Berlinale unspools Panahi film

"This Is not a movieInchGermany -- The Berlin Film Festival continues its support of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who's facing six years jail time carrying out a Tehran appeals court upheld the sentence captured. In the further show of solidarity with Panahi together with other jailed filmmakers, the Berlinale is joining the German Film Academy and Berlin public radio station Radioeins to recognition Panahi getting a screening of his latest film, "This Is not a film,In . on November. 9 within the KulturBrauerei in Berlin as "a type of public protest and recognition for your courage of individuals Iranian filmmakers who continue their work despite constant danger." Co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb -- who was simply arrested in September -- the film shows every day within the presence of Panahi while he waits for many days under house arrest for your outcomes of his appeal, eating breakfast, getting in touch with his lawyer, speaking while using building's maintenance guy in addition to enacting roles from the planned film he remains prohibited from making. "'This Is not a Film' might be the defiance from the director who cannot desist from making films and it is certainly the atrociousness to become banned from his profession without any self-pity whatsoever," the Berlinale mentioned. "Convicting artists and banning them utilizing their professions violates human rights, freedom of opinion and expression inside the arts," added Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick. "We significantly condemn such infringements and also demonstrate our solidarity using this screening." In September, Mirtahmasb and fellow Iranian filmmakers and stars Katayoon Shahabi, Hadi Afarideh, Naser Safarian, Shahnam Bazdar and Mohsen Shahrnazdar were also arrested incorporated within the Tehran government's draconian attack on experts in the Islamic regime. In December 2010 Panahi and fellow director Mohammad Rasoulof were charged with disbursing "propaganda in the system," and sentenced to six years jail time and banned from making films and travelling for an additional 2 decades. As of this year's Berlinale the fest expressed its support, calling target the plight of Panahi, together with other Iranian filmmakers with plenty of initiatives. Furthermore, it requested Panahi for everybody round the Berlinale's worldwide jury -- something the director was unable to complete due to his arrest. Moved by his plight, the German Film Academy has launched the project "Filmmakers imprisonmentInch to assist politically persecuted filmmakers. Contact Erection dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

9 Pro Tips For Breaking Into Visual Effects From Jurassic Park's VFX Pioneers

If there’s anyone who knows about breaking barriers in the visual effects industry, it’s Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and John Rosengrant, whose computer-generated dinosaur effects on Jurassic Park forever changed the FX landscape, earned them Academy Awards and famously caused George Lucas to tear up with joy. But their work pioneering new technologies did not begin or end with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic. The artists have worked on some of Hollywood’s most technologically innovative titles including Star Wars, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Predator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Avatar. While together last month to promote the Jurassic Park Ultimate Trilogy (available today), Movieline picked the brains of the VFX legends to get nine pro tips for breaking into the visual effects biz. 1. Learn about the filmmaking process from a director’s perspective. This means make your own movies! Muren: “Study art, photography, nature because you want to have ideas for full shots in your head. Not parts of shots but the whole finished thing, even though you may not be [responsible] for all of that. You want to understand to the filmmaking process from the point of view of the director — even if you want to do special effects.” Tippett: “I would encourage that — an art and film history background. And there’s no excuse for not making your own movie. You’ll learn so much if you just come up with a little story that has a beginning, middle and an end. If you commit to doing it, you’ll learn so much more by doing that than most people going to school.” 2. Listen to the voices in your head. Tippett: “If you make your own film, it really helps that you know what a cut means. A cut is very important to know because it helps structure things. The sounds, too. When we started on Jurassic Park, I spent a week or so with [sound designer] Gary Rydstrom because it was very important for Steven to have the voices for the characters. That was very helpful to inform our performances. Once you have the voices in your head, then you can work to the voices. That knowledge is essential.” 3. Understand how VFX fit into the storytelling process. Rosengrant: “Recognize that we help tell a story and that’s what’s most important first. Understand that our role is to maybe embellish that story and make it more interesting. But know how you fit into telling that story because it’s very collaborative.” 4. Don’t just imitate your visual effects heroes. Dare to be original. Rosengrant: “I see people trying to get into effects who are trying to copy something instead of understanding the real anatomy of the art. All of this comes into play. I think that’s what makes Jurassic Park work.” 5. Think of your best friend as your worst enemy . Muren: “Your best friend is your enemy when it comes to breaking into the industry. I think it’s a very competitive time now, with film schools churning out so many effects people, that you’ve got to be better than your best friend.” Tippett: “They could be thinking the same thing about you — that ‘I have to be better than you are.’ Just strive for the best. Tenacity. Don’t give up. Keep plugging away at it. Find out if you’re good at it. You may not be good at it.” 6. Rest assured that visual effects is now a viable career option. Muren: “When we were starting out, there was no visual effects career. There were maybe 20 people in all of L.A. and maybe the world who did visual effects. They would hire people from different unions to sort of flesh out something.These guys were old-time expert guys that really didn’t know anything like we do because they did it so seldom. It’s amazing now that it’s actually a business and you can look at it as a job.” 7. Don’t listen to the job entry horror stories — there are visual effects pros out there who want to nurture (and not just torture) up-and-comers. Tippett: “It depends on where you start out. Most of us try to be good to the people just starting out. You don’t want to burn out artists. You want to encourage them.” Muren: “I hear a lot about that, too. That it’s really going on and [companies] are really taking advantage of it because there are so many people that want to do it. That’s unfortunate and I hope it doesn’t happen often.” 8. Don’t be surprised when the visual effects industry is not as glamorous as you imagined. Tippett: “I think one of the more bitter pills to swallow is the intensity [of VFX]. Because you think it’s one thing and it’s cool and sexy and it’s fun. Then you sit down and look at the dailies and someone says, ‘That’s wrong, that’s wrong and that’s wrong. Fix that, fix that.’ It’s just like [mimes choking someone.] Someone tells you, ‘Just fix it. I’ll see you tomorrow.’ It’s not like what people imagine.” 9. Get ready to continually adapt. Rosengrant: “[The new visual effects guys] are jumping onboard now after so many years of things evolving. We think back 18 years ago with Jurassic Park; during that 18 year period, things have been moving like a freight train. So when you get on that freight train now, you’ve got to have all of this other knowledge behind you. Study what went on in the past but get ready for a train ride.” Bonus: Exercise tenacity and passion. Tippett: “If someone tells you not to do it and you do it anyway, that’s a good sign. Because it’s going to take that tenacity. […] We were all obsessed [when we started out] too. It wasn’t a career ‘choice.’ It was like, you can shoot me or I can do special effects.” Follow Julie Miller on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera, Maroon 5, Others to Perform At 2011 American Music Awards

The American Music Awards are less than a month away and the dick clark productions (dcp) awards show announce a slew of new acts set to perform on Nov. 20 live broadcast.our editor recommends2011 American Music Awards: Adele Leads With 4 Nominations (Video)VIDEO: Nicki Minaj and Pitbull Reveal the 2011 AMA Nominees PHOTOS: AMA Hot Performances Justin Bieber, Christina Aguilera, Maroon 5, Mary J. Blige and Kelly Clarkson were announced as performers Monday. VIDEO: 2011 American Music Awards: Adele Leads With 4 Nominations The musicians join Katy Perry and Pitbull, who were already signed on to sing on the live show. Aguilera is scheduled to duet with her The Voice co-star Adam Levine on his band's hit "Moves Like Jagger," for the show, which will be broadcast from NOKIA Theater L.A. LIVE. Adele scored the most AMA nominations, with four, when they were announced Oct. 11. PHOTOS: Top 10 Highest Paid Music Artists Katy Perry,Lady Gaga,Lil Wayne,Rihanna,The Band PerryandTaylor Swifteach saw three nods whileBeyonce,Bruno Mars,Chris Brown,Jason Aldean,Kanye West,LMFAO,Nicki MinajandPitbullcollected two nominations. Related Topics American Music Awards Justin Bieber Kelly Clarkson Mary J. Blige Christina Aguilera Maroon 5

REVIEW: Aki Kaurismki's Ornery Humanist Spirit Shines in Le Havre

There’s a danger in dismissing Aki Kaurismki’s Le Havre as lightweight just because it takes the most generous attitude possible toward human nature. Being jaundiced about the world is easy — it takes relatively little energy to expect the worst from everyone. But it’s harder, as the dour Finnish filmmaker has shown us time and again, to allow for the possibility of surprise in the way people behave and treat one another, and the rewards are far greater. Kaurismki’s comedies are characteristically charcoal-toned — never quite black — but the unapologetically hopeful Le Havre is more silvery-gray. It’s an open-hearted Eeyore of a movie. Le Havre is set (and was filmed) in Normandy, starring an array of French actors. The best-known of those may be Jean-Pierre Laud, who plays a bad guy, an informer, though even that bit of casting is a sly joke, as if Truffaut and Godard’s impish devil had grown up to be a more malevolent troublemaker. And even though one of the key actors here, Kaurismki regular Kati Outinen, is Finnish, her character has the most French of French names, a movie-star name, Arletty. Arletty is the wife of Marcel (played by the soulfully weathered Andr Wilms, a French actor who has also previously worked with Kaurismki), an aged shoeshine guy who’s fond of his wine, but who in his youth, as he tells another character, used to be an artist, a bohemian. Marcel goes about his routine in relaxed obliviousness: At the end of a typically not-very-productive workday, he buys a loaf of bread on credit from a nearby shop and brings his meager earnings, minus the bit he’s already spent on late-afternoon tipple, home to the saucer-eyed, gently good-natured Arletty. She then hands a few euro back to him, suggesting he go around the corner for an aperitif — she knows how much he enjoys it. But then two things happen to Marcel in quick succession, drastically changing the texture of his life: Arletty suddenly becomes ill with a serious, possibly incurable ailment and must be hospitalized. At roughly the same time, a recently arrived shipping container is discovered to contain a group of African refugees. They’re taken into custody, but one boy escapes. The newspaper headlines urge citizens to look out for this dangerous criminal. One reads, “Armed and dangerous. Connected to Al Qaeda?” Marcel discovers the boy hiding near the docks, and instead of turning him in, leaves food and money. The boy’s name is Idrissa (he’s played, with silent-movie expressiveness, by Blondin Miguel), and Marcel and his trusty dog Laika (played by a honey-toned charmer who is, the press notes tell us, “a canine actress of 5th generation”) shelter him from the authorities. Marcel also tries to find a way to get him to London, where he’ll be able to rejoin members of his family. Marcel isn’t alone in his sense of decency. There’s an air of conviviality in Le Havre, in the way the locals gather for drinks and gossip but also keep tender secrets safe for one another. The various shopkeepers in the neighborhood, who often grumble about Marcel’s failure to pay his bills, send food for Idrissa. They also keep mum about his whereabouts when the authorities, in the form of the wonderfully named Inspector Monet (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) come calling. Le Havre proceeds from the usual Kaurismkian premise: Things are only going to get worse, so why not just go with it? And still, Kaurismki infuses the picture with his characteristic oddball grace. (He also tucks in a wild little performance from French pop singer Little Bob, a.k.a. Roberto Piazza, who rocks the joint in a red leather jacket and silvery quiff.) Le Havre is lyrical even though it moves forward in the typical Kaurismki fits-and-starts — its gracefulness settles like a mantle around it, more beautiful for all its bumps and wrinkles. The movie’s jokes are so gentle, and delivered with such deadpan assurance, that it sometimes takes a split second for you to register how absurdly funny they are. The picture is gently pointed in the way it rails against the aggressive tactics employed by European governments against refugees from other nations, and suggests a way forward, inch by optimistic inch: This is a wry mini-treatise on the necessity of being kind and having guts. Le Havre, shot by Kaurismki’s regular cinematographer Timo Salminenalso, is also gorgeous to look at: Frame by frame, it’s a marvel of lighting — the images look soft and bright at once, as if old Hollywood craftsmanship had been happily wed with modern straightforwardness and simplicity. The movie steps at first tentatively then boldly toward a blissfully happy ending that still manages to be true to Kaurismki’s ornery humanist spirit, and the visual beauty of Le Havre blossoms, quite literally, in the last shot. There is hope for humankind yet. Meanwhile, there’s also time for another drink. Editor’s note: Portions of this review appeared earlier, in a slightly different form, in Stephanie Zacharek’s Cannes Film Festival coverage.

GOP Presidential Debate: Just what the Bloggers Say

Things got just a little heated through the eighth debate in many Republican debates, which was kept in Las vegas on Tuesday.our editor recommendsGOP Presidential Debate: What Hollywood Is SayingCNN's GOP Presidential Debate: ten best Zingers in the Evening The candidates incorporated Minnesota Repetition. Bachmann Wanted, businessman Herman Cain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), Texas Repetition. Ron Paul, Texas Gov. Ron Perry, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania senator Ron Santorum. Through the debate, both Cain and Romney were specific for harsh critique within the other candidates. Sooner or later Romney and Perry experienced a quarrel over whose change it wound up being to talk. Perry also called out Romney for allegedly employing a lawn care company that hired illegal immigrants. STORY: CNN's GOP Presidential Debate: ten best Zingers in the Evening Many experts agreed this debate elevated the election race to another level. "Romney and Perry will be the two males who have the funds, the infrastructure, the assets the campaign team to keep this pointed within the extended haul. You saw them go to a new level tonight," mentioned John King on CNN's Assault Gets worse 360 following a debate. PHOTOS: Bachmann Wanted: The Politics of favor "Mitt Romney might be the only real person round the stage you never know -- or can anyway speak clearly on -- the whole breadth of issues that face the best choice. Romney needed heavy fire from nearly everyone, but his rivals usually did more damage independently,Inch written Taegan Goddard of Political Wire. NBC News political reporter Chuck Todd written on Twitter, "Perry wasn't any diminishing crimson tonight he forced themselves back front-n-center with Romney Cain was the primary one diminishing from spotlight tonight." STORY: GOP Presidential Debate: What Hollywood States James Fallows in the Atlantic written, "No navigating around this: like Romney or else (I don't), he leads to since the only sane figure." "For me Romney won the debate as they again shown a sure, steady performance and command round the economy. Perry tried to difficult to score and discovered as snippy and thin-skinned," written Bradley Blakeman of FoxNews.com. PHOTOS: Box Office Politics: The Flicks and Stars Dems versus. GOPers Love (and Prefer to Hate) Piers Morgan needed a jab at Bachmann Wanted, who developed a comment that handled to obtain appear as if she were not sure that Libya reaches Africa. "I question if Bachmann Wanted are able to see Africa from her house? " "Only one factor's certain tonight - this really is really probably the most riveting GOP debate up to now," Morgan ongoing. "Ever the gentleman, @THEHermanCain describes his rivals as his 'distinguished co-employees,'" written ABC News Deputy Political Director & Political Reporter Michael Falcone. Related Subjects Politics Bachmann Wanted

Plane-repo comedy taxis at Summit

The writing team of Douglas Prepare and David Weisberg has offered an untitled comedy-action pitch concerning the area of repossessing planes to Summit, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian and JC Spink creating. Logline's being saved under systems. Story will track some repo males. It's the second pitch purchase to Summit for Prepare and Weisberg following their This summer time deal for just about any female ensemble actioner with Di Bonaventura and Vahradian creating. Chris Bender, Mike Weiner and so are professional creating that project via Benderspink. Prepare and Weisberg have setup "Blank Slate" at Bold Entertainment, "Nick Ratchett" with Stan Lee at Disney and so are writing what's specific to become tentpole heist movie. Their credits include "The Rock" and "Double Risk." Summit's Erik Feig and Geoff Shaevitz are controlling the repo project. Di Bonaventura's became a member of with Summit on "Red-colored-colored" as well as the approaching "Guy around the Ledge." Benderspink is presently packaging "Y the ultimate Guy" at New Line and "Great Love" at Warners and contains "Burt Wonderstone" at New Line. Prepare and Weisberg are repped by CAA. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

How Barefoot Teen Steve Jobs Helped Cure 3 Million Blind People

Steve Jobs' friend Dr. Larry Brilliant is former executive director of Google.org, an epidemiologist, Senior Science Advisor to the Warner Bros. and Participant movie Contagion, and current president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund established by eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll. Here is how he remembers Jobs:our editor recommendsSteve Jobs: 10 Memorable Milestones of the Apple Co-Founder's CareerSteve Jobs' Death: How the Magazines CoveredApple CEO Tim Cook on Steve Jobs: 'No Words Can Adequately Express Our Sadness'Related Topics•Steve Jobs I met Steve when we were all young and the world was full of promise and so, of course, we went to India as spiritual seekers. We had our first brief meeting when he was probably 19 or 20 in the 1970's, probably around 1974. PHOTOS: Steve Jobs: 10 Memorable Milestones of the Apple Co-Founder's Career I had been living in the monastery or ashram of Maharaji or Neem Karoli Baba in the Himalayas, but by the time Steve got to India I was working for the United Nations on the smallpox eradication program. By then, I had morphed from being a hippie to wearing a three-piece suit and going to UN meetings. Steve was still barefoot wearing robes and head-shaven. Maharaji was a great Indian saint who had passed away only months before Steve arrived. He had an ashram at a place called Kenchi in the lower Himalayas. I would come up on weekends from Delhi. Steve rented a small "Kumoan" hillside cabin about 200 yards away. He would come and get tea and food at the ashram. He was traveling with this wonderful guy named Dan Kottke, who eventually became the first or second employee of Apple. Steve had two pictures of Maharaji in his room when he died. PHOTOS: Steve Jobs' Death: How the Magazines Covered Steve had always been into mechanical things and, as he said in his Stanford commencement speech, at Reed he learned calligraphy and fonts and they combined into this unique combination of practical engineering with a profound aesthetic sensibility. I think one of the ways India influenced him was as he trekked around he came face-to-face with India's huge duality. He encountered both very holy men, and at the same time, terrible intractable poverty, suffering on a scale unimaginable at home in California. He also talked to people who had big phantasmagorical solutions to those problems that were monumentally impractical. I think being in India helped make him be committed to finding practical solutions -- less about theories, more about practice. VIDEOS: Remembering Steve Jobs Steve wanted to give power to the people. He talked about it all the time in the early days of Apple. But it was one thing to talk about it in the rhetoric of the 60's, another to disinter-mediate the priests, the elitists who controlled the mainframe computers. To take away their power and put on the desk --- and later the lap, and in the hands --- of everyone. The Apple II and the Mac put power on the desks of the people, reduced our dependency on the priests of the mainframe, and then Steve topped that by putting that same power on our laps, our phones, our pads. He was consistently democratizing computing power. When we were both back in the US, a Swiss investor gave Steve some very early angel money to start Apple and the same man gave me about the same amount to help start the Seva Foundation, combating blindness. Apple's success is, of course, the stuff of legends but Seva hasn't done badly either. Its projects have given back sight to more than 3 million blind people. STORY: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Steve Jobs: 'No Words Can Adequately Express Our Sadness' When Steve heard I was starting Seva in 1980, he called me up and gave me the first sizable donation to help build eye hospitals in India and do a survey of blindness in Nepal. We couldn't have built Seva without him. He was an advisor for years. He stayed involved even as Apple took all of his time; for example, when I went to Nepal to do a nationwide survey of blindness, I had no way of analyzing the data in country and it was inappropriate to try to bring it back to the University of Michigan where I was professor. Steve called me and said he was going to send me an Apple II with VisiCalc software to do the first round of epidemiological study in Nepal. He was very interested in how we could use that data to build a program. He sent us a very early Apple II, probably single digits in the serial number. He said, "I've got an Apple in my room I'm going to send you with this amazing thing called a Corvus hard drive. It's got tremendous capacity. It's all the most capacity in the market. It's 5 megs." STORY: Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes Two days later I got the Apple and it was perfect. It's still there in Nepal. It was Steve thinking about how to solve my problem trying the help us create a program to give back sight to blind people and that was how he did things. For 35 years, I've seen Steve's sweet caring nature. I know this was not everyone's experience, but it was mine. He was devoted to Apple and he was really devoted to his family and especially his amazing wife Laurene and his kids. He said over and over, I'm proud of Apple but Laurene and my great kids are worth 10,000 times more than any company. Whether he learned it in India through his spiritual striving or from having a family, Steve's values were elevating. They are not the values of the divisiveness of 2011. His views were from a different era and they were noble. Related Topics Steve Jobs Apple

'The Avengers' Trailer Verdict: More Hulk, Less Stark, Less Loki, Deeper

I've got a word for that makers from the new Avengers trailer: Transformers. Using the discharge of the very first full trailer for Disney and Marvel's all-star 2012 super hero tentpole, fans finally obtain a real consider the four primary heroes together -- The Hulk, Iron Guy, Captain America and Thor -- with a few semblance from the film's narrative displayed. Loki's back, so might be Nick Fury and Black Widow, Hawkeye's now in this area, and everybody's searching like they would like to perform some righteous ass-kicking. Cars explode, voiceovers portend, Tony Stark cracks jokes. Awesome. Or it might be as we hadn't seen all this before and expected each and every factor that people saw within the trailer. Which will get in the crux from the Avengers problem: Because of the scope and impact of the baby films, so how exactly does that one deliver something bigger, better, more recent? PHOTOS: 'The Avengers': New Photos From Marvel's Super hero Film Of course, for any film of the scale, this "trailer" is actually just a long teaser. We're not designed to see everything yet. The film doesn't emerge for an additional seven several weeks approximately, and also the studio and filmmakers need to avoid wasting build for that meantime. Still, have a look back in the first real Transformers: Dark from the Moon trailer. That involved figures we'd seen before -- robot and human -- but handled to share epic drama and conflict once we got hints of Chicago being completely destroyed in addition to great emotional moments (note Bumblebee -- a robot(!!) -- in despair). Besides theAvengerstrailer do none of the, however it recycles a villain from Thor. Author-director Joss Whedon better have bigger, badder forces behind Loki to increase the darkness quotient or nobody's likely to care. The Joker, among the best-portrayed comic villains ever at nighttime Dark night, would appear less terrifying if he was cut back for an additional go-round. Which reaches the size problem, too. We actually only see one street of cars wrecked by Loki. Seriously? Didn't we have seen that completed in Independence Day 15 years back? We actually require the Avengers with this? Audiences will need a significantly bigger threat to humanity to obtain committed to this showdown. STORY: 'The Avengers' Trailer: Fans, Industry React Which includes the showdowns between your heroes, too. So far all we obtain is two lame jokes from Stark, together with a backhanded compliment to Bruce Banner that basically calls focus on the ridiculousness of those superheroes to begin with. That's a harmful game to experience with fans, who would like these men/archetypes given serious attention. And at this time, Banner/The Hulk is an infinitely more interesting character than Stark. Iron Guy's theonly one we've seen more often than once to date, which second outing left lots of fans wanting, as well as fed up with the shtick. This trailer essentially does the task of having fans excited. But that's likely to put on off very rapidly, and you will find there's lengthy approach to take until Go Time, not to mention until any future sequels or further Avenger team-ups. Marvel, Disney and Whedon absolutely should have some bigger, better spectacle ahead, and become prepared to show it. That wow-factor bar is placed high -- and hang partly by Iron Guy itself. With no courage to place something large at risk -- within the trailer as well as in the film -- this franchise darling may have fans seeking vengeance. Avengers Marvel Entertainment

Raven Trailer Flies In

John Cusack has Poe better bluesWe got a look at some footage from period action thriller The Raven at Comic-Con this year, and now the full trailer is online over at Apple for everyone to see. The Raven finds John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe (yes, the man behind The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart and other classics of the horror literary canon). He's called in by detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) when a series of grisly murders crop up, all seemingly inspired by the writer's work. Initially, the eye of suspicion falls on him, but soon it's clear that the suspect is taunting Poe, looking to engage him in a battle of wits that also ends up threatening the life of his beloved Emily (Alice Eve).Directed by V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, the trailer gives off a definite vibe of a period-set Seven, though it remains to be seen if the finished product gets anywhere close to the quality levels David Fincher's masterpiece of crime cinema.With Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Kevin McNally also in the cast, The Raven flutters into our cinemas on March 9 next year.

Hank Williams Jr. Out On Monday Night Football

First Published: October 6, 2011 11:09 AM EDT Credit: BRISTOL, Conn. -- Caption Singer Hank Williams Jr. appears on the field before a NFL game between the New England Patriots and the Miami Dolphins at Sun Life Stadium on September 12, 2011 Hank Williams Jr. will no longer sing the words Are you ready for some football? on Monday nights on ESPN. Each side claimed Thursday it had decided to part ways after Williams tune opened Monday Night Football for more than two decades. The network had pulled the intro for this weeks game after the country singer used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama on Fox News on Monday morning. Williams issued a statement Monday night insisting his remarks were misunderstood, then apologized Tuesday. ESPN says: We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams Jr. But in a statement to The Associated Press, Williams says: After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. Its been a great run. (Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Clint Eastwood Acting Again in 'Trouble While using Curve'

Retirement is ideal for suckers.our editor recommendsArnold Schwarzenneger Reading through through Scripts, Wants Career Like Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood to Direct 'A Star Is Born' Remake With Beyonce to Star Clint Eastwood, who once mentioned that 2008's Gran Torino would most likely be his last acting gig, is at predicts use front from you once again for Issue with the curvature. His longtime creating partner at Malpaso Productions Robert Lorenz is at predicts direct the baseball drama, setup at Eastwood's longtime home of Warner Bros. PHOTOS: Clint Eastwood round the Set The script, by Randy Brown, concentrates on aging baseball scout who continues an outing along with his adult daughter. The 81-years of age Eastwood was due to direct A Star Arrives for Warners however, if star Beyonce Knowles grew to become pregnant, that pressed the remake into limbo, departing Eastwood, never anyone to stand still, by getting a wide open slot. Beyond the fact Eastwood says yes to behave again, the project is notable because Lorenz will probably be making his directorial debut. While Lorenz remains creating Eastwood's movies since 2002's Blood stream Work,he's been being an assistant director for your actor-director since 1995's The Bridges of Madison County, along with his last behind-the-camera credit being 2004's Big Baby. PHOTOS: ྌs Action Stars: Where Is It Now? Eastwood and Lorenz's latest production is J. Edgar, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio since the infamous FBI chief. The film opens November 9. Sarah Schechter is controlling for your studio. Related Subjects Clint Eastwood Leonardo DiCaprio Movie Casting J. Edgar

Rio p Janeiro: Cinema getting a achieve

'Matraga -- The Hour and Turn''The Silver Cliff'The music fans who clustered for the Rock in Rio megaconcert may want to stay for your thirteenth edition of Latin America's greatest fest, the Rio p Janeiro Intl. Film Festival.Fest unspools a few days following a music event finishes, March. 6-18, in new waterfront headquarters inside the port area, that's being completely refurbished for your 2016 Summer season Olympics.The fest's highlight, once again, is its worldwide component, as about 200 world film industry professionals are due to attend, as well as the massive participation of Rio people.This year, the fest will further extend its achieve in Rio. According to fest co-general director Ilda Santiago, the quantity of commercial circuit screens fully devoted for the fest's programming increases to 30 from 25 a year ago. The quantity of tents and outdoors screening venues, mostly in blue-collar towns, will be different from ten to 15, up from eight a year ago. She estimations that altogether, tests earns additional than 250,000 admissions, including paid out and free tickets."The tents and outdoors tests in public areas squares together with other venues are an attempt to attain individuals who live definately not the festival's core," Santiago states. "We mainly screen Brazilian films at these locations."For Cariocas, as Rio people are known, the fest might be the opportunity to take a look at about 400 photos, together with a couple of from the recent highlights of top worldwide fests, for instance Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion," Todd Solondz's "Dark Equine," Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin Home Is,Inch Aki Kaurismaki's "Le Havre," Paolo Sorrentino's "This Ought To Be the areaInch and Rob Nichols' "Take Shelter."Gus Van Sant and Bruce Beresford will cope with present "Restless" and "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding," while actor Matthew Modine can have eight of his shorts. Thesp Willem Dafoe and producer Frank Marshall can also be in Rio.This Years focus country, Italia, is repped by 20 films, together with a retrospective of horror photos of helmer Dario Argento.The fest will actually have a special screening of Israeli photos and retrospectives of helmers Bela Tarr from Hungary and Patricio Guzman of Chile.Premiere Brasil, your competitors of local photos for your Redentor kudos, will feature numerous world premieres, for instance Odilon Rocha's "Prime Time Cleaning cleaning soap," Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca's "I'd Obtain the Worst News From Your Beautiful Lips," Tadeu Jungle's "Tomorrow Never Again," Petrus Cariry's "Mother and Daughter" and Vinicius Coimbra's "Matraga -- The Hour and Turn." It will are the Brazilian premiere of Karim Ainouz's "The Silver High high cliff," additionally to Helvecio Marins Junior. and Clarissa Campolina's "Swirl," Julia Murat's "Jotuomba" and Eduardo Nunes' "Southwest.""Premiere Brasil might be the big worldwide window for Brazilian features, since the tests gather our site visitors within the worldwide film community," Santiago states.HIGHLIGHTSOct. 7: Every day of sections dedicated to options for co-productions and production service shingles across the 2014 World Cup in South usa. While using world's attention round the Cup, the entertainment industry in South usa is planning not just to work with foreign production companies and producers, but furthermore to showcase what local talent is capable of doing following a football gamers and fans leave.March. 8: Day launches getting a panel taking apart what's employed in the thriving local B.O. at this time around: comedies.March. 9: Filmmaker and TV presenter Marcelo Tas supplies a keynote on creativity and options inside the digital era, a panel round the reaching the tv audience with Tas, producer Luiz Vale and actor Andre p Biase.March. 10:Facebook professional Jon Fougner supplies a keynote how business will discover options in social media. Gleam seminar on piracy and IP.March. 11: American Day features four sections that will tackle questions connected with options in South usa and Latin America.Other training courses and talks through the festival concentrate on business procedures between Europe and Latin America, together with a focus on Canadian co-production. VOD, location shooting, digital revolution and exactly how forward for that Brazilian market are available in a number of periods, which sport worldwide number of participants including Steve Golin (Boss, Anonymous Content), Julia Wrigley (Film Funnel topper, Funnel 4), Juan Gordon (Morena Films), Andreas Eicher (Cine Plus Filmproduktion), Adrian Wootton (Boss, Film London), Olivier-Rene Veillon (professional director, Ile p France Film Commission), Ernest Chianese (senior V . p ., Entertainment Partners) and Steve Solot (leader, Rio Film Commission).RELATED LINKS: World Cup can boost local shingles Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com