Watch My Show: Up All Night's Emily Spivey Answers Our Showrunner Survey

Emily Spivey Up All Night executive producer Emily Spivey has reason to stay out late and celebrate. Her critically acclaimed comedy, which stars Christina Applegate and Will Arnett as new parents, moves to the comedy big leagues - NBC's Thursday night lineup, behind The Office - starting January 12. Spivey tackled our show-runner survey to explain why her sitcom is worth staying Up All Night for. TV Guide Magazine: I've got room for one new show on my DVR. Why should it be yours?Emily Spivey: It's funny and relatable, even if you don't have a baby.There's a little something for everyone. (For the non-parents in the audience, Maya Rudolph plays a self-absorbed, kid-free talk show host.) TV Guide Magazine: What happens if we don't watch your show?Spivey: I will personally come to your front door or place of business, open mouth crying, possibly a little drunk, and ask you a million times, "Why won't you love me?" TV Guide Magazine: What's the best thing anyone has said or written about your show?Spivey: "You're writing our life!" TV Guide Magazine: And what's the worst thing anyone has said or written?Spivey: "Babies kill comedy." I don't think that's true. Not yet. TV Guide Magazine: Give us an alternate title for your show.Spivey: Over Our Heads. But that was already used as Mrs. Edna Garrett's novelty store-slash-bakery on The Facts of Life. TV Guide Magazine: If you weren't the showrunner for Up All Night, which series would you most like to work on?Spivey: The Mary Tyler Moore Show. TV Guide Magazine: Pick a rival show to start a fight with.Spivey: Parks and Recreation. (Where, not so coincidentally, Spivey previously wrote). [Cocreator] Mike Schur, I'm gonna kill you. With kisses. TV Guide Magazine: Let's scare the network. Tell us an idea that didn't make it out of the writers' room.Spivey: I can't reveal the idea but the episode is called "Fart Department." TV Guide Magazine: Of your cast members, who would fare best on Dancing with the Stars?Spivey: Christina Applegate! She danced on Broadway in Sweet Charity. TV Guide Magazine: What makes your cast the best on TV?Spivey: They are straight-up geniuses.Even our babies are straight-up baby geniuses. Straight-up.Wait, did I use the term "straight-up" too many times just then? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Hut inside the Forest (Huette im Wald)

An Crazy Bunch Germany relieve an crazy Bunch Germany, Kahuuna Film production in co-production with SWR, Arte, while using support of Deutsche Filmfoerderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. (Worldwide sales: Elle Driver, Paris.) Produced by Hendes Weingartner, Jonas Dornbach. Executive producers, Ulrich Herrman, Georg Steinert. Directed by Hendes Weingartner. Co-director, Cuneyt Kaya. Script, Weingartner, Kaya.With: Peter Schneider, Timur Massold, Eleonore Weisgerber, Henrike von Kuik, Andreas Leupold, Julia Jentsch, Hannes Wegner. (German, Russian dialogue)Each time a psychologically unstable math wizzard from Berlin eventually eventually ends up destitute, he befriends a similarly vulnerable youthful Ukrainian boy to discover solace in character in "Hut inside the Forest," helmer Hendes Weingartner's competent but fractionally too sentimental drama. Although thesps Peter Schneider and Timur Massold make an affecting duo, pic is have been infected with a twee, publish-hippy strain of German Romanticism, because the script makes its large author's-message points with thudding obviousness, furthermore a flaw natural in Weingartner's earlier photos, "The Edukators" and "Reclaim The Mind.In . Right after fest forays, pic will open in your area in February. Martin Blunt (Schneider) is deliberately recognized with a mental hospital after which it, apparently some time later, released. Calculates Martin features a beautiful but unbalanced mind that allows him to solve Sudoku problems in a few minutes, but his reliance on amounts has cost him his job within an urban planning firm and also the relationship with g.f. Petra (Julia Jentsch), who shacked tabs on someone else while Martin was institutionalized. In the detail that nicely elides what might have been days or several days, Martin is started out for neglecting to pay for his rent. Meanwhile, 10-year-old emigre Viktor (Timur Massold) returns the place to find locate his mother overdosed on smack and basically handles to leave within the government physiques, who would like to put him into care. Martin and Viktor meet in the derelict squat, and despite the fact that they can't speak one another peoples languages, they synergy to create the titular hut inside the forest outdoors Berlin. There, they live in peace and mutual cooperation, subsisting on money acquired by recycling disposed of bottles and cans. Auds well experienced inside the conventions of photos in regards to the psychologically ill will quickly exercise that doesn't situations are since it seems here one of the main figures is battling with delusions, plus it calculates that some early occasions are actually costly-forwards -- which is designed to advise a disturbed mind's shaky grasp quickly and reality. Sadly, this helps it be impossible to work through what's happening inside the final reels when the script ropes in the pretty dental hygienist (Henrike von Kuik) just like a love interest for Martin. Otherwise, it's apparent enough that Weingartner, and co-author/co-director Cuneyt Kaya are trying to make certain in regards to the restorative energy of character and innocence, organized instead of the inefficient, materialistic city, which chews people up and spits them out. The same fuzzy idealism was at play in Weingartner's earlier films, but here's its carried out with elevated importance. Fortunately, Schneider ("Schroeder's Wonderful World"), giving an remarkably physical perf, gets the chops to lend gravitas and dignity with a role that, at its core, is not perfectly written. Craft contributions are professional enough, while not especially outstanding. Editing, matching images to lyrics from non-source tunes by MOR singer-songwriter Damien Grain, is just too frequently on-the-nose.Camera (color), Henner Besuch, Stefan Ciupek editors, Andreas Wodraschke, Dirk Oetelshoven music, Milena Fessmann production designer, Sebastian Wurm costume designer, Christian Roehrs appear (Dolby Digital), Joerg Kidrowski, Garip Ozdem appear designers, Bjoern Wiese, Stefan Soltau re-recording mixer, Wiese visual effects supervisor, Andreas Schellenberg stunt coordinator, Volkhart Aficionado assistant director, Christian Hoyer, Andrea Picht casting, Karen Wendland, Silke Koch. Examined on DVD, Hoveton, U.K., November. 26, 2011. (London Film Festival -- World Cinema Rio p Janeiro Film Festival.) Running time: 116 MIN. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Ryan Gosling & Eva Mendes Parisian Date

First Published: November 27, 2011 1:13 PM EST Credit: Pacific Coast News LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes stroll hand-in-hand at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France, on November 26, 2011New couple Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes appear to be going strong. The Drive hunk, 31, surprised his new ladylove by jetting to Paris this week, where she is currently filming Holly Motors. Ryan and Eva, who have been dating since September, were spotted smiling and holding hands as they toured the City of Lights legendary Pere-Lachaise cemetery on Saturday (the resting place of Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison), before visiting the underground Catacombs of Paris. AH Nation Poll: Do Ryan and Eva make a good couple? Click HERE to vote! Prior to their cemetery excursion, the easy-on-the-eyes pair who will soon be seen together on the big screen in The Place Beyond the Pines enjoyed an Argentinian dinner on Friday night, according to People. They were holding hands and there was a lot of tenderness between them, an observer told the mag. Eva, 37, was previously linked to producer George Gargurevich, while Ryan has dated Rachel McAdams and Sandra Bullock. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Seminar

Jerry OConnell is an aspiring novelist, and Alan Rickman is the condescending literary guru, in the Golden Theater staging of Seminar. A Jeffrey Finn, Jill Furman, John N. Hart & Patrick Milling Smith, Roy Furman, David Ian, David Mirvish, Amy Nauiokas, and James Spry presentation, in association with Matthew Schneider, Wake Up Marconi, Jamie Kaye-Phillips, and Charles Stone/Ben Limberg of a play in one act by Theresa Rebeck. Directed by Sam Gold.Douglas - Jerry O'Connell Martin - Hamish Linklater Kate - Lily Rabe Izzy - Hettienne Park Leonard - Alan RickmanTeaching the young proves a treacherous business for both tutor and students in "Seminar," Theresa Rebeck's dark comedy about a literary lion and the young writers he eats for breakfast at his private seminars. Alan Rickman is heaven-sent as the sexy, sneering, snarling literary legend who condescends to tutor four aspiring novelists who have paid through the nose for the privilege of being abused. But these clever youngsters know how to play this intellectual contact sport, and even though everyone stops short of drawing blood, the civilized games they play are enormously entertaining. It's only natural for an audience to hold its collective breath in anticipation of Rickman's star entrance as Leonard, the once celebrated author who has been reduced to giving private tutorials to novice authors at $5,000 a head. But hotshot helmer Sam Gold ("August: Osage County") has cast such bright young things in this sparkling production that the waiting time holds its own pleasures. The four would-be novelists who have signed up for these weekly seminars are familiar characters without being predictable types. Rebeck (the creative juice behind NBC's "Smash") has an ear for self-defining idiomatic dialogue, so no one sounds like anyone else, either. Douglas (a terrific Broadway debut by well-known entity Jerry O'Connell) is the swaggering egotist who trashes famous novelists like Jack Kerouac while bragging on his own creative genius ("It's not so much post-modern, really, as magical realism") and playing politics. Martin (another eye-catching Broadway debut by Hamish Linklater) is the smartest kid in the room and probably the most talented, too. But nobody knows for sure how good or bad his writing is, because he's too self-conscious (and too scared) to read his work before the group. Izzy (yet another wonderful Main Stem debut by Hettienne Park) is fun, because she's such a colorful creature (especially in costumer David Zinn's exotic plumage) that it's easy to underestimate her intelligence and talent. Best of all, there's Kate, a Bennington girl who's an endearing mass of contradictions -- and cheerfully aware of them all in Lily Rabe's magnetic performance. Kate is the privileged tenant of the spacious rent-stabilized apartment on the Upper West Side where the group meets for Leonard's weekly seminars. (A place worthy of lust, in David Zinn's streamlined modern design.) Kate is so good-natured (or is it self-effacing?) that she lets Martin and Izzy shack up at her place, even though she's got a crush on Martin herself. When Leonard (Rickman), finally comes down from the mountaintop to blind mere mortals with his brilliance, poor Kate becomes his first victim. Pouncing on the first line of her story, he dismisses Kate's alter-ego narrator as "an over-educated, completely inexperienced, sexually inadequate girl who has rich parents who give her everything and who has nothing to say." Leonard's savage critiques are redeemed by his wit, and by the passionate regard for good writing that prompts his cruelty. And when he finally reads something that shows genuine talent, he's generous with his praise. The problem here is that the audience is never made privy to any actual work produced by Leonard's students, which makes his clever pronouncements sound facile and his sage insights seem shallow. The one-sidedness of these blind literary discussions also deprives the other characters from making genuine contributions of their own. But if Rebeck isn't really interested in a serious literary exchange between a wise old statesmen and his promising apprentices, she's entirely committed to exploring the teacher-pupil and pupil-pupil sexual dynamics of private educational pods like this one. Although the young writers claim to be shocked by Leonard's unethical behavior, they all hurl themselves into these mating dances with more enthusiasm than any of them have shown about writing the great American novel.Sets and costumes, David Zinn; lighting, Ben Stanton; original music and sound, John Gromada; production stage manager, Charles Means. Opened Nov. 20, 2011. Reviewed Nov. 18. Running time: 1 HOUR, 40 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

'Young Adult' Exclusive Clip: Charlize Theron Totally Recalls Patton Oswalt

Mavis Gary, Charlize Theron's character inside the approaching comedy "Youthful Adult," isn't the best person you'll ever meet. Really, she'll not really try tough to convince you otherwise. In this new exclusive clip within the Jason Reitman film, Mavis, a effective author of YA books, has traveled to her hometown to restore her secondary school sweetheart, when she meets Matt Freehauf, carried out by Patton Oswalt, in the bar. The Two understood each other in secondary school—well, Matt recalls Mavis at least—and they discuss the honours they won, or didn't, within their "glory days." "Youthful Adult" hits theaters on December 16. Whoever else consider the clip? Inform us inside the comments below and also on Twitter!

Fox Drops Suit Over 'Glee,' 'X-Males: Deadpool' Film and TV Script Leaks

Adam Rose/FOX "Glee" twentieth century Fox has dropped a suit against a lady charged with setting up 100 film scripts without permission. The studio started the law suit this past year so that they can crack lower on dangerous leaks but has backed off.our editor recommends'Glee's' Jane Lynch Wasn't Upset by Brett Ratner's Gay Slur'Glee': 300 Musical Performances Through the NumbersFox Sets Tim Burns to Direct 'Deadpool' Patricia McIlvainebecame a legitimate target following the self-referred to "battling film writer" collected scripts already published towards the Web in order to assist other authors. After she was prosecuted, she solicited donations on her legal defense fund. Fox describedMcIlvaine's activities as dangerous. Based on the studio's initial complaint, her posts "interfere[d] and trade[d] from the pricey and thoroughly designed creative processes that produce finished works ready for public consumption. They harm the fans who don't want their enjoyment of the movie or tv program to become spoiled by understanding the story in front of really having the ability to watch it." Fox accused her of posting scripts for Aliens, Edward Scissorhands, Wall Streetand Gleeas well as seeping a script for that incomplete X-Males prequel Deadpool. Potential legal damages went as much as $15 million. In her own response to Fox's complaint,McIlvaine refused the accusations and asserted affirmative protection including copyright misuse, fair use and also the first purchase doctrine. The parties carried out discovery, but there won't be any trial. Each side posted a agreement to dismiss the suit without prejudice earlier this year. Fox didn't react to a request discuss why the suit was ignored. The dismissal was initially reported by TorrentFreak, which quotesMcIlvaine as indicating relief in the development. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Glee twentieth century Fox Film

R Rating Upheld For Soderberghs Haywire

The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today upheld the R rating provided to the movieHaywire. The Classification and Rating Administration (CARA) had designated the film the R rating for many violence.Within the appeal introduced by Five Continents, the Appeals Board heard claims on account ofHaywire fromStevenSoderbergh, the flicks director, and Kyle Davies, Leader, Worldwide Distribution for Relativity Media. The Classification and Rating Administration was symbolized by Chairman Joan Graves.

Screen Gems Pacts To Remake The Raid

Screen Gems has acquired remake rights for the Raid, the Gareth Evans-directed Indonesian action movie that won the Evening time Madness sidebar’s audience award as of this year’s Toronto Film Festival. The brand new the new sony Pictures Worldwide Purchases had acquired U.S. distribution rights for the original through the Cannes Film Festival, and this deal is smart. Original producer Abc Films is behind the British-language redo, and Evans will executive produce while not write or direct. Clint Culpepper will oversee for your studio. The plot concentrates on a high-notch SWAT team that becomes in a tenement run with a common drug our god, his fighting styles-skilled killings and also the personal militia. They have to fight their solution.

AFM 2011: Groupon Co-Founder Takes New Venture Prescreen to Santa Monica

Groupon, the online deals company of which Shawn Bercuson was a co-founder, had its IPO on Friday. But Bercuson, who turns 30 next week, was already in Santa Monica for his first-ever AFM to look for content and business deals for his latest venture, Prescreen. The online platform for long-form content, mostly movies, but also concerts, launched in September and wants to provide filmmakers and distributors with an alternative to traditional distribution channels, online and otherwise. It features curated content, with a film suggestion and trailer emailed to users every day - Groupon-style. Users can rent it for $4 on day one and $8 for the rest of a 60-day period. "It's not about an investment of money, but of time," Bercuson, who is Prescreen's founder and CEO, explains. Once rented and started, people can view the content for up to 48 hours. And they can share it through their social networks. One key social aspect about the site is the TrendSpotter feature, which earns users credits toward their next movie if they are one of the first 5 percent of at least 20 people to purchase a movie or get three of their friends to buy it. The content owner gets 50 percent of the revenue a film makes on the site, information on how often a film has been bought and privacy-protected information on the people who chose it, including their age bracket, the city they live in and their interests, among other things. With info that a film has an addressable market of 1.7 million people, that most buyers are 18-24 and live in California and New Mexico, and that their interests include cooking, French films and dancing can help with targeted online marketing, which Bercuson wants to start offering, and limited release and other forms of targeting. "Ultimately, we care about shifting ad dollars to online" hope to earn commissions from content partners for digital ad buys, he says. Standup comedy shows, which Prescreen hopes to add to the mix, could also include a link to ticket buying sites in another useful service to content partners, he says. Prescreen, which Bercuson says his team still sees as being in beta mode, already has 50,000 users and is adding about 1,000 per day. Its first movie was How to Start Your Own Country, which got about 90 rentals. A concert from the band The Civil Wars has also been on offer. "This week, we had our first breakout movie," he adds. I Am sold over 550 rentals in one day and stood at 4,092 trailer views and 676 buys as of Friday. Overall Prescreen views stand at around 2,100. The company has a staff of 11. How does the team select content? Bercuson says they look for material that is either entertaining, educational, enlightening or inspiring. And he says he wants to bring people some hidden gems. The site touts that movies on Prescreen get "blockbuster exposure on an indie budget." Content can be in the pre-theatrical, theatrical or even DVD or later stage, but has to be exclusive in Prescreen's online realm for its period that it is on the site. "It can be available - more expensively - in electronic sell-through, but it makes sense to use us earlier in the life cycle because of the research you get, Baucson says. "We have a lot of movies, but don't schedule more than a week ahead," he adds. That allows the site to offer films tied to world events or societal trends, such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. Prescreen is only Web-enabled now, but plans to be on iPads, phones and Web-enabled TV sets down the line. Prescreen incorporated in February, Bercuson raised $1 million from Groupon friends and venture capitalists in March, hired the first engineer in May, and the site is already up and running. Bercuson says he enjoys movies, but was never a film buff and knew nothing about the film business until he went skiing in Sundance with his father and was asked by friends who were attending the film festival to take meetings about digital distribution. "I stumbled in, but it became all-consuming," he recalls. "I saw great opportunity...I thought that if I don't do it, someone else will." His next goal: getting a trial run from a big studio - there have already been some talks - and crossing 100,000 views on one day. At AFM, he is looking to meet indie filmmakers, content owners and other possible business partners. "We're here looking for content and do business development," he says. What has Baucson learned about the movie business so far? The average trailer is too long for online viewing, losing 30 percent of viewers every 30 seconds, he said. "Online audiences are different from people who sit in a movie theater," he says. "Online trailers have to be much shorter." How does he feel about Groupon's IPO, which was priced at $20 and saw the stock of the online deals site rise 31 percent to $26.11? "It's exciting to be part of something that has changed and invented an industry," Baucson says. "I got up a little earlier today and lost a little sleep over it and was checking my phone more than usual. But it didn't change me. It hasn't really sunk in." Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics Groupon

Oldman Wanted For Arthur & Lancelot

Warners is searching for a Merlin...Warner Bros. is really searching to keep onto Gary Oldman's services. Getting labored with him around the Book Of Eli, Red-colored Riding Hood, several Harry Potters and Christopher Nolan's Softball bat-trilogy, the studio has already been attempting to make an offer for him to star in Akira. Now comes word he could also play Merlin in Arthur & Lancelot.The Modification-Up's David Dobkin has written and can direct the Arthurian adventure, which, he's stated, will re-invent the mythology just a little making the figures more "grounded." Hhhm.... Even Merlin? Well, when the BBC can provide it a crack...Joel Kinnaman, who made an appearance in america TV remake from the Killing as well as crops up in Safe House and also the Pitch-dark Hour, is presently kept in to experience Lancelot and Dobkin is searching for an Arthur to star alongside him.Oldman will be a great choice as Merlin, giving some gravitas from the younglings. He's also proven he's a dab hands at miracle, so he's that employed by him...