Mouseketeer ("Awaken,Inch Christina!), and whether coach Adam Levine can be a loveable, cocky rock star (or perhaps cocky rock star) when the cameras aren't moving. The Voice recap: Permit the fight models begin! And, clearly we grilled him about MMC (that's Jesse Duck Club for people who didn't develop inside the 90s), from dating Keri Russell and making Britney Warrior warrior spears swoon, to his affection for your cleaning cleaning soap-within-the-show Emerald Cove. Inside our minds, there's undoubtedly it had been a control button Club faithful that aided send "Tony Lucca" trending on Twitter right after he came out round the Voice's second season premiere. (And - spoiler alert - i had been right. The 35-year-old Waterford, Mich. native outshine Chris Cauley in the performance of U2's "Beautiful Day." To the concert occasions!) Soon after your blind audition broadcast, "Tony Lucca" immediately blew on Twitter. You think that's plenty of MMC die-hards reminiscing? Much less your rendition of "Trouble" wasn't damn fine... Tony Lucca: There's lots of MMC love there. Right after MMC was canceled it was not extended before I used to be making records and making the net to find out who was simply available to date like a button Club number of fans. I used to be trying to visit community forums to discover fans and possess fans find fans, just really trying for connecting with around I really could. I'd a enjoyable little customer list going. Then Bebo showed up by using it this increase of Mouse Club fans who preferred to understand where I'd been years. Then came Facebook and also the other lot of people, as well as the do i think the Twitter. In my opinion soon after i figured they'd all leave the woodwork, here comes The Voice. In my opinion we now have seen all the them. Once they missed it before, they do know since I've been making music throughout the final, you understand, 15 years. Entertainment Weekly names you their No. 1 pick beginning your dream models. Lucca: I used to be in Mexico together with a buddy sent us a text getting an image of the spread inside the magazine. I used to be like, "What?!" That's huge. Well, I'm speaking about it's everything and zilch because following a fight models everything's prone to change around. Which I can not lie and condition that I don't think a variety of it has associated with the runaway story, the barrage of media coverage overall Christina factor. I know type of aided put me available somewhat further in everyone's considered the show. But, yeah, I used to be also certainly flattered and honored. Playboy also profiled your coach, Adam Levine, calling him a loveable douchebag. Because you have labored with him, how accurate is always that description? Lucca: What people search about Adam is yeah, she's this unique model of mojo that might be kind of intimidating, however think ultimately he's very direct. The dude notifies it appreciate it is. For an individual at all like me, you're sticking your neck available to determine which continues, you need someone who's going take for you personally straight. Despite the fact that he kind of throws round the sales rep charm when he's searching to obtain people on his team, In my opinion he leads to since the most relateable with techniques. With Cee Lo it's like "Where's this individual result from? What planet does he survive?Inch Similar factor with Christina. Blake's a significant normal guy but he certainly clings for the country component that could turn lots of people off. Adam might be the current rock star guy. Who not love an excellent rock hero? Have a look at clips within the Voice You've been at music for a while, recording and touring becoming an independent artist. (Lucca's song "Demon Town" being featured round the Friday Evening Lights soundtrack.) Why audition for your Voice now? Exactly why is you're feeling ready to try both hands at "the hugelyInch? Lucca: If anyone can verify the plight in the indie artist, it's certainly me. It's a wonderful path, very rewarding and satisfying most completely. Before lengthy you can placed on out, making the models coast to coast every year simply to appear and discover the identical 75-150 showed up at a golf iron any time you exist. Before lengthy, you need another factor to help catapult you. Three or five years ago, I'd have felt like I still had a lot of to prove, or that [who audition] was beneath me or something like that like this. Or even 10-15 years back I'd have thought, "No, I'm setting it up the old-fashioned way. I get a band and play shows round the Sunset Strip. I get some A&R guy later on lower and uncover me and pay me seven figures to become rock star." [Laughs] People the situation is gone. That paradigm is completed. In my opinion independent artists now are constantly searching for an additional avenue to destroy past the ceiling they finish up striking. I realize for several my pals, installed plenty of their efforts into music certification, searching to obtain tunes situated on Grey's Anatomy, putting thousands of dollars into campaigning to begin with show because her energy to destroy a designer. That type of strategy didn't exist 10 years ago. Everyone's required to adapt. In my opinion when the Voice showed up, they shown you that doesn't only were they not shying from artists who had previously been established before, but that they're highlighting them. It had been the demonstrate that would reveal individuals who've been as of this and so are worth this kind of break. Clearly, that be a huge hit in my opinion greatly. It is therefore pretty sure you will not ever auditioned for that The American Idol Show Show or perhaps the X Factor before? Lucca: Irrrve never did. That approach, that kind of star-making machinery, didn't attract me. The Voice made an appearance a little more artist-friendly, a little more authentic. Clearly, you understood that there's entirely possible that Christina, that you labored with on MMC, may find yourself because the coach. Would that have been too strange? Lucca: Yeah, In my opinion whenever we were reunited and together, that could lead to some exciting TV, however think since the show advanced it might be somewhat problematic, as being a conflict of curiosity. However was tickled to find out they switched around. I wasn't totally surprised that they didn't seem to identify me there... Really? Everybody familiar with perform very memorably together! Lucca: Well, because atmosphere, a 1000 things running making use of your mind, I don't fault her. I'm speaking about, it's been almost 2 decades. But being totally honest, Adam is who I used to be wanting would turnaround - which he switched around first. He pressed two buttons it absolutely was a no-brainer personally. Fall 2012 TV scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't? So truth - you understood Britney stood a crush you, right? Lucca: I'm not gonna say I used to be naïve to the notion that that might have been happening. However, It had been more the greater youthful kids around the program trying to find for the teens. Particularly, with regards to Britney, she will be a large Keri Russell fan which i had been dating Keri in those days. In my opinion that her crush might are similar to, "Oh, I like Keri's hair, Keri's vehicle... and Keri's boyfriend." Thinking back on people beginning, what remember more fondly: Emerald Cove or Malibu Shores? Lucca: [Laughs] There's a little more innocence beginning to Emerald Cove that was a really wonderful time with people pals of mine. Driving to Malibu each day to go to concentrate on Malibu Shores didn't suck. But fortunately that was short-were living, you understand? It may have been dangerous been there gone on too extended. I used to be certainly flattered and grateful for your opportunity to become by having an Aaron Spelling show on NBC show, nevertheless the scripts each week made an appearance such as these were really trying to sabotage it in some manner. We'd a Saturday at 8 o'clock timeslot, so that it made an appearance condemned within the get-go and you also question who was simply in round the sabotage [Laughs]. But yeah, both people shows I have got a lot of fond recollections of certainly. Has your boy, who came out together with you just before the blind audition, seen all your concentrate on MMC? Lucca: Yeah, there are many stuff online, but I am unsure he'll have it entirely. It absolutely was a really awesome, crazy show. There wasn't much online that we think would attract him. He will certainly have it if this involves people asking relating to this constantly, but it hit him because he showed up in this area to L.A. with me at night and recognized what size a hollywood this Christina Aguilera girl is. [He's] like, "You're as famous as her once?" Because he sees me doing the choreography as well as the dancing and singing, he generates for me this funny look. Perhaps you have shave everything undesired facial hair off just for The Voice? Lucca: I did so [Laughs]. Once I went looking for my first audition in Chicago, I used to be in the heart of an trip therefore i stood a large beard and longer hair. Since it's all about "the voice" I wasn't really concerned about it. After I've got a callback to go to La, I'd taken the recommendations of pals and family who had mentioned, "You understand, you have to proceed and take beard off." I shaved then when I switched up in L.A., I go into the development office, and they're like, "Aaaaand, that are you?... What? Why have you accomplish this?In . My indie artist spirit desires to just look rough and rugged rather than really give two sh-s, however i am unsure I'll be capable of grow it back for your show. We'll see. Exactlty what can you reveal about planning for your fight models? Simply how much perhaps you have really get moving with Adam? Lucca: We labored a good deal. It's all regulated controlled very surreal, because at this time around of the sport they wouldn't like to give anybody a lot of an advantage on anybody team. It is not like I obtained his phone number and mentioned, "Hey dude, I'll setup an interview within the Whiskey at 8 o'clock which we are able to spend some time and discuss this fight round." Generally spent while using coaches is on-camera. They wish to capture that excitement and element of surprise because of the guest experts. That being mentioned, it's very constructive time. ... Beginning all the periods with him was only wonderful. I merely needed advantage of each little moment with him. I wasn't so surprised who he paired me tabs on, however will be a little annoyed since i have really needed with this person. We'd a enjoyable rapport together. Adam selected the song which is a sizable one -- huge. It needed acquiring the greenlight within the original artist themselves. You start to know, I guess we are only at that amount of the sport where if Adam Levine wants a sound lesson for your Voice, they can just call the artist up and acquire it. What can you consider Tony Lucca's probability of winning The Voice? Can you miss MMC and could you will still recite the theme song?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Simon Cowell On Search For New X Factor Hosts & Judges, Whitney Houston And More
Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadlines television coverage. The X Factor creator, executive producer and judge Simon Cowell disclosed today that in Season 2, the show will return to its original template of two co-hosts — a male and a female — which was in place last year with Steve Jones and Nicole Scherzinger until Cheryl Cole was sent home and Scherzinger moved to the judges’ table. Cowell also confirmed that the two new mentors replacing the axed Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger will be female. Beyond that, Cowell wouldnt give specifics during an afternoon conference call with reporters promoting the shows Season 2 auditions that launch nationwide on March 1. The selection of both the new hosts and judges will happen over the next few weeks, Cowell said. Among those rumored for the open positions are Janet Jackson, Britney Spears and Fergie. Theres been a load of speculation, Cowell said, some true, some not true. Its true to say that a lot more (potential judges) have entered the frame this year. We really wanted to see who would contact us before we contacted people. Were in that place right now, which is a good place to be in. He added that he and the show would be meeting with several people over the next few weeks but stressed: I wont confirm or deny any of these rumors at the moment. Are we flattered there would be interest (from Britney Spears)? Yes. There will be a lot of twists and turns over the next few weeks and a lot of things were going to announce. The reason there for two hosts rather than one, Cowell noted, is that there is simply too much information for one person to relay during the course of the show. I think its almost impossible for one person to do the hosting job, he believes. With all of the information and the integration of sponsors, (hosts) are like newscasters now. It needs to be two people so they can be in different parts of the studio throughout the show. And weve always wanted a boy and a girl to host the show. Thats whats going to happen now. Could the boy’s name be Ryan Seacrest, whose deal on American Idol is coming up? I think Ryan is brilliant at what he does,” Cowell said. “I think Ryan is also a very good negotiator. I admire him for that. Hell stay on Idol. Holdover judge-mentor L.A. Reid, who also was on the call, addressed the conjecture that Whitney Houston had been a strong contender to become a judge prior to her death February 11. We love Whitney, he said, and we would certainly have considered (hiring her). But it never came to that. There was interest there, but we never had meetings about it. Were both huge Whitney fans and are sad about the loss. But it never got that far, so it wouldnt be proper to comment beyond that. Cowell later added that X Factor will continue to pay tribute to Houston on the show in the years to come. There wont be a season where we dont have a Whitney song, he said. (Her songs are) timeless. Theyll sound as good in 50 years time as they do now. Theres going to be a very different feeling now when people come out and sing Whitney songs because shes not around anymore, and thats sad. Despite criticism of the sing-off element that resulted in 14-year-old finalist Rachel Crows shocking elimination from the competition, Cowell maintained that its important going forward to keep the sing-off as part of the format. The sing-off was intended to save somebody whom we thought should stay in the competition, whod just had a bad night, he said, and it clearly didnt work according to plan with Rachel. But we want to retain it, as it adds a bit of drama to the results show. When done properly, its supposed to help. Both Cowell and Reid were thrilled to see Crows deal with Nickelodeon to star in a comedy series for the kidcaster, announced today. I remember the night when Rachel was kicked off, I sprinted onto the stage to tell her, In a weird way, this is the best thing to happen to you for your career, he recalled. I stuck to what I said, and along came Nickelodeon. Its such a perfect fit for her. Cowell called Crow one of the most determined people Ive ever met in my life. Added Reid: From the beginning, weve felt shed become a major star. And she will be. Cowell maintained that Abdul and Scherzinger have been incredibly gracious and respectful in the wake of their ouster from the show in January. Theyre friends, and there are certain reasons the changes were made. A show has to change and evolve over the years,” he said. “It was nothing negative about them. He left open the door to working with both Abdul and Scherzinger again. Cowell also addressed the idea thats been raised to have a so-called Musical Super Bowl sing-off competition between American Idol, The Voice andThe X Factor. They both bottled it for now, he said, referring to Idol and The Voice, but wed still be up for it. Concluded Reid: Particularly if it takes place on X Factor. Cowell continued, Were not sure if Fox or NBC think its a good idea, and theyre the ones who have the ultimate decision on whether it happens or not.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lively sales for Indonesian 'Zoo'
"Postcards Within the Zoo," the initial Indonesian feature to compete for your Golden Bear, has showed up a string of sales before its premiere today, including deals for Germany and Columbia.Berlin-based Neue Visionen nabbed rights for Germany while Stadtkino Filmverleih Wien needed the title for Austria.The Match Factory also sealed deals for your pic with Sponge Entertainment in Columbia and Joint Entertainment in Taiwan.Author-director Edwin's latest tasks are a transitional phase story of a girl who matures in the zoo after being abandoned just like a small child by her father. Her existence is transformed having a mysterious and charming youthful cowboy magician.A substantial player in Indonesia's emerging film scene, Edwin won worldwide acclaim along with his 2008 feature "Blind Pig Who want to Fly."That film introduced to Edwin's new project being selected for your Torino Film Lab then Pusan's Asian Project Market. There, Edwin and producer Meiske Taurisia met Karl Baumgartner and Thanassis Karathanos of German shingle Pallas Films, who came aboard as co-producers.The project ongoing to secure support within the various festival funds, including backing within the Sundance Lab."This project is entirely supported and funded with the kindness of festivals," mentioned Lorna Tee, who co-produced film with Babibutafilm, the Jakarta-based company run by Edwin, Taurisia and cinematographer Sidi Saleh, Pallas and fellow Indonesian partners Miles Films and Elang Perkasa Film. "This project literally experienced nearly several different project areas you'll find available."Indeed, the pic owes its existence to such programs since the Torino Film Fund, the Hubert Bals Fund, Goteborg Intl. Film Festival Fund, the Sundance Institute, L'Atelier Cinefondation, Cinemart as well as the Asian Film Project."Postcards Within the Zoo" stars Ladya Cheryl, who came out in "Blind Pig Who want to Fly," and Indonesian heartthrob Nicholas Saputra, star of those films as "Pesantren" and "72 Hrs to Forever" (he's also L'Oreal's local "brand ambassador").The Match Factory is handling world sales for your film, among four Indonesian game game titles unspooling within the Berlinale. Others include "Kids of Srikandi" in Panorama Dokumente, "The Mirror Never Lies" in Generation Kplus as well as the Panorama short "7 Deadly Kisses." Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at erection dysfunction.meza@mannaa.de
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Alcatraz's Parminder Nagra Files for Divorce
Parminder Nagra Parminder Nagra is seeking to end her marriage of three years. The Alcatraz star has filed for divorce from husband James Stenson, citing "irreconcilable differences," TMZ reports. Dissecting Alcatraz's Mysteries: Why Is Tommy Madsen so important? Nagra, 36, dated Stenson, a photographer, for seven years before they tied the knot in a ceremony attended by the actress' former ER co-stars. Maura Tierney officiated, while John Stamos (on drums) and Scott Grimes performed at the reception. The couple have a 2-year-old son named Kai together.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
Julianna Margulies and Josh Charles There actually is no better or even more satisfying drama on Sunday nights than CBS' scrumptious The Great Wife - company, I am counting cable (even pay) for the reason that equation, a minimum of for the time being, while we are among seasons of these dynamic signature shows as Homeland, Bet on Thrones, The Walking Dead, etc. (Although PBS' Downton Abbey comes close because the essential TV great escape.) This is also true this Sunday, nearly as good Wife provides a pivotal and sensationally entertaining episode (9/8c) firing on all writers. There's suspense, humor, memorable and electrifying showdowns between most of the major figures, virtually all you want from the show towards the top of its game. Taking center stage: Will Gardner's (Josh Charles) judicial bribery analysis, a vendetta headed through the crisply arrogant special district attorney Wendy Scott-Carr (the terrific Anika Noni Rose), that is now in the grand jury stage where, the old saying goes, they'd even indict a pork sandwich - giving this episode its title, "Another Pork Sandwich." Within this situation, a lot more like deviled pork. The twists come fast and furious as both Will's and Wendy's sides play dirty as well as for keeps - also it will get especially personal when Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is known as towards the stand, being caught in the centre because her estranged husband Peter (Chris Noth) is the one that hired Wendy, his former political rival, to begin with. The legal and emotional fireworks are tremendous and enjoyably surprising, with a few wonderful-to-behold strategy and legerdemain performed through the show's current No. 1 with no. 2 scene-stealers: Barbara Preston because the stealthily ditsy-seeming lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni and Emmy-champion Archie Panjabi as sly, sexy Kalinda. As icing around the cake - whipped cream, to become exact - we obtain the following chapter within the flirty yet cutthroat competition between Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) and upstart consultant Stacie Hal (the amusing Amy Sedaris), competing for any crisis-management gig with Sun Tzu as inspiration for his or her devious tactics. Will they desire one another, or basically the win, or are these goals mutually exclusive? In either case, they offer brilliant comic relief within an episode that never stops twisting and turning. "Let us attempt to lessen the excitement level to any extent further, shall we?" Diane (Christine Baranski) pleads to Will at one juncture. The idea. The Great Wife hasn't been better. Want more TV news and reviews? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now! HBO'S MANE EVENT: There's poetry moving in HBO's equine-racing saga Luck (Sunday, 9/8c), using the action around the track so thrillingly captured pics of and edited you might not mind once the human drama so frequently feels delayed in the gate. An interest project from Deadwood's David Milch, that has a romantic and affectionate understanding of the world, Luck teems with pungently recognized figures, many living a precarious information on determined desperation. Some silently, like Nick Nolte like a gravel-voiced trainer-switched-owner, seeking redemption for any lost equine plus some noisally, most particularly Kevin Dunn directing Dennis Franz like a dyspectic gambler inside a motorized wheel chair, a part of a gang of 4 shaggy underdogs (together with a scraggly Jason Gedrick, plus Ian Hart and Ritchie Coster) who finish track of an individual stake with what equine causes it to be towards the winners' circle. "Present day your day they go all from us," Dunn wheezes within the series' final episode like a large race looms. But through the nine instances of Luck, they are all large races, with everything else on the line for that rogue's gallery of polyglot (and sometimes unintelligible) grifters, gamblers, trainers, jockeys, agents, proprietors and addicts who hold off the Santa Anita racetrack, wishing fate will smile their way. Whether you will want to hang too is really a more difficult wager. With director Michael Mann setting the visual template within the pilot, Luck always looks magnificent, particularly when individuals mythic and regal horses are center stage. But despite Dustin Hoffman headlining the impeccable ensemble, being an ex-disadvantage murkily plotting his comeback from the plush hotel suite, the plot is really as stubbornly slow-burning as Hoffman's dramatically reined-in performance and ultimately much less inspired. Luck is basically a delicious tone poem, and something of their best moments comes in the midpoint, when Hoffman's Ace stays a evening outdoors the stable from the $two million Irish champion he's his partner (the terrific Dennis Farina) buy like a front. As the equine lightly nuzzles him because he sleeps, Ace and that we at least feel in your own home. HERE'S Bloodstream Inside Your EYE: Or at best your camera lens, as Starz' Spartacus: Vengeance will get going ahead (Friday, 10/9c) - or as I love to think about it, "Spurt-acus," because of all of the gouts of bloodstream, among other body fluids, that flow copiously throughout this lurid melodrama of savage swordplay, sordid talking and animal carnality (a pleasant method to say sex, sex, sex). "I've proven difficult to kill," states the title character, the fabled gladiator-switched-revolutionary, possibly a sly mention of sad and untimely circumstance through which the show needed to replace its original leading guy, Andy Whitfield, who died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma this past year. (The growing season premiere finishes having a tribute card towards the actor.) Using the beefcake reins, and filling the Thracian's sandals a lot more than adequately, may be the Australian actor Liam McIntyre, that has his work eliminate for him because the soulful Spartacus and the ragtag gang of players face being outnumbered and overcome with a Roman military out for his or her bloodstream. (Although it's often their own we have seen being leaking, always graphically and frequently in slo-mo.) While our heroes lurk within the sewers and catacombs of Capua, plotting their next move, we return above ground towards the scene from the climactic first-season massacre in the Bloodstream and Sand season, where Spartacus' loathsome enemy Gaius Claudius Glaber (Craig Parker) and the evil wife Ilythyia (Viva Bianca) are positioned in the ill-fated House of Batiatus to vanquish the uprising. (It will not be considered a surprise to fans whenever a certain survivor from the slaughter seems, however it shocks the togas off these vile Romans.) With over ripe dialogue that seems like Shakespeare ground via a blender of baroque profanity, interspersed with action sequences of just about comical brutality among orgies of debauchery, Spartacus has returned having a vengeance. Don't say you have not been cautioned. Within The MOON: Even by Hallmark Hall of Fame standards, the inspiring schmaltz is cosmically from the charts in ABC's based-on-a-true-story A Grin as Large because the Moon (Sunday, 9/8c). John Corbett changes his charm offensive into overdrive as devoted teacher/coach Mike Kersjes, who rallies his special education students to become the very first of the type (in 1988) to go to Space Camping in Huntsville, Ala. His type of adorably starry-eyed "kids" (including V's Logan Huffman like a dyslexic angry-youthful-guy who obviously works out to become a born leader) is first seen departing a planetarium early when their area trip erupts into chaos. They endure lots of ribbing for his or her various learning and behavior disabilities, frequently activating one another, until Mike sets them the aim of an eternity. Because he convinces doubters this team of misfits has "the best stuff," a indication of "the amazing energy from the human spirit" - company, he makes use of individuals very words - we risk being crushed by all of the uplift. However they reach Space Camping, so that as they meet their challenges mind-on, together with a simulated Space Shuttle flight that tests remarkable ability to obtain along and interact, it might be nearly impossible to not cheer them on. Funnel SURFING: Friendly advice: Have tissue handy with this week's latest installment of PBS' Downton Abbey (Sunday, check local entries). I'll refuse more. ... Other highlights: Fans of NBC's Chuck (Friday, 8/7c) may also be crying to their pocket suppressors, because the adorable spy spoof systems its five-season run with back-to-back episodes. ... You cannot accuse the invention Funnel of being unsure of its audience. The most recent show to fulfill our obsessions with reading for gold and Alaskan adventures, Bering Ocean Gold (Friday, 10/9c), originates from the designers of Most harmful Catch, and follows four ships his or her deck hands scour for riches at the end from the ocean. ... The weekend's musical highlight: Tony Bennett: Duets II (Friday, PBS, check local entries), with shot performances in the legend's chart-topping Compact disc, including "Body and Soul" using the late Amy Winehouse and "The Woman Is really a Tramp" with Rhianna. ... Vintage guilty pleasure: The CLOO funnel digs in to the TV archives for any 24-hour marathon (beginning Saturday at 6 am/5c) from the bare-knuckled detective drama Mannix (1967-75), starring Mike Connors. A then-unknown Diane Keaton seems within the episode scheduled for 10 pm/9c. ... The existence and career of the National football league celebrity is the topic of HBO's sports documentary Namath (Saturday, 9/8c). ... Dick Van Dyke presents his beloved co-star Mary Tyler Moore the 2011 Existence Achievement Award in the Screen Stars Guild Honours (Sunday, 8/7c, TNT and The best spinner's). ... Jeremy Irons offers the unlikely voice for Moe's well-traveled and not avoidable bar rag, which matches missing on Fox's The Simpsons (Sunday, 8/7c). Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dylan Kidd Will Get A Job
Roger Dodger director finally returnsIt's hard to believe that its now a decade since Dylan Kidd's witty debut Roger Dodger introduced itself. Since then the director has given us the less-seen PS, and more recently some episodes of Adult Swim's Children's Hospital, but Kidd is now finally set to return to cinema screens with Get A Job.The film has the zeitgeisty idea of following a group of recent university graduates facing the fact that, in the current economic climate, they're going to struggle to land satisfying careers. Or any job at all. It's being set up at CBS, where it's attracting some serious attention.Rising star Miles Teller (Rabbit Hole, Footloose, 21 And Over, Project X) is in talks to take the lead, and there's also been interest from Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jay Pharaoh, Anna Kendrick and Bryan Cranston. Jesse Eisenberg, for whom Roger Dodger was a big break, is apparently up for a cameo.CBS are keen to make it clear that no casting has yet been finalised, and that Get A Job doesn't actually even have a green light thus far. But the word on the street is that shooting could start as early as next month.
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