TOLDJA! MPAA Sets Tribute To Honor Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan Film Career To Be Honored In Washington DC Nov. 14 By Motion Picture Industry & Reagan Centennial Celebration WASHINGTON, DC Senator Chris Dodd, CEO and Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) along with Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, are pleased to announce their partnership in programs honoring the contributions of Ronald Reagan to the motion picture industry to take place on November 14, 2011. President Reagans contributions are manifold, but he remains a unique figure in American life because of his career in over fifty roles as an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, as a television host, Governor of the state of California and eventually president of the United States. President Reagan often remarked that the skills he developed in Hollywood as a negotiator and communicator served him well when he came to Washington, said MPAA Chairman Dodd. We look forward to exploring those communications gifts during our panel and to then celebrate his contributions to the film and television industry. President Reagans story epitomizes the American Dream, said Frederick J. Ryan, Jr. From humble beginnings as a lifeguard, to working his way through college as a dishwasher, to launching a successful career in radio and television, before becoming one of our nations greatest presidents, Ronald Reagans life is one to be studied, remembered and applauded. The program will center around two events. The first event is a public panel at the MPAA on how President Reagans role in the motion picture industry shaped his role as president and impacted modern political communication. The second special event will be an intimate reception with Reagan Administration alumni and CEOs from the member studios of the MPAA. Ronald Reagans film and television career spanned over 30 years and included well known roles in films such as The Santa Fe Trail, Kings Row, and Knute Rockne: All American. He was the host of General Electric Theater on CBS from 1954-1962. From 1947-1952 he served as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Beyonce States Shes Happy For Chris Browns Success

First Launched: October 11, 2011 9:34 AM EDT Credit: Esquire NY, N.Y. -- Caption Beyonce appears round the November 2011 cover of EsquireRihanna states she resented Chris Brown for a while, but has put that behind her which is happy that her former boyfriend finds success in music again. Beyonce notifies Esquire magazine that disliking Brown was testing out a lot of time which she's handled to maneuver on from that. It absolutely was a lot of anger, the 23-year-old mentioned. Im really excited to look for the breakthrough hes been in his career. Brown, 21, is serving five years of probation after pleading guilty to legal assault for your attack on Beyonce in the morning several hours just before this year's Grammys. Graffiti, the album he released 10 several days following a attack, will be a commercial disappointment. But his latest release, F.A.M.E. (Forgiving My Competitors), first demonstrated at No. 1 round the Billboard 200 albums chart in March it showed up at gold status and contains multiple pop and R&B hits with tunes like Have a look at Me Now and Deuces, among other tracks. Its incredible to find out how he attracted view he did. Even when the earth made an appearance appreciate it was against him, you understand? Beyonce mentioned. I love the music activity hes creating. Im interested in his stuff. Ive been a follower. Beyonce is doing well musically, too: Her albums carrying out a attack Rated R and Noisy have both gone platinum, and shes delivering a completely new album, Talk That Talk, the next month. Her latest single, We Found Love, is her 20th song striking the most effective 10 round the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart since she first demonstrated in 2005. Overall, she states sherrrd like to find out Brown succeed. I'd never wish anything horrible for him. Never. I not have access to, she mentioned. The November problem of Esquire magazine hits newsstands on March. 16. (Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed) Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Amazing Race's Kaylani and Lisa: We're Shocked Marcus Forgot the Answer

Kaylani and Lisa For once, having a cab caused a downfall on The Amazing Race. Vegas showgirls Kaylani Paliotta and Lisa Tilley lost valuable time when they had to settle their cab fare before checking into the Pit Stop at Indonesia's Borobudur Temple, ultimately in last place. "When we were driving up there, we kept telling each other, 'We're going to pay our cab,'" Tilley tells TVGuide.com. "But for whatever reason, once we actually got there, we were in such a rush to get started that we just had him wait and got out." Still, while their race ended early, they're happy to have raced at all after Paliotta lost her passport en route to LAX in the first leg - only to have Twitter come to the rescue.Amazing Race's Ron and Bill: We couldn't recover from two bad cabbiesHow far behind Liz and Marie were you?Kaylani: We were probably like 10 minutes after. We knew [we were last] when we left the temple ... because we had to pay our cab fare and [Marcus and Amani] didn't.What happened during that? It looked like you paid your cab before the twins did. Lisa: We didn't know that the twins got lost, but when we were walking out [to pay our cab], we actually saw the twins walking back in, so they definitely paid their cab before us. I know it didn't seem like that on the show ... so we kind of knew they were ahead of us.Kaylani: It didn't take long to find the cab, but it was a long walk because you had to walk from the temple down the stairs and you had to keep walking on the temple grounds. You weren't allowed to run at all. It was frustrating because we got there third and were one of the last teams to finish. I would say we would say we were there for three hours at least. Do you regret having your cabbie wait for you?Lisa: We knew right away: "Ugh, we should've paid our cab." When you're racing, your brain is going a thousand miles an hour and it was just a slip-up. And it definitely would've made a difference if we had paid because we would've checked in right after Marcus and Amani or just before them. So you live and learn.You guys arrived with the twins. Why didn't you work together?Lisa: You didn't see it, but at the top of the temple, we read the clue, and [Marie] and I started counting. When we had gotten down to the next level, I heard her skip a number. She went like, "10, 12, 13..." And I was like, "Oh my God! This girl just skipped 11!" [Laughs] So I ended up ditching her. She went one way and I went the other way. I was like, "She can't even count!" What really upsets me is that at one point, Tommy had come up to me and asked me what number I was on. But I was so focused on counting that I didn't think to stop and talk to him, so I kept going. That's one of my biggest regrets.And he told Amani and Marcus the answer later.Lisa: I know! Marcus didn't tell me about that, but he knew the gist of it. I didn't know what floor you were supposed to be on because you actually only had to count the hand statues on one out of the seven levels. We were all counting the statues on every level. It was in the clue, but you still had to ask someone where the third gallery was. Kaylani: They referred to the levels as galleries. That was frustrating last night, seeing that Marcus knew the answer and he forgot it! ... I was shocked seeing that because they could've been done.Lisa: Yeah, I can't believe he forgot them. When I finally teamed up with him, he knew he had to count the different hand positions, but for the life of him - once he finished one [position] and started counting the next one - he could not remember how many were with which hand. So once I knew what I had to do and was on the right floor, we were done in, like, 15 minutes.Amazing Race's Ethan and Jenna: We prefer SurvivorHe couldn't remember the numbers? Three of them were 17 and the other one was 18.Lisa: [Laughs] Um, well, Marcus always said that Amani was the brains of the team. And she was too tired to do it. He was like, "Normally, Amani would handle these types of challenges."Why didn't you team up with the other group?Lisa: I didn't see them. I never saw Jeremy and I never saw Ernie when I was up there. I also didn't trust them, either. ... It seemed like they figured it out really fast once they got together, but they were on the wrong track like I was in the beginning. We were less than 20 minutes behind all of them. When I teamed up with Marcus, our first guess was off by one - we thought it was 17 for all of them. So we had to count them again and realized one of them was 18. So we could've totally beaten [the other teams].Is the elimination any easier to swallow knowing that you could've been out in the first episode?Lisa: [Laughs] Yeah, I was so happy to have made it that far. When we were in L.A., I thought it was over. I just kept thinking how much it sucked and what a bummer, so just to make it out of the country, I was happy.Could you believe it all unfolded like it did? And that Twitter saved you? Some fans think there was producer intervention and it was staged.Kaylani: It all happened! It was just amazing how social media met up with something like that. I mean, for Ryan [Storms, who found the passport] to think about Twittering -it was actually genius. I would've never thought to go on Twitter to post that or to follow the Race from the Reality Fan Forum. He was very, very sweet about making sure he brought the passport to us. I've gotten to speak with him and thank him for all his help. Apparently he was just going to mail it to me the next day! [Laughs] [The fan who tweeted back to him] was on the phone with him and was like, "You don't understand! You have to drop this off at LAX!" That was the sweetest thing. You don't find too often, especially nowadays, people who are kind to each other.What were you doing at the airport before he came?Kaylani: We were running around with our heads cut off!Lisa: Yeah. You didn't see it, but we were going online, putting a dollar into the computer, Googling "What to do when you lose your passport?" We went to customs and pretty much everything was like, "Nothing until Monday morning when the office opens."Kaylani: We went back to the car and searched the entire car again. We did get a chance to go back to the gas station, which you saw, but that was within five minutes of leaving the gas station. At first, I was like, "It's gone." But we thought maybe one of the other teams found it and brought it to the airport because we saw other teams pull in there after us for directions. But no one had it at the airport.Amazing Race's Phil Keoghan: We have the most competitive cast yetWhat are you up to now?Lisa: I've been taking the whole summer off and visiting places. I have one last class to finish for school, so in December I'll have my degree. And then I'm just hoping to ... move on to the next great adventure.Kaylani: I am actually working on producing a couple of shows with my boyfriend, like travel shows. I'm spending a lot of time with my little girl. She had a hard time watching last night. She just burst into tears. I didn't realize it was going to affect her like that to see her cry. She was just like, "Mom! Why are you not on the Race?!" ... We're moving to L.A. right now so I can spend some time with my best friend Rachel [from Big Brother].Too bad you guys couldn't both win your shows in the same year.Kaylani: I know! We were both hoping that!

Joel Schumacher Tells Movieline About the Time He Wrote The Wiz

This week brings Trespass, the latest film from Joel Schumacher. The occasion prompted the opportunity for Movieline to have a candid, wide-ranging chat with the veteran filmmaker about his career, his critics and his humble origins as a costume designer in the 1970s. And despite his glossy new thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, one subject demanded even more attention: The Wiz, the Motown musical directed by Sidney Lumet and written, in his brief, scrappy scribe-for-hire days, by Schumacher. I’ll have more with Schumacher later this week, but his recollection of the road leading to the legendary Bad Movie We Love — and the relationships it yielded, from composer Quincy Jones to co-star Michael Jackson, on several of whose videos Schumacher said he later passed on directing — is just, well, priceless. “I got it because my first two scripts that I sold and that got made were Sparkle, which is about three African-American girls in Harlem who become stars — sort of a precursor to Dreamgirls — and Car Wash. So I was kind of the black writer to some people,” Schumacher chuckled. “Sidney Lumet was a social friend of mine, and he asked to write the screenplay for The Wiz. I saw the play, and it was so magical that I didn’t think I could do anything with it at all. I said no. And everybody in Hollywood that I knew as friends or who were in the business said, ‘Are you insane? You’re not going to do a huge musical with Sidney Lumet?’ And I was so impressionable then that I thought there must be something wrong with me. “So I got on a plane to go to NY to meet with Sidney, and when I got off the plane, Sidney said, ‘I have great news for you: Diana Ross is going to play Dorothy.’ And I played catch-up from then on, because my first conversation with Sidney was that we were going to go all over the United States and find a girl who was the appropriate age for The Wizard of Oz. And the concept of Oz being Manhattan… You know, Sidney was such a NYer, and NY was one of the stars of the movie. Well, I hadn’t planned on any of that, nor was the play like that at all. I played catch-up the rest of the time, and I tried to roll with the punches the best I could. But, you know: Dorothy was suddenly 39 years old and a spinster in Harlem. “I think everybody worked their asses off,” he continued. “The movie is so loaded with talent. I think that it was historic; I don’t think any African-American film had been made at that budget, and I think, at the time, Sidney was the only one who could have made that happen. And I was working with Lena Horne and Diana Ross and Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson when he was 17. Nipsey Russell. All the great people who are in that movie! Ted Ross, who played the lion. Mabel King. I was working with brilliant and talented people. The great Ozzie [Oswald] Morris, a very, very legendary cinematographer. It was quite an experience. “Remember, I’m coming from Car Wash, which is a day in the life of a car wash and was made for $750,000. No one knew that Car Wash was going to be Car Wash — certainly not me. In fact, one of the big moguls in Hollywood came to me and said, ‘What is this movie you’ve written?’ And I told him, and he said, ‘Joel, people do not go to the movies to see black people washing cars. People go to the movies to see…’ I can remember, he sort of put his hands up and blocked the words in front his face: ‘Lawrence. Of. Arabia. Gone. With. The. Wind. They do not come to see black people washing cars.’ And I remember when I left, it was night. I had a little Karmann Ghia convertible, and I never could figure out how to put the top up. And I literally had a white-knuckle ride home thinking, ‘He’s a billionaire. He’s one of the smartest people I know. Oh my God. I am making a movie about black people washing cars!’” Schumacher laughed. “And then I thought, ‘But I think it’s pretty good and pretty funny!’ So we had the last laugh, obviously. “I never thought I totally got my ass in the seat because the direction of it had changed so much. But the movie is so beloved, especially in the African-American community. Everyone grew up on it. Everybody’s kids love it. And I think that’s true of some of the Caucasian community, too. I mean, it’s quite a fascinating film visually, and it does have Michael Jackson at that age, which will be forever preserved, and Lena Horne, who nobody may ever know of or see any other way. I’m still friends with Quincy Jones to this day. Michael and I stayed in contact for many years. He was always trying to get me to do a music video or put him in a movie.” Alas, Schumacher and Jackson never collaborated. “‘Scream’ was the last video I turned down with him,” the filmmaker said, explaining that he was already committed to a range of projects during a particularly prolific period that yielded his two Batman movies and his hit John Grisham adaptations The Client and A Time to Kill. “That was the last conversation I think we had together; it was right around the time of ‘Scream.’ And if you’d met Michael when I knew Michael, you’d never have believed that he could have done anything to his face or anything. He was such a beautiful, brilliant talent. Well, he was always a brilliant talent. But it would have been impossible to know that there were demons lurking in that shy, exquisitely mannered, young, beautiful boy. The minute Sidney yelled, ‘Action,’ it was like, ‘Oh my God. Look at this child.’” Now you know. There’s more where this came from, too; please do check out the rest of Movieline’s chat with Joel Schumacher later this week.

Friday B.O.: 'Real Steel' punches up $25 mil

'Real Steel'Early Friday box office returns indicate that Shawn Levy's "Real Steel" will hit a minimum of $25 million a few days ago, which makes it the very first new wide-release to win the domestic B.O. per month. Pic, allocated at north of $110 million, is forecasted to earn between $9 and $11 million for Friday, making B.O. experts peg the film within the mid to high $20 million range. Some B.O. viewers state that the pic will probably take advantage of person to person buzz and family auds on Saturday. Second place will probably visit George Clooney's "Ides of March," which B.O. viewers say will earn between $3.5 and $4 million Friday, using it pace to gross around $11 million for that weekend. Meanwhile "Dolphin Tale," which won last weekend in the sophomore sesh, is once more holding over well, having a forecasted take with a minimum of $ten million because of its 3rd frame -- a 29% drop from last weekend. Using the three dimensional re-discharge of "The Lion King" gobbling up admissions since its Sept. 16 bow, the final original pic to consider to begin with was "Contagion," which opened up Sept. 9. Among other holdovers, "50/50" is forecasted to earn a $4.5 million to $5.5 million for in the second week, while "Courageous" is anticipated to decrease about 50% from last weekend and earn near $4.5 million. B.O. experts expect "Dream House" and "What's Your Number" to decrease about 50% to 55% for that weekend, projecting $4 million and $2.5 million cumes, correspondingly. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

'The Artist' to spread out Santa Further ed fest

The Santa Further ed Film Festival has set Michel Hazanavicius' "The Artist" since it's opening evening film on March. 20 for that four-day festival, now in the twelfth year. "The Artist" stars Jean Dujardin, who won Best Actor in the Cannes Film Festival. The festival also introduced Friday the selection includes the U.S. premiere of British director Terence Davies' postwar romantic drama "The Dark Blue Ocean" starring Rachel Weisz. Its closing evening film is going to be "Monsieur Lazhar," directed by Philippe Falardeau, Canada's official submission towards the 84th Oscars for the best Language Film. "Ninja Kids," a comedy from Takashi Miike ("13 Assassins"), will even get a special screening in the Lensic Carrying out Arts Center. Selection includes Finland's Oscar entry "Le Havre," Iran's Oscar entry "A Separation," Turkey's Oscar entry "Not So Long Ago in Anatolia" and "Wild Horses and Renegades," directed by James Anaquad Kleinert, Diane Schneier Perrin, who's creating credits include "Blue Steel," "Talk Radio" and "Turnaround of Fortune," may be the professional director from the festival. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

The X Factor Final 32 Are Named, Judges Find Out Which Groups Theyre Mentoring

First Published: October 6, 2011 10:27 PM EDT Credit: FOX LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Chris Rene, 28, performs in front of the judges and thousands of audience members on The X Factors debut episode on September 21, 2011The X Factor boot camp is over and three competitors who captured Americas attention following the premiere of Simon Cowells singing competition just weeks ago, have made it through to the next round where the judges become mentors. Chris Rene, the 28-year-old trash collector, working on maintaining sobriety, who impressed the judges and America with his own song Young Homie in the audition round, is carrying on and will be coached by L.A. Reid, who was given the Boys group on Thursday nights episode. L.A. will also coach Brennin Hunt, the model-worthy country singer, Nick Voss, who looked like a young Elvis, but danced like Michael Jackson, and Marcus Canty, who covered Stevie Wonders I Wish at his audition. Another premiere night competitor, the plucky Rachel Crow, now 14, who mentioned shed like to win the $5 million prize so she doesnt have to share the bathroom with her whole family, also made it after stirring the crowd with a monumental version of Beyonces If I Were A Boy, as she competed again to stay. Rachel and the rest of the Girls group, including Tora Woloshin, the bleach blonde, tattooed pop powerhouse, and red lipstick-wearing Tiah Tolliver, who split the judges at her audition, will be mentored by Simon Cowell. Although she wanted the Girls group, Nicole Scherzinger was given the Over 30s, a group which includes premiere night standout 42-year-old Stacy Francis, who missed her fathers funeral to stay in the competition. Also being mentored by Nicole is 59-year-old LeRoy Bell, with the soulful, Cat Stevens-like voice, and burrito maker Josh Krajick, from Columbus, Ohio. Paula Abdul will coach the Groups category, which included siblings The Brewer Boys, as well as The Stereo Hogzz. Two groups were actually formed out of some of the solo singers who were cut from the solo categories. The full list of contestants carrying on to work with the judges at their homes are: Girls, mentored by Simon Cowell: Caitlin Koch Tora Woloshin Simone Battle Drew Winowicz Rachel Crow Jaslyn Little Melanie Amaro Tiah Tolliver Boys, mentored by L.A. Reid: Brennin Hunt Bryan Bradley Skyelor Anderson Nick Voss Tim Cifers Phillip Lomax Marcus Canty Chris Rene Groups, mentored by Paula Abdul: The Stereo Hogzz 2Squard 4Shore The Brewer Boys Illusion / Confusion The Anser * and two groups composed out of those who were initially rejected as soloists Over 30s, mentored by Nicole Scherzinger: Elaine Gibbs Tiger Budbill LeRoy Bell James Kenney Josh Krajick Christa Collins Dexter Stacy Francis Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.