Cinedigm Signs Eurythmics Dork Stewart To Create Documentaries For Theaters

Woodland Hillsides, CA and NY, NY March 2, 2012) Cinedigm Entertainment Group, a division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. (NASDAQ: CIDM), introduced today it has signed rock icon Dork Stewart to create a number of documentary films to cinemas inside a recurring time slot. Created by Weapons of Mass Entertainment, the flicks within the “Dave Stewart Presents …” series will feature Stewart and a number of musical visitors all skills, including rock, pop, country, blues and much more, concentrating on the art and procedure for songwriting, and concluding inside a unique performance featuring recently produced tunes. Stewarts history like a music performer, producer, author, entrepreneur, filmmaker and innovator bodes well with this cutting-edge, on-going theatre series. The British artists music career spans 30 years and most 100 million album sales, outlined by his collaboration with Annie Lennox within the legendary pop-rock duo Eurythmics [Sweet Dreams (Are constructed with This)"]. Furthermore, Stewart has created albums and co-written tunes for Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Bono, Sinead OConnor, Mick Jagger, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Joss Stone, Stevie Nicks and a number of others, accumulating multiple song writing and creating honours, together with a Grammy along with a Golden Globe. With Jagger, Stewart lately created SuperHeavy, the appropriately entitled super group with Joss Stone, Damian Marley along with a.Ur. Rahman. Getting made numerous music documentaries and videos during the last 12 several weeks with your best at Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Stevie Nicks yet others has truly whet my appetite for taking and putting amazing songwriting collaborations on cinema screens, stated Stewart, Boss of Weapons of Mass Entertainment. “I’m excited to utilize Cinedigms great team to see movie-going audiences the private and magical creative moments contributing to unique performances. “Dave Stewart Presents …” is going to be Cinedigm’s first number of recurring alternative programming distributed into cinemas using the organization’s highly efficient digital cinema model essentially, programming a cinema screen just like a cable funnel but with the excitement and of the concert venue. Cinedigm is presently vetting appropriate sponsors and partners to get familiar with this groundbreaking venture. Were certain that music fans will relish the chance to determine and listen to Dork connect to musics greatest names and promising beginners around the giant screen, with large seem, encircled by their buddies, stated Cinedigm Chairman and Boss Chris McGurk. “We know Dork Stewart who's prodigiously gifted and extremely innovative – will drive music enthusiasts of genres to cinemas with this particular regularly occurring program.”

Victor Garber & Rachael Taylor Book Aircraft pilots

Alias and Eli Stone alum Victor Garber continues to be drawn on to star in NBC’s drama pilot Well known, from Universal TV and BermanBraun. Compiled by Liz Heldens, it's referred to being an opulent cleaning soap where a female detective returns undercover towards the wealthy Lawson family she was raised in — because the service personnel daughter — to resolve the murder from the well known heiress who had been once her nearest friend. Garber will have Robert Lawson, the patriarch from the family and Boss of Lawson Pharmaceutical drugs. A spectacularly wealthy guy having a mansion in Greenwich, Conn., Robert has four children, another wife along with a mistress, and that he needs immediate behavior training from everybody within his circle of family and buddies. Rachael Taylor has arrived an online insurance lead role in Basic steps drama pilot 666 Park Avenue. In line with the Alloy book series by Gabriella Pierce, the project focuses on a youthful couple (Taylor, Dork Annable) who accept a deal to handle probably the most historic apartment structures in NY City. Unknowingly, they start to experience supernatural occurrences that complicate and jeopardize the lives of everybody within the building. Terry OQuinn plays the structures owner. This really is Taylor’s third consecutive major series gig at ABC — she performed among the three leads on Charlie’s Angels this year and recurred on Gray’s Anatomy.

Alan Ball To Depart True Bloodstream After Season 5

If Cinemax’s hit vampire drama True Bloodstream would go to a sixth season, it will likely be without its mastermind Alan Ball in the helm. Cinemax and Ball just confirmed ongoing speculation that Ball could leave the series full-time following the approaching fifth season. He has to a general cope with Cinemax and, additionally to True Bloodstream, also executive produces new series Banshee for brother or sister Cinemax. Listed here are claims from Cinemax and Ball: Cinemax: “When we extended our multi-year overall cope with Alan Ball in This summer 2011, we always intended when we proceeded to True Bloods sixth season that Alan would have a supervisory role around the series and never function as the day-to-day showrunner. When we go to season six, the show will stay within the very capable hands from the gifted team of authors and producers who've been using the show for several years. This is actually the most effective world for Cinemax and Alan Ball. Alan will stay available as executive producer to see and recommend True Bloodstream and he'll be liberated to develop new shows for Cinemax and Cinemax. Banshee, which Alan can serve as executive producer, may be the first internally series for Cinemax and it is likely to begin production this spring.” Alan Ball: “True Bloodstream continues to be, and will still be, a highlight of not just my career but my existence. Due to the great cast, authors, producers and crew, with whom I've been lucky enough to get work these past 5 years, I understand I possibly could take a step back and also the show continues to thrive when i anticipate new and exciting endeavors.”

Weekend Receipts: Act of Valor Blows Away Competition

Hollywood's greatest those who win a few days ago were not limited simply to the Kodak Theater (or anything they refer to it as now). A brand new-release frame well-noted for its particularly aromatic characteristics nonetheless had its success tales, brought by a top-notch squad of Navy Closes and our old friend Tyler Perry. Naturally. Your Weekend Receipts are here. 1. Act of Valor Gross: $24,700,000 (new) Screens: 3,039 (PSA $8,128) Days: 1 As predicted, bad reviews could not keep your flag-waving faithful away. Meanwhile, proceed and predict the 2nd-week percentage stop by your comments ought to. I'll say 62 percent. 2. Good Deeds Gross: $16,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,132 (PSA $7,505) Days: 1 Clearly needed more headshots - ideally with Madea doing the shooting. 3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island Gross: $13,475,000 ($76,731,000) Screens: 3,350 (PSA: $4,022) Days: 3 (Change: -32.1%) 4. Safe House Gross: $11,400,000 ($98,100,000) Screens: 3,052 (PSA $3,735) Days: 3 (Change: -51.8%) Both Journey 2 and Safe House still hold remarkably well after three days of release. Which would be to say: Who's still seeing these? Especially around the weekend everyone's allegedly making up ground on Oscar challengers? 5. The Vow Gross: $26,600,000 ($88,527,000) Screens: 2,958 (PSA $8,993) Days: 2 (Change: -35.4%) Seriously, I am asking. 8. Wanderlust Gross: $6,600,000 (new) Screens: 2,002 (PSA $3,297) Days: 1 It might always worsen, Jennifer Aniston! You might have been... 9. Gone Gross: $5,000,000 (new) Screens: 2,186 (PSA $2,287) Days: 1 ...Amanda Seyfried. Or possibly it could not worsen? That's fine, though: Box office aside, I understand a particular distinction that nobody may take from either of those bottom residents. Champion! [Figures via Box Office Mojo] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Leonard Maltin in your thoughts Biografilm jury

ROME - U.S. Film critic Leonard Maltin remains used to mind the jury at Italy's eighth Biografilm Festival, billed just like a movie celebration of human lives. The Bologna-based event, headed by Italo critic and film industry entrepreneur Andrea Romeo, may have a slim competish made up of ten selected worldwide photos, from 450 published, each centered on a character's existence and work. Emerging event will run June 21-18. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com

Robin Thicke Busted on Pot Possession Charges

Maya Rudolph Maya Rudolph is returning to her old Saturday Evening Live stomping grounds now - there's however a little problem: She still owes Fred Armisen $20 from 2007 and she's also got writers' block. Once she'll overcome people hurdles, she'll are afflicted by what's inside the time capsule she omitted. Uncover what that's throughout these promotions on Rudolph's return to SNL:

Paul Rudd And Jennifer Aniston Bring 'Wanderlust' To MTV News

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are going to set off the power grid for his or her approaching comedy "Wanderlust," and they are likely to take the questions you have before they are doing. For MTV First, the duo will sit lower with MTV News' Josh Horowitz to provide a never-before-seen clip from "Wanderlust" and respond to questions of your stuff. All you want do is submit the questions you have via MTV.com or Twitter using @MTVNews and also the hashtag #MTVFirst or #AskWanderlust. Then stay tuned to MTV at 7:56 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb 22 to determine the clip. Rigtht after on MTV.com, Rudd and Aniston will answer the questions you have throughout a 30-minute interview 2 days prior to the movie hits theaters on Feb 24.

Watercooler: Are You Sold on House Hunters?

House Hunters - Tom and Linda Ahler OK, is there anyone else out there as abnormally obsessed with House Hunters as we are? Please say it's not just us...and Liz Lemon. Part travelogue, part real-estate porn, and all awesome, we knew we were watching the right thing after 30 Rock's leading lady clowned on the HGTV show's myopic potential buyers a few weeks back. "Why can't people look past paint color?!" Amen, sister! Not only are the titular hunters usually incapable of seeing beyond the shade of White-Winged Dove in the spare room, every one of them seems to want a man-cave (apparently, the new "office") or claims to need miles of extra space for "entertaining," like they're the Graysons of Revenge and throw parties on a weekly basis. Still, we adore them for having bigger expectations than budgets and no shame when it comes to fretting over minor things like wall sconces instead of, you know, school districts or sexual predators registered in the region. Last night, we got the pug-owning parents of two who couldn't agree on where to spend their $275,000 and a tour of some of Richmond, Virginia's nicest hoods. Turns out historic Church Hill is pretty damn swanky. And since every episode needs drama beyond the usual battles over tacky cabinets and walk-in closets, the clock was also ticking for the twosome to compromise, since their old house was already sold and they needed someplace to set down roots before their third kid came along in a few months. So three listings later, did they find something that matched everything on their wish list, as well as their budget? If you know the show - or its equally addictive International spin-off - you know the joke: They almost always pick places that are either wildly over budget, woefully out of their preferred area or just plain ugly. Luckily, last night's pair was able to avoid becoming punch lines and settled on an affordably sweet spread that was just what they were looking for. Liz Lemon would be oddly proud. God knows we were! Are you sold on House Hunters, too? Or is there another HGTV show that owns you? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Fox 2000 options 'Fault in Our Stars'

BowenGodfreyFox 2000 is acquiring John Green tome "The Fault in Our Stars," and "Twilight" producers Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce a feature adaptation. Godfrey's Temple Hill shingle originally brought the project to the 20th Century Fox-based banner. Temple's Isaac Klausner first brought "Fault" into the production company. Green's "Stars" centers around a terminally ill 16-year-old with thyroid cancer who joins a support group for cancer patients, where she meets a handsome teen, and the two help one other grapple with their respective illnesses. Green won the 2006 Michael L. Printz award for adolescent novel "Looking for Alaska." Twentieth Century Fox would distribute the pic. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

ABC orders Judy Greer's 'Judy'

Judy Greer is back at ABC, toplining comedy pilot "American Judy." ABC Studios Project revolves around a cosmpolitan woman who marries and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs juggling the demands of stepchildren, her mother-in-law and her husband's ex who happens to be the town sheriff. Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont penned the pilot and will exec produce with Greer and David Gardner. Greer is a sitcom staple who toplined the ABC comedy "Miss Guided" in 2008. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

Kerkorian around the prowl for purchases

Kirk Kerkorian, who bought and offered MGM three occasions, is around the prowl for purchases within the entertainment business, based on a study within the Wall Street Journal Sunday evening, an improvement that may give a major wild card towards the already complex and fast-altering landscape. Within an interview using the paper, Jay Rakow, an professional at Kerkorian's investment firm Tracinda Corp., stated the billionaire is searching whatsoever kinds of deals including online film distribution, as well as in emerging marketplaces. He stated Kerkorian has hired MGM's former chief operating officer Charles Cohen to mind the search and brought on Raine Group to advise him. There have been no particular targets or dollar figures given. Rakow told the WSJ that Kerkorian's investment could incorporate a technology company, a studio or small-major. Kerkorian last left MGM and also the movie biz in 2005 as he offered the studio for $5 billion to some consortium brought by The new sony Corp. and including Comcast and private equity investors Providence Equity Partners and Texas Off-shore Group. The offer did not go well for that purchasers and debt-laden MGM declared personal bankruptcy this year. It emerged this past year updated and under new management. But because of the much talked about from the equity funds that lost their t shirts and also the many debt holders which were burned, its fall rocked the plus some have to say is one factor behind the reluctance of Wall Street - private equity finance and hedge funds particularly -- to purchase Hollywood. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Stunts given due

Harrison Ford co-starred in 'Cowboys & Aliens,' whose stunt pros were nommed. Veteran Hollywood stuntman and 2nd-unit director Conrad E. Palmisano used to be hidden alive for any scene in 1977's "It Happened at Lakewood Manor."Together with his only supply of oxygen from a small hose attached to him subterranean, he gave strict instructions towards the surrounding film crew: "Bury me once, bury me good. I only do once."It's this combination of levelheaded awesome and keen mental focus that Palmisano, who's labored most lately like a stunt double in CBS' "The Large Bang Theory" and "Transformers: Negative Side from the Moon," credits his success."When you begin in this career you believe to yourself, this can't hurt me, it may only kill me," he deadpans. "Technology has managed to get much far better to perform stunts of computer was 2 decades ago. In those days, you essentially required your existence with you.InchBut while a slew of honors are presented every year by stunt biz associates -- Taurus World Stunt Honours and also the Stuntmen's Assn. of Movies Honours included in this -- the SAG Honours and Primetime Emmys would be the only major kudofests to have a category for stunt coordination.Because the Academy awards still overlook their contribution to film, are stunt entertainers -- accountable for probably the most memorable moments in movie history, from "Ben-Hur's" chariot race to "Bullitt's" famous vehicle chase sequence -- getting their fair shake of industry praise?"Stunt entertainers get people into cinemas each year and that we deserve credit for your," states Palmisano, current chair from the SAG stunt and safety committee. "We perform area of the art which ought to be acknowledged."On the certain level, Remedy thinks the Academy is vainly holding fast towards the lengthy upon the market notion that film is pure fantasy."Within the nineteen forties and '50s, stuntmen counseled me hidden," he states. "Everyone desired to think that Errol Flynn did their own sword fighting which Laurence Olivier did their own horse riding. Today that's all transformed. Due to videogames and also the Internet, every 8-year-old knows of the presence of professional stuntmen and stuntwomen."Stunt coordinator Jane Austin ("Titanic," "Scream 3"), who's offered around the national boards of both SAG and AFTRA, is certain that sooner or later later on the Academy can give in to the collective push to incorporate a stunt category on its roster."We are delighted that SAG has put us within the category," states Austin. "My own feeling is this fact is really a step nearer to achieving recognition and acknowledgement in the Academy awards.""SAG and also the Emmys have honored us, therefore it is only time prior to the Academy awards relent," concurs Palmisano. "It'll happen."Although not every stunt artist is competing for Oscar's attention."I love the anonymity," declares legendary stunt driver and stunt coordinator Gary Davis. "If my actor really wants to say he's doing the stunt he should have the ability to achieve this. My job would be to lead him to look great, to not take bows."SAG Honours 2012Idol of capri to acting icon Howard talks up AFTRA merger Acad, SAG share same voter pool Partygoers relax, revel following the show Stunts given due Brisk pace gives those who win last word Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Leap of Faith' to Jump to Broadway

NY (AP) Someone on Broadway is finally taking a leap of faith on "Leap of Faith."Producers announced Thursday that the much-delayed musical based on the 1992 film starring Steve Martin as a shady preacher will start performances April 3 at the St. James Theatre.The show had its world premiere in late 2010 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and has been a work in progress ever since. It boasts music by Alan Menken and will be directed by Christopher Ashley.The Broadway version will again star Raul Esparza, who plays Jonas Nightingale, a fraudulent faith healer ready to scam residents of a dusty, down-and-out Kansas town.The cast will also feature Jessica Phillips from "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" and Kendra Kassebaum of "Wicked."Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Mark Kennedy January 13, 2012 NY (AP) Someone on Broadway is finally taking a leap of faith on "Leap of Faith."Producers announced Thursday that the much-delayed musical based on the 1992 film starring Steve Martin as a shady preacher will start performances April 3 at the St. James Theatre.The show had its world premiere in late 2010 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and has been a work in progress ever since. It boasts music by Alan Menken and will be directed by Christopher Ashley.The Broadway version will again star Raul Esparza, who plays Jonas Nightingale, a fraudulent faith healer ready to scam residents of a dusty, down-and-out Kansas town.The cast will also feature Jessica Phillips from "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" and Kendra Kassebaum of "Wicked."Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

U.K. cartoonist Ronald Searle dies

British cartoonist Ronald Searle, the creator of the willfully wicked schoolgirls of St. Trinian's who amused generations of Britons, died Dec. 30 of natural causes in Draguignan, Provence, France. He was 91.Searle was a prolific illustrator who drew for the NYer, Punch and Disney and did title-design and other work for several films, but it was the fictional girls' boarding school where the students ran riot that most captured the public imagination.The long-legged, leering schoolgirls drank, smoked and generally cut a swath of destruction; their weapon-wielding antics were colored by Searle's morbid sense of humor. His satire of the venerable English school system struck a chord, launching a series of hit films, including a 2007 incarnation starring Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton and Russell Brand that has spawned two sequels.Searle's secret, as one early profile noted, was to turn "the very epitome of decency and polite tradition for every right-thinking Englishman" into "a place of terror more hellish than anything conceived since the days of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel."Searle was born in Cambridge, but his dark streak may have been informed by his experiences as a soldier during WWII: His promising career as cartoonist was interrupted by his capture by the Japanese at Singapore. He spent the rest of the conflict under atrocious conditions as a prisoner of war but managed to keep drawing despite beatings and bouts of malaria and beriberi.His drawings of camp life were published following his liberation in 1945 in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's account of his own captivity, "The Naked Island."St. Trinian's sly schoolgirls made him famous, but Searle long insisted that the students were just "a small part of my work."He designed cover art for the NYer and a series of editorial cartoons for France's Le Monde newspaper. He designed wry, occasionally absurd advertisements for Church's shoes and U.S. Rubber. His Molesworth books, set in the fictional St. Custard's, also proved popular.His first work as a designer of film titles was for "The Happiest Days of Your Life" in 1950. Other such credits included bigscreen adaptations "The Belles of St. Trinian's" (1954) (he also had an uncredited role as a visiting parent), "The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's" (1960) and "The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery" (1966), for which his titles work was uncredited, plus 1965's "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies" (1969) and "Scrooge" (1970).Searle was set designer on the 1955 film "On the Twelfth Day..."; production designer on a pair of films, "Energetically Yours" (1957) and "Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done" (1975); and both set and costume designer on 1963's "The King's Breakfast."Searle was married twice. His second wife died in July. He is survived by a son and a daughter. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com