Halle Berry Cancels Her Oscar Appearance

Act of Valor War film Act of Valor needed home the most effective place as of this weekend's box office, grossing $24.7 million, according to Box Office Mojo. The film, which stars mostly real active-duty Navy Shuts, edged out Tyler Perry's Good Deeds, because both versions opened up up a couple of days ago. Perry's film showed up at No. 2 by getting a level $16 million. Box Office: Safe House edges the Vow throughout holiday weekendComing inside the third place was The Rock's adventure flick Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which made $13.5 million within the third week. Safe House, which opened up up at No. 1 the other day, adopted with $11.4 million. The Vow, starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams, fells to No. 5 within the third week, consuming just $tens of millions of. Rounding the very best Ten: Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance (No. 6, $8.8 million), This Means War (No. 7, $8.5 million, Wanderlust (No. 8, $6.6 000 0000), Gone (No. 9, $5 million) as well as the Secret Arena of Arrietty (No. 10, $4.5 million). Whoever else look at this weekend?

New featurette for your Pirates! Gang Of Misfits

The brand new the new sony has released a completely new behind-the-moments featurette to market approaching swashbuckler The Pirates! Gang Of Misfits, plus it does a fantastic job of showing just what a piece of love is associated with developing a stop-motion feature.As outlined having a helpful signal-card moving monkey, a camera around the typical movie shoots roughly 1 hour of footage daily with only four minutes finding yourself inside the final cut. Concentrate on the Pirates! however was restricted to 1-4 seconds of footage per camera, every week, with the majority of it finding yourself inside the movie. That's what we should call painstaking.Take a look within the featurette below...Hugh Grant covers the studio's amazing achievements best by wondering within the impracticality of making the individual figures proceed screen, as well as request these to rebel slapstick hilarity with impeccable comic timing.We're great fans of all of Aardman's output, as well as in the looks of things, The Pirates! might just be their most entertaining offering so far. We'll know certainly when the film opens here on 28 March 2012.

Six Sequels Nicolas Cage Must Make Immediately

by Ryan Rigley Bold. Brash. Bees. They're but a few of many items that come to mind when pops up the magnificence that's Nicolas Cage, a man almost too bizarre for words. With "Ghost Driver: Spirit of Vengeance" striking theaters today (February 17), audiences nationwide are planning for the next installment in the motorcycled madmans high-speed hijinks. Nicolas Cage talks "Ghost Driver" follow-up Furthermore, Cage themselves has expressed the need to make a follow-up to "The Wicker Guy" not way back when, stating I have to proceed and take Wicker Guy to Japan, except this time around around hes a ghost. So, let me appreciate this straight. Nicolas Cage just like a ghost in Japan for reasons uknown? Yes, please! It seems as though Mr. Cage features a serious situation of "follow-up syndrome" recently. And believe to celebrate in comparison to our personal dream-report on Nicolas Cage sequels? "Face/Off 2: Face 2 Face" The facial skin-stealing psychopath known only as Castor Troy really knows how you can push a men buttons. Which I, for starters, am dying to find out him steal more faces. Whose face, you request? Im thinking Dwayne The Rock Johnsons. Because who better to produce a apparently unnecessary follow-up worth watching? "Drive More annoyed" Nobody kills a place full of males although at the same time having sex and smoking a cigar like John Milton does. This father from Hell features a PhD in kicking demon ass. Also, hes already steered obvious of Hell once. Why wouldnt he repeat the process? "Unhealthy Lieutenant: The avenue for call Camden, Nj" Terence McDonagh can be a bad lieutenant. A Really bad lieutenant. Hes pointed guns at old people, raped a lady before her boyfriend, and smoked numerous of crack. While working. For your follow-up, hed get reassigned to one of the worst places within the u . s . states. I question for a moment find any iguanas in Nj... Uncover a little more about Cage's 'Ghost Rider' follow-up in Talk Nerdy! "Disadvantage Air 2: Within this areaInch Former Military Ranger, Cameron Poe, stop people annoying plane-jacking felons inside the first movie. Now hes mind of security aboard the C-123 Jailbird. But things quickly fail because he discovers that Cyrus Herpes remains alive! Which he features a new robot mind! AND hes kidnapped Poes daughter! Gasp! "Vampires of the underworld from the underworld Hug 2: The Kissening" For people people that have seen that Youtube video of Nic Cage losing it for 5 minutes, this really is really the film where he recites the entire Alphabet for pointless. Peter Loew, pronounced Looh, can be a crazy posting executive that thinks hes a vampire. In the follow-up, he'd be even crazier and recite a lot more things inside their whole for pointless. Like every of Pi. "Raising Arizona 2: Raising Massachusetts" Criminal H.I. McDunnough and also the cop wife, Edwina, continue another baby stealing spree after several not successful attempts at getting children that goes for them. And Robert Massachusetts, Governor of Arizona, so eventually ends up getting ten babies ripe for your picking. (Also, I merely recognized that McDunnough is virtually the identical surname as Nic Cages character in Bad Lieutenant." Coincidence? Probably.) Which Nic Cage sequels do you want to see? Reveal inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

TV veterinarians still lead pilot casting

Though much has been manufactured recently of film stars moving to starring roles around the smallscreen, the familiar names within this year's pilot casting continually come mainly in the TV world. Searching back around the past week, Ryan Phillippe is easily the most prominent thesp mainly from features to consider a flyer on the pilot, signing on for that untitled CBS detective drama from Nick Wootton and Greg Berlanti that formerly reserved Chi McBride. Malin Akerman will co-star with Portia p Rossi on ABC comedy "The Wise One," and Shawn Ashmore ("X-Males: The Final Stand") will have a supporting role in Fox's untitled project from Kevin Williamson that stars Kevin Sausage. For longtime TV fans, probably the most significant casting each week, otherwise the entire year, could be Ann Guilbert -- who performed Winnie Assistant on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" -- joining CBS' untitled comedy from Louis C.K. and Spike Feresten. Beyond that, the large names in recent days remain individuals lately seen on other Television shows, including Sarah Bolger, Ryan Hansen, Kristin Kreuk, Ali Larter, Zachary Levi, Mike O'Malley, Terry O'Quinn, Jonny Lee Burns, Becki Newton, Kal Penn, Fall Reeser, J.K. Simmons, John Stamos, Michaela Watkins and Madeline Zima. ABC nabbed a number of individuals names, including O'Quinn, the "Lost" stalwart that has lately recurred on "Hawaii Five-," for "666 Park Avenue," the David Wilcox-composed pilot about supernatural occurrences inside a historic NY City apartment building. Inside a reunion of Showtime stars, Blythe Danner situated herself on her first series regular role since "Huff," joining the 19th-century set "Gilded Lillys" from K.J. Steinberg (with Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Ales also professional creating), alongside Bolger ("The Tudors") and Zima ("Californication"). Penn ("House") and Watkins ("Saturday Evening Live") are generally joining ABC comedy "Prairie Dogs," from Jackie Filgo and Shaun Filgo, in regards to a relationship between an id theft victim and criminal, while Simmons ("The Closer") became a member of "Whitened Van Guy," the Britcom adaptation by Bobby Bowman which has Kyle Bornheimer since it's lead. Also for ABC, Reeser ("No Regular Family") reserved passage on nuclear sub drama "The Last Measure," starring Andre Braugher Dania Ramirez ("Heroes") clocked set for Marc Cherry's "Devious Service personnel" Mimi Kennedy, the smoothness actress lately observed in "Night time in Paris," became a member of Judy Greer starrer "American Judy" and Nick Kocher ("Among The Finest My Pants Back") arrived within the Alphabet net's untitled single-cam comedy from Adam Sztykiel. And Jean Wise, most lately recurring on "Harry's Law," will have mom from the Akerman and p Rossi figures in "The Wise One." NBC focused mainly on television resumes using its latest casting too. "Save Me" vet Steven Pasquale will star in "Don' Harm," in regards to a neurosurgeon that has a harmful alter-ego, with Alana P La Garza ("Law and Order"), Ruta Gedmintas ("The Borgias") and Mousa Kraish also cast as regulars. Michael B. Jordan will partner with showrunner Jason Katims for that third time, following up stints on "Friday Evening Lights" and "Being a parent" with hospital drama "County," starring Jason Ritter. Agam Darshi ("Sanctuary") and Jess Weixler required supporting roles. Brenda Song ("The Suite Existence on Deck," "The Social Networking") and Christine Forest, a past regular on "Perfect Couples" and "FlashForward," can look in "Daddy's Women," the multicam comedy from Dana Klein in regards to a youthful lady whose father is dating the mean girl from her senior high school, also starring Nicky Whelan (Australia's "Neighbours") and Cedric Yarbrough ("Reno 911!"). Ethan Embry ("Brotherhood") became a member of the ensemble of Rob Cassidy's Western drama "The Frontier" Aubrey Dollar ("Women's Murder Club") obtained charge role in Hilary Winston's untitled place of work comedy and Louise Burns ("Bored to Dying") will have a supporting role on "Save Me," the only-cam religious comedy from John Scott Shepherd starring Anne Heche. As well as for Greg Daniels' NBC adaptation of Blighty's "Friday Evening Dinner," Aya Cash ("Traffic Light"), Kevin Bigley and Gil Ozeri became a member of the cast. CBS' other casting moves include Burns ("Eli Stone") using the lead role in Take advantage of Doherty's modern-day undertake A Virtual Detective, "Elementary," while Michael Urie ("Ugly Betty") will co-star with Sophia Rose bush ("One Tree Hill") in "Partners," the comedy about two male co-workers whose relationship is sort of a marriage. Parvesh Cheena ("Outsourced") was the very first person cast in "Friend Me," a comedy from Alan Kirschenbaum and Ajay Sahgal. Fox revved its casting gears on several shows, with Hansen ("Party Lower") using the add David Guarascio/Moses Port comedy "El Jefe" Larter ("Heroes") does exactly the same for Josh Friedman's "The Resource," in regards to a unique CIA agent and Newton ("Ugly Betty") inked an offer for comedy "The Goodwin Games," compiled by Craig Thomas and Chris Harris. Getting just wrapped five seasons on "Chuck," Levi required charge role in ensemble comedy "Ignore it,Inch compiled by D.J. Nash, in regards to a youthful father, while Stamos ("ER") became a member of formerly introduced T.J. Burns on comedy "Little Brother," with Gillian Vigman ("New Girl") and Rosa Salazar ("Being a parent") also cast. O'Malley ("Glee") will finish up showing up on-camera within the pilot he authored for Fox, "Prodigy Bully," in regards to a child prodigy from the working-class Massachusetts family. Mike Vogel ("Pan Am") and Michael Friedman will load onto "Living Loaded," while Malcolm Barrett ("Best Ted") and Hayes MacArthur ("Perfect Couples") returned into "Rebounding." At the CW, longtime "Smallville" heroine Kreuk devoted to half the title package from the reinvented "Beauty and also the Animal," from Jennifer Levin and Sherri Cooper, and Stefania Owen ("Running Wilde") became a member of "Sex and also the City" prequel "The Barbara Journals." Susanna Thompson ("Nobleman"), Willa Holland ("The O.C.") and Katie Cassidy ("Melrose Place") were put into "Arrow," the Eco-friendly Arrow drama starring Stephen Amell. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Pilot Season: House Star Kal Penn Lands Lead in ABC's Prairie Dogs

Kal Penn House's Kal Penn has landed the lead role in ABC's Prairie Dogs pilot. From That '70s Show's Jackie and Jeff Filgo, the project follows Neil (Penn), an uncool cubicle worker (or "prairie dog")who becomes the victim of identity theft.When he discovers the thiefhas created a much more fulfilling, kick-ass life with his identity, he decides to make the charismatic conman his life coach. As previously announced, Saturday Night Live's Michaela Watson will star. Well-known for his role in the Harold & Kumar franchise, Penn most-recently recurred on CBS' How I Met Your Mother as the love interest for Robin (Cobie Smulders) - he called off their short engagement in Monday's episode.