'Violeta' is Chile Oscar entry

Chile's Audiovisual Arts Council has posted "Violeta," by helmer Andres Wood, to represent the nation within the foreign-language film category in the Academy awards. A unique committee of some 40 reps from various guilds selected the pic. "Violeta" was facing Pablo Larrain's "Publish Mortem," which performed competing in the Venice Film Festival this year, and Oscar Godoy's debut feature "Ulysses," both created by Fabula Films. Biopic is Wood's personal vision of Chilean folksinger, poet, activist and painter Violeta Parra. "She was Chile's Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan," stated Wood, who marks his second attempt for the large prize. His coming-of-age drama "Machuca" was Chile's entry for that 2005 Academy awards. Pic bowed August. 11 in Chile, where it rated within the top two spots throughout its first three days. "Violeta" doesn't have U.S. distribution or worldwide telemarketer up to now. The deadline for those nations to transmit within their distribution is March. 1. The 84th Oscars is going to be held February. 26 in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Mark Zuckerberg Uncovers Facebook Music Particulars

Facebook Boss Mark Zuckerberg is just around an hour into his F8 conference keynote, but already we're benefiting from early particulars concerning the much-talked about Facebook Music service rumored about for several weeks now.our editor recommendsFacebook Global Revenue Likely to Double to $4.27 Billion in 2011Bravo Launches New Facebook Game for Fans, 'Turtle Time': Meet Its Star (Exclusive Video)Facebook Boss Mark Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair 'New Establishment' List AgainFacebooks Mark Zuckerberg Named 'Worst Dressed' in Plastic ValleyHow Mark Zuckerberg could sue over 'Social Network'Spotify Launches in U.S.Rhapsody Takes Shot At Spotify's Biz Model Not surprisingly, Facebook has added a brand new feature that enables certain music services to integrate in to the service to ensure that as customers of individuals services pay attention to music, that activity is instantly noted on the particular news feeds. The entire listing of services supported haven't yet been fully revealed, but Spotify founder and Boss Daniel Ek considerably required happens to showcase the brand new feature's functionality. Facebook can place every song took in to, r / c streamed and albums heard once passing on permission to do this. Something Zuckerberg known as "real-time serendipity." It saves customers from needing to positively "like" any particular artist, song or album. It takes place instantly. "You're likely to uncover everything your buddies do who are around you, at this time,Inch he stated. Customers can control the things they share, and who'll view it. What's more, buddies may then stream exactly the same music using their buddies' profiles instantly. Throughout the demo, only Spotify was displayed. Even though it wasn't made obvious, it made an appearance that other customers will have to have Spotify installed too to stream music using their buddies' feeds. There is no mention made from having the ability to stream exactly the same tunes using their company music services, the idea of "content resolution" that's been rumored to become a key feature of the items Facebook is providing. Possibly we'll find out more about that because the day progresses. But he did say that it'll demonstrate not just that which you're hearing, but what service you're using to pay attention. Another feature from the music services are a chance to see reviews of overall activity. Instead of listing every song each user has ever took in to, Facebook is developing a are convinced that lists top tunes, top album and top artists. The intent is obvious-Facebook really wants to transform the background music industry. "It's amazing just how much music you are able to uncover using your buddies," Zuckerberg stated. "I'm really looking forward to what this next wave of music companies does with Open Graph. They're not attempting to block... they're attempting to enable you to get to pay attention many uncover using your buddies." Spotify was the featured service, however with an API available to all, almost any service can integrate into Facebook in the same manner. Each individually decides what to offer in customers' Timelines, and adds an "increase timeline" button for their service. To date, individuals announcing their participation include Rhapsody, Jelli, iHeartRadio, MOG, Rdio, Songza, Soundcloud, MixCloud, Deezer, and likely many more. Ticketing companies include Ticketmaster, Ticketfly, Eventbrite, and ScoreBig. Spotify rapidly up-to-date its website having a blog publish highlighting the integration, along with a promo video that causes it to be pretty obvious that Spotify is applying this Facebook because it's U.S. being released party towards the larger public and not simply digital music press (see video below). Stay updated for additional particulars because the day continues. Related Subjects Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Spotify

Lovely Molly

A Haxan Films and Amber Entertainment presentation. Produced by Robin Cowie, Gregg Hale, Jane Fleming, Mark Ordesky. Executive producers, J. Andrew Jenkins, Robert Eick. Directed, written by Eduardo Sanchez; story, Jamie Nash.With: Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis, Alexandra Holden, Field Blauvelt."Lovely Molly" represents a spooky but scattershot attempt by writer-director Eduardo Sanchez to meld the first-person handheld aesthetic of his 1999 horror landmark "The Blair Witch Project" with a more straightforward bump-in-the-night thriller. As much as Sanchez helped to pioneer the found-footage technique that has since spawned countless imitations, the gimmick feels ill motivated in his muddled tale of a young woman who foolishly moves back into the house where she spent her abusive childhood. Still, before it tips over into banshee-wailing, screwdriver-wielding unpleasantness, this experimental exercise generates some legitimate shivers that could entice fringe horror fans in niche release. Newlyweds Molly (Gretchen Lodge) and Tim (Johnny Lewis) have opted to save money by moving into the old, creaky countryside manse that's been in Molly's family for generations and has been uninhabited since the death of her father. No one thinks to warn the happy couple that this may not be the wisest course of action -- not even Molly's sister, Hannah (Alexandra Holden), with whom she clearly shares unpleasant girlhood memories that are never explicitly laid bare. Soon security alarms and unsettling noises are disturbing the couple's slumber, and Molly is rattled by a loud pounding at her door, even though regular police visits fail to turn up evidence of an intruder. With truck driver Tim often on the road, Molly becomes increasingly disturbed and, a la "Paranormal Activity," starts using a video camera to record her movements around the house, hoping to capture evidence of the menacing presence she feels so acutely. These nocturnal sequences are undeniably effective at first, expertly drawing out the viewer's anxiety over what might lurk in the shadows, down the staircase or behind a closet door. But it's a device that can't sustain itself. An early, flash-forward video capture of Molly, hysterically addressing the camera while clearly in the advanced stages of madness or demonic possession, seems to wink at Heather Donahue's close-up monologue in "Blair Witch" -- a comparison that serves only to underscore how shoehorned-in the technique feels in this more routinely scary context. It's hard to shake the idea that Sanchez (working from a story by Jamie Nash) made his protag an amateur filmmaker partly to distract from the insufficiency of the material, as Molly's derangement leads her down the predictable paths: acting up at work, shunning clothing and making inventive use of household tools. With sharp features and a close-cropped hairstyle that lend her an unusually tough, spunky look for a horror heroine, Lodge gives an entirely committed performance, at times going screechily over-the-top but creepily completing Molly's transformation into a dead-eyed, bare-bodied succubus. Holden and Lewis are effective enough as her concerned loved ones. With its bare walls, sparse decor and overall atmosphere of chill and rot, the house delivers all the production value "Lovely Molly" needs. Tech package is rough by design, and despite the problematic juxtaposition of first-person and third-person perspectives, d.p. John W. Rutland and editor Andrew Vona achieve a reasonably coherent blend of footage. Soundscape is outstandingly detailed, though repeated wailings of "Mollyyyyyyyyy..." tether the film to the cheesy horror tradition it's clearly trying to transcend.Camera (color, HD), John W. Rutland; editors, Andrew Vona, Sanchez; music, Tortoise; production designer, Andrew White; set decorator, Natalie McAdoo-Howard; sound, James Ridgley; sound designers, Matt Davies, David West; supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer, Kevin Hill; special effects coordinator, Mark Fenlason; visual effects supervisor, Tim Carras; visual effects, Comen VFX; casting, Pat Moran. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival (Midnight Madness), Sept. 15, 2011. Running time: 100 MIN. Contact Justin Chang at justin.chang@variety.com

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Ash won't appear in the Evil Dead remake

Those of you dreading the Evil Dead remake (and there are plenty of you - check out the comments on this How To Reboot Evil Dead feature) can breathe a little easier today.Bruce Campbell has confirmed that his Ash character will NOT be appearing.He took to Twitter to answer fan questions yesterday and, when asked about the remake, stated: "No Ash character currently."Which is good news. Bruce is probably too old to be chucking himself around a wood cabin kitchen by the scruff of his own neck, and we really can't see anyone else stepping into his shoes. Or strapping on his chainsaw arm for that matter.Losing the Ash character seems significant. It could be that director Fede Alvarez wants to move away from the one-liners and slapstick Ash came to represent by the time credits rolled on Army Of Darkness, taking the franchise back to its hardcore horror roots.Whatever happens, we'll be seeing something new. As Bruce put it on Twitter yesterday: "Last statement: ED remake is a re-telling. All bets are off & all involved love the new approach."We're as scared as you lot are about this one, but we deeply hope it defies expectations and ends up being something special. Or, at the very least, something groovy.

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Hugh Hefner Not Slowing down lower Lower No Expects To Marry Again

La, Calif. -- At 85 years old, the sexual revolution continues for Hugh Hefner as well as the Playboy magnate is making no concession to age well, almost I am the dad in the sexual revolution. Im happy by using it, Hef told Access Hollywoods Billy Rose rose bush in the new interview, before adding that sex remains a sizable part of his existence. I wouldnt condition that it absolutely was the identical it had been once i was 50, however, you realize, Im a romantic but sex is an element of sexual closeness is a lot of it, the octogenarian referred to. I merely permit the women do some lots of work! After getting experienced the discomfort from the broken engagement and breakup with Very Harris (just days before their scheduled June wedding), Hef has handled to maneuver up with new female buddies Anna Berglund and Shera Bechard. However, he mentioned he's no plans for the next planned trip lower the aisle. Yes, Hef clarified, when asked for if marriage comes from the table for the moment. What Im trying to find the comfort of my existence can be a partnership, the one that really matters. Therefore I wouldn't count marriage out its not a greater priority. Based on how extended the mens mag mogul will remain in the helm of his Playboy empire, Hef mentioned only dying could pressure his retirement. Im out when Im dead, he told Billy. In my opinion that doing everything you love, play and work is what keeps you alive. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Greg Master Teams With Ol For CBS Detective Drama, Richard Shepard To Direct

EXCLUSIVE: Former Without any Trace as well as the Defenders showrunner Greg Master has offered another drama project to CBS this season. Red-colored-colored on Red-colored-colored, from CBS TV Art galleries and Richard Shepard and Sean Furst and Bryan Furst’s Ol, is founded on it by Edward Conlon. It focuses on a young hungry detective who's asked for to determine on his new partner who's a legend inside the NYPD. Master is writing the script, with Shepard installed on direct. The Two are executive creating with Sean & Bryan Furst. This is among two sales Ol makes beneath the two-year deal with CBS Art galleries the business inked in June. It's offered another detective drama to CBS composed by Jennie Snyder-Urman (90210), who written Ol’s CW presentation Danni Lowinski last season. The untitled show is about a divorced husband-and-wife detective team in Miami who reunite to solve cases. For Master, this might be the 2nd drama project at CBS/CBS Art galleries this season. More youthful crowd has Take advantage of Lamb, they is co-writing with Goodfellas author Nicholas Pileggi. James Mangold is installed on direct the show, which is founded on the actual story of Take advantage of Lamb, a cowboy-switched-Las vegas sheriff inside the sixties and 70s. Red-colored-colored on Red-colored-colored might be the very first fiction book by Conlon, a detective while using NYPD who chronicled his experience just like a fourth-generation NYPD cop inside the memoir Blue Blood stream. Shepard won an Emmy for pointing the pilot for Ugly Betty. More youthful crowd helmed the aircraft aircraft pilots for Criminal Minds which is spinoff and, most recently, the pilot in the new CW drama Ringer, which premieres tonight. Master and Ol are repped by WME. Snyder-Urman is repped by UTA.

Myron Bresnick dies at 93

Myron Bresnick, who introduced hundreds of foreign films to the U.S. nontheatrical market and built one of the world's largest 16mm film libraries starting with a handful of titles, died of kidney failure in Newtown, Conn., on Sept. 4. He was 93.Bresnick began his career in 1945 with a job at the Walter O. Gutlohn 16mm film library. He worked first as a film inspector, then as a booker, later becoming the manager in the firm's Dallas office. (The nontheatrical market for films included schools, universities, churches, camps, libraries, civic groups and youth groups.)Gutlohn sold his firm to International Theatrical and Television Co. Shortly thereafter, in 1951, Bresnick launched Fleetwood Films, starting with the animated feature "Little Greyneck," as well as several Hal Roach features.To gain a competitive edge in a market suddenly flooded with small film libraries, Fleetwood Films specialized in acquiring and distributing religious-themed films to parochial schools. One of Bresnick's most successful titles was Spanish film "The Miracle of Marcelino," directed by Ladislao Vajda and originally released in 1955.After reading about the film, Bresnick went to Spain to hunt it down; the experience sparked his lifetime interest in foreign films. Bresnick and his company, later renamed Audio Film Center, dove into the nontheatrical foreign films market when it acquired the 16mm rights to De Sica's "Miracle in Milan," and then began to acquire the 16mm rights to nonreligious films like "The Little Fugitive" and American documentary classic "The Quiet One." Soon Bresnick obtained two Japanese classics, Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and Teinosuke Kinugasa's "Gate of Hell," as well as Satyajit Ray's "Pather Pachali" and "Aparajito"; then came films including D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation," Resnais' "Last Year at Marienbad" and some Buster Keaton and Harry Langdon features. At the same time, Bresnick was developing a relationship with Disney; his library eventually included scores of live-action and animated Disney classics.Bresnick grew his small, specialized library into one of the world's largest 16mm nontheatrical film distribution firms by taking chances on unproven films about which he felt strongly, acquiring exclusive rights to many foreign and domestically produced pics, buying large collections of assorted titles and acquiring the libraries of smaller distribution firms. His company maintained its Mt. Vernon, N.Y., headquarters and had satellite offices in Dallas, Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles. In 1968, he sold his business to Macmillan.Bresnick retired from Macmillan in the early '80s and launched Grange Communications, which focused on obtaining and distributing foreign films theatrically in the U.S. Through partnerships with firms and individuals like Kino Intl. and Jerry Winters, Grange released films including Andrei Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia," Agnes Varda's "Vagabond" and Masahiro Shinoda's "Yasha-ga-ike," released in the U.S. as "Demon Pond." Bresnick retired from the film industry in the late 1990s.Bresnick was able to collect rights to film collections from iconic directors including Fellini, Bunuel and Rossellini, with whom he had developed warm business relationships and personal friendships. For decades, Bresnick was a regular at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival and MIFED.Myron Herman Bresnick was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He attended Ohio State U. on a track scholarship and later transferred to NYU. During WWII he served in the Army.Bresnick's wife, the former Renee Abramson, predeceased him in 2004. He is survived by a daughter, Peggy Bresnick Kendler, a freelance writer; a son, Geoffrey; and two grandchildren. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

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Juliette Lewis preps rock doc

Juliette Lewis works concerning the Large Top stage throughout the very first day in the Isle of Wight Festival 2010 at Seaclose Park on June 11, 2010 in Newport, Isle of Wight. Juliette Lewis influences final stages of planning a component documentary about her musical career which is striving to produce the finished film to Sundance within the month of the month of january.The 38-year-old thesp has totalled up extensive feature credits including "Cape Fear," "Great Killings," "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "Conviction" and "Deadline.Inch But she also embarked 10 years about the second career just like a rock singer.She's became a member of with Chris Maybach and Patrick Cunningham of Maybach Entertainment, producer of "Martha Marcy May Marlene," and her manager Brandy Lewis to produce the doc. Saerom Kim and Saemi Kim are professional creating."Initially when i first heard her sing four years ago once i was at Cannes which i had been surprised about how good she's,Inch Cunningham mentioned inside an interview now carrying out a premiere of "Martha Marcy" within the Toronto Film Festival.He and also the creating partners have culled about 400 several hours of footage in to a nearly finished cut in the yet-to-be-tiled pic.Lewis' career has covered hundreds of gigs, first with Juliette as well as the Licks after which it while using New Romantiques, with whom she recorded the album "Terra Incognita." She's completed at festivals in Leeds, Redding, South usa and also on the Warped Tour."I understood once i was 28 that we required to keep pushing myself into locations that I felt uncomfortable and uncovered," Lewis mentioned inside an interview in Toronto now. "I've been considering living hazardously so beginning music similar to this has type of been my delivering my romance with my audiences -- a pleased middle finger all over the world. I have got a genuine muscular voice which get compared to AC/Electricity."Lewis stressed the film won't be considered a vanity project, but rather an look for how undertaking live just like a singer increased to become complete-time primary career with extensive social networking. "In music, your number of fans is everything," she adds.Lewis is yet another huge fan of "Martha Marcy," which opened up at Sundance, with Sean Durkin winning the festival's U.S. pointing award for top drama, in addition to examined in Not Sure Regard at Cannes. "It's the best film I've seen in 10 years,In . she declared. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Toronto TOLDJA!: CBS Films Shuts U.S. Deal On Seafood Fishing Inside The Yemen

UPDATE: The sale has closed, and CBS Films has acquired U.S. rights to Seafood Fishing inside the Yemen. Sources near the buyer say it’s the $4 million the merchants asked for, while sources near the seller say it’s $5 million. Summit got the sale compared to that level. What’s apparent is this is often a healthy deal. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 12:26 PM: CBS Films is at advanced discussions to trap U.S. distribution rights to Seafood Fishing inside the Yemen, the Lasse Hallstrom-directed film that opened up last evening within the Princess of Wales Theater.Fox Searchlight, Summit, Focus and Miramax are actually circling, but CBS appears being tying lower the house for just about any low-seven-figure deal. Modified by Simon Beaufoy within the Paul Torday novel, the film stars Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and AmrWaked, the 2nd playing a wealthy sheik who pays a fisheries investigator to stock a stream with trout. The sheik thinks that fishing brings him closer toGod, a celebration he's shared along with his countrymen, no matter the dangerous undeniable fact that some local leaders oppose it there is a burgeoning love story between his British legal repetition (Blunt) as well as the stuffy fisheries investigator (McGregor) who's situated inside a dull marriage. CBS Films professionals Wolfgang Hammer and Scott Shooman counseled me over that certain, nevertheless the auction moved into today just because a couple of from the major customers saw other acquisition game game titles last evening and caught the film today. UTA is selling the film here, and Lionsgate Worldwide is selling it overseas.The film came a rousing response following a screening, but also for entrepreneurs, the end result is weighing when the film may become well-liked by audiences. CBS Films, that's trying to find game game titles that could play in wide release, clearly thinks so. It is the second prestige title acquired by CBS Films, which will also distribute Gambit, the Joel and Ethan Coen-scripted comedy that was directed by Michael Hoffman and stars Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz. Paul Webster produced Seafood Fishing, and Guy Avshalom, Stephen Garrett and Zygi Kamasa are professional producers. Though Shame offered Friday, that deal resulted from momentum created from Telluride and Venice showings because the picture doesn’t premiere until today. The Seafood Fishing deal might be the first the one that was the consequence of premiere screening. A year ago, the The brand new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases Group deal for Insidious really unlocked the dealmaking. You will discover gossips of bids in on Pals With Kids, and genre game game titles just like you’re Next. So that it appears things might release up just a little.

9 Milestones in the Evolution of Nick Nolte

In this weekend’s Warrior, Nick Nolte assumes his most personal role to date: that of a recovering alcoholic who can’t seem to redeem himself in the eyes of his sons, or at the end of the day, himself. How did Nolte transform himself from a strapping TV miniseries rebel to a gravelly-voiced vet actor mirroring his own notorious demons onscreen? You can always trace a direct line through a few important roles to illustrate what led to an actor’s current success. As such, let’s look at nine pivotal performances that track the evolution of Nick Nolte. Rich Man, Poor Man (1976) After studying acting with Stella Adler and honing his craft at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Nebraska native landed a number of bit television roles (Gunsmoke, Barnaby Jones, etc.) in the late ’60s and early ’70s before scoring his breakthrough role in the ABC miniseries adaptation of Irvin Shaw’s best-selling novel. Here, Nolte played Tom Jordache, the rough, rebellious Jordache (in contrast to his “rich man” entrepreneur brother) who supported himself through boxing after World War II. For his part in this popular miniseries, Nolte earned his first Emmy nomination. The Deep (1977) Nolte’s career gained momentum with his first major role in a feature film, The Deep, opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw. As one half of a beautiful, vacationing couple who discover buried treasure off the coast of Bermuda, Nolte proved he was capable of a solid lead performance — even if this averagely-reviewed Peter Yates drama would be remembered mostly for Bisset’s wet t-shirt scenes. 48 Hrs (1982) After portraying real-life Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady in Heart Beat, an aging NFL player in North Dallas Forty and a marine-turned-heroin smuggler in Who’ll Stop the Rain, Nolte took his first comedic role with 48 Hrs. As the hard-nosed badge to Eddie Murphy’s wise-cracking convict, Nolte has said that he and his co-star (in Murphy’s feature debut) improvised most of their scenes together. This Walter Hill film would be the most successful box office performer for Nolte and would go on to be considered the first “buddy cop” movie. Fighting Dirty 48 Hrs. — MOVIECLIPS.com Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) But it was in Down and Out in Beverly Hills — which holds the distinction of being the first R-rated film released by Disney — that critics, including Roger Ebert noted a transformation in Nolte. As Jerry Baskins, a Shakespeare-spouting bum sleeping in the 90210 zip code, his character is taken in by a kind family (Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler) after he tries to drown himself in their pool. It is in this role, as a bearded street walker-turned-confidante to the wealthy that Nolte was able to distance himself from his “rugged good looks” and as Ebert said, “emerge as a weathered, older, attractive actor [who had] the materials to become a big-league star like Cooper or Gable.” In related trivia, Nolte allegedly spent five weeks as a homeless person to prepare for this role.

Finale Review: Rescue Me

Denis Leary Few things are more satisfying than watching a great episode of TV with an appreciative audience. Such was the case Wednesday night when FX screened the Rescue Me finale (my second viewing, but my first on the big screen) at New York's grand Ziegfeld Theater, a benefit for Denis Leary's Firefighters Foundation. Fittingly, a number of NYFD's finest were in the crowd, laughing at all the right places and cheering at many others (and maintaining a respectful silence when things got serious, which never lasted for very long).It was a triumphant end to one of cable's most distinctive (if sometimes maddening) series, a well-timed tribute to the 343 firefighters who died on September 11, 2001 - the tragedy that inspired, haunted and informed this show and its mercurial co-creator/star Denis Leary from the get-go.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Being in Tommy Gavin's head was always an unsettling place to be, and that was made startlingly evident one last time as the episode opens on a dream sequence that feels all too real. Lou (John Scurti, making the most of his swan song) delivers a stirring eulogy to his fallen brethren in the wake of last week's cataclysmic fire - except this isn't the real funeral. Lou, it turns out, was the only fatality of the explosion, harrowingly replayed in flashback as Tommy fills out the paperwork. A task that nearly drives him to drink - yet another fake-out as we watch Tommy down some Scotch and trash the office, except he really didn't.Much of the episode revolves around Tommy's "should I stay or should I go" dilemma. He flirts with retirement to satisfy his very pregnant wife Janet, but those who know him best know better. "You need two things to survive: sex and fire. One's no good without the other," coos Sheila (Callie Thorne, nailing it as usual) as she straddles the appalled Tommy. He sees the light - or rather, his younger daughter Katy does - after he clashes hilarious at a "sharing playground" with an emasculated "Mr. Mom" and several aggressively uptight mommys. "I don't think this is going to work - you and the real world," declares a world-weary Katy.This scene got the second-biggest response from the Ziegfeld audience. Top honors went to the fabulously slapstick scene of Lou's ashes ("Ashes" being the episode's title) exploding all over his buddies in the car. It's a "Lou-mageddon" as Tommy and the gang are covered in Lou's remains, and we're left with the image of Garrity squatting over the box to shake out what's left of their beloved leader. With a ceremonial scattering of Lou looming, these Keystone Firefighters decide to supplement what's left of him with a box of Duncan Hines red velvet chocolate cake mix. Father Mickey isn't fooled, but hey, it's hard to find grey food, as Tommy rather desperately rationalizes.Even as Garrity continues shaking Lou-ash from his ears, we're disarmed by Lou's letter-from-beyond eulogy, read by Tommy, who ends up describing himself as a "battle-scarred, haunted, formerly drunken Irish a-hole who screws up his life like other people breathe." As the bagpipes wail "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," we high-tail it back to the Gavin house, where Janet goes into preposterously sudden labor - straining credulity even by Rescue Me's loose standards - and Tommy delivers his new son (named Shea, the least objectionable variation on Lou's name) before passing out. When he wakes, Janet begs him to return to his vocation before she kills him, a not altogether convincing reversal, but perhaps inevitable in this show's cockeyed worldview.We end with a call back to the series' beginning, as Tommy addresses a new gaggle of probies, standing before a backdrop of names of 9/11's fallen heroes. Franco is introduced as the bellowing new CO, and as Tommy retreats to his car, he's greeted by a new ghost. Lou, naturally, as undyingly droll as ever.And on this Topper of a buddy act, Rescue Me draws to a close, as happy an ending as the circumstances allow and that we could hope for. Well done, Mr. Leary.Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Denise Richards: I Didnt Continue A Blind Date With Simon Cowell

La, Calif. -- Denise Richards has poked an opening in Simon Cowells claim that they can Howard Stern the X Factor boss used to be set on a blind date using the actress. I had been in a group dinner 8mo pregnant unsure how thats considered to start dating ?, she Tweeted on Wednesday. news in my experience! basically had been setup I didnt realize it! Earlier within the day, Simon, while talking to Howard for his Howard 101 Sirius XM Radio show, stated towards the radio host he was setup with Denise several years ago. We'd a bizarre type of blind date in the past, Simon told Howard, per the Winnipeg Free Press. Shes cute. She switched up eight several weeks pregnant coupled with your dog in her own handbag. Simon added that Denises pregnancy didnt get his fires burning, but he still loved the actress. She's gorgeous, he stated. I loved her a great deal. I believe shes cute, funny, a little of the wacko, however i like this. We met up later on, he apparently added. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Dark Knight' Producer Charles Roven Starting Indie Shingle (Exclusive)

Among hollywood's most prolific blockbuster industrial facilities thinks about the problem more compact. Charles Roven and the Atlas Entertainment, producers of these hits because the Dark Dark night, Get Wise and also the approaching The Dark Dark night Increases and Guy of Steel, is unveiling Atlas Independent, an affiliated company which will produce indie-minded movies with budgets of $ten million or less. VIDEO: 'The Dark Dark night Increases' Effects Shoot Surfaces on the internet Run by music video producer-switched-indie movie guru William Eco-friendly (who met Roven while creating a video for 2002's Scooby-Doo), Atlas Independent is betting about the potential high income of more compact films. "You don't need a ton to obtain even, and you'll possess a breakout," Roven stated. "Additionally to taking care of talent, there's additionally a relationship aspect. Being there on their behalf at an essential amount of time in their careers, we clearly hope that they'll remember us of the same quality partners and good producers and may wish to maintain business around again." The organization hopes to possess just as much control as you possibly can about the projects, therefore it will search for independent financing and discover distribution after production. Obviously, others took bold steps in to the indie sphere -- particularly such studio-backed labels as Warner Independent and Vital Vantage -- simply to retrench when overspending got the greater of these. VIDEO: Dark Dark night Increases: Hathaway As Catwoman Eating 'Kale and mud' to suit in Catwoman Suit But Roven has already been moving on his first lean-and-mean production: In August, the organization silently wrapped the dramatic dark comedy Revenge for Jolly, compiled by John Petsos, directed by Chadd Harbold and starring Petsos, Kristen Wiig, Elijah Wood, Adam Brody and Ryan Phillippe. The organization's development slate features a project including the DJ trio Swedish House Mafia and also the 2006 Black List script Open Grave by siblings Eddie and Chris Borey. Roven and Eco-friendly hope you will see mix-pollination between Atlas and it is independent offshoot, with executives who focus on $100 million-allocated projects also helping to find the indies off the floor. VIDEO: 'Dark Dark night Increases:' More Footage Hits Web See Batwing and Tumblers Jokes Eco-friendly, "Most of us have the advantages of Atlas Entertainment but with no payroll." Related Subjects Christopher Nolan The Dark Dark night

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