Paramount Responds to Massive Fraud Lawsuit, Claims Finance Partner 'Ignores the True Facts'

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images "I kind of feel like I should apologize to everyone we're nominated with," says Seth Rogen, nommed for a Spirit Award on Nov. 29 as producer of the cancer comedy 50/50, which also nabbed a supporting nom for Anjelica Huston and best first screenplay nom for Will Reiser.our editor recommends'The Artist,' 'Take Shelter' Dominate Indie Spirit Award Nominations'50/50's' Seth Rogen Reveals 'Most Challenging' Part of Filming (Video)Watch Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in '50/50' Trailer PHOTOS: Seth Rogen Unlikely Superhero "Alexander Payne never deserved to be uttered in the same breath with us. 50/50 really came from the same mindset and creative attitude as Superbad and Pineapple Express," Rogen tells The Hollywood Reporter. All three films were comic riffs on the writers' real lives. "I feel like I'm trespassing in the indie world and they seem to have accepted it," he says. "I hope people don't get mad at me for bringing my studio past into their world." STORY: What Moviegoers are Saying about '50/50' "I didn't even know the nominations were announced this morning," says Reiser. "But I'm pitching an animated movie next week and the nomination will benefit that. It's a project I've been waiting to pitch for six years, so I'm excited I'm in a place careerwise where I can pitch it." Told that now he has to get in touch with his inner Harvey Weinstein and promote the film, Rogen says, "That's the scariest thing anyone's ever said to me. I've had enough experiences with the outer Harvey." But Weinstein must be in a good mood because The Artist, which many thought was ineligible for most Spirit Awards because its director is French, nonetheless got five noms, right? "Yeah, no shit!" says Rogen. Rogen and Reiser are happily working on their next with 50/50 director Jonathan Levine, Jamaica, inspired by the time 14-year-old Reiser lost his Alzheimer's-afflicted grandma on a Jamaican vacation. "I don't know of another Alzheimer's comedy," says Reiser. "It'll be a first." PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Seth Rogen: Unlikely Superhero Seth Rogen 50/50 Spirit Awards 2012

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I Surpasses $500 Million In Global Box Office

If Summit Entertainment is actually serious about a merger or a sale, the company has the benefit of wheeling and dealing while it is at a high-water mark. Summit announced today that The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, flew past $500 million in global box office in just 12 days. The film is at $508 million today. It was released November 18 and single-handedly has brightened the overall box office picture. The film has generated $223 million domestic, making it one of only 12 films to reach $220 million in 10 days. Creatively, I thought the movie would have been much better had director Bill Condon finished Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn book in one movie. Let’s face it, the Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) wedding and subsequent pregnancy were sooooo drawn out, and nothing much happened. But then again, I am not a teenage girl or a Summit executive looking at another half-billion dollar haul once the second installment comes out next November 16. Said Summit Entertainments co-chairmen Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger: We couldnt be more pleased with the success of this film and a franchise that the fans have continued to support over the past several years. Thank you to all involved with the films from the actors, filmmakers and Stephenie Meyer to the most important group of all, the global fan base that continues to drive a desire for more Edward, Jacob and Bella.”

Gabriel Sunday on Becoming Archie for 'Final Project'

Gabriel Sunday on Becoming Archie for 'Final Project' By Melinda Loewenstein November 28, 2011 Photo by Big Air Studios Gabriel Sunday in "Archie's Final Project" "Put in something really sexy about how I'm about to break in the United States cinema like a tsunami wave of talent and expressive excitement," jokes Gabriel Sunday, but his energy and enthusiasm for life and his craft speaks for itself. Sunday isn't afraid to throw himself completely into a character. Take "Archie's Final Project," in which Sunday, 26, plays the title character, a 17-year-old who plans to film his own suicide. Sunday got involved with the film early in the development stage. "I've been able to really live this character from the inside out and understand what he'd been going through and understand his struggle and the main theme of the film, which is connection," he says. "The film is about suicide in some ways, but it's mostly about connection and reaching outside of your own narcissistic self to try to connect with somebody else."Producer Eric J. Adams met Sunday while he was developing interactive material for a haunted house in Northern California. Adams was working with director David Lee Miller on developing the idea of a ranting kid making a movie about his own suicide. Sunday says, "They were looking for an actor who would really submerge himself deeply into the mindset and the living situation of this character Archie. They wanted an actor who could also hold a camera on himself, film himself, edit himself, and that was me." So Sunday packed up and moved to Los Angeles, where he lived on the set of the movie and "became" Archie: "I slept next to the computer. I had a little green screen that I would talk in front of and cameras all around, and that was my home. And when I'd get inspired to record some dialogue or do a little talking to the camera, or pickups or reshoots or whatever it was, I would just do it," Sunday notes. "David really wanted the youth voice to come through, and so he really engaged young people like me to really get that across." Says Sunday, "Young audiences just latch on to this movie like nothing else." Nearly every time he goes to a screening of the film, kids will approach him, "and they look at me and my character and they go, 'Well, that's me. I'm an Archie.' It doesn't necessarily have to be exactly like Archie, but they find some kind of connection with him. It's just great. I think it comes from the fact that I was really able to find an honest voice with him from the inside out through the whole process. And just be really honest." It was important to Sunday to give Archie an authentic voice, because he feels a lot of movies depict teenagers as robotic; he believes "kids today are more emotional than they've ever been. They've got a lot to scream about, and I really wanted that to be this character."Questioning Roles As a young actor, Sunday feels he's at a point in his life where he doesn't have a lot of answers, but he has a lot of questions. Archie "was really a way for me to follow some of the questions I have about life," he says. "There's a few roles that if you're lucky enough to play, they let you work out some of your inner demons or at least latch into something where you can come up with some answers yourself. I just did a play at the Geffen [Jane Anderson's "The Escort"], and the whole play was about shame and about what shame does to our society. I came out at the end of that play feeling a lot more confident about myself. A lot more at ease either with choices I had made or choices I want to make.""Archie's Final Project" taught Sunday about connection and stepping outside himself to help others. He says, "It completely changed my life. Suicide is one of the biggest killers of kids, and it's skewing younger and younger. It feels great to be able to make a statement that might help somebody." Sunday says suicide prevention groups were involved during the development process: "We really wanted to make sure we were saying the right things. This is not a suicide prevention film, but it definitely starts a dialogue." Sunday is continuing the dialogue with teens by acting as admin on the film's official Facebook page.Be Prepared Sunday recalls one memorable audition where the girl acting opposite him hit her nose on the back of his head. He says, "She just started bleeding everywhere, and she got really embarrassed and ran into the waiting room, where all these girls were waiting to audition, and see this bloody girl running through crying. Bad stories like that, those things happen, but I think the worst thing is just to not be prepared."Although he does his best to make sure he's always prepared, he says not knowing the dialogue or understanding the character's voice is the worst feeling. "It makes you feel like a bad actor. It makes you feel like a bad human." But for Sunday, auditioning is almost a holy experience, and he has come to enjoy it. One of his best auditioning experiences happened during his run in "The Escort." He went in for an audition for a Vietnam film, and "this big giant scary guy"one of the producers whom the story was based onwas sitting there. Sunday nailed his audition. The big scary man congratulated him and asked if he'd read the whole script. Sunday hadn't had time and told him so, and the man shook his hand and said, "Goddamn, I appreciate your honesty." Sunday says he walked out of the room floating. "I didn't end up getting the movie, but that was a damn good audition," he says. When approaching a role, whether for an audition or for a project he's been cast in, Sunday says his main objective is to get it as simple as possible. He recalls a quote from Einstein: "If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it," and says, "That makes sense to me when taking on a role. It needs to be simple and clear, or else it's just going to get lost and jumbled." Whether it's acting, writing, shooting, producing, or even editing his own material, Sunday says, "I will never face the inability to be in front of people. There's never an excuse for anybody to not be in front of people and performing and making a movie or acting somehow. If the content's good and you're good, people will watch it. And 'Archie's Final Project' is really the perfect example of that. You couldn't stop us." Outtakes Sunday's first job was as a magician at a pizza shop.He is co-writing a biopic about Daniel Johnston in which he will play the musician-artist.> He says the "Harry Potter" novels were his inspiration to begin writing; he was about 13 when he decided he was going to write the American version. Gabriel Sunday on Becoming Archie for 'Final Project' By Melinda Loewenstein November 28, 2011 Gabriel Sunday in "Archie's Final Project" PHOTO CREDIT Big Air Studios "Put in something really sexy about how I'm about to break in the United States cinema like a tsunami wave of talent and expressive excitement," jokes Gabriel Sunday, but his energy and enthusiasm for life and his craft speaks for itself. Sunday isn't afraid to throw himself completely into a character. Take "Archie's Final Project," in which Sunday, 26, plays the title character, a 17-year-old who plans to film his own suicide. Sunday got involved with the film early in the development stage. "I've been able to really live this character from the inside out and understand what he'd been going through and understand his struggle and the main theme of the film, which is connection," he says. "The film is about suicide in some ways, but it's mostly about connection and reaching outside of your own narcissistic self to try to connect with somebody else."Producer Eric J. Adams met Sunday while he was developing interactive material for a haunted house in Northern California. Adams was working with director David Lee Miller on developing the idea of a ranting kid making a movie about his own suicide. Sunday says, "They were looking for an actor who would really submerge himself deeply into the mindset and the living situation of this character Archie. They wanted an actor who could also hold a camera on himself, film himself, edit himself, and that was me." So Sunday packed up and moved to Los Angeles, where he lived on the set of the movie and "became" Archie: "I slept next to the computer. I had a little green screen that I would talk in front of and cameras all around, and that was my home. And when I'd get inspired to record some dialogue or do a little talking to the camera, or pickups or reshoots or whatever it was, I would just do it," Sunday notes. "David really wanted the youth voice to come through, and so he really engaged young people like me to really get that across." Says Sunday, "Young audiences just latch on to this movie like nothing else." Nearly every time he goes to a screening of the film, kids will approach him, "and they look at me and my character and they go, 'Well, that's me. I'm an Archie.' It doesn't necessarily have to be exactly like Archie, but they find some kind of connection with him. It's just great. I think it comes from the fact that I was really able to find an honest voice with him from the inside out through the whole process. And just be really honest." It was important to Sunday to give Archie an authentic voice, because he feels a lot of movies depict teenagers as robotic; he believes "kids today are more emotional than they've ever been. They've got a lot to scream about, and I really wanted that to be this character."Questioning Roles As a young actor, Sunday feels he's at a point in his life where he doesn't have a lot of answers, but he has a lot of questions. Archie "was really a way for me to follow some of the questions I have about life," he says. "There's a few roles that if you're lucky enough to play, they let you work out some of your inner demons or at least latch into something where you can come up with some answers yourself. I just did a play at the Geffen [Jane Anderson's "The Escort"], and the whole play was about shame and about what shame does to our society. I came out at the end of that play feeling a lot more confident about myself. A lot more at ease either with choices I had made or choices I want to make.""Archie's Final Project" taught Sunday about connection and stepping outside himself to help others. He says, "It completely changed my life. Suicide is one of the biggest killers of kids, and it's skewing younger and younger. It feels great to be able to make a statement that might help somebody." Sunday says suicide prevention groups were involved during the development process: "We really wanted to make sure we were saying the right things. This is not a suicide prevention film, but it definitely starts a dialogue." Sunday is continuing the dialogue with teens by acting as admin on the film's official Facebook page.Be Prepared Sunday recalls one memorable audition where the girl acting opposite him hit her nose on the back of his head. He says, "She just started bleeding everywhere, and she got really embarrassed and ran into the waiting room, where all these girls were waiting to audition, and see this bloody girl running through crying. Bad stories like that, those things happen, but I think the worst thing is just to not be prepared."Although he does his best to make sure he's always prepared, he says not knowing the dialogue or understanding the character's voice is the worst feeling. "It makes you feel like a bad actor. It makes you feel like a bad human." But for Sunday, auditioning is almost a holy experience, and he has come to enjoy it. One of his best auditioning experiences happened during his run in "The Escort." He went in for an audition for a Vietnam film, and "this big giant scary guy"one of the producers whom the story was based onwas sitting there. Sunday nailed his audition. The big scary man congratulated him and asked if he'd read the whole script. Sunday hadn't had time and told him so, and the man shook his hand and said, "Goddamn, I appreciate your honesty." Sunday says he walked out of the room floating. "I didn't end up getting the movie, but that was a damn good audition," he says. When approaching a role, whether for an audition or for a project he's been cast in, Sunday says his main objective is to get it as simple as possible. He recalls a quote from Einstein: "If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it," and says, "That makes sense to me when taking on a role. It needs to be simple and clear, or else it's just going to get lost and jumbled." Whether it's acting, writing, shooting, producing, or even editing his own material, Sunday says, "I will never face the inability to be in front of people. There's never an excuse for anybody to not be in front of people and performing and making a movie or acting somehow. If the content's good and you're good, people will watch it. And 'Archie's Final Project' is really the perfect example of that. You couldn't stop us." Outtakes Sunday's first job was as a magician at a pizza shop.He is co-writing a biopic about Daniel Johnston in which he will play the musician-artist.> He says the "Harry Potter" novels were his inspiration to begin writing; he was about 13 when he decided he was going to write the American version.

Kyle Chandler Visiting Broken City

He'll be a political operativeHe was last seen trying to keep his son and the lad's friends from being menaced by a marauding alien (and the US army) in Super 8, but for his next trick, Kyle Chandler is going to dabble in politics, joining the cast of Allen Hughes' thriller Broken City.Mark Wahlberg is starring as a Noo Yoik detective hired by a powerful local mayor (Russell Crowe) to find out who has been having it away with his wife (Catherine Zeta Jones).But when Wahlberg eventually tracks down the man, he suddenly turns up dead and the detective starts to delve into a far darker conspiracy.Barry Pepper is also aboard, playing a mayoral candidate who is challenging Crowe, and Chandler will be one of the main players in his campaign. Griffin Dunne, James Ransone, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Chambers and Alona Tal are all in the cast.Hughes is busy shooting the film right now, which has a US release date set for January 18, 2013.Chandler has been doing rather well for himself since getting plenty of notice (and a surprise Emmy win this year) for his work on TV drama Friday Night Lights. He'll next be seen in Ben Affleck's hostage drama Argo.

Dog x Police: The K-9 Force (Dog x Police: Jyunpaku no kizuna)

A Toho presentation of a Nippon Television Network Corp., "Dog x Police" Film Partners production in association with Toho Corp., Yomiuri Telecasting Corp., VAP, D.N. Dream Partners, Twins Japan, Sapporo Television, MMT, Shizuoka Dai Ichi Television, Chukyo Television Broadcasting, Hiroshima Television, Fukuoka Broadcasting Corp. (International sales: Nippon Television Network Corp., Tokyo.) Produced by Shosaku Oyama, Naoki Suganuma, Atsuyuki Shimoda. Executive producers, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Seiji Okuda. Directed by Go Shichitaka. Screenplay, Tetsuya Oishi, Chihiro Masuda, based on the novel by Yoichi Komori.With: Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Jun Murakami, Takanori Takeyama, Shinnosuke Abe, Kenichi Yajima, Kitaro, Keisuke Horibe, Katsuya Kobayashi, Hirotaro Honda, Kazuyuki Aijima, Kitaro, Masato Ibu, Ryuya Wakaba, Yutaka Matsushige, Saburo Tokito.A solid, entertaining hybrid of pooch pic and cop thriller, "Dog x Police: The K-9 Force" follows in the paw prints of canine-themed Japanese hits "Quill" and "Rokku: Wanko no shima," and has retrieved more than $9 million locally since its October preem. Story revolves around a maverick cop who needs to learn about teamwork, played by handsome thesp Hayato Ichihara, though auds have mostly been drawn by his albino canine co-star, Shiro (Japanese for "white"). Offshore, pic will work for Asia-themed sidebars that are unabashedly entertainment-focused, but will die like a dog elsewhere. A strong opening sequence depicts the confused aftermath of a bomb explosion in a Tokyo shopping plaza. While administering crowd control, cop Yusaku Hayakawa (Ichihara) thinks he spots the culprit and gives chase, only to collide with a veterinarian (Kitaro) on a bicycle; after apprehending his suspect, Hayakawa helps the vet deliver four puppies to a troubled German shepherd, even rescuing an albino pup thought to be stillborn. When his suspect turns out not to be the bomber, Hayakawa is assigned to the dog squad as punishment for disregarding procedure. Slow to adjust to this puppy purgatory, Hayakawa has trouble fitting in with his colleagues, who have such intimate bonds with their charges that they even test the dog food themselves. Hayakawa's attitude changes when he is paired with the same white dog, Shiro (Shiro), whose life he saved in the opening sequence. Moral lessons about teamwork dovetail well with the pic's action elements as the hunt continues for the still-at-large bomber (Ryuya Wakaba), who is ruthlessly targeting high-tech corporations, the names of which play on famous Japanese conglomerates. Unfortunately, the script's credibility takes a nosedive with the appearance of a black-clad, bespectacled computer visionary called Steven Jubs, which swings the film into "Naked Gun" territory at its climax just as it should be taking on a greater solemnity. (Nevertheless, Nipponese B.O. was not affected, nor the distributor humbled, by the death of Steve Jobs during the pic's local release.) This misjudgment aside, tube helmer Go Shichitaka manages to keep the drama ticking, particularly in the tense, well-handled negotiation scenes between the police and the bomber. The director also avoids presenting his various canine thesps in too cloying a fashion; Ichihara ("Rookies," "All About Lily Chou-Chou") has good chemistry with his four-legged co-star and effectively walks a thin line between sympathetic and insubordinate. Erika Toda ("Death Note") is strong as the skeptical dog trainer who becomes Hayakawa's love interest, and Wakaba nails a sinister-sicko role at least partially cribbed from Dennis Hopper's bomber in "Speed." Decision to eschew CGI effects in favor of more traditional means of rendering explosions gives the pic a strong, realistic and visceral impact. For the record, Shiro is not an albino dog but a white shepherd, a breed in its own right.Camera (color, widescreen), Koichi Saito; editor, Hiroshi Matsuo; music, Naoki Sato; production designer, Yasuaki Harada; sound (Dolby Digital), Kunio Ashihara; visual effects supervisor, Norio Ishii. Reviewed on DVD, Sydney, Nov. 5, 2010. (In Tokyo Film Festival -- market.) Running time: 104 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Navy Shuts Call Questionable New Book About Bin Laden Killing 'Not True'

In the rare public comment, a representative for Navy SEAL Admiral Bill McRaven referred to as account in the killing of Osama Bin Laden inside the new book SEAL Target Geronimo by Chuck Pfarrer "not the situation.Inchour editor recommends'Act of Valor' Trailer Shows Real Navy Shuts around the Imaginary Mission (Video)Kathryn Bigelow's Navy Shuts Project striking Theaters March. 12, 2012Second Trailer for Navy SEAL Movie 'Act of Valor' Hits the internet (Video)Kathryn Bigelow's Navy Seal Team 6 Film striking Theaters in 2012 The U.S. Special Methods Command is calling the first sort Navy SEAL's book wrong over its states describe the "real" version in the raid that destroyed Osama bin Laden. PHOTOS: Best Presidents in Film and tv It attracted attention in Hollywood when agents looked the manuscript to producers inside the days before publication. SEAL Target Geronimo might be the most recent in many book and film projects in regards to the elite Navy special methods forces generally as well as the Bin Laden raid particularly. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs from the Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard Wasdin and Stephen Templin, which fortunately showed up in this area just days after Bin Laden's dying, showed up round the NY Occasions best-seller list. The Hurt Locker team of director Kathryn Bigelow and author Mark Boal are generating a movie in regards to the raid for that new the new sony. STORY: Bin Laden Filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal Shoot Back at Republican Congressman Another Navy Shuts movie, Act of Valor, is scheduled striking theaters in February from Relativity Media. That film, produced while using cooperation in the military and including actual soldiers, doesn't particularly deal with the Bin Laden killing. In SEAL Target Geronimo:The Inside Story in the Mission for Kill Osama bin Laden, Pfarrer, a classic SEAL, has an alternative version in the raid fighting the SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving the Pakistan compound where the al-Qaida mastermind was holed up. Pfarrer claims the White-colored House launched a imaginary and dangerous account in the raid that made the Shuts look inept. According to him Leader Barack Obama's fast acknowledgement in the raid will be a political move that made many of the intelligence collected round the raid useless. Pfarrer also called the White-colored House version of bin Laden's shooting - he was unarmed but trying to evade them - "murder." He mentioned his version, which has bin Laden getting a gun, helps to make the killing legal. "It's just not the situation,Inch U.S. Special Methods Command representative Col. Tim Nye mentioned regarding Admiral McRaven. "It is not the actual way it happened." Pfarrer has came out on Fox News, CNN too as with other venues to market the completely new book. It broke into Amazon's top 20 book sales list the other day and presently sits at no. 49. "I have truth in my side," Pfarrer mentioned inside an interview while using Connected Press. "I spoke for the males on the ground too as with the secondary bird," he mentioned, mentioning for the aircraft full of another SEAL team that was there in order to save the initial whether or not this received attack up to now inside Pakistan's edges. "We've never come forward and gone following a author and say, 'that can be a lie,'" Nye mentioned. "That notifies you ways remote the aim we're feeling this book is." Nye states Pfarrer did not have utilization of any troops connected to the mission. He mentioned there will not be any analysis into whether individual Shuts spoke to Pfarrer. The Connected Press brought for the report. Related Subjects Kathryn Bigelow Mark Boal Osama Bin Laden

Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Fumble: Is Social Media Still Safe for Celebrities?

It's no understatement that people went nuts after "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher tweeted a misguided protest against the firing of Penn State coach Joe Paterno. He was soon bombarded with angry responses as the actor realized that he had made a very uninformed move."When you do things on the internet, the internet doesn't forget," TheNextWeb's West Coast Editor, Drew Olanoff, tells "The Hollywood Reporter." "So, when you tweet something, especially when you have as many followers as he does, it's going to get captured."It wasn't the first time, or even the second time, Kutcher had been blasted for a misguided tweet. But, it was certainly the one that took him out of the game."He misspoke, OK, fine, he's human," Olanoff says of how the star handles the volatile situation after the tweet. "The social media mistake was that he deleted the tweet -- then he did apologize, which is great -- then, he erratically wrote that he's not going to tweet for a while until he had a solution. I thought it was a snap reaction to a situation that sucks."With more than eight million followers, Kutcher was a trailblazer on the social media site, adopting its 140 character-capped method of communication way before many other stars even knew what it was. When he joined the medium, late night comedians still made fun of it for being a worthless source of information saying things like "No one cares what you had for lunch, people."Now, those same late night hosts have very active Twitter accounts and celebrities are considered out of touch if they're not on the site. And, by the way, food companies and restaurants would pay a good amount of money to be mentioned in a celebrity's "what I had for lunch" tweet today.But, Kutcher, was not only an early adopter of the site, but he's an investor in businesses in the tech space. If anyone should know how to use Twitter, it should be him. So, what does it mean that he has now turned his Twitter account over for others to manage? And what does that say for celebrities in general on Twitter?Beck Media and Marketing President, Todd Beck, feels that there is definitely a code of behavior social media users should adhere to. His entertainment and technology PR and marketing firm with offices in Los Angeles and NY City counts several major broadcast and cable networks, studios, production companies, and tech companies among its clientele."Celebrities really benefit from showing their true selves on social media," Beck says. "But they need to be aware of the risks, and be prepared to deal with consequences. If they're not informed, they should get informed. If they make a mess, they should do everything they can to clean it up quickly and completely. Those who follow these rules, celebrity or not, tend to be the best and most respected citizens of the social web."In his mea culpa, Kutcher expresses the belief that the site has changed from what it was when he first joined. No longer does the star believe that it's a place for "healthy debate" in which one can state something and then have the conversation with others shape and/or support the claim."It seems that today that twitter has grown into a mass publishing platform, where one's tweets quickly become news that is broadcast around the world and misinformation becomes volatile fodder for critics," Kutcher writes in the statement in which he announces he's giving control of his account over to handlers.Olanoff, who has been covering social media for eight years, disagrees on Kutcher's assessment of what Twitter has become. "I was really bummed when Ashton said it used to be about personal communication, but now it's a publishing platform," he says. "It's always been both. It depends on how you use it."So, the question remains. When a famous person like Kutcher, who has been a longtime user of Twitter and even counts himself an expert on the medium, can make such a huge gaffe and then give up control of his account, is that a sign that less knowledgeable celebrity users of the medium should follow suit? THR's experts agree that it doesn't."Artists should populate social networks through their own voice," John Scholz of Career Artist Management, which manages bands and recording artists including Maroon 5, Sara Bareilles, and Gavin Degraw, tells "THR." "Fans are engaged by personality and compelling content which can only be generated by the artists themselves," he says, stressing that this is his personal opinion and not the company he works for."Social feeds populated by management [or] media teams are transparent and often abandoned, rendering them much less effective." The Hollywood Reporter

Despite Failures, Systems Attempt More Series Reboots

Ray Hagman ABC's Charlie's Angels redux did not work, and NBC's new undertake Question Lady never even managed to get to air. But similar to the feature film world - where from Footloose to Conan the Barbarian continues to be lately up-to-date - TV executives still mine the vaults looking for more classic game titles to reboot. Among individuals up next: TNT's new undertake Dallas (which mixes a brand new generation of Southfork figures with original cast people like Patrick Duffy, Ray Hagman and Linda Grey) premieres next summer time Fox has purchased two new up-to-date assumes its early the nineteen nineties sketch comedy In Living Color, from original executive producer Keenen Ivory Wayans and NBC comes with an adaptation from the Tom Cruise movie The Firm set to air in midseason. In development for next season are another round of remakes, like a new undertake the CBS eighties drama Beauty and also the Animal, now being up-to-date in the CW. CBS is searching to build up a contemporary version from the sixties sitcom Bewitched NBC is searching at new assumes The Munsters, Romancing the Stone and Wiseguy and ABC is dealing with Marvel to bring back The Incredible Hulk. This week, CBS confirmed it had acquired privileges to produce a new undertake classic black-and-whitened series The Rifleman. "It is not difficult development," one studio leader states of TV's current reboot mania. "There's already a built-in foundation for which you are doing. You are not building on your own. Using the audience so fragmented, you need to stack the advantage, and when you allow people a title they remember fondly, it's not hard to market." In choosing game titles to reboot, The CW executive v . p . Thom Sherman states he's searching for concepts that will still resonate today no matter it could be a remake. "Is the show play with no title?" he asks. "But does the title provide you with an additional benefit, marketing-smart?" Sherman and also the CW have effectively cut back new versions of Beverly Hillsides, 90210 and La Femme Nikita. Other reboots which have labored recently include CBS' Hawaii Five- and Syfy's Battlestar Galactica (inside a rare situation of the remake that's globally considered much better than the initial) MTV hopes to possess a hit using the just-relaunched Beavis and Butt-mind. But like the majority of TV series, reboot failures far over-shadow the success tales. Joining Charlie's Angels within the primetime graveyard are lots of other recent attempts at refreshing old faves, including Bionic Lady, Dark night Driver, V and Melrose Place. "Shall we be all kidding ourselves that the title increases your chances?" asks one studio professional. "Many of them haven't labored." But the systems continue to be bullish on remakes. Despite their limited rate of success, reboots provide immediate built-in awareness - as well as in this chronilogical age of hypercompetition in primetime, TV executives give in to something that might provide them with an advantage. "I believe there's lots of fear at this time about taking chances on original content," states one studio executive. "They are searching for how they may hedge their bets. There's a lot development t the systems are less about [story] and much more about branding." But it is a double-edged sword. Sometimes audiences have such strong reminiscences of the original the latest version can't ever compare. Even shows criticized within their time, like Charlie's Angels and Dark night Driver, are actually nostalgia outings appreciated fondly by audiences - and hard functions to follow along with. "You need to meet the pedigree of the items the company is, even when this content wasn't exceptional,Inch the studio professional states. States another professional: "If you are just likely to depend around the nostalgia from it you are type of sunk." Adds Sherman: "You wouldn't want fans from the original visiting that first episode and saying, 'That really drawn.' They are high bars, and you need to match or exceed that bar... You need to do feel an obligation towards the original show." Sometimes, like 90210 and Dallas, that may be assisted by returning familiar faces before focusing the interest on new stars. Within the situation of Nikita, a lot of versions already been around (the films and also the USA series) it was simple enough for that CW introducing another take. And Hawaii Five- incorporated enough nods towards the original, such as the same theme song, to placate fans. It's whenever a remake strays to date in the original that audiences appear to get rid of interest. The only real factor potentially preventing the systems from refreshing much more qualities are privileges issues. With the much entertainment industry consolidation through the years, it's sometimes difficult to determine who is the owner of a bit of certain qualities. Based on associates, reboots still being pitched out and about, but unsold due to possession questions, include Mork and Mindy and also the Mod Squad. For the moment, it seems TV continues to follow along with that old cliché that eventually everything old will end up new again. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Henry Cavill Talks Supermans New Look

First Published: November 8, 2011 5:42 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Henry Cavill arrives at the Immortals premiere in Los Angeles on November 7, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- New Superman Henry Cavill is sporting a look fans have never seen on the caped hero no trademark red underpants, a beard and he appears to go shirtless in at least one scene. On Monday, the British actor chatted about the comic book characters new updated look. During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Henry was asked about Supermans new all-blue pants and the 28-year-old actor appeared to be a bit intimidated by the revealing attire. Why wear underpants when you can be far more revealing? he said with a laugh. Later on Tuesday night at the premiere of his latest movie, Immortals, Access Hollywood asked why his Clark Kent/Superman is seen sporting a beard while shooting the superhero reboot. Youll see! Henry coyly said with a smile. Also during his interview with Leno, the actor revealed that he was up for the Daniel Craigs role in Casino Royale, and that Stephenie Meyer originally wanted him for the role of Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga. By the time it came around to casting, I was too old, Henry said of the part that would go to Robert Pattinson. Immortals hits theaters on Friday and Man of Steel is slated for release on June 14, 2013. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.