Thursday, 22 December 2011

Roush Review: American Horror Story Finale

Jessica Lange What a sick little show American Horror Story turned out to be. Ludicrous from top to bottom, from haunted attic to cellar, from start to finish, as the population of ghosts in the Murder House grew nearly as large as the Downton Abbey estate. In the finale, it was finally Ben Harmon's turn to die, after being warned by Constance (Jessica Lange, always the best thing in this wacky series) to take the surviving baby and run. "How can you still be so blind?" she shrieked. (We've been saying that all season.) He did try to escape, after flirting briefly with suicide (and pulled back from the brink by the ghost of his long-suffering wife), but the bad ghosts got him, hanging him from the chandelier and turning him into one of their own. And so the ill-fated addle-brained Harmons end up quasi-happily ever after in the hereafter.In the show's one clever twist, the Harmons (Ben, Vivien, Violet) join forces to become ghostly ghost-busters, scaring away the new family that moved in, Beetlejuice-style. Didn't see that coming. And in a three-years-later flash-forward, Constance is now raising the Demon Spawn, who shows his true colors by slaughtering the nanny and grinning through the blood as Constance clucks, "Now what am I going to do with you?" If Season 2 is going to be Jessica Lange-Meets-The Omen, and we can put that ridiculous Murder House in the rear-view mirror, that might actually be worth watching.What did you think of the American Horror Story finale?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Monday, 19 December 2011

'21 Jump Street' Poster: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum Go to the Promenade

The arrival '21 Jump Street' movie continunes the current Hollywood trend of "Let's remake an 80s property!" Fortunately -- or, according to what you are talking with, unluckily -- I haven't seen the first '21 Jump Street,' meaning this film isn't wrecking my recollections or tainted by any preconceived notions I'd in regards to the series. But following a truly hysterical red-colored-colored-band trailer, and, now, a significant funny movie poster (that's, to date as "funny" movie posters go), there have to be some detractors available that are maybe, possibly, beginning later on around. Right? The poster, which you'll want to see entirely below, shows Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill), two cops disguised as students going to the promenade. The tagline virtually talks alone hooray for grade-school humor! '21 Jump Street,' which stars Tatum, Hill, Brie Larson and Ice Cube (together with a cameo from original cast member The Actor-kaira Pitt), hits theaters March 16, 2012. [via Hollywood.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Saturday, 17 December 2011

J.R. Martinez and also the Girlfriend Expect

J.R. Martinez and Diana Gonzalez-Manley Dwts champion J.R. Martinez and also the girlfriend Diana Gonzalez-Manley expect next spring, People reviews. "We discovered just the other day it's a girl which we're gone the moon," Martinez told playboy. "Diana features a little baby bump now which is probably the most adorable factor ever. While using holidays approaching, this really is really the finest and greatest gift we are capable of getting.Inch See other stars that are expecting Martinez, 28, met Gonzalez-Manley in 2008 round the number of his cleaning cleaning soap The Kids. The Two began dating a year ago. "2011 remains filled with a lot of surprises and options and ultimately, plenty of benefits," Martinez added. "Diana which i were just asking ourselves, 'How is 2012 prone to top 2011?' Well, we have our answer!"

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves: 'We Want a Healthy Netflix'

Comedy Central is bulking up on its comedic offerings. In an effort to expand its slate, which already includes such shows as South Park, Workaholics and Tosh.0, the Viacom-owned network has ordered scripts for three more projects, two of which are animated. There'sGajillionaires, a half-hour animated show about the uber-wealthy Benjamin and George Krabbe and their misadventures in the world of big business.Bailouts, corrupt senators, sycophantic cronies like Chef Boyardee and Dick Cheney and an undying love for Tipper Gore are all along for the ride. PHOTOS: 10 Broadcast and Cable TV Show Most Watched by Men The project, created, written and produced by Yoni Brenner (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), countsJoel Kuwahara, Scott Greenberg andMark McJimsey of Bento Box along with Peter Principato, Paul Young and Tucker Voorheesof Principato/Young Entertainment as executive producers. Among the other scripts Comedy Central has ordered:Grubstein & Grubstein, an animated comedy created and co-executive produced by Arthur Jones andKarl Ackerman based on two twenty-something brothers who inherit a Brooklyn brownstone filled with oddball tenants. Finally, the network has nabbed a script for Upstate, a half-hour narrative based on two guyswho return to the summer town of their youth and live like they are sixteen again, complete with bonfires, jet-ski races and stealing Uncle Gary's pot.The project is written and co-executive produced by its stars,Jon GabrusandJustin Tyler. Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com; Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Topics Comedy Central TV Development

Abdicate, she said

Andrea Riseborough and Madonna spend a night at the museum. Parker Posey attends the after party for the Cinema Society & Piaget screening of "W.E."Valentino At Sunday's MoMA screening of "W.E.," Madonna was asked about the hardest part in co-writing and directing her revisionist bio of Wallis Simpson."Actually it's all hard. Making art, being creative, is always the challenge," Madonna said of the Weinstein Co. release. "Once you go from writing to surviving the shoot and editing the production, it's all hard.""W.E." will rehabilitate the duchess' reputation, said Andrea Riseborough, who plays Simpson -- the twice-divorced woman who prompted King Edward VIII to abdicate in 1937."The propaganda fed to the British public -- but also internationally -- by Stanley Baldwin affected our opinion of Wallis Simpson," she said at the Cinema Society event. "We were subjected to a huge amount of propaganda without our knowing it." As for the duchess in exile, the actress added, "She married someone she truly loved but there was an emptiness in that she could never live up to the pressure of having to be as exciting as a kingship."Valentino, who met Simpson in '68 ("She did several dresses of mine"), recalled a not particularly happy couple. "Fighting, fighting," he said of the duke and duchess. "Of course, if you read some books, it's a little different. But Madonna, she picks up good things." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Monday, 5 December 2011

Former Miss USA Rima Fakih Charged with Drunken Driving

Rima Fakih Former Miss USA Rima Fakih was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, People reviews. The 26-year-old beauty full was stopped by police in Highland Park, Mich., over the past weekend and today faces Drunk driving charges. "[She's] very saddened and incredibly apologetic for that situation that she's in at this time,Inch her lawyer, Jesse, Elder, told playboy. See other stars who've become in danger this season Fakih, who won the title this year and also the first Arab American to ever win the pageant, was involved with a small stripper pole scandal this past year after photos from the 2007 "Stripper 101" contest appeared. "I had been just being silly and jumping up and there have been a couple of pictures exchanged," she stated at that time. "Yes, it looks really negative but it is not necessarily what you have often seen. I did not do anything whatsoever wrong."