Eyegore Honours Start Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights

For horror fans, the region being Friday evening was Universal Art galleries Hollywood, which started its perennial Halloween Horror Nights having its Eyegore Honours. PHOTOS: Legendary Horror Movies The honours recognition people which make an impact in horror, even though finest underlying goal made an appearance being watching individuals who were connected using the roll-from the park's Horror Nights mazes. The Eyegores were given out in the beer hall atmosphere, among a Kids from the Corn décor where a bloody, monsterous scarecrow hanging in the heart of a cornfield carried out second blueberry to host Corey Feldman, wearing a black furry cape (he was known to as "actor, music artist and philanthropist"). The evening involved fun and bad jokes, and made an appearance to mostly celebrate horror fans, probably the most passionate inside the fanboy community. PHOTOS: Europe's Horror Fetish "Everybody know who Katherine Heigl is? Everybody psyched for Dolphin Tale a couple of days ago?Inch actor Rainn Wilson asked for everybody else while he recognized his award. (As illustration of how the honours work, Wilson have been honored for his be employed in 2003's House from the 1,000 Corpses, directed by horror favorite Make the most of Zombie, who presented and was debuting your evening his horror maze "Make the most of Zombie¹s House from the 1,000 Corpses: In 3d ZombieVision.") "I like horror fans. There's an excellent spontaneity and so they are lots of oddballs, at all like me,In . mentioned David Arquette, there for his be employed in the Scream movies (Scream 4 hits DVD and Blu-ray inside a couple of days there's furthermore a brand new maze good Scream franchise). Playing around the horror fans, Scream actor Jamie Kennedy needed the opportunity to skewer the present condition of vampires of the underworld from the underworld, ie, the Twilight neckbiters, finding humor in women fighting over androgynous model-types who sparkle. PHOTOS: Behind the curtain of 'Walking Dead' "The guy with people traits isn't trying to find you, ladies," Kennedy remarked. "He's trying to find your brother. Which he doesn't desire to suck his blood stream." In another jerk for the fanboy and Comic-Disadvantage culture, Kennedy mentioned "I realize essentially ever have very little else throughout my existence, I can look to Hillcrest and then sell 8x10s." Don¹t Hesitate in the Dark actress Bailee Madison, Emma Bell and Alice Cooper were also honored with Eyegores, but everything was prelude for the opening in the Horror Nights mazes. One of the better in the six mazes is "The Main One Factor: Assimilation," which, aside from delivering top quality scares, allows Universal to hype its approaching prequel for the 1982 John Contractor horror classic. The film opens October 14 as well as the maze, having its elaborate sets detailing an Antarctic research station under attack from an alien parasite, cannily enables the studio sneak preview story lines and thrills to people new to the 1982 movie. PHOTOS: 'Scream' Stars: 15 years Later Eli Roth created a maze version of his Hostel movies, "Eli Roth¹s Hostel: Hunting Season," possibly most likely probably the most nasty of mazes, which begins with fetching stars doing their utmost Slovakian accent tease while using male parkgoers ("travelers" in this maze¹s parlance) before they descend into the torture factory seen in Roth¹s movies. "1,000 Corpses" is an additional in the strong mazes, serving up scares for parkgoers who don 3d glasses. The 3 dimensional aspect serves to be able to increase a formerly tense atmosphere in addition to helps obscure the scare-minded stars hiding behind entrance doorways or possibly in corners of rooms. Another attraction, "Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Existence," takes Universal's famous studio tour and exclusively melds it while using maze concept. The conceit might be the film-within-a-movie (just like the Scream films) and involves being stalked by Scream¹s Ghostface Killer, among others. Riders can walk the hillside past the Psycho house (be cautious for Norman!), the Bates motel (see bloodied site visitors beg being saved) along with the plane crash set from Steven Spielberg's War in the Cell phone industry's (now populated with roaming zombies). The amount of occasions is it possible to say you are in a position to walk-via a studio lot similar to this? David Arquette Jamie Kennedy Corey Feldman Scream Rainn Wilson

Czech TV employs rival's topper

PRAGUE -- The board of pubcaster Czech TV has poached terrestrial rival TV Nova's topper since it's director inside a bid to modernize the org. Petr Dvorak, formerly gm from the country's first private station, TV Nova, has pledged to create fresh programming, along with a tyke funnel, CT3, throughout his six-year term, which begins March. 1. His plans won over board prexy Milan Uhde, who recognized Dvorak's vision and media acumen. Czech TV works four public channels, and money most films created within the Czech Republic. Dvorak co-founded the B.I.G. PR agency soon after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, after which grew to become an professional for PPF Group, a effective Czech corporation possessed by billionaire Petr Kellner. He rose up of Nova after his boss acquired a stake within the station via license holder CET 21. Dvorak, additionally a former professional at Central European Media Businesses, has held board positions in a major Czech insurance provider and also at the Slavia Prague team. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

VIDEO: Elijah Wood Challenges Dominic Monaghan to Hobbit vs. Hobbit Fight

Fantastic Fest’s annual Fantastic Debates pit filmmakers, critics, and celebrities against each other in a two-part battle that begins with a podium debate and ends with the ultimate showdown in the boxing ring. This year’s Debates, held Saturday night in Austin, Texas, will get even more fantastic than usual as Elijah Wood and Lord of the Rings pal Dominic Monaghan duke it out with some Hobbit vs. Hobbit fisticuffs. Watch their challenge videos after the jump! First, a wild-eyed Wood issues his challenge while training for the bout: “Where’s your Pippin now, bitch?” But wait! Charlie from LOST has a bold response: Well, good luck with that. (Their topic of debate? The merits of World of Warcraft.) Also debating (and brawling) in the Debates: Filmmaker brothers Nathan and David Zellner on the topic of robots vs. humans, an astrophysicist vs. a NASA hater arguing for and against the honor of NASA, and Fantastic Fest founder Tim League — who fought and defeated Michelle Rodriguez in last year’s Debates — fighting undefeated bare-knuckle fighter James Quinn McDonagh, the star of the documentary Knuckle. Watch more challenge videos over at Fandango. Fantastic Fest: Elijah Wood Fights Dominic Monaghan in Fantastic Debates, Check Out the Pre-Fight Videos [Fandango]

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Guns N' Roses Announces First U.S. Tour in 5 Years

Guns N' Roses is headed out on its first U.S. tour in 5 years.our editor recommendsAxl Rose Sues Activision for $20M for Including Slash in 'Guitar Hero' This guitar rock band introduced Wednesday, within 24 hours R.E.M. made its breakup official, that it'll start its fall trek beginning March. 28 in Orlando, FL before wrapping on Year's Eve. Just before the U.S. tour, Guns N' Roses will work in Latin America, first closing the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio p Janeiro, South america on March. 2. PHOTOS: Top Ten Greatest-Compensated Artists The approaching U.S. tour will have a two-and-a-30 minutes show, featuring this guitar rock band's hit tunes. Additionally to Orlando, the tour is scheduled to prevent at Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Nashville, Colorado and Indiana, simply to title a couple of metropolitan areas. Band people Axl Rose, DJ Ashba, Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Richard Fortus, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Chris Pitman and Frank Ferrer carried out 71 shows this past year in additional than 30 nations. PHOTOS: The Background Music Industry's Greatest Givers Axl Rose created Guns N' Roses in 1985 and also have since offered a lot more than 100 million albums worldwide. This guitar rock band's latest album, Chinese Democracy, first showed at No. 3 around the Billboard 200 charts and was licensed platinum within the U.S. More dates and metropolitan areas is going to be introduced shortly. This is actually the complete list right now: March 28 Orlando, FL @ Amway Center Arena March 29 Miami, FL @ American Air carriers Arena March 31 Greenville, SC @ Bi-Lo Center Arena November 2 Atlanta, GA @ Phillips Arena Houston, Texas November 5 Dallas, Texas @ Gexa Energy Pavillion Omaha, NE Tulsa, OK November 12 Might, MO @ Sprint Center Arena November 13 Ontario, MN @ Target Center Arena Chicago, IL @ All Condition Arena East Rutherford, NJ Hartford, CT Wilkes-Barre, PA Worcester, MA Camden, NJ Detroit, MI Cincinnati, OH Nashville, TN Indiana, IN Colorado, CO Related Subjects

The Wood

John Viscardi is a reporter who exposes police brutality against immigrant Vladimir Versailles. Melanie Charles is the victims wife. A Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Dan Klores. Directed by David Bar Katz. Justin Volpe - Michael Carlsen Micheline Louima - Melanie Charles Tommy - David Deblinger Alice McAlary - Kim Director Abner Louima - Vladimir Versailles Mike McAlary - John ViscardiDocumentary filmmaker Dan Klores brings a cinematic eye to "The Wood," his reverential bio-dram about Mike McAlary, the muckraking NYC newspaper columnist who won a Pulitzer in 1998 for his sensational expose of police brutality against Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. Episodic and unfocused in its overlong first act, show pulls itself together in act two for some tough scenes between Louima and McAlary, who would die of cancer at 41, the year after he won his Pulitzer. The material has power, but the whole structure of the piece needs overhauling to make a real impact. Two solid perfs from John Viscardi (as McAlary) and Vladimir Versailles (as Louima) and nice backup from Kim Director and Melanie Charles (as their respective wives) give ballast to the jumpy production helmed by David Bar Katz. Viscardi nails both the journalistic hunger that made McAlary such a tenacious news hound and that attitude of compassion and understanding that made people trust him with their deepest secrets. He's also winning when McAlary addresses the audience directly to reveal a passion for cutthroat journalism, a sense of justice that made him a "superhero for the working class," and an ego the size of a house. Versailles is most sympathetic in the hospital scenes in which a badly beaten Louima bares his humiliation and pain to the reporter who would splash his story on the front page of the Daily News. He also establishes great rapport with Charles, so touching as Louima's distraught wife. But it takes an unendurable length of time before Louima comes out of the shadows to focus McAlary's attention and point the play in a dramatic direction. Until then, Klores relies on a series of sketchy scenes -- written in no consistent style and performed the same way -- to fill in McAlary's backstory and flesh out the character of this driven man, so competitive that he would skip chemotherapy to chase down a news tip. There may be a good play in here somewhere, but right now it's a jumble of bits and pieces waiting for the rewrite desk.Sets, John McDermott; costumes, Kalere A. Payton; lighting, Joel Moritz; sound, Janie Bullard; projections, Steve Channon; production stage manager, Jamie Wolfe. Opened Sept. 15, 2011. Reviewed Sept. 14. Running time: 2 HOURS, 10 MIN.With: Thomas Kopache and Sidney Williams Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Horror Thriller Silk Nabbed For Remake

Ghost child alert!You might not think that the three writers who cranked out the script for 2010 Halle Berry drama Frankie & Alice are the ideal people to adapt Silk, a chilling Taiwanese tale of a dead child and the driven scientist who captures his energy in an old apartment building, for Western audiences, but Gold Circle Films disagrees. The company 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 scientist using his new invention, the Menger Sponge, to capture the essence of a vengeful ghost child. Employing the services of a lip-reading detective to discover why the spooky sprog's energy is still so powerful, they eventually figure out that the poor lad's mother killed the tumour-ridden tot and buried him near a nuclear plant. Naturally, things go scare-shaped from there. According to the Heat Vision Blog, Gold Circle plans to have the writing trio forge a new path beyond the basic concept. The producers aren't letting any real details slip yet, though the idea is to blend Michael Crichton with The Sixth Sense. So expect a similar story of technology meeting the supernatural and very bad things happening. There's no word on any casting or a director being hired yet, but it's still early days....

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Barrymore

A Steve Kalafer and Peter LeDonne presentation from the Barrymore Entertainment production. (Worldwide sales: Film Sales Co., NY.) Produced by Garth H. Drabinsky. Executive producers, Kalafer, LeDonne, Kevin Albrecht, Christopher Plummer, Gene Saks. Directed, put together by Erik Canuel, modified within the follow William Luce.With: Christopher Plummer, John Plumpis.A serviceable screen record in the (essentially) one-guy show Christopher Plummer remains undertaking since its premiere in 1996, "Barrymore" is certainly the enjoyable spectacle of just one great actor needing to pay tribute to another. Yet William Luce's easily digestible assemblage of John Barrymore's quips, anecdotes and self-criticisms has not been a particularly inspired vehicle, and author-director Erik Canuel's adaptation probably was not ever an chance of transcending its shot-play limits, particularly as this piece happens situated on the stage. Despite wishful-thinking Toronto buzz inside the veteran Canuck thesp's award prospects, this exercise has "quality tv producersInch written throughout it. A fictive device posseses an enfeebled Barrymore (Plummer) leasing a theater one evening to coach for just about any backer's audition of "Richard III," a past personal triumph he hopes can help to save his career within the depths of self-parody. Everyone knows, however, he'll not live to look for the entire year (1942) out. Tippling and grandstanding for the benefit of nobody but themselves together with a extended-suffering prompter (John Plumpis, frequently heard but never fully seen), "the fantastic Profile" muses fleetingly on his many close ties, laureled thespian siblings and siblings, abusive backstage upbringing, etc. He sings Container Pan Alley tunes, does imitations (W.C. Fields, Louella Parsons), and extremely every once in awhile recalls to declaim a kind of Shakespeare. Plummer socks all this finished great gusto, reveling in the shameless show-off's compulsive need to entertain (possibly first of all themselves), while letting the not-infrequent moments of pathos slip through with impact but no heavy-handed emphasis. It's a method of calculating the actor's craft that particular doesn't feel it's the millionth time he's carried out this role, but rather, it is the millionth time Barrymore has vocally tap-danced to leave their very own self-loathing. However, the material itself features a formulaic solo-bioplay rhythm neither artist nor director can fully elude. Canuel ("Bon Cop, Bad Cop") sometimes tries too difficult to jazz some misunderstanding through editing or getting a mute visual flashback. But typically, the pic has precisely the benefits and limitations in the stage piece, whose original collaborators are thanked to conclude credits, with design contributions noted as "according toInch their legit antecedents. Tech package is polished, though "Barrymore" will ultimately look most in your house round the smallscreen.Camera (color, HD), Bernard Couture editor, Jean-Francois Bergeron music, Michel Corriveau production designer, Cameron Porteous. Examined at Toronto Film Festival (Mavericks), Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 84 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Emmys up a tick in demos

The Primetime Emmy Honours telecast on Fox demonstrated no rankings match for Michael Vick's go back to Atlanta on NBC's "Sunday Evening Football," however the kudocast did eke out slight rankings gains in key youthful-adult demo groups.Based on preliminary national estimations from Nielsen that contain viewing for that early West Coast airings, the 63rd Primetime Emmy Honours on Fox averaged a 4.2 rating in grown ups 18-49 and 12.4 million audiences overall from 8 to 11. Though lower about a million total audiences from last year's late-August telecast on NBC -- for among the show's cheapest overall earnings on record -- the Emmys were up a tick versus. this past year both in 18-49 and 18-34 within the latter category, it had been the very best in 4 years.At NBC last evening, the Atlanta Falcons' 35-31 victory within the Philadelphia Eagles, in Vick's first game like a starter against his former team, averaged a large 9.2/22 in 18-49 and 21.5 million audiences overall on NBC's stations from 8:30 to 11 these amounts are required to increase within the excellent. In Nielsen's metered-market overnights, the overall game averaged a 15.7 household rating/25 share , up 3% over last year's Week 2 game between your NY Titans and Indiana Colts (15.2/24). The taking part metropolitan areas came similarly huge amounts, with Atlanta garnering a 33.6/50 and Philadelphia a 33.5/49. CBS had good circulation to begin the evening by having an National football league overrun, however the aud rapidly spread either to football or even the Emmys. ''60 Minutes,'' airing from about 7:30 to eight:30 p.m. in much of the nation, averaged roughly a couple.6/7 in 18-49 and 11.4 million audiences overall. It had been then two repeats of ''The Good Wife'' after which ''CSI: Miami.'' ABC broadcast repeats of ''America's Funniest Home Videos'' (1.2/3 in 18-49, 5.4 million audiences overall), ''Extreme Transformation: Home Edition'' (1.3/3 in 18-49, 4.7 million audiences overall) and ''20/20: The Sixth Sense'' (1.4/3 in 18-49, 5.a million audiences overall).Preliminary 18-49 earnings for that evening: NBC, 7.4/19 Fox, 3.6/9 CBS, 2.1/5 ABC, 1.3/3.As a whole audiences: NBC, 17.8 million Fox, 10.4 million CBS, 8.7 million ABC, 5.a million. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Global Showbiz Briefs: Scotland, Uk, India

American Author In Your Thoughts Edinburgh Film Festival Chris Fujiwara has already established overleadership in the festival inside a critical juncture. Thatfact was underlined by today’s newsthat the primary executive in the festival’s parent body, Gavin Burns,had resigned. The first sort BBC marketing executive was rocked with the resignation of previous artistic director Hannah McGill together with a 2011 edition in the fest in June that was short on funding, premieres and star energy. Fujiwaratold The Scotsman he was “well aware” in the critique flattened within the festival this summer season. “Edinburgh is clearly a festival that's handling a transitional phase,” he mentioned, “but meaning there's an opportunity for positive change and tomake an authentic difference.” Fujiwara mentioned it absolutely was almost certain the next festival would keep remain inJune,rather than returning to its traditional August slot. U.K. Director Could Make Hollywood Debut on ‘Offworld’ Producer Lloyd Levin (United states . 93, Watchmen) has signed on British director Julian Gilbey (A Lonely Place To Die) for his sci-fi film Offworld. “It’s a kind of an intergalactic Naked Prey,” Levintold the U.K. film blog Empire, “a pedal-to-the-metal safari movie set by having an alien planet. There’s lots of nasty creatures, occurrences where concerning the good males’ side.” American David Leslie Manley (Wrath In The Leaders, TV’s The Walking Dead) is writing the script. Indian Studio WillDo Double-Duty As Tourist Destination India’s 33-year-old Film City –known in your town as Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagar– will receive a facelift, a Bollywood museum and become a tourist destination. The regional Maharashtra government has made a decision to upgrade the 520-acre home of 16 art galleries with condition-of-the-art facilities. Its a ongoing process and may require sometime before it'll get implemented,” a film City representative referred to to have an Indian film blog. Among films that recently shot there is a Indian blockbuster Bodyguard, Ready and Devdas.

Ask Matt: The Closer, Damages, New Girl, Pan Am and More!

Kyra Sedgwick Send questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter!Question: I was wondering what you thought of the civil suit arc on The Closer this season. It's an interesting juxtaposition of morality on the one hand, and rooting for the characters on the other. It also shows all the different shades of grey in the law. If I heard about an incident in real life where police just dropped off someone in a neighborhood when they thought s/he would be killed, I'd be appalled. Yet I understand these characters' motives in this case, like all of them, and want to be on their side. The part of this arc I do love is Mark Pellegrino as Brenda's lawyer Gavin. I love the character and the nuances Pellegrino brings to playing him. Having only seen Pellegrino previously on Lost, and noting how different Gavin is from Jacob, I really appreciate what a fine actor he is. He deserves his own show. Unlike most of the other lawyer shows in recent years on TNT or USA, which I've skipped, I'd definitely watch a show centered around this character with this actor. - MyraMatt Roush: I'm not sure I'd want to see an entire series built around Pellegrino's flamboyant lawyer - some things are better in small doses - but he is undeniably a hoot, giving a most unexpected performance given his past work (although there was plenty of sly humor in his portrayal of Lucifer on Supernatural). I've enjoyed this summer's season of The Closer, and the lawsuit arc is a big part of the reason. It was such an outrageous thing for Brenda to do, even to a cold killer who deserved it, and few things are more compelling on a long-running show than to see a sympathetic hero deal with consequences for a bad act. She has tortured herself over this long enough that we can't help but root for her, and the conflict has tested many of her relationships within the unit, which is all to the dramatic good. I would like to see it resolved, so the final batch of episodes next year can concentrate on sending this terrific character out on a high.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Question: As Damages winds down its terrific fourth season for DirecTV, I have to wonder what the bar is for their measuring its success, given that ratings are obviously going to be rather limited on a subscriber-exclusive network. I know it was renewed for Seasons 4 and 5 at the same time, so we'll be getting another round no matter what, but what happens to the show then? How exactly does DirecTV quantify its success in order to determine if Season 6 is worth pursuing? If they decide to wrap it after Season 5, I hope the producers will at least be told this in advance so that they can plan out a great final arc for it. Also: iTunes has posted the full New Girl pilot for free, which I watched based on your enthusiasm for it and love. It's the first new fall show I'll be adding to my lineup this year, so thanks for that. I was a little surprised to see it go online so early, though, since it hasn't even aired yet. What is the business thinking behind that decision? It seems like this might have an averse effect on the numbers. - JakeMatt Roush: With Damages, I'm not sure how it's doing ratings-wise in DirecTV's universe. It has been a strong season creatively, and this week's finale is very satisfying. (Can't wait for non-subscribers to get a chance to see it.) For DirecTV, the Damages buy was a calculated step in its brand enhancement, putting another acclaimed but perennially low-rated show on their lineup to get the industry and a part of the TV audience talking. I'm assuming the next season will be the last, as DirecTV is now aiming to develop more original shows of its own, and I'd expect the producers to tie things up (unlike the tease of future conflicts this season ends on) even if they ultimately leave it open-ended just in case - because there's no reason to box these characters in. I was surprised (and grateful) when Damages got this two-season extension, but I'd be even more surprised if it went beyond that. A five-season run is pretty good, all things considered. Regarding the New Girl strategy, what you have to understand is the main challenge this time of year for network programming is for shows to get sampled. Opening night numbers aren't as critical for every TV show, if you can get word-of-mouth going as soon as possible and get early adapters - the type of people willing to go online to watch a show - on board. If this iTunes strategy gets more people talking about a show that already has a fairly high awareness and want-to-see factor, or so I've been told, then this will be seen as a win-win. And it's not like they're putting the entire season online before it airs.Question: I have been teetering back and forth as to whether Pan Am deserves space on my DVR. Matt, I know you are the guru of TV, but I'm not sure if you are familiar with a show called Mile High, which I believe ran for two seasons on the BBC. I found this show quite funny and entertaining minus a couple hard-to-understand accents. It seems that Pan Am is very similar to Mile High, but will never get away with some of the things that Mile High did. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. - JeffreyMatt Roush: I'm not acquainted with Mile High - if the shows don't actually get imported to the U.S., I really don't have time to sample others' wares, much as I'd like - but from the way you describe it, it sounds a lot more outrageous than is Pan Am's intent. Pan Am is a nostalgic '60s period piece with a rather earnest approach to its soapy storytelling. I like it well enough to be recommending it in our Fall Preview issue - on stands now - and I love the way it looks, but it's purely escapist programming, not trying to push the envelope (at least not yet), so gauge your expectations accordingly.Question: Just wondering what is happening with Combat Hospital as the first season is ending. I didn't really think I would like it, and it started out a bit unevenly, but once they started focusing more on all the characters (rather than so heavily on Rebecca), it got better. I especially liked the episode when Colonel Marks and his friend were injured by an IED and they had to make a decision about who to save (his friend or a family brought into the hospital at the same time). Do you know if it has been renewed or is likely to be? I must say that I have really enjoyed TV this summer, with Curb Your Enthusiasm, Louie, Breaking Bad, True Blood, etc; I wish the fall looked as promising. - DawnMatt Roush: I wish I could give you a promising answer. Combat Hospital hasn't been renewed yet, and given that its summer run was cut an episode short, it isn't likely to be. The ratings were weak and it didn't have much critical or media buzz, so that's a pretty fatal combination. You're right, though, that much of this summer of TV has been a rush.Question: I have several questions about the future of some of the summer series, mostly on the major networks. They tend to be more fickle, and spend the summer just "burning off" shows, so it's hard to tell their future. I've really enjoyed Flashpoint, and I know you wrote earlier that there was some confusion about its future on CBS. Will it be back, and if so, has anything cleared up about on what network? Next: Friday Night Lights. THAT is how to do a series finale. Excellent show! I had one question, though, and none of my friends seems to know either: Who's the new head coach of the Dillon Panthers? They showed Billy Riggins on the field, but he's too "green," I'd think, to take the top spot. And that damn-fool Buddy Garrity driving around in a golf cart. No way he's a coach. Good as a booster and fundraiser, but certainly not a coach. So was this a kind of "teaser" for the rumored movie/sequel? It certainly wasn't at all clear. Finally, The Glades' season finale was great (love the show!), but I was worried that it all seemed too happy, no cliff-hanger. A&E is one of those networks I find hard to read on what's been renewed. What are you hearing about it? - KathyMatt Roush: Flashpoint has finished its run on CBS for now, but will be airing this fall on affiliates of the ION network. Not sure what the mix will be between new and old episodes, and can't say if CBS will pick it up again. For the time being, figure you'll be watching it on ION. And with Friday Night Lights, I haven't a clue who's now coaching at Dillon. I was so caught up in the Taylors' story, and so gratified at their safe landing elsewhere, that it didn't really occur to me to ask. (Thoughts? Go to comments.) As much as I loved the show to the end, I honestly hope they scratch the idea of a movie sequel. It ended perfectly, beautifully. Let it be. And while A&E hasn't officially renewed The Glades for a third season as far as I know, I'll be surprised if it's dropped. A&E is still building its inventory of scripted dramas, and this enjoyable show provides a solid foundation.Question: The Rescue Me finale was fantastic! I liked how Lou's letter was explaining how the whole "group" needs to stay together, and at the end you see that while Tommy was talking to the probies. Another great series gone with a great finale, and that does not come together often! (For Example, Heroes or The X-Files.) Any word on Denis Leary's next TV series he will either work or produce on? - MikeMatt Roush: The last I heard, Denis Leary was working on adapting the British series Sirens, about irreverent paramedics (sounds perfect), as a half-hour project for USA Network, which is looking to vary its programming a bit. Couldn't agree more about the Rescue Me finale, which I found very satisfying - and even more so when I went to FX's screening last week in the company of some of FDNY's finest, who loved it.Question: I'm beginning to feel like every TV show is becoming an infomercial with their blatant product placement. I'm a huge fan of the TNT and USA summer shows, but find it a little distracting when a cast member is sharing the benefits of a product smack dab in the middle of an episode. Case in point, Jill (Royal Pains) having her Prius self-park on the streets of Manhattan. Another example is lab assistant Daniel (The Glades) walking around munching on a bag of Reese's Pieces. I've even noticed that House Hunters has jumped on this annoying bandwagon with frequent close-ups of a Chevy Traverse driven by the realtor, including zooming in on the Chevrolet logo, as well as the many bells and whistles it offers. I'm pretty sure that not every realtor across the U.S. is driving a Traverse. I hope that with the large dollars my favorite shows are receiving for this annoying new trend, it will help to save costs and keep them on the air. What do you think of this new advertising ploy? - TracieMatt Roush: Some do it better than others. Even a show like The Closer can get clumsy about it, as in a recent episode where they were all passing Twizzlers around the office as they observed an interrogation. (Now if it had been limited to Brenda, given her candy fixation, it might have felt more organic.) Following that scene with an ad for the same project felt like overkill, and I'm not sure that's a good thing for a sponsor. But you seem to acknowledge the reality that these kinds of deals are helping cover the high production costs for many series - and this is really nothing new in reality-type shows - so I have come to accept it as a necessary evil and the price of doing business, especially at a time when technology conspires to allow many of us to avoid watching the actual ads themselves. They've got to pay for this stuff somehow.Question: Lifetime announced that Army Wives would be returning for a sixth season in the "winter of 2012" - but, though fans continue to ask, Lifetime has not clarified (on the Army Wives homepage or Facebook page) whether winter 2012 refers to this coming January/February, or November/December 2012. I feel like it makes a huge difference if they are referring to the latter (as that's a really big gap in between seasons), so I can't understand why they aren't specifying. Moreover, it seems strange that they would announce that a season would return during the winter. Isn't it more common for networks to classify a series' return as having a projected spring, summer or fall return? Did Lifetime choose to announce a "winter" return because they haven't decided when they are going to air the sixth season? Do you have any information regarding any of this? - CareyMatt Roush: I'm confused by your confusion, although I will concede that cable scheduling can be very confusing, especially for shows like this where the network has shifted its start date from summer to spring from season to season with little consistency. But the truth is that Lifetime hasn't yet set a premiere date - there are any number of strategic factors involved in scheduling at various times of the year - so they have nothing yet to tell fans or even the occasional inquiring journalist. Also, it's hardly unusual for shows to launch during the winter, though it's less likely for a show to air its regular season during the holiday weeks of November and December, so if the show does return in the winter, I'd put odds on it being in the first quarter of 2012.Question: What a wonderful job you do. I so look forward to reading your column every Monday. I have several questions, hope you can answer all of them. This past weekend I did a marathon watch of Alphas and Against the Wall. Really liked both shows and I was not expecting too much for either one. Alphas' pilot episode was not that great and I almost did not watch any more of them, then gave it a chance and it kept improving each week. What is the status on this show? Now, Against the Wall was really good, I like it much better than Alphas. Have you heard anything on this show? Oh, and one last show that I have been watching is The Protector with Ally Walker. Love this show, so nice to see her back on TV. I have always thought that she is such a natural actress. Thank goodness for these networks that give us something to watch during the summer instead of reality shows. - BobbieMatt Roush: Well, thank you. Here's the good and bad news. Alphas has been renewed for a second season, which was not a surprise. It's too early to tell for Against the Wall. But it's curtains for The Protector, which has been canceled and won't return once it finishes its current first-season run. I'm a fan of Ally Walker, but felt that show never lived up to her abilities and was just too ordinary to ever break out.Question: Is it possible that those who found the season finale of Bones a sham is because one episode has Bones on the bed being comforted by Booth and the next Bones tells Booth she is pregnant and he is the father? It seems to me that people fail to remember that episodes are not day-to-day events but have time frames that could span a week or months. If one kept close watch, the clues were there. So please, Matt, tell Hart Hanson that even though most fans wanted an obvious romance with some bed time, it was done well and we are looking forward to a great new season. My question is this: How much attention do producers give to the expectations of loyal fans such as myself and thousands of others who wanted Bones and Booth together? Also: I have always wondered what does the term spoilers really mean. And I saw a picture of Bones and Booth with them holding a baby and it said it's a girl! Is that true! - AnneMatt Roush: Consider Hart Hanson told. It's not like he hasn't heard it all. I'm not particularly keen on stoking this controversy again - they've established the relationship, do we really need to see the deed? - but I will say that producers of shows like Bones tend to always be aware of fan reaction. Hanson is a very active, and reactive, tweeter, for what that's worth. But it's their show to develop as they please, and to tell their stories on their own timetable with their own priorities, and that's the way it should be. I'd be as upset thinking fans were calling the creative shots as if network and studio executives were meddling more than they should. 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Postcard from Venice: Soderbergh's Contagion - Catch the Fever! But Try Chicken with Plums at Your Own Risk

After the freshness and deceptive simplicity of their debut, the 2007 animated feature Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Poulet aux Prunes — or Chicken with Plums — showing in competition here, is something of a disappointment. The cast isn’t the problem: The movie stars Mathieu Amalric as an embittered musician living in late-1950s Tehran, and Maria de Medeiros as his beleaguered but adoring wife; Chiara Mastroianni has a tiny part, and the fine Moroccan-born actor Jamel Debbouze appears in small dual roles. But the material just doesn’t resonate, as Persepolis did. Persepolis was based on Satrapi’s marvelous graphic memoir of growing up in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution, a straightforward, bracing and funny piece of work that lent itself beautifully to the elegance of black-and-white animation. Chicken with Plums is a live-action film (based on another of Satrapi’s graphic novels from 2004), and Satrapi and Paronnaud aren’t as surefooted with this medium. But more significantly, neither the story nor the characters give us enough to hold onto. They’re storybook figures rather than people we can really come to care about, and in some cases, their behavior is so bad that it’s hard to feel much sympathy for them at all. Amalric plays Nasser-Ali, a formerly great violinist who no longer has the will to play, partly because he can’t find the right instrument. But the greater issue, we learn, is that years ago he lost the love of his life, a woman named, quite symbolically, Irne. Now he’s married to Medeiros’s Faranguisse, who has borne him two children and who cares for him deeply. But after suffering years of verbal abuse and neglect, even she has reached the end of her rope. Chicken with Plums takes place in the eight days before Nasser-Ali’s death, and tells the story of his rather miserable life. Some of his suffering you can buy — this is Mathieu Amalric we’re talking about, an actor who, particularly in the movies made by Arnaud Desplechin, has shown a knack for playing flawed, troubled, jittery characters that are nevertheless easy to connect with. But Nassir-Ali comes off mostly as a spoiled, bitter complainer — and, as his wife reminds him, he does moon around the house all day while she has to go out to work and take care of the family. Lost love or no, Nassir-Ali has simply never made a go at life. What’s more, the filmmaking here is stylized and aggressively whimsical, reminiscent of the filmmaking of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director of the wonderful A Very Long Engagement and the far less wonderful Amelie). There’s some too-cute magic realism going on here, as when Nassir-Ali dreams of Sophia Loren and we see a giant pair of brassiere-clad breasts moving toward him, just inviting him to bury his face in there. There’s a faint air of melancholy hovering over Chicken with Plums, and while that aura shouldn’t be heavier, it could be better defined. The metaphor embedded in the story — the idea of one’s home country as a lost lady love — is a basic and potentially potent one. Does it really need to be cutesified? Stephen Soderbergh’s epidemic thriller Contagion, showing out of competition here at the festival, is a forthright, effective piece of filmmaking, even if it’s front-loaded so that most of its power (and its horror) is clustered in the first third. I won’t go into too much detail here, as my colleague Alison Wilmore will be here with a full review when the movie opens next week. But I will say that I was surprised by how eerily suspenseful the picture is, beginning with its image of a sniffly, sickly-looking Gwyneth Paltrow, en route to her home in Minneapolis after a business trip to Hong Kong — she looks like she’s got something that she won’t be able to kick with a few doses of DayQuil, and boy, does that turn out to be the case. Soderbergh has assembled a cast of biggies here, including Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Matt Damon (who has a moment early in the picture that’s off the charts, an expression of grief so elemental that it nearly derails the movie). But Soderbergh also does well by some other terrific actors who haven’t had any major roles of late, including Jennifer Ehle as a take-charge researcher and Elliott Gould in a small but heroic turn. Gould got the biggest laugh I’ve heard at the festival this year, when he shoos away a semi-crackpot blogger played by Law: “Blogging isn’t writing,” he says. “It’s graffiti with punctuation.” That line was tailor-made for an audience of old-school professional journalists and critics — many of whom, out of necessity, blog for their outlets as well. We’re wrestling with our own epidemic, but at least we can laugh about it. Read more of Stephanie Zacharek’s 2011 Venice Film Festival coverage here.