Bill Hader On Personally And My Shadow

Kate Hudson also voicing the 'toonIt's been a while since we heard much about among DreamWorks Animation's projects, Me And My Shadow, that's been bubbling away since it has been around since December 2010. Nevertheless the 'toon team have let slip particulars in the movie's lead voice cast, with Bill Hader, Kate Hudson and Josh Gad since the primary trio. Shadow focuses on Stan, a shadow (Hader) who's bored and amplified of his being attached to the timid and dull human Stanley Grubb (Gad). However a criminal offence inside the shadow community expects each of them, together with a villain from Stan's side starts leading a rebellion to think about inside the human world. To stop him, Stan must assume control of Stanley, which leads to popular adventure for all of them. Hudson factors to the story as an love interest for Grubb.Tom J Astle and Matt Ember, who done Get Smart, authored the script. And The Way To Teach Your Dragon's mind of story, Alessandro Carloni, has already established over as director, making his first transfer towards the large chair.This could also mark something from the departure for DWA, since it'll blend 2D hands-attracted animation for your shadow world with 3d CGI for that own. The film is scheduled striking on November 13 next season, there's however no sign yet whether it will likely be day-and-date the following.Hader, which has the 'toon likes of Cloudy Getting Possible Of Meatballs already on his CV, will next appear as Andy Warhol that face men In Black 3. Hudson just done The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Gad, that's been trading nearly all his time turning up on Broadway inside the Book Of Mormon, will next be heard rather than noticed in Ice Age: Continental Drift.

VIDEO: Barack Obama Belts Out Al Green Lyrics

President Barack Obama, Al Green Who knew the President could sing? During a fundraiser Thursday at NY's Apollo Theater, President Obama paid tribute to soul legend Al Green by actually singing a few bars of "Let's Stay Together." "Don't worry, Rev. I cannot sing like you," Obama said after his musical interlude. "I just wanted to show my appreciation." (But he's really not too bad either!) Watch Obama in action below and decide for yourself:

The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham: Abby Bennett's Involvement in the Mythology Is Shocking

Kat Graham and Persia White What does a vampire do when he can't get the job done? Call on a witch. As we last saw on The Vampire Diaries, Stefan Salvatore is looking to take Klaus down, but a locked coffin stands in his way. Bonnie's powers seem to be the only thing that can uncover the key to destroying the most dangerous hybrid in town. "Stefan feels that it's so important to his freedom, it's detrimental to everything that he wants, to get [the coffin open] because he doesn't want to deal with Klaus anymore on any level," Kat Graham tells TVGuide.com. "He calls on Bonnie [who's] resistant at first like." Sibling betrayal, lots of blood and more scoop from Vampire Diaries' midseason premiere But Bonnie doesn't just have decide if she should unlock the coffin. She's caught between Stefan's plea for help and best friend Elena, who strongly opposes Stefan's plans for revenge. "How Elena is affected in all this really is very important to Bonnie [so] she's going to be weighing all the options. If she does [open the coffin], does she let Elena know? Does she not let Elena know? What would happen if she lets Elena know?" she says. The Vampire Diaries Bite: Tyler and Caroline's relationship is on the brink of implosion Ironically, Bonnie's involvement with Stefan leads her to an important person in her life: her mother, Abby Bennett. "This leads her back to finding her mother who, we'll learn, left town 15 years ago, gave up her witchcraft and gave up her family," executive producer Julie Plec says. "[She'll be] reuniting and working out a lot of issues with her mother." Graham adds that Abby's involvement in the mythology is "intriguing and shocking and important and you'll be surprised." Watch this week's Vampire Diaries Bite for Graham's thoughts on a Bonnie-Jeremy reconciliation:

Wild Bunch inks deal with Twisted Pictures

Pan-European sales and distribution group Wild Bunch has inked a three-year output deal with Mark Burg's Twisted Pictures, the label behind the "Saw" horror franchise. Twisted Pictures expects to produce two pics in the first year under the deal, and one to two films each year thereafter. Wild Bunch will acquire and handle international sales rights. Twisted Pictures is Evolution's genre arm, where Burg and prexy Michael Benchel will continue to spearhead the development and production team. Shingle "creates genre pictures with compelling storylines and a quality approach that rises above the crowd," said Wild Bunch CEO Vincent Grimond. Burg said, "From 'Sin City' to 'Paranormal Activity' to 'Insidious,' Wild Bunch's range of movie picks has been on the leading edge of what young audiences are craving." Deal was arranged by Menchel and Continental Entertainment Capital's Benjamin Waisbren. Burg, Menchel and Waisbren will serve as producers at Twisted Pictures. Burg founded Evolution in the late 1990s with Oren Koules and launched Twisted Pictures in 2004 with Koules and the late Gregg Hoffman. Burg split from Koules in June and rejigged the shingle, appointing former CAA agent Menchel as prexy. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Will Paul Rudd Play Leslie Knope's Opponent on Parks and Rec?

Paul Rudd Leslie Knope is one strong contender for City Council, but there's one man who could be brave enough to oppose her. Paul Rudd is reportedly joining the race for Pawnee City Council on Parks and Recreation, according to Vulture. A source tells the site that Rudd shot his scenes sometime last year and will appear in at least one upcoming episode of the NBC comedy. Exclusive: Parks and Recreation books a comedy icon Previously, speculation surrounded Kathryn Hahn (Free Agents) for the role, but she'll instead play an adviser to one of Leslie's rivals. Comedy great Carl Reiner will also guest-star as one of Pawnee's most powerful elders. Rudd is mainly known for his big-screen credits such as Role Models and I Love You, Man. On TV, he played the recurring character Mike Hannigan on Friends and guest-starred on Veronica Mars. Do you think Rudd would make a good opponent for Leslie?

Movie musicmakers

The tunesmiths and supervisors behind first-quarter theatrical releases:ATO Pictures"Thin Ice"Release date: Feb. 17 Director: Jill Sprecher Composer: Jeff Danna Music supervisor: Doug Bernheim "The Monk"Release date: March/April Director: Dominik Moll Composer: Alberto Iglesias Disney "Beauty and the Beast (3D)"Release date: Jan. 13 Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Composer: Alan Menken "The Secret World of Arrietty"Release date: Feb. 17 Directors: Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Gary Rydstrom Composer: Cecile Corbel "John Carter"Release date: March 9 Director: Andrew Stanton Composer: Michael Giacchino Focus Features "Being Flynn"Release date: March 2 Director: Paul Weitz Composer: Badly Drawn Boy Music supervisor: Linda Cohen IFC "Perfect Sense"Release date: Feb. 3 Director: David Mackenzie Composer: Tom Sayer "The Forgiveness of Blood"Release date: Feb. 24 Director: Joshua Marston Composers: Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman "The Kid With a Bike"Release date: March 16 Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Lionsgate "One For the Money"Release date: Jan. 21 Director: Julie Anne Robinson Composer: Deborah Lurie Music supervisors: Brian McNelis, Eric Craig "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds"Release date: Feb. 24 Director: Tyler Perry Composer: Aaron Zigman Music supervisor: Joel C. High "The Cabin in the Woods"Release date: April 13 Director: Drew Goddard Composer: David Julyan Music supervisor: Dana Sano Magnolia Pictures "Roadie"Release date: Jan. 6 Director: Michael Cuesta Composer: Chris Seefried Music supervisor: Robin Urdang "The Innkeepers"Release date: Feb. 3 Director: Ti West Composer: Jeff Grace Music supervisor: Marguerite Phillips "Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie"Release date: March 2 Director: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim Composer: Davin Wood "Jiro Dreams of Sushi"Release date: March 9 Director: David Gelb Music supervisors: Janet Billing Rich, David Rich "Playback"Release date: March 9 Director: Michael A. Nickles Composer: Woody Pak Music supervisor: John B. Davis "Sound of Noise"Release date: March 9 Directors: Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson Composer: Fred Avril Music supervisors: Pierre-Marie Dru, Clement Souchier "Goon"Release date: March 30 Director: Michael Dowse Composer: Ramachandra Borcar Music supervisor: Evan Dubinski "The Hunter"Release date: April 6 Director: Daniel Nettheim Composer: Matteo Zingales Pantelion "Casa de mi Padre"Release date: March 16 Director: Matt Piedmont Composer: Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau Music supervisor: Hal Willner Paramount "The Devil Inside"Release date: Jan. 6 Director: William Brent Bell Composers: Brett Detar, Ben Romans "Jeff, Who Lives at Home"Release date: March 2 Directors: Jay and Mark Duplass Composer: Michael Andrews Music supervisor: Marguerite Phillips "A Thousand Words"Release date: March 23 Director: Brian Robbins Composer: John Debney Music supervisor: Madonna Wade-Reed "Titanic (3D)"Release date: April 6 Director: James Cameron Composer: James Horner Music supervisor: Randy Gerston Relativity "Haywire"Release date: Jan 20 Director: Steven Soderbergh Composer: David Holmes "Act of Valor"Release date: Feb 24 Directors: Scott Waugh, Mike "Mouse" McCoy Composer: Nathan Furst Music supervisors: Peter Afterman, Alison Litton "The Raven"Release date: March 9 Director: James McTeigue Composer: Lucas Vidal "Mirror Mirror"Release date: March 16 Director: Tarsem Singh Composer: Alan Menken Music supervisors: Happy Walters, Bob Bowen Samuel Goldwyn Films "The Island President"Release date: March 28 Director: Jon Shenk Music by: Radiohead, Stars of the Lid Additional music composed by: Marco D'Ambrosio Screen Gems "Underworld Awakening"Release date: Jan. 20 Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein Composer: Paul Haslinger "The Vow"Release date: Feb. 10 Director: Michael Sucsy Composers: Rachel Portman, Michael Brook Music supervisors: Randall Poster, Stephanie Diaz-Matos "Think Like a Man"Release date: March 9 Director: Tim Story Composer: Christopher Lennertz Music supervisor: Spring Aspers Sony "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D)"Release date: Feb. 17 Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor Composer: David Sardy Music supervisor: Kier Lehman "21 Jump Street"Release date: March 16 Director: Phil Lord Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh "The Pirates! Band of Misfits (3D)"Release date: March 30 Director: Peter Lord Composer: Theodore Shapiro Music consultant: Nick Angel Sony Pictures Classics "In Darkness"Release date: Feb. 10 Director: Agnieszka Holland Composer: Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz "Footnote"Release date: March 9 Director: Joseph Cedar Composer: Amit Poznansky "The Raid"Release date: March 23 Director: Gareth Huw Evans Composers: Mike Shinoda, Joseph Trapanese "Damsels in Distress"Release date: April 6 Director: Whit Stillman Composers: Mark Suozzo, Adam Schlesinger Music supervisor: Annie Pearlman "Darling Companion"Release date: April 20 Director: Lawrence Kasdan Composer: James Newton Howard Music supervisors: Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe Summit Entertainment "Man on a Ledge"Release date: Jan. 27 Director: Asger Leth Composer: Henry Jackman Music supervisor: Dave Jordan "Gone"Release date: Feb. 24 Director: Heitor Dhalia Composer: David Buckley Music supervisors: Brian McNelis, Eric Craig "The Cold Light of Day"Release date: April 6 Director: Mabrouk El Mechri Composer: Lucas Vidal Music supervisor: Jojo Villanueva Tribeca "Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston"Release date: Feb. (NY/LA) Director: Whitney Sudler-Smith Composers: Christopher Franke, Edgar Rothermich Music supervisor: Thomas Golubic "Detachment"Release date: March Director: Tony Kaye Composers: The Newton Brothers Andy Grush & Taylor Stewart "Black Butterflies"Release date: March Director: Paula Van Der Oest Composer: Philip Miller 20th Century Fox Studios "Broken City"Release date: Jan. 18 Director: Allen Hughes Music supervisor: Scott Vener "Red Tails"Release date: Jan. 20 Director: Anthony Hemingway Composer: Terence Blanchard "Chronicle"Release date: Feb. 3 Director: John Trank Music supervisor: Andrea von Foerster "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (3D)"Release date: Feb. 10 Director: George Lucas Composer: John Williams "This Means War"Release date: Feb. 17 Director: McG Composer: Christophe Beck "Won't Back Down"Release date: March 30 Director: Daniel Barnz Composer: Marcelo Zarvos Music supervisor: Linda Cohen "Titanic (3D)"Release date: April 12 Director: James Cameron Composer: James Horner "The Three Stooges"Release date: April 13 Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly Composer: John Debney Music supervisors: Tom Wolfe, Manish Raval Universal "Contraband"Release date: Jan. 13 Director: Baltasar Kormakur Composer: Clinton Shorter "Big Miracle"Release date: Feb. 3 Director: Ken Kwapis Composer: Cliff Eidelman Music supervisor: Nick Angel "Safe House"Release date: Feb. 10 Director: Daniel Espinosa Composer: Ramin Djawadi "Wanderlust"Release date: Feb. 24 Director: David Wain Composer: Craig Wedren Music supervisor: Jonathan Karp "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (3D)"Release date: March 2 Director: Chris Renaud Composer: John Powell Executive song producer: Christopher "Tricky" Stewart "American Reunion"Release date: March 6 Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg Composer: Lyle Workman Music supervisor: JoJo Villanueva Warner Bros. "Joyful Noise" Release date: Jan. 13 Director: Todd Graff Composer: Mervyn Warren Music supervisor: Linda Cohen "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" Release date: Feb. 10 Director: Brad Peyton Composer: Andrew Lockington Music supervisor: Andrea von Foerster "Project X" Release date: March 2 Director: Nima Nourizadeh Music supervisor: Gabe Hilfer "Wrath of the Titans" Release date: March 30? Director: Jonathan Liebesman Composer: Javier Navarrete Return to MUSIC FOR SCREENS: WINTER 2012 Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com