Matt's Guide to Thursday TV: Pick Parks Over Gentleman

Amy Poehler and Adam Scott It will be a sad day in TV land if (as Nielsen history suggests) the powerhouse of CBS' The Big Bang Theory helps deliver the abysmal new How to Be a Gentleman a ratings win over NBC's little-show-that-could-do-better Parks and Recreation.Here's my Fall Preview take on How to Be a Gentleman (CBS, 8:31/7:31c), a misfire that almost makes me miss last year's Bleep My Dad Says, which wasted the same time period: "Felix and Oscar should sue. The overused Odd Couple premise gets one of its more cringeworthy sitcom workouts in the latest assault on the male mystique - caricatured as a squeaky-voiced priss and a bellowing gym-bunny boor. Actually, mankind should sue." To elaborate: David Hornsby plays a metrosexual metropolitan fusspot whose world is rocked when the magazine he writes for changes focus from urbane to youth-pandering drivel. To "man up" (one of the season's dreariest trends, and the title of an equally awful upcoming sitcom on ABC), he turns to a gym trainer who turns out to be a former high-school bully, broadly played by Kevin Dillon in a role the Entourage crew would have mocked. It couldn't be more forgettable, but what's really irksome is the waste of a strong supporting cast, including 24's Mary Lynn Rajskub as Hornsby's sardonic sister and Flight of the Conchords' Rhys Darby as her mewling husband.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Meanwhile, an outstanding episode of Parks and Recreation (8:30/7:30cs) taps the Tammy vein of comic gold, with the arrival of Ron Swanson's justifiably feared ex-wife "Tammy One," variously described as a "psychological mastermind" and "hellacious nightmare." Understatements. Patricia Clarkson is a severe scream as this icy menace, wielding an IRS audit as a weapon. (My admiration for this actress grows each time I see her. Having just watched her Emmy-worthy performance in the upcoming Lifetime movie anthology Five, as a woman facing breast cancer with savage wit and a love for life, her range never fails to astound.)The impact Tammy One has on Ron's personality and trademark look are so alarming, Leslie literally is forced to try to slap some sense into him. Hearing Nick Offerman say, "Leslie, you're a panic" is itself a panic. Can Tammy Two (Megan Mullally) be the "Mothra" to Tammy One's "Godzilla"? Will the original Tammy - a mountain mama seemingly modeled after Margo Martindale's Justified character - be able to rescue Ron in a climactic battle royale? I wish I were as entertained by the ongoing subplot involving Tom's ridiculous new entertainment venture, but for those back in the office trying to bring Ron back into the light, this is about as funny as it gets.So what else is on? ... Sounds like a formula for disaster on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (8/7c), as Leonard agrees to be Amy's date at a wedding. ... It's flashback time on the CW's The Vampire Diaries (8/7c), as Klaus and Stefan's road trip to Chicago triggers memories of the Roaring (and Biting) '20s, when Stefan was still a Wild Young Vamp. ... Another flashback alert, as the second episode of CBS' intriguing Person of Interest (9/8c) finds Finch (Michael Emerson) reflecting on The Machine's origins. ... In the revolving door of Oceanside Wellness Center, Benjamin Bratt joins ABC's Private Practice (10:02/9:02c) in its fifth season, while Audra McDonald moves on to better things, like a Broadway revival of Porgy & Bess. ... On CBS' The Mentalist (10/9c), Patrick Jane gets a new CBI team to torment, led by Reed Diamond, while he tries to get Lisbon and the rest of the gang back together.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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Studiocanal Boosts More Film Financing: States It Does Not Need To Borrow To Invest In Slate

DEADLINE PARIS: French pay-TV giant today revealed a slate financing deal worth 150 million ($203.9 million) over the following three years. The money covers 30% in the budgets of Studiocanals worldwide productions. Meaning Studiocanal is going to be trading 200 million yearly on movie production. London-based finance house Anton Capital Entertainment (ACE) has elevated the money through a mix of U.S banks and undisclosed European financial institutions. Union Bank and Bank of America are most likely the U.S. loan providers mixed up in deal. The current announcement should really establish Studiocanals place since the first the avenue for call outdoors the U.S. for intelligent upmarket movies like Mess Tailor Soldier Spy that's fully funded. Olivier Courson, chairman/Boss of Studiocanal, states it's the first time a European small-major provides the kind of slate funding which got Wall Street into such trouble five years ago. Some U.S. traders lost their t t shirts throwing vast amounts at Hollywood. Asked for how he'd reassure traders burnt by previous Hollywood slate fund deals, Courson mentioned the primary difference this time around around around is always that Studiocanal is creating a more varied slate and not numerous blockbusters. Courson states most Hollywood art galleries have operating profits of under 10%,partly because of the ballooning cost of production, crazy marketing stays, and limited slates specific at teens. Studiocanal, however, is on course to produce a 14% profit this year on sales in the varied slate of E400 million. The sale means we'll be capable of increase our investment capacity, which we dont must find partners for each new film. So far we've not required to have a loan to invest in our films, states Courson. Courson states Studiocanal is interested in financingthe next Black Swan or perhaps the Social Media: the kind of films the art galleries have largely abandoned.Paris-based Studiocanal was already riding full of Uk success of Mess, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Courson also desires to make more animated family films, and upmarket genre films such as the just-introduced The Ultimate Exorcism 2. Sebastian Raybaud, controlling director of ACE, states that revenue coming will probably be split from first dollar, rather than getting his traders pressed towards the rear from the queue if the involves getting their funds back as was the problem having a couple of early Hollywood slate deals. The alignment of interests is more preferable in comparison to some couple of from the deals you have often seen, states Raybaud. However, the question remains whether placing 150 million in to a hundred different movies works a lot better than putting the same cash into numerous Hollywoods sure-factor blockbusters. It formerly funded Unknown, starring Liam Neeson, as well as the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost comedy Paul. Future production includes the next Coen Brothers and sisters filmInside Llewyn Davis, produced by Scott Rudin and shooting in NY this fall, along with the Last Photograph, starring Sean Penn and Christian Bale, the following film from Niels Arden Oplev (The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo) and producer Joel Silver. The business releases its own movies in three key European areas France, Germany as well as the Uk which together represent 80% in the European market. Studiocanal also has an enormous back catalogue that, Courson describes, is ripe for plundering. Vital remade Studiocanals original in the Tourist (Anthony Zimmer), while Studiocanal itself remade Brighton Rock, which is developing another Graham Greene remake, The Fallen Idol, with U.S. producer Walter Parkes. Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson is developing a remake of classic British The Second World War movie The Dambusters.

Swiss pick 'Giochi d'estate' for Oscar race

BERLIN -- Rolando Colla's "Giochi d'estate" (Summer Games) has been selected as Switzerland's candidate for the foreign- language film Oscar. The coming-of-age film, which bowed in Venice, centers on a teenage boy struggling with an abusive father and dealing with first love while on summer holiday on Italy's Tuscany coast. The pic was chosen by a special jury and announced at the Delemont-Hollywood film festival in Delsberg. "Summer Games" was produced by Zurich-based Peacock Film. The Swiss entry will benefit from a 60,000 Swiss francs ($66,813) financial contribution for a promotional campaign, according to the Federal Culture Office. The deadline for Oscar foreign-language film submissions is Monday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will unveil nominations on Jan. 24 and the winner will be announced at the 84th awards ceremony at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Feb. 26. Contact Ed Meza at staff@variety.com

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Ratings: New Girl Remains Pretty Popular; Week 2 Sees Expected Drop-Off

Zooey Deschanel It looks like New Girl is no fluke. The second episode of the sitcom starring Zooey Deschanel attracted 9.26 million viewers and scored a 4.4 rating among industry-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, again bettering Glee. Fall Preview: Get scoop on your favorite returning shows Overnight Nielsen ratings further showed that Glee grabbed 8.34 million viewers and 3.6 demo rating (vs. 8.91 million/3.8 for last week's Season 3 premiere). Also at 9/8c, DWTS' results show had its usual increase (14.05 million) vs. The Biggest Loser (5.84 million) and the third round of Ringer, which improved slightly to 2.01 million after losing 30 percent of its premiere eyeballs last week. CBS kept its usual stranglehold on the first two hours of Tuesday's prime time with NCIS, which attracted 19.18 million (4.2), and NCIS: Los Angeles, which lured 16.12 million (3.5). Fox's Raising Hope at 9:30/8:30c reached 6.30 million people. Against NCIS and Glee at 8/7c, the first hour of Dancing with the Stars entertained 9.30 million viewers vs. The Biggest Loser on NBC (5.70 million) and The CW's 90210 (1.68 million). Photo timeline: The emasculation of men on TV The highest-rated new drama of the 2011-12 TV season - Unforgettable - nabbed 12.29 million people and a 2.5 rating, about 88 percent of its premiere audience, beating Body of Proof (9.43 million/1.9) and Parenthood (5.52 million/2.2) in prime time's final hour.

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Roman Polanski Returns to Zurich for Ovation After Arrest

Two years after he'd been arrested in Zurich, Roman Polanski received a 10-minute standing ovation at the Zurich Film Festival as he accepted a lifetime achievement award. "Better late than never," he said on finally being able to accept the award in person. In 2009, he was placed under house arrest when he arrived in Switzerland and nearly extradited to the U.S. for outstanding sexual assault charges. The 78-year-old is also the subject of a "secret" new documentary that had its world premiere at the festival. In the documentary, called 'Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir,' he narrates his own life story, up to and including his extradition trial. It was shot during his house arrest by Laurent Bouzereau, who specializes in "making of" documentaries on films from 'Avatar' to 'Jaws.' No critical reactions on the documentary, which screened after the awards ceremony, have surfaced yet, but critics have been raving about his other new film, 'Carnage,' starring Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz. It premiered September 1 at the Venice Film Festival and is getting some of the best reviews since 2002's 'The Pianist,' the film that earned him his first Best Director Oscar. The Polish-born director has lived in Europe since 1978; he fled the U.S. after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. When he entered Switzerland in 2009, he was arrested but, after a lengthy house arrest and trial, was freed without being extradited to America. [via THR 1, 2]

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64-Year-Old Man Unwittingly Recreates 127 Hours Survival Story

Eight years after Aron Ralston cut off his own arm to free himself from a boulder in Utah’s Little Blue John Canyon, a 64-year-old North Carolina man faced a similar survival nightmare while hiking in the same Utah desert earlier this month. Even though Amos Wayne Richards had seen 127 Hours — the Danny Boyle film starring James Franco that chronicled Ralston’s hiking disaster — he still set out for a solo hike without telling anyone of his plans. Richards broke a leg, dislocated his shoulder and was forced to survive four days on rain water and a pair of protein bars before attracting the attention of a helicopter pilot overhead with the flash on his camera. Lesson learned this time? [EW via AP]

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Love & Anarchy holds biz

HELSINKI -- Finland's leading movie showcase, the Helsinki-set film festival referred to as Love & Anarchy, would be to give a new industry focus after effectively piloting a Finnish film focus at its 24th edition, which wrapped Sunday. Love & Anarchy -- a yearly non-competitive festival which brings an eclectic mixture of worldwide arthouse fare to audiences this year hit an archive 54,000 -- hopes to draw in more film industry professionals as Finnish productions belong to growing focus. There's been critical acclaim previously year for films including "Lapland Journey" and "Rare Exports," and the prosperity of other Scandinavian movies -- like the "Girl having a Dragon Tattoo" trilogy -- is causing Hollywood curiosity about the northern European region. Blind Place Pictures' spoof Nazis-on-the-moon "Iron Sky" -- a $ten million part crowd-funded sci-fi fantasy -- is because of release in around 26 areas worldwide April, along with a slew of other movies, varying from romantic comedies to dark criminal dramas, for example Matila Rohr Productions' "Priest of Evil" will also be because of hit screens the coming year. Everything accumulates to some strategic window for Finnish producers and company directors to make use of the festival like a networking chance with worldwide industry figures, stated Sara Norberg, the fest's new producer. "The concept would be to screen all of the releases in the past year making that the industry focus," Norberg told Variety. Films that haven't yet got distribution deals, while not area of the event, may also be tested throughout the festival, she added. The main one week Finnish Film Event is going to be held inside the 11 times of a festival that is a well known annual fall event, drawing audiences from Helsinki and beyond, with attendances calculating 50,000 -- a decent figure for any nation of just 5.5 million people. Movies that tested this season incorporated Elias Koskimies' questionable new social and political satire, "Dirty Explosive device," and crime thriller "Lake.Inch Norberg is definitely an industry professional, and expects to in the biz side from the event. For ten years she labored like a line producer, production manager and assistant director, before joining the festival, that is headed up by Pekka Lanvera, among the founders in 1988 from the festival. Norberg intends to involve local audiovisual industry body, FAVEX, and also the Finnish Film Foundation in case. Mika Siltala, a co-founding father of Love & Anarchy and founding father of arthouse distributor Cinema Mondo, stated the festival had performed a vital role in creating a crowd for edgy worldwide fare for example Japanese anime animation in Finland. The festival's program this season displayed 145 features and 67 shorts with 400 tests -- 113 which were offered out. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Boardwalk Empire' Theme: Series Creator Describes Decision to make use of Contemporary Music

You will find so lots of things to love about Boardwalk Empire, in the figures towards the costumes towards the title sequence, featuring star Steve Buscemi sitting on an Atlantic City beach as 100s of bottles clean ashore around him. However, many fans from the Cinemax drama, whose second season premieres tonight, have wondered why the show's theme song, a track by psych rock-band John Jonestown Massacre using their 1996 album Children the Guy!, was selected as opposed to a period-appropriate bit of music.our editor recommendsEmmys 2011: Martin Scorsese Discusses His Pointing Win for 'Boardwalk Empire'St. Vincent Records Track for 'Boardwalk Empire''Boardwalk Empire' Gives New york city Subway Riders the Nucky Thompson Knowledge About Vintage Train "I needed unpredicted," Boardwalk creator and executive producer Terence Winter informs The Hollywood Reporter. "I did not wish to accomplish some Charleston, which did not really start working until 1924 anyway, and everything I been told by the time had people doing the Charleston." While experimentation using the opening, Winter states he paired the footage of Buscemi searching towards the horizon with a number of different bits of music, including John Jonestown's "Upright and Lower." "I used to be keen on the John Jonestown Massacre, therefore we attempted it, and that i stated towards the editor, that actually works best for me." Despite a lot attention compensated to period particulars for example wardrobe and props, the truth that the theme utilizes a modern day song using instruments not invented throughout the prohibition era, when Boardwalk Empire happens, does not bother Winter one bit. "It is a show occur 1920 seen via a different perspective, not really a literal consider the 20's," he describes. "Many people think it is jarring to determine 20's clothes and listen to contemporary music. I consider it as, it is a 90-second intro and you have the 20s you would like.Inch Watch the outlet theme below: Related Subjects Steve Buscemi Boardwalk Empire Terence Winter

Mentalist Scoop: Patrick Jane to Lock Horns using the Shield's Catherine Dent

Simon Baker and Catherine Dent A lady FBI agent will make waves around the Mentalist this year.Drop Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back showsTVGuide.com has found that The Shield star Catherine Dent can look in multiple Season 4 episodes as Special Agent Susan Darcy, an experienced and assertive FBI agent who frequently downplays her intelligence to obtain what she would like without leading to friction. Nevertheless, she's certain to rub a couple of people the wrong manner: Once we formerly reported, her character will but heads with Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) and Agent Lisbon (Robin Tunney) when she gets control among their cases."She suspects there's more towards the Red-colored John story than Jane or even the CBI is declaring that,Inch creator and executive producer Bruno Heller informs TVGuide.com. "During the period of the growing season, she'll attempt to get under Jane's skin and inside his mind to obtain the truth. Jane's only some of the one that understands how to use deceptiveness and mind games to hack a mysterious.InchUnique: The Mentalist is within Kelli Williams' futureDent, who's also held recent recurring roles on NCIS along with a&E's Breakout Nobleman, will first show up on the 4th season's seventh episode, which is directed by Baker. It'll air November. 3.The Mentalist premieres Thursday at 10/9c on CBS.

Summer season B.O. fills Imax till

Elevated having a solid summer season, large-screen exhib Imax has joined $1.6 billion in grosses in the digital conversion process since the launch of the first studio release, "Matrix Revolutions," in 2003.Known to as DMR, their proprietary digital conversion process may be used to permit large-screen format exhibition of studio tentpole photos."The important thing sauce within our business remains visionary filmmakers, art galleries who recognize the incremental box office that Imax would bring for his or her blockbuster game game titles, and participants with great multiplexes," mentioned Imax prexy Greg Promote, who spoke staying with you of America Merrill Lynch 2011 media, communications and entertainment confab."The wealth of the era window validates people partners, (with) each yanking their unique weight," Promote told Variety.In the $1.6 billion, Promote mentioned greater than two-thirds remains acquired since 2008. Imax has released a complete 78 game game titles since 2003, which 50 bowed after 2008. "Avatar" ranks unquestionably as Imax's finest-grossing title with $243 million worldwide, including $134 million in domestic receipts.Imax's total DMR worldwide grosses since 2003 total $562 million, nearly all that was acquired within the last few years. Imax grosses this summer season saw a somewhat even split between domestic and overseas. China, Japan and Russia will be the fastest growing worldwide areas for that organization. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Not so long ago There Resided an easy Lady (Zila-bila odna baba)

A Movie Co. production. (Worldwide sales: Film Co., Moscow.) Created by Andrey Smirnov, Elena Smirnova. Directed, compiled by Andrey Smirnov.With: Darya Yekamasova, Vlad Abashin, Maxim Averin, Aleksey Serebryakov, Aleksey Shevshenkov, Roman Madynav, Vsevolod Shilovsky.Getting abandoned pointing for 3 decades, exasperated by Soviet censorship, vet Russian helmer Andrey Smirnov returns with "Not so long ago There Resided an easy Lady," an ambitious, 156-minute epic replay from the Russian Revolution as seen with the googly eyes of the peasant who comprises in survival abilities what she lacks in brainpower. If fellow returnee Alexi German's "Krustalyov, My Vehicle!" (1998) leaking over and done with 12 years' price of passionate motion picture ideas, "Once" teems with 3 decades of misanthropic, near-apocalyptic bitterness. Strikingly pictorial, fest-friendly but mean-spirited auteur curio will most likely not find distribution outdoors Eastern Europe. Smirnov's saga spans the time of 1909-23 in Tambov, one's heart from the bloody peasant revolt of 1920-21 against collectivization. It represents a period as superstitious, venal and brutal as were the Dark Ages in Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev," that "Once" will probably be unflatteringly in comparison. Smirnov's heroine, Varvara (Darya Yakamasova), suffers through a lot more than her share of beatings, rapes and assorted indignities as a result of relatives (she's whipped ferociously by her father-in-law whenever a equine under her care falls sick), husbands (four, finally count), marauding soldiers and finish other people. Pic is split into two parts, the very first section research in limited awareness that juxtaposes Varvara's uncomprehending, slack-jawed stare using the bigger historic forces playing out round her. Within the second part, that tension no more fuels the narrative as she starts to have interaction, just like a childless Mother Courage carving out her corner of exploitation inside the political morass of publish-revolutionary Russia. As the Bolsheviks are clearly cast as archvillains, their impossible, starvation-inducing grain levies and chapel desecrations driving the peasants to revolt, Smirnov makes little distinction between your natural bestiality from the peasant class and also the ideological cruelty from the revolution, as rapaciousness, superstition, envy and sadism overtake the Russian psyche. Smirnov then concocts a ton of scriptural proportions to eliminate the Bolsheviks inside a tumultuous wave of historic revisionism more radical than anything Stalin ever dreamed of. Aside from the compositional mastery apparent throughout, it's extremely difficult to reconcile the luminous fragility from the young girl in Smirnov's "Angel" (1967), the war-forged camaraderie in the "Belarus Station" (1973) or even the lovers' rueful nostalgia in the "Fall" (1974) with this particular ferocious litany decrying man's inhumanity to guy.Camera (color, widescreen), Nikolay Ivasiv, Yuriy Shaygardanov editor, Alla Urazbaeva music supervisor, Olga Yukecheva production designer, Vladimir Gudilin costume designer, Lydmila Gainceva seem (Dolby SRD), Andrey Hudyakov casting, Tatyana Talkova second unit director, Irina Tretyakova. Examined at Montreal World Film Festival (competing), August. 26, 2011. Running time: 156 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Nicolas Cage 'Vampire' Photo On eBay

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Samuel L. Jackson, Gerald McRaney Saddle Up for 'Django Unchained'

Quentin Tarantino is finally fleshing out his cast for 'Django Unchained,' his "Southern" of a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams getting a German fugitive hunter (Christophe Waltz) to retrieve his extended-lost love from an evil plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio). Variety reviews that Samuel L. Jackson has formally seriously board after several days of gossips to simply accept role in the plantation owner's right-hands guy, while Gerald McRaney ('The A-Team') may even join the cast because the second evildoer. McRaney, one of the stars of HBO's 'Deadwood,' most likely may have "Large Father" Bennett, a racist slave owner who's the initial major hurdle Schultze and Django must overcome about the mission, in line with the Playlist. Also inside the cast is Kevin Costner because the second of Candie's henchmen. This really is really the 5th joining of Jackson and Tarantino after 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Jackie Brown,' 'Kill Bill' and 'Inglourious Basterds.' Tarantino is shooting for just about any November start, by getting an anticipated release date of 12 ,. 25, 2012, with the Weinstein Company. [via Variety]

David Oyelowo won't miss 'One Shot'

David Oyelowo is in final negotiations to join Tom Cruise in the Paramount and David Ellison's Skydance Productions' "One Shot."Christopher McQuarrie will direct from a script he penned.Based on the book series by Lee Child, the series follows Jack Reacher, a former military policeman turned drifter. In "One Shot," Reacher investigates a case where a sniper is accused of murdering five people before being captured. Oyelowo will play a veteran homicide detective investigating the mall sniping. Par had no comment on the casting.Cruise and Ellison will produce along with Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Dana Goldberg and Gary Levinsohn through Mutual Film Company and Cruise/Wagner Productions.Oyelowo has stayed busy this summer having been seen in both "The Help" and "The Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and has recently finished production on "The Paperboy." He'll also be seen in the upcoming Lucasfilm production "Red Tails."He is repped by ICM, Hamilton-Hodell in UK and managed by Inphenate. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

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Simon Cowell: Fox Might Have Been More comfortable If Id Ongoing to become On Idol, Cheryl Cole Will Probably Be Featured On X Factor Premiere

Ray Richmond is contributing to Payment dates television coverage. Former The The American Idol Show Show judge and rabble-rouser Simon Cowell mentioned this mid-day he thinks Fox might have been more comfortable if Id ongoing to become on Idol for your relaxation within our lives there hadnt are you currently another show. Speaking with reporters via teleconference to hype his new musical competition series The X Ingredient that launches inside a couple of days on Fox getting a 2-part kickoff (on Sept. 21-22), Cowell added, I desired to exhibit Fox why I preferred to produce X Factor over. I made the matter that someone would visit and do another show similar to this. They're, ultimately, very pricey shows to produce. Because X Factor were built with a couple of great years inside the Uk first, that type of sped the process up and (Fox) got really inside it. Cowell also mentioned that judge Cheryl Cole, who was simply overlooked from X Factor after one tape, might be turning up concerning the Sept. 21 premiere however through the partner (in the premiere), on Sept. 22, youll see (her alternative) Nicole (Scherzinger). Asked for by Deadline if he thinks his old show Idol finally will win the Emmy for Outstanding Reality — Competition Program this Sunday, he jeered and responded, “It can make me laugh once the show would win ultimately of individuals years. So watch, it probably will. I’d realize that as less threatening in my opinion personally than ironic. I'm speaking about, ultimately in the years I used to be there, I’d claim victory myself anyway. I’d ensure they etched my title online.”

Child Mariachi Concert Sounds Strangely Like Horror-Movie Theme

Not to get down on a bunch of kids, but check out the string parts in this video of a child mariachi ensemble currently making the Web rounds, and tell me this isn’t custom-made for some kind of Shining-esque psychological thriller. Or maybe a Radiohead album. And then there’s a trumpet! All it’s missing is Shia LaBeouf behind the camera. Rock out, freak out and read on for more Buzz Break. [via Videogum] · Better late than never: At age 74, Dustin Hoffman is set to make his directorial debut with the film Quartet, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, and other UK acting powerhouses in the tale of a retired opera singers’ home turned upside-down by old rivalries and traditions. [THR] · I don’t know how anyone can think The Damned United isn’t the best soccer film ever made, but there you have it. See where your favorite sports flicks fall in The Sports-Movie Hall of Fame. [Nerve] · It’s that time again! Vote early and vote often for Hollywood’s least-liked executives in the 2011 Brown List sweepstakes. [Hollywood Temp Diaries] · Congratulations to romance novelist Susan Andersen and her editor on the awesomest… typo… ever: “I apologise to anyone who bought my on-sale ebook of Baby, I’m Yours and read on pg 293: ‘He stiffened for a moment but then she felt his muscles loosen as he shitted on the ground.’ Shifted - he SHIFTED!” [The Guardian via The Awl]

Know Your Recently Acquired, Likely Terrible 50 Cent Movies

The Toronto Worldwide Film Festival is certainly where you can major film purchases, but this year -- to date, no less than -- all things have been relatively quiet. Well, quiet for everyone but Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. 'All Things Fall Apart' -- a drama from director Mario Van Pebbles which 50 Cent co-written -- was acquired by Image Entertainment on Friday, which causes it to be the second extended-on-the-shelf 50 Cent film to discover a champion in Toronto the thriller '13' -- which co-stars Jackson, Mike Riley, Mickey Rourke and Michael Shannon -- appeared to become acquired now. How does one be capable of tell these two apart if you inevitably ignore them sometime next season? Moviefone breaks them lower ahead. 'All Things Fall Apart' Plot: A "straight drama," per THR of a star national football league and nfl and college football player who finds out he's cancer throughout his senior year. Distributor: Image Entertainment, which will release the film theatrically and also on VOD in 2012. Respected stars, slumming: Ray Liotta, just like a physician Lynn Whitfield as 50's onscreen mother Remake/adaptation: No, despite the fact that you may consider Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's seminal 1958 book 'Things Fall Apart' when reading through with the title. Laughable trailer: Yes. '13' Plot: A thriller about 13 males involved in the shady and violent wager on Russian roulette. Distributor: Anchor Bay, which will likely release the film between 2012. Respected stars, slumming: Michael Shannon, Ray Winstone, Mickey Rourke. (OK, not Rourke -- he did star in 'Passion Play.') Remake/adaptation: Yes. Georgian-born director Géla Babluani remade his Sundance award-winning 2005 film '13 Tzameti' for American audiences and seen it sit available for any very long time. Laughable trailer: Yes. [via THR]

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No Reconciliation for Ryan and Tatum O'Neal

Ryan and Tatum O'Neal This summer time, Ryan and Tatum O'Neal starred on the reality series for OWN that recorded their tries to sort out many years of estrangement and increase their relationship. It did not work. "We simply reconciled on the program,Inch states Ryan. "Not in existence." Ryan & Tatum: The O'Neals adopted the daddy-daughter duo through therapy periods, Tatum's birthday celebration and a visit to the Palm Springs Film Festival for any screening of the 1973 film Paper Moon. However, "we do not speak," Ryan adds. "Actually, we are further apart now than i was whenever we began the show. So thanks, The famous host oprah, for your help." An OWN representative had no comment. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

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Samuel works in Brussels as a pharmaceutical delivery man. His gorgeous girlfriend Mireille heads off to New York to intern at a prestigious architecture firm. Shortly after her departure, Sam's computer is hacked. A series of rather dodgy IT-guys fail to protect his wireless network. The mysterious hacker seems intent on screwing up Samuel's life and his relationship with Mireille. Paranoia kicks in. Sam starts to suspect his neighbors and gets obsessed with WiFi-rays... Love, paranoia and two lovers separated by an ocean of communication devices.

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