Bones' Producers on the Impact of the Baby: We're Not Doing Parenthood

Renee Graziano The Mob Wives are notorious for their combative, confrontational, and in-your-face attitudes, and in Sunday's episode (8/7c, VH1) they will be no different. If you're a fan of the show, you know there will be lots to talk about! So join us on Monday, March 12 at 3 p.m. EST for a day-after live streaming video chat with VH1 and Mob Wives' most vicious spit-fire, Renee Graziano.During the first half of the show, we'll discuss what went down on Sunday's episode, and during the second half, you guys will have the opportunity to ask your own questions face-to-face via webcam with Renee. To participate, just come to TVGuide.com and you'll see a link to the chat on our homepage. We'll also be sure to put the link on Facebook and Twitter.In the meantime, check out a sneak peek of Sunday's episode. While the ladies are having drinks at a bar, a male patron starts making insulting comments about their mothers - and Renee is not happy.Mob Wives (Season 2) - Mob Wives - Mob Wives Videos - Renee - Mob Wives Cast Mob Wives airs Sundays at 8/7c on VH1.

'Killing' Star Joel Kinnaman Will Star In 'RoboCop'

It's official: Joel Kinnaman will star as the title character in the upcoming remake of "RoboCop." In other casting news, Emmy Rossum heads to "Beautiful Creatures" and Olivia Williams joins "The Seventh Son." It's March 5, and you're tuning in for today's casting call. Joel Kinnaman Confirmed As "RoboCop" Big congrats go out to Joel Kinnaman. "The Killing" star is finally confirmed (thanks to Deadline) as the lead in Jose Padilha's reboot of "RoboCop." He'll play Officer Alex Murphy, who is turned into a crime-fighting cyborg after he's killed in the line of duty. The role was originally played by Peter Weller. Emmy Rossum Joins "Beautiful Creatures" Variety is reporting that "Shameless" star Emmy Rossum is the latest actress to join the cast of the supernatural love story "Beautiful Creatures." She'll play the villain in the film. "Beautiful Creatures" also stars Viola Davis, Emma Thompson and Jack O'Connell. "The Seventh Son" Adds Olivia Williams "Dollhouse" star Olivia Williams is the latest actress to join the upcoming fantasy film "The Seventh Son." Deadline reports she'll join Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Kit Harington, Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander and Antje Traue in the adaptation of "The Spook's Apprentice." Sergei Bodrov will direct the film off a script by Matt Greenberg and Chuck Leavitt. Idris Elba And Taraji P. Henson Join "No Good Deed" The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson will star in the new thriller "No Good Deed." The film reunites Elba with his "Luther" director Sam Miller, who also helmed such shows as "MI-5." The movie follows a former district attorney who is now a stay-at-home mom after she and her children get terrorized and kidnapped by a stranger she invites into her home after he gets into a car accident. Nicole Kidman To Star In "The Railway Man" Turns out that it will be Nicole Kidman, not the previously-cast Rachel Weisz, who will play Colin Firth's in the upcoming film "The Railway Man." Variety has the news, adding that the film is set to start shooting in April. Kidman will play the wife of a man held captive by the Japanese military in World War II who helps him deal with his psychological damage and cope with meeting one of his captors 30 years later. In Casting Call, the MTV Movies team rounds up the day's biggest casting news and offers it up to you on a silver platter. If you're looking to see which movie your favorite actor has booked next, look no further. Tell us what you think in the comments section and on Twitter!

REVIEW: There's A Lot Of Being rather than Enough Doing in succeeding as Flynn

Climax usually a terrible idea to look at a business company directors intentions in the fee for that particular results, theres something about Paul Weitzs movies making you have to cut him additional slack. Weitz, along with his brother Chris, was one-half from the pointing team that introduced us Of a Boy (an affecting and well-crafted adaptation of Nick Hornbys novel), additionally to American Cake (which, despite its status just like a teen raunchfest, was remarkably in tune while using difficulties of sexual associations as theyre gone through by youthful women). The pictures Weitz has directed by themself are actually either unjustly overlooked (just like the problem in the freewheeling satire American Dreamz) or justifiably lambasted (theres hardly any to say on the icky gun-for-hire vehicle Little Fockers). However, if Weitz reaches his best, his films show an easygoing open-heartedness more technically gifted company company directors were searching for you, Alexander Payne cant attempt to muster. There is probably not only one misanthropic bone in your body. The approach to proclaiming that the vibe of Weitzs latest, Being Flynn, will have a greater impact than the sum its parts. Jonathan Flynn (Robert P Niro) is certainly a maturing, crabby, racist nutter from the cab driver whos convinced hes most likely probably the most brilliant (undiscovered) author of his time: Hes possess a multi-volume opus - while using rather ominously intriguing title The Button Guy saved away within the jam-packed rats cubby from the apartment. His boy, Nick (Paul Dano), may also be an ambitious author, which he too is fighting to understand precisely how that shapes his identity. But Jonathan and Nick must suffer their unique delusions and anxieties individually: Theyve been estranged as extended as Nick can remember, and hes been elevated by his hard-working, extended-suffering mother (Julianne Moore, whose periodic looks inside the angst-ridden narrative are similar to small puffs of ocean air what sort of lady can believably play a personality whos working two tiring jobs but nonetheless look so radiant is beyond me). Nick and Jonathan reunite when Jonathan tracks him lower to request help: He needs Nick to help him move his stuff in to a storage facility after he's started from his apartment. (The offense: He assaulted a noisy neighbor getting huge stick fitted with two sharp nails, the initial of numerous Travis Bickle-style indications that are carried out more for laughs in comparison to suspense.) By this time around round the aimless Nick has began your destitute shelter, within the promoting from the fetching new female acquaintance, Denise (Olivia Thirlby, who gives some nicely chiseled curves with a rather shapeless role). Imagine his surprise when Jumps appears within the shelter, becoming lost his cabbies license thanks only to his irrepressible irascibility. The formerly nebulous relationship between Nick and Jonathan needs a more concrete form rapidly, it is also not pretty. Being Flynn isn't sure exactly what it desires to really cover: We have lots of voice-over from Dano's Nick, musing shateringly by what this signifies to become author, in addition to merely a maybe-author, although reflecting round the character in the barely-there relationship he's along with his father. Meanwhile, Jonathan goes further and extra in the deep finish, acting more unlikable (in addition to certifiable) before, within the finish, being redeemed having a last-minute bout of semi-benevolent winkling and twinkling. The script was modified by Weitz from Nick Flynns Another Bullshit Evening in Suck City: A Memoir, to ensure that as hes created the material for your screen, he's made certain that Nicks youthful disaffection and befuddlement comes through noisy and apparent. That could be a lot of an undesirable factor, and Dano drifts through everything as being a moon-faced naf hes either giving a really subtle performance, or hes doing absolutely nothing its hard to tell. The moody, aimless, self-absorbed voice-overs hes given dont help much, though you'll have the ability to possess the periodic tug of sympathy for Nick: Dano gets the flat, impassive face from the toy in the Brothers and sisters Quay animation, but every every occasionally, a shadow of confused discomfort drifts noticeably across it. Jonathan can be a harder situation: The higher he misbehaves, greater it's to like him, and although P Niro plays the role using the correct quantity of mischievous menace, his shtick wears thin rather rapidly. This is often a character whos a great deal larger than existence that hes barely fitted to reside in it: Hes been a legend within the own mind for this type of very long time he is able to barely conceive connected having a effect he might dress yourself in others. P Niro bites to the role with gusto, but that helps it be much more wearisome to check out. You need Nick and Jonathan to know toward that necessary connection, however, additionally you dread getting there: Meaning these two personas, one rather indistinct as well as the other far too large for your britches of real existence, will have to meet somewhere within the center, and you just know its apt to be anticlimactic. And confirmed, it's. Yet theres undoubtedly that Being Flynn is certainly an effort for something painful and genuine the film itself yearns to produce a connection, even if it cant quite locate the most effective channels. Numerous its problems may be rooted inside the tone as determined with the source material: Sooner or later Nick, thinking aloud in voice-over in regards to the non-relationship he's along with his father, miracles if theyll find each other if Nick just stays area. But let us say both of you are lost and you also both finish off in the same position, waiting, according to him aloud, giving straight into that kind of circular nonthinking that authors, as theyre described on-screen, frequently enjoy. Maybe if Nick did less thinking aloud, so when Jonathan had less adorable-loose-cannon moments, Being Flynn is a more direct, more effective picture. Since it is, its a movie thats always thinking aloud, departing us waiting, and waiting, with this to behave. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Musicians Union Lends 'Full Support' to SAG-AFTRA Merger

The American Federation of Musicians has endorsed SAG/AFTRA merger, the AFM said in a statement Monday night, adding that the union's international executive board had communicated "its full support" to AFTRA and SAG."The proposed merger is a historic step and is a symbol of Unity for the entertainment sector and for the entire labor movement," said AFM president Ray Hair. "For decades, AFTRA and SAG have stood prominently and proudly for dignity and justice in the entertainment industry workplace. The joining of these two great unionsSAG-AFTRAwill focus Union power toward a better future for the media business, not only here in the United States but throughout the world." Although AFTRA is often referenced in Hollywood as a union representing actors and broadcasters (although the latter are only about 8% of the union, or 4% of a merged SAG-AFTRA), singers are also an important part of the membership. Thus, particularly on major label tracks, the singers are usually AFTRA members while the instrumentalists are AFM. Both unions have contracts with the major record labels.Last week, Actors Equity endorsed SAG/AFTRA merger. Both AFM and Equity, as well as IATSE, endorsed a 2003 merger attempt, That effort failed when SAG fell 2% short of the requisite 60% supermajority. The Hollywood Reporter

CBS Greenlights Comedy Pilot Starring Martin Lawrence

EXCLUSIVE: Using what will most likely function as the final pilot order this season, CBS has given a late eco-friendly light with a an untitled multi-camera comedy starring Martin Lawrence. The project, put together by Mike Lisbe and Nate Reger and produced by CBS TV Art galleries, stars Lawrence just like a widowed father of two teens who, after losing his job in construction, decides to go to police force academy and become a cop at 46. Lisbe and Reger are executive creating with Lawrence’s managers, Michael Eco-friendly and Mike Maydew within the Collective. Lisbe and Reger are conversant faces at CBS, their latest gigs were becoming supervisory producers round the network’s $#*! My Dad States and co-executive producers relating to this season’s How To Be A Gentleman. Nevertheless, a choice of their script just like a starring vehicle for Lawrence will be a surprise. CBS had commissioned 2 top authors, Tom Hertz and Ray Wilmore, to pen 2 potential automobiles for Lawrence, which has a talent deal with CBS this season. In addition, the network were built with a couple of backup scripts that have been much less particularly personalized for Lawrence, and one of these simple, Lisbe and Reger’s cop comedy, ended up acquiring the pilot order. They are with ICM.

'Quiet' time for Exclusive Media

Exclusive Media Group will fully finance supernatural thriller "The Quiet Ones" for its Hammer Films banner and has attached helmer John Pogue ("Quarantine 2").Exclusive will shop the project for the first time at the European Film Market this week.Pogue also penned the script, which is inspired by true events and tells the story of an unorthodox professor who uses controversial methods to take part in a dangerous experiment in an attempt to create a poltergeist. James Gay-Rees ("Senna," "Exit Through the Gift Shop") produces the pic.Exclusive's prexy of worldwide production and acquisitions, Tobin Armburst, will oversee production alongside director of development Shira Rockowitz.Pic, currently in pre-production, is presently casting and skedded to begin lensing in May in South Africa.Exclusive is also shopping Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo starrer "Can a Song Save Your Life?" from "Once" helmer John Carney. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Teri Everett ankles News Corp.

HendersonEverettNews Corp.'s top flack is walking lower.Teri Everett, senior Vice president corporate matters and communications, will exit her publish on February. 10. Julie Henderson will replace her, presuming the brand new publish of chief communications officer."I'm hugely grateful to Teri for leading our communications efforts so expertly recently,Inch Rupert Murdoch, chairman/Boss of News Corp.Henderson, who formerly offered as senior Vice president communications and corporate strategy, reported to both Everett and News Corp. leader Chase Carey, to whom she'll still report.Henderson continues to be continuously rising within News Corp. over her 5 years with the organization, most lately investing lots of time working in london with Murdoch because the conglom suggests using the fallout in the hacking scandal. She would be the top gatekeeper for that mogul, that has been greater profile than ever before as he's come to indicating themself directly via Twitter in recent several weeks.Henderson continues to be with News Corp. since 2006, beginning in the now defunct Fox Interactive Media division. Just before using the publish she went digital unit at MPRM Pr. She'll split her time between NY and La.Whilst former News Corp. leader/COO Peter Chernin was the one that first elevated Henderson from FIM right into a larger role managing West Coast communications issues for the organization, it had been Carey who required her profile in the conglom one stage further. This past year, he marketed Henderson to some more proper-oriented role that saw her move beyond PR to duties regarding driving greater synergies between all the company's models. "News Corp. professionals really are a peerless group and that i will miss them hugely," stated Everett, who had been with the organization for ten years. "Although it might be a tired clich, I'm ready for something different.Inch Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com