Friday, September 30, 2011

Breaking Bad Sneak Look: Is Wally Ready to Face His Effects?

Bryan Cranston Could this function as finish for Wally?After Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) threatened Wally (Bryan Cranston) and also the family on last week's Breaking Bad, Wally decides you are ready to make sure Skyler (Anna Gunn), Junior (RJ Mitte)and Carol are safely ensconced at Hank's house.Fall Preview: Get scoop inside your favorite returning shows"I'm not going. I'm not prone to Hank and Marie's. I'm not going anywhere," Wally notifies Skyler in Sunday's episode (10/9c, AMC) simply because they anxiously pack.Despite Skyler's pleas, Wally won't budge. "The only real goal is the relaxation people feel at ease. Which describes why I'm not selecting you. I'm the particular target."Watch a clip within the ominously titled "Finish Occasions" below.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Warner Bros Finds Release Date For Argo

Warner Bros has set September 14, 2012 to deliver out its Film Clip-directed hostage drama Argo. Affleck stars alongside Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman inside the true story from the covert CIA operation to resuce six Us citizens locked in Iran through the 1979 hostage crisis. The release-date calendar is quite open that weekend, while using primary competition up to now being The brand new the new sony/Screen Gems’ Resident Evil 5, which just completed its cast.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Chris Evans Takes On a New Fight in 'Puncture'

Chris Evans Takes On a New Fight in 'Puncture' By Jessica Gardner September 21, 2011 Photo by Jamie Painter Young Chris Evans Five minutes with Chris Evans and you feel like you've known him your whole life. Considering his charming smile, lingering Boston accent (complete with the occasional curse word), and high-fivesand even a call to Mom to check a factit's easy to forget you're chatting with Captain America and not just an old friend from high school. Asked if he ever read Back Stage, he responds, "I got my first acting gig through Back Stage in NY. It was a short film called 'The Paper Boy.' My first real audition outside of, like, community theater, and I ended up getting it. I was walking to work one morning when I got the phone call from the writer-director, whose name was Eric Ogden. I remember walking down the street with my hand in the air [pumps his fist]. We filmed in upstate NY for two weeks. I still have a copy of it. My first job on a film ever."Community theater was a big part of life in the Evans household while he was growing up. Evans, his two sisters, and his brother, Scott (whom you might remember as Officer Oliver Fish from "One Life to Live"), grew up acting at a community children's theater called the Concord Youth Theatre. "Each of us must have done at least 15 to 20 shows there," Evans says. Their family was so connected to the theater that when Chris was around 18, his mother, Lisa, took over as artistic director, and she's been working there ever since. Seeing his elder sister, Carly, onstage inspired Evans to be an actor. "Her play would end, and she'd get flowers and candy, and it just seemed like such a good time. She was having a ball and hanging out with her acting friendsit just looked awesome," he remembers. "I was like, 'I'll give this a shot.' " He started doing plays at the theater and going to acting camp in the summer. "I fell in love with that, too. I started doing plays year-round. I was always onstage."In his junior year of high school, Evans started thinking he might want to pursue acting professionally. He convinced his parents to let him move to NY City for the summer and take classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He also wrote casting offices and secured a summer internship with Bonnie Finnegan, who was casting "Spin City" at the time. "We got to go to the tapings every Friday for the show with Michael J. Fox, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world," he says. At the end of the summer, his plan was to ask the two or three agents he was the most friendly with if he could read for them. "I was like, 'I know you know me as Chris from Bonnie's office, but I'm an actorcan you give me five minutes?' " One of the agencies was willing to let him read, so he did. The agency was interested in signing him, but it was the end of summer, and he had to go home to start senior year. "They said to me, 'You've got to get back [to NY] as soon as possible. Pilot season's in January.' So I went back and doubled up my classes and graduated early, in January. Went back to NY, got my agent, got the same internship with Bonnie, and I even got the same apartment." Down the hall from Finnegan's office was casting director Marcia DeBonis, who one day asked Evans to come in and read for a pilot she was working on called "Get Real." Evans went in and nailed the audition, so the network sent him out to Los Angeles to test for it. "The first person I met in Los Angeles was Anne Hathaway," he remembers. "She was testing for it, too. We were both kidsshe wasn't 'Anne Hathaway' then. I was 17, and she was pretty young, too." Because Evans was the only person there reading for his role, he was convinced he would get it. "I was like, 'I got this in the bag,' " he says. "But I didn't get the show. [Hathaway] did, but I didn't. It was so crushing to be that close that soon. My dad was out there with me, and I was so excited and then just so devastated. But then Warner Bros. said, 'Stick aroundthere's a couple of other shows you might be right for. We'll put you up for the week.' So I stuck around and auditioned, and I ended up getting a different pilot called 'Opposite Sex.' " The Fox show (which also starred Milo Ventimiglia) lasted only one season, but it was Evans' first break, and he stayed in Los Angeles. By age 20, he landed his first leading film role in the comedy spoof "Not Another Teen Movie" and hasn't stopped since.Gone Audition Gone "I'm pretty shitty at auditioning," Evans admits. "Auditioning is such a strange thing. It's like the opposite of acting. It's a strange environment. To act well, you need to be extremely comfortable. You need to be extremely in your skin. Even if you have to play someone nervous, you have to be neutral and let it come to you and listen. I get so nervous in auditions. My heart just pounds."Evans thinks plenty of amazing actors aren't working because they can't audition well. "It's like those races in the Olympics," he says. "You could race 100 times, and the same guy's not going to win every timeit's just who's going to win that day. Everyone here is fast. Everyone here can run well. But who's going to run well today? I used to sit at these auditions and look around, and I know all these actors. I've seen them. Everyone here can act. No one here is a bad actor. But it's just a matter of who's going to act well in the next five minutes. If you're not going to, someone else is. I'm sure I've gotten parts where I wasn't the best man for the job; I just happened to have a really good audition that day. And the guy who was the right man for the job had a bad one. It's that type of uncertainty that makes acting such a crapshoot."The audition-gone-wrong story he recalls as being worst was meeting with Ben Affleck for "Gone Baby Gone." "I don't get starstruck," says Evans. "I'm fine. Especially Benhe's a Boston guy, I should be fine. I walked in and I'm walking down the halls looking for this room, and as I passed a room I heard 'There he is.' In my head I was like, 'That's Ben.' I turned around and it was, and for some reason I instantly was nervous. I went in and shook his hand, and the first thing I said was 'Hey, how ya doingam I gonna be okay where I parked?' And he said, 'Where'd you park?' And I said, 'At one of the meters.' And he said, 'Did you put money in it?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And he said, 'I think you'll be all right.' From that moment, I just wanted to get the f*** out of the room. I just wanted to be anywhere but there. I sat down with my heart beating out of my chest; I was so mortified that I started this meeting off that way. I started giving him one-word answers. They put me in a rocking chair, so I'm just rocking and twisting, just nervous. 'So, what was your last movie like?' 'Good.' 'What was it like to work with Danny Boyle?' 'Good.' I just wanted to get out of there. It was horrible, a complete disaster. So obviously, I did not get that job."Character Choices In Evans' upcoming film "Puncture," a law drama based on a true story, he portrays Mike Weiss, lawyer and drug addict. This was Evans' first experience playing a role based on a real person. He spoke to the deceased Weiss' brother, father, college friends, and colleagues and even read the transcript of what was said at Weiss' funeral. "The problem is, I could tell you 100 stories about someone, but is that going to make you able to embody their speech pattern and posture and nuances?" he says. "It's not like I'm playing JFK, where you can watch videos and get cadence and inflection." Evans decided his best option was to tell Weiss' family and friends he would have to have some artistic license. He told everyone he would do his best, "but don't expect to see the Mike you know." Evans worked hard not to second-guess his character choices or worry about what Weiss' family and friends might think. "If you start second-guessing yourself, you're f***ed," he says. "The family and the friends couldn't have been more accommodating, but it was still pretty nerve-racking." He admits to being similarly nerve-racked when bringing beloved comic book characters Steve Rogers/Captain America and Johnny Storm/Human Torch to the screen. "Most times you make a film and you say, 'I hope it does well.' [With 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and 'Fantastic Four'] I knew people were going to go see them. There would be a response, positive or negative. There's this phenomenal built-in audience. There's going to be a huge opening weekend; there's going to be a shit ton of merchandise. That's intimidating." Evans realized the best way to approach playing a superhero was to try to get in the same headspace as all the fans. "To me, the fans are the most importantif they're not happy, you didn't do your job. So let's try and essentially become a fan. Try and understand what they understand. To see what they're expecting." For "Captain America: The First Avenger," Evans says he and director Joe Johnston read many comic books before coming together to create the film version of the Steve Rogers character."Steve Rogers is a tricky character to play because he doesn't have too much conflict," says Evans. "He's such a selfless person. There's very little that can rattle him. If [your character] doesn't have conflict, it's easy to become boring. It's nice [that in the upcoming film 'The Avengers'] he struggles a little bit. He struggles with being a fish out of water. He's from the '40s; he's from a different mentality. Today the world is text messaging and impersonal and selfishness, and in the '40s there was much more of a human connection and camaraderie among the country. It's an old-fashioned way of thinking. So I think he's struggling with trying to find his place in modern day."The Evans Method Although he studied for a summer at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Evans says he isn't sure that Strasberg is his "cup of tea." He believes that acting is an ever-evolving thing, and if you get stuck in one method or approach, you might get stagnant. He says Keanu Reeves, his co-star in "Street Kings," helped him put his method into words. He asked Reeves what his approach to acting was, and Reeves answered, "It's constantly changing." "I was like, 'That's a good answer,' " Evans says. "It's like art. You want to constantly change your style and find new things to spark your creativity and keep you excited about it." Evans is a fan of asking his fellow actors for their thoughts on acting. His friend Jonathan Tucker gave him his favorite advice: "Don't forget that the audience doesn't know what's coming next. It's very easy to forget when you're acting and you do the scene over and over again. Don't forget this is brand-new for the audience. You can push them in any direction because they don't know what's coming."A favorite acting exercise of Evans', that he recommends all actors do, is to buy scripts of good films, work on a character's scene or monologue until you feel you've nailed the role, and then watch the movie to see how the actor did it. "It's like training with Michael Jordan in basketball," he says. "Go train with De Niro. Make your choices, and then watch Bob show you how to do it right. It's a real eye opener. The thing you'll learn is to not follow the words so closely. The words are not always the indication of the character. A lot of time, actors look at the words as clues as to who the character is and how the line should be said. But it's not always a direct link. If [casting directors] are going to audition 100 people for a role, the majority of the actors are going to use the words as indicators. Be different. Go another route. Take the dance somewhere unique. If nothing else, you'll stick in their mind." Outtakes - Raised in Sudbury, Mass.- Other films include "Cellular," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," and "The Losers"- In the final stages of auditions for "Not Another Teen Movie," the director brought Evans and co-star Chyler Leigh to Jennifer Coolidge's house to workshop their scenes: "[Coolidge] was so clever, funny, smart, and awesome. I felt so lucky."- On returning to the theater: "The stage, in my opinion, has the best actors. I'd love to get back to the stage, but it's a big commitment. You've got to find something you really want to do everyday for months and months. It's tricky."- Also starring opposite Anna Faris in the comedy "What's Your Number?," opening Sept. 30. Chris Evans Takes On a New Fight in 'Puncture' By Jessica Gardner September 21, 2011 Chris Evans PHOTO CREDIT Jamie Painter Young Five minutes with Chris Evans and you feel like you've known him your whole life. Considering his charming smile, lingering Boston accent (complete with the occasional curse word), and high-fivesand even a call to Mom to check a factit's easy to forget you're chatting with Captain America and not just an old friend from high school. Asked if he ever read Back Stage, he responds, "I got my first acting gig through Back Stage in NY. It was a short film called 'The Paper Boy.' My first real audition outside of, like, community theater, and I ended up getting it. I was walking to work one morning when I got the phone call from the writer-director, whose name was Eric Ogden. I remember walking down the street with my hand in the air [pumps his fist]. We filmed in upstate NY for two weeks. I still have a copy of it. My first job on a film ever."Community theater was a big part of life in the Evans household while he was growing up. Evans, his two sisters, and his brother, Scott (whom you might remember as Officer Oliver Fish from "One Life to Live"), grew up acting at a community children's theater called the Concord Youth Theatre. "Each of us must have done at least 15 to 20 shows there," Evans says. Their family was so connected to the theater that when Chris was around 18, his mother, Lisa, took over as artistic director, and she's been working there ever since. Seeing his elder sister, Carly, onstage inspired Evans to be an actor. "Her play would end, and she'd get flowers and candy, and it just seemed like such a good time. She was having a ball and hanging out with her acting friendsit just looked awesome," he remembers. "I was like, 'I'll give this a shot.' " He started doing plays at the theater and going to acting camp in the summer. "I fell in love with that, too. I started doing plays year-round. I was always onstage."In his junior year of high school, Evans started thinking he might want to pursue acting professionally. He convinced his parents to let him move to NY City for the summer and take classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He also wrote casting offices and secured a summer internship with Bonnie Finnegan, who was casting "Spin City" at the time. "We got to go to the tapings every Friday for the show with Michael J. Fox, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world," he says. At the end of the summer, his plan was to ask the two or three agents he was the most friendly with if he could read for them. "I was like, 'I know you know me as Chris from Bonnie's office, but I'm an actorcan you give me five minutes?' " One of the agencies was willing to let him read, so he did. The agency was interested in signing him, but it was the end of summer, and he had to go home to start senior year. "They said to me, 'You've got to get back [to NY] as soon as possible. Pilot season's in January.' So I went back and doubled up my classes and graduated early, in January. Went back to NY, got my agent, got the same internship with Bonnie, and I even got the same apartment." Down the hall from Finnegan's office was casting director Marcia DeBonis, who one day asked Evans to come in and read for a pilot she was working on called "Get Real." Evans went in and nailed the audition, so the network sent him out to Los Angeles to test for it. "The first person I met in Los Angeles was Anne Hathaway," he remembers. "She was testing for it, too. We were both kidsshe wasn't 'Anne Hathaway' then. I was 17, and she was pretty young, too." Because Evans was the only person there reading for his role, he was convinced he would get it. "I was like, 'I got this in the bag,' " he says. "But I didn't get the show. [Hathaway] did, but I didn't. It was so crushing to be that close that soon. My dad was out there with me, and I was so excited and then just so devastated. But then Warner Bros. said, 'Stick aroundthere's a couple of other shows you might be right for. We'll put you up for the week.' So I stuck around and auditioned, and I ended up getting a different pilot called 'Opposite Sex.' " The Fox show (which also starred Milo Ventimiglia) lasted only one season, but it was Evans' first break, and he stayed in Los Angeles. By age 20, he landed his first leading film role in the comedy spoof "Not Another Teen Movie" and hasn't stopped since.Gone Audition Gone "I'm pretty shitty at auditioning," Evans admits. "Auditioning is such a strange thing. It's like the opposite of acting. It's a strange environment. To act well, you need to be extremely comfortable. You need to be extremely in your skin. Even if you have to play someone nervous, you have to be neutral and let it come to you and listen. I get so nervous in auditions. My heart just pounds."Evans thinks plenty of amazing actors aren't working because they can't audition well. "It's like those races in the Olympics," he says. "You could race 100 times, and the same guy's not going to win every timeit's just who's going to win that day. Everyone here is fast. Everyone here can run well. But who's going to run well today? I used to sit at these auditions and look around, and I know all these actors. I've seen them. Everyone here can act. No one here is a bad actor. But it's just a matter of who's going to act well in the next five minutes. If you're not going to, someone else is. I'm sure I've gotten parts where I wasn't the best man for the job; I just happened to have a really good audition that day. And the guy who was the right man for the job had a bad one. It's that type of uncertainty that makes acting such a crapshoot."The audition-gone-wrong story he recalls as being worst was meeting with Ben Affleck for "Gone Baby Gone." "I don't get starstruck," says Evans. "I'm fine. Especially Benhe's a Boston guy, I should be fine. I walked in and I'm walking down the halls looking for this room, and as I passed a room I heard 'There he is.' In my head I was like, 'That's Ben.' I turned around and it was, and for some reason I instantly was nervous. I went in and shook his hand, and the first thing I said was 'Hey, how ya doingam I gonna be okay where I parked?' And he said, 'Where'd you park?' And I said, 'At one of the meters.' And he said, 'Did you put money in it?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And he said, 'I think you'll be all right.' From that moment, I just wanted to get the f*** out of the room. I just wanted to be anywhere but there. I sat down with my heart beating out of my chest; I was so mortified that I started this meeting off that way. I started giving him one-word answers. They put me in a rocking chair, so I'm just rocking and twisting, just nervous. 'So, what was your last movie like?' 'Good.' 'What was it like to work with Danny Boyle?' 'Good.' I just wanted to get out of there. It was horrible, a complete disaster. So obviously, I did not get that job."Character Choices In Evans' upcoming film "Puncture," a law drama based on a true story, he portrays Mike Weiss, lawyer and drug addict. This was Evans' first experience playing a role based on a real person. He spoke to the deceased Weiss' brother, father, college friends, and colleagues and even read the transcript of what was said at Weiss' funeral. "The problem is, I could tell you 100 stories about someone, but is that going to make you able to embody their speech pattern and posture and nuances?" he says. "It's not like I'm playing JFK, where you can watch videos and get cadence and inflection." Evans decided his best option was to tell Weiss' family and friends he would have to have some artistic license. He told everyone he would do his best, "but don't expect to see the Mike you know." Evans worked hard not to second-guess his character choices or worry about what Weiss' family and friends might think. "If you start second-guessing yourself, you're f***ed," he says. "The family and the friends couldn't have been more accommodating, but it was still pretty nerve-racking." He admits to being similarly nerve-racked when bringing beloved comic book characters Steve Rogers/Captain America and Johnny Storm/Human Torch to the screen. "Most times you make a film and you say, 'I hope it does well.' [With 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and 'Fantastic Four'] I knew people were going to go see them. There would be a response, positive or negative. There's this phenomenal built-in audience. There's going to be a huge opening weekend; there's going to be a shit ton of merchandise. That's intimidating." Evans realized the best way to approach playing a superhero was to try to get in the same headspace as all the fans. "To me, the fans are the most importantif they're not happy, you didn't do your job. So let's try and essentially become a fan. Try and understand what they understand. To see what they're expecting." For "Captain America: The First Avenger," Evans says he and director Joe Johnston read many comic books before coming together to create the film version of the Steve Rogers character."Steve Rogers is a tricky character to play because he doesn't have too much conflict," says Evans. "He's such a selfless person. There's very little that can rattle him. If [your character] doesn't have conflict, it's easy to become boring. It's nice [that in the upcoming film 'The Avengers'] he struggles a little bit. He struggles with being a fish out of water. He's from the '40s; he's from a different mentality. Today the world is text messaging and impersonal and selfishness, and in the '40s there was much more of a human connection and camaraderie among the country. It's an old-fashioned way of thinking. So I think he's struggling with trying to find his place in modern day."The Evans Method Although he studied for a summer at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Evans says he isn't sure that Strasberg is his "cup of tea." He believes that acting is an ever-evolving thing, and if you get stuck in one method or approach, you might get stagnant. He says Keanu Reeves, his co-star in "Street Kings," helped him put his method into words. He asked Reeves what his approach to acting was, and Reeves answered, "It's constantly changing." "I was like, 'That's a good answer,' " Evans says. "It's like art. You want to constantly change your style and find new things to spark your creativity and keep you excited about it." Evans is a fan of asking his fellow actors for their thoughts on acting. His friend Jonathan Tucker gave him his favorite advice: "Don't forget that the audience doesn't know what's coming next. It's very easy to forget when you're acting and you do the scene over and over again. Don't forget this is brand-new for the audience. You can push them in any direction because they don't know what's coming."A favorite acting exercise of Evans', that he recommends all actors do, is to buy scripts of good films, work on a character's scene or monologue until you feel you've nailed the role, and then watch the movie to see how the actor did it. "It's like training with Michael Jordan in basketball," he says. "Go train with De Niro. Make your choices, and then watch Bob show you how to do it right. It's a real eye opener. The thing you'll learn is to not follow the words so closely. The words are not always the indication of the character. A lot of time, actors look at the words as clues as to who the character is and how the line should be said. But it's not always a direct link. If [casting directors] are going to audition 100 people for a role, the majority of the actors are going to use the words as indicators. Be different. Go another route. Take the dance somewhere unique. If nothing else, you'll stick in their mind." Outtakes - Raised in Sudbury, Mass.- Other films include "Cellular," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," and "The Losers"- In the final stages of auditions for "Not Another Teen Movie," the director brought Evans and co-star Chyler Leigh to Jennifer Coolidge's house to workshop their scenes: "[Coolidge] was so clever, funny, smart, and awesome. I felt so lucky."- On returning to the theater: "The stage, in my opinion, has the best actors. I'd love to get back to the stage, but it's a big commitment. You've got to find something you really want to do everyday for months and months. It's tricky."- Also starring opposite Anna Faris in the comedy "What's Your Number?," opening Sept. 30.

Friday, September 16, 2011

WGA East votes Pikser for VP

Jeremy Pikser has been elected as vice president of the Writers Guild of America East, topping Matt Nelko for the post.As expected, the WGA East also announced Friday that Michael Winship was officially re-elected president to a third two-year term without opposition along with Bob Schneider being elected unopposed for the Secretary-Treasurer post. Schneider had been VP of the WGA East.Incumbents Susan Kim and Courtney Simon were re-elected to open freelance seats on the WGA East Council along with Henry Bean, Bonnie Datt, Elliot Kalan, and Bernardo Ruiz. Also running for the freelance seats were Robert Levi, Leslie Nipkow, Tom Jennings, Daryn Strauss, Michael Kantor, Richard Vetere, Jenny Lumet and John MarshallA trio of incumbents were re-elected to staff seats in the council -- Sue Brown McCann, Phil Pilato and Duane Tollison. Gail Lee, who had been secretary-treasurer also ran for a seat.Winship, a former senior writer for ''Bill Moyers Journal,'' was first elected to a two-year term in September 2007 over Tom Phillips and became part of the WGA's negotiating team about a month before the guild launched its 100-day strike against the congloms. He was re-elected unopposed in 2009. Pikser began his screenwriting career in 1980 doing production rewrites for ''Reds'' and is the co-writer of ''Bulworth.'' He also has credits on ''War Inc.'' and ''The Lemon Sisters.''The NY-based WGA East reps about 4,000 scribes. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Watch Madonna Confirm Her Hate of Hydrangeas

Within the files of 'Who understood?': Madonna features a spontaneity. The pop titan and 'W.E.' director makes videos a reaction to the viral clip of her dissing hydrangeas within the Venice Film Festival the other day, the one that includes the theme from 'The Godfather' and Madge losing the f-blast. Watch ahead. Hey, funny or else, it's already got more audiences than her panned directorial debut, 'W.E.' [via THR] photo courtesy AP Photo

Lucci Not Departing ABC's 'All My Children' Silently

NEW You are able to (AP) Erica Kane wouldn't leave silently if she felt she'd been harmed. Neither is Susan Lucci as "My Children" gets near its finish on ABC.Lucci has memorably described Kane about the drama, which airs its last episode on ABC on Sept. 23, and it is unclear whether she'll take part in an effort emigrate the series online.Inside a recently released epilogue to her memoir, Lucci dramatically belittled her ABC bosses for axing "My Children," that has been about the air since 1970. She stated the choice to cancel the show was motivated by avarice and stated the mind of ABC's daytime unit, John Frons, has "that fatal mixture of lack of knowledge and arrogance."Frons, in eliminating "My Children" and "One Existence to resideInch in April, stated the cleaning soap operas were a victim of decreasing interest. He stated attempting to support shows in severe decline was like "attempting to catch a falling knife."Lucci informed her own story within the paperback edition of "My Existence," a memoir released in hardcover captured. The actress stated Frons stated, in declaring that concerning the cancellation, that it might be 40 % cheaper to create the cooking and weight-loss series which are changing the 2 cleaning soap operas."If John Frons could show his bosses he could save the network 40 % in production costs, he can keep his job even when the relaxation people lost ours," she authored.She noted that several employees on "My Children" had either lost their jobs or lost money once the show moved its production base from NY to California recently to save cash. "I question, did John Frons have a pay cut, too?" Lucci authored.She belittled Frons for setting up a brand new mind author on the program in 2008, and basically pushing aside Agnes Nixon, the cleaning soap opera legend who produced "My Children."Lucci stated that several occasions "I'd click on the television to ABC and never realize I had been watching 'All The Kids.A When the show was unrecognizable in my experience, I'm able to only imagine how our audiences felt."Frons wasn't readily available for comment, a speaker stated, and ABC rejected to deal with Lucci's specific comments."Most of us have the respect on the planet for Susan and therefore are sorry she felt the requirement to write this epilogue for an otherwise incredible career," speaker Jori Petersen stated.The near future for Lucci and "My Children" is uncertain. The media company Prospect Park in This summer signed a certification deal to carry on the 2 cleaning soap opera tales beyond their television lives either online or on other platforms. The organization has introduced handles a few of the "One Existence to resideInch stars, and it is stated to become settling with Lucci along with other "My Children" stars.Prospect Park doesn't have announcement on any "My Children" participants, speaker Melissa Zuckerman stated Monday.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Ron Howard to direct super hero drama 364?

Ron Howard is incorporated in the frame to direct the film 364, with different script by Safe House author David Guggenheim.The film is occur a global where super forces are dished out for just one day annually - the amount of the title refers back to the days an ordinary guy stays considering what he's going related to individuals capabilities.Universal pre-emptively bought the script with different pitch from Guggenheim.Guggenheim was formerly an editor at US Weekly but quit his job when he offered the script for Safe House, that has just wrapped and stars Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Read This Creepy Set Visit From 'Empire Strikes Back'

If you are like us, you have been feeling a little depressed within the lately introduced changes towards the Blu-ray edition of 'Star Wars' (in a nutshell, George Lucas designed a couple of, um, interesting tweaks to 'Return from the Jedi'). Hopefully this clip in the group of 'Empire' will cure all of your Pressure-related sadness. In 1979, one eight-year-old boy title Daniel got the risk of an eternity when he won a visit to the group of 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Sounds awesome, right? We are sure it had been, but this really is... sorta creepy. The clip features Daniel preventing through the Dagobah system where he's treated to some have a picnic lunch with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and R2D2. Anyway, watch below. You can build your own conclusions after that. [via Ain't It Awesome and films.org

Female Buddy Comedy From Kari Lizer Lands At NBC With Put Pilot Commitment

EXCLUSIVE: After several days of heated bidding among the major broadcast networks that started before the holiday weekend and continued this week, I’ve learned that NBC has nabbed a multi-camera comedy from The New Adventures Of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer with a put pilot commitment. The project, titled Lady Friends, hails from Warner Bros TV and Lizer’s Kari’s Logo Here production banner. It is about two longtime female friends who are living very different lives but couldnt live without each other.Nicole has everything gong for her — loving parents and in-laws, adoring husband, successful siblings and a trouble-free pregnancy.Her best friend, Jen, has parents who have no faith in her, terrible instincts that led her to a 17-day marriage to a guy who dumped her, and she gained 15 pounds on the cabbage soup diet.And yet, somehow, she is Nicoles rock. All 4 networks were after the project, with ABC, NBC and Fox engaging in a bidding war after I hear Lizer didn’t feel like going back to CBS following the way the network treated Old Christine, which was moved around and then abruptly canceled after 5 seasons with no proper farewell. The deal for Lady Friends reunites Will & Grace alum Lizer with NBC, which landed another comedy project from her in a bidding war last year. The untitled workplace comedy went to pilot starring Sarah Paulson. In fact, all of Lizer’s scripts to date have been picked up to pilot, Old Christine at CBS, True at the WB and the untitled NBC comedy last year. Lizer, who is under an overall deal at Warner Bros. TV, is with Vision Art.