P Niro On For Killing Season

He'll get ready for fight against John TravoltaOnce upon a period of time, there's an action thriller referred to as Shrapnel being developed. It stood a script by Snow White-colored As Well As The Huntsman's Evan Daugherty, the one that had found itself on 2008's Black List. It acquired John McTiernan to direct and Nicolas Cage and Travolta Qantas Video to star using what may have been a Face/Off reunion. Now, though, it's name is Killing Season, Cage is off and Robert P Niro is at his place.So when you're disappointed that Cage and Travolta wouldn't be talking about the screen again, but were comforting yourself while using intriguing perception of McTeigue calling the shots by having an action thriller the first time since 2003's Fundamental, you have to cash more disappointment headed your path. Yup, McTiernan may also be forget about involved, and he's been transformed by Mark Steven Manley. Who last made A Lot More Rome. You may commence uncertainty...Still Daugherty's script may be ideal for some thrills, with P Niro playing a united states military veteran which has looked for that quiet existence in the cabin set among the attractive Appalachian Hills. An infrequent customer (Travolta), proclaiming to become European tourist appears at his door, but naturally the man features a hidden agenda: he's out for revenge, and very soon the pair is fighting within the forbidding terrain.It's being looked within the American Film Market at this time around, and Manley is searching to begin shooting within the month of the month of january.

Lenox, Dixon join 'Parade'

Adriane Lenox, Brandon Victor Dixon and jazz vocalist Carla Cook are among the performers who have signed on for "Cotton Club Parade," the first stage outing from the partnership between the recently renovated NY City Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Lenox ("Doubt"), Dixon ("The Color Purple"), Cook and Jared Grimes lead the cast of the revue-like show inspired by Duke Ellington's years at Harlem venue the Cotton Club. Warren Carlyle, helmer of "Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway," directs the show, which was conceived by Encores! impresario Jack Viertel with text taken from Langston Hughes poems. Ellington songs and others from the era will be showcased in the production, with music played by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and music direction by that org's a.d., Wynton Marsalis. "Parade" will play a brief sked similar to City Center's Encores! series of staged concert readings, running Nov. 18-22. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

NBC Buys Family Comedy Created By & Starring Actor-Comedian Jim Gaffigan

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has bought a single-camera comedy from actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan, Universal TV and Scot Armstrong and Ravi Nandan’s studio-based American Work. Gaffigan will write and star in the project based on his life as a lazy man, married to a strong woman, raising 4 children in a 2 bedroom apartment in NY City. Gaffigan will executive produce with his manager, Brillstein Entertainment’s Alex Murray, as well as Armstrong and Nandan. Gaffigan, a respected standup comedian, will begin a 30-city tour in the beginning of 2012. It will spawn a televised comedy stand-up special in February, which is eying non-traditional ways for digital distribution. CAA-repped Gaffigan’s previous comedy series starring vehicle was the 2000 CBS sitcom Welcome To NY, which was produced by David Letterman’s company. He recently co-starred on the TBS comedy series My Boys and made his Broadway debut in That Championship Season earlier this year.

Kino finds Redemption

Gotham-based indie Kino Lorber has pacted being the exclusive distributor from the cult-horror library of Redemption Films for those media within the U.S. and Canada. Under its new Redemption label, Kino Lorber is placed release a as much as 35 movies the coming year from U.K.-based Redemption on DVD, Blu-ray, VOD and digital, with broadcast airings also within the offing. Some game titles will even play theaters at repertory houses as well as in night time tests. Initial 2012 releases includes five of French helmer Jean Rollin's erotic vampire excursions in the seventies, including "The Nude Vampire," "Shiver from the Vampires of the underworld," "The Iron Rose," "Lips of Bloodstream" and "Fascination." Kino's slate of Redemption photos is going to be launched in re-mastered HD versions in line with the 35mm disadvantages. Others movies within the Redemption library include Wes Craven's 1985 outing "The Hillsides Have Eyes: Part 2," Martin Campbell's 1974 debut "The Sex Crook" and Italian helmer Mario Bava's 1970 movie "Hatchet for any Honeymoon." Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

'Game Of Thrones' Season Two: Lena Headey And Peter Dinklage Get 'Crazy'

Don't get attached to any of your favorite characters in the upcoming second season of "Game of Thrones," because star Lena Headey warns that "it can be bye-bye any time." Her costar Sean Bean found that out the hard way in season one, but Headey teased that her character Cersei is splintering off on a very different path in season two. Westeros's favorite mad queen is on top of the world after she managed to kill off some of her many enemies in season one, and Headey teased that Cersei's power hungry tendencies might start to get the better of her. "It's intriguing because she's crazy," Headey said with a laugh. "Under the whole stoic thing, she's a little nuts." Though Headey, like Bean, has not read all of George R.R. Martin's books yet -- shame on you, "Game of Thrones" stars! -- she said she was aware of the journey Cersei takes in "A Clash of Kings." With her husband King Robert Baratheon and his second-in-command Ned Stark both dead, Cersei gets the fun job of ruling as regent of the Seven Kingdoms until her son Joffrey comes of age. The only hiccup in her plan is that her hated younger brother Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) is now her second-in-command. "There's a big arc with Cersei and Tyrion, which is a crazy relationship. They bring out each others' crazy," Headey teased. Apparently there's a whole bunch of crazy in store for season two. When asked for a snapshot of the upcoming season, Headey said, "I can tell you that season two is even more crazy, more exciting. We've all been liberated because people really love the show, so we've really gone for it." Are you looking forward to seeing Cersei and Tyrion face off in "Game of Thrones" season two? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Bryan Performers Excalibur remake canned

As keen on John Boorman's bloody epic Excalibur, TF was interested to determine exactly what a modern-day retelling from the King Arthur legend would seem like.Regrettably, Bryan Singer's update from the 1981 film continues to be shelved by Warner Bros. towards another Arthurian tale. "Yeah, regrettably it's no more going to take place,Inch Singer told SFX in the annual Sitges Film Festival. "I had been really excited to get it done. I am a fan of John Boorman's movie also it was my intention to have it pursuing Jack The Giant Killer was completed.""The project was with Warner Bros and what went down is the fact that another King Arthur project was introduced for them throughout that point. Essentially, it had been just more all set to go into production than ours was. That's why our version of Excalibur wound up being negated."Singer is not letting the disappointment reach him, mind."When that happened, it permitted me to visit directly into developing Battlestar Galactica - that we think is going to be really exciting."

Bryan Singers Excalibur remake canned

As a fan of John Boorman's bloody epic Excalibur, TF was interested to see what a modern-day retelling of the King Arthur legend would look like.Sadly, Bryan Singer's update of the 1981 film has been shelved by Warner Bros. in favour of a different Arthurian tale. "Yeah, unfortunately it is no longer going to happen," Singer told SFX at the annual Sitges Film Festival. "I was really enthused to do it. I'm a fan of John Boorman's movie and it was my intention to get it going after Jack The Giant Killer was completed.""The project was with Warner Bros and what happened is that another King Arthur project was brought to them during that time. Basically, it was just more ready to go into production than ours was. That is why our version of Excalibur ended up being negated."Singer isn't letting the disappointment get to him, mind."When that happened, it allowed me to go straight into developing Battlestar Galactica - which I think will be really exciting."

Warner Bros. teams with Ahearne and Lin

Warner Bros. is developing an untitled supernatural thriller feature with Brit scribe Joe Ahearne ("Trance") and set it up with Warner-based Dan Lin to produce. Studio's keeping the logline under wraps. Lin Pictures VP Jon Silk originated the idea and will co-produce. Matt Cherniss is overseeing the project for Warner Bros. Ahearne's a veteran TV scribe with diverse small-screen credits including the telepic "Trance," the sci-fi series "Ultraviolet" and the factual series "Space Odyssey." He penned the upcoming Fox Searchlight adaptation of "Trance," starring James McAvoy as an employee at an auction house who teams with thieves to steal a valuable painting who then suffers amnesia from a blow to the head. Lin's producing "Karma Coalition," "Gangster Squad," the "Sherlock Holmes" pics and "Godzilla." Ahearne's repped by ICM, United Agents and Principal Entertainment. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Hugh Jackman: The Wolverine will be less complicated

If Hugh Jackman's recent chatter about The Wolverine promises one thing, it's that the filmmaking team won't make the same mistakes that blighted X-Men Origins: Wolverine.We all thought that one was a bit masculine, right?"I think we've got the chance to nail the character this time, to do the hole-in-one. We haven't managed that yet. On the last movie we complicated it with too many other characters. And there'll be more women this time, which is good. The last one was so masculine!" Jackman told The Guardian.Oooooo-K. Please tell us less masculine doesn't mean less action? If this thing turns into some kinda weepy-eyed, touchy-feely, 'What's wrong with Wolvie?'-type flick you can count us out now."The new film will go more into the character. I don't think we've ever seen his rage expressed properly. We're letting go with this one of the whole 'Who am I? Where did I come from? Oh no, I've lost my memory' thing. I feel like that's sent us all to sleep. 'Yeah, whatever pal. We're bored! Fine, you were a sushi chef, whatever it was, can we just get on with the story now?'" Jackman added.Sounds like we're back on track. But watch out Wolverine, we're jacking into Cerebro to track the movements of this one very closely.

TV Ratings: Fox's 'Fringe' Improves, CW's 'Nikita' Slips

The CW"Nikita" CBS released another Friday victory, having its drama selection settling in. A Gifted Guy (7.5 million total audiences, 1.2 rating in grownups 18-49 demographic) and CSI: NY (9.7 million, 1.6) both continued to be steady inside the demo, while Blue Bloods (11 million, 1.9) enhanced a notch from the other day. Compared to last Friday, CBS enhanced its average in 18-49, posting single.6 rating in primetime. Fox placed second inside the demo for your evening, getting single.4 rating. Kitchen Bad dreams or nightmares (3.7 million, 1.5) dipped slightly, but sci-fi cult favorite Fringe (3.2 million, 1.3) enhanced within the third week out. Like the other day, NBC placed third with repeats of Up With The Evening, Whitney together with a 2-hour Dateline (6 000 0000, 1.4). Inside a few days, NBC will launch Chuck and Grimm, plus it remains to look if people programs would customize the competition. ABC adopted the network broadcast encores of Suburgatory, Revenge, Modern Family together with a brand new 20/20 (3.4 million, 1.1), lower over half an incredible number of audiences. The CW's Nikita (1.6 000 0000, .5) saw a decline and Supernatural (1.6 000 0000, .7) matched up up the other day's demo mark. Refresh for your latest .. TV Ratings

Glees Harry Shum Junior. Amazed At His Vocal Capabilities

First Launched: October 7, 2011 3:46 PM EDT Credit: Access Hollywood Caption Harry Shum Junior. stops by Access Hollywood Survive October 7, 2011 La, Calif. -- Harry Shum Junior. walked into the singing spotlight now on Glee, something he trained hard for. I'm not a singer, I dont result from a vocal background following a tour, I mentioned, They might cause me to feel sing, the actor told Billy Rose rose bush and Package Hoover on Fridays Access Hollywood Live. So, I desired to make it happen. I went into vocal training which voice showed up in this area. Harry, who's most broadly noted for his fancy deal with the hit FOX series, was taken aback through the outcome. I used to be like, Hey, thats excellent. I used to be surprised, he ongoing. The 29-year-old actor appeared to become happy in regards to the issues elevated throughout this days episode, titled Asian F, mentioning for the stereotypical high education anticipation that some Asian parents placed on their kids. Thats things to understand about the show. Its getting light compared to that. In my opinion you will discover parents that are such as this, he referred to. It may like to numerous varying people and not the Asian community. Plenty of parents are too very challenging to their youngsters with school in addition to not [permitting these phones] perform the humanities. The Glee star who also came out inside the original ipod device device ads spoken with Billy and Package about meeting the late Apple co-creator Jobs within the Academy awards. I dont get star struck, but this individual, oh my gosh gosh I dropped it, he appreciated. I used to be just speaking a hundred miles per hour, I didnt know very well what to convey, which he just described, Thank you for the effort and people ads were great. I shook his hands plus it was amazing. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Keck's Exclusives: Eric McCormack Summer Series Lines Up Eclectic Guest Stars

Edward Furlong and Tom Sizemore TNT's new Eric McCormack crime drama Perception, set to debut in summer 2012, has already booked an eclectic lineup of guest stars to come play with the Emmy-winning Will & Grace star. Roger Bart, who played Desperate Housewives' crazed pharmacist, and two actors who have toiled with pharmaceuticals and the law in real life - Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) and Tom Sizemore, have been cast in suspicious roles.Roger will playa high-powered IRS agent questioned in connection with the murder of a cult member, while Edward and Tom will appear together in an episode centered around an Irish crime syndicate. Tom will play a top-level mobster and Edward will play a rising underworld figure.Worlds away from Will & Grace, Perception finds Eric playingDr. Daniel Pierce, an eccentric neuroscientist and university professor called upon by his former student (Rachael Leigh Cook) to help the feds solve complex criminal cases. Though Pierce'sintimate knowledge of human behavior gives himan edge in reading people, he's a bit of a social moron.Does this sound like a series you'd add to your record list?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine today!

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Infomercial Pitchman, Facing Charges of Managing a Scam, Commits Suicide

Jesse Lapre Jesse Lapre, an infomercial pitchman who had been facing charges of managing a scam to market useless companies, has died within an apparent suicide, based on the Hollywood Reporter. The Phoenix-based Lapre is at federal custody of the children and located dead in the cell Sunday morning. He was indicted in June on 41 counts of conspiracy and fraud. Lapre was charged with marketing companies that defrauded nearly $52 million from a lot more than 220,000 sufferers. Lapre's trial was scheduled to start Tuesday. Watch among his commercials:

Shine ink cope with Discovery

CANNES -- Shine Worldwide has agreed a multi-title cope with Discovery Systems Latin America/U.S. Hispanic in excess of 200 hrs of programming. The package incorporates finished instances of "MasterChef," "The Greatest Loser" and "One Born Every Minute." The 2nd season of "MasterChef Australia" and "Junior MasterChef Australia" will air on Discovery Travel & Living. Seasons one and 2 of both U.K. and U.S. versions of "One Born Every Minute" are destined for Discovery Home & Health. Furthermore DLA/USH has acquired seasons seven and eight from the U.S. version of "The Greatest Loser," plus season three of TLC's "Hoarding: Hidden Alive." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com