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After staying largely out of the spotlight for the past 3 years, former Lifetime and the WB entertainment president Susan Daniels has taken on a temporary gig as a consultant for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network. Daniels had been rumored for a number of jobs since she exited Lifetime in 2008, and being involved in the launch of a cable channel was reportedly among the dream potential gigs on her to-do list. At OWN, Daniels will consult Harpo Studios presidentsErik Logan and Sheri Salata who were named presidents of OWN in July. Another veteran cable and broadcast executive, Discovery Communications COO Peter Liguori, had been very hands-on in all matters OWN, including serving as interim OWN CEO following the May exit of Christina Norman. Word is that Liguori is no longer involved in the channel’s day-to-day operations. Nine months after its launch, OWN is still struggling to establish itself, finishing 61 in primetime for the month of September with an average of 181,000 viewers. OWN’s ballooning costs, ratings woes and frequent executive changeovers have prompted industry speculation that parent Discovery Communications might eventually consider reverting OWN into its predecessor Discovery Health. At OWN, it is business as usual. Next for the cable network is the launch of the Rosie O’Donnell daily talk show on Oct. 10.

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Chris Evans on Captain America's Avengers costume change

Chris Evans might be promoting Puncture at the moment but you know what online journalists are like, all we care about are comic-book movies and girls.Thankfully, Chris has been happy to illuminate us about the former. But not so much on the latter.When pressed about the changes to Captain America's costume we've seen in the set pictures cropping up on that darn Internet, Evans told The Playlist: "The first (costume) was a 1940s look, very utilitarian, something that would serve a purpose on the battlefield.""But in The Avengers, Joss just had a certain vision in his mind about what he wanted Cap to look like.""That's what he wanted to see. It's so nice working on these movies and the director's a fan.He's the dude at Comic-Con that we're terrified of pissing off. If Joss is happy, I'm happy."Evans was also fairly frank about the chances of him showing up in Iron Man 3 or Thor 2 or any of the other Marvel films currently in the pipeline."Out of those six films, if I pop up in one of those (other films), it counts as part of the deal.""So if they needed me in a third Cap, and I say, 'Fuck you, give me $30 million.' Well... they want to avoid that."As do we, Chris. As do we.And Evans even seemed to confirm Captain America 2's release date."They may wait until 2014 until they release the next Cap. Marvel has a lot of balls in the air, they aren't going to cannibalize their films."Puncture is in US cinemas now, and will be released in the UK later this year. Avengers is out 4 May 2012 and Captain America 2 will be out in the summer of 2014 (apparently).

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10 Redheaded Actors Who Shouldn't Be Discriminated by the World's Biggest Sperm Bank

The world's largest sperm bank has just set a no-redheads policy by banning all red-haired donors from their gene pool. Well, we're not down with that kind of ginger bashing, even if clients routinely prefer dark-haired donors. In response, here's Moviefone's list of the hottest redheaded actors in Hollywood. Hot Red-Haired Actors Apparently, most women want the men fathering their children to have dark hair, so the world's most famous sperm bank has nixed all redheaded donors. Tall, dark and handsome is all very well, but would you honestly turn down Robert Redford in his prime or that hot doc from 'Grey's Anatomy?' We think not! Bring on the gingers we think (or already know) would make great pops. Photo credits -- Rupert Grint: AFP/Getty Images; Paul Bettany: Getty Images for NY Academy of Art; Eric Stoltz: WireImage; Robert Redford: Getty Images for HBO; Tony Curran, David Wenham, Seth Green, Alan Rickman, and Kevin McKidd: Getty Images Tony CurranDavid WenhamRupert GrintSeth GreenAlan RickmanRobert RedfordPaul BettanyEric StoltzKevin McKidd See All Moviefone Galleries » Eric Stoltz: WireImage; Kevin McKidd and Paul Bettany: Getty Images,

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Presented by Goldenvoice. Entertainers: James Blake, Ben Assister, Take advantage of McAndrews Also showing up: Teengirl Fantasy. Examined September 18, 2011James Blake appears to possess created out a sonic territory all their own, mixing the oblique tempos of dubstep using the emotion and melodicism of mainstream R&B. His 2010 trilogy of Expanded polystyrene established the youthful Brit being an inventive producer having a truly distinct sonic palette. This Year, Blake launched his self-entitled debut to much critical fanfare, together with a nomination for Britain's Mercury Prize. Since that time, he's become probably the most buzzed-about tales of the season, and Sunday night's offered-out performance in the Fonda displayed a united states audience curious to determine the over-blown artist, yet somewhat confused through the sounds that originated from happens. Blake's music is melodic and subtly arranged yet brave in being able to juxtapose pockets of silence with overwhelming bursts of sub bass and ambient noise. The loudspeakers and ceiling rattled and shook continually last evening, while drums skittered through, chopped and distended, hiccupping towards the phasing crunch of synthesizer and ambient seem. The lines "My buddy and my sister don't talk to me / however i don't blame them," repeated at set times, given through multiple processors and harmonizing effects. Blake sitting coolly at the middle of the swell, the arched Music Box ceiling and old Hollywood decor offsetting the stark "freshness" of the seem. Within the live setting Blake is became a member of by two auxiliary music artists: Ben Assister on percussion and Take advantage of McAndrews on guitar and sampler. Though merely a trio, the group is capable of doing creating dense layers of seem. Blake and the bandmates established a deliberate pacing in early stages that ongoing through the evening grooves were built on simple keyboard lines and drum beats, then repeated for minutes on finish. "Unluck," a completely abstract bit of soulful, minimalist pop, was among the highlights, reaping helpful benefits greatly from Assister's deft rendering from the clicking, stop/start electronic beat. Album standouts "Lindisfarne," "The Wilhelm Scream" and Feist's "Limit For Your Love" were performed carefully and nuance, each attaining emotional weight within the live setting. The sample-based "CMYK" was handed a completely new arrangement, stretches past the six-minute mark and having a varied percussion attack. The crowd continued to be mindful and sincere of these amounts, but appeared perplexed and self-aware throughout the quiet, piano-lead tracks. Blake utilizes silence as a way of musical composition, and also the crowd was frequently made noticeably uncomfortable with this. Audience people routinely paced backwards and forwards throughout these tunes, speaking and ordering drinks in the bar, oblivious towards the performance. It appears that Blake's fanbase has not hard, and for the time being, he'll suffer from this type of partly-disengaged audience. After closing with "The Wilhelm Scream," this guitar rock band came back to debut a brand new song. The piece would be a slow-paced ballad, driven with a reverberant, bell-sounding keyboard. People, the song evoked the graceful, soft rock of Bon Iver's "Janet/Relaxation" -- recontextualizing a seem which was completely in the centre from the mainstream over 2 decades ago. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Film Movement grabs domestic 'Historias' rights

Film Movement has acquired U.S. rights to Portuguese-language drama ''Historias,'' the debut feature from Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat. The pic premiered at the Venice Film Festival and has been shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. Film Movement said Monday that ''Historias'' will be launched theatrically in New York in the second quarter with a limited national roll-out to follow, as well as a day-and-date Video on Demand premiere. Story is centered on an older woman, clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories , who is then awakened by the arrival of a young photographer who in a village where time seems to have stopped. The acquisition was negotiated by Film Movement's President Adley Gartenstein and VP of Acquisitions and Distribution Rebeca Conget, and Pierre Menahem and Juliette Lepoutre of MPM Film, the French co-producer. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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ABC Buys Jim Belushi, Diane British Comedy Project

Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesJim Belushi ABC has given a put-pilot resolve for a multicamera comedy starring Jim Belushi. Belushi would star in and executive produce the project, entitled You Will not Know I am Here. Murphy Brown creator Diane British is mounted on pen the project, which originates from ABC Galleries. You Will not Know I am Here involves a co-dependent father (Belushi) and the teen daughter's relationship, that is switched upside lower when they're tossed right into a unique situation. Brillstein Entertainment Partners is aboard to executive produce the project alongside Belushi. The project reunited Belushi with ABC, which broadcast his Based on Jim comedy from 2001 to 2009. Additionally, it brings the actor to his comedy roots, after starring on CBS' court docket dramedy The Defenders last season. Belushi and British are generally repped by ICM. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit RELATED: Jim Belushi, Diane British Developing Comedy Project TV Development

Burning Man

A Paramount Pictures, Transmission Films and Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW, Filmbox and Latitude Media presentation of a Meercat Prods. and Archer Street production. (International sales: Filmbox, Sydney.) Produced by Jonathan Teplitzky, Andy Paterson. Executive producers, Daria Jovicic, Cedric Jeanson, Sam Tromans. Directed, written by Jonathan Teplitzky.Tom - Matthew Goode Sarah - Bojana Novakovic Karen - Essie Davis Sally - Kerry Fox Miriam - Rachel Griffiths Oscar - Jack HeanlyGrief doesn't rate high among emotional states suited to high-octane presentation; hence the disconnect between excessive style and sober content in "Burning Man," a feature-length montage posing as a serious drama about loss and anger. Directed with undue exertion by Jonathan Teplitzky -- whose screenplay suggests much less effort -- this flashy, empty contraption stars Matthew Goode as a tantrum-prone blowhard made more so by a spouse's recent death. We're meant to feel his pain; the pain experienced, however, is unintended. Pic won't do much for the thesp's rising star, which nevertheless will help iffy theatrical sales and more-likely ancillary prospects. Opening montage of highlights to come -- in a movie that often seems entirely comprised of histrionic and aesthetic crescendos -- posits "Burning Man" as a flashback of events reeling through the mind of Tom Keaton (Goode). Yet another episode of road rage has resulted in the upscale Sydney restaurant chef being pinned upside down in his VW, with a very immediate threat of death by gasoline fire. (The framing device turns out to be a complete red herring.) Poor Tom has been running around like the proverbial headless chicken since wife Sarah (Bojana Novakovic) died of cancer, although from what we see, he wasn't much easier to get along with before tragedy struck. He's mad at the world, and not acting very responsibly toward 8-year-old son Oscar (Jack Heanly), sister-in-law Karen (Essie Davis) and several women he's presumably shagging to dull the pain. Myriad gratuitous sex scenes lend "Burning Man" a raunchy patina; apart from being Tom's match in brattiness, Sarah is principally defined by her incessant toplessness. We have to take it for granted that they love their child, despite seldom acting like parents; it is clear, however, that they deserve each other. Yet it's clearer still that Teplitzky ("Better Than Sex") means us to find Sarah the perfect woman, and Tom the rakish bad-boy who simply feels too much and acts superior to everyone because he is. Script is said to be autobiographical, though press notes reveal only that when he worked for his chef brother, the director was considered the "rudest waiter in Sydney." The movie likewise treats Tom's obnoxiousness as a proud badge of individualism. Goode has certainly proven himself capable elsewhere, but the fawning camera acts as if this were his personal vanity project. Encouraged to preen, force charm and combust repeatedly, the actor can't rise above his material. Novakovic appears out of her depth. Supporting players are solid, but character writing (let alone fresh dialogue) is not a strength here. With its scrambled chronology, editorial/visual acrobatics and equally over-the-top musical cues (heavenly choirs duly break out), "Burning Man" can't leave well enough alone for a second; Teplitzky overcooks every aspect of the film, including cheap jokes that trivialize two late scenes that tie together major plot points. Tech and design aspects are shiny. For the record, pic has nothing to do with the Nevada desert festival of the same name, though any such confusion might work in its favor commercially.Camera (color, HD, widescreen), Garry Phillips; editor, Martin Connor; music, Lisa Gerrard; production designer, Steven Jones-Evans; art director, Sophie Nash; set decorator, Christopher Bruce; costume designer, Lizzy Gardiner; sound (Dolby Digital), David Lee; supervising sound editor, Andrew Plain; re-recording mixers, Gethin Creagh, Andy Wright, Peter Climpson; assistant director, Margie Beattie; casting, Nikki Barrett. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Special Presentation), Sept. 9, 2011. Running time: 109 MIN.With: Kate Beahan, Gia Carides, Martha Dusseldorp, Dan Wylie, Anthony Hayes, Garry McDonald, Lech Mackiewicz. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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TV Rankings: Packers-Saints Season Opener Scores for NBC

Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Thursday marked the start of the state National football league football season, also it demonstrated to become a champion for NBC within the rankings. The game between your Eco-friendly Bay Packers and also the Saints was the 2nd-greatest ranked regular season primetime game in 13 years called the second-greatest ranked season opener up to now. For NBC, the Packers victory rated because the second greatest telecast for that network. The overall game shipped a 17.2 overnight rating, the greatest on any network because the Colorado Broncos-Miami Whales game on 12 ,. 21, 1998, which came a 17.4. The Packers-Saints game peaked before halftime by having an 18.8. CBS' Your Government (6.5 million total audiences, 2.4) dipped 4 %, using the network placing second within the ad-coveted demo (1.7) after NBC. CBS broadcast an autumn preview (5.8 million, 1.6) carrying out a Large Bang Theory repeat, that enhanced 14 % from this past year's telecast. ABC's two-hour season finale of Rookie Blue (4.9 million, 1.1) rose 9 % from a week ago, using the network snagging the 3rd place within the demo having a 1.2 average. TV Rankings

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Trek Nation Because the original Star Trek series remembers its 45th anniversary today, Science Funnel has given an airdate to its approaching documentary Trek Nation. The film, created by Fishing rod Roddenberry Junior., the boy of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, will run Wednesday, November. 30 on Science. Exclusive: Science Accumulates Star Trek Documentary From Gene Roddenberry's Boy The feature-length special follows Roddenberry Junior. because he continues an outing to explore his father, while recording the ongoing celebration from the show (and it is many spinoffs) by fans. The documentary includes clips in the show and interviews with original cast people, in addition to interviews with famous fans like George Lucas, J.J. Abrams and Stan Lee. Here is a start looking at Trek Nation: Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Gerard Butler Shows His Softer Side In 'Machine Gun Preacher' Clip

Gerard Butler has a habit of portraying badass characters -- you know, the ones that you never want to be in a fight with. However, in the film 'Machine Gun Preacher,' Butler plays Sam Childers, a former badass who ends up devoting his life to rescuing children in the Sudan. In this exclusive clip from the film, Sam gives a surprise gift to the group of kids he's with in Africa -- a gift they are very ecstatic about. 'Machine Gun Preacher' hits theaters on Sept. 23. Image courtesy of Relativity

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Nick Jonas To Exchange Daniel Radcliffe On Broadway

FIRST Released: September 7, 2011 2:14 PM EDT NEW You are able to, N.Y. -- Producers searching for anyone to replace Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway have arrived their prize a Jonas. Nick Jonas will take on the role of J. Pierrepont Finch the coming year in How to achieve Business Without Really Trying. He starts Jan. 24 and can take part in the role until This summer 1. Darren Criss of Foxs hit show Glee can make his Broadway debut within the role for 3 days beginning Jan. 3 until Jan. 22. Radcliffes final performance is placed for Jan. 1. For Jonas, the youngest from the three heartthrob brothers and sisters, it will likely be his fifth appearance inside a Broadway show. His other credits include Annie Get A Gun, 'Beauty and also the Animal and L'ensemble des Miserables.Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Surging 205-pounder Glover Teixeira may have the opportunity to add another famous title to his rsum August. 25 when he meets UFC veteran Marvin Eastman in Rio p Janeiro. Andre Pederneiras, leader of Shooto Americas and leader of Nova Uniao, introduced Wednesday that Teixeira-Eastman will headline the eight-bout card for Shooto Brazils Fight for B.O.P.E. Patterned following the UFCs Fight for that Troops series, the non-public event may benefit Rios military police special forces, the Batalhao p Operacoes Policiais Especiais (Special Police Procedures Battalion), and can air on HDNet Fights, Friday August 26th at 10pm ET.