Oscar Winner Cloris Leachman Set For Adult World

Leachman will play Mary Anne, the owner of the porn store in director Scott Coffey’s Adult World. John Cusack, Evan Peters and Emma Roberts also star in the film, currently shooting in upstate NY from a script by Andrew Cochran. The film centers on 21 year-old Amy Anderson who is Convinced she is the next star in the literary world, moves back with her parents to write poetry, but her parents force her to get a “real job.” The only place that will hire her is an erotic bookstore called Adult World. Leachman, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1972 for The Last Picture Show, is represented by Innovative Artists.

Rundown Of Academy awards 2012 Show?

This really is really the the 84th Oscar telecast line-up, according to popular Israeli film blogger Yair Raveh. I am in a position to’t confirm but he’s been right along with his rundowns since 2009. All occasions are PST: 5:30 PM: Show starts, Billy Very’s opening number. 5:40 PM: first award Cinematography. 5:43 PM: Art Direction. 5:52 PM: Costume Design. 5:54 PM: Makeup. 6:03 PM: Language Film. 6:07 PM: Supporting Actress. 6:20 PM: Editing. 6:23 PM: Appear Editing 6:26 PM: Appear Mixing. 6:33 PM: Cirque du Soleil 6:37 PM: Documentary Feature. 6:41 PM: Animated Feature. 6:49 PM: Visual Effects. 6:53 PM: Supporting Actor. 7:04 PM: Score. 7:08 PM: Song (expect a possible Muppet surprise here). 7:17 PM: Modified Script. 7:20 PM: Original Script. 7:31 PM: Live Action Short. 7:34 PM: Documentary Short. 7:37 PM: Animated Short. 7:44 PM: Direction. 7:58 PM: In Memoriam. 8:07 PM: Best Actor. 8:15 PM: Best Actress. 8:27 PM: Best Picture.

Hunger Games Online Advance Ticket Sales Bigger Than Twilight

First day advance ticket sales (i.e. sales on day one tickets are produced available) for your Twilight Saga: Eclipse had held the primary devote Fandango history so far, when the YA adaptation The Hunger Games needed the crown. You hear that? It's the appear of Lionsgate professionals breathing out monthly before their franchise-starter's March 23 debut. The Hunger Games could still disappear substantially after its first week of release, but this is often a great early sign for Katniss & Co. [Deadline]

Dick estate suit overlooked

The estate of Philip K. Dick has dropped its four-month-old prosecuted against MRC, director George Nolfi and producer Michael Hackett around the share in the returns within the pic "The Adjustment Bureau."MRC introduced Friday the suit happen to be overlooked with the La judge inside the situation. The estate gone after dismiss after U.S. District Court Judge Otis D. Wright had overlooked the majority of the claims inside the March. 27 suit."We are in a position to Not more comfortable for that partner George Nolfi because the suit concerning 'The Adjustment Bureau,' introduced with the receivers in the Philip K. Dick estate remains overlooked," MRC mentioned in the statement. "George is not only a gifted artist, but an individual in the finest integrity also to claim or suggest otherwise is both offensive and completely unwarranted."The suit alleged the accused had reneged by having an seek a share in the returns from "The Adjustment Bureau" by proclaiming rapid story which it absolutely was based reaches everyone domain. The trust mentioned the storyline ongoing to become protected by copyright, stating that Dick never approved publication in 1954 for "The Adjustment Team" and there's no evidence he received payment. The trust mentioned the copyright for "The Adjustment Team" actually was in 1973, in an amount of tales referred to as "It of Phillip K. Dick," and ongoing to become basically. Dick died in 1982.Nolfi optioned the story then restored the option multiple occasions, in each situation, needing to spend the money for trust option obligations. MRC paid out the price to exercise the option for just about any total price more than $1.6 000 0000, learned that the material reaches everyone domain and needed its money-in the trust -- triggering the trust's suit. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Dory Previn Shannon dies at 86

3 occasions Oscar-nominated Dory Previn Shannon, who aided pen the score for your film "Valley in the Dolls" as well as the theme for "Last Tango in Paris," died Tuesday, Feb. 14, of natural causes at her farm in Southfield, Mass. She was 86. Previn acquired Oscar nominations inside the sixties for writing lyrics alongside then-husband Andre Previn's music for your films "Pepe" and "Two for your Seesaw." The happy couple were married from 1959 to 1970 in addition to labored with on tunes for movies including "Inside Daisy Clover" and "The Swinger." She also came an Oscar nom in 1971 on her behalf concentrate on a sound lesson within the film "The Sterile Cuckoo." Other film credits are the theme to "One, Two, Three." She won an Emmy Award in 1984 for co-writing the theme song for your Tv program "A few a sortInch and was nominated one year afterwards for co-penning the theme song for the show "Two Close ties." She sang at Carnegie Hall, written a libretto for Mozart's opera "The Impresario" and recorded many albums, including "Experience in the Grime Puddle" and "Mythical Nobleman and Iguanas." She also co-written with Previn "The Miracle Number," an item for voice and orchestra that world opened up while using NY Philharmonic in 1997, and composed single-lady enjoy tunes, "Schizo-phren," through which she addressed her struggles with mental illness. In 1983 Previn Shannon written "August 6, 1945," a musical statement on nuclear war through which she came out with Tyne Daly, Judd Hirsch, Thelma Houston and Bernadette Peters within the Mark Taper Forum in La. Dorothy Veronica Langdon was produced in Rahway, N.J. She's managed to get by husband Joby Baker, whom she married in 1984. (Connected Press brought with this report.) Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Audition for Off-Broadway World Premiere of latest '60s Musical

Telsey + Customers are holding auditions on Wednesday, February 15 for your world premiere of "Dogfight," a completely new musical that will debut Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in June.The show will probably be directed by two-time Tony Award champion Joe Mantello ("Other Desert Urban centers,Inch "job,Inch "Wicked"), with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ("A Christmas Story," "James as well as the Giant Peach") together with a magazine by Peter Duchan. "Dogfight" was the champion in the 2011 Richards Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre. Occur november 1963, "Dogfight" follows three youthful Marine corps round the eve from the deployment to Vietnam. The boys put lower for starters last evening of debauchery. When Corporal Eddie Birdlace meets Rose, an unpleasant and idealistic waitress, he enlists her to win a cruel wager along with his fellow recruits, and he or she rewrites the recommendations of the sport and shows him the power of empathy. The musical relies the 1991 film of the title, starring River Phoenix as Eddie and Lili Taylor as Rose.Equity principal auditions will probably be held February 15 in NY City. For more information and audition particulars, visit BackStage.com. (Subscription needed.) The casting company company directors may also be accepting headshot and rsum distribution via email from stars who cannot attend these auditions.

Thornton Pointing Therefore We Drove

Autobiographical relationship road movieA decade approximately ago, Billy Bob Thornton was juggling his acting gigs having a burgeoning career like a director, helmingSling Edge,All Of The Pretty Horses and Dad And Them.Then he appeared to retreat to acting, but apparently these projects are available in threes, since Thornton-as-director just made the Willie Nelson documentary The King Of Luck and also the drama Jayne Mansfield's Vehicle, and it is now speaking about his next idea: a road movie according to personal expertise, known as Therefore We Drove.Thornton states the storyline is "ethereal", and it is about "a man who's on the journey and accumulates this girl on the way, and what goes on for them. It comes down to the question of existence: 'What is? Where will i easily fit in?AInchHeavy stuff, but many curiosity about the film today continues to be of the more prurient sort, since an un named Variety inside-source has recommended it's partially according to Thornton's infamously intense relationship with Julia Roberts.InchIt is according to his personal encounters in lots of ways,Inch producer Alexander Rodnyansky kind of verifies. Rodnyansky can also be behind Jayne Mansfield's Vehicle, and heard the pitch for Drove throughout that film's production: "I discovered the storyline amazing. It is a pretty new mixture of genres to place into one movie."Thornton is striving to possess his script compiled by the finish of March, before striking the direction to shoot in LA, Boise State Broncos and Arizona.Jayne Mansfield's Vehicle, starring John Hurt, Ray Stevenson, Kevin Sausage, Robert Duvall, Robert Patrick, Shawnee Cruz, Tippi Hedren and Thornton themself, just opened in the Berlin Worldwide Film Festival. There is no word on the general release date yet, a treadmill for that King Of Luck. Thornton has gotten offers, but he's ready for the one which guarantees a theatrical release.

'House' to bow out on Fox

Fox has cancelled 'House' after eight seasons. The Hugh Laurie-starrer has been on the air since 2004. Fox will say goodbye to Dr. House at the end of this season. The network has opted not to order a ninth season of the Hugh Laurie starrer from NBCUniversal's Universal TV unit. "House" bowed on Fox in 2004 at a time when the network's drama slate was at a low ebb. The medical drama was a slow builder but eventually blossomed into a major tentpole for the network. In the past two seasons, however, the show's aud has dropped off while its production costs have climbed. The show was almost canceled after last season because of cost concerns, as Universal TV pushed Fox for a higher license fee.