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| Rapper Flavor Flav arrested on suspicion of assault Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:30 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Rap star Flavor Flav of the group Public Enemy was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and battery after his fiancée reported the pair had a fight, Las Vegas police said. The 53-year-old rap star, whose given name is William Drayton Jr, also threatened the woman's teenage son with a knife, police said in a statement. Police received a call before dawn from a residence in Las Vegas regarding the incident, police said. ... Full Story | Top |
| J.K. Rowling, "adult" fiction author, jokes about "50 Shades" Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:30 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Promoting her new "adult" novel "The Casual Vacancy," Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling finds it amusing that the most famous "adult" fiction of the moment is the erotic trilogy "50 Shades of Grey." But, she says, there's a big difference. "The difference should be, people have sex in this book but no one really enjoys it," she said of her own book at a reading in New York on Tuesday night. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nothing political in "Seal Team Six" film timing, TV chief says Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:15 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A TV executive on Wednesday rejected claims that there was a political motive behind a decision to broadcast a movie about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden just two days before the presidential election. "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden" will be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel on November 4. The action feature film is one of two movies about the 2011 raid by U.S. special forces that resulted in the death of the al Qaeda leader - considered one of the triumphs of President Barack Obama's term in office. ... Full Story | Top |
| Woman tops ArtReview "power 100" list for first time Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 07:04 PM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S.-born Italian-Bulgarian curator little known outside the art world has topped ArtReview magazine's annual Power 100 list, the first female to do so in its 11-year history. Previously topped by familiar names like artists Damien Hirst and Ai Weiwei and gallery supremo Larry Gagosian, the 2012 title went to Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev best known for curating the marathon Documenta 13 art fair staged in Kassel in Germany. ... Full Story | Top |
| Why well-meaning billionaires like Megan Ellison may ruin the movie business Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:11 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - I was curious when I first heard that billionaire Megan Ellison, Larry Ellison's 26-year-old daughter, had landed in Hollywood and was making movies like "The Master" with Paul Thomas Anderson and "Killing Them Softly" with Brad Pitt. Her aversion to the media made her only more intriguing. But it may be that well-meaning financiers like Ellison will ruin what is left of the independent movie business. Ellison is gutsy and rich, as TheWrap pointed out when it put her on our list of "10 Producers Who Will Change Hollywood 2012. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tale from Nobel laureate Pamuk takes on Turkish coup Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:09 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The seaside town where Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's novel "Silent House" is set during the late 1970s has since been swallowed by the sprawl of Istanbul, but according to the author, the story's themes remain. First published in Turkish in 1983, last week marks the first time "Silent House" has been made available in English. The English version (translated by Robert Finn) was released in the United States by Knopf. "There's one side of me saying that ... ... Full Story | Top |
| CBS adapting British 'Bake Off' series Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:09 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - CBS plans to get totally baked with its latest project. The network is adapting the British culinary competition "The Great British Bake-Off" for American audiences, the network said Wednesday. The series, tentatively titled "Bake Off," will hit the airwaves next year and feature "skilled amateur Americans competing in baking challenges with one ultimately being crowned the winner," according to the network. ... Full Story | Top |
| "Alex Cross" Review: Stop, Or Madea Will Shoot Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:07 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tyler Perry is one of the highest-earning African-American male movie stars working today, and that's apparently the only reason anyone thought it would be a good idea to cast him in a rebooted series based on James Patterson's Alex Cross crime novels. As an actor, Perry has what Liam Neeson's "Taken" character might call "a specific set of skills," but those skills don't include convincingly portraying a cop-slash-psychiatrist on the mean streets of Detroit. ... Full Story | Top |
| Dylan McDermott returns to 'American Horror Story' for another run of sexy terror Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "American Horror Story" is adding a very familiar face for its second season - and it's quite the last-minute addition. Dylan McDermott, who starred as philandering husband Ben Harmon in the first season, and met his demise in the season finale, is coming back to the series. ... Full Story | Top |
| Nicholl Fellowship Script Out to Production Companies Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:46 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Producers Rick Gitelson and Jeff Wynne have optioned Jeffrey R. Field's script, "Pop Hit," which was one of 129 semifinal scripts from a record 7,197 submitted this year to the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowships on Screenwriting. The story follows a washed-up, one-hit wonder hired to write a song for a teenage mega pop star who then turns to sabotage when the teen idol steals the songwriter's planned comeback song, the producers told TheWrap. The script is represented by Sue Giordano of the Hudson Agency and is out to production companies. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ludo Lefebvre, Brian Malarkey Cook Up a Deal With ABC's 'The Taste' Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:16 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - ABC's upcoming culinary reality show "The Taste" just added a couple more ingredients. Pop-up restaurant pioneer Ludo Lefebvre and "Top Chef" alum Brian Malarkey have signed on as mentors for the series, joining Anthony Bourdain and Nigella Lawson for eight episodes of the show. "The Taste," which premieres next year on ABC, will feature Bourdain, Lawson, Lefebvre and Malarkey coaching a team of four competing pro and amateur cooks chosen from a nationwide casting call as they vie to create the best tasting dish. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York Observer Names New President - And Makes Surprise White House Endorsement Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 03:14 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The New York Observer named the former publisher of Spin magazine as its new president Wednesday - and endorsed a new president for the country, too. Soon after surprising many by endorsing Republican Mitt Romney for president, the company announced Mike Albanese would replace Christopher Barnes, who announced his resignation in August to either start his own company or run a bigger-budget enterprise. Albanese previously headed the music magazine Spin before its acquisition by BuzzMedia earlier this year. ... Full Story | Top |
| Filmmaker explores dark family saga in "The Flat" Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:52 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Flat," a documentary directed by Israeli writer and filmmaker, Arnon Goldfinger, uses a vacant Tel Aviv apartment as a jumping-off point for a journey through history, and a unique look at the way different generations view the Holocaust. The film, which opens on Friday in New York followed by Los Angeles on October 24 and a subsequent national roll out, grew from a highly personal saga that Goldfinger never set out to document. ... Full Story | Top |
| Frank Darabont's 'L.A. Noir' Picked up to Series Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:50 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Former "Walking Dead" showrunner Frank Darabont might have been ousted from the AMC hit, but like the zombie characters from his former show, he has risen again. TNT has ordered six episodes of Darabont's crime drama "L.A. Noir," which chronicles the epic battle between mobster Mickey Cohen and Los Angeles Police Department chief William Parker in the 1940s and '50s. Darabont executive-produces the project, as well as writing and directing the pilot. Michael De Luca ("The Social Network") and Elliot Webb ("Tall Time Tales") also executive-produce. ... Full Story | Top |
| Wall Street Journal Names New Editor of Magazine Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:49 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Wall Street Journal named Kristina O'Neill editor of WSJ Magazine, the publication announced Wednesday morning. She replaces Deborah Needleman who recently went to the New York Times, O'Neill spent 12 years as executive editor of Harper's Bazaar before coming to the Journal's luxury lifestyle magazine, published as part of the WSJ Weekend edition. Needleman jumped ship to the Times' style magazine, T, late last month. ... Full Story | Top |
| KCET, Link TV to Form New KCETLink Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:46 PM PDT NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - KCET, the nation's largest independent public TV station, and Link Media, an independent non-profit media company, announced they would merge to form the new satellite network KCETLink, available to 33 million combined DirecTV and Dish subscribers and 5.6 million Southern California households. The new company will air acquire and produce shows with a national audience in mind, and will also be available online and on mobile devices. KCET president and CEO Al Jerome will become the new company's CEO, and Link TV CEO and President Paul S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Actress Megan Fox gives birth to baby boy Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:30 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Megan Fox said on Wednesday that she had given birth to a baby boy, her first child, with husband Brian Austin Green, in September. The "Transformers" actress, 26, made the announcement on her official Facebook page, saying she wanted to release the news herself. "I gave birth to our son Noah Shannon Green on September 27th. He is healthy, happy, and perfect. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kutcher tops Forbes' list of highest paid TV actors Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:22 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen on the hit comedy "Two And a Half Men", he also took his place as television's highest-paid actor, according to Forbes' annual survey released on Wednesday. Forbes estimated Kutcher earned $24 million from May 2011 to May 2012, while Sheen, now starring in "Anger Management" on cable television following a very public firing from the hit CBS show, didn't even make the top 10. Sheen's $40 million a year ago however easily out-earned Kutcher by some $16 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| BBC scandal creates waves for incoming New York Times CEO Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:01 PM PDT  (Reuters) - The erupting scandal at the BBC, over allegations of sexual abuse involving late TV host Jimmy Savile is leading to awkward questions for the New York Times Co's incoming chief executive, Mark Thompson. The BBC is facing police and parliamentary inquires into whether Savile, the eccentric host of the BBC's legendary "Top of the Pops" music show who died last year at the age of 84, sexually abused a group of women and girls -- some as young as 13 -- over six decades. The probes follow a bombshell report aired earlier this month by rival broadcaster ITV about the allegations. ... Full Story | Top |
| Mumford & Sons hold Billboard 200 No. 1 for third week Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 11:56 AM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British folk band Mumford & Sons continued their hold at the top of the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday for a third consecutive week, fending off seven debuts in the top ten. "Babel", the second studio album from Mumford & Sons, sold 96,000 copies in its third week and came ahead of independent hip hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, who entered at No. 2 with "The Heist". This is the first record from Seattle-based hip hop artist Macklemore and producer Lewis, who have built a steady following on YouTube and Twitter. ... Full Story | Top |
| A Minute With: Sienna Miller on Hitchcock's obsessions Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:56 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the words of Alfred Hitchcock, "Blondes make the best victims". But while the great British director's preference for blondes has been documented, new film "The Girl" narrows in on one particular obsession - actress Tippi Hedren, whom he handpicked to star in his 1960s movies "The Birds" and "Marnie". The film, premiering on Saturday on U.S. cable channel HBO, offers a cinematic tale of Hedren's version of how Hitchcock, played by Toby Jones, launched her career, and, after she refused his sexual advances, eventually killed it. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vienna museum to cover nude male posters after outcry Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:51 AM PDT  VIENNA (Reuters) - A prominent Vienna museum has decided to cover the "intimate parts" of three naked male soccer players on big posters put up in the Austrian capital after they caused an outcry. "We got many, many complaints," Leopold Museum spokesman Klaus Pokorny said about the public display of the placards used to advertise its "Naked Men" exhibition due to open on Friday. "We didn't realise that many, many people would be really upset or really angry in a way that we are also afraid about security, about protection of the visitors of the museum. ... Full Story | Top |
| Tunisian struggle with new freedom hits silver screen Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 06:38 AM PDT ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Although Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled nearly two years ago, Tunisia's fight for freedom has only just begun, acclaimed Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid says in his latest film. In "Hidden Beauties", Bouzid uses the Islamic veil to symbolise the struggle facing Tunisians now negotiating issues of religion, freedom and identity in the vacuum left in the aftermath of an uprising that ousted Ben Ali after 23 years running a model police state. ... Full Story | Top |
| Booker winner Mantel vows to end trilogy in style Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 05:47 AM PDT  LONDON (Reuters) - Hilary Mantel, who on Tuesday night became the first woman and first Briton to win the coveted Man Booker prize for fiction twice, vowed on Wednesday to bring her epic trilogy set in the court of King Henry VIII to a satisfactory close. Her comments could have the bookmakers offering odds on the 60-year-old making it an unprecedented three Booker wins when the final installment, provisionally titled "The Mirror and the Light" hits the shelves, probably in 2015. ... Full Story | Top |
| Next Media to sell Taiwan print, TV business for $600 million Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 02:43 AM PDT HONG KONG (Reuters) - Next Media Ltd, controlled by Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, will sell its Taiwan newspaper, magazine and television assets to Chinatrust Financial's former vice-chairman Jeffrey Koo Jr for NT$17.5 billion ($600 million). Koo has entered into an agreement to buy the assets, including Next Magazine and Apple Daily, the company said in a statement on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Next Media has agreed to a 3-year undertaking under which the company and chairman Lai will not own or control any firm in the Taiwanese print media or television markets, the firm said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Australia's Nine reaches debt deal, owner CVC loses $1.8 billion Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 12:50 AM PDT (Reuters) - Lenders of Nine Entertainment television network, owned by CVC Capital Partners Ltd, agreed to swap more than $3 billion in debt for equity, giving U.S. hedge funds control of one of Australia's best-known media firms. The deal will wipe out CVC's A$1.8 billion ($1.85 billion) equity investment in Nine, marking the largest-ever loss on a single private-equity deal in Asia, and one of the biggest globally. Nine owed hedge funds, led by Oaktree Capital and Apollo Global Management, about A$2.2 billion in senior debt. The hedge funds will now end up with 95. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bristol Palin booted off "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 09:36 PM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bristol Palin, one of the biggest names on "Dancing With the Stars" all-star season, on Tuesday became the fifth contestant eliminated from the hit television show. Palin, 21, who was paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas, had avoided low finishes in the previous three weeks and never risked elimination. But relatively low scores from the judges for her rock dance to "At the Hop," combined with weak support from fan voting sent her packing. ... Full Story | Top |
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