Finetune Your Audition Technique at Actorfest LA!

Finetune Your Audition Technique at Actorfest LA! October 30, 2011 Learn audition tips from the Casting Director of "Good Will Hunting," "Shakespeare in Love," "The Cider House Rules," "Pineapple Express," "Winter's Bone," "Sex and the City," and "The Help."One of the key things casting directors and directors look for in actors is their ability to take direction and make appropriate adjustments. Select participants will be chosen to read copy and make adjustments for top casting director Kerry Barden.To register for this dynamic workshop, visit actorfestla2011.eventbrite.com.Kerry Barden has been casting for 19 years. He has cast over 200 films, television shows, and plays and has offices in both New York and Los Angeles. Some of his film credits include "Boys Dont Cry," "Good Will Hunting," "Shakespeare in Love," "American Psycho," "I Shot Andy Warhol," "The Cider House Rules," "Unfaithful," "Monster's Ball," "Pineapple Express," "The Visitor," "Conviction," "Winter's Bone," "Conan the Barbarian," "Dolphin Tale, "The Help," "Machine Gun Preacher." He won a 2011 Artios Award from the Casting Society of America for "Winter's Bone." He was nominated for Emmy Awards for "Sex and the City" and "The Bronx Is Burning." He has also produced four films, including the award-winning "Conversations With Other Women," starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart. He is excited to return to Actorfest this year. Actorfest LA, which is brought to you by Back Stage, the Actor's Resource, will take place on Saturday, November 5th at the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles. To help kickstart your career, Actorfest offers more than two dozen exclusive Workshops; Casting Calls; Meet & Drops with Top Casting Directors; a Networking Caf; and an enormous Exhibit Hall, at which you can meet with acting teachers, coaches, schools, headshot photographers, and many more vendors who will help you succeed in your career.To register for Actorfest LA, please visit actorfestla2011.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit www.ActorfestLA.com. As you register, take advantage of our special limited-time subscription offers.Enjoy your day at Actorfest! Finetune Your Audition Technique at Actorfest LA! October 30, 2011 Learn audition tips from the Casting Director of "Good Will Hunting," "Shakespeare in Love," "The Cider House Rules," "Pineapple Express," "Winter's Bone," "Sex and the City," and "The Help."One of the key things casting directors and directors look for in actors is their ability to take direction and make appropriate adjustments. Select participants will be chosen to read copy and make adjustments for top casting director Kerry Barden.To register for this dynamic workshop, visit actorfestla2011.eventbrite.com.Kerry Barden has been casting for 19 years. He has cast over 200 films, television shows, and plays and has offices in both NY and Los Angeles. Some of his film credits include "Boys Dont Cry," "Good Will Hunting," "Shakespeare in Love," "American Psycho," "I Shot Andy Warhol," "The Cider House Rules," "Unfaithful," "Monster's Ball," "Pineapple Express," "The Visitor," "Conviction," "Winter's Bone," "Conan the Barbarian," "Dolphin Tale, "The Help," "Machine Gun Preacher." He won a 2011 Artios Award from the Casting Society of America for "Winter's Bone." He was nominated for Emmy Awards for "Sex and the City" and "The Bronx Is Burning." He has also produced four films, including the award-winning "Conversations With Other Women," starring Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart. He is excited to return to Actorfest this year. Actorfest LA, which is brought to you by Back Stage, the Actor's Resource, will take place on Saturday, November 5th at the California Market Center in downtown Los Angeles. To help kickstart your career, Actorfest offers more than two dozen exclusive Workshops; Casting Calls; Meet & Drops with Top Casting Directors; a Networking Caf; and an enormous Exhibit Hall, at which you can meet with acting teachers, coaches, schools, headshot photographers, and many more vendors who will help you succeed in your career.To register for Actorfest LA, please visit actorfestla2011.eventbrite.com. For more information, visit www.ActorfestLA.com. As you register, take advantage of our special limited-time subscription offers.Enjoy your day at Actorfest!

Iranian Actress Released From Prison

Hollywood Rallies Against Irans Draconian Verdicts Against Filmmakers And Stars Marzieh Vafamehr, the Iranian actress who was sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the government-banned film My Tehran For Sale, has been released from prison, according to Amnesty International. According to the human rights organization, her sentence was reduced to three months and her lashing sentence was overturned; she was released Monday. The movie, an Australian production that wasn’t supposed to be seen in Iran but hit the black market, stars Vafamehr as an actress who is banned from working onstage by Iranian authorities. It shows Vafamehr without a headscarf, and other Iranian young people going to underground raves, smoking hashish and having sex before marriage. Meanwhile, the recent rash of harsh action against filmmakers in Iran has resulted in the imprisonment of three BBC documentary helmers and sentences for internationally acclaimed directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof that include jail, a ban from making movies and restrictions on leaving the country. Panahi’s sentence was recently upheld. Amnesty also said Iranian director Mojtaba Mir Tahmasb remains in prison after helming the documentary This Is Not A Film, which chronicled Panahi’s house arrest and was smuggled to France to debut at the Cannes Film Festival. (The filmmakers’) continued detention illustrates the Iranian authorities desperate efforts to stifle any form of dissent,” Amnesty Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said.

I'd Nothing Associated With 2011 Elle List

I used to be asked for again to compile this year’s Elle “Women In Hollywood Energy List” — however playboy which i could not showed up at terms. So please don’t blame me for 2011′s incomplete and unbylined list which appears in our problem. I intend to publish my own, personal Hollywood options soon.

'Wild Animals Aren't Disney Characters': PETA Calls for We Bought a Zoo Warning

It was bound to happen eventually, and here we are: Three days after the Zanesville Zooicide that cost dozens of unleashed zoo animals their lives, PETA vice president Lisa Lange wants Cameron Crowe’s upcoming We Bought a Zoo to warn viewers off from wild-animal ownership. “We Bought a Zoo conveys the misleading and downright dangerous message that no special knowledge—just a lot of heart—is needed to run a zoo,” Lange said in a statement just over the transom at ML HQ, calling for the film to add a disclaimer discouraging the smattering of idiots impressionable enough to think amateur zookeeping is right for them. “As the tragedy in Ohio gruesomely illustrates, wild animals aren’t Disney characters. They have very special needs that all too often aren’t met by people who buy them on a whim because they think it would be ‘cool’ to own a tiger.” Fair enough, but I have to say that it really is pretty cool to own a tiger. Let me consult mine about this. What say you, Panjo? [via PETA]

Hugh Jackman Would Still Enjoy playing Jason Bourne

Hugh Jackman was previously around the very narrow your research of stars to see Jason Bourne, but switched lower the role that eventually visited Difficulties. The actor, who's presently starring in box-office champion 'Real Steel,' is becoming explaining why he rejected the role of your life: "I used to be likely to shoot 'X-Males 2' and Wolverine had become this factor throughout my existence which i didn't wish to be doing two such legendary figures simultaneously,In . he notifies the British Press Association. Although Craig is dedicated to two more films as 007, Jackman states he'd most most likely for the part if he were asked for again. "In my opinion every male eventually views playing Jason Bourne, therefore it wasn't right then, however it may be right whether or not this returns," Jackman states. The reigning 007, Craig, is presently in the office round the 23rd Bond film. Question if he and Jackman spoken concerning the entire Bond problem after they co-starred inside the 2009 Broadway output of 'A Steady Rain.' [via EW] [Photo: FilmMagic] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Magnolia picks up 'Roadie'

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to Michael Cuesta's drama "Roadie" and will release the film on video-on-demand Dec. 2 before a theatrical release on Jan. 6. "Roadie" stars Ron Eldard along with Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy and Lois Smith. The film was written by Gerald Cuesta and Michael Cuesta and produced by Mike Downey and Sirad Balducci. Eldard plays a longtime roadie for the legendary Blue Oyster Cult who has just been fired by the band. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to see his aging mom in Queens, where a wild encounter with two high school friends shows him that some things never change. Cuesta's credits include "L.I.E.," "Twelve and Holding" and Showtime's "Homeland." The deal was negotiated for Magnolia by senior VP of acquisitions Dori Begley and head of legal and business affairs Chris Matson, with Kevin Iwashina and Christine D'Souza of Preferred Content and Graham Taylor of WME working on behalf of the filmmakers. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Vivendi to distribute NFL Films homevid

Jordy Nelson and the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers are featured in an NFL Films DVD salute that will be distributed by Vivendi. NFL Films has pacted with Vivendi Entertainment to be the exclusive distributor and marketer of NFL Films' home entertainment programming in the U.S. and Canada. Agreement marks the first time the 46-year-old production division of the National Football League has granted both digital and physical (DVD/Blu-ray) rights for its home entertainment business, according to the joint announcement made by Barry Wolper, CFO of NFL Films, and VE prexy Tom O'Malley. As part of the multi-year deal, seven to 10 new DVDs will be released per year, kicking off with a four-disc salute to last year's Super Bowl winners, "Green Bay Packers: Road to Super Bowl XLV." VE, a division of Universal Music Group Distribution, will also distribute the existing NFL Films DVD catalog, which has more than 115 titles, including "America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions and Complete Game Sets." Product will be available at retail outlets as well as on iTunes, Best Buy CinemaNow and Vudu. "Through our extensive distribution network, we are able to offer compelling programming choices to NFL fans -- everywhere and however they want to enjoy the content," said Yolanda Macias, VE's exec VP, acquisitions and business development. Added Wolper: "We are proud to begin a new partnership with Vivendi that will make more of NFL Films' videos available to our fans in more places." Contact Steve Chagollan at steve.chagollan@variety.com

Johnny Depp's 'Lone Ranger' Struggle: The Actor Weighs In

FROM MTV MOVIES: Much like the unforgivable and unpredictable nature of the American Old West, the plight of Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski's big-screen adaptation of "The Lone Ranger" has been quite a bumpy ride. The film got the green light earlier this year, with Depp settled into the role of Tonto and Armie Hammer selected to play the Ranger. Then in August, Disney put a halt on the production with claims that the budget was too big. Just this week, negotiations ended on a happy note, with the production back in full swing and a tentative start date scheduled for early next year. MTV News caught up with Depp as he promoted "The Rum Diary," which opens October 28, to find out why "Ranger" is so important to him and why the budget became such a big issue for the studio bigwigs. Read the full story at MTV Movies!

REVIEW: The One Thing Spells Every Little Factor Yet Informs Us Nothing

As everyone knows right now, Matthijs van Heijningen Junior.’s The truth is not really a remake of John Contractor’s 1982 The One Thing, which wasn’t a real remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The One Thing from Another World. So we now have a couple of things which are only tangentially associated with the very first Factor, although the one thing concerning the third Factor is it describes how the one thing from the second Factor destroyed the Norwegian people who have been dead when that Factor being a factor. The One Thing from the third Factor essentially does exactly the same factor we had it do within the second Factor, therefore the third Factor most likely isn’t for you personally when the second Factor wasn’t your factor. Or possibly even when it had been. The One Thing — Heijningen’s Factor — develops from a world where everything must be described in meticulous, knowing detail. If Contractor’s movie opened up using the mystery of the Antarctic camping full of dead Norwegians, it’s no more sufficiently good to take that as face value: We have to understand what happened for them, and just how, and Heijningen has had it upon themself to explicate. The film does lots of speaking, figuratively speaking, without really lighting — towards the extent that lighting matters whatsoever inside a work of horror or sci-fi. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is Kate, a vibrant paleontologist-in-training who’s summoned towards the Antarctic by poker-faced Norwegian researcher Dr. Sander Halvorson (performed by Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen). Some people have discovered a spaceship that obviously crash-arrived in the region’s icy surface 1000's of years back. Nearby lay a frozen-solid beastie. Halvorson wants Kate to look at the creature, but he jumps the gun in removing a tissue sample from this. You are able to most likely guess why that’s an awful idea. Because the one thing isn’t really dead, and when an individual — or sled dog — is infected because of it (though just how that infection happens isn’t made obvious), it starts replicating and resembling that creature’s cells. So before very long, that Norwegian Antarctic explorer sitting alongside you may have a pink chicken carcass — filled with small shark’s teeth and giant insect pincers — jumping from his chest. Which means you are able to’t tell who’s human and who’s alien, so mistrust and paranoia breed faster than salmonella. Before lengthy Kate, the Norwegian people of the once august expedition, and 2 People in america who've become entangled within the mess (performed by Joel Edgerton and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) are thinking of getting each other suspiciously and analyzing each other’s dental work. That is correct. Heijningen and film writer Eric Heisserer — using, because the earlier Things did, John W. Campbell’s short story “Who Goes There” like a springboard — are extremely eager for their very own appealing sci-fi gimmick they have figures searching in each other’s mouths for clues. (The One Thing, it seems, can’t replicate teeth fillings.) Beyond that, the paranoia in The truth is your garden-variety kind, with individuals skulking about and casting accusing “Colonel Mustard within the dining area having a candlepower unit” glances. The effects are hokey and overcooked: You will find someone-horror gross-outs should you’re into that kind of factor, but mostly what you'll get are a lot of too-apparent leftovers in the Alien stockroom, including an array of moist innards, slimy tendons, dripping fangs and so on. The very first half-hour approximately of The One Thing — before the one thing begins causing havoc — is the greatest: For the reason that section Heijningen, showing the way the people and researchers look for a type of slapdash camaraderie within their snowy isolation, comes nearest to taking the atmosphere of cozy claustrophobia that’s the hallmark of The One Thing from Another World, a horror film that’s more suggestive than overt. But we are able to’t expect this Factor to become anything like this Factor. Heijningen is clever about knitting certain more knowledge about Contractor’s film in to the fabric of his: The film’s final shot is really a obvious echo of the start of Contractor’s. But Heijningen is really concentrated on spelling the solutions he does not remember that what’s left unsaid is generally what scares us probably the most. Today’s sci-fi leaves so very little towards the imagination, and The One Thing is inconsistent without coming to a type of impression — it starts vaporizing the moment the credits start moving. Virginia Woolf stated, “Nothing is only one factor. But a factor is certainly not whatsoever.”

Keith Olbermann's Current TV Announces Show With Former Michigan Governor

Current TV is launching a new primetime program hosted by former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm.our editor recommends Jeff Zucker Praises Keith Olbermann; Reveals His Own Plans Keith Olbermann Slams 'Very Stupid' Sarah Palin, Jokes About Anthony Weiner PHOTOS: Keith Olbermann's Famous Feuds The War Room With Jennifer Granholm premieres in January 2012. PHOTOS: The Hollywood Reporter Cover Stories It will air after Countdown With Keith Obermann at 9 p.m. ET. and feature election commentary. PHOTOS: The Most Talked-About TV News Faces Related Topics Keith Olbermann

Instinctive to start in L.A.

Germany's Instinctive Film is beginning a U . s . States division, situated in La.The Berlin-based finance, development and production outfit has joined with film traders Tony and Trina Rollo, entrepreneurs of Winnipeg Insurance Brokers, due to its expansion plan.Producer Cole Payne will oversee the operation while focusing on creating and financing photos additionally to grow Instinctive's production.The business is beginning Instinctive Management to nurture emerging thesps, scribes and helmers, headed by Jeremy Loethen, formerly of Raw Talent."It's been a rollercoaster year for people,In . mentioned Instinctive Boss Darryn Welch. "We have been busy attempting to broaden the business which is activities to sit in the ever-changing conditions on the market. Our plan's to own greater management over sales, marketing and distribution for your films we develop and convey.InchThe Rollos works alongside Welch inside an advisory capacity. They funded Instinctive and Preferred Content's mental thriller "The Divide," helmed by Xavier Gens, which their boy, Nate, will be a producer. Anchor Bay paid out low seven figures for U.S. rights at SXSW fest in March.Welch recently co-professional produced "Retreat," toplining Jamie Bell, Cillian Murphy and Thandie Newton.Instinctive is at publish on helmer Eron Sheean's scientific thriller "Errors from the bodyInch plus Nick Jaffe and Jack Rath's adventurer docu "Between Home." It's casting romantic drama "Posthumous," that is co-produced with Flying Box Prods. which is skedded to lense in March in Berlin. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Paul McCartney Marries For Third Time

Mister Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell Paul McCartney got married for that third time, this time around to NY businesswoman Nancy Shevell working in london. The pair, who've been dating since 2007 and engaged since May, exchanged "I dos" in the Old Marylebone Town Hall, that was opened up Sunday specifically for the ceremony, People reviews. Paul McCartney to get married longtime girlfriend The bride to be used a lengthy-sleeved, V-neck, knee-length ivory dress and footwear created by new stepdaughter, Stella McCartney, who also designed her dad's deep blue suit. The first kind Beatles' youngest child, 7-year-old Beatrice, offered because the flower girl. Throughout the ceremony, McCartney gave his blushing bride a classic-style Neil Lane gemstone eternity band featuring 5-carats of square cut diamonds occur platinum. Other wedding visitors incorporated Shevell's boy, Arlen her cousin, Barbara Walters McCartney's brother, Mike Ringo Starr and wife Barbara Bach and George Harrison's widow, Olivia. As McCartney, 69, and Shevell, 51, left the big event, he joked to photography enthusiasts waiting outdoors, "What's happening? What exactly are all of you doing here?" Take a look at photos of Paul McCartney Following a wedding, the bride and groom located an event at McCartney's home. Recption menus incorporated arugula and tulsi salad, goat cheese polenta, tarts, which consists of dumplings and 2 wedding cakes. McCartney also married his wife, Linda, in the same Town Hall in 1969. The pair had three children, and she or he died from cancer in 1998. McCartney seemed to be married to Louise Mills from 2002 to 2008 coupled with one daughter together - Beatrice.

M.C. Gainey in talks for 'Django'

M.C. Gainey may have played Mr. Friendly on ABC's "Lost" but the character he'll play in "Django Unchained" is anything but, as the veteran thesp is in negotiations to play Big John Brittle in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western.One of the overseers of the Carrucan Plantation, the nefarious character serves as a catalyst for the pic's plot, as herapes Django's wife, Broomhilda, before branding Django's cheek with the letter 'R,' which stands for 'runaway.'Jamie Foxx stars as Django and Christoph Waltz plays Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter tracking Big John and his two brothers in order to collect a large reward. Schultz frees and teams up with Django, who helps him find and identify them.Leonardo DiCaprio is set to co-star as villainous plantation owner Calvin Candie, while Kurt Russell is in negotiations to replace Kevin Costner as Ace Woody, a sadistic trainer who readies Candie's male slaves to fight one another to the death.Samuel L. Jackson, Gerald McRaney, Dennis Christopher and Laura Cayouette co-star in the pic, which is pushing back a bit in the wake of a pelvic injury Waltz suffered during training for his physically-demanding role.Production is still expected to start this November, with the Weinstein Co. slating the pic for a Christmas Day release in the U.S. next year.Gainey, who played Mr. Friendly on ABC's "Lost" recently appeared on FX's "Justified," will soon be seen alongside Nicolas Cage in Simon West's thriller "Medallion" and in Jay Chandrasekhar's comedy "The Babymakers." He's repped by Domain Talent and Miriam Milgrom Management. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

Resident Evil 5's Undead Will Ride Motorcycles and Shoot Guns

Deep thought of the day: They say if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. But if an undead creature rides motorbikes and shoots guns, is it still a zombie? If you’re Paul W.S. Anderson pulling together Resident Evil 5, the latest in your megahit zombie franchise, the answer seems to be yes. Speaking with Collider, Anderson confirmed that he’ll tap into the Las Plagas virus storyline for Resident Evil: Retribution, which begins filming this month in Toronto and will also shoot in Tokyo and Moscow. “We’re bringing in the Las Plagas parasite,” he said, “which I love because it allows the undead to basically run around, ride motorbikes, and shoot machine guns, which no one’s done before.” Yeah, you know why no one’s done that before? BECAUSE ZOMBIES DON’T RIDE MOTORBIKES AND SHOOT MACHINE GUNS. To be fair, the Las Plagas virus, which takes over the bodies of living things, is really a parasitic organism that gives its victims heightened strength and coordination, not to mention a collective hive brain-type control mechanism. And it comes straight from the video games, which means Anderson’s only being faithful to the Capcom canon. It’s fitting that as the Resident Evil franchise evolves from horror to action property (anchored by Milla Jovovich) that so, too does the definition of zombie undergo its own transformation. These aren’t really zombies anymore — and they sure aren’t the ambling, mindless walking dead of classic horror lore. Can we still technically call this a zombie franchise? Fans, meanwhile, should be pleased at the lengths to which Anderson is going to satisfy them; he’s introducing three familiar characters from the game series into the new sequel: Leon Kennedy, Ada Wong, and Barry Burton. So far only Johann Urb has been cast as Kennedy, joining returning series veterans Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Boris Kodjoe, Colin Salmon, and Michelle Rodriguez. Director Paul W.S. Anderson Talks RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION [Collider]