Why Podcasts Are Comedy's Second Coming: Adam Carolla, Marc Maron and Greg Proops Weigh In (Q&A)

This piece appears inside the new problem in the Hollywood Reporter. Clickhereto start to see the cover.our editor recommendsMelissa McCarthy Concentrating on Comedy with 'The Help' Director How 'SNL' Made Her CryModern Film & Television ComediansThe Comedy Roundtable Podcasts are actually compared to television inside the 19 forties, and permanently reason: The medium is entering uncharted territory but gets the possible ways to rival terrestrial radio. PHOTOS: Modern Film & Television Comics Throughout yesteryear couple of years, because the radio industry has obsessed over formats together with a problematic ratings system that frequently doesn't precisely gauge audience amounts or census, podcasts in the comedy variety have blossomed. Adam Carolla and Marc Maron lead individuals, carrying out a pioneering path removed by Kevin Cruz, Ough Gervais and Jimmy Pardo. The amounts tell the story: Carolla, who avoid 15 areas when his syndicated CBS Radio morning show was canceled this past year, has gathered an audience 10 occasions as large along with his daily podcast. The Adam Carolla Show has drenched greater than 50 million downloads every year Maron's two occasions-weekly WTF reaches 20 million and counting. Are both offered totally free, while aged episodes (like Maron's intense 2010 interview with Robin Williams) cost $1.99 at iTunes (nothing changes hands involving the programs and Apple, but server space is lower to exhibit producers and could get pricey at about $10,000 monthly). Cash starts flowing when listenership hits certain benchmarks and entrepreneurs come calling, which, according to Carolla, they have -- hugely. VIDEOS: The Comedy Roundtable "A number of it's performance-based, and our audience works," states Carolla, the first sort Guy Show and Loveline host who spent about $125,000 that belongs to them assist the podcast's nascent days and whose entrepreneurs include ProFlowers.com and Nissan. "It's much better than radio, high's a great deal Baloney about cumes, time spent listening, people finishing Arbitron journals with golf pens. ... With podcasts, you'll be able to tell the amount of shows are actually required directly into, lower for the click. That's better for your sponsors too for us." The positive thing concerning the podcast is its simplicity: Anyone can purchase a microphone and mixer, as well as the cost is nominal compared to some traditional radio program. "By getting a good investment of $700 to $1,000, you possibly can make a show," states Maron, whose podcast regularly charts inside the iTunes Top and charges $1,000 to $15,000 per sponsor. The comedian conducts interviews in the spare room of his La home, but he's rarely there nowadays as curiosity about his stand-up shows (which regularly be utilized for podcast-recording options) has hopped by fifty percent. "I'm now undertaking in rooms," cracks Maron. "Once I started WTF, I used to be a marginal character who couldn't get reserved -- a respected but acquired taste, not just a seller of tickets. Now, I am in a position to sell excellent.In . STORY: America online Beginning Late Evening Block With Kevin Cruz, Adam Carolla and Kevin Pollak "Just like a singular business, a podcast is most likely not lucrative, however when you appear at other revenue streams that could grow out of this, it definitely is,Inch states Judi Brown-Marmel, partner at Levity Entertainment Group, which handles such comics as Jim Breuer and Hal Sparks. "Who it serves best will be the individuals who don't fit a regular broadcast model. Like, if George Carlin were 22 today, a sum he do? Probably a podcast." Beyond the spoken word, the ripple effect would bring revenue from selling, book deals (Carolla's NY Occasions best-seller In Fifty Years We'll Be Chicks was released this season, and Maron is concentrating on his first book for Spiegel & Grau), apple apple iphone programs (after Apple and Google take ten percent, revenue is split 50-50 while using developer) and customers of comedy albums. Maron, inside an ironic twist after being told this past year to ride out his contract within the now defunct Air America, has returned to terrestrial radio through NPR, which pays to air edited versions of WTF.Presently, 13 public radio affiliate entrepreneurs carry the PRX version. Clearly, its not all podcasts are created equal. Greg Proops, who hosts cult favorite The Best Guy in the world, states what he makes from his Proopscast "is not even gas money. I really get it done because about 200 1000 people will hear me, that's greater than my gigs combined." Maron states his initial goal wound up being to "create a genuine buck" and pay his mortgage. Now? "I'm generating money because I've had the chance to book more work, nevertheless it's still just me together with a man throughout my garage." In contrast, Carolla also works from his garage -- "He's got a bunker!" mocks Maron -- but he utilizes 18 people, from "$10-an-hour males" to people "making six figures." "It's a business,In . according to him. "Madison Avenue and corporate America are actually involved. I don't learn how to define success, but Let me tell you that 18 several days ago, the kind of Nissan or LegalZoom didn't come in our podcast world. This is their explanation're within it in the large way, together with others are developing board." ReadThe Hollywood Reporter's Q&A with Maron, Carolla and Proops following a jump. Related Subjects Adam Carolla Marc Maron Greg Proops 1 2 next last

'Dancing With the Stars' Studio Receives Letter Containing White Powder

A white powdery substance was found in a letter envelope at CBS television studios for the second time in as many months, the Los Angeles Times reported.our editor recommendsCBS TV Studios Receive Letter Containing White Powder The substance was found Wednesday in a letter addressed to Dancing With the Stars; the ABC show is filmed at the studios. Authorities responded to the call, which was made around 3 p.m., at the studios, located at the 7800 block of Beverly Boulevard. The Los Angeles Police Department's hazardous materials unit found the substance to be harmless. Last month, a similar substance was sent to Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson in a letter that was opened in an isolated area. That substance also was deemed harmless. Ferguson later joked about the incident on Twitter: "Finally some office drama that isn't about Craig's hair! FYI: The hair is hot. Anthrax scare, not so much." Related Topics Craig Ferguson Dancing with the Stars CBS Television Studios

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Scarlett Johansson: Celebrities Deserve Personal Privacy Too

FIRST PUBLISHED: September 28, 2011 7:58 PM EDT LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Scarlett Johansson wants people to know that actors have the right to privacy too. The actress, who was the latest celebrity to have nude, personal photos leaked on to the web, told CNN that celebrities deserve the same protections as those not in the public eye. Just because youre an actor or make films or whatever doesnt mean youre not entitled to your own personal privacy, she told CNN, according to Reuters. If that is sieged in some way, it feels unjust. It feels wrong. Scarletts personal photos hit the web on September 15, and she admitted the additional attention on her life outside of work has been something shes had to get used to. Its an adjustment, but I think there are certain instances where you give a lot of yourself and finally you have to kind of put your foot down and say, Oh wait, Im taking it back, she said, per Reuters. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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'Black Swan' Interns Sue Fox Searchlight After Working for Free

Two interns who worked on Black Swan are suing Fox Searchlight Pictures after working on the movie for free.our editor recommends'Black Swan' Breaks Studio Record as Prestige Films Make Impressive Debuts, Expansions'Black Swan' Narrowly Tops Int'l Box Office With $19.4 Million'Black Swan' PGA Nomination Lesson: 'The $25-30 Million Film is Back''Black Swan' Takes Four Prizes at the Independent Spirit Awards Alex Footman and Eric Glatt filed their lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that the studio had violated minimum wage and overtime laws by hiring dozens of interns to do jobs for free that should have done by paid employees, the NY Times reported. They also claim that Fox Searchlight did not give them the kind of educational experience that would exempt the company from having to pay the interns under current labor laws. "Fox Searchlight's unpaid interns are a crucial labor force on its productions, functioning as production assistants and bookkeepers and performing secretarial and janitorial work," the lawsuit says. "In misclassifying many of its workers as unpaid interns, Fox Searchlight has denied them the benefits that the law affords to employees." Footman claims his duties including making coffee, handling lunch orders, taking out the trash and cleaning the production office. Glatt, meanwhile, worked as an accounting intern, creating documents for purchase orders and petty cash, going to the set for signatures and making spreadsheets to track missing information in personnel files. "The only thing I learned on this internship was to be more picky in choosing employment opportunities," Footman told the Times. "Black Swan had more than $300 million in revenues. If they paid us, it wouldn't make a big difference to them, but it would make a huge difference to us." Added Glatt: "When I started looking for opportunities in the industry, I saw that most people accept an ugly trade-off. If you want to get your foot in the door on a studio picture, you have to suck it up and do an unpaid internship." The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status for the suit, claiming that Fox Searchlight has employed more than 100 unpaid interns on various film productions. They also are seeking back pay as well as an injunction against the studio for improperly using unpaid interns on future projects. Fox Searchlight spokesman Russell Nelson told the Times, "We just learned of this litigation and have not had a chance to review it so we cannot make any comment at this time." Related Topics Natalie Portman Fox Searchlight Pictures Black Swan

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On The Download: Rockabye Baby

By Kathy SuarezNEW YORK, N.Y. -- If you are like many parents with a love and passion for music, I would assume that one of the many things you are eager to pass along to your new bundle of joy is great musical appreciation, along with a massive collection of records and albums you have saved throughout the years. Why wouldnt you? You want your little one to love The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, and even Madonna as much as you do! It has been discovered that a baby can hear sounds and often feel soothed by certain music while in the womb starting in the second trimester, so why not start the music classes early in child development? Thats where Rockabye Baby comes in. I actually learned about Rockabye Baby years ago before I was pregnant. (Im now 5 months pregnant and a proud owner of Bellybuds loaded up with Rockabye Baby tunes). My first reaction was How clever. Sure beats the alternative. Now Im not hating on other baby music out there; but in all honesty, those tunes can get a bit too kiddy, annoyingly repetitive and a little hokey. Lets face it- they drive parents insane. Rockabye Baby has managed to adapt and re-record the original classics from artists and bands weve grown to love and admire into simple, creative and mellow lullabies for your baby to enjoy. Is it possible for songs like Elvis Presleys Jailhouse Rock, Journeys Dont Stop Believin, and even Kanye Wests Gold Digger to be transformed into soft beats and chimes that will comfort your baby? The answer is yes. It is done brilliantly and the end result is a twist on some of musics greatest hits. Even celebrity moms and dads are big fans of this lullaby innovation! What I like most about Rockabye Baby is the broad selection of genres and artists who have jumped on this bandwagon. There is something for every music lover. If you like classic rock, check out tunes from Pink Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and Def Leppard. Maybe you lean more towards contemporary artists like Madonna, Coldplay, and No Doubt and you want your mini maestro to jam to some Like a Virgin, The Scientist, and Just a Girl. No worries, because Rockabye Baby has you covered. Country fans - there is something for you too! Hushabye Baby, under the same umbrella as Rockabye Baby, has created a spectacular selection of country lullabies from iconic artists like Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, and leading lady Taylor Swift. One of my personal favorites on constant rotation on my baby iPod besides the Madonna soundtrack is The Beatles compilation. I play that one a lot on my buds and it makes me wonder how much my little girl is enjoying such hits as Across The Universe, I Want To Hold Your Hand and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. Im just thankful I dont have to be tortured by Wiggles music now that I know Rockabye Baby has been able to come up with a magical and fun alternative for both babies and parents. So parents, lets not underestimate a newborns musical palette and lets expose them to the melodic world of our generations music. Besides, some of these great artists mentioned above were born stars and who knows, maybe your kid is this generations musical prodigy! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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'Prometheus' Plot Synopsis: Humanity's Future Is On The Line!

by John Phares Large news for sci-fi fans: Ridley Scott has finally taken the systems off his far-too-secretive-for-my-tastes sci-fi opus, "Prometheus." And how much of an opus it's! For a lot too lengthy we at MTV News, -- as well as the whole world in particular -- happen to be wondering, precisely what is "Prometheus" about, "Alien" DNA aside? Could it be an immediate "Alien" prequel? Does it inform us who the masters from the massive downed spacecraft the crew from the Nostromo get in the initial Alien were? Well, it appears such as the solutions to both questions remain un-answered, but "Prometheus" could still perfectly blow our minds using the roots of mankind, and also the fate from the world. Browse the official synopsis below if you do not trust me. Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Edge Runner, returns towards the genre he assisted define. With PROMETHEUS, he produces a groundbreaking mythology, where a team of people uncover an idea towards the roots of mankind on the planet, leading them on the thrilling journey towards the pitch-dark corners from the world. There, they have to fight a terrifying fight in order to save the way forward for the people. Wow, just wow. I suppose Patrick Wilson wasnt laying when he told us Prometheus would blow our minds. Consider mine blown. However I am curious, what's there to find out about the roots of mankind we dont know? What key bit of information does they discover that flies when confronted with everything we all know about evolution? And more importantly, so how exactly does this cause them to the far corners from the world? Lastly obviously, what alien race will the crew inevitably encounter to fight for that survival of humanity? June 2012 cannot come in no time, and i'm presently working hard on the time machine that can me there. Should i be effective, you will be the first one to hear my review. Take a look at what Michael Fassbender has told us concerning the plot of "Prometheus" within the video below: Inform us that which you think about the "Prometheus" plot synopsis within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Germany's Red Arrow targets U.S. shingle Fuse

BERLIN -- Munich-based Red Arrow Entertainment Group continues to expand in the U.S. with a planned majority acquisition in Mikkel Bondesen's Fuse Entertainment, producer of such series as USA Network's "Burn Notice" and AMC's "The Killing." Red Arrow said Bondesen, a native of Denmark, was familiar with both the European and U.S. markets, "an important prerequisite for the successful future partnership between Fuse and Red Arrow." The companies plan on developing and producing scripted formats from Europe for the U.S. market and vice versa. It's a strategy already employed by Fuse, which landed a hit with "The Killing," an adaptation of the hit Danish series "Forbrydelsen." "That's evidence of the potential of European and especially Scandinavian material," Red Arrow said. Established in 2005, Fuse has a first-look deal with Fox Television Studios. It also produced the now cancelled Fox action comedy "The Good Guys." In addition to Bondesen, Fuse exec team also includes partner and CEO Henrik Bastin. A renowned producer in his native Sweden, Bastin exec produced ABC's "My Generation," sold "Breakshot" to Fox and is exec producing "Koping/Happy Hearts" for A&E. Red Arrow managing director Jan Frouman said, "We know how difficult it is to compete in the American market as a producer of fictional programming. That's why we waited for the appropriate time -- and more importantly -- the right partner." Frouman added that the Fuse team's familiarity with both the U.S. and European markets gave the company a significant edge. "We are confident that our output of fictional programming will certainly increase by partnering with Fuse." Bondesen added that Fuse had long been looking for ways to realize even more projects in the future that work in both the U.S. and Europe. "The partnership with Red Arrow is the perfect opportunity." The move marks Red Arrow's second U.S. acquisition. Last year the company, a subsidiary of pan-European broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, took a 51% stake in Santa Monica-based Kinetic Content. Already exhibiting the kind of synergies Red Arrow is aiming for, Kinetic produced the Betty White vehicle "Off Their Rockers," a show based on the Belgian hidden-camera comedy format that Red Arrow sold to NBC. Earlier this year Red Arrow's distrib arm SevenOne Intl. sold Dick de Rijk's gameshow "You Deserve It" to ABC with Kinetic also producing. Contact Ed Meza at staff@variety.com

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New Human Centipede Poster Online

Full Sequence is '100% Innacurate'The BBFC's decision to deny Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence certificates under any conditions means we won't be seeing it inside the Uk soon. But yesterday marked its debut at Fantastic Fest in Texas, also to herald the auspicious occasion, this is a new poster. It is a little Giger, just a little Se7en's opening credits, and almost quite stylish, before you decide to look just a little closer.... The remarkably not-sinister director Tom Six remains round the warpath in regards to the BBFC's decision. My first reaction could it have been was brilliant , Six told Empire at Silver Screen, but I've had enough now, and The most effective people to start to see the film. His primary beef is always that he thinks the BBFC have misinterpreted the film. It is said it comes down lower to some guy who's sexually obsessed with the first film, he describes, but he's just obsessed. The sexual part of it is so small inside the story, which is been inflated within the proportion. The pair of individuals who've seen it up to now have agreed with me at night. I'm very sad, because of there as being a lot black humour throughout my films. Britain might be the nation that gave us Monty Python, and lots of people once they saw the film would laugh their asses off, as it is so grotesque. I will tell they may request me for cuts, but to state it isn't-cuttable which it's illegal to check out it here's just way crazy! Undeterred, he's already planning Final Sequence, which will shoot at the outset of next season. Ultimately, the three films might be installed on each other like the centipede, he promises. Each film is not the same as the last one. Full Sequence is completely different to First Sequence, and Final Sequence will probably be totally different from both others. I'm not recommending how you have to uncover. In space? I won't say!

Teaser trailer for Liam Neeson's The Grey crash lands

Most of us have already been through it. You survive an plane crash, only to be hunted lower having a pack of baby baby wolves. Now Liam Neeson constitutes a movie relevant for this problem we could all recognize as well as the Grey features its own first teaser trailer.Fortunately, Neeson gets the relaxation of his oil drilling team to keep him company inside the Alaskan backwoods, getting a cast including Dermot Mulroney, James Badge Dale, Frank Grillo, Nonso Anozie, Dallas Roberts amd Ben Bray.See the trailer below...

Producers Guild Taps Steven Spielberg For David O. Selznick Award

LOS ANGELES, CA (September 21, 2011) The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that producer, director, writer and Principal Partner of DreamWorks Studios Steven Spielberg will receive the 2012 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Motion Pictures. The award will be presented to Spielberg at the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 21st at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The Producers Guild of Americas Selznick Achievement Award recognizes a producers outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The honor has a rich and distinguished history with past recipients including such legendary producers as Stanley Kramer, Saul Zaentz, Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Brian Grazer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Roger Corman, Laura Ziskin, Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall, John Lasseter and last years 2011 recipient Scott Rudin. As one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time, Stevens continued genius, imagination and fearlessness in the world of feature film entertainment is unmatched in this industry, said Producers Guild Awards co-chairs Paula Wagner and Michael Manheim. Steven has produced some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema and we have no doubt he will continue to bring thrilling adventures, emotionally moving storylines, thought provoking characters and cult classics to audiences across the globe. Were extremely proud to recognize Stevens contributions to the producing craft as well as the entire film industry with the David O. Selznick honor. David O. Selznick is a true legend in the producing field, and I am tremendously honored to be associated with his name and to join the company of so many distinguished filmmakers who have received this accolade, said Spielberg. I am extremely grateful to the Producers Guild. Spielberg is, collectively, the top-grossing director of all time, having helmed such blockbusters as E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, the INDIANA JONES franchise and JURASSIC PARK. Among his myriad of honors, Spielberg is a three-time Academy Award-winner, taking home his first two wins for Best Director and Best Picture for SCHINDLERS LIST, which received a total of seven Oscars and his third for Best Director for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. He has also earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director for MUNICH, E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Additionally, he earned DGA Award nominations for those films as well as JAWS, THE COLOR PURPLE, EMPIRE OF THE SUN and AMISTAD. In 2000, he received the DGAs Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Presss Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Kennedy Center Honor, among other career tributes. More recently, he was a producer of SUPER 8 directed by JJ Abrams. His upcoming releases include his direction of the 3D animated film THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN, due for release December 23rd in most international territories by Columbia Pictures and domestically by Paramount Pictures. It is produced by Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Kathleen Kennedy. He also directed WAR HORSE, based on an award-winning novel which has been adapted into a major stage hit in London and recently won Broadways Tony Award for Best Drama. The DreamWorks Studios film opens December 28th. His next film for DreamWorks will be his direction of LINCOLN which begins production in October. Apart from his filmmaking work and his television projects, Spielberg has devoted his time and resources to many philanthropic causes. The impact of his work on SCHINDLERS LIST led him to establish the Righteous Persons Foundation; he also founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation which became the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education in 2005; and he is the Chairman Emeritus of the Starlight Childrens Foundation.

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ROLL CALL: George Clooney Weds In New Commercial

By Jesse SperoLOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans Norway Lucks Out!: Hollywoods favorite bachelor George Clooney has wed at least, in a commercial for Norwegian bank DNB NOR. In the new spot, a confused bride wakes up in a hotel room with Polaroids, a wedding dress and George Clooney in pajamas. Were not sure what this has to do with banking, but were guessing many single ladies will soon be opening accounts with the Norwegian bank after seeing THIS commercial! SuBo Returns!: Our favorite rags-to-riches singing sensation is back with a new song! Susan Boyle who has been keeping a low profile lately returns with a new jam (can a SuBo song be a jam?) penned by Abbas Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. Check out her new song, HERE! A Latte & The Lady: A new talk show and a new lady for Rosie ODonnell! Find out who reportedly stole Ros heart while in line at a Starbucks, of all places! See Rosie and new girlfriend Michelle Rounds, HERE! New Guy For Vanessa?: Speaking of new flames, Vanessa Hudgens might have been reportedly dating The Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson, but according to new photos that surfaced from the weekend, she has a new man in her life. VHudge was seen locking lips with TV star Austin Butler, see the young budding love, HERE! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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The Playboy Club: The Bunnies Do Lunch

The Playboy Club "Should we all do the Bunny Stance?" asked The Playboy Club's Jenna Dewan Tatum, who plays rule-breaking Janie on the NBC drama, at a September 10 event held at Chicago's Drake Hotel. The luncheon united four actresses from the show with six real-life former bunnies who worked in Hugh Hefner's glamorous clubs in the '60s. "Don't forget your Bunny Smile!" added Gloria Hendry, who worked for seven years at the NY Playboy Club and went on to appear in the James Bond thriller Live and Let Die.Other than their official training with Pat Lacey, a veteran of the Los Angeles Bunny Club, it was the first time the actresses - Laura Benanti, Naturi Naughton, Leah Renee and Dewan Tatum - had the chance to trade stories with some real bunnies."Your wardrobe is perfect," said Sharon Rizzo, who began as a bunny in Chicago when she was 18 and worked for Playboy in various capacities for 20 years. The group had watched The Playboy Club pilot, and all agreed that the show is getting the details right."I didn't use ice baths, but a lot of girls did," said Scott, referring to a scene in which the women dip their tired feet in freezing buckets at the end of a 10-hour shift. "And those trays! Oh, your arm would hurt," added Hendry.Benanti, who plays Bunny Mother Carol-Lynne, called the personal connection "incredibly informative. Seeing the beautiful, intelligent, successful and elegant people that these women are - we owe them a lot." She'll remember that, she said, during night shoot when she's freezing in her costume.A den mother both on and off the show, Benanti - who appears on the cover of the October commemorative issue of Playboy magazine - says the actresses have taken on their roles off screen, too. "It happens a lot," she said. "I definitely feel protective of the girls, and I'm the one to rally us for social events and wrangle us when we need to make a change on set. I love them, and I try to take care of them as much as I can."The Playboy Club premieres tonight, 10/9c on NBC. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

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SAG Member Cops Plea On Screener Leak

Actor Wes DeSoto has agreed toplead guilty to copyright breach for leaking an honours screener of Black Swan together with other films to file for for-sharerBitTorrent. DeSoto’s L.A. apartment was raided by FBI agents in April carrying out a MPAA piracy officer expected the feds that several high-qualitycopies of movies had proven online. The bootlegs were review screeners supplied with the iTunes store to individuals in the Screen Stars Guild. The federal government physiques determined DeSoto since the reason through digital watermarks inside the movies, according to an FBI affadavit. Federal sentencing guidelinescall for just about any sentence between 10 to 16 several days, nevertheless the government is seeking three years of probation and restitution. DeSoto is predicted to appear in federal court for sentencing the next month.

Expendables 2 lands Schwarzenegger and Willis

Have we landed on Planet Hollywood? Sure seems like it with news that Bruce Willis will play the main villain in The Expendables 2 and Arnold Schwarzenegger will also have a substantial role in the film.The former burger bar buddies (Arnie is no longer part of the Planet Hollywood business) both had cameos in Sylvester Stallone's first film.It was a brief but very witty exchange in a church, so TF welcomes their increased involvement in the new film.Schwarzenegger's role hasn't been announced yet but Willis' bad guy can count on support from his second in command Jean-Claude Van Damme.Shooting starts in Bulgaria next week, with filming also due to take place in China.The Expendables 2 opens August 2012.

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5 top Steven Soderbergh Movies

5 top Steven Soderbergh Movies By Christy Lemire September 9, 2011 Photo by Universal Galleries/Bob Marshak "Erin Brockovich" La (AP) Steven Soderbergh makes every type of film imaginable, from fizzy comedies to penetrating dramas, from experimental indies with tiny budgets to star-studded extravaganzas. But he always appears prepared to try anything, and that is why is him so vital and exciting.Soderbergh's latest, "Contagion," follows a deadly virus because it propagates worldwide, declaring millions of sufferers. It provides for us an opportunity to roll-up our masturbator sleeves and clean our hands and pick five from the director's best films: "Traffic" (2000): Soderbergh won the Academy Award for the best director despite the fact that he was competing against themself with another film on this list, "Erin Brockovich" for his sprawling depiction from the worldwide drug trade. Not really a moment of the 147-minute epic rings false. Soderbergh juggles several complex, connected story lines along with a huge, large-title ensemble and causes it to be all look easy. Becoming their own cinematographer as always underneath the title Peter Andrews, Soderbergh explores the pervasiveness of medication and also the futility of government efforts to prevent them via a hyperreality, one that is raw and edgy sometimes, dreamy and almost hallucinatory at others. Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Johnson, Don Cheadle as well as an Oscar-winning Benicio Del Toro are probably the top-notch cast. "From Sight" (1998): Soderbergh captures the perfect tone each time, even while he includes a number of genres. According to the Elmore Leonard novel, this story from the improbable connection that forms from a career bank thief (George Clooney) and also the federal marshal who's after him (Jennifer Lopez) ranges from buddy comedy to gripping suspense to sexy, noir-style romance. Clooney and Lopez have crazy, sexy chemistry because they exchange banter in Scott Frank's script that could not be tight or snappier. They are each in the height of the charisma, and together they are irresistible. The superb supporting cast includes Ving Rhames, Albert Brooks, Cheadle (again), Steve Zahn and Catherine Keener. "The Limey" (1999): Terence Stamp is simply a complete bad-ass like a British ex-disadvantage who travels to La to research the dying of his daughter. His performance is effective and undoubtedly, but Soderbergh has an intriguing contrast by telling the storyline in fragments, in overlapping wisps of reminiscences and dialogue, which adds towards the air of mystery and keeps us speculating. Stamp prowls a blistering, bleached-out LA, a mixture of downtown warehouses and cheap flats, twinkling beaches and staggering hillside mansions. He's hunting a clever, laid-back record producer, performed perfectly by Peter Fonda, who had been associated with that much-more youthful girl when she died. Soderbergh effortlessly blends these actors' aura of '60s awesome together with his own contemporary style. "Erin Brockovich" (2000): Soderbergh requires a daunting and apparently dry subject the real story from the industrial pollution of a town's water supply and turns it into an uplifting tale of redemption that's warm, human, funny as well as sexy. That largely has related to Jennifer Aniston, who gained a best-actress Oscar for playing the title character, a single mom of three who assumes an enormous class-action suit while being employed as personal files clerk for her lawyer (Albert Finney). Roberts radiates sass and inteligence with her clingy clothes and dirty mouth, and she's a complete hoot. Aaron Eckhart counters that, getting sweetness and tenderness to the film because the biker nearby who cares for Erin's kids. "Ocean's 11" (2001): His remake from the 1960 Rat Pack caper is perfect escapist entertainment: fun and fast-paced, clever and spontaneous, light and filled with laughs. Clooney, Roberts, Matt Damon and Kaira Pitt are clearly getting a ball bouncing off one another, never taking themselves too seriously despite their Hollywood heavyweight status. Clooney stars within the Frank Sinatra role as Danny Sea, who amasses a rag-tag crew of cons to drag off his latest heist: a robbery of Las Vegas' greatest casinos about the evening of the heavyweight championship fight, when they know our prime paint rollers come in town and also the vault holds about $150 million. The proven fact that this really is crazy, yet goes so easily, is just part of why it's this type of kick.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 5 top Steven Soderbergh Movies By Christy Lemire September 9, 2011 "Erin Brockovich" PHOTO CREDIT Universal Galleries/Bob Marshak La (AP) Steven Soderbergh makes every type of film imaginable, from fizzy comedies to penetrating dramas, from experimental indies with tiny budgets to star-studded extravaganzas. But he always appears prepared to try anything, and that is why is him so vital and exciting.Soderbergh's latest, "Contagion," follows a deadly virus because it propagates worldwide, declaring an incredible number of sufferers. It provides for us an opportunity to roll-up our masturbator sleeves and clean our hands and pick five from the director's best films: "Traffic" (2000): Soderbergh won the Academy Award for the best director despite the fact that he was competing against themself with another film about this list, "Erin Brockovich" for his sprawling depiction from the worldwide drug trade. Not really a moment of the 147-minute epic rings false. Soderbergh juggles several complex, connected story lines along with a huge, large-title ensemble and causes it to be all look easy. Becoming their own cinematographer as always underneath the title Peter Andrews, Soderbergh explores the pervasiveness of medication and also the futility of government efforts to prevent them via a hyperreality, one that is raw and edgy sometimes, dreamy and almost hallucinatory at others. Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Johnson, Don Cheadle as well as an Oscar-winning Benicio Del Toro are probably the top-notch cast. "From Sight" (1998): Soderbergh captures the perfect tone each time, even while he includes a number of genres. In line with the Elmore Leonard novel, this story from the improbable connection that forms from a career bank thief (George Clooney) and also the federal marshal who's after him (Jennifer Lopez) ranges from buddy comedy to gripping suspense to sexy, noir-style romance. Clooney and Lopez have crazy, sexy chemistry because they exchange banter in Scott Frank's script that could not be tight or snappier. They are each in the height of the charisma, and together they are irresistible. The superb supporting cast includes Ving Rhames, Albert Brooks, Cheadle (again), Steve Zahn and Catherine Keener. "The Limey" (1999): Terence Stamp is simply a complete bad-ass like a British ex-disadvantage who travels to La to research the dying of his daughter. His performance is effective and undoubtedly, but Soderbergh has an intriguing contrast by telling the storyline in fragments, in overlapping wisps of reminiscences and dialogue, which adds towards the air of mystery and keeps us speculating. Stamp prowls a blistering, bleached-out LA, a mixture of downtown warehouses and cheap flats, twinkling beaches and staggering hillside mansions. He's hunting a clever, laid-back record producer, performed perfectly by Peter Fonda, who had been associated with that much-more youthful girl when she died. Soderbergh effortlessly blends these actors' aura of '60s awesome together with his own contemporary style. "Erin Brockovich" (2000): Soderbergh requires a daunting and apparently dry subject the real story from the industrial pollution of the town's water supply and turns it into an uplifting tale of redemption that's warm, human, funny as well as sexy. That largely has related to Jennifer Aniston, who gained a best-actress Oscar for playing the title character, a single mom of three who assumes an enormous class-action suit while being employed as personal files clerk on her lawyer (Albert Finney). Roberts radiates sass and inteligence together with her clingy clothes and dirty mouth, and she's a complete hoot. Aaron Eckhart counters that, getting sweetness and tenderness towards the film because the biker nearby who cares for Erin's kids. "Ocean's 11" (2001): His remake from the 1960 Rat Pack caper is ideal escapist entertainment: fun and fast-paced, clever and spontaneous, light and filled with laughs. Clooney, Roberts, Matt Damon and Kaira Pitt are clearly getting a ball bouncing off one another, never taking themselves too seriously despite their Hollywood heavyweight status. Clooney stars within the Frank Sinatra role as Danny Sea, who amasses a rag-tag crew of cons to drag off his latest heist: a robbery of Las Vegas' greatest casinos about the evening of the heavyweight championship fight, when they know our prime paint rollers come in town and also the vault holds about $150 million. The truth that this really is crazy, yet goes so easily, is just a part of why it's this type of kick.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. 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James Mangold And Cathy Konrad Team With Montecito For Juliet

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Cathy Konrad and James Mangold’s Tree Line Films will partner with Tom Pollock and Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Picture Company on an adaptation of the Anne Fortier novel Juliet. They’ve set the project at Paramount for Mangold to direct, and with Chad and Dara Creasey (New Line’s Mean Moms) writing the script. Mangold is booked to next direct Wolverine 2 for 20th Century Fox next spring. The protagonist is a twentysomething woman who learns she is a descendant of one of the feuding families made infamous in Romeo and Juliet. She travels to Italy and discovers that the 600-year old curse is still in effect and her fate is tied to literature’s greatest lovers. Konrad, Pollock, Reitman and Ali Bell will produce.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Venice Film Review

Huge on period atmosphere and as murkily plotted as its source material, this big-scale European adaptation of John le Carré's 1974 Cold War novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy shows a faithfulness that should fully meet the expectations of the writer's fans. At the same time, with Swedish director Tomas Alfredson at the helm of his first English language film, one might be pardoned for hoping for a bit of the spookiness of his Let the Right One In or the political passion of le Carré's The Constant Gardener. Instead this good, old-fashioned square-off between spymasters Karla and George Smiley demonstrates a lot more loyalty than most of its characters. It is one of the few films so visually absorbing, felicitous shot after shot, that its emotional coldness is noticed only at the end, when all the plot twists are unraveled in a solid piece of thinking-man's entertainment for upmarket thriller audiences.Related Topics•Venice International Film... PHOTOS: 10 Movies to Know at the Venice Film Festival Loyalty and betrayal are really but perfunctory undercurrents in the dense screenplay by Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O'Connor, which ensnares the viewer in an electrifying world of bureaucratic spy-dom from the opening scene at London MI6 headquarters, or "the Circus". A bit like M briefing James Bond in a cluttered newspaper editor's office, the action gets started when British Intelligence's numero uno, Control (John Hurt), sends dashing agent Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong) on a dangerous mission to Hungary. He is to meet with a turncoat Russian general who knows the name of a double agent high within their own ranks. The mission to Budapest is a fiasco and puts an inglorious end to Control's reign in the Circus, along with the career of his right hand man George Smiley (Gary Oldman). In his gray suit, gray hair and stumbling gait, Smiley looks ready for retirement. But after Control's death, a sense of duty calls him back to catch the mole that cast a pall on his friend and mentor. The suspects are cut-out faces taped to chessmen in Control's shadowy, secret-filled apartment. They are all the Circus's top brass: the ambitiously dislikable "tinker" Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), suave "tailor" Bill Haydon (Colin Firth, sardonically tossing off all the best dialogue), the solid "soldier" Roy Bland (Ciaran Hinds), "poor man" Toby Esterhase (David Dencik) and George Smiley himself. Superb characterizations help distinguish the crowded Circus performers, though viewers are kept on their toes with an ever-expanding cast of operatives like the trusted young Peter Guillam (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the romantic "scalp hunter"/hit man Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy). Smiley's visit to another cast-off colleague, Connie Sachs (a delightfully blowsy, vivid Kathy Burke) puts him on the trail of the Russian spy Polyakov, who turns out to be a key part of the puzzle. Nothing in the plotting is banal or easy to second-guess; on the other hand, nothing is very clear, either, and there's a moment near the end when overlaid voices start buzzing through Smiley's head, suggesting he's almost as confused as the viewer. But all it takes is the patience to hang on till the final scenes, and the chessmen will be made to show their true colors in a quiet pay-off. Picking up a role on which the great Alec Guinness left his signature in the 1970s when the novel was adapted as a British TV series, Gary Oldman is a cold-blooded, inscrutable Smiley whose unhappy marriage is the only personal thing about him. The scene in which he relives his one meeting with Karla is about as excited as he gets, and yet his rock-solid steadiness in a world of betrayal and his penetrating mind make him a very British kind of hero. With the Cold War long gone and other problems to worry about on the world political scene, Tinker Tailor risks feeling out of date and superfluous. Alfredson's solution has been to celebrate the period and its rigidity in a stylish feast of modernism designed by Maria Djurkovic and lit by Hoyte van Hoytema. The look carries over from creative indoor sets like the beehive-walled MI6 conference room to locations in London, Budapest and Istanbul. Shots framed through window panes and sets lit through a constant hazy mist emphasize the spy theme; some shots, like Ricki Tarr's spying on a bedroom scene in the building across the street, have a Rear Window feel. Alberto Iglesias, who also composed The Constant Gardener score, manages orchestral accompaniment with a sly subtle touch. Venue: Venice Film Festival (Competition) Production companies: Working Title Films, Paradis, Kinowelt Cast: Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Colin Firth, David Dencik, Ciaran Hinds, Mark Strong, Toby Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hardy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Kathy Burke, William Haddock, Simon McBurney, Stuart Graham Director: Tomas Alfredson Screenwriters: Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré Executive producers: John Le Carré, Peter Morgan, Douglas Urbanski, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin, Olivier Courson, Ron Halpern Co-executive producers: Eric Heumann, Wolfgang Braun Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robyn Slovo Co-producer: Alexandra Ferguson Director of photography: Hoyte van Hoytema Production designer: Maria Djurkovic Music: Alberto Iglesias Costumes: Jacqueline Durran Editor: Dino Jonsatter 127 minutes Colin Firth John Hurt Tom Hardy Gary Oldman Venice International Film Festival