Dominic Cooper Going To Motor City?

In talks for Albert Hughes' thrillerLast we heard, Chris Evans is at the frame, however Variety are confirming that friend of Empire and Pint of Milk expert Dominic Cooper is within foretells join Albert Hughes' action thriller Motor City.Clearly turning heads in Hollywood this season with Captain America and the acclaimed and impressive dual-role within the Devil's Double, the dapper Cooper will have to dress lower for any movie that will cast him like a lately-launched convict on the mission for revenge around the bastard that presented him. And when that sounds formulaic, the twist is the fact that, at this time, Chad St John's hot Black List script is free of dialogue...Hughes' last film was the biblically ass-kicking Book of Eli, and Motor City is how he's wound up following a Akira debacle. Warners are apparently keen to have it moving rapidly, with action veteran Joel Silver creating through his Silver Pictures banner.

Ashton Kutcher: Don't Believe the Hype

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Is Ashton Kutcher sending the rumor mill a message via Twitter? On Wednesday, Kutcher tweeted a link to the song he was playing on Spotify, Public Enemy's "Don't Believe the Hype" (with lyrics that include "false media - We don't need it do we? It's fake that's what it be to 'ya, dig me?"). Demi and Ashton: A look back Earlier this week, Star Magazine reported he and Demi Moore were splitting up after six years of marriage. They added that they had been living apart for months and that the Two and a Half Men star cheated on his wife. Kutcher and Moore have yet to address the breakup reports directly.

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Seth Rogen Shows His Range as an Actor and a Producer in '50/50'

Seth Rogen Shows His Range as an Actor and a Producer in '50/50' By Jenelle Riley September 28, 2011 Photo by Shiloh Strong Seth Rogen Tell Seth Rogen with all sincerity that he deserves an Oscar nomination for his supporting turn as the best friend of a cancer patient in "50/50," and it takes him a good five minutes to stop laughing. "That's very kindthank you very much," he finally manages to say following that famous, booming chuckle. "I really appreciate that, but I truly don't think that's going to happen." Perhaps not, but it's not hyperbole to say Rogen is outstanding in the film, playing Kyle, an ordinary guy who does his best to stand by Adam (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) when Adam is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at age 27. With the best of intentions, Kyle tries to help his friend navigate a whole new world of chemotherapy, illness, and ever-changing relationships. Although Kyle is sometimes inappropriate and misguided, his good heart and genuine love for his friend always come through.Rogen has had a test run playing the part; the screenplay is by his good friend Will Reiser, a fellow comedy writer who was diagnosed with cancer six years ago. At the time, Rogen's career was taking off. After an early start on the Judd Apatowproduced series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared," Rogen parlayed his scene-stealing role in Apatow's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" into a star turn in "Knocked Up." He was also getting his feet wet as a writer-producer and would go on to co-write (with his partner Evan Goldberg) and produce "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "The Green Hornet." But as he watched Reiser struggle toward what would ultimately be a happy endingReiser is cancer-freeRogen continued to encourage his friend to write about his experience. The resulting film, produced by Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, is a pleasant surprise for anyone who winced on hearing Rogen was taking on a "cancer comedy." It's a fine line to walk and a path Rogen went down with "Funny People," in which he played the assistant of a famous comedian (Adam Sandler) dying of a rare disease. But the films could not be more different, and although Kyle might be a recognizable Rogen characterhe's a loudmouthed stonerthe performance represents a huge leap forward for the actor. Part of Rogen's appeal has long been his naturalistic attitudethe fact that he doesn't look like he's making too much of an effort. But anyone who recognizes good acting can tell that a lot is going on beneath the surface. "I'll confess I work really hard. I just dress in crumbly clothes so it makes it look like I'm not trying," Rogen says. "But I am." Back Stage: You were 16 when you went on an audition in Vancouver for "Freaks and Geeks." Was it your first audition ever? What did you do? Was improv involved? Seth Rogen: I think it was my second or third. I had sides; I don't think there was improv. It was a funny scene and actually kind of ultimately inspired the movie "Pineapple Express." It's about wanting to grow weed in a giant underground storage facility. I remember thinking it was funny. And I definitely remember them laughing way more than I thought they would. I remember coming out thinking, "If I didn't get that, I don't know what they are doing in there, because they definitely seemed to like it." Then I got it. I don't think I realized how lucky I was at the time.Back Stage: At that age, did you have a plan for your career? How did this fit in? Rogen: I'd done standup comedy, and I had my version of a plan. Which I guess was that I would do standup and go to L.A. and have a sitcom built around me, which was what was happening a lot then. Back Stage: When "Freaks and Geeks" was canceled, why did you choose to stay in L.A.? Rogen: I had enough money to stick around a little bit. Money [bought] time I could go without working. I just planned on staying until I ran out of money. That's still kind of my plan. Back Stage: Did you have an agent who was sending you out? Rogen: I had an agent and manager off "Freaks and Geeks." I would go for auditions here and thereit was definitely touch-and-go. Then I did "Donnie Darko" it was a tiny part, but it gave me a little bit of money. And then we did "Undeclared," until it was canceled. Back Stage: What were those early auditions like? Were you good at it? Rogen: No, I was not very good at auditioning. They didn't really know what to do with me. At the time, this wasn't a commercially acceptable type, by any stretch of the imagination. And there wasn't a lot of stuff that was like the stuff we got known for doingI didn't really have an arena in the auditions to be that funny, because they weren't the stuff I was good at. But Evan and I kept writing, and that's what kept it interesting. We were writing "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express" and trying to sell them and not really having much luck, but it always felt like we had this thing we were working towards. I think a lot of actors come out and audition and just don't get stuff and just feel like they're falling into this void. It didn't feel like that for us. But it definitely got scary at times because we went long stretches of time without working and almost ran out of money. Back Stage: And didn't Judd Apatow help you through those times, hiring you as an actor and as a writer? Rogen: Judd would really be helpful. We'd be really low on money, and he was doing rewrites on movies, and he'd give us a few thousand bucks to kind of help him for a few days. This is like 2002, 2003, I guess. So little things would come up; we'd get a little job here, a little job there. We would rewrite a movie here or something like that. Or sometimes we'd get paid to attend a table read. I literally went to a table read for "Big Momma's House 2," and we did a writers' room on it afterwards and got paid like 500 bucks. That was the kind of stuff you would do as a writer; it was the equivalent of doing bit parts on soap operas or such. That went on pretty much until we got "Da Ali G Show" as writers, and that was really the first regular job that actually paid us money as writers. It was a wonderful learning experience. That's where we met Will.Back Stage: As an actor, had you ever had any professional training before getting cast on "Freaks and Geeks"? Rogen: When I was a kid, I went to acting classes, like artsy-nerdy kids do. Local community centers and stuff like that. In high school, I think I went to a slightly more adult acting class for a few months maybe, I can't even remember. But nothing formal or rigorous in any way, shape, or form.Back Stage: So when they first put you and these other new actors in front of a camera, was there any sort of tutorial? Rogen: I think so. You know, I take for granted a lot of the movie bullshit you pick up over the years, and you forget how specific it is. And how if you didn't know, if no one told you what a mark is, it would be so foreign. Something they really went out of their way to doand something we try to do nowwas to teach us everything. Not just about the process, but how the writing and directing works, and how the camera and editing works. It was really amazing because they were really inclusive. When we were 17 years old, they would let me sit in the writers' room and watch them write. There's people who have been on TV shows for five seasons that don't get to sit in the writers' room. There was a definite attitude from Judd and the directors and the writers of "Let's teach these people. Let's go out of our way to explain everything." They really hoped we'd be able to contribute.Back Stage: I ask because you seem so natural in those old episodes. Rogen: That's funny; when I watch them, it looks terriblelike the worst acting in the entire world.But that was the mantra of the show: Act normal. Act natural. What would you do in this situation? What would you say? The writers would ask us what we would actually say in a situation. Not "What do you think will be funny?" I think that type of attitude went across the whole show, which is why I think the performances are so great. Except me. Although, I got better near the end, just in time to get canceled. We still say that every day when we're shooting: "Do what feels natural." Back Stage: How do you handle it if something doesn't feel right or natural? Rogen: You talk about it. It happens all the time. You have to adapt. It's largely up to the director; you have to be flexible. Sometimes the blocking isn't what you expected, and you have to adjust. You try things all kinds of different ways. Sometimes what's funny on set isn't going to be funny in an audience full of people. That's why we do so many takeswe just try to cover our asses, basically.Back Stage: So you don't mind test screenings, then? Rogen: No! We test screen a lot. We actually try to have more than most movies generally have. You learn a lot at them, especially when you're making a comedy. The more you show it to people, the more you find out what jokes work, what jokes don't work. And if you have extra jokes, which we do, you can make the movie play really well. Because any joke that doesn't work, you just rotate jokes in until one does work. We've done test screenings to literally test one or two jokes. It's important; it's actually hard to get the studio to agree to do it. I would test a movie 100 times, honestly. They usually want you to test it once or twice; I prefer five or six times, maybe even more.Back Stage: Can you remember anything specific that you fought for or learned from a test screening? Rogen: Tons of stuff. This movie, for example, I have a joke where I don't know that Patrick Swayze has died. That's the perfect example, because we did many options. As we were filming it, we were like, "We're going to have to test this joke!" People laughed at it and liked it, so we kept it in, but I was surprised, honestly. I thought people would say, "We love the movie, but you're a f**king asshole for having that joke in there!"Back Stage: As a producer on "50/50," how involved were you in the casting? Rogen: I sat in for almost all the auditions; I was very involved in all that stuff. It was great, actually. Bryce Dallas Howard's role as the unlikable girlfriend was very hard to cast. We had to read people, which is always tough to do, especially when you want really high-caliber actors, because a lot of them don't want to read. But we had to; it's a very tough role, and if it's too much in any direction, it can kill the whole movie. It needs to be someone who you get why he's with her, but at the same time you don't like her, even though you understand where she's coming from. I've known Bryce for a while; she auditioned for "Knocked Up," and then I'd see her at the grocery store and around town. I've always thought she was amazing, and she came in and was so impressive. And she does so much in the movie without you even realizing it. Back Stage: Do you remember the last time you auditioned for a role? Rogen: Sure, I auditioned for a movie just a year and a half ago. I didn't get it. And it didn't do that well. [Laughs.] People think I don't have to audition anymore, and that's not true at all. And I would be hypocritical to say no; as long as I'm asking people like Bryce to audition, I would be a f**king asshole if I wasn't willing to audition for stuff. I almost prefer it in a way, honestly, because it can be weird just being offered a role and showing up and no one knows what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. So it doesn't bother me.Back Stage: Obviously you didn't have to audition for "50/50," but to what degree are you playing yourself? Rogen: I'm only playing me as much as Joseph is playing Will; it's kind of broad strokes. I represent in the movie something that was happening at the time, which was a general inability for both Will and his friends to truly communicate about what was happening. What we did instead was joke about it and say really f**ked-up things about it all the time. There was a sense of "Let's try to make something funny about it." We would literally joke, "Let's make a movie out of this. Let's use this to your advantage in some way, shape, or form." When he was sick, we would tell Will all the time to write a screenplay about it. When he got better we were like "No, seriously, do it!" And while he was sick, we didn't have a real context for what the story would be. When he got better, you could see it was a movie. He started off as this neurotic, miserable, somewhat obnoxious guy. He got sick, he went through all these changes, all these relationships changed, and he got better and was a much happier, calm, well-rounded, centered person. The story now had a beginning, middle, and end. After that we were like, "Oh, we don't have to do anything. We can show almost exactly what really happened." Back Stage: We've seen the film about the person battling cancer before, and while this film handles that really well, it also tells a story we don't often see: being the friend who doesn't know how to handle the situation. One of the best moments of the film is when Adam finds a book Kyle has been reading about helping a friend cope with cancer. Rogen: We were talking about that when it happened: This is the greatest thing as an actor you could ever ask for. I have an amazing moment of redemption, my character comes full circle, and I'm literally lying on a couch, doing nothing. I'm just going to go to sleep, and when I wake up, my acting will be praised.Back Stage: This film is obviously very personal to you. Would it have hurt you if the reviews had been unkind? Rogen: Yeah, it would have. It's the type of movie that needs to be good. It's not like "Transformers." I could give a shit if "Green Hornet" got good reviews because audiences liked it, and that's who we made it for. But this movie needs to function intellectually as well as entertainment-wise, because it's about something so delicate. But what's more important than reviews is that people who have had direct experiences with something similar like the film. Like, when we made "Funny People," all I cared about was that standup comics didn't think I was a phony. For this movie, all I care about is that people within the cancer community appreciate it. I want them, more than critics, to think the movie is representative of what they went through. And so far, they have, and that means everything to me. You can fool critics, honestlymovies do it all the time. I read good reviews for movies that are idiotic to me. So it's not the best barometer. But you can't deny people's own experiences. When people tell me they like it and it represents what they went through, that means everything.Outtakes - Is also an aspiring photographer- Recently finished shooting "My Mother's Curse," in which his character goes on a road trip with his mother, played by Barbra Streisand. Also stars in Sarah Polley's film "Take This Waltz," which recently played the Toronto International Film Festival- Set to co-direct "The Apocalypse," from a script he wrote with Goldberg- Says his most difficult project to date was "The Green Hornet," largely because it was rated PG-13 and "I had to come up with funny shit all day where I couldn't swear." - Voiced characters in "Monsters vs. Aliens," the "Kung Fu Panda" films, and "Horton Hears a Who!" and the title character in "Paul." Says he's not surprised by this career: "I always thought I should have a career in voiceover, honestly. I knew I could have no discernable talent or abilities, but I knew I had a somewhat unique voice. I generally do not think I deserve my success, but I was shocked I was not getting more voiceover work!" Seth Rogen Shows His Range as an Actor and a Producer in '50/50' By Jenelle Riley September 28, 2011 Seth Rogen PHOTO CREDIT Shiloh Strong Tell Seth Rogen with all sincerity that he deserves an Oscar nomination for his supporting turn as the best friend of a cancer patient in "50/50," and it takes him a good five minutes to stop laughing. "That's very kindthank you very much," he finally manages to say following that famous, booming chuckle. "I really appreciate that, but I truly don't think that's going to happen." Perhaps not, but it's not hyperbole to say Rogen is outstanding in the film, playing Kyle, an ordinary guy who does his best to stand by Adam (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) when Adam is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at age 27. With the best of intentions, Kyle tries to help his friend navigate a whole new world of chemotherapy, illness, and ever-changing relationships. Although Kyle is sometimes inappropriate and misguided, his good heart and genuine love for his friend always come through.Rogen has had a test run playing the part; the screenplay is by his good friend Will Reiser, a fellow comedy writer who was diagnosed with cancer six years ago. At the time, Rogen's career was taking off. After an early start on the Judd Apatowproduced series "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared," Rogen parlayed his scene-stealing role in Apatow's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" into a star turn in "Knocked Up." He was also getting his feet wet as a writer-producer and would go on to co-write (with his partner Evan Goldberg) and produce "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "The Green Hornet." But as he watched Reiser struggle toward what would ultimately be a happy endingReiser is cancer-freeRogen continued to encourage his friend to write about his experience. The resulting film, produced by Rogen and directed by Jonathan Levine, is a pleasant surprise for anyone who winced on hearing Rogen was taking on a "cancer comedy." It's a fine line to walk and a path Rogen went down with "Funny People," in which he played the assistant of a famous comedian (Adam Sandler) dying of a rare disease. But the films could not be more different, and although Kyle might be a recognizable Rogen characterhe's a loudmouthed stonerthe performance represents a huge leap forward for the actor. Part of Rogen's appeal has long been his naturalistic attitudethe fact that he doesn't look like he's making too much of an effort. But anyone who recognizes good acting can tell that a lot is going on beneath the surface. "I'll confess I work really hard. I just dress in crumbly clothes so it makes it look like I'm not trying," Rogen says. "But I am." Back Stage: You were 16 when you went on an audition in Vancouver for "Freaks and Geeks." Was it your first audition ever? What did you do? Was improv involved? Seth Rogen: I think it was my second or third. I had sides; I don't think there was improv. It was a funny scene and actually kind of ultimately inspired the movie "Pineapple Express." It's about wanting to grow weed in a giant underground storage facility. I remember thinking it was funny. And I definitely remember them laughing way more than I thought they would. I remember coming out thinking, "If I didn't get that, I don't know what they are doing in there, because they definitely seemed to like it." Then I got it. I don't think I realized how lucky I was at the time.Back Stage: At that age, did you have a plan for your career? How did this fit in? Rogen: I'd done standup comedy, and I had my version of a plan. Which I guess was that I would do standup and go to L.A. and have a sitcom built around me, which was what was happening a lot then. Back Stage: When "Freaks and Geeks" was canceled, why did you choose to stay in L.A.? Rogen: I had enough money to stick around a little bit. Money [bought] time I could go without working. I just planned on staying until I ran out of money. That's still kind of my plan. Back Stage: Did you have an agent who was sending you out? Rogen: I had an agent and manager off "Freaks and Geeks." I would go for auditions here and thereit was definitely touch-and-go. Then I did "Donnie Darko" it was a tiny part, but it gave me a little bit of money. And then we did "Undeclared," until it was canceled. Back Stage: What were those early auditions like? Were you good at it? Rogen: No, I was not very good at auditioning. They didn't really know what to do with me. At the time, this wasn't a commercially acceptable type, by any stretch of the imagination. And there wasn't a lot of stuff that was like the stuff we got known for doingI didn't really have an arena in the auditions to be that funny, because they weren't the stuff I was good at. But Evan and I kept writing, and that's what kept it interesting. We were writing "Superbad" and "Pineapple Express" and trying to sell them and not really having much luck, but it always felt like we had this thing we were working towards. I think a lot of actors come out and audition and just don't get stuff and just feel like they're falling into this void. It didn't feel like that for us. But it definitely got scary at times because we went long stretches of time without working and almost ran out of money. Back Stage: And didn't Judd Apatow help you through those times, hiring you as an actor and as a writer? Rogen: Judd would really be helpful. We'd be really low on money, and he was doing rewrites on movies, and he'd give us a few thousand bucks to kind of help him for a few days. This is like 2002, 2003, I guess. So little things would come up; we'd get a little job here, a little job there. We would rewrite a movie here or something like that. Or sometimes we'd get paid to attend a table read. I literally went to a table read for "Big Momma's House 2," and we did a writers' room on it afterwards and got paid like 500 bucks. That was the kind of stuff you would do as a writer; it was the equivalent of doing bit parts on soap operas or such. That went on pretty much until we got "Da Ali G Show" as writers, and that was really the first regular job that actually paid us money as writers. It was a wonderful learning experience. That's where we met Will.Back Stage: As an actor, had you ever had any professional training before getting cast on "Freaks and Geeks"? Rogen: When I was a kid, I went to acting classes, like artsy-nerdy kids do. Local community centers and stuff like that. In high school, I think I went to a slightly more adult acting class for a few months maybe, I can't even remember. But nothing formal or rigorous in any way, shape, or form.Back Stage: So when they first put you and these other new actors in front of a camera, was there any sort of tutorial? Rogen: I think so. You know, I take for granted a lot of the movie bullshit you pick up over the years, and you forget how specific it is. And how if you didn't know, if no one told you what a mark is, it would be so foreign. Something they really went out of their way to doand something we try to do nowwas to teach us everything. Not just about the process, but how the writing and directing works, and how the camera and editing works. It was really amazing because they were really inclusive. When we were 17 years old, they would let me sit in the writers' room and watch them write. There's people who have been on TV shows for five seasons that don't get to sit in the writers' room. There was a definite attitude from Judd and the directors and the writers of "Let's teach these people. Let's go out of our way to explain everything." They really hoped we'd be able to contribute.Back Stage: I ask because you seem so natural in those old episodes. Rogen: That's funny; when I watch them, it looks terriblelike the worst acting in the entire world.But that was the mantra of the show: Act normal. Act natural. What would you do in this situation? What would you say? The writers would ask us what we would actually say in a situation. Not "What do you think will be funny?" I think that type of attitude went across the whole show, which is why I think the performances are so great. Except me. Although, I got better near the end, just in time to get canceled. We still say that every day when we're shooting: "Do what feels natural." Back Stage: How do you handle it if something doesn't feel right or natural? Rogen: You talk about it. It happens all the time. You have to adapt. It's largely up to the director; you have to be flexible. Sometimes the blocking isn't what you expected, and you have to adjust. You try things all kinds of different ways. Sometimes what's funny on set isn't going to be funny in an audience full of people. That's why we do so many takeswe just try to cover our asses, basically.Back Stage: So you don't mind test screenings, then? Rogen: No! We test screen a lot. We actually try to have more than most movies generally have. You learn a lot at them, especially when you're making a comedy. The more you show it to people, the more you find out what jokes work, what jokes don't work. And if you have extra jokes, which we do, you can make the movie play really well. Because any joke that doesn't work, you just rotate jokes in until one does work. We've done test screenings to literally test one or two jokes. It's important; it's actually hard to get the studio to agree to do it. I would test a movie 100 times, honestly. They usually want you to test it once or twice; I prefer five or six times, maybe even more.Back Stage: Can you remember anything specific that you fought for or learned from a test screening? Rogen: Tons of stuff. This movie, for example, I have a joke where I don't know that Patrick Swayze has died. That's the perfect example, because we did many options. As we were filming it, we were like, "We're going to have to test this joke!" People laughed at it and liked it, so we kept it in, but I was surprised, honestly. I thought people would say, "We love the movie, but you're a f**king asshole for having that joke in there!"Back Stage: As a producer on "50/50," how involved were you in the casting? Rogen: I sat in for almost all the auditions; I was very involved in all that stuff. It was great, actually. Bryce Dallas Howard's role as the unlikable girlfriend was very hard to cast. We had to read people, which is always tough to do, especially when you want really high-caliber actors, because a lot of them don't want to read. But we had to; it's a very tough role, and if it's too much in any direction, it can kill the whole movie. It needs to be someone who you get why he's with her, but at the same time you don't like her, even though you understand where she's coming from. I've known Bryce for a while; she auditioned for "Knocked Up," and then I'd see her at the grocery store and around town. I've always thought she was amazing, and she came in and was so impressive. And she does so much in the movie without you even realizing it. Back Stage: Do you remember the last time you auditioned for a role? Rogen: Sure, I auditioned for a movie just a year and a half ago. I didn't get it. And it didn't do that well. [Laughs.] People think I don't have to audition anymore, and that's not true at all. And I would be hypocritical to say no; as long as I'm asking people like Bryce to audition, I would be a f**king asshole if I wasn't willing to audition for stuff. I almost prefer it in a way, honestly, because it can be weird just being offered a role and showing up and no one knows what you're going to do and how you're going to do it. So it doesn't bother me.Back Stage: Obviously you didn't have to audition for "50/50," but to what degree are you playing yourself? Rogen: I'm only playing me as much as Joseph is playing Will; it's kind of broad strokes. I represent in the movie something that was happening at the time, which was a general inability for both Will and his friends to truly communicate about what was happening. What we did instead was joke about it and say really f**ked-up things about it all the time. There was a sense of "Let's try to make something funny about it." We would literally joke, "Let's make a movie out of this. Let's use this to your advantage in some way, shape, or form." When he was sick, we would tell Will all the time to write a screenplay about it. When he got better we were like "No, seriously, do it!" And while he was sick, we didn't have a real context for what the story would be. When he got better, you could see it was a movie. He started off as this neurotic, miserable, somewhat obnoxious guy. He got sick, he went through all these changes, all these relationships changed, and he got better and was a much happier, calm, well-rounded, centered person. The story now had a beginning, middle, and end. After that we were like, "Oh, we don't have to do anything. We can show almost exactly what really happened." Back Stage: We've seen the film about the person battling cancer before, and while this film handles that really well, it also tells a story we don't often see: being the friend who doesn't know how to handle the situation. One of the best moments of the film is when Adam finds a book Kyle has been reading about helping a friend cope with cancer. Rogen: We were talking about that when it happened: This is the greatest thing as an actor you could ever ask for. I have an amazing moment of redemption, my character comes full circle, and I'm literally lying on a couch, doing nothing. I'm just going to go to sleep, and when I wake up, my acting will be praised.Back Stage: This film is obviously very personal to you. Would it have hurt you if the reviews had been unkind? Rogen: Yeah, it would have. It's the type of movie that needs to be good. It's not like "Transformers." I could give a shit if "Green Hornet" got good reviews because audiences liked it, and that's who we made it for. But this movie needs to function intellectually as well as entertainment-wise, because it's about something so delicate. But what's more important than reviews is that people who have had direct experiences with something similar like the film. Like, when we made "Funny People," all I cared about was that standup comics didn't think I was a phony. For this movie, all I care about is that people within the cancer community appreciate it. I want them, more than critics, to think the movie is representative of what they went through. And so far, they have, and that means everything to me. You can fool critics, honestlymovies do it all the time. I read good reviews for movies that are idiotic to me. So it's not the best barometer. But you can't deny people's own experiences. When people tell me they like it and it represents what they went through, that means everything.Outtakes - Is also an aspiring photographer- Recently finished shooting "My Mother's Curse," in which his character goes on a road trip with his mother, played by Barbra Streisand. Also stars in Sarah Polley's film "Take This Waltz," which recently played the Toronto International Film Festival- Set to co-direct "The Apocalypse," from a script he wrote with Goldberg- Says his most difficult project to date was "The Green Hornet," largely because it was rated PG-13 and "I had to come up with funny shit all day where I couldn't swear." - Voiced characters in "Monsters vs. Aliens," the "Kung Fu Panda" films, and "Horton Hears a Who!" and the title character in "Paul." Says he's not surprised by this career: "I always thought I should have a career in voiceover, honestly. I knew I could have no discernable talent or abilities, but I knew I had a somewhat unique voice. I generally do not think I deserve my success, but I was shocked I was not getting more voiceover work!"

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WB TV arm snaps up BlazHoffski

LONDON -- Warner Bros. has added another European shingle to its portfolio of production companies. Warner Bros Intl. Television Production has acquired a majority stake in BlazHoffski Holding, the Dutch- and Belgium-based shingle, for an undisclosed sum. Warners will distribute BlazHoffski's formats and finished product internationally. Announcement was made by London-based Ronald Goes, executive VP and head of WBITP, and BlazHoffski Holding CEO Taco Ketelaar. Founded in 1996 by Dan Blazer and Erik van der Hoff, BlazHoffski specializes in unscripted and reality fare including "Hello Goodbye," "Figure It Out," "Intensive Caring," laffer "Tower C" and "CIA," created by Dahl TV, a company acquired by BlazHoffski last year. Warners said following its purchase of Shed Media in the U.K., the acquisition of a majority stake in BlazHoffski "marks the next step in this strategic growth initiative." The studio bought a 55% stake in Shed, best known for making "Supernanny," in August 2010 in a deal said to be worth around $160 million. "Our objective is to partner with the best possible talent in each key market," Goes said. "BlazHoffski has a strong creative and commercial track record, an excellent management team and outstanding broadcaster relationships. "I am certain that, as part of Warner Bros., BlazHoffski will continue to do more of what they do best -- create and produce high quality content that can become franchises and be exported to create local versions in other markets around the world." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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How Local Media Is Covering Leader Obama's L.A. Visit

La media shops cautioned of massive congested zones throughout Leader Obama's trip to the town Monday. Named #ObamaJamIV on Twitter, the Commander in Chief's itinerary mainly traverses L.A.'s westside and West Hollywood.our editor recommendsAs Obama Comes to Hollywood, Showbiz Heavies Plan More Democratic Party FundraisersObama Hollywood Fundraiser Event Sets EntertainersDisappointed Hollywood Giving Obama Cold Shoulder Public radio station KCRW is providing tips about how to avoid street closures. The La Occasions reviews that as much as 200 protestors are jamming Sunset Blvd., "representing numerous causes including professional-immigration, antiwar as well as for protecting Social Security and Medicare insurance benefits." PHOTOS: Stars Who've Performed Political figures News radio station KNX1070 introduced that "Obama lands in L.A. throughout Westside hurry hour." Television station KTLA alerts: "Leader Obama Comes to SoCal, Road Closures essentially.Inch The Leader touched lower around 4:40 p.m. PT Monday and it has two fundraising arranged for that evening. Rapper and singer-songwriter B.o.B., Adam 12and the Gay Males's Chorus of La will work in a House of Blues gathering MC'ed by Jesse Tyler Ferguson of contemporary Family. STORY: Disappointed Hollywood Giving Obama Cold Shoulder Aside from home of Blues event, which side tickets will run from $250 to $10,000, the leader will also dine at Fig & Olive in West Hollywood. Our prime paint rollers at this event will pony up $35,800 percouple. Related Subjects Obama Jesse Tyler Ferguson B.o.B. Modern Family

'Boardwalk Empire' Theme: Series Creator Describes Decision to take advantage of recent Music

You will discover so plenty of items to love about Boardwalk Empire, within the figures for the costumes for the title sequence, featuring star Steve Buscemi looking at an Atlantic City beach as hundreds of bottles clean ashore around him. However, many fans in the Cinemax drama, whose second season premieres tonight, have wondered why the show's theme song, a track by psych rock-band John Jonestown Massacre utilizing their 1996 album Children the man!, was selected instead of a period of time-appropriate little bit of music.our editor recommendsEmmys 2011: Martin Scorsese Talks about His Pointing Win for 'Boardwalk Empire'St. Vincent Records Track for 'Boardwalk Empire''Boardwalk Empire' Gives New you are able to city Subway Riders the Nucky Thompson Understanding About Vintage Train "I desired unforeseen," Boardwalk creator and executive producer Terence Winter notifies The Hollywood Reporter. "I didn't might like to do some Charleston, which really didn't begin working until 1924 anyway, and everything I learned when had people doing the Charleston." While experimentation while using opening, Winter states he paired the footage of Buscemi searching for the horizon with a variety of items of music, including John Jonestown's "Upright minimizing.Inch "I had been interested in the John Jonestown Massacre, and then we attempted it, which i mentioned for the editor, that really works well with me." Despite a great deal attention paid out to period particulars for instance wardrobe and props, the fact the theme utilizes an up to date song using instruments not invented through the prohibition era, when Boardwalk Empire happens, doesn't bother Winter one bit. "It's a show occur 1920 seen using a different perspective, not just a literal think about the 20's," he describes. "Lots of people believe it is jarring to find out 20's clothes and pay attention to contemporary music. I contemplate it as, it's a 90-second intro and you've got the 20s you need.In . Watch the opening theme below: Related Subjects Steve Buscemi Boardwalk Empire Terence Winter

Pitt Coaches Underdog Moneyball Onto Silver Screen

TORONTO, Canada -- Kaira Pitts about as free a free of charge agent as these come in Hollywood, a high profile so large he could play ball with nearly any team, on any film project he likes. Yet he preferred to create Moneyball a great deal he associated with it for any very long time, despite friend Steven Soderbergh, his director round the Oceans Eleven movies, departed the film in the script squabble using the new the new sony Pictures. Pitt was passionate about producing a film from Michael Lewis best-seller Moneyball: The ability of Winning an Unfair Game, which tales Concord As gm Billy Beanes revolutionary experiment to create an incredible team from unlikely prospects and castoff players selected simply because they might be had cheaply and fit new mathematical models that went counter to traditional baseball scouting stats. I couldnt be done with it, Pitt mentioned inside an interview within the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival, where Moneyball opened up before its theatrical release Friday. It absolutely was just something I desired to put available. The Soderbergh-directed version of Moneyball fell apart couple of years ago following the new the new sony attracted the plug about it a few days before filming wound up being to begin. Soderbergh had published dramatic revisions for the script from Academy Award-winning film author Steven Zaillian (Schindlers List), and also the new the new sony was not wanting to accompany the modifications, which apparently incorporated interview segments with real players and team government bodies and re-enactments to see the story as reasonably as you can. Much like Beane required to rebuild his team in 2002 after losing key players to free agency, The brand new the new sony introduced in fresh talent to create back Moneyball. Hollywood heavyweight Scott Rudin grew to become an associate of producers Pitt, Michael P Luca and Rachael Horovitz to help jump-start the film. Aaron Sorkin, who labored with with Rudin on last years The Social Media and won an Oscar for your script, did a completely new draft in the Moneyball script, talking about the writing credit with Zaillian. The studio needed a risk around the director to switch Soderbergh, choosing Bennett Burns, a 2005 Oscar nominee for his fiction feature debut Capote. Burns came from in the artsier, lower-allotted independent world combined with made only one film, a documentary, before Capote. The timing was appropriate for Burns, who had spent a few years searching to obtain a movie that belongs to them started combined with only conceded it wasnt likely to occur, he mentioned. Moneyball probably wouldnt have happened either without Pitt prone to softball softball bat with this, Burns mentioned. It needed a champion with this to happen, because theres not just a ton inside the book that screams box office. It's not an apparent translation to film. Baseball movies aren't really attractive to traders because the areas are limited when you are getting free of the united states . States, Burns mentioned. Unless of course obviously you've Kaira Pitt saying, I'd like this to happen, and Im prone to look at this factor through, Yes, it is certainly going away. So Burns and Pitt met, they connected, and Moneyball was back round the base paths. It seems sensible impressive. Like The Social Media, 'Moneyball crackles with sharp, informative dialogue. Like Capote, its a wealthy character portrait from the driven figure (also it doesn't hurt to own Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the most effective-actor Oscar inside the title role of Millers Truman Capote drama, aboard since the As skeptical area manager). And Beane can be a character Pitt wears as being a second skin, the actor using all his charm and charisma while he cuts deals, butts heads while using teams scouting staff, soaks in the reproaches of scornful fans and sports writers and champions the unorthodox amounts crushing of his new aide (Jonah Hill). It talks for the energy from the role fitting someone so strongly, mentioned co-star Chris Pratt, who plays among Beanes new purchases, player Scott Hatteberg. Place them within an area together, youre like, wow. If you're looking at Billy Beane, the initial person youre prone to wish to play him is Kaira Pitt. Hill plays Peter Brand, an amalgamated of several economic experts Beane enlisted since the As adopted sabermetrics, something which places more appeal around the players capacity to gain access to it base and convey runs than you are well on such traditional stats as batting earnings. Just a little-market team, the When needed to try and deal with deep-pocketed franchises such as the NY Yankees, who had the money to purchase the talent they wanted. Im very considering equality, and here you'd a business with $38 million, and the way is it prone to deal with a business that has $140 million? Pitt mentioned. How will you level that playing area? So by necessity, they have to tear everything lower and question everything, so the [garbage] they needed for this. They were referred to as heretics and fools and breasts. However they hit through and did a thing that just transformed the sport a couple of levels. Among Beanes unconventional moves recounted inside the film: purchasing and selling for former Atlanta Braves star David Justice, who was simply injuries-prone and aging signing catcher Hatteberg and retraining him just like a first baseman, a scenario he'd never carried out and becoming in relief pitcher Chad Bradford, who were built with a unique side-armed delivery and not much speed to his fastballs. The moves pay back since the As create the American League West title, with Hatteberg the surprise hero since the team wins an AL record 20-straight games in route. The story of the pioneering season, finding a means to win in the odds, parallels the story of how Moneyball handled to obtain for the screen after most in Hollywood authored it well. This complete idea of failure, and the way failure might be a tombstone written since the finish, Pitt mentioned. In my opinion, there's no win without failure. Failure becomes impetus for an additional win. 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Spike Lee Sets Brooklyn Return for that Summer time of 2012

Spike Lee spent the summer time shooting 'Red Hook Summer time,' a spiritual cousin to Lee's directorial breakthrough 'Do the best Factor.' The actor/director/Knicks fan will apparently reprise his role of Mookie from 'Thing' for 'Summer,' which concentrates on a youthful Atlanta teen who involves Brooklyn for -- you suspected it -- the summer time. Now, via Twitter, Lee has revealed when 'Red Hook Summer' will get to theaters. Spoiler: summer time! Take a look at some initial title art for that film -- along with a stylish shot of Lee -- ahead. Spike Lee on WhoSay [via @SpikeLee] Top Photo: Andrew H. Master/Getty Images

The Queen Meets the 'Real' Shakespeare in New 'Anonymous' Clip (VIDEO)

What if you had written some of the most brilliant works in human history, only for someone else to take all the credit? That's the dilemma director Roland Emmerich explores in 'Anonymous,' a film about a man who wrote plays that were eventually credited to William Shakespeare. (In fact, the movie poster for the film asks the conspiracy theorist question, "Was Shakespeare a Fraud?"). In this new clip from the film, Princess Elizabeth (Joely Richardson) meets a young Edward de Vere, the supposed "anonymous" writer the movie is named after -- and takes quite a liking to him. 'Anonymous' -- which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival -- hits theaters on Oct. 28.

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Alphas: Can Nina and Hicks Stay Away From Each Other?

Laura Mennell and Warren Christie, Alphas Alphas' Cameron Hicks (Warren Christie) and Nina Theroux (Laura Mennell) have agreed to cool down their burgeoning romance. Actually doing so, though, may be easier said than done.Check out photos of the Alphas cast"They both came to a realization that maybe stepping back was the best way to go for right now," Christie tells TVGuide.com. "But those feelings are underlying - they are always going to be there. We'll see them pop in and out as things go along."The duo will perhaps have to fight those feelings in Monday's episode (10/9c, Syfy) when Hicks and Nina go undercover to investigate an obstetrician (guest star Brent Spiner), who is conducting a medical experiment that could be detrimental to all future Alphas, perhaps at the behest of Red Flag. That forces the team to bring an Alpha back to their offices, where all hell breaks loose, thanks to Lost's Rebecca Mader, who also guest-stars as a super-stealthy Alpha."The fact that it all takes place in this contained, trapped environment, gives it a really incredible feel the entire time," Christie says. "We have to bring an Alpha into our midst. There is no clear-cut good or bad, but the truth starts to unfold. We get back to the mythology of Red Flag and what their agenda might be. Then, at the end of the episode, we're going to get a piece of information that is going to bust things wide open."Syfy renews Alphas for a second seasonThat reveal, Christie says, sets up the season's final two episodes, which offer even more answers about Red Flag and the Binghamton research facility before building to an ambitious cliff-hanger. (Syfy has already ordered a second season.)Along the way, however, Christie says Hicks' initial hesitation in joining the team may be revisited. "He has his questions," Christie says. "There are things that are going to come up that rattle his faith a little bit. We've seen him slowly let down the walls and let people in and become part of the team. Those things are going to be shaken up. His relationships will be tested as we go along."And what does that mean for him and Nina? "I think you've got two damaged people in these situations of heightened intensity and they found each other along the way," Christie says. "Nothing is going to happen smoothly. It's not going to be this beautiful, easy, wonderful relationship. I think that they have grown to care for each other and a relationship may [be possible]. But we'll have to see where it goes."Alphas airs Mondays at 10/9c on Syfy.

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Permission to Laugh Again

Permission to Laugh Again By Stephen Medwid September 11, 2011 Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with New you are able to city firemen on "SNL" on Sept. 29, 2001. ten years ago, "Saturday Evening Live" gave a grieving America permission to laugh again. Certainly, no sane person could find humor inside the horror that was Sept. 11, 2001. Just like a native New Yorker, the demise and destruction literally hit too close to home personally.Becoming an actress, my persistence for the primary one principle all stars live bythe show must go onwas provide the exam a couple of days following a tragedy after i sitting in the room at Stars Connection, waiting to audition for Josh Payne, then talent coordinator of additional supplies and under-fives for "SNL."The climate was eerie. Outdoors, sirens constantly wailed. Like every another stars there, Cleaning it once a to tune it, but most of us understood what that appear meant plus it saved everyone inside the room on edge. Within the window, you are able to look downtown and discover the vibrant, still-smoldering afterglow of ground zero. "What am I doing here?" I asked for myself. Really the only answer I really could develop was: Maybe laughter may be the finest medicine.I looked around in the amount of 20 roughly anxious stars. I had been all uncomfortable and, I am certain, feeling guilty about trying to pursue our careers during the time of these chaos and heartbreak. One youthful lady looked especially terribleweary, haggard, her eyes a dull glaze. From the thinking she'd 't be hired for television. I Rapidly learned she will be a nurse who were working nonstop within the fallen towers. Out of the blue, she increased being most likely the most amazing lady inside the room.Josh was great at lowering the strain. He introduced numerous sketches which we completed them becoming an ensemble, similar to concerning the show. For just about any handful of fleeting moments, there has been chuckles and smiles. He collected our headshots and rsums. It had been to reality.Accidentally, I went into Josh while he was exiting the structure. We walked a few blocks together, speaking concerning the occasions of history day or two. He used to be uncertain when the season's first show, scheduled for your finish in the month, would really air or possibly be postponed.The following week I received my answer. The show's film department hired me and many more as background artists for your opening credits. Most of us met inside the basement bar from the midtown restaurant. Among the various cast people we labored with were Ana Gasteyer and new recruits Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers.On Sept. 29, I, like numerous other audiences, sitting transfixed before my tv at 11:30 p.m. The show opened up up, happens filled with the tough faces of latest You'll be able to City firemen, cops, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and "SNL" executive producer and creator Lorne Michaels. First, Paul Simon sang a heartbreaking rendition of "The Boxer." Next, Michaels walked around Giuliani and asked for if "Saturday Evening Live" could go back to being funny. Getting a wry smile, Giuliani responded, "Why begin at this time?InchAt that point, you are able to feel an entire nation exhale. With tears throughout my eyes, I grew to become an associate from the studio audience in unabashed laughter. Then came people familiar words, "Live from New You'll be able to.Inch My heart pumped and my jaw dropped. There' wasfirst with Gasteyer after which it with newcomer Rob Richards. I used to be forever thing about this historic show.The particular healing personally, however, would occur over the following a few days. Just like a frequent background under-five player, I observed firsthand the hit-or-miss process of identifying what measures to push the comedy envelope throughout uncharted and looking occasions. Nobody was sure the thing that was funnya significant problem for just about any satirical program depending heavily on political incorrectness. Yet it presented the most effective within the stars, together with the authors.Personally, just like a television viewer 10 years ago, "SNL" certainly increased the concept that laughter may be the finest medicine. To ensure that like a New You'll be able to actor today, still seems a technique the planet can make the most of. Stephen Medwid is certainly an ex-sportswriter who returned to his native New You'll be able to carrying out a 12-year hiatus in Hawaii and California, where he examined, completed, and trained drama. He presently plays a core connect on TV's "Damages," stands looking for Tom Selleck on CBS's "Blue Bloods," and was featured with the spine Stage's Who Got the Part? in 2008. He is constantly write his memoirs and workshop his one-guy show. Are both titled "A Sportswriter in Paradise." Permission to Laugh Again By Stephen Medwid September 11, 2011 Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with New you are able to city firemen on "SNL" on Sept. 29, 2001. ten years ago, "Saturday Evening Live" gave a grieving America permission to laugh again. Certainly, no sane person could find humor inside the horror that was Sept. 11, 2001. Just like a native New Yorker, the demise and destruction literally hit too close to home personally.Becoming an actress, my persistence for the primary one principle all stars live bythe show must go onwas provide the exam a couple of days following a tragedy after i sitting in the room at Stars Connection, waiting to audition for Josh Payne, then talent coordinator of additional supplies and under-fives for "SNL."The climate was eerie. Outdoors, sirens constantly wailed. Such as the relaxation from the stars there, Cleaning it once a to tune it, but most of us understood what that appear meant plus it saved everyone inside the room on edge. Within the window, you are able to look downtown and discover the vibrant, still-smoldering afterglow of ground zero. "What am I doing here?" I asked for myself. Really the only answer I really could develop was: Maybe laughter may be the finest medicine.I looked around in the amount of 20 roughly anxious stars. I had been all uncomfortable and, I am certain, feeling guilty about trying to pursue our careers during the time of these chaos and heartbreak. One youthful lady looked especially terribleweary, haggard, her eyes a dull glaze. From the thinking she'd 't be hired for television. I Rapidly learned she will be a nurse who were working nonstop within the fallen towers. Out of the blue, she increased being the most wonderful lady inside the room.Josh was great at lowering the strain. He introduced numerous sketches which we completed them becoming an ensemble, similar to about the program. For just about any handful of fleeting moments, there has been chuckles and smiles. He collected our headshots and rsums. It had been to reality.Accidentally, I went into Josh while he was exiting the structure. We walked a few blocks together, speaking concerning the occasions of history day or two. He used to be uncertain when the season's first show, scheduled for your finish in the month, would really air or possibly be postponed.The following week I received my answer. The show's film department hired me and many more as background artists for your opening credits. Most of us met inside the basement bar from the midtown restaurant. Among the various cast people we labored with were Ana Gasteyer and new recruits Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers.On Sept. 29, I, like numerous other audiences, sitting transfixed before my tv at 11:30 p.m. The show opened up up, happens filled with the tough faces of latest You'll be able to City firemen, cops, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and "SNL" executive producer and creator Lorne Michaels. First, Paul Simon sang a heartbreaking rendition of "The Boxer." Next, Michaels walked around Giuliani and asked for if "Saturday Evening Live" could go back to being funny. Getting a wry smile, Giuliani responded, "Why begin at this time?InchAt that point, you are able to feel an entire nation exhale. With tears throughout my eyes, I grew to become an associate from the studio audience in unabashed laughter. Then came people familiar words, "Live from New You'll be able to.Inch My heart pumped and my jaw dropped. There' wasfirst with Gasteyer after which it with newcomer Rob Richards. I used to be forever thing about this historic show.The particular healing personally, however, would occur over the following a few days. Just like a frequent background under-five player, I observed firsthand the hit-or-miss process of identifying what measures to push the comedy envelope throughout uncharted and looking occasions. Nobody was sure the thing that was funnya significant problem for just about any satirical program depending heavily on political incorrectness. Yet it presented the most effective inside the stars, together with the authors.Personally, just like a television viewer 10 years ago, "SNL" certainly increased the concept that laughter may be the finest medicine. To ensure that like a completely new You'll be able to actor today, still seems a technique the planet can be helped by. Stephen Medwid is certainly an ex-sportswriter who returned to his native New You'll be able to carrying out a 12-year hiatus in Hawaii and California, where he examined, completed, and trained drama. He presently plays a core connect on TV's "Damages," stands looking for Tom Selleck on CBS's "Blue Bloods," and was featured with the spine Stage's Who Got the Part? in 2008. He is constantly write his memoirs and workshop his one-guy show. Are both titled "A Sportswriter in Paradise."

Goon

An Alliance Films release (in Canada) from the Myriad Pictures presentation from the DCP Prods./Caramel Film/Inferno Pictures/No Trace Camping production. (Worldwide sales: Myriad Pictures, Santa Monica, Calif.) Produced by Don Carmody, David Gross, Andre Rouleau, Ian Dimerman, Jay Baruchel. Executive producers, Jesse Shapira, Mark Slone. Directed by Michael Dowse. Script, Jay Baruchel, Evan Goldberg. Good book "Goon: The Actual Story from the Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey" by Doug Cruz and Adam Frattasio.With: Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Marc-Andre Grondin, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber, Kim Coates, Dork Wheeler. (British, French dialogue)Doug Glatt is great-natured but outfitted with a decent punch, as they are "Goon," the adorable true story of Doug Cruz, a hockey enforcer who accomplished minor-league fame. Like the kind of humor in "Slap Shot," plus much more violent, director Michael Dowse and screenwriters Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg produce a sports comedy that balances the knowledge concerning the ice with significantly attracted figures in the rink. Canadian biz will probably be passionate Yank marketplace is most likely in vid. Doug (an ideally cast Seann William Scott) works just like a bouncer in Orangetown, Mass., certainly a few steps under the career imagined by his family's Ivy League-scaly anticipation. He projects a dumb but winning innocence and good character, but his fist can deck nearly anybody. He admires minor league star, and hockey goon supreme, Ross Rhea (a Fu Manchu'd Liev Schreiber, never searching more macho). When Doug can get in to a fracas getting a person inside the stands throughout a game title title, he draws the eye in the local club. It's quickly apparent that Doug -- who must learn how to skate -- is certainly an enforcer with promise, which is soon promoted for the minors while using Halifax Highlanders, whose star, Xavier Laflamme (Marc-Andre Grondin), has not been the identical since Rhea decked him getting a vicious crosscheck three seasons prior. Doug's only job concerning the ice is always to cover Laflamme's back it's most definitely not to really play hockey. The job from the hockey enforcer, invisible to numerous non-fans in addition to casual fans, is definitively presented here for the viewer into Doug's world and letting him do his factor. In route, Doug wins inside the heart of self-known to "slutty bad girlfriend" Avoi (an attractive Allison Pill), who's drawn to hockey players but feels slightly guilty to create by helping cover their Doug while she's a b - -.farrenheit. silently. Harder for your protag is convincing his roommate Laflamme, who jumps Ecstasy and beds women between games, he is able to skate sufficiently good to experience of the Highlanders' level. Dowse and editor Reginald Harkema (a great filmmaker within the own right) pace the knowledge on / off the ice confidently and efficiency, and game coverage shows a understanding in the sport. Dowse's adoration for the effective slo-mo moment is smartly timed throughout, specially when some blood stream should be shed concerning the rink. Although he's yet to fit his best film so far, "It's All Regulated Controlled Gone, Pete Tong," the helmer once again shows he knows how you can deliver smart entertainment with film vigor. With Scott, Pill, Grondin and Schreiber -- and Kim Coates searching being an NHL coach inside the making -- the pic features a first-rate team of stars who noticeably enjoy their roles as well as the sharp dialogue by Baruchel and Goldberg. Tech package is decent, but shows its budget limitations.Camera (color, HD), Bobby Shoreline editor, Reginald Harkema music, Ramachandra Borcar production designer, Gord Wilding set decorator, Andrea Spakowski costume designer, Louise Neale appear (stereo system system), Dallas Pomedi re-recording mixer, Dino Schiavone effects supervisor, Erection dysfunction Preston special makeup effects, Doug Morrow visual effects, L'Atelier V stunt coordinator, Steve Lucescu assistant director, Ronaldo Nacionales casting, Lori Stefaniuk. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentations), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 91 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Contagion Infects The US Box Office

Warrior punches into thirdAfter three weeks spent ruling the top of the US box office charts, The Help has finally been felled by a nasty virus that spread across America this weekend via Contagion. Steven Soderbergh's take on Irwin Allen disaster films won the weekend with $23. 1 million. But the Viola Davis/Emma Stone-starring, racially charged period piece still held on well, dropping to second with $8. 6 million. That meant the Tom Hardy/Joel Edgerton MMA drama Warrior had to settle for third, earning a slightly disappointing $5. 6 million. The Debt fell to fourth place, making $4. 9 million, while Zoe Saldana's revenge thriller Colombiana actually jumped back up one place to fifth with $4 million. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was down one to sixth, taking $3. 8 million, ahead of Shark Night 3D, which fell from fourth to seventh and earned $3. 5 million. Apollo 18 began a quick slide down the charts, crash landing at eighth with $2. 9 million, and Our Idiot Brother was ninth with a weekend haul of $2. 7 million. Finally, in 10th place, Spy Kids: All The Time in the World took in $2. 5 million. To fight infection using chart statistics, point your browser at Box Office Mojo.

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Bon Jovi Sings For NY Firefighters In 9/11 Encore

NEW You are able to, N.Y. -- Rocker Jon Bon Jovi came back to some Manhattan fire house Wednesday to pay for tribute to firefighters marking the ten-year anniversary from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Nj native was shot singing America The Gorgeous by an NBC television crew planning for any special National football league Kickoff 2011: To Football show Saturday. The joint National football league Network/NBC Sports production features football, music, along with a tribute to 9/11 first responders. He sang exactly the same song for any performance that broadcast across the country on Sept. 23, 2001 just before the kickoff from the first National football league games after 9/11. Bon Jovi stated within an interview after Wednesdays performance it was as moving this time around because it ended up being. Bon Jovi stated firefighters who have been there about ten years ago, in addition to cops from the nearby precinct, found the tape at Engine Co. 8, Ladder 2. He stated he felt a few of the same camaraderie he felt in 2001. Bon Jovi stated he is at his Nj houses gym on Sept. 11, 2001 watching this news together with his wife once the towers were hit by hi-jacked planes. He stated later on that day he became a member of others in the shoreline in Seabright, N.J. in Monmouth County, the place to find most of the sufferers. I would like the nation of Sept. twelfth again, when everyone joined together, he stated. We stated get married always remember so we can meet it. Bon Jovi has spent 30 years touring together with his tunes, including Livin on the Prayer and it is My Existence. This guitar rock band has offered a lot more than 100 million records worldwide. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.