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Montana reserved d.p.'s Mathias Herndl on David Frazee's "Borealis," Christopher Norr on Scott Derrickson's "Sinister," Bing Sokolsky on TNT's "Franklin & Party," Philip Robertson on Louis Morneau's "The Wolfman" and Ron Mcguire on Nickelodeon movie "Hugely Movie" first AD's Annie Berger on FX's "Justified," Jay Tobias on NBC's "The Playboy Club" (now cancelled) and Richard Patrick on CBS' "Memorable" production designers David Blass on "Justified," Kara Lindstrom on Malik Bader's "Crush," Lara Ballinger on HBO's "VEEP" and Brandy Alexander on tv Land's "Outdated at 35" costume designers Pamela Withers Chilton around the best spinner's pilot "Males in the office,In . Lynn Falconer on Scott Walker's "The Frozen Ground" and Simonetta Mariano on David Twohy's "The Tales of Riddick: Dead Guy Stalking" and editors Ken Eluto on NBC's "30 Rock," Todd Ramsay on Rustam Branaman's "The Culling," Debra Weinfeld on USA's "Common Law" and Pam Wise on Eddie Chung's "Condors." * * * iTalent bookings: editors Kent Beyda on Andy Fickman's "Us & Them," Jamie Gross on ABC's "Apartment 23" and Gregg Featherman on ABC's "Pan Am" costume designer Johnetta Boone on Tyler Perry's "The Marriage Counselor" production designer Michael Gallenberg on ABC's "Are You Currently Presently There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea" and makeup artists Michelle Buhler on NBC's "Phantom," Tarra Day on Kim Ji-Woon's "The Ultimate Stand" and Linda Dowds on Andres Muscietti's "Mama." Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com

Pittman upped at Clear Channel

Helen Hunt, Aaron Paul (''Breaking Bad'') and Maggie Grace have joined the cast of indie drama-comedy ''Decoding Annie Parker'' opposite Samantha Morton in the title role and Christina Hendricks. Filming is set to begin later this month in Los Angeles ''Decoding'' is directed by Steven Bernstein from a script he co-wrote with Adam Bernstein. The story centers on the irrepressible Parker, a breast-cancer patient who stops at nothing to solve the mystery behind her illness, despite the beliefs of the medical establishment. ''Decoding'' is produced by Clark Peterson, Stuart Ross, Keith Kjarval, Mary Vernieu and Ron Senkowski. Jonathan Brownlee and Sahil Chanana are exec producing. Project originated with Steven Bernstein and Clark Peterson and is based on a true story. The production has received the state of California's tax credit incentive, one of 27 named in June for the third year of the program -- aimed at preventing production companies from moving their projects, jobs and spending out of the Golden State.. ''Decoding'' is the feature directing debut for Bernstein, who was the cinematographer on ''Monster'' and ''Like Water for Chocolate.'' Bernstein and Peterson collaborated on ''Monster'' and several other projects. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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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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