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Ken Howard joins ABC pilot "Counter Culture"
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:55 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Ken Howard has joined the cast of ABC's comedy pilot "Counter Culture." The multi-camera project, written by former "MADtv" cast member Stephnie Weir, centers on three aging sisters who run their family diner together in West Texas and find that sibling dynamics are always getting in the way of getting the job done. ... Full Story | Top |
"Dancing With the Stars" gives Navratilova the boot
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:47 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tennis star Martina Navratilova became the first casualty on "Dancing With the Stars" 14th season on Tuesday, as judges and the TV show's fans gave her jive to "Tell Her About It" the thumbs down. Navratilova, dancing with partner Tony Dovolani, was booted from the popular television ballroom contest show after their jive dance on Monday received the lowest scores from the judges in the second week of competition. ...
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New reality show challenges couples to sexathon
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:26 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - If you thought "Jersey Shore" leaned a little too heavy on the steamy hook-ups, wait until you see Lifetime's latest offering. The network will launch a new reality series, "7 Days of Sex," on April 26, the network said Tuesday. The show will challenge couples "to have sex for one week straight with the hope of saving their marriage," the network said, presumably because they'll be too exhausted to file for divorce. ... Full Story | Top |
Ken Howard joins ABC pilot "Counter Culture"
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:25 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Ken Howard has joined the cast of ABC's comedy pilot "Counter Culture." The multi-camera project, written by former "MADtv" cast member Stephnie Weir, centers on three aging sisters who run their family diner together in West Texas and find that sibling dynamics are always getting in the way of getting the job done. ... Full Story | Top |
Lindsay Lohan lands guest spot on "Glee"
Tue,27 Mar 2012 05:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan will appear as a guest star on TV musical comedy "Glee", her spokesman said on Tuesday, in the latest step of a comeback for the once rising star whose career has been tarnished by drinking, drugs and legal troubles. Lohan's spokesman declined to give details of the episode involving the "Mean Girls" actress. But entertainment website TVLine.com said Lohan would play herself and serve as a celebrity judge when the "Glee" choir performs at a key contest toward the end of this current season. ...
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"Lorax" statue stolen from California home of Dr. Seuss
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:19 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 300-pound (136-kg) bronze statue of the Lorax, a character from the Dr. Seuss book and hit movie of the same name, has been stolen from the late author's San Diego estate, police said on Tuesday. The 3-foot-high (1-meter) statue of the Lorax standing on a tree stump with his arms outstretched was reported missing from the hillside property on Monday morning, San Diego Police Lieutenant Andra Brown said. Theodor Geisel, who wrote The Lorax and other best-selling children's books under the pen-name Dr. Seuss, died in 1991 at the age of 87. ...
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Lionel Richie goes country on new album 'Tuskegee'
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:49 PM PDT
Reuters -  NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - If he hadn't known better, Lionel Richie jokes that he might have felt insulted when initially sitting down with some of today's top country stars to record his new album of duets, "Tuskegee." "I pulled out the lyrics to the songs, and they were like, 'what's that?' "I said, 'here are the lyrics.'" Richie says with a mock look of astonishment, then smiles. "They said, 'Oh no, man. I know this. I've been singing it since 1983 or 1987,'. Someone even said, 'I've been singing these songs since I was in elementary school. ...
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Mayan documentary to warn humans of impending catastrophe
Tue,27 Mar 2012 03:11 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Mayan writings do not predict the end of the world when the calendar cycle ends in December - but according to the producer of an upcoming documentary about the Central American civilization, they do make the sobering prediction that three-quarters of the earth's population will be wiped out in the ensuing 15 to 20 years. And those who live, insisted producer Raul Julia-Levy, will need to quickly colonize outer space, just as he said the Mayans did. ... Full Story | Top |
"Hunger Games," Lenny Kravitz criticized in racist tweets
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - "The Hunger Games" and stars Lenny Kravitz and Amandla Stenberg have been targeted in a series of racist tweets. The bulk of the complaints center on the casting of black actors as characters that some Twitter users argue were portrayed as white in the Suzanne Collins' hit book. Kravitz plays a stylist named Cinna. Stenberg portrays Rue, the brave little girl who nurses Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) back to health at a key point in the film. As E! Online notes, contrary to these complaints, Collins actually depicts Rue as having "dark brown skin and eyes. ...
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All-American Rejects experience growing pains on 'Kids'
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - On their fourth album, "Kids in the Street," the All-American Rejects sacrifice a lot of their youthful vigor and spunk for a newfound maturity and balladry. Whether that's been influenced more by actual growing up or having some success placing songs on movie soundtracks is anyone's guess. Call it Goo Goo Dolls syndrome. If you took the title of "Kids in the Street" to mean that the band would be acting like scrappy youths 13 years into their career, you'd be mistaken. ...
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Gordon Ramsay files $2.5 million lawsuit against former partner
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:41 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Gordon Ramsay has found yet another restauranteur to lay into -- and this time it's his former business partner. The "Hell's Kitchen" hothead has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $2.5 million from Danny Lavy and Lavy's business 9226-7558 Quebec Inc., claiming that Lavy and the company breached their contract with Ramsay and made several false and defamatory comments about him in relation to a Canadian restaurant that they were involved in. ... Full Story | Top |
Al-Jazeera refuses to air video of French shootings
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:39 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Al Jazeera has declined to air a haunting video of three separate shooting attacks that occurred in southern France earlier this month. The video, delivered to Al Jazeera's Paris bureau on a USB stick, portrays the three attacks, executed by Mohammed Merah in Toulouse and Montauban, in chronological order. Merah said the shootings, which resulted in the deaths of three soldiers, three Jewish children and a rabbi, were inspired by Al Qaeda. He titled the video "Al Qaeda attaque la France," meaning Al Qaeda attacks France. ... Full Story | Top |
Michelle Obama to honor Taylor Swift at Kids' Choice Awards
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:36 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - Michelle Obama is teaming up with Nickelodeon once again. First Lady Obama, who made a cameo on the network's "iCarly" in January to promote her Joining Forces initiative, will appear at Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday. Obama will present country singer Taylor Swift with the Big Help Award, which Swift is receiving for her various philanthropic efforts, including her work with flood and tornado survivors. The First Lady received the award in 2010 in recognition of her Let's Move! campaign, which promotes healthier lifestyles for children. ...
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'Hunger Games' star Josh Hutcherson nabs CinemaCon award
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:29 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - "The Hunger Games" star Josh Hutcherson has nabbed CinemaCon's breakthrough performer of the year award. Hutcherson, who plays Peeta Mellark in the hit Lionsgate film, will pick up his hardware at the annual trade show in Las Vegas on April 26. "With an already impressive resume of films under his belt, Hutcherson is one of the most accomplished young actors of his time," CinemaCon's Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser said in a statement. "With the release of 'The Hunger Games,' Hutcherson is poised to take the movie world by storm. ...
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Fox pulls movie ads due to Trayvon Martin case
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:17 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twentieth Century Fox movie studio on Tuesday said it is removing posters and a promotional trailer for its summer comedy "Neighborhood Watch" from theaters in Florida following the death of teenager Trayvon Martin. "We are very sensitive to the Trayvon Martin case," Fox said in a statement, "but our film is a broad alien-invasion comedy and bears absolutely no relation to the tragic events in Florida." The poster for the movie starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill shows a picture of a shadowy figure with a line across it and the movie's title underneath. ... Full Story | Top |
"Arrested Development" fans rally for Steve Holt's return
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:03 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 27 (TheWrap.com) - "Arrested Development" will be making its return. Whether the relatively minor character Steve Holt will also return is still up in the air. But the famously outspoken and passionate fans of the series are trying to ensure that the illegitimate son of George Oscar Bluth Jr. and student-body president is brought back into the fold for the revival. ... Full Story | Top |
"The Voice" propels NBC to nightly ratings win
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:42 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Voice" took top honors and propelled NBC to a ratings win on Monday night, while "Dancing With the Stars" was the most-watched network of the evening and the "Alcatraz" finale on Fox took a slight dip, according to preliminary numbers. NBC took first place in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and a distant second place in total viewers with an average 3.7 rating/10 share and 10 million. "The Voice" at 8 dipped slightly but was still the night's highest-rated program with a 4.4/12, and 11.8 million total viewers. ... Full Story | Top |
Jane Fonda to play Nancy Reagan in film 'The Butler'
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:40 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The right wing is going to love this: Jane Fonda, whose outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War continues to enrage conservatives, will play former first lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' "The Butler." "The Butler" is a sprawling historical drama that centers on Eugene Allen, a black man who worked as butler in the White House under eight presidents. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland") is slated to play Allen. Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman and Liam Neeson are among the other big names who are circling roles in the project. ...
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Lionel Richie goes barely country for "Tuskegee"
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:39 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - If it's possible for an album to be justified by just one song, then Lionel Richie's country duets project, "Tuskegee," earns its keep just through the inclusion of a collaboration with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles that makes something riveting out of, of all things, "Hello." A song that once seemed emotionally innocuous enough becomes an exercise in deep and primal yearning as, a minute and a half in, the drums kick it up a notch and Nettles loudly enters the picture, sounding almost feral in her loneliness and desire. ... Full Story | Top |
"Don't Trust the B in Apt. 23" to get Hulu premiere
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:37 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Fox did it with "New Girl" and NBC did it with "Smash" and "Awake," and now ABC is trying to create a buzz for its upcoming sitcom "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23" by releasing the series' pilot episode on Hulu. The pilot of the Krysten Ritter comedy -- which also features "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek as James Van Der Beek -- is posted at Hulu now, and premieres on ABC on April 11. On April 2, the new show's second episode will also post on Hulu. ... Full Story | Top |
Amazon, B&N make concessions for Potter ebooks
Tue,27 Mar 2012 10:17 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled Harry Potter e-books on Tuesday in deals that suggest the companies made big concessions with author J.K. Rowling for electronic access to the hit series. Amazon said it struck a distribution deal with J.K. Rowling's new website pottermore.com. Amazon customers can search for the Harry Potter e-books in the company's Kindle Store, but will be directed to the Pottermore Shop to register and buy them, then add the titles to their Kindle library, the company said. ...
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World chefs: Goldstein aims to be truffle king
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:34 AM PDT
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - New York-born Harlan Goldstein, known to many foodies as the best Western chef in Hong Kong, can thank his mother for his culinary career. Despairing of her 14-year-old son's propensity to get mixed up with the wrong crowd, she put him to work in his uncle's restaurant to keep him out of trouble. He went straight from high school to an apprenticeship arranged by his uncle at the Montreux Palace Hotel in Switzerland. ...
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TV hacking claims pile pressure on James Murdoch
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - A British lawmaker is to demand that the UK television watchdog probe new hacking claims against News Corp, piling more pressure on BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch, whose fitness to own a broadcast license is already under scrutiny. A BBC Panorama documentary broadcast on Monday alleged NDS, a pay-TV smartcard maker recently sold by News Corp for $5 billion, hired a consultant to post the encryption codes of ITV Digital, a key rival of the then Sky TV, on his website. ...
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Universal lines up $50 million in promotional partnerships
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:30 AM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - This "Battleship" just got some corporate reinforcements. Universal Pictures has lined up $50 million in promotional support for its blockbuster hopeful through partnerships with Subway, Coke Zero, Chevron, and Nestlé, the studio said Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, given the film's setting, the U.S. Navy will also assist in audience recruitment through in-cinema advertising, YouTube videos and Facebook posts focused on the real men and women of the Navy. ... Full Story | Top |
Four non-essential TV networks: watch out Oprah, Burnett
Tue,27 Mar 2012 08:10 AM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - If Oprah Winfrey's Network disappeared, would anyone miss it? Last week the research firm SNL Kagan raised the possibility of OWN's demise, predicting that it could soon be doomed if its ratings don't improve. It projected that OWN could lose $142.9 million this year. Winfrey's painful struggle with OWN raises an equally painful question: Have we finally reached the point of too many networks? We live in the age of screen creep, in which news, trivia, and ads - mostly ads - pop up in places they never would have just a decade ago. ...
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$9 million is Milchan's losing bid for '50 Shades of Grey'
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:46 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - How badly did Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan want "50 Shades of Grey," the erotic novel that became the must-have property over the past week? Badly enough to offer a staggering $9 million for the trilogy of novels for his New Regency production company, TheWrap has learned. Despite that bid, the property went to Universal Pictures and its arthouse sister Focus Features on Monday after a weekend war between nearly a dozen Hollywood bidders. In fact, TheWrap has further learned that Universal and Focus paid far lower than Milchan's offer. ...
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Mandela archives, letters and notes go online
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:43 AM PDT
Reuters -  JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of letters, photographs and documents relating to former South African President Nelson Mandela went online on Tuesday in a project aimed at increasing access to the archives which detail his long walk to freedom. Items including letters Mandela wrote to his family that were smuggled out of prison, his Methodist church membership card from about 80 years ago and hand-written diaries have been digitized and laid out on a website (archive.nelsonmandela.org) designed to look like a museum exhibit. ...
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Universal Music to sell parts of catalogue: sources
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:42 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi's Universal Music Group is seeking buyers for some of its publishing catalogue as part of planned asset sales to fund its pending takeover of EMI, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The sale includes a catalogue of Universal's classical music including operas like Tosca and another of Christian and gospel music. The deal would be valued at up to $200 million and was first reported by the Financial Times on Tuesday. Last Friday, the European Union's competition authority opened an in-depth investigation into Universal's $1. ... Full Story | Top |
Netflix walks away from "Terra Nova" deal
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:39 AM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Terra Nova" dinosaurs will not be roaring again at Netflix. Netflix negotiations to revive the troubled Steven Spielberg-produced drama -- canceled after one season by Fox earlier this month -- have broken down. 20th Century Fox Television, which produces the show, will continue to try and find a new home for the dino-drama, an individual familiar with the situation told TheWrap. The series weathered numerous problems, including a ballooning budget to premiere in September. ...
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Amazon gets Harry Potter e-books for Kindles
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:22 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday that e-book versions of the Harry Potter hit series by J.K. Rowling are available to read on the company's Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon said it struck a distribution deal with J.K. Rowling's new website and e-book store, called the Pottermore Shop. Amazon customers can search for the Harry Potter e-books in the company's Kindle Store, but will be directed to the Pottermore Shop to buy them and add them to their Kindle library, the company said. ... Full Story | Top |
Harry Potter novels available in ebook format
Tue,27 Mar 2012 07:22 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling's best-selling "Harry Potter" novels are available for the first time in ebook format on the new website dedicated to the boy wizard adventures. The seven stories, which have sold an estimated 450 million copies worldwide and spawned a successful eight-film movie franchise, went on sale on Tuesday at the Pottermore site set up by Rowling. The website's online store (shop.pottermore.com) is the exclusive retailer of Harry Potter ebooks and digital audio books, which have been launched in English only. ...
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Sony group offers EU concessions for EMI unit buy
Tue,27 Mar 2012 04:21 AM PDT
Reuters -  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Sony-led group has offered concessions to EU regulators in a bid to gain approval for its proposed acquisition of record label EMI's music publishing business, the European Commission said on Tuesday. Sony, with Blackstone Group, Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Co., Raine Group and movie mogul David Geffen trumped rival BMG for EMI Publishing, whose catalogue includes songs such as "New York, New York" and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". The European Commission said on its website it would now decide by April 19 whether to clear or block the deal. ...
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Rediscovered Cezanne masterpiece to lead N.Y. auction
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:03 AM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rare, pristine Paul Cezanne watercolor, which has not been seen in public since 1953, is expected to sell for as much as $20 million at auction in May, Christie's said on Tuesday. The late 19th-century work on paper is one of Cezanne's preparatory studies for his seminal Card Players series of five paintings, "Joueurs des cartes." Its whereabouts had been unknown for decades until it re-emerged from the collection of a doctor in Texas. The auction house found the drawing when it was working with the estate of Dr. Heniz Eichenwald, who died in September at the age of 85. ...
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World chefs: Goldstein aims to be truffle king
Tue,27 Mar 2012 02:02 AM PDT
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - New York-born Harlan Goldstein, known to many foodies as the best Western chef in Hong Kong, can thank his mother for his culinary career. Despairing of her 14-year-old son's propensity to get mixed up with the wrong crowd, she put him to work in his uncle's restaurant to keep him out of trouble. He went straight from high school to an apprenticeship arranged by his uncle at the Montreux Palace Hotel in Switzerland. ...
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New Sony CEO to keep charge of troubled TV operations
Tue,27 Mar 2012 01:35 AM PDT
Reuters -  TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp CEO Kazuo Hirai signaled his determination to turn around the group's ailing TV business by keeping direct charge of the division, as the Japanese brand fights to regain ground against rivals such as Apple. Hirai, who formally takes over as chief executive from Howard Stringer next week, inherits a company that - like much of corporate Japan - has been outgunned in recent years by rivals like Apple and Samsung Electronics. The maker of Bravia televisions and Vaio laptops expects a 220 billion yen ($2. ...
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Director James Cameron awestruck at ocean's deepest spot
Mon,26 Mar 2012 11:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Returning from humankind's first solo dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron said he saw no obvious signs of life that might inspire creatures in his next "Avatar" movie but was awestruck by the "complete isolation." The Oscar-winning director and undersea explorer said his record-setting expedition to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 7 miles beneath the surface of the western Pacific, not only capped seven years of painstaking preparation but was the "culmination of a lifelong dream. ...
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"Bully" documentary to land in theaters unrated
Mon,26 Mar 2012 11:03 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Weinstein Co. on Monday said it has decided to release its documentary "Bully" without a U.S. film rating after failing to persuade the Motion Picture Association of America to change to one that is less restrictive. "Bully," set for release on March 30, has drawn controversy over the MPAA's "R" rating that means people under 17-years-old must be accompanied by adult to see it. The group gave it the rating due to strong language used by kids in the movie. Opponents of the MPAA's decision, including Weinstein Co. ...
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Madonna's "MDNA" receives lukewarm welcome from critics
Mon,26 Mar 2012 09:44 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The music doesn't stop for pop icon Madonna, and neither does the controversy, as the 53-year-old 'Queen of Pop' returns to the spotlight with her latest album "MDNA". The uptempo record "MDNA" sees Madonna continue her love affair with dance music in an album dedicated to club-friendly tracks. And Madonna has lost none of her ability to push boundaries, just as she did 25 years ago with themes of sexuality and youth rebellion. ...
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Paparazzi sues Megan Fox, Brian Austin Green for alleged attack
Mon,26 Mar 2012 07:36 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES, March 26 (TheWrap.com) - Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green engaged in a violent game of pop-a-pap, according to a new lawsuit, and the alleged victim is looking for a payout from the incident. In the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, photographer Delbert Shaw claims that Green pummeled him in the face and tackled him after he took pictures of Green's wife Fox in a bikini on a beach in Hawaii. ...
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'50 Shades' author on why she picked Universal, Focus
Mon,26 Mar 2012 05:43 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES, March 26 (TheWrap.com) - E.L. James, the author of "50 Shades of Grey," is opening up about why she went with Universal Pictures and Focus Features to adapt her trilogy of best-sellers to the big screen. And while the $5 million she reportedly received for the deal certainly didn't hurt, James tells EW.com that she did it for the laughs -- specifically, those elicited by Focus president of production Jeb Brody. ... Full Story | Top |
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