Disney Funnel befriends 'Frenemies'

'Frenemies'Disney Funnel "Shake UpInch co-stars Bella Thorne and Zendaya can look within an original movie anthology for that cabler, "Frenemies."Stefanie Scott ("A.N.T. Farm"), Nick Robinson ("Melissa and Joey") and Mary Mouser ("Body of Proof") will co-star within the project, which follows three pairs whose relationships they fit in risk. The telepic will premiere Jan. 13, having a sneak preview starting on Disney Funnel When Needed 1 week earlier.Daisy Mayer ("The Guru") is pointing a script by Dava Savel ("That's So Raven"), Wendy Weiner and Jim Krieg. Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy are professional creating for Alloy Entertainment and Gold coin Switch Prods. "Shake Up,Inch now in the second season, was through its first 26 episodes no. 1 series ever in cable among tweens 9-14. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Barbara Walters Picks 10 Best People of the season

Barbara Walters Who're The Ten Best People of the season?Barbara Walters will tell us together with her annual special Wednesday, 12 ,. 14 at 9:30/8:30c on ABC.Gen. David Petraeus is Barbara Walters' Best Person from the YearThe 90-minute program, the 19th annual edition, will feature producer/judge extraordinaire Simon Cowell, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson who take part in the loveable gay couple on Modern Family, NY Yankees' shortstop Derek Jeter, business mogul Jesse Trump, pop star Katy Perry, reality TV family, The Kardashians, and royal relative (most qualified bachelorette) Pippa Middleton.Walters will disclose the entire list and who snagged no. 1 just right the show.Any forecasts on who probably the most fascinating person is going to be? Exactly what do you think about their email list?

The new sony Pictures Classics Delivering The Raid

EXCLUSIVE: The new sony Pictures Classics continues to be set release a The Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed fighting techinques film that won the Night time Madness Award in the recent Toronto Film Festival. It's also rumored to become on the way to the approaching Sundance Film Festival, through which time it'll have a brand new soundtrack from Linkin Park. For SPC, the film is really a departure from the current honours challengers which include Take Shelter and Night time In Paris, however the film was certainly probably the most buzzed-about films at Toronto for that industry crowd. It will be a putting in a bid fight in the festival, however the domestic distribution privileges have been smartly collared through the The new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases Group back at Cannes, a buy made on partial footage which gave The new sony the news on remake privileges. The remake was placed at Screen Gems, and today SPC’s Tom Bernard and Michael Barker will release the initial next spring. For Evans, he’s returning to Jakarta to shoot a bigger-scale film that includes the stars and story lines in the Raid. Heres a clip:

Hammond: 2013 Oscar Show Might Not Be Moving Earlier

EXCLUSIVE: With Monday evening’s Gotham Honours and Tuesday’s announcement from the Independent Spirit Award nominations and those who win from the NY Film Experts honours (more about that below), honours months are under way and that we are barely past Thanksgiving. It appears as though the growing season has become a literal hurry to judgment with tests beginning only now for many large game titles like the Girl Using The Dragon Tattoo, Very Noisy and extremely Close and Julia Roberts’s Within The Land of Bloodstream and Honey. But things could become much more hurried when the Academy of movement Picture Arts & Sciences really follows through on the much-spoken about intend to move the Academy awards earlier in 2013 up to per month. Probably the most-talked about date may be the last Sunday of The month of january that year — the 27th. The present season’s Academy awards is going to be on Sunday Feb 26th. But because it works out, I've found that a considerably earlier Oscarcast is extremely unlikely for 2013 as well as 2014. The current thinking is the fact that an early on Academy awards would thankfully shorten the lengthy honours season making them more competitive using the slew of movie honours implies that precede the Oscars starting with now’s occasions (The Nation's Board of Review will even announce their those who win on Thursday). Past Academy Leader Sid Ganis and current Leader Tom Sherak happen to be recognized to favor an early on honours date but sources near to the discussions let me know you will find complications. I checked all of this out after hearing that a minimum of two prominent Guilds that hands out their very own honours usually at the end of The month of january/early Feb were very concerned about the Academy making this type of major move and were advised a comment might be imminent. One guild source stated it might cause complete chaos with everybody’s agendas meaning there will be a pileup of honours and clearly each show such as the BAFTAs, Golden Globes, various Guild honours yet others would really attempt to move much earlier too. BAFTAchief executiveAmanda Berrywhose show airs two days prior to the Academy awards explained she'd certainly need to think about a move instead of following a Oscars. One guild professional angrily explained, “I don’t know why they'd do that. The Academy awards would be the Super Bowl. What do they need to be worried about? Everybody else, including us, are just like playoff games.” Really the actual Super Bowl is area of the problem. The Academy’s broadcast partner ABChas a say during these plans and I've been relayed through a really informed Acad source the The month of january 27, 2013 date continues to be eliminated and also the earliest they might go is Feb 3. Issue is that unexpectedly happens to function as the date from the Super Bowl so clearly that Sunday has gone out. Same with the following Sunday next to have an undisclosed reason meaning the first the show may go is Feb 17 and franklymy sources saythey will need to consider the need for moving it simply 1 week earlier than already. Academy voters are already done situps with an array of films to look at and losing that extra week might just 't be well worth the minimum return the Acad will get in upgrading a couple of days. The calendar for 2014 includes a much the same configuration and is definitely the identical scenario. Obviously they might always move the show to Monday where it broadcast for several years before landing around the a lot more desirable Sunday berth a couple of years back. Word is the fact that’s not seriously considered. Actually I've been told simply no decision is going to be made before the Academy has determined how you can implement online voting. Some experimentation is happening now but there won’t be considered a large test untillater early in the year. After they know they are able to securely result in the switch from paper to electronic ballots with anxiety about getting compromised or getting election totals uncovered by some enterprising college kid, they'll decide assuming the show can move. Obviously for the majority of the experts groups moving earlier isn't any large deal simply because they generally are the initial to determine the films. As well as bigger nearly 6,000 member Academy includes a hell of the time attempting to see virtually all of the challengers because it is, especially around the giant screen rather than via screeners that is exactly what the Academy is positively advocating people to complete. Another guild professional recommended that “moving earlier might have the unwanted effect of creating experts groups as well as their options much more influential because so many Oscar voters might have only time for you to watch what these groupsvote for.” That apparentlywas the bone-headed thinking this season when theNY Film Experts, under new leader John Anderson strongly increased their honours voting by two days so they may be first and beat the nation's Board of Review which normally have that first slot.Initially these were to possess chosen today however Scott Rudin said excitedly he couldn’tpossibly demonstrate to them The Lady With TheDragon Tattoo any sooner than today.Thinking about the film was directed bylast year’s NYFCC darling David Fincher they decided to move their election to Tuesday.However another Rudin film, one having a special NewYork connection, the publish 9/11 drama Very Noisy and IncrediblyClose wasn't ready over time and Warner Bros. needed to turn lower the NYFCC’s request to determine it earlycausing a war of wordsbetween the experts group and also the studio — also it won’t be looked at.Isn’t this early move a situation from the tail wagging your dog? Regardless of what honours the groupdoes or doesn’t give on Dragon Tattoo it’s a lose-lose situation with a few people worrying strongly. One explained,”If I'm able to’t see everything, I simply won’t election.” Possibly therein lies bad weather warning for that Academy’s early bird advocates too.

Spike Lee's Oldboy Will Feature New Elements, Figures to 'Throw In the Audience'

Oldboy producer Roy Lee recently seeping some vague particulars on Spike Lee’s Josh Brolin-starring remake, promising a “darker” retelling of Park Chan-wook’s Korean thriller also modified within the original manga. “It’s very similar, but we’ve added new elements. Or, Mark Protosevich has develop new elements in it that will screw up everyone else who've seen the first movie because you will discover new figures and new situations that promote themselves with techniques that changes the story but eventually use the identical direction.” Sure, Spike. Let me go get my hammer… [Collider via Slashfilm]

Gale Anne Hurd Developing Area 51 Series

EXCLUSIVE: From zombies to aliens. The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and her Valhalla Entertainment have optioned Annie Jacobsen’s book Area 51: An Uncensored Good reputation for America’s Top Secret Military Base for any potential TV series. The hourlong project, which is removed towards the systems shortly, is going to be compiled by feature scribe Karl Gajdusek. It'll follow two males focusing on the bottom who're thrust into danger once they uncover secrets the government will safeguard no matter what. Gajdusek, who had been introduced in by Valhalla executive Beatrice Springborn, assists as showrunner and executive produce with Hurd. Jacobsen is a talking to producer. Jacobsen’s Area 51 sheds light around the highly classified military base, that has been the topic of numerous conspiracy ideas declaring that it's the place to find aliens, subterranean tunnel systems, nuclear facilities or perhaps the lunar landing, allegedly staged and shot there. Jacobsen questioned 19 males who offered the bottom and the other 55 who had links to Area 51, including living and dealing there for longer periods. It stories what's really gone on within the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to building super-secret, supersonic jets to going after the Fight against Terror. Area 51 was released in May and spent 8 days around the NY Occasions Bestseller List. Gajdusek, who began off in TV on Showtime’s Dead Much Like Me, lately authored the Tom Cruise film Oblivion for Universal, with Frederick Kosinski pointing, and also the Last Times Of American Crime for Radical/IM Global. Gajdusek, repped by Verve and Management 360, is presently writing Last Measure, an airplane pilot script for ABC executive created by Shawn Ryan and Viking for Working Title.

Sheriff: Robert Wagner Not A Suspect In Natalie Wood Death

First Published: November 19, 2011 2:33 PM EST Credit: WireImage LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner at The Godfather premiere on August 9, 1972Actor Robert Wagner is not a suspect in the 30-year-old drowning of his actress wife, Natalie Wood, and there is nothing to indicate a crime, even though the investigation has been re-opened, a sheriffs detective said Friday. Her death was an accident, an accidental drowning, said Sheriffs Lt.John Corina. Officials would not say why they were taking another look at the case, although the captain of the boat where the couple had stayed blamed Wagner for Woods death. Natalie Woods sister, Lana Wood, told CNNs Piers Morgan in an interview Friday that she doesnt believe her sister fell off the boat. Lana Wood told Morgan that she has spoken several times with the boats captain Dennis Davern and he has told her that Wagner was involved in her plunge into the sea on Nov. 29, 1981. But Lana Wood said she does not believe that whatever happened was deliberate. I dont think she fell, I dont know if she was pushed, I dont know whether there was an altercation and it happened accidentally but she shouldnt have died and that does stay with me and hurt, Lana Wood said. I would prefer to always believe that RJ (Wagner) would never do anything to hurt Natalie and that he loved her dearly, which he did, and I dont believe that whatever went on was deliberate. Ive always cared about him. I always will care about him, she said. Lana Wood wrote in a biography on her sister after her death, What happened is that Natalie drank too much that night. There have always been questions about Woods death on Nov. 29, 1981, with renewed attention on the case as the anniversary neared. The cases re-opening and a public call for information are the first hint that the official account may need revision. Within hours of the announcement, Corina said, several people emerged offering their recollections of what happened in the waters off Southern Californias Santa Catalina Island. But he quickly noted that nothing the agency has received so far has prompted it to change the view that there was no foul play. Davern, said Friday on NBCs Today show that he lied to investigators about events on theyacht Splendour when he was interviewed after Woods death. Davern accused Wagner of having a fight with Wood before she went missing and delaying the search for her after she disappeared. Wagners family released a statement through a spokesman that said they trusted detectives to evaluate any new information and determine whether it came from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death. It did not mention Davern by name, and noted that detectives hadnt contacted Wagner or his family. On the show, Davern mentioned a book he co-wrote last year on Woods death, but refused to say precisely why he blamed Wagner for the three-time Oscar nominees death. Davern also denied that he was seeking to profit from interest in the case. Vanity Fair and the television program 48 Hours Mystery have teamed up and are including Woods case for a television special airing this weekend. Corina said his agency would talk to Davern at some point and other witnesses would likely be interviewed. He downplayed the role Daverns book or the anniversary would play on the investigation. Were not concerned with the anniversary date, Corina said. It may have jarred some other peoples memories. Wood, who was 43 when she died, received three Academy Award nominations, for Rebel Without a Cause, 'Splendor in the Grass and Love with the Proper Stranger. She appeared in numerous other Hollywood classics, including West Side Story. Wood and Wagner were married twice, first in 1957 before divorcing six years later. They remarried in 1972. Her death during the Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 has long sparked tabloid speculation that foul play was involved. Wood, Wagner and actor Christopher Walken and Davern spent time on Thanksgiving weekend1981 both on Catalina Island and drinking on the yacht. Wagner has dismissed any suggestion that the actress death was anything more than an accident. In a 2008 autobiography, he recounted drinking with Wood and Walken at a restaurant and on the boat. Wood went to the master cabin during an argument between the two men, Wagner said. The last time Wagner saw his wife, she was fixing her hair at a bathroom vanity and she shut the door, he wrote. Despite various theories about what led Wood to the water, which she feared, he said, it was impossible to know what happened. Nobody knows, he wrote. There are only two possibilities; either she was trying to get away from the argument, or she was trying to tie the dinghy. But the bottom line is that nobody knows exactly what happened. Coroners officials said at the time that she was possibly attempting to board the dinghy and had fallen into the water, striking her face. Wood was found wearing a flannel nightgown, socks and a red down jacket, and Davern identified her body for authorities, according to an autopsy report. Her body had superficial bruises, according to the report, but those were considered consistent with drowning. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said the agency hadnt been asked to do any additional investigation into Woods case. Wagner, star of the television series Hart to Hart, wrote in his book that he blamed himself for his wifes death. Did I blame myself? If I had been there, I could have done something, he wrote. But I wasnt there. I didnt see her. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. 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