Box Office Report: 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' and 'Muppets' Rule Thanksgiving

Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1 topped the Thanksgiving eve box office with $12.5 million, while Disney's new family film The Muppets came in No. 2 with $6.6 million million.our editor recommendsBox Office Preview: 'The Muppets' Likely to Win Thanksgiving Family FeudFamily Feud: November's Biggest Box Office Battles, Weekend-by-Weekend New Movie Reviews: 'Hugo,' 'The Muppets,' 'My Week With Marilyn' Hitting TheatersMartin Scorsese Talks 'Hugo,' Recurring Nightmares and How His 12-Year-Old Rules the RoostRelated Topics•Twilight Wednesday's grosses suggest that Breaking Dawn -- with a domestic gross of $171.5 million -- will land in the high $50 million range for the five-day holiday stretch. In a victory for Disney, The Muppets has a strong shot at hitting $40 million for the five days. Starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams opposite the iconic puppets, the family film cost a modest $45 million to produce and is designed to introduce a new generation to the brand. PHOTOS: 'The Muppets' Red Carpet Arrivals Warner Bros. holdover Happy Feet Two bested Sony and Aardman's new family film Arthur Christmas, grossing $2.9 million, compared to $2.4 million for Arthur. Sony believes that Arthur, costing $85 million to produce, will have especially strong legs, even if it starts slow. Happy Feet Two should hit $20 million for the five days; Arthur is hoping for the same. Muppets earned a stellar A CinemaScore, while Arthur earned an A-. PHOTOS: 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' Black Carpet Arrivals Martin Scorsese's critically acclaimed new 3D film Hugo came in No. 8 on Wednesday after opening on 1,277 theaters, only a third of the location count of Muppets and Arthur Christmas. Projections show the film grossing $12.5 million for the five days, in line with expectations. Paramount, which is distributing Hugo, believes the film will play older than traditional family films, as well as to more sophisticated audiences. By opening on a smaller number of screens, Paramount is looking to build word-of-mouth heading into the heart of awards season. Hugo, Muppets and Arthur Christmas have all received great reviews. Alexander Payne's The Descendants, starring George Clooney, expanded nicely, grossing $985,000 on Wednesday as it moved into a total of 390 theaters across the country. The film came in No. 10, and its domestic cume is now $2.5 million. Michelle Williams specialty film My Week with Marilyn opened Wednesday in 123 theaters, grossing $155,000 for a location average of $1,256. The Weinstein Co. is distributing the film. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Red Carpet's Top 10: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Premiere Related Topics Box Office Happy Feet 2 The Muppets

Jerry O'Connell, Jonah Hill and Josh Groban to Co-Host 'Live! With Kelly'

Getty ImagesJerry O'Connell and Jonah Hill Live! With Kelly features four guest co-hosts, who'll join Kelly Ripa round the morning talker.our editor recommendsFirst 'Live!' Episode After Regis Philbin's Departure Draws Good RatingsJerry Seinfeld Joins Kelly Ripa on First 'Live' Broadcast Sans Regis Philbin Jerry O'Connell and singer-actor Josh Groban will return to co-host alongside Ripa, while Dwts professional Derek Hough and Jonah Hill will probably be making their debuts. O'Connell, presently starring in Broadway's Seminar, will have the following day of Thanksgiving. Site visitors for your episode include Castle star Nathan Fillion and Glee's Jane Lynch. Groban will occupy his chair for three days from 12 ,. 7-9, where site visitors includes Zac Efron, Neil Gem, Charlize Theron and Abigail Breslin. Hill, an expert producer on Fox's Allen Gregory and recently starring in Moneyball, co-hosts the 12 ,. 6 hour. Nicole Kidman, Emily Van Camping and chef Richard Blais visit for just about any chat. Hough co-hosts 12 ,. 5, when Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan and Martha Marcy May Marlene actress Elizabeth Olsen visit. Neil Patrick Harris joins Ripa beginning November. 28 for just about any days time. Jerry Seinfeld co-situated from November. 21-23. Jerry O'Connell Jonah Hill Josh Groban Live! With Kelly

This Is What Happens When Rappers Review The Muppets

If you’d rather forgo the lengthy critical reviews of this weekend’s The Muppets and instead know whether or not you’ll stay awake during Jason Segel’s big-screen revival of Jim Henson’s beloved characters, NextMovie has the video review for you. It features Brooklyn-based rappers M.O.P., who impressively do not mention Segel’s name once but do call out Chris Cooper’s rapping skills (or lack thereof) and compare Miss Piggy to “a not-so-hot Nicki Minaj.” Click through for the fresh, direct and vaguely insulting (to Miss Piggy) take on The Muppets. Get More: For more from NextMovie: Trailers | Movies | DVD & Blu-Ray For more of NextMovie’s “Rappers Review” series, enjoy the Immortals, Bad Teacher, Hangover Part II and Sucker Punch installments. The Muppets hits theaters tomorrow. [via NextMovie]

FEINBERG FORECAST: 'The Artist,' 'The Descendants,' 'The Help' Atop Best Pic Area

Fox Searchlight Below is my latest assessment of all of the high-profile Oscar groups, along with commentary by whatOrthat has negative and positive momentum at this time in most of these. I welcome your opinions inside the comments section in the finish in the publish. BEST PICTURE Management The Artist (The Weinstein Company, 11/23, PG-13, trailer) The Descendants (Fox Searchlight, 11/23, R, trailer) The Help (Disney, 8/12, PG-13, trailer) Evening amount of time in Paris (The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics, 5/20, PG-13, trailer) Moneyball (Columbia, 9/23, PG-13, trailer) War Equine (Disney, 12/25, PG-13, trailer) Very Noisy and very Close (Warner Bros., 12/25, PG-13, trailer) The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo (The brand new the new sony, 12/21, R, trailer) J. Edgar (Warner Bros., 11/11, R, trailer) Margin Call (Kerbside Sights, 10/21, R, trailer) Major Risks The Ides of March (The brand new the new sony, 10/14, R, trailer) Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Focus Features, 12/9, R, trailer) Hugo (Vital, 11/23, PG, trailer) The Tree of Existence (Fox Searchlight, 5/27, PG-13, trailer) Shame (Fox Searchlight, 12/2, NC-17, trailer) Beginners (Focus Features, 6/3, R, trailer) The Iron Lady (The Weinstein Company, 12/30, PG-13, teaser) Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2 (Warner Bros., 7/15, PG-13, trailer) Options Inside the Land of Blood stream and Honey (FilmDistrict, 12/23, R, trailer) 50/50 (Summit, 9/30, R, trailer) My Week with Marilyn (The Weinstein Company, 11/23, R, trailer) Youthful Adult (Vital, 12/9, R, trailer) Carnage (The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics, 12/16, R, trailer) Super 8 (Vital, 6/10, PG-13, trailer) Drive (FilmDistrict, 9/16, R, trailer) We Bought a Zoo (last century Fox, 12/23, PG, trailer) This timely little indie's gutsy day-and-date release plan has paid out off in spades, while using film raking in considerable dough and having a hot subject of dialogue among both industry affiliates and everybody's intelligentsia. Nobody seems quite certain in what this film "is" -- an honours contender, purely commercial, or neither -- as well as the announcement that it's going to have a very "country wide commercial sneak" four days before its actual release is not reassuring news. BEST DIRECTOR Management Alexander Payne (The Descendants) Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Woodsy Allen (Evening amount of time in Paris) Steven Spielberg (War Equine) Tate Taylor (The Help) Major Risks Stephen Daldry (Very Noisy and very Close) David Fincher (The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo) Bennett Burns (Moneyball) Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar) Terrence Malick (The Tree of Existence) Martin Scorsese (Hugo) George Clooney (The Ides of March) Options Steve McQueen (Shame) J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) Tomas Alfredson (Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) Phyllida Lloyd (The Iron Lady) Jason Reitman (Youthful Adult) Roman Polanski (Carnage) Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) It needed guts with this particular old-school filmmaker to try out a technique like 3-D the first time within the career at 69, but his efforts relating to this family film are increasingly being met with lots of praise in the type of 3-D pioneer James Cameron (read here) and Time magazine's Richard Corliss (read here). Fairly or else, the growing consensus seems being this is not among his "major works" (think Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Big Baby), but rather the newest in the more recent string of films that have left a little more being preferred (Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, and Hereafter). BEST ACTOR Management Jean Dujardin (The Artist) George Clooney (The Descendants) Kaira Pitt (Moneyball) Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar) Michael Fassbender (Shame) Major Risks Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March) Gary Oldman (Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) Michael Shannon (Take Shelter) Woodsy Harrelson (Rampart) Ryan Gosling (Drive) Ernest Gordon-Levitt (50/50) Paul Giamatti (Mutually Advantageous) Options Thomas Horn (Very Noisy and very Close) Difficulties (The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo) Take advantage of Fiennes (Coriolanus) Demian Bichir (A Far Greater Existence) Owen Wilson (Evening amount of time in Paris) Jeremy Irvine (War Equine) Zachary Quinto (Margin Call) Matt Damon (We Bought a Zoo) He's been beating the pavement around anybody this honours season, and -- even if his character in this film has turned off some female voters, who feel he's unapologetically misogynistic -- he themselves can be a hard guy not to like. Though virtually nobody who is not concentrating on the film has seen the film yet, the thrill that we'm hearing could it be's the Rooney Mara show, which whether or not this scores any acting jerk it'll be one on her behalf, not Craig. BEST ACTRESS Management Viola Davis (The Help) Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn) Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) Rooney Mara (The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo) Major Risks Charlize Theron (Youthful Adult) Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia) Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method) Tilda Swinton (We must Discuss Kevin) Michelle Yeoh (The Lady) Options Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre) Ellen Barkin (Another Happy Day) Felicity Manley (Constantly) Adepero Oduye (Pariah) Rachel Weisz (The Whistleblower) Vera Farmiga (Greater Ground) This actress' incredible portrait of Margaret Thatcher as both a thrilling middle-aged and diminishing senior citizens lady has become passionate acclaim from virtually everyone which has seen it since its unveiling the other day, which is certain to bring her accurate documentation-stretching 17th Oscar jerk. The film which performance -- easily the marriage factor relating to this -- seem to become diminishing within the discussion because the second mental/sex-centric drama -- Shame, which stars Michael Fassbender -- steps the main attraction. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Management Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Max von Sydow (Very Noisy and very Close) Albert Brooks (Drive) Jeremy Irons (Margin Call) Kevin Spacey (Margin Call) Major Risks Stanley Tucci (Margin Call) Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady) Jonah Hill (Moneyball) Armie Hammer (J. Edgar) Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn) Patton Oswalt (Youthful Adult) Ben Kingsley (Hugo) NEW Tom Hanks (Very Noisy and very Close) Options Christoph Waltz (Carnage) John C. Reilly (Carnage) Nick Nolte (Warrior) John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene) Andy Serkis (Rise in the Planet in the Apes) Kaira Pitt (The Tree of Existence) Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method) George Clooney (The Ides of March) Christopher Plummer (The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo) NEW Handful of expected the 27-year-old -- which has almost exclusively labored in frat-pack comedy right before this venture (with Cyrus being the primary one notable exception) -- to have their own around he did opposite Kaira Pitt in this film, the honours campaign that's presently being elevated. This performance has not been seen by virtually anybody not concentrating on the film, but is mentioned being incredibly brief -- almost a cameo, really -- and substantially overshadowed by veteran von Sydow's. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Management Octavia Spencer (The Help) Shailene Woodley (The Descendants) Berenice Bejo (The Artist) Jessica Chastain (The Help) Jesse McTeer (Albert Nobbs) Major Risks Sandra Bullock (Very Noisy and very Close) Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus) Carey Mulligan (Shame) Evan Rachel Wood (The Ides of March) Judy Greer (The Descendants) Jodie Promote (Carnage) Options Kate Winslet (Carnage) Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Existence) Marion Cotillard (Evening amount of time in Paris) Elizabeth Reaser (Youthful Adult) NEW Emily Watson (War Equine) Kim Wayans (Pariah) Judi Dench (J. Edgar) Scarlett Johansson (We Bought a Zoo) Many a young actress remains recognized in this category, which one assessments off plenty of important boxes: she's pretty, charming, and humble (see her profile/pic inside the new EW, not online) -- and in addition it never affects to own George Clooney experimenting saying fantastic causes of you. As strong from the perf since this is in the truly great actress, the film that's offered -- that can take classic Shakespeare and sets it within our day -- just is not everyone's bag and is not lighting a fire place inside the bellies of even people to whom it's. BEST Modified Script Management Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (The Descendants) Tate Taylor (The Help) Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian (Moneyball) Richard Curtis, Lee Hall (War Equine) Eric Roth (Very Noisy and very Close) Major Risks Steven Zaillian (The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo) George Clooney, Grant Heslov (The Ides of March) Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan (Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) John Logan (Hugo) Hossein Amini (Drive) Options Pedro Almodovar (The Skin Home Is) Roman Polanski (Carnage) Christopher Hampton (A Dangerous Method) Cameron Crowe, Aline Brosh McKenna (We Bought a Zoo) John Logan (Coriolanus) BEST ORIGINAL Script Management Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Woodsy Allen (Evening amount of time in Paris) Dustin Lance Black (J. Edgar) Mike Mills (Beginners) J.C. Chandor (Margin Call) Major Risks James Ward Byrkit, John Logan, Gore Verbinski (Rango) Diablo Cody (Youthful Adult) Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni (Mutually Advantageous) Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy Mae Marlene) Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen (Shame) Terrence Malick (The Tree of Existence) Options Will Reiser (50/50) Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) James Ellroy, Oren Moverman (Rampart) Drake Doremus, Ben You'll be able to Manley (Constantly) Rob Nichols (Take Shelter) Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) J.J. Abrams (Super 8) Dee Rees (Pariah) BEST ANIMATED FILM (FEATURE) Management Rango (Vital, 3/4, PG, trailer) The Adventures of Tintin (Vital, 12/21, PG, trailer) Cars 2 (Disney, 6/24, G, trailer) Happy Foot 2 (Warner Bros., 11/18, PG, trailer) Puss in Boots (DreamWorks, 11/4, PG, trailer) Major Risks Kung Fu Panda 2 (DreamWorks, 5/26, PG, trailer) Rio (last century Fox, 4/15, G, trailer) Arthur Christmas (The brand new the new sony, 11/23, PG, trailer) Options Alvin as well as the Chipmunks: Nick-Wrecked (last century Fox, 12/11, TBA, trailer) Winnie the Pooh (Disney, 7/15, G, trailer) The Smurfs (The brand new the new sony, 7/29, PG, trailer) The Lion of Judah (Animated Family Films, 6/3, TBA, trailer) BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (FEATURE) Management Project Nim (Kerbside Sights, 7/8, PG-13, trailer) Buck (IFC Films, 6/17, PG, trailer) In case your Tree Falls (Oscilloscope, 6/22, TBA, trailer) Bill Cunningham NY (Zeitgeist Films, 3/16, TBA, trailer) Fight for Brooklyn (TBA, 6/17, TBA, trailer) Major Risks Better Our World (Bullfrog Films, 8/26, TBA, trailer) Hell and Again (Docurama Films, 10/5, TBA, trailer) Pina (Sundance Selects, 12/23, TBA, trailer) Sing Your Song (Cinemax Documentary Films, 9/2, TBA, trailer) Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Cinemax Documentary Films, TBA, TBA, trailer) Options I Had Been Here (Danger Signal Delivering, 9/?, TBA, trailer) Undefeated (The Weinstein Company, 2/10, TBA, TBA) Semper Fi: Always Faithful (TBA, TBA, TBA, trailer) Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (TBA, TBA, TBA, trailer) Jane's Journey (First Run Features, TBA, TBA, trailer) BEST Language FILM Management A Separation (Iran) Which Side We Proceed Now? (Lebanon) Le Havre (Finland) A Simple Existence (Hong Kong) In Darkness (Belgium) Major Risks Monsieur Lazhar (Canada) Commitment of War (France) Footnote (Israel) Pina (Germany) The Flowers of War (China) Happy, Happy (Norwegian) Terra Firma (Italia) Sonny Boy (Netherlands) Superclasico (Denmark) Options Bullhead (Belgium) Black Bread (The nation) Postcard (Japan) Omar Destroyed Me (Morocco mole) The Turin Equine (Hungary) Not such a long time ago in Anatolia (Chicken) Montevideo: Taste from the Dream (Serbia) Morgen (Romania) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Management The Artist (Ludovic Bource) War Equine (John Williams) Hugo (Howard Shoreline) The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams) Very Noisy and very Close (Alexandre Desplat) Major Risks The Woman while using Dragon Tattoo (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross) Mess Tailor Soldier Spy (Alberto Iglesias) The Help (Thomas Newman) Super 8 (Michael Giacchino) Harry Potter as well as the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Alexandre Desplat) The Ides of March (Alexandre Desplat) Options Moneyball (Mychael Danna) Jane Eyre (Dario Marianelli) A Dangerous Method (Howard Shoreline) The Skin Home Is (Alberto Iglesias) Evening amount of time in Paris (Stephane Wrembel) Nathan Larson (Margin Call)

NBCs Grimm Will get Order For Just Two Scripts

I've found that NBC has purchased two additional scripts from newcomer drama Grimm. The fairytale-designed drama procedural, produced by Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, got off and away to an excellent rankings begin Friday, October 28 against Game 7 around the globe Series. It's ended up since but nonetheless ranks among NBC’s greatest-ranked scripted shows in 18-49. Within an encouraging sign, Grimm was featured on NBC’s midseason schedule launched on Monday.

When Existence Hands You Lemon...Sing Through It

Today, the first time, my voice malfunctioned inside an audition. Unlike a few things i may have expected, paradise didn't come crashes lower.My singing voice is rather reliable. Even if I'm not feeling great, which i do not appear my best, it features a inclination to achieve success pressurized. I've had moments of great interest upon entering the audition room after which it ended up amazed because when well things went. As well as when my voice isn't at peak performance, it's rare with this to remain in this kind of condition the panel can inform something's wrong.These days will be a new day my pals.I visited an audition that we was pretty searching toward. The show was having a composer I like whose tasks are little completed. I used to be all specific around execute a piece by him. Once I awoke today I understood my voice wasn't at it's best, but figured I really could survive my a few seconds inside the room. I went in, spoken while using accompanist, and was excited to sing this song I like do not achieve do often.The music activity started. I opened up up my mouth. As soon as I started singing I new something was wrong. I really could possess the gunk moving on me. And this time around around it absolutely was audible. It absolutely was apparent that we needed a glass or two water to be able to apparent my throat. Clearly, there's very little else will be able to do but to sing through it.Fortunately singing vibrates people traditional vocal cords. Following a first phrase I used to be golden. Well...not golden, however felt the panel had ample chance to hear a few things i really appear like. In my opinion, if something such as this had happened initially initially when i first moved here, I'd have panicked. I'd have assumed the corporation would believe I'm horrible and spend the comfort of your time together wondering why I even showed up. In time here' have recognized it's not use worrying such situations.There's one minute there today once i considered beginning over (which i've never done before), however thought what's the point? I'm merely a person, right? Sometimes unpredicted unexpected things happen. Every so often people the situation is inside our control, but more often than not they aren't. In case your room full of people can't forgive me to become a genuine person, than I probably should avoid using them anyway. (Clearly these were particularly nice people who didn't appear phased with the problem inside the littlest.)You will discover always other auditions together with other jobs. Essentially cried every time I messed up a lyric, didn't appear my best, or wasn't engaged enough inside the audition room I'd spend a considerable a part of my existence in tears. Rather, I choose to forge ahead and relish as soon as. I choose to not take myself too seriously. I choose allowing myself a mistake or two once in awhile.Nowadays things didn't go precisely how I'd wanted, however can't wait to determine which tomorrow must offer.Discover More About UNSCRIPTED

Wuss

A Very Personalized Films production in colaboration with Minor in Possession and Femmewerks Prods. Produced by Eric Steele, Barak Epstein, Adam Donaghey. Executive producer, Bala Shagrithaya. Directed, put together by Clay Liford.With: Nate Rudin, Alicia Anthony, Ryan Anderson, Chris Gardner, Cody Manley, Tony Hale, Alex Karpovsky, Sylvia Luedtke, Jennifer Sipes, Tamara Fana, Ashley Oliver, Johnny Mars.By frequently upending anticipation and shifting tones, author-director Clay Liford keeps his audience really intrigued and anxious throughout "Wuss," an remarkably crafted drama laced with darkly comic humor. After several stops over the fest circuit -- plus a showcase at Los Angeles' AFI Film Festival, where it won an audience award -- this offbeat indie, of a mousy secondary school teacher who's brutalized by delinquent students and mocked by most grownups within the orbit, has the capacity to graduate to limited theatrical release. But it'll require a knowledgeable distrib in a position to shouldering a difficult marketing challenge. In the get-go, Liford signifies Mitch Parker (Nate Rudin), a short, slight fellow within the mid-20s, as someone who likely experienced a nonstop barrage of bullying throughout his adolescent years. Sadly, since the opening sequence at his high-school reunion rapidly determines, things haven't changed much for Mitch years after graduation: He's still within the same school, living conscious of his less-than-affectionate mother (Sylvia Luedtke) plus much more-than-threatening sister (Jennifer Sipes), and being struggling with students and staffers alike, even though he's now an British teacher. Mitch is actually psychologically beaten-lower it has come about as little surprise he doesn't hurry to get hold of government physiques when he's assaulted having a student who not respond well to discipline. Jamal (Ryan Anderson) is actually an irredeemable brute, even their very own mother (Ashley Oliver, inside an attention-getting single-scene performance) thinks Mitch should drop anything at all on him after he attacks the brand new teacher. Yet it's not until he'll acquire some encouragement from Maddie (Alicia Anthony), among his best students, that Mitch begins to plot revenge. "Wuss" is very amusing within the broadly comical moments, specifically when Mitch joins extended-time pals (including some fellow teachers) for spirited Dungeons & Dragons games. Indie stalwart Alex Karpovsky ("Beeswax," "Small Furniture") can get some laughs becoming an strongly condescending vice principal who loves disturbing Mitch. Despite the fact that Johnny Mars is a lot more than adequately menacing as Maddie's older brother, who just is undoubtedly a gun-runner, he's all of a sudden amusing when he unveils his avocation just like a rare-books dealer. Beneath the funny business, however, an acceptable volume of serious suspense percolates throughout "Wuss." As Mitch, Rudin affectingly plays a put-upon character whose humiliation and desperation helps to keep the pic compelling. And newcomer Anthony beguilingly fires up various areas of a complicated, even contradictory character -- sometimes tearfully vulnerable, sometimes brazenly poised. The bond between Mitch and Maddie calculates being the existence bloodstream of "Wuss," triggering an ambiguous yet satisfying finale. Shot around Garland, a midsize Texas city near Dallas, "Wuss" boasts fine production values, climax likely some pop tunes round the soundtrack may be transformed just before the pic's theatrical release.Camera (color), Christopher Simpson editor, Jay Serra music, Curtis Heath production designer, Yen Tan art director, Ellen Weaver costume designer, Andie Day appear, Codi Putman connect producer, Farah White-colored assistant director, Angie Meyer casting, Eric Steele. Examined on DVD, Houston, November. 12, 2011. (In AFI, SXSW film festivals.) Running time: 96 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Ron Howard's 'Rush' shelves up sales

Ron Howard's racing drama "Hurry" is showing lots of traction in worldwide marketplaces, annually before its expected release. Exclusive Media Group introduced Wednesday, the ultimate day's the American Film Market, it had offered the pic to marketers for 30 marketplaces including Alliance Films for Canada, Aurum for The country, Universum/RTL for Germany, E1 for New zealand and australia, MisLabel for Scandinavia and Independent in Benelux. Variety reported Monday that StudioCanal had acquired U.K. privileges. Alex Walton, leader of Exclusive Films Intl., told Variety that putting in a bid have been highly competitive with strong prices. "We feel this film is a major event title for that finish of 2012, and that we possess the most powerful worldwide partners to understand that worldwide," he added. Universal's handling the U.S. release. Walton stated the chances are the domestic launch is going to be associated with the November. 16-18 F1 race in Austin, Texas. Exclusive came on throughout the Toronto Film Festival to co-finance "Hurry" with Mix Creek Pictures. Project, which sports identifiable talents for example Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl and Olivia Wilde, sometimes appears included in the growing efforts through the indie sector to consider advantage because the large Hollywood galleries escape from mid-budget projects. Story concentrates on the competition between James Search (Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Bruhl) as well as their F1 racing teams, McLaren and Ferrari, as both were pressed towards the breaking reason for their physical and mental endurance. Shooting will begin in Feb around F1 tracks in Silverstone, England, and Nurburgring, Germany. Exclusive's deals for "Hurry" include California Filmes for Latin America Ascot Elite for Europe NuMetro for Nigeria Noori Pictures for Columbia Lusomundo for Portugal Golden Scene for Hong Kong Audiovisual for A holiday in greece Mike Film for Iceland Tanweer Film for Poultry Tandem for Bulgaria Blitz for Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia AQS for that Czech Republic and also the Slovak Republic Media Professional for Hungary and Romania ITI for Belgium U . s . King for Israel Front Row for that Middle East Apsara/Reliance for India and Pakistan PT Amero for Indonesia Media Films for Malaysia and Thailand Cathay Keris Films for Singapore Star TV for East Asian TV and Blockbuster for Taiwan. Producers are Howard, John Oliver, John Grazer, Eric Fellner, Peter Morgan and Andrew Eaton. Exclusive co-chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East professional produce with Exclusive mind of production Tobin Armbrust. Imagine's Todd Hallowell also professional produces. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

RKO Pictures Branches Into TV With Teen Adaptation 'False Memory' (Exclusive)

RKO Pictures is branching into television, acquiring the screen rights with a youthful adult novel titled False Memory while using goal to develop a TV adaptation. The debut novel by Serta Krokos will probably be launched by Disney*Hyperion in November 2012. It's the initial book from the planned trilogy. False Memory follows four pals with supernatural forces, elevated being soldiers, who escape their government training facility searching for an regular teenage existence. RKO's Kevin Cornish recognized what he saw just like a deluge of YA genre books being furiously developed as features inside the wake from the wealth from the Twilight Saga and (Lionsgate hopes) The Hunger Games. The posting world is trading as many as seven figures to find the books, while art galleries spend almost exactly the same amount for your movie rights. "The systems aren't as oversaturated since the art galleries, by beginning TV, this could differentiate False Memory within the other projects," states Cornish, who'll become professional producer with RKO's Vanessa Coifman. "This could also let's fill the area inside the teen sci-fi market created by shows like Smallville going in the air." The duo is becoming winding up in showrunners. Krokos is repped by Pouya Shahbazian of FinePrint Literary Management. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package

'19 Kids and Counting' Mom Michelle Duggar Expecting 20th Child (Video)

TLC The Duggar brood continues to grow.our editor recommendsThe Duggars Add Another in '19 Kids and Counting: First Grandson' (Video) The family featured on TLC's 19 Kids and Counting revealed that matriarch Michelle Duggar is three and a half months pregnant with her 20th child. In true Duggar fashion, the family appeared in full on the Today show to announce the good news. "We are due in April and just thrilled," Michelle told Ann Curry during the broadcast. "We have the motto in our house that there's always room for one more." "I don't know how it happened!" joked husband Jim Bob. The couple welcomed their 19th child, Josie, in 2009. During the pregnancy, Michelle suffered gall-bladder problems and preeclampsia, giving birth to Josie three and a half months prematurely. At birth, the infant weighed one pound, six ounces but is now a healthy toddler about to celebrate her second birthday. The family is currently gearing up for the ninth season of their reality program, set to debut on Nov. 13. As for welcoming more children into their home, the family is always open to the possibility. "We'll have to wait and see," said Michelle. "We would love however many the Lord sees fit to give us." Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy TLC

Hunky Dory

An E1 Entertainment discharge of a movie Agency of Wales, Prescience, in colaboration with Aegis Film Fund presentation of the Large Pond Prods., Bad Wolf Films production. (Worldwide sales: Independent Films, London.) Created by Jonathan Finn, Serta Lupovitz. Executive producers, Pauline Burt, Christopher Figg, James Gallimore, Keith Potter, Robert Whitehouse. Directed by Marc Evans. Script, Laurence Coriat.Vivienne - Minnie Driver Davey - Aneurin Barnard Stella - Danielle Branch Evan - Tom Harries Headmaster - Robert Pugh Mrs. Valentine - Haydn Gwynne Mr. Cafferty - Steve Speirs Tim - Aled Pugh Sylvie - Julia Perez Kenny Loder - Darren Evans Evan - Tom Harries Mike - George MacKay Lewis - Adam Byard Vicki - Kimberley NixonMinnie Driver plays an instructor battling to shepherd her students via a pop-obtained manufacture of "The Tempest" in "Hunky Dory," helmer Marc Evans' raggedy, period-set comedy drama. Supplying further evidence the karaoke aesthetic of "Glee" is rapidly metastasizing, the pic draws only slight entertainment value in the spectacle of babies warbling seventies pop tunes, just like a retro version of "Senior High School Musical" with less charm. The half-baked script does not help, however the film's greatest problem is going to be finding an aud: Kids will think the background music old-fashioned while couple of parents will discover the premise appealing. Inside a Welsh suburb within the sweltering early summer time of 1976, Vivienne (Driver), a higher-school drama teacher who once aspired to become a thesp herself, attempts to keep her youthful charges' minds on practicing a musical version of "The Tempest" that opens inside a couple of days. Very frequently, the children cut rehearsals to visit swimming or storm off after fighting with one another. Such clashes happen with rather forced regularity throughout, so that they can generate plot-sending momentum. A minimum of shy male lead Davey (Aneurin Barnard) is motivated, especially since he reaches play Ferdinand opposite crush Stella (Danielle Branch), the beautiful "town bike" (so named because "everybody has already established a ride") who's been cast as Miranda. Once the kid playing Prospero all of a sudden drops to concentrate on rugby practice, Vivienne in desperation persuades the school's headmaster (Robert Pugh) to accept role, wishing that flattering his vanity will give you some protection against fellow faculty people, for example prissy Mrs. Valentine (Haydn Gwynne) and sneering P.E. teacher Mr. Cafferty (Steve Speirs), who'd both be thrilled to determine the entire factor cancelled. The script propagates itself too thin attempting to give backstories and subplots to a lot of figures, probably the most intriguing and edgy which sees Davey moving his affections from Stella to Vivienne herself, but this proto-"Notes on the Scandal" development remains unconsummated. Around the upside, the musical plans by Jody Talbot are actually frequently lovely, particularly when they deploy unusual instrumentation and choirs of tuneful Welsh kids on tracks initially carried out by ELO, Nick Drake (a credibility-stretching pick, considering the fact that he was barely known beyond aficionado circles in 1976) and David Bowie ( "Existence on Mars," possibly not the best option, because it consists of the road "However the film is really a saddening bore "). The climactic performance from the experience an outside set has charm, and it is prettily lit and lensed by rising youthful d.p. Charlotte now Bruus Christensen ("Submarino"). Barnard, who required charge role within the London stage version of "Spring Awakening," really includes a fine group of pipes, and Driver (who's launched a couple of solo albums among acting gigs) is not bad, either, although she somewhat lacks color. The regularity that she's triggered to sing boosts accusations the pic might have been partially designed like a vanity project to showcase its star's musical abilities. Although it was really created before "Glee" began showing on television, "Hunky Dory" nonetheless feels as though a latecomer cashing in on the possibly already waning fad for cover-version-based musicals. In comparison using the U.S. television series, the script by Laurence Coriat ("Me Without You") lacks wit, even comprising the degeneration of "Glee" in the last year. Helming by Marc Evans is serviceable but underwhelming. Perhaps, the pic's best moment comes in the finish, when subtitles reveal the bittersweet fates that befall the majority of the figures within their old age, adding a downbeat quality that slices a few of the sugariness from the preceding 109 minutes.Camera (color, widescreen), Charlotte now Bruus Christensen music, Jody Talbot music supervisor, Liz Gallacher production designer, Jacqueline Abrahams art director, Carly Reddin seem (DTS/SDDS/Dolby Digital) supervisory seem editor, Stephen Griffiths re-recording mixer, Take advantage of Hughes executive visual effects supervisor, Sean Farrow assistant director, Serta Mumford casting, Jessica Ronane. Examined at London Film Festival (Film around the Square), March. 21, 2011. Running time: 109 MIN.(British dialogue) Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Rankings: Bones Has Greatest Season Premiere in 3 Years

David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel The Growing Season 7 premiere of Bones marked the show's greatest opener in 3 years. Up 22 percent from last season's premiere, Bones drawn in ten million total audiences on Thursday, topping ABC's Grey's Anatomy, which received 9.3 million audiences. Within the marketed-valued 18-49 demo, though, Grey's beat Bones, 3.5 to three.3. Overall, CBS won the hour with Person of great interest (11.66 million and NBC's Work (6.05 million) and Whitney (4.33 million/2.1) arrived 4th. The CW's The Key Circle nabbed 2.27 million audiences. Bones Season 7: Can an infant break the Moonlighting curse? In 8 o'clock hour, CBS' The Large Bang Theory drawn inside a whopping 15.49 million total audiences along with a 5.1 rating within the demo. X Factor adopted with 11.28 million along with a 3.6 rating. The already canceled Charlie's Angels had 5.38 million audiences along with a 1.2 rating for ABC. NBC's Community had 3.87 million/1.7 and also the Vampire Journals fell slightly behind with 3.34 million/1.5. At 8:30/7:30c, Rules of Engagement hit a Thursday high (11.9 million/3.7), while Parks and Entertainment had just 3.94 million audiences along with a 2. within the demo. Within the final hour of prime time, The Mentalist on CBS won with 13.46 million total audiences along with a 2.9 rating. ABC's Private Practice adopted with 6.76 million along with a 2.6 within the demo. Prime Suspect on NBC arrived last with 4.47 million total audiences along with a 1.2 rating.

'Chinese Takeaway' wins Rome's top prize

ROME - Argentine hit comedy "Chinese Takeaway," by Sebastian Borensztein, was the large champion in the sixth Rome Film Festival, which wrapped on an optimistic note Friday despite a little of bickering earlier. Written by Disney in Argentina, where it has been a smash, this cool laffer starring Ricardo Darin ("The Key to themInch) like a Buenos Aires retailer who helps out a Chinese immigrant, scooped both Rome's jerk for the best film and also the large metropolitan fest's audience award. "Takeaway," that has been offered broadly by Madrid-based Latido Films, goes in Italia via Archibald. The jury, headed by Ennio Morricone and composed of Debra Winger and Susanne Bier, gave its grand jury award to Gallic helmer Claude Miller's "Watch When They Dance," starring Italy's Maya Sansa, as the special jury jerk visited Fred Schepisi's "The Attention from the Storm." The actress jerk visited Noomi Rapace on her role like a mother attempting to safeguard her boy from an allegedly abusive father in mental thriller "Babycall," by Norwegian helmer Friend Seltaune. Gallic thesp Guillaume Canet scooped the actor prize for his role like a prepare with credit issues in Cedric Kahn's "A Much Better Existence." The jerk for original score visited German composer Ralf Wengenmayr for Communism spoof "Hotel Lux," by helmer Leander Haussman. "Girl Model," by U.S. helmers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, by which U.S, and Russian model scouts trawl remote Siberian towns for youthful women appropriate for modelling jobs in Japan, required top docu jerk in Rome's Extra Section. Iranian gay-designed drama "Circumstance" by Maryam Keshavarz and tyro Gallic helmer Emmanuelle Millet's teen drama "Twiggy" tied for Rome fest's emerging new talent prize. Rome's Alice within the City section devoted to kiddie fare saw "En el nombre p la hija," a humor-laced family-drama occur the seventies from Ecuador's Tania Hermida, go ahead and take under-13 prize, while Belgian helmer Bavo Defune's gay coming-of-ager "Noordzee Texas" won within the over-13 category. Attendance was up a lot more than 4% this season, with 123,000 tickets offered in the Eternal City extravaganza. Event came fire from Italo culture czar Giancarlo Galan who reiterated he sights it as being antagonistic to Venice, which however isn't considered that a threat. Meanwhile, Rome's Business Street mart the coming year is going to be moving to clever digs in Rome's Maxxi contempo art museum, boosting its profile like a small but significant European industry event. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

Beyonce Expected To Cancel For Just About Any second In Time Sweden

First Launched: November 3, 2011 9:04 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Caption Beyonce creates day 2 in the V Festival at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, England on August 21, 2011 Planners say Beyonce remains expected to cancel a show in Sweden due to exhaustion for again now. Live Nation representative Kristofer Akesson mentioned the singer felt ill before her concert in Stockholm on Wednesday evening which she made a decision in consultation getting your physician to cancel the show approximately one hour before she ended up being to take stage. Akesson states Beyonce is exhausted and doesn't feel well, but sometimes not give more particulars. The singer cancelled a concert in Malmo in southern Sweden on Monday, but tend to perform the following evening in Stockholm. Planners are trying to set up new dates for your shows. Copyright 2011 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Coldplay, Pete Townsend show digital difference

It has been an active week within the digital music sphere, and as always for that arena, recent developments have lead some to greatly different conclusions. Vital among news is Coldplay's record-setting week, where the Brit band capped the album chart with 447,000 sales of their latest, "Mylo Xyloto," beating the main one-week iTunes sales record the band itself had set with "Viva La Vida." This guitar rock band elevated eye brows by decreasing to permit its music to become streamed on the on-demand sites, like Spotify and MOG, which have seen huge growth since Facebook's Open Graph platform integrated music streaming so indelibly into its site. By departing digital clients just one option, some have believed, this guitar rock band gained the advantages. As opposed to Coldplay's open-arms welcome from the Apple music store, the Who's Pete Townshend has released a broadside against it. Speaking in a tribute for late British broadcast legend John Peel, the guitarist known as out iTunes for capitalizing in the music business without having done enough to aid it. "Can there be really worthwhile reason, simply because iTunes is available within the wild west Internet land of Twitter and facebook, it cannot provide some facet of these types of services towards the artists whose arrange it will bleed just like a digital vampire, just like a digital Northern Rock, because of its enormous commission?" Townshend stated, asking why the background music store could not hire talent scouts and services to help artists in the way of the record company. The complaint wasn't a replacement, however it introduced into relief a contentious argument within the issues natural in depending on iTunes -- or streaming services -- like a primary outlet for recorded music revenue. Incidentally, one company that's been instrumental in opening digital distribution to unsigned bands, TuneCore, bending lower its presence within the digital sphere on Monday, starting its very own posting division. Active since 2006, the organization founded by Shaun Cost has rapidly get to be the most voluminous distributor of digital music to iTunes, Spotify yet others. Starting its cool product, named Songwriter Posting Administration Service and headed by former Bug Music professional Jamie Purpora, the organization will offer posting services because of its clients, assisting to oversee certification contracts and obligations. TuneCore's distribution services are unusual for the reason that it claims no privileges towards the music it distributes -- artists simply pay the organization a per-song or per-album fee, then receive all royalties and retain almost all their own privileges. The business's posting venture is sort of different, as TuneCore charges a 1-time $50 fee upfront then requires a 10% cut from future posting revenues. But that might be a small cost to cover the largely small, independent artists who use TuneCore for distribution, to whom getting use of these certification possibilities might be a potential found diamond. As Cost place it: "Once artists look underneath the hood and find out what money we are able to get these questions shorter time period ... we believe the service will require off as rapidly as our digital distribution service did." Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor may be the first large-title artist to enroll in the service, getting distributed his music through the organization for a while. The central problem with TuneCore is a that Townshend could appreciate: While strengthening music artists to have their tunes to the greatest-profile digital platforms, and today matching posting, the organization still leaves the relaxation from the work -- for example marketing, management, touring and recording costs -- at the disposal of the artist. Business music artists have discovered methods to cope, matching sponsorship and mix-marketing possibilities with interested brands, or benefiting from such endeavors as Converse's Rubber Tracks studio, which opened up in Brooklyn last summer time and offers free studio time for you to bands. However it still leaves artists having a greater-than-ever degree of uncertainty over how you can manage their business. Whether a band is really a major-label megaseller like Coldplay, or perhaps an indie who's selected to do it yourself, the possibilities to forge a distinctive path with the digital music backwoods are lots of and growing, much like the questions. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Alice Eve Cast in 'Decoding Annie Parker'

Alice Eve has joined the cast of Decoding Annie Parker, an indie comedy-drama that stars Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton.our editor recommendsRashida Jones Joins Indie 'Decoding Annie Parker''Midnight in Paris' Actor Corey Stoll Cast in Indie 'Decoding Annie Parker' The project from directorSteven Bernsteinis based on the true story of geneticist Mary Claire King, who discovered a gene linked to breast cancer. Hunt stars as King and Morton plays Annie Parker, a woman who resolves to fight her cancer diagnosis. Eve will play Louise, a former friend of Parker's who has an affair with her husband, causing them to divorce. Decoding also featuresAaron Paul,Corey StollandMaggie Grace. The project began filming in Los Angeles in October. Eve's film credits include Sex and the City 2 and She's Out of My League; she will appear in Men in Black III and The Raven. The actress also had a memorable turn on the final season of HBO's Entourage as Sophia, the Vanity Fair reporter who becomes engaged to Adrian Grenier's Vince. Media House Capital (Canada) Corp. is co-financing Decodingand will produce with Ozymandias Productions. Aaron L. Gilbert, Media House' managing director, will also serve as an executive producer, along withJonathan Brownlee and Sahil Chanana.The project is being produced byClark Peterson, Stuart Ross, Keith Kjarval, Mary Vernieu and Ron Senkowski. Eve is represented by UTA, the U.K.'s Artist Rights Group and Untitled Entertainment. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Related Topics

Peter Webber to helm 'Emperor'

Peter Webber ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") has come on board to direct post-WWII romance-drama "Emperor" as a co-production between Fellers Films and Krasnoff/Foster Entertainment.Project, which is in pre-production, was announced Wednesday at the opening day of the American Film Market.Screenplay for "Emperor" is penned by David Klass ("Walking Tall,") and Vera Blasi ("Woman on Top"). Pic will be produced by Yoko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura and Russ Krasnoff.Inspired by true events, "Emperor" is set amid the tensions and uncertainties of the days following the Japanese surrender at the end of the war. A general and expert on Japan on General Douglas MacArthur's staff is ordered to decide whether Emperor Hirohito should be tried and hanged as a war criminal.Interwoven with the politics is the story of a love affair with a Japanese exchange student he had met years previously in the U.S."The end of WWII in the Far East and the relationship between MacArthur and Japan, is a part of history which has been largely unexplored on film," Foster said. "With most documents burned, historians have relied on accounts which are being debated to this day."Production is due to begin in January with lensing to take place in New Zealand and Japan. CAA is handling sales in the U.S. and casting is currently underway.Fellers Film was formed by Narahashi and Nomura. Foster's credits include "Sleepless in Seattle," "Tin Cup," "Ghost Rider," "Daredevil" and "The Soloist." He and Krasnoff executive produce the NBC series "Community."Webber will make "Emperor" before the previously reporter "The Spider's House." Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

New Women Men Talk Shows Return

First Released: November 1, 2011 4:51 PM EDT Credit: FOX La, Calif. -- Caption Lamorne Morris as Winston, Mike Manley as Nick, Max Greenfield as Schmidt and Zooey Deschanel as Jess in New Girl on FOXZooey Deschanels New Girl returns to FOX Tuesdays having a completely new episode and things enter into embarrassing territory for Mike Johnsons Nick character, following a naked run-along with his spectacled housemate, Jess. My figures a weight date, Maxs character makes fun of me for getting a little of the stomach, therefore i get insecure and that i remove my clothes before my very own mirror, Mike told Access Hollywood Lives Billy Rose bush and Package Hoover from the setup for Tuesdays episode from the comedy, also including Max Greenfield, who plays Schmidt. Zooey walks in and accidentally sees my peen, for a moment, also it sparks an entire factor about seeing one another naked and coping with female roommates. FOX place the show on hold for that World Series, soon after it got a complete season pick-up, but at the time they learned this news regarding their show going the length, the cast was thrilled. [Creator] Liz Meriwether stated, Can One get everybody inside a circle? She stated, I simply spoken to [FOX Leader] Kevin Riley used to do a complete season, Mike recounted. I went coupled with just a little cry, Max chimed in. Its so rare nowadays you receive news like this. New Girl, centers around Zooeys character, Jess, who moves along with three men following a bad breakup, and Lamorne Morris, who plays Winston, accepted he had an identical roommate situation backwards. He resided with three ladies. Three of these simultaneously. It had been Threes Company, Lamorne stated. Three women moved in, three buddies of mine we'd four lavatories, therefore it was great. New Girl airs at 9/8 C on Tuesday on FOX. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.