Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Michael Hazan Joins Juma Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Unscripted television veteran Michael Hazan has became a member of reality production company Juma Entertainment (The Singing Bee) as Mind of Development/West Coast and Co-Executive Producer. Hazan will are accountable to Juma founder and leader Robert Horowitz. Development professionals Alaina Killoch and Dionne Clifton will are accountable to Hazan. Lewis Fenton, who was simply based at the organization’s West Coast headquarters, will proceed to Jumas New Hope, PA offices. He'll still function as Mind of Production and Executive Producer and run productions on shorelines but will concentrate on New England procedures. Hazan formerly offered like a supervisory producer of unscripted television series at Krasnow Prods and Fremantle Media. His credits include Hole Within the Wall and Average Person and two Juma projects, The Celebrities (ABC) and Rules of the overall game (CBS).
Monday, August 22, 2011
Drive-Inspired Sketches by Chromatics, Desire Include Track Listings of Unused Film Score
The musical partnership between director Nicolas Winding Refn and electronic musician Johnny Jewel dates back to Refn’s Bronson, which used a track from Jewel’s group Glass Candy to strike its stylized period feel. For Refn’s latest film, the L.A.-set crime thriller Drive, he turned once more to Jewel to help create an ’80s-tinged pop synth sound — and the inspiration seemed to go both ways, as evidenced by drawings and a full collection of Drive-inspired tracks created by Jewel and his musical collaborators. Two of Jewel’s groups, Chromatics and Desire, have tracks featured on the soundtrack to Drive (“Tick of the Clock” and “Under Your Spell,” respectively). But the score to Drive is largely comprised of compositions by composer Cliff Martinez, built around a handful of mostly electronic tracks that also include Kavinsky’s “Night Call” and College ft. Electric Youth’s “A Real Hero.” “Johnny had scored two specific scenes — one was ‘Tick of the Clock’ which was in the beginning from Chromatics and then there was ‘Under Your Spell’ later on,” Refn told Movieline via telephone earlier today. “Then I had the College song and the Kavinsky song, and I had Cliff Martinez kind of emulate the feel of those sounds and those songs into a score.” Jewel, meanwhile, wound up composing his own Drive-inspired tracks at Refn’s encouragement. These unused score tracks appear to have surfaced as part of a 30-drawing collection of sketches by Chromatics and Desire inspired by scenes from the film; on the blog Primitive Desire, Jewel’s Desire collaborator Megan Louise notes that the songs listed “will be coming out on Johnny Jewel & Nat Walker’s soundtrack project ‘Symmetry’ in the fall.” Full two-part track listing follows, but beware spoilers! 1. Isolation (3:10) Winner Take All (2:42) Death Mask (1:22) Love Theme/Air (2:01) Magic Gardens (1:40) The Family (1:33) Rearview Mirror Pt 1 (0:37) Rearview Mirror Pt 2 (1:04) Irene’s Eyes (3:01) Lady (2:56) The Midnight Sun (1:37) City of Dreams (2:42) Beyond the Rim (2:18) Love Bite (3:40) Driver’s Theme (4:02) Baby (2:35) Bernie’s Theme (1:40) The Nightshift (1:00) Nino’s Death (1:41) Love Theme/Earth (3:27) Fading Away (2:44) Memories Are Forever (1:50) 2. Flashback (2:57) Paradise Lost (0:28) Car Jack (2:50) Behind the Wheel (7:28) End Game (2:21) Murder Motel (4:29) The Crimson Torch (2:43) Fragments (0:43) Strangers (4:03) Music Box (0:43) Paper Chase (3:00) Mr. Midnight (3:28) Shannon’s Death (1:11) Blood Sport (2:26) The Nightshift/Reprise (0:58) Outside Looking In (2:21) Symphony of Light (3:15) All the Faces (2:46) Love Theme/Water (4:14) Echoes of the Mind (6:29) The rest of the drawings are taken from stills from the film, depicting various scenes of Driver (Ryan Gosling), the neighbor he falls for (Carey Mulligan), and the various forces he comes to contend with as he crosses paths with seedy crime bosses and thugs in L.A. They’ve got a charming Etch-a-Sketch quality to them, but what’s most striking is how vividly they capture scenes from the film in spare black and white renderings. Click here to see all 30 of the Drive-inspired sketches, but again, potential spoilers abound, so view with caution. [Primitive Desire]
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Toronto Film Festival 2011: Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Hudson Added to Lineup
TORONTO -- Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Ralph Fiennes, Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman and James Gandolfini on Tuesday joined the star-studded lineup for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.our editor recommends'King's Speech' wins TIFF audience award'Gaza' premiere set to shake up TIFFRelated Topics•Toronto International Fil... Fest organizers announced British Writer/director David Hare's Page Eight will close TIFF with a Roy Thomson gala after a debut at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. Hare's spy thriller stars Bill Nighy, Rachel Weisz, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes and Judy Davis. As Toronto continued Tuesday to set its Roy Thomson lineup with another eight galas unveiled, French director Christophe Honoré's The Beloved was given a high-profile gala here after a Cannes bow for the 1960s Paris and contemporary London drama that stars the real-life mother and daughter Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni. And Jennifer Hudson and Terence Howard will walk the red carpet with director Darrell J. Roodt into Roy Thomson Hall for a world premiere of Winnie, the Canada/South African co-produced biopic about Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela. Toronto also booked Roy Thomson Hall slots for The Awakening, from British director Nick Murphy, a psychological thriller that stars Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imelda Staunton, and director Tanya Wexler's Hysteria, a romantic comedy top-lined by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett and Felicity Jones. There's also star-driven world debuts for Gary McKendry's Killer Elite, a globe-trotting action film starring Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen set for a September 23 theatrical release; Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher, which stars Gerard Butler in the true-life role of criminal-turned-kidnapped child saver Sam Childers; and Joel Schumacher's Trespass, which stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman. Another 18 titles were added to the Special Presentations sidebar Tuesday, including Italian director Ermanno Olmi's The Cardboard Village, which stars Michael Lonsdale and Rutger Hauer; U.S. filmmaker Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, the Greta Gerwig-starring comedy that will close Venice; and Irish writer/director Ian FitzGibbon's Death of a Superhero, which stars Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster and is based on Anthony McCarten's novel. There's also world bows for The First Man, by Italian director Gianni Amelio, an adaptation of Albert Camus' autobiographical last novel; Agnieszka Holland's In Darkness, a Holocaust drama starring Robert Wieçkiewicz and Benno Fürmann already picked up by Sony Pictures Classics; and Intruders, by Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Clive Owen. Toronto also booked a North American premiere in the Special Presentations sidebar for Hong Kong director Johnnie To's Life Without Principle, a drama about three characters in desperate need of money that will screen in competition in Venice. Also Toronto-bound for a North American debut is Low Life, by French directors Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval, which just screened in Locarno, while there's a world premiere for Indian director Pankaj Kapur's Mausam (Seasons of Love), a turbulent love story starring Shahid Kapur, Sonam A Kapoor and Anupam Kher. Other world premieres: Anne Fontaine's My Worst Nightmare, starring Isabelle Huppert; fellow French director Mathieu Kassovitz' Rebellion, and U.S. director Geoffrey Fletcher's Violet & Daisy, a film about two girls and some guns that stars Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel and James Gandolfini. Toronto also booked North American bows for Hong Kong director Ann Hui's A Simple Life, which reunites Asian screen star Andy Lau with his godmother Deanie Ip as they perform together in front of the movie camera for the first time in 23 years, and Australian director Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, which stars Emily Browning and Rachael Blake. Fest programmers also gave an international premiere to Terraferma, from Italian director Emanuele Crialese; and North American bows to Philippe Garrel's That Summer, which stars Monica Belluci and the French director's son, Louis Garrel; the epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, from Taiwanese director Wei Te-Sheng; and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, which stars James Howson and Kaya Scodelario. Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section added another 51 titles, including world bows for the latest films by Nancy Savoca, Xiaolu Guo and Nacho Vigalondo. And there's North American bows for new films by directors Andrey Zvyagintsev, Gerardo Naranjo, Sono Sion, Asghar Farhadi, Karim Ainouz, Ole Christian Madsen and Cristián Jiménez. U.S. director Joshua Marston will bring The Forgiveness of Blood, an Albanian family feud drama to Toronto after a Berlin bow; and French director Vincent Garenq will bring the justice drama Presume Coupable (Guilty) after a Venice debut. And there's world premieres for Italian director Stefano Chiantini's Islands; Juan of the Dead, by director Alejandro Brugués, about a zombie outbreak in Cuba; Always Brando, by Tunisian director Ridha Béhi, and Blood of my Blood, by Portuguese director João Canijo. The Future Projections sidebar of moving image installation includes a collaboration by James Franco and Gus Van Sant, entitled Memories of Idaho (1991; 2010 and 2011), and artworks by Peter Lynch, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, Mr. Brainwash and David Lamelas. And the Visions program of avant-garde films includes a North American premiere for Julia Loktev's The Loneliest Planet, and an international premiere for Debbie Tucker Green's Random. The Toronto International Film Festival is set to run from September 8 to 18. Related Topics Toronto International Film Festival Clive Owen Nicolas Cage Nicole Kidman Robert De Niro International
Monday, August 15, 2011
TV Ratings: PGA Championship Delivers Win for CBS
Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images CBS won Sunday night with a strong lead-in from the PGA Golf Championship, which ran into primetime and pushed the schedule back by 65 minutes (and preempted CSI: Miami). As a result, fast nationals for the network are approximate, and may slightly adjust later. PHOTOS: CBS' New Season TV Shows: 'Person of Interest,' 'A Gifted Man' and More Big Brother was down 14 percent from last week, and Same Name dipped 6 percent. ABC came in second place in the key 18-49 demo with a 1.4. The CMA Music Festival rated a 1.6, and was down 6 percent in the key demo from last year's telecast. However, it was up 17 percent in total viewers, its second-largest audience in six years. Fox came in third with a 1.2. The Jamie Foxx-produced In the Flow With Affion Crockett premiered soft with a 1.3 for the first hour, and 1.0 for the second. Univision came in fourth with a 1.1, followed by NBC with a 1.0. The first hour of The Marriage Ref was flat, but the second hour was down 10 percent versus last week. Below, networks ranked by demo: CBS - 1.9 · PGA Championship Over-run (S) 1.7, 9.3 million total viewers · 60 Minutes: 2.0, 7.9 million · Big Brother: 2.5, 7.2 million · Same Name: 1.5, 4.8 million ABC - 1.4 · I.AM.FIRST: Science is Rock 'N Roll (S): 0.5, 2.2 million · CMA Music Festival (S): 1.6, 7 million Fox - 1.2 · American Dad (R): 1.0, 2.1 million · Bob's Burgers (R): 0.9, 1.9 million · The Simpsons (R): 1.4, 3 million · Family Guy (R): 1.7, 3.5 million · In the Flow With Affion Crockett (S): 1.3, 2.7 million · In the Flow With Affion Crockett (P): 1.0, 2.2 million NBC - 1.0 · Dateline (R): 1.2, 6.5 million · Minute To Win It (S): 0.9, 3.5 million · The Marriage Ref (S): 0.9, 2.7 million · The Marriage Ref: 0.9, 2.7 million TV Ratings
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Groovy! Mike Myers Signs On For Austin Powers 4
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- This sort of thing is our bag, baby! Mike Myers is set to bring Austin Powers back to the big screen for a fourth installment of the 60s spy-spoof movies, Hit Fix reports. Details of the proposed plot have yet to be revealed and its unclear whether director Jay Roach (who helmed the first three blockbuster comedies) will return for Austin Powers 4, according to the website. Myers, 48, first introduced audiences to his hilarious snaggle-toothed Powers character in 1997s Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, which reportedly grossed over $67 million worldwide. The 1999 follow-up, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, took in over $310 million, and the most recent installment, Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002, reportedly earned $296 million. In addition to Myers newly-announced film project, the Saturday Night Live alum will soon become a first-time father. The funnyman and his wife, Kelly Tisdale, are expecting a child. The couple quietly wed in New York in 2010 and kept their nuptials a secret until March. Myers and Tisdale began dating in 2006, after the actor split from Robin Ruzan after 12 years together. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Who Makes What: TV's Greatest Salaries
Ashton Kutcher Many people think TV is preferable to movies nowadays. For a lot of stars, it certainly pays better. Unless of course you are in a position to play a super hero, it's difficult to obtain super-wealthy from large-screen work, so more stars are moving to series TV. The broadened talent pool has given systems and galleries extra leverage in settling salaries. "You will find so couple of gigantic stars in features and also the relaxation aren't coming to a money," states one industry executive acquainted with the 2010 deal-making. "That's useful." The overall rule over the TV clients are to maintain lead entertainers on new network prime-time series to $125,000 a chapter. (Cable systems 're going up to $150,000.) That isn't Charlie Sheen money, but it is pretty good. "Occasions that by 22, [and] you are able to maintain an excellent lifestyle depending on that which you were making in features however you are not," the executive states. You will find always exceptions for established TV stars. Hit series veterinarians Tim Allen and Kiefer Sutherland can get $225,000 a chapter to return to the weekly grind in new shows. However with lengthy-running top shows getting good costly as they age, galleries are seriously interested in trimming budgets when confronted with decreasing rankings. House lost Lisa Edelstein, and Chris Meloni is finished from Law & Order: SVU largely due to costs. Ted Danson will earn $225,000 a chapter to become listed on CSI - a savings from Laurence Fishburne's $350,000. Warner Bros.' has become the greatest-compensated sitcom actor at $700,000 per episode - far under Sheen's take of $1.two million. Whether this is a bargain will not be known before rankings are available in following the show's premiere. Network news divisions and talk- show producers will also be attempting to hold lower costs. After Katie Couric left the CBS Evening News, Scott Pelley began at within third of her $15 million annually. Regis Philbin is departing Live! With Regis and Kelly rather than going for a cut in the $15 million salary. And Piers Morgan gets under another of the items Ray King gained throughout his final year in CNN's prime-time selection. However, many stars can strike as the iron is hot. The cast from the Large Bang Theory saw their salaries grow his or her show produced distribution deals. And Current TV is attempting to go in the cable large leagues with Keith Olbermann, giving him $tens of millions of annually as well as an equity stake within the network. Time Warner, meanwhile, tangled up Physical Violence Worsens with a brand new talk show along with a new deal at CNN that pays him around $11 million annually. Which should keep him in tight black T-t shirts for any very long time. For that complete listing of TV's greatest salaries varying from drama, comedy, late evening and reality, get this week's problem of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday, August 11! Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!
Monday, August 8, 2011
Brit Marling in Robert Redford's 'Company'
RedfordMarlingEXCLUSIVE: Sundance standout Brit Marling is in talks to play the female lead in Robert Redford's political thriller "The Company You Keep."Redford directs and stars as a former militant wanted by the FBI who must go on the run when his true identity is exposed by an ambitious young reporter, to be played by Shia LaBeouf. Nick Nolte also co-stars.Marling had been considering several other projects including Paramount's Tom Cruise-starrer "One Shot" and Steven Soderbergh's stripper pic "Magic Mike," before committing to work with Sundance founder Redford. Marling, who currently stars in Fox Searchlight's "Another Earth" will soon be seen as a cult leader in "Sound of My Voice." She won praise at Sundance for co-writing and starring in both pics.Marling is also attached to topline Zal Batmanglij's thriller "The East."Redford and Bill Holderman are producing "The Company You Keep" through their Wildwood Enterprises banner along with Voltage Pictures' Nicolas Chartier. Craig J. Flores is exec producing the pic, which Lem Dobbs adapted from the novel by Neil Gordon.Marling is repped by CAA. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com
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