Friday, December 30, 2011

SAG National Executive Director Re-Ups Through 2014

The Screen Actor Guild's board has voted to extend National Executive Director David White's contract, which was due to expire at the end of February 2012.However, THR has learned that move to re-up White came in April or May, i.e., at least seven months ago, and the extension is through February 2014not 2015, as has been reported elsewhere.February 2012 would have been an awkward time for the guild's executive director to leave, to put it mildly: if the SAG/AFTRA merger process proceeds according to the two unions' plans, members will be receiving their merger ballots at the same time White would have been saying his goodbyes.Indeed, the SAG board's April 30 meeting is the same one during which the board approved formation of a Merger Taskforceand announced January 2012 as the target date for receiving a merger plan. That timetable no doubt influenced the decision to extend the contract.A SAG spokeswoman acknowledged that White's contract had been extended, but had no other comment. The Hollywood Reporter

Monday, December 26, 2011

Fashion Slam: Makeup Mondays: New Years Eve Sparkle

First Launched: December 26, 2011 12:22 PM EST Credit: WireImage La, Calif. -- Caption GS-12 , 26- Gwyneth Paltrow attends the Cinema Society and Salvatore Ferragamo screening of Two Fanatics within the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in NY City on February 11, 2009 Going full-scale for that New Years celebration? New Years Eve you're ready to shine have fun like a girl! states Celebrity Makeup Artist Carol Shaw, the Creator of LORAC Cosmetics. It is the time to liven up and be more daring and dramatic. Amplifier your thing with sparkle inside your eyes, shoulders and dcolletage (try LORAC 3d Liquid Lustre)! Take advantage of the lipsticks inserted with sparkle for full, luscious, twinkling lips (try LORAC Multiplex 3d Lipsticks). Carol, who works together Rachel Bilson, Nicole Kidman, and Debra Playing, shares her three favorite Red-colored-colored Carpet looks that are perfect for New Years Eve. SMOKEY EYES Getting An Easy LIP You could make a smokey eye with any dark eye shadow shade. Charcoal gray and black look good on brunettes. Browns look wonderful on blondes. Deep crimson and eggplant are great on red-colored-colored heads. Make use of a lipstick or gloss in peach, pink or nude to make a light lip, perfect getting a smokey eye! (See Gwyneth Paltrow for inspiration) BRONZE BOMBSHELL Sizzle this season in golds and bronzes inside your eyes. Create a bronze glow from mind to feet getting a luminizing face bronzer (try LORAC TANtalizer Baked Bronzer) inside your face together with an appearance bronzing luminizer anywhere within your body that you'd like a stylish, golden better-than-natural tan (try LORAC TANtalizer Body Bronzing Luminizer). Finish your factor getting a pearlescent bronze lipsticks. (Like J.Lo) OLD HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR Easily create this look with winged black eye lining (try LORAC Mind from the line Professional Liquid Eye lining), defined eye brows and ruby red-colored-colored lips! (Have a look at Taylor Quick) To learn more, have a look at internet.LORACCosmetics.com. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Harrison Ford Will Play Ender's Game

UPDATE: He's now officially signedUPDATE: Harrison Ford has now officially signed on the dotted line to take the role of Colonel Hyram Graff, in Gavin Hood's Ender's Game. Hailee Steinfeld has also committed to Petra Arkanian, and the cast is rounded out by Abigail Breslin, who'll be playing Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield)'s older sister Valentine....It appears there's going to be a minor Hugo reunion on Ender's Game, as writer/director Gavin Hood has now cast Ben Kingsley to star in the sci-fi film alongside young lead Asa Butterfield. Hood has adapted Orson Scott Card's classic sci-fi novel for Odd Lot Entertainment, and selected Butterfield to play Ender Wiggin, a prodigy who becomes part of mankind's war against a pesky alien race known as the Formics. Rising quickly through the ranks at the Battle School, Ender is revealed as a master tactician.True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld looks likely to play fellow School warrior Petra Arkanian, and now Kingsley is aboard to play Mazer Rackham, a legendary war hero many had thought was dead (spoiler!). Harrison Ford is still being chased to play gruff School commander Colonel Hyrum Graff, but there's no official deal in place yet. Is it just us, fellow readers, or do you kinda wish the casting of those two characters was reversed?Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are also aboard as producers, with the plan to start shooting in February. It seems that Card's novel will finally be taken off the shelf marked "unfilmable" and put before the cameras...

Monday, December 19, 2011

Seafood Fishing Inside The Yemen will receive a trailer

The initial trailer for Seafood Fishing Inside The Yemen has showed up online.Lasse Hallström's romantic comedy drama stars Ewan McGregor just like a investigator designated with showing seafood for the waters of Yemen with an ambitious Middle-Eastern Sheik.His tasks less bad since it sounds though, due to the fact the Sheik's attorney is carried out with the ever-charming Emily Blunt.The political position looks like it's merely a backdrop that appear like fairly traditional romcom antics, but McGregor and Blunt have a very pleasing chemistry and Kristin Scott Thomas can be obtained to provide sturdy support.See the trailer below:Seafood Fishing Inside The Yemen opens on 9 March 2012.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Downey Dips, Sherlock Slips With $40M Debut

First Published: December 18, 2011 1:22 PM EST Credit: FilmMagic LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Robert Downey Jr. is seen leaving a press conference for the new film Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, London, on December 12, 2011Sherlock Holmes is facing his worst enemy: declining crowds at the box office. Robert Downey Jr.s sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows debuted on top with a $40 million weekend, off 36 percent from the first installments $62.3 million debut two years ago. The first movie opened over Christmas weekend, one of the busiest times for movie theaters. Distributor Warner Bros. predicts the Holmes sequel will make up the lost ground over the holidays. But overall business was down again, a sign of the times as Hollywood struggles to interest audiences in its big year-end releases. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked did even worse than Holmes. 'Chipwrecked opened at No. 2 with $23.5 million, about half the business the first two Chipmunks movies did on their debut weekends. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Golden Globe Awards Nominations: The Complete List

NY - Howard Stern has signed a deal to join NBC talent show America's Got Talent as a judge, the shock jock announced on his Sirius XM Radio show on Thursday.our editor recommendsSimon Cowell Confirms Talks With Howard Stern for 'America's Got Talent' (Video)Howard Stern Talks 'America's Got Talent': 'I'd Be Better Than the Hoff' As expected, he will replace CNN host Piers Morgan. PHOTOS: Howard Stern Through the Years "It's offical - Howard just signed on the dotted line - he is now the newest judge on America's Got Talent!" said a tweet from the show's Twitter handle @sternshow. Stern said he will start shooting in February and travel the country for the audition rounds, according to people who buzzed about the news online. The show's live airings will move to NY where Stern is based. "Howard Stern's larger-than-life personality will bring a thrilling new dynamic to America's Got Talent starting this summer," said Paul Telegdy, president of alternative and late night at NBC, in a release that confirmed the news. An earlier tweet from Stern's show had said: "Yesterday, Howard met America's Got Talent winner @landaueugenejr . Howard says he's a really nice guy but he still shouldn't have won." Stern recently said he would be better on the talent show than David Hasselhoff. The addition of Stern caps off a big week for NBC's reality division, which has delivered much-needed good news for the network. Monday's return of Fear Factor, after its six year hiatus, brought the beleaguered network its best non-sports ratings for the 8pm hour since 2008. America's Got Talent is produced by FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics Howard Stern America's Got Talent

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Berlin reveals next Generation

BERLIN -- Sex and religion as well as the desiring lost parents are the prevalent styles apparent inside the first options for your Berlin Film Festival's children and youth sidebar, Generation. Planners introduced the initial 14 movies that will unspool inside the section, like the world premiere of Rebecca Thomas' U.S. pic "Electrick Children." Rory Culkin and Billy Zane star inside the tale from the youthful Mormon girl who thinks having a baby being triggered by an immaculate conception, while her basically religious family regards it an intolerable transgression. In the similar vein, Marialy Rivas' Chilean drama "Youthful & Wild" focuses on a lady whose sexual adventures puts her at odds along with her evangelical parents. They are among eight features up to now selected for your older-skewing Generation 14plus, which includes the earth premiere of Gabriel Marino's "A Secret World," of a schoolgirl who sparks around the dangerous journey across Mexico looking for her dreams. Other game game titles include Ella Lemhagen's Swedish crime drama "The Crown Jewels," starring Bill Skarsgard and Alicia Vikander Simon Staho's Danish-Swedish teen musical "Love Is within the Air" and Angelos Abazoglou's Greek-British "Mustafa's Sweet Dreams," of a teen striving being master baklava baker in Chicken. Also unspooling are "Off White-colored Lies," Maya Kenig's Israeli-French family drama set in the backdrop in the Second Lebanon War and Han Lee's South Korean title "Punch," of a boy coping with cruel and disciplinary teacher. The six photos up to now selected for your Generation Kplus tyke section include Indonesian helmer Kamila Andini's "The Mirror Never Lies," of a youthful girl who's still convinced her father will return from fishing the oceans and Nicole van Kilsdonk's Nederlander title "Taking Chances," of a youthful girl who still hopes her father will return in the distant war despite his disappearance around the medical save mission. Also screening are "Kauwboy," a Nederlander film by Boudewijn Koole, of a youthful boy who retreats into a motherless baby bird Alice Schmid's Swiss doc "The Children within the Napf" Janno Poldma and Heiki Ernits's Estonian-Latvian animated film "Lotte as well as the Moonstone Secret" and Rommel Tolentino Filipino pic "Nono." The Berlinale runs Feb. 9-19. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com