Kurt Russell to exchange Kevin Costner in Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

GettyKurt Russell Kurt Russell is getting back with Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained. Russell is within foretells join the all-star movie, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. He'd replace Kevin Costner, who bowed out a week ago. The film is occur the American South from the 1800¹s and follows a freedslave (Foxx) who partners having a German fugitive hunter (Waltz) so as tofind his wife. STORY: 'Kill Bill' Actress Getting back With Quentin Tarantino in 'Django Unchained' The theif list they encounter is impressive: DiCaprio like a Francophileplantation owner who forces slaves to compete in dying matches and Jackson like a vile mind slave who worksfor DiCaprio. Coming onto their email list of antagonists is going to be Russell, playing a charactercalled Ace, a guy who runs the plantation inside a callous manner and whorelishes punishing slaves. STORY: Christoph Waltz Dislocates Pelvic Bone Throughout 'Django Unchained' Training The Weinstein Co. will distribute the film locally while The new sony Pictureshandles the relaxation around the globe. The film is because of get into production inNovember. Russell starred like a serial killing stuntman in Tarantino's Dying Proof,which behaved because the other half from the 2007 B-movie combo Grindhouse. TheCAA-repped actor hasn't made an appearance around the large-screen since but comes with an indiefootball drama entitled Touchback within the can. Christoph Waltz Jamie Foxx Leonardo DiCaprio Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained

Iceland sends 'Volcano' to Oscars

"Volcano"LONDON -- Iceland has selected Runar Runarsson's feature debut "Volcano" becasue it is entry for your foreign-language film Oscar. The helmer has known to his film as "a coming-of-age story from the 67-year-some guy.Inch Theodor Juliusson toplines just like a outdated school janitor forced having a distressing event to deal with his flaws also to learn to love. Margret Helga Johannsdottir plays his wife. The film preemed in Directors' Week at Cannes, and contains carried out at many other major festivals, including Toronto, where it examined inside the Discovery section. Furthermore, it plays as of this month's Chicago Film Festival. Pic was produced by Thor Sigurjonsson and Skuli Fr. Malmquist for Iceland's Zik Zak Filmworks, and Egil Dennerline for Denmark's Fine & Mellow Prods. TrustNordisk is handling foreign sales. The film was backed by New Danish Screen, Icelandic Film Center and Nordic Film and TV Fond. Runarsson's 2005 online video "Last Farm" was nominated with an Academy Award. His 2008 short "2 Wild wild birds" carried out in competish at Cannes. Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com

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Julianna Margulies As The Good Wife's Season 3 premiere demonstrated that Alicia and can are extremely on, the cast provided lots of off-screen entertainment throughout Sunday's episode. Included in CBS' Tweet Week, Julianna Margulies, Josh Charles and Alan Cumming all live-tweeted the New England airing. The trio shared on-set secrets, clarified fans questions and leaking a couple of approaching spoilers (but very few). Our seven favorite facts:Fall Preview: Get scoop in your favorite coming back shows7. So About This Love Scene: Fans did not see what went down within the pricey presidential suite between Alicia and can, however their hot love scene at Will's place a lot more than composed for this. (We dare explore to blush.) Throughout the scene, Cumming tweeted "awkward" because he was watching with Margulies and her husband and Charles and the girlfriend. Margulies tweeted: "My friendship with Josh makes shooting our moments much simpler!"6. Paging Nancy Crozier, Patti Nyholm and ... Jack Donaghy?: "We actually hope Mamie Gummer (Crozier) is going to be back: we like her," Margulies tweeted and Charles stated he wished Martha Plimpton (Nyholm) would return. When requested about favorite guest-star/idol judges, Margulies stated Denis O'Hare, also known as Judge Abernathy, found mind rapidly. For new guest stars, Margulies stated Alec Baldwin is really a dream guest star and CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted in the cast to provide his services: "I am available as the stand-set for all elevator moments later on.Inch (Appears like they do not need his help!)Take a look at our listing of favorite TV workplaces5. The Actual Story Behind the Bangs: Most fans were comfortable with Alicia's new bangs, but Cary (Matt Czuchry) also carried a brand new 'do throughout the growing season premiere. Cumming joked the new hair styles "have been in our contracts."4. What's Will As Much As in Season 3?: Charles says he's not were built with a single scene inside a "proper court docket" to date this year, what exactly is Will doing (besides doing Alicia)? Charles stated his favorite part concerning the approaching episodes continues to be exploring Will and "getting into to his past and what drives him." Requested his favorite factor about his character, Charles stated it's Will's "need to win no matter what and also the cost he or she must pay for your appropriately and personally."3. Confirming for Dual Purpose: Charles might have less court docket moments, but he's going to have a bigger workload. The actor revealed he's walking behind your camera to direct a chapter. "I'm pointing my first one later this year. Very excited."See our listing of TV duos who must do it2. Will and Alicia Aren't the only real Ones Getting Busy: Kalinda's sex life happens to be a hot subject, and Cumming fueled the fireplace. He first tweeted that "Kalinda and Cary are extremely determined to shag, no?Inch before later promising that Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) is "benefiting from soon.Inch Also, whenever a fan requested Alan Cumming about the potential of a Lockhart Gardner Holiday party, Cumming shipped a steamy, if completely imaginary, answer: "Yes, I will get smashed and also have a three-way with Diane and can.Inch That's one method to bond together with your new co-employees.1. The Little Difference Between Alan Cumming and Eli Gold: So how exactly does Cumming step from his callous campaign manager character in the finish during the day? "I take my tie off and rub the a lot of hairspray from my hair and run from the set as rapidly as poss[ible]," he stated. It may also help he sounds nothing beats his character, because of Cumming's accent. "I frequently seem Scottish and also have to [dub] and redo my lines!"The Great Wife airs Sundays at 9/8c on CBS.

The Whale

Separated from his pod in Puget Seem, baby orca Luna looks for companionship within the neighboring waters of Canada within the Whale. A Paladin discharge of a Telefilm Canada presentation of the Mountainside Films production. Created by Suzanne Chisholm. Executive producers, Ryan Reynolds, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Desatnik. Directed by Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm. Compiled by Michael Parfit.Whenever a baby orca strayed from the family pod near Puget Seem and turned up 200 miles away in Canada in 2001, it grew to become the middle of a lengthy-running human drama by turns cute, inspiring, ridiculous and tragic, as recorded in "The Whale." Frantically craving companionship, Luna endured in connecting with humans, leading the federal government to produce an exciting-out campaign to segregate the 2 species. Docu dotes on its adorable, highly photogenic star, but nonstop voice-over commentary and exclamations of wonderment often lessen instead of enhance its impact. Nonetheless, the fest-laureled character pic will not flounder after its Sept. 23 opening. Luna's story was taken by documentarians Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit, who tested their 2007 film at festivals underneath the title "Saving Luna." The docu, which loved unpredicted recognition and won the crowd award at Santa Barbara, ended up being acquired by professional producers Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson. They refurbished it, adding new footage along with a narrator as Reynolds, who casts Luna being an oceanic E.T., a customer from another world making mix-species connection with people. Certainly the playful, caress-loving Luna could fit easily inside a Disney or Spielberg film, and also the alternately affectionate and paranoid responses towards the calf appear perfectly in line with Hollywood conventions. Obviously, if Werner Herzog had reconfigured the footage, he may have been presented Luna like a childishly passionate mammal incorrectly having faith in within the goodwill of mankind. Within the filmmakers' scenario, the Canadian government constitutes a natural villain. Rejecting purports to finance and expedite Luna's go back to his pod, the Canadian Dept. of Fisheries rather devised a stewardship program whereby women were sent on motorboats to discourage people from getting together with the whale. Fines of $100,000 were threatened, as well as creating eye-to-eye contact grew to become a criminal offence. Missing out on his usual pals, Luna then fraternized using the youthful women stewards, not able to face up to his imploring eyes, plaintive cries and playful bids for attention. Meanwhile, Luna's would-be suppressors assume the roles of character stars within this drama: a parent whose every visit created an epiphany, a prepare whose freighter Luna loved to go swimming beside, a logger to whom he "labored" by nudging lumber, and also the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations people, who revered him because the spirit of the departed chief. However the filmmakers don't have sufficient charge of the fabric to bend it for their will nor may be the narration well-written enough to integrate unfolding occasions right into a tonally coherent whole, as "The Whale" veers from frustrated advocacy to near-religious awe and again to family-friendly schmaltz.Camera (color, HD), Parfit, Chisholm editor, Parfit music, David Parfit, Tobin Stokes seem (Dolby Digital), David Parfit. Examined at Magno Review, NY, Sept. 15, 2011. MPAA Rating: G. Running time: 85 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Travers to guide BFI marketing team

LONDON -- Christopher Travers continues to be hired towards the British Film Institute's recently produced role of director of selling, communications and audiences. Within the role, which Travers will require up from mid-October, he'll lead the BFI's communications and audience teams, although integrating proper and commercial marketing, public matters and government relations, corporate and consumer press and PR, membership, and audience and customer experience. He'll report straight to BFI Boss Amanda Nevill, and can take a seat on the BFI's executive board. Travers formerly labored as director of strategy and communications for that Royal Parks, where he was accountable for leading commercial development for activities and occasions in London's parks, such as the Hyde Park concert season, the Olympic games and also the Royal Wedding festivities. Formerly, he labored in the BBC in excess of ten years in a number of senior marketing roles. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

MOG launches free service

On-demand music streaming site MOG has launched a free, ad-supported version of its service, the company announced today, providing access to its 11 million-song catalog in accordance with a particular user's ability to make use of social networking. While clearly a shot across the bow to Spotify -- previously the only on-demand service to offer a free option on these shores -- the new MOG service, dubbed FreePlay, is just as notable for applying a videogame-like model to determine real world rewards. When users sign in, they'll find a "gas tank" on the upper-left corner of the page, denoting how much free music remains available to them. To refill the "tank," users can create playlists, share music via Facebook or Twitter or refer friends. In keeping with its game-like system (the company recruited personnel from the videogame world and recently converted to an HTML 5 interface), there will be "Easter eggs" embedded in the service, awarding more music for unannounced reasons. According to company CEO David Hyman, "Tastemakers and influencers can easily get a lifetime of free on-demand music'' through consistent engagement. Spotify dabbled in such virality rewards during its July beta launch, awarding invitations through the Klout Perks platform, but MOG is the first music service to systematize them to this degree. FreePlay will be ad-free for the first 60 days. MOG's two unlimited paid subscription tiers remain unchanged. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

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Geek Love: Spurlock Cuddles Fans With 'Comic-Con'

TORONTO (AP) Morgan Spurlock went to a convention in San Diego two years ago and found his people geeks and fanboys, just like he is.The director of "Super Size Me" found Comic-Con such a mecca for fans of comic books, superheroes and other aspects of geek culture that he felt compelled to make a movie about the place."Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope," playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a love song to the fans who journey every year to mix with their kind and those continually telling themselves that next year, they'll make it there themselves.Spurlock, who grew up reading comics and idolizing Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee, first went to the four-day convention in summer 2009 to recruit fans of "The Simpsons" for a 20th anniversary special he was making about the animated TV series.Drawing 130,000 people a year many in elaborate costumes as favorite superheroes, movie idols and video-game characters Comic-Con is THE place for fans to buy rare comic books, get the newest action figures, preview footage of Hollywood's next blockbusters and just hang with their peers."I'm there watching this going, 'This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. This is amazing. This is a movie,'" Spurlock said in an interview over the weekend after the Toronto festival premiere of "Comic-Con." ''Later on that night is when I met Stan Lee at a party and kind of just gushed to Stan, telling him how much he changed my life as a kid. And he said, 'We should make a movie together. We should make a documentary about Comic-Con.'"Standing nearby was an agent who also thought it was a great idea, telling Spurlock he should meet with a client he had coming to town a day later. Spurlock was having breakfast the next morning with "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon, and in a perfect storm of geekdom, their documentary was off and running.Lee and Whedon signed on as executive producers, and they joined dozens of filmmakers, writers, actors and artists to offer on-camera observations about the value of Comic-Con, among them Kevin Smith, Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth, Seth Rogen and Seth Green.Shooting before and during the 2010 convention, Spurlock also had film crews following Comic-Con commoners. The cast includes a team creating elaborate costumes to compete in the event's annual masquerade; a comic vendor with a deep vault of rare books to sell; artists hoping to break into comics; and a fan who met his girlfriend there a year earlier and staged an endearing marriage proposal in front of thousands of cheering fans.Spurlock had to sell his idea a bit to Comic-Con organizers. His Academy Award-nominated debut documentary "Super Size Me" did a number on the fast-food industry as Spurlock chronicled his physical and emotional downturn living on nothing but McDonald's food for a month.Comic-Con overseers, who had never before allowed anyone to make a documentary about the event, worried he might do the same to them, opening convention fans up to the ridicule they face in everyday life because of their passion for geeky things."We are incredibly protective of those people, so that Comic-Con can be a safe environment for people to talk about their passions, their love. And he said he really wanted to focus on that," said Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer. "He sold us on it. We said yes, kind of closed our eyes, and hoped for the best. ... And Morgan did a great job in showing it for what it is. I think Morgan was able to show an insider's view of Comic-Con that's never been shown before."Since Spurlock shot to fame with "Super Size Me," he's been unable to attend events such as Comic-Con without being mobbed by fans himself. He did manage to go undercover for a bit at Comic-Con this past July, though, thanks to a suggestion from his 4-year-old son.After Spurlock decided to take his son along to the convention, he showed the boy a Comic-Con book he had created as a companion to the documentary. His son looked over the pictures of fans in costumes and told his dad that he wanted to dress up as Batman."And then he goes, 'No, you could be Batman, and I could be Bat Boy,'" Spurlock said. "There I was the next day buying costumes online, and then here we are at Comic-Con in our Batman costumes, going around the floor. It was awesome. It was a very proud moment as a dad."Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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