Celebrity Apprentice's George Takei: I'm Able To Change Trump's Position on Gay Marriage

She She went to her roots - her red-colored roots. Lindsay Lohan's Saturday Evening Live scores second greatest rankings of year The 25-year-old walked in Beverly Hillsides on Thursday with lengthy auburn locks. After going blonde within the last many years, Lohan first grew to become famous like a redhead in her own earlier films Parents Trap and Mean Women. She verifies she'll play Bette Davis in new film The brand new look might be the most recent part of Lohan's comeback tour. Last week she located Saturday Evening Live along with a couple of days prior, she sitting lower with Matt Lauer to have an in-depth interview. She's also set to experience Bette Davis within an approaching film. Exactly what do you think about her red-colored 'do?

'Tuesday' tops Guadalajara Construye

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Argentinean Gustavo Fernandez Trivino's "From Tuesday to Tuesday," a mordant undertake large city existence, centered the sixth Guadalajara Construye, taking seven of nine awards Wednesday evening. The showcase of six photos in publish, that was tested for purchasers and fest developers, went March 6-7. "Tuesday" demonstrated a polemical title, activating a light giant body-builder who does not stop or report a rape, choosing to blackmail the rapist. Pic is created by up-and-coming Buenos Aires' shingle Carrousel Films, whose credits include Natalia Smirnoff's Berlin 2010 Competition player "Puzzle." Seen at December's Ventana Sur, however 12 minutes tight, "Tuesday" is going to be re-edited to worry the cost the bodybuilder will pay for such callous behavior, producer Gabriel Pastore stated at Guadalajara. Included in GC's prize spread, Alfredo Calvino's Guadalajara sales company Latinofusion required worldwide privileges to "Tuesday," setting up a $10,000 minimum guarantee. Mexico City's Churubusco Galleries covers the pic's transfer to some 35mm negative Kodak is supplying 30,000 ft of bad and the good film and seem. L.A.-based Titra will subtitle "You Believe You are probably the most Gifted," from Chile's Che Sandoval, which charts a feckless husband's epic bender-journey through Santiago during the night looking for sex after his wife will take off for The country. A business phone card, "Gifted" had purchase agents laughing aloud in the husband's monstrously spineless immaturity. Typically crafted, "Daggers on the horizon,Inch a Lima-set mother-daughter reconciliation drama from Peruvian vet Alberto Durant, will get a Dolby Digital 5.1 seem mix from Mexico's Astro LX. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Universal Re-Conjures Ouija And Sets 2013 Release

BREAKING: Universal Pictures, which jettisoned its Hasbro-branded project Ouija over budget, has brought in a reconfigured version of the film. The old version, which McG was to direct, had a budget north of $100 million. The new one will cost around $5 million, I hear. Get used to this kind of budget for studio genre films, particularly after the recent successes of Chronicle and last weekend’s Project X, a film which cost $12 million and grossed $21 million. Though it’s produced by Silver Pictures and Todd Phillips’ Green Hat, the picture has no recognizable actors and still crushed it at the box office. Ouija will be produced by Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir, Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, and Blumhouse Productions. The latter addition explains a lot. Blumhouse is Jason Blum, the Paranormal Activity producer who signed a first look deal at Universal, and has brought it back in line with the kind of budgets he worked on with his films Paranormal Activity and Insidious. Now, Platinum Dunes has made low-cost/high-gross horror remakes like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror, but in today’s Hollywood economy, a $100 million for Ouija is just out of touch. To put it in perspective, when Universal made a gargantuan deal with Hasbro several years ago, $5 million was the penalty payment due Hasbro if the studio didn’t meet certain deadlines. That deal has gone by the wayside and now that $5 million is the entire budget of the picture. It doesn’t appear that McG is in the middle of this new version. If you think this is isolated, it isn’t. Warner Bros, home of the mega-buck tent pole, is getting into the space. Paramount, which got it started on the studio level, is kicking it up a notch with its Insurge division. Even though these found footage movies, from Project X to Chronicle or The Devil Inside, don’t perform as strongly overseas, many of them have covered their budgets long before the opening weekend is over.

'Occult' draws Rufus Sewell, Anne Heche

SewellHecheDebnam-CareyMickey Liddell has set up the thriller "The Occult" with Rufus Sewell, Anne Heche and newcomer Alycia Debnam-Carey in final negotiations to star.Christian Christiansen is on board to direct the pic.Story follows a small commune on the verge of witnessing an age old prophecy, that predicts the coming of the devil's daughter, come to fruition. As the shared eighteenth birthday of five girls approaches a sequence of murders causes panic to spread through the community making those to wonder whether the prophecy is coming true or someone is silencing those that known too much..Liddell, Pete Shilaimon will produce with Michael Zelman, Jennifer Hilton and Scott Holroyd will exec produce. Liddell will also finance the pic through his Liddell Entertainment banner as well as distribute it through the company's new distribution wing.The pic will go into production later on this month in North Carolina.Liddell most recently produced Open Road's "The Grey" which has grossed more than $50 million worldwide after only costing around $20 million to film.Sewell can be seen next in Fox's "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and Christiansen most recently helmed "The Roommate."Sewell is repped by WME, Julian Belfrage Associates and Parseghian/Planco and Debnam-Carey is repped by ICS and Management 360.Christiansen is repped by WME. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

TLC's 'Wear' will get digital transformation

NY -- TLC is starting a web-based-only event because of its lengthy-running hit "More to Put on" that provides a brand new undertake TV and social networking synergy: Throughout the show's first-ever studio-audience tape, fans will have the ability to election on the guest's style transformation aware of only a couple of clicks of the mouse.You will find numerous shows in development which are embedding social TV platforms to complete similar things, but this may very well be the very first which will use social networking to permit audiences to sign up and influence the particular direction from the show, states Social TV Summit conference Boss Andy Batkin, who developed the branding and media technique for Yahoo!'s launch. Batkin has consulted on several approaching interactive shows -- just about all within the reality TV genre -- and states the very first from the bunch will probably debut only at that May's upfronts.Around the morning from the March 15 "More to Put on" tape, an account from the episode's "contributor" (the state term for any style-challenged transformation subject) is going to be published around the show's website (at TLC.com) and Facebook page (facebook.com/WhatNotToWear). Photos of fashion options in groups in line with the show's trademark elements (rules, shopping, hair and products the contributor should "keep or toss") is going to be published shortly after that, and offer online votes.TLC's social networking team will show the poll results (along with a couple of user-posted questions) towards the show's hosts, Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, hairstylist Ted Gibson, makeup artist Carmindy, the contributor, guest transformation subjects from past episodes plus some 150 audience people employed in the show's online group of followers. London, Kelly and Gibson will have the ability to overrule winning votes within the trashing ("keep or toss") section, but other audience options will stand as final. Fans might find real-time data how votes are polling on the website, but will not hear their inquiries to the hosts clarified -- or see their transformation options revealed -- before the show airs in the finish of May.As the event appears an all natural chance to advertise a lengthy-running show to new audiences, extend advertisers' achieve and cultivate an online audience that's skyrocketed because the 2003 "Put on" premiere, TLC senior director of production Stephanie Eno and TLC's Vice president of digital Pamela Russo say their primary goal would be to engage the show's core audience."We all know from internal research that fans of TLC shows and also the talent inside them wish to try to participate," Russo states. "There exists a pretty robust and sticky Facebook page for most our shows as well as for TLC itself. The consequence keeps growing our social footprint, Twitter fans and Facebook fanpages, however for us the core would be to serve individuals people who want to take part in our programming. Social networking and (websites) would be the automobiles to obtain there."Social TV, the issue-all term for brand new technology along with other types of interaction between TV, Web, mobile and tablet audiences, is promoting quickly in the last couple of years, but interaction that drives a program's content has become off the floor a little more gradually. Rare good examples range from the 2006 Finnish musical comedy series "Accidental Enthusiasts," by which viewer text voting determined the protagonists' romantic plotline.Online voting for contest-show those who win and viewer-produced content also have seen a lift in recent several weeks, from "The American Idol ShowInch (which released Web voting last year) to real-time viewer polls and questions about various news programs -- together with onscreen live streaming of Twitter and facebook comments.Eno states the professional producer of "More to Put on," Jo Honig, sees the elevated interaction as wish fulfillment, giving the show's audience something it always wanted -- to possess a voice within the show. Utilizing a live audience was the first idea, and also the online component soon adopted.The big event allows the show to make use of a previously fervent (and opinionated) online group of followers. "Put on" has 900,000 fans on its official Facebook page."Everybody comes with an opinion about fashion, and our Facebook page illuminates like mad in complete agreement or disagreement while we are airing a show which has been shot days in advance," Eno states. "We thought, 'Wouldn't it's fun to possess people (in your own home) possess a voice within the choices while we are doing the work?A?Inch For the time being, calling your time and effort an experiment, Eno hopes to use the concept with other popular TLC reality shows, including "Agree the gown.InchAdditionally to on-air marketing, news letters and TLC.com, the big event is going to be marketed through the Facebook accounts of TLC (@TLC), London (@StacyLondonSays), Kelly (@clinton_kelly), Gibson (@tedgibson) and Carmindy (@CarmindyBeauty) -- who've an overall total 280,000 Twitter customers."The aim would be to engage the crowd in ways they weren't involved in the show before," Eno states. "This is an excellent initial step.Inch Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award Runners up Introduced

ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award Runners up Introduced By Daniel Lehman Feb 29, 2012 The American Theatre Experts Association (ATCA) has selected six runners up for that Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Experts Association New Play Award, which recognizes the very best scripts that opened appropriately outdoors NY City this year. The honours will be provided on Saturday, March 31 at Stars Theatre of Louisville throughout the Humana Festival of recent American Plays.The six runners up are "Annapurna" by Sharr Whitened, which opened in November in the Miracle Theatre in Bay Area "Edith Can Shoot Things striking Them" with a. Rey Pamatmat, which opened in the Humana Festival last spring "Around the Spectrum" by Ken LaZebnik, which opened November 12 at Mixed Bloodstream Theatre in Ontario "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri within the " New World "" by Yussef El Guindi, which opened in June at ACT Repertory in Dallas "A Twist waterInch by Caitlin Montanye Parrish, which opened in Feb in the Route 66 Theatre in Chicago and "Water through the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegria Hudes, that was first created in October by Hartford Stage.The very best award is really a $25,000 prize. Two runners-up will get citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques. This is actually the biggest national new play award available, with awards amassing $40,000.All six of these runners up were selected from 27 qualified scripts posted by ATCA people. These were examined with a committee of 12 theater experts, chaired by Wm. F. Hirschman, FloridaTheaterOnStage.com, and including David Sheward, special sections editor and theater critic for Back Stage. Other committee people include Misha Berson, Dallas Occasions Bruce Burgun, Bloomington Herald Occasions (Ind.) Michael Elkin, Jewish Exponent (Pa.) Pam Harbaugh, Florida Today (Melbourne) Elizabeth Keill, Independent Press (Morristown, N.J.) Jerry Kraft, aislesay.com (Port Angeles, Clean.) Julius Novick, freelance worker (NY City) Wendy Parker, The Village Mill (Midlothian, Veterans administration.) Plant Simpson, totaltheater.com and capitalcriticscircle.com (Geneseo, N.Y.) and Tim Treanor, Electricity Theater Scene (Washington, D.C.)."Despite disappearing government support and declining donations, America's regional theaters have persevered and won because this country's prominent crucible for vibrant and important new works," Hirschman stated. "The suggested plays encompass a dizzyingly wide selection of styles and styles, created with a cadre of experienced and novice playwrights who're inarguable proof that theater remains a vital and relevant talent these days.InchBecause 1977, ATCA has honored new plays created at regional theaters outdoors NY City. No play is qualified whether it went onto a NY production inside the award year. Since 2000, the award continues to be funded through the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, that was produced in 1986 by Harold Steinberg with respect to themself and the late wife to aid American theater.Past honorees of ATCA's New Play Award have incorporated Lanford Wilson, August Wilson, Arthur Burns, Jesse Margulies, Lynn Nottage, and Moises Kaufman. ATCA also is definitely the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, praising emerging playwrights, which is given the brand new Play Award on March 31. To learn more concerning the American Theatre Experts Association, visit world wide web.americantheatrecritics.org. ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award Runners up Introduced By Daniel Lehman Feb 29, 2012 The American Theatre Experts Association (ATCA) has selected six runners up for that Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Experts Association New Play Award, which recognizes the very best scripts that opened appropriately outdoors NY City this year. The honours will be provided on Saturday, March 31 at Stars Theatre of Louisville throughout the Humana Festival of recent American Plays.The six runners up are "Annapurna" by Sharr Whitened, which opened in November in the Miracle Theatre in Bay Area "Edith Can Shoot Things striking Them" with a. Rey Pamatmat, which opened in the Humana Festival last spring "Around the Spectrum" by Ken LaZebnik, which opened November 12 at Mixed Bloodstream Theatre in Ontario "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri within the " New World "" by Yussef El Guindi, which opened in June at ACT Repertory in Dallas "A Twist waterInch by Caitlin Montanye Parrish, which opened in Feb in the Route 66 Theatre in Chicago and "Water through the Spoonful" by Quiara Alegria Hudes, that was first created in October by Hartford Stage.The very best award is really a $25,000 prize. Two runners-up will get citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques. This is actually the biggest national new play award available, with awards amassing $40,000.All six of these runners up were selected from 27 qualified scripts posted by ATCA people. These were examined with a committee of 12 theater experts, chaired by Wm. F. Hirschman, FloridaTheaterOnStage.com, and including David Sheward, special sections editor and theater critic for Back Stage. Other committee people include Misha Berson, Dallas Occasions Bruce Burgun, Bloomington Herald Occasions (Ind.) Michael Elkin, Jewish Exponent (Pa.) Pam Harbaugh, Florida Today (Melbourne) Elizabeth Keill, Independent Press (Morristown, N.J.) Jerry Kraft, aislesay.com (Port Angeles, Clean.) Julius Novick, freelance worker (NY City) Wendy Parker, The Village Mill (Midlothian, Veterans administration.) Plant Simpson, totaltheater.com and capitalcriticscircle.com (Geneseo, N.Y.) and Tim Treanor, Electricity Theater Scene (Washington, D.C.)."Despite disappearing government support and declining donations, America's regional theaters have persevered and won because this country's prominent crucible for vibrant and important new works," Hirschman stated. "The suggested plays encompass a dizzyingly number of styles and styles, created with a cadre of experienced and novice playwrights who're inarguable proof that theater remains an important and relevant talent these days.InchBecause 1977, ATCA has honored new plays created at regional theaters outdoors NY City. No play is qualified whether it went onto a NY production inside the award year. Since 2000, the award continues to be funded through the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, that was produced in 1986 by Harold Steinberg with respect to themself and the late wife to aid American theater.Past honorees of ATCA's New Play Award have incorporated Lanford Wilson, August Wilson, Arthur Burns, Jesse Margulies, Lynn Nottage, and Moises Kaufman. ATCA also is definitely the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, praising emerging playwrights, which is given the brand new Play Award on March 31. To learn more concerning the American Theatre Experts Association, visit world wide web.americantheatrecritics.org.