Twitter Contest! Title the Horror Movie, Win Free Tickets

Do you want to win free movie tickets? Clearly you must do! Which explains why throughout October, Moviefone is supplying you using the chance to snag passes for the local theater. Each week day with the month, we'll create a picture from an legendary horror film on our Twitter page. The first one to recognize the film wins. (Yes, we realize that photo above originates from 'Poltergeist,' nevertheless the contest starts this Monday). Before we start, the recommendations: First, we'll only pick individuals who win out of your Twitter fans. (So follow us!) Second, we are restricting site visitors to at least one win every week -- simply to make sure everyone features a fair shot. The Twitpics rises every week trip to 12 p.m. EDT -- apart from Tuesdays, when you're going to get two chances to win at 12 p.m. EDT and three p.m. EDT. Everything you should do is answer @Moviefone while using correct answer as well as the hashtag #HorrorGiveaway. Oh, then one more factor: The underside prize is two free movie tickets however, the higher fans we have, the higher tickets we'll hands out. For every 1000 fans, we'll double of tickets for the landmark day. Translation: tell your pals! Ensure to follow along with together with @Moviefone to see, and appearance out this Monday (March. 3) at 12 p.m. EDT for that first chance to win! For Official Rules: Follow The Link Image because of Everett Collection

Jane Fonda on Discovering, Losing and Re-Discovering Love for Acting (Audio)

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images A strong case could be made that Jane Fonda is -- with the possible exception of Meryl Streep -- America's greatest living film actress. She has given standout performances in dozens of memorable movies from across the genres over the past half-century, many of which merit a spot in any pantheon of American cinema, including: Edward Dmytryk's Walk on the Wild Side (1962), Elliot Silverstein's Cat Ballou (1965), Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1966), Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966), Gene Saks's Barefoot in the Park (1967), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971), Fred Zinnemann's Julia (1977), Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978), James Bridges's The China Syndrome (1979), Colin Higgins's Nine to Five (1980), Mark Rydell's On Golden Pond (1981), and Norman Jewison's Agnes of God (1985). Thanks to her landmark performances in the aforementioned Klute and Coming Home, she is one of only 12 members of the club of two-time best actress Oscar winners. The other 11: Luise Rainer, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Glenda Jackson, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Hilary Swank. TORONTO REVIEW: Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding And today, at the age of 73 -- and despite taking a 16-year hiatus from the big screen, spanning Martin Ritt's Stanley & Iris (1989) through Robert Luketic's Monster-in-Law (2005) -- she is the only septuagenarian female who can get a movie made simply because she has agreed to appear in it. Case-in-point:Bruce Beresford's Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, Fonda's fourth post-comeback film, which shot in upstate NY in July 2010, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, and is still seeking U.S. distribution. In it, Fonda plays Grace, a fun-loving, pot-smoking, chicken-raising, pottery-throwing, sexually-active hippie. Oh, and one more thing: the character played by the sex kitten of Barbarella and sexy call girl of Klute is -- get this -- a grey-haired grandmother! One day, her long-estranged daughter (Catherine Keener), a conservative lawyer, shows up at her home with her own two kids in tow (the girl is played by Elizabeth Olsen of Martha Marcy May Marlene, the boy by Nat Wolff of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band), seeking refuge after separating from her husband (Kyle MacLachlan). Over the course of their time together, Grace teaches all three of them to loosen up, helps each to find a bit of romance (Olsen with Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford) during their stay, and works to earn her daughter's forgiveness. (She also has several lines of dialogue -- one including the phrase "cock-blocking" -- that made this writer literally laugh-out-loud.) PHOTOS: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to Know When you think about it, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding is a lot like another film that is also close to Fonda's heart: On Golden Pond (1981), in which she shared the screen with her legendary father Henry Fonda for the first and only time, and in so doing helped to improve their long-strained relationship. (He won the best actor Oscar for the film and died just months later.) Both films are fundamentally about a parent and child struggling to communicate after many years of distance bet. In the earlier film, Jane played a daughter struggling to communicate with a distant parent; now she's playing a parent struggling to communicate with a distant daughter. And, as I noted in an early post, Henry was only three years older when Pond was released than his daughter is now -- 76 vs. 73. ("When I read your article [pointing out these similarities] it blew me away," Fonda remarked to me, insisting that she hadn't previously noticed them.) STORY: Toronto 2011: The 10 Most Buzzed-About Films That Still Haven't Found a U.S. Distributor Fonda was actually scheduled to attend TIFF to promote Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, but she developed stomach pains and was advised against traveling (she's fine now), and therefore had to cancel the handful of interviews that she had agreed to grant in conjunction with it. This disappointed journalist pestered her publicist to reschedule his as a phoner, however, and Fonda graciously agreed. When I first rung her, she asked if I'd mind calling her back in just a few more minutes; interestingly, when I did, she explained to me that she had been "coaching a little girl over the phone because she's about to try out for a Robert Redford movie." (She herself shared the screen with Redford 45 years ago in The Chase, 44 years ago in Barefoot in the Park, and 32 years ago in The Electric Horseman.) Once our own conversation got underway, Fonda devoted a generous amount of time and a considerable amount of thought to answering my questions about her past, present, and future... Jane Fonda 'Peace, Love & Misunderstanding' by The Hollywood Reporter Some highlights... On getting into acting "The first time I ever acted was when I played a boy in a religious pageant in church... I started studying acting because I got fired as a secretary and I had to move out of my father's house and earn a living... I became a model to pay for acting class, and started studying with Lee Strasberg." On first realizing she was an actor "It was when Lee Strasberg saw me do my first scene and said to me, 'You know, I see a lot of people coming through here. I just want to tell you something, Jane: you have real talent' -- when he said that to me, I knew what my calling was. I needed someone who was not my parent or an employee to tell me that. And Lee Strasberg did that for me." On her breakthrough role "I had an unusual career... I started with a starring role... and I didn't enjoy it at all. I did not enjoy movie acting I'd say until Klute. Well, no, that's not true. Barefoot in the Park I had a blast making... I didn't feel like I found my sea-legs until I did Klute." On fame "It's very different now. There's a cult of celebrity, you know, partly because of the gossip magazines and the paparazzi. Young people coming up now -- everything they do is under scrutiny. I mean, people become celebrities who've never done anything! It's all about celebrity, and that's really bad -- it's a shame. I don't think it represents very good values. These are not good role models for our young people. That was not the way it was when I came up. There were no paparazzi. There were no gossip rags. There were movie magazines, but they contained headshots of the star with a very careful bio [laughs], , and that was about it. I was lucky. I came in before all this stuff happened." On her first realization that she was famous "I guess I knew I was famous when I was opening in a play on Broadway and had two movies playing at the same time." On her favorite role "I think the character that I played that I loved the most is a character named Gertie Nevels in The Dollmaker [1984], for which I won an Emmy. It was made for ABC... That's my favorite character that I ever played -- I played a hillbilly -- and I was proud of that. Very proud. But [the part of call girl Bree Daniels in] Klute is right up there alongside that. On the 1960's "I was never a hippie. I was an activist, but I was never a hippie. I didn't do the tie-die, pot-smoking, psychedelic -- all that stuff. I never did that. On what led to her 16-year hiatus from Hollywood "Towards the end of my forties, which corresponded to the end of the eighties, I was not a happy camper. I felt very bad about myself; I was in a marraige that was failing; I saw no future for myself -- I was miserable, and I found it very, very, very difficult to act under those circumstances. I was shut down, so I said, 'I'm gonna get out of the business. I'm gonna become a full-time environmental activist. I'll leave Hollywood.' I bought a piece of property in New Mexico, and right around that time I met Ted Turner -- so I ended up owning New Mexico! [laughs]... Anyway, I wouldn't have been able to be married to him and work, but I was planning to not work anyway, so it's not like he got me to quit -- but I didn't need to work when I was married to Ted. When he and I divorced, I began writing my memoirs, which took me five years, and that was one of the most important things I have ever done in my life. When I was about a year from finishing them, I realized I'm a very different person now than I was 15 years ago. I could find joy in acting again -- I knew it in my bones. And I had appeared at the Oscars to present an award -- I had my haircut and I looked pretty great -- and CAA took me lunch and said, 'We want to represent you.' And I said, 'Well, I'm not sure I'm gonna work again.' But then the script Monster-in-Law came along, and I realized that this was just perfect." On choosing Monster-in-Law (2005) for her comeback film "First of all, I'd never played a character like that. Second of all, because I'd spent 10 years with Ted Turner, I knew that I could play her, because I learned from Ted, being up-close and personal, that being over-the-top can be nice and endearing. [laughs]... My book came out the same time the movie came out -- I'm the only person that's ever had a number one book and a number one movie out at the same time. The critics hated it -- "Why would Jane want to come back after 16 years in, kind of, a popcorn movie?" But it was actually a very brilliant move on my part because young people came to see the movie because they wanted to see [Jennifer Lopez], and they discovered me, because I'm the one that had the funnier role. And so, you know, when I walk down the street now, I see young girls coming towards me because they recognize me and they get excited, and I know exactly what they're gonna say. Forget Klute, forget Coming Home, forget Julia -- 'Monster-in-Law! I've seen it 15 times! It's my all-time favorite movie!'... So I think it was a smart move. And what I realized during that movie is that I have found joy in acting again -- I think I'm better than I ever have been -- and I look forward to more." On what she's doing next "I'm writing three new books and I have two new DVDs coming out!" Jane Fonda Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

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Aniston, Streisand & More Being Honored By ELLEs Women In Hollywood Gala

La, Calif. -- ELLE, the cell phone industry's greatest fashion magazine, features the choice with this particular years 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Celebration within the Four Seasons Beverly Slopes Hotel on Monday, October 17, 2011. ELLE, in addition to showing sponsors Calvin Klein Collection and LOral Paris, and additional sponsor David Yurman, includes an amazing quantity of Hollywoods best and smartest talent for just about any celebratory dinner adoring womens achievements in film. The tribute features a diverse quantity of women who've had a profound impact on the film industry. The 2010 honorees have countless stars including Academy Award champion Barbra Streisand and Academy Award nominees Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Naomi W. Many of the modern most acclaimed women in film can also be honored including Jennifer Aniston, Frieda Pinto and Evan Rachel Wood, additionally to, DreamWorks Boss, Stacey Snider. Emerging actress Elizabeth Olsen can get the Calvin Klein Collection Emerging Star Spotlight Award. LOral Paris, another showing sponsor, is proud to recognition Barbra Streisand while using LOreal Paris Legend Award. As has extended been our tradition, this year we recognition an amazing quantity of women who still redefine what's possible in Hollywood, mentioned ELLE editor-in-chief Robbie Myers. From symbols to stars to emerging talent, we are thrilled to celebrate their contribution to being aware what what this means is to become lady inside the wider world. Last years honorees incorporated Gwyneth Paltrow, Diane Kruger, Kate Hudson, Kerry Washington, Sofia Coppola, Hilary Swank, Diane Keaton, Jodie Promote and Jessica Chastain. Past visitors from the recognition include Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, Julie Andrews, Emily Blunt, Katie Holmes, Julianne Moore, Zoe Saldana, Jane Fonda, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, Hathaway As Catwoman, Sigourney Weaver, Isla Fisher, and Anjelica Huston. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Paramount Plans Free 'Footloose' Screenings

The reboot of 'Footloose' doesn't come out in theaters for another two weeks, but that doesn't mean Paramount can't get the ball rolling on some pre-release hype. The studio announced on Tuesday that it will offer free screenings of the Craig Brewer-directed film in the United States and Canada. Scheduled for NY, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Kansas City, Miami, Philadelphia and Sacramento, the 'Footloose' screenings will happen on Friday. Afterward, fans are encouraged to tweet their reviews -- embargoes be damned for this one! The new version of 'Footloose' stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid. Look for it in theaters on Oct. 14. (Though you'll have to pay to see it then.) [via THR] 16 Upcoming Movie Remakes You can't seem to go a day without hearing about a new Hollywood remake. Ahead, a brief list of 16 films headed to theaters, again, in the near future. FootlooseWarGamesThe Wild BunchTop GunTotal RecallTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesShort CircuitRoboCopJudge DreddHighlanderThe CrowA Star is BornOldboyRed DawnPoint BreakDirty Dancing See All Moviefone Galleries »

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Mediterranean reality show borrows from 'Brother'

Dr. Malcolm Tunnicliff and also the trauma team performance with an accident victim in BBC America's"24 Hrs within the ER." FlanaganCinema verite meets the er in "24 Hrs within the ER," which debuts today on BBC America. The convergence was inevitable. From "Dr. Kildare" within the '60s to sudser "General Hospital" to present day "House" and "ER," medical shows happen to be a standard feature of scripted TV also it was just dependent on time before a skein like "24 Hrs" will come along and produce the existence-and-dying tales of the trauma center to reality television. But how can you film inside a real er teeming with fast-moving medical employees along with a rapid succession of trauma sufferers looking for immediate attention? "24 Hrs," which first broadcast on Funnel 4 within the U.K., solved this problem by borrowing in the playbook from the voyeuristic "Your Government" -- spying this is not on a house but around the busy accident and emergency facilities of London's King's College Hospital, where squealing ambulances deliver one battered patient to another. The show used "fixed rig" technology, implementing a range of 70 robot cameras placed discreetly around the hospital's walls and roofs. Each was cabled to some truck within the parking area in which a small military of specialists and operators released zoom, pan and tilt instructions, taking in sometimes gory detail what goes on to patients -- stabbed, shot, hurt in accidents -- as they are accepted and treated. Acquiring the audio was especially challenging because radio microphones needed to be mounted on patients and family members. The producers and hospital exercised a consent protocol everybody needed to sign before anything might be shot or broadcast. "In the beginning it appeared as an unmakeable series," stated producer-director Amy Flanagan. "The logistics, the ethics, 170 people around the production team, 100s of patients -- a nightmare." Each one of the 48-minute episodes happens on the 24-hour period. The producers shot for 28 straight days, taking 4,200 hrs of footage. Flanagan stated the remote camera system permitted the program's intense human drama and closeness. "They understood these were being shot however they did not feel the existence of a camera operator," she stated. "There have been no deck hands playing around with boom rods or wires. When a patient decided to be shot someone would put a mic in it and then leave.Inch The 70 cameras permitted coverage from multiple angles, yielding a glance "a lot more like drama than traditional factual TV," stated professional producer Magnus Temple. Funnel 4 shot the show using standard-def and tape, however the network has restored the series, Temple stated. "This time around they need it shipped on HD and we'll most likely record onto hard disc. It's well worth the extra investment." Temple and the production partner Nick Curwin formerly used fixed-rig technology on the U.K. reality skeins "The HouseholdInch and "One Born Every Minute" (the U.S. version of "Born" airs on Lifetime), however for "24 Hrs" installed the strategy on anabolic steroids. Temple wouldn't discuss your budget of "24 Hrs" but stated, "Even though infrastructure is very costly, because you are getting 14 episodes from 4 weeks of shooting, the per-hour cost resembles standard factual TV." Reservations & Signings Montana Artists signed d.p./second unit d.p. Jonathan P. Taylor ("Iron Guy 2"), production designer Ryan Berg ("The listInch), costume designer Karen Malecki ("Take Shelter") and editor Vikash Patel ("The Storyline of Luke"). Agency reserved professional producers/UPMs Tom Karnowski on John Moore's "Die Hard 5" and Richard Sharkey on Kaira Parker's "The Diary of Lawson Oxford" co-producer Cecilia Roque on Adrien Brody's "Dirt Jumpers" co-producers/UPMs Darren Demetre on Roman Coppola's "A Glimpse Within the Mind of Charlie Swan III" and Tim Coddington on Peter Webber's "The Guy Who Saved the Emperor" UPM JoAnn Perritano on Shane Black's "Iron Guy 3" producer Anthony Mark as UPM on TNT pilot "The Container Star" and basketball coordinator, Michael J. Fisher on John Whitesell's "Switch." Montana also reserved d.p.'s Mathias Herndl on David Frazee's "Borealis," Christopher Norr on Scott Derrickson's "Sinister," Bing Sokolsky on TNT's "Franklin & Party," Philip Robertson on Louis Morneau's "The Wolfman" and Ron Mcguire on Nickelodeon movie "In A Major Way Movie" first AD's Annie Berger on FX's "Justified," Jay Tobias on NBC's "The Playboy Club" and Richard Patrick on CBS' "Memorable" production designers David Blass on "Justified," Kara Lindstrom on Malik Bader's "Crush," Lara Ballinger on HBO's "VEEP" and Brandy Alexander on television Land's "Upon the market at 35" costume designers Pamela Withers Chilton on The best spinner's pilot "Males at the office,Inch Lynn Falconer on Scott Walker's "The Frozen Ground" and Simonetta Mariano on David Twohy's "The Stories of Riddick: Dead Guy Stalking" and editors Ken Eluto on NBC's "30 Rock," Todd Ramsay on Rustam Branaman's "The Culling," Debra Weinfeld on USA's "Common Law" and Pam Smart on Eddie Chung's "Condors." 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Fantastic Fest: Rom-Com Extraterrestrial , Erotic Musical Underwater Love Charm with Lies and Turtle Sex

Four years after bringing his feature debut Timecrimes to Fantastic Fest (where it won the Best Picture award), Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo returned to Austin, a place so warm and familiar he liked it to returning to the womb. “It’s like going back into my mother’s vagina,” exclaimed Vigalondo, addressing the friendly crowd at the debut of his sophomore film, Extraterrestrial. “So I get inside my mother’s vagina, and for some reason you are all there inside!” Extraterrestrial is a vastly different film than Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller Timecrimes, but it’s just as well matched to the Fantastic Fest spirit, a sweet little romantic comedy in the guise of an alien invasion movie. It begins one day as Julio (Julin Villagrn) wakes up the morning after a drunken one night stand with Julia (Michelle Jenner), a gorgeous but mysteriously aloof young lady who can’t seem to wait for her hook-up to leave, already, until both realize the city outside is strangely quiet. While they’ve been asleep, alien ships have materialized in the skies and the population evacuated, leaving them alone with no internet, no cell service, and only each other to depend on. That is, until Julia’s awkward neighbor ngel (Carlos Areces, star of last year’s terrifically twisted Fantastic Fest entry The Last Circus) reveals he’s stayed behind as well, not so secretly because he’s desperately in love with Julia. And then Julia’s boyfriend Carlos (Ral Cimas) returns home for her, bearing tales of government quarantines, and leaving the foursome locked in an amusing mire of shifting relationships, shared lies, and increasingly paranoid fears that there might actually be a real alien among them. Vigalondo lends a sharp sense of humor to the proceedings, and despite occasionally using clumsy fade outs to get from scene to scene, the film makes its way to a sweet, unconventionally romantic ending. It is, at its core, more character-driven romantic comedy than science fiction film, the ultimate realization of which may turn off those expecting the latter. But, as Vigalondo explained of his misleading alien element, “There is no reason. It’s like The Birds. You like The Birds? It’s a classic!” — Speaking of sweetly romantic but unconventional Fantastic Fest entries, just try to wrap your head around Shinji Imaoka’s Underwater Love: It’s a pink film, meaning it follows in the grand tradition of Japanese softcore erotic cinema, it’s a musical featuring songs by German duo Stereo Total, and the story — well, it involves a thirty-something woman named Asuka (Sawa Masaki) visited by a former classmate, Aoki (Yoshir Umezawa), who died 17 years ago and came back to life as a dancing, cucumber-earing mythical turtle-like creature called a kappa. Then there’s the chain-smoking, dress-wearing supernatural hippie, the death clock, the inter-species coupling, and the anal pearls. But more on those delights later. Shot by renowned DP Christopher Doyle (whose love for the drink came up uncomfortably often in the film’s intro and Q&A), Underwater Love is disappointingly unpretty to look at, thanks perhaps to a limited budget but probably more to a decision to pursue a washed-out visual look. Still, every now and then comes a breathtaking Doyle composition; the blue sky reflected in a stream, or fast-motion time lapse lingering on the solemn body of a naked woman in a river. But shot in about a week and with a cheeky acceptance of its limitations (Example: The “kappa” is an actor wearing a visibly fake turtle mask. Just go with it!), Underwater Love gets the basic job done, which is to bring a wonderfully perverse (in a good way) and playful love story to life. The musical aspect, however, is a letdown, despite an opening number set in a factory that called to mind Bjork and Catherine Deneuve frolicking among machinery in Dancer in the Dark. Imaoka admitted he only included it because he was asked to by higher ups, and considering that the whole production completed filming within just eight days (a luxury by pink film standards, apparently), who can blame him for at least trying? If anything, the nonsensical lyrics and awkward choreography only lend more wild whimsy to the show. Which brings me to the anal pearls. Rest assured this is the only film in history that will feature comically childlike turtle-people having sex with human women (the turtle penis fellatio scene is a LOL-worthy highlight) and pulling magical rocks out of their crotches which, if inserted into a human’s anus, will avert death. And I guarantee you’ll never see a case of necrophilia-as-CPR again on film — at least, it couldn’t possibly be as desperately romantic as it is here. Read more coverage of Fantastic Fest 2011 and follow Movieline on Twitter.

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Tyra Banks Invites Site visitors To Visit Modelland

NEW You'll be able to, N.Y. -- A tweet doesn't usually produce a person cry. However, if Tyra Banks recently saw an image released having a fan marketing the release of her book, it meant a great deal the tears started flowing when she discussed this. You forget that people are likely to be searching toward (it) and so are gonna make out the print, she mentioned. That was really touching to find out that specifically for different things. Im new as of this. Ive never written a fiction book before which really touched me. Modelland, that's now in stores, might be the to start a 3-book youthful adult series. It makes sense an unpleasant teen named Tookie P La Creme who'll get requested to visit a high-notch academy referred to as Modelland. It appears sensible why Banks may decide to write the sunday paper for teens. The 37-year-old Banks posseses an affinity toward strengthening youthful women. Thats an audience that we personally am passionate about. I appear like youthful women particularly coping that transition into the adult years and theres plenty of self-doubt, theres plenty of insecurity, theres plenty of self-acceptance issues after they try searching within the mirror at their reflection and so they dont always happy enough or they measure, Banks mentioned. Modelland isn't a tell-by mentioning industry, but you will discover some parallels to Banks own experience available. Its inspired by my existence and encounters popular and modeling, she mentioned. My accomplishments additionally to a lot of discomfort I desired to endure. Additionally, it addresses subjects that Banks featured on daytimes The Tyra Banks Show, which went for five seasons and engrossed in 2010. I still discuss various various insecurities. I have got a woman in Modelland who's a cutter. I'd many shows relating to this, Banks mentioned. Theres bulimia, anorexia, every one of these items that are touched upon in Modelland which i did formerly touch upon in my talk show. Hollywood was already taking into consideration the series. Banks mentioned she was approached having a effective film producer right after it absolutely was introduced they was posting it. I must open the Modelland casting all over the world, she mentioned. Im trying to find an Everygirl to possibly play one of the figures inside the story. Banks, who's enrolled at Harvard Business School, mentioned shed prefer to produce films eventually. Thats a few things i would visit college for, she mentioned. Ive done the tv factor and may keep doing so, but the idea of films is rather amazing. Banks other Tv program, Americas Next Top Model, recently opened up its 17th season becoming an All-Star edition. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Netflix Desires to Change Law Against Revealing Video-Viewing History

Jin Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images Netflix introduced Thursday that it's clients in Canada and Latin America soon will have a way to talk about their movie-watching history on Facebook. Why don't you American clients? According to Netflix Boss Reed Hastings, speaking at at Facebook's F8 developer conference in San Francisco Bay Area, it's because of an outdated law he hopes to change. In 1988, Congress passed theVideo Privacy Protection Act to prevent the"wrongful disclosure of video tape rental or purchase records." Regulations showed up the aftermath ofthe confirmation proceedings to find the best Court nominee Robert Bork. In individuals days, a newspaper launched his video rental history, leading congress to compromise lower round the disclosure of those sensitive information. STORY: Is Netflix a great deal? Speaking within the Facebook developer conference, Hastings predicted that Congress would soon amend the VPPA. "Fortunately the U.S. features a bill today in Congress to update that old privacy [policy], which will then let's turn [video history talking about] on within the united states . States," mentioned Hastings. Left unsaid is an additional cause of Netflix should upend the VPPA. On friday, a consolidated class action lawsuit suit suit was amended in California federal court that alleges Netflix already has violated the VPPA. STORY: Netflix's Qwikster Offshoot Unpopular on Wall Street and Primary Street Litigants Rob Milans and Peter Cornstock are leading a matched up effort that charges Netflix with unlawfully retaining and revealing the watching habits of the clients. The suit states that Netflix keeps sensitive personal info despite clients cancel their monthly monthly subscriptions and alleges the business helps make the data available to its advertising partners. Netflix hasn't yet taken proper care of immediately the claims in the courtroom. According to research firm First Street Research Group, Netflix has spent $270,000 on lobbying since the fourth quarter of 2010. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Netflix

Dish Network launches streaming service

Dish Network unveiled a streaming product utilizing the brand of Blockbuster, the company it rescued from bankruptcy five months ago. Launching Oct. 1, Blockbuster Movie Pass will be a $10 supplement to Dish Network subscribers; it won't be available to those who don't subscribe to the satcaster. That may have drawn sighs of relief over at Netflix given widespread anticipation that Dish would be launching a standalone product to rival the dominant upstart as pricing changes and restructuring sent its stock price plummeting earlier this week. The package boasts over 100,00 movies and TV shows available by mail, as well as 3,000 game titles. More than 3,000 movies streamed to TV, 4,000 movies streamed to your computer. More than 20 premium movie channels are also part of the service. Backed by a national promotional campaign, Blockbuster Movie Pass will have a DVD-by-mail component as well as a streaming to both TV and computers. Wireless devices won't be available for streaming at launch. "While the physical channel continues to be very important to the Blockbuster brand and product, we recognize more consumers are tuning into digital as a means of consuming entertainemnt," said Michael Kelly, president of Blockbuster, at a press conference in Friday San Francisco. The service will also be bundled free for one year to new subscribers who buy the America's Top 200 tier for $40 per month. Kelly also indicated that there may still be a standalone streaming service under the Blockbuster brand that won't be packaged with the Dish subscription, but gave no specifics. The product essentially discourages the cord-cutting that would endanger Dish's core service by melding its linear channels and TV Everywhere selections with Blockbuster's existing mail-based and streaming services. Dish CEO Joe Clayton touted the ability to combine all of the above on one bill as a feature that would allow Blockbuster Movie Pass to stand out from the crowd of video services ranging from Amazon to DirecTV. Among the differentiating factors from the competition Dish execs sought to highlight was the free exchange of discs in Blockbuster stories and no additional charge for Blu-ray rentals. Netflix charges an extra $2 for Blu-ray rentals. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

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Horror Thriller Silk Nabbed For Remake

Ghost child alert!You do not think that the three authors who cranked the script this year Halle Berry drama Frankie & Alice make the perfect people to evolve Silk, a chilling Taiwanese tale from the dead child as well as the driven investigator who captures his energy inside an old apartment building, for Western audiences, but Gold Circle Films disagrees. The business has hired Marko King, Mary King and Jonathan Watters to get the job done. The 2006 original, directed by Chao-Bin Su, found a crippled investigator using his new invention, the Menger Sponge, to capture the essence from the vengeful ghost child. Employing the help of a lip-reading through through detective to discover why the spooky sprog's energy remains so effective, they eventually determine poor people lad's mother destroyed the tumor-ridden tot and hidden him near a nuclear plant. Naturally, things go scare-created next. In line with the Warmth Vision Blog, Gold Circle plans to offer the writing trio forge a completely new path beyond the fundamental concept. The producers aren't letting any real particulars slip yet, even though idea would be to merge Michael Crichton while using Sixth Sense. So expect the same story of technology meeting the supernatural and extremely bad things happening. There's not sure on any casting or possibly a director being hired yet, but it's still beginning....

'Friends With Kids' U.S. rights sold

"Friends With Kids"Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have acquired U.S. rights to Jennifer Westfeldt's ensemble comedy ''Friends With Kids,'' a week after its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.Roadside Attractions will release "Friends with Kids" theatrically in the spring.Deal closed Sunday on the final day of the festival. Deal was the first TIFF sale to Lionsgate. Roadside Attractions will release "Friends with Kids" theatrically in the spring.''Friends with Kids,'' shot in NY early this year, stars Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, Megan Fox, Kristen Wiig, Edward Burns, Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd. Written and directed by Westfeldt (''Kissing Jessica Stein''), pic centers on a group of friends whose lives are changed as the couples in the group begin to have children. Westfeldt and Scott portray best friends who launch a romance while attempting to avoid the expectations of a married relationship. Hamm, Wiig, Rudolph and O'Dowd are among the pals with kids. ''Friends'' is produced by Westfeldt and Hamm's Points West Pictures and Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland's Red Granite Pictures. Pic is the first for both production companies. Producers are Westfeldt, Hamm, Joshua Astrachan, John Kasdan, Joey McFarland and Riza Aziz. Executive producers are Mike Nichols, John Sloss, Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Joe Gatta with Kathryn Dean co-producing.Cinetic Media handled U.S. rights and Red Granite is handling international sales. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Agent Coulson to die in Iron Guy 3?

With Joss Whedon responsible for The Avengers, almost always there is the worry a reasonably major character will not reach the finish. As well as in the Marvel world that individual would appear to become Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson."I have look at this! I am flattered that individuals care, but If only they'd stop saying this because they are likely to place it in somebody's mind!" Coulson told Crave Online when requested if he was worried Whedon might kill him off."I am speaking for them about doing Iron Guy 3 at this time, and somebody's going 'Maybe Agent Coulson should die,' and I am like, 'Hey, hey, hey! This is actually the best job I have ever endured! Stop speaking about killing Agent Coulson off.'"Same with he a minimum of safe within the Avengers?"I spoken to Joss Whedon in early stages. I stated 'Hey, exactly why is everybody saying this?' And that he stated, 'Yeah, I have done that before. Don't be concerned. You are safe.'"Actually it had been Whedon who gave SHIELD's Agent Coulson this type of large role within the Avengers."Whenever we used to do the panel for Thor at Comic Disadvantage, before we continued stage Joss Whedon comes over and introduces themself and states, 'I authored a really large part within the Avengers, um... Can One introduce you included in the cast from the Avengers, with Robert Downey, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo? Everyone's here.' And That I was like, 'Yeah, I believe that might be okay!'" Gregg stated.

Joe Wright and Keira Knightley Reunite for 'Anna Karenina'

After trying his hands in the action game within this year's 'Hanna,' director Joe Wright is returning to period pieces with 'Anna Karenina,' and he's getting a familiar face with him. (Hint: she's pictured.) Modified by film writer Tom Stoppard ('Shakespeare in Love') from Leo Tolstoy's landmark novel, Wright has called 'Atonement' star Keira Knightley for that titular role. Jude Law has signed onto play Knightley's husband Aleksei Karenin, while Aaron Manley will have Count Vrosky. Based on Deadline, 'Anna Karenina' is placed hitting theaters within the other half of 2012. That provides you ample time for you to finally pull out Tolstoy's 800-page behemoth when preparing. [via Deadline] Photo thanks to Jon Furniss/WireImage.com.

Hermann, Moreira bow investigative org

BIARRITZ -- French TV journos Luc Hermann and Paul Moreira have launched the European Network of Investigative Journalists with Italian, German and British news agencies. Hermann and Moreira are at the helm of Premieres Lignes, a Paris-based press agency that specializes in hard-boiled, one-hour investigative documentaries. Premieres Lignes has teamed up with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, Invisible Dog in Italy and Filmtank in Berlin to produce "large-scale investigations examining international issues that are aimed at global audiences," said Hermann at TVFI Rendez-Vous in Biarritz, France. The Gallic company will exec produce and have the final cut on the docus. Hermann explained that he and Moreira had the idea of creating this European org after the success of "WikiLeaks: War, Lies and Videotape," which sold to every major territories, including the U.S. (Current TV), Discovery Channel U.K., Discovery Europe and Africa, ABC in Australia and NDR in Germany. Good investigative documentaries take a very long time and require large resources: That's why we want to work with locals who know the codes and have the connections," said Hermann, who added he's looking to make thought-provoking and engaging documentaries in the vein of PBS' "Frontline." The French shingle has already collaborated with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Invisible Dog to produce "Euroscroqueries" (working title), a documentary helmed by Pierre-Emmanuel Luneau-Dorignac that examines the distribution of European funds and subsidies. Docu has been pre-bought by France 2 and is repped by Arte in international markets. Premieres Lignes is producing "The Day China Will Relocate in Europe," an investigation looking into Chinese investments in Europe, with Invisible Dog. Docu has been commissioned by Franco-German net Arte, which handles international pre-sales and sales on the program. It will be delivered in spring 2012. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Greg Daniels To Adapt British Comedy Friday Night Dinner For NBC

EXCLUSIVE: After successfully adapting British workplace comedy The Office for NBC, Greg Daniels is taking on another half-hour British format for the network, this time a family comedy. I hear that NBC has put in development a U.S. version of the UK series Friday Night Dinner with Daniels at the helm. It is unclear whether Daniels will write, co-write or supervise the writing of the adaptation for UMS. Created by Robert Popper, Friday Night Dinner, which debuted on Channel 4 in February, centers on the Goodmans, a traditional but not strictly observant Jewish family, and chronicles their Shabbat dinners. Every Friday night, brothers Adam and Jonny reluctantly visit their parents — mom Jackie, who is obsessed with Masterchef, and dad Martin, who loves to walk around shirtless — for a home-cooked meal. Adding to the gallery of oddball characters is a grandmother who struts her stuff in a bikini and eccentric neighbor Jim who constantly interrupts dinner. Friday Night Dinner, which has been renewed by Channel 4 for a second season, airs in the U.S. on BBC America. The show hails from Big Talk Prods, the UK production company also behind another Channel 4 comedy series that is being remade by NBC, Free Agents. NBC’s version, starring Hank Azaria and Kathryn Hahn, was picked up to series and launches this fall. Daniels is expected to executive produce Friday Night Dinner with his producing partner Howard Klein, Popper and Big Talk. The project falls under the new two-year overall deal Daniels recently signed with UMS. In addition to developing and executive producing the Emmy-winning The Office, WME-repped Daniels also co-created and executive produces another NBC Thursday comedy series, Parks and Recreation. Both shows are nominated for best comedy series Emmys, making Daniels the first comedy writer-producer to have two shows competing against each other in that category since 1975, when James L. Brooks and Allan Burns were nominated forMary Tyler Moore and Rhoda. Additionally, Daniels is nominated in the comedy writing category for penning Steve Carell’s farewell episode on The Office. Here is a trailer for the British Friday Night Dinner: