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The apparently nightly Republican presidential candidate debates round the cable news systems have started to obtain traction inside the ratings since the story lines one of the leading players begin to emerge (i.e., as Ron Perry and Mitt Romney distance themselves within the pack as management). Last evening’s Fox News/Google debate on Fox News Funnel was the season’s most-seen debate yet, calculating 6.millions of total audiences and 1.7 million audiences inside the key 25-54 demographic due to its 9-11 PM ET time slot. That’s especially impressive since it beat the viewership levels of numerous new series airing round the competing broadcast systems throughout premiere week including NBC’s Prime Suspect.

Talent Signings: Toni Braxton to ICM, More

Toni Braxton, a six-time Grammy winner and actress, has signed with ICM. Braxton's acting credits include Broadway's Beauty and the Beast and Aida. In 2008, she competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Braxton has released five albums and sold more than 40 million records worldwide. She is managed by Baumgarten Management and Productions and The Collective.our editor recommendsTALENT SIGNINGS ROUND-UP: Hailee Steinfeld Hires a Manager; New Clients at CAA, UTA, ICM, Paradigm, APATALENT SIGNINGS ROUND-UP: Neal McDonough to Paradigm; New Clients at WME, ICM, UTA, APA'American Idol' finalist signs record deal STORY: Talent Signings: New Clients at WME, ICM, APA, Paradigm Josh Elliott, anchor on ABC'sGood Morning America, has signed with CAA. Prior to joining Good Morning America this spring, Elliott co-anchored ESPN's SportsCenter. Cliff Dorfman, who co-wrote Warrior, has signed with Apostle Management. Dorfman's writing credits include HBO's Entourage, Fox's Beverly Hills, 90210, and the WB's7th Heaven. He is also represented by Paradigm and law firm Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller Related Topics ICM

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Cinemax Documentary Stands out Light on Latino Stars

MIAMI (AP) Let's wait and watch, leading Hispanic stars on mainstream TV: There's Sofia Vergara's crazy, chess-playing trophy wife on "Modern Family" the conniving Avoi Longoria of "Desperate Average women" and supporting stars for example Adam Rodriguez who plays a fingerprint and underwater recovery expert on "CSI Miami."Next, their email list thins substantially.Walking into that space is "The Latino List." The brand new documentary by Vanity Fair adding digital photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders airs Sept. 28-29 on Cinemax and Cinemax Latino featuring interviews by award-winning broadcast journalist Maria Hinojosa with a few of the nation's most effective Latinos. Hinojosa has labored at CNN, NPR and PBS, and elsewhere.Longoria, Top Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rapper Armando Christian Perez, also known as Pitbull, astronaut Jose Hernandez and actress America Ferrera are only a couple of from the 15 who made their email list. The interviews are compelling, funny and raw.Ferrera, the first kind star of TV's "Ugly Betty," discusses the discrimination she faced both because she's Hispanic and since others felt she is not Hispanic enough. Hernandez recalls picking cucumbers like a kid together with his migrant worker parents. John Leguizamo takes note of the teacher who inspired him being an actress by telling him he'd the "attention length of a sperm."Most of the tales discuss the immigrant experience, but styles of family, education and determination will probably resonate far past the nation's Latino community.The film follows Greenfield-Sanders' acclaimed 2008 "The Black List," a number of three documentaries featuring African-American leaders questioned by journalist Elvis Mitchell. Like "The Black List," ''The Latino List" is supported with a bigger photography exhibit now displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.Greenfield-Sanders' portraits have adorned the walls from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY and also the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. His style is refreshingly simple the list-makers sit or standalone before a grey background, their faces lit by soft light.However the film's minimalism is deceitful. Greenfield-Sanders wanted audiences to seem like their email list-makers were speaking straight to them, so he used a unique camera rig having a mirror that enabled his subjects to appear into the camera and find out a forecasted picture of Hinojosa who had been sitting on the other hand from the studio. She'd an identical camera and microphone.The end result enabled their email list-makers to possess "face-to-face" conversations together with her while permitting audiences to feel they're part from the conversation."It had been immaterial I have ever done before, and I have done 100s and 100s of interviews from gang people to skinheads to CEOs," Hinojosa stated. She thinks your camera technique assisted create both a secure distance as well as an closeness using the list-makers."We realize that the Latino experience of the united states is profoundly beautiful and deeply moving, and often painful. ... I truly wanted to produce a space to allow them to remember and touch to these core reminiscences and values," she stated.Within an exchange not within the film, Hinojosa even found herself asking Sotomayor raising a child advice: Should she allow her then 11-year-old daughter to pluck her thick, Frida Kahlo-style eye brows?Sotomayor's advice: Yes, but assist the girl create a strong sense of self in various other fundamental ways."Maria Hinojosa is definitely an amazing interviewer and also got me to visit places I might possibly not have gone by myself,Inch stated U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who is incorporated in the film. "It can give non-Latinos a means to higher understand who we're, and hopefully give Latinos a feeling of pride."In the interview, the Cuban-born politician remembered an incident at the start of his career as mayor of Union City, N.J., when he spoke The spanish language in a city council meeting to some lady battling with British.When people from the audience complained, Menendez adjourned the meeting and introduced the whole room towards the city archives to determine official ledgers from prior to the city's official 1925 incorporation. These were handwritten in German, the word what from the area's large immigrant community in those days.Hinojosa stated the knowledge was particularly effective since the filming coincided using the passage of Arizona's tough immigration laws and regulations, even though current political debate over immigration is barely touched upon within the film.Which will likely generate debate. Even though Mexican-People in america constitute nearly two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics, the film includes a rough balance of Mexican-People in america, Cuban-People in america and Puerto Ricans. Ferrera, whose household is Honduran, may be the sole associated with Latinos of Central American heritage. Colombian native John Leguizamo may be the only South American.Greenfield-Sanders understands the possibility critique but will not make any apologies.He labored with Ingrid Duran, the first kind Boss from the Congressional Hispanic Institute, to achieve a range of political and cultural leaders. He states thinning their email list demonstrated much more challenging than "The Black List.""Like 'The Black List,' we needed to select a type of an account balance of males and ladies, along with a balance of professions, after which with 'The Latino List' we needed to look for a balance of ethnicities, too," he stated.He hopes the film will spawn sequels.Added Greenfield-Sanders: "You will find 1000's of people that deserve to stay in the film."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Laura Wides-Munoz September 20, 2011 PHOTO CREDIT Michael Buckner/Getty Images MIAMI (AP) Let's wait and watch, leading Hispanic stars on mainstream TV: There's Sofia Vergara's crazy, chess-playing trophy wife on "Modern Family" the conniving Avoi Longoria of "Desperate Average women" and supporting stars for example Adam Rodriguez who plays a fingerprint and underwater recovery expert on "CSI Miami."Next, their email list thins substantially.Walking into that space is "The Latino List." The brand new documentary by Vanity Fair adding digital photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders airs Sept. 28-29 on Cinemax and Cinemax Latino featuring interviews by award-winning broadcast journalist Maria Hinojosa with a few of the nation's most effective Latinos. Hinojosa has labored at CNN, NPR and PBS, and elsewhere.Longoria, Top Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, rapper Armando Christian Perez, also known as Pitbull, astronaut Jose Hernandez and actress America Ferrera are only a couple of from the 15 who made their email list. The interviews are compelling, funny and raw.Ferrera, the first kind star of TV's "Ugly Betty," discusses the discrimination she faced both because she's Hispanic and since others felt she is not Hispanic enough. Hernandez recalls picking cucumbers like a kid together with his migrant worker parents. John Leguizamo takes note of the teacher who inspired him being an actress by telling him he'd the "attention length of a sperm."Most of the tales discuss the immigrant experience, but styles of family, education and determination will probably resonate far past the nation's Latino community.The film follows Greenfield-Sanders' acclaimed 2008 "The Black List," a number of three documentaries featuring African-American leaders questioned by journalist Elvis Mitchell. Like "The Black List," ''The Latino List" is supported with a bigger photography exhibit now displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.Greenfield-Sanders' portraits have adorned the walls from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY and also the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. His style is refreshingly simple their email list-makers sit or standalone before a grey background, their faces lit by soft light.However the film's minimalism is deceitful. Greenfield-Sanders wanted audiences to seem like their email list-makers were speaking straight to them, so he used a unique camera rig having a mirror that enabled his subjects to appear into the camera and find out a forecasted picture of Hinojosa who had been sitting on the other hand from the studio. She'd an identical camera and microphone.The end result enabled their email list-makers to possess "face-to-face" conversations together with her while permitting audiences to feel they're area of the conversation."It had been immaterial I have ever done before, and I have done 100s and 100s of interviews from gang people to skinheads to CEOs," Hinojosa stated. She thinks your camera technique assisted create both a secure distance as well as an closeness using the list-makers."We realize that the Latino experience of the united states is profoundly beautiful and deeply moving, and often painful. ... I truly wanted to produce a space to allow them to remember and touch to these core reminiscences and values," she stated.Within an exchange not within the film, Hinojosa even found herself asking Sotomayor raising a child advice: Should she allow her then 11-year-old daughter to pluck her thick, Frida Kahlo-style eye brows?Sotomayor's advice: Yes, but assist the girl create a strong feeling of self in various other fundamental ways."Maria Hinojosa is definitely an amazing interviewer and also got me to visit places I might possibly not have gone by myself,Inch stated U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who is incorporated in the film. "It can give non-Latinos a method to better understand who we're, and hopefully give Latinos a feeling of pride."In the interview, the Cuban-born politician remembered an incident at the start of his career as mayor of Union City, N.J., when he spoke The spanish language in a city council meeting to some lady battling with British.When people from the audience complained, Menendez adjourned the meeting and introduced the whole room towards the city archives to determine official ledgers from prior to the city's official 1925 incorporation. These were handwritten in German, the word what from the area's large immigrant community in those days.Hinojosa stated the knowledge was particularly effective since the filming coincided using the passage of Arizona's tough immigration laws and regulations, even though current political debate over immigration is barely touched upon within the film.Which will likely generate debate. Even though Mexican-People in america constitute nearly two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics, the film includes a rough balance of Mexican-People in america, Cuban-People in america and Puerto Ricans. Ferrera, whose household is Honduran, may be the sole associated with Latinos of Central American heritage. Colombian native John Leguizamo may be the only South American.Greenfield-Sanders understands the possibility critique but will not make any apologies.He labored with Ingrid Duran, the first kind Boss from the Congressional Hispanic Institute, to achieve a range of political and cultural leaders. He states thinning their email list demonstrated much more challenging than "The Black List.""Like 'The Black List,' we needed to select a type of an account balance of males and ladies, along with a balance of professions, after which with 'The Latino List' we needed to look for a balance of ethnicities, too," he stated.He hopes the film will spawn sequels.Added Greenfield-Sanders: "You will find 1000's of people that deserve to stay in the film."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Smuggler

A Grasshoppa! and Django Film production. (Worldwide sales: SDP, Tokyo, japan.) Created by Hideaki Endo, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Kazuto Takida, Akira Yamamoto. Directed, edited by Katsuhito Ishii. Script, Ishii, Masatoshi Yamaguchi, Kensuke Yamamoto, in line with the graphic novel by Shohei Manabe.With: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Masatoshi Nagase, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Tsuyoshi Abe, Hikari Mitsushima, Masanobu Ando, Tatsuya Gashuin, Yohachi Shimada, Kanji Tsuda, Ryushin Tei, Fumiyo Kohinata, Masahiro Takashima, Hitoshi Kiyokawa.In some way at the same time entertainingly crazy along with a little underwhelming, manga adaptation "Smuggler" mingles yakuza melodrama, grotesquerie, the near-fantastical, black comedy, hyperstylized action and much more right into a goulash which will most likely enthrall some fans but leave others cold. Latest in the ever-unpredictable Katsuhito Ishii ("Shark Skin Guy and Peach Stylish Girl," "Party 7," "The Flavour of Tea") is really a exclusively Japanese genre mash-up destined for home-format appreciation through the usual suspects wherever it proves too out-there for theatrical distribs. Attracted from Shohei Manabe's 2000 graphic novel, and repping possibly the best live-action link up to now with Ishii's periodic anime work, pic includes a "Dick Tracy"-worthy gallery well over-the-top criminal types surrounding one timid, naturally panicked regular guy. That might be Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki), a unsuccessful would-be actor who's stupidly become themself in hock towards the wrong people. To create good on his debt, he's forced right into a job as ride-along flunky with hard-boiled quiet type Joe (Masatoshi Nagase) and crass, clownish Masako (Tatsuya Gashuin), who locate and transport questionable products without any questions requested. They get in the center of a convoluted crime war including Japanese and Chinese procedures one boss and the minions are wiped out in the start, and also the spoils from the planned drug exchange are spirited away. The hired causes immediately responsible are outre hitmen Vertebre (a damaged, inked, platinum-haired Masanobu Ando) and Viscera (lengthy-haired, shades-putting on Ryushin Tei), almost supernaturally invincible assassins who also are actually quarrelsome longtime enthusiasts. It falls to the more earthbound lead trio to apprehend this duo and produce these phones individuals anxious to exact revenge. Double-crossings abound, however, and also the fateful trip ultimately puts guileless Kinuta in to the clutches of sadistic interrogator "Mad Dog" Kamashima (Masahiro Takashima). Others around the playing area include Mrs. Tanuma (Hikari Mitsushima), femme-fatale widow from the slain boss Yamaoka (Yasuko Matsuyuki), a allegedly neutral banker together with her own murky agenda and many more funhouse-exaggerated archetypes. Helmer draws a variety of performance styles from the starry cast of music performer-stars, veteran screen thesps, ex-teen idols, etc., variably apt for Keystone Kops, Sergio Leone, film noir, superheroics and Tarantino-esque actioners, in addition to their counterparts throughout Japanese genre cinema. Credited onscreen as storyboarder in addition to editor and co-scenarist, Ishii devotes maximum focus on flashy yet intimate action setpieces that frequently push slo-mo f/x to "Matrix"-like extremes of physical impossibility. Very possible, however, would be the agonies Kinuta suffers at Mad Dog's hands, inside a torture interlude which will get carried away too lengthy for a lot of. Chameleonic in tone, deliberately drab in production design, "Smuggler" is a number of individually vivid episodes that never quite gel right into a whole. The outcomes are nearly always stimulating, sometimes memorable, but missing a throughline of emotional engagement, they are able to bore slightly even while they dazzle. It is a movie that feels inorganically created and performed being an summation on most current Japanese cult-cinema tropes. Whilst not spectacular in scale, tech and elements of design are considered towards the last witty detail.Camera (color), Hiroshi Machida music, Toshio Nakagawa production designer, Yuji Tsuzuki costume designer, Kuko Utsunomiya seem (Dolby Digital), Kohichi Mori. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Night time Madness), Sept. 10, 2011. Running time: 114 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream': Capitol to Release Sixth Single From the Album

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."our editor recommendsAdele, Katy Perry Push Album Sales to First Increase Since 2004MTV VMAs: Katy Perry Tops Award WinnersMTV VMAs: Katy Perry's 8 Most Memorable Music Video Moments Such is the thinking, as voiced by EMI Music/Capitol Records EVP/marketing and promotion Greg Thompson, behind the label's decision to release a sixth pop radio single from Katy Perry's album, Teenage Dream. PHOTOS: MTV VMAs: Best and Worst Moments The set's "The One That Got Away" goes for airplay next month. And what could be gained is a first in the Billboard Hot 100's 53-year history. The first five singles from the album - "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg; the title cut; "Firework"; "E.T.," featuring Kanye West; and, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" - all reached the Hot 100's summit, making Perry the first woman to notch five No. 1s on the chart from one album. Michael Jackson is the only other artist to have accomplished the feat, having scored five leaders from Bad in 1987-88. (The sixth single from "Bad," "Another Part of Me," peaked at No. 11. Seventh and final single "Smooth Criminal" reached No. 7). PHOTOS: MTV VMAs: Red Carpet Arrivals Thus, should "One" follow the first five singles from Dream to the top, Perry would become the first artist to crack open a six-pack of Hot 100 No. 1s from one album. The label stressed that it is not specifically releasing "One" with the hopes of rewriting Hot 100 history. Rather, the decision factors in Perry's fondness for the song, its ear-catching hook and her obvious track record of success at pop radio. "If it goes to No. 1, that would be great," said Thompson. "If not, we still have a Katy song on the radio in fourth quarter," potentially fueling further sales for Dream in the busiest of shopping seasons. PHOTOS: MTV Video Music Awards 2011: The Nominees Even if "One" is not a Hot 100 No. 1, Perry still offers her fans the gift of a Yuletide-timed release. If it does reach the apex, Perry herself opens the gift of unprecedented Hot 100 history. Adding to the song's chart-topping potential: a "touch-up," Dr. Luke has produced a radio edit of the album version (which he also produced), according to Thompson, and a video. The label is currently "reading treatments" for the proposed clip. (Perry penned the song with Dr. Luke - a.k.a. Lukasz Gottwald -- and Max Martin). Perry's "California Dreams Tour," which kicked off in February, continues with U.S., South American and European dates through Dec. 1. Of the 40 concerts reported to Billboard Boxscore, the tour has grossed $22 million and played to 408,000 fans. STORY: MTV Video Music Awards Winner Katy Perry: 'Firework' is a Movement On its path to equaling the King of Pop's Hot 100 milestone, Dream has sold 1.8 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The set opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 the week of Sept. 11, 2010, and has remained in the chart's top 40 for all 55 of its chart weeks. While "One" is the sixth pop single from Dream, another track from the album has topped a Billboard tally. "Peacock" joined the set's five Hot 100 leaders as No. 1s on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart. Related Topics Katy Perry Michael Jackson

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Toronto 2011: IFC Films Picks Up '4:44 Last Day on Earth'

Following up on its acquisition of Midnight Madness title The Incident, IFC Films has picked up the North American rights to 4:44 Last Day on Earth, the latest pic from Abel Ferrara.Related Topics•Toronto International Fil... The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will screen at the upcoming NY Film Festival; the deal was announced at TIFF. The ensemble drama stars Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta and Natasha Lyonne and takes a look at how people would react knowing Earth¹s final hour was approaching. It has been described as a "mournful valentine" to NY. The movie was produced by Fabula, Funny Balloons and Wild Bunch. Ferrara wrote the screenplay. Wild Bunch repped the movie in the deal. IFC's genre arm IFC Midnight picked up the North American rights to the horror movie The Incident. The movie premiered Monday night, where a couple of audience members reportedly fainted due to the intense violence in the movie. Directed by Alexandre Courtes, the movie follows a trio of cooks who get trapped with inmates at an asylum for the criminally insane during a storm. Related Topics Toronto International Film Festival International

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Hysteria: Toronto Review

Delivering a tickle more often than a sustained buzz, Tanya Wexler's romantic comedy about the invention of the electric vibrator in Victorian London, Hysteria, is a pleasurable diversion, even if it could have used a touch more spark in the writing.our editor recommendsToronto Flashback: Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal'Hysteria' Trailer: Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal Star in Sex Drama (Video)'Hysteria': A Female Sex Comedy Dressed in Victorian GarbRelated Topics•Toronto International Fil... The film has considerable overlap with Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, produced on Broadway in 2009. Using the same premise of a doctor inducing paroxysms to treat "hysteria" -- at that time the all-purpose medical term for a whole gamut of female ailments -- Ruhl employed fictional characters to explore social mores, the gender divide and women's attempt to understand their sexual and emotional needs. PHOTOS: 13 Films to Know at the Toronto Film Festival Screenwriting team Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer instead build Hysteria around the historical figure of Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy), who invented the prototype stimulation device. But they use that breakthrough as background for a less specific story of women seizing their rightful place in society and for a slow-starter romance. Frustrated with a medical establishment that still prescribes leeches, bleeding, sea-bathing and miracle tummy tonics but refuses to keep up with scientific discoveries such as germ theory, Mortimer bounces from one unfulfilling hospital job to the next with mounting despair. Eventually, he finds an open door at the private practice of Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), who maintains that half the women in London are afflicted with hysteria, manifested in everything from frigidity to nymphomania. Unable to keep up with the demand for his intimate massage, he hires Mortimer to, ahem, lend a hand. Mortimer proves quite popular with the patients, prompting his employer to consider taking him on as a partner while dropping hints that his smart, pretty daughter, Emily (Felicity Jones), would make an ideal doctor's wife. Dalrymple is less content with his elder daughter Charlotte (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a one-woman whirlwind of social revolution who defies his wishes by continuing to run an East End settlement for the economically disadvantaged, even after he cuts off her funding. When persistent hand cramps prevent Mortimer from doing his job, Dalrymple dismisses him. But while hanging out with his friend and benefactor Edmund St. John-Smythe (Rupert Everett), a filthy-rich toff who dabbles in the burgeoning field of electronics, Mortimer stumbles upon the idea of a power tool capable of giving women the desired paroxysm in a fraction of the time and without the manual effort. As the end credits illustrate, the rest is vibrator history, ranging from the original Granville's Hammer to more recent models like the Rabbit and Pocket Rocket. But the film shifts its focus away from the gadget and onto volatile Charlotte's legal woes when she gets into strife over debts. That causes Mortimer to reconsider his views on women's so-called hysteria and to redirect his affections. Much of the humor in the Dyers' screenplay is more droll than genuinely witty, and the prurient sexual stuff occasionally gets strained. But while Wexler's pacing can become a little stodgy at times, the film has a sweetness that keeps you watching. This is helped by the relaxed charms of Dancy, who wears his mutton-chop sideburns and dapper period garb well, and the luminous Gyllenhaal, whose boisterous, vaguely contemporary energy here fits with her character's hunger for emancipation. Everett turns the dial way up on his blase, upper-crust mannerisms, but enjoyably so, and Pryce brings an agreeable hint of eccentricity to the earnest doctor, though it's questionable whether his refusal to consider the value in Charlotte's work is entirely in-character. The well-upholstered production delivers a solid period look on what's doubtless not a huge budget, thanks to resourceful work from set designer Sophie Becher and costumer Nic Ede. Venue: Toronto International Film Festival Production companies: Informant Media, Forthcoming Films, in association with Beachfront Films, Delux Productions, By Alternative Pictures, Arte Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Rupert Everett, Felicity Jones, Ashley Jensen, Sheridan Smith, Gemma Jones, Anna Chancellor Director: Tanya Wexler Screenwriter: Stephen Dyer, Jonah Lisa Dyer Producers: Sarah Curtis, Judy Cairo, Tracey Becker Executive produces: Michael A. Simpson, Eric Brenner, Ken Atchity, Sandra Siegel, Leo Joseph, Nathalie Joseph, Mark Kress, Hakan Kousetta, Claudia Blumhuber, Florian Dargel, Peter Fudakowski, Stephen Dyer Director of photography: Sean Bobbitt Production designer: Sophie Becher Music: Gast Waltzing Costume designer: Nic Ede Editor: Jon Gregory Sales: Elle Driver No rating, 99 minutes Toronto International Film Festival Hugh Dancy Maggie Gyllenhaal Rupert Everett

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Main Street

A Magnolia Pictures release of a 1984 Films presentation of an Anna Purna Prods. and Fixed Point Films production. Produced by Spencer Silna, Megan Ellison, Jonah Hirsch. Executive producers, Adi Shankar, Douglas Saylor Jr., Ted Schipper. Co-producer, Yvette Bikoff. Directed by John Doyle. Screenplay, Horton Foote.With: Ellen Burstyn, Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Wopat, Margo Martindale, Victoria Clark.Uneven performances, flat direction and an overall sense of narrative arbitrariness keep "Main Street" from being anything more than a minor footnote to the career of much-lauded playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote. Drawn from the final screenplay he wrote before his death in 2009 at age 92, this understated indie drama strikes dim echoes of Foote's earlier work, especially his "Orphan's Home" play cycle. But the frustratingly sketchy characters and relationships suggest the tragic possibility that Foote died before completing a satisfying final draft. After fleeting theatrical play, well-deserved obscurity awaits. Foote reportedly was approached to write "Main Street" in the first place by producers eager to jump-start North Carolina film production by financing a feature set in Durham. After accepting an invitation to visit the Bull City during an especially harsh economic downturn, Foote noted the abundance of abandoned warehouses once used to store tobacco -- and was inspired to concoct a scenario about a waste-storage company rep who offers to boost Durham's economy by stowing canisters of hazardous material in those warehouses. Gus Leroy (Colin Firth), a smooth-talking Texan, establishes a beachhead for his company in Durham by renting space owned by Georgiana Carr (Ellen Burstyn), the last member of a once-wealthy tobacco-manufacturing family. When she learns just what will be stored in her warehouse, however, Georgiana seeks help from her niece, Willa Jenkins (Patricia Clarkson), a feisty divorcee who's initially suspicious of Leroy. But in one of the pic's several plot developments that are simply announced rather than adequately dramatized, Willa quickly falls for the waste-company rep -- just as he's preparing to approach Durham town fathers about renting more space. Meanwhile, lovely twentysomething Mary Saunders (Amber Tamblyn) is determined to leave her fading hometown after a fling with her married boss (Andrew McCarthy). Police officer Harris Parker (Orlando Bloom), her former high-school sweetheart, still loves her and doesn't want her to go, but agrees to drive her to the airport. During the drive, however, they engage in what seems less like a conversation than a last-minute delivery of long-delayed (and mostly irrelevant) exposition. Here and elsewhere throughout "Main Street," conspicuous gaps in continuity, sudden shifts in character and curious lapses in logic indicate that either huge chunks of narrative were deleted by the three credited editors, or first-time feature helmer John Doyle (an award-winner on Broadway) simply wasn't up to the task of balancing and entwining diverse narrative threads. Oddly enough, no one onscreen ever acknowledges the obvious irony: Warehouses that may now be used to store dangerous merchandise not so long ago housed something equally deadly. Maybe Foote didn't want to offend his producers by raising the issue of tobacco-related deaths, or maybe this, too, is something that got left on the cutting-room floor. The actors struggle with Southern accents to varying degrees of success: Firth seems more comfortable as a Texan than Bloom does as a Carolinian, while both try to bring shadings of character to one-dimensional, stereotypical roles. Tech values, including the lensing of the normally reliable Donald M. McAlpine, are unremarkable.Camera (Deluxe color), Donald M. McAlpine; editors, Richard Francis Bruce, Neil Farrell, Trudy Ship; music, Patrick Doyle; production designer, Christopher Nowak; set decorator, James Ferrell; costume designer, Gary Jones; sound (Dolby Digital), Jeffree Bloomer; associate producers, Rob Shoaf, Sandy Freeman, David Sardi, Justin Hirsch, Joel Thomas; assistant director, David Sardi; casting, Bernard Telsey. Reviewed on VOD, Houston, Sept. 5, 2011. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 94 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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A Showtime presentation of the 2011 Documentary Partners production.Created by Ted Skillman, Belisa Balaban, Davis Guggenheim, John Celler.Executive producer, Paul McGuinness. Co-producer, Dork Diliberto. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.With:Bono, the advantage, Adam Clayton, Ray Mullen Junior., Daniel Lanois, John Eno, Anton Corbijn, Paul McGuinness, Willie Williams, Ton.Somewhat better still compared to real factor, that being U2's pivotal LP "Achtung Baby" from two decades ago, Davis Guggenheim's making-of-the-album docu "In the Sky Lower" takes an enjoyably novel method of rock stars recognized for their fine-updated items, concentrating on the awkwardly embryonic development of artistic and social elements that led to a vintage disc. Six several weeks in production, the pic comes off because the loose-limbed complete opposite of U2's debut docu, 1988's hagiographic "Rattle and Hum," whose failure, this guitar rock band people admit, sent them right into a proficiently painful shock. Showtime's March. 29 cablecast could easily get noisy. Given Guggenheim's chief status because the activist auteur of social-problem photos ("An Bothersome Truth," "Awaiting 'Superman'"), "In the Sky Lower" -- the very first docu ever to spread out the Toronto Film Festival -- surprises somewhat by never once acknowledging the well-promoted humanitarian efforts of bandleader Bono. Rather, the filmmaker shows all of U2's four people -- including guitarist the advantage, bass player Adam Clayton, and drummer Ray Mullen Junior. -- as creative organizations whose contrasting sensibilities circa 1991 threatened to dissolve the audience before amazingly coalescing into the kind of "One," referred to by Bono like a "bittersweet song about disunity." For that film, professional created through the band's manager, Paul McGuinness, U2 has opened up up not just its vaults -- resulting in a wide array of evocative archival video and sludgy audio tracks -- but additionally its with each other guarded reminiscences of the pre-"Achtung" period where the Berlin Wall's collapse assisted inspire a artistically liberated album while emphasizing the emotional obstacles the music artists had erected around themselves. Know-it-all fans will discover a few of the film's reports revelatory. The Advantage confesses the disc-closing "Love Is Blindness" sprang inelegantly in the discomfort of his marital divorce Mullen recounts his desire not to share sonic space having a drum machine Clayton confesses he, too, did not warm initially towards the band's experimental turn and Bono grants or loans that his recently stadium-filling supergroup had fallen far lacking its heroes within the Clash. Guggenheim demonstrates the purpose through late-1980s footage that captures the ponytailed rocker in Madonna mode, getting a backstage hissy fit on the stagehand's skipped signal. About the switch side, the U2 frontman also seems freer and more amusing than he frequently does, at some point acknowledging the important elements of his early 1990's "Fly" persona -- wraparound shades, sideburns, leather pants, etc. -- could've come packed inside a pharmacy rock-star package offered for $19.95. Actually, "Achtung Baby" itself was put together from spares, with dance-club music, aggro-rock and also the Edge's trademark ringing guitar all winding up within the final mix. "In the Sky Lower" conveys a similarly cobbled-together feel, its vintage footage and speaking-mind interviews coupled with animated moments -- most memorably one out of which legendary but lesser band people seem to fall like cheap card board cutouts -- and contempo images of U2 returning to its past in conversation and gratifaction. The docu culminates within an astonishing testing take of "One" that, consistent with the styles of both pic and song, highlights the first fumbling of person parts before uniting superbly. Tech-smart, the film's 2011 images sparkle, while its seem recording and mixing are not surprisingly excellent.Camera (color, HD), Erich Rolandeditors, Jay Cassidy, Geraud Brisson music, Michael Brook music administrators, John Houlihan, Cheryl Engels seem (Dolby Digital), Skip Lievsayanimation, Awesome + Modest visual effects, Entity Forex connect producers, Shan Lui, Samantha Kerzner. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (opener, Gala Presentations), Sept. 8, 2011. Running time: 86 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

John Galliano Charged of creating Anti-Semitic Comments

A Paris court charged former Christian Dior designer John Galliano on Thursday of creating anti-Semitic insults inside a bar but gave him merely a suspended sentence, considering his apology towards the sufferers.our editor recommends'Sex and also the City' Designer Patricia Area Releases 'In Praise Of John Galliano' StatementDior Boss Talks about John Galliano's 'Painful' Anti-Semitic Attack at Runway ShowJohn Galliano Apologizes for Anti-Semitic Rants, Faces Trial Galliano, who didn't attend the announcement from the verdict, was handed no prison time. He was handed a suspended &euro6,000 ($8,400) fine, meaning it continues his criminal history but he doesn't need to pay it. He was, however, purchased to pay for &euro16,500 ($23,200)in the court costs for that complainants - three people and five anti-racism associations - along with a symbolic &euro1 ($1.40) in damages to them. The Paris court found him responsible for "public insults according to origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" stemming from two separate occurrences in a Paris bar. The accusations captured cost Galliano his job in the luxury house and roiled the style world. Galliano stated he'd been intoxicated by alcohol and prescription medications at that time and couldn't can remember the occurrences under consideration. The judge stated a legal court found Galliano had "sufficient understanding of his act despite his addiction and the fragile condition." However the court also required into consideration he apologized towards the litigants throughout the June trial and noted the "values of tolerance" in the work. His lawyer, Aurelien Hamelle, known as it "a very strong sign in the court." Requested about Galliano's future plans, he stated that his client is "searching toward the near futureInch and "continues to look after themself." After 15 significantly acclaimed and in a commercial sense effective years at Dior, the intense Briton's brilliant career flamed out following a couple alleged he accosted them when they were getting a glass or two at Paris' stylish La Perle coffee shop on February. 24. Another lady soon came forward concentrating on the same claims in regards to a separate incident within the same coffee shop. Days later, the British tabloid The Sun's Rays published a relevant video showing a noticeably drunk Galliano insulting another coffee shop client, slurring: "I really like Hitler." Because the video went viral, Dior required quick and decisive action from the guy it had lengthy treated as icon, sacking Galliano days prior to the label's fall-winter 2011 runway show in March. Galliano was later also ousted from his eponymous label, also is possessed by Dior's parent company. At his daylong trial in June, Galliano was similar to a damaged, crumpled shadow of his once-inflated self. In extensive and frequently-moving testimony, Galliano was contrite and humble, telling the 3-judge panel he was sorry "for that sadness this whole affair has triggered." He stated he'd done a stint inside a rehab clinic in Arizona and was recuperating from destructive addictions to alcohol, sleeping pills and barbiturates - habits he attributed to the demands from the high-stakes fashion industry. Galliano - a 50-year-old who had been born Juan Carlos Galliano to some The spanish language mother within the British Iberian enclave of Gibraltar - declined any suggestion he was essentially racist, saying his multi-cultural-implanted work spoke by itself. He's culled inspiration for his extravagant, theatrical collections from cultures as far-flung as Kenya's Massai people and also the geishas of Japan. Related Subjects

Elizabeth Taylors Iconic Jewels Coming To Auction

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Elizabeth Taylor dazzled the world with her luminous beauty, lavish lifestyle and an unquenchable passion for diamonds and jewels that was fueled by the great loves of her life. The late Hollywood star amassed one of the foremost jewelry collections in the world, including a 33.19-carat diamond ring and a 16th century pear-shaped pearl from one of her seven husbands, Richard Burton. The Associated Press recently viewed about two dozen of her most iconic pieces at Christies auction house, which is selling her complete jewelry collection, valued at $30 million, in New York on Dec. 13-14. These are the top jewels that Elizabeth Taylor received from the great loves of her life, Mike Todd and Richard Burton, said Christies jewelry expert Rahul Kadakia. Theyre from moments in life that were very dear to her, jewels that were purchased in Bulgari in Rome, at Cartier in New York and at auction. The stories behind them are as priceless as the gems themselves. In a 2002 memoir, My Love Affair with Jewelry, Taylor took readers on a personal journey of her collection, describing in her own words how she came to own each piece. I never, never thought of my jewelry as trophies, she wrote. Im here to take care of them and to love them. . When I die and they go off to auction I hope whoever buys them gives them a really good home. Its an extraordinary collection of rubies, diamonds, emeralds and sapphires in intricate and bold designs. Among the standouts is the 16th-century La Peregrina, one of the largest and most symmetrically perfect pear-shaped pearls in the world, which Burton purchased for Taylor in 1969 as a Valentines Day gift. The two had met in Italy on the set of the 1963 film Cleopatra, and married for the first time in 1964. Once part of the Crown Jewels of Spain, the pearl later passed into the hands of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon III and the Duke of Abercorn. When it came up at auction in New York, Burton snapped it up for $37,000, beating out the underbidder, a member of the Spanish Royal family. Cartier later created a ruby and diamond necklace from which the pearl was suspended, a design that was inspired by the famous Velazquez portraits of Spains Queen Margarita and Queen Isabel wearing the pearl as a necklace. It is estimated to fetch $2 million to $3 million. Taylor, who was married eight times twice to Burton died in March at age 79. The couple appeared together in about a dozen films, including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in which Taylor played an alcoholic shrew in an emotionally sadomasochistic marriage. Burton was enamored of historical pieces, and in 1972 purchased the famous 17th-century Taj Mahal diamond pendant for Taylors 40th birthday. The transaction took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport because the couple didnt have time to run into the city before catching a plane, said Kadakia. The heart-shaped diamond is associated with one of historys greatest love stories. It belonged to Emperor Shah Jahangir, who had the diamond inscribed with his wifes name Nur Jahan. He later passed the stone on to his son, Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife Mumtaz, who died in childbirth. I would have liked to buy her the Taj Mahal but it would cost too much to transport, Burton remarked after buying it. Cartier later recreated the diamonds original silk cord as a gold rope-like necklace set with rubies and diamonds. The necklace has a pre-sale estimate of $300,000 to $500,000. Jewelry was a way of life for Elizabeth Taylor. They were her friends. She enjoyed wearing them and it gave her a lot of pleasure because they reminded her of the great moments in her life, the great places in her life, Kadakia said. Like the time Taylors third husband, theater and film producer Mike Todd, presented her with a red leather Cartier box as she sat by the pool at a rented villa in the south of France. Inside was a ruby necklace, matching earrings and bracelet. She was so, so happy that she jumped into the pool wearing all this jewelry and started doing laps, said Kadakia, adding that the pieces will be sold separately. One of the most extravagant gifts Taylor received from Burton was the asscher-cut 33.19-carat diamond set in a platinum ring. Known as the Elizabeth Taylor Diamond, Kadakia said its size and clarity as white as they can be and potentially flawless makes it a perfect gem. Burton purchased it in 1968 at a New York auction for $305,000. At the December sale, its expected to fetch $2.5 million to $3.5 million. Elizabeth Taylor used to refer to it as her baby and wore it as much and as often as she could, said Kadakia, including in nearly all her subsequent films. Among the pieces of jewelry that Taylor purchased for herself was the Duchess of Windsor diamond brooch, which she got at auction for $620,000. Kadakia said she paid a big price for it for two reasons, to remember her friend and because the proceeds were going to a cause dear to her, AIDS research. The brooch is estimated to bring $400,000 to $600,000. Eighty of the most iconic pieces will be sold on the evening of Dec. 13. The following day, 189 more gems will be sold. About 500 pieces of Taylors costume jewelry will be sold online at the same time. Christies also will be selling the stars haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion, accessories, 20th-century decorative arts and film memorabilia from her Bel Air home on Dec. 14-16. Details have not been released. Christies said the top 80 jewelry pieces will be shipped prior to the auction to Geneva, Paris, Hong Kong, Dubai and Los Angeles; many of them also will be shown in London and Moscow. Serious collectors will be able to try on the jewelry by appointment. The entire collection will be exhibited from Dec. 3-10 at Christies New York galleries. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition admissions and publications related to the sales will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. Proceeds from the auctions will go to Taylors estate. ___ Online: www.christies.com Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.