Thursday, September 29, 2011
Is This Brad Pitt's 'Moneyball' Oscar Clip? (VIDEO)
With near unanimous critical praise and a stronger-than-anticipated opening weekend at the box office, 'Moneyball' remains well-positioned as a possible year-end Oscar heavyweight. Whether the film itself can withstand the barrage of upcoming prestiges releases remains to be seen, but one thing seems clear: star Brad Pitt should be in the Best Actor conversation until the Academy Awards on Feb. 26. Some of Pitt's best work in 'Moneyball' happens opposite his onscreen daughter (Kerris Dorsey), and Moviefone is happy to bring you an exclusive clip of their delightful repartee. Watch ahead. 'Moneyball' is out in theaters now. Photo: Columbia Tri-Star Watch Online Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
TALENT SIGNINGS: New Clients at UTA, CAA, ICM and Paradigm
Getty ImagesClockwise from top left: Tia and Tamera Mowry, Alicia Witt, Alex Shaffer Tia and Tamera Mowry, best known for their 1990s sitcom Sister, Sister, have signed with UTA. The twin sisters currently star on the Style Network's reality seriesTia & Tamera. Tia also stars on the BET comedy The Game. She is also represented by manager Adam Griffin of Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment and attorney Brad Small at Bloom HergottDiemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman Schenkman and Goodman LLP.Tamera is also represented by manager Tracy Steinsapir at Main Title Entertainment and attorney Kevin Garlitz at Loeb & Loeb. Writer-actor Barry Rothbart, who will appear on the new season of MTV's Punk'd, has signed with ICM. Rothbart, also a comedian, was named one of the new Faces of Comedy at this summer's Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. He is also represented by management company 3 Arts Entertainment. Alex Shaffer, who starred in Tom McCarthy's Sundance breakout Win Win, has signed with CAA. Win Win was Shaffer's debut film performance. He is also represented by management company Anonymous Content. REVIEW: Win Win Production shingle Lizard Trading Co., which produces Animal Planet's Whale Wars, has signed with CAA. The company's other programs include Killer Outbreaks and Jockeys, both of which also appear on Animal Planet. Writer-producer Michael Angeli, most recently a writer and co-executive producer on NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, has signed with Paradigm. Angeli has also served as consulting producer on USA's In Plain Sight and co-executive producer and writer on SyFy's Battlestar Galactica. He was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for outstanding writing for a drama series for Battlestar. He is also represented by law firmHansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren Richman Rush & Kaller. Actress Alicia Witt, whose film credits include The Upside of Anger, Mr. Holland's Opus and Vanilla Sky, has signed with Paradigm. Witt's television credits include recurring roles on NBC's Friday Night Lights and NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent; she also co-starred on CBS' Cybill for four seasons and appeared on David Lynch's Twin Peaks. She is also represented by management company Brillstein Entertainment Partners and law firm Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Tamera Mowry Tia Mowry CAA UTA Paradigm ICM Watch Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon Movie
Friday, September 23, 2011
Levi Johnston and Sarah Palin Book Debuts Bomb
Despite massive publicity, two new books chronicling the Sarah Palin soap opera-The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin by veteran political writer Joe McGinnis and Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs by Bristol Palin baby daddy Levi Johnston-have gotten a lukewarm response from the buying public since their release on Tuesday. Hard sales numbers will not be available for a week but the rankings on Amazon and Barnes & Noble provide a good indication of consumer interest.The Rogue is ranked in the fifties on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Deer in the Headlights is hovering in the seven hundreds on Amazon and in the two hundreds on Barnes & Noble. Both books had weak pre-sale numbers as well with The Rogue in the high hundreds and Deer in the Headlights in the high thousands.our editor recommendsBristol Palin's Confrontation with 'Homosexual' Turns Ugly During Reality Show Taping (Video)Bristol Palin Admits to 'Corrective Jaw Surgery' Before Reality Show5 Things to Know About Bristol Palins Reality ShowBristol Palin Got Pregnant, Because She Was Jealous of Sarah, says Levi Johnston (Video)'Sarah Palin: You Betcha!' Trailer Debuts (Video)Bristol Palin: 5 Secrets from Her New MemoirLevi Johnston Inks Book Deal for Palin Family Tell-All VIDEO: Bristol Palin's Confrontation With 'Homosexual' Turns Ugly During Reality Show Taping The Rogue is the controversial book that alleges Palin had a one night stand with a college basketball player while working as a sports reporter, snorted cocaine, and shirked her work as governor to shop. Deer in the Headlights is Johnston's version of his relationship with Palin in which he contradicts her account of how she lost her virginity and claims she wanted to have a baby because she was jealous of that her mother's late-in-life pregnancy with Trip. He also paints an unflattering picture of the Palin marriage, asserting, for example, that Todd and Sarah rarely spent the night together in the same bed. The Rogue was the beneficiary of a massive rollout campaign. Author Joe McGinnis promoted it on the Today Show and The View. He partnered with Garry Trudeau in a first-of-its-kind deal to excerpt the book Doonesbury. The Rogue was also the subject of featured reviews in The NY Times, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. The only other fall book to get a comparable rollout was Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy which debuted at number one on Amazon. Another political book, Ron Suskind's Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, about the early days of Obama White House, arrived in bookstores on the same day as McGinnis with much less fanfare but has already risen to fifth on Amazon. Relative to the publicity The Rogue'ssales numbers must be a disappointment to publisher Crown. Deer in the Headlights is selling far fewer copies than The Rogue, despite the coup of appearances on the Dr. Phil, The Last Word withLawrence O'Donnell, and the Joy Behar Show. It has also received wide coverage in newspapers and on blogs. What the weak sales say about Sarah Palin's political future is hard to assess. Most Americans have already made up their mind about Palin, pro or con. Those who support Palin tend to dismiss The Rogue as unsubstantiated gossip and for those who dislike her, the most salacious details just confirm their worst impression of the former Alaska governor. Interestingly, most of the criticism of McGinnis' use of anonymous sources has come from conventional media critics like CNN's Howie Kurtz. The conservative blog The Thinking Voter called out other conservative bloggers for failing to defend Palin: "When a liberal loon goes on attack spree against Sarah Palin, even if one doesn't support her for the presidency, were is the outrage? This is an embarrassment for the conservative movement." The weak sales probably say more about the dim future of Sarah Palin as a celebrity. The real life soap opera story of the Palin family is beginning to look like it's in the thirteenth minute of its fifteen minutes of fame. With both Bristol Palin and Johnston having released books in the last few months, the story of their acrimonious relationship seems to have run its course. Johnston, in particular, appears ready to step out of the spotlight. He had one story to tell and now that he's told it, the public interest in him is sure to dim. The soft book sales of The Rogue and the poor ratings for last fall's TLC show Sarah Palin's Alaska suggest limits to the public's interest in Palin when the story is not directly centered on a potential presidential campaign. Related Topics Sarah Palin Bristol Palin Watch Transformers 3 Dark Of The Moon
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Syfy Builds up New Reality Show Renews Two Others
Joe Maddalena, Darlene Reynolds, Todd Fisher in Hollywood Treasure Syfy is adding to its unscripted selection with Dream Machines, which will follow Florida-based brothers and sisters Marc and Shannon Parker simply because they build automobiles inspired by people seen in Hollywood.Fall Preview: Get scoop inside your favorite returning showsThe Parkers will face a completely new client and design challenge in each episode, and may create legendary sci-fi "machines" like the Dark Knight's "Softball softball bat Pod" as well as the "Light Cycle" from Tron.Syfy also bought a six-episode second season of Hollywood Treasure, together with a 12-episode second season of Haunted Collector. Hollywood Treasure can be a documentary-reality series about collecting showbiz and popular culture memorabilia, and Haunted Collector follows a family group of paranormal scientists.Fall TV: Start to see the 17 stars as well as sturdy . eyes relating to this yearAll three shows are likely to premiere noisy . to mid-2012.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Talkback: Which Emmy Nominee Warrants a larger Movie Career?
I'm able to’t conceive of the Movieline readers who doesn’t worry about award shows, and so i suspect I’m inside a safe space when I only say I'm able to’t watch for tonight’s Emmys. From every primetime ceremony (such as the Academy awards, Golden Globes, Grammys, VMAs, and also the little-seen CMT Drunken Hayseed Honours), the Emmys select the best those who win most frequently. Yes, Modern Family deserved to conquer Glee. Yes, Bryan Cranston deserved three straight wins. But there’s an area by which Emmy nominees deserve more justice: within the jump in the promising small to the big screen. Should you could select one Emmy nominee who warrants a larger movie career, who will it be? My choice: Julie Bowen. The Happy Gilmore vet is really a amusing, multifaceted, whip-wise, sincere, and in some way underrated presence on Modern Family. She provides hard-and-fast one-inserts, needs time to work to experience the straight guy, and it is just damn credible. I’m personally enthusiastic about her, and when we are able to book her for better projects than Jumping the Broom, I’d really be thankful. She truly warrants the very best Supporting Actress inside a Comedy statuette (and when she ties using the equally fabulous Jane Krakowski, I’ll start gyrating in the TV as an rectal-stage toddler — you retain on selling that pungent Jenna Maroney jungle juice, Jane). I'm inside a Beatlemaniac-like tizzy considering how awesome she's, and just how important a comic book actress of her quality remains inside a popular culture that’s presently enthusiastic about vulgar, snarky, foreseeable comediennes. Who’s your candidate? And can you watch the Emmys?
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Neil Patrick Harris Talks Acting, Musical Theater and Receiving his Walk of Fame Star (Q&A)
You can record whatever you want -- it's a free country, and people make pathetic and embarrassing choices all the time. But if you want to avoid missing the good stuff, just record as many of these as you can. Oh, and no, I didn't "forget" or "miss" anything on this list. If it's not here, there's a reason.our editor recommends'Homeland' Previews: Claire Danes Uses Her Interrogation Voice (Video)Related Topics•Fall Television Preview MONDAY 8 p.m. Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Terra Nova (Fox) 8:30 p.m. Monday Night Football (ESPN), Two Broke Girls (CBS) 9 p.m. Top Gear (BBC America), Bored to Death (HBO) 9:30 p.m. Enlightened (HBO) PHOTOS: Dancing With the Stars' Season 13: Rehearsals TUESDAY 8 p.m. Glee (Fox) 9 p.m. New Girl (Fox), Frontline (PBS) 9:30 p.m. Raising Hope (Fox) 10 p.m. Parenthood (NBC), Sons of Anarchy (FX) PHOTOS: 'Glee' Season 3: Back to School Pictures WEDNESDAY 8 p.m. The X Factor (Fox), Up All Night (NBC), The Middle (ABC) 8:30 p.m. Suburgatory (ABC) 9 p.m. Modern Family (ABC), Nova (PBS), Inside the NFL (Showtime) 10 p.m. Luther (BBC America), South Park (Comedy Central) PHOTOS: Fall TV's 12 Most Anticipated Shows THURSDAY 8 p.m. Community (NBC), The X Factor (Fox) 8:30 p.m. Parks and Recreation (NBC) 9 p.m. Person of Interest (CBS), Project Runway (Lifetime) 10 p.m. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) 10:30 p.m. Archer/The League (FX) PHOTOS: Fall TV Preview 2011: The New Shows FRIDAY 8 p.m. Nikita (CW) 9 p.m. Fringe (Fox) 10 p.m. Boss (Starz) SATURDAYS 9 p.m. Doctor Who (BBC America) SUNDAYS 7 p.m. Football Night in America (NBC) 8 p.m. The Amazing Race (CBS), Sunday Night Football (NBC), The Simpsons (Fox) 9 p.m. The Good Wife (CBS), Family Guy (Fox), Masterpiece (PBS), The Walking Dead (AMC), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), Dexter (Showtime) 10 p.m. Breaking Bad (AMC), Homeland (Showtime) Related Topics Glee Dancing with the Stars Showtime Raising Hope Parenthood New Girl Fall TV Preview Monday Night Football Watch Free Movies
Oxygen Renews, Revamps Jersey Couture
Oxygen has renewed Jersey Couture for a second season. The fashion reality series is getting revamped. The first season was in the docu genre and centered on the Scalis, who run dress shop Diane & Co. Next year, each half-hour episode will follow shoppers as they select a dress at the shop, guided by sisters Kimberley and Christina and mom Diane Scali. Jersey Couture, from Half Yard Prods, will return for Season 2 in early 2012.Watch The Hangover 2 Full Movie
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