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| 'House of Cards' actress Scores killer role in indie movie Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:42 PM PDT By Jeff Sneider LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Up-and-coming actress Rachel Brosnahan, who played call girl Rachel Posner on Netflix's "House of Cards," is set to star in "The Sainthood of Bethany Wolfe," an indie movie that Michael Mailis ("Act of Valor") and Benjamin Scott ("Lovelace") are producing, TheWrap has learned. Dustin McLean will make his feature directorial debut with the film, which is expected to start production early next year. Story follows Bethany Wolfe (Brosnahan), a young girl taken in by a priest after losing her parents in a bloody murder-suicide. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Two and a Half Men' books Lynda Carter for season 11 Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:40 PM PDT By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Two and a Half Men" is adding a Wonder Woman. "Wonder Woman" star Lynda Carter has been booked onto the CBS sitcom for its 11th season, an individual with knowledge of the casting told TheWrap on Monday. It is not yet known how many episodes Carter has been booked for, or when she will first appear on the sitcom, which returns September 26. However, Carter will play a version of herself on the series - a version which Alan Harper (played by Jon "Duckie" Cryer) harbored a crush on in the mid to late '70s. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Under the Dome's' Jolene Purdy: Producers 'envisioned' a three-season story arc Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:38 PM PDT By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Many viewers (and critics) wondered just how many seasons CBS could squeeze out of its limited series, "Under the Dome." Recently renewed for a second season, one of its stars says the producers have always had a plan beyond Season 1. "From Day 1, had envisioned it as a three-season show," Jolene Purdy, who plays tech wiz Dodee, told TheWrap. "When you go into projects you can't look at it as limited, you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision," she continued. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Borgias' Noah Silver to co-star on FX's Howard Gordon pilot 'Tyrant' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 05:36 PM PDT By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - FX's high profile drama pilot, "Tyrant," has just found its first son. Noah Silver has been cast as Sammy, the son of lead character, Barry (Adam Rayner), on the drama project from "Homeland" executive producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff and "Six Feet Under" writer-producer Craig Wright, TheWrap has learned. "Harry Potter" director David Yates will direct the pilot. ... Full Story | Top |
| Miley Cyrus' VMAs performance shocker: The PTC disapproved Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:41 PM PDT  By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Parents Television Council is hot and bothered over Miley Cyrus' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. And the watchdog group isn't too crazy about Lady Gaga's shell bikini, either. The PTC carried out its own cherished annual tradition on Monday, complaining about the VMAs. It accused the network of peddling adults-only material to children. ... Full Story | Top |
| Keith Olbermann returns to ESPN tonight: Once more, with humility? Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:39 PM PDT By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Another year, another network for Keith Olbermann: The volatile late-night host returns Monday night to ESPN, the network that made him a star. But this time, he says, will be different. Olbermann left ESPN's "SportsCenter" in a huff in 1997 after five years at the network and began a 15-year odyssey filled with less-than amicable partings. He went from MSNBC to Fox Sports, was fired, and returned to MSNBC, where he tongue-lashed Fox News personalities night after night. He soon he soured on MSNBC as well, joining Current. That lasted barely a year. ... Full Story | Top |
| '12 Monkeys' pilot gets greenlight from Syfy Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:37 PM PDT By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Syfy is ready to monkey around - and presumably, there won't be a tornado involved. The cable network has given the go-ahead to a pilot for an adaptation of the 1995 Bruce Willis-Brad Pitt film "12 Monkeys," the network said Monday. The cast-contingent order is for a 60-minute pilot following "the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race. ... Full Story | Top |
| Politics, portraits and science showcased in NY Film Fest's documentary lineup Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:36 PM PDT By Steve Pond LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Documentaries about the wives of George Balanchine and Carlos the Jackal, and the real-life inspiration for "Dog Day Afternoon," have joined the lineup of the 2013 New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said Monday. The documentary slate will consist of three separate sections, organized thematically - an attempt, said director of programming Kent Jones in an NYFF press release, to create a lineup of disparate but linked films that "can be compared, contrasted, and experienced in dialogue with one another. ... Full Story | Top |
| Katy Perry, Barack Obama promote Obamacare - and Perry's 'Roar' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:32 PM PDT  By Ira Teinowitz LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It turns out the MTV VMA ceremony was also a little occasion for Obamacare and celebrities to combine together in the guise of none other than Katy Perry and President Obama himself last night. It started yesterday when Perry used her Twitter account to retweet President Obama's plea for youth sign up for Obamacare via social media. "If you're one of millions of young Americans w/out health insurance, you can get affordable coverage starting October 1," the president tweeted from his account. ... Full Story | Top |
| Princess Diana biopic set for limited release in November Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:30 PM PDT  By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Entertainment One will release "Diana," a biopic starring Naomi Watts as the famed British princess, on November 1, the studio said on Monday. The film will open in limited release that first weekend before expanding into more cities and theaters. Three films will open wide that weekend - "Ender's Game," the Thanksgiving animated comedy "Free Birds" and the geezer comedy "Last Vegas." Three others will open in limited release - romantic drama "About Time," "Le Week-End" and "Aftermath. ... Full Story | Top |
| Zac Efron's 'Townies' will now be called 'Neighbors' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:26 PM PDT  By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The upcoming Zac Efron comedy movie "Townies" has a new name: "Neighbors." Universal announced the new title Monday. Starring Efron, Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, it will be released on May 9, 2014. Nicholas Stoller ("The Five-Year Engagement") will direct the tale of a young couple forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby. Stoller also directed "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Get Him to the Greek" for the studio. It will be the third comedy film to debut on the May 9 weekend. ... Full Story | Top |
| Author behind David Fincher's 'Gone Girl' signs with WME Monday, Aug 26, 2013 04:24 PM PDT By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Bestselling author Gillian Flynn has signed with WME, which will represent her for film, TV and adaptations of her novels, the agency announced on Monday. Two movies based on Flynn's novels are already on the way, with a third in the works. David Fincher will direct "Gone Girl," starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, for Fox. The book is the most recent of Flynn's novels and also her top seller, with more than 3 million copies sold since its release last summer. Pike will play a wife who disappears and Affleck the husband blamed for her absence. ... Full Story | Top |
| Catherine Hardwicke-Julie Taymor backed Kickstarter film about pioneer female filmmaker hits goal Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:21 PM PDT By Lucas Shaw NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - The Kickstarter campaign for "Be Natural," a film about pioneer female filmmaker Alice Guy-Blache, has reached its goal of $200,000. Guy-Blache made her first movie at the end of the 19th century, predating iconic early movies like Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery" and D.W. Griffith's "Birth of Nation." Filmmakers Pamela Green and Jarik van Sluijs have begun work on a movie that traces the career of Guy-Blache, her role in the development of cinema and her importance for young women who aspire to direct. ... Full Story | Top |
| Howard Kurtz's Fox News show gets a premiere date Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:19 PM PDT By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "MediaBuzz," the new Fox News Channel show hosted by Howard Kurtz, will premiere Sunday, September 8 at 11 a.m. ET, Fox News executive vice president Michael Clemente said Monday. The one-hour offering will "focus on the state of the news media in addition to the media's shaping of current events and their role in politics while also featuring interviews with leading journalists and commentators," the network said. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'NSYNC up 156%, Justin Timberlake up 1,876% in post-VMA sales charts Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:16 PM PDT  By Sara Morrison LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - 'NSYNC may have joined Justin Timberlake for fewer than two minutes of his big VMA retrospective medley, but it was enough to give the band a big sales bump on iTunes' and Amazon's sales charts. Among the increases logged at the two music stores, Timberlake's "Justified" jumped 1,876 percent and his former boy band's "Bye Bye Bye" jumped 156 percent on Amazon's "Movers & Shakers" chart, while their greatest hits album, released in 2005, hit No. 10 at Amazon and No. 18 on iTunes. Their 2000 album "No Strings Attached" hit No. 11 at Amazon. ... Full Story | Top |
| Broadcasters up their attack on Aereo-like FilmOnX Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:12 PM PDT By Ira Teinowitz LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Washington, D.C., broadcasters including Fox, NBC and ABC have offered additional justifications for a nationwide injunction to stop Aereo-like FilmOnX. In a filing late Friday in Federal District Court, the broadcasters charged that FilmOnX - which has changed its name from Aereokiller - is "a broadcast retransmission service, not a technology provider." Like Aereo, FilmOnX uses thousands of tiny local antennas to gather signals from local TV stations and provide them to subscribers. ... Full Story | Top |
| Lionsgate, Tandem partner on 'Sex, Lies and Handwriting' Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:10 PM PDT By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Lionsgate and Tandem Communications announced an agreement to develop and produce one-hour dramas, beginning with the crime series "Sex, Lies and Handwriting," the companies announced Monday. The show is expected to follow a straight-to-series model as Tandem's NBC series, "Crossing Lines." It follows an artist and handwriting expert who is drawn into crime-solving. Inspired by Michelle Dresbold's book of the same name, it will be written by co-executive producer Annie Brunner. Nancy Miller will serve as executive producer and showrunner. ... Full Story | Top |
| Madonna top-earning celebrity, trumping Spielberg, Winfrey: Forbes Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:07 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - She's still the Material Girl. Pop diva Madonna 55, is the world's top-earning celebrity, according to a Forbes list released on Monday, raking in an estimated $125 million in the past year, mainly from her $305 million-grossing MDNA tour, but helped by sales of clothing, fragrance and various investments. Director Steven Spielberg, who had a big hit last year with "Lincoln," was a distant second with earnings of $100 million in the year ended June 2013, most of which came from his catalog of past hits such as "E.T. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bill Murray returns to Letterman's 'Late Show' Thursday to mark 20th anniversary Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:00 PM PDT  By Tim Molloy NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Bill Murray, the first guest on "The Late Show With David Letterman," will return as a guest on Thursday to mark its 20th year on the air. Murray first appeared n the show on its first episode on August 30, 1993. This will mark his 26th appearance on the show. Murray was also the first guest on Letterman's NBC series, "Late Night," when it debuted in 1982. Last year, he visited the "Late Show" to mark the 20th anniversary of that appearance. He nearly started a fire while lighting a cupcake in honor of the big day. ... Full Story | Top |
| Netflix's 'House of Cards' to do NYT's first on-set TimesTalks Monday, Aug 26, 2013 01:59 PM PDT  By Jethro Nededog LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Already breaking through traditional television barriers with its nine Emmy nominations, Netflix's "House of Cards" is embarking on another first with the New York Times interview series, TimesTalks. TimesTalks will stream live from the Baltimore set of "House of Cards" - a first for the interview series - on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET, TheWrap has learned. ... Full Story | Top |
| Box Office: More misfires as genre films 'Mortal Instruments,' 'You're Next' Miss the mainstream boat Monday, Aug 26, 2013 01:55 PM PDT  By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Genre movies "Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," "The World's End" and "You're Next" all tried and failed to connect with mainstream audiences this past weekend. All three wound up with less than $10 million for the three days. The fact is, capturing the attention of mass audiences with specialized fare isn't easy. Studio marketers can usually connect with the built-in fan bases, and all three of these movies did that, at least to a degree. But breaking out requires connecting with the mainstream, and that's much tougher. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Closed Circuit' review: Surveillance cameras everywhere, but nothing worth watching Monday, Aug 26, 2013 01:52 PM PDT By Alonso Duralde LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The political unrest and assassinations of the 1960s, culminating in the Watergate scandal, provided fertile ground for paranoid thrillers, from "The Parallax View" to "Chinatown" to "Klute." It says something about the state of contemporary filmmaking that a global trauma like 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror has led to a spate of such mediocre films as "Rendition," "Lions for Lambs," "Body of Lies" and "Traitor. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dodgers owner could be interested in Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Monday, Aug 26, 2013 01:42 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Another sports team owner is eyeing the possibility of becoming a newspaper publisher. Mark Walter, the controlling partner of the group that owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, said he could be interested in buying the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune for the right price. "The Los Angeles Times says something," Walter told the Los Angeles Times late on Friday. "It means something. It's a brand. I think people have undervalued that. If the price were right, I would buy it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Hollywood reflects on race in year of black, civil rights films Monday, Aug 26, 2013 09:31 AM PDT  By Mary Milliken LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Race in America has been a hot topic of debate this summer and Hollywood, as if on cue, has muscled its way into the conversation. This year is shaping up to be a big one in film for African American, black and civil rights themes, offering audiences different lenses through which to consider the complex question of racial equality, both historically and in the present day. ... Full Story | Top |
| Italy's Mediaset shares suspended, hit by government woes Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:27 AM PDT MILAN (Reuters) - Shares in Italian broadcaster Mediaset, owned by center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi, were suspended for excessive losses on Monday with analysts citing worries over a possible government crisis following his conviction in a tax fraud case. "There are worries around the political situation in Italy which are weighing on the stock and the sector," said a Milan-based analyst, asking not to be named. The stock was indicated down 5.2 percent at 3.19 euros and was the biggest loser in Italy's FTSE MIB blue-chip index. (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak) Full Story | Top |
| Dubai pay TV firm OSN buys Pehla Media & Entertainment Monday, Aug 26, 2013 03:13 AM PDT By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai-based pay-TV network OSN on Monday said it had acquired Pehla Media & Entertainment, which offers nearly 40 channels in a variety of South Asian languages in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for an undisclosed sum. The region is home to millions of expatriate workers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and OSN Pehla will now be available across OSN's 24-country footprint in MENA. Pehla channels broadcast in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam. ... Full Story | Top |
| Factbox:Venice, the world's oldest film festival Monday, Aug 26, 2013 02:05 AM PDT (Reuters) - Here is a look at the Venice film festival, the world's oldest, which starts on Wednesday on the Lido seafront and promises two documentaries among the 20 titles competing for the top Golden Lion prize. The world premiere of Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity", starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will open the festival, however it is not part of the competition. * The first "Esposizione d'Arte Cinematografica" was in 1932. The first film to be shown was Rouben Mamoulian's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", screened in August of that year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Factbox: Top winners of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Sunday, Aug 25, 2013 10:00 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Following is a list of major winners of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards presented on Sunday in Brooklyn: - Best rock video - Thirty Seconds to Mars, "Up In the Air" - Best collaboration - Pink featuring Nate Ruess, "Just Give Me a Reason" - Best pop video - Selena Gomez, "Come & Get It" - Best hip-hop video - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton, "Can't Hold Us" - Best video with a social message - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, "Same Love" - Song of the summer - One Direction, "Best Song Ever" - Artist to watch - Austin Mahone - Best male video - Bruno Mars, "Locked Out ... Full Story | Top |
| Justin Timberlake wins big at MTV VMAs as 'N Sync reunites Sunday, Aug 25, 2013 09:57 PM PDT  By Chris Michaud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Justin Timberlake won big on Sunday at MTV's annual Video Music Awards, taking home the top prize for video of the year for "Mirrors" and a special achievement honor, and also led a much-anticipated onstage reunion of the boy band 'N Sync. Hip-hop artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars were among other top winners, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis taking home three awards, including best hip-hop video. ... Full Story | Top |
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