Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Redmond ONeal Sentenced To 1 Year Of In-Patient Rehab Over Recent Arrest

La, Calif. -- Redmond ONeal is heading to rehab. The boy of actor Ryan ONeal and also the late Farrah Fawcett pleaded no contest to criminal offence having heroin and being owning a gun on Wednesday morning in La, Access Hollywood has confirmed. Consequently, a judge sentenced Redmond to some one-year, in-patient rehab program and 5 years of probation, the District Lawyers office confirmed to gain access to Hollywood. Redmond is grateful for that chance to get additional intensive treatment, his lawyer, Richard Pintal, told Radar Online, which first reported this news. As formerly reported on AccessHollywood.com, Redmond was arrested on August. 2 in Santa Monica. A representative for that Santa Monica Police Department formerly confirmed to gain access to that Redmond was stopped at 8:45 AM on August. 2, for neglecting to visit a red-colored left turn arrow at Lincoln subsequently and Olympic. Redmond was stopped in the 600 block of Olympic Drive, much less not even close to law enforcement department. An electric motor officer determined ONeal was on probation, and for that reason he'd consent to look him and also the vehicle he was driving, the representative told Access. The officer found a controlled substance thought to become heroin within the vehicle. Prosecutors billed Redmond days later with criminal offence heroin possession. He seemed to be billed with as being a felon, owning a gun. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Last Screening (Derniere seance)

An Epicentre Films discharge of a L'ensemble des Films du Worso, Dragon 8, Mikros Image, Arane Prods. production, using the participation of Canal Plus, Cinecinema, and also the support from the Region of Burgundy and also the Film Commission of Burgundy. (Worldwide sales: L'ensemble des Films du Losange, Paris.) Created by Sylvie Pialat. Executive producer, Benoit Quainon. Directed by Laurent Achard. Script, Achard, Frederique Moreau.With: Pascal Cervo, Charlotte now van Kemmel, Karole Rocher, Austin Morel, Brigitte Sy, Mireille Roussel, Corinne Lamborot, Noel Simsolo, Francine Lorin-Blasquez, Nicolas Pignon.It's telling that noted French film critic, helmer and part-time thesp Noel Simsolo includes a small role in "Last Screening," because helmer Laurent Achard's third feature plays just like a private joke best shared among movie buffs. On the face a mental thriller in regards to a cinema projectionist-cum-serial-killer who's greater than a couple of reels lacking a complete feature, pic self-satisfyingly riffs on "Psycho" and "Peeping Tom," among many more, but is ultimately nothing more than a proficient but empty formalist exercise, lacking from the genuine feeling that distinguished Achard's previous, "Demented." Further fest play looks likely, in addition to a niche domestic release. Creepy loner Sylvain (Achard regular Pascal Cervo) lives within the basement of the small Parisian repertory house, where he is doing virtually every job from selling the tickets and projecting the film to washing the seats after, although lucky for him, it isn't the kind of place that sells popcorn. Actually, the joint shows just one movie every single day, Jean Renoir's "French Cancan" (1954), to a number of loyal clients, for example Monsieur Paul (Simsolo) and pretty ambitious thesp Manon (Charlotte now van Kemmel), who's sweet on Sylvain. The cinema's owner (Nicolas Pignon) intends to sell the area, that will leave Sylvain not just unemployed and destitute, however with nowhere to show his secret gallery of movie-star headshots, that he affixes human ears, ear-rings incorporated, gathered from women he stabs to dying throughout his after-hrs walks round the city. Sufferers incorporate a majorette (Corinne Lamborot), an industry-stall saleswoman (Mireille Roussel) along with a kind-hearted taxi driver (Brigitte Sy), amongst others. Heavy-handed flashbacks reveal Sylvain's psychosis comes from a distressing upbringing with a loopy mother (Karole Rocher, "Polisse"), who had been herself enthusiastic about films and would hit Sylvain growing up (performed by Austin Morel) if he didn't remember lines of dialogue she forced him to commit to memory, apparently for auditions. Maman Dearest's actions have apparently forged the monster we meet, even though pic is not any interested in psychology than in realism, given how implausibly lengthy Sylvain's murder spree continues without consequence. Because he shown with "Demented," helmer/co-author Achard includes a fondness for locating madness wriggling under quotidian, apparently harmless rocks, and it is good at pushing lengthy, slow shots for suspense. There's without doubt concerning the high excellence of the technique displayed here, in the wink-wink key lighting towards the symphonic utilization of source seem. However, the fabric is really naturally silly the style that it's performed eventually ends up searching meretricious and facile. Having a fierce, maniacal stare as well as an capability to look unsettling when you are performing simply standing still, Cervo once more proves a remarkable presence who nearly handles in order to save the film. Other people from the ensemble also submit good, standard perfs, with individuals playing Sylvain's sufferers particularly meriting praise for creating singularly harrowing screams of discomfort in the appropriate moments.Camera (color), Sabine Lancelin editor, Jean-Christophe Hym production designers, Frederic Lapierre, Frederique Lapierre costume designer, Benedicte Levraut seem (Dolby Digital), Xavier Griette supervisory seem editor/re-recording mixer, Mikael Barre assistant director, Pierre Senelas casting, Francois Guignard. Examined at Locarno Film Festival (competing), August. 9, 2011. Running time: 81 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

OWN taps cable vet for veep

LoweMeg Lowe continues to be named senior Vice president of distribution and technique for The famous host oprah Winfrey's cable network OWN, a partnership with Discovery Communications. The internet went through lots of upheaval since its The month of january launch, but professional positions in the internet seem to be backing using the recent announcement that The famous host oprah could be using the reins in the troubled cabler herself, and also the subsequent news the net's top brass would come with veterinarians of Winfrey's company Harpo, which created her syndicated show. Lowe, by comparison, involves the network from the lengthy career within the cable world, most lately at Discovery Communications, where she's labored since this past year. Within the new role, she'll lead sales, internet affiliate marketing, and carriage discussions for OWN. Just before her tenure at Discovery, Lowe would be a 15-year MTV Systems veteran, serving until her departure as senior Vice president of content distribution and marketing, managing distribution for those MTC and Wager systems. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Friday, August 12, 2011

American Idol Alum Kellie Pickler to Guest-Star on 90210

Kellie Pickler American Idol's Kellie Pickler will make her acting debut on 90210, TVGuide.com has confirmed. What's on your Watchlist? Create one and add your favorites like 90210 Pickler, who finished sixth on the fifth season of Idol, will play Sally, the cousin of new character Austin (Justin Deeley), as first reported by TVLine.com. She'll also perform "Tough," one of her four songs to hit Billboard's Hot Country chart, during the episode. 90210 elects Brandy for recurring role The 25-year-old country singer joins a growing cast of additions on 90210 this season, including Brandy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Hagan, CSI: Miami's Megalyn Echikunwoke and Privileged's Kristina Agpar. 90210 premieres Season 4 on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 8/7c on The CW.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

William Hurt Could be Too Big to Fail at the Emmys

With one win and three other nominations, William Hurt is a familiar Oscar favorite. But he has never had a role as challenging as playing U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in HBO's financial-collapse drama "Too Big to Fail." Here, the front-runner for lead actor in a miniseries or movie reveals what it was like to make a film about "extraordinary people dealing with real events." The Hollywood Reporter: You're a movie star. Why did you opt to do an HBO movie? William Hurt: I always look at the material, the caliber of people you're working with and how well they're going to work on it.THR: Having castmembers like James Woods, Ed Asner, Cynthia Nixon and Paul Giamattiprobably made the decision easy for you. Hurt: Oh, yes. "Show me with whom you walk, and I'll tell you who you are," is an old Latin phrase. So I'm a very rich actor.THR: But how do you convey the drama of something as arcane as the fiscal crisis? Hurt: That was my trepidation from the beginning. You know, it's docudrama. You're mixing two very powerful metaphors, and sometimes they're not compatible. Also, the other dangerous territory is pretending you can play a living human being.THR: So you spent time with the banker-turned-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. What did you take away? Your body actually looks different. Hurt: I worked hard on that, but I get a lot of help from the costume department. I wore a T-shirt with padding. He's idiosyncratic and very taut, a football player, always leaning toward the tape physically. Square, square shoulders, and what he does with his hands is impossible to accommodate because we would have had to plan every shot around the hands themselves. He's also very conscientious, conscious of how differently you play the game when you're on the field at Goldman Sachs and when you're the referee.THR: I was ready to hate him and couldn't help liking him. Hurt: I was ready not to, too, and I couldn't help it either. He pours immense amounts of his personal resources into getting national parks instituted in China, to address the carbon problem there. This is a man who doesn't wear his political or spiritual heart on his sleeve but operates personally by a set of principles more scrupulous than perhaps a lot of us. And then he gets grouped as one of the selfish, greedy bad guys. That's not appropriate. As an artist, I have to ask myself where did this person come from, not where do I come from that I can load my moral judgment on that person in retrospect. THR: An approach a lot of actors would take. Hurt: For sure. Attitudinal, sentimental drivel.THR: Almost all of the movie/miniseries noms are fact-based. Even Downton Abbey was inspired by a diary. Do you agree that people don't really understand reality anymore until they see it done in artistic form? Hurt: That is really the most important point. Being able to inform on a subject that intimately concerns every human on the planet, that's a privilege and a responsibility. This project does not analyze it from the point of view of someone who wakes up with a $22,000 debt to a bank in Iceland. It's not Inside Job. There are so many ways you can address the colluded delusion that the world fell into. This is a dramatized series of events. You choose one aspect; you analyze the brain of an entire event, slice by careful slice.THR: How did HBO have the cojones to make a movie like this? Movie studios couldn't afford the risk. Hurt: I was on an escalator with [HBO's] Len Amato and asked, "How do you guys do this?" They're smarter than I am by a lot. He said, "Well, we do have an alchemy going on here."THR: The movie captured the emotional alchemy of figures we usually think of as unfeeling masters of the universe who crush the rest of us under their jackboots. Hurt: Really, what they are is extraordinary people dealing with real events. They have extraordinary talent, and they're just as vulnerable as any of the rest of us. The Hollywood Reporter

Saturday, August 6, 2011

"Adorable" Zooey Deschanel Takes on Tailor-Made Role in New Girl

Zooey Deschanel "When did you realize you were adorable?" one admiring reporter half-seriously asked Zooey Deschanel, evoking a flood of tweets that accompanied the panel for New Girl, Fox's new comedy starring the (500) Days of Summer actress. "I don't think of myself that way, but I will take the compliment." Deschanel plays Jess, a quirky, slightly vulnerable, geeky gal embarking on an unfamiliar new phase in her life. Incidentally, this also pretty accurately describes her portrayer. To hear Deschanel tell it, taking on her first role on a television series was practically fated. "When I read the script for the pilot... I don't know if I've ever seen a part that was as charming and exciting and made me think," she said. "I was laughing out loud." Fox announces premiere dates for Terra Nova, X Factor and more When we first meet Deschanel's Jess, she's in a tailspin after a nasty breakup. As she convalesces, she subjects her three new male roommates to crying jags, periodic singing to herself and repeated viewings of Dirty Dancing. "I obviously needed to play this part; this is me," Deschanel joked. "I mean, not actually me, but it is a part of me, a secret part." Viewers may have a hard time imagining the and She & Him crooner, who memorably shower-serenaded Will Ferrell in the movie Elf, in a role described as "geeky." "There are some attractive dorks out there," countered series creator Liz Meriwether. "And Liz is giving them a voice!" added executive producer Jake Kasdan. "I didn't think I could find somebody as weird as I am," Meriwether added, recalling Deschanel's first audition. "The second she opened her mouth, everybody was like, 'This is a perfect match of character and actress.'" New Girl premieres Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 9/8c on Fox.