Saturday, December 24, 2011
New poster for your Lady In Black
A completely new worldwide poster remains released for your Lady In Black playing within the "What did they see?" question caused by the film's viral marketing campaign.The completely new one-sheet shows Daniel Radcliffe's Arthur Kipps searching noticeably haggard, as much macabre images hover around him. Nearly all people are the type that we view before, but collected together it makes sense nicely disturbing.The film will dsicover Radcliffe play a lawyer who travels with a remote village to have the ability to deal with the matters from the recently deceased client. However, because he reaches Eel Marsh House, he soon finds there's more to disentangle than who'll obtain the fine bone china.Within the many trailers that have recently been released, it seems as though this might be a really frightening ghost story, full of the conventional trappings in the haunted house genre.As Radcliffe themselves describes, "essentially wasn't within it myself, I'd probably be too scared to find out it." We'll see exactly how frightening the finished article is, when the film involves Uk cinemas on 10 February 2012.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Lauren Bittner: A Back Stage Exclusive
"I remember loving movies as a kid and if they would've done a sequel I would've been so disappointed if it didn't live up to my expectations. And I think we did that!" Lauren Bittner admits happily, about her record breaking box office hit "Paranormal Activity 3." Best known for playing Julie in the Paranormal prequel, you might also recognize Lauren from her roles in "Bride Wars" or "The Mighty Macs."Growing up in Long Island Lauren started doing Community Theater, but had no idea that this could be her career. She attended St. John's University and studied English. Sometimes she regrets not having a typical college campus experience. "I wish I had done that, but then again I wouldn't have anything that I have now, and I think it was good, it kind of toughened me up and gave me a metropolitan experience."Lauren's exuberance is contagious and no matter the topic, bad 80's fashion, the NY Mets, her TV obsession or online dating, she's got an opinion and a unique point of view. She's the best girlfriend we all wish we had.Chosen as this week's Actor2Watch, Lauren will be featured in a series of articles, fun facts and social media tweets through this week for subscribers of Girl2Watch.com.While in school Lauren was performing in "Little Shop of Horrors" when a friend helped kick start her professional career as an actor. "Tara became a really amazing friend and was really supportive of my career in a way that I wasn't even. She was a TV and film major and was working and interning in the City at a talent agency. She was like, 'I think you really should get an agent.' I was pretty clueless, it really took people to watch me in a play and say you can do this. I think some people do plays and it's great and they have a great time, but people don't necessarily say you should do this for a living, but people were saying that to me and so I took it seriously. Tara said to meet her in the City one day and I went to meet her at work. I met the people at the talent agency where she worked, who were wonderful and they asked her, 'Is your friend an actor?' She knew what she was doing. At the time I was blond and I looked different and I fit the sort of young soap opera girl thing so they started freelancing with me." How did your experience interning at a Talent Agency help you learn about the business? "I pulled head shots, filed and made copies of scripts. It was like old school back then, you know, people picked up scripts, there was no e-mailing. I was really star struck because I had all these head shots. I would see people on guest spots on "Law and Order." I'd be like I know him; I pull his head shot all the time! It also made me appreciate the work that goes into getting an audition. You have to submit and you have to get the appointment and then when you get it you're lucky." What's your philosophy on auditioning? "You can't focus on the enormity of the situation when you're going in for these things, now that's a big problem of mine just in life, you know, to sort of go through every experience and take it for what it is and appreciate it. Going day by day and not getting overwhelmed by it because that can screw it up, you know. How do you prepare for an audition? Usually I'll glance at the sides to see what I'm looking for when I'm reading the script, just to know I need to know when and why my character is in there at all. Then I read a script and I read it very quickly once, just to get an overall feeling for it then I'll go back. Usually I read them twice. If it's a comedy script I'm looking to see what the tone of it is, the pacing and what the character type is that I'm going to be auditioning for. Do you always go out for the same type? I'm pretty lucky I get seen for a lot of stuff. I think I'm not as specific as I used to be. I used to get seen for the girl next door and now I get seen for mom stuff. I just played a young mom in the movie. I think that I can do the dark folksy girl and I can also do the girl next door, you know, so I've been lucky. Do you ever read a script and just not respond to it? Not often because usually I think that there's probably something great that can come out of it and I probably don't see it yet. Sometimes I have my husband read it and give me another opinion because sometimes wherever you are that day emotionally is how you feel about whatever you just read. So I try to step back and get a little more objective about scripts. I try to give everything a shot for the most part. You just never know, I've done some jobs that have turned out to be the best things that I didn't necessarily think were going to be. Lauren Bittner: A Back Stage Exclusive Actor2Watch presented by Girl2Watch.com December 22, 2011 "I remember loving movies as a kid and if they would've done a sequel I would've been so disappointed if it didn't live up to my expectations. And I think we did that!" Lauren Bittner admits happily, about her record breaking box office hit "Paranormal Activity 3." Best known for playing Julie in the Paranormal prequel, you might also recognize Lauren from her roles in "Bride Wars" or "The Mighty Macs."Growing up in Long Island Lauren started doing Community Theater, but had no idea that this could be her career. She attended St. John's University and studied English. Sometimes she regrets not having a typical college campus experience. "I wish I had done that, but then again I wouldn't have anything that I have now, and I think it was good, it kind of toughened me up and gave me a metropolitan experience."Lauren's exuberance is contagious and no matter the topic, bad 80's fashion, the NY Mets, her TV obsession or online dating, she's got an opinion and a unique point of view. She's the best girlfriend we all wish we had.Chosen as this week's Actor2Watch, Lauren will be featured in a series of articles, fun facts and social media tweets through this week for subscribers of Girl2Watch.com.While in school Lauren was performing in "Little Shop of Horrors" when a friend helped kick start her professional career as an actor. "Tara became a really amazing friend and was really supportive of my career in a way that I wasn't even. She was a TV and film major and was working and interning in the City at a talent agency. She was like, 'I think you really should get an agent.' I was pretty clueless, it really took people to watch me in a play and say you can do this. I think some people do plays and it's great and they have a great time, but people don't necessarily say you should do this for a living, but people were saying that to me and so I took it seriously. Tara said to meet her in the City one day and I went to meet her at work. I met the people at the talent agency where she worked, who were wonderful and they asked her, 'Is your friend an actor?' She knew what she was doing. At the time I was blond and I looked different and I fit the sort of young soap opera girl thing so they started freelancing with me." How did your experience interning at a Talent Agency help you learn about the business? "I pulled head shots, filed and made copies of scripts. It was like old school back then, you know, people picked up scripts, there was no e-mailing. I was really star struck because I had all these head shots. I would see people on guest spots on "Law and Order." I'd be like I know him; I pull his head shot all the time! It also made me appreciate the work that goes into getting an audition. You have to submit and you have to get the appointment and then when you get it you're lucky." What's your philosophy on auditioning? "You can't focus on the enormity of the situation when you're going in for these things, now that's a big problem of mine just in life, you know, to sort of go through every experience and take it for what it is and appreciate it. Going day by day and not getting overwhelmed by it because that can screw it up, you know. How do you prepare for an audition? Usually I'll glance at the sides to see what I'm looking for when I'm reading the script, just to know I need to know when and why my character is in there at all. Then I read a script and I read it very quickly once, just to get an overall feeling for it then I'll go back. Usually I read them twice. If it's a comedy script I'm looking to see what the tone of it is, the pacing and what the character type is that I'm going to be auditioning for. Do you always go out for the same type? I'm pretty lucky I get seen for a lot of stuff. I think I'm not as specific as I used to be. I used to get seen for the girl next door and now I get seen for mom stuff. I just played a young mom in the movie. I think that I can do the dark folksy girl and I can also do the girl next door, you know, so I've been lucky. Do you ever read a script and just not respond to it? Not often because usually I think that there's probably something great that can come out of it and I probably don't see it yet. Sometimes I have my husband read it and give me another opinion because sometimes wherever you are that day emotionally is how you feel about whatever you just read. So I try to step back and get a little more objective about scripts. I try to give everything a shot for the most part. You just never know, I've done some jobs that have turned out to be the best things that I didn't necessarily think were going to be.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Exclusive: Toby Keith, Pawn Stars Join American Country New Year's Eve Live
Toby Keith, Rick Harrison, Austin Chumlee Russell The Eli Young Band, Toby Keith and Joe Nichols will perform during American Country New Year's Eve Live, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. In addition, comedian and country music singer Rodney Carrington and Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison and Austin "Chumlee" Russell have signed on to host the event, which Fox will air live from Las Vegas, beginning 11 p.m. Eastern Saturday, Dec. 31. Check out today's news Also on hand: Howie Mandel, who will share a preview of Mobbed, which returns to the network on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 9/8c. The Eli Young Band, Keith and Nichols join a line-up of performers that already includes American Idol's Lauren Alaina and Rodney Atkins.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Watch Madonna and Her W.E. Cast Make Their Movie Appear Pleasant in 24-Minute Doc
I'm clearly a thundering shill for Madonna whether she’s making terrible movies together with her ex-husband or making terrible movies with Griffin Dunne, but there’s something about W.E.’s self-serious, accidental telenovela that’s not really watchably bad. It’s just humorless and overlong — though Andrea Riseborough is fabulous because the polarizing Wallis Simpson. Inside a new 24-minute documentary about Madonna’s large feature, the director and her cast do their finest to market their watercolored biopic, and I say to you what? They perform a good job. Don’t request me to describe it. But James D’Arcy still appears like Anthony Perkins, so shut up and begin crying in adoration. Here’s what strikes me like a little misguided: 1) The ultimate importance placed upon the costuming and jewellery. W.E. feels as though a P Ales commercial with all of its slow-motion carat porn. 2) Wallis Simpson is definitely an interesting historic figure, but there’s no there there when it comes to a satisfying character arc. Madonna has always loved questionable women, but she’s ultimately too tame an iconoclast for this type of extended movie. Still, I search Madonna’s commentary here. It provides me with expect a good follow-up feature — though should you request me, she need her hands at pointing an exciting-female comic ensemble. If her acting past is any suggestion, that’s her surest wager for achievement. W.E. - Marketing Documentary [YouTube]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Time Warner Cable gets HBO Go
The long-awaited arrival of HBO Go to Time Warner Cable has finally come to pass after a full year of negotiations. The nation's second largest cable operator announced the pay net's digital on-demand platform will be available free within the next month to HBO subs among TW Cable's footprint of 14 million. "We're happy that Time Warner Cable customers will be able to enjoy this great product which provides streaming of HBO's programming library," said Eric Kessler, co-president of HBO. That leaves Cablevision as the only major MSO that still has yet to reach a deal to bring HBO Go to its service. Although they were part of the same conglom before the cable operator was spun off in 2009, there's said to be little love lost between the companies, which led to drawn-out negotiations. The HBO Go app has been download an estimated 5 million times, and generated 98 million video streams. Subs are able to feast on all current and library programming from the cabler's trove of original series, films and documentaries. But TW Cable subs also got some bad news Friday as MSG Networks, home to many pro NY sports teams, indicated it would be yanked from the MSO's lineup if the companies can't reach a deal on a carriage renewal. "Unfortunately, Time Warner Cable is not interested in reaching a fair agreement, and, in fact, is not interested in conducting productive negotiations on behalf of its customers," said Michael Bair, president of MSG Media. "Because of that, we suggest that our customers switch providers before Time Warner Cable pulls MSG's networks off its systems." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com
New worldwide ads for your Avengers
[brightcove]1213024251001[/brightcove]Some smart new ads for Marvel's superhero epic The Avengers have turned up online.The breathtaking promotions split the supervillain-fighting pressure into two groups, because, let's be realistic, there's lots of heroes to cram onto one poster.Most likely probably the most legendary people in the team (Iron Guy, Thor, Cappy) occupy one banner, while Nick Fury, Hawkeye, and Black Widow star inside the other, while using large bad in the piece, Loki, skulking inside the sidelines.The artwork might be the big, bold style we have started to anticipate in the Marvel supergroup, in stark contrast for the dark, gritty one-sheets that lots of blockbusters seem to choose nowadays. See the ads now:The Avengers opens on 27 April 2012, beginning off popular summer season for movies.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Read Costumer Edith Head's Amazing Dress Code for the 1968 Oscars
It’s hard to be obsessed with the Oscars sometimes because they’re often predictable, boring, and tolerant of things like Black Swan, but VINTAGE OSCARS is a whole different story. I could think about the discarded wedding dress Lee Grant wore for her Shampoo victory in ‘76 for days. And I have. Even better now, the Academy has released a dress code that legendary costumer Edith Head wrote for the 1968 ceremony. It is cold, direct, and bossy. It is awesome. Check it out: This is the signature Edith Head rigidity you see in Grace Kelly’s Rear Window wardrobe — only verbalized! We in the Academy are delighted to know that you will appear on our 40th Awards presentation Telecast Monday, April 8th.However, so many questions have been asked about the style of dress expected on stage that I send you this information:Actresses are requested to wear formal evening gowns either Maxi or floor length, preferably pastel shades since the setting is very formal and done entirely in white and gold. As you know, long dresses (no Mini or day length) are more graceful on stage and on camera in this type of background. The Academy feels that the dignity of this traditional affair on our 40th Anniversary deserves formal dress.Men are expected to wear white tie with conventional formal evening accessories. NO DAY LENGTH DRESSES, PLEBES. Should I be shocked or titillated that Estelle Parsons, who picked up a trophy for Supporting Actress at the ‘68 ceremony, wore an all-black number? Well, it’s Estelle Parsons, so I suppose I’m shocked and titillated anyway. I hope Edith Head smacked her around a little. 84 Great Oscar Moments [Oscars]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
How Michelle Williams Found the Heart of Marilyn Monroe
How Michelle Williams Found the Heart of Marilyn Monroe By Jessica Gardner December 13, 2011 "My Week With Marilyn" Michelle Williams never dreamed she'd play Marilyn Monroe. Nor did she think anyone would ever ask her to play the screen icon. But director Simon Curtis did, for his film "My Week With Marilyn," about a young man Monroe had an intimate relationship with while filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in 1956.Williams says the role came to her in "the normal boring routean agent and a script." But after reading "My Week With Marilyn," she was anything but bored. She developed a deep connection to the material, and the part instantly ignited her imagination. "What I've learned about acting and about picking parts is you should only do it if your whole heart leaps at the opportunity," Williams says. "If you're like, 'I just have to have that; I won't be satiated until I play this,' that's the only time you should really say yes. I didn't set out with any expectations about the piece of material. I didn't know what I wanted to do next. I wasn't looking to make a career move or play something I'd never played before. It was just an innate response to the material."Here, Williams tells Back Stage about her journey in bringing the iconic star to the screen.Back Stage: Where did you start in trying to find your character? Michelle Williams: I started for this movie in a way I've never started for a movie, which is from the outside. I think it's because I knew I was going to have the furthest to go there. I'm a human, so I can understand pretty much any human experience or emotionor at least I hope to, or that's what my job is to try and do. But physically, she and I are very, very different. I had to remake my body in her image, which was hard. It's taken 31 years to get me and my body to this place, and I had to basically unmake it or break it in six to eight months. That's a lot of conditioning to work against.Back Stage: What was that process like for you? Williams: I watched [her] movies and started trying to break apart, trying to figure out what she was doing, trying to figure out basic patterning inside her body. Things started to become clear upon repeat viewing. I started to realize things about her posturelike she had a balloon attached to her breastbone, her chin was up, her nipples were pointed out, her back was slightly arched, her knees were slightly together, almost like somebody was tying something around them. I started to try, at first, to just get one of these aspects. Like, first try and walk with your knees together in high heels. Once I felt comfortable doing that, I would add a swivel in my hips. Once I felt comfortable doing that, I would picture a balloon attached to my breastbone and my nipples pointed out and then I would put my chin up, and I would try and integrate each of these things. It was a slow process of things slowly becoming clear, then trying to add them all together, and then eventually making them seamless. Back Stage: Was there a moment where you thought, "I think I've got her"? Williams: That moment evades me at every turn, on every job. Marilyn is not exclusive to feeling like your character is within your grasp and then suddenly it was somehow outside your grasp. There wasn't a moment where she became a fixed point in space, where I was just like, "Oh, I can call up Marilyn Monroe and she's there for me." A few things would come clear for me. I remember when I ran up to Simon and I was like, "I think I have her walk!" But then the next day, I was like, "Where did it go? I just had it. What happened? Why can't I do it?" It was an evolving, frustrating, exciting relationshipwhich makes it like a real relationship. My relationships with my friends or my partners or anybody are always surprising, because the other person is alive and changing and transforming. I felt similarly about this because I was still getting to know Marilyn Monroe. She was always being added to in my mind. It felt like it kept it real, it kept it exciting, it kept me always wanting to know "me."Back Stage: Did you stay in character between takes? Williams: Yeah, I did a lot. That's helped me throughout the years to be able to sustain something. It's just building up muscles for it. You worry about being obnoxiouslike, I didn't go home as Marilyn Monroe. I think also, when you're making a movie, you want to have a happy environment, and you want to be building up good relationships with the people you're working with, so I am slightly conscious of not alienating people. I would stay in it when I felt like it suited me, and if I felt like I was getting comfortable, then I could drop out of it.Back Stage: What's your best advice for actors who have to play a real person like Marilyn? Williams: I asked somebody the same questionan actor I'd worked with once before whose work I admire so much. When I was thinking about taking on this role, I sheepishly reached out to him and said, "Do you have any advice?" Because the best thing to do when you don't know what you're going to do is to ask somebody who has been there before. He said to me, "If there's even a whiff of the icon, things get much less interesting." I puzzled over what he meanthow could you not play the icon when you are playing an icon? Then, what I interpreted it to mean is to not fill up every moment with the icon. To remember, first and foremost, they're human beings just like you and me. I hate to dispel the myth, but Marilyn Monroe was human.Outtakes Was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for her supporting role in "Brokeback Mountain" and in 2011 for her leading role in "Blue Valentine"Williams originally asked director Simon Curtis to audition her for the part. "I'm used to getting jobs through auditioning for them and feeling like I can do it because the director or somebody said, 'Yes, you can,' " she explains. "To take this kind of a risk, I wanted to know somebody other than me thought I could do it." Because of time limitations, however, she ended up accepting the role.Is playing the role of Glinda in Sam Raimi's "Oz: The Great and Powerful," scheduled for release in March 2013For her role in "My Week With Marilyn," Williams earned a Spirit Award nomination for best actress. How Michelle Williams Found the Heart of Marilyn Monroe By Jessica Gardner December 13, 2011 "My Week With Marilyn" Michelle Williams never dreamed she'd play Marilyn Monroe. Nor did she think anyone would ever ask her to play the screen icon. But director Simon Curtis did, for his film "My Week With Marilyn," about a young man Monroe had an intimate relationship with while filming "The Prince and the Showgirl" in 1956.Williams says the role came to her in "the normal boring routean agent and a script." But after reading "My Week With Marilyn," she was anything but bored. She developed a deep connection to the material, and the part instantly ignited her imagination. "What I've learned about acting and about picking parts is you should only do it if your whole heart leaps at the opportunity," Williams says. "If you're like, 'I just have to have that; I won't be satiated until I play this,' that's the only time you should really say yes. I didn't set out with any expectations about the piece of material. I didn't know what I wanted to do next. I wasn't looking to make a career move or play something I'd never played before. It was just an innate response to the material."Here, Williams tells Back Stage about her journey in bringing the iconic star to the screen.Back Stage: Where did you start in trying to find your character? Michelle Williams: I started for this movie in a way I've never started for a movie, which is from the outside. I think it's because I knew I was going to have the furthest to go there. I'm a human, so I can understand pretty much any human experience or emotionor at least I hope to, or that's what my job is to try and do. But physically, she and I are very, very different. I had to remake my body in her image, which was hard. It's taken 31 years to get me and my body to this place, and I had to basically unmake it or break it in six to eight months. That's a lot of conditioning to work against.Back Stage: What was that process like for you? Williams: I watched [her] movies and started trying to break apart, trying to figure out what she was doing, trying to figure out basic patterning inside her body. Things started to become clear upon repeat viewing. I started to realize things about her posturelike she had a balloon attached to her breastbone, her chin was up, her nipples were pointed out, her back was slightly arched, her knees were slightly together, almost like somebody was tying something around them. I started to try, at first, to just get one of these aspects. Like, first try and walk with your knees together in high heels. Once I felt comfortable doing that, I would add a swivel in my hips. Once I felt comfortable doing that, I would picture a balloon attached to my breastbone and my nipples pointed out and then I would put my chin up, and I would try and integrate each of these things. It was a slow process of things slowly becoming clear, then trying to add them all together, and then eventually making them seamless. Back Stage: Was there a moment where you thought, "I think I've got her"? Williams: That moment evades me at every turn, on every job. Marilyn is not exclusive to feeling like your character is within your grasp and then suddenly it was somehow outside your grasp. There wasn't a moment where she became a fixed point in space, where I was just like, "Oh, I can call up Marilyn Monroe and she's there for me." A few things would come clear for me. I remember when I ran up to Simon and I was like, "I think I have her walk!" But then the next day, I was like, "Where did it go? I just had it. What happened? Why can't I do it?" It was an evolving, frustrating, exciting relationshipwhich makes it like a real relationship. My relationships with my friends or my partners or anybody are always surprising, because the other person is alive and changing and transforming. I felt similarly about this because I was still getting to know Marilyn Monroe. She was always being added to in my mind. It felt like it kept it real, it kept it exciting, it kept me always wanting to know "me."Back Stage: Did you stay in character between takes? Williams: Yeah, I did a lot. That's helped me throughout the years to be able to sustain something. It's just building up muscles for it. You worry about being obnoxiouslike, I didn't go home as Marilyn Monroe. I think also, when you're making a movie, you want to have a happy environment, and you want to be building up good relationships with the people you're working with, so I am slightly conscious of not alienating people. I would stay in it when I felt like it suited me, and if I felt like I was getting comfortable, then I could drop out of it.Back Stage: What's your best advice for actors who have to play a real person like Marilyn? Williams: I asked somebody the same questionan actor I'd worked with once before whose work I admire so much. When I was thinking about taking on this role, I sheepishly reached out to him and said, "Do you have any advice?" Because the best thing to do when you don't know what you're going to do is to ask somebody who has been there before. He said to me, "If there's even a whiff of the icon, things get much less interesting." I puzzled over what he meanthow could you not play the icon when you are playing an icon? Then, what I interpreted it to mean is to not fill up every moment with the icon. To remember, first and foremost, they're human beings just like you and me. I hate to dispel the myth, but Marilyn Monroe was human.Outtakes Was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for her supporting role in "Brokeback Mountain" and in 2011 for her leading role in "Blue Valentine"Williams originally asked director Simon Curtis to audition her for the part. "I'm used to getting jobs through auditioning for them and feeling like I can do it because the director or somebody said, 'Yes, you can,' " she explains. "To take this kind of a risk, I wanted to know somebody other than me thought I could do it." Because of time limitations, however, she ended up accepting the role.Is playing the role of Glinda in Sam Raimi's "Oz: The Great and Powerful," scheduled for release in March 2013For her role in "My Week With Marilyn," Williams earned a Spirit Award nomination for best actress.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Who Won The Amazing Race 19?
Phil Keoghan [SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals the winners of The Amazing Race 19.]After logging nearly 40,000 miles in 10 countries, dating couple Jeremy and Sandy, engaged couple Ernie and Cindy, and husband and wife Marcus and Amani face off for the last time for the $1 million on The Amazing Race 19. Amazing Race's Andy and Tommy: We trusted our taxi driver too muchThe final three travel from Panama Viejo to Atlanta - Marcus and Amani's hometown - where they must go to Flight Safety International and land a simulated aircraft from 25,000 feet. Jeremy and Sandy get there first, followed by Marcus and Amani, and Ernie and Cindy. Jeremy and Sandy land it on their first try and have to go next to the former residence known as The Dump, aka the Margaret Mitchell House & Museum, where Mitchell lived and wrote Gone with the Wind. Marcus and Amani have trouble landing, allowing Ernie and Cindy to pass them.Cindy uses their cabbie's phone to find out The Dump is Mitchell's house, while Jeremy and Sandy get bad directions to go to a furniture store called The Dump.At Mitchell's house, Ernie does the Roadblock, in which racers have to type out their next clue on an old-fashioned typewriter. There is no "1" key and the lowercase "l" must be used. Ernie finishes before Jeremy and Sandy finally arrive; Sandy does the Roadblock. The clue is a series of three numbers referencing Hank Aaron and his home runs, meaning the next location is Turner Field. Cindy and Ernie head to a hotel to figure it out, while Sandy finishes the Roadblock, and Marcus and Amani finally finish the simulation. Marcus does the Roadblock at The Dump.Amazing Race's Bill and Cathi: We were too cautious on the roadAt Turner Field, it's time for the requisite memory challenge: Racers must map out the route while dangling off a massive map with their partners calling out the locations on the ground. Cindy the perfectionist nails it, and they get the clue to the finish line at Swan House. But their cabbie's GPS keeps recalculating, and Jeremy and Sandy complete the map task.Despite the GPS troubles, Ernie and Cindy get to the Swan House first and win the $1 million - not to mention break the Express Pass curse. (Lest we forget, Jill and Thomas, and Gary and Mallory got third place the past two seasons after winning the Express Pass.) Ernie and Cindy, who again references her strict Asian upbringing, are going to use the money to create an organization to help those in need.Amazing Race's Laurence and Zac: The U-Turn and getting lost "pushed us over the edge"Jeremy and Sandy arrive in second, and Marcus and Amani, who we don't see completing the Roadblock or the map task, come in third."Marcus, promise me one thing: Never become a pilot," Phil jokes.What did you think of the finale? Are Ernie and Cindy deserving winners? Are you glad the Express Pass curse is broken? Why can't Marcus land a plane?
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Keck's Exclusives: Molly Shannon Returning to Up All Night
Christina Applegate, Molly Shannon Molly Shannon's guest appearance on NBC's Up All Night is now officially a recurring role. I've just learned that Molly has been invited to reprise her single-mom character, Nancy, early next year. The new storyline will find Nancy, an incompetent associate producer on Ava's talk show, jumping back into the dating pool. And who does she ask to be her wingman? None other than a very reluctant Chris (Will Arnett). Molly, an SNL cast member from 1995-2001, whose 2008 sitcom Kath & Kim failed to click with viewers, debuted her Nancy character on Up All Night's November 23 episode. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!
Monday, December 5, 2011
The brand new the new sony Pictures WW Purchases Utilizes Relativitys Joe Matukewicz
Joe Matukewicz, most recently mind of purchases at Relativity Media, has grew to become part of The brand new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases as SVP Purchases. He’ll account to SPWA leader Steven Bersch andoversee all purchases for your division. SPWA this season acquired or produced numerous effective films including Soul Surfer, Insidious, Jumping The Broom, Courageous, The Raid, and Colombiana. It it's still responsible for delivering content its SPEs distribution channels, including theatrical, home theatre, television and digital.We are thrilled to own Joe arrive in this particular key role,” Bersch mentioned. “His experience and taste will probably be vital after we still progressively increase our purchases activities, and then try to bring more great product in to the new the new sony.” Matukewicz happen to be senior veep and Mind of Worldwide Purchases at Relativity Media. Right before that, he was V . p . Purchases and Co-Productions at Vital Vantage and Director of Purchases and Co-Productions at Vital Classics. His deals have incorporated Act Of Valor, House Within The Finish In The Street, Hustle & Flow, The Machinist, plus an Annoying Truth.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Tweeting While using Demon: How a Grammys Launched a False tales Campaign in 140 Figures (Opinion)
Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi needed happens as host of Saturday Evening Love the second time on 12 ,. 3. Miley Cyrus, Batman, Dateline, and christmas were among the subjects skewered by Buscemi as well as the SNL cast.our editor recommendsA Rare Glimpse Inside the Empire of 'SNL's' Lorne Michaels'Saturday Evening Live' With Jason Segel Matches Ratings High PHOTOS: 'SNL' Stars Salute Kennedy Center Honoree Will Ferrell OPENING MONOLOGUE Within the opening monologue, Busemi discussed his transition from character actor for the leading guy from the Cinemax series. He needed questions from "audience people" like the "magical black character," a "sassy female judge," Andy Samberg since the "Hey Bro" guy and Kristen Wiig since the "horror girl movie girl who is able to't find her pals," and advised them making the transition themselves. THE MILEY CYRUS SHOW Miley Cyrus' pot-smoking status was handled within a "Miley Cyrus Show" segment through which Cyrus was referred to as, well, a stoner. She talks about her 19th birthday cake incident -- through which she apparently mentioned, "You understand you're a stoner once your pals lead you to a Bob Marley cake" -- within a skit referred to as "The Miley Cyrus Show."After denying they smokes marijuana, she munches around the large bag of Doritios. Her first guest around the program, carried out by Buscemi, was known to love a man she met at Burning Guy. Getting a shaggy hair hairpiece and sarape over Buscemi's shoulders, the two unveil it for his or her sitar-tinged song, "Dancin' with Dogs." Whitney Houston (carried out by Maya Rudolph) then appears around the program and implores. "Don't do drugs." 'SNL' DIGITAL SHORT: BATMAN Buscemi will get control as Gary Oldman's Dark Dark evening character Jim Gordon opposite Samberg's throaty Batman. He works together Batman on dealing with crimes but tires of batman's repeated utilizes on his existence, plus a visit inside the shower as well as the physician's office when he's obtaining a prostrate exam. THE MYSTERY In The Sliced Up GUY In "The Mystery in the Sliced Up Guy," Bill Hader shows Dateline host Keith Morrison, who will receive a remove from the analysis in to a brutal murder. Buscemi might be the mullet-sporting prisoner who confesses the killing "got him off" somewhat. COACH BERT In the jerk for the recent Penn St. and Syracuse College molestation ripoffs, Buscemi plays Coach Burt, a college basketball coach being investigated just like a sexual predator. Within a press conference, it's states Burt is anti-social, lives along with his mother. Carrying out a full analysis, it's determined he's not just a child molester, though everyone fully thinks he's. MUSICAL Site visitors The Black Secrets were the episode's musical site visitors and carried out "Lonely Boy," after which, "Gold round the Ceiling." Miley Cyrus Steve Buscemi Saturday Evening Live The Black Secrets Joe Paterno Jerry Sandusky
Friday, December 2, 2011
Producers Guild Announces 5 Documentary Nominees
He made a generation of moviegoers afraid to go canoeing. Bill McKinney, the actor who played one of crazed mountain men in Deliverance and famously ordered one particularly unfortunate camper to "squeal like a pig," died Thursday at the age of 80. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths A prolific artist up until his death, McKinney's career included dozens of film credits (including 7 Clint Eastwood titles) and appearances on television series such as In The Heat of the Night, Baywatch and Walker, Texas Ranger. But McKinney was always associated with Deliverance. The 1972 film, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty, followed a group of men on an ill-fated river trip into the Appalachian wilderness where they are hunted down by a group of sadistic locals. McKninney, credited only as "Mountain Man," appeared in the movie's infamous rape scene. He seemed to relish the role, operating his official website under the domain www.squeallikeapig.com. His death was confirmed Dec. 1 on his Facebook page. "Our dear Bill McKinney passed away at Valley Presbyterian Hospice," reads the statement. "An avid smoker for 25 years of his younger life, he died of cancer of the esophagus. He was 80 and still strong enough to have filmed a Dorito's commercial 2 weeks prior to his passing, and he continued to work on his biography with his writing partner. Hopefully 2012 will bring a publisher for the wild ride his life was. He is survived by son Clinton, along with several ex-wives." Today the angels play "Dueling Banjos": PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's Notable Deaths Related Topics
Thursday, December 1, 2011
10 Unbelievable Reactions to Movies
Have you heard? The birth scene from 'Breaking Dawn Part 1' is causing seizures. Apparently, the intense nature of the scene -- liberal use of flashing lights -- has made people pass out in theaters. Unfortunately, 'Breaking Dawn' isn't the only film to elicit extreme reactions from moviegoers; some people faint, others cry, and a few completely freak out when faced with anything graphic. From 'The Exorcist' (fainting) to 'Human Centipede 2' (more fainting) to 'The Passion of the Christ' (death -- seriously) Moviefone presents 10 Unbelievable Reactions to Movies. 10 Unbelievable Reactions to Movies 'The Exorcist''127 Hours''Breaking Dawn Part 1''2001: A Space Odyssey''Saw 3D''Shame''Grace''Frozen''Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)''The Passion of the Christ' See All Moviefone Galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook
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