Ghost House Bearing Another Grudge?

Viral hauntings set to continueLike a chalk-faced, black-haired female ghoul moving backwards to you across a ceiling, the Grudge franchise will not die. 2 yrs after Mike Raimi's Ghost House Pictures refused any chance of a 4th American instalment, BD possess the scoop the Grudge 4 is definitely within the works. It is a curse that continues being reborn, that is appropriate, considering the fact that this is the hook from the entire unwieldy series. Starting with short films and 2 Japanese TV movies in the 90's, director Takashi Shimizu spun the Ju-On tale into two theatrical Japanese features in 2003. Then he helmed a Hollywood remake from the first starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in 2004, and remained around for 2006's The Grudge 2, which again featured Gellar but would be a stand-alone movie not according to Ju-On 2. After this to date?Then last year, we now have two new non-Shimizu Japanese entires in Old Lady in Whitened and Girl in Black (launched together as Ju-On: Whitened Ghost / Black Ghost), as well as the American DTV Grudge 3, directed by Toby Wilkins, starring Shawneee Cruz in the Saw films, and Counsellor Deanna Troi. Which, aside from a Wii game, was all, so far. BD are unsure whether we are searching in a reboot or perhaps a follow up, but to tell the truth, because of the overlapping and repeated material running through all of the films already, it does not make a lot of difference. Factor is, they are never not frightening, so expect Kayaoko and Toshio to slip you out of trouble regardless of her again sometime within the next year.

TV's Crop of New Fall Shows is Touting Girl Power

NEW YORK (AP) Viewers, it's time to make way for girl power!Among the two dozen shows premiering this fall on the five major networks, women will be standing tall.Of course, a debate already rages whether females are liberated or demeaned on certain new shows, namely ABC's "Pan Am" with all those sleek stewardesses and NBC's "The Playboy Club" with its satin dolls.But that's an argument as old as the term "jiggle TV" harking back to the original "Charlie's Angels" which, 35 years later, returns to ABC in an updated but no less jiggly version starring tough-but-tantalizing Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.In fact, it's an argument as old as television itself.Premiering 60 years ago this fall, "I Love Lucy" became TV's first enduring scripted series, and it continues to serve as the classic template for sitcoms, despite conflicting views on whether Lucille Ball's zany housewife was a victim of domestic oppression or as she schemed to break into show biz or expand her world in some other novel way a pre-feminist subversive. (Maybe both?)In any case, it's ladies first on the vast majority of new shows this fall an overwhelming display of gender domination and easily the season's biggest trend.Women rule on "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club," which portray the fairer sex in two high-profile jobs that called for beauty, performance and impeccable service, even while offering women a rare chance to get ahead."Pan Am," set in 1963, is a melodrama that focuses on stewardesses in their snugly tailored blue twill at the dawning of the jet age. It stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Margot Robbie and Karine Vanasse. "The Playboy Club," set in 1961, is a swanky soap centering on the cotton-tailed, look-but-don't-touch waitresses in the original Chicago club. Starring as those Playboy bunnies are Amber Heard, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Naturi Naughton, Leah Renee and, as the Bunny Mother, Laura Benanti.Neither series has hit the air. But already both shows have been called upon to justify themselves as if, by telling these tales from a half-century ago, they are violating contemporary norms and dealing a retroactive blow to the women's movement as if any of that were usually a standard against which TV shows are measured.Many questions on this topic arose at the recent Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles. In one response to eye-rolling reporters, Heard said, "I think it's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality."Defending her show, "Playboy," and its women characters, she continued, "It comes down ultimately to choices. And just like anything else, if there are choices available and they're making the choice, they're not being exploited."On the New York set of "Pan Am," Garner had a similar message."Men and women are equal in so many ways," she said, "but if there's a way that women have a bit more power over men, it's the power of their sexuality if used smartly. And I just wish more women would be OK with that."Both series celebrate the good life enjoyed even by those who helped serve it up and celebrate escape, even for those women.But whatever the similarities that have linked them thus far in the audience's mind, "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club" are pretty different from one another. And among the crop of new shows, there are many other varying explorations of girl power, including two series with "girl" in the title.The CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls" stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as two struggling but plucky waitresses in a down-trodden Brooklyn diner. The Fox sitcom "New Girl" stars Zooey Deschanel as a kookie lass who, seeking solace after a painful breakup, moves in with three single guys whom she drafts as her surrogate brothers.Even CBS' "A Gifted Man" which stars Patrick Wilson as a brilliant but all-business surgeon has a woman at its core: the doctor's dead ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle), who tries to teach him a new brand of compassion from her perspective as a lovely apparition.Mind you, every new show isn't supercharged with estrogen.There's a romantic comedy: NBC's "Free Agents" star Hank Azaria gets equal time with Kathryn Hahn as emotionally damaged co-workers who may or may not fall in love.There's a parenting comedy: NBC's "Up All Night" stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett as the working mom and stay-at-home dad of a new baby.There's a family-that-travels-back-to-prehistoric-times-and-hangs-with-dinosaurs adventure: Fox's much-anticipated "Terra Nova," with the prominent name Steven Spielberg looming large among its credits.There's Fox's "Allen Gregory," an animated series about a precocious 7-year-old being raised by his father and his father's male life partner.There's a gritty, paranoia-inducing crime thriller, CBS' "Person of Interest," which stars Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson as unlikely partners in a preventive brand of vigilante justice.And in a category of its own, there's Fox's "The X-Factor," the Simon Cowell-produced singing competition.The elusive nature of manhood is the focus of three new sitcoms.The three chums of ABC's "Man Up!" are happy enough with their comfortable middle-class lives. But they want to reclaim the manliness of their forefathers as they reinvoke their inner Iron John."What do you get a kid turning 13 that says 'I'm a man'?" worries one of the friends, whose son is facing a rite of passage into teenhood.Suggestions from his pals: "What about a couple of hookers? Or a trash bag full of chicken wings?"The same concerns continue to plague Tim Allen in "Last Man Standing," his follow-up to "Home Improvement," which premiered 20 seasons ago. Though the character Allen plays this time feels manly enough, he feels threatened by a world going soft and by his minority status in a household otherwise composed of females.The tagline for the CBS sitcom "How to Be a Gentleman" is "prude meets dude." David Hornsby, playing an overrefined etiquette columnist, joins forces with Kevin Dillon as his loutish life coach to transform him into more of a he-man.The world of fairytales has inspired not one but two new series.NBC's "Grimm" is a police procedural where the bad guys are mythological creatures recognizable as nonhuman only by special criminal profilers such as Nick Burkhardt, a homicide detective in Portland, Ore. (When Little Red Riding Hood goes missing, Nick, played by David Giuntoli, is specially equipped to track down her nonhuman abductor.)In a much different vein, ABC's "Once Upon a Time" has a fantastical, wondrous tone, and a decidedly woman's touch: Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) squares off against the Evil Queen (Lana Parilla), who has put a curse on the characters of the fairytale world by imprisoning them in the modern real world namely, the town of Storybrooke, Maine.There, "time will stop and we will be trapped," Rumpelstiltskin warns Snow White. "No more happy endings." At least, not until yet another woman, Snow White's daughter, shows up to help.The CW's "The Secret Circle," too, is sparked by the supernatural. A seemingly ordinary teenage girl (Britt Robertson) moves to a high school where her new friends turn out to be descended from powerful witches and where she discovers her own magical powers.Also on the CW, Sarah Michelle Gellar (formerly Buffy the Vampire Slayer) returns to series TV in "Ringer" as a woman who, after witnessing a murder, goes on the lam and claims the identity of her twin sister only to learn that her sister's seemingly ideal existence is just as imperiled as the life she's trying to evade.And that network's third new series, "Hart of Dixie," stars Rachel Bilson as a brand-new doctor who moves from New York to a tiny Alabama town to take over a family practice amid much culture shock.CBS' "Unforgettable" stars Poppy Montgomery as a police detective with a rare condition that imprints every detail of her life into her memory, where it's available for exact, instant retrieval. This is a help in crime solving, but otherwise a mixed blessing.Talk about girl power! Not only is Whitney Cummings a co-executive producer of "2 Broke Girls," but this young writer-stand-up-comic is also an executive producer and star of her NBC sitcom, "Whitney," which is billed as "a hilarious look at modern-day love" centering on her and co-star Chris D'Elia, "a happily unmarried couple."In the ABC soap "Revenge," Emily Van Camp plays a scheming young woman who returns to the moneyed getaway of the Hamptons on New York's Long Island. Adopting a winsome new identity, she means to settle the score with this privileged class for grievous wrongs inflicted years ago on her and her father.On the ABC comedy "Suburgatory," 16-year-old Tessa (Jane Levy), much to her dismay, is whisked from the temptations of New York City to a new life in the suburbs by her protective father (Jeremy Sisto).The generation gap, female style, is explored in the Fox comedy "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran as single moms who clash with their spoiled offspring.And Maria Bello stars as a New York City homicide detective trying to penetrate a man's world in NBC's Americanized "Prime Suspect," whose 1990s British original, starring Helen Mirren, remains one of TV's best-ever dramas.Detective Jane Timoney is ambitious, abrasive and stubborn qualities that don't endear her to the male-dominated precinct house where she has just been transferred.Surrounded in the squad room by her co-workers, she is subjected to a sneering lecture on the precinct's "beef trust," men who do the real police work: "knock on doors, follow leads, hear the words on the street. Because the beef trust can't flutter their eyelashes. All the beef trust can do is the work."Well, they talk tough. But the beef trust can't overwhelm Timoney. Just one of the TV sisterhood awaiting viewers, she has plenty of company this fall.Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. By Frazier Moore August 29, 2011 "Charlie's Angels" PHOTO CREDIT Bob D'Amico/ABC NEW YORK (AP) Viewers, it's time to make way for girl power!Among the two dozen shows premiering this fall on the five major networks, women will be standing tall.Of course, a debate already rages whether females are liberated or demeaned on certain new shows, namely ABC's "Pan Am" with all those sleek stewardesses and NBC's "The Playboy Club" with its satin dolls.But that's an argument as old as the term "jiggle TV" harking back to the original "Charlie's Angels" which, 35 years later, returns to ABC in an updated but no less jiggly version starring tough-but-tantalizing Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.In fact, it's an argument as old as television itself.Premiering 60 years ago this fall, "I Love Lucy" became TV's first enduring scripted series, and it continues to serve as the classic template for sitcoms, despite conflicting views on whether Lucille Ball's zany housewife was a victim of domestic oppression or as she schemed to break into show biz or expand her world in some other novel way a pre-feminist subversive. (Maybe both?)In any case, it's ladies first on the vast majority of new shows this fall an overwhelming display of gender domination and easily the season's biggest trend.Women rule on "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club," which portray the fairer sex in two high-profile jobs that called for beauty, performance and impeccable service, even while offering women a rare chance to get ahead."Pan Am," set in 1963, is a melodrama that focuses on stewardesses in their snugly tailored blue twill at the dawning of the jet age. It stars Christina Ricci, Kelli Garner, Margot Robbie and Karine Vanasse. "The Playboy Club," set in 1961, is a swanky soap centering on the cotton-tailed, look-but-don't-touch waitresses in the original Chicago club. Starring as those Playboy bunnies are Amber Heard, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Naturi Naughton, Leah Renee and, as the Bunny Mother, Laura Benanti.Neither series has hit the air. But already both shows have been called upon to justify themselves as if, by telling these tales from a half-century ago, they are violating contemporary norms and dealing a retroactive blow to the women's movement as if any of that were usually a standard against which TV shows are measured.Many questions on this topic arose at the recent Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles. In one response to eye-rolling reporters, Heard said, "I think it's just chauvinistic to deny women their sexuality."Defending her show, "Playboy," and its women characters, she continued, "It comes down ultimately to choices. And just like anything else, if there are choices available and they're making the choice, they're not being exploited."On the New York set of "Pan Am," Garner had a similar message."Men and women are equal in so many ways," she said, "but if there's a way that women have a bit more power over men, it's the power of their sexuality if used smartly. And I just wish more women would be OK with that."Both series celebrate the good life enjoyed even by those who helped serve it up and celebrate escape, even for those women.But whatever the similarities that have linked them thus far in the audience's mind, "Pan Am" and "The Playboy Club" are pretty different from one another. And among the crop of new shows, there are many other varying explorations of girl power, including two series with "girl" in the title.The CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls" stars Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs as two struggling but plucky waitresses in a down-trodden Brooklyn diner. The Fox sitcom "New Girl" stars Zooey Deschanel as a kookie lass who, seeking solace after a painful breakup, moves in with three single guys whom she drafts as her surrogate brothers.Even CBS' "A Gifted Man" which stars Patrick Wilson as a brilliant but all-business surgeon has a woman at its core: the doctor's dead ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle), who tries to teach him a new brand of compassion from her perspective as a lovely apparition.Mind you, every new show isn't supercharged with estrogen.There's a romantic comedy: NBC's "Free Agents" star Hank Azaria gets equal time with Kathryn Hahn as emotionally damaged co-workers who may or may not fall in love.There's a parenting comedy: NBC's "Up All Night" stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett as the working mom and stay-at-home dad of a new baby.There's a family-that-travels-back-to-prehistoric-times-and-hangs-with-dinosaurs adventure: Fox's much-anticipated "Terra Nova," with the prominent name Steven Spielberg looming large among its credits.There's Fox's "Allen Gregory," an animated series about a precocious 7-year-old being raised by his father and his father's male life partner.There's a gritty, paranoia-inducing crime thriller, CBS' "Person of Interest," which stars Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson as unlikely partners in a preventive brand of vigilante justice.And in a category of its own, there's Fox's "The X-Factor," the Simon Cowell-produced singing competition.The elusive nature of manhood is the focus of three new sitcoms.The three chums of ABC's "Man Up!" are happy enough with their comfortable middle-class lives. But they want to reclaim the manliness of their forefathers as they reinvoke their inner Iron John."What do you get a kid turning 13 that says 'I'm a man'?" worries one of the friends, whose son is facing a rite of passage into teenhood.Suggestions from his pals: "What about a couple of hookers? Or a trash bag full of chicken wings?"The same concerns continue to plague Tim Allen in "Last Man Standing," his follow-up to "Home Improvement," which premiered 20 seasons ago. Though the character Allen plays this time feels manly enough, he feels threatened by a world going soft and by his minority status in a household otherwise composed of females.The tagline for the CBS sitcom "How to Be a Gentleman" is "prude meets dude." David Hornsby, playing an overrefined etiquette columnist, joins forces with Kevin Dillon as his loutish life coach to transform him into more of a he-man.The world of fairytales has inspired not one but two new series.NBC's "Grimm" is a police procedural where the bad guys are mythological creatures recognizable as nonhuman only by special criminal profilers such as Nick Burkhardt, a homicide detective in Portland, Ore. (When Little Red Riding Hood goes missing, Nick, played by David Giuntoli, is specially equipped to track down her nonhuman abductor.)In a much different vein, ABC's "Once Upon a Time" has a fantastical, wondrous tone, and a decidedly woman's touch: Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) squares off against the Evil Queen (Lana Parilla), who has put a curse on the characters of the fairytale world by imprisoning them in the modern real world namely, the town of Storybrooke, Maine.There, "time will stop and we will be trapped," Rumpelstiltskin warns Snow White. "No more happy endings." At least, not until yet another woman, Snow White's daughter, shows up to help.The CW's "The Secret Circle," too, is sparked by the supernatural. A seemingly ordinary teenage girl (Britt Robertson) moves to a high school where her new friends turn out to be descended from powerful witches and where she discovers her own magical powers.Also on the CW, Sarah Michelle Gellar (formerly Buffy the Vampire Slayer) returns to series TV in "Ringer" as a woman who, after witnessing a murder, goes on the lam and claims the identity of her twin sister only to learn that her sister's seemingly ideal existence is just as imperiled as the life she's trying to evade.And that network's third new series, "Hart of Dixie," stars Rachel Bilson as a brand-new doctor who moves from New York to a tiny Alabama town to take over a family practice amid much culture shock.CBS' "Unforgettable" stars Poppy Montgomery as a police detective with a rare condition that imprints every detail of her life into her memory, where it's available for exact, instant retrieval. This is a help in crime solving, but otherwise a mixed blessing.Talk about girl power! Not only is Whitney Cummings a co-executive producer of "2 Broke Girls," but this young writer-stand-up-comic is also an executive producer and star of her NBC sitcom, "Whitney," which is billed as "a hilarious look at modern-day love" centering on her and co-star Chris D'Elia, "a happily unmarried couple."In the ABC soap "Revenge," Emily Van Camp plays a scheming young woman who returns to the moneyed getaway of the Hamptons on New York's Long Island. Adopting a winsome new identity, she means to settle the score with this privileged class for grievous wrongs inflicted years ago on her and her father.On the ABC comedy "Suburgatory," 16-year-old Tessa (Jane Levy), much to her dismay, is whisked from the temptations of New York City to a new life in the suburbs by her protective father (Jeremy Sisto).The generation gap, female style, is explored in the Fox comedy "I Hate My Teenage Daughter," starring Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran as single moms who clash with their spoiled offspring.And Maria Bello stars as a New York City homicide detective trying to penetrate a man's world in NBC's Americanized "Prime Suspect," whose 1990s British original, starring Helen Mirren, remains one of TV's best-ever dramas.Detective Jane Timoney is ambitious, abrasive and stubborn qualities that don't endear her to the male-dominated precinct house where she has just been transferred.Surrounded in the squad room by her co-workers, she is subjected to a sneering lecture on the precinct's "beef trust," men who do the real police work: "knock on doors, follow leads, hear the words on the street. Because the beef trust can't flutter their eyelashes. All the beef trust can do is the work."Well, they talk tough. But the beef trust can't overwhelm Timoney. Just one of the TV sisterhood awaiting viewers, she has plenty of company this fall.Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Top Moments: It Takes Two on Glee Project, True Blood Dreams Up an Unsexy Threesome

True Blood Our top moments of the week:13. Top of the Pecking Order Award: Tori Spelling's pet Silkie chicken Coco steals the spotlight on Millionaire Matchmaker when Patti Stanger brings an old-school chauvinist to show that the Beverly Hills, 90210 star was a modern woman who could have it all: a family, a career ... and a bird prized by Top Chef Masters and Chinese cuisine enthusiasts alike. Coco stands on the table, preens for the camera and even steals one of Tori's fresh-baked goods without reprimand. The real lesson here: You don't need 11 herbs and spices to rule the roost - just look cute for the chicks.12. Best Suspect: David Letterman may have been a target on a jihadist website, and while authorities are investigating the matter, he's pretty sure he knows who's really behind the scheme. "They're looking into it. They're questioning, they're interrogating, there's an electronic trail, but everybody knows it's Leno," he quips on The Late Show. So we're guessing no more Super Bowl parties?11. Worst Family Planning: What to do when you're bored? Go on Facebook? Hang out with friends? If you're Teen Mom's Maci, you have a second child! "If I had another baby, I wouldn't be bored," the 19-year-old wistfully muses, officially dethroning "to fix a marriage" as the worst reason to have a baby. Well, yeah, you wouldn't be bored, but you'd have another kid to raise and that - as you should know - is no joke. Thankfully, her beau Kyle is having none of it: "You just need to get out of your baby fever for a little bit."10. Don't Put It in a Love Song Award: Has Kasey confused the Bachelor franchise for American Idol? The Bachelor Pad "Godfather" presents a promise ring to girlfriend Vienna - whose initial reaction is, "that better not be an engagement ring" - and caps it off by serenading her with an original tune in his signature froggy tenor that's begging to be subtitled. Something tells us Vienna's laughing at him instead of with him, but at least he doesn't try to rhyme "helicopter" in this one.9. Worst Temper Tantrum: Here's hoping they're having a better honeymoon. On Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian throws a hissy fit after she loses a $75,000 earring when Kris Humphries tosses her into the ocean during their Bora Bora vacation. "Wait, is she faking this right now?" Kris asks as Kim tearfully climbs out of the water and petulantly stomps away. Nope! "We've literally been here an hour. She freaks out over the room, she freaks out over the earring," he says to the camera. "What are the next 10 days gonna be like? I'm nervous." Next 10 days? How about the next 10 months?8. Juiciest Cliff-Hanger: On The Closer, Brenda finally admits to Capt. Raydor that she ordered Sgt. Gabriel to drive away and leave Turrell Baylor to fend for himself in rival gang territory despite Gabriel's protestations. Although Raydor is relieved to know the truth, she is unsettled by the fact that Turrell's family, who is suing the LAPD for his wrongful death, mentioned that pesky detail in their lawsuit. That can only mean one thing: There's a leak in Brenda's unit!7. Deadliest Threat: An obit mix-up for Rebecca and Sean's baby Cathy on The Big C turns into an awkwardly weird funeral for Cathy Jamison, whose friends are shocked to see her there alive and kicking. But nobody is more surprised than "Rugby Slut," who is all too ready to, um, console Paul. Cathy quickly puts an end to Rugby Slut's plans with a threat from the beyond: "If you so much as lay one French-manicured hand on him after I'm in the ground, I will claw my way out of the dirt and I will haunt you the rest of your slutty drunk life."6. Instant Classic Quote: When Breaking Bad's Skyler dares to express concern that Walt might someday end up with taking a bullet like Gale, the ever prideful Walt unloads on his estranged wife. "I am not in danger, Skyler, I am the danger," he says. "A guy opens his door and gets shot, you think that of me? No, I am the one who knocks." Sorry, Don Draper, but that last line is our office's new "that's what the money is for!"5. Most Bi-Curious: Larry meets the woman of his dreams at an art gallery on Curb Your Enthusiasm! And so does his pal Rosie O'Donnell. But after comparing notes ("So vivacious!" "Mine's vivacious too!"; "She's Jewish." "Mine too!"), they realize they've both fallen for the same Jane Cohen and deduce that she's bisexual ("What is that? Pick a side already!" Rosie complains). That, of course, doesn't stop Larry from opting to engage in a turf war with Rosie over Jane's affections. "Spare yourself the expense and embarrassment," he warns her. We won't ruin who "wins," but could you imagine having Larry and Rosie fight over you?4. Most Obvious Twist We Saw Coming: After the girls finally revealed that someone named "A" was tormenting them on Pretty Little Liars, Dr. Sullivan hunkers down and investigates her files. She's able to connect some of "A"'s threats to phrases used by another patient and immediately calls the girls to tell them, "I know who 'A' is." Of course, by the time the girls got to the office, Dr. Sullivan is gone. "The doctor is out," "A" texts. We're not saying Dr. Sullivan was asking for it, but she should know by now not to work alone late at night after her office was broken into. Twice.3. Best Hijacking: In case you somehow didn't hear, Kim Kardashian got married in what was obviously the greatest wedding of the year (sorry, Will and Kate!), what with CNN covering it from the ground. One young boy didn't think so and does what we all probably wanted to do when he video-bombs anchor Kareen Wynter's overly earnest report about the nuptials. For nearly a minute, he blows raspberries, contorts his Gumby-like face in every which way it could go and even busts out "The Running Man." And yes, it's 200 times more entertaining than the rest of the coverage. Someone give this kid a reality show.2. Unsexiest Sex Scene: In an extended dream sequence on True Blood, Sookie explores the idea that maybe she doesn't have to choose between Eric and Bill - she can just have a threesome! Various vaguely feminist rationalizations ("if I were a man ...") are supposed to make this choice seem logical, but really it's just an excuse to show us a fan-fic-quality scrumping scene with less class than a Bachelor two-on-one hot tub date. To "parrot-phrase" our colleague: We had to choose Team Eric or Team Bill; why can't you, Sookie?1. Most Deserving Tie: It's not that we didn't like The Glee Project's Samuel, it's that we really like that awkward Irish lad Damian. So in the season finale, when Glee boss Ryan Murphy announces that both the L.A. indie rocker and the future Finn had won big arcs on the show's third season, it never even occurred to us to cry "cop-out!" Besides, with people graduating and possibly spinning off elsewhere, there's room for both of them (and Alex and Lindsay). Here's to hearing The Strokes and Celtic Thunder on future episodes of Glee.What were your top moments?

Wolverine 2 Will not Happen This Fall, and 5 Other Tales You Will Be Speaking About Today

Also within this Thursday edition from the Broadsheet: Shawn Levy wants Frankenstein… Take advantage of Corddry might be a Warm body… R.I.P.D. will get a supermodel to experience Shaun Bridges… and much more ahead. · The lengthy, strange trip that is The Wolverine just get longer. Deadline reviews that Fox is not likely to begin filming the X-Males prequel follow up with Hugh Jackman and new director James Mangold this fall, due to ongoing concern for that Japan-based shoot in addition to Jackman’s resolve for L'ensemble des Miserables. No official date continues to be set at this time, but Wolverine 2 may not start production before the spring 2012. Stay updated… [Deadline] · Talking about apparently-never-happening projects: Shawn Levy might put Fantastic Voyage about the back burners to direct Frankenstein for Fox. Per Deadline, “the studio is eager to leave while watching seven other Frankenstein films which are percolating throughout town.” Seven! Seven’s the important thing number here. [Deadline] · Funny funnyman Take advantage of Corddry is within final discussions to become listed on Nicholas Hoult and Theresa Palmer within the zombie love story Warm Physiques. 50/50’s Jonathan Levine will direct. [Variety] · A later date, another indie movie for Alexander Skarsgard to circle. The hunky True Bloodstream star is mounted on Disconnect, about how exactly the web can… ruins lives. Skarsgard will have an old Marine who — while facing financial strife — strikes up an affair because of his loveless marriage. Original Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo star Michael Nyqvist is incorporated in the cast too. [Variety] · Chaz Palminteri is placed to experience Paul Castellano in Gotti: The Cisco Kid of My Dad. The Bronx Tale star formerly performed the condemned mobster within the TNT movie Boss of Bosses, but he’s excited to begin on the Craig Levinson-directed production. “I have experienced this film get together in the beginning and am very happy to have the ability to work alongside such great talent to create this story towards the bigscreen.” Al Pacino, Travolta Qantas Video and Ben Promote co-star. [Variety] · Schwentke, Schwentke, Schwentke! Robert Schwentke has cast supermodel Marisa Burns as Shaun Bridges’s human avatar — “the form humans see when Bridges’s character is within his earthly form” — in R.I.P.D. Obviously he's! The supernatural action movie follows two deceased cops (Bridges and Ryan Reynolds) working in the “Rest in Peace Department, a police composed of ghosts who fight spirits unready to go away our planet.” [THR/Warmth Vision]

Len Wiseman still pulling the strings on Underworld: Awakening

Len Wiseman is still the driving force behind the fourth film in the Underworld franchise, according to producer Richard Wright.Despite heading out to Toronto to prepare for the Total Recall shoot, Wiseman - who directed Underworld and Underworld: Evolution has apparently been on call to solve problems on the Underworld: Awakening movie."Len wrote the original story, and there have been a number of occasions over the last six or eight weeks where we've had to rewrite scenes and Len's rewritten all of them, even though he's directing another movie," producer Richard Wright told Shock Till You Drop."That guy must never sleep. We'll call him at 11 o'clock at night and say, 'Oh God, we've got this problem, we're shooting tomorrow, what are we going to do?' And seven o'clock in the morning you'll look in your email and there will be the scene. So Len is very, very much part of the process."Wright said the online system that shows daily footage is also used by Wiseman to share his thoughts."We have a system called Pix, which effectively puts your dailies onto a server and people with passwords can log in and watch them. Invariably the first person to comment on all the dailies we've shot is Len, so he's very, very much the Godfather, not just of the franchise, but of this film as well."

Clooney, Pitt join Toronto guest list

TORONTO -- The 36th annual Toronto Film Festival has introduced an outstanding roster of celebrated thesps, company directors and industry honchos likely to hit the red-colored carpet the following month meant for Hollywood fare and a range of in-play indie photos.Thesps George Clooney, Kaira Pitt, Clive Owen, Jason Statham, Ewan McGregor, Jon Hamm and Viggo Mortensen should fire up shutterbug excitement, as will leading ladies Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley, Abbie Cornish, Carey Mulligan, Megan Fox, Jennifer Hudson and Michelle Yeoh. Worldwide stars illuminating the fest's downtown hub include Catherine Deneuve, Freida Pinto, Akshay Kumar, Jeon Do-Yeon, Isabelle Huppert, Jean Dujardin, Alessandra Negrini, Shahid Kapoor and Alexander Skarsgard.U.S. filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Davis Guggenheim, Jonathan Demme, James Franco, Madonna, Gus Van Sant and Joel Schumacher take presctiption deck to provide new photos, while Luc Besson, Michael Winterbottom, Nadine Labaki, Steve McQueen, Frederick Cedar plank, Nanni Moretti and Wim Wenders are among 100s of worldwide helmers landing with fresh work. The Canadian contingent includes company directors Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Mary Harron, Guy Maddin, Jum Pool, Philippe Falardeau, Jean-Marc Vallee and Mike Clattenburg, as the spotlight fires up Canuck thesps Christopher Plummer, Seth Rogan, Scott Speedman, Sarah Gadon, Pascale Bussieres and Patrick Huard.U2, Gem Jam, Neil Youthful and Paul Williams will even rock the launches of world-preeming docus exploring their on-going work and musical legacies. The festival runs Sept. 8-18. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Joel Schumacher's Trespass will get a shouty trailer

A clip for approaching Joel Schumacher movie, Trespass, has showed up online.Trespass (to not be mistaken with the 1992 Bill Paxton film) stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman like a couple who've their house penetrated by masked thugs.Cage has cash hidden somewhere in the home plus they learn about it, but he does not quit so easily. Things start to solve also it works out Kidman might not be the Stepford Wife she'd have us believe her to become.The film appears like what can happen if Stress Room, Hostage and Funny Games handled to in some way possess a child that shared the same quantity of their genetic make-up.It isn't searching just like a particularly pretty sight to date, however the Cage and Kidman team-up is intriguing enough to possess us arranging judgement.Thinking about the DVD as well as on-Demand release generally is two days following the motion picture one, hopes aren't particularly high though.Begin to see the shout-filled trailer on your own here:A United kingdom release date is not confirmed up to now but Trespass come in US movie theaters on 14 October 2011.

First Run knows 'Man'

First Run Features has picked up U.S. rights to Carl Colby's doc "The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby" for release starting next month. Colby's film examines the career of his late father, a former director of the CIA, through archival footage, photos and interviews with politicos including Donald Rumsfeld and James Schlesinger as well as journos Bob Woodward and Seymour Hersh, among others. Produced by Jedburgh Films, Act 4 Entertainment's David Johnson and Guggenheim Prods.' Grace Guggenheim, "Man Nobody Knew" bows in Gotham Sept. 23 with a limited national rollout to follow in October. Doc joins a roster of recent releases from First Run that includes "Kings of Pastry," "Crude" and "Making the Boys." Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Jason Bateman & Melissa McCarthy Team For Universal Comedy 'ID Theft'

BREAKING: Jason Bateman is mounted on star with Bridesmaids' Melissa McCarthy within the Universal comedy ID Thievery. Bateman is creating the comedy with Scott Stuber. Script's through the Quest for Happyness scribe Steve Conrad with Craig Mazin spinning. The premise was initially for any guy who will get his identity stolen by another guy, also it was written for Bateman and the other actor. That transformed after Bateman saw McCarthy's scene stealing role within the summer time hit Universal comedyBridesmaids and that he pressed on her to become the identity crook. This really is intended to be McCarthy's first film when Mike & Molly continues hiatus, shooting in April 2012. Bateman is becoming an progressively hands on producer, most lately establishing a film deal for less than the Banner Of Paradise, the drama in line with the Jon Krakauer non fiction book that got setup at Warner Bros, with Ron Howard pointing and Dustin Lance Black writing. Bateman is creating the John Grazer, Shannon Costello and Stephanie Davis.

Hear the Trent Reznor Score for 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo'

After supplying the score (and winning an Oscar) for 'The Social Networking,' Trent Reznor is joining up once more with director David Fincher about the music for 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo' -- so we finally reach hear an example from it. The track is stuffed with atmospheric effects, haunting strings and lightweight percussion. Together with the score, the studio has launched bios for every character, supported by new photos. You should check out those for Difficulties (Mikael Blomkvist) and Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) below. To determine all the bios, mind on to the state website. Image thanks to Columbia

Scott Glenn back for 'Bourne'

"Sucker Punch" star Scott Glenn has joined the cast of Lee Daniels' drama "The Paperboy," and once he wraps that indie, he'll reprise his role as CIA director Ezra Kramer in Universal's "The Bourne Legacy." Glenn is the latest "Bourne" alum to return for Tony Gilroy's spy sequel, as Variety recently reported that fellow franchise vets Joan Allen and Albert Finney are set to return for the fourth installment in the series, which stars Jeremy Renner, Edward Norton, Rachel Weisz, Oscar Isaac and Stacy Keach. "The Paperboy" stars Matthew McConaughey as a reporter who returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate played by John Cusack. Glenn will play W.W. James, who runs the local newspaper. Glenn next stars alongside Kyle Gallner in Jaffe Zinn's indie drama "Magic Valley," which will screen at the Rome Film Festival in October. Thesp recently appeared in Randall Wallace's "Secretariat" and Oliver Stone's "W." Glenn is repped by Innovative Artists and Parseghian Planco Management. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

Gerard Butler to Star in FBI Thriller 'The Bricklayer,' Based on the Novel by Noah Boyd (Exclusive)

'Smurfs' Co-Writers Jay Scherick & David Ronn Sell Cop Comedy To ABC

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Scherick and David Ronn, co-writers of the summer sleeper The Smurfs, are taking on another group of people in blue, this time live-action humans on television. After heated bidding, ABC has landed a single-camera ensemble workplace comedy from the veteran comedy writers, which is set at a police station. Sony Pictures Television, sister studio to Columbia Pictures, which produced and released The Smurfs, is producing the series project, which received a script commitment with penalty from ABC. Scherick and Ronn, who started off in TV with stints on such series as Caroline In the City and Spin City, have been focused on features over the past few years with such films as National Security, Guess Who, Norbit and this summer's Zookeeper and The Smurfs.

Activision Blizzard Rides 'Black Ops' to Record Quarter

Paramount Pictures International Crosses $2 Billion Box Office Mark

LONDON -- Paramount Pictures International (PPI), has announced that it has become has become the first studio to cross the $2 billion mark at the international box office in 2011. According to the studio, it reached the benchmark in record time, just 50 days after passing $1 billion on June 10. The feat marks the second calendar year in which Paramount has grossed $2 billion at the international box office, achieving the mark on Saturday July 30, five months earlier than their prior record for a calendar year in 2008. The news comes just one week after Paramount's 3D blockbuster Transformers: Dark Of The Moonbecame the first ever Paramount-produced title to cross $500 million at the international box office; as well as becoming PPI's highest grossing international release of all-time. The studio's successes have included Kung Fu Panda 2, which currently has an international gross of $447.3m as well as Thor($267.4 m). Rango, Little Fockersand True Grit. Captain Americacurrently has an international total of $53.9 million after its first weekend. "Our team has made creating a best-in-class international operation a cornerstone of our business," said Paramount Pictures chairman & CEO Brad Grey. "I'm grateful for everyone's hard work across the globe that helped us achieve this milestone once again." "We are delighted to hit the $2 billion threshold so quickly this year," said PPI president Andrew Cripps. "Credit has to go to the fantastic films we have had to release this year as well as the talented marketing and distribution teams working on Paramount films around the world." Films still to be released in 2011 include Cowboys And Aliens, Paranormal Activity 3 and The Adventures Of Tintin. Related Topics International Paramount Pictures Transformers: Dark of the Moon