Source: Lindsay Lohan To Appear In Playboy

First Launched: October 24, 2011 11:15 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium La, Calif. -- Caption Lindsay Lohan is spotted within the Givenchy aftershow party at LArc in Paris on October 2, 2011 Lindsay Lohan has arranged a completely new gig just like a Playboy girl. LiLo is showing up for Hugh Hefners Playboy magazine, an origin told Access Hollywood. The foundation told Access Lohan is disrobing for your spread, that's being shot now in LA. Meanwhile, Lohans other gig is community service. The actress remains bought to get 16 several hours of community service within the La Coroners Office before her next hearing on November. 2, where spend face the music activity carrying out a judge ruled she violated her probation. She already completed one alternation in the Coroners Office last Friday. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Mountaintop' starts to climb

Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett starrer The Mountaintop carried out to 94% of capacity.Broadway play "The Mountaintop" has began a potential ascent hands strikes office levels, climbing continuously in the frame when a lot of the Primary Stem ongoing to become flat. The Angela Bassett-Samuel L. Jackson starrer "Mountaintop" ($789,727), which opened up up March. 13 with a mixed bag of reviews, rose by about $130,000 and carried out close to 94% of capacity. Among plays, that puts "Mountaintop" second only to "War Equine" ($985,848), the Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center Theater hit that has consistently been near cracking the $millions of mark since it opened up up in the year. A few of the Rialto's previewing plays also released increases, although nearly all people boosts may be credited that people plays elevated the quantity of performances they carried out the other day for the standard eight. Still, "Other Desert Urban centersInch ($450,599), up 35% compared to some prior frame throughout the show only carried out six perfs, is constantly impress, specifically if this involves attendance, which now showed up at greater than 98% of capacity. Meanwhile, one-act trio "Relatively Speaking" ($691,942), which opened up up March. 20, walked up somewhat despite accommodating press tickets together with a comp-heavy opening evening. Previewing tuner "Godspell" ($321,760) also went from six perfs to eight the other day, producing it about 20% greater than the final frame and getting in auds at 89% of capacity. "Venus in Fur" ($236,482) knocked up from five previews to eight, while "Chinglish" ($321,469) -- which opens Thursday -- upticked within the third days time round the boards. Up inside the top, "Follies" ($974,421) fell in the millionaires' club but nevertheless released abnormally high tallies for just about any Sondheim musical, while "It of Mormon" ($1,346,815) ongoing to tug in heavenly amounts at one of the Rialto's smaller sized tuner houses. Almost all Broadway productions barely budged, with lots of sales fluctuations unremarkable together with a few close to imperceptible. Cume rose a little $200,000 to $21.5 million for 26 shows round the boards. Attendance walked up slightly to 232,997, or 88%, well while watching 79% drenched throughout the identical frame a year ago. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Minnie Driver Signs Talent Cope With ABC

EXCLUSIVE: Minnie Driver has signed a talent cope with ABC to star inside a half-hour a treadmill-hour work for the network specific for next fall. The offer is made inside a competitive situation, because the actress seemed to be went after to have an NBC pilot. Earlier this season, Driver toplined CBS drama pilot Hail Mary. Driver, repped by CAA and Untitled, formerly starred on FXs The Riches and recurred on NBCs Will & Sophistication. She gained an Oscar nomination permanently Will Hunting as well as an Emmy nom for that Riches.

Jesse Jackson Contract Demand: No Michael Jokes

Jesse Jackson doesn't desire to hear jokes about her brother Michael, so when she learns them when she's likely to perform you will notice serious trouble. The singer, who's in the heart of her Number Ones, Close-up and world tour, features a provision in their contract that forbids comics she may be talking about the total amount with to produce jokes about anybody inside the Jackson family The Smoking Gun has released Jackson's tour contract, which among the usual number of demands for just about any star of her stature, admonishes the client to make certain "that comedian couldn't make any reference to the Jesse Jackson or perhaps the Jackson family." Simply how much is Jackson making per show? Anything states that her minimum guarantee is $475,000 for just about any show. She's also entitled to 85 percent in the gross box office receipts over $650,000. PHOTOS: Top Finest Paid out Artists The entrepreneurs may even pay her $25,000 for implementing her own lighting and appear equipment through the show. While none of Jackson's backstage demands are as demanding as Van Halen's legendary "no brown M&Ms" driver, a couple of from the specifics certainly are a little surprising. For instance Jackson's preferred model of beer (two cases of Burns High Existence Not Light), or her preferred scent (Votivo Red-colored-colored Currant scent wax lights). Related Subjects Jesse Jackson Michael Jackson

REVIEW: Genial Birder Comedy The Big Year Ponders Life's Big Questions, with Few Goofy Hijinks

The Big Year has such an overstuffed comedic cast that it’s a shock to realize how modest and unconcerned with generating broad laughs it is. Directed by David Frankel (of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me), produced by Ben Stiller and adapted from a book by former Denver Post reporter Mark Obmascik, The Big Year is only really a comedy in that it’s tonally light and doesn’t ever firmly commit in another direction. Mostly, it’s an earnest showcase for the subculture and annual circuit of competitive bird watching — the preferred term for the true devotees, apparently, is “birding” — in which the hardcore travel around the country hoping for sightings of as many species as possible, some keeping track (honor system only!) and submitting their final count to the North American Big Year contest. If you can’t begin to understand why someone would want to commit a significant amount of time and money to this activity (I’m still scratching my head over it myself), neither can many of the bemused supporting characters in the movie. One of the most commendable things about The Big Year is its willingness to allow that your passions are your passions, and while the world may not comprehend them, that doesn’t mean they have to be a source of unfair mockery. The three leads all experience their own encounters with resistance and scatterings of support, but the film never makes its obsessives into easy targets. Sad sack Brad Harris (Jack Black), who narrates, tries to balance his full time job at a nuclear plant with the time and expense of his pursuit of a Big Year, the helpfulness of his mother (Dianne Wiest) countered by the uncomprehending scorn of his father (Brian Dennehy). Then there’s former hotshot NY exec Stu Preissler (Steve Martin), who has the blessings of his loving spouse (JoBeth Williams) and enough cash to make travel to places like Brownsville, Texas, and Attu Island in Alaska easy. But his former colleagues (Kevin Pollak and Joel McHale — see what I mean about the cast?) still call on him for his business expertise, trying to lure him out of retirement. New Jersey contractor Kenny Bostick (Owen Wilson) is the reigning champion of birding, but his competitiveness in the field has destroyed his past marriage and threatens his current one, as his wife (Rosamund Pike) grows impatient about his absences as she undergoes fertility treatments in the hopes of getting pregnant. Genial and mild, The Big Year doesn’t give in to the temptation to juice up its story with outsized caricatures or inflated dramas. Not that there’s much opportunity for such things with an arc that stretches out over a year and tracks the ups and downs of people who get excited over the effect El Nio will have on migratory patterns. Instead, the film delves into pop psych questions about quality of life and the pursuit of happiness, with uneven results that are sometimes achingly on the nose — Brad points out in voiceover that Stu’s starting to confront his own mortality, though how he knows this is cause for speculation — and other times startlingly grounded, as in the fights Kenny has with his wife, who loves him but has begun to accept he’s simply not going to be there when she needs him. The Big Year is going to disappoint anyone who shows up in search of slapstick and goofy hijinks, which is probably most of the potential audience, given the draw of the aforementioned cast (which also includes Tim Blake Nelson, Anthony Anderson, Anjelica Huston, Jim Parsons and Rashida Jones as Brad’s inevitable fellow birder crush) and a trailer that gathers up everything in the film that could remotely be construed as a pratfall. The Big Year isn’t enough of a success to cause anyone to seriously mourn this fact, but it does seem unfair that the picture is bound to suffer for not meeting these expectations when its aims are so completely different. In its depiction of birding and of a contest with no prize outside of recognition within a small community, The Big Year actually explores, though not deeply, success and competition and their meaning on a larger life scale. The drive that some of these characters have to be on top, whether in work or in their chosen calling, interferes with their day-to-day happiness, while another is denigrated for his lack of traditional accomplishments and his dedication to such an unconventional choice of hobby, despite the pleasure it brings him. Wispy-slight as it may be, The Big Year deserves props for these gentle, minor philosophical explorations — though any film that involves a character fecklessly maxing out credit cards in our current economic reality, all dreams and aspirations aside, could do with a little added introspection.

X Factor: Beyonce for everybody as L.A. Reid's Guest Mentor

X Factor, Beyonce and L.A. Reid Beyonce will be the "Only Girl (In the world)" when she mentors the boys group round the X Factor. The "Umbrella" singer, 23, will be the guest mentor for judge L.A. Reid's group through the Judges' Houses round in the competition. Throughout this round, each judge takes their group for his or her home or possibly an area from the choosing to make use of the participants around the more intimate level also to also bring another mentor to assist them out. Mariah Carey to mentor X Factor entertainers ... from Simon Cowell's crib? We now have spent utilizing their judge and guest mentor, each contestant must then perform to prove why they must be selected for judge's final category. Although it has been reported that Mariah Carey assists as Simon Cowell's guest mentor, another three guest mentors won't be formally revealed until Wednesday's show. The X Factor airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8/7c on Fox. Cure you think needs to be a guest mentor for your participants?

Current TV Announces Show With Former Michigan Governor

Current TV is beginning a completely new primetime program situated by former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm.our editor indicates Rob Zucker Praises Keith Olbermann Unveils Their Very Own Plans Keith Olbermann Jams 'Very Stupid' Sarah Palin, Jokes About Anthony Weiner PHOTOS: Keith Olbermann's Famous Feuds The War Room With Jennifer Granholm premieres within the month of the month of january 2012. PHOTOS: The Hollywood Reporter Cover Tales It'll air after Countdown With Keith Obermann at 9 p.m. ET. and also have election commentary. PHOTOS: Most likely Probably The Most Spoken-About TV News Faces Related Subjects Keith Olbermann

Former CW Topper Dawn Ostroff Named President Of Conde Nast Entertainment

Four months after she left the CW to relocate to NY, Dawn Ostroff has found her new gig — president of Conde Nast Entertainment. This is a newly launched division as the top magazine publisher is looking to enter the film/TV/digital space. Former CW Entertainment president Ostroff will be responsible for the development, creation, production and distribution of original television, film and digital initiatives based on Conde Nasts portfolio of brands, which includes Vogue, Vanity Fair, The NYer, GQ, Glamour and Architectural Digest. She starts right away. I am very excited to have the chance to build this business for Conde Nast, a company that already has a long history of engaging audiences across print and digital platforms, Ostroff said. Ostroff launched the CW broadcast network and led it from 2006 until May. She segued to that role from serving as President of UPN Network from 2002-2006. Ostroff joined UPN from Lifetime, where she served as EVP of Entertainment from 1996-2002.

John Cusack Finds His Inner Crime-Fighting Poet in The Raven Trailer

The last time we saw John Cusack onscreen, he was turning back time in a hot tub. Now, Cusack returns to the multiplex to travel much deeper into the past — far beyond embarrassing ’80s ski suits and Rick Springfield singles and into the 1800s, where as Edgar Allan Poe, he helps search for a serial killer who uses Poe’s own gothic stories as inspiration for his murders. Take a look at the first eerie trailer for The Raven below. Alice Eve (She’s Out of My League) joins Cusack as Poe’s first cousin and wife (!) Virginia Clemm Poe, who it appears, is buried alive as bait in this murder mystery from V for Vendetta director James McTeigue. It doesn’t look like Cusack will disappear in this role as the macabre American author but I would gladly watch John Cusack star as Cusack in any genre, even a period thriller which requires him to cry-scream things like “I’ll send you to hell!” while wearing a silk ascot. VERDICT: Bring on the ravens, pendulums, pocket watches and premature burials. To view the trailer in HD, head over to Apple. [via Vulture]

More Harold & Kumar Banners

Prepare for their 3D ChristmasIt finally has a UK release date, and now there are another 8 new posters for AVeryHarold&Kumar 3D Christmas online over at Yahoo, and they look pretty cool. Not only do we get another glance at KalPenn and JohnCho's central pair, but also Neil Patrick Harris, and the unforgettable sight of Danny Trejo in a Christmas jumper. The story starts when the hapless pair accidentally burn down Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree. God knows what these two were doing to start a fire; one can't imagine what they'd be lighting.The film also features David Krumholtz, Elias Koteas,Daneel Ackles, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Patton Oswalt and Thomas Lennon. It's out in the US on November 4, and here in the UK onDecember 9.

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Kamiyama to helm '009 Re:Cyborg'

Tokyo, japan, japan -- Kenji Kamiyama, whose credits are the "Ghost inside the Spend" sci-fi TV series and movie, is always to helm 3d CG toonpic "009 Re:Cyborg." Leading Japanese toon house Production I.G. has greenlit the film, which is founded on a classic superhero comic series created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It's skedded for release in november 2012, with Production I.G and T-Pleasure distribbing. The story is founded on Ishinomori's comic, which from 1964 to 1985 adopted the adventures of cyborgs who had previously been taken as humans by an evil organizations and changed into fighting machines. Inside the original series nine cyborgs rebelled against their designers, becoming the initial superhero team in Japanese comics. After helming two quantity of the "Ghost inside the Spend" TV series, Kamiyama made his feature debut while using 2007 sci-fi toon "Ghost inside the Spend: Stand alone Complex -- Solid Condition Society." A 3 dimensional version in the toon, with Kamiyama supervisory production, was released this year. Following his make use of the "Ghost inside the Spend" franchise, Kamiyama helmed the "Protector in the Spirit" and "Eden in the East" TV series. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Filming up in L.A.

Projects including Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Dark evening Increases," Oliver Stone's "Savages" and many 100 new reality shows aided drive away-lot production inside the third quarter around La up 15.4% inside the same period a year ago. TV production elevated 5.8% while feature production elevated nearly 50%, according to another quarter report provided by enabling agency FilmL.A. The California Film and tv Tax Credit attracted several films to L.A., including "Argo," "Gangster Squad" and "That Is 40." In general, eight photos qualified for your program, creating 12.5% of overall feature production. As FilmL.A. predicted in last quarter's report, the tv drama subcategory saw a 20.3% decrease, driven by losing 10 one-hour drama series. "Sadly, our summer season conjecture of reduced third quarter TV drama production was place-on," mentioned FilmL.A. prexy Paul Audley. "Because the California condition incentive introduced six television dramas to La this quarter, we view the areas capture an abnormally many individuals economically beneficial projects." Output of ads elevated 16.5% this quarter inside the third quarter of 2010. This quarterly increase uses another-quarter decrease in 2011, creating a 3.4% overall increase in category production year-to-date. Overall off-lot production for the other day only elevated 26% inside the same week a year ago, going from 522 to 656 permitted days. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

Star Trek 2 prep includes comic books

J.J. Abrams stopped dragging his space boots recently and signed on to direct the sequel to Star Trek.So where is it already?Well, co-writer Roberto Orci says pre-production is now underway."The cast is excited. We have a director. We've started scouting locations. The second time around the crew is already together from the start, so we can jump right into the adventure," he told the official Star Trek website.Orci has also been busy working on some new Star Trek comics with writer Mike Johnson that will tie in with the movie sequel."The first few issues of the series are adaptations of The Original Series episodes, as the 'new' crew encounters some of the same threats the original crew did, but with differences that reflect things like Kirk being a younger captain and Spock losing his homeworld. As we get closer to the next movie, the stories will begin to foreshadow the events of the movie, such as possibly introducing new characters we will see on screen... pun very much intended," Johnson teased.

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DJ Caruso Rounds Up The Goats

And finds a young duo to star...Despite having a load of projects bubbling away on his development burners (most notably the latest attempt to get legendary graphic novel series Preacher on the screen), I Am Number Four director DJ Caruso has instead been digging around the back of his larder and has dragged out long-gestating passion pic The Goats as his next likely film, with Chandler Canterbury and Annalise Basso set to star.The movie will be based on Brock Cole's young adult novel, a tale of two kids at summer camp who are less than popular with their peers. When a prank leaves them stranded on Goat Island, they decide to eschew the sheer humiliation of coming back and instead embark on an adventure together, which turns into a three-day odyssey of self-discovery. And, we assume, involves goats.Caruso's been trying to get this one going for a while now, and it would appear he's looking to make a small-scale indie film as a palate cleanser before attempting another huge effects fest.Canterbury is still probably best known for playing Nicolas Cage's son in Knowing, though he's also cropped up in Repo Men and as the young Peter Bishop in TV's Fringe. Basso, meanwhile, was seen in Bedtime Stories and has an occasional small role in True Blood.Shooting on the new film will kick off this month in Georgia.

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Vital Closing New You'll be able to Distribution Office

Inside the wake of centralizing its theatrical marketing and distribution methods in La, Vital is closing its NY distribution office You will discover eight positions at the office five are increasingly being removed, while three professionals were decided to relocate to La. One of the three staffers has recognized, because the other two positions will probably be completed La. An Important insider mentioned a NY distribution office--which handles booking and billing of films inside the Northeast-isn't any more valuable, taking into consideration the evolution in the business. Formerly, all of the art galleries had distribution offices in a number of regions of the united states, making sure direct reference to theater entrepreneurs. But as technology changed, many were closed, save for NY. The other day, Vital introduced sweeping changes towards the marketing and distribution structure that sees Megan Colligan, formerly co-leader of domestic marketing, promoted to leader of domestic marketing and distribution.She reviews to Vital vice chairman Make the most of Moore on distribution matters. The modifications coincided while using announcement that Jim Tharp will retire as leader of domestic distribution in June 2012, after which it Don Harris will assume the title and therefore are accountable to Colligan. Harris presently may serve as executive v . p . of sales and domestic distribution. Don Harris, who had offered as executive v . p . of domestic sales and distribution, will finish up leader of domestic distribution, verifying to Colligan. Related Subjects