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| First Steve Jobs movie gets red carpet premiere Friday, Jan 25, 2013 06:18 PM PST  PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The first movie about Apple's legendary co-founder got its world premiere on Friday, just 15 months after Steve Jobs' death. "jOBS," starring "Two and a Half Men" actor Ashton Kutcher as the tech and computer entrepreneur who revolutionized the way people listen to music and built Apple Inc into an international powerhouse, got a red carpet roll-out at the Sundance Film Festival ahead of a U.S. national release in April. ... Full Story | Top |
| Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman's pay falls by $10 million Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:15 PM PST (Reuters) - Viacom Inc, parent of cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon and movie studio Paramount Pictures, paid Chief Executive Philippe Dauman about $10 million less in 2012 than a year earlier, a regulatory filing showed. Dauman was paid $33.4 million in the year ended September 30, about 22 percent less than the $43.1 million he earned in fiscal 2011. (http://link.reuters.com/kek55t) In 2010, he was paid $84.5 million in cash and stock, making him the highest-paid corporate executive in the United States. Viacom has been facing challenges at MTV and Nickelodeon, which are in a ratings slump. ... Full Story | Top |
| The CW orders "The Hundred" drama pilot, two others Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:04 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The CW has gone post-apocalyptic with its pilot orders. The network has placed an order for the drama pilot "The Hundred," based on the upcoming book series by Kass Morgan (which has received an initial two-book order from Little, Brown). The pilot will be set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet. Jason Rothenberg is writing as well as executive producing the project, which comes from Warner Bros. ... Full Story | Top |
| IFC Films acquires David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:03 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - IFC Films has acquired domestic distribution rights to David Lowery's "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," which premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as married bandits in 1970s Texas who set their sights on a local sheriff, played by Ben Foster. IFC paid in the low seven figures for the rights, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap. ... Full Story | Top |
| How Fox Searchlight made the biggest deal at Sundance $9.75 million on an egg sandwich Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:03 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The biggest sale at Sundance this year - "The Way, Way Back" - began with a promise and ended with a fried egg sandwich. Producer Kevin J. Walsh, a former assistant to Scott Rudin, told the agents selling his movie that he'd make everyone food if they closed a big deal. But before he could cook, a bidding war broke out that would pit the favored Fox Searchlight against a half-dozen other studios, including Lionsgate, Paramount, Magnolia, FilmDistrict and Open Road. Fox Searchlight won out and paid one of the highest prices for a Sundance movie in recent years - $9. ... Full Story | Top |
| Fox orders futuristic cop drama pilot from J.J. Abrams, J.H. Wyman Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:02 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fox has given the green light to a police drama pilot from "Fringe" executive producers J.H. Wyman and J.J. Abrams, the network said Friday. Described as an "action-packed buddy cop show," the untitled project takes place "in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids." Wyman is writing and executive-producing the one-hour drama project, along with Abrams. Abrams's Bad Robot Productions is producing in association with Warner Bros. Television. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lorne Michaels comedy pilot lands at NBC Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Saturday Night Live" boss Lorne Michaels is broadening his relationship with NBC via a new comedy pilot. The untitled project will star stand-up comic (and "SNL" writer) John Mulaney, and is loosely based on his life. Mulaney will also write and executive-produce the project, with Michaels, Andrew Singer, Dave Becky and David Miner also executive-producing. The project will be produced by Universal Television, Broadway Video and 3 Arts Entertainment. ... Full Story | Top |
| JFK drama "Parkland" adds Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, Ron Livingston to complete ensemble Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The JFK assassination drama "Parkland" has completed its ensemble cast with the addition of Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, Ron Livingston, James Badge Dale and David Harbour, its producers announced on Friday. The film, which commenced principal photography in Austin on Friday, has previously announced that Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton, Jacki Weaver, Marcia Gay Harden, Zac Efron, and Jeremy Strong would appear. The movie is based on Vincent Bugliosi's 2007 book, "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sundance 2013: Sony Pictures Classics acquires festival hit "Before Midnight" Friday, Jan 25, 2013 05:00 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Sony Pictures Classics has acquired "Before Midnight," one of the best-reviewed films at the Sundance Film Festival. Richard Linklater's film is the third installment in his series that began with "Before Sunrise." Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star as Celine and Jesse, two people with an undeniable attraction who run into each other for brief bouts of romance every several years. In this case, the setting is Greece, with the characters now in their early 40s. Linklater wrote and directed the film, which premiered on Sunday. He also produced it with Christos V. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" hits the U.K.: did critics zero in on torture scenes? Friday, Jan 25, 2013 04:58 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Zero Dark Thirty" landed this week in the United Kingdom, where the Kathryn Bigelow drama continued to stir debate over its depiction of the use of torture in the CIA's decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden. As they have in the U.S., some critics accused the filmmakers of implying that enhanced interrogation techniques could be a useful form of intelligence gathering, while others believed that Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal were more ambiguous in their portrayal of torture's efficacy. ... Full Story | Top |
| Oscars to include tribute to movie musicals from past 10 years Friday, Jan 25, 2013 04:57 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Oscars will honor the movie musicals of the last 10 years during its telecast this year, the show's producers said Friday. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said they were particularly excited to "showcase" three recent movie musicals - "Chicago," "Dreamgirls" and this year's "Les Misérables." That trio of films performed well with audiences and Oscar voters: "Chicago" scored a Best Picture statue in 2002; "Dreamgirls" won an award for star Jennifer Hudson in 2006, and "Les Misérables" is up for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture. ... Full Story | Top |
| Actor Burt Reynolds reportedly in intensive care with flu Friday, Jan 25, 2013 04:55 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American actor Burt Reynolds is battling the flu in the intensive care unit of a Florida hospital, CNN reported on Friday. The "Smokey and the Bandit" actor arrived at the unnamed hospital with dehydration and was later transferred to intensive care, Reynolds' manager, Erik Kritzer, told CNN. "He is doing better at this time," Kritzer was quoted as saying on Friday afternoon. "We expect, as soon as he gets more fluids, he will be back in a regular room." Reynolds, 76, is famous for roles in 1970s movies including "Deliverance" and "The Longest Yard. ... Full Story | Top |
| New Russian punk band documentary uncovers story behind 'punk prayer' protest Friday, Jan 25, 2013 03:40 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When three women of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot entered a Moscow church to perform a "punk prayer" in February of last year, little did they think their actions would land them behind bars and capture the world's attention. A new documentary, "Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week, follows the band members and their families as they struggle through the legal system in Russia. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. businessman sues art collector over Jasper Johns paintings Friday, Jan 25, 2013 03:01 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire businessman Henry Kravis and his wife have sued art collector Donald L. Bryant Jr. over three paintings by the renowned artist Jasper Johns that the Kravises say they bought jointly with Bryant with the intention of sharing them, then eventually donating them to New York's Museum of Modern Art. Kravis, co-founder of New York-based private equity firm KKR & Co., and his wife, Marie Josee, decided to purchase the "Tantric Detail" series with Bryant in 2008, according to the lawsuit, filed on Thursday in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Zero Dark Thirty" entertaining but inaccurate: ex-CIA agents Friday, Jan 25, 2013 02:30 PM PST  PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden movie "Zero Dark Thirty" may be an entertaining film, but it fails to capture the true nature of the work of those involved in his hunt and capture, according to three former CIA agents. Nada Bakos, Cindy Storer and Marty Martin are featured in HBO documentary "Manhunt," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week. It offers an alternative look at the long search by U.S. agents for the al Qaeda leader, who was killed in Pakistan in 2011. ... Full Story | Top |
| Singer Tina Turner on path to Swiss citizenship Friday, Jan 25, 2013 01:14 PM PST  (Reuters) - Soul music legend Tina Turner has taken the first steps toward giving up her U.S. passport and becoming a citizen of Switzerland, the country she has called home for nearly 20 years. The Zurich suburb of Kusnacht has approved Swiss citizenship for the "Proud Mary" singer, pending confirmation from other authorities in the country, a spokeswoman for Turner said on Friday. Turner, who was born in Tennessee, moved to Switzerland in 1995 to join her German-born record producer partner Erwin Bach and has lived there since. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Movie 43" review: gross. disgusting. juvenile. hilarious Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:57 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Some films awaken our inner child, allowing us once again to view the world with wonder and awe and magic. And then there's "Movie 43," which delivered a sharp nudge to the ribs of my 14-year-old self, who thought "Kentucky Fried Movie" was the funniest thing ever. "Movie 43" is gross, juvenile, disgusting, scatological, vile, reprehensible and in the worst possible taste. But heaven help me, I laughed. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sneaky Sundance winds down in a flurry of deals and buzz Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:56 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is going into the homestretch, with three days of screenings, one awards ceremony and dozens of post-mortems still to come. And as moviegoers come down from the mountain and the films that were acquired in Park City are readied for release, a festival that initially seemed to be disappointing is shaping up to be a solid showcase for a wide variety of indie films ... in other words, a fest that delivered what Sundance is supposed to deliver. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Office" vets Craig Robinson, Greg Daniels sell pilot to NBC Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:55 PM PST NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - A few veterans of "The Office" have lined up their next job: Executive producer Greg Daniels, star Craig Robinson and writer-producer Owen Ellickson have sold an untitled pilot to NBC in which Robinson would play a musician who becomes a music teacher. Tracy Katsky, Howard Klein and Mark Schulman will also executive produce the single-camera comedy, which Robinson will produce. The story revolves around Robinson's character adjusting to precocious kids, teaching politics, and the temptations of single moms. ... Full Story | Top |
| Brooke Shields signs up for a hitch on Lifetime's "Army Wives" Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:53 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Brooke Shields has signed up for the Air Force - or at least the Air Force as it's portrayed on "Army Wives." "Pretty Baby" star Shields will join the cast of the Lifetime series for its seventh season, the network said Thursday. Shields will play Katherine "Kat" Young, a brash, brilliant Air Force colonel and crack C-17 pilot who clashes with Gen. Michael Holden (Brian McNamara) shortly after arriving at Joint Base Marshall Bring. ... Full Story | Top |
| Academy turned $51 million profit on 2012 Oscars Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:49 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Last year's Oscars turned a tidy $51.2 million profit, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed in its annual report issued Thursday. AMPAS said it brought in $103.3 million in total revenue for 2012 and its net assets stand at $299.5 million, an increase of $10 million over 2011 and $41 million from 2010. Almost $90 million of the revenue came from the Oscars and related events. Last year's Academy Awards cost roughly $38 million to produce. Expenses in 2012 rose to $88.6 million from $74.5 million the previous year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lena Dunham says "Girls" season 3 starts shooting in March Friday, Jan 25, 2013 12:48 PM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - HBO has yet to announce whether "Girls" has been renewed for a third season, but that's okay, because Lena Dunham may have done it for them. The writer, director and star of the critically-acclaimed comedy told Alec Baldwin during his WNYC podcast, "Here's the Thing," that she is preparing to start shooting the next season in March. "I just finished season two," the Golden Globe-winning actress said on Monday. "We're starting at the end of March. I'm so excited." And much to delight of million of the 1. ... Full Story | Top |
| ESPN's Rachel Nichols jumps to CNN, Turner Sports Friday, Jan 25, 2013 10:36 AM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - ESPN reporter Rachel Nichols has made the leap to CNN. The former "SportsCenter" correspondent has been hired by CNN, where she will host a new weekend sports program. Nichols will also provide coverage for Turner Sports, and cover all major sporting events, including the Olympics, for CNN and Turner. Nichols' first assignment in her new position will be the Super Bowl on February 3. ... Full Story | Top |
| HBO orders comedy pilot from the Duplass brothers Friday, Jan 25, 2013 10:36 AM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Duplass brothers are adding HBO to their extended family. Sibling "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" collaborators Mark and Jay Duplass have landed a comedy pilot with HBO, a spokeswoman for the network told TheWrap on Thursday. The half-hour pilot, "Togetherness," revolves round two couples living under the same roof who struggle to keep their relationships alive while pursuing their individual dreams. The Duplass brothers will write, executive produce and direct the pilot. Stephanie Langhoff of Duplass Brothers Productions will serve as co-executive producer. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" review: a bloody Grimm mess Friday, Jan 25, 2013 10:35 AM PST LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There are mash-ups - and there's just mashed. "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" is the latter, a squashed-together mess that tries to cram too many different types of movies into one and instead ends up as a pointless, steaming pile of cinematic detritus. It must have sounded good at the pitch meeting. Take the Grimm Brothers' classic tale about a brother and sister who are taken prisoner by a witch after nibbling on her candy house and cross it with a really badass action picture. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dark side of porn star's life revealed in indie film "Lovelace" Friday, Jan 25, 2013 04:25 AM PST  PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Porn star Linda Lovelace became a poster girl for the sexual revolution of the 1970s, but it's her story of a life marked by domestic abuse and exploitation that is the focus of a new film. "Lovelace," starring Amanda Seyfried, joined a slate of films exploring the darker side of sex and pornography at the Sundance Film Festival this week. Seyfried, 27, is best known for playing pretty, wide-eyed blondes in movies such as "Mean Girls," "Mamma Mia!" and "Les Miserables." Not this time. ... Full Story | Top |
| Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix headline Coachella 2013 music fest Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 10:58 PM PST (Reuters) - British rockers Blur and The Stone Roses will be joining French indie-rock band Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline this year's three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, organizers said on Thursday. The annual music festival, set for two consecutive weekends in April, has become one of the largest U.S. music festivals, attracting more than 80,000 people to the desert town of Indio, California. ... Full Story | Top |
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